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Monday, November 28, 2011
Zootoo Review - 5 Fun Holiday Toys for Pets - Paw Nation
As Thanksgiving week and Black Friday sales officially kick off the holiday shopping season, your four-legged friends may be wondering whether Santa Paws will be leaving them a special toy under the tree.
From feline-friendly feather teasers to plushy penguins for your pooch, seasonal toys can make playtime with your pet even more festive this year. To spice up your pet's stocking, our friends at Zootoo rounded up some of their favorite holiday toys for the furry folks on your gift list.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Who Is The Next Batman? Christian Bale's Replacement Will Be... (PHOTOS)
It's been a breakout year for Fassbender, who will have put out four critically acclaimed movies by the time the ball drops on December 31st. The man can certainly go dark and brooding, as audiences will soon see in 'Shame,' and he's done the comic book thing before, playing Magneto in this summer's 'X-Men: First Class.' That association shouldn't get in his way, though; plenty of stars have been involved in multiple super hero films, and X-Men is Marvel, while Batman is DC.
It's been a breakout year for Fassbender, who will have put out four critically acclaimed movies by the time the ball drops on December 31st. The man can certainly go dark and brooding, as audiences will soon see in 'Shame,' and he's done the comic book thing before, playing Magneto in this summer's 'X-Men: First Class.' That association shouldn't get in his way, though; plenty of stars have been involved in multiple super hero films, and X-Men is Marvel, while Batman is DC.
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Walking Dead's Sarah Wayne Callies: Lori's Afraid Rick and Shane Might Kill Each Other (omg!)
The secret is out!
In last week's episode of The Walking Dead, Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) finally came clean to Rick (Andrew Lincoln), not just about being pregnant, but also that she had had an affair with his best friend Shane (Jon Bernthal). (To be fair, they both thought Rick was dead.)
The Walking Dead Boss: Shane's living on borrowed time -- but hasn't worn out his welcome yet
Now, Lori and Rick will face a challenge more treacherous than ravenous zombies: saving their marriage, a task complicated by Lori's pregnancy. Is it Rick or Shane's kid? TVGuide.com chatted with Callies to get her take on the venomous threesome.
Now that Rick knows about the affair, how will that change things between them?
Sarah Wayne Callies: Andy and I have been playing with the idea for a while that Rick has known for a long time and it was a test of whether or not Lori would be honest with him and when and why. It actually opens the door for things to begin to heal for them. He deeply needed to hear her say that she thought he was gone. She wasn't secretly burning a candle for Shane for the last eight years of their marriage.
You say he needed to hear that, but do you think that's the truth? Lori doesn't have any feelings for Shane?
Callies: I don't think Shane ever crossed Lori's mind as anything other than a dear friend until she was in his arms the night that Atlanta fell. There's something about memory that's really tricky, that when you go back to an event in your mind, it can actually change. Lori's having a much harder time putting it out of her mind and putting Shane out of her mind than she ever would've anticipated, given that it was really just a purely physical thing at its inception.
Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman: Lori's surprising results are only the beginning
How will Shane react to the pregnancy? Will he assume it's his?
Callies: That's her biggest fear right now, because there's no way to be sure whose baby it is, unless it turns out that she's two months pregnant and it happened before Rick was shot. But at this point, there's no timeline, so she's really afraid. Quite frankly, one of the reasons that she considered terminating the pregnancy is because it has the ability to tear these men apart, and that has huge implications not just to her personal life, but to everyone's safety. There's a part of her that's afraid they might kill each other. This is the kind of thing men kill each other over.
What will Shane do to cement himself in Lori's life?
Callies: For a while now, Shane has been trying to protect her and Carl (Chandler Riggs), and has been doing that from a distance and trying to take Rick's place. He's posturing. I'm thinking of the Planet Earth films, where the men of a species are trying to demonstrate to the females that they're bigger, stronger and better. Shane has a new level of investment in Lori's safety, if he does believe it's his child that she's carrying, and that means Rick's protection of Lori has to be that much more complete. It all gets very futile. At a certain point, this culture has devolved into a place where, as a woman, maybe you have to decide who you're with based on who can keep your child alive, rather than who's the best communicator, or who makes the best spaghetti Bolognese.
The Walking Dead: Can the survivors coexist with the family at Hershel's farm?
The Walking Dead's community has regressed to caveman-like conditions. Who can build fire? Who can protect you? That's who you should be with.
Callies: That's exactly right. We talked a lot in the first season about a certain Camelot prospective. You have three people who really do love each other equally. The longer we go on, the more it feels medieval, where there are moments where Lori looks at these guys and goes, "Jesus Christ, if I'm not careful, one of you is actually going to throw me over your shoulder and ride off on a horse with me." [Laughs] It's kind of amazing, especially coming from a woman who six weeks ago was driving a station wagon and shopping at Walmart.
Will Rick use Lori's pregnancy as a card to play to be able to stay on the farm?
Callies: The effect it has on him is more about the need to stay, not just because there's safety, but the need to stay close to the only person who practices medicine, veterinarian or no, and the need to make things right with Hershel (Scott Wilson) and the need to be able to make a home there. The pregnancy heightens all of that because Lori is not going to be able to run forever. There's a time bomb growing in her.
The Walking Dead's Laurie Holden: Andrea greatly admires Shane
How will the survivors deal with the barn in the midseason finale?
Callies: It speaks a lot to what we were discussing before about Rick and Shane. When people find out what's going on, there are very different perspectives on how we should proceed because there are different perspectives on what the true danger is. Is the true danger a bunch of walkers in the barn? Is the true danger Hershel throwing us off his farm? Could Hershel even do that? We outnumber them, we're armed, and who do we become if we make that kind of decision? Those become the questions that are raised with the barn and it deeply, deeply, deeply divides people. The whole thing blows sky-high.
The first half of the season is interesting because you have the illusion of safety for a minute, for a few episodes. You have people experiencing the problems you'd have when you're not necessarily running for your life every second. What the barn does is bring us back into a world where everybody realizes that we're not safe and we're not going to be safe. While it's the end of the first segment of the second season, the second half of the season has a very different character because of what the barn represents and how the situation is handled.
The Walking Dead's midseason finale airs Sunday at 9/8c on AMC.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Concurring Opinions ? The Usefulness of Legal Scholarship
posted by Daniel Solove
A reader of my post about the N.Y. Times critique of legal education writes, in regard to the value of legal scholarship:
I happen to be on the editorial board of a T14 law school?s law review, so I have to cite check and read articles regularly. Of those I?ve read, I can?t think of a single one I thought would be useful to a practicing lawyer. The problem is, in my experience, most seem to advocate a fundamental change in philosophy to an area of law that diverges from what precedent would suggest. To me, this seems extremely unhelpful, because A. Lower courts aren?t likely to accept a grand new theory that seems to contradict what SCOTUS is saying, B. As far as I can tell SCOTUS seems not to usually change its theory either, and C. I don?t think most policymakers tend to read law review articles.
This leads me to be inclined to believe that most law review articles are useless. Are you saying my sample is unrepresentative of what?s out there? Or do I simply have a narrower definition of usefulness? Could you perhaps suggest some articles from the past year that in your mind represented useful legal scholarship?
This commentator assumes that usefulness is the equivalent of being accepted by the courts.? I quarrel with this view for many reasons:
1. An article can have an influence on cases, even if difficult to demonstrate.? Many courts don?t cite law review articles even when they rely on them.? Judges are notorious for not being particularly charitable with citations.? They often copy verbatim parts of briefs, for example.? If a law professor relies on a scholarly work even in a minor way, the professor will typically cite to the work.? Not so for courts.
2. Most articles will not change the law.? Changing the law is quite difficult, and if most law review articles changed the law, the law would be ridiculously more dynamic than it currently is.
3. No matter what discipline or area, most of the things produced are not going to be great.? Most inventions are flops.? Most books, songs, movies, TV shows, art works, architecture, or anything produced are quite forgettable and will likely be forgotten.? Great lasting works only come around infrequently, no matter what the field.
4. Most people are forgettable too.? In the law, most practitioners and judges have been forgotten.? Only a few great ones are remembered.? Of the judges who are most well-known, it is interesting that many were more theoretical in nature and had a major impact in changing the law ? typically in ways law professors might change the law.? Think of Benjamin Cardozo, who wrote many articles and books and who radically changed the law.? Think of Felix Frankfurter, a former law professor.? Think of Louis Brandeis.? Think of Oliver Wendell Holmes.? These were jurists who were thinkers.? They were readers.? They were literary.? They were writers of scholarship too.? Maybe the forgettable practitioners and judges are the ones who ignore legal scholarship.
5. The commentator?s remarks that I quoted above seems to be only focused on judicial decisions.? Legal change can occur legislatively as well as through administrative rulemaking.? A lot of legal scholarship that critiques the law can have influence in legislatures or with agencies.
6. The commentator writes: ?I don?t think most policymakers tend to read law review articles.?? I doubt that the Congresspeople themselves read law review articles, but staffers might take a look where relevant.? They won?t likely read them cover to cover, but if there?s an article on point that is helpful, I believe they will read it.
7. In my own experience, I?ve found that some of my more theoretical writing has been read frequently by practitioners.? My book Understanding Privacy, for example, is a theoretical account of what ?privacy? means and why it is valuable.? I base my theory on the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Dewey, and I cite to a lot of social science literature.? More than some of my more so-called ?practical? work, it is this book where I receive the most positive feedback from practitioners.? In particular, a lot of Chief Privacy Officers in business, government, and education find the book useful.
8. Legal change can be slow.? Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis?s The Right to Privacy was a very influential law review article, spawning four privacy torts in a majority of states.? They published their article in 1890.? Ten years later, the article would have been viewed as a failure.? No courts had adopted their theory.? No legislatures had adopted their theory.? Finally, in 1902, the N.Y. Court of Appeals rejected Warren and Brandeis?s theory.? At this point, the legal scholarship naysayers would be saying that Warren and Brandeis?s article would have been a total flop.? A dozen years had passed, and a court declined to change its precedent based on the article.? But then the N.Y. legislature stepped in and recognized a privacy tort based on the article.? And slowly, other courts and legislatures followed.? This process was slow.? It took about 50 years to unfold.
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Dyslexic adults have more trouble if background noise levels are high
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Dyslexia affects up to 17.5% of the population, but its cause remains somewhat unknown. A report published in the Nov. 23 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE supports the hypothesis that the symptoms of dyslexia, including difficulties in reading, are at least partly due to difficulty excluding excess background information like noise.
In the study of 37 undergraduate students, the researchers, led by Rachel Beattie of the University of Southern California, found that the poor readers performed significantly worse than the control group only when there were high levels of background noise.
The two groups performed comparably at the prescribed task when there was no background noise and when the stimulus set size was varied, either a large or a small set size.
According to Dr. Beattie, "these findings support a relatively new theory, namely that dyslexic individuals do not completely filter out irrelevant information when attending to letters and sounds. This external noise exclusion deficit could lead to the creation of inaccurate representations of words and phonemes and ultimately, to the characteristic reading and phonological awareness impairments observed in dyslexia."
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Beattie RL, Lu Z-L, Manis FR (2011) Dyslexic Adults Can Learn from Repeated Stimulus Presentation but Have Difficulties in Excluding External Noise.PLoS ONE6(11): e27893. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027893
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Majority of ex-rebels seek to join national army
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2011 file photo, former women Maoist rebels attend an integration program at Shaktikhor Cantonment in Chitwan, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) southwest of Katmandu, Nepal. Under an agreement reached earlier this month between Nepal's major political parties, the ex-fighters would be part of a new division under the command of the Nepal Army commander and used mainly for noncombat duties like construction and emergency response. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2011 file photo, former women Maoist rebels attend an integration program at Shaktikhor Cantonment in Chitwan, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) southwest of Katmandu, Nepal. Under an agreement reached earlier this month between Nepal's major political parties, the ex-fighters would be part of a new division under the command of the Nepal Army commander and used mainly for noncombat duties like construction and emergency response. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2011 file photo, a former Maoist rebel carrying her child gathers along with other combatants for an integration program at Shaktikhor Cantonment in Chitwan, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) southwest of Katmandu, Nepal. Under an agreement reached earlier this month between Nepal's major political parties, the ex-fighters would be part of a new division under the command of the Nepal Army commander and used mainly for noncombat duties like construction and emergency response. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2011 file photo, a former Maoist rebel smiles at the camera as he attends an integration program at Shaktikhor Cantonment in Chitwan, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) southwest of Katmandu, Nepal. Under an agreement reached earlier this month between Nepal's major political parties, the ex-fighters would be part of a new division under the command of the Nepal Army commander and used mainly for noncombat duties like construction and emergency response. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2011 file photo, a government monitor, foreground, gives instructions to former Maoist rebel during an integration process at Shaktikhor Cantonment in Chitwan, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) southwest of Katmandu, Nepal. Under an agreement reached earlier this month between Nepal's major political parties, the ex-fighters would be part of a new division under the command of the Nepal Army commander and used mainly for noncombat duties like construction and emergency response. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
In this Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011 photo, Nepal's former Maoist rebels warm themselves around a fire as one of them colors the hair of a commander before they attend an integration program at Shaktikhor Cantonment in Chitwan, about 220 kilometers (138 miles) southwest of Katmandu, Nepal. Five years after the end of the war, thousands of former insurgents are now joining that very army. Government monitors have been interviewing 19,000 ex-fighters in camps to ascertain who wants to join the military and who prefers to take a rehabilitation package of up to 900,000 rupees ($11,500) in cash.(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
SHAKTIKHOR, Nepal (AP) ? For a decade, Maoist rebel fighters waged brutal warfare against Nepal's army. Five years after the end of the war, thousands of former insurgents are now joining that very army.
Government monitors have been interviewing 19,000 ex-fighters in camps to ascertain who wants to join the military and who prefers to take a rehabilitation package of up to 900,000 rupees ($11,500) in cash.
That's enough to buy a small farm or shop, or sustain a family for a few years in rural Nepal.
Still, two-thirds of the former members of the "People's Liberation Army" interviewed by government-assigned monitors in recent days said they favored taking a secure job and joining up with their former enemies in the national army.
"We have forgotten the bitterness we had against the army and now are ready to work together," said Santu Darai, the head of the 7th Division of the Maoist force. "But they should respect us and treat us as equals."
Darai said the integration should not be too problematic because both the former rebel force and the Nepal Army consider their main goal to be defending the country and its people.
Under the agreement reached earlier this month between Nepal's major political parties, the ex-fighters would be part of a new division under the command of the Nepal Army commander and used mainly for noncombat duties like construction and emergency response.
Integrating former insurgents into national armies is seen as an important tool for ensuring trained ex-combatants have stable jobs and a stake in keeping the peace of the nation. South Africa staved off further conflict when it integrated former anti-apartheid fighters into the military in the 1990s.
Nepal's former rebels would still have to go through the normal recruitment tests and health checks before they can join. The army says it is working to accommodate the new additions.
"We can't and won't hold any prejudice against them. We have to move forward and instead of having any negative attitude we have to be optimistic," said army spokesman, Brig. Gen. Ramindra Chhetri.
"The main thing is peace. The rest are minor things that we can overcome," he said.
Dil Bahadur Magar, 28, who fought for the Maoists, said he sees his future only in the army.
"Being part of the security force is what I know how to do and what I plan to do in the future," said Magar, who was interviewed at the Shaktikhor camp in the southern Nepal district of Chitwan.
Once enlisted, they would receive an annual salary of about $2,400, plus food, housing and other benefits.
A few who were not opting for the army said they would take a lump sum, return home and open up small business or work on ancestral farms.
Anita Chaudhury, who was with her 1-year-old child, said she planned to resume working on a village farm.
"I have already fought several wars and now they want us to go through recruitment tests. It is like a high school student having to go through kindergarten," Chaudhury said.
The Maoists fought government troops in a bloody, 10-year revolt to demand political reforms and end Nepal's centuries-old monarchy. More than 13,000 people were killed in the fighting.
The Maoists joined a peace process in 2006 under an agreement stipulating that the insurgents be integrated into the army, and that in the interim they would be confined in U.N. monitored camps, with their weapons locked up.
Maoists won the most seats ? though not an outright majority ? in 2008 elections. But political disputes stymied efforts to integrate the insurgents into the military. The Maoists wanted all 19,000 fighters to be inducted into the army, while military leaders and other political parties resisted.
Tensions have eased in the five years since the end of the fighting, and earlier this month, the sides finally reached agreement to induct 6,500 ex-fighters into the 93,000-strong army and to give cash and retraining to the others.
It was still not clear what would happen if more than 6,500 opt for the army and pass the recruitment tests.
Balananda Sharma, chief of the monitors conducting the interviews, said the process was expected to be completed next week.
Former insurgent Bikash Shahi, 28, said he was confident he would pass the tests for recruitment.
"My future is with the army. I plan to move forward in life with the army," he said.
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Bahrain used "excessive force" in crackdown, says inquiry (Reuters)
MANAMA (Reuters) ? Bahrain's security forces used excessive force to suppress pro-democracy protests earlier this year, torturing detainees to get confessions, an inquiry panel charged with investigating abuses said on Wednesday.
The government commissioned report, designed to help heal sectarian divisions between the island kingdom's Sunni rulers and majority Shi'ites, acknowledged five people had been tortured to death but said abuses were isolated incidents.
However the inquiry panel, led by Egyptian-American international law expert Cherif Bassiouni, dismissed Bahrain's allegation of Iranian interference in fomenting unrest, saying that was not supported by any evidence.
"In many cases security agencies in the government of Bahrain resorted to excessive and unnecessary force," Bassiouni said at the king's palace, adding that some detainees suffered electric shocks, and beatings with rubber hoses and wires.
Bahrain's Shi'ite-led opposition reacted coolly to the report, some saying it did not go far enough while others complained that those responsible for the abuses remained in office.
Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the Shi'ite Wefaq bloc which quit parliament over the unrest, said: "We cannot say Bahrain is turning a new leaf yet...because the government that carried out all those abuses is definitely not fit to be given the responsibility of implementing recommendations."
Bahrain's Shi'ite majority, inspired by uprisings that toppled the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt, took to the streets in February and March to demand political reforms but their protests quickly escalated into the worst sectarian political violence since the mid-1990s.
The ruling al-Khalifa family responded by declaring martial law and called in troops from fellow Sunni Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as it set about crushing the protests.
The inquiry panel said there was no official policy of abuse during the widespread unrest, led by Bahrain's majority Shi'ite population demanding an end to sectarian discrimination and demanding a greater say in government. A few Shi'ite groups called for the abolition of the monarchy altogether.
The panel - which said 35 people were killed, including five security personnel - urged a review of sentences handed down on people arrested following the protests, when more than 2,000 state employees were also sacked, according to Bassiouni.
KING RENEWS ACCUSATION AGAINST IRAN
King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, speaking after Bassiouni delivered his report, repeated the accusations against Iran, but said laws would be reviewed and if necessary revised in light of the unrest.
"We do not want, ever again, to see our country paralyzed by intimidation and sabotage... nor do we want, ever again, to discover that any of our law enforcement personnel have mistreated anyone," he said.
"Therefore, we must reform our laws so that they are consistent with international standards to which Bahrain is committed by treaties," he said.
In a statement, Bahrain noted the inquiry showed five deaths during the unrest were the result of torture, but added: "The report does not confirm that there was a government policy of torture, mistreatment or using excessive force."
A section of the 500-page report found the security service and interior ministry "followed a systematic practice of physical and psychological mistreatment, which amounted in many cases to torture, with respect to a large number of detainees."
Bassiouni also echoed elements of the kingdom's narrative of the unrest, saying Sunnis were targeted for intimidation by protesters. These included foreigners, including Pakistanis that the opposition say were naturalized because they are fellow Sunnis and employed in security services.
The United States has said a $53 million arms deal depends on the delivery of the report, and Bahrain has already acknowledged security forces used excessive force in some cases, while consistently denying any coordinated policy of torture.
The report follows a state-orchestrated "national dialogue" in the wake of the unrest which opposition groups dismissed as a farce.
The crackdown has left Bahrain polarized along sectarian lines, with low expectations from both sides that the inquiry would lead to reconciliation.
"It should have criticized the opposition that claims to represent the Shi'a, it only criticized the government," said Sheikh Muhsin al-Asfoor, a pro-government Shi'ite cleric who advises the king on Shi'ite affairs.
Maryam al-Khawaja, an activist with a Bahraini human rights group, suggested the investigation wound up exonerating Bahrain rather than identifying abuses, noting on Twitter: "Minutes after talked of violations...Hamad thanked the police."
(Reporting by Andrew Hammond and Warda al-Jawahiry; Writing by Joseph Logan and Reed Stevenson; editing by Jon Boyle)
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Arsenal advances, Chelsea slumps
By STUART CONDIE
updated 7:05 p.m. ET Nov. 23, 2011
Arsenal clinched a place in the second round of the Champions League on Wednesday night with a 2-1 win over Borussia Dortmund, but the Gunners could find themselves the only English club in the knockout stage.
A day after Manchester United and Manchester City both missed the chance to advance, Chelsea conceded a last-minute goal and lost 2-1 at Bayer Leverkusen. The Blues risk missing out on the last 16 for the first time since Roman Abramovich bought the club in 2003.
Leverkusen advanced alongside Arsenal (3-0-2), which won 2-1 against visiting Borussia Dortmund (1-3-1) on two goals by Robin van Persie. APOEL (2-0-3) tied 0-0 at Zenit St. Petersburg (2-1-2) to become the first Cypriot club to make it past the group stage.
AC Milan (2-1-2) rallied twice but Xavi Hernandez scored in the 63rd minute to give defending champion Barcelona (4-0-1) a 3-2 road win that clinched first place in Group H. Lionel Messi scored his 25th goal of the season and assisted in the final goal for Barcelona, which extended its unbeaten streak to 27 games ? one sh of the club record.
With both teams already secured a spot in the second round, Mark van Bommel's own goal in the 14th minute gave Barcelona the lead, but Zlatan Ibrahimovic tied the score four minutes later against his former club.
Messi's twice-taken penalty kick, his 25th goal of the season, put the defending champions ahead in the 31st, but Kevin-Prince Boateng made it 2-2 in the 54th. Xavi scored off a pass from Messi through several defenders in the 63rd.
"If this game had been more decisive than I would have focused more on defense," Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola said. "Milan is a great team with a great history. It really means something to win here."
Valencia (2-1-2) cruised to a 7-0 rout of Genk (0-3-2) for the biggest Champions League win by a Spanish team, Porto (2-2-1) kept alive its hopes of advancing with a 2-0 victory at Shakhtar Donetsk (0-3-2) and Olympiakos (2-3) won 1-0 at Marseille (2-2-1).
Dortmund dominated the opening exchanges against Arsenal and had the home side under pressure even after injuries to Sven Bender and Mario Goetze midway through the first half.
Van Persie headed in Alex Song's 49th-minute cross at the far post and tapped in with four minutes left to give him 21 goals this season.
Shinji Kagawa scored for the German champions in injury time but Arsenal clinched Group F.
"The level has gone up a lot. You never win an easy game in the Champions League," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. "I have 150 games in the Champions League as a manager and they are never easy."
Chelsea (2-1-2) went ahead on Didier Drogba's goal in the 48th minute, but Leverkusen (3-2) tied it in the 73rd as Sidney Sam drew out goalkeeper Petr Cech before crossing to Eren Derdiyok, who headed the ball into an empty net. Manuel Friedrich then scored on a header in injury time to add more pressure on Blues manager Andre Villas-Boas.
Chelsea must beat Valencia on Dec. 6 or hold the Spanish club to a 0-0 tie.
"We will need Stamford Bridge completely behind us to get the intensity right and the emotions right for the game," Villas-Boas said. "It's in our hands to qualify."
Roberto Soldado scored a first-half hat trick for Valencia after the opening goal from Jonas in the 10th minute. Pablo Hernandez, Aritz Aduriz and Tino Costa scored in the second half.
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Roundup: Arsenal clinched a place in the second round of the Champions League on Wednesday night with a 2-1 win over Borussia Dortmund, but the Gunners could find themselves the only English club in the knockout stage.
War, then soccer
For the first time in decades, football in Libya is just about, well, football.
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Singapore Press Holdings sues Yahoo over copyright (Reuters)
SINGAPORE (Reuters) ? Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), which has a near monopoly of newspaper publishing in the city-state, said on Wednesday it filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Yahoo Inc, alleging the internet giant reproduced news from its newspapers without permission.
Singapore is the headquarters for Yahoo's operations in Southeast Asia, a key market for the company where strong growth in mobile communications over the past decade has fueled internet connectivity in a region with around 500 million people.
"In our statement of claim, we cited as examples 23 articles from our newspapers which Yahoo! had reproduced over a 12-month period without our license or authorization," SPH spokeswoman Chin Soo Fang said in an email to Reuters.
SPH filed the writ of summons and statement of claim to the Singapore High Court on Friday and served them to Yahoo Southeast Asia on Monday.
Yahoo officials were not immediately available for comment.
Lawyers from Bird & Bird LLP represent Yahoo according to a Straits Times article, while SPH said Wong Partnership represents Singapore Press.
(Reporting by Harry Suhartono; Editing by Matt Driskill)
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Giving thanks helps your psychological outlook (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Count your blessings this Thanksgiving. It's good for you.
While it seems pretty obvious that gratitude is a positive emotion, psychologists for decades rarely delved into the science of giving thanks. But in the last several years they have, learning in many experiments that it is one of humanity's most powerful emotions. It makes you happier and can change your attitude about life, like an emotional reset button.
Especially in hard times, like these.
Beyond proving that being grateful helps you, psychologists also are trying to figure out the brain chemistry behind gratitude and the best ways of showing it.
"Oprah was right," said University of Miami psychology professor Michael McCullough, who has studied people who are asked to be regularly thankful. "When you are stopping and counting your blessings, you are sort of hijacking your emotional system."
And he means hijacking it from out of a funk into a good place. A very good place. Research by McCullough and others finds that giving thanks is a potent emotion that feeds on itself, almost the equivalent of being victorious. It could be called a vicious circle, but it's anything but vicious.
He said psychologists used to underestimate the strength of simple gratitude: "It does make people happier ... It's that incredible feeling."
One of the reasons why gratitude works so well is that it connects us with others, McCullough said. That's why when you give thanks it should be more heartfelt and personal instead of a terse thank you note for a gift or a hastily run-through grace before dinner, psychologists say.
Chicago area psychologist and self-help book author Maryann Troiani said she starts getting clients on gratitude gradually, sometimes just by limiting their complaints to two whines a session. Then she eventually gets them to log good things that happened to them in gratitude journals: "Gratitude really changes your attitude and your outlook on life."
Gratitude journals or diaries, in which people list weekly or nightly what they are thankful for, are becoming regular therapy tools.
And in those journals, it is important to focus more on the people you are grateful for, said Robert Emmons, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis. Concentrate on what life would be without the good things ? especially people such as spouses ? in your life and how you are grateful they are there, he said.
Grateful people "feel more alert, alive, interested, enthusiastic. They also feel more connected to others," said Emmons, who has written two books on the science of gratitude and often studies the effects of those gratitude diaries.
"Gratitude also serves as a stress buffer," Emmons said in an e-mail interview. "Grateful people are less likely to experience envy, anger, resentment, regret and other unpleasant states that produce stress."
Scientists are not just looking at the emotions behind gratitude but the nuts-and-bolts physiology as well.
Preliminary theories look at the brain chemistry and hormones in the blood and neurotransmitters in the brain that are connected to feelings of gratitude, Emmons said. And the left prefrontal cortex of the brain, which is also associated with positive emotions like love and compassion, seems to be a key spot, especially in Buddhist monks, Emmons said.
However it works in the brain, Emmons said there is little doubt that it works.
Emmons, who has conducted several studies on people from ages 12 to 80, including those with neuromuscular disease, asked volunteers to keep daily or weekly gratitude diaries. Another group listed hassles, and others just recorded random events. He noticed a significant and consistent difference. About three-quarters of the people studied who regularly counted their blessings scored higher in happiness tests and some even showed improvements in amounts of sleep and exercise.
Christopher Peterson of the University of Michigan studied different gratitude methods and found the biggest immediate improvement in happiness scores was among people who were given one week to write and deliver in person a letter of gratitude to someone who had been especially kind to them, but was never thanked. That emotional health boost was large, but it didn't last over the weeks and months to come.
Peterson also asked people to write down nightly three things that went well that day and why that went well. That took longer to show any difference in happiness scores over control groups, but after one month the results were significantly better and they stayed better through six months.
Peterson said it worked so well that he is adopted it in his daily life, writing from-the-heart thank you notes, logging his feelings of gratitude: "It was very beneficial for me. I was much more cheerful."
At the University of North Carolina, Sara Algoe studied the interaction between cancer patients and their support group, especially when acts of gratitude were made. Like Peterson, she saw the effects last well over a month and she saw the feedback cycle that McCullough described.
"It must be really powerful," Algoe said.
It has to be potent to combat gloom many may be feeling in such uncertain times.
There have been many Thanksgivings throughout history that might challenge society's ability to be grateful. The first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims came after about half of the Plymouth colony died in the first year. Thanksgiving became a national holiday in the United States when Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it in 1863 during the Civil War, the deadliest war the country has ever known. And the holiday moved to the fourth Thursday in November during the tail end of the Great Depression.
Emmons actually encourages people to "think of your worst moments, your sorrows, your losses, your sadness and then remember that here you are, able to remember them. You got through the worst day of your life ... remember the bad things, then look to see where you are."
That grace amid difficulty motif may make this Thanksgiving especially meaningful, McCullough said.
"In order to be grateful for something, we have to remember that something good happened," Peterson said. "It's important to remind ourselves that the world doesn't always suck."
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Online:
Robert Emmons: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/labs/emmons/PWT/index.cfm
National Association of School Psychologists' tips on fostering gratitude in children: http://bit.ly/rHlqCz
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Verlander wins AL MVP, 1st starter in 25 years
FILE - In this July 5, 2011 file photo, Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander works against the Los Angeles Angels during the first inning of a baseball game in Anaheim, Calif. Verlander won the American League MVP Award in voting announced Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo, File)
FILE - In this July 5, 2011 file photo, Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander works against the Los Angeles Angels during the first inning of a baseball game in Anaheim, Calif. Verlander won the American League MVP Award in voting announced Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2011, file photo, Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander reacts after the final out in the sixth inning in Game 5 of baseball's American League championship series against the Texas Rangers in Detroit. Verlander won the American League MVP Award in voting announced Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2011, file photo, Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander reacts after the final out in the sixth inning in Game 5 of baseball's American League championship series against the Texas Rangers in Detroit. Verlander won the American League MVP Award in voting announced Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
FILE - In this July 5, 2011 file photo, Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander works against the Los Angeles Angels during the first inning of a baseball game in Anaheim, Calif. Verlander won the American League MVP Award in voting announced Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2011 file photo, Detroit Tigers' Justin Verlander smiles during a news conference before Game 4 of baseball's American League championship series against the Texas Rangers, in Detroit. Verlander won the American League MVP Award in voting announced Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Justin Verlander figured time had run out on his chance to become the first starting pitcher in a quarter-century to be voted Most Valuable Player.
Last Tuesday, he found out about 12:40 p.m. that he was a unanimous winner of the AL Cy Young Award. It was closing in on 1 p.m. Monday, and he still hadn't gotten word on the MVP.
"I had told myself that it wasn't going to happen," he said. "I figured somebody else got the call."
Not to worry, there was just a slight delay because Verlander didn't give the Baseball Writers' Association of America his telephone number, forcing the BBWAA to relay the news through Brian Britten, the Detroit Tigers' director of media relations.
Britten telephoned Verlander at 12:56 p.m., about one hour before the announcement.
"It was just a weight off my shoulders," Verlander said, "and pure elation, really."
After winning the AL's pitching triple crown by going 24-5 with a 2.40 ERA and 250 strikeouts, Verlander received 13 of 28 first-place votes and 280 points. He became the first pitcher voted MVP since Oakland's Dennis Eckersley in 1992 and the first starting pitcher since Boston's Roger Clemens in 1986.
"Obviously pitchers are not just written off all of a sudden because they're pitchers," Verlander said.
Boston center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury was second with four firsts and 242 points, followed by Toronto right fielder Jose Bautista with five firsts and 231 points, Yankees center fielder Curtis Granderson with 215 and Detroit first baseman Miguel Cabrera with 193.
Recent history has been against pitchers. Since Eckersley's win, only once had a pitcher finished as high as second.
In 1999, Boston's Pedro Martinez was 13 points behind Texas catcher Ivan Rodriguez after going 23-4 with a 2.07 ERA and 313 strikeouts. Martinez had eight first-place votes to seven for Rodriguez, but La Velle Neal of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and George King of the New York Post left Martinez off their ballots.
"Not even in my wildest dreams had I thought of this," Verlander said during a conference call from his home in Virginia. "I want to say this is a dream come true. I can't say that because my dream had already had come true ... to win a Cy Young. And the next dream is to win a World Series. This wasn't even on my radar until the talk started. And then all of a sudden it was a this-could-actually-happen type of thing."
Verlander had the most wins in the major leagues since Oakland's Bob Welch went 27-6 in 1990. Verlander pitched his second career no-hitter at Toronto on May 7. His season reopened debate over whether pitchers can be MVPs.
"I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player," Verlander said. "Obviously, having the chance to play in 160-some games in the case of Miguel, they can obviously have a huge impact every day. That's why, I've talked about on my day, on a pitcher's day, the impact we have is tremendous on that game. So you have to have a great impact almost every time out to supersede (position players) and it happens on rare occasions, and I guess this year was one of those years."
Verlander, the 2006 AL Rookie of the Year, joined the Brooklyn Dodgers' Don Newcombe as the only players to win all three major awards in their careers.
"I think this set a precedent," Verlander said. "I'm happy that the voters acknowledged that, that we do have a major impact in this game and we can be extremely valuable to our team and its success."
Verlander appeared on only 27 ballots and was omitted by Jim Ingraham of The Herald-News in Ohio, who voted Bautista first. Sheldon Ocker of the Akron Beacon Journal voted Verlander eighth.
Ingraham doesn't think pitchers should be eligible.
"I'd wrestled with this for a long time. If I was ever going to vote for pitcher for MVP, it would be him this year," Ingraham said. "He hasn't appeared in 79 percent of their games, any starting pitcher really doesn't appear in 79 percent of his team's games in a year.
"Would you vote for an NFL quarterback for MVP if he only appeared in three of his team's 16 games, which would be 21 percent? So that's part of it. Another part of it is I think they're apples and oranges. The guys that are in there every day, there's a grind to a season that a starting pitcher doesn't, I don't think, experience the way the everyday position players do playing 150, 160 games."
Other pitchers to win MVP and Cy Young in the same year are Newcombe (1956), Los Angeles' Sandy Koufax (1963), St. Louis' Bob Gibson and Detroit's Denny McLain (1968), Oakland's Vida Blue (1971), Milwaukee's Rollie Fingers (1981) and Detroit's Willie Hernandez (1984).
Since Mickey Cochrane (1934), Hank Greenberg (1935, 1940) and Charley Gehringer (1937), all Tigers voted MVP have been pitchers, with Verlander joining Hal Newhouser (1944 and 1945), McLain and Hernandez.
"He deserved it," Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski said. "He should have won it, but I didn't know how voters would respond because the talk of some people not wanting to vote for a pitcher."
NOTES: While Verlander earned a $500,000 bonus for winning the Cy Young, he didn't have an MVP bonus provision. Tampa's Evan Longoria receives $25,000 for finishing 10th. ... The NL MVP winner will be announced Tuesday, with the Los Angeles Dodgers' Matt Kemp the favorite and Milwaukee's Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder also receiving attention.
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Darren Bent and Kasabian's Tom Meighan stage real-life football match with Xperia Play
Sony Ericsson has joined forced with Aston Villa's Darren Bent and rock band Kasabian to stage a slightly bizarre (and completely awesome) real-life soccer football match using Xperia Play handsets, location tracking technology and ten real live human beings. The five-a-side match saw England international Bent face off against Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan, with both controlling their teams from on high with specially modified Xperia Plays.
While you probably won't be able to command real, actual footballers using your Xperia Play anytime soon, SE is using this opportunity to remind everyone that Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 and FIFA 12 are both available (and optimized) for the device, with the latter being an Xperia Play exclusive until February 2012.
We've got video after the jump.
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Groupon's shares fall below IPO price
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Groupon Inc.'s stock fell below its initial public offering price for the first time as investors reassess the challenges facing the still-unprofitable online deals company in a shaky economy.
The shares plunged $2.79, or 14 percent, to $17.28 in early afternoon trading Wednesday, below Groupon's IPO price of $20, which was set less than three weeks ago. The rapid fall from Wall Street's graces occurred almost entirely this week. Groupon has shed one-third of its market value since the end of last week to wipe out nearly $6 billion in shareholder wealth.
Congress' inability to reach an agreement on how to reduce the U.S. deficit has raised the specter of automatic cuts and tax increases, which would increase the risk of the economy falling into another recession. That reduces Wall Street's appetite for risky investments such as Groupon, which is facing increasing competition in the rapidly growing niche of online advertising that it pioneered.
The decline also has been deepened by a skeptical class of investors, known as short sellers, who bet that certain stocks are going to slide. They do this by borrowing shares that they immediately sell, hoping they can repay the stock by buying at a cheaper price later.
Groupon gets local merchants to offer steep discounts to large clusters of consumers, a concept that turned it into one of the world's fastest growing companies. Founded in 2008, Groupon is on pace to generate more than $1.5 billion in revenue this year, primarily from the commissions it gets from deals sold. Google Inc., which runs the Internet's largest advertising network, had annual revenue of just $86 million at the same stage of its existence.
Unlike Google, though, Groupon has been amassing huge losses as it tries to expand and ward off threats from hordes of copycats. The competition includes Google and another Internet powerhouse, Amazon.com Inc., which is backing a startup deals company called LivingSocial.
Through the first nine months of this year, Groupon lost $308 million, partly because its payroll swelled to more than 10,400 employees to help persuade local merchants to offer deals. Groupon's losses and massive work force provide another stark contrast to how Google went about its business as it was starting out. After three years, Google eked out a $7 million profit and had fewer than 300 employees.
As it prepared its initial public offering of stock, Groupon tried to sugarcoat the losses by emphasizing an accounting approach that securities regulators eventually required the company to abandon.
Meanwhile, some merchants have become increasingly skeptical that partnering with Groupon and similar services is really a deal for them. Groupon takes up to half the price of the coupon, so if an Italian restaurant is offering $50 worth of food for $25, the merchant gets just $12.50. Merchants can make the money back if the coupon draws a customer who keeps returning and brings friends, but some businesses complain that bargain hunters rarely come back after scoring a cheap meal or massage. Other businesses, though, see Groupon as good marketing ? a way to reach troves of new, social media-savvy customers who share good deals with friends on Facebook and Twitter.
Despite the red flags hovering over the company, Groupon's rapid growth tantalized enough investors to turn its IPO into a success. After the IPO was priced at $20, the company's stock soared as high as $31.14 in its stock market debut on Nov. 4. All of those gains have evaporated in just 14 trading days.
What's happened to Groupon's stock serves as a cautionary tale to anyone thinking about investing in a hot company in its early stages on the market. The trading in stocks following an IPO is prone to wild swings that can upset portfolios ? and investors' stomachs.
Groupon isn't the only example of this volatility. For instance, Internet radio service Pandora Media Inc. went public in June at $16 per share and then saw its stock climb in its debut. The shares are now trading below $11. After online professional networking service LinkedIn Corp. priced its IPO at $45 in May, its shares soared above $100. The stock is now trading at about $65.
The phenomenon isn't limited to Internet companies. Automobile maker General Motors Co. emerged from bankruptcy protection with an IPO priced at $33 a year ago, and its stock price is now hovering at about $20.
Some IPOs maintain an upward trajectory. Google's stock has never come close to returning to its IPO price of $85 in 2004. A year after Google went public, its stock price stood at $280. On Wednesday, it was above $570.
Groupon, which is based in Chicago, declined to comment on the stock price drop. It is still in a federally mandated "quiet" period that surrounds IPOs.
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AP Technology Writer Barbara Ortutay in New York contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Hugh Grant confronts press at hacking hearing
LONDON?? British celebrity Hugh Grant and the parents of a murdered schoolgirl confronted their tabloid tormentors on Monday, testifying at a public inquiry into phone hacking and British newspaper standards.
For the first time, Grant implicated a newspaper not owned by Rupert Murdoch in the wrongdoing ? British tabloid The Mail on Sunday. He claimed his phone was hacked by the paper in 2007.
He also criticized The Daily Mail, the weekday sister of The Mail on Sunday, for its coverage of the recent announcement of the birth of his daughter, saying it had paid a former lover of the girl's mother $150,000 (125,000 GBP) to obtain private pictures of her.?
The inquiry, headed by senior judge Brian Leveson and due to last a year, will make recommendations that could have a lasting impact on the media industry, possibly leading to tighter rules or at least an overhaul of the current system of self-regulation.
Earlier on Monday, Sally and Bob Dowler, the parents of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, whose phone was hacked by one of Murdoch's UK newspapers, spoke about the heartbreak caused by the hacking.
Mrs. Dowler recounted the false hope caused by hackers who had deleted the teenager's voicemail messages, giving the impression she was still alive and using her mobile phone.
She said: "At first we were able to leave messages and then her voicemail became full.. so I was used to hearing that. We'd gone ... to look at ... CCTV and I rang her phone and it clicked through on to her voicemail and I just jumped and said: 'She's picked up her voicemails Bob, she's alive'."
She also said she did not sleep for three nights after learning of the phone hacking in July.
Story: Phone-hacking scandal: James Murdoch insists he didn't mislead British lawmakersLast Wednesday, the lawyer representing 51 clients who say they have suffered at the hands of the press delivered a withering critique of newspapers which he said had resorted to unacceptable, "tawdry" tactics to find exclusives.
Three of those he represents say they believed papers' hounding had contributed to family members committing suicide or attempting to kill themselves.
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"When people talk of public interest in exposing the private lives of well-known people or those close to them, this is the real, brutally real impact which this kind of journalism has," lawyer David Sherborne said.
All were targeted to get stories to make money for the papers, he told the inquiry. "That's why it was done: to sell newspapers. Not to detect crime or to expose wrongdoing, not to protect society or for the public good."
Most of the focus of the inquiry so far has fallen on News International, the British arm of News Corp, whose lawyer has admitted that phone-hacking was widespread until 2007, when one reporter was jailed, and possibly beyond.
However, Sherborne has made it clear that it is all papers' activities that deserve to be scrutinized and reformed.
Video: Phone hacking scandal puts heat back on James Murdoch (on this page)Lawyers for Britain's major newspaper groups have already pleaded for the essence of that system to remain and said that the press actually needed more freedom to expose wrongdoing.
"I want this inquiry to mean something," Leveson said. "I am ... very concerned that it should not simply form a footnote in some professor of journalism's analysis of the history of the 21st century while it gathers dust."
Central to discussions will be what constitutes public interest, and whether paying for so-called "kiss and tell" stories about well-known figures private and sex lives could be justified.
Sherborne said the majority of Britons saw no reason for phone-hacking or similar "what is called news-gathering".
"What the public are interested in, in the first sense, sells more newspapers: celebrity gossip, generally tittle-tattle," he said. "What the public have a genuine interest in knowing about: drug trials, what goes on in Europe with the Central Bank and so on, mostly doesn't."
Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45383308/ns/world_news-europe/
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4.74 ? Facebook Wins By Getting Us Closer Than Six Degrees
Facebook users are getting more connected to each other as the service grows older, according to a new study by the company's data team and the University of Milan. Instead of the traditional "six degrees of separation" that researchers have historically observed between all people in the world (and Kevin Bacon), the number of degrees has been dropping since 2008 on the site, from 5.28 then to 4.74 now. This isn't just an interesting factoid about the modern world, it highlights Facebook's long-term strategy, and its dominant market position in social networking. Founder Mark Zuckerberg has proclaimed for years that his goal is to make the world more "open and connected." In practice, that's meant features across the site that do things like reveal what friends you have in common with any other user, and suggest that you become friends with people you've never met in person.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/wGnlIOWy-JQ/
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