"We've partnered with some of the biggest and most influential social networks in the world, including Facebook and Ustream, to bring gamers' friends into games like never before," former Gaikai CEO David Perry told attendees of Sony's PlayStation 4 event last week. It was the only mention Ustream got during the show, despite the video streaming service playing a critical role in Sony's next video game console. In-tandem with the PlayStation 4's new DualShock 4 controller and its "Share" button, users will be able to quickly upload saved gameplay video clips or directly stream their game out to the internet. The console's lead system architect, Mark Cerny, expanded on the importance of the Share button and its implications to the PlayStation 4 during last week's presentation. "Social play is so important to PlayStation 4 that we've added in hardware to support it, in the form of dedicated, always-on video compression and decompression systems," he said.
We saw a bit of the game sharing / streaming interface during Sony's presentation, but were left wondering about specifics: how will discovery work? and what of other, non-gaming Ustream content? Thankfully, Ustream CEO Brad Hunstable was able to offer up most of our answers in a recent interview. "Our goal is to allow discovery in a very clean user experience, both in discovery on the console itself and on various platforms that the content'll be available on (like Ustream, Twitter, and Facebook)," Hunstable said. He wouldn't speak to the specifics of how that discovery will work, nor would he say if you'll be able to sign-in simply using your PlayStation Network ID or if you'll have to sign up for a separate Ustream account, but he stressed that the decisions being made are, "based on what's easiest and best for the gamer." That same rubric is (thankfully) being applied to functionality. "The goal is to make sure it's very easy -- one click of a button, super simple -- and most importantly make sure it looks really, really good. And is viewable wherever people want to watch it from," Hunstable said.
Reap what you sow? When it comes to exercise, benefits may differPublic release date: 27-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Christina Camilli-Whisenhunt camillic@umich.edu 734-647-3079 University of Michigan
ANN ARBORResearchers at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology have received a $1 million grant to study how exercise and other therapies might work differently in lean and obese individuals.
Greg Cartee, U-M professor of movement science, and his colleagues at the Muscle Biology Laboratory hope to clarify the link between insulin, exercise and sugar uptake by studying how lean and obese rats respond to exercise.
The grant comes from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney and Health, which has funded Cartee's research since 2006.
Exercise and insulin help our bodies sop up glucose, the main type of sugar in the blood, so muscles can use it for energy. Insulin resistance, the inability to efficiently remove sugar from the blood, can contribute to diabetes, obesity and other health problems. Efficiently clearing blood sugar after meals, a process called glucose, or sugar uptake, is critical to improving the health of obese people.
Previous research from Cartee's lab found that during a sedentary state, fibers from obese rates couldn't take up as much sugar as fibers from lean rats. With the latest grant, Cartee's team will compare responses of lean and obese rats to exercise, probing deeper into why this discrepancy in sugar uptake exists.
They hope to learn if exercise can correct the low sugar uptake in the obese group. In turn, the findings could lead to pharmaceutical interventions, and better exercise strategies and therapies to help both lean and obese people become healthier.
"We believe that even though obese and lean individuals can benefit from exercise, the precise way in which they attain these benefits may not be identical," said Cartee, who directs the Muscle Biology Laboratory. "If we can understand the differences, it will allow us to provide more effective treatmentswhether exercise, diet or drug therapyfor everyone."
Most research on insulin resistance and muscle glucose uptake uses average values for glucose uptake by the entire musclethink of a mechanic trying to understand how a car works without looking under the hood.
Cartee's novel method differs in that he and U-M doctoral student Jim MacKrell developed a way to determine sugar uptake in single cells, called fibers. The team can also classify types of fibers and measure and identify proteins that regulate uptake and metabolism of sugar.
"It's a much better view because we expect that not every kind of fiber will respond the same way to exercise or diet, or even aging," Cartee said.
In this way, they can determine if exercise impacts lean and obese groups equally for each fiber type.
The University of Michigan School of Kinesiology continues to be a leader in the areas of prevention and rehabilitation, the business of sport, understanding lifelong health and mobility, and achieving health across the lifespan through physical activity. The school is home to the Athletic Training, Movement Science, Physical Education, and Sport Management academic programsbringing together leaders in physiology, biomechanics, public health, urban planning, economics, marketing, public policy, education and behavioral science.
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Reap what you sow? When it comes to exercise, benefits may differPublic release date: 27-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Christina Camilli-Whisenhunt camillic@umich.edu 734-647-3079 University of Michigan
ANN ARBORResearchers at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology have received a $1 million grant to study how exercise and other therapies might work differently in lean and obese individuals.
Greg Cartee, U-M professor of movement science, and his colleagues at the Muscle Biology Laboratory hope to clarify the link between insulin, exercise and sugar uptake by studying how lean and obese rats respond to exercise.
The grant comes from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney and Health, which has funded Cartee's research since 2006.
Exercise and insulin help our bodies sop up glucose, the main type of sugar in the blood, so muscles can use it for energy. Insulin resistance, the inability to efficiently remove sugar from the blood, can contribute to diabetes, obesity and other health problems. Efficiently clearing blood sugar after meals, a process called glucose, or sugar uptake, is critical to improving the health of obese people.
Previous research from Cartee's lab found that during a sedentary state, fibers from obese rates couldn't take up as much sugar as fibers from lean rats. With the latest grant, Cartee's team will compare responses of lean and obese rats to exercise, probing deeper into why this discrepancy in sugar uptake exists.
They hope to learn if exercise can correct the low sugar uptake in the obese group. In turn, the findings could lead to pharmaceutical interventions, and better exercise strategies and therapies to help both lean and obese people become healthier.
"We believe that even though obese and lean individuals can benefit from exercise, the precise way in which they attain these benefits may not be identical," said Cartee, who directs the Muscle Biology Laboratory. "If we can understand the differences, it will allow us to provide more effective treatmentswhether exercise, diet or drug therapyfor everyone."
Most research on insulin resistance and muscle glucose uptake uses average values for glucose uptake by the entire musclethink of a mechanic trying to understand how a car works without looking under the hood.
Cartee's novel method differs in that he and U-M doctoral student Jim MacKrell developed a way to determine sugar uptake in single cells, called fibers. The team can also classify types of fibers and measure and identify proteins that regulate uptake and metabolism of sugar.
"It's a much better view because we expect that not every kind of fiber will respond the same way to exercise or diet, or even aging," Cartee said.
In this way, they can determine if exercise impacts lean and obese groups equally for each fiber type.
The University of Michigan School of Kinesiology continues to be a leader in the areas of prevention and rehabilitation, the business of sport, understanding lifelong health and mobility, and achieving health across the lifespan through physical activity. The school is home to the Athletic Training, Movement Science, Physical Education, and Sport Management academic programsbringing together leaders in physiology, biomechanics, public health, urban planning, economics, marketing, public policy, education and behavioral science.
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The Gillian Anderson pilot will find the actress starring as CEO Meg Fitch, whose daughter is taken prisoner. NBC has ordered the Gillian Anderson pilot.
By Molly Driscoll,?Staff Writer / February 26, 2013
Will ?X-Files? star Gillian Anderson be returning to television?
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According to TV Guide, the actress will star in an untitled pilot for NBC, in which she will play a CEO named Meg Fitch whose daughter and daughter?s classmates are taken prisoner. The show itself, which will be produced and written by Rand Ravich with Far Shariat, will center on a vast conspiracy that comes to involve some of the most powerful people in Washington, D.C.
Actress Rachael Taylor of ABC?s ?666 Park Avenue? will star on the show as Susie Dunn, an FBI agent who is Meg?s sister and who is in charge of the operation to find her niece and her niece?s classmates. Before the kidnapping, Fitch and Dunn were estranged because of a secret that lies between them.
Taylor also starred on the ABC remake of ?Charlie?s Angels? as Abby Sampson, one of the titular Angels, and guest-starred on the ABC medical drama ?Grey?s Anatomy? as Dr. Lucy Fields.
Ravich created and wrote the NBC series ?Life,? which starred actor Damian Lewis pre-?Homeland? as a police officer who gets back on the job after having been mistakenly sent to jail. Shariat served as an executive producer on "Life."
?Battle Force? actress Stevie Lynn Jones has also signed on to Ravich and Shariat's NBC pilot, according to TV Guide.
Anderson starred in the 2007 film version of ?The X-Files,? titled ?The X-Files: I Want to Believe,? and signed on for an arc on the upcoming NBC show ?Hannibal,? which will center on the ?Silence of the Lambs? killer Hannibal Lecter. She also appeared in a BBC miniseries of the Charles Dickens novel ?Bleak House? and in a miniseries, also by the BBC, of ?Great Expectations.? She recently starred as a detective on the British series ?The Fall,? which will air on the BBC.?
On ?Hannibal,? the actress will play a therapist named Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier who serves as doctor to Hannibal Lecter himself.
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Lindsay Lohan's attorney has suggested to prosecutors that the actress serve as a motivational speaker and perform non-jail activities to resolve her latest criminal case, according to a letter obtained Tuesday.
The letter from lawyer Mark Heller proposed several alternatives for Lohan, who could be sent to jail if a judge determines her actions in a traffic crash violated terms of her probation in a previous theft case.
His letter states that Lohan's turbulent home life has deeply impacted her and requires a different approach in the case.
The actress plans to spend time recording public service announcements and make "periodic visits to schools, hospitals, and other venues where she may provide inspirational talks, encouraging children to pursue positive goals and avoid bad habits," states the letter filed on Friday and released by the court Tuesday.
Heller also proposed the establishment of a nonprofit foundation in Lohan's name to benefit young people.
The actress "has made a commitment to herself to elevate her life and participate in activities which will advance her desire to lead a model life," Heller wrote in a motion seeking a delay in the case that returns to court on Friday. Trial is now set for March 18.
Lohan is charged with three misdemeanor charges of reckless driving, lying to police and obstructing officers from performing their duties. She has pleaded not guilty.
The actress could face 245 days in jail if she is found to be in violation of her probation.
The star of "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday" was sentenced to psychotherapy in November of 2011 in cases involving theft and drunken driving charges, but she has not been required to attend counseling since being placed on informal probation in March 2012.
Those terms were imposed by Judge Stephanie Sautner, who is retiring and will no longer handle Lohan's case.
The crash that prompted the current charges occurred in June on Pacific Coast Highway while Lohan was on the way to a movie shoot.
Terry White, chief deputy city attorney in Santa Monica, declined comment on the letter. He said discussions about a possible resolution are scheduled to take place this week.
Lohan, 26, was on her way to a beach shoot with another person for the TV movie "Liz and Dick" when her car crashed into the back of a dump truck. Police allege she lied about being behind the wheel.
Heller is also seeking dismissal of the charges against Lohan, arguing that police ignored her when she said she didn't want to be interviewed without her attorney present.
Lohan was at the hospital at the time, not in custody, and showed no signs of impairment when officers gave her a field sobriety test, the lawyer said.
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Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/25/2013 -- We remain extremely optimistic about the performance of Ghana's economy in the coming years, on the back of domestic oil production. In line with this view, we expect per capita food and beverage consumption to grow strongly over our forecast period to 2017, boosted by rising incomes and wealth redistribution. However, the underdeveloped mass grocery (MGR) retail network will hamper faster uptake of premium goods, with the sector yet to attract foreign investment.
Coca-Cola to Continue Emerging Markets Push: In September 2012, US soft drinks major The Coca- Cola Company was reported by Ghana Web as stating that it will continue investing in emerging markets and strive to build sustainable societies in these countries as part of its corporate social responsibility initiative. The company is particularly interested in pursuing opportunities for growth in African countries such as Ghana, where it said it will continue to develop products that meet local demand.
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Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd Launches New Product: In December 2012, Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd (GGBL) introduced a new product on the market. The home-grown beer, Ruut Extra Premium Beer, is reportedly Ghana's first beer made out of cassava, which is widely grown in the country. According to the GGBL's statement quoted by the local press, 'Ruut Extra Premium Beer has been developed specifically to satisfy Ghanaian men looking for a premium local beer'. The project also supports the local market and economy, given that all ingredients are locally sourced.
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MARANA, Ariz. (AP) ? Bruce Lietzke would have noticed a banana inside the cover of his long putter.
One of the famous stories about Lietzke, a 13-time winner on the PGA Tour, is that he never touched a club when he wasn't on tour. His caddie didn't believe him, so at the end of the 1984 season, he put a banana inside the head cover of Lietzke's driver before zipping up the travel bag. Some 15 weeks later at the Bob Hope Classic, the caddie excitedly unzipped the travel bag.
The stench should have been the first clue.
"Sure enough, he pulled off that head cover and the banana ... it was not yellow," Lietzke said Monday. "It was black, nasty, fungus. He said he'd never doubt me again."
Lietzke confessed to breaking his own rules when it came to the broom-handled putter that he picked up at the Phoenix Open in 1991 and used the rest of his career. Even in his down time, he would tinker with the length of the putter and practice with it. And he wonders what the conversation would have been like today if that 1991 PGA Championship had turned out differently.
Lietzke was the runner-up at Crooked Stick behind a big-hitting rookie named John Daly. Imagine if Lietzke had won that major.
Would the USGA have banned the putter he anchored against his chest?
"I think so," Lietzke said. "Judging by their reaction to major successes, I guess they were just waiting for this to happen. The USGA should have made a statement then. If I had won the PGA Championship, they might have tried to outlaw it. And if you look back on it, most people would have gone along with it."
That was one of the arguments PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem put forth Sunday when he said the tour was against the proposed rule that would ban the anchored stroke primarily used for long putters and belly putters.
Without any empirical evidence that an anchored stroke is easier, why ban it?
And after all these years, why now?
The faces in this discussion ? and that's all it is right now ? are Keegan Bradley and Tim Clark, for vastly different reasons.
It was Bradley's win at the PGA Championship that prompted serious talk about the future of anchored strokes. Bradley now is lumped in with three of the last five major champions using a belly putter, but he was the catalyst.
European Tour chief executive George O'Grady said the conversations between golf's administrators and the governing bodies about the future of the long putters began last year at the Masters.
That was before Webb Simpson won the U.S. Open and Ernie Els won the British Open, which ramped up the attention.
As for Clark?
It was his dignified speech at Torrey Pines that led even the staunch opponents of long putters to look at them differently. More than one person in the room that night has described his presentation as a game-changer.
That much was reflected in the overwhelming support from the Player Advisory Council and player-directors on the tour's policy board that the PGA Tour should oppose the USGA on this rule.
The tricky part is figuring out where this will lead.
The PGA Tour sent the USGA a letter last week spelling out its opposition to Rule 14-1(b), and the PGA of America and its 27,000 club pros are also against the ban.
One reason Finchem decided to speak about the letter ? a small distraction during the final of the Match Play Championship ? was his concern that the discussion was being portray as a showdown. Right now, it's a matter of opinion.
If it becomes a showdown, high noon is not until the USGA and R&A decide whether to go ahead with the rule. And that decision won't come until the spring.
It's a polarizing topic. If not, the governing bodies would not have offered a 90-day comment period that ends on Thursday. They simply would have announced a new rule and been done with it.
For now, the tour has not said it will go against the USGA. It has only said it disagrees with the USGA.
Finchem chose not to show his hand when he brushed off questions about whether the tour would ever allow an anchored stroke even if the governing bodies adopt a rule that bans it starting in 2016.
But he has made clear on at least three occasions that while slightly different rules could work for the PGA Tour, this rule would not be one of them.
This is not where golf needs to go. The buzz word coming out of the USGA annual meeting earlier this month was not "bifurcation" but "unification."
Go anywhere in the world and golf effectively is played by the same set of rules. This is something that should never change.
The USGA and R&A know they don't have evidence to show that using an anchored stroke is easier. Frankly, they don't need any evidence. This is not about equipment, rather a new rule that attempts to define the golf stroke as the club swinging freely.
The mistake by the USGA was waiting until someone won a major before acting ? or believing that winning a major should even make a difference.
The majors are the biggest events to win. They define careers. But if the belly putter was an issue when Simpson won the U.S. Open, why wasn't it an issue when he won the Deutsche Bank Championship? Did the putter work differently at Olympic?
Lietzke can think of several occasions when nerves made him miss with his long putter. And if the belly putter is the cure, don't just look at Ernie Els kissing that claret jug last summer at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. Look at those two putts Els badly missed on the last few holes of the Match Play Championship to lose in the opening round.
If the USGA decides that a ban on anchored strokes is best for the game, the PGA Tour should go along with it.
And if the USGA was serious about that 90-day comment period, the hope is that it was serious about listening.
Lucien Guy Etobil (L) and Herman Ndonue (R) Photo: ? Police americaine
Deux ans d'enqu?te, d'infiltration et de traque num?rique auront ?t? n?cessaires ? ce vaste coup de filet. La police am?ricaine a annonc?, jeudi dernier, avoir arr?t? deux individus d'origines camerounaises ? Bellevue, pres de Nashville, dans l'Etat du Tennessee. ?g?s de 50 et 26 ans, ils sont tous les deux accus?s de trafic de donn?es des cartes de cr?dits bancaires et risquent jusqu'? 40 ans de prison pour fraude informatique et falsification.
Selon le quotidien Hawaii News Now, Lucien Guy Etobil, 50 ans, residant a Silver Spring dans le Maryland et Herman Ndonue, 26 ans, residant a Hyattsville, dans le Maryland egalement, ont ?t? pris la main dans le sac en possession de 50 cartes de cr?dits American Express et Visa frauduleuses enfouies dans des bo?tes de cigarettes lors d'un contr?le de routine de la police sur l'autoroute I-40.
Les deux occupants du v?hicule suspect, tous deux Camerounais, infirmiers de profession, ont jou? la partition de ceux qui ne savent rien. ?On n'?tait pas au courant, on a lou? la voiture pour faire nos courses?, assurent Lucien Guy Etobil, et Herman Ndonue. L'instruction n'a pas pu confirmer ce d?tail.
Une perquisition dans leur chambre d'h?tel a permis ? la police de retrouver un important stock de cartes de cr?dits
Les deux hommes m?ditent actuellement leur sort dans les cellules de la Police M?tropolitaine de Washington. Ils sont pour l'instant accus?s de simulation criminelle. D'autres charges devraient ?tre retenues contre eux dans les prochaines heures, selon la police.
ROME (Reuters) - Italians vote on Sunday in one of the most closely watched elections in years with markets nervous about whether it will produce a strong government to pull Italy out of recession and help resolve the euro zonedebt crisis.
A huge final rally by anti-establishment-comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo on Friday before a campaigning ban kicked in has highlighted public anger at traditional parties and added to uncertainty about the election outcome.
Polling booths will open between 02:00 am-04:00 pm EST on Sunday and 01:00 am-09:00 am EST on Monday. Exit polls will come out soon after voting ends and official results are expected by early Tuesday.
The election will be followed closely by financial markets with memories still fresh of the potentially catastrophic debt crisis that brought technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti to power more than a year ago.
Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy, is stuck in deep recession, struggling under a public debt burden second only to Greece's in the 17-member currency bloc and with a public weary of more than a year of harsh austerity policies.
Italy's Interior Ministry has urged some 47 million eligible voters to not let bad weather forecasts put them off, and said it was prepared to handle even snowy conditions in some northern regions to ensure everyone had a chance to vote.
Final polls published two weeks ago showed center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani with a five-point lead, but analysts disagree about whether he will be able to form a stable majority that can push though the economic reforms Italy needs.
Bersani is now thought to be just a few points ahead of center-right rival Silvio Berlusconi, the four-times prime minister who has promised tax refunds and staged a media blitz in an attempt to win back voters in recent weeks.
While the center left is still expected to gain control of the lower house thanks to rules that guarantee a strong majority to whichever party wins the most votes nationally, a much closer battle will be fought in the Senate, which any government also needs to control in order to be able to pass laws.
Seats in the upper house are awarded on a region-by-region basis, meaning that support in key regions can decisively influence the overall result.
Pollsters still believe the most likely outcome is a center-left government headed by Bersani and possibly backed by Monti, who is leading a centrist coalition.
But strong campaigning by Berlusconi and the fiery Grillo, who has drawn tens of thousands to his election rallies, have thrown the election wide open, causing concern that there may be no clear winner.
Whatever government emerges from the vote will have the task of pulling Italy out of its longest recession for 20 years and reviving an economy largely stagnant for two decades.
The main danger for Italy and the euro zone is a weak government incapable of taking firm action, which would rattle investors and could ignite a new debt crisis.
Monti replaced Berlusconi in November 2011 after the euro zone's third-largest economy came close to Greek-style financial meltdown while the center-right government was embroiled in scandals.
The former European Commissioner launched a tough program of spending cuts, tax hikes and pension reforms which won widespread international backing and helped restore Italy's credibility abroad after the scandals of the Berlusconi era.
Italy's borrowing costs have since fallen sharply after the European Central Bank pledged it was prepared to support countries undertaking reforms by buying unlimited quantities of their bonds on the markets.
But economic austerity has fuelled anger among Italians grappling with rising unemployment and shrinking disposable incomes, encouraging many to turn to Grillo, who has tapped into a national mood of disenchantment.
(Reporting by Catherine Hornby; Editing by Jason Webb)
For those that might be unfamiliar with the "expanded universe" characters that could be featured in the new Star Wars movies, Chart Geek has put together this handy family tree chart. As you can see it details the lineage of the characters we know and love (well, most of em) from the previous movies in the saga, right up to the sons and daughters of Han and Leia, and Luke and Mara Jade - who are rumored to be the focus of Episode VII and beyond.
Personally I think the new films will definitely focus on the next generation of characters, but I don't think they will necessarily be these exact ones. Expect a lot of changes, and not just the names.
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NVIDIA's latest venture in the mobile world, called the 4i, was introduced last week ahead of Mobile World Congress, and fortunately the chipset maker brought the product to Barcelona embedded in a reference phone known as "Phoenix." The 8mm-thick handset, which will find a home in the labs of manufacturers and carriers (as well as the desks of many third-party devs), sports a 5-inch 1080p display, 13MP rear-facing camera, PRISM 2, Chimera, DirectTouch and LTE (we're told that most major bands are included for testing purposes). As it's not geared for general consumer use, so it's not the thinnest, sleekest or best-looking device, and the back doesn't even seem to snap completely shut. Units are being sampled as we speak, and we should expect to see devices hit the market in nine to twelve months. Since it's still pretty early in the process, we weren't able to turn on the phone or benchmark the chipset; the only exception to this rule, as you'll see in the video, was when a rep showed a gaming demo on his particular unit.
While the 4i is the smaller brother of the Tegra 4 family, it's still expected to be quite powerful. The chip, which is designed specifically for smartphones (tablets will take advantage of Tegra 4 instead), features four 28nm Cortex-A9 r4 (beefed-up from the standard A9) cores that can be clocked up to 2.3GHz, 60 GPU cores (compared to 72 on the T4) and an integrated i500 LTE baseband modem. For additional comparison, NVIDIA showed us the two sibling boards side-by-side. Head below to check out our galleries of Phoenix and the two chipsets, as well as a brief video that shows off the graphics prowess of the 4i.
A wet, cold and miserable Saturday at Foley Field brought a mixed bag of results to the Georgia baseball team.
The Bulldogs used four pitchers to hold Belmont to one hit as Georgia won the first game of a doubleheader 2-1 in 10 innings to stop a three-game losing skid. But Belmont scratched out nine infield singles to help itself to an 11-10 win in Game 2.
?It was good to show some fight, which we?ve been lacking all season,? Georgia shortstop Kyle Farmer said. ?We hung in there in the second game. It was awesome to come back with some runs after giving up a big inning. Sometimes we?ve been going three-up, three-down in those innings. But tonight we came back and put some hits together and got some runs.?
Georgia (2-4) and Belmont (4-2) will play the rubber match of the three-game series starting at 2 p.m. today at Foley Field.
Unusual plays were the deciding factor in both of Saturday?s games and the chilly, misty weather played a part in much of it.
Georgia won Game 1 after Belmont right fielder Drew Turner slipped on the damp grass and Curt Powell?s line drive rolled past him to the wall for a triple to lead off the 10th inning. Powell scored on Farmer?s sacrifice fly to give Georgia the walk-off win.
In the second game, Belmont?s 17 hits included 16 singles and nine of those were on the infield. Belmont scored four of its six runs in the third inning on bases-loaded infield hits.
?I don?t think I?ve ever been involved in a game like that,? Georgia pitcher/outfielder Jared Walsh said of Game 2. ?That was unreal. It seemed like every time the ball just floated right through the infield and right in front of us. But we?ve probably got some of those coming our way and we?re excited about that.?
Georgia?s pitching was strong in Game 1 with one glaring exception. Starter Sean McLaughlin along with relievers Blake Dieterich, Jarrett Brown and Walsh combined to limit Belmont to one hit in 10 innings. But that one hit was a home run by Matt Beaty that eventually forced the game into extra innings. Walsh (1-1) pitched a scoreless 10th to earn his first win of the season. Walsh also had an RBI groundout in the first inning of Game 1.
Powell started the 10th inning with a sinking line drive to right field. Turner slipped as he came up to field the ball on the short-hop and the ball rolled past him to the wall, which enabled Powell to get a triple. Farmer brought home Powell with a sacrifice fly to secure the win.
?I hit it and it looked like the fielder just got caught in between and couldn?t decide if he wanted to block it or try to dive for it,? Powell said. ?Luckily for us it skipped past him and Farmer came up big. I saw it skip past him and I just put down my head and told myself I?ve got to get to third and give Farmer a chance.?
Georgia?s prospects looked good to start the second game as it took a 4-1 lead into the third inning. But Belmont retaliated with six runs on seven hits, including four infield hits, plus a walk to take a 7-4 lead and never trailed again.
?It seemed like they saved up some hits from that first game,? Georgia coach David Perno said. ?It was unfortunate. But we created some of that chaos on our own. We went out there. They made some mistakes and we took advantage and had a good lead. Patrick (Boling) is in a good place. He goes out there and it just kind of unraveled on him. (Bryan) Benzor came in and made some good pitches but they found some holes. That happens when you?ve created on your own.?
Belmont picked up a run in the sixth on a sacrifice fly to take an 8-4 lead. Georgia scratched back to within a run in bottom of the seventh as Walsh and Daniel Nichols had RBI hits. Brett DeLoach?s RBI groundout to score Farmer pulled Georgia within 8-7 going to the top of the eighth.
?We?re know our offense is there,? Powell said. ?Shoot, we hit the ball well all fall so it?s just a matter of time. Today we kind of showed a little bit of what we can do when we put the ball in play and put some pressure on the other team. I think we?re in there for the long haul.?
Belmont all but put the game away with five hits and three runs with a walk and a wild pitch by Grant Earls to take an 11-7 lead going into the ninth.
?The eighth inning is the one that really ticks me off,? Perno said. ?At that time we?re in good position considering that you?ve given up six earlier. We felt really good about things but that changed everything. That made it tough, but I was proud of us the way we came back.?
Brett DeLoach hit an RBI double and J.T. Phillips had a two-RBI single as Georgia scored three in the bottom of the ninth to fall one run short.
DeLoach and Walsh each had three hits and two RBIs in Game 2. Nelson Ward had three hits and one RBI. Patrick Boling (0-2) allowed six hits and six runs (five earned) to take the loss.
Belmont?s Scott Moses and Neil Hickman each had three hits. Hickman had two RBIs while Jared Breen also had two RBIs in Game 2.
Notes: Walsh?s RBI groundout in the second inning of Game 1 was the first time this season that Georgia has scored a game?s first run. Georgia also scored the first run of Game 2. ... Walsh set a career high with three hits in Game 2. ... Justin Bryant broke a 0-for-13 hitting streak with a pinch-hit single in the eighth inning of Game 2. ... Georgia had three double plays and two base runners picked off of first in Game 1. ... Dylan Cole pitched the ninth to become the first Bulldog to pitch both for and against Georgia in Foley Field since Craig Gullickson in 2011. Cole is a transfer from Furman and Gullickson was a transfer from Clemson.
WASHINGTON -- The National Rifle Association is using a Justice Department memo it obtained to argue in ads that the Obama administration believes its gun control plans won't work unless the government seizes firearms and requires national gun registration ? ideas the White House has not proposed and does not support.
The NRA's assertion and its obtaining of the memo in the first place underscore the no-holds-barred battle under way as Washington's fight over gun restrictions heats up.
The memo, under the name of one of the Justice Department's leading crime researchers, critiques the effectiveness of gun control proposals, including some of President Barack Obama's. A Justice Department official called the memo an unfinished review of gun violence research and said it does not represent administration policy.
The memo says requiring background checks for more gun purchases could help, but also could lead to more illicit weapons sales. It says banning assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines produced in the future but exempting those already owned by the public, as Obama has proposed, would have limited impact because people now own so many of those items.
It also says that even total elimination of assault weapons would have little overall effect on gun killings because assault weapons account for a limited proportion of those crimes.
The nine-page document says the success of universal background checks would depend in part on "requiring gun registration," and says gun buybacks would not be effective "unless massive and coupled with a ban."
The administration has not proposed gun registration, buybacks or banning all firearms. But gun registration and ownership curbs are hot-button issues for the NRA and other gun-rights groups, which strenuously oppose the ideas.
Justice Department and White House officials declined to provide much information about the memo or answer questions about it on the record.
The memo has the look of a preliminary document and calls itself "a cursory summary" and assessment of gun curb initiatives. The administration has not release it officially.
But the NRA has posted the memo on one of its websites and cites it in advertising aimed at whipping up opposition to Obama's efforts to contain gun violence. The ad says the paper shows that the administration "believes that a gun ban will not work without mandatory gun confiscation" and thinks universal background checks "won't work without requiring national gun registration" ? ideas the president has not proposed or expressed support for.
"Still think President Obama's proposals sound reasonable?" Chris W. Cox, the NRA's chief Washington lobbyist, says in the ad.
Last month, White House spokesman Jay Carney said none of Obama's proposals "would take away a gun from a single law-abiding American." Other administration officials have said their plans would not result in gun seizures or a national gun registry.
A Justice Department official who would only discuss the issue on condition of anonymity said the NRA ad misrepresents Obama's gun proposals and that the administration has never backed a gun registry or gun confiscation.
While the memo's analysis of gun curb proposals presents no new findings, it is unusual for a federal agency document to surface that raises questions about a president's plans during debate on a high-profile issue such as restricting firearms.
Obama wants to ban assault weapons and ammunition magazines exceeding 10 rounds that are produced in the future. He wants universal background checks for nearly all gun purchases. Today, checks are only mandatory on sales by federally licensed gun dealers, not transactions at gun shows or other private sales.
His plan also includes tougher federal laws against gun trafficking and straw purchases, which occur when a person legally buys a firearm but sells it to a criminal or someone else barred from owning a weapon.
Interest in the gun issue has intensified since the December shootings in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 first-graders and six staffers at an elementary school. The Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee plans to write legislation addressing some of Obama's proposals in the next week or two.
The NRA's Cox declined to say how his organization obtained the memo.
He said the commercial is running online in 15 states, including many Republican-leaning states where Democrats will defend Senate seats next year, such as Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia. There are also ads in papers in five states.
The memo was written under the name of Greg Ridgeway, acting director of the National Institute of Justice, the Justice Department's research arm. It is dated Jan. 4, nearly two weeks before Obama announced his plan for restricting guns, and Ridgeway's first day as acting chief.
Justice Department officials said Ridgeway was not granting interviews. He came to the institute last July from the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research institution where he studied criminal justice issues, and has a Ph.D. in statistics.
The memo says straw purchases and gun thefts are the largest sources of firearms used in crimes, and that such transactions "would most likely become larger if background checks at gun shows and private sellers were addressed."
Gun control supporters said the NRA ad and the Justice memo don't mention that the current federal background check system blocked gun sales to 2.1 million criminals and others barred from owning guns between 1994, when the checks began, and 2010. Also ignored is that Obama has proposed cracking down on straw purchases to prevent a growth in illegal transactions, they said.
Advocates of restricting guns also said the memo omitted mention of several studies that affirm the effectiveness of firearms curbs. These include a 2010 police group analysis showing more than one-third of police departments found increased criminal use of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines since the 2004 expiration of the ban on those items.
"It doesn't appear to be a serious discussion of gun violence prevention policy, never mind an expression of administration policy," said Joshua Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.
The memo says that out of 11,000 annual gun homicides, an average of 35 deaths yearly are from mass shootings, defined as those with four or more victims.
"Policies that address the larger firearm homicide issue will have a far greater impact even if they do not address the particular issues of mass shootings," it says.
It says there were an estimated 1.5 million assault weapons before the 10-year ban on those firearms began in 1994, so their sheer number would weaken a new ban exempting existing weapons. Such guns accounted for just 2 percent to 8 percent of crimes before the 1994 ban, so eliminating assault weapons "would not have a large impact on gun homicides," the memo said.
Recent data on the assault weapons ban impact is scarce because since the 1990s, Congress has blocked most federal research on the effect that firearms have on public health. As part of the gun restrictions Obama proposed last month, he ordered federal scientific agencies to research gun violence.
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White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/preventing-gun-violence
Sony India has announced Katrina Kaif as its Brand Ambassador for Xperia range of Smartphones. ?Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor was announced as Sony?s brand ambassador, when Sony Ericsson XPERIA and VIVAZ phones were first launched in India back in 2010. Sony aims to?boost the brand?s visibility in India with this new signup. Katrina Kaif was seen launching the BlackBerry Curve 9220 in India last year, but Ranbir Kapoor was roped in as the BlackBerry brand ambassador last year.
Sony also announced that it plans to triple its investment to Rs. 300 crore for Xperia marketing in FY13 (April 2013 to March 2014). Katrina Kaif would be centerpiece for their print and electronic advertisement campaign, and Sony will also launch an outdoor campaign, enhance shop-front display,?organize?roadshows and use cinema and digital platforms.?Sony has signed the agreement for two years initially with the Bollywood celebrity, and Katrina Kaif will be seen endorsing Xperia starting March, 2013.
Sony launched the Xperia tipo and tipo dual, budget Android smartphones and Xperia SL in the top end in the?Xperia range in India last year. The Sony Xperia Z?and?Xperia ZL, the company?s new flagships are expected to launch in India soon.
JACKSON, Mississippi -- Though he's been away from Delta State University for decades, William "Bill" LaForge says he's "green and white, through and through."
Now he's likely to get a chance to show his college colors all the time as president of the Cleveland, Miss., school.
LaForge, a 62-year-old Washington, D.C., lobbyist who is the former president of Delta State's alumni association was nominated by the College Board Friday to be the eighth president of the 4,800-student university.
Thursday, LaForge will meet with campus groups in Cleveland. After the campus sessions, the College Board will vote on confirming him.
Board members held closed meetings in recent weeks to interview seven candidates recommended by a campus search committee. No other names were released.
John Hilpert, who has led the school since 2003, announced his retirement last year. He's the longest serving president of a public university in Mississippi.
LaForge, a former chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., has taught part-time college classes for 30 years and been a visiting law professor in Russia, Poland and Bulgaria. But he's never worked full time for a university.
"I'm a nontraditional candidate for a university, definitely, and this is a career direction change for me," he told reporters in a phone interview after the announcement. "I have not been in higher education administration and I hope to be able to translate the skill sets I have."
LaForge grew up in Cleveland and is the son of William F. LaForge, who was a professor of history and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Delta State. The school's Roberts-LaForge Library honors his late father's service.
"Cleveland and Delta State is my true home," said LaForge, who was president of the student government association as an undergraduate.
Board leaders say that despite LaForge's lack of academic experience, they think he's the right choice. LaForge's main missions will be to increase enrollment at the school and raise more money. The student total has fallen for the last five years, even as state aid to higher education has dipped.
"We need to improve access, we need to keep college education affordable," said trustee Alan Perry, who led the College Board's search. "In order to do that we need to increase enrollment or at least stabilize it."
Higher Education Commissioner Hank Bounds said LaForge, who was Delta State's alumnus of the year in 1992, will bring valuable ties to other graduates.
"We think he will have the ability to raise money," Bounds said. "We think he has the ability to inspire those alums to go out and recruit students."
LaForge said he hopes to increase student recruitment in the Memphis, Tenn., area, Arkansas' Delta region and possibly in northeast Louisiana. He also said he hoped his international ties could help bring students from abroad.
A private lobbyist since 1990, LaForge would be the second former Cochran chief of staff leading a Mississippi school. The board named Mark Keenum as Mississippi State University president in 2009.
"Our senior senator gave me and Mark tremendous opportunities," LaForge said.
However, because of a congressional ban on earmarks, ties to Cochran and his seat on the Senate Appropriations Committee may not be as valuable as they once were. "Getting congressional funding is not as easy as it used to be," LaForge said.
After graduating from Delta State, LaForge earned a law degree from the University of Mississippi and a master of laws from Georgetown University. He also studied international law at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.
LaForge and his wife Nancy have two adult children, Caroline and Clayton.
Last year, Google began offering a "request translation" option for YouTube, letting you or others muddle your way through video caption creation. If you don't want to leave it up to strangers or the vagaries of machine translation, Mountain View's now offering paid, professional services through two outfits, Gengo and Translated.net, in 36 languages. Once you've created your video and added a caption track, you'll be able to see an estimated price and create an order, after which your vendor of choice will send the translation directly to YouTube. Once approved, it'll be live on the site, ensuring no misunderstandings of your latest opus.
(NaturalNews) A new study just published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry appears to be the first to provide what the researchers call "unequivocal evidence that omega-3s reduce cancer risk."
So, how much of a risk are they talking about? A huge one. The scientists from the University of Guelph found that a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids (healthy fats found in cold water fish such as salmon and certain plant foods, including walnuts) can inhibit the growth of breast cancer tumors by 30 percent, especially if started early in life.
"It's a significant finding," David Ma, a professor in Guelph's Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, and one of the study's authors, said in a media statement. "We show that lifelong exposure to omega-3s has a beneficial role in disease prevention - in this case, breast cancer prevention. What's important is that we have proven that omega-3s are the driving force and not something else."
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women worldwide and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women. While natural health advocates and many cancer researchers have long thought that diet could help prevent malignancies, studies to document these claims have sometimes been inconsistent or even lacking.
"There are inherent challenges in conducting and measuring diet in such studies, and it has hindered our ability to firmly establish linkages between dietary nutrients and cancer risk," Ma explained. "So we've used modern genetic tools to address a classic nutritional question."
Here's what Ma and his research team did. They created a novel transgenic mouse that both produces omega-3 fatty acids and develops aggressive mammary tumors. Then, the researchers compared those animals to mice genetically engineered only to develop the same tumors. The results? The mice with the omega-3 exposure not only had 30 percent fewer tumors, but the breast tumors they did develop were a third of the size smaller than those in the control animals.
"This model provides a purely genetic approach to investigate the effects of lifelong omega-3s exposure on breast cancer development. To our knowledge, no such approach has been used previously to investigate the role of omega-3s and breast cancer," Ma stated. "The fact that a food nutrient can have a significant effect on tumor development and growth is remarkable and has considerable implications in breast cancer prevention."
Ma, who is an expert in how fats influence health and disease, added in the media statement that he hopes the study leads to more research on using diet to reduce cancer risk and on the benefits of healthy living. "Prevention is an area of growing importance. We are working to build a better planet, and that includes better lifestyle and diet," he said. "The long-term consequences of reducing disease incidence can have a tremendous effect on the health-care system."
As Natural News recently reported, there's other good news about preventing breast cancer with diet and specific nutrients from Harvard researchers, too. A recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute concluded that carotenoids (phytonutrients found in yellow, orange and red fruits and vegetables) significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer. Sources:
About the author: Sherry Baker is a widely published writer whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Health, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Yoga Journal, Optometry, Atlanta, Arthritis Today, Natural Healing Newsletter, OMNI, UCLA's "Healthy Years" newsletter, Mount Sinai School of Medicine's "Focus on Health Aging" newsletter, the Cleveland Clinic's "Men's Health Advisor" newsletter and many others.
Once the darling of Wall Street, Apple (AAPL) shares have plummeted in recent months as investor sentiment turned sour. Many analysts believe the company?s current slump will be reversed as new products like the ?iWatch? and Apple?s rumored HDTV launch ? even Apple bulls who have pumped the brakes a bit?still hold sky-high price targets ? but one industry watcher believes Apple?s glory days in the market are behind us.
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?Apple is a bubble. It looks like a bubble, acts like a bubble and is falling like a bubble,??ADVFN.com CEO Clem Chambers?wrote in a contribution to Forbes. ?A bubble doesn?t have to be created by total fantasy, a bubble is just something inflated by circumstances real or otherwise, that must deflate to some kind of ?normality.? Bonds are a bubble at the moment and that bubble will burst too.?
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He continued, ?Bubbles have their reasons but the law of averages when combined with the law of large numbers means that bubbles go pop!?
Chambers believes that the path Microsoft (MSFT) shares took, represented in the chart below, is ?the likely shape of the future of Apple.?
But he warns that bears see Apple following in Dell?s (DELL) footsteps, or even BlackBerry?s (BBRY):
Recent regulatory filings revealed that the massive dive Apple took after hitting a record high ahead of the iPhone 5 launch was?driven largely by huge hedge funds that pulled in billions while selling off Apple shares. Each of those funds still holds a large position in Apple, however, so it stands to reason that they would like to see Apple rebound from its current dip.
Apple closed down 0.62% at $446.06 on Thursday, off nearly 37% in the five months since it hit a record high of $705.07.
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