PFT: Tebow strongly defends his love of Jesus

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It?s a nice, feel-good Thanksgiving week story.? Bears quarterback Jay Cutler breaks a thumb.? The Broncos have cut a former Bears quarterback who?d like to play in Chicago again.? And there?s nothing more natural than a homecoming on the fourth Thursday in November.

The only problem?? At least 22 teams can provide the flight delay and/or the traffic jam that prevents Kyle Orton from scarfing down sausage with the Superfans.

After the trading deadline, all players who are released must pass through waivers.? Priority is determined by record.? And so every team higher than the Bears in the pecking order will have dibs on Orton, if they choose to exercise it.

The Bears reportedly are No. 30 on the list.? Which means that every team except the 49ers and Packers will be able to grab him.

It doesn?t matter whether Orton ?wants? to play for the Bears.? If another team claims him, he has 2.5 million reasons to show up.

At the top of the stack, what better way to test whether the Colts are in full-blown ?Suck for Luck? mode than to see whether they?d bring in a quarterback who is significantly better than Curtis Painter or Dan Orlovsky?? They?d be crazy not to make a claim.? Unless they?re truly crazy for Andrew Luck.

The 4-6 Chiefs also need help, given the performance of Tyler Palko on Monday night.? (And with the Chiefs playing the Broncos again on January 1, there could be some strategic benefit to having him around.)? Ditto for the Redskins, whose head coach could be coaching for his job, with Rex Grossman and John Beck as the blanks in the bazooka.

And how about NFC teams that hope to pick off a wild-card berth if/when the Bears slide with Caleb Hanie or Nathan Enderle?? The 7-3 Lions, 6-4 Falcons, the 6-4 Cowboys (whose primary backup, Jon Kitna, is banged up), the 6-4 Giants, the 4-6 Bucs, and even the 4-6 Dream Team would have an incentive to block the Bears from getting their way.

Let?s also not forget about the Texans, who may not be completely sold on Matt Leinart, despite the decision to put all their eggs in a beer bong.

Finally, it would be foolish to overlook good, old-fashioned spite.? In 2002, Deion Sanders wanted to emerge from retirement and hop onto the silver-and-black bandwagon.? So the Redskins released his rights.? And former Redskins coach Marty Schottenheimer, the man whose presence in 2001 prompted Sanders to pick retirement over playing, put in a waivers claim on Sanders, short-circuiting his plan.? With three NFC North teams on track to make it to the playoffs, maybe the 2-8 Vikings would be tempted to keep the Bears from getting Orton, in the hopes that they?ll have company in the non-playoff party.

That?s highly unlikely.? But the point is that there are many possible motivations, and just because the Bears want Orton and Orton wants the Bears, it doesn?t mean he?ll end up there.? Indeed, the fact that the Bears and Orton are trying to rendezvous could be the tiebreaker for a team that is thinking about disrupting that plan.

UPDATE 10:35 p.m. ET:? As a reader pointed out on Twitter, claiming Orton has another benefit.? When he leaves as a free agent in March 2012, the team that employs him for six weeks would be in line of a compensatory draft pick.? So there?s one more good reason to consider doing it.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/22/tebow-to-plummer-ill-take-every-opportunity-to-praise-the-lord/related

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Carcass death, shot at White House leads off weird, MMA-related news round-up

The MMA world reaches well beyond fighters who have made it to the UFC, Strikeforce or Bellator, which means that there are plenty of news stories that involve people who have at some point been in a cage for a fight. For example:

-- Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez was arrested over the weekend for shooting a semiautomatic rifle, and now he is accused of trying to assassinate the president. MMA Junkie reports that he won an his MMA debut last summer in Idaho with a TKO.

-- Alic McCrae, a Scottish fighter who last year debuted with two bouts in one night in Scotland, suffered a bizarre death. While working at a slaughterhouse, a carcass fell on the 135-lb. fighter and crushed him. He was just 23.

-- Zachary Knight, a lieutenant with the Levy County sheriff's department with a 2-4 MMA record, is accused of sexual battery. Authorities were forced to use a Tazer on him because of his "prowess as a fighter and reluctance to be handcuffed."

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Smith leads streaking 49ers past Cardinals 23-7

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By ANTONIO GONZALEZ

updated 11:13 p.m. ET Nov. 20, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO - Alex Smith emerged from the pelting rain with his jersey soaked, cleats tattered with chunks of mud and the tape around his ankles stuck to his damp skin.

Never looked better in a 49ers uniform.

Through seven years of boos and banter, losses and letdowns and a series of injury setbacks, Smith walked off the field on a soggy Sunday at Candlestick Park guaranteed of a winning season for the first time in his NFL career.

And it's only Week 11.

Smith threw for 267 yards and two touchdowns and the San Francisco 49ers forced five turnovers to blow past the Arizona Cardinals 23-7, moving oh-so close to clinching the NFC West in near record-setting fashion.

"You chase perfection like that, you're never going to be perfect but it doesn't change your mindset," said Smith, the 2005 No. 1 overall pick out of Utah. "It's certainly not like we're making all the plays out there, and today was evidence of that. We left a lot out there."

Not as much as he once did.

Smith tossed scores to Kyle Williams and Vernon Davis on the first two drives of the third quarter to help the 49ers pull away for their eighth straight victory. San Francisco (9-1) could wrap up the NFC West with a win at Baltimore on Thursday and a loss by Seattle against Washington next weekend.

The earliest team to clinch a division was the 1985 Chicago Bears in Week 11, according to STATS LLC. Three others have clinched in 11 games.

Now the 49ers, without a playoff appearance or winning record since 2002, can join them and push forward to bigger prizes.

"You come to the point where you just can't always concede the last shove, there's always going to give you the final shove," first-year 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said. "You can't do it that way, you can't play it that way."

San Francisco plans to play hard until the end.

Donte Whitner, Patrick Willis and Dashon Goldson all intercepted passes by John Skelton. The quarterback for the Cardinals (3-7) lost for the first time in three starts this season in place of the injured Kevin Kolb.

The conditions turned out to be just perfect for San Francisco's style.

With a chilly rainstorm pelting the Bay Area since Saturday, the 49ers defense bullied and bruised Arizona all over a slick field. The Cardinals converted only two first downs in the first half and didn't make it past midfield until late in the third quarter.

"Their thing is keep the game close, don't give up no big touchdowns and then get three points and three points, maybe get a score," Arizona defensive tackle Darnell Dockett said "And that's how they win the game."

Once the rain subsided and a rainbow formed in the north sky above Candlestick, the 49ers finally opened up an otherwise passive passing game.

Smith connected with Williams on a route to the near pylon in the third quarter. Williams stretched over the goal line as he was tackled to complete the 8-yard TD catch.

After Skelton sailed a pass that Whitner stood under for an easy interception, Smith rallied San Francisco for another quick score.

He found Davis for an 18-yard touchdown to put San Francisco ahead 23-0. The tight end leaped over sideline cameramen and flexed his muscles to a rain-soaked crowd covered in ponchos and umbrellas in celebration.

Far too much for Arizona's anemic offense to overcome.

Skelton had won the previous two games against St. Louis and Philadelphia since replacing Kolb, who's out with a right foot and toe injury. Skelton was 6 of 19 for 99 yards and was benched after throwing his third interception in place of third-string quarterback Richard Bartel to start the fourth.

So much for that budding quarterback controversy.

Even Bartel's only highlight came on a shaky pass between two defenders that landed in Fitzgerald's hands for a 23-yard touchdown for Arizona's lone score. The Cardinals dropped their fifth straight to the 49ers.

About the only fight Arizona showed came in the fourth quarter when Early Doucet appeared to hit Goldson after the defensive back sacked Bartel. Goldson came up and threw two punches to Doucet's shoulder pads and facemask, getting a 15-yard personal foul penalty and an ejection.

The main fight was utter domination.

San Francisco outgained Arizona 431 to 229 yards of total offense. The 49ers also held the ball for more than 44 minutes and even got away with three missed field goals and a slowed-down running game.

"We take pride in outworking people," Whitner said. "We're happy about the win. But our long-term goals, we want to compete for a championship."

The slick, sloppy surface at the start gave way to several slips.

Frank Gore started despite a right knee injury that knocked him out of a win over the New York Giants a week earlier, finishing with 88 yards rushing. He needs 61 more to pass the late Joe Perry (7,344) for San Francisco's career rushing mark.

David Akers had been one of the NFL's most reliable kickers ? making 15 straight field goals ? until a field flooded with water soaked his streak. He converted field goals from 43, 29 and 22 yards in the first half but had two kicks blocked and pulled another wide right.

Calais Campbell swatted the first attempt from 46 yards and Patrick Peterson blocked one from 30 yards. After Willis intercepted a pass by Skelton, the 49ers' offense stalled and Akers lost his footing and sent a 49-yard attempt wide right.

The 49ers regained their rhythm in the second half and the one hiccup Smith showed came late.

He seemed to misread coverage and lofted a short pass that was intercepted in the end zone by Daryl Washington in the fourth quarter. Smith completed 20 of 38 passes in one of his best games of the season.

The only time he threw for more this season was when he had 291 yards in a win at Philadelphia.

"I really think," Smith said, "we all understand what we can be when we're rolling."

Notes: Cardinals DT Dan Williams was carted off field with a broken left arm in the fourth quarter. ... Davis' TD was the 34th of his 49ers career, passing Brent Jones for the most by a tight end in franchise history. ... 49ers FB Bruce Miller left with a concussion in the first half, the team said. He is day to day. ... Cardinals RT Brandon Keith also left with a concussion in the first half and will be revaluated Monday.

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PFT: For one drive Sunday night, Eagles quarterback Vince Young reminded everyone what made him so special when he was ripping off victories as a rookie with the Tennessee Titans.

Young leads Eagles past Giants

Vince Young threw a go-ahead 8-yard touchdown pass to Riley Cooper with 2:45 to play as undermanned Philadelphia beat the Giants 17-10.

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AP source: Romney to gain the endorsement of New Hampshire senator Sunday (Star Tribune)

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UK police charge four with terrorism offenses (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? British police charged four men from the central English city of Birmingham Friday with terrorism offences linked to Pakistan.

The men were arrested Tuesday as part of a police counter-terrorism investigation in which eight others have also been charged.

West Midlands Police said in a statement the four men would appear in court in London Saturday.

They face charges of fundraising for the purposes of terrorism, traveling to Pakistan for training and traveling abroad to commit acts of terrorism.

Police named the four as Khobaib Hussain, Ishaaq Hussain and Shahid Kasam Khan, all 19 years old, and Naweed Mahmood Ali, aged 24.

Their arrests were pre-planned and not made in response to any immediate threat to public safety, police said Tuesday.

(Reporting by Tim Castle; Editing by Myra MacDonald)

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How Did They Install the Most Amazing Window Ever Created By Humankind [Video]

The most amazing window ever created by humankind is not on this planet, but floating in space, the most spectacular part of the International Space Station. It's the ISS Cupola. This animation shows how it was installed. More »

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Tiny USB Stick Brings Android to PCs, TVs

Thanks to FXI Technologies' Cotton Candy USB device, we may not have to wait long to see Android on more than just our mobile devices. FXI essentially built an ultra-lean computer inside a small USB stick. Stick it into any device that supports USB storage, and Cotton Candy will register as a USB drive. From there, you can run the Android OS in a secure environment inside your desktop, courtesy of a Windows/OSX/Linux-compatible virtualization client embedded in the device.

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PFT: Vick 'unlikely' to face Giants on Sunday

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Aaron Rodgers is having one of the greatest seasons for any quarterback in NFL history, and the fans are taking notice.

Rodgers leads all other players in Pro Bowl voting through November 14, with 589,801 ballots cast for the Packers quarterback at NFL.com.

He leads Patriots quarterback Tom Brady by more than 52,000 votes.

Lions receiver Calvin Johnson is the highest non-quarterback and the third overall leading vote-getter, with 487,547.? Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has 469,117.? Pats receiver Wes Welker is fifth on the list, with 430,945.

The rest of the top 10 consists of Packers receiver Greg Jennings (399,521), Saints quarterback Drew Brees (396,436), Bills running back Fred Jackson (384,771), Steelers receiver Mike Wallace (377,615), and Bears running back Matt Forte (348,880).

The leaders by position in the AFC are Brady, Jackson, Chargers fullback Jacob Hester, Welker, Pats tight end Rob Gronkowski, Ravens tackle Michael Oher, Patriots guard Logan Mankins, Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey, Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski, Jets kick returner Joe McKnight, Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney, Ravens defensive tackle Haloti Ngata, Steelers outside linebacker LaMarr Woodley, Ravens inside linebacker Ray Lewis, Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis, Steelers strong safety Troy Polamalu, Ravens free safety Ed Reed, Raiders punter Shane Lechler, and Ravens special-teamer Brendan Ayanbadejo.

In the NFC, the leaders are Rodgers, Peterson, Packers fullback John Kuhn, Johnson, Saints tight end Jimmy Graham, Packers tackle Chad Clifton, Packers guard T.J. Lang, Packers center Scott Wells, Packers kicker Mason Crosby, Bears kick returner Devin Hester, Vikings defensive end Jared Allen, Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, Cowboys outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware, Packers inside linebacker Desmond Bishop, Packers cornerback Charles Woodson, Saints strong safety Roman Harper, Packers free safety Morgan Burnett, 49ers punter Andy Lee, and Packers special-teamer Jarrett Bush.

Voting remains open at NFL.com/probowl until the conclusion of the Steelers-49ers Monday Night Football game on December 19.? The Pro Bowl will be played at 7:00 p.m. ET on January 29, and televised by NBC.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/16/report-vick-unlikely-to-face-giants/related/

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NBA lockout: Questions and answers (AP)

Now that the NBA players have disbanded their union and taken their labor fight with the owners to the courts, they have given up a considerable level of control in how the whole process plays out.

Two groups of players have filed antitrust lawsuits against the league ? one in California and one in Minnesota ? in hopes of turning up the heat on the owners after negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement broke down Monday.

So begins a seemingly endless series of court filings and back-and-forth responses written by lawyers in complex legalese that promises to go on for months, if not years, until the two sides are able to reach agreement on a new deal.

Case in point: the NBA wrote a letter to the judge overseeing its pre-emptive lawsuit in New York on Tuesday arguing that the players' decision to disband the union proves the league's point that the union planned to do this all along.

The players fired right back in their own letter, arguing that the decision should not stop U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe from dismissing the league's lawsuit, saying the decision to disclaim interest was "uncertain until it was made."

""The hope is that the magnitude of the uncertainty and complexity will cause both sides to come back and put aside the legal arguments and get back to talking about BRI and system issues," said Gabe Feldman, director of the Sports Law program at Tulane. "The easiest way to get these lawsuits to go away is to agree on terms of a new collective bargaining agreement."

Meanwhile, impatient fans are making their voices heard. They have found a new definition of NBA ? saying it now stands for "No Basketball Anymore," a phrase that was trending on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon.

With that in mind, here is a look at what's happening in the NBA labor fight and what could happen next.

Q: What is the difference between disclaiming interest in the union and decertifying?

A: Timing, more than anything else. Decertification is a more formal process that requires a petition being signed and a waiting period of 45-60 days for the National Labor Relations Board to conduct a full vote of the rank-and-file union members.

Disclaiming interest, on the other hand, is a much quicker means to a similar end ? filing an antitrust lawsuit. It is also easier to reform to a union, Feldman said, should the players need to band together again to approve a new collective bargaining agreement, as the NFL players did in their labor fight with the owners this summer.

Q: So what is the difference between the labor cases of the NFL and the NBA?

A: The biggest difference is the timing of the unions' dissolution. The NFL's union disbanded in March, almost six months before the 2011 regular season was scheduled to start. The reason is the previous collective bargaining agreement stated that if the players remained a union through the deal's expiration, they could not disband for six months. That prompted the NFL players to disband the union the day the agreement expired, which also gave both sides months to fight out the battle in court before games were jeopardized.

There was no such clause in the NBA's deal. The players continued negotiating with the owners through the summer and even after the first month of regular season games were canceled. The problem with waiting to disclaim interest, however, is that checks and games already are being lost while the fight enters the slow and deliberate legal system.

"The NFL owners and players had time to let the legal battle play out. The NBA owners and players don't," Feldman said. "This has to be a quick legal strike, and unfortunately in our litigation system, there aren't many opportunities to get a quick legal strike."

Q: Why have two antitrust lawsuits been filed?

A: There are a couple of reasons. First, because the players are no longer governed by a union, they are free to do as they please on an individual basis. One group, including star players Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant, has filed a lawsuit in Northern California in conjunction with the players' association. Another group, including rookie Derrick Williams and Timberwolves forward Anthony Tolliver, have filed in Minnesota.

It's no coincidence that those two district courts were chosen. The federal court in San Francisco is under the jurisdiction of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, considered the most liberal, and therefore labor-friendly, of the 13 circuit courts. The federal court in Minnesota was the venue for more than two decades of legal fights between NFL owners and players, who enjoyed a healthy share of victories in that venue.

The owners filed a pre-emptive lawsuit in the Southern District of New York, which has sided with the NBA several times before. It is likely they will push to get any labor-related cases transferred to Manhattan.

"That could be the threshold battle: where is the case heard," Feldman said.

Q: Can negotiations still take place while litigation is pending?

A: Yes and no. Union leaders Derek Fisher and Billy Hunter no longer have the power to negotiate and agree to terms for the players. No longer a union, the NBPA is now a trade association. It can't fight fines or suspensions or file grievances for players. It also cannot regulate player behavior or agent behavior, which has led to some concern about agent poaching.

What can happen, and what did happen this summer with the NFL, is lawyers and representatives for both sides can hold discussions under the guise of antitrust settlement talks.

Of course, Hunter and any attorneys representing the players must walk a fine line in such negotiations. Acting as a leader and decision-maker could strengthen the league's argument that the dissolution of the union was a sham and a negotiating tactic.

Q: Did dissolving the union work for NFL players?

A: It depends on how you define "work." It's true the NFL and its players agreed on a new deal without missing any regular season games. It is also true that the NFL players were granted a temporary injunction by U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson that lifted the lockout the week after the NFL draft in June.

But that injunction was overturned on appeal to the 8th Circuit Court in St. Louis, a ruling that could be influential in the NBA's case.

Ultimately, Feldman believes, it was the motivation provided by $9 billion in NFL revenues to be split up that provided the onus for the owners to negotiate a deal with the players, not the threat of losing an antitrust lawsuit and the enormous monetary damages that would have come with a defeat.

"The NFL owners didn't claim they were losing money or that the system was broken," he said. "In the NBA, many owners are claiming they're losing money and that the system is broken. So the ownership side is a little more entrenched in their position."

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TSA Could Skip Independent Backscatter Tests Because Existing Studies, "May Suffice" [Tsa]

Backscatter X-ray machines may or may not be carcinogenic. The European Union isn't taking any chances, but the TSA is so confident in their safety that it likely won't conduct the additional tests it promised the Senate. More »

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No, it Is Not 'Legal' for Congress to Trade on Insider Information - Big ...

From BusinessInsider:

The fact that many members of Congress appear to have?traded on non-public information in their personal brokerage accounts during the financial crisis is outrageous.

But since this bombshell news broke on Sunday night, the excuse has been that, however ridiculous it may sound, insider trading is?legal for Congress.

This same assertion has been repeated for years, every time someone observes that Congress members do much better in their personal stock trading than average investors do. Unlike average Joes, the pundits explain, Congress has exempted itself from insider-trading laws, so Congress-people are allowed to trade on private information that they gather in the course of their work while other Americans can?t.

But at least one law professor argues that this is just not true.

Insider trading is just as illegal for members of Congress as it is for the 300+ million Americans,?Indiana Law Professor Donna Nagy argues.

Congress never ?exempted? itself from insider trading laws, Nagy says?because Congress has never actually passed a law about insider trading.

By trading on information gathered in the course of their jobs, Nagy says, Congress-people are abusing the public trust and violating a legal duty, just the way any other insider-traders do.

So the Congress people who traded during the financial crisis (and since) should be investigated and, possibly, prosecuted for their behavior.

Read more here. In a sense, however, it is effectively legal for Congress to insider-trade, since any investigation would be conducted by the SEC. That agency?s budget is controlled by Congress and its Commissioner subject to Senate approval.

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NASA budget: Telescope saved, space taxis cut

A compromise spending plan for NASA preserves the over-budget replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope and halves President Barack Obama's request for money to spur development of commercial space taxis, officials said Tuesday.

Overall, the U.S. space agency would receive $17.8 billion for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 ? $924 million less than the White House requested and $684 million less than it received this year.

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The compromise, approved by a House and Senate conference committee, is part of a "minibus" appropriations bill that also includes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation. The full House is expected to consider the bill on Wednesday.

The spending plan, which was posted on a congressional website on Tuesday, authorizes $3.8 billion for human space exploration programs, including $1.9 billion for a proposed heavy-lift rocket and $1.2 billion for a deep space capsule to fly astronauts to the moon, asteroids and other destinations in the inner solar system, as a follow-on program to the International Space Station.

A House bid to cancel NASA's over-budget James Webb Space Telescope, a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, was scuttled, though the compromise bill caps spending on the program at $8 billion.

Overall, NASA's science programs would receive $5.1 billion, about $155 million more than its 2011 budget. About $530 million of that amount would go toward the Webb Space Telescope.

NASA has said it would delay other science programs to keep the telescope on track for launch in 2018.

The bill cuts Obama's request for $850 million to speed up development of commercial passenger spaceships to $406 million.

"We're always appreciative of whatever dollars the appropriators appropriate to us," Kathy Nado, a manager at NASA Headquarters, said at the American Astronautical Society meeting in Austin, Texas. "Whatever dollars they give us we will be able to effectively spend."

The agency is currently funding space taxi development work at Boeing and three privately held companies ? SpaceX, Sierra Nevada Corp. and Blue Origin. It had hoped for enough money to keep at least two and possibly three teams working on spaceships that could ferry astronauts to the space station.

Since the space shuttle program ended this summer, the United States has been dependent on Russia to fly crews to the station, at a cost of more than $50 million per person. NASA had hoped for a U.S. alternative by 2016.

Nado declined to say how the shortfall would affect NASA's spending on space taxis. But NASA's deputy administrator, Lori Garver, said that if the space agency did not get the full $850 million it was asking for, the 2016 schedule would be "at risk."

The bill also adds $470 million to NASA's budget to cover costs of terminating a pension fund for workers who were employed by prime shuttle contractor United Space Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin Corp.

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Defense witness in Murray case faces contempt fine (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? A scientist who was the star defense witness in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor will be in court Wednesday to fight a threatened $1,000 fine for contempt.

Dr. Paul White is a pioneer in the use of the anesthetic propofol. He clashed with Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor over comments in and out of court during Dr. Conrad Murray's trial.

Pastor says White deliberately brought up banned information in his testimony.

Pastor is giving White a chance to appear Wednesday and explain why he should not be found in direct contempt of court and fined $1,000. A member of the trial defense team, Michael Flanagan, is representing him.

Murray is in jail awaiting sentencing for involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death and is not required to attend the hearing.

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Richard (RJ) Eskow: If the Super Committee Doesn't Cut Your Medicare, Santa Claus Will Die! (Huffington post)

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Dazzling Miniatures: View Highlights from BioScapes Photo Contest

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Microscopy remains one of the few areas of science in which enthusiastic amateurs can make others take notice. Nonprofessionals routinely produce stunning images of creatures and objects too tiny for the eye to resolve. This crowdsourcing of microscopic imagery arrived long before the invention of the smartphone and networked communications: the amateur has long made a mark with the microscope?in the early years, by hand drawing images that appeared underneath the lens, and, in more recent times, with the added realism brought by the photograph.

This noble tradition continues in our pages, as we offer a selection of photographs from the Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition?a magnet for hobbyists as well as scientists who wish to show off their picture-taking skills. This year?s entries feature the work of a lay microscopist who found his subject while hiking on a mountain in Greece. To produce another entry, a cell biologist took a sophisticated microscope acquired at an auction to snap a shot of a translucent zooplankton skeleton. The photo session had nothing to do with his work but served to memorialize the skeleton?s sheer structural beauty. Inspect for yourself the hypervivid color and intricate geometry of these Lilliputian neighbors that we too seldom get a chance to meet.

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? Video & Slide Show: Stunning Images Under the Microscope Capture the Lives of the Tiniest Creatures

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Warsaw airport back to work after plane emergency (AP)

WARSAW, Poland ? Warsaw's international airport was operating again Thursday after a 30-hour shutdown forced by the emergency landing of an airliner whose landing gear failed to deploy.

The closure cost the airport up to 2 million zlotys ($620,000; euro450,000) and disrupted the travel of thousands, airport director Michal Marzec said. He said Warsaw's Frederic Chopin airport usually handles about 30,000 passengers a day at this time of the year.

The airport's two runways were again in use and there was no damage to the surface from the emergency landing Tuesday of the Boeing 767 from Newark, New Jersey, with 231 people on board, said Przemyslaw Przybylski, an airport spokesman.

The plane safely touched down on its belly after its undercarriage failed to open. No one was injured, and the pilot has been hailed as a hero in Poland.

The plane, operated by Polish national airline LOT, had ended up close to the intersection of the two runways, rendering both unusable.

Przybylski said dozens of flights have gone through the airport since it reopened late Wednesday after the plane was moved to a hangar. There was heavy fog in Warsaw, a frequent occurrence in Poland at this time of the year, but flights were operating thanks to specialized equipment.

The State Commission on Aircraft Accident Investigation said it was investigating the cause of the plane's malfunctioning.

LOT has Tuesday that the plane suffered "a central hydraulic system failure," that caused all three sections of the landing gear ? the nose gear and the two main underwing gears ? to fail. Such a complete undercarriage failure was unprecedented for a Boeing 767 and highly unusual overall, according to aviation data and experts.

Spokesman Andrzej Kozlowski said the company does not want to comment further at this point about what the investigation is finding. "It's too early to say," he said.

It wasn't clear when the state commission would complete its probe, he added.

A team of Boeing experts arrived in Warsaw on Wednesday to assist LOT with the technical examination of the plane. However, the U.S. aircraft maker did not want to go into detail about its involvement.

"Boeing is committed to the safety of our airplanes and the people who fly on them. We are working closely with our customer and are on site providing technical assistance," Boeing Co. said in an e-mailed statement. "We stand ready to assist in an investigation if invited by the authorities."

LOT airlines president Marcin Pirog said it would take several weeks of technical tests on the aircraft before the airline knows whether it can be put back into service. Meanwhile, LOT was seeking to lease a plane to replace the grounded aircraft.

LOT officials said that the plane, a 767-300ER model, was 14-years-old and among the youngest in the airline's 52-plane fleet. It underwent full maintenance in March.

Among the passengers who saw their travel disrupted were dozens of rabbis from across Europe who had gathered in Warsaw for the largest gathering of Jewish religious leaders in Poland since the nation's Jewish community was wiped out in the Holocaust.

Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, said 83 rabbis got temporarily stuck in Warsaw when they could not leave after the Conference of European Rabbis ended on Wednesday.

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Associated Press writer Vanessa Gera in Warsaw contributed to this report.

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Reading, math scores for fourth-graders (AP)

Skip to navigation ? Skip to content ? By The Associated Press The Associated Press ? Tue?Nov?1, 11:01?am?ET

A state-by-state look at the percentage of fourth-graders who scored at or above reading and math proficiency levels on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, NAEP, which is administered by the Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics. Proficiency levels in both subjects are shown for both 2009 and 2011, with reading scores in the first two columns and math scores in the next two.

2009 2011 2009 2011

Jurisdictions at or above proficient in reading at or above proficient in reading at or above proficient in math at or above proficient in math

National public 32 32 38 40

Alabama 28 31 24 27

Alaska 27 26 38 37

Arizona 25 26 28 34

Arkansas 29 30 36 37

California 24 25 30 34

Colorado 40 39 45 47

Connecticut 42 42 46 45

Delaware 35 36 36 39

District of Columbia 17 19 17 22

Florida 36 35 40 37

Georgia 29 32 34 37

Hawaii 26 27 37 40

Idaho 32 33 41 39

Illinois 32 33 38 38

Indiana 34 33 42 44

Iowa 34 33 41 43

Kansas 35 36 46 48

Kentucky 36 35 37 39

Louisiana 18 23 23 26

Maine 35 32 45 45

Maryland 37 43 44 48

Massachusetts 47 50 57 58

Michigan 30 31 35 35

Minnesota 37 35 54 53

Mississippi 22 22 22 25

Missouri 36 34 41 41

Montana 35 36 45 45

Nebraska 35 36 38 39

Nevada 24 25 32 36

New Hampshire 41 43 56 57

New Jersey 40 44 49 51

New Mexico 20 21 26 30

New York 36 35 40 36

North Carolina 32 34 43 44

North Dakota 35 36 45 46

Ohio 36 34 45 45

Oklahoma 28 27 33 33

Oregon 31 30 37 37

Pennsylvania 37 41 46 48

Rhode Island 36 35 39 43

South Carolina 28 28 34 36

South Dakota 33 31 42 40

Tennessee 28 26 28 30

Texas 28 28 38 39

Utah 31 33 41 43

Vermont 41 41 51 49

Virginia 38 39 43 46

Washington 33 34 43 45

West Virginia 26 27 28 31

Wisconsin 33 34 45 47

Wyoming 33 34 40 44

DoDEA 39 39 38 39

Notes: DoDEA stands for Department of Defense Education Activity, which supervises schools on overseas military bases. Details may not sum to totals because of rounding. Some apparent differences between estimates may not be statistically significant.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics of the Education Department.

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Cain defends ad with smoking campaign manager

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2011 file photo, Republican Presidential candidate, Herman Cain campaigns in Talladega, Ala. They?ve rolled the dice. The top Republican presidential rivals are locked in a game of one-upmanship, each trying to outdo the other in offering the boldest economic plan for the party?s efforts to unseat President Barack Obama next November. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2011 file photo, Republican Presidential candidate, Herman Cain campaigns in Talladega, Ala. They?ve rolled the dice. The top Republican presidential rivals are locked in a game of one-upmanship, each trying to outdo the other in offering the boldest economic plan for the party?s efforts to unseat President Barack Obama next November. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain said Sunday that an Internet ad featuring his campaign manager smoking conveyed a message about letting "people be people" and was not intended to suggest that smoking is cool.

The video went viral this month with some 1 million clicks on Cain's campaign website. The ad shows Cain's top adviser, Mark Block, taking a deep drag from a cigarette and slowly exhaling into the camera.

"I'm not a smoker. But I don't have a problem if that's his choice," Cain said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

"So let Herman be Herman. Let Mark be Mark. Let people be people. This wasn't intended to send any subliminal signal whatsoever," the candidate said.

Cain, who was diagnosed with liver and colon cancer in 2006 and has said he's been cancer-free since 2007, was chided about the ad by his interviewer, Bob Schieffer, a bladder cancer survivor.

"Mark Block smokes. That's all that ad says," Cain said. "We weren't trying to say it's cool to smoke. You have a lot of people in this country that smoke. But what I respect about Mark as a smoker ... he never smokes around me or smokes around anyone else. He goes outside."

Cain said the video was meant "to be informative. If they listen to the message where he said America has never seen a candidate like Herman Cain, that was the main point of it. And the bit on the end, we didn't know whether it was going to be funny to some people or whether they were going to ignore it or whatever the case may be."

Cain said he understood the objection and that about 30 percent of the feedback the campaign had received to the video was similar to Schieffer's.

Schieffer pressed Cain to send an anti-smoking message on the show. Cain complied.

"Young people of America, all people, do not smoke. It is hazardous and it's dangerous to your health. Don't smoke. I've never smoked and I have encouraged people not to smoke," he said.

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Modular Housing System (MHS) Ensures Global Connection with China Patent Approval

Beijing, China, October 29, 2011 ?(PR.com)? Mr. Tim M. Siahatgar, Architectural Engineer, developer of MHS Prefabricated Building System Technology, is pleased to announce that he has been awarded the Patent right for Modular Housing Systems (MHS) from State Intellectual Property office of the People?s Republic of China under the following patent number: 200610127616.0.

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Contact:
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Modular Housing Systems (MHS)
USA-Fax: +1-949-266-8925
Email: office@modularhousingsystem.com, or ussystems@aol.com
China: Cherry Wang, Tel：010-58174026 Email info@yokiriko.co.jp

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