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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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TV producer won't fight extradition to Mexico
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A reality show producer charged with murdering his wife during a Mexican vacation is dropping his extradition fight and will stand trial in Cancun, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Bruce Beresford-Redman's attorney said the onetime "Survivor" producer has decided not to appeal a Los Angeles federal court ruling upholding his extradition to Mexico.
"He feels he is not going to prevail on appeal and he'd like to get moving on proving his innocence," said attorney Richard Hirsch.
He said the producer could be sent to Mexico within 60 days following review of the extradition request by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Beresford-Redman, 40, is being held in a Los Angeles federal prison.
Monica Beresford-Redman, 42, disappeared from a Cancun resort where the couple was vacationing with their two children last year. Her body was found stuffed in a sewer cistern.
"He is innocent and it is his hope that the court in Mexico will assure that he receives a fair trial in which, he is confident, he will be exonerated," Hirsch said.
The family of Monica Beresford-Redman has said the couple went to Cancun to try to save their marriage. They claim Bruce Beresford-Redman, who is also the co-creator of the series "Pimp My Ride," was having a long-term affair with another woman. His wife, originally from Brazil, owned and operated a restaurant in Los Angeles.
U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez upheld an extradition order earlier this month, saying that there are many pages of competent evidence supporting prosecution claims that the producer killed his wife.
"All of this evidence points to homicide committed by the fugitive," said the judge's ruling.
Prosecutors presented statements from hotel guests who said they heard loud arguing and cries of distress coming from the couple's room on the night Monica Beresford-Redman went missing.
The producer's attorneys have claimed the noises came from Beresford-Redman and his children playing loud games throughout the night. They introduced statements from the couple's 6-year-old daughter to corroborate the claim, but judges who have reviewed the case were not swayed.
Beresford-Redman had been ordered to stay in Mexico after his wife's body was found but he left and returned to his home in Los Angeles. He voluntarily surrendered to U.S. authorities after a warrant was issued in Mexico for his arrest.
Hirsch said that Beresford-Redman's family has been in contact with a Mexican lawyer who will represent him at trial. Mexican courts do not have juries, and the producer will be tried by the same judge who issued the warrant for his arrest, Hirsch said.
If he is convicted of aggravated homicide in Mexico, he faces 12 years to 30 years in a Mexican prison.
His two small children have been placed in the custody of Beresford-Redman's parents with visitation by their mother's sisters.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Lions coach doesn't care who Packers may rest
Posted-December 26th, 2011 3:13 pm
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) -- Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz says he isn't worrying about whether or not the Green Bay Packers choose to rest key players when the teams meet Sunday.
The Packers improved to 14-1 with a 35-21 victory over Chicago on Sunday night, clinching home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs. The Packers beat the Bears without four injured starters.
The Lions secured their first spot in the playoffs since 1999 with a 38-10 victory over San Diego on Saturday. Detroit can still improve its playoff position if it can beat the Packers on the road for the first time since 1991.
(Copyright Associated Press)
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Monday, December 26, 2011
US weighing travel request for Yemen's president (AP)
HONOLULU ? The Obama administration is considering whether to allow Yemen's outgoing president into the United States for medical treatment, as fresh violence and political tensions flare in the strategically important Middle Eastern nation.
A senior administration official said President Ali Abdullah Saleh's office requested that he be allowed to receive specialized treatment in the U.S. for injuries sustained in a June attack on his compound. The request was being considered, and would only be approved for medical reasons, the official said.
Until now, the White House had not commented on Saleh's assertion Saturday that he would be leaving Yemen and traveling to the U.S. Saleh insisted he was going in order to help calm tensions in his country, not for medical treatment.
The official, who requested anonymity because of a lack of authorization to speak publicly, did not say when the Obama administration would decide on Saleh's request. But the official said Saleh's office indicated that he would leave Yemen soon and spend time elsewhere abroad before he hoped to come to the U.S.
Demonstrators began protesting against Saleh and calling for his ouster in February. The Yemeni government responded with a bloody crackdown, leaving hundreds of protesters dead, and stoking fears of instability in a nation already grappling with burgeoning extremism.
Last month, Saleh agreed to a U.S.- and Saudi-backed deal to hand power over to his vice president and commit to stepping down completely in exchange for immunity. The deal further angered Saleh's opponents, who demanded he be tried for his attacks on protesters.
American officials are deeply concerned that the months of turmoil in Yemen have led to a security breakdown. The dangerous al-Qaida branch in Yemen, known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, has taken advantage of the vacuum to expend its presence in southern Yemen.
Pressure has been mounting in recent weeks for Saleh to leave Yemen altogether. Opponents say he has continued to wield influence through his loyalists and relatives still in positions of power, hampering the transition ahead of presidential elections set for Feb. 21. Many feared he would find a way to continue his rule.
Activists said troops commanded by Saleh's relatives attacked protesters in the capital of Sanaa Saturday, killing at least nine people. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated the following day, protesting the deaths and demanding the resignation of Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi for failing to bring the killers to justice.
The White House said President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, called Hadi Sunday and emphasized the need for Yemeni security forces to show "maximum restraint" when dealing with demonstrations. Hadi told Brennan that he had launched an investigation into the recent deaths and injuries and would do his utmost to prevent further bloodshed, the White House said.
The White House said Brennan and Hadi agreed on the importance of continuing with the agreed-upon path of political transition in Yemen in order to ensure that the February elections take place.
Obama was being briefed on developments in Yemen while in Hawaii for his Christmas vacation.
The U.S. has experience with letting unpopular foreign leaders into this country for medical treatment.
More than three decades ago, President Jimmy Carter allowed the exiled shah of Iran into the U.S. for medical treatment in October 1979, eight months after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led a revolution that ousted the shah and created the Islamic Republic of Iran.
On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students occupied the U.S. embassy in Iran. Fifty-two American hostages were held for 444 days in response to Carter's refusal to send the shah back to Iran for trial.
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Ryan Seacrest's Hot Romance With Julianne Hough (omg!)
Ryan Seacrest might be the hardest working man in Hollywood, but he still makes time for love!
The American Idol host, who turns 37 on Saturday, began dating Julianne Hough in spring 2010.
CHECK OUT US' GALLERY OF RYAN AND JULIANNE'S CUTEST MOMENTS!
When they first met, Hough, 23, was a pro on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. "Dancing with the Stars and American Idol are literally right across the hall from each other [at the same television studio]," the Footloose actress said on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. "So we would be passing each other in the hallway -- I'd be in my skimpy little outfits and he'd be in his little tie."
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"I was even on his radio show," she laughed. "I just knew he was poking, and I knew his intentions!"
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Tornado watch issued for Middle Georgia
About half of Georgia will be on a tornado watch until 11 p.m.
The National Weather Service said tornadoes are possible. People should watch the sky and be alert, but no tornado has actually been sighted.
The tornado watch includes Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Hancock, Houston, Jones, Lamar, Monroe, Peach, Putnum, Twiggs and Wilkinson counties.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said weather radios, commercial radio stations and television newscasts may have the latest information. People should be alert to changing weather conditions, particularly approaching storms. People should take shelter if they see warning signs including a dark or greenish sky; large hail; a large, dark, low-lying cloud, particularly one that rotates; and a roar similar to a freight train.
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Evernote "memory aid" apps recall people, meals (Reuters)
PARIS (Reuters) ? If you have trouble putting a name to a face, or remembering where you ate that delicious morsel of food you are craving - and you have an iPhone -- help is now at hand.
Evernote, designed as a memory-aid application for storing text, audio and visual notes across multiple mobile devices and desktop machines has launched two new features - the Evernote Hello and Evernote Food apps.
The aim of Evernote, first launched in 2008 and now used by about 20 million people worldwide, is to function as a "second brain" to give people a better memory, Phil Libin, Evernote chief executive said.
The Evernote Hello app aims to transform and modernize the concept of the historic alphabet-based address book, he said.
"Current technology for remembering people is very antiquated," Libin told Reuters in an interview at LeWeb, a conference in Paris where about 3,500 of the world's top digital experts and entrepreneurs from 60 countries meet each year to discuss the state of the tech industry.
"Your brain doesn't remember people alphabetically -- you remember them based on what they look like, when you met them and the context."
Evernote Hello requires users to swap phones and add their name into the other person's phone. Users are then prompted to hold the phone up so it can automatically take their picture and add it to their profile.
Evernote Hello can then send each person an email containing the new information. It also creates a record of where they met, a picture of the location, a map and the address.
"The idea is that instead of an address book I get a really visual way of remembering everyone I've met," Libin said.
"It remembers everything that's happened around that encounter based on location, time and keywords and it pulls together all the information into a context."
Once added to Evernote Hello, people are displayed within a mosaic of faces.
When it is tapped, a face becomes a profile showing a history of all interactions the two people have shared. It also shows other people who have participated in the same meetings, location information and items related to meetings from the user's Evernote account such as notes and photos.
The Evernote Food app allows users to track and record social events surrounding meals using pictures, location and text. It can also be used to document favorite recipes and share them on Facebook, Twitter and email. Users can also write restaurant reviews or plan diets.
"Evernote Food helps you remember all your best meal experiences," Libin said. "We are trying to make beautiful experiences around the most important things to remember."
Both Evernote Hello and Evernote Food are available free for iPhone and iPod Touch.
(Writing by Julie Mollins, editing by Paul Casciato)
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Simmering Planet Keeps Heating
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Despite decades of warnings, greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, warming the world. Can such pollution peak this decade? David Biello asks
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As delegates gather in South Africa to determine what the world's nations should do about climate change, one might wonder how we're doing? After all, scientists have advised cuts to greenhouse gas emissions since at least the 1980s.
The latest accounting shows that global CO2 emissions have increased by nearly 50 percent in the past several decades. 2010 now stands as the year with the most greenhouse gas emissions ever. The results were published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Burning fossil fuels released more than 36 billion metric tons of CO2 last year, mainly due to growth in China and India combined with U.S. contributions. Ongoing deforestation is a big factor, too.
Looking back to the 1960s, nothing seems to have set back emissions for long, and that includes the latest Great Recession. Other studies show that we've burned roughly half of the fossil fuels we can if we don't want the climate to warm by more than 2 degrees Celsius.
In fact, we'll need zero or negative emissions at some point and emissions to peak sometime this decade to avoid any further warming. No time like the present.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Pakistani minister thanks Taliban for not bombing (AP)
ISLAMABAD ? Pakistan's interior minister thanked the country's Taliban militant movement Tuesday for not staging attacks during this year's Shiite ritual of Ashoura, a remark likely to draw criticism as the country grapples with how to subdue the extremists.
The Pakistani Taliban and other Sunni extremist groups have frequently bombed Shiite processions during Ashoura.
The government has declared war on the group, but in recent weeks there have been unconfirmed reports of peace talks with at least some factions within the Taliban.
Unlike in neighboring Afghanistan, where a suicide bomber killed more than 50 Shiites earlier Tuesday, the Ashoura observances passed peacefully in Pakistan this year.
Speaking to reporters in the capital, Islamabad, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said he had appealed to the Taliban to "respect" the Shiite observances and "I want to thank them for doing that."
It was unclear whether Malik, who has a history of making controversial, insensitive or wrong statements, was referring to a formal appeal to the Taliban. He has previously denied the reports of peace talks with the group. The government's official line is that it will talk to any militant outfit if it renounces violence and lays down its arms.
The Pakistani Taliban and allied groups have claimed responsibility for hundreds of suicide bombings over the last five years that have killed thousands as part of a campaign to replace the secular government with a hard-line Islamist one. They regard Shiites as infidels, and believe killing them is a religious obligation.
The army has attacked its strongholds in the northwest close to the Afghan border.
Despite the Taliban's violence, there is political and public support for a peace deal with the group.
Many Pakistanis share its hard-line religious views and anti-American stance, and believe the militants could be brought into the fold if only Islamabad severed its alliance with Washington, which they blame for the insurgency.
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HBT: Phils' meeting with Rollins doesn't go well
Jimmy Rollins? agent met recently with the Phillies and Jim Salisbury of CSNPhilly.com reports that the meeting ?did not go all that well.?
Salisbury writes that Rollins continues to insist on a five-year contract, with the Phillies understandably balking at making that sort of commitment to a 33-year-old shortstop who?s already started to decline.
In the meantime the Phillies have increased their pursuit of free agent Aramis Ramirez and are said to be shopping Placido Polanco to potentially make room at third base. However, a source told Salisbury that he still expects Rollins to eventually re-sign with the Phillies and indicated that the team?s interest in Ramirez is only as a fallback option.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Justin Bieber Rocks Disney Christmas Parade (PHOTOS)
Justin Bieber is a man about town these days. Just days after performing at the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony and debuting his new music video with Mariah Carey, The Biebs took off for the warmer weather in Disney World to perform at the 28th annual Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade.
Although the parade doesn't air on TV until Dec. 25, here are some photos of Bieber performing hits off his "Under The Mistletoe" album for the crowd of fans, and even a photo of the singer posing with a major celebrity -- Goofy!
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Justin Bieber performs a medley of songs from his new holiday album on December 3, 2011, while taping a segment for the "Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade" TV special at the Magic Kingdom park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. (Photo by Splash News)
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Wichita State hands No. 18 UNLV 1st loss (AP)
WICHITA, Kan. ? UNLV coach Dave Rice can remember the scouting report on Wichita State's Joe Ragland quite clearly.
"Catch and shoot guy," Rice said. "You have to close out on him."
The 18th-ranked Runnin' Rebels know that all too well now.
Ragland had eight 3-pointers ? one off the school record ? and finished with 31 points to lead the Shockers to an 89-70 victory on Sunday.
UNLV (8-1) is undefeated no more.
"The credit all goes to Wichita State," Rice said. "They got anything and everything they wanted. They executed really, really well."
Ragland entered the game with five 3-pointers this season. He went 8 of 9 from beyond the arc for the Shockers (5-2).
"Once I made the first couple," Ragland said, "I figured I would keep shooting whenever I was open."
That plan worked well for Wichita State, which led by 15 points at halftime and were never threatened after that.
Carl Hall scored 17 points and Garrett Stutz added 13 for Wichita State.
Chace Stanbeck led UNLV, which handed then-No. 1 North Carolina its first loss of the season on Nov. 26, with 16 points while Mike Moser added 12 points and seven rebounds.
Rice said his team's inability to make defensive stops was the key.
"The credit all goes to Wichita State," Rice said. "They got anything and everything they wanted. They executed really, really well."
It was 18-all when a 3 by Ragland ? the Shockers' fifth in the game's first 10 minutes ? started a 9-0 run.
UNLV went nearly 8 minutes without a field goal.
"Our game plan was to keep them from penetrating the middle," Shockers guard Toure Murry said, "and then just play from there."
That allowed the Shockers to stretch the lead behind Ragland. He made three more 3-pointers in half's final 6 minutes, hitting all five first-half 3-pointers he attempted. His 19 first-half points were as many as UNLV's top three scorers combined.
"Our guys were beating them (off the dribble), and they had to help," Ragland said. "That kept leaving me wide open."
The Shockers were 8 of 14 on 3-pointers in the half in building a 47-32 lead.
UNLV started finding its offensive stride after halftime, scoring 14 points in the first 5 1-2 minutes. But it could still never get the lead under 14.
A big reason was Wichita State's inside duo of Hall and Stutz, who combined for 19 points in the second half.
"We could not get a stop," Rice said. "From a learning standpoint, we need to understand that part of being 8-0 and being ranked is you're going to get everyone's best shot. And we certainly got that today."
Not surprisingly, it was Ragland who keyed the Shockers' final surge.
He calmly swished a kick-out 3-pointer, forcing a UNLV timeout with Wichita State leading 67-48. He finished 8 of 9 from the arc.
Then, 33 seconds later, Murry slammed a rebound for a 69-48 lead with 9:37 remaining, sending a sellout crowd into a frenzy.
UNLV would not get closer than 16 points after that.
"They played with more energy, came out harder," Moser said. "It was a real big game for them, and they took advantage of it."
UNLV was 5 of 20 from 3-point range and were outrebounded 28-26 after entering the game with a 6.2-rebound advantage per game. Wichita State had 20 assists on 32 field goals.
It was more than Shockers coach Gregg Marshall had even hoped.
"UNLV is an NCAA tournament team," Marshall said. "They've got the resume. I feel if we're consistent in that type of effort, we can be in the NCAA tournament as well."
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Patch 4.3 pets, mounts and collectibles
Blizzard has just posted a comprehensive list of the new pets, mounts, and collectibles available in patch 4.3. Everything from raiding to the new Darkmoon Faire Island is included, as well as the new holiday mounts that will be purchased with holiday currency. The holiday mounts are a departure from the luck-based rolls and one-a-day bags from holiday bosses, which will most likely be well received by the playerbase.
Brace yourselves for what could be some of most exciting updates to the game recently with patch 4.3. Review the official patch notes, and then dig into what's ahead: new item storage options, cross-realm raiding, cosmetic armor skinning and your chance to battle the mighty Deathwing -- from astride his back!
Check out the full list of patch 4.3 pets, mounts, and collectibles on the WoW community website.
Brace yourselves for what could be some of most exciting updates to the game recently with patch 4.3. Review the official patch notes, and then dig into what's ahead: new item storage options, cross-realm raiding, cosmetic armor skinning and your chance to battle the mighty Deathwing -- from astride his back! Filed under: Cataclysm
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Beckham lends a hand
By OLIVER TEVES
updated 7:44 a.m. ET Dec. 2, 2011
MANILA, Philippines - Away from fans' prying eyes, David Beckham took time out from soccer to share his experiences and listen to Filipino children struggling to rebuild their broken lives.
"It's so important to have a dream," Beckham told the former street children Friday at a UNICEF-supported shelter in a suburb of Manila, the Philippine capital where he and his teammates from the Los Angeles Galaxy are playing an exhibition against the country's national team this weekend.
On the sidelines of the Galaxy's Manila trip, Beckham, who is also a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, visited the shelter for children who have been rescued from the streets. They shared tales of domestic abuse and crime ? some fell victim to drugs or were abandoned by their parents.
Wearing a black UNICEF T-shirt, the 36-year-old former England captain listened intently in a private conversation with a group of five children and told them how he started playing when he was 7 years old and eventually achieving his dream of playing for Manchester United.
UNICEF asked that the names of the children and the shelter not be disclosed to protect their privacy.
Conan, a 17-year-old who was abandoned by his parents when he was 7, told Beckham that he dreams of joining the Philippine team and later becoming a coach.
He played in the Street Children's Football World Cup last year in South Africa, where the Philippines beat South Africa 2-1.
The younger children were awe-struck while listening to one of the world's best known athletes.
One 12-year-old girl named Shaina said she wants to be a nurse to help the sick. She often held Beckham's hand as she and the other children guided him around the facility, unfazed by the tattoos that adorn his arms.
Beckham told the UNICEF staff it was incredible that the children had gone through "so much in such a short space of time in their young lives" and learned responsibility and respect.
He said he was lucky to have had the support of both his parents and it was "so sad to see so many children that don't have that support, don't have that love."
He later listened to JM, a former drug user who turned 18 on Friday, sing a rap song in the Filipino language on how drugs ruin lives. After a staff translated the song for Beckham, he gave him a double thumbs up, saying, "You're good!"
The shelter that houses 136 kids has a small soccer field surrounded by separate cottages for boys and girls, a school, a basketball court and a training facility where children learn to sew clothes and cut hair.
Beckham posed with the children for a picture wearing a blue graduation gown and cap made at the sewing room, where he also tried his hand at making a pillow case.
"What struck me the most about coming into the center was it was a real happy place, a real inspiring place," he told The Associated Press. "They are teaching kids unbelievable values. Every child I spoke to today ? they all have dreams, they all have inspirations."
A father of four children, Beckham said it was "heartbreaking to think majority of these children haven't got parents, or haven't got parents to care for them and love them."
Beckham said that because of work, it's been difficult for him "to do some of the things I would like to do ? going out into the field like I obviously have today."
"I think it is important to raise awareness to many issues around the world, many worries around the world," he said. "In my position, thankfully, I can create that kind of interest and awareness to things that are happening around the world."
A highlight of his visit was a brief practice followed by a short game in which he joined one half of the shelter's team.
The star sweated under the midday sun as he helped their shoeless goalkeeper. His side lost 1-0.
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Davis shines, No. 1 Kentucky tops St. John's 81-59
Kentucky's Darius Miller, left, blocks the of St. John's Nurideen Lindsey (10) as Kentucky's Doron Lamb, right, applies pressure during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game won 81-59 by Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/ James Crisp)
Kentucky's Darius Miller, left, blocks the of St. John's Nurideen Lindsey (10) as Kentucky's Doron Lamb, right, applies pressure during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game won 81-59 by Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/ James Crisp)
Kentucky's Anthony Davis, right, pulls down a rebound next to St. John's Moe Harkless during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/ James Crisp)
Kentucky's Terrence Jones, right, looks for an opening on St. John's God'sgift Achiuwa during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/ James Crisp)
Kentucky's Marquis Teague (25) shoots under pressure from St. John's God'sgift Achiuwa during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Lexington, Ky., Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/ James Crisp)
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) ? Anthony Davis had no idea just how close he was to a triple-double. It was just a dominating night for the Kentucky freshman.
Davis scored 15 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and had eight of a school-record 18 blocks in the top-ranked Wildcats' 81-59 victory over St. John's on Thursday night.
"He changed everything about the game," Kentucky coach John Calipari said. "He blocked shots, he scored baskets, he rebounded tough rebounds, he came up with balls."
Terrence Jones added 26 points and nine rebounds for the Wildcats (7-0), who head into a highly anticipated showdown with No. 5 North Carolina on Saturday on a high note after a stalwart defensive performance.
"We did our job on defense. They were kind of rattled," Davis said. "When we lock down defensively, we're a great defensive team. If we keep playing defense like we are right now, we'll be fine."
Davis blocked four shots before the first timeout, and Kentucky set the team record with Eloy Vargas' swat with 2:42 to go. Davis finished one block short of tying the individual mark of nine set by Sam Bowie in 1981 and matched by Andre Riddick in 1993.
"It's like shooting over a tower," St. John's guard Nurideen Lindsey said. "He was blocking shots all over the place. It was tough."
God'sgift Achiuwa scored 18 points and Moe Harkless added 16 for the Red Storm (4-4) in St. John's first appearance in Rupp Arena since the 1985 Final Four when it lost to then-No. 1 Georgetown.
This game was much different than the last time the Wildcats took over the No. 1 spot in coach John Calipari's first year when they lost at South Carolina on Jan. 26, 2010.
Davis blocked his sixth shot early in the second half then finished an alley-oop on the other end from Marquis Teague that gave Kentucky a 42-27 lead with 16:26 left. He got his seventh a little over a minute later and his eighth with just over 12 minutes to go.
"If you block shots a couple of times, they want to shoot jump shots," Davis said. "That's what they did tonight."
Kentucky kept extending its lead by holding St. John's to 32 percent shooting, and the fans got a few final thrills when Doron Lamb threw an 18-foot alley-oop that Darius Miller slammed with one hand to make it 74-49 with 3:49 left.
"It just kind of happened. I don't know what was going through my mind right there," Miller said. "I haven't seen the video yet. I'll have to watch it when I get back home."
Vargas tied, then broke the school record for blocks in a 48-second span to surpass the mark set against Morehead State on Nov. 20, 1997. Lamb finished with 16 points as Kentucky turns its attention to the Tar Heels.
"If we play like tonight? I'd be a very sad coach after the game," said Calipari, who is 37-0 at home with Kentucky but continues to pick apart the lack of offensive rhythm and the mental lapses his team has made so far.
St. John's was without coach Steve Lavin, who is recovering from prostate cancer surgery and has missed the Red Storm's last three games. Assistant coach Mike Dunlap, who won two NCAA titles with Division II Metro State, paced up and down in the white tennis shoes Lavin and his staff wear.
"The disappointing part for us were the turnovers ? 19," Dunlap said. "When you on the road, you've got to take better care of the ball and that put a lot of pressure on our defense as far as easy baskets go."
His team played well early, relying on Achiuwa and Harkless on both ends and each had 10 rebounds.
Kentucky didn't make any changes to its starting lineup with senior sixth man Miller entering less than 3 minutes in as the Wildcats got off to a sluggish start. Harkless gave St. John's a 2-0 lead, the biggest deficit that Kentucky had faced at Rupp Arena this season.
The Wildcats committed five early turnovers and started 2 of 11 from the field to trail 5-4 before a 12-0 run with Davis heavily involved on both ends of the floor.
Davis pestered St. John's in the paint, used his quick hands to poke the ball away on the perimeter and simply jumped over the Red Storm for rebounds. In one early sequence, he grabbed an offensive rebound off Teague's missed 3-pointer and kicked it to Miller behind the arc.
Miller missed another long shot, but Davis tapped in the miss with an athletic, one-handed rebound and putback. Jones made an even more athletic play with 3 seconds left in the half, getting around a block out attempt on a free throw by Teague with a powerful dunk that gave the Wildcats a 31-20 lead.
The defense did the rest from there.
"We feel like we can get better. I don't think we've peaked as a defensive team," Miller said. "I think we've done a pretty good job so far and hopefully we continue to get better."
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How Organized Crime Infested Japan Inc. (Time.com)
Rarely in the history of Japan Inc. has there been a more remarkable board meeting. On Nov. 25, the directors of Olympus Corp. gathered at their Tokyo headquarters, their company under siege. Once a solid international brand, a maker of cameras and medical equipment, the company is now at the center of a global investigation as to whether, and to what extent, its top management was involved in funneling billions of dollars in allegedly illicit payments to offshore accounts. Investigators believe those payments, made for over a decade, may have mostly ended up in the hands of organized criminal groups in Japan. The company denies any yakuza connection, but if one is proved, Olympus will be delisted and almost certainly cease to exist in its current form.
At the center of the meeting was Michael C. Woodford, 51, the company's former president and CEO turned whistle-blower. Woodford brought his suspicions about the payments to the man who had been his mentor at Olympus, chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa. He was brushed off and then fired on Oct. 14 after asking for Kikukawa's resignation. Woodford fled Japan that same day for his native Britain. Although he didn't name specific threats, he says he did so out of fear for his safety. He then went public with his suspicions, and amid the worsening scandal, Kikukawa stepped down on Oct. 26. (See the top 10 CEO scandals.)
When Woodford returned to Tokyo for the board meeting (though fired, he was still on the board because of a quirk in Japan's corporate-governance rules), all hell had broken loose. He was mobbed by cameramen and reporters as he arrived at Narita airport and was protected by several police officers as he made his way into town. "I find myself in a John Grisham novel," Woodford later said. But the Olympus scandal is not fiction; it may, in fact, turn into the biggest corporate scandal in Japanese history.
If suspicions about yakuza involvement are proved accurate, it will not be the first time Japan Inc. has been linked to organized crime. Throughout the 1990s, the Japanese government ramped up its efforts to crack down on standard criminal activity like prostitution and gambling. In response, the yakuza went white collar. It started with small stuff like shareholder intimidation. Then, in 1997, six executives, including the chairman of what was then Japan's largest bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo, were convicted of making payments to a gangster who later admitted he was an extortionist and was also convicted. (See photos of stagnant Japanese economy.)
The yakuza continued to cast a sinister pall in ensuing years -- even over foreign-owned firms. In early 2008, Lehman Brothers' Tokyo office was defrauded of $355 million it loaned to a biotech company for what it thought was medical-equipment financing. The money was simply stolen in what investigators believed was a yakuza scam (though the suspicion was not proved). By then, according to American journalist Jake Adelstein, who for years has written about the yakuza, Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) suspected hundreds of companies of having been infiltrated by yakuza.
Read "As the Olympus Scandal Shows, Corporate Japan Is as Shoddily Governed as Ever."
The unfolding Olympus scandal also has its roots in the 1990s -- specifically in the bursting of the Japanese bubble. Before then, making money seemed effortless. Even blue-chip companies were taking funds from their traditional lines of business and pouring them into the ever rising stock and real estate markets -- a practice known as zaitech trading. Olympus was one of them. Toshiro Shimoyama, who ran the firm from 1984 to '93, admitted as much. "When the main business is struggling, we need to earn through zaitech," he told a press conference in 1986. But when the economy tanked -- Japan's leading stock index, the Nikkei, peaked in December 1989 -- zaitech profits became embarrassing losses for scores of companies, and the losses deepened as the decade progressed. That, by the company's own account, is what happened at Olympus.
Like many other corporations, Olympus tried to hide its losses through financial sleight of hand. The idea was to pay someone, or some company, to acquire the bad investments, thus getting them off the books. When the markets recovered, the investments would then be transferred back to the original owner. This process became known as tobashi (to blow away). The problem, for Olympus and many others, was that the markets never did recover. (See the top 10 crooked CEOs.)
What happened next is now at the center of the Olympus controversy. From 2006 to '08, according to the company, it paid almost $1 billion to acquire three Tokyo-based companies that had no revenue, no operating history and no relation to its core businesses. It then purchased, in 2008, British medical-equipment maker Gyrus for nearly $2 billion -- a deal on which it paid an astonishing $687 million fee to two financial-advisory firms that later shut their doors. (None of these companies have been charged with wrongdoing.) Both Shuichi Takayama, current Olympus president, and a panel the company put together to look into the payments admit they were made to disguise zaitech losses. In effect, Olympus was trying to create ostensibly legitimate transactions on its books that were roughly equivalent to the size of those losses.
The Tokyo prosecutor's office and the SESC suspect that Olympus made $6 billion in tobashi-related payouts over 10 years, much of it to entities suspected of criminal links. One such 2005 payment, first reported in the New York Times, involved $208 million that was used to acquire a tech company that authorities believe is a front set up by Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's biggest yakuza group. The probe now needs to establish if Olympus chose to run its tobashi schemes through entities that may be linked to organized crime or if it was coerced into doing so. Investigators also believe it is likely that the amount Olympus paid out exceeds its zaitech losses. "Extortion," says one source close to the affair, "is what these guys do." (Read "Olympus Scandal: A Confession, but Still No Answers.")
At the meeting on Nov. 25, Woodford said, directors agreed that the money trail needed to be followed wherever it led. He said the firm hoped to restate its accounts by Dec. 14, factoring in all payments made from 2000 to '09, but he also emphasizes that evidence of yakuza links is "not yet definitive at all." If authorities are able to confirm their suspicions, however, it could mean the dismemberment of Olympus. Delisted, its businesses would be cheap acquisitions for a competitor. (Its valuation is already down almost 75% from where it stood in early October.)
All of this may be why Woodford, who had insisted he wanted to return to help clean up the company, now says he's "not begging" for the job. His reluctance is hardly surprising. Investigators have only just begun sorting through the rot, but Olympus is already the epitome of a corporate-governance system that is at best complacent and, at worst, apparently far more sinister than that.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Forget '11 (or so Red Sox hope): Bobby V is coming (AP)
BOSTON ? Players eating fried chicken and drinking beer in the clubhouse during games. If it didn't bother Bobby Valentine as a baseball lifer, it would certainly offend his sensibilities as a self-proclaimed gourmet chef.
"He won't let that happen. There's no way he's going to let that happen," said Tommy Lasorda, Valentine's manager in the minor leagues and a mentor who encouraged him to try for the Red Sox job.
"There's times ? in all phases of life ? when you've got to kick them in the (rear) when they need it, and there's times when you need to hug them if they need it. Your livelihood depends on those guys. You've got to have them in the right frame of mind, to be loyal to the organization, to put forth all the effort that they have."
Boston announced Valentine as its new manager Wednesday, and he will be introduced by the Red Sox at a Fenway Park news conference on Thursday evening.
The 61-year-old replaces Terry Francona, who left after eight years in which he guided the Red Sox to two World Series titles but also the biggest September collapse in baseball history. The first job for the former Mets and Rangers manager: reversing a culture in which players ate takeout fried chicken and drank beer in the clubhouse during games instead of sitting on the bench with their teammates.
"You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back," Lasorda said Wednesday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "And that's the way it has to be."
At a news conference the day he formally interviewed for the job, Valentine said he learned a lot about discipline while managing in Japan. Although the players there are more respectful of authority and less likely to step out of line, he said, they also appreciated having clearly defined rules so they knew where their limits were.
"Discipline is not 30 whacks with a whip these days," Valentine said. "I think everyone likes discipline. I think everyone likes structure. Everyone likes to be acknowledged when they do things properly. Discipline and rules and things like that ? it's just about right and wrong."
Francona admitted he lost his players near the end of a tenure during which he counted on them to police themselves and never said anything negative about them in public. When Valentine was in New York, he did not hesitate to criticize his players and bickered with them, his boss and the media.
Former Mets general manager Omar Minaya said Valentine is every bit a players' manager but one who insists on accountability.
"Bobby is not going to be the guy who's cracking the whip. I can tell you that right now," said Minaya, who was in the Rangers and Mets front offices when Valentine managed there. "He's going to be a players' manager, but he's going to command respect. ... I think what Bobby's going to try to do is demand that players be professional."
The Red Sox topped the AL East for much of the summer and had a nine-game lead in the wild-card race that they squandered by going 7-20 in September, missing the playoffs for the second straight season. Francona left before he could be fired, saying the clubhouse needed a different voice.
And, boy, is Valentine ever different.
A restaurateur who claims to have invented the wrap sandwich; a high school star in football and baseball; a two-time minor-league MVP; the son-in-law of former major leaguer Ralph Branca; the manager of the NL pennant-winning New York Mets and Japanese champion Chiba Lotte Marines; the director of health and public safety in Stamford, Conn.; purveyor of an athletic training facility; a successful TV analyst.
And he might even be most famous for returning to the dugout wearing a fake mustache and sunglasses after being ejected from a game in 1999; Major League Baseball fined him $5,000 and suspended him for three games.
Valentine's personality certainly is large.
And his resume is long.
But it has one major gap: He's never won a World Series.
"It drives all of us that do this for a living," Minaya said. "If you don't win a World Series and you're a competitor, it drives you."
Valentine managed the Texas Rangers from 1985-92, when he was fired by then-owner and future U.S. President George W. Bush. His last big league managerial job was with the Mets, from 1996-02, where he guided the Mets to consecutive wild-card berths and a trip to the 2000 World Series.
Two years later, they finished last and Valentine was fired, leaving him with a 1,117-1,072 record. He has never finished in first place in 15 major league seasons.
But Valentine went to Japan and managed Chiba Lotte to a championship in 2005. He has been working as an analyst for ESPN, where he has said Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett should work faster and left fielder Carl Crawford should close his stance.
"These last two years have been good for Bobby. It gave him a chance to get back and become familiar with all the players in the major leagues. That will help him," Branca said. "Boston is a challenge, but when has he not liked challenges?"
A native of Connecticut and a former roommate of Bill Buckner's, Valentine was the most intriguing candidate for the Red Sox job on a list that included Gene Lamont, Dale Sveum, Torey Lovullo, Pete Mackanin and Sandy Alomar Jr. After his name surfaced, he was endorsed for the job not only by Lasorda but by Steve Phillips, the Mets GM who bickered with Valentine and eventually fired him; Bush has also expressed a fondness for his former skipper.
Minaya said Valentine's outsized personality will be a plus in Boston, where fans still are stewing over last year's collapse.
"All year they're going to be reminded of what happened in `11, and Bobby will be able to take the attention on himself," said Minaya, whose Mets missed the playoffs on the last day of the season after leading the division in both 2007 and `08. "We lived it. There's no doubt that all year long the Red Sox are going to be reminded of last year. I think Bobby's going to be a positive force in getting people to focus on `12."
The Red Sox certainly hope so.
At about the same time Valentine was landing in New York on his way back from a goodwill trip to Japan, the Red Sox sent reporters an advisory that select tickets for 2012 will go on sale next week.
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AP Baseball Writer Ben Walker contributed to this report.
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