Israeli army whistleblower gets 4 1/2 years

JERUSALEM (AP) ? A former Israeli soldier who admitted to relaying classified military documents to a newspaper reporter was sentenced on Sunday to 4 1/2 years in prison on espionage charges, according to a ruling from an Israeli court.

Anat Kamm has said she was ideologically motivated to copy more than 2,000 military documents from army computers between 2005 and 2007, when she served as a junior clerk in the office of the Israeli commander responsible for the West Bank. Some 700 were classified.

After her discharge, Kamm passed on the documents, which included operational plans, personnel lists and lists of targets, to a journalist for the left-leaning Haaretz daily, Uri Blau.

Blau published some of the information in investigative articles, including one about the military's targeted killings of Palestinian militants. All of his stories were approved by Israel's military censor before they were published, but the information contained within them led to a search for his source.

Kamm was arrested in December 2009, though her detention was made public only four months later. She has remained under house arrest throughout the proceedings against her.

According to earlier court documents, Kamm had told investigators she wanted to disclose certain Israeli military operations against West Bank militants to provide the public with evidence of "war crimes."

In February, Kamm signed a plea bargain agreement admitting to espionage and passing on classified information without authorization. An initial charge of endangering national security was dropped under the deal.

Associated Press

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New hybrid technology could bring 'quantum information systems'

Friday, October 28, 2011

The merging of two technologies under development - plasmonics and nanophotonics - is promising the emergence of new "quantum information systems" far more powerful than today's computers.

The technology hinges on using single photons the tiny particles that make up light for switching and routing in future computers that might harness the exotic principles of quantum mechanics.

The quantum information processing technology would use structures called "metamaterials," artificial nanostructured media with exotic properties.

The metamaterials, when combined with tiny "optical emitters," could make possible a new hybrid technology that uses "quantum light" in future computers, said Vladimir Shalaev, scientific director of nanophotonics at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center and a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering.

The concept is described in an article to be published Friday (Oct. 28) in the journal Science. The article will appear in the magazine's Perspectives section and was written by Shalaev and Zubin Jacob, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada.

"A seamless interface between plasmonics and nanophotonics could guarantee the use of light to overcome limitations in the operational speed of conventional integrated circuits," Shalaev said.

Researchers are proposing the use of "plasmon-mediated interactions," or devices that manipulate individual photons and quasiparticles called plasmons that combine electrons and photons.

One of the approaches, pioneered at Harvard University, is a tiny nanowire that couples individual photons and plasmons. Another approach is to use hyperbolic metamaterials, suggested by Jacob; Igor Smolyaninov, a visiting research scientist at the University of Maryland; and Evgenii Narimanov, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue. Quantum-device applications using building blocks for such hyperbolic metamaterials have been demonstrated in Shalaev's group.

"We would like to record and read information with single photons, but we need a very efficient source of single photons," Shalaev said. "The challenge here is to increase the efficiency of generation of single photons in a broad spectrum, and that is where plasmonics and metamaterials come in."

Today's computers work by representing information as a series of ones and zeros, or binary digits called "bits."

Computers based on quantum physics would have quantum bits, or "qubits," that exist in both the on and off states simultaneously, dramatically increasing the computer's power and memory. Quantum computers would take advantage of a strange phenomenon described by quantum theory called "entanglement." Instead of only the states of one and zero, there are many possible "entangled quantum states" in between one and zero.

An obstacle in developing quantum information systems is finding a way to preserve the quantum information long enough to read and record it. One possible solution might be to use diamond with "nitrogen vacancies," defects that often occur naturally in the crystal lattice of diamonds but can also be produced by exposure to high-energy particles and heat.

"The nitrogen vacancy in diamond operates in a very broad spectral range and at room temperature, which is very important," Shalaev said.

The work is part of a new research field, called diamond photonics. Hyperbolic metamaterials integrated with nitrogen vacancies in diamond are expected to work as efficient "guns" of single photons generated in a broad spectral range, which could bring quantum information systems, he said.

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Target announces midnight opening for Black Friday

NEW YORK (AP) ? As the run-up to holiday shopping intensifies, Target Corp. said Friday that its stores will open at midnight on Thanksgiving Day for the first time.

That's four hours earlier than last year.

The stores will stay open for 23 hours and close at 11 p.m. Friday, November 25. Target spokeswoman Susan Kahn said the change was a response to customers' demands.

Retailers have expanded their Black Friday hours each year recently.

The season's kickoff overtook Thanksgiving Day last year, when most Sears Holdings Corp. opened most Sears and Kmart stores Thanksgiving morning for the first time. Toys R Us stores opened at 10 p.m. Some stores in Gap Inc.'s Old Navy, Gap and Banana Republic chains also opened Thanksgiving Day last year; the company began operating stores on Thanksgiving in 2009.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., whose supercenters already operate around the clock, opened most of its other stores by midnight Thanksgiving evening last year.

Target, which operates more than 1,700 stores, is based in Minneapolis.

Associated Press

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World stocks up on European rescue deal for Greece (AP)

BANGKOK ? World stock markets climbed again Friday, continuing to be buoyed by a European deal aimed at slashing Greece's massive debt and preventing the crisis from engulfing "too big to bailout" countries such as Italy.

Oil prices lingered above $93 per barrel and the dollar gained against the euro but slipped against the yen.

European shares were higher in early trading. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.1 percent to 5,720.79. Germany's DAX gained 0.9 percent to 6,394.05 and France's CAC-40 added 0.6 percent at 3,390.09.

But the euphoria began to wear off on Wall Street, which appeared headed for a lower opening. Dow Jones industrial futures fell 0.4 percent to 12,123 and S&P 500 futures were 0.4 percent lower at 1,278.10.

Asian stocks posted a second day of gains on the European news.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to close at 9,050.47, its highest close since Sept. 1. Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 1.7 percent to 20,01924 and South Korea's Kospi rose 0.4 percent to 1,929.48.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.1 percent to 4,353.30 and the Shanghai Composite Index added 1.6 percent to 2,473.41. Benchmarks in Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia and Thailand were also higher.

After two years of unsuccessful attempts to address the continent's debt problems, European leaders unveiled a deal Thursday aimed at preventing the Greek government's inability to pay its debt from escalating into another financial crisis like the one that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

Banks are being asked to take 50 percent losses on the Greek bonds they hold. Europe will also strengthen a financial rescue fund to protect the region's banks that will also be used to insure some potential losses on the debt of weak eurozone economies like Italy, which is considered too big to bail out.

But some analysts cautioned that Europe was still at risk, since mapping out the rescue plan was simple, compared to the complex and costly task of implementing it.

"I think there is euphoria of Europe finally solving its problems. But the question is, how do you finance the financial stability fund? Who is supposed to pay for it? That is left blank," said Francis Lun, a Hong Kong-based analyst.

"For the moment, Greece will not go under. That is all we know. But the commercial banks will take a big hit," Lun said. "That will really kill them."

But renewed confidence in Europe helped fuel a surge on Wall Street that also boosted stocks in Asia, as did signs of stronger U.S. economic growth and corporate earnings.

Japanese steel makers Nippon Steel Corp. rose 3.4 percent and Kobe Steel Ltd. gained 4.7 percent. Heavy equipment maker Komatsu Ltd. jumped 5.6 percent.

South Korean industrial shares also rose. Steel giant POSCO gained 1.6 percent while Hyundai Heavy Industries, the country's leading shipbuilder, gained 0.7 percent.

Chinese property shares continued to climb on speculation that China might relax its inflation-fighting measures that have drained liquidity out of the financial markets. Hong Kong-listed Poly Real Estate Group added 4.4 percent and China Vanke Co. Ltd. jumped 7.3 percent.

The U.S. government reported that the American economy grew at a 2.5 percent annual rate from July through September on stronger consumer spending and business investment. That was nearly double the 1.3 percent growth in the previous quarter.

The Dow Jones industrial average soared 2.9 percent to 12,208.55 ? its largest jump since Aug. 11. The S&P 500 rose 3.7 percent to 1,284.59. The Nasdaq composite leaped up 3.3 percent to 2,738.63.

Benchmark crude for December delivery was down 79 cents at $93.20 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $3.76, or 4.2 percent, to settle at $93.96 in New York on Thursday.

Brent crude was down 33 cents at $111.75 a barrel on the ICE Futures Exchange in London.

In currencies, the euro softened to $1.4178 from $1.4216 late Thursday in New York. The dollar slipped to 75.82 yen from 75.94 yen. The greenback hit a new record low against the yen the previous day, sinking to 75.63 yen at one point.

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Accused Army ringleader in Afghan murders goes on trial (Reuters)

TACOMA, Wash (Reuters) ? A U.S. Army sergeant is due to go on trial on Friday charged with murdering unarmed civilians and taking body parts for war trophies as ringleader of a rogue platoon that terrorized villagers in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.

The court-martial of Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, 26, marks the climax of an 18-month investigation of the most egregious case of atrocities U.S. military personnel are accused of committing during a decade of war in Afghanistan.

Pentagon officials have said the misconduct exposed by the case, which began as a probe into hashish use within Gibbs' unit, had damaged America's image around the globe.

Published photographs showing two fellow GIs posing with the bloodied corpse of an Afghan boy they had just killed have drawn comparisons to the inflammatory Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq in 2004.

Gibbs, from Billings, Montana, is charged with three counts of premeditated murder, as well as cutting fingers off dead bodies and beating a fellow soldier who had alerted superiors to widespread drug abuse within their unit.

Charging documents said he was found in possession of "finger bones, leg bones and a tooth taken from Afghan corpses."

If convicted of all charges, Gibbs faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Prosecutors have cast him as the chief instigator among five infantrymen from the 5th Stryker Brigade accused of slaying civilians in random killings staged to look like legitimate combat casualties.

Seven others soldiers were charged with various lesser offenses, ranging from assault for opening fire at civilians to using illegal drugs. Most have already reached plea deals.

THIRTY WITNESSES

About 30 witnesses are expected to testify during the court-martial, slated to run through next week at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, according to Army spokesman Major Christopher Ophardt.

The first day of proceedings will likely be devoted to selecting a jury panel and handling procedural motions.

The chief prosecution witness is expected to be the soldier described as Gibbs' right-hand man, Specialist Jeremy Morlock, sentenced in March to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of murder for his role in the same killings for which Gibbs is accused.

They alone were charged with all three killings, which occurred in January, February and May of 2010 while the Stryker Brigade was deployed in western Kandahar province.

Morlock, who originally implicated Gibbs in statements to military investigators, testified against him in open court during an evidentiary hearing in July as part of the plea deal he reached with prosecutors.

It was Morlock who appeared in photographs published in March by two magazines showing him crouched smiling over the body of a 15-year-old Afghan, holding the boy's head up for the camera by his hair.

A similar photo was published of another member of the self-styled Stryker "kill team," Andrew Holmes, who pleaded guilty last month to a single count of murder and was sentenced to seven years in prison.

A third co-defendant, Adam Winfield, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to three years in prison in August, and a fourth, Michael Wagnon, still faces a court-martial.

All but one of the seven men charged with lesser crimes have received convictions and sentences ranging from demotion or dishonorable discharge to 60 days hard labor and jail sentences of up to nine months.

(Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Jerry Norton)

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Vegas man gets 5 years for Iraq weapon conspiracy (AP)

LAS VEGAS ? A Las Vegas man who helped federal prosecutors convict an active-duty Navy SEAL of selling war weapons and machine guns from Iraq in the U.S. was sentenced Friday to five years in prison.

Omar Aguirre, 36, apologized to U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt in Las Vegas and blamed his participation in the weapons trafficking conspiracy on an acute addiction to painkillers that he said he has been working to overcome.

Aguirre said therapy he has received since his arrest almost a year ago also helped him deal with the effects of childhood molestation.

"I know I'm going to be locked up," he told the judge. "But at least in my mind and heart and soul, I'm free."

Aguirre and two other men pleaded guilty and cooperated with prosecutors in a case that led a federal jury to find Petty Officer Nicholas Bickle guilty earlier this month of 13 federal conspiracy, weapons, machine gun and explosives charges.

Bickle, 34, of San Diego, headed the weapons selling scheme, according to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents and federal prosecutors. He could face decades in prison and millions of dollars in fines at sentencing Feb. 3, but sentencing guidelines are expected to get him a prison sentence of less than 20 years. He also faces discharge from the military.

Aguirre pleaded guilty Dec. 23 to conspiracy to sell firearms without a license. Prosecutor Timothy Vasquez told Hunt on Friday that Aguirre kept his promise to help investigate and prosecute Bickle.

Hunt sentenced Aguirre to the statutory maximum, ordered him to serve three years of supervised release after prison, and allowed him to remain free until Jan. 6.

Two other former co-defendants who cooperated with prosecutors are scheduled for sentencing Jan. 6.

Richard Paul, 35, of Durango, Colo., faces 15 years in prison and up to a $500,000 fine after pleading guilty in January to conspiracy and explosives transport charges. ATF agents reported finding five pounds of military C-4 explosives at his home.

Andrew Kaufman, 37, of Las Vegas, faces five years in prison and up to a $500,000 fine. He pleaded guilty last December to conspiracy and illegal transfer of a machine gun charges.

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month Jewelry ? Style News - StyleWatch ...

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October may be winding down, but finding a cure for breast cancer is always at the forefront of our minds. With this being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we?ve rounded up some of our favorite pink products to share ? and proceeds from all of them help support the cause.

Lacoste
Ten percent of proceeds from the Pink Croc product line ? which includes this charming striped watch (center) ? will go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. $95 on lacoste.com

LOFT
The brand tapped designers Rachel Leigh and Roxanne Assoulin, plus blogger Jessica Quirk, to create jewelry and T-shirts already beloved by celebrities. Five dollars from each item sold will be donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Prices vary at loft.com

Tommy Hilfiger
Throughout the month of October, Hilfiger is donating 30 percent of sales from pink merchandise ? up to $15,000 ? to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Purchasing the classic pink-gold watch (right) contributes to the cause. $135 at tommyhilfiger.com

GUESS
Guess created three limited-edition items this season, all to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Scoop up a sparkling pink watch, a pink friendship bracelet with heart charm (bottom left) and a BCA T-shirt, and know you?re making a difference. Prices vary on guess.com and guessbymarciano.com

Stella & Dot
The brand?s Tribute Bracelet features hematite beads and rose gold, and 20 percent of the profits benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. $36 at stelladot.com

Melissa Joy Manning
Featuring the iconic ribbon logo, Melissa Joy Manning?s bangle, made in collaboration with Greenwich Jewelers, should raise a lot of money for the cure: 100 percent of proceeds are going to charity. $175 at melissajoymanning.com

Gemvara
Pick up any pink gemstone jewel from Gemvara this month, and know that 20 percent of the price will benefit the Ellie Fund, a non-profit that helps families affected by breast cancer by providing childcare, housekeeping, groceries and more. Prices vary on gemvara.com

iRenew
New this year, iRenew created a pink bracelet (bottom) to fit in with its line of bangles said to promote balance, strength and endurance through SFR technology. Fifteen percent of profits from the pink bracelet sales will go toward the 26.2 with Donna National Marathon to Finish Breast Cancer. $19.99 on irenewproducts.com

CFDA and Altruette
The Council of Fashion Designers of America and philanthropic charm jewelry line Altruette teamed up to design a sweet high-heel shoe charm to directly benefit the CFDA?s Fashion Targets Breast Cancer Foundation. $95-$125 on altruette.com

Kara Ackerman Designs
For each charming rose vermeil and white resin cocktail ring (top left) purchased, the designer will donate 20 percent of profits to Susan G. Komen for the cure. $100 on karaackerman.com

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Super LoiLoScope

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Editor's Note: Product not yet tested. The following information is from the manufacturer.

Super LoiLoScope lets you edit and share your videos. You can add text, images, music, and add effects while your video is playing. Easily preview clips and add them to your movie timeline with drag and drop. Add transitions, corrections for brightness and color, and effects like edging, glow, threshold, blur, mosaic, monochrome. A "deco pen" lets you decorate video by stamping patterns onto it.

The program also lets you create slideshow movies from your digital photos. You can trim clips, applying in and out points, even while the video is playing. Resize, scale, and shift the video image to your heart's content. You can also move timeline items to create an animation or you can use the key frame mode to adjust settings for each frame. Add whatever background audio you like.

The software can handle input from AVCHD camcorders, digital SLRs, HDV/DV camcorders, and even mobile phones and Flip video cameras.

After you're happy with it, you can then directly upload your creation to Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo or privately share them with friends. Other options include convert them for viewing on mobile devices such as iPods, iPhones, and more, or output to formats like WMV, AVI, MOV, MPEG2, and MP4. Bulk encoding is another capability, as is output to AVCHD, HDV, and DV camera formats.

A free downloadable version of Super LoiLoScope is available from LoiLo.tv. The software runs on Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP3 or later (32bit or 64bit).

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Report Puts Google?s Zagat Purchase At $151 Million

The purchase price of Google's acquisition of restaurant review and guide source Zagat has been pinpointed at $151 million in cash, according to an SEC filing by the company itself and reported by Reuters.

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Coinstar's 3Q earnings soar, Redbox prices to rise

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Redbox's DVD rental kiosks are attracting movie lovers fed up with Netflix's video subscription service. But now Redbox's owner, Coinstar Inc., is risking its own customer backlash by raising its prices, the same move that triggered Netflix's recent loss of 800,000 U.S. subscribers.

The plot twist emerged Thursday in Coinstar's latest quarterly report. The company's earnings nearly doubled, largely because of robust growth at Redbox's more than 34,000 rental kiosks.

But the strong performance was upstaged by Redbox's decision to raise prices for standard DVDs by 20 percent beginning Monday.

The new rental rate will be $1.20 per day, instead of the current $1 daily rate. Redbox prices will remained unchanged for Blu-ray discs at $1.50 per day and video games at $2 per day.

Redbox's change isn't as jarring as what Netflix did last month, when it hiked prices as much as 60 percent and then irked subscribers even more by announcing a now-aborted plan to split its DVD rentals from its Internet video streaming service.

But it spooked investors, especially because Redbox appears to be picking up customers still stewing over the higher prices at Netflix. Coinstar's shares plunged 10 percent in Thursday's extended trading.

Unlike Netflix, Redbox tested the price increases in several cities during the past year to see how they would change rental patterns. Management concluded there only would be a slight drop-off in DVD rentals.

"We didn't take this lightly," Coinstar CEO Paul Davis said in a Thursday interview with The Associated Press.

Coinstar, which is based in Bellevue, Wash., is charging more to help offset higher expenses for DVDs and processing debit card transactions.

Netflix raised its prices in hopes of generating more revenue to license more movies and TV shows for streaming over high-speed Internet connections. The plan backfired, though, leaving Netflix on track to start losing money next year as it tries to repair a badly damaged brand.

Coinstar Inc. earned $37.1 million, or $1.18 per share, in the three months that ended in September. That compared with $19.5 million, or 60 cents per share, at the same time last year.

The results for the latest quarter blew by the average estimate of 88 cents per share among analysts surveyed by FactSet.

The company's revenue rose 22 percent from last year to $466 million, about $3 million above analyst projections. The Redbox kiosks were Coinstar's main attraction; revenue in the rental division climbed 28 percent in the quarter to $390 million.

Although Davis said the company couldn't know for certain, it appeared Netflix's customers losses are turning into Redbox's gains.

As an indication that more people may have been renting from Redbox for the first time, Davis told The Associated Press that the number of unique credit cards used at the kiosks in July through September increased by 8 percent from the previous quarter.

By Coinstar's reckoning, Redbox surpassed the market share of Netflix's DVD-by-mail service for the first time during the third quarter. Coinstar said it ended September with a U.S. market share of nearly 35 percent compared to 33 percent for Netflix and other DVD-by-mail services. A year ago, Coinstar pegged its market share at 24 percent with Netflix and other DVD-by-mail services at nearly 36 percent.

Netflix expects the shift to continue as it focuses more on its video streaming service. Netflix predicted it may end December with 10.3 million DVD subscribers, down 25 percent, or 3.6 million, from the end of September.

"We always try to roll out the red carpet for customers who may feel disenfranchised," Davis said during an interview with the AP.

With another potential influx of former Netflix subscribers looming, Coinstar expects its revenue to rise as high as $510 million in the fourth quarter. But the company doesn't expect to make as much money in the holiday season as it did in the third quarter because a slew of year-end DVD releases of popular movies will drive up its expenses. Coinstar predicted its fourth-quarter earnings will range from 57 cents per share to 67 cents per share.

Analysts had projected fourth-quarter earnings of 78 cents per share on revenue of $483 million.

Coinstar's shares fell $5.30 to $47.65 in extended trading after the results were released. If the sell-off holds in Friday's regular trading, it will wipe out most of the gains Coinstar's stock has made since Netflix raised its prices.

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Mosoro Bluetooth LE iOS accessories improve your golf, if the weather's right

So far the appcessories -- yeah we said it, APPcessories -- we've seen include some good ideas, and some less so. The Bluetooth LE 3D-Sport and Weather offerings from Mosoro fall into the former category (if they make their way into a shipping product that is). The 3D-Sport is a motion capture device you attach to sports equipment. The on-board accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer beam motion data to your iOS device, where it can be analyzed by Rocky-style Russian coaches to see where your throw or golf swing is going wrong. The latter is a mini weather station that reads temperature, humidity, elevation, and barometric pressure to tell you the conditions where you are right now. More usefully, it nabs your GPS location and uploads it all to Mosoro's aptly named "Cloud" Server that presumably maps out some crazy real-time crowdsourced weather report. Both also use Bluetooth 4.0's low energy technology so they won't need to see a charger for a long time. Now we just need a company that likes collating personal data, perhaps with a weather service, to snap this one up... any takers?

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Injury update: Triple H

By: Kara A. Medalis October 25, 2011

Dr. Chris Amann has provided WWE.com with an injury update on Triple H.

The WWE COO has suffered fractured vertebrae from the two sledgehammer attacks he received from Kevin Nash on Raw SuperShow. Amann told WWE.com that The Game will be out of action for at least six weeks due to the injuries he sustained. The diagnosis was made at the Austin, Texas, medical facility that Triple H was rushed to after the attacks.

Stay tuned to WWE.com for updates on Triple H's condition.

Source: http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/2011-10-24/tripleh-injury-update

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October 24, 2011 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/ green newswire) US SIF Foundation Report Charts Growth of Sustainable and Responsible Investing (SRI) in Private Equity, Venture Capital, Property Investment and Hedge Funds

WHO: US SIF The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment.

WHAT: US SIF Foundation, which is affiliated with US SIF, will issue a major new report tracking the recent rise of sustainable and responsible investing (SRI) in the realm of alternative investing. The alternative funds tracked in the report span the asset classes of private equity and venture capital funds, property investment funds and hedge funds, and use a broad range of approaches to environmental social and corporate governance (ESG) criteria and themes.

WHEN: 1:30 p.m. EDT on October 26, 2011.

WHERE: You can join the live, phone-based news conference (including full, two-way Q&A) at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 by dialing 1 (800) 860-2442. (Ask for the SRI and Alternative Investment Funds Report" news event.) The news event will feature:

• Report lead author Joshua Humphreys, Ph.D., director of the Center for Social Philanthropy at Tellus Institute;
• US SIF CEO Lisa Woll; and
• US SIF Deputy Director and Research Director Meg Voorhes.

CONTACT:

Patrick Mitchell, (703) 276-3266 or pmitchell@hastingsgroup.com.

EDITOR'S NOTE: A streaming audio recording of a related news event will be available on the Web as of 6 p.m. EDT on October 26, 2011, at http://www.ussif.org. Copies of the report will be available to journalists upon request. The full report is available at no cost to members of US SIF and for a fee to non- members.

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US SIF Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, supports the educational and research activities of US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF). US SIF (http://www.ussif.org) is the US membership association for professionals, firms, institutions and organizations engaged in sustainable and responsible investing. US SIF and its members advance investment practices that consider environmental, social and corporate governance criteria to generate long-term competitive financial returns and positive societal impact. US SIF's members include investment management and advisory firms, mutual fund companies, research firms, financial planners and advisors, broker-dealers, banks, credit unions, community development organizations, non-profit associations, and pension funds, foundations and other asset owners.

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Simple gut hormone combo makes our brains think we're full

Public release date: 25-Oct-2011
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Cell Press

Many of us would love nothing more than to trick ourselves into believing we are full even as our stomachs remain empty. Now, a new brain imaging study reported in the November issue of the Cell Press journal Cell Metabolism suggests there might just be a way. The key is to go with our guts just two gut hormones, that is.

The findings suggest that a simple hormone-inspired pill could be the long-sought answer to healthy eating, according to the researchers.

"Obesity is a major and rising problem," said Waljit Dhillo of Imperial College London. "The central dogma is we need to eat less, but that doesn't work so well. Understanding how the brain makes us feel hungry and full is an important issue for therapy."

As lunchtime approaches, our brains get excited at the very thought of that next meal, Dhillo explained. After we've eaten, the same foods that seemed so tempting to us in our hunger lose their sway.

The gut hormones peptide YY (PYY) and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), which are both released into circulation after we eat, are known to play some role in that process. Studies in which people have been given one or the other of those hormones show a reduction in food intake and appetite. Still, no one knew what kind of influence those hormones really have on our brains.

Dhillo's team of scientists from Imperial College and GlaxoSmithKline used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity in healthy people after they'd been given PYY and/or GLP-1 in a fasted state. Those scans were compared to the brains of those same individuals when they were full from eating a standard meal.

After a meal, people's brains responded less to images of food in regions related to food reward, and they ate less. A very similar thing happens to the brains and behaviors of hungry people after they've taken PYY and GLP-1 in combination.

"Participants had eaten no breakfast, but the pattern of their brain activity looked as if they had," Dhillo said. "There brain was tricked and they subsequently ate less of a buffet meal."

Each of the hormones worked to curb appetite on its own too, just to a lesser degree. The findings bolster the evidence in humans that these two hormones are key mediators of fullness. They might also have treatment implications.

"If we can mimic this effect in a pill that could be taken once a day or once a week, it may prove a useful treatment for obesity in the future," Dhillo said, noting that GLP-1 analogs are already prescribed for the treatment of diabetes.

Such a strategy might not only encourage us to eat less, but also to eat healthier. "When you are hungry, you tend to choose high-calorie foods," Dhillo said.

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elyons@cell.com
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Cell Press

Many of us would love nothing more than to trick ourselves into believing we are full even as our stomachs remain empty. Now, a new brain imaging study reported in the November issue of the Cell Press journal Cell Metabolism suggests there might just be a way. The key is to go with our guts just two gut hormones, that is.

The findings suggest that a simple hormone-inspired pill could be the long-sought answer to healthy eating, according to the researchers.

"Obesity is a major and rising problem," said Waljit Dhillo of Imperial College London. "The central dogma is we need to eat less, but that doesn't work so well. Understanding how the brain makes us feel hungry and full is an important issue for therapy."

As lunchtime approaches, our brains get excited at the very thought of that next meal, Dhillo explained. After we've eaten, the same foods that seemed so tempting to us in our hunger lose their sway.

The gut hormones peptide YY (PYY) and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), which are both released into circulation after we eat, are known to play some role in that process. Studies in which people have been given one or the other of those hormones show a reduction in food intake and appetite. Still, no one knew what kind of influence those hormones really have on our brains.

Dhillo's team of scientists from Imperial College and GlaxoSmithKline used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity in healthy people after they'd been given PYY and/or GLP-1 in a fasted state. Those scans were compared to the brains of those same individuals when they were full from eating a standard meal.

After a meal, people's brains responded less to images of food in regions related to food reward, and they ate less. A very similar thing happens to the brains and behaviors of hungry people after they've taken PYY and GLP-1 in combination.

"Participants had eaten no breakfast, but the pattern of their brain activity looked as if they had," Dhillo said. "There brain was tricked and they subsequently ate less of a buffet meal."

Each of the hormones worked to curb appetite on its own too, just to a lesser degree. The findings bolster the evidence in humans that these two hormones are key mediators of fullness. They might also have treatment implications.

"If we can mimic this effect in a pill that could be taken once a day or once a week, it may prove a useful treatment for obesity in the future," Dhillo said, noting that GLP-1 analogs are already prescribed for the treatment of diabetes.

Such a strategy might not only encourage us to eat less, but also to eat healthier. "When you are hungry, you tend to choose high-calorie foods," Dhillo said.

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Read paper abstract: http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(11)00356-1

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Pujols' 3 blasts carry Cards

Slugger hits three mammoth HRs in 16-7 win; St. Louis takes 2-1 World Series lead

Eric Gay / AP

Albert Pujols hits a three-run home run during the sixth inning on Saturday. He followed with a two-run shot in the seventh inning.

updated 12:07 a.m. ET Oct. 23, 2011

ARLINGTON, Texas - Albert Pujols joined Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson as the only players to hit three home runs in a World Series game, tying records with five hits and six RBIs that led the Cardinals to a 16-7 rout of the Texas Rangers on Saturday night that gave St. Louis a 2-1 Series lead.

In Game 4 on Sunday night, Derek Holland pitches for the Rangers and Edwin Jackson starts for the Cardinals. Thirty-six of 54 teams that won Game 3 to take a 2-1 Series lead have gone on to the title, including 10 of the last 11.

A blown call by first base umpire Ron Kulpa and a throwing error by first baseman by Mike Napoli led to a four-run fourth inning that changed the game/

Pujols hit a long three-run homer that helped the Cardinals open a 12-6 lead over after six innings.

He added a two-run shot in the seventh and a solo one in the ninth.

Following two crisp games during a split in St. Louis, the teams played a messy Texas shootout that saw the fourth and fifth innings alone drag on for 1 hour, 22 minutes and the game take 4:04.

Given a 5-0 lead, St. Louis allowed Texas to close to 5-3 in the bottom half of the fourth. St. Louis opened an 8-3 lead in the fifth, but the Rangers closed to 8-6 in the bottom of the inning and had the bases loaded when Ian Kinsler hit an inning-ending popup.

Pujols followed in the sixth with a no-doubt, 423-foot drive off Alexi Ogando that clanked off the facing above the restaurant windows in left field, and Yadier Molina added a sacrifice fly.

Texas made three errors that led to three unearned runs

Allen Craig, who had run-scoring pinch-hit singles in the first two games, homered on Matt Harrison's seventh pitch.

Pujols singled leading off the fourth and Matt Holliday hit a hard grounder to Elvis Andrus for what should have been a bases-clearing double play. The shortstop tossed to second, but Kinsler's throw was off line and pulled Napoli off first base.

Playing first base for the first time in the Series, Napoli caught the throw and his glove came down hard on Holliday's left shoulder, with the runner a step short of the bag, But Kulpa called him safe, despite an argument from Rangers manager Ron Washington.

Lance Berkman singled, and David Freese's double down the right-field line gave the Cardinals a 2-0 lead. Molina was intentionally walked and Jon Jay hit a bouncer to Napoli, who had plenty of time to throw home for a forceout. But his throw went over the left-handed batter's box and past lunging catcher Yorvit Torrealba as two runs scored. Ryan Theriot singled for a 5-0 lead, and Harrison threw home on Rafael Furcal's comebacker, with Torrealba blocking the plate and tagging Jay to prevent another run.

Michael Young homered off Kyle Lohse leading off the bottom half and Nelson Cruz's two-run drive just over the right-field wall gave him home runs in four straight postseason home games. Molina made a nice defensive play to preserve the two-run lead after Kinsler flied to left, snagging Holliday's one-hop throw slightly to the first-base side of the plate and sweeping his glove back to tag out Napoli.

Neither starter got out of the fourth. Lohse, 0-4 with a 5.54 ERA in nine postseason appearances, allowed hits to his first four batters in the fourth and was removed. He gave up three runs and five hits. Harrison gave up five runs ? three earned ? and six hits in 3 2-3 innings.

But Scott Feldman put the Rangers in a deeper hole in the fifth, giving up Freese's RBI grounder and Molina's two-run double.

Young's RBI double off Fernando Salas in the bottom half, Adrian Beltre's run-scoring single against Lance Lynn and Napoli's sacrifice fly cut it to 8-6. Most fans were standing in anticipation when Kinsler popped out, dropping the Rangers to 4 for 15 with runners in scoring position in the Series.

Josh Hamilton, the reigning AL MVP, went 1 for 4 and dropped to 1 for 11 in the Series, although he stopped an 0-for-18 Series skid dating to last year with a fifth-inning single. Hamilton, who said before the game his groin injury may be a sports hernia, is homerless in 53 at-bats during this year's postseason.

With fans wearing red and waving towels, the scene was similar to the one at Busch Stadium for the first two games ? but the gametime temperature was 80, up from 50 on Thursday night.

Former President and former Rangers owner George W. Bush sat in the front row next to the Texas dugout with current Rangers CEO Nolan Ryan and former First Lady Laura Bush. Ryan rubbed his hands above his eyes when Napoli made the poor throw.

A ninth-inning rally Thursday gave Texas a 2-1 win and a split in St. Louis. That avoided a repeat of last year, when the Rangers came home after losing the opening two games in San Francisco.

NOTES: St. Louis has scored first in 10 consecutive games, one shy of the postseason record set by Detroit from 1972-84. ... Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki, wearing a blue No. 41 Texas Rangers jersey, threw the ceremonial first pitch to Young. ... Baseball and Fox abandoned their one-year experiment with an earlier Saturday night start, beginning at 8:06 p.m. EDT instead of 7 p.m. Texas' 4-2 win over San Francisco in Game 3 last year, the earliest-starting Series game since 1987, drew a 6.7 rating and 13 share, the second-lowest ever for a Series game, ahead of only the rain-delayed Game 3 between Philadelphia and Tampa Bay in 2008, which drew a 6.1.

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??Albert Pujols joined Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson as the only players to hit three home runs in a World Series game, tying records with five hits and six RBIs that led the Cardinals to a 16-7 rout of the Texas Rangers on Saturday night that gave St. Louis a 2-1 Series lead.

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Holland tops Pujols, Cards; Texas ties Series at 2

Fans cheer as Texas Rangers pitcher Derek Holland leaves the game during the ninth inning of Game 4 of baseball's World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Fans cheer as Texas Rangers pitcher Derek Holland leaves the game during the ninth inning of Game 4 of baseball's World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas Rangers starting pitcher Derek Holland is congratulated in the dugout after being taken out of the game during the ninth inning of Game 4 of baseball's World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington talks to starting pitcher Derek Holland before taking him out of the game during the ninth inning of Game 4 of baseball's World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols reacts as he walks back to the dugout after flying out during the ninth inning of Game 4 of baseball's World Series against the Texas Rangers Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers won 4-0 to tie the series at 2-2. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Texas Rangers starting pitcher Derek Holland throws during the first inning of Game 4 of baseball's World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ? Inning by inning, this World Series is getting more intriguing.

Derek Holland provided the latest twist, boosted by a pregame pep talk from his manager. The Texas lefty shut down the St. Louis Cardinals on two hits into the ninth inning, and the Rangers won 4-0 Sunday to even things at 2-all.

A day after Albert Pujols set a team record by scoring 16 runs in a postseason game, they never got close against Holland.

"When I came off the field, arm hairs are sticking up. It's not like I have much, but man, it was tingly," Holland said.

Rangers manager Ron Washington came to the mound after 8 1-3 innings following Holland's second walk of the game. So close to a shutout, and with the crowd chanting his name, Holland pleaded his case, trying to talk his way into staying in.

"He was begging," Washington said. Or, as Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler described it: "A lot of profanity, we sounded like sailors out there."

Washington listened, then signaled for closer Neftali Feliz. Holland had done his job in Game 4, and then some. He had kept Pujols in the ballpark and the Rangers in this Series.

"Now it's a best out of three," Pujols said. "See who can win two games. At the end, that's who is going to be raising the trophy."

Holland struck out seven and came within two outs of pitching the first complete-game shutout in the World Series since Josh Beckett's gem for Florida to clinch the 2003 title at Yankee Stadium.

"I was very focused. I knew this was a big game for us," said Holland, who was 16-5 with 3.95 ERA and four shutouts in the regular season. "I had to step up and make sure I was prepared."

Hobbled Josh Hamilton put Texas ahead with an RBI double in the first inning. Then Mike Napoli broke it open with a three-run homer in the sixth that set off a hearty high-five in the front row between team president Nolan Ryan and former President George W. Bush.

And just like that, for the first time since 2003, the World Series stood at two games apiece.

Game 5 is Monday night at Rangers Ballpark. It's a rematch of the opener, when Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter topped C.J. Wilson. After that, it's back to Busch Stadium to crown a champion.

Pujols produced arguably the greatest hitting show in postseason history in Game 3, tying Series records with three home runs, six RBIs and five hits during the Cardinals' romp. However, Holland has now emerged as the unlikely star.

Pujols finished 0 for 4 and hit the ball out of the infield only once.

"I wanted him to see my 'A' game," Holland said.

Feliz took over and closed. He walked Allen Craig, then retired Pujols on a fly ball and struck out Matt Holliday to end it.

Holland was in tune all evening with Napoli, his pal and catcher. Much better than the battery for the pregame ceremony ? Bush tossed a wild pitch that glanced off the catcher's mitt Ryan wore.

"I should've gone with the regular glove," Ryan said with a chuckle.

The bounce-back Rangers managed to avoid consecutive losses for the first time since Aug. 23-25, a streak that's kept them out of trouble in the postseason.

The Rangers also completed a Sunday sweep in the matchup of teams from St. Louis and the Dallas area. Earlier in the afternoon, the Cowboys beat the Rams 34-7 right across the parking lots. Hamilton and Lance Berkman served as honorary captains for the pregame coin toss, wearing their baseball uniforms.

Many fans might remember Holland from last year's World Series. He's the reliever who came in against San Francisco, walked his first three batters and promptly got pulled.

Maybe that guy was an impostor. Because this 25-year-old lefty with the sorry little mustache was completely poised, with pinpoint control. Perhaps it was the talk he got from Washington near the dugout shortly before taking the mound.

Washington put both hands on Holland's shoulders and talked to him tenderly, like a dad about to send his teenage son off to college. Holland kept nodding, and Washington finished up with a playful pat to Holland's cheek.

"It was just a general message that he's capable of going out there and keeping us in the ballgame. That's all it was," Washington said. "I talk with Derek like that all the time, it just happened to catch me on TV."

Added Holland: "He shows that he cares about all his players, and he definitely showed that when he talked to me."

After that, Holland was in total command in his first Series start, and improved to 3-0 lifetime in the postseason. The only hits he allowed were by Berkman: a double in the second and a single in the fifth. Holland got even later, getting Berkman to look at a strike three that left the St. Louis star discussing the call with plate umpire Ron Kulpa.

Cardinals starter Edwin Jackson kept his team close despite a wild night in which he walked seven in 5 1-3 innings. Jackson left after a pair of walks in the sixth and Napoli homered on the first pitch from reliever Mitchell Boggs.

"It's just a matter of time before they catch up with you," Jackson said.

NOTES: Napoli became the first catcher to hit two homers in a Series since Mike Piazza of the Mets in 2000. ... Kinsler and St. Louis C Yadier Molina played a little game of back-and-forth in the second. Kinsler robbed Molina of an RBI single with a nice stop up the middle to end the top half. In the bottom half, Molina made a snap throw that trapped Kinsler off first base for the last out.

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Rihanna's 'We Found Love' Video Sets Tone For Talk That Talk

Clip 'sets up the imagery for the album and [is] in line with what they're doing,' director Melina Matsoukas tells MTV News.
By Jocelyn Vena

Rihanna on the set of her video for "We Found Love"
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Rihanna always seems willing to try something new from album to album when it comes to her image, vision and style. She's been urban chic, pop-star light and dark and edgy. It seems that her Talk That Talk phase will see the singer looking more natural while also trying her hand at punk couture.



The video for "We Found Love" certainly launches a whole new stage for the chameleonlike performer. In it, Rihanna plays a gutter punk addicted to her beau and to drugs. The clip is a montage of the darkness that results when two people, possessed by one another and their personal demons, come together, eventually having to separate or fall apart. The story also comes to life with a specific aesthetic and color scheme: lots of high-end punk and rockabilly looks done up in denim and Americana hues.

The clip serves as the lead image for the November 21 album, and its director, Melina Matsoukas, says that she's excited she got to help set the tone for the highly-anticipated release and hopes that the two will work a bit more on it.

"I mean, we'll see. There's definitely some more music coming out and I'm sure we'll do some more collaborating. I definitely would love to," she told MTV News. "I'm excited that I got to do the first one off her new album, the first single. I've never done that, so that was good."



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Florida's fabled 3 shut out in college football polls

Is the era of Florida college football dominance over for good, or is the Sunshine State just in the midst of a temporary tropical depression? It depends whom you ask.

This past week, for the first time in 29 years ? since Dec. 6, 1982, back when Michael Jackson?s Thriller topped the charts ? the state?s teams were absent from The Associated Press Top 25 rankings. No Miami. No Florida. No Florida State. It marked the end of a remarkable run of 472 consecutive polls in which the Hurricanes, Gators or Seminoles, or some combination of the "Big Three," were ranked.

How dominant were the Florida programs?

Florida teams hold three of the five longest AP poll streaks in history. Florida State was ranked in the Top 25 for 211 weeks in a row from 1989 to 2001, Florida made the list 209 consecutive weeks from 1990 through 2002, and Miami was ranked 162 weeks in a row from 1985 through 1995.

In the 2000 year-end poll, Miami finished No. 2, Florida State No. 5 and Florida No. 10. Six years earlier, in 1994, Florida State was No. 4, Miami No. 6 and Florida No. 7. And in 1992, Florida State was ranked No. 2, Miami No. 3 and Florida No. 10.

Over the past three decades, they combined for 10 national titles and six Heisman Trophies. They supplied the NFL with 83 first-round picks over the past 20 years. And they combined for 36 top-5 finishes in the year-end polls during the 29-year streak.

Football fans can thank this state for Bobby Bowden, Howard Schnellenberger, Jimmy Johnson, Steve Spurrier, the Orange Bowl, Fun and Gun. And Tim Tebow, Michael Irvin, Deion Sanders, Emmitt Smith. Wide Right. Wide Left. The list goes on. Florida was the epicenter of football excitement.

But heading into last weekend, the Florida football forecast was cloudy, and Idaho, The Potato State (gasp!), had more schools in the Top 25 than the Sunshine State.

Miami and Florida State were 2-3, winless (0-4) in the ACC, and out of the national and conference championship conversation. The Seminoles, who started the season ranked in the top 5, had dropped three in a row. Florida?s 4-2 start could be excused, as the two losses were to No. 3 Alabama and No. 1 LSU, but it wasn?t enough to hang onto the No. 17 ranking.

The Oct. 8 weekend was the second time since Oct. 14, 1978, that all three schools lost on the same day. The Gators lost 47-11 at No. 1 LSU, Miami lost a 38-35 thriller at Virginia Tech, and Florida State lost 35-30 at Wake Forest. The other time all three state teams lost on the same day was Oct. 30, 2004.

The state?s Big Three fell out of the Top 25 while the likes of Boise State, Oregon and Houston climbed. The last of Miami?s five national titles was 10 years ago, and the Hurricanes are still seeking their first ACC title. Florida State, the one-time power under Bowden, hasn?t played in a BCS bowl game since the 2005 season. On Saturday, Florida State and Miami each got back to .500 with victories. Florida lost at Auburn to fall to 4-3.

The Hurricanes have had just one first-round draft pick the past four years (Kenny Phillips in 2008) after having 19 from 2001 to 2004. Three Seminoles have been first-round NFL picks over the past five years after the school produced 11 from 1997 to 2001.

ESPN college football commentator Danny Kanell, a former Florida State and NFL quarterback, said it is "very disappointing," to scan down the Top 25 and not see any Florida teams.

"When I played in the NFL, all the guys from the state of Florida had a certain sense of pride that we came from the best football state in the country, as far as high school and college football," he said in a phone interview. "When you saw another Florida guy, there was automatic respect. This state had something really special for a long time, and we got spoiled. The chance of that kind of dominance happening again is unlikely."

Kanell feels the absence of the three teams in the poll last week is "significant" and not just a temporary blip. "I think the days of FSU, UM and UF dominating the sport are kind of over because the game has changed."

He blames parity and "the emergence of a new kind of player." Kanell lamented the fact that a lot of kids today have a sense of entitlement and want to play right away, so they aren?t as likely to sit on the bench and earn their turn at a Miami or FSU.

(c)2011 The Miami Herald. Distributed by MCT Information Services

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