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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Google Now available on iOS devices starting today
When it comes to major news, we didn't expect to hear much from Google in the run-up to I/O, but clearly, the company just couldn't wait that long. Google Now, a service that Android users have enjoyed for a year, just became available on iOS devices in the form of an update to the Google Search app, confirming those leaked videos we saw a few weeks ago. It won't have integration with notifications or alerts at launch -- it may come in a future update, but the company wasn't willing to divulge its future plans -- so you'll need to enter the app and swipe up to refresh your list of cards. The iOS version won't have every type of card that you'll find on Android, either: boarding passes, activity summary, events, concerts, Fandango and Zillow aren't included this go-round. Improvements and additional features will likely trickle in over time, but it's certainly better than nothing for iOS fans who've looked at Jelly Bean users with a slightly jealous eye. We've included Google's blog post in its entirety below, and you can jump to More Coverage to download the app.
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Source: The Official Google Blog, iTunes
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Rolling Stones rock small LA club ahead of tour
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? For one night only, the Rolling Stones were an up-and-coming band again.
The legendary group rocked a small club in Los Angeles on Saturday night for a miniscule crowd compared to the thousands set to see them launch their "50 and Counting" anniversary tour a week later on May 3 at the Staples Center.
The band kicked off Saturday's hush-hush 90-minute concert at the Echoplex in the hip Echo Park neighborhood with "You Got Me Rocking" before catapulting into a mix of new and old material, as well as their bluesy covers of classics from Otis Redding ("That's How Strong My Love Is"), Chuck Berry ("Little Queenie") and The Temptations ("Just My Imagination").
"Welcome to Echo Park, a neighborhood that's always coming up ? and I'm glad you're here to welcome an up-and-coming band," lead singer Mick Jagger joked after the second song of the evening, "Respectable."
Despite clocking in several decades as a band, Jagger, drummer Charlie Watts and guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood showed no signs of slowing down Saturday.
Jagger, who promptly ditched a black-and-white track jacket emblazoned with the band's logo after the first few songs, worked the crowd into a sing-a-long frenzy with "Miss You," complete with a harmonica solo from the strutting frontman.
Tickets to the Echoplex concert were sold earlier in the day for $20 each ? a fraction of what tickets to the tour cost.
Hundreds of fans lined up outside the El Rey Theatre across town earlier Saturday for a chance to attend the spontaneous show. Buyers were limited to one ticket, and they were required to pay with cash, show a government-issued ID, wear a wristband with their name on it and be photographed. Their names were verified at the venue, which has a capacity of about 700.
Cameras and smartphones weren't allowed inside the Echoplex, which usually plays host to hipster bands and mash-up dance parties. The lack of personal recording devices made the Stones' performance feel even more exclusive and old school, freeing concertgoers' hands of the gizmos that have become commonplace at concerts nowadays, and further bonding the crowd, many of whom built up camaraderie during the confusing ticket lottery earlier in the day.
Toward the end of Saturday's show, the band was joined by former Stones guitarist Mick Taylor for their version of Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain," as well as "Midnight Rambler."
The band, which was backed by Darryl Jones on bass, Chuck Leavell on keys, Bobby Keys on sax and Bernard Fowler and Lisa Fischer as back-up singers, encored with the hits "Brown Sugar" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
"(This is) the first show of the tour, probably the best one," Jagger said at the end of the 90-minute set.
Bruce Willis, Gwen Stefani and Skrillex were among the famous faces in the sold-out crowd.
Rumors of the surprise show spread across social networks last week after the band teased the appearance on their Twitter accounts. The dance-pop band New Build, which was originally scheduled to play the Echoplex on Saturday, was first to leak details about the performance.
"Our gig got shifted b/c the Rolling Stones are playing Echoplex," the band posted Friday on Twitter. They joked that they were looking forward to "having it out" with the Stones.
The Rolling Stones performed a few dates together in London, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Newark, N.J., last winter, but didn't announce a tour until earlier this month. They will play 17 dates in the United States but said they may add more down the line. The lowest price for tickets to the show at the Staples Center, which has a capacity of about 20,000, is $250.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rolling-stones-rock-small-la-club-ahead-tour-125211752.html
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Mother of bomb suspects found deeper spirituality
In this image taken from a video, an undated family photo provided by Patimat Suleimanova, the aunt of USA Boston bomb suspects, shows Anzor Tsarnaev left, Zubeidat Tsarnaev holding Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Anzor's brother Mukhammad Tsarnaev. Now known as the angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaev is drawing increased attention after federal officials say Russian authorities intercepted her phone calls, including one in which she vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son. In another, she was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, U.S. officials said. (AP Photo/Patimat Suleimanova)
In this image taken from a video, an undated family photo provided by Patimat Suleimanova, the aunt of USA Boston bomb suspects, shows Anzor Tsarnaev left, Zubeidat Tsarnaev holding Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Anzor's brother Mukhammad Tsarnaev. Now known as the angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaev is drawing increased attention after federal officials say Russian authorities intercepted her phone calls, including one in which she vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son. In another, she was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, U.S. officials said. (AP Photo/Patimat Suleimanova)
FILE - This April 25, 2013 file photo shows the mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, left, speaking at a news conference in Makhachkala, the southern Russian province of Dagestan. Two government officials tell The Associated Press that U.S. intelligence agencies added the Boston bombing suspects' mother to a federal terrorism database about 18 months before the attack. At right is her sister-in-law Maryam. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev, File)
BOSTON (AP) ? In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star. After she arrived in the U.S. from Russia in 2002, she went to beauty school and did facials at a suburban day spa.
But in recent years, people noticed a change. She began wearing a hijab and cited conspiracy theories about 9/11 being a plot against Muslims.
Now known as the angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tsarnaeva is drawing increased attention after federal officials say Russian authorities intercepted her phone calls, including one in which she vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son. In another, she was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, U.S. officials said.
Tsarnaeva insists there is no mystery. She's no terrorist, just someone who found a deeper spirituality. She insists her sons ? Tamerlan, who was killed in a gunfight with police, and Dzhokhar, who was wounded and captured ? are innocent.
"It's all lies and hypocrisy," she told The Associated Press in Dagestan. "I'm sick and tired of all this nonsense that they make up about me and my children. People know me as a regular person, and I've never been mixed up in any criminal intentions, especially any linked to terrorism."
Amid the scrutiny, Tsarnaeva and her ex-husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, say they have put off the idea of any trip to the U.S. to reclaim their elder son's body or try to visit Dzhokhar in jail. Tsarnaev told the AP on Sunday he was too ill to travel to the U.S. Tsarnaeva faces a 2012 shoplifting charge in a Boston suburb, though it was unclear whether that was a deterrent.
At a news conference in Dagestan with Anzor last week, Tsarnaeva appeared overwhelmed with grief one moment, defiant the next. "They already are talking about that we are terrorists, I am terrorist," she said. "They already want me, him and all of us to look (like) terrorists."
Tsarnaeva arrived in the U.S. in 2002, settling in a working-class section of Cambridge, Mass. With four children, Anzor and Zubeidat qualified for food stamps and were on and off public assistance benefits for years. The large family squeezed itself into a third-floor apartment.
Zubeidat took classes at the Catherine Hinds Institute of Esthetics, before becoming a state-licensed aesthetician. Anzor, who had studied law, fixed cars.
By some accounts, the family was tolerant.
Bethany Smith, a New Yorker who befriended Zubeidat's two daughters, said in an interview with Newsday that when she stayed with the family for a month in 2008 while she looked at colleges, she was welcomed even though she was Christian and had tattoos.
"I had nothing but love over there. They accepted me for who I was," Smith told the newspaper. "Their mother, Zubeidat, she considered me to be a part of the family. She called me her third daughter."
Zubeidat said she and Tamerlan began to turn more deeply into their Muslim faith about five years ago after being influenced by a family friend, named "Misha." The man, whose full name she didn't reveal, impressed her with a religious devotion that was far greater than her own, even though he was an ethnic Armenian who converted to Islam.
"I wasn't praying until he prayed in our house, so I just got really ashamed that I am not praying, being a Muslim, being born Muslim. I am not praying. Misha, who converted, was praying," she said.
By then, she had left her job at the day spa and was giving facials in her apartment. One client, Alyssa Kilzer, noticed the change when Tsarnaeva put on a head scarf before leaving the apartment.
"She had never worn a hijab while working at the spa previously, or inside the house, and I was really surprised," Kilzer wrote in a post on her blog. "She started to refuse to see boys that had gone through puberty, as she had consulted a religious figure and he had told her it was sacrilegious. She was often fasting."
Kilzer wrote that Tsarnaeva was a loving and supportive mother, and she felt sympathy for her plight after the April 15 bombings. But she stopped visiting the family's home for spa treatments in late 2011 or early 2012 when, during one session, she "started quoting a conspiracy theory, telling me that she thought 9/11 was purposefully created by the American government to make America hate Muslims."
"It's real," Tsarnaeva said, according to Kilzer. "My son knows all about it. You can read on the Internet."
In the spring of 2010, Zubeidat's eldest son got married in a ceremony at a Boston mosque that no one in the family had previously attended. Tamerlan and his wife, Katherine Russell, a Rhode Island native and convert from Christianity, now have a child who is about 3 years old.
Zubeidat married into a Chechen family but was an outsider. She is an Avar, from one of the dozens of ethnic groups in Dagestan. Her native village is now a hotbed of an ultraconservative strain of Islam known as Salafism or Wahabbism.
It is unclear whether religious differences fueled tension in their family. Anzor and Zubeidat divorced in 2011.
About the same time, there was a brief FBI investigation into Tamerlan Tsarnaev, prompted by a tip from Russia's security service.
The vague warning from the Russians was that Tamerlan, an amateur boxer in the U.S., was a follower of radical Islam who had changed drastically since 2010. That led the FBI to interview Tamerlan at the family's home in Cambridge. Officials ultimately placed his name, and his mother's name, on various watch lists, but the inquiry was closed in late spring of 2011.
After the bombings, Russian authorities told U.S. investigators they had secretly recorded a phone conversation in which Zubeidat had vaguely discussed jihad with Tamerlan. The Russians also recorded Zubeidat talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation with reporters.
The conversations are significant because, had they been revealed earlier, they might have been enough evidence for the FBI to initiate a more thorough investigation of the Tsarnaev family.
Anzor's brother, Ruslan Tsarni, told the AP from his home in Maryland that he believed his former sister-in-law had a "big-time influence" on her older son's growing embrace of his Muslim faith and decision to quit boxing and school.
While Tamerlan was living in Russia for six months in 2012, Zubeidat, who had remained in the U.S., was arrested at a shopping mall in the suburb of Natick, Mass., and accused of trying to shoplift $1,624 worth of women's clothing from a department store.
She failed to appear in court to answer the charges that fall, and instead left the country.
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Seddon reported from Makhachkala, Russia. Associated Press writers Eileen Sullivan and Matt Apuzzo contributed to this report from Washington.
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
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Two police officers shot as Italian government sworn in
ROME (Reuters) - Two police officers were shot and wounded outside the Italian prime minister's office on Sunday as Enrico Letta's new government was being sworn in around a km (mile) away at the president's palace, RAI state television reported. One man was arrested at the scene of the shooting, a witness said, and it was initially unclear whether the attack was linked to the launch of the new government.
Analysis: Israeli credibility on line over Iran nuclear challenge
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel risks a loss of credibility over both its "red line" for Iran's nuclear program and its threat of military action, and its room for unilateral maneuver is shrinking. After years of veiled warnings that Israel might strike the Islamic Republic, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out an ultimatum at the United Nations last September.
Hope for survivors fades as Bangladesh building toll reaches 363
DHAKA (Reuters) - Hope for survivors under the rubble of a building that collapsed outside the capital of Bangladesh faded on Sunday, and with more than 900 people still counted as missing fears grew that the death toll could rise far beyond the latest figure of 363. Four people were pulled alive from the wreckage of the Rana Plaza, which housed several factories making low-cost garments for Western retailers, four days after the country's worst-ever industrial accident.
Gunmen surround Libyan foreign ministry to push demands
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Gunmen surrounded Libya's foreign ministry on Sunday to push demands that officials who had worked for deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi's government be banned from senior positions in the new administration. At least 20 pick-up trucks loaded with anti-aircraft guns blocked the roads while men armed with AK-47s and sniper rifles directed the traffic away from the building, witnesses said.
Algeria president in France for tests after minor stroke
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was transferred to France for medical tests on Saturday night after suffering a minor stroke, Algeria's official news agency said. Bouteflika, who has ruled over the North African oil and gas producer for more than a decade, had an "transient ischemic attack" or mini-stroke on Saturday but his condition was not serious, the APS agency said, quoting the prime minister.
Japan's Abe says "restoration of sovereignty day" signals hope
TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Sunday for a renewal of a "sense of hope and determination" in marking for the first time the restoration of Japan's post-war sovereignty, part of a drive to repair what conservatives consider dented national pride. Abe, who is riding a wave of popularity after being swept back into office in a landslide election last December, wants to revise the post-war, U.S.-drafted pacifist constitution and rewrite Japan's wartime history with a less apologetic tone.
France's foreign firepower threatened by budget cuts
CANJUERS ARMY BASE, DRAGUIGNAN, France (Reuters) - Explosions echo through a valley in southern France, sending up plumes of smoke as four Caesar self-propelled guns fire at distant targets in drills that mirror operations in Mali. It's a show of firepower organized by arms manufacturer Nexter to demonstrate the guns to the press and which underlines the role of the army in a conflict that has bolstered France's standing as a nation that can project military force. Yet the message may fall on deaf ears in Paris.
Europe austerity debate to test periphery political will
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Readers of Ireland's largest-selling daily newspaper were confronted by an unexpected front page headline this week when the Irish Independent proclaimed the "End Of Austerity." In a country that began cutting spending and hiking taxes almost five years ago, well before the scale of the euro zone's debt crisis was evident, weary Irish voters have more interest than most in the fresh debate over Europe's cornerstone policy.
One year on, France's Hollande says will weather poll slump
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Francois Hollande said he was undeterred by a first year in power marked by economic slowdown and a record slump in his personal popularity, arguing his 5-year presidency would achieve results over time. In comments to correspondents from Reuters and Agence France Presse a week before the anniversary of his May 2012 election win over Nicolas Sarkozy, Hollande shrugged off polls showing his popularity rating around 25 percent, after the sharpest fall for any president in over half a century.
Gunshots fired near Italy prime minister's office, injuries
ROME (Reuters) - Gunshots were fired in front of the Italian prime minister's office in Rome on Saturday as the new government of Enrico Letta was being sworn in at the president's palace around a kilometer away, RAI state television reported. It said there were injuries and quoted a witness who said that she had heard at least eight shots fired.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ca-news-summary-034827262.html
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Lawyer: Jailed pair shocked by Boston bomb claims
BOSTON (AP) ? Two college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who were jailed by immigration authorities the day after his capture had nothing to do with the deadly attack and had seen no hints that he harbored any violent thoughts or terrorist sympathies, a lawyer for one of them said Friday.
Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, who are from Kazakhstan, were classmates with Tsarnaev at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. They appeared alongside him in a recent photograph of a group of young men visiting New York City's Times Square. They were detained April 20 after being questioned in connection with the bombing, which had killed three people and injured more than 260 others a few days earlier.
"These kids are just as shocked and horrified about what happened as everyone else," Kadyrbayev's lawyer, Robert Stahl, said in a phone interview. "They can't even fathom something like this from a kid who seemed to be a typical young college student."
Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev have been interviewed at length, twice, by FBI agents and have cooperated fully, said Stahl, a former federal prosecutor. They are not suspects but are being held for violating their student visas by not regularly attending classes, Stahl said. They are being detained at a county jail in Boston.
The Kazakh Foreign Ministry said Monday night that U.S. authorities came across the two while searching for "possible links and contacts" to Tsarnaev, a sophomore at the university. U.S. immigration officials have declined to discuss the reasons why the men were detained.
John Hoey, an assistant chancellor at UMass Dartmouth, said Kadyrbayev is no longer enrolled; he was last a student in the fall. Tazhayakov is enrolled.
The pair had lived at an off-campus apartment in New Bedford, about 60 miles south of Boston, and got around in a car registered to Kadyrbayev with a souvenir plate that says "Terrorista (hash)1." The car was pictured on Tsarnaev's Twitter feed in March.
That plate was just a joke gift from some of Kadyrbayev's friends, meant to invoke his penchant for late-night partying rather than his political sentiments, Stahl said.
"It's such a silly thing. Bad timing," Stahl said. "His desire is to be released so he can return home. He would like to go home to the comfort of his family. You can imagine being 19 years old and having SWAT teams break down your door. It's a terrible situation."
Stahl said the young Kazakhs didn't see Tsarnaev in the days before or after the April 15 bombing.
Tazhayakov's lawyer, Thomas Kirsch, did not immediately return a phone call or an email message Friday evening.
Tsarnaev, who was captured hiding in a tarp-covered boat in a suburban Boston yard after a lengthy manhunt, is in federal custody. His older brother, the other identified suspect in the bombing, died after a shootout with police. Their mother has said the allegations against them are lies.
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Associated Press writer Erika Niedowski contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lawyer-jailed-pair-shocked-boston-bomb-claims-014232408.html
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Thanks to rare alpine bacteria, researchers identify one of alcohol's key gateways to the brain
Thanks to rare alpine bacteria, researchers identify one of alcohol's key gateways to the brain
Friday, April 26, 2013Thanks to a rare bacteria that grows only on rocks in the Swiss Alps, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the Pasteur Institute in France have been the first to identify how alcohol might affect key brain proteins.
It's a major step on the road to eventually developing drugs that could disrupt the interaction between alcohol and the brain.
"Now that we've identified this key brain protein and understand its structure, it's possible to imagine developing a drug that could block the binding site," said Adron Harris, professor of biology and director of the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction at The University of Texas at Austin.
Harris and his former postdoctoral fellow Rebecca Howard, now an assistant professor at Skidmore College, are co-authors on the paper that was recently published in Nature Communications. It describes the structure of the brain protein, called a ligand-gated ion channel, that is a key enabler of many of the primary physiological and behavioral effects of alcohol.
Harris said that for some time there has been suggestive evidence that these ion channels are important binding sites for alcohol. Researchers couldn't prove it, however, because they couldn't crystallize the brain protein well enough, and therefore couldn't use X-ray crystallography to determine the structure of the protein with and without alcohol present.
The advance came when Marc Delarue and his colleagues at the Pasteur Institute sequenced the genome of cyanobacteria Gloeobacter violaceus. They noted a protein sequence on the bacteria that is remarkably similar to the sequence of a group of ligand-gated ion channels in the human brain. They were able to crystallize this protein. Harris saw the results and immediately got in touch.
"This is something you never would have found with any sort of logical approach," he said. "You never would have guessed that this obscure bacterium would have something that looks like a brain protein in it. But the institute, because of Pasteur's fascination with bacteria, has this huge collection of obscure bacteria, and over the last few years they've been sequencing the genomes, keeping an eye out for interesting properties."
Harris and Howard asked their French colleagues to collaborate, got the cyanobacteria, changed one amino acid to make it sensitive to alcohol, and then crystallized both the original bacteria and the mutated one. They compared the two to see whether they could identify where the alcohol bound to the mutant. With further tests they confirmed that it was a meaningful site.
"Everything validated that the cavity in which the alcohol bound is important," said Harris. "It doesn't account for all the things that alcohol does, but it appears to be important for a lot of them, including some of the 'rewarding' effects and some of the negative, aversive effects."
Going forward, Harris and his lab plan to use mice to observe how changes to the key protein affect behavior when the mice consume alcohol.
They're also hoping to identify other important proteins from this family of ligand-gated ion channels. In the long term, he hopes to be involved in developing drugs that act on these proteins in ways that help people diminish or cease their drinking.
"So why do some people drink moderately and some excessively?" he said. "One reason lies in that the balance between the rewarding and the aversive effects, and that balance is different for different people, and it can change within an individual depending on their drinking patterns. Some of those effects are determined by the interactions of alcohol and these channels, so the hope is that we can alter the balance. Maybe we can diminish the reward or increase the aversive effects."
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Nev. Assembly GOP renews opposition to mining tax
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Assembly Republicans are renewing their opposition to a plan being pushed by some Senate colleagues to seek a 10 percent tax on Nevada's gold and silver mine operators.
"Members of the Assembly Republican caucus, many of whom represent areas of the state where mining is a vital partner in their local communities, are not anxious to single out the mining industry at a time when Nevada's economy is still trying to recover," Assemblyman James Oscarson, R-Pahrump, said in statement released late Thursday.
Six senators led by Minority Leader Michael Roberson, R-Henderson, are proposing a ballot question to raise the mining tax as an alternative to a 2 percent business tax that will be on the 2014 ballot.
The business tax option was an initiative backed by the Nevada State Education Association and other labor groups that gathered more than 150,000 signatures to send the matter to the 2013 Legislature. Legislators failed to act on it within 40 days as required by law, automatically sending it to voters next year.
Backers of that tax say it would raise $800 million annually for education.
Senate Republicans said their plan, which has yet to be introduced as a bill, would raise $600 million during the two-year budget cycle to fund education. It would be contingent upon ultimate approval of SJR15 to remove the mining industry's 5 percent tax cap on net proceeds that is in the state constitution. That resolution has cleared the Senate and awaits action the Assembly, where passage is likely. It would then go to voters in 2014 for ratification.
Without the support of Assembly Republicans and Gov. Brian Sandoval, it's questionable whether the Senate Republicans' plan will advance.
"Given Nevada's still high unemployment numbers, now would not be a good time to propose a tax that more than doubles the tax burden on a single industry that has been one of the state's strongest job creators," said Assemblyman John Ellison, R-Elko.
Tim Crowley, president of the Nevada Mining Association, has said the industry would support efforts to broaden the state's tax base and called the targeting of a specific industry "short-sighted."
Assembly Republicans agree, saying legislators "should be looking at tax policies that are both broad and equitable and mitigate the financial burden on businesses and individuals."
Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, R-Reno, said if voters approve SJR15 next year, then lawmakers in 2015 "will decide if and how mining taxes should be reset."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nev-assembly-gop-renews-opposition-190013229.html
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Friday, April 26, 2013
'Prince Avalanche' Trailer: Paul Rudd And Emile Hirsch Hit The Road
Before making three films in positioned squarely in the stoner comedy genre, director David Gordon Green specialized in small, idiosyncratic movies like "George Washington" and "All the Real Girls." His latest film, "Prince Avalanche," which stars Emile Hirsch and Paul Rudd, is Green's attempt to strip away the excess of his last three theatrical efforts [...]
Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/04/26/prince-avalanche-trailer/
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Sports On TV: 15 More Great Sports Moments From Saved By The Bell
The very first show featured in our Sports On TV column was 'Saved By The Bell,' and with good reason. It's one of those shows we've all seen whether we like it or not, and face it, you can't spell "Internet" without 'Saved By The Bell.'
Saved By The Bell's 20 Greatest Sports Moments featured so many of the classics -- Zack becoming an Indian to deal with track team stress, girls on the wrestling team, wheelchair basketball, Zack hitting a soon-to-be-dead-from-oil-spillage duck with a baseball -- but it didn't feature them all. It's only fitting that the first part 2 entrant in Sports on TV history would be 15 MORE great sports moments from the show.
So, please click through to enjoy sports moments 21-35 from 'Saved By The Bell.' Warning: there is a lot of spooning-disguised-as-instruction gags in these entries. A LOT.
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Episode: "Cut Day" (season 3, episode 23)
What Happens: Yes, this is going to be nothing but people trying to rub their dicks on girls' butts to teach them sports.
In an episode that is mostly about Jessie Spanno protesting the use of styrofoam cups at Bayside High with Graham The Shitty 1990s TV Show Environmentalist, Slater leverages Bayside's Annual Cut Day with Zack having already used all but the last of his unexcused absences to try to win a hundred bucks. FOR YOU SEE, if Zack can not cut class and be in every place Slater and Kelly go on Cut Day, he'll lose a (contextually) large bet. During the first cut attempt, Zack rushes in to find Slater teaching Kelly how to play bumper pool at The Max. The Max never had bumper pool before this and never had it again, so I guess Max handled Cut Day by saying "f**k it, I'm not serving you delinquents burgers today, here is a game nobody has ever played."
Key line: "Bullseye! You're a terrific teacher, Slater. You and Jessie must have a blast together." "Are you kidding? Once I tried to teach her horseshoes and she said it was cruelty to animals."
Come to think of it, they never had CUT DAY before or after this, either.
Other locations Zack must escape to are that terrible movie theater that only plays dialogue-free monster movies and is just five rows of folding chairs, and that Frankie and Annette interpretation of the beach 'Saved By The Bell' loved where kids go to do The Twist and bat beach balls at each other. They also do that funny joke where you bury someone in the sand and let them breathe/drink out of a straw. Also, Gidget is there, probably.
Episode: "Zack's Birthday" (season 3, episode 2)
What Happens: oh for f**ks sakes
The Whole Gang lands summer jobs at the Malibu Sands Beach Club thanks to Lisa's parents, who are members. Malibu Sands is run by Leon Carosi, a stuffed-shirt New Yorker who sounds a lot like Pumbaa from The Lion King and demands that everyone have NOT FUN at the beach. He makes Zack the "social director" of the club, and Zack interprets that as "rub my dick on girls' butts to teach them sports." He coaches a women's volleyball team before he is dragged away by Carosi's uptight daughter Stacy, who is TOTALLY cute but also the type who'd grow up to marry a fat, awful guy and yell at him nine years instead of getting a divorce.
Key line: "Take your right arm ... bring it back, nice and smooth, nice and smooth ... smooooth ..." "Okay, that's smooth enough."
First of all, why are Lisa's parents members of this club? Besides the fact that it's terrible and exclusively features bikini girls and elderly tourists, the Turtles are rich people who live within driving distance of the beach. Maybe the other summers were better? That other beach where the kids do The Bird and shit seemed like a better experience.
Second of all, the Malibu Sands episodes are as bad as 'Saved By The Bell' episodes can get without Hayley Mills or college. Mr. Belding was the secret thing that made SBTB work, because he's an antagonist to our main character, but a lovable, constructive one. Leon Carosi was just a dumpy asshole, and when they got to college they were bumping heads with a two-dimensional Mean Dean. Belding had heart and wanted the best for these kids. He probably sat at home all summer wondering what they were up to.
Episode: "Fourth Of July" (season 3, episode 6)
What Happens: Well, at least that's a ... little different.
Malibu Sands celebrates the Fourth Of July with an annual beauty contest and physical challenge thing featuring an obstacle course, a wheelbarrow race and a game of tug of war. You know, between the faculty. People who actually pay to GO to Malibu Sands have to stand around in the background clapping. Anyway, Lisa brags that she's the reigning competition champion and record holder, which (of course) sends Slater's brain into A GIRL IS NOT BETTER THAN ME AT SPORTS mode. They face off and Lisa wins, not only because she's intimately familiar with the course, but because Slater would not stop flopping around like a f**king idiot. Seriously, he tries to wacky-jump through the entire thing.
Also, Screech tries to run it and gets caught in one of the tubes, because jokes.
Key line: "You're history, honey." "Eat my dust, Slater."
In round two, Corosi and his accomplice get all Ben-Hur on Kelly and Jessie, knocking them down to win the race. The guy who runs the resort physically attacks two female, teenage employees in front of everybody to win a wheelbarrow race. They get back at him by pulling him into the tug of war mud pit unexpectedly, which in the 'Saved By The Bell' universe makes them square.
Slater comes out on top in the head-to-head competition by tug-of-warring Lisa into the pit, but gets pulled in himself a la Big John Studd and William Perry at WrestleMania 2. Also like Studd/Perry, this leads to Slater and Lisa going to a dance together.
Episode: "Palm Springs Weekend Part 1" (season 3, episode 18)
What Happens: Continuing the "nobody currently in high school actually goes to school" trend is "Palm Springs Weekend Parts 1 & 2," about The Whole Gang getting invited to a luxurious resort (not Malibu Sands, which is a hole) to attend the wedding of Jessie's dad and his child bride. Jessie plans to disrupt the wedding and preserve that shitty family life she has where evil stepbrothers emerge from the darkness and disappear without a trace, but the guys don't care, because they know what you're supposed to do when you get to a resort: find the gym and sexually harass every woman in sight.
Zack pretends to be the captain of his school's aerobics team (?) to impress an aerobics instructor, but ends up ass-over-head when he tries to be mildly athletic. Of course Zack Morris isn't athletic enough to do a basic aerobics move! He is only ACTUALLY the captain of his school's track, baseball and basketball teams.
Key line: "I don't know about you but working out is the last thing on my mind." "I hear you, blood." "'I hear you, blood'? Where'd you get that?" "Chapter 3, talking cool."
This episode also features the infinite hilarity of Screech trying to bag ladies from the treadmill:
"Say, foxy lady, want to run away with me?"
"Run away with yourself you geek!"
Then she makes his treadmill go faster and walks away! We don't get to see how that ends, but I can only assume he calmly slowed it down and continued walking.
Episode: "Palm Springs Weekend Part 2" (season 3, episode 19)
What Happens: One thing you learn from watching 'Saved By The Bell' episodes is that in the last five minutes Zack Morris is a centered, enlightened being who always makes the right decisions. Here, he's telling Jessie that she'll regret it forever if she doesn't attend her father's wedding. Despite everything else she has thought forever, Jessie says "you're right!" and it's up to Zack to get her from point A (the golf course) to point B (the wedding) in time. His solution: drive a golf cart into/through anyone or anything in his way.
Jessie makes it just in time to participate in the wedding, and by "participate" I mean "make herself the center of attention by standing in front of the reverend between the bride and groom to apologize to them." Dude has to stand there looking at the back of her neck until the situation is resolved.
Key line: "Murray, when I make this putt, you'll owe me $1,000." "FORE!" "NOT FAIR, NOT FAIR!"
In the (very) B-story of "Palm Springs Weekend," the girl Slater tries to hit on at the gym turns out to be the PRINCESS OF A FICTIONAL EUROPEAN NATION ("Lichtenberg"). He finds this out because she's suspiciously good at golf, and also because the goddamn King of Lichtenberg walks up to them in the middle of a round and tries to get Slater to kiss his hand.
Here's the happy couple in mid-stroke, having totally Ed Gein'd somebody's living room couch.
Episode: "The Fabulous Belding Boys" (season 2, episode 16)
What Happens: Hey look, they're in school again! The Whole Gang is worried about passing their history mid-term so they can go on their annual class trip to Yosemite National Park. Thankfully, on the day of the test they get the world's coolest substitute: ROD BELDING, the cool, younger brother of the Principal. Rod lets Zack and Screech watch a Dodgers game in Mr. Belding's office while he's in a meeting, convinces the school to say f**k Yosemite for an EXTREME SPORTZ trip and volunteers to lead a white water rafting expedition in its place. Mr. Belding tries to warn the kids that his brother's a flake, but they won't listen, accusing him of being jealous. Sure enough, when it's time to head to the Colorado River, Rod is nowhere to be found -- he's bailing on them to hook up with a stewardess.
Key line: This, an iconic 'Saved By The Bell' quote if there is one:
Mr. Belding not only covers for his brother, saying he can't take the ... dozen or so kids that make up the "class" in a Los Angeles area high school white water rafting because he's got the flu, but offers to take them in Rod's place. Zack realizes that The Big Bopper is a cool guy in his own right, and it's true ... watch these shows as an adult and Mr. Belding is the only kind, sane, reasonable person on the show.
As a bonus sports moment, here's The Gang's history teacher haunting Kelly in the form of Magic Johnson.
Episode: "Drinking And Driving" (season 4, episode 10)
What Happens: Here's the Wikipedia synopsis for this episode, in its entirety:
After getting drunk at a party and crashing Dr. Turtle (Lisa mother)'s car on the way home, Zack and Company learn the worst thing about DUI: having to face the music from their enraged parents.
Yep, "facing the music" is the worst part about DUI, right ahead of "going to jail," "a hefty fine," "having it on your record for the rest of your life" and "senseless, avoidable deaths." Facin' the music from a 'Saved By The Bell' parent! Nothing worse than being grounded for x-amount of months, then having everyone forget it in a week.
Key line: "It's not every day that a truck load of bananas spills all over the freeway. I'm just glad your mother is all right. Terrible thing about the monkeys, though."
In a sports moment ahead of its time, Zack and Company (cough) try to secretly raise money to repair the car and get away with even fewer consequences than zero by selling ads on Slater's jersey during The Big Game. Mark Cuban's been trying to sell the NBA on jersey ads forever, and if that ever goes through, I'm raising money to scrawl S.S. LOVES AGNES on Dirk Nowitzki's back.
The Gang makes $500 selling what, three ads? But, alas, it's revealed that Slater injured his shoulder in the DUI wreck and will miss the game. His teammates seem shocked at the announcement, even though he's been sitting with them with his arm in a sling the entire time. Anyway, money is refunded, music is faced, and nobody in southern California drinks again until they're old enough and in Las Vegas.
Episode: "Aloha Slater" (season 1, episode 6)
What Happens: Zack is jealous of Slater's gigantic, girl-baiting wrestling trophy and concocts a scheme to get him sent back to Hawaii, where he'll never be temporary competition for a girlfriend again. As the trophy is going into the school's trophy case (which was removed to put in another row of lockers) (or not, depending on the blueprints of Bayside in THIS episode) (sometimes they have a f**king elevator), Mr. Belding asks Slater to show him a few moves. Namely ...
Key line: "Slater, show me that hold you used to beat Johnson. You know, that double-jointed torso stretcher. Don't worry, Slater ... I won't hurt ya!"
"Show me how you beat Johnson" is one of the best unintentionally-dirty lines in the run of this show, I think.
Anyway, the hold Slater used to ... heh, beat Johnson, the "double-jointed torso stretcher," is in fact the crossface chickening, the hold utilized and perfected by WWE Hall of Famer Mr. Bob Backlund. For more info on how deadly the chickenwing is, watch this:
No way Johnson was ever getting out of that. No way.
Episode: "The Babysitters" (season 2, episode 14)
What Happens: Zack gets stuck secret-babysitting Kelly's baby brother Billy on School Picture Day and bonds with him when he changes Billy's dirty diaper with Slater's shirt. Zack announcers to no-one in particular that one day he'll have a kid, and that launches us into a foggy magenta-bordered dream sequence where Zack meets a series of progressively-aged Zacks Jr. In one scene he tries to teach his son how to play baseball, watches as the kid breaks a window, then simultaneously praises and chastises him. You're going to be a great dad, Zack!
Key line: "Here comes my best pitch!" *glass breaks* "Boy have you got a great arm, kid! 'Course, that window's coming out of your allowance." "Awww dad."
Early 'Saved By The Bell' dream sequences are Taiwan Animation levels of batshit insane, and my favorite part of this one is that Zack and his son apparently live inside a big paper bag.
Episode: "The Will" (season 4, episode 14)
What Happens: Bayside's oldest alumnus dies and leaves the school $10,000, the sixish notable kids at school get to have competitions to see how the money will be used. Yeah, I don't know. Both sides agree that the money should be used for sports (see Tori's MONEY FOR SPORTS chant), but the guys don't think the girls should get money for girl sports because boys sports sell tickets to make girl sports possible. Zack and Slater would be right at home on the Internet in 2013. SAVED BY THE BELL MEN'S RIGHTS DOT ORG
To settle the issue, they have increasingly stupid head-to-head showdowns including a Classic Concentration-style rebus challenge, reassembling a disassembled carburetor and a pineapple upside-down cake bake-off. Holy shit, who is running this school? Zack cheats at the bake-off and Screech gives it away by literally walking up to the girls with the evidence, yelling that Zack cheated at the game and then saying OOPS as though he is not a total POS and did that on purpose. That leads to a LIMBO CONTEST.
Key line: "Zack, a dome would cost over a million dollars."
No, seriously, THEY LIMBOED TO DECIDE HOW A DEAD MAN'S MONEY WOULD BEST BE UTILIZED AT THEIR SCHOOL. Can't somebody step in and wrangle the school away from these five-to-six people?
Tori called a mulligan on one of her limbo attempts and should've been disqualified. Just saying.
Episode: "Rockumentary" (season 3, episode 22)
What Happens: Zack and The Gang are playing musical instruments, dreaming about being a popular band. CUT TO Casey Kasem, admirer of The Sprain, with a "rockumentary" from the future about ZACK ATTACK, the only band cool enough to feature THE WHOLE GANG. Of course they put "Zack" in the name. The band gets big but falls apart, leading to Zack's artistically-unfulfilling solo career as Vanilla Ice, Kelly joining a convent (on a soap opera) and Lisa becoming "Lethal Lisa" on NOT AMERICAN GLADIATORS PLEASE DON'T SUE "U.S. Gladiators." Slater becomes a race car driver, hurts himself in The Big Race and brings everyone back together in his hospital room. There they realize that FRIENDS ARE FOREVER and compose their biggest, fictional hit.
The events of this episode caused the creation of an alternate timeline called 'California Dreams.'
Key line: "Wow, Lisa, I just saw you on US Gladiators. Wow, you beat up everybody, including the audience!" "Nobody messes with Lethal Lisa."
Aside from the "who would win in an episode, Gladiator Lisa or Gladiator Belding," this is all you need to know about "Rockumentary":
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Episode: Saved By The Bell The College Years "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
What Happens: They're standing at the edge of tomorrow ... today. Or they were for 19 weeks back in 1993 when NBC decided to send half the cast to fictional California University, ignoring the like, 10 episodes about which colleges they all wanted to go to. Hey Slater, remember when you almost got disowned by your dad for wanting to go to Iowa and wrestle instead of attending West Point Military Academy? Now you're getting pinned by some nerd at faux UC Berkeley. Screech, remember how you got accepted everywhere you applied, and Harvard was your back-up? Now you're going to the same college as Slater. Enjoy being a principal's assistant or whatever for the next 10 years!
Key line: "Listen, A.C., this the big leagues here, this ain't the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling."
Fun fact about that quote ... two different Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling actually cameoed on 'Saved By The Bell,' and they're both episodes in this list. Jeanne Basone, aka Hollywood, was "girl on the beach" in the first Malibu Sands episode, and Dee Booher, aka Matilda The Hun, shows up as the substitute karate instructor a few slides up. So technically this is closer to the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling than "the big leagues."
Slater's ridiculous over-exaggeration about a bad practice is amazing, with his NOBODY PINS A.C. SLATER mantra, demanding that eye-witness Screech tell no-one that he actually had to practice in practice. Come on, Slater. We talkin' bout PRACTICE. Regardless, he almost quits the team until he realizes that he could just go to the gym and practice more. Congratulations again on going to the same college as Slater, Screech.
Episode: Saved By The Bell The College Years "The Homecoming" (season 1, episode 6)
What Happens: 'Saved By The Bell' looked to recreate its high school magic by combining two classics -- the Johnny Dakota "There's No Hope In Dope" episode and Rod Belding's white water rafting fail -- into one College Years thing. Enter: Johnny Walters, star quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers and friend/former teammate of dorm R.A. Mike. Kelly has his awesomely photoshopped underwear ad (pictured) and is in love with him (because she loves any famous dude named Johnny). Zack rejects him at first, but quickly befriends him when he thinks Johnny can introduce him to important CEOs for whatever reason. Johnny makes a bunch of big promises and Zack gets his hopes up, despite Mike telling him how Johnny's a flake. Zack says Mike is just jealous and ... ugh, you know how this ends.
Key line: "Aw please, what is with you? Come on, Walters is just another jock who thinks just because he gets a million bucks to endorse some sneaker, his gym socks don't smell." "You make a good point, Zack. By the way, have you met Johnny Walters?" "Talk about a quarterback sneak!"
The other sports highlight of the episode is Alex, the "free spirit" of the College Years era who was way too cool and creative a person to hang out with these self-defeating world-owners. Alex gets a gig as Freddy the Falcon, Cal U's open-faced mascot, but boyfriend Slater thinks it's embarrassing. To Slater's credit it IS pretty embarrassing, both because she has to yell shit while she's in the suit and because it looks just like Carlton Banks' peacock getup from ULA.
I can't figure out whether Slater had the best or the worst taste in women.
Episode: Saved By The Bell The College Years "The Poker Game" (season 1, episode 7)
What Happens: Remember when I mentioned karate instructors? Kelly, Alex and The Other One sign up for self defense and discover that their instructor is local superhunk JOHNNY HAMMER, played by American Gladiator Nitro. Yes, Kelly is in love with him because his name is Johnny. He throws the girls around and they keep getting off on it, so much so that it drives a wedge between them and they start trying to karate fight each other. Johnny eventually hurts himself and can't teach the class, subbing in a large, heavyset woman, and the girls give up on self-defense forever. Because hey, the only reason to learn how to protect yourself is if you want to f**k the guy attacking you.
Key line: "I'm Alex. I'm a Freshman, I'm single and I'm ready to be flipped."
The other storyline in the episode (the episode called "The Poker Game") is about Zack, Slater, Screech and the dad from 'Wizards of Waverly Place' trying to play a game of poker without being interrupted. At first they're interrupted by Mike's demands that they stop gambling in the dorm, then they fall victim to having to hear about Mike's love life. When they girls give up on karate they sit in on the game, too, and eventually Selena Gomez's dad is all POKERGAMEUS DISAPPEARUS and bails.
Important question:
When the hell did Screech start looking like such a MONSTER? Look at him. LOOK AT HIM. He was a normal looking kid back in the day, and yeah, puberty made him look like a nerd, but it didn't make him look like the Cloverfield monster. He's terrifying. Now imagine him looking like that, but making crazy faces and weird noises all the time. What you're imagining in its most succinct explanation is "why people didn't watch Saved By The Bell: The New Class."
Episode: Saved By The Bell The College Years "Screech Love" (season 1, episode 9)
What Happens: Zack unwittingly hits on Linda Addington, the 8th-ranked women's tennis player in the world. She destroys him in tennis but he wants to keep seeing her, so when she's like "I dunno, I need to study because I go to college," Zack goes WAIT I KNOW A NERD and makes Screech tutor her in astronomy. Linda and Screech end up hitting it off, but Zack is a dickhole who thinks Screech is subhuman and sorta lords himself over Linda to make his friend feel like shit. Ultimately Zack realizes that he's being horrible and relinquishes Linda to Screech, because Screech truly loves her, and that they may live happily ever after. Linda is never seen again.
Key line: "You don't deserve to share interplanetary gas with Linda!"
There is no actual tennis in the episode, but there's a sub-plot about how Alex thinks wrestling is barbaric, but ends up being Slater's good luck charm so she has to be there to kiss him before every match. Imagine that time Mick Foley got his wife and kids to sit in the front row for a match with the Rock that ended with him getting hit in the head with a steel chair 11 times if it was directed by the dude who made 'City Guys.'
If you've never seen 'Saved By The Bell The College Years,' I don't get a lot of chances to write about it, so here are some non-sports episodes I'd recommend: the Robert Guillaume ethics episode, the entire "Kelly hooks up with Professor Jeremiah 'Johnny' Lasky" arc, the entire "Screech hooks up with Lucy the sign language monkey" arc and that really amazingly hilarious one where they try to have a rave in 1993 and cool kids pressure Screech into getting them nitrous oxide.
I never really watched 'Saved By The Bell: The New Class,' but this clip of San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh making a special guest appearance as Screech's cousin made the rounds a few months ago, so I thought I'd include it here. Notes about the clip, since I've never seen the full episode (but might as well have):
1. Would a bunch of 15-year olds in southern California really care that much about a player from the Colts? Like, I imagine that they'd be like, "whoa, cool, a pro football player," but they are in slack-jawed worship of f**king Jim Harbaugh. My only thought is that the show is still 'Good Morning Miss Bliss,' is still set in Indiana, and they've just been lying to us about the California thing. It would explain the weird beaches.
2. Of course Jim Harbaugh is Screech's cousin. Of COURSE he is. Also, Screech is SUCH A WEIRD MONSTER HERE.
3. Lindsey McKeon, aka "the redhead in the sweatshirt who shows up about a minute-forty into the clip," is the undisputed hottest girl in the history of Saturday morning television. She's had a full career but spent most of her time stuck on soap operas, or in short-run guest appearances on USA Network shows and the like. But man, she was (and still is) gorgeous.
4. JIM HARBAUGH
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Hacker Challenge: Share Your Best Exercise Hack
Welcome to our next Hacker Challenge! Each week, we issue a new challenge. You get until Sunday to prepare your submission and send it to us. That gives you a few days to think about it and a whole weekend to work it up. Our editors pick the best submissions and our favorite will win a copy of the Lifehacker book!
Let's get started!
This Week's Hacker Challenge: Share Your Best Exercise Hack
For this week's challenge, we'd like to see your best exercise hack?anything clever or out of the ordinary you do or have created to get yourself exercising more effectively. We're flexible, but note that we're not just looking for your exercise routine here.
We've featured a number of exercise hacks before, such as building your own home gym with PVC or hacking a FitBit to cut power to your gear if you don't work out. Even something as simple as keeping a gym bag in your car so that you're more likely to exercise is a helpful motivator. Now, it's your turn. We want to see your best exercise hack.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
It is what it is: College Football Playoff
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) ? The name says it all: College Football Playoff.
The major college football conference commissioners named the new postseason system that starts in 2014 on Tuesday, the first of three days of meetings at a resort hotel in the Rose Bowl's backyard.
Out with the Bowl Championship Series and in with the College Football Playoff.
"I don't think you can ever go too wrong calling something what it is," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said. "Things that make sense tend to stand the test of time."
Next on the agenda is to pick three more bowls for the six-bowl semifinal rotation ? the Rose, Orange and Sugar are already in ? and where the first championship game will be held on Jan. 12, 2015. That comes Wednesday.
Four bowls have bid to be part of the rotation. The clear front-runners are the Cotton, Chick-fil-A and Fiesta. The Holiday Bowl in San Diego also put in a bid, but even its organizers acknowledged they are a long shot at best.
The finalists to host the first championship game are Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the billion dollar home of the NFL team and the Cotton Bowl, and Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., home of the NFL's Buccaneers and the Outback Bowl.
Arlington is the favorite, but the competition has been serious.
"I'm glad it has," Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Tuesday. "I think it will give us a better outcome."
Even before an official announcement about the name was made on Tuesday, the website www.collegefootballplayoff.com was up and running and allowing fans to vote on a new logo. And there also was a Twitter handle: (at)cfbplayoff.
"It's really simple. It gets right to the point," BCS executive director Bill Hancock, who will hold the same position in the playoff system, said at a short news conference.
"Nothing cute. Nothing fancy. We decided it would be best to call it what it is."
Premiere Sports Management in Overland Park, Kan., was hired to help come up with a name and brand the new system. A committee of commissioners handled the naming of the new system, and Hancock said they ran through "in the neighborhood of three dozen" names.
Scott said: "We're clearly trying to make a clear break from the BCS."
The new postseason format will create two national semifinals to be played New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, with the winners advancing. The six bowls in the playoff rotation will host marquee, BCS-type games on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day during the seasons they do not host a semifinal.
The first semifinals will be played at the Rose and Sugar bowls on Jan. 1, 2014.
Also on the agenda this week for the commissioners will be the composition of the selection committee that will set the field for the playoff. They have said they would like the committee to be similar to the one that picks the teams for the NCAA basketball tournament, made up of conference commissioners and athletic directors.
Bowlsby said he expected both current and former administrators to have a spot on the committee.
"The hardest thing is making sure we're arming whoever is on the committee with the tools that it takes to differentiate among closely proximal teams," Bowlsby said. "You have to have some metrics available to differentiate between three, four, five, six and seven.
"You can't just say we like blue uniforms and not gold uniforms. You've got to arm the committee with the tools that it takes to do their job."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/college-football-playoff-071605389--spt.html
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Roundworm quells obesity and related metabolic disorders
Apr. 25, 2013 ? Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, have shown in a mouse model that infection with nematodes (also known as roundworms) can not only combat obesity but ameliorate related metabolic disorders. Their research is published ahead of print online in the journal Infection and Immunity.
Gastrointestinal nematodes infect approximately 2 billion people worldwide, and some researchers believe up until the 20th century almost everyone had worms. In developed countries there is a decreasing incidence of nematode infection but a rising prevalence of certain types of autoimmunity, suggesting a relationship between the two. Nematode infection has been purported to have therapeutic effects and currently clinical trials are underway to examine worms as a treatment for diseases associated with the relevant cytokines, including inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, and allergies.
In the study researchers tested the effect of nematode infection on mice fed a high-fat diet. Infected mice of normal girth gained 15 percent less weight than those that were not infected. Mice that were already obese when infected lost roughly 13 percent of their body weight within 10 days. Infection also drastically lowered fasting blood glucose, a risk factor for diabetes, and reduced fatty liver disease, decreasing liver fat by ~25 percent, and the weight of the liver by 30 percent.
The levels of insulin and leptin also dropped, "indicating that the mice restored their sensitivities to both hormones," says corresponding author Aiping Zhao of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. Leptin moderates appetite. As with too much insulin, too high a level of leptin results in insensitivity, thus contributing to obesity and metabolic syndrome, Zhao explains.
The mechanism of the moderation of these hormones "was associated with a parasite-induced reduction in glucose absorption in the intestine, reduced liver triglycerides, and an increase in the population of cells called "alternatively activated macrophages," which regulate glucose metabolism and inflammation," says coauthor Joe Urban of the United States Department of Agriculture. Some of these changes involved "a protein called interleukin-13 and related intracellular signaling mechanisms," he says. "This suggests that there are immune related shifts in metabolism that can alter expression of obesity and related metabolic syndrome."
The incidence of obesity has been climbing dramatically, worldwide. It is a key risk factor for many metabolic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. Recent studies indicate that it is accompanied by chronic low-grade inflammation in adipose tissues, causing the release of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines that contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome.
Parasitic nematode infection induces a marked elevation in host immune Th2-cells and related type 2 cytokines which, besides combating the infection, also have potent anti-inflammatory activity, according to the report.
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- Z. Yang, V. Grinchuk, A. Smith, B. Qin, J. A. Bohl, R. Sun, L. Notari, Z. Zhang, H. Sesaki, J. F. Urban, T. Shea-Donohue, A. Zhao. Parasitic Nematode-Induced Modulation of Body Weight and Associated Metabolic Dysfunction in Mouse Models of Obesity. Infection and Immunity, 2013; DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00053-13
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New "Star Trek" boldly voyages to Australia for premiere
By Thuy Ong
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hundreds of fans screamed and waved as the cast of "Star Trek: Into Darkness" beamed into Sydney on Tuesday with the crew of the starship Enterprise returning to space in the world premiere of one of the season's most anticipated movies.
Fans swarmed the red carpet in central Sydney for a glimpse of Chris Pine and co-star Zachary Quinto, who play Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock in the sequel to J.J. Abrams's highly acclaimed reboot of the famous franchise.
"It's a lot of fun. I love Kirk," said Pine, reprising his role as the suave captain in the film, which is due for worldwide release on May 17.
"Kirk's a man of passion who's ruled by his heart. He'll go from crying to laughing to yelling to loving, and I just love his passion."
"Into Darkness" follows the crew of the Enterprise starship as they return to an Earth left in chaos, with Kirk, Spock and the rest of the crew, including Zoe Soldana as Nyota Uhura, setting out to capture those responsible.
The classic sci-fi drama, which began almost half a century ago, has spawned six television series and 11 blockbuster films that have racked up more than a $1 billion, according to the website Box Office Mojo.
That's a history that the actors said added to the fun.
"I used to watch Star Trek reruns as a kid. I always enjoyed it," said Karl Urban, who plays Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Kirk's ironic foil. "It's kind of surreal to be a part of this amazing re-adventure."
Abrams, who revamped the franchise in 2009 with "Star Trek" and is also slated to produce the next "Star Wars" movie, confessed that he had never been a Star Trek fan but used the word "surreal" as well to describe the experience of working with the same stars on the same sets.
"But I think this movie goes further. It's much bigger and much more of an adventure than the last one, and it's a thrill to get to do it."
Asked about "Star Wars," he said only, "So far, so good. It's still very early days yet."
Hundreds of fans lined up for hours in front of a multi-screen cinema in the city centre, some carrying DVDs, posters and photos for which they sought autographs, shouting and screaming as the stars drew near.
"I've watched Star Trek since I was very young with my grandfather. We used to watch it, the old series," said Lex, an IT employee in his early 20s who wore a classic Kirk tunic from the original TV series and was the only person in costume.
"The rebooted franchise is really good... I think it's opened up a whole new audience."
To date, 11 Star Trek movie installments have grossed more than $1 billion in the United States since 1979, including $256 million from Abrams's 2009 film.
(Reporting By Thuy Ong, writing by Elaine Lies, editing by)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/star-trek-boldly-voyages-australia-premiere-151305154.html
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