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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
2 giant pandas on way from China to Scotland (AP)
BEIJING ? Two giant pandas are flying from China to Scotland, where they will become the first pandas to live in Britain in nearly two decades.
The pandas named Tian Tian and Yang Guang ? or Sweetie and Sunshine ? munched on bamboo at Chengdu airport ahead of their trip Sunday.
The pandas are to stay for 10 years at Edinburgh Zoo, where officials hope they will breed during their stay.
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland will pay more than 600,000 pounds ($935,000) a year to China for the loan of Sweetie and Sunshine, not including the expense of imported bamboo.
Britain's last giant panda lived in London Zoo until 1994, when it was returned to China.
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
SmackDown Superstars' Holiday Wish Lists
The holidays are upon us and ?tis the season for giving. As shown on SmackDown?s exhilarating live Holiday Special, the Superstars and Divas of WWE prefer to give out yuletide beat downs. But what gifts would they like to get? WWE.com sat down with SmackDown Superstars, some naughty and some nice, to ask what?s on the holiday wish list of a Superstar or Diva. Who's feeling the holiday spirit and who's a grinch? Who wants a Slammy Award and who wants to crash a DiBiase Posse party? Read on to find out.
AJ:
?For me, it?s not about personal stuff. I?d be happiest if every homeless dog could get a home, if every dog in a shelter could get adopted. And while Santa?s handing things out, I would also like a Skip-It. That?s for me.? (PHOTOS)
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Alicia Fox:
?My Christmas wish this year is to have a bigger closet. My clothes are about to run me out of my house.? There?s way too much stuff in too small of a space. I would love for Santa to come in with his toolbox and build me a bigger a closet.? (PHOTOS)
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Intercontinental Champion Cody Rhodes:
?I would like to be invited to the DiBiase Posse Party at one of the WWE live events. And I would like all those who attend to get food poisoning, besides me.? (PHOTOS)
Derrick Bateman:
?I?d really like a new car, bed, world peace and the full-time contract on SmackDown I deserve for Christmas-sakes! And some new underwear. Mine have a lot of holes.? (PHOTOS)
Natalya:
?What I want most is a Slammy Award, but from a stocking stuffer standpoint, I would love to have another pair of Christian Louboutin shoes. I need more. I have five pairs, so I?d like at least another five.? (PHOTOS)
Rosa Mendes:
?I want success. I want to drive two Mercedes-Benzes, one BMW. I want a house in San Tropez, a house on the French Riviera, a huge mansion in Vancouver on the water, and houses in Miami, Czech Republic and Paris. And two dogs for each house, one guard dog and one lap dog that I can take shopping with me.? (PHOTOS)
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Tamina:
?The Divas Title. But that?s not something I wish for because it?s something I can go ahead and take. As for a Christmas wish, I want a strong man.?? (PHOTOS)
Ted DiBiase:
?I want Santa Claus to bring me enough grills and equipment and enough food to feed the entire DiBiase Posse which is large, strong and growing. It would be the biggest Christmas party known to man!? (WATCH DIBIASE REFLECT ON THE DIBIASE POSSE) (PHOTOS)
SmackDown General Manager Teddy Long:
?What I want most for Christmas is my health and strength, my life, my whole family, and being able to still work and be the General Manager of SmackDown.? (PHOTOS)
Titus O?Neill:
?I wish for all those who have financial struggles with their families that at least one day during this Christmas season, they have the opportunity to not have those stresses and can enjoy the true meaning of Christmas and what it?s really about.? (PHOTOS)
Wade Barrett:
?I?d like my own camera so I can record unlimited amounts of footage for WWE.com. My stuff I?ve been putting online has clearly been the best stuff that?s been on the site. The more I produce, the more hits the website gets, and the better the company is gonna do.? (WATCH BARRETT "BORROW" A WWE.COM CAMERA 1 | BARRETT "BORROWS" A CAMERA 2) (PHOTOS)
Find out whose wishes come true and who gets coal in their stocking by tuning in to SmackDown Fridays at 8/7 CT. And make sure to check out WWE.com's exclusive Kmart holiday gift guide to find the perfect gift this holiday season.
Source: http://www.wwe.com/shows/smackdown/2011-11-29/holiday-wish-list
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Lynch carries Seahawks to 31-14 win over Eagles (AP)
SEATTLE ? Marshawn Lynch loves the prime-time stage, even if he's rarely given such a spotlight.
Seattle's hard-charging running back bulled through Philadelphia for 148 yards and a pair of first-half touchdowns, David Hawthorne returned the third of Vince Young's four interceptions 77 yards for a score, and the Seahawks rolled to a 31-14 victory Thursday night that only added to the Eagles' miserable season.
Lynch ran into and escaped from a massive pileup for a 15-yard TD run in the first quarter, then made a quick cut and went back against the flow for a 40-yard scoring dash on the first play of the second quarter to give the Seahawks (5-7) a 14-0 lead.
Golden Tate's 11-yard, toe-tapping touchdown grab along the back edge of the end zone in the third quarter pushed Seattle's cushion to 17 over the Eagles (4-8).
But the Seahawks' third victory in their last four games wasn't secured until Hawthorne stepped in front of a swing pass intended for LeSean McCoy and raced untouched in the other direction with 4:24 left.
Making his third straight start in place of Michael Vick and his two broken ribs, Young couldn't find the same magic he did in the 2006 Rose Bowl when he led Texas to an upset of Pete Carroll and USC.
Young's first pass of the night was an awful interception thrown right to Seattle safety Kam Chancellor and nowhere near an Eagles receiver. Young was intercepted in the third quarter as well when a perfect pass deflected off the hands of Riley Cooper and into the hands of cornerback Brandon Browner. Both turnovers led to Seattle touchdowns.
Then came a pass for McCoy when Young clearly didn't see Hawthorne, ruining the Eagles' last chance to rally. For good measure, Young added one more interception in the final moments, giving him a career-high four picks.
Young finished 17 of 29 for 208 yards. McCoy got more chances than he did last Sunday against New England when he touched the ball just 14 times, a number that drew criticism from Eagles fans believing the leading rusher in the NFL deserved more opportunities.
McCoy finished with 84 yards on 17 carries and added another four catches for 49 yards. But he was upstaged by Lynch.
For the fourth time in five games, Lynch topped 100 yards ? and the one time he didn't, he finished with 88 yards in a victory over St. Louis. He had 90 yards by halftime on Thursday night, the most first-half yards rushing in his career. He averaged 6.7 yards per carry and almost immediately provided a spark the Seahawks needed on a short week.
And he did it while battling an upset stomach that occasionally forced him to the sideline.
Following Young's first interception, Seattle got down to the Eagles 10 on a 26-yard third-down completion from quarterback Tarvaris Jackson to Ben Obomanu. A penalty backed Seattle up 5 yards, but that only provided Lynch more room for theatrics.
On first-and-goal at the 15, he ran into a massive crowd near the 10. He got lost in the pile, wiggled out of the arms of linebacker Jamar Chaney and suddenly burst into the end zone, a run that was reminiscent of his 67-yard, tackle-breaking touchdown gallop in the playoffs last season against New Orleans.
Lynch's second touchdown was an opportunity for him to show off his open-field speed, and it came after another important third-down conversion, this time a 21-yard pass from Jackson to rookie Doug Baldwin on third-and-7. On the next snap, the flow of the play went to Lynch's left, but he immediately cut back right and found open field, beating the Eagles defense to the corner and going 40 yards untouched.
It was the second-most yards rushing in Lynch's career, behind the 153 he had in his rookie season with Buffalo against Cincinnati.
Tate's second straight game with a touchdown grab seemed to wrap up the victory. Tate outdueled a double-team at the back of the end zone and hauled in the toss from Jackson to give Seattle a 24-7 lead. Jackson finished 13 of 16 for 190 yards and a touchdown.
But the quick bounce-back by the Seahawks only magnified their missed chance last Sunday when they blew a 10-point fourth-quarter lead and lost 23-17 to Washington. Even with the win over Philadelphia and another home game coming up against St. Louis, any hopes the Seahawks have of jumping into the playoff race are likely gone.
Meanwhile, the misery only continued for Philadelphia. The Eagles played without QB Michael Vick, CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and WR Jeremy Maclin, then lost CB Nnamdi Asomugha to a neck/head injury late in the first half.
Still, Philadelphia pulled within 24-14 early in the fourth quarter when Young led a 17-play, 80-yard drive that ate up more than 10 minutes of the clock. The drive included a fourth-down conversion inside the Seahawks 10 and was capped on a 2-yard shovel pass from Young to McCoy.
Young then drove the Eagles inside the Seattle 35 on their next possession with a chance to make it a one-score game, but failed to see Hawthorne lurking in the flat.
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Jay Cutler: Kristin Cavallari Handles the Wedding Planning (omg!)
K-Cav's calling the shots!
Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler confirmed they were engaged -- again! -- on Wednesday, and now that there's a wedding in the works, her NFL beau is letting his future wife take charge of planning their big day.
"I don't really make a lot of [wedding] decisions," Cutler, 28, told ESPN's Waddle & Silvy radio show Wednesday. "I hear about them in passing, or if I have to possibly write a check or something like that, but other than that, whatever she wants to do, I'm on board."
PHOTOS: Stars' blingy engagement rings
Cutler and the Hills star, 24, called off their engagement in July.?According to one insider, Cavallari was "blindsided" by the split. "Jay dumped her out of nowhere."
PHOTOS: K-Cav's best bikini moments
Just two weeks after calling off their engagement, Cavallari and Cutler made the proper etiquette move by returning their wedding gifts.
Since then, the duo had been spotted packing on the PDA -- and Cutler even came out to support Cavallari during her brief Dancing with the Stars stint.
PHOTOS: Hollywood's broken engagements
Last month, one tabloid mag claimed that Cavallari was having an affair with Kourtney Kardashian's partner Scott Disick. "It's 100 percent not true," Cavallari said on The Billy Bush Show, adding that Cutler "didn't believe [the report] for one second."?
Tell Us: Will Kristin and Jay make it to the altar the second time around??
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Congress could intervene to stop railroad strike (AP)
WASHINGTON ? A costly railroad strike is looming just in time to scare Christmas-season retailers unless the nation's freight railroads and labor unions resolve their differences by Tuesday. Congress could intervene as early as Friday to avert a shutdown.
House lawmakers said Thursday they hope the parties will agree to extend the negotiation period for another 60 days. If not, House GOP leaders intend to bring up for a vote Friday a bill to block a strike, said Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure rail subcommittee.
The bill would impose the settlement recommendations of a five-member Presidential Emergency Board that would bind the parties for the next three years. It is not clear whether Democratic leaders in the Senate ? generally more sympathetic to unions ? would go along with that, or seek another option such as extending the talks.
A strike of any length could cause massive disruption to the economy. Retailers say a rail strike would cost businesses and consumers $2 billion a day and prove especially damaging during the industry's most important shopping season of the year.
It would not only affect the delivery of goods but could also impact thousands of commuters if passenger trains are unable to travel on freight tracks.
"A strike during the busy holiday shopping season could be devastating," Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation, said in a letter to Congress.
The last time a railroad strike occurred, in 1991, Congress quickly passed legislation that ended it within a day. A 1982 strike lasted four days.
President Barack Obama appointed the special board in October to mediate the dispute between more than 30 railroads and 13 unions. The White House action averted a strike for at least 60 days until a "cooling off" period ends Tuesday at 12:01 a.m.
The railroads, including Union Pacific Corp., CSX Corp. and Burlington Northern Santa Fe, have reached agreements on wages and benefits with 10 of the 13 unions covering about 60 percent of the 132,000 workers bargaining.
The remaining three are the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and the American Train Dispatchers Association, representing about 60,000 workers.
Roland Wilder, attorney for both the engineers and maintenance unions, said he was hopeful a deal could be reached before the deadline, or that an extension could be worked out.
But even a strike by just three unions would cripple railroad commerce.
"In the railroad industry, all organizations honor the picket lines of other unions," Wilder said.
One of the thorniest issues, Wilder said, is a request by some unions for higher reimbursement for lodging and meal expenses for rail employees who are almost constantly working away from home.
The Republican leaders of the House ? Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy ? vowed earlier this week to vote on legislation that would prevent a strike if the parties fail to reach an agreement by the deadline.
"We are following with concern the situation involving our nation's railways, and we are troubled by the possibility of a national railway strike that would jeopardize American jobs and cost our nation's economy an estimated $2 billion per day," the lawmakers said in a statement.
Joanna Moorhead, spokeswoman for the National Railway Labor Conference, which represents the railroads in bargaining talks, said railroads are not eager to extend negotiations beyond the deadline.
"What we're focusing on now is not a postponement, but getting an agreement," Moorhead said.
Sandy Kennedy, president of the Retail Industry Leaders Association, warned in a letter to Obama on Thursday that a railroad strike would force retailers to shift the delivery of goods to trucks, increasing costs, delivery time and congestion on roadways.
"This means that the Christmas shopping season could be severely affected as products destined for stores sit idle at ports or in traffic," Kennedy said.
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Associated Press writer Joan Lowy contributed to this report.
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Liquid living worms survive space
29 November 2011
Last updated at 21:02 ET
Worms have survived their first space mission in liquid form.
The result, published in a Royal Society journal, means worm colonies can be established on space stations without the need for researchers to tend to them.
The animals are helping scientists understand the effects of weightlessness and high radiation levels experienced in space.
Lessons learned could one day assist humans to explore the Solar System.
In 2001, Stephen Hawking is reported to have said: "I don't think the human race will survive the next 1,000 years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."
But space is no easy amble. Humans must first learn to cheaply and safely propel themselves into space regularly, and then, once there, must adapt to high levels of radiation and to weightlessness.
In preparation for longer spaceflight, scientists have designed shields to deflect harmful energetic particles, and continue to study the ill-effect of weightlessness on astronauts.
The gravity studies have mostly focused on a group of muscles - broadly known as anti-gravity muscles - that seem to deteriorate without the gravitational pull of the Earth. However, there is some evidence for the weakening in all muscles, including the hearts of astronauts.
Weightlessness not only sees animals use their muscles less, but causes changes in the chemical reactions within the muscle cells, explained Nathaniel Szewczyk from the University of Nottingham, who is the lead author on the new study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
Dr Szewczyk, and his team, looked at the effects of weightlessness on the muscles of worms, because these multicellular animals share many genes with humans, and can therefore help scientists gauge the long-term impacts of deep spaceflight on human life.
The recent mission saw Dr Szewczyk's worms return to Earth with the space shuttle Discovery. It was the longest time worms have survived and been recovered, he said.
Liquid lunchThis was possible because the international team established an automated setup for growing worms that transferred a subset of worms to fresh food every month, filming the worms' progress as they went.
The technique was dependent on establishing that worms fare just as well in liquid as they do on their usual agar plates.
He explains that "because we had the bad experience with shuttle STS-107, which of course is the shuttle that broke up, we are keen [to] avoid being dependent on getting the worms back."
This way, the researchers can gather data on the worms from space, and automating the worm culturing also means less work.
Dr Szewczyk, like all UK scientists, is currently dependent on collaborating with international space programmes to get their animals into space.
However, the UK is in the process of considering whether to join the European Programme for Life and Physical Science (Elips), a European Space Agency-run programme that would give British scientists more direct access to the space station. The decision will be taken next year.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-15897803
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