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NASA to Launch Huge Mars Rover Saturday (SPACE.com)

NASA plans to launch its newest Mars rover tomorrow (Nov. 26), a beast of a robot that officials say is the most complex and capable planetary explorer ever built.

Technicians rolled the car-size Curiosity rover and its Atlas 5 rocket to their pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Friday morning (Nov. 25) to prepare for liftoff, which is slated for today at 10:02 a.m. EST (1502 GMT).

Chances are good that Curiosity ? the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission to assess past and present Martian habitability ? will get off the ground on time, officials say. Current forecasts predict just a 30 percent chance that bad weather will postpone the launch, and the mission team is working no issues with the rover or its rocket.

"The Mars Science Lab and the rover Curiosity [are] locked and loaded, ready for final countdown on Saturday's launch to Mars," said Colleen Hartman, assistant associate administrator at NASA's science mission directorate. [Photos: Last Look at Curiosity Rover]

A rover on steroids

At 1 ton, Curiosity weighs about five times more than each of its immediate Mars rover predecessors, the golf-cart-size twins Spirit and Opportunity, which landed on the Red Planet in January 2004 to look for evidence of past water activity.

Both Spirit and Opportunity carried five science instruments. Curiosity boasts 10, including a rock-vaporizing laser and gear designed to identify organic molecules ? the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it.

Curiosity also sports a drill at the end of its 7-foot (2.1-meter) robotic arm that will allow it to collect samples from the interior of Martian rocks, a first for a Red Planet robot.

"This rover, Curiosity rover, is really a rover on steroids," Hartman said.

Investigating Gale Crater

After liftoff, Curiosity will embark upon an 8 1/2-month cruise to Mars. In August 2012, it will land at a 100-mile-wide (160-kilometer) crater called Gale and begin assessing whether Mars is, or ever was, capable of supporting microbial life.

A 3-mile-high (5-km) mound of layered sediment rises from Gale's center. These layers preserve a record of Martian environmental change spanning about one billion years, and Curiosity is designed to read them like a book.

The rover will pay special attention to layers near the mound's base, where Mars-orbiting spacecraft have identified clays and sulfates ? minerals that form in the presence of liquid water.

The rocks shift farther up the mountain, capturing Mars' transition from a relatively warm, wet planet to the frigid, dry and dusty world we see today. Curiosity's observations could help shed light on this dramatic transformation, researchers said.

The MSL team is quick to stress that Curiosity is not hunting for signs of life; if any microbes are squirming about in Mars' red dirt, the rover probably won't be able to spot them. But Curiosity's mission is a necessary precursor to future efforts to hunt down potential Red Planet life, researchers said.

"A habitable environment needs to be described," said MSL project scientist John Grotzinger of Caltech. "You just simply have to know where to look."

You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter: @michaeldwall. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.

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Investor Relations: Shrinking niche in communications

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The model of the public company had been the norm in American capitalism.? In 1997, at its peak, there were 7,000 listed on U.S. stock exchanges.?? That, like so many other facets of American economy, is changing. And the investor-relations niche, both in-house and in outside public relations agencies, will continue to shrink.

In its special edition "The World in 2012," [not online] THE ECONOMIST has a section on the loss of confidence in public companies.? On U.S. stock exchanges there are only 4,000 of them.? Part of that souring is due to the burden of regulations and the investment community's focus on the short-term.? The family business and the state-controlled enterprises in emerging nations?are proving to be excellent models for both profits and long-term growth.?

No, no, the public company is not an anachronism, at least not yet, THE ECONOMIST wants to make clear.? However, now it has to provide justification for that model versus other kinds of legal and operational structures.? In this creative destruction, investor relations pros will face downsizing, just as they did at the beginning of the era of consolidation.

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US officials vow full probe into Pakistan border incident (Star Tribune)

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Creditors back expedited Dodgers' TV rights sale (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? The committee of unsecured creditors for the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers threw its support behind the team's effort to sell TV broadcast rights earlier than expected, riling News Corp's Fox Sports.

In a document filed in Delaware bankruptcy court on Wednesday, the committee said it believed the expedited sale of the telecast rights would help facilitate the team's exit from bankruptcy and maximize the team's value.

This week, bankruptcy judge Kevin Gross appointed retired federal judge Joseph Farnan Jr. as a mediator to try to sort out the dispute between the team and Fox Sports regarding the sale of television telecast rights. The mediation is set to start on November 28 in Los Angeles.

Fox has a contract to broadcast Dodgers games through 2013 and the exclusive right to negotiate a new contract starting November 2012.

The Dodgers filed for bankruptcy protection in June as owner Frank McCourt struggled to cover costs. Major League Baseball fought McCourt's efforts to retain control of the team in bankruptcy court.

The Dodgers and Major League Baseball ended their long-running dispute in early November with a deal to sell the team, including the media rights. Now the Dodgers want to start the media rights auction soon instead of waiting for the contract to expire in order to boost the team's overall value.

Fox has asked the bankruptcy court to consider dismissing the bankruptcy case, arguing the team's bankruptcy was not valid and was an attempt to invalidate Fox's TV contract.

Financial information on the team and its assets is scheduled to go to potential buyers in December with initial bids due in January, two sources familiar with the process said last week. The sale of the team inherently includes media rights, whether or not it is free and clear of a Fox contract.

The sales process is expected to be wrapped up by the end of April, in time for the start of the 2012 Major League season, the sources said. The sale is expected to occur regardless of whether the issues with Fox are resolved, but those issues might affect the selling price, they said.

Also in the filing on Wednesday, the committee of unsecured creditors said they were hopeful the mediation would result in a settlement, but in the event it was not successful, the committee supported the Dodgers' motion to accelerate the sale of its broadcast rights.

The case is In re: Los Angeles Dodgers LLC, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware, No. 11-12010.

(Reporting by Sue Zeidler)

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Arizona Border Fence Will Be Built, State Lawmakers Claim

By AMANDA LEE MYERS and JACQUES BILLEAUD, The Associated Press

PHOENIX -- Arizona is taking on immigration once again, with state lawmakers collecting donations from the public to put fencing along every inch of the state's porous Mexican border in a first-of-its-kind effort.

The idea came from state Sen. Steve Smith, a Republican who says that people from across the nation have donated about $255,000 to the project since July, when the state launched a fundraising website that urges visitors to "show the world the resolve and the can-do spirit of the American people."

Smith acknowledges he has a long way to go to make the fence a reality. The $255,000 collected will barely cover a half mile of fencing. Smith estimates that the total supplies alone will cost $34 million, or about $426,000 a mile. Much of the work is expected to be done by prisoners at 50 cents an hour.

The fence is Arizona's latest attempt to force a debate on whether the federal government is doing enough to stop undocumented immigration. Key provisions of the state's contentious immigration bill were suspended by a judge, and Gov. Jan Brewer is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to get them reinstated. Brewer also signed the fencing bill.

Critics of the private fence plan say the idea is a misguided, piecemeal approach to border issues that will prove to be ineffective and hugely expensive. They point to the billions of dollars spent by the federal government to build fencing that hasn't stopped undocumented immigration.

"You're going to get 50 yards of fencing, if that," says Alfredo Gutierrez, a former Democratic state senator and immigrant-rights advocate who ran for governor in 2002.

But Smith and other supporters don't care.

They say the federal government has done little to secure the border and that additional fencing will close gaps exploited by smugglers and undocumented immigrants. Even if the fence isn't completed, Smith and others believe the project will send a message to Washington.

They have found support for the idea from Border Patrol agents.

"I take my hat off to them," says George McCubbin, a Border Patrol agent in Casa Grande and president of the National Border Patrol Council, the agency's union. "I don't believe it's the state's responsibility, but by them attempting this, they will continue to have this problem brought out, and hopefully someone will take notice of it."

Although he praises the effort, McCubbin thinks building more border fencing is "a waste of time."

"A fence slows down traffic. It doesn't stop it," he says. "You need to put your money in effective resources that you know will work."

He believes the federal government needs to crack down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants, increase penalties against those caught in the country without documents, cut off social services for others and put more agents at the border.

The fence project is being overseen by the 15-member Joint Border Security Advisory Committee, comprised of lawmakers, state law enforcement officials and four sheriffs, including Maricopa County's Joe Arpaio. The committee meets once a month and will decide when and where to put up the new fencing and what construction firms win bids.

Wherever they put it ? private, state, or federal land ? they will need to get approval.

Smith is confident the state will comply, so he's focusing his efforts on private landowners. It isn't clear if the federal government will allow the fence on land it manages.

"In light of their doing nothing, I would hope they wouldn't want to deter a state from protecting its own border," he says.

The project's first priority is to build fences at busy border-crossing points. Other plans include constructing fences along the 80 miles of border where none currently exist.

The law also allows Arizona to enter an agreement with California, New Mexico and Texas to build fencing in those states, although there's no immediate plan to do that.

Fencing currently covers about 650 miles, or one-third, of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. Nearly half sits in Arizona ? the busiest gateway for both undocumented immigrants and marijuana ? with the rest equally divided among California, New Mexico and Texas.

Existing border fencing varies in quality from simple barbed wire or vehicle barriers to carefully engineered, 18- to 30-foot-high fences.

On top of $2.5 billion spent by the federal government to build the fence, a government report projects it will cost another $6.5 billion over the next 20 years to maintain.

Smugglers often circumvent the barriers by cutting or driving through them, climbing over them, launching drugs with catapults over them, or digging tunnels under them. In the last week alone, two drug tunnels were found in Nogales in southeastern Arizona.

Despite the relatively low amount of money raised so far, Smith says work will begin sometime next year. One company has pledged to donate materials for a mile or two, another has promised to sell supplies at a discontinued rate, and some construction firms say they'll contribute free labor.

"Something will be in the ground by 2012," he says.

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Obama speech interrupted, re-endorses Occupy after month of silence (Daily Caller)

When Occupy protesters interrupted his Nov. 22 campaign trail speech at a high school in Manchester, N.H., President Barack?Obama declared that, ?Young people like the ones here today, including the ones who were just chanting at me ?you?re the reason I ran for office in the first place.?

Obama?s unscheduled Nov. 22 endorsement of the Occupy protesters broke his deputies? month-long silence on the increasingly controversial group.

For almost six weeks, Obama?s officials had not endorsed the groups? actions, offering only bland answers when asked by reporters for comment.

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YouTube Preview Image The movement garnered much favorable media coverage in October, prompting initial endorsements in mid-October by Obama and his two leading election advisers.

But since then, the Occupy encampments have been the scenes of several murders, rapes, diseases, assaults and riots.

Those events have badly hurt the movement?s approval, especially among the middle-class swing-voters Obama needs to court. (RELATED: Obama pursues working-class white voters)

A mid-November survey by Democratic-aligned Public Policy Polling showed that only 33 percent of Americans supported the movement, while opposition rose from 34 percent to 45 percent since October. Among swing voters, the survey showed a 13 point shift against the movement, and support fell to 34 percent while opposition rose to 42 percent.

The shift has also been documented in regional polls. Twenty percent of likely voters in Fort Wayne, Ind., for example, viewed the Occupy movement favorably, while 32 percent had a favorable view of the Tea Party movement, according to a survey released Nov. 20 by the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics.

Since October, White House spokesman Jay Carney has not mentioned the movement, and has responded to reporters? questions with noncommittal comments.

On Nov 15, when Carney was asked about the efforts by city governments to clear Occupy campsites from public parks, Carney said it was not the White House?s problem. ?The president?s position is that obviously every municipality has to make its own decisions ? [and balance] freedom of assembly and freedom of speech in this country [with] ? the very important need to maintain law and order and health and safety standards.?

That?s a very different tone from mid-October, when Obama carefully endorsed the movement in his speech at the commemoration of the new national monument to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, D.C.

The civil rights leader, Obama said, would agree that ?the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there.?

That weekend, Obama?s two most senior election advisers strongly supported the movement.

David Plouffe, Obama?s chief political adviser, said in a Washington Post interview that ?we intend to make it one of the central elements of the campaign next year.? His 2012 campaign manager, David Axelrod, that same weekend said that the protesters ?want a financial system that works on the level. They want to get a fair shake.?

Since then, neither Plouffe nor Axelrod have publicly applauded the movement.

Obama?s Nov. 22 endorsement may give Republicans another tools to tie Obama to the turbulent Occupy movement.?(RELATED:?Norquist: Occupy movement ?will be very helpful in 2012? [VIDEO])

?That?s okay. Alright, okay guys? it?s okay,? Obama said when he was interrupted. ?I appreciate you guys making your point, let me go ahead and make mine, alright? I?ll listen to you, you listen to me, okay?,? he said, before adding, ?You?re the reason I ran for office in the first place.?

Obama?s supporters tried to drown out the controversial Occupy protesters by chanting ?Obama, Obama.?

Democratic progressives in Congress have been more supportive of the Occupy movement, and remain so.

On October 6, Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi enthusiastically endorsed the movement: ?God bless them. ? It?s independent ? it?s young, it?s spontaneous and it?s focused. And it?s going to be effective,? she said.

The Washington Post reported Nov. 22 that Pelosi?s fundraisers recently sent out a message that included news that a public relations firm solicited contracts from the banking industry to damage the protester?s approval. ?This just-leaked memo details an $850,000 ?message war? plan to attack and discredit grassroots citizen movements working to hold special interests accountable,? read the Democratic appeal.

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Medvedev: Russia may target US missile shield (AP)

MOSCOW ? Russia's president threatened on Wednesday to deploy missiles to target the U.S. missile shield in Europe if Washington fails to assuage Moscow's concerns about its plans, a harsh warning that reflected deep cracks in U.S.-Russian ties despite President Barack Obama's efforts to "reset" relations with the Kremlin.

Dmitry Medvedev said he still hopes for a deal with the U.S. on missile defense, but he strongly accused Washington and its NATO allies of ignoring Russia's worries. He said that Russia will have to take military countermeasures if the U.S. continues to build the shield without legal guarantees that it will not be aimed against Russia.

The U.S. has repeatedly assured Russia that its proposed missile defense system wouldn't be directed against Russia's nuclear forces, and the Pentagon did that again Wednesday.

"I do think it's worth reiterating that the European missile defense system that we've been working very hard on with our allies and with Russia over the last few years is not aimed at Russia," said Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman. "It is ... designed to help deter and defeat the ballistic missile threat to Europe and to our allies from Iran."

But Medvedev said Moscow will not be satisfied by simple declarations and wants a binding agreement. He said, "When we propose to put in on paper in the form of precise and clear legal obligations, we hear a strong refusal."

Medvedev warned that Russia will station missiles in its westernmost Kaliningrad region and other areas, if the U.S. continues its plans without offering firm and specific pledges that the shield isn't directed at its nuclear forces. He didn't say whether the missiles would carry conventional or nuclear warheads.

The U.S. missile defense dispute has long tarnished ties between Moscow and Washington. The Obama administration has repeatedly said the shield is needed to fend off a potential threat from Iran, but Russia fears that it could erode the deterrent potential of its nuclear forces.

"If our partners tackle the issue of taking our legitimate security interests into account in an honest and responsible way, I'm sure we will be able to come to an agreement," Medvedev said. "But if they propose that we `cooperate,' or, to say it honestly, work against our own interests, we won't be able to reach common ground."

Moscow has agreed to consider a proposal NATO made last fall to cooperate on the missile shield, but the talks have been deadlocked over how the system should be operated. Russia has insisted that it should be run jointly, which NATO has rejected.

Medvedev also warned that Moscow may opt out of the New START arms control deal with the United States and halt other arms control talks, if the U.S. proceeds with the missile shield without meeting Russia's demand. The Americans had hoped that the START treaty would stimulate progress in further ambitious arms control efforts, but such talks have stalled because of tension over the missile plan.

While the New START doesn't prevent the U.S. from building new missile defense systems, Russia has said it could withdraw from the treaty if it feels threatened by such a system in future.

Medvedev reaffirmed that warning Wednesday, saying that Russia may opt out of the treaty because of an "inalienable link between strategic offensive and defensive weapons."

The New START has been a key achievement of Obama's policy of improving relations with Moscow, which had suffered badly under the George W. Bush administration.

"It's impossible to do a reset using old software, it's necessary to develop a new one," Medvedev's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, said at a news conference.

The U.S. plan calls for placing land- and sea-based radars and interceptors in European locations, including Romania and Poland, over the next decade and upgrading them over time.

Medvedev said that Russia will carefully watch the development of the U.S. shield and take countermeasures if Washington continues to ignore Russia's concerns. He warned that Moscow would deploy short-range Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, a Baltic Sea region bordering Poland, and place weapons in other areas in Russia's west and south to target U.S. missile defense sites. Medvedev said Russia would put a new early warning radar in Kaliningrad.

He said that as part of its response Russia would also equip its intercontinental nuclear missiles with systems that would allow them to penetrate prospective missile defenses and would develop ways to knock down the missile shield's control and information facilities.

Igor Korotchenko, a Moscow-based military expert, was quoted by the state RIA Novosti news agency as saying that the latter would mean targeting missile defense radars and command structures with missiles and bombers. "That will make the entire system useless," he said.

Medvedev and other Russian leaders have made similar threats in the past, and the latest statement appears to be aimed at the domestic audience ahead of Dec. 4 parliamentary elections.

Medvedev, who is set to step down to allow Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to reclaim the presidency in March's election, leads the ruling United Russia party list in the parliamentary vote. A stern warning to the U.S. and NATO issued by Medvedev seems to be directed at rallying nationalist votes in the polls.

Rogozin, Russia's NATO envoy, said the Kremlin won't follow the example of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and take unwritten promises from the West.

"The current political leadership can't act like Gorbachev, and it wants written obligations secured by ratification documents," Rogozin said.

Medvedev's statement was intended to encourage the U.S. and NATO to take Russia seriously at the missile defense talks, Rogozin said. He added that the Russian negotiators were annoyed by the U.S. "openly lying" about its missile defense plans.

"We won't allow them to treat us like fools," he said. "Nuclear deterrent forces aren't a joke."

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Associated Press writers Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow and Pauline Jelinek in Washington contributed to this report.

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Soyuz with three astronauts lands in Kazakhstan (AP)

MOSCOW ? A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts returning from the International Space Station has touched down safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan.

NASA astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa of Japan's JAXA space agency landed north of the town of Arkalyk at 8.27 a.m. (0227 GMT) after spending 165 days in space.

NASA's Dan Burbank and Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin remain onboard the International Space Station and are due to return to Earth in March. They arrived at the station on Wednesday. A launch next month will take the station back to its normal six-person crew.

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Glenn Beck calls Bachmann 'exceptional' (Politico)

Via POLITICO's Ginger Gibson, a development that could have impact for Michele Bachmann:

While he?s not ?endorsing? anyone, Glenn Beck on his radio program Tuesday said if he were deciding who to vote for based on the individual it would be Michele Bachmann, calling her ?exceptional."

?There is somebody I think that is exceptional and truly comes the closest to embodying the spirit of Lincoln or Washington in this field. And I believe that it is Michele Bachmann,? Beck said. ?If I had to vote for someone in the primary ? I?m not a Republican so I can?t vote ? but if I to vote for one, if I had to trust one person, it would be Michele Bachmann.?

In a blog post on his website he added, ?(Of course the mainstream media is still going to take that to be an endorsement, but you know the truth.)?

Indeed.

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Beck was with Bachmann at an event in New York City on Sunday, and she was on his radio show yesterday.

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Joe Paterno has lung cancer, son says (AP)

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. ? Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno has a treatable form of lung cancer, according to his son.

Scott Paterno said in a statement provided to The Associated Press by a family representative on Friday that the 84-year-old Joe Paterno is undergoing treatment and that "his doctors are optimistic he will make a full recovery."

"As everyone can appreciate, this is a deeply personal matter for my parents, and we simply ask that his privacy be respected as he proceeds with treatment," Scott Paterno said in a brief statement.

The announcement came less than an hour after Penn State said the NCAA would examine how school officials handled a child sex abuse scandal that shocked the campus and cost Paterno a job he held 46 years.

Scott Paterno said the diagnosis was made during a follow-up visit last weekend for a bronchial illness.

Earlier Friday, The Citizens Voice of Wilkes-Barre reported that Paterno had been seen Wednesday visiting the Mount Nittany Medical Center and was treated for an undisclosed ailment and released.

Paterno was fired last week in the aftermath of accusations against former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who is charged with sexually abusing eight boys over 15 years. Critics say Paterno should have done more to stop the abuse that a state grand jury detailed in a 23-page report ? in particular one assault in 2002.

Paterno initially announced his retirement effective at the end of the season. But university trustees fired him about 12 hours later, on the evening of Nov. 9.

The lurid scandal has tarnished the reputation of a coach and a football program that once prided itself on the slogan "Success with Honor." The Hall of Famer's 409 career victories are a Division I record. In all, Paterno guided five teams to unbeaten, untied seasons, and won two national championships.

Sandusky was once expected to succeed Paterno but retired in 1999 not long after being told he wouldn't get the job.

Two university officials stepped down after they were charged with lying to a grand jury and failing to report the 2002 charge to police, an assault which allegedly took place in a shower in the football building.

The grand jury report said the attack was witnessed by Mike McQueary, a graduate assistant at the time. Now the receivers coach but on administrative leave, McQueary told the grand jury he went to his father first and then to Paterno, who in turn told a university superior but didn't go to the police.

When the state's top cop said Paterno failed to execute his moral responsibility by not contacting police, public outrage built and the trustees acted.

Besides the criminal investigation, the university announced last week it was conducting its own probe before the NCAA said Friday that the organization would take its own look.

NCAA president Mark Emmert said in the letter to Penn State president Rod Erickson that the governing body for college sports will look at "Penn State's exercise of institutional control over its intercollegiate athletics programs."

That once was never a question with Paterno, regarded as college football's model for running a clean program. He placed as much pride in graduating players as getting to bowl games, and consistently had Penn State among the top-rated academic programs in the country.

Paterno has donated millions back to the university, and his name graces campus library ? not a football facility or athletic complex.

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Messi, Neymar included in FIFA anti-doping trials

updated 7:06 a.m. ET Nov. 17, 2011

ZURICH - Lionel Messi and Neymar will take part in a new anti-doping program to try a biological passport in world soccer.

FIFA says players involved in the seven-team Club World Cup next month will give samples before they visit Japanese laboratories to prepare individual steroid profiles.

Players selected for anti-doping controls at the Dec. 8-18 tournament will have their results measured against out-of-competition tests.

Teams include Barcelona, the European champions containing Messi, and Brazilian club Santos, the South American winners featuring Neymar.

FIFA has consulted the International Cycling Union, which pioneered the biological passport in sports. The UCI repeatedly takes riders' blood samples to measure the effects of doping rather than test for banned drugs.

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Clinton meets flood victims on quick Thailand trip

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks during a joint news conference with Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at the government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. Clinton is on a two-day visit to Thailand. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, Pool)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks during a joint news conference with Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at the government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011. Clinton is on a two-day visit to Thailand. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, Pool)

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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, right, visits an evacuation center for flood victims set up at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday Nov. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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BANGKOK (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton played with a toddler and asked a little girl if she misses school during a quick visit Thursday to an evacuation center for Thai flood victims, a day after announcing a $10 million aid package.

Clinton exchanged the traditional Thai greeting known as "wai" ? bowing deeply while pressing their palms together near the face ? with some of the more than 1,400 evacuees living in gymnasiums inside the Ratchamangala National Stadium complex.

"Tell me your story," she asked some of the evacuees, including Wirat Chumsuwan.

"It's someone big from another country and she's interested in helping our country, so it feels good," Wirat said.

Nearly a third of Thailand's 77 provinces, including Bangkok, have been hit by floods since late July. More than one-fifth of the country's 64 million people have been affected, and at least 567 have died.

Clinton arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday in a hastily arranged trip, making a detour while on her way to attend a regional summit in Bali, Indonesia. On Wednesday, she announced an aid package worth $10 million in addition to $1 million in aid already given through the Red Cross.

At the stadium complex, evacuees sleep next to each other on blue mats with their meager possessions stacked nearby. Clinton, accompanied by Thai officials, played briefly with a toddler feeding from a milk bottle.

She then asked Wirat's 9-year-old daughter Manthitha if she misses school. The girl said she did, not having gone to class for more than two months.

Wirat, who lives in the nearby province of Pathum Thani, said he battled the floods for two weeks but had to evacuate a month ago.

"The water was rising and I couldn't stay anymore," he said.

Wirat took his family to an evacuation center at Bangkok's Don Muang domestic airport, where they stayed for a week before that too got flooded. They were moved to the stadium complex three weeks ago.

The U.S. is already providing medical assistance and a U.S. Navy ship, the USS Lassen, is in a Thai port with crew and helicopters to help relief efforts, Clinton said.

She said the U.S. would help reopen Don Muang airport and rehabilitate flooded police stations.

Washington is also consulting with the Thai government on how to restore important cultural sites, such as the ancient capital of Ayutthaya, which is in one of the most badly hit areas.

Parts of Thailand, especially areas just outside Bangkok, still face weeks of flooding. But the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority said the overall situation in the capital is improving quickly, especially in Don Muang and Lad Phrao, a district studded with office towers, condominiums and a popular shopping mall.

Lad Phrao intersection is expected to be totally dry by this weekend, and all other main streets will be back to normal within two weeks, Bangkok Gov. Sukhumbhand Paribatra said.

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Engineered, drug-secreting blood vessels reverse anemia in mice

ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2011) ? Patients who rely on recombinant, protein-based drugs must often endure frequent injections, often several times a week, or intravenous therapy. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston demonstrate the possibility that blood vessels, made from genetically engineered cells, could secrete the drug on demand directly into the bloodstream. In the Nov. 17 issue of the journal Blood, they provide proof-of-concept, reversing anemia in mice with engineered vessels secreting erythropoietin (EPO).

The technology could potentially be used to deliver other proteins such as Factor VIII and Factor IX for patients with hemophilia, alpha interferon for hepatitis C and interferon beta for multiple sclerosis, says the study's principal investigator, Juan Melero-Martin, PhD, of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Children's.

Such drugs are currently made in bioreactors by engineered cells, and are very expensive to make in large amounts. "The paradigm shift here is, 'why don't we instruct your own cells to be the factory?'" says Melero-Martin, also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

The researchers created the drug-secreting vessels by isolating endothelial colony-forming cells from human blood and inserting a gene instructing the cells to produce EPO. They then added mesenchymal stem cells, suspended the cells in a gel, and injected this mixture into the mice, just under the skin. The cells spontaneously formed networks of blood vessels, lined with the engineered endothelial cells. Within a week, the vessels hooked up with the animals' own vessels, releasing EPO into the bloodstream.

Tests showed that the drug circulated throughout the body and reversed anemia in the mice, both induced by radiation (as often occurs in cancer patients) and by loss of kidney tissue (modeling chronic kidney failure). Mice with the vessel implants had significantly higher hematocrits (a measure of red blood cell concentration) and recovered from anemia more quickly than controls.

The system also had a built-in on/off control: the inserted EPO-encoding gene was linked to a repressor protein that prevented it from being turned on unless the mice were given the oral drug doxycycline (added to their drinking water). Doxycycline disabled the repressor protein, allowing EPO to be made. When doxycycline was added to the water on a weekly on/off schedule, the animals' hematocrit fluctuated accordingly. When hematocrit reached a normal level, the system could be switched off by simply giving them plain water.

Melero-Martin and colleagues are looking at ways to deliver doxycycline through the skin to avoid exposing the whole body to an antibiotic. There are also other ways to design the genetic on/off control, using synthetic systems or even regulatory elements used naturally by the body -- sensing blood oxygen levels and stimulating EPO production when oxygen levels dip.

A traditional barrier to gene therapy has been getting the genetically altered cells to engraft and stay in place. Blood-vessel implants are an ideal platform technology for gene therapy applications whose goal is systemic drug delivery, says Melero-Martin.

"Blood vessels are one of the few tissues where we have good control over engraftment," he says. "Endothelial cells are easily isolated from blood, are good at assembling themselves into blood vessels, and are ideal for releasing compounds into the bloodstream, since they line the blood vessels."

The lab is interested in trying this system with other therapeutic proteins, and is also exploring ways to get cells to release therapeutics at a moment's notice by getting accumulating stores in advance that could be released upon the proper signal, as beta cells in the pancreas do with insulin, for example.

In addition, Melero-Martin wants to explore regenerative medicine applications, creating blood vessels with genetic instructions to produce factors that attract stem cells or induce cells to differentiate.

The study was funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the National Institutes of Health and the Children's Hospital Boston Department of Cardiac Surgery. Ruei-Zeng Lin, PhD, a research fellow in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Children's, was first author on the paper.

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Better Late Than Never: Wine.com Gets A Mobile Website

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Economist Monti to quickly form new Italian govt (AP)

ROME ? Economist Mario Monti accepted the monumental task Sunday of trying to form a new government that can rescue Italy from financial ruin, expressing confidence that the nation can beat the crisis if its people pull together.

His selection came a day after Silvio Berlusconi reluctantly resigned as premier, bowing out after world markets pummeled Italy's borrowing ability, reflecting a loss of faith in the 75-year-old media mogul's leadership. Berlusconi quit after the Italian parliament approved new reform measures demanded by the European Union and central bank officials ? but even those are not considered enough to right Italy's ailing economy.

"There is an emergency, but we can overcome it with a common effort," Monti told the nation, shortly after Italy's president formally asked him to see if he can muster enough political support to lead the country out of one of its most trying hours since World War II.

"In a moment of particular difficulty, Italy must win the challenge to bounce back, we must be an element of strength and not weakness in the European Union, of which we are founders," he added.

Monti must now draw up a Cabinet, lay out his priorities, and see if he has enough support in Parliament to govern. Rival political parties offered various degrees of support, including one demand from Berlusconi's party ? the largest in Parliament ? that his government last only as long enough as it takes to heal Italy's finances and revive the economy.

The 68-year-old economics professor is no pushover, earning a reputation for staring down challenges as a tough EU competition commissioner. But he'll have to win a confidence vote in Parliament before he can lead the nation.

Monti told reporters he will carry out his task "with a great sense of responsibility and service toward this nation." Italy must heal its finances and resume growth because "we owe it to our children, to give them a concrete future of dignity and hope."

Berlusconi's party also demanded that only technocrats ? not politicians ? make up Monti's Cabinet in exchange for its crucial support.

Monti faces a daunting challenge ? preventing an Italian default that could tear apart the 17-nation eurozone and send Europe and the U.S. into new recessions.

Italy's economy is hampered by high wage costs, low productivity, fat government payrolls, excessive taxes, choking bureaucracy, and an educational system that produces one of the lowest levels of college graduates among rich countries.

In addition, as the third-largest economy in the eurozone, Italy is considered too big for Europe to bail out like Greece, Portugal and Ireland have been.

The next Italian government needs to push through even more painful reforms and austerity measures to deal with euro1.9 trillion ($2.6 trillion) in debt ? about 120 percent of the country's economic output. And many of those debts are coming due soon ? Italy has to roll over more than euro300 billion ($410 billion) of its debts next year alone.

Some political forces, including some from Berlusconi's ranks and that of his allies, have been clamoring for early elections. But President Giorgio Napolitano cited approaching treasury bond auctions ? one as early as Monday and other bonds maturing in the next few months ? as a main reason he decided to "avoid early elections and the consequent government vacuum" until a new one could be formed.

Asked by journalists if he thought Monti could form his government by week's end, Napolitano responded positively.

The yield on Italian 10-year bonds fell to 6.48 percent Friday, below the crisis level of 7 percent reached earlier last week, a level that forced the three other EU nations into international bailouts.

Centrist and center-left parties in the opposition during Berlusconi's rule offered their support for Monti.

"Italian parties are at fork in the road. Either they speculate on the situation, hoping that they can get some campaign capital from it, or they take up their responsibilities to save the country," said centrist opposition leader Pier Ferdinando Casini.

The leader of Italy's largest labor confedation, the left-wing CGIL, Susanna Camusso, expressed hope that Monti could pull together a government capable of "giving back the international credibility that we have lost in these years."

Union leaders, along with industrialists, have accused Berlusconi of doing virtually nothing to create jobs during his tenure.

Berlusconi's main ally in his 17 years of politics, Umberto Bossi, said his Northern League, a regional party with its power base in the affluent north, would stay in the opposition and insisted early elections are the true solution.

"We won't give him any blank check," Bossi said of Monti.

Warmly welcoming the new prime minister-designate were European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy.

"We believe that it sends a further encouraging signal," following Italy's final passage Saturday of new austerity measures, they said in a statement, adding that the EU will keep monitoring Italy's implementation of the measures "with the aim of pursuing policies that foster growth."

The measures that were passed Saturday include raising the retirement age to 67 by 2026 and to 70 by 2050 and selling off state property.

Some analysts expect the return of the property tax on primary residences, a tax that Berlusconi had abolished.

A crowd of supporters applauded Berlusconi on Sunday at his private residence in Rome ? in sharp contrast to the hundreds Saturday night who heckled and jeered him and popped open bottles of sparking wine to toast his departure.

It was an ignoble end for the billionaire media mogul, who came to power for the first time in 1994 using a soccer chant "Let's Go Italy" as the name of his political party and selling Italians on a dream of prosperity with own transformation from cruise-ship crooner to Italy's richest man.

While he became Italy's longest-serving postwar premier, Berlusconi's three stints as premier were tainted by corruption trials and accusations that he used his political power to help his business interests. His last term was marred by sex scandals, "bunga bunga" parties and criminal charges he paid a 17-year-old girl to have sex ? accusations he denies.

Berlusconi appeared on TV in a recorded message Sunday, pledging to stay a vigorous political force in Parliament, where he is still a lawmaker.

"(I) resigned out of a sense of responsibility and of state, to ward off more speculative financial attacks on Italy," he said.

Looking somber, Berlusconi said he was sad that his "generous gesture" of resignation was greeted by "hoots and insults" from the crowds.

___

Gabriele Steinhauser contributed from Brussels.

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Italy vote clears way for Berlusconi resignation (Reuters)

ROME (Reuters) ? Italy's parliament gave final approval to a financial stability law on Saturday, paving the way for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to resign and make way for an emergency government headed by former European Commissioner Mario Monti.

Berlusconi, who failed to secure a majority in a crucial vote on Tuesday, promised to resign once parliament passed the package of economic reforms, demanded by European partners to restore confidence in Italy's strained public finances.

He is due to hand in his resignation to President Giorgio Napolitano after a cabinet meeting that will mark the final act of the Berlusconi government and bring an end to one of the most scandal-plagued eras in Italy's post-war history.

Napolitano is expected to ask Monti to try to form a new administration to face a widening financial crisis which has sent Italy's debt costs to unmanageable levels and threatened to escalate into an emergency across the whole euro zone.

Monti, named by Napolitano as a Senator for Life on Wednesday, is expected to appoint a relatively small cabinet made up of technocrat specialists to steer Italy through the crisis.

With the next elections not due until 2013, a technocrat government could have about 18 months to pass painful economic reforms but will need to secure the backing of a majority in parliament and could fall before then.

Italy, the euro zone's third largest economy, came close to disaster this week after yields on 10 year bonds soared over 7.6 percent, the kind of level which forced Ireland, Portugal and Greece to seek an international bailout.

With a public debt of more than 120 percent of gross domestic product and more than a decade of anemic economic growth behind it, Italy is at the heart of the euro zone debt crisis and would be too big for the bloc to bail out.

Financial markets have backed a Monti government and as prospects of Berlusconi going became firmer last week, yields dropped below the critical 7 percent level.

"We don't yet have a new government in Italy and we have to wait, but I'm sure if Mario Monti will be appointed he will do whatever is necessary in order to restore the confidence of the financial markets in Italy," Alessandro Profumo, former head of Unicredit, Italy's largest bank, told Reuters.

SIGNS OF OPPOSITION MOUNT

Berlusconi, fighting an array of scandals and facing trials on charges ranging from tax fraud to paying for sex with an under-aged prostitute, had been under pressure to resign for weeks as the market crisis threatened to spin out of control.

International leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde have expressed hopes a new government can be in place quickly.

Talks with Italian political parties are expected to begin on Sunday morning with hopes that a new government can be in place in time for the opening of financial markets on Monday morning.

However, even as preparations for a transition begin, signs of opposition have already appeared, with Berlusconi's PDL party split between factions ready to accept a Monti government and others deeply opposed.

Berlusconi had a working lunch with Monti before the vote, suggesting that the outgoing government will not try to block a quick handover, but the attitude of the center-right as a whole remains unclear.

The PDL's main coalition ally, the regional pro-devolution Northern League, has declared it will go into opposition, underlining the risk that the new government will lack the broad parliamentary support it will need to pass deep reforms.

"The convulsions in the center-right at the prospect of a government led by Mario Monti signal a danger: that a divided coalition may be tempted to unload its divisions on the country," the daily Corriere della Sera said.

The center-left Democratic party and smaller centrist parties have pledged support to Monti. Italy's main business and banking associations and some of the moderate trade unions have also called for a government of national unity.

However the support of the left will be tested if the new government tries to implement the kind of tough reforms to pensions and job protection measures that have drawn strong opposition from unions in the past.

In another warning of the kind of personal attacks he may soon face, the fiercely pro-Berlusconi Il Giornale daily declared Monti had joined "the caste," the tag given to Italy's deeply unpopular political elite.

"SuperMario joins the caste: 25,000 euros a month," it said in a front page article that referred to the salary Monti will receive following his appointment as senator for life by Napolitano this week.

(Writing by Philip Pullella and James Mackenzie, Additional reporting by Megan Davies in Moscow; Editing by Giles Elgood and Andrew Heavens)

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James Franco is planning to contact dead playwright Tennessee Williams through a Ouija board

The ’127 Hours’ actor will try and connect with the spirit of the ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ writer, who died in 1983, as part of a piece of performance art in New York on Sunday. James will use the Ouija board – decorated with numbers and letters and traditionally used to contact the dead – [...]

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Amazon Appstore for Android gets a Kindle Fire-inspired facelift

The Kindle Fire itself may still be a week away from release, but users of other Android tablets and phones can now get a small taste of what's in store courtesy of version 2.0 of the Amazon Appstore. That update began rolling out late last night and, as you can see above, it brings with it a refreshed UI that moves the app more in line with the Kindle Fire's steely gray interface. The update also adds support for in-app purchases and parental controls, as well as a number of other tweaks and performance improvements. Still no sign of those big-name apps that are promised for the Kindle Fire, though.

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Italy's worried president steps in to calm markets (Reuters)

ROME (Reuters) ? Italy's president stepped in to try to calm markets on Wednesday after the country's borrowing costs raced to catastrophic levels, saying urgent action would be taken to end a political crisis.

Head of state Giorgio Napolitano, expressing alarm about a collapse in market confidence, said there was no doubt about the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi once economic reforms were implemented by parliament within days.

When a financial stability law incorporating the reforms promised to European leaders was approved, Napolitano said he would rapidly hold consultations to end the crisis.

"Therefore, within a short time either a new government will be formed ... or parliament will be dissolved to immediately begin an electoral campaign," Napolitano said.

The president, who has played an increasingly active role in the crisis, said he had been obliged to issue his statement because of the pressure on government bonds, whose yields shot above a "red line" of 7 percent on Wednesday.

In a possible sign that he was preparing the way for a so-called "technical government" led by an independent outsider, Napolitano named former European Commissioner Mario Monti as senator for life.

Monti has been widely seen as the most likely leader of a government of technocrats to implement vital economic reforms and steer Italy through to new elections in 2013.

Markets have been clamoring for weeks for Berlusconi to depart because of his failure to push through painful austerity measures and disarray from a rebellion inside his own party.

But the 75-year-old media tycoon's pledge on Tuesday night to step down once vital economic reforms are passed instead accelerated the crisis at the center of the euro zone, with markets unnerved by the unorthodox postponement of his resignation and fears of extended political uncertainty.

Analysts said Italy was now in territory where Greece, Ireland and Portugal were forced to seek bailouts.

Berlusconi's insistence that the only way out was elections early next year, and deep political disagreement about the next move, only worsened the uncertainty, although two factions in his own PDL party said on Wednesday they opposed early polls.

In another indication of how serious the crisis of confidence is, spreads between Italian government paper and German bunds rose over another watershed of 500 basis points, reaching a record above 560.

FORCE THE PACE

An election would put Italy in limbo for several months and there was no sign of agreement on the urgent formation of a transitional government that could calm markets, but Napolitano clearly intends to force the pace.

Other politicians on Wednesday finally seemed to realize the urgent need to restore market confidence. A parliamentary source said lower house speaker Gianfranco Fini intended to have the financial stability law approved by Sunday.

"Italy must regain credibility and confidence as a country for us first of all to get out from a very dangerous squeeze on financial markets," said Napolitano, an 86-year-old former communist who has gone to the limits of his traditional powers to combat the crisis.

Italy's center-left opposition wants the urgent formation of a national unity government but its main leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, said this was unlikely because of resistance from the center right. He believed elections were likely.

Berlusconi and his closest allies say a government of national unity, including the left, or of technocrats, would be an undemocratic "coup" against the last election in 2008.

But a significant number of PDL deputies appear to oppose elections.

They fear the center-left victory predicted by opinion polls after Berlusconi's popularity slumped because of a string of sex and legal scandals, political errors and above all the pressure from foreign markets.

Analysts say one consequence of the crisis could be the collapse of Berlusconi's PDL as centrist parties try to woo its disgruntled members.

Berlusconi said that PDL party secretary and former justice minister Angelino Alfano, long his anointed successor, would be the center right's candidate for prime minister.

"I will resign as soon as the (budget) law is passed and, since I believe there is no other majority possible, I see elections being held at the beginning of February and I will not be a candidate in them," he told La Stampa newspaper.

Italy is in the eye of the euro zone debt storm because, as the region's third largest economy, it is viewed as too big to bail out. Its crisis therefore poses a real threat to the survival of the single currency.

Despite the new sense of urgency fueled by Wednesday's debacle in the markets, there are still wide disagreements both about the form of a new government and on budget and structural reforms to bring down Italy's huge debt and revive its long-stagnant growth.

One small opposition group, the Italy of Values party, said on Wednesday it would vote against the reforms.

EU inspectors were in Rome on Wednesday to begin a monitoring mission aimed at ensuring economic reforms are carried out as part of an agreement reached at a G20 summit last week. Most of the reforms are incorporated in the budget measures to be voted on by parliament.

The European Commission sent a letter to Italy this week requesting more details on the reforms and saying additional measures would be needed to meet the target of balancing the budget by 2013.

(Additional reporting by Paolo Biondi, Giselda Vagnoni, Francesca Piscioneri, Philip Pullella, James Mackenzie and Catherine Hornby; Editing by Andrew Roche)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/europe/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111109/wl_nm/us_italy1

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