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Saturday, December 31, 2011
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Foul play suspected in Maine girl's disappearance
This undated photo obtained from a facebook page shows missing toddler Alya Reynolds. Police in Maine are appealing to the public for help in locating the 20-month-old girl who was last seen Friday night. Waterville Police Chief Joseph Massey held a news conference this afternoon to ask anyone with information about Ayla Reynolds to call police. Ayla's father called police yesterday morning to report that his daughter was not in her bed and couldn't be found. She was last seen sleeping at about 10 p.m. Friday by a family member. (AP Photo/obtained from Facebook)
This undated photo obtained from a facebook page shows missing toddler Alya Reynolds. Police in Maine are appealing to the public for help in locating the 20-month-old girl who was last seen Friday night. Waterville Police Chief Joseph Massey held a news conference this afternoon to ask anyone with information about Ayla Reynolds to call police. Ayla's father called police yesterday morning to report that his daughter was not in her bed and couldn't be found. She was last seen sleeping at about 10 p.m. Friday by a family member. (AP Photo/obtained from Facebook)
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ? Crime scene investigators returned to the central Maine home from which a 20-month-old girl disappeared as police announced that they believe foul play was involved.
Two weeks after Ayla Reynolds went missing, evidence technicians from Massachusetts joined Maine State Police crime scene investigators on Friday at the Waterville home where the girl was last seen by her father. The home 75 miles north of Portland now sits empty, surrounded by yellow crime scene tape.
Hours later, Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey announced Friday night that the case "has evolved from the search for a missing child to a criminal investigation."
In a statement, the chief said the conclusion was based on evidence that has been gathered over the past two weeks, but he didn't elaborate. He said state police would take the lead on the investigation.
"All of our efforts continue to locate Ayla. Although this is beginning the third week, we remain hopeful," Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said.
Ayla's father, Justin DiPietro, told police he last saw her when he put her to bed the night of Dec. 16. He reported her missing when she was nowhere to be found the following morning.
Before she vanished, Ayla was wearing green polka dot pajamas with the words "Daddy's Princess" on them and had a soft cast on her broken left arm. Extensive searches of woods, waterways, fields and private properties around Waterville, a city of 16,000 residents, have failed to turn up anything.
The day after Christmas, investigators announced a $30,000 reward, the largest ever for a missing person case in Maine, for information leading to Ayla's whereabouts.
McCausland on Friday declined to discuss whether any of the 300-plus leads had borne fruit for investigators. He also declined to talk about suspects or evidence that has been gathered. He said DiPietro and Ayla's mother, Trista Reynolds, of Portland, were cooperating with investigators.
There were news reports Friday that two cars seized from the Waterville home were returned to DiPietro and an unidentified woman. McCausland declined to confirm those reports.
Investigators put up crime scene tape at the father's home last week. Outside the home, teddy bears and stuffed animals were piled at a makeshift shrine.
Ayla was placed in her father's care while her mother was in a substance abuse rehabilitation program, which she completed.
Trista Reynolds, making an appeal on national television on Thursday, said that she had questions for DiPietro but that he had not returned her calls since their daughter went missing. She previously raised concerns about Ayla's treatment while in her father's care after the girl broke her arm, an incident described by police as an accident. She had no further comment Friday night, her sister said.
DiPietro couldn't be reached for comment. The Associated Press has been unable to find a telephone listing for him, and the house where he stayed is now empty.
A few days before Christmas, DiPietro, addressing the public for the first time, said in a statement he had "no idea what happened to Ayla or who is responsible." Later, in another statement, he said, "I would never do anything to hurt my child."
Former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt said Friday that the odds of finding a child lessen if he or she isn't found within the first day or two of disappearing. But he said there's always reason for optimism, noting that there are even rare cases of missing children who turn up years later in someone's care.
"If you don't get this child back real quickly, you know that it gets harder and harder," he said. "But you can't give up hope."
Scott Bernstein, founder of Child Recovery International, a New York City-based organization that helps find missing children, agreed the first hours of an investigation are key in tracking down missing children as young as Ayla. Although the situation looks bleak, there's still room for hope, he said.
"One percent hope ? but I'll go for that 1 percent hope," he said.
After Ayla went missing, law enforcement officials likely divided their investigation into two parts, one team looking at people with access to her, such as relatives and family friends, and another group looking at the potential for an abduction by an outsider or stranger, Van Zandt said. Under both scenarios, he said, the odds are that the person who took Ayla knew something about her or her family.
Strangers' abductions of children do occur, but they're rare, accounting for only 105 to 115 children out of 750,000 to 900,000 missing-persons cases each year in the United States, Van Zandt said.
Van Zandt, who has worked similar cases, said Ayla's disappearance, which once had more than 80 searchers and law enforcement officers involved, has been difficult for law enforcers as well as for distraught family members.
"As an FBI agent working these cases, you never turn off the emotional porch light," he said. "You always leave on the light with the hope that the child will come home again."
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Associated Press writer Clarke Canfield contributed to this report.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Gingrich campaign raises about $9 million (AP)
LE MARS, Iowa ? Newt Gingrich has raked in roughly $9 million for the last three months of the year, far more than the former House speaker has been able to collect in any previous quarter, his presidential campaign said Wednesday.
Gingrich has paid off some ? but not all ? of the more than $1 million in debt it had accumulated earlier this year, campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond told reporters.
Gingrich has been sliding in new polls with the leadoff Iowa caucuses just six days away. A new Time-CNN poll had him tumbling 19 percentage points in Iowa from a survey conducted earlier in the month.
The fundraising announcement Wednesday ? weeks before the Jan. 15 deadline to file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission ? seemed designed to counter signs that his campaign is in freefall.
Hammond said the campaign had shelled out about $500,000 for television ads in Iowa running this week. And that was only part of its ad buy, he said.
"Any good campaign would make sure they spend their money before the Iowa caucuses," he said.
Hammond noted that Gingrich's fourth quarter haul was "in the neighborhood" of the amount John McCain raised in the same quarter in 2007. He went on to become the party's nominee and then lost to Democrat Barack Obama.
Gingrich has been outraised by rivals Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.
Earlier Wednesday, Gingrich answered questions about a luxury cruise he took through the Greek Isles last spring that prompted top aides to flee his campaign. He said the vacation, which came just days after he formally announced in May he would seek the presidency, had always been planned to give him time to think and showed he was "a different kind of candidate.".
"I think you need to pace yourself. You need to get a sense of distance," he told reporters following a campaign event in Mason City.
And Gingrich said being in Greece during that country's financial crisis was helpful.
At the time, however, Gingrich's Greek cruise was seen by many political observers as evidence that he wasn't serious about pursuing the White House. Shortly after he returned, the entire top echelon of his fledgling presidential campaign resigned. An aide said at the time there was a question of Gingrich's commitment as well as a path to victory.
Gingrich said Wednesday that from the beginning he wanted to run a different campaign focused on big ideas
"The consultants found this very mystifying, very strange," he said. The trip with his wife, Callista, forced the issue, making clear that he would call the shots, he said.
"Either they wanted to be the advisers to my campaign or they needed to leave because I couldn't be the candidate to their campaign," he said.
The former House speaker distanced himself from a mailer circulating in Iowa and paid for by a political action committee that supports him. The mailer says Romney is the "second most dangerous man in America."
Gingrich had previously pledged to disavow any independent political action committee working on his behalf that went negative.
"I would discourage them from sending out that kind of negative information. I think that's wrong," Gingrich said Wednesday.
He said all of his ads in advance of next week's leadoff Iowa caucuses will be positive.
"You can fight in a positive way. You can be very strong in a positive way," he said.
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Military / Holiday Bowl GameThread, 1.30p / 5p
First up on this bowl Wednesday doubleheader is the Northrop-Grumman-sponsored Military Bowl, starring Air Force (which makes sense) and...Toledo (which I suppose makes sense because they're Rockets). I should warn you that rooting for Toledo means you are anti-American.
Next up is the Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl, featuring Cal and Texas, two schools associated with prominent athletes who leave school early (like Vince Young and geometry whiz Jason Kidd). A commitment to education, indeed. Perhaps in "Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl," "Education" is modifying "Holiday"? Yeah, that would make more sense.
Source: http://www.sonsofstevegarvey.com/2011/12/military-holiday-bowl-gamethread-130p.html
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Argentine president has thyroid cancer
Fernandez, 58, was easily elected to a second four-year term in October, vowing to deepen her unorthodox policies despite complaints from business leaders who said her heavy-handed management of the economy is stifling investment.
Fernandez was diagnosed with a papillary carcinoma that has not metastasized, said her spokesman, Alfredo Scoccimarro. The operation is scheduled to take place on January 4 and she is expected to take a leave of absence until January 24.
"The thyroid gland will have to be removed," said Buenos Aires-based cancer specialist Julio Moreno. "The prognosis is very good. The chances of being cured are 90 to 98 percent."
The cancer was detected last week during a routine check. Papillary carcinoma is the most common type of thyroid cancer and normally affects people under the age of 40, especially women.
A skilled orator fond of glamorous clothes, high heels and make-up, Fernandez still wears black as she mourns her husband and closest advisor, former President Nestor Kirchner, who died late last year.
When Kirchner died, many thought it spelled the end of the couple's idiosyncratic blend of state intervention, nationalist rhetoric and the championing of human rights in grains exporting powerhouse Argentina, the world's No. 3 soybean supplier.
But Fernandez pulled off a remarkable comeback on the back of a brisk economic expansion and an outpouring of public sympathy. She was re-elected with 54 percent of the vote, promising to stay true to her policies despite objections from Wall Street and international investors.
Latin America's No. 3 economy is growing at nearly 9 percent a year. But a worsening global economic outlook combined with entrenched high inflation at home are seen reining in Argentina's growth to about 4 percent next year.
Fernandez is one of several Latin American leaders to have cancer. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez underwent chemotherapy earlier this year while Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo's lymphatic cancer is in remission.
And former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is being successfully treated for a cancerous tumour on his Larynx, according to his doctors.
Source: http://www.ewn.co.za/Story.aspx?Id=79859
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
?The Hunger Games? Star Josh Hutcherson Visits The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando Resort
Universal Orlando Resort hosted actor Josh Hutcherson yesterday as he visited The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. During his visit, Josh tasted Butterbeer and encountered students from the Durmstrang Institute, one of three schools that compete in the Triwizard Tournament in the Harry Potter books and films. Josh plays Peeta Mellark in the highly anticipated [...]
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Monday, December 26, 2011
CBSLA: The #Chicago #Bulls have beat the #Lakers 88-87 in the first #NBA game of the season at the Staples Center. More at http://t.co/esWMjS54.
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NBA Commissioner Stern hears boos at Dallas opener (AP)
DALLAS ? NBA Commissioner David Stern opened his lockout-delayed season by hearing boos from Mavericks fans.
Stern was in Dallas for the NBA finals rematch between the Mavericks and Heat, and he was on the court for the start of the Mavs' banner-raising ceremony honoring their first championship. The jeers came as soon as he started speaking, but he quickly turned them into cheers by offering his congratulations to team owner Mark Cuban.
Cuban's often contentious relationship with Stern could've been as much of a reason for the boos as the lockout, which pushed the opener from Nov. 1 to Christmas and cut the season by 16 games.
Cuban and Miami's Micky Arison were among five owners who voted against the labor deal. Stern said "it doesn't send any signal whatsoever" that the two owners in the most recent finals were against the agreement.
Stern said Arison only objected to the revenue sharing. He also pointed out that Cuban was part of the labor relations committee and the planning committee.
"(Cuban) might not have been enamored with the final outcome because it takes away the advantage that overspending can give you," Stern said.
Stern also said he could have done a better job of explaining his reasons for blocking a proposed trade of Chris Paul from the league-owned Hornets to the Lakers, only to later agree to a deal that sent Paul to the Clippers. He said that "lost in the frenzy" over his action was the fact he quashed the deal in his role as the owners' representative looking out for the best interests of the Hornets ? not as the commissioner looking out for the best interests of the league as a whole.
"Our view was that the best thing was for New Orleans to be a young team," he said.
Stern blamed himself for not clarifying that sooner.
"I don't think it affected the integrity of the league," he said. "I do think I could have done a better communications job. ... It's a job that, as the owners' representative, I was stuck with. But I think that it was better to have me do it than a group of owners do it because I have the singular focus of doing what's best."
The booing Mavs fans may not have realized they had Stern to thank for getting Lamar Odom to Dallas. Odom was supposed to have been in the Lakers-Hornets deal; when he wasn't, he was so upset that the club didn't want him that he asked to be traded.
After the Dallas-Miami game, Stern went to Oklahoma City for the opener between the Thunder and Orlando. Magic star Dwight Howard is trying to force his way to the team of his preference, just like Paul did. Asked if that was bad for the league, Stern said it's always happened, using Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Wilt Chamberlain as examples.
"That's the beauty of the soap opera," Stern said. "It will play out like it plays out."
Stern had compliments for another superstar he was about to watch, LeBron James.
"I see a level of acceptance and maturity," Stern said. "He's clearly saying he might've said a few things differently, etcetera, and he's going to let his talent do the talking. I think that's pretty exciting because he's got some pretty exciting talent. So we're happy for him and we're looking forward to how the season winds up."
So, how does he expect the season to wind up?
"I said to Mark, `It's ironic, the most underrated team in the league is the NBA champion,'" Stern said. "I think Dallas has a pretty good roster. ... I said before last season, `I think we're going to have to play the season. We're not mailing the trophy to Miami.' It turns out, we mailed it to Dallas. We'll see what happens this year ? but Miami really seems formidable with those three superstars."
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Rose Parade floats go through a dry period
When Rose Parade float companies begin decorating, there?s nary a rose in sight.?
Why? Because float decoration is in effect a two-stage process. First come the materials that will not wilt or die. They include seeds, beans, seaweed, bark, straw flowers and the like.?
At Phoenix Decorating?s Rosemont Pavilion, one of two facilities the company maintains in Pasadena, dry decoration is nearly complete. Volunteers led by crew chiefs and their assistants have been at it since early December.
Each float has a master book of directions written by Phoenix floral director Lyn Lofthouse indicating the color, kind and location of the materials. For a float like the one sponsored this year by Trader Joe?s, the directions can get complicated.
?Everything on that float has some kind of specialized detail. There are cans" of corn and other products found at Trader Joe?s "that are heavily detailed,? Lofthouse said. There are dry materials over many sections of the float and ?you just don?t slop it up there. There?s a direction to make it look sharp and clean.?
Some parts of the float are detailed enough to require the placement of individual seeds or beans one at a time.
This is where decorating crew chiefs and their assistants come to center stage. Some volunteers are repeat performers, but many are first-timers who need more direction.?
The Trader Joe?s crew chief, Nan Koupal-Smith, has been decorating the store?s floats for 10 years and fully understands the importance of getting small bits in the right place in the right way. ?The placement of detailed pieces of material gives the surface a multi-dimensional look rather than a flat surface look,? said Koupal-Smith. Using single grains makes the float "pop so you can see the three dimensions. That?s what you want to see when you?re looking at it.?
Decorators place the dry material after applying glue to the surface. The white glue is similar to Elmer?s but a bit thicker.
And when it comes to the actual application, Koupal-Smith said, technique is a matter of individual preference and the material in question. ?Some people use brushes, some people use sponges; it depends on how big the surface is. I use my hand. I?ve done it so long I can?t use a sponge.?
The importance of leadership on the decorating floor in finishing floats is not lost on Lofthouse.?I can?t do 22 floats by myself," she said. "So crew chiefs and assistants are an important part for me.?
And whence the army of volunteers so essential to finishing the floats? Phoenix gets them through its website and civic and other groups. Float sponsor employees are another source.
Many are longtime participants who have developed a true team sense with others on their crews. ?We look forward to it and seeing everybody because we only see them once a year,? said Pasadena resident Cheryl Graffi, who has decorated floats for 25 years, all of them as a member of Koupal-Smith?s team.?
For first-timer Vicki Robinson, one of the service members from the Los Angeles Air Force Base working on floats this year, it is a different reason. ?I just wanted to be part of it. I thought it would be fun, but I didn?t know what to expect. There?s real excitement here.?
-- Tom Reinken
Photo: Volunteer Cheryl Graffi touches up dry decoration material for the Trader Joe's float. Credit: Tom Reinken
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Women's Basketball: Mason vs George Washington
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Friday, December 23, 2011
AVEO initiates Phase 2 colorectal cancer trial
PBR Staff Writer Published 23 December 2011
AVEO Pharmaceuticals has begun patient enrollment in Phase 2 clinical trial of tivozanib in combination with mFOLFOX6 in patients with advanced colorectal cancer.
The randomized trial, called BATON-CRC, will enroll approximately 252 patients with no prior VEGF-targeted therapy at approximately 80 centers in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe, the company said.
Patients will be randomized to one of the two treatments arms in a 2:1 ratio (168 patients in the tivozanib arm and 84 patients in the bevacizumab arm).
AVEO chief medical officer William Slichenmyer said the identification and development of relevant biomarkers through their human response platform is a core component of our oncology drug development efforts.
"We plan to use biomarker data from BATON-CRC and BATON-RCC to inform our clinical development strategy in an effort to bring tivozanib to patients who will benefit most," Slichenmyer added.
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Sony Sells 321,407 PS Vitas In 2 Days, Apologizes For Technical Problems At Japan Launch
Sony has managed to sell a total of 321,407 PlayStation Vitas on December 17 (the day it was launched in Japan) and 18, Japanese video game magazine Famitsu is reporting [JP] today. This pretty solid number means that big S has sold about 46% of its initial shipment of Vitas (which is rumored to be around 700,000 units) in 48 hours. The Famitsu says that back on December 12, 2004 (the day the PSP was launched), Sony sold a total of 166,074 units in 24 hours. Nintendo was able to sell a total of 371,326 3DS systems in the first 48 hours after launch in Japan on February 26 this year.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/hTDLEurdRaU/
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
SampleTank for iPad 1.1 Update Adds MIDI Recorder
Update adds 4-track MIDI recorder that enables the mobile musician to record beats, grooves or complete songs anytime and everywhere.
SampleTank, a professional quality sound and groove workstation, recently announced a new update, which now makes it a universal app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. More importantly, it now features a built-in 4-track MIDI recorder, which is an essential tool for any music enthusiast or professional as it enables the mobile musician to record beats, grooves or complete songs anytime and everywhere. The new recorder features quantize and loop functions, export to audio and integration with the built-in pattern player making it a full-featured mobile sound and groove workstation.
Additionally, its drum pads interface was enhanced for easier use and now includes a total of 136 instruments as well as an another few hundred available as in-app purchases. The update also added more than 1,000 patterns as well as made the app compatible with any audio dock. The SampleTank music app is available for $19.99 on the App Store.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Cox Communications Announces Agreement to Sell Advanced ...
Cox Communications announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell to Verizon Wireless its 20 MHz Advanced Wireless Services spectrum licenses covering 28 million POPs for $315 million. The sale of Cox's AWS spectrum to Verizon Wireless is an important step to ensure that consumers' growing demands for mobility will be met. This agreement does not include Cox's 700 MHz spectrum licenses, the company's Cox Wireless customer accounts or any other assets.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Microsoft leak reveals hotfix for underperforming Bulldozers
AMD's Bulldozer silicon is enormously powerful, but most software isn't configured to schedule threads for the faux-16 core design. Windows can only see the chip as a quad-core CPU and will randomly assign threads, which ruins the point of Bulldozer's "Turbo Core" design. Microsoft inadvertently revealed it had teamed up with the chipmaker to fix the problem when it prematurely released a hotfix for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Initial tests showed that it could improve performance by up to seven percent, before it was pulled -- Microsoft conceding that it wasn't quite ready for prime-time.
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Kelp-like structure sways underwater to harness energy from the ocean?s waves (Yahoo! News)
What's the best way to harness?wave energy? Australian company BioPower Systems asked?nature for the answer, and came up with?bioWAVE ? a system that harnesses wave power by imitating the movement of kelp.
Kelp are large seaweeds that grow vertically from the ocean floor, and constantly sway in the water. The bioWAVE system is designed to mimic these plants with its floats that keep the structure upright, and a pivot near the bottom that makes back-and-forth motion possible. This movement is then used to spin an onboard generator that produces electricity delivered to shore by a cable.
One of the good things about bioWAVE is that it's designed to survive even extremely powerful waves. In case a?tsunami or a typhoon arrives, the floats are flooded so the structure falls flat on the ocean floor, protecting it from destruction.
The company recently received a $5.1 million funding from the Australian government that will be applied toward its $14 million, 250 kilowatt pilot demonstration unit currently being built on one of the country's coasts. If successful, BioPower hopes to build a commercial scale wave farm that can offer consumers competitively-priced electricity.
[via?Gizmodo]
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
NBA notes: Chris Paul traded to Los Angeles Clippers
Published: Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 9:30 p.m. MST
NBA Commissioner David Stern says his only consideration during trade talks concerning Chris Paul was getting the best deal for the New Orleans Hornets.
Stern says he believes he's succeeded with Wednesday night's deal in which the Hornets traded Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Clippers for guard Eric Gordon, forward Al-Farouq Aminu, center Chris Kaman and a first-round draft choice.
The deal required Stern's approval because the Hornets are owned by the league. The commissioner says he did not believe a deal he rejected involving the Lakers last week was as good for the Hornets, which the league intends to sell to new owners who'll keep the team in Louisiana.
Stern says "the future of the Hornets in New Orleans is brighter than it's ever been."
NENE RE-SIGNS WITH NUGGETS: Nene said he never wanted to leave the Denver Nuggets ? and the team gave him every possible reason for staying. Passing on contract offers from other clubs, the NBA's top free agent re-signed with the Nuggets, putting his signature on a five-year, $67 million contract Wednesday. Nene, the 6-foot-11 Brazilian forward who led the league in field-goal percentage last season at 61.5, chose to remain in Denver after drawing interest from such teams as the New Jersey Nets, Houston Rockets and Indiana Pacers.
GASOL BACK WITH GRIZZLIES: Marc Gasol thought about possibly playing for another team. In the end, he decided to stick with the Memphis Grizzlies for a few more years. Gasol was the subject of a lot of conjecture on whether he would return on a long-term basis or play out the final year of his contract with the Grizzlies and become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.
HAMILTON CLOSE TO DEAL WITH BULLS: A person familiar with the situation says veteran guard Richard Hamilton is closing in on a three-year, $15 million deal with the Chicago Bulls.
BAREA JOINS T-WOLVES: J.J. Barea is ready to team up with Ricky Rubio and add a little spice to the Minnesota Timberwolves' backcourt. Barea signed his four-year contract with the Timberwolves on Wednesday.
WARRIORS PICK UP BROWN: The Golden State Warriors have signed free-agent center Kwame Brown to a $7 million, one-year deal. The well-traveled Brown, who spent last season with Charlotte and joins his sixth NBA team, will give new coach Mark Jackson depth at the center spot alongside Andris Biedrins.
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Chilean doctors separate conjoined twins (AP)
SANTIAGO, Chile ? Chilean doctors successfully separated conjoined twin girls in a marathon 20-hour surgery, saying Wednesday that the operation went extremely well despite challenges.
The 10-month-old twins Maria Paz and Maria Jose were recovering in an intensive care unit, and doctors said the next two days would be critical as they watch for infections or other possible complications.
Parents Jessica Navarrete and Roberto Paredes kept an anxious vigil at Luis Calvo Mackenna Hospital in Santiago as doctors separated the twins at the thorax, abdomen and pelvis. It was the seventh and most complex operation yet for the twins.
Doctors successfully separated the twins late Tuesday night. Chief surgeon Francisco Ossandon described it as the moment "the girls finished the process of being born."
"Before, they had two souls and one body," Ossandon said.
Surgery on one of the twins was completed early Wednesday after a total of 19 hours, while for the other it took more than 20 hours.
"We had a number of difficulties during the surgery. There were some surprises, but we were able to fix, solve the problems," Ossandon said at a news conference.
He added that the twins came out of the surgery in good condition. Ossandon, however, didn't rule out future complications involving the effects from anesthesia and possible infections.
"We're very happy because we think they've had the best evolution we could have hoped for," he said.
The girls' parents appeared in televised images as they kissed the twins before the operation. Then afterward, the mother and father gazed lovingly at the sleeping girls from beside their separate cribs in the intensive care unit.
Paredes softly placed a hand on one daughter's head.
Some Chilean television stations occasionally broke into their regular programming to broadcast updates from the doctors, both during and after the delicate surgery.
"The next 48 hours will be the most critical in terms of the ... risk they face of dying," said Dr. Carlos Acuna, chief of the intensive care unit. He said the girls faced risks of various organs ceasing to function, and also had kidney and lung problems.
The girls' mother said she was hoping for a miracle when the high-risk operation began Tuesday morning.
The Chilean twins presented a particularly difficult challenge because they were born sharing many of the same internal organs and even urinary system. About 100 people participated in the procedure, including 25 surgeons and anesthesiologists.
Perhaps providing some comfort to the parents was the hospital's history with conjoined twins. Staff there have separated three sets before. A fourth set, however, died during surgery due to cardiac complications.
According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, roughly one out of every 200,000 live births worldwide results in conjoined twins. The overall survival rate is between 5 percent to 25 percent, depending on various factors, including where they are joined.
While rare, such surgeries have become increasingly frequent over the years due to improvements in surgery, anesthesia and critical care, said Dr. Eric Strauch, a surgeon at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
"We've gotten better at dealing with them," Strauch said. "I think people are willing to undertake it more."
He said he has performed surgeries on two sets of twins. The first set, girls from Uganda, survived in 2002 and are now about 10 years old, he said.
"The second set survived for about six months after the separation, but they both succumbed to infection," said Strauch, adding that their intestines were unable to function.
He said he knew of another successful case in which two girls were separated and have reached adulthood.
"They're in their 20s and they're just graduated from college," Strauch said. "A lot of them don't do well, but a lot of them do."
Dr. Steven Fishman, a pediatric surgeon at Children's Hospital Boston, said that if twins make it out of the hospital without post-surgery complications, most tend to survive.
"If they're felt to be well enough to go home, in general they will make it long term," he said.
The Chilean twins were born in the Villarrica hospital about 470 miles (760 kilometers) south of Santiago and were kept under constant medical care, surviving with the aid of an artificial respirator.
Earlier this year, doctors separated the twins' legs, urinary tracts, pulmonary systems and other parts of their bodies. They now each have part of a leg that used to be fused together.
During the latest surgery, doctors managed to separate an intestine that had been shared by the two, giving each of them part of it, said Jaime Manalich, the government's health minister, who visited the family at the hospital.
Surgeons weren't able to completely close their abdominal cavities or their thoraxes, and therefore had to use meshing to cover them, Ossandon said. "These are foreign bodies that sometimes the body recognizes as foreign, and that can cause infections," he said.
Maria Jose was the first twin to reach the intensive care unit after the surgery. Her sister Maria Paz, whose operation was more complex due to difficulties in the area near her heart, arrived an hour and 15 minutes later.
They were born in February, and since then have been hospitalized and attached to machines including an artificial respirator.
The girls were still connected to a respirator on Wednesday.
They are to remain sedated for at least three days.
Ossandon said the twins will return to the operating room every two or three days so that doctors can clean their wounds. He called the surgery their "rebirth."
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Associated Press writer Ian James in Caracas, Venezuela, contributed to this report.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
What Should 'God Particle' Be Renamed? Physicists Weigh In (LiveScience.com)
Physicists love the Higgs boson, but they hate the God particle.
The elusive Higgs particle, which scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator announced Tuesday (Dec. 13) that they are closing in on, is popularly known as the "God particle."
The moniker, beloved by the press, is almost universally despised by experts who study particle physics.
"I detest the name 'God particle,'" Vivek Sharma, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, and the leader of the Higgs search at LHC's CMS experiment, wrote in an email.?"I am not particularly religious, but I find the term an 'in your face' affront to those who [are]. I do experimental physics not GOD."
Other physicists vehemently agreed. [Gallery: Search for the Higgs Boson]
"It's an awful name," Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist at the City College of New York, told LiveScience.?"It does not convey the particle's true role, that it is the last missing piece of the Standard Model, and that it gives mass to the other particles."
Some physicists said a new nickname may be in order. They, along with LiveScience's Facebook fans, have offered up ideas, which range from "masson" and "OOM" like the Buddhist chant, to "Super Cool Non-Denominational Particle." Of course, others think "Higgs boson" works just fine.
Origin of the term
The Standard Model is the physics theory that describes nature's tiniest building blocks. Every particle included in the theory, except for the Higgs boson, has been detected experimentally.
On Tuesday, LHC physicists at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, reported their latest findings in the search for the Higgs, which indicate some preliminary hints that it is being created inside the atom smasher. The particle is thought to be associated with a field that is responsible for giving other particles their mass.
Much of the media coverage of the announcement included the term "God particle," which originated in the title of a 1994 book by Nobel-winning physicist Leon Lederman. The story goes that Lederman originally wanted to name the tome "The Goddamn Particle" because of how difficult it was to detect, but was persuaded by his publisher, Delta, to shorten it.
"It's a pity that Leon Lederman, otherwise a nice enough fellow, chose to go ahead with this moniker at the advice of his publishing agents to sell more books," Sharma said.
However, ever since the book came out, the Higgs boson hasn't been able to escape the nickname, at least in popular discourse.
"I feel the term 'God particle,' invented by a publisher to sell books and make money, insultingly misrepresents both science and religion," Rutgers University physicist Matt Strassler wrote in an email.
Sacrilegious
Many of the strongest objections to the name come because of its religious bent.
The name "carries almost no information about why the Higgs particle is important, it makes physicists sound pompous and arrogant, and it reinforces a very harmful presumption that physicists are trying to replace or compete with 'God,'" New York University physicist Kyle Cranmer wrote in an email to LiveScience. "In reality, physicists cover the full range from devotee to atheist.?Physicists are generally driven to understand how nature works ? as 'natural philosophers' we appreciate the beauty of its order and its chaos, perhaps more than most."
And ultimately, researchers say the term "God particle" simply doesn't fit the Higgs boson's actual characteristics.
"'God particle' is a bad name, in every way," wrote University of Michigan physicist Gordon Kane.?"It has nothing to do with the physics.?Most (all?) physicists dislike it."
However, hatred of the term isn't universal.
"It's a catchy name, so why not? :)" wrote Brown University physicist Greg Landsberg.
A new name?
In lieu of such a controversial nickname, many physicists didn't hesitate to offer alternative suggestions for a popular label.
"One possibility is the OOM particle (after the Buddhist chant, that is supposed to take you to Nirvana)," offered Kaku. "OOM for Origin of Mass particle."
Others also focused on the Higgs' role in bestowing mass.
"Why not the 'mass particle?'" suggested Boston University physicist Lawrence Sulak. "Or since it is a bosON, like the photON or the gluON, it could be called the 'masson.' Let your imagination go wild, 'stickyon,'? 'inertiaon,' 'weighton.'"
But many physicists expressed their satisfaction with the simple term "Higgs boson," after Peter Higgs, the leader of the group that first theorized the particle in 1964.
"It is all very well for us to bemoan the 'God Particle' and say how much better the 'humongous space kablouie' is than the 'big bang,' but I don't think we will find better words than the 'Higgs boson,'" said CERN physicist William Murray.
Perhaps all the "Higgs boson" term needs is a friendly adjective or two around it. Strassler proposed referring to the subatomic particle as "the evanescent yet essential Higgs boson."
LiveScience readers also offered a fount of good ideas via Facebook, including the "Vague Existo Particle" from Scott Dunn, the "Super Cool Non-Denominational Particle" from Amanda Callaghan, or the "Shy Particle,'' since it's so hard to find, from Jitesh Ahuja.
Or, a new moniker could make a nod to the $10 billion price tag of the LHC.
"Maybe we should call it the "Billion" to remind us how much it cost to find the damn thing :-)" Cranmer wrote.
You can follow LiveScience senior writer Clara Moskowitz on Twitter @ClaraMoskowitz. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter?@livescience?and on?Facebook.
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