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8:00 PM: Family & friends of U.S. soldier Andrew Keller, who was killed in Afghanistan last month, are trying to get his old high school's football field renamed in honor of him. But the Beaverton, Oregon school board has a policy forbidding separate names for school facilities.

7:45 PM: Baltimore Orioles Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson says about this year's club: "In all my years with the Orioles, I've never seen a team quite like this."

7:30 PM: A Portland, Oregon basketball coach was arrested on kidnapping & assault charges for allegedly whipping a 13-year-old boy with a belt & taking naked photos of him.

7:15 PM: Duke defeated Wake Forest 34-27 Saturday to end a 12-game losing streak to the Demon Deacons & start the season 4-1 for the first time since 1994, the last time the Blue Devils went to a bowl game.

7:00 PM: Oklahoma City Thunder player James Harden tweeted on Saturday: "I told you I was coming back....."

6:45 PM: A federal judge has reportedly ruled that Scottie Pippen cannot sue media outlets for defamation after they had reported last year that the former Chicago Bulls player was bankrupt.

6:30 PM: Arkansas RB Knile Davis after the Razorback lost to Texas A&M 58-10 on Saturday: "The season's going south, but you've got to resurrect it."

6:15 PM: After the Atlanta Falcons' Roddy White said that he was a better receiver than the New York Giants' Victor Cruz, Cruz responded: "I got a ring back at home. I don't care about what Roddy White has to say."

6:00 PM: Washington Redskins QB Robert Griffin III tweeted after Baylor lost to West Virginia 70-63 on Saturday: "Although my bears lost, they showed the entire nation that BU is here to stay. No matter who likes it or not."

5:45 PM: Miami Hurricanes QB Stephen Morris set a new single-game school record by throwing for 566 yards in Saturday's 44-37 win over North Carolina State.

5:30 PM: The Tampa Tribune's Joey Johnston notes that before their games today, South Florida & Wisconsin are the only two FBS teams to not have an interception on defense so far this season.

5:15 PM: Oakland Raiders receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey will not play Sunday against the Denver Broncos. Darrius was hospitalized after taking a hit from Pittsburgh Steelers safety Ryan Mundy during last Sunday's game.

5:00 PM: The Phillies' Ryan Howard is out for the last few games of the season after suffering a broken toe when he dropped a lead pipe that he had used while swinging in the on-deck circle.

4:45 PM: Chicago Bears kick returner Devin Hester says he wants to be more involved in the offense: "It's hard being one of the top electrifying players in the league and you're not able to get your hands on the ball as much as you want."

4:30 PM: Northwestern set a new school single-game record by compiling 704 yards of total offense in Saturday's 44-29 win over Indiana.

Source: http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/sbblive?eid=42742

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Electoral College math: Not all votes are created equal

WASHINGTON (AP) ? When it comes to electing the president, not all votes are created equal. And chances are yours will count less than those of a select few.

For example, the vote of Dave Smith in Sheridan, Wyo., counts almost 3 1/2 times as much mathematically as those of his wife's aunts in northeastern Ohio.

Why? Electoral College math.

A statistical analysis of the state-by-state voting-eligible population by The Associated Press shows that Wyoming has 139,000 eligible voters ? those 18 and over, U.S. citizens and non-felons ? for every presidential elector chosen in the state. In Ohio, it's almost 476,000 per elector, and it's nearly 478,000 in neighboring Pennsylvania.

But there's mathematical weight and then there's the reality of political power in a system where the president is decided not by the national popular vote but by an 18th century political compromise: the Electoral College.

Smith figures his vote in solid Republican Wyoming really doesn't count that much because it's a sure Mitt Romney state. The same could be said for ballots cast in solid Democratic states like New York or Vermont. In Ohio, one of the biggest battleground states, Smith's relatives are bombarded with political ads. In Wyoming, Smith says, "the candidates don't care about my vote because we only see election commercials from out-of-state TV stations."

The nine battleground states where Romney and Barack Obama are spending a lot of time and money ? Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Colorado, New Hampshire, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin ? have 44.1 million people eligible to vote. That's only 20.7 percent of the nation's 212.6 million eligible voters. So nearly 4 of 5 eligible voters are pretty much being ignored by the two campaigns.

When you combine voter-to-elector comparisons and battleground state populations, there are clear winners and losers in the upcoming election.

More than half the nation's eligible voters live in states that are losers in both categories. Their states are not closely contested and have above-average ratios of voters to electors. This is true for people in 14 states with 51 percent of the nation's eligible voters: California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Georgia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Indiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Maryland, Louisiana and Kentucky. Their votes count the least.

The biggest winners in the system, those whose votes count the most, live in just four states: Colorado, New Hampshire, Iowa and Nevada. They have low voter-to-elector ratios and are in battleground states. Only 4 percent of the nation's eligible voters ? 1 in 25 ? live in those states.

It's all dictated by the U.S. Constitution, which set up the Electoral College. The number of electors each state gets depends on the size of its congressional delegation. Even the least populated states ? like Wyoming ? get a minimum of three, meaning more crowded states get less proportionally.

If the nation's Electoral College votes were apportioned in a strict one-person, one-vote manner, each state would get one elector for every 395,000 eligible voters. Some 156 million voters live in the 20 states that have a larger ratio than that average: That's 73 percent ? nearly 3 out of 4.

And for most people, it's even more unrepresentative. About 58 percent of the nation's eligible voting population lives in states with voter-to-elector ratios three times as large as Wyoming's. In other words, Dave Smith's voting power is about equal to three of his wife's aunts and uncles in Ohio, and most people in the nation are on the aunt-and-uncle side of that unbalanced equation.

"It's a terrible system; it's the most undemocratic way of electing a chief executive in the world, " said Paul Finkelman, a law professor at Albany Law School who teaches this year at Duke University. "There's no other electoral system in the world where the person with the most votes doesn't win."

The statistical analysis uses voter eligibility figures for 2010 calculated by political science professor Michael McDonald at George Mason University. McDonald is a leader in the field of voter turnout.

Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming defends the Electoral College system for protecting small states in elections, which otherwise might be overrun by big city campaigning: "Once you get rid of the Electoral College, the election will be conducted in New York and San Francisco."

Sure it gives small states more power, but at what price? asks Douglas Amy, a political science professor at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts: "This clearly violates that basic democratic principle of one person, one vote. Indeed, many constitutional scholars point out that this unfair arrangement would almost certainly be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on those grounds if it were not actually in the Constitution."

Article 2 of the Constitution says presidents are voted on by electors (it doesn't mention the word college) with each state having a number equal to its U.S. senators and representatives. While representatives are allocated among the states proportional by population, senators are not. Every state gets two. So Wyoming has 0.2 percent of the nation's voting-eligible population but almost 0.6 percent of the Electoral College. And since the number of electors is limited to 538, some states get less proportionately.

Adding to this, most states have an all-or-nothing approach to the Electoral College. A candidate can win a state by just a handful of votes but get all the electors. That happened in 2000, when George W. Bush, after much dispute, won Florida by 537 votes out of about 6 million and got all 27 electoral votes. He won the presidential election but lost the national popular vote that year.

That election led some states to sign a compact promising to give their electoral votes to the national popular vote winner. But that compact would go into effect only if and when states with the 270 majority of electoral votes signed on. So far nine states with 132 electoral votes have signed, all predominantly Democratic states.

Because of the 2000 election, conservatives and Republicans tend to feel that changing the Electoral College would hurt them, George Mason's McDonald said, and after their big victories in 2010, the popular vote compact movement stalled. But that analysis may not necessarily be true, he added. McDonald said before recent opinion polls started to break for Obama there seemed to be a possibility that he could win the electoral vote and lose the popular vote because of weak turnout ? but still enough to win ? in traditionally Democratic states like New York and California.

Former Stanford University computer scientist John Koza, who heads National Popular Vote, which is behind the electoral reform compact, said Democrat John Kerry would have won the Electoral College in 2004 while Republican Bush won the popular vote, if only 60,000 Bush votes in Ohio had changed to Kerry votes.

History shows that candidates have won the presidency but not the popular vote four times, and in each case it was the Democrat who got the most votes but lost the presidency: 1824, 1876, 1888 and 2000.

The Associated Press analysis suggests that in this year's election, the current system seems to benefit Romney. The AP re-apportioned electoral votes based on voting-eligible population and not congressional delegations, so that, for example, Wyoming and the District of Columbia would have only one elector instead of three, and California would have 58 instead of 55.

Based on polling, states strongly in the Romney camp have 191 electoral votes in the current system but would have only 178 if the electoral votes were allocated based on voting-eligible population. Based on similar polling, Obama would benefit by about five electoral votes if electors were apportioned by that population. The nine battleground states would gain even more sway, jumping from 110 electoral votes to 118.

That would compound the perceived problem of a shrinking number of battleground states being all that mattered in the election, leaving the overwhelming majority of states standing around as "spectator states," Koza said.

John McGinnis, a professor of constitutional law at Northwestern University, defends the current Electoral College, arguing that while the mathematics of electoral proportionate calculations is correct, the conclusion that it over-represents small states is not. Larger states still have more sway because they have more electoral votes, he said.

Further, the historical agreement to give each state two senators regardless of their population and to base electoral votes on congressional delegation rather than population "was an essential compromise" when framers were drafting the Constitution, McGinnis said. Without that compromise, there might not have been a Constitution or nation, he said.

But Finkelman said his reading of history is that the compromise wasn't about power between small and large states as much as it was about power of slave-holding states. He said James Madison wanted direct popular election of the president, but because African-American slaves wouldn't count, that would give more power to the North. So the framers came up with a compromise to count each slave as three-fifths of a person for representation in Congress and presidential elections, he said.

Electoral College supporter McGinnis said the emphasis on battleground states is actually good because they are representative of the country. But he acknowledges as an Illinois resident, "I realize when I vote here it's completely irrelevant."

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Seth Borenstein can be followed at http://twitter.com/borenbears

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/electoral-college-math-not-votes-equal-172921664--election.html

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Seahawks fan's gesture rebuffed by Green Bay mayor

By The Associated Press

Sept. 29, 2012

Green Bay - A Seattle Seahawks fan is trying to smooth things over with Wisconsin after the disputed touchdown call that decided Monday night's Packer game.

Rudy McCoy-Pantoja Jr., a landscaper in Seattle, says he wanted to send local beer, smoked salmon and kringles to Green Bay's mayor, but Jim Schmitt wouldn't accept it.

His office says the mayor doesn't participate with gift exchanges during the regular season.

So McCoy-Pantoja Jr. put his finger on his globe to find a different Wisconsin city and decided on Delavan in southeastern Wisconsin.

Delavan Mayor Mel Nieuwenhuis agreed to exchange gifts. He plans to send six or 12-pack of Miller High Life, cheese and fresh venison he hunted himself.

McCoy-Pantoja tells the Green Bay Press-Gazette someone needed to be positive on this story.

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PST: Lessons to learn from Chelsea-Arsenal

Chelsea stayed on top of the Premier League with their 2-1 win at Arsenal on Saturday, but with the season still in its infancy, the lessons we draw from early-season games may be more informative than the actual results. With that in mind, let?s take inventory of what we learned from the early match at the Emirates:

What we learned about ? Chelsea:

1. They?re more than Eden Hazard - Through the first weeks of the season, many were bending over backwards to try and quantify how many goals the 21-year-old Belgian phenom had contributed, leading to a mysterious phase where some outlets were awarding him assists for penalty kicks created. The efforts came from a good place, trying to find some way to describe the huge impact Hazard was having on Chelsea?s results, but today at the Emirates, Hazard was barely noticeable. He had some nice runs with the ball and put in a first half cross that would have blown out both of Arjen Robben?s hamstrings, but none of it had a major impact. Chelsea was able to win a ?huge game without a huge day from their best player.

2. It?s never going to be pretty - The pragmatism that drove Chelsea to last year?s Champions League has become endemic to their play. Today they didn?t generate a ton of chances (you could argue they only really created one), but they didn?t need to. For all the money this club?s spent on attackers, their success is predicated on their ability to get ahead and hold on. The approach may not be as dominant as it was during the Jos? Mourinho era, but it may yet prove as effective, even if Roman Abramovich would ideally want something a little more attractive.

3. Chelsea are title contenders - Some will say they?ve been contenders all along, but from a team that finished sixth last season, we needed this result to see Chelsea as more than knockout tournament specialists. Given Arsenal were coming off a well-earned point at Manchester City, today?s was a telling result. Although Chelsea may not be favorites to win the Premier League, but they can?t be far off.

What we learned about ? Arsenal:

1. They?re close, just not there yet -?It?s hard to be too down on Arsenal given they?re just played two title contenders to a 3-2 aggregate over the last 180 minutes. This team lost last year?s two best players (Robin van Persie, Alex Song). To be at this level so early in the season should be seen as an accomplishment.

2. Dominating the ball is overrated -?Their problems in attack are the same as ever. The type of players that make Arsenal so good in the middle third hold them back as they approach goal. While that wasn?t a huge problem on Saturday, having a better penalty area presence certainly would have helped. Continuing to use Gervinho through the middle, it?s unclear Ars?ne Wenger is willing to do what it takes to fine tune this attack.

3. Set piece defending needs to get better - All three goals allowed over Arsenal?s last two games came off set pieces. Even if that?s an aberration, Wenger has to treat it as a cause for concern. The message to his team needs to emphasize set piece defending is costing Arsenal their place among the league?s best.

Source: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/29/chelsea-arsenal-lessons/related

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TEXT-S&P ratings - China Fishery Group Ltd.

Jim Bell, an executive producer at?Today, wants you to know that "it was absolutely" his "call" to fire Ann Curry, throwing himself in front of the criticism Matt Lauer was getting from Curry fans.?Even though Today's ratings have been sagging? ?and the ,?nothing too terrible has happened?the show hasn't ended, the cheeriness is still there, Kathie Lee is still drinking before noon?and now Bell has come forward to claim responsibility for the call. "It was definitely not Matt?s call," . ...

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Measuring the universe's 'exit door'

Friday, September 28, 2012

The point of no return: In astronomy, it's known as a black hole ? a region in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Black holes that can be billions of times more massive than our sun may reside at the heart of most galaxies. Such supermassive black holes are so powerful that activity at their boundaries can ripple throughout their host galaxies.

Now, an international team, led by researchers at MIT's Haystack Observatory, has for the first time measured the radius of a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy ? the closest distance at which matter can approach before being irretrievably pulled into the black hole.

The scientists linked together radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a telescope array called the "Event Horizon Telescope" (EHT) that can see details 2,000 times finer than what's visible to the Hubble Space Telescope. These radio dishes were trained on M87, a galaxy some 50 million light years from the Milky Way. M87 harbors a black hole 6 billion times more massive than our sun; using this array, the team observed the glow of matter near the edge of this black hole ? a region known as the "event horizon."

"Once objects fall through the event horizon, they're lost forever," says Shep Doeleman, assistant director at the MIT Haystack Observatory and research associate at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. "It's an exit door from our universe. You walk through that door, you're not coming back."

Doeleman and his colleagues have published the results of their study this week in the journal Science.

Jets at the edge of a black hole

Supermassive black holes are the most extreme objects predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of gravity ? where, according to Doeleman, "gravity completely goes haywire and crushes an enormous mass into an incredibly close space." At the edge of a black hole, the gravitational force is so strong that it pulls in everything from its surroundings. However, not everything can cross the event horizon to squeeze into a black hole. The result is a "cosmic traffic jam" in which gas and dust build up, creating a flat pancake of matter known as an accretion disk. This disk of matter orbits the black hole at nearly the speed of light, feeding the black hole a steady diet of superheated material. Over time, this disk can cause the black hole to spin in the same direction as the orbiting material.

Caught up in this spiraling flow are magnetic fields, which accelerate hot material along powerful beams above the accretion disk The resulting high-speed jet, launched by the black hole and the disk, shoots out across the galaxy, extending for hundreds of thousands of light-years. These jets can influence many galactic processes, including how fast stars form.

'Is Einstein right?'

A jet's trajectory may help scientists understand the dynamics of black holes in the region where their gravity is the dominant force. Doeleman says such an extreme environment is perfect for confirming Einstein's theory of general relativity ? today's definitive description of gravitation.

"Einstein's theories have been verified in low-gravitational field cases, like on Earth or in the solar system," Doeleman says. "But they have not been verified precisely in the only place in the universe where Einstein's theories might break down ? which is right at the edge of a black hole."

According to Einstein's theory, a black hole's mass and its spin determine how closely material can orbit before becoming unstable and falling in toward the event horizon. Because M87's jet is magnetically launched from this smallest orbit, astronomers can estimate the black hole's spin through careful measurement of the jet's size as it leaves the black hole. Until now, no telescope has had the magnifying power required for this kind of observation.

"We are now in a position to ask the question, 'Is Einstein right?'" Doeleman says. "We can identify features and signatures predicted by his theories, in this very strong gravitational field."

The team used a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry, or VLBI, which links data from radio dishes located thousands of miles apart. Signals from the various dishes, taken together, create a "virtual telescope" with the resolving power of a single telescope as big as the space between the disparate dishes. The technique enables scientists to view extremely precise details in faraway galaxies.

Using the technique, Doeleman and his team measured the innermost orbit of the accretion disk to be only 5.5 times the size of the black hole event horizon. According to the laws of physics, this size suggests that the accretion disk is spinning in the same direction as the black hole ? the first direct observation to confirm theories of how black holes power jets from the centers of galaxies.

The team plans to expand its telescope array, adding radio dishes in Chile, Europe, Mexico, Greenland and Antarctica, in order to obtain even more detailed pictures of black holes in the future.

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Stocks snap a losing streak

NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks notched their first gain of the week Thursday after Spain announced severe budget cuts intended to convince the world that it can meet deficit-reduction targets.

It was the best day for the U.S. market since Sept. 13, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced further steps by the central bank to speed the economic recovery.

Stocks were also helped by speculation that the central bank of China will act soon to help the world's No. 2 economy.

The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 72.46 points, or 0.5 percent, to close at 13,485.97. It was the Dow's first gain in five trading sessions. The average was up as much as 109 points after the Spain announcement.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index, after five days of declines, closed up 13.83 points, or just shy of 1 percent, at 1,447.15. The Nasdaq composite index rose 42.90 points to 3,136.60.

The Nasdaq and S&P were helped by a jump in Apple stock, reversing three days of declines. Apple gained $16.14, or 2.4 percent, to $681.32 despite an analyst's report reducing estimates for shipments of iPhones later this year.

As fear grew that Spain will need an international bailout, the finance minister said a draft budget for 2013 cuts overall spending by ?40 billion, or about $51 billion. He said cuts for ministries would average almost 9 percent.

The cuts are meant to show world investors and other countries that Spain can meet fiscal targets. The budget unveiling, shortly before noon EDT, lifted the U.S. stock market from what had been only modest gains.

"That's the only major thing that's happened," said Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist for the brokerage BTIG. "It's an excuse to rally the stock market."

Technology stocks and energy companies made the biggest gains. Utility stocks, which tend to do well when investors are fearful, were the only industry group in the S&P to fall.

The market gains started earlier, in Asia, helped by expectations that the People's Bank of China will act soon. China's biggest steelmaker said Thursday it has shut down a mill in Shanghai, a sign of weakening growth.

Stocks rose 0.5 percent in Japan and 1.1 percent in Hong Kong.

In the United States, investors grappled Thursday with mixed economic data:

? The economy grew at an annual rate of 1.3 percent from April through June, the government said, slower than the previous estimate of 1.7 percent and not nearly fast enough to reduce unemployment.

? Demand for long-lasting manufactured goods plunged in August by the most since January 2009. That was mostly because of a huge drop in commercial aircraft orders, which are volatile. Orders that reflect business investment rose solidly.

? The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 26,000 last week to 359,000, the lowest figure in nine weeks. A figure consistently below 375,000 is generally enough to lower the unemployment rate.

? The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy previously occupied homes fell in August from a two-year high in July. The National Association of Realtors' sales index is still 10 percent higher than it was a year ago.

In Europe, stocks came back from one of their worst days in months. The benchmark stock index finished 0.7 percent higher in France and 0.2 percent higher in Germany and Britain.

Borrowing costs for financially troubled Spain and Italy also edged down, a positive sign.

In the U.S., demand for government bonds fell, generally an indication that investors are more willing to embrace risk. The yield on the 10-year note, which moves opposite the price, rose 0.03 percentage point to 1.65 percent.

The price of crude oil rose $1.87 per barrel to $91.85 as concerns mounted about a potential military confrontation over Iran's nuclear program. Oil had dropped $9 a barrel in two weeks.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned at the United Nations that Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb by next summer and urged the world to draw a "red line" to stop it.

The dollar fell against the euro and pound but rose against the yen.

Among other U.S. companies making moves:

? Tempur-Pedic International, the mattress company, climbed $3.86, or 14.4 percent, to $30.64 after announcing it would buy a rival, Sealy, for about $229 million in cash.

? Discover Financial Services rose $2.69, or 7.3 percent, to $39.71. It reported a slight earnings decline in its latest quarter but beat Wall Street expectations. It also said credit card use increased and more customers paid off cards on time.

? GE hit a four-year high after the company told analysts it expects industrial revenue to rise about 10 percent this year. GE gained 63 cents, or 2.9 percent, to $22.73 in afternoon trading. They rose as high as $22.86.

Associated Press

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Pursuing the career has never been so easy

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The present scenario is often regarded as very competitive. Indeed it is. There is so much of competition in each and every field. Everybody performs to the best of his/her capabilities to outshine the competitors. However, this very scenario is also called as the ?information age?. IT constantly endeavors hard to simplify the lives of millions of people. It has been doing wonders in several fields of life ever since its inception. One such field is education. Although the present scenario is very competitive yet IT makes it easy for people to find their niche and get skilled in it. Pursuing the career has never been so easy.

Online education (also called as online training) has emerged as a very powerful tool to empower people with sheer work skills and knowledge. Pursuing a career course has become as easy as it has never been. One can pursue a career course online with the help of a computer and internet connection, right from home. Above that the course can be pursued at a very economical price and from a reputed university. Various fields in which IT has made it very easy for people to pursue a course to boost their career are described below-

1. Accounting: Accounting is a field in which there are so many online training courses available for the students.

One such course is ?Sage online qualification?. This online course empowers users with skills for performing various accounting functions. These skills include calculating finances of the company, filing VAT, tracking financial transactions to & from the company account, etc. After pursuing an online accountancy course one can easily fetch a job by the virtue of sheer skills.

2. Information Technology: The gift of IT i.e. the online education system helps students to dodge struggle for taking a plunge into IT industry and excel their career there on. There are several online IT courses which transform students into an IT expert. There are several IT giants which provide quality online education. One such service provider is Microsoft. It provides several online IT courses such as MCSE, MCTS, MCSA and many more. These courses are very well recognized by employers throughout the world and hence help in fetching a decent job quite easily.

3. Language Training: Language training is a course which is experiencing a great high as of today. Due to the advancement in Science and technology the world is shrinking and hence is increasing a demand to learn new languages as they are the only barrier for a free flow of ideas and thoughts. Through online language courses millions of people benefit every year. ?

4. Human Resources: Human Resources Management is considered as the foundation of any and every organization. It is a sector which is very rewarding and hence people get tempted towards it. Several online education service providers help potential employees to get into this field by providing quality education. One such service provider is Sage. It provides various ?Sage eLearning course? to train people in the field of HR. Through these courses people get skilled in storing employees? data securely, tracking their growth, recording their leaves, and many other HR functions.

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TILL DEATH ? ? GuyanaLive Blog

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CanWeNetwork: Business Networking App - Social Networking Watch

PR NEWSWIRE - Sep 25 - CanWeNetwork is a new mobile business networking tool that provides users with valuable professional recommendations of people they need to meet for business opportunities. Recommendations are based on location, skillset, experience, shared interests and personality traits extracted from LinkedIn profiles.

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Mice as Stand-Ins in the Fight Against Disease

[unable to retrieve full-text content]In what could be the ultimate in personalized medicine, animal models, referred to by researchers as avatars, are being used to help determine the best treatment for a patient.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/business/mice-as-stand-ins-in-the-fight-against-disease.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Rivalry and female relationships in shojo manga ? Shojo Corner

Posted in Gender Roles, Uncategorized tagged shojo, shoujo, Mars, Mars manga, Absolute Boyfriend, Kimi ni Todoke, Peach Girl, Kare Kano, His and Her Circumstances at 12:09 pm by starsamaria

I?ve been thinking a lot lately about the presence of rival female characters in shojo manga. In most shojo series, the protagonist is envied or outright bullied by another female. While this may ring true for many teenage girls in real life, in manga the cruelty these female antagonists display sends a particularly bad message about women in general. Not only do such characters suggest that women are typically catty or downright vicious,?but that there are no positive, loving relationships between women.?The latter is especially true?because often?in shojo manga the only other prominent female character besides the protagonist is her rival, which is probably why?I appreciate female friendships in shojo manga when they do show up.?Many shojo series present female fantasies ? like having the most popular guy in school fall for an average girl ? and it?s sad that the only role other females can play in these fantasies is that of the antagonist. Furthermore, the female rival is almost always more beautiful and ?perfect? than the protagonist?is, which sends the unfortunate message that women can?t be both beautiful and kind, and that women?who are?popular or desired by men are deserving of being hated.?Funnily enough, several other bloggers have also?been pondering the presence of the female rival, so I thought I?d share my thoughts of a few of the best, worst, and downright ugliest female rivals in shojo manga.

Mika Ito (Absolute Boyfriend)

At the beginning of Absolute Boyfriend, Mika is Riiko?s popular?best friend who helps her whenever she gets rejected by a guy. But not long after Riiko begins dating Night, a robot who is programmed to be the best lover, Mika reveals that she stole all the guys who Riiko liked and plans to do the same with Night. Riiko is devastated?to find out that Mika was only pretending to be her friend to make herself look better (since Riiko is ?plain?), and when Night fails to fall for Mika?s seductions, she is rarely heard from or seen again.?Mika is a pretty standard female rival because?the main reason she is?jealous of Riiko?revolves around a man. Furthermore, Mika isn?t given any real personality?- the most important function of her character is to create drama between Riiko and Night, the??more important? romantic relationship.?By having Mika try to steal her ?best friend?s? boyfriend, Absolute Boyfriend implicitly sends the message that not only are females not to?be trusted, but that they are only obstacles in getting the attention of men (and that men are the only ?goals? females seek to attain).

Harumi Sugihara (Mars)

When bad boy Rei Kashino and quiet artist Kira Aso start falling for each other at the beginning of Mars, Rei?s former fling Harumi is none too pleased. ?Harumi?s jealousy becomes so intense that she and a group of girls decide to kidnap Kira?so she?ll break up with Rei, or else?they?ll break her fingers. Kira refuses, but at the last second Harumi decides not to do it. Rei threatens?Harumi not to come near Kira again, and not long after Kira becomes friends with Harumi. While the friendship between Kira and Harumi?is highly unrealistic, because Harumi is the only other female character who is in the manga from beginning to end, we see no alternatives to female relationships, which is highly problematic. Although Harumi?s violent threats were treated as horrible, having her attempt to physically harm Kira suggests that females become completely irrational over men ? and this notion is?somewhat ?normalized? because Kira completely forgives her?Harumi for her vindictiveness?without ever addressing the issue.

Sae Kashiwagi (Peach Girl)

No list of female rivals would be complete without Sae. At the beginning of Peach Girl, Sae is Momo?s ?best friend,? with a tendency to gossip and copy Momo?s fashion sense. But when Sae finds out Momo has a crush on Toji,?a classmate from middle school, Sae does anything and everything to steal him away.?When Toji ends up in the hospital, Sae convinces her entire class not to tell Momo that he?s sick so she can visit him by herself (and so he can think Momo doesn?t care about him since she hadn?t visited him). Momo and Toji do break up temporarily, but before long they are back together and Sae ends up scheming again. She decides to trick Momo by slipping something in her drink, after which Momo wakes up in a hotel with a model who Sae is manipulating. Sae takes blackmail photos and uses them to get Toji to go out with her, which he miserably agrees to do. Once again, Peach Girl presents female rivals whose relationship only?revolves around men, but what?s interesting is that Sae isn?t even in love with Toji. Sae sends the message that females are obsessed with getting a guy ? any guy ? as a sign of their superiority over other females.?Sae is considered the ultimate bitch is shojo manga ? she has no redeeming qualities and the audience is made to hate her, which is unfortunately the fate of many female characters in the?media.?Sae?s machinations?also imply that women are incredibly shallow ? not only is Sae obsessed with taking down?Momo, but in being fawned over (she even briefly becomes a model to attain this goal).?Thus, Peach Girl sends the message that the only role women serve in each others? lives is to make each other miserable.

Ume Kurumizawa (Kimi ni Todoke)

Not long after realizing her own feelings for her popular classmate Kazehaya, Sawako soon discovers that another girl likes him: Kurumi. Kurumi?notices before anyone else does how Kazehaya looks at Sawako, and?she asks Sawako to give?up on him. Sawako refuses, but surprisingly the two?develop a sort-of friendship. Since both love Kazehaya they end up talking about their crushes,?and when?Sawako and Kazehaya?finally start dating each other?both she and the audience can?t help but feel sorry for?Kurumi. Because Kurumi isn?t outright cruel in her treatment of Sawako the way many other female rivals are, she comes across as sympathetic, especially since her feelings for Kazehaya were genuine. Furthermore, because Kimi ni Todoke highlights the friendship between Sawako, Yano, and Chizu, there is a range of female interactions and personalities that are presented beyond Kurumi?s character.?Thus, although Kurumi and Sawako?s relationship is initiated by their common interest of a man, Kimi ni Todoke takes a step in the right direction by fleshing out the female rival.

Maho Izawa (His and Her Circumstances)

His and Her Circumstances? protagonist Yukino is the smartest and most popular girl in school, to the envy of her classmate Maho. Like Yukino, Maho?has always?been the center of attention and loves being praised, and she convinces the other girls in her class to start ignoring Yukino so she can reclaim her throne.?Her plan fails, however, and soon Yukino helps her realize that there?s more to life than being number one ? like having good friends.?One thing I appreciate is that Maho?s rivalry with?Yukino is not about men at all. While her reasons for hating Yukino?(or actually, loving, since she wishes to be like Yukino) are still superficial, His and Her Circumstances at least shows how important it is to have close female friends by showing that Yukino was missing something from her life without them.?And unlike other female rivals who try to bring each other down, once Maho becomes friends with?Yukino they try to?help each other correct their old ways and start focusing on new goals, which is a refreshing change to?the sadly combative female dynamic that is typically shown not just in shojo manga, but in?media in general.

The female rival is a clich? that is insidious because it is?used in such misogynistic ways. It has become so common to have a ?bitchy? female character that it is easy not to even question why females in media are so consistently made to be hated. Yet not all female rivals come across as unsympathetic or feel like unnecessary plot devices.?What do you?guys think of the presence of?girls whose?only purpose is to?torment?the protagonist? And are there female rivals who you?ve liked or you felt served a purpose to the plot beyond creating drama? Share your thoughts, guys!

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Birch Presenting Sponsor of the Macon Annual Golf Classic

Birch Communications pleased to be the presenting sponsor for this Chamber fundraiser for the eighth straight year!

Macon, Ga. ? September 25, 2012 ? Birch Communications, a leading IP-based telecom and managed services provider for small- and medium-sized businesses served as the Presenting Sponsor for the Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce Annual Golf Classic for the eighth year in a row.

?The Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce?s 2012 Golf Classic presented by Birch Communications was a huge success! The Chamber, as well as the entire business community, has benefited from Birch Communications sponsoring the tournament for eight consecutive years. The 2012 Classic provided an opportunity for 112 players representing over 300 businesses within Middle Georgia to spend an afternoon on the greens with business associates and peers,? said Michael Dyer, Macon Chamber President. ?[The Chamber] and the Board of Directors value the support of Birch Communications and their partnership in moving the community forward.?

?The Macon Chamber has done much for our business community in the greater Macon area, and Birch is always pleased to support an organization that does so much for local business owners,? said Vincent Oddo, Birch president and CEO. ?Birch will always work with the Greater Macon Chamber to build a strong business community, and be part of the voice on issues that affect us in the Greater Macon area.?

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Former Filipino street kid, 13, wins $130,000

By Isolde Raftery, NBC News

As a child living in the Philippines, Kesz Valdez was beaten by his father, forced to make money to buy him drugs and alcohol.

At 4, Kesz ran away to a dump site, struggling to stay alive. After he was gravely wounded from falling in a pile of burning tires, a man named Harnin Manalaysay cared for him and eventually became his guardian.

On his seventh birthday, Kesz told Manalaysay that he didn?t want birthday presents. Rather, he wanted to give gifts to street kids. Now Kesz is 13, and his charity, Championing Community Children, has given gifts to 5,000 street kids in Cavite City, an act of selflessness that has earned Kesz the 2012 International Children?s Peace Prize, an honor that comes with $130,000.

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Today, Kesz educates children living on the streets about personal hygiene and he takes care of their wounds, according to a video made about his story.

"I teach the children how to wash hands properly, brush their teeth daily and bathe regularly. I believe that some of these street children we save will pay the act forward to help champion their own communities," he told GMA News Online.

Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu, a retired Anglican bishop from South Africa who opposed Apartheid, presented the award on Sept. 19.

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?These young people show the incredible resilience in the human spirit,? Tutu said of the three children before him. ?I congratulate this year?s winner.?

Said Kesz, according to the prize website: ?My message to all children around the globe is; our health is our wealth! Being healthy will enable you to play, to think clearly, to get up and go to school and love the people around you in so many ways. To everyone in the world, please remember that every day, 6,000 children die from diseases associated with poor sanitation, poor hygiene, and we can do something about it! Please join me in helping street children achieve better health and better lives.?

He dedicated his award to his guardian, Manalaysay, GMA News Online reported.

"I look up to him as a father. He is the first person who made me feel loved so it is only fitting to dedicate this award to him," Kesz said.

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Adobe announces Photoshop and Premiere Elements 11 with new filters, more beginner-friendly UI

Earlier this year Adobe announced Photoshop CS6 with a new user interface, and now Elements, its line of beginner-level products, are getting a facelift too. The company just introduced Photoshop and Premiere Elements 11, and while the two apps include a handful of new photo- and video-editing features, the bigger story is that they're designed to be less intimidating to newbies. Both have a more readable UI, for instance, as opposed to the old theme with the dark background and low-contrast icons. Things like preview thumbnails have been brought to the forefront so that they're easier to find. Also, both pieces of software ship with a re-tooled image organizer that puts commonly used functions front and center, with lesser-used features like keyword tagging hidden in the menus. The organizer also now has Google Maps integration, so you can view your shots on a map. You can also for the first time view by event, or by the names of people tagged in photos.

As for new features, Photoshop Elements is getting a series of new comic-inspired filters, including "Pen and Ink," "Graphic Novel" and, yes, "Comic." Photoshop Elements now allows European customers to upload photos to Cewe, while Premiere Elements supports Vimeo uploads. (Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Shutterfly and SmugMug sharing were already built in.) Amateur videographers will also enjoy a series of new Hollywood-inspired filters, including Red Noir, a "Sin City"-esque effect with red accents, and "Pandora," which is meant to evoke "Avatar." Finally, you can use Time Remapping and Reverse Time to speed up footage or slow it down, respectively.

Fans of the software will notice the pricing hasn't changed: the two apps cost $100 each, or $150 as a bundle. Folks who are upgrading will pay $80 a pop, or $120 for both. Look for both on Adobe's site today, with the old-fashioned box software hitting retailers soon.

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Pakistan fires kill 283, lax safety laws blamed

People gather at the site of burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Pakistani officials say the death toll from devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities has risen to 128. Hospital official Tariq Kaleem said the fire at a garment factory in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi killed 103 people. A blaze at a shoe factory in the eastern city of Lahore killed 25 people. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

People gather at the site of burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Pakistani officials say the death toll from devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities has risen to 128. Hospital official Tariq Kaleem said the fire at a garment factory in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi killed 103 people. A blaze at a shoe factory in the eastern city of Lahore killed 25 people. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

A Pakistani man comforts to another who weeps at the site of burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. The death toll from a pair of devastating factory fires that broke out in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan's two biggest cities, rose on Wednesday to more than 300 people. Many of the victims perished because they were unable to escape buildings that lacked emergency exits and basic safety equipment such as alarms and sprinklers. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

A Pakistani weeps beside the ambulances parked at the site of burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Pakistani officials said the death toll from devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities has risen to 128. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

A fireman tries to extinguish a fire which broke out in a factory on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 in Karachi, Pakistan. Factory fires in two of Pakistan's major cities killed 39 people and injured dozens more on Tuesday, including some who had to break through barred windows and leap to the ground to escape the flames. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

A Pakistani rescue worker carries a dead body after recovering from a burnt garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Pakistani officials say the death toll from devastating factory fires that broke out in two major cities has risen to 128. Hospital official Tariq Kaleem says the fire at a garment factory in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi killed 103 people. A blaze at a shoe factory in the eastern city of Lahore killed 25 people. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) ? Fires swept through two clothing factories in Pakistan, leaving 283 people dead ? many trapped behind locked doors and barred windows ? highlighting the atrocious working conditions in a country where workplaces often lack basic safety equipment and owners bribe officials to ignore the violations.

The twin blazes broke out Tuesday night at a garment factory in the southern port city of Karachi and a shoe manufacturer in the eastern city of Lahore. At least 258 people died in the fire in Karachi, where rescue workers were still searching Wednesday for bodies in the charred building. Another 25 perished in Lahore.

The panicked workers in Karachi had only one way out since the factory's owner had locked all the other exit doors in response to a recent theft, officials said. Many victims suffocated in the smoke-filled basement.

"The owner of the factory should also be burned to death the way our dear ones have died in a miserable condition," said Nizam-ud-Din, whose nephew was killed in the fire, one of the deadliest industrial accidents in Pakistani history.

Police were searching for the factory's managers and placed the owner on a list of people who are not allowed to leave the country, said Roshan Ali Sheikh, a top government official in Karachi.

"It is a criminal act to lock the emergency exit doors, and we are trying to know who did it, and why," Sheikh said.

The fire started when a boiler exploded and the flames ignited chemicals that were stored in the factory, which manufactured jeans and other clothes for export. Between 300 and 400 workers were inside when the blaze erupted.

Many of the deaths were caused by suffocation as people trapped in the basement were unable to escape when it filled with smoke, said Karachi fire chief Ehtisham-ud-Din.

Those on the upper floors of the five-story building had to break through metal bars covering the windows so they could leap to safety. Dozens were injured doing so, including a 27-year-old pregnant woman.

"When smoke spread all around, I jumped out the window in panic," said Mohammad Shahzad, who broke an arm and a leg when he hit the ground. "I found myself in the hospital when I regained my senses."

Others burned to death as they tried to wriggle through the barred windows.

"There were no safety measures taken in the building design," said senior police official Amir Farooqi. "There was no emergency exit. These people were trapped."

Firefighters were still battling the blaze Wednesday. The death toll spiked as they entered previously inaccessible parts of the factory and found scores more bodies. The death toll stood at 258 by Wednesday evening, including a 10-year-old boy, said Sheikh. Another 31 people were injured.

Rani Bibi said her two sons-in-law called Tuesday night to say they were trapped in the factory and asked her to tell their wives to take good care of the children. She hasn't heard from them since, and couldn't find their bodies in any of the hospitals in the city.

"We don't know where they are," said Bibi, tears flowing down her face. "I hope to hear their voice. My two daughters' lives are ruined."

The fire that swept through the four-story shoe factory in Lahore left 25 people dead, some from burns and others from suffocation, said senior police officer Multan Khan.

The fire broke out as workers were trying to start a generator after electricity went out in the building. Sparks from the generator made contact with chemicals used to make shoes, igniting the blaze, which blocked the only exit. Firefighters had to break through the building's brick walls to save people, officials said.

Raza Rumi, an analyst at the Islamabad-based Jinnah Institute, said the fire in Karachi was one of the deadliest industrial accidents in the country's history. "It is reflective of the utter collapse of regulation and the enforcement of labor laws in the country," he said.

The problem has gotten worse in recent years as the federal government handed over factory oversight to provincial authorities, but local governments failed to develop legislation enforcing labor laws or basic safety regulations, Rumi said. Many Pakistani factories lack even basic safety equipment, such as alarms and sprinklers.

In Punjab province, where Lahore is the capital, authorities abolished labor inspections altogether in 2003 to develop a more "business-friendly environment," Rumi said.

It was unclear whether anger over the fires in Karachi and Lahore will prompt provincial governments to focus on passing new labor regulations.

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Abbot reported from Islamabad. Associated Press writers Zaheer Babar in Lahore and Rebecca Santana, Asif Shahzad and Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed to this report.

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Doomed Space Cloud Hints at Planet Formation in Milky Way's Core

Astronomers have found a cloud of gas and dust around a young star being devoured by the giant black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, a find that, scientists say, suggests planets can form in galactic cores, scientists say.

The supermassive black hole thought to lurk at the center of the Milky Way is named Sagittarius A*. Scientists estimate it is about 4.3 million times the mass of the sun.

For the most part, very little light is seen emerging from near Sagittarius A*, aside from radio waves and some modest X-ray or infrared flares, suggesting not much matter is currently getting fed into it. This absence of data limits what investigators can deduce about the black hole's properties and behavior, as well as those of the other supermassive black holes believed to be at the centers of all large galaxies.

Recently, astronomers gazing at Sagittarius A* through the Very Large Telescope in Chile spotteda dusty gas cloud three times the mass of Earth hurtling toward the center of the galaxy at more than 5.2 million mph (8.4 million kph).

The cloud is putting out five times as much light as the sun as it zips along. The cloud should achieve its closest approach to the black hole in June 2013, reaching a distance of 270 times that of Earth from the sun. [Milky Way Black Hole Eats Space Cloud in 2013 (Video)]

Scientists are monitoring this mysterious cloud's behavior as it moves closer toward the black hole's accretion zone ? the region where matter begins its death spiral into the black hole. A new theoretical model now suggests the cloud is probably the shredded remains of a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young, low-mass star ? the kind of structures that worlds eventually develop from.

The star apparently came from the inner edge of a ring of stars 4 million to 8 million years old circling Sagittarius A* from a distance of about one-tenth of a light-year. Interactions within this ring could have flung this star, which by itself is too small for astronomers to see directly, toward the black hole on an elliptical, oval-shaped orbit.

The center of the Milky Way might ordinarily seem like an inhospitable place to try to form a planet, since the young, massive, super-hot stars that often dwell there typically explode as supernovas, blasting out shock waves and bathing the region with intense radiation.

"The galactic center is one of the most extreme environments in the galaxy," said lead study author Ruth Murray-Clay, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.

Nevertheless, the existence of protoplanetary disks near the center of the galaxy suggests that worlds can form in this cosmic maelstrom, as well as comets and asteroids.

"If our explanation for the gas cloud we see is shown to be true, that means protoplanetary disks ? and by extension, planets ? can be found everywhere," Murray-Clay told SPACE.com.

"It's fascinating to think about planets forming so close to a black hole," study author Abraham Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., told SPACE.com. "If our civilization inhabited such a planet, we could have tested Einstein's theory of gravity much better, and we could have harvested clean energy from throwing our waste into the black hole."

Future research might look for evidence of planets, comets and asteroids falling into supermassive black holes in other galaxies, such as the bright flares dying worlds would release as they get ripped apart. The glowing remains of protoplanetary disks getting sucked into black holes could shed light on low-mass stars near galactic cores that are otherwise too faint to be detected.

As the star continues its plunge over the next year, more and more of the disk's outer material will get torn away. The stripped gas will swirl into the maw of the black hole, and friction will heat it to incandescence, causing it to glow in X-rays.

"We're really looking forward to next summer," Loeb said.

Murray-Clay and Loeb detailed their findings online today (Sept. 11) in the journal Nature Communications.

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HBT: Valentine plans to manage Red Sox in 2013

Last week Bobby Valentine made headlines for saying he wanted to punch WEEI radio host Glenn Ordway following what the Red Sox manager thought was an obnoxious question.

Valentine was back on WEEI and Ordway?s show this afternoon and jokingly brought boxing gloves to the studio.

In addition to proving (or at least attempting to show) that he?s a good sport Valentine also said he plans to manage the Red Sox in 2013 ?and beyond? amid speculation that he?ll be fired after the season.

Here?s the full quote, via Paul Flannery of WEEI.com:

It?s not up to me, but I think I will be, yeah. And beyond. Why would I say that I want to be here for 2013 as though that?s going to be the end of something? That will be the continuation and hopefully the beginning of something really special. Why would I think it?s going to be a year?s job?

Well, for starters because Valentine?s contract has one more year on it. But whatever.

He was also asked about Kevin Youkilis being traded to the White Sox following a reported feud with Valentine and noted that Youkilis? batting average hasn?t risen since the deal, saying: ?I just want to point out that I?m not the reason he was batting .238.?

That?s technically true. Youkils had a .233 batting average for the Red Sox and has a .234 batting average for the White Sox. Of course, his OPS has risen 100 points since the trade and he?s homered 12 times in 61 games for Chicago.

There?s more potentially quotable stuff from the radio interview, but I?m just about Valentine?d out.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/12/bobby-valentine-brings-boxing-gloves-to-radio-show-plans-to-manage-red-sox-in-2013-and-beyond/related/

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