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NEW YORK ? After nearly two years of bickering, NBA players and owners are back on the same side.
"We want to play basketball," Commissioner David Stern said.
Come Christmas Day, they should be.
The sides reached a tentative agreement early Saturday to end the 149-day lockout and hope to begin the delayed season with a marquee tripleheader Dec. 25. Most of a season that seemed in jeopardy of being lost entirely will be salvaged if both sides approve the handshake deal.
Barring a change in scheduling, the 2011-12 season will open with the Boston Celtics at New York Knicks, followed by Miami at Dallas in an NBA finals rematch before MVP Derrick Rose and Chicago visiting Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.
Neither side provided many specifics about the deal, and there are still legal hurdles that must be cleared before gymnasiums are open again.
"We thought it was in both of our interest to try to reach a resolution and save the game," union executive director Billy Hunter said.
After a secret meeting earlier this week that got the broken process back on track, the sides met for more than 15 hours Friday, working to save the season. Stern said the agreement was "subject to a variety of approvals and very complex machinations, but we're optimistic that will all come to pass and that the NBA season will begin Dec. 25."
The league plans a 66-game season and aims to open training camps Dec. 9, with free agency opening at the same time. Stern has said it would take about 30 days from an agreement to playing the first game.
"All I feel right now is `finally,'" Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade told The Associated Press.
Just 12 days after talks broke down and Stern declared the NBA could be headed to a "nuclear winter," he sat next to Hunter to announce the 10-year deal, with either side able to opt out after the sixth year.
"For myself, it's great to be a part of this particular moment in terms of giving our fans what they wanted and wanted to see," said Derek Fisher, the president of the players' association.
A majority on each side is needed to approve the agreement, first reported by CBSSports.com. The NBA needs votes from 15 of 29 owners. (The league owns the New Orleans Hornets.) Stern said the labor committee plans to discuss the agreement later Saturday and expects them to endorse it and recommend to the full board.
The union needs a simple majority of its 430-plus members. That process is a bit more complicated after the players dissolved the union Nov. 14. Now, they must drop their antitrust lawsuit in Minnesota and reform the union before voting on the deal.
Because the union disbanded, a new collective bargaining agreement can only be completed once the union has reformed. Drug testing and other issues still must be negotiated between the players and the league, which also must dismiss its lawsuit filed in New York.
"We're very pleased we've come this far," Stern said. "There's still a lot of work to be done."
The sides will quickly return to work later Saturday, speaking with attorneys and their own committees to keep the process moving.
When the NBA returns, owners hope to find the type of parity that exists in the NFL, where the small-market Green Bay Packers are the current champions. The NBA has been dominated in recent years by the biggest spenders, with Boston, Los Angeles and Dallas winning the last four titles.
"I think it will largely prevent the high-spending teams from competing in the free-agent market the way they've been able to in the past. It's not the system we sought out to get in terms of a harder cap, but the luxury tax is harsher than it was. We hope it's effective," deputy commissioner Adam Silver said.
"We feel ultimately it will give fans in every community hope that their team can compete for championships."
The league hopes fans come right back, despite their anger over a work stoppage that followed such a successful season. But owners wanted more of the league's $4 billion in annual revenues after players were guaranteed 57 percent of basketball-related income in the old deal.
Participating in the talks for the league were Stern, Silver, Spurs owner Peter Holt, the chairman of the labor relations committee, and attorneys Rick Buchanan and Dan Rube. The players were represented by executive director Billy Hunter, president Derek Fisher, vice president Maurice Evans, attorney Ron Klempner and economist Kevin Murphy.
Owners locked out the players July 1, and the sides spent most of the summer and fall battling over the division of revenues and other changes owners wanted in a new collective bargaining agreement. They said they lost hundreds of millions of dollars in each year of the former deal, ratified in 2005, and they wanted a system where the big-market teams wouldn't have the ability to outspend their smaller counterparts.
Players fought against those changes, not wanting to see any teams taken out of the market when they became free agents.
"This was not an easy agreement for anyone. The owners came in having suffered substantial losses and feeling the system wasn't working fairly across all teams," Silver said. "I certainly know the players had strong views about expectations in terms of what they should be getting from the system. It required a lot of compromise from both parties' part, and I think that's what we saw today."
Even the final day had turbulent patches. It required multiple calls with the owners' labor relations committee, all the while knowing another breakdown in talks would mean not only the loss of the Christmas schedule but possibly even the entire season.
"We resolved, despite some even bumps this evening, that the greater good required us to knock ourselves out and come to this tentative understanding," Stern said.
He denied the litigation was a factor in accelerating a deal, but things happened relatively quickly after the players filed a suit that could have won them some $6 billion in damages.
"For us the litigation is something that just has to be dealt with," Stern said. "It was not the reason for the settlement. The reason for the settlement was we've got fans, we've got players who would like to play and we've got others who are dependent on us. And it's always been our goal to reach a deal that was fair to both sides and get us playing as soon as possible, but that took a little time."
It finally yielded the second shortened season in NBA history, joining the 1998-99 lockout that reduced the schedule to 50 games. This time the league will miss 16 games off the normal schedule.
Though the deal's expected to be approved, it may not be unanimous as there are factions of hard-liners in both camps who will be unhappy with substantive portions of the deal.
"Let's all pray this turns out well," Pacers forward Danny Granger wrote on Twitter.
But getting what the owners wanted took a toll. Stern, after more than 27 years as the league's commissioner, hoped to close a deal much sooner but was committed for fighting for the owners' wishes even at the risk of damaging his legacy. Hunter dealt with anger from agents and even questions from his own players about his strategy, wondering why it could so long for the players to use the threat of litigation to give them leverage that had otherwise eluded them.
The sides met just twice in the first two months of the lockout before stepping up the pace in September, when it was already too late to open camps on time. The sides tried meeting in small groups, large groups and even mediation, but nothing sparked compromise.
Things changed this week with the entrance of Jim Quinn, a former NBPA counsel who had good relationships on both sides. The meeting Friday was held at the office of his law firm, though he did not take part.
Hunter said the terms of the deal would come out shortly, preferring to keep them private until they could be shared with the players. They might not like the deal, but it will be better than what many of them feared. Resigned to possibly missing the season, some had signed deals overseas so they would have some paycheck.
Instead, they're a step closer to returning home.
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AP Sports Writer Tim Reynolds in Miami contributed to this report.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) ? The Brazilian government on Wednesday suspended Chevron Corp's drilling rights in Brazil until it clarifies the causes of an offshore oil spill, the latest twist in a political firestorm threatening the U.S. company's role in Brazil's oil bonanza.
The decision was announced as the chief executive of Chevron's Brazilian unit was testifying before the Brazilian Congress, where he publicly apologized for the November 8 spill that leaked about 2,400 barrels of oil into the ocean off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil's National Petroleum Agency said it decided to halt Chevron's drilling rights after determining that there was evidence that the company had been "negligent" in its study of data needed to drill and in contingency planning for abandoning the well in the event of accident.
The agency, known as ANP, also rejected a request from Chevron to drill deeper wells into subsalt areas in the Frade field where the spill took place. The Frade field, which is located in the oil-rich Campos Basin, is the only block in Brazil where Chevron is producing oil and is the operator.
The Campos Basin is currently the source of more than 80 percent of Brazil's oil output.
Chevron has previously drilled for subsalt depth targets in the field, which is also owned by Brazil's state-controlled energy giant Petrobras and Frade Japao, a Japanese consortium. Chevron owns 52 percent of Frade, whereas Petrobras owns 30 percent and Frade Japao 18 percent.
Chevron has already been fined $28 million by Brazil's environmental agency for the spill, an amount that is sure to rise sharply when the ANP and Rio's state government slap fines on the company, as they have pledged to do.
Chevron's CEO in Brazil, George Buck, told Brazilian lawmakers on Wednesday that the company "acted as rapidly and safely as possible" and "used all resources" to contain and stop the flow of oil from the well.
"We controlled the source in four days. We worked with transparency and cooperation with the authorities of Brazil," Buck said. "Please understand that during those first days it was very confusing, very difficult to manage the flow of information."
The ANP said the suspension will remain in place until Chevron fully restores safety conditions in the field.
The Frade leak, while small, is likely to provide more ammunition for the growing worldwide opposition to offshore drilling in the wake of the estimated 4-million-barrel BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the U.S. Gulf in 2010.
Chevron is also a 30 percent partner in the nearby $5.2 billion Papa-Terra project. Petrobras is the operator in Papa Terra.
Chevron, Petrobras and Frade Japao produce about 79,000 barrels a day of oil in Frade. Petrobras and Chevron expect to produce about 140,000 barrels of oil and equivalent gas from Papa-Terra in 2013.
(Additional reporting by Jeb Blount in Rio de Janeiro; Writing by Todd Benson and Reese Ewing; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)
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Against the backdrop of the growing epidemic of obesity in the United States, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have made an important new discovery regarding a specific gene that plays an important role in keeping a steady balance between our food intake and energy expenditure. The study may help scientists better understand the keys to fighting obesity and related disorders such as diabetes.
The study, which was published in the November 25, 2011 print edition of The Journal of Biological Chemistry, focused on the melanocortin-3 receptor (MC3R), which normally responds to signals of nutrient intake.
"What we discovered was quite a surprise," said Scripps Research Associate Professor Andrew Butler, who led the study. "We thought that the actions of the receptor expressed in the brain would be critical for metabolic homeostasis. However, what we found is that actions of the receptor expressed outside the brain appear to be equally important."
The existence of drug targets in areas outside of the central nervous system (the body's "periphery") might help in the effort to develop drugs that influence metabolism without major side effects, Butler said.
The findings were made possible by the team's development of a new transgenic animal model, where expression of the MC3R gene can be selectively "switched on" in different cell types.
In the study, the suppression of MC3R expression in the brain and peripheral tissues had a marked impact on metabolic homeostasis (equilibrium). Interestingly, mice expressing the MC3R gene in the brain only displayed an obese phenotype (physical appearance) similar to those where all types of expression was suppressed, indicating that actions of this receptor in the brain are not sufficient to protect against weight gain. The finding that loss of MC3R activity in the periphery impairs metabolic homeostasis is startling, Butler said, and point to a distinct role for MC3R signaling in the peripheral tissues. However, how the actions of these receptors impacts on obesity remains to be determined.
"It's clear that these peripheral receptors are important and the new mouse model will let us explore that potential," Butler said.
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The first author of the study, "Genetic dissection of melanocortin-3 receptor function suggests roles for central and peripheral receptors in energy homeostasis," is Karima Begriche of Scripps Research. In addition to Butler and Begriche, other authors include Jari Rossi, Danielle Skorupa, Laura A. Solt, Brandon Young, and Thomas P. Burris from The Scripps Research Institute in Florida; Randall L. Mynatt and Jingying Zhang at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, which is part of the Louisiana State University System; and Peter R. Levasseur and Daniel L. Marks at the Oregon Health & Science University. Seehttp://www.jbc.org/content/early/2011/10/07/jbc.M111.278374.abstract?sid=8a17ce75-de95-45d1-b688-a039da52b5f1
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In the grand scheme of things, antibiotics are a very temporary solution to aid humans in combating bacteria. Bacterial resistance to said antibiotics is an increasing fear
Some bacteria replicate every 20 minutes. That's 72 opportunities a day for them to catch onto at least the beginnings of a method to bypass an antibiotic. And mutations are to increasing environmental survivability as brute force cracking is to opening a file with 2056-bit XYZ+ encryption. It'll work eventually, but 99.99999% of the time (literally) you and your entire family tree are long dead before anything significant happens.
Good thing there are at least 100 quadrillion bacterial cells inside every human body, for a grand total of a fucking buttload of bacterial family trees to carry on the crack. Not to mention the uncountable number outside of humans, mutating and reproducing in thousands of different environments but all theoretically capable of suddenly mutating that one last step that allows them to survive in a human body while completely bypassing the human immune system and antibiotics almost entirely.
Anyone who, in the last 25 years, ever thought antibiotics were a persistent defense system against bacteria was hopelessly optimistic and misinformed about microbiology.
Overall, people just need to calm the hell down. I'm not saying we stop treating disease or cease using antibiotics or saying any other defeatist, fatalist nonsense. I'm just saying we exist at the pleasure of the bacteria, prions, and viruses that outnumber other terrestrial life by a factor of trillions. It's just one of those things that could kill us at any second but probably won't, like asteroid strikes and nuclear war. The sooner Westerners have their collective "How I learned to stop worrying and love bacteria" moment, the better. We can move on to things we can actually can full control.
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Windows Phone continues to shore up its app and game selection, hitting 40,000 apps in just over a year since its inception. Granted, there's still plenty of catching up to do before Microsoft's third way can go toe-to-toe with Android and iOS, but it's another (substantial) step in the right direction. According to All About Windows Phone, new content is now being added at the heady rate of around 165 apps per day, although it notes that a chunk of previously released apps are now non-existent, subtracting around 5,000 from the scores we have here. However, app devs have cranked it up a gear, adding around the same amount of new apps in only the last month -- presumably galvanized by Nokia's much-publicized WinPho debut and other Mango-powered delights arriving in stores. Will it crack the 50k mark by the end of the year? We're sure Mr. Ballmer won't be betting against it.
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KUWAIT (Reuters) ? Kuwait's emir denounced as a "black day" the storming of parliament and said he would not dissolve the assembly or allow the prime minister to resign, as demanded by the opposition.
Hundreds of Kuwaitis broke into the parliament building last Wednesday to protest against Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammed al-Sabah, whom they accuse of corruption, but the emir said it was not their right to decide whether he be dismissed.
"Constitutionally, those are my powers. I appoint and I sack. Even if he tenders his resignation, I will not accept it," the emir said in a meeting with the editors of Kuwaiti dailies, according to a transcript published in al-Wasat newspaper.
The emir appoints Kuwait's government and the prime minister, who is traditionally a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. The 50-member parliament is elected.
"Dissolving the parliament and the government - these are my powers," he said.
Wednesday's protest came the day after the government and parliament voted against a request by some lawmakers to question Sheikh Nasser in the assembly, a move opposition parliamentarians said was in violation of the constitution.
"We are the ones who protect the constitution and they distort it," said the emir, adding that 40 people had been referred to the prosecutor for forcing their way into the building, where they sang the national anthem before being made to leave.
The following day, the emir told security forces to take "all necessary measures" to maintain public order.
"(What happened) Wednesday ... storming in and breaking the doors to get into the assembly of which they are members and taking in 150 people: that's what I call a black day," he said.
Kuwait, a key regional U.S. ally and one of the world's main oil exporters, has long prided itself in having one of the most liberal political systems in the region, particularly compared to its Gulf peers.
Asked his opinion on popular uprisings sweeping across the Middle East, the Emir responded: "Kuwait has been living the Arab Spring for years ... God willing, it will be fruitful."
(Writing by Isabel Coles)
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Gold Investing has clearly been right. But is it contentious enough to sit tight...?
The BEST WAY to make money from investing? asks Adrian Ash at BullionVault.
Investing legend Warren Buffett reckons it's "being right" ? which is about as down-home as Berkshire Hathaway's "Sage of Omaha" could hope to get. "Sitting tight" was the key for legendary "boy plunger" Jessie Livermore, whose personal depression drove him to suicide in 1940, apparently leaving $5 million behind him. Modern hedge-fund legend Hugh Hendry says your best shot comes from "contentious" positions ? taking on trades that no one else dare back, because they can barely conceive of a world in which they might ever pay off.
And right now, what could be more contentious than Gold Investing?
"Without any contentious posturing in your portfolio, I suspect you're not going to make money," Hendry told an interviewer this summer."
"You're not guaranteed to make money by being contentious or controversial," he stressed. "But if you can get your mind around the most contentious viewpoints, I think you stand a better chance of making money."
Now, we know what Buffett thinks of gold, and we know that Hendry didn't buy the bull back in 2008, when gold made headlines amid Phase II of the global financial crisis to date.
"[People] fear financial anarchy. Gold Coins are sold out. Everyone is in."
Contrarian investors, therefore, should have stayed out ? or even gone short ? at $800 per ounce. Because "everyone [was] in." Except for all those people who've been Buying Gold since, nudging it back up towards that all-time high ? in real terms ? hit at the start of 1980.
Hence the contrarian's contentious quandary today. Because if you read only the financial pages, you might imagine everyone is "all in" as 2011 nears its end. Looking at our chart above, you might also think that gold returning to record levels ? adjusted for inflation ? means it is plainly nearing its top, too. Subject to the same "mania" that led investors over a cliff in the early Eighties, the bull market has been and gone. You missed it. But then, so has pretty much every other private investor and saver in North America and Europe as well.
Only a tiny proportion of Western households hold any real chunk of their savings through Gold Investing today. The continued surge in consumer demand is coming from Asia instead, a market driven by cultural affinity ? and a recently released appetite for gold ownership ? that finance professionals and advisors can barely imagine in the West.
Yes, central banks in the rich emerging economies are quietly Buying Gold at a record pace as well. But that only makes gold yet more contentious still ? sitting right on the edge between them and the developed-world's sellers of a decade ago. The really contentious view might instead see gold instead causing a real shock, and going still higher again in just the way it didn't three decades ago.
As for Jessie Livermore, when he made the bulk of his trades over a lifetime ago, gold was money ? the end, not the means, of making a profit.
Can you imagine that?
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The reader's tablet is back. The new Nook Tablet delivers the best color e-reading experience available, especially for magazines and for childrens' books. It's a better e-reader than the Amazon Kindle Fire ($199, 4 stars), our Editors' Choice for small tablets. But the Nook doesn't quite match the Fire on music, video or apps, and the Nook Color ($199, 4 stars) offers the same great e-reading experience for less money. Make no mistake, the Nook is a very good small tablet, but the Fire delivers a better all-around tablet experience, and the Nook Color offers better value as a color e-reader.
Physical Design and User Interface
Feeling a little more 'book-like' than the Amazon Kindle Fire, the Nook Tablet is significantly taller and slightly wider at 8.1 by 5.9 by 0.5 inches (HWD) thanks to its much bigger bezel, but it's lighter at 14.1 ounces compared with Amazon's 14.6. There's a standard 3.5-mm headphone jack, and a curious little loop in the bottom left corner, which serves as both a handle and a way to conceal the reader's MicroSD card slot, just like on the Nook Color. In fact the Nook Tablet and the Nook Color are almost identical save for the a slightly lighter-color metallic finish. The Tablet has physical Power button and volume controls on the side panels as well as a single, "N"-shaped home button at the bottom of the 7-inch, 1024-by-600 touch screen.
Barnes & Noble has made a big deal out of how its IPS LCD screen is less reflective than Amazon's, but after using both screens for long periods taking several photographs of each, I found I had to squint to tell the difference. It's there, but it's by no means pronounced enough to be a dealmaker. Both displays are much less readable in daylight than the e-ink screens on devices like the Amazon Kindle Touch ($149, 4 stars).
The Nook Tablet, like the Amazon Kindle Fire, runs a very highly customized version of Android 2.3 on a TI OMAP4, 1GHz dual-core processor. But the Nook's user interface looks nothing like Amazon's (or, for that matter, Android's.)
Rather than shelves, here you have three free home screens where you can plunk down large icons representing your favorite books, magazines, or apps. (No widgets; this isn't standard Android.) Along the bottom of the screen are your most recently used items in a scrollable list, along with some links to promotional screens plugging B&N's various stores, and its favorite music and video related apps. (You can hide those links.)
Press the Home button, and you'll get seven main options: Home, Library, Shop, Search, Apps, Web and Settings. Your Library contains, on separate panes, Books, Magazines, Newspapers, Apps, Kids, and My Stuff, a catch-all for any of your own music, video or document files you may store in the Nook's 1GB of user-accessible memory or on a MicroSD card up to 32GB. You can also create your own custom shelves within My Stuff to arrange books by topic, for instance.
Notice what's missing: Unlike on the Kindle Fire, the Nook lumps music and video under the catch-all of "Apps," and breaks out books, magazines, and newspapers more distinctly. That's actually on purpose, and it shows one of the major differences between the two tablets.
Barnes & Noble Is a Bookstore
Nobody beats Barnes & Noble when it comes to books. If childrens' books are going to be a big part of your tablet experience, this is your tablet. Nook books for kids are full of animation and interactivity. They often offer read-along audio versions as well as the ability to record your own voice, if you want to read a distant child a bedtime story. (Recording your own voice is exclusive to the Tablet; it isn't on the Nook Color or the Kindle Fire.)
Nook magazines flip pages more smoothly than the Kindle, and when you double-tap on articles in the magazine page view, the text pops out in an attractive scrolling column. Magazines and books?especially cookbooks, from what I saw?can also incorporate embedded audio and video.
Compared with these, the Kindle's childrens' books look like cheap flatbed scans, its cookbooks lack panache, and its magazines look awkward.
The Nook's whole UI encourages you to keep reading. On the home page, the top status line lets you jump back to the most recent book you were in. A pop-down menu shows your most recently read books and magazines. An omnipresent small book icon at the bottom immediately reopens your book to where you left off.
Adult books are better than on the Kindle too, mostly through an interface with fewer mysterious icons and more clearly explained options. I also greatly prefer the Nook's accounting of pages and chapters over the Kindle's weird, disconnected "locations."
Barnes & Noble enhances the reading experience with its 700 brick-and-mortar stores, letting you read anything you want for an hour on the in-store Wi-Fi network, letting you browse physical magazines and tomes before buying them electronically, and offering up its staff to suggest books. Amazon has nothing to compete with that.
The one area the Kindle triumphs is in comics. The Nook has a limited selection of comics, and you pinch to zoom. The Kindle will have Comixology as well as exclusive DC comics, double-tapping lets you flip through specific panels, and you can load a third-party comic reader if you have CBR-format comic files. That's a much broader comics experience.
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Two books and a podcast series explore how we can improve our minds.
Music may inspire us to dance, but can the right melody help improve our mental health? Yes, it can, according to Don Campbell, author of The Mozart Effect, and Alex Doman, an expert in music therapy. In Healing at the Speed of Sound (Hudson Street Press, 2011), the authors explore how we can use different soundtracks and even silence to tap into our brain?s creative side and to make us more efficient, relaxed and healthy.
The constant buzz of your cell phone or the compulsion to check e-mail may make it difficult for you to find a peaceful moment to think and reflect. In The Thinking Life (St. Martin?s Press, 2011), P. M. Forni, civility expert and professor at Johns Hopkins University, emphasizes the importance of serious reflection for improving our creativity, attention and problem-solving skills and offers suggestions for ways to focus our scattered brains.
We all know how stressful a breakup can be, but we still do not understand the brain chemistry behind this natural response or how best to dampen it. In a free podcast from the series NeuroScene, Harvard University professor Sara Lazar discusses her neuroimaging studies, which demonstrate that meditation increases the concentration of gray matter in specific areas of the brain thought to be associated with stress, memory and empathy. Tune in to previous and upcoming podcasts to learn how the brain copes with stress and panic.
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?Iowa State wide receiver Darius Reynolds (7) runs from Oklahoma State defensive end Richetti Jones (99) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Iowa State wide receiver Darius Reynolds (7) runs from Oklahoma State defensive end Richetti Jones (99) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon (81) ahead of Iowa State linebacker Jake Knott during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Iowa State defensive back Jacques Washington (10) celebrates with teammates after intercepting a pass during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Oklahoma State, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Oklahoma State running back Joseph Randle (1) fumbles the ball as he is hit by Iowa State defensive back Jacques Washington (10), linebacker C.J. Morgan (27) and defensive end Jake Lattimer (48) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon (81) makes a touchdown reception ahead of Iowa State defensive back Ter'Ran Benton (22) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
AMES, Iowa (AP) ? Jeff Woody scored on a 4-yard run in the second overtime and Iowa State stunned second-ranked Oklahoma State 37-31 on Friday night, derailing the Cowboys' national title hopes.
The Cyclones (6-4, 3-4 Big 12) overcame a 17-point deficit to beat the Cowboys (10-1, 7-1 Big 12), who were just a win away from a showdown with rival Oklahoma for a likely spot in the BCS title game.
Oklahoma State quarterback Brandon Weeden's first pass in the second overtime was intercepted by Leonard Johnson. Woody then bullied his way into the end zone to give the Cyclones their first victory over a top-five opponent in school history.
Weeden threw for 476 yards, but had three interceptions as the Cowboys turned it over five times.
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Of all the cool things going on in technology, one of my favorites is 3D printing. It's got such a futuristic quality to it: input a digital schematic, and you get a physical product custom cut to your exact specifications. You can print bike parts if you want to. How amazing is that? Sorry, still wrapping my head around it. In any case, I'm not the only one who's excited: Shapeways ??a company looking to bring 3D printing to the masses ??just raised an additional $5.1 million from existing investors Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures, and it's also gotten a loan commitment of $1.2 million from NYC Investment Fund. The company previously raised $5 million last fall. And there's also some great news for Shapeways customers: the firm is planning to launch printing facilities in New York City in 2012. Historically goods ordered (and then printed) through Shapeways have been manufactured either through contracted third-parties, or through the company's own facility in Eindhoven, Netherlands.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/JCWI_LxPUzU/
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LONDON ? Britain's Iraq Inquiry said Wednesday it must delay its final report by at least six months because of negotiations regarding classified documents.
The inquiry, headed by Sir John Chilcot, is examining mistakes made before and after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
It was expected to publish before the end of this year its report on whether then-Prime Minister Tony Blair's government overstated the case for invasion and failed to prepare for the task of nation building.
But the Iraq Inquiry said on its website Wednesday that it will need at least until summer 2012 to produce a draft report. It blamed the delay on getting hold of classified papers, saying the inquiry still needs to negotiate the declassification of a "significant volume" of material.
"Very considerable progress has already been made, but there is still much to be done," a message posted on the inquiry's website said. It has made clear that it will need government cooperation to get that done in a "timely manner."
The Iraq Inquiry won't assign blame or criminal liability but is expected to make recommendations for handling future conflicts.
Over two years, the inquiry took evidence from political leaders such as Tony Blair, military chiefs and advisers. It also met with bereaved families, visited the U.S. and France, and held private sessions with intelligence officers.
The final report will be submitted to Prime Minister David Cameron.
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BEIJING?? Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said he deposited a $1.3 million guarantee into a government bank account Tuesday out of concern for his associates after tax officials threatened to turn their investigation into his company over to police.
The move represents a concession by Ai in a dispute that arose this week between the dissident and Chinese tax authorities who say Ai's Beijing Fake Cultural Development Ltd. owes 15 million yuan ($2.4 million) in back taxes and fines, and enables him and the company to challenge the tax bill.
Ai, an internationally acclaimed conceptual artist, was taken away by police to a secret location for nearly three months earlier this year during a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent.
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He disputes the government's tax-evasion allegations and says he does not even own the company involved, but added that under China's authoritarian government none of that matters.
"It's very simple," Ai said in a phone interview. "Those in power have the right to do anything and their power faces no restrictions."
The company wants to fight the tax bill but had to put down a guarantee of 8.5 million yuan ($1.3 million) to do so.
Tax bureau's demands illegal?
Beijing tax bureau officials told Ai's wife Lu Qing, the company's legal representative, that they wanted the bond paid into one of the tax bureau's bank accounts and that if the company missed the Wednesday deadline to do so, the case would be sent to police, Ai said. "They were of course issuing a threat to us, but the threat is real."
Supporters have sent Ai nearly 8.7 million yuan ($1.4 million), but Ai and his company's lawyers said transferring the money into the tax bureau's accounts could be seen as admitting guilt and that if they win the case it would be difficult to get the money back. Instead, Ai was planning to be the guarantor and offer a bank certificate of deposit as collateral.
Ai said he gave in to the tax bureau's demand out of concern for the safety of his associates.
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"If you don't do it this way, they might send you to the public security, then the public security organ can use some other procedure, under the charge of refusing to pay taxes, to do what, I don't know," Ai said. "Of course, this would have been very unsafe for a lot of people."
His company's lawyers say the tax bureau's demand is illegal. Repeated phone calls to the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau's propaganda department rang unanswered Tuesday.
Ai said that if the case were to go to the police it was possible that they would detain his wife, because she is the firm's legal representative, and the company's manager and accountant, who he says have been unreachable in the months since his release. He said police could also go after him even though he's not the owner of the company, just a designer.
Ai said the company has 60 days to seek a review of the case.
The artist was the most high-profile target of a sweeping crackdown on activists that started in February in a bid to prevent protests similar to those in the Middle East and North Africa. Dozens of bloggers, writers, rights lawyers and other activists were detained, arrested or questioned. Many have since been released but continue to face restrictions on whom they can see and talk to.
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MADRID (Reuters) ? Spain's new government may rush through emergency measures immediately after Sunday's parliamentary election, but unless the euro zone finds a durable systemic solution to its debt crisis, Madrid will still be forced to seek a financial rescue.
The center-right People's Party, led by Mariano Rajoy, is expected to sweep to victory with a strong parliamentary majority on Sunday, giving it a solid mandate to deepen painful spending cuts and economic reforms.
While the new administration will not be sworn in until mid-December, analysts say Rajoy should be able to team up with incumbent Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to announce contingency policies given the depth of the crisis.
Zapatero has cut costs and forced through economic reforms for more than a year -- guaranteeing his party a loss at the polls -- but investors have continued to dump Spanish debt regardless and borrowing costs are near-unaffordable.
Meanwhile, contagion from the euro zone debt crisis has spread to Italy and France, the currency area's third and second largest economies, making Spain's problems a small part of the wider problem.
"It depends on Italy, not on us. To ask about Spain doesn't make a great deal of sense as the problem is out of our hands. It transcends to a much higher level," Madrid-based financial analyst Juan Ignacio Crespo said.
Spain's Treasury paid the highest rate since 1997 to sell a new 10-year bond on Thursday, just shy of the 7 percent level that forced Greece, Portugal and Ireland to apply for bail-outs.
At current financing costs, Spain would need a primary surplus of 1.8 percent to keep its ratio of debt to gross domestic product stable in the long term, according to calculations by Reuters Breakingviews. The country is forecast to run a primary deficit of 3.5 percent next year and its poor growth prospects mean it faces a struggle to get close to rubbing that out even years down the road.
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Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, a technocrat who replaced former PM Silvio Berlusconi, said on Thursday that Italy faced a serious emergency which could help decide the future of the European Union.
Paris also paid markedly higher yields in a debt sale on Thursday and will soon be forced to show it is willing to make politically sensitive measures to defend its shaky AAA investment grade debt rating.
"You get to the point where even the countries doing the right thing, showing progress on structural reforms and fiscal deficits, cannot get any traction with the markets because the market is closed to the periphery in general," Deutsche Bank economist Gilles Moec said.
"That the governments do their bit is a pre-requisite, because it's what warrants support from the other Europeans and the ECB. But it isn't sufficient."
Zapatero reversed his previous economic stimulus policy at the beginning of 2010 with spending cuts worth around 5 percent of GDP in an effort to bring down one of the euro zone's highest public deficits.
By doing its homework, Spain staved off the immediate need for a bailout -- the size of which would test EU political will and the capacity of the economic safety net, the European Financial Stability Facility, or EFSF.
But it's increasingly clear it has been too little, too late, much to the frustration of Spaniards who are likely to suffer even deeper cost cutting under Rajoy.
"Spain is like a patient in the hospital. We're anxious they get back to work, but they need a period of recuperation first," economist at the Spanish business school IESE Antonio Argandona said.
Rajoy will inherit a very troubled economy, which as elsewhere calls into question whether the strategy of eye-watering austerity leaves any chance of the growth needed to pay off the country's debts.
Spanish unemployment is more than double the EU average at 21.5 percent, with almost half of young people out of work. The economy stagnated in the third quarter and is widely expected to slip into recession by the end of the year.
Burdened by resulting low revenues, analysts polled by Reuters expect the government to miss the public deficit target of 6 percent of gross domestic product this year by a wide margin.
While Rajoy will likely scramble next week to prove his resolve to nervous investors, all efforts will be met with cautions skepticism perhaps forcing him to face the nuclear option Zapatero avoided, an appeal to Brussels and to the International Monetary Fund.
"The only emergency measure left is to apply for an EFSF/IMF credit line. It would be horrible for Rajoy to have to do that as a first step, but Zapatero would not stand in his way," said Antonio Barroso, political analyst at Eurasia Group.
(Edited by Fiona Ortiz and Patrick Graham)
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LONDON ? Britain's former border force chief, who stepped down amid a scandal about border controls, says he did not overstep his authority in relaxing some passport checks during the peak summer travel season.
Brodie Clark is accused of going beyond orders and dropping some border controls to avoid overcrowding at airports and ports that would give tourists a bad impression of Britain.
Giving evidence to lawmakers, Clark said Tuesday that Home Secretary Theresa May had signed off the changes he authorized, and said he gave officials weekly briefings on the changes.
"I am no rogue officer, nothing can be further from the truth," he said, denying May's version of events given last week.
Asked why his testimony contradicted May's, he said: "I just do not understand why she had said that."
Clark has said that May wrongly accused him and gave an inaccurate description of events. He is planning to sue the government, which he says forced him out of his job.
The scandal has put May, one of the government's most senior officials, under pressure to reveal the extent to which she was responsible for the lapses in border security.
She told Parliament last week it was impossible to determine how many people entered the country without sufficient identity checks.
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The sale of Quinn Insurance to US insurance giant Liberty Mutual Group has been completed today. The transfer of all existing Quinn Insurance workers to Liberty Mutual?s new Irish company has also been completed.
The new operation will trade under the name of Liberty Insurance and will continue to operate from existing offices in Cavan, Dublin and Enniskillen. Cavan will continue to be the company?s headquarters.
The new boss of Liberty Insurance has been named as Patrick O?Brien, who was previously chief operating officer of Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe.
The Quinn company signage was taken down over the weekend at the Co Cavan headquarters, while the ?Q? spelt in gravel in a rock garden at the site was also dug up.
Quinn Irish insurance customers have been told that all contact details remain the same, and they do not need to take any action as a result of the change of ownership. Their policies have been transferred to Liberty Insurance and their existing premium and level of insurnace will be unaffected.
The sale of Quinn Insurance to Liberty Mutual and Anglo Irish Bank was approved by the High Court in June.
The former owner of Quinn Insurance, S?an Quinn, was declared bankrupt at a court in Belfast on Friday. The 64-year-old businessman, once Ireland?s richest business man, was granted a voluntary adjudication over an alleged ?2.8 billion debt owed to Anglo Irish Bank.
By declaring himself bankrupt in Northern Ireland, it means he only has to wait a year before going back into business ? rather than 12 years here.
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GENEVA (AP) ? The International Diabetes Federation predicts that at least one in 10 adults could have diabetes by 2030, according to its latest statistics.
In a report issued on Monday, the advocacy group estimated that 552 million people could have diabetes in two decades' time based on factors like aging and demographic changes. Currently, the group says that about one adult in 13 has diabetes.
The figure includes both types of diabetes as well as cases that are undiagnosed. The group expects the number of cases to jump by 90 percent even in Africa, where infectious diseases have previously been the top killer. Without including the impact of increasing obesity, the International Diabetes Federation said its figures were conservative.
According to the World Health Organization, there are about 346 million people worldwide with diabetes, with more than 80 percent of deaths occurring in developing countries. The agency projects diabetes deaths will double by 2030 and said the International Diabetes Federation's prediction was possible.
"It's a credible figure," said Gojka Roglic, head of WHO's diabetes unit. "But whether or not it's correct, we can't say."
Roglic said the projected future rise in diabetes cases was because of aging rather than the obesity epidemic. Most cases of diabetes are Type 2, the kind that mainly hits people in middle age, and is linked to weight gain and a sedentary lifestyle.
Roglic said a substantial number of future diabetes cases were preventable. "It's worrying because these people will have an illness which is serious, debilitating, and shortens their lives," she said. "But it doesn't have to happen if we take the right interventions."
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