According to Maureen Mullen of CSNNE.com, the Athletics have hired?Chili Davis as hitting coach.?Imagine my excitement when this story broke while I was in the process of eating some turkey chili. It?s fate, I tell you. Davis, who turns 52 in January, served as hitting coach with Triple-A Pawtucket in the Red Sox organization this?
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MEXICO CITY ? Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site.
Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
But the National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement that there is in fact another apparent reference to the date at the nearby Comalcalco ruin. The inscription is on the carved or molded face of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual among Mayan temples in that it was constructed of bricks.
Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the institute, said the fragment of inscription had been discovered years ago and has been subject to thorough study. It is not on display and is being kept in storage at the institute.
The "Comalcalco Brick," as the second fragment is known, has been discussed by experts in some online forums. Many still doubt that it is a definite reference to Dec. 21, 2012 or Dec. 23, 2012, the dates cited by proponents of the theory as the possible end of the world.
"Some have proposed it as another reference to 2012, but I remain rather unconvinced," David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin, said in a message to The Associated Press.
Stuart said the date inscribed on the brick "'is a Calendar Round,' a combination of a day and month position that will repeat every 52 years."
The brick date does coincide with the end of the 13th Baktun; Baktuns were roughly 394-year periods and 13 was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas. The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 B.C., and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.
But the date on the brick could also correspond to similar dates in the past, Stuart said.
"There's no reason it couldn't be also a date in ancient times, describing some important historical event in the Classic period. In fact, the third glyph on the brick seems to read as the verb huli, "he/she/it arrives."
"There's no future tense marking (unlike the Tortuguero phrase), which in my mind points more to the Comalcalco date being more historical that prophetic," Stuart wrote.
Both inscriptions ? the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick ? were probably carved about 1,300 years ago and both are cryptic in some ways.
The Tortuguero inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation.
However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible, though some read the last eroded glyphs as perhaps saying, "He will descend from the sky."
The Comalcalco brick is also odd in that the molded or inscribed faces of the bricks were probably laid facing inward or covered with stucco, suggesting they were not meant to be seen.
The Institute of Anthropology and History has long said rumors of a world-ending or world-changing event in late December 2012 are a Westernized misinterpretation of Mayan calendars.
The institute repeated Thursday that "western messianic thought has twisted the cosmovision of ancient civilizations like the Maya."
The institute's experts say the Mayas saw time as a series of cycles that began and ended with regularity, but with nothing apocalyptic at the end of a given cycle.
Given the strength of Internet rumors about impending disaster in 2012, the institute is organizing a special round table of 60 Mayan experts next week at the archaeological site of Palenque, in southern Mexico, to "dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar."
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MOSCOW ? Russia threatened on Wednesday to deploy missiles to target the U.S. missile shield in Europe if Washington fails to assuage Moscow's concerns about its plans, a harsh warning that reflected deep cracks in U.S.-Russian ties despite President Barack Obama's efforts to "reset" relations with the Kremlin.
President Dmitry Medvedev said he still hopes for a deal with the U.S. on missile defense, but he strongly accused Washington and its NATO allies of ignoring Russia's worries. He said Russia will have to take military countermeasures if the U.S. continues to build the shield without legal guarantees that it will not be aimed against Russia.
The U.S. has repeatedly assured Russia that its proposed missile defense system wouldn't be directed against Russia's nuclear forces, and it did that again Wednesday.
"I do think it's worth reiterating that the European missile defense system that we've been working very hard on with our allies and with Russia over the last few years is not aimed at Russia," said Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman. "It is ... designed to help deter and defeat the ballistic missile threat to Europe and to our allies from Iran."
White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said the United States will continue to seek Moscow's cooperation, but it must realize "that the missile defense systems planned for deployment in Europe do not and cannot threaten Russia's strategic deterrent."
But Medvedev said Moscow will not be satisfied by simple declarations and wants a binding agreement. He said, "When we propose to put in on paper in the form of precise and clear legal obligations, we hear a strong refusal."
Medvedev warned that Russia will station missiles in its westernmost Kaliningrad region and other areas, if the U.S. continues its plans without offering firm and specific pledges that the shield isn't directed at its nuclear forces. He didn't say whether the missiles would carry conventional or nuclear warheads.
In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was "very disappointed" with Russia's threat to deploy missiles near alliance nations, adding that "would be reminiscent of the past and ... inconsistent with the strategic relations NATO and Russia have agreed they seek."
"Cooperation, not confrontation, is the way ahead," Rasmussen said in a statement.
The U.S. missile defense dispute has long tarnished ties between Moscow and Washington. The Obama administration has repeatedly said the shield is needed to fend off a potential threat from Iran, but Russia fears that it could erode the deterrent potential of its nuclear forces.
"If our partners tackle the issue of taking our legitimate security interests into account in an honest and responsible way, I'm sure we will be able to come to an agreement," Medvedev said. "But if they propose that we `cooperate,' or, to say it honestly, work against our own interests, we won't be able to reach common ground."
Moscow has agreed to consider a proposal NATO made last fall to cooperate on the missile shield, but the talks have been deadlocked over how the system should be operated. Russia has insisted that it should be run jointly, which NATO has rejected.
Medvedev also warned that Moscow may opt out of the New START arms control deal with the United States and halt other arms control talks, if the U.S. proceeds with the missile shield without meeting Russia's demand. The Americans had hoped that the START treaty would stimulate progress in further ambitious arms control efforts, but such talks have stalled because of tension over the missile plan.
While the New START doesn't prevent the U.S. from building new missile defense systems, Russia has said it could withdraw from the treaty if it feels threatened by such a system in future.
Medvedev reaffirmed that warning Wednesday, saying that Russia may opt out of the treaty because of an "inalienable link between strategic offensive and defensive weapons."
The New START has been a key achievement of Obama's policy of improving relations with Moscow, which had suffered badly under the George W. Bush administration.
"It's impossible to do a reset using old software, it's necessary to develop a new one," Medvedev's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, said at a news conference.
The U.S. plan calls for placing land- and sea-based radars and interceptors in European locations, including Romania and Poland, over the next decade and upgrading them over time.
Medvedev said that Russia will carefully watch the development of the U.S. shield and take countermeasures if Washington continues to ignore Russia's concerns. He warned that Moscow would deploy short-range Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, a Baltic Sea region bordering Poland, and place weapons in other areas in Russia's west and south to target U.S. missile defense sites. Medvedev said Russia would put a new early warning radar in Kaliningrad.
He said that as part of its response Russia would also equip its intercontinental nuclear missiles with systems that would allow them to penetrate prospective missile defenses and would develop ways to knock down the missile shield's control and information facilities.
Igor Korotchenko, a Moscow-based military expert, was quoted by the state RIA Novosti news agency as saying that the latter would mean targeting missile defense radars and command structures with missiles and bombers. "That will make the entire system useless," he said.
Medvedev and other Russian leaders have made similar threats in the past, and the latest statement appears to be aimed at the domestic audience ahead of Dec. 4 parliamentary elections.
Medvedev, who is set to step down to allow Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to reclaim the presidency in March's election, leads the ruling United Russia party list in the parliamentary vote. A stern warning to the U.S. and NATO issued by Medvedev seems to be directed at rallying nationalist votes in the polls.
Rogozin, Russia's NATO envoy, said the Kremlin won't follow the example of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and take unwritten promises from the West.
"The current political leadership can't act like Gorbachev, and it wants written obligations secured by ratification documents," Rogozin said.
Medvedev's statement was intended to encourage the U.S. and NATO to take Russia seriously at the missile defense talks, Rogozin said. He added that the Russian negotiators were annoyed by the U.S. "openly lying" about its missile defense plans.
"We won't allow them to treat us like fools," he said. "Nuclear deterrent forces aren't a joke."
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Associated Press writers Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow, Pauline Jelinek and Julie Pace in Washington and Slobodan Lekic in Brussels contributed to this report.
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WASHINGTON (TheWrap.com) ? The Stop Online Piracy Act might be stopped before it ever gets online, as yet another influential voice has come out against it.
The Business Software Alliance, the self-described "voice of the world's software industry and its hardware partners" on policy affairs, has done an about face on its initial support of the anti-piracy bill currently under consideration by the House of Representatives.
On Monday alliance CEO and president Robert Holleyman posted his misgivings about the bill, which would authorize the Justice Department to shut down "rogue" websites trafficking in stolen or counterfeit materials, such as pirated films and bogus pharmaceuticals.
"Valid and important questions have been raised about the bill," wrote Holleyman, whose organization represents Apple, Microsoft and Dell, among other technology companies. "It is intended to get at the worst of the worst offenders. As it now stands, however, it could sweep in more than just truly egregious actors."
He said the law required clearer definitions regarding who could be targeted and how. The BSA has "long stood against filtering or monitoring the Internet," Holleyman added.
He said BSA was ready to work with the bill's sponsor, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), to improve its language.
Holleyman joins a slew of SOPA critics, including politicians from both sides of the aisle.
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif) both came out against the bill after the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on it last week.
While the proposed law has enjoyed unwavering support from the entertainment industry, internet giants such as Google and Facebook have come out loudly against it, as have many free speech advocates.
Critics say that as written, SOPA could provide legal cover for censorship. This and other unintended consequence could have a chilling effect on the industry as a whole, they say, stifling innovation and growth.
BSA initially offered support of Smith's bill in a statement released October 26.
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Earlier this year Check Point's ZoneAlarm antivirus and security suite got a total makeover, a completely new look after years of wearing the same face. Now ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 2012 (free, direct) has received the same treatment. Don't worry; only its appearance has changed. Under the hood it's the same powerful free firewall as ever.
As Bari Abdul, vice president of consumer sales at Check Point Software Technologies, observed, "More than 200 million people today use free antivirus software, but they lack a strong two-way firewall, leaving their PCs vulnerable to online attacks." Check Point advises all users of free antivirus products to install the free ZoneAlarm firewall for added security.
New Interface
Like ZoneAlarm Antivirus + Firewall 2012 ($59.95 direct for three licenses, 3 stars) and ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 2012 ($79.95 direct for three licenses, 4 stars), the free ZoneAlarm firewall now presents the user with three panel-sized buttons representing protection for identity and data, computer, and Internet. Each button changes color if there's a problem; clicking the button brings up detailed status information and access to configuration.
The free ZoneAlarm visually includes all the features of the more advanced products. They're simply grayed out, with a link that offers an opportunity to upgrade to a paid product.
Zone Defense
ZoneAlarm pioneered the now-common feature of organizing networks into different security zones with different settings. WiFi hotspots and other potentially risky networks go in the public zone, while your own home or business network typically goes in the trusted zone. By default ZoneAlarm automatically puts unsecured wireless networks into the public zone. For other newly discovered networks it asks the user to choose.
Not surprisingly, ZoneAlarm passed all of my port scan tests and other Web-based attacks. With all ports in stealth mode the computer simply isn't visible to outside attackers.
Another now-common feature pioneered by ZoneAlarm is firewall self-defense. As always, I couldn't find any way to disable the firewall using techniques that could be incorporated into malicious code. In particular I couldn't terminate its processes nor could I find any way to stop or disable its essential services.
Some firewalls actively detect and prevent Web-based attacks on system vulnerabilities. The firewall in Norton Internet Security 2012 ($69.99 direct for three licenses, 4.5 stars) is especially good at this. In my most recent test it blocked every single exploit that I generated using the Core IMPACT penetration tool, and identified most of them by name.
Active blocking of exploits isn't a feature you'll find in ZoneAlarm. None of the exploits actually managed to penetrate system security, but ZoneAlarm didn't take notice of them.
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Ramallah, West Bank ? The Palestinian Authority is seeking to regroup after the United Nations Security Council officially declared its bid for full UN membership to be dead.
After the Council's announcement Friday, Israeli-Palestinian relations returned to a familiar stasis this week. In talks with the Quartet (the US, UN, European Union, and Russia) yesterday, Israel sought a return to the table with no preconditions and Palestinians insisted on a settlement freeze before resuming talks.
The failed UN statehood bid is a setback for the beleaguered PA and sharpens the debate over its future, nearly two decades after it was set up as a transitional government.
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In the past two years, the PA has won international praise for a reform campaign to prepare for independence. But now, amid increasing frustration that the PA is but a Palestinian fa?ade for Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Palestinian officials are signaling they may undo PA gains by voluntarily dismantling the government and handing responsibility for daily management back to Israel.
Hani el-Masry, a Palestinian analyst close to the PA, said that the Palestinian civil affairs minister informed counterparts in the Israeli army that the Palestinian Authority plans to begin transfer authority for health and education back to Israel, potentially turning back the clock 17 years to when Israel had direct control over the daily management of Palestinians.
The counterintuitive move reflects frustration with the lack of progress in the peace process and accompanies an escalation of repeated warnings by PA President Mahmoud Abbas that he will resign if he doubts that negotiations will ever bear fruit.
Mr. Abbas declared Saturday that despite the failed UN bid, he would not dismantle the PA, but speculation persists.
Both Abbas's threats of resignation and other calls for dismantling the PA, are considered brinkmanship because they threaten a vacuum of power in the West Bank that would be a headache for Israel and the international community. It also might reflect uncertainty over what to do now that the Palestinians' controversial campaign for UN membership is moving into a different phase.
Palestinians at a fork in the roadThe simultaneous campaign for statehood recognition and threat of dismantling reflects a sort of Palestinians schizophrenia, says Mr. Masry, the director of Badael, a think tank in Ramallah.
"This indicates a crisis in the Palestinian situation. The PA has been sending contradictory messages," he says.
Masry said that Mr. Abbas has yet to make a final decision to on whether to adopt a new strategy for statehood instead of negotiations.
"He has been hesitating. He can?t continue down the old road and he doesn?t have the courage to take a new road."
Palestinian supporters of Mr. Abbas complain the PA ? originally established in 1994 as a five-year transitional body ahead of full sovereignty ? has turned into a permanent entity that functions as subcontractor of the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank.
"Until now we don?t have any authority. We just distribute money to people," says Bassem Zakarneh, chairman of the Palestinian Authority workers union. "Israel wants to control things and make us like the army?s civil administration. Israel must be responsible for all things, and we will go back to resisting the occupation."
Scare tactic?Just over two weeks ago, a top governing body Mr. Abbas? Fatah party commissioned a committee to reconsider the future of the Palestinian Authority. The talk of actually dismantling the PA comes amid fear that the autonomy government might go bankrupt if both Israel and the US stop transferring money to it as a sanction for the Palestinian statehood campaign at the UN.
On Nov. 1, Israel froze payment of about $100 million in monthly tax money that it collects on the PA?s behalf ? move made in protest over the admission of the Palestinians to UNESCO. That puts monthly payment of 152,000 employees at risk, but the PA was able find the money to pay the most recent round of salaries on time.
Earlier last week, UN Middle East Envoy Robert Serry warned Israel and the international community that Mr. Abbas and the Palestinians? warnings should be taken seriously by Israel.
"I don't want to sound apocalyptic ? but if things go wrong don't expect the international community to bail you out," Mr. Serry told the liberal Haaretz newspaper, speaking about Israel. "We will not pay the bill."
Others think that Abbas and his Fatah party aren?t about to forfeit their power and financial aid so quickly for fear that Hamas is liable to move into the vacuum and displace them.
"They are using it as a scare tactic to the international community. I don?t think they believe that the Israeli government cares. The international community may back them by pressuring the Israelis," said a Western diplomat based in the region. "When you drive around Ramallah you see so many SUVs and so much money and its all because of the PA. Abbas wants to leave a legacy, but if he packs up the PA, he will leave chaos behind him."
Mohammed Shtayeh, a former Palestinian Authority cabinet member and peace negotiator, says that leaders in Fatah want to redefine how the PA operates rather than dismantling it. Palestinian officials said they might rethink cooperation with Israel, especially collaboration in the West Bank between Israeli and Palestinian security agencies.
Why it might backfireA Hamas-aligned Palestinian lawmaker assailed the talk of dismantling the PA as "an act of desperation" by Palestinian officials who want to show constituents that they are standing up to the Israel at a time negotiations are deadlocked. "Dismantling the PA will not serve Palestinians, but stopping cooperation will fulfill our goals," said Ayman Daraghmeh, a legislative council member from the Hamas backed Reform and Justice party.
Voluntarily dismantling the PA might backfire by hurting the popularity of Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, warns Alaa Yaghi, a legislator from his Fatah party. "Most of the people would never understand why Abu Mazen would make this decision. They would blame Abu Mazen and the Fatah leadership."
Indeed, Said Samouri, an employee in the education ministry says he opposes such a move because it would deprive his family of some $1,300 in monthly salary.
"I cannot afford not to have my salary. I don?t have land to rely on," he said.
"Dismantling the PA is an extreme decision and I don?t think Abu Mazen should resort to it now. He should let diplomacy take its course. I am a patriot, and I want to support my government, but I have no way to live except for me and my wife?s salary."
Tactic to boost leverage?Most Israeli observers see talk of a dismantling of the PA as a threat aimed gaining points at the negotiating table when the sides return to talks.
After years of similar warnings, however, few in Israel take the Palestinians at their word. Still, such a scenario would "expose us as an occupier nation against a civilian population with no protection ? a sensitive legal and public relations situation," said Moshe Marzouk, a former advisor on Arab Affairs in the Israeli army, in an interview with Israel?s Ynet.com online news site..
But Fatah member Daraghmeh is less convinced whether will give Palestinians any new leverage over Israel and tip the strategic balance between the two. Voluntarily giving up on international aid and dramatically increasing unemployment would risk the survival of Fatah. He described the Palestinian's stand-off with the US and Israel over the future of the Palestinian Authority by translating an Arabic expression.
"It?s like biting each other?s fingers," he said. "The one who can handle the most pain will win."
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A new series of article-chapters to be published in the journal GENETICS (http://www.genetics.org) promises to help scientists better access the wealth of research knowledge obtained on an important experimental organism used to understand human gene function. The series will be authored by top geneticists from around the world and will cover practically all aspects of modern yeast research and its applications to human health and well-being.
"When investigators identify a gene in other organisms, they first look in the Saccharomyces Genome Database for a homologue," wrote Alan Hinnebusch, Editor-in-Chief of YeastBook and Mark Johnston, Editor-in-Chief of GENETICS, in an editorial appearing in the November issue of GENETICS. "Because of decades of work on S. cerevisiae by a large research community with access to a prodigious experimental toolbox, finding a homologue (which happens more than half the time) brings not only a wealth of information that provides much insight into the gene's function, but also a robust experimental system for further investigations that promise new insights."
The series of chapters published as articles will not only help organize and analyze the overwhelming amount of data obtained on Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but it will also serve as a significant reference tool for those who do not specialize on this organism. In total, the editors of YeastBook and GENETICS anticipate that the compendium will span 50 chapters, but as new research developments occur, the need for additional chapters may arise and will be accommodated by this innovative publishing model.
YeastBook expands on the seminal monograph series The Molecular Biology of the Yeast Saccharomyces, first published by Cold Spring Harbor Press in the early 1980s and last updated more than 15 years ago. After YeastBook articles are published in GENETICS they will be compiled on a separate YeastBook web site. By publishing in GENETICS first, each chapter will benefit from the journal's publishing methods and infrastructure, such as its peer review system and online publishing platform, while allowing for continual updating as needed. In addition to the scrutiny of GENETICS' peer review, each chapter will be edited by a select group of leaders with broad expertise in Saccharomyces biology. The YeastBook editors were recruited by GENETICS' Editorial Board and the Board of Directors of the Genetics Society of America, and represent some of the world's top experts in this field.
"This is a novel approach for publication of a monograph, and it will serve the scientific community well," said Mark Johnston, Editor-in-Chief of GENETICS. "The chapters will be published in a timely fashion, and they will enjoy wide visibility in the pages of a well-regarded journal. I hope this will be the first of several such 'books' published in our journal."
Alan G. Hinnebush, Ph.D., Head of the Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism within the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, is the Editor-in-Chief of YeastBook. Mark Johnston, Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, is Editor-in-Chief of GENETICS.
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Since 1916, GENETICS (http://www.genetics.org) has covered high quality, original research on a range of topics bearing on inheritance, including population and evolutionary genetics, complex traits, developmental and behavioral genetics, cellular genetics, gene expression, genome integrity and transmission, and genome and systems biology. GENETICS, the peer-reviewed, peer-edited journal of the Genetics Society of America is one of the world's most cited journals in genetics and heredity.
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Genetics Society of America
A new series of article-chapters to be published in the journal GENETICS (http://www.genetics.org) promises to help scientists better access the wealth of research knowledge obtained on an important experimental organism used to understand human gene function. The series will be authored by top geneticists from around the world and will cover practically all aspects of modern yeast research and its applications to human health and well-being.
"When investigators identify a gene in other organisms, they first look in the Saccharomyces Genome Database for a homologue," wrote Alan Hinnebusch, Editor-in-Chief of YeastBook and Mark Johnston, Editor-in-Chief of GENETICS, in an editorial appearing in the November issue of GENETICS. "Because of decades of work on S. cerevisiae by a large research community with access to a prodigious experimental toolbox, finding a homologue (which happens more than half the time) brings not only a wealth of information that provides much insight into the gene's function, but also a robust experimental system for further investigations that promise new insights."
The series of chapters published as articles will not only help organize and analyze the overwhelming amount of data obtained on Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but it will also serve as a significant reference tool for those who do not specialize on this organism. In total, the editors of YeastBook and GENETICS anticipate that the compendium will span 50 chapters, but as new research developments occur, the need for additional chapters may arise and will be accommodated by this innovative publishing model.
YeastBook expands on the seminal monograph series The Molecular Biology of the Yeast Saccharomyces, first published by Cold Spring Harbor Press in the early 1980s and last updated more than 15 years ago. After YeastBook articles are published in GENETICS they will be compiled on a separate YeastBook web site. By publishing in GENETICS first, each chapter will benefit from the journal's publishing methods and infrastructure, such as its peer review system and online publishing platform, while allowing for continual updating as needed. In addition to the scrutiny of GENETICS' peer review, each chapter will be edited by a select group of leaders with broad expertise in Saccharomyces biology. The YeastBook editors were recruited by GENETICS' Editorial Board and the Board of Directors of the Genetics Society of America, and represent some of the world's top experts in this field.
"This is a novel approach for publication of a monograph, and it will serve the scientific community well," said Mark Johnston, Editor-in-Chief of GENETICS. "The chapters will be published in a timely fashion, and they will enjoy wide visibility in the pages of a well-regarded journal. I hope this will be the first of several such 'books' published in our journal."
Alan G. Hinnebush, Ph.D., Head of the Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism within the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, is the Editor-in-Chief of YeastBook. Mark Johnston, Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, is Editor-in-Chief of GENETICS.
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Since 1916, GENETICS (http://www.genetics.org) has covered high quality, original research on a range of topics bearing on inheritance, including population and evolutionary genetics, complex traits, developmental and behavioral genetics, cellular genetics, gene expression, genome integrity and transmission, and genome and systems biology. GENETICS, the peer-reviewed, peer-edited journal of the Genetics Society of America is one of the world's most cited journals in genetics and heredity.
Founded in 1931, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) is the professional membership organization for nearly 5,000 scientific researchers, educators, bioengineers, bioinformaticians and others who work to advance knowledge in genetics, from the molecular to the population level.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa.?? The arduous task of rebuilding Penn State's shattered image began Friday with a pledge by the board of trustees to search for the truth amid an unfolding child sex abuse case against a former assistant football coach, a scandal that has already claimed the jobs of coach Joe Paterno and the school's president.
In front of an overflow crowd at a meeting that was moved from a hotel boardroom to a ballroom to accommodate more people, the trustees opened with Chairman Steve Garban welcoming the replacement president, Rod Erickson, and Gov. Tom Corbett, who had pressed publicly for fast action by trustees accustomed to deferring to Spanier.
The meeting was the first public gathering of the 32-member board in the wake of the scandal that has gripped one of the nation's largest universities and touched off a violent student demonstration. In addition to the firing of Paterno and President Graham Spanier, an assistant coach who told his bosses in 2002 that he saw an assault was placed on administrative leave Friday.
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Garban pledged to support Erickson ? the trustees removed the "interim" tag on his new title but will continue to search for a permanent successor to Spanier ? as the board works "for the future of this institution that we respect and love." Erickson, previously the university's longtime provost, said Penn State must devote itself to its core values ? honesty, integrity, excellence and community ? now more than ever.
"I know we can do this. We are resilient; we are a university that will rebuild the trust and confidence that so many people have had in us for so many years," Erickson said in a six-minute speech to the trustees.
Without mentioning Spanier or Paterno, Erickson told trustees that their deliberate and decisive action had set a course for the university's future. His heart aches for the victims and their families, he said, and he pledged to reassure Penn Staters that the university's future is still bright.
Paterno and Spanier were fired Wednesday in the fallout of a shocking days-old grand jury report alleging repeated, illicit contact between retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky and boys as young as 10 over a span of 15 years, sometimes in Penn State's facilities.
Video: Did Sandusky use his charity to find victims? (on this page)The grand jury report said that administrators did not contact law enforcement authorities after a graduate assistant for the football team said he saw Sandusky sodomizing a boy of about 10 years old in the locker room showers at the team's practice center in 2002. Top school officials, including Paterno and Spanier, say they weren't told about the seriousness of the matter.
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Sandusky has been aware of the accusations against him for about three years and has maintained his innocence, his lawyer has said.
Failure under investigation
The board adjourned after forming an investigative committee, to be headed by trustee Kenneth Frazier, the CEO of pharmaceutical company Merck, to dig into the university's failure to stop Sandusky's alleged activity. Ronald Tomalis, a trustee and state education secretary, will be vice chairman.
The rest of the committee has yet to be formed, but Frazier said it will have the power to hire independent lawyers and plans to publicly release the entirety of its findings.
"That's absolutely what we intend to do," Frazier said after the meeting. "The purpose of this investigation is to ensure that the public understands everything that we learn in this investigation and a report will be made completely public as quickly as we possibly can."
The university as a whole, however, has a long way to go before anything can be considered routine now that Paterno, whose 46 years leading the Nittany Lions turned him into an icon in the area known as Happy Valley and beyond, is gone. The school named defensive coordinator Tom Bradley interim coach on Thursday.
Paterno's firing touched off a violent student rally late Wednesday night, requiring police in riot gear, at times using pepper spray, to disperse about 2,000 who took to the streets and toppled a television news van.
The university's faculty senate on Friday called on students and employees to "act in ways that bring honor to our institution and ourselves."
Sandusky served as Paterno's top defensive assistant for more than two decades and at one time was considered his heir apparent. But he abruptly retired in 1999, about a year after university police investigated a complaint by the mother of a woman upset that Sandusky had showered with and bear-hugged her 11-year-old son, the grand jury report alleged.
Authorities said Sandusky met many of his alleged victims through The Second Mile, a charity he founded in 1977 to help at-risk youth.
Two face perjury charges
Former athletic director Tim Curley and former university vice president Gary Schultz have been charged with perjury and failure to report the 2002 assault, as required by state law. Lawyers for the men say that they are innocent, that they told the truth to the grand jury and that they told Spanier what they knew, fulfilling their legal obligation.
About a week and a half after the 2002 incident, the graduate assistant ? identified by people familiar with the investigation as Mike McQueary, now the team's wide receivers coach ? met with Curley and Schultz, and told them he had witnessed what he believed to be Sandusky having sex with a boy, the grand jury report said.
McQueary was placed on administrative leave Friday, Erickson said, and won't be coaching at Saturday's game against Nebraska because he has received threats. McQueary, during a conference call with players and his replacement, revealed he was no longer in State College and was in protective custody at a secluded location, the Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa., reported.
Spanier told the grand jury that Schultz and Curley went to him and reported an incident that made a member of Curley's staff "uncomfortable."
"Spanier described it as 'Jerry Sandusky in the football building locker area in the shower ... with a younger child and they were horsing around in the shower,'" the grand jury report said.
Paterno, major college football's winningest coach, has said he wasn't told "the very specific actions" contained in the grand jury report, but he also has acknowledged that "with the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more."
Paterno hires attorney
NBC News National Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff reported that Paterno had reached out to a prominent Washington criminal defense lawyer to represent him in the case. A source close to Paterno told Isikoff that the former coach was concerned about the possibility that Sandusky's alleged victims and their families could bring civil lawsuits against him.
Scott Paterno, son of Joe Paterno, confirmed the Isikoff report Friday.
"Like everyone who has watched this story unfold, my father is experiencing a range of powerful emotions," the younger Paterno said, NBC News reported. "He is absolutely distraught over what happened to the children and their families. He also wants very much to speak publicly and answer questions."
"At this stage, however, he has no choice but to be patient and defer to the legal process. He cooperated fully with the Grand Jury and he will continue to cooperate with the investigation as we move forward."
"On behalf of my father, I have retained Wick Sollers at the law firm of King and Spalding. My father's desire is for the truth to be uncovered and he will work with his lawyers to that end."
Sandusky home vandalized
Meanwhile, police were investigating apparent vandalism at the house of Sandusky, according to NBC News.
A police report stated that an unidentified person threw two cinder blocks through a bedroom window of the house on Friday. No one was hurt and there were no immediate arrests.
Police would not say if anyone was in the house at the time.
The Penn State Athletic Department said Friday it would increase security measures at all home athletic events through Sunday, NBC News reported.
Bags of any sort, including purses, will not be permitted at the Bryce Jordan Center, Greenburg Ice Pavilion, Jeffrey Field and Rec Hall, it said.
For Saturday's football game against Nebraska, fans were encouraged to arrive earlier than usual as inspections will be more deliberate and thorough and the university's regulation on bags will be strictly enforced, officials said.
Texas investigation under way
Prosecutors in Texas also have opened an investigation into the possibility of filing charges against Sandusky, police have said.
The move followed the release of grand jury testimony indicating Sandusky may have sexually assaulted one of his young victims when the Penn State team was in San Antonio for the 1999 Alamo Bowl.
"We are looking into the possibility that an offense may have happened in San Antonio," San Antonio Police Sergeant Chris Benavides said.
Unsealed grand jury testimony in the Sandusky case in Pennsylvania indicates that a now 27-year-old man described in the transcript as "Victim Number Four" testified he was brought to San Antonio as part of the "Sandusky family party" to watch the Nittany Lions beat Texas A&M in the 1999 Alamo Bowl.
NBC News, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45260778/ns/us_news-life/
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President Obama's nine-day trip to Asia seeks to?reassure America?s Asian allies and partners that the US is committed to strengthening its economic and security ties to the region.
With America?s military presence in Iraq winding down by the end of the year yet with jobs dominating the domestic political picture, President Obama is redirecting his attention to the world?s rising economic power house ? Asia ? with a nine-day trip to the East.
Skip to next paragraphBeginning Saturday the president will host Asia-Pacific leaders in Hawaii ? where trade and economic development will be a key topic ? before heading to Australia and Indonesia.
The trip?s two-fold purpose: reassure America?s Asian allies and partners that the US is committed to strengthening its economic and security ties to the region, while messaging the American public (and voters) that America?s economic future depends in large part on its ties to the vibrant and fast-growing Asian economies.
Since taking office, Obama has repeated that this will be America?s ?Pacific century.? But until now the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, tumult in the Middle East, and even the threat of a financial meltdown in Europe have kept the administration?s attention to Asia sporadic.
But in a speech at the East-West Center in Honolulu Thursday, in the run-up to the weekend?s APEC summit, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton insisted that the administration is turning its attention to Asia in earnest.
Noting that world events have ?lined up in a way that helps make this possible, Secretary Clinton pointed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
?After a decade in which we invested immense resources in those two theaters,? she said, ?we have reached a pivot point.?
?We now can redirect some of those investments to opportunities and obligations elsewhere,? she added, ?And Asia stands out as a region where opportunities abound.?
But is Obama?s Asia focus coming a bit late and leaving the US playing a game of catch-up? Some US foreign policy experts who have visited the region recently say leaders there wonder if the US, despite Obama?s ?Asia century? rhetoric, is really intent on building up its Asia presence.
?All the countries in Asia can see China?s weight and influence growing in their everyday life, and their question to America is, ?What are you doing to respond to that, what is your strategy??? says James Lindsay, director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. ?They wonder if America is in fact in retreat.?
Clearly Clinton has heard some of these same rumblings coming out of Asia, because she addressed the doubters of America?s staying power head-on in her East-West Center speech.
?To those in Asia who wonder whether the United States is really here to stay, if we can make and keep credible strategic and economic commitments and back them up with action, the answer is: Yes, we can, and yes, we will.?
Saying the US will step up its involvement in Asia ?because we must,? she noted that ?in the 21st century, the world?s strategic and economic center of gravity will be the Asia-Pacific, from the Indian subcontinent to the Western shores of the Americas.?
Yet even as Clinton seems focused on convincing Asian countries ? including an ever-more-powerful China ? that the US is around to stay, the emphasis at the White House appeared to be on convincing Americans that Obama?s long sojourn in Asia and his focus on the region more broadly have at their core a strategy for maintaining and expanding US economic power, and for creating jobs.
?When the American people see the president traveling in the Asia-Pacific, they will see him advocating for US jobs and US businesses,? said Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, in a briefing with reporters this week. ?He will be trying to open new markets, and he will be trying to achieve new export initiatives.?
Underscoring just how important Obama sees Asia in America?s economic prosperity, Mr. Rhodes noted that the president?s goal of doubling US exports by 2015 relies substantially on boosting US business to the Asia-Pacific region, which accounts for over half of the world?s gross domestic product, and over 40 percent of world trade.
?Nearly all of the efforts we?re going to be making towards that export goal,? he said, ?take place in this part of the world.? ?
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NEW YORK ? Apart from "Mad Men" in its 1960s setting, most TV dramas shy from showing anyone with cigarettes.
But that doesn't mean Kalinda Sharma isn't constantly smoking on "The Good Wife." No cigarettes are involved, mind you, nor are they needed by this steamy in-house investigator at the Chicago law firm of Lockhart Gardner. With her implacable shrewdness, sass and sexuality, Kalinda heats up every scene she's in.
No wonder she has emerged as a viewer favorite among the many colorful characters populating this CBS drama. And no wonder Archie Panjabi, who last year won an Emmy for her portrayal of Kalinda, can hold her own in a robust cast of actors who include series star Julianna Margulies as well as Christine Baranski, Josh Charles, Matt Czuchry, Alan Cumming and Chris Noth. ("The Good Wife" airs Sunday at 9 p.m. EST.)
"I'm not just a woman in a pair of boots," says Panjabi, describing her character with delicious understatement.
Along with her trademark knee-high boots, Kalinda is distinguished by the tough-gal wardrobe snugly sheathing her petite frame and, at the same time, by her defiant composure ? little if anything throws her, stops her (including ethics or legal niceties), or penetrates her well-defended shell.
Adding to the intrigue of Kalinda is her matter-of-fact bisexuality, and her exotic but so-far-unexamined ethnic origins. To its credit, "The Good Wife" makes nothing of the fact that the actress chosen to play her is Indian and, though British-born, has adopted for Kalinda a throaty, Americanized purr that obscures any regional identity.
In short, Kalinda cannot be categorized. She is who she is: a source of fascination.
"I think that's the way forward," says Panjabi. "You don't focus on the differences, you don't make an issue of them ? you just present them."
Meanwhile, the enigmatic Kalinda will have a few more layers peeled away in coming episodes.
"I've looked at the script and gone, `Oh my God. Really? Is "The Good Wife" going to go here?' And they went there," she teases. "Playing Kalinda definitely keeps me on my feet."
The 39-year-old Panjabi, whose birth name is Archana, knew from a tender age that she wanted to be an actress, "and I said no one would stop me from doing it.
"Coming from an Indian family and seeing the differences between them and our English neighbors, the differences in cultures always fascinated me," she says. "That's probably the source of my desire to earn a living out of being different people. There's nothing more challenging or exciting than being able to get into the heart and soul of another human being, and show that to the audience convincingly, from head to toe."
She landed roles on British television and made her film debut as a soccer-loving tomboy in the romantic comedy "East Is East." Subsequent films include "Traitor," "Bend It Like Beckham," "The Constant Gardener," "A Good Year" and "A Mighty Heart."
Along the way she wed Rajesh Nihalani, a bespoke tailor with whom she lives in London when professional pursuits aren't intruding.
But three seasons ago, she was invited to be part of a prospective New York-based TV series, a blend of courtroom procedural, high-stakes office battleground and domestic melodrama.
In the shorthand of casting, the character she was asked to play might be described as a Bollywood version of a Sam Spade detective with a feminist twist. "It's a throwback to the past, but a modern version of it," says Panjabi, who, in her portrayal, makes much more of Kalinda than any simple recipe.
"At first, the role kind of scared me," she concedes. "Kalinda seemed like somebody who used her looks as opposed to her mind, and I was nervous that she would have a limited range. But then they also made her incredibly smart."
Panjabi, who in person is soft-spoken, with raven hair to her shoulders, a hearty laugh and sparkling eyes, began building Kalinda from the ground up ? that is, her boots, "which was something I was particular about."
She says she was given the choice of playing Kalinda with a British or American accent, and with hair up or down. (She chose her hair tightly bound up as a sign of Kalinda's fierce self-control. Besides, "She didn't need her hair down to feel sexy.")
When the pilot episode was shot, she recalls, "I didn't want her to dress in a sexy way. I was keen for her to be in jeans and a T-shirt, as if she didn't care what she looked like."
But once shooting resumed for the series' first season, the producers wanted her attire to express her sexuality. She kept the leather jacket and the boots (which are not just for vanity: "I can really run in them," Panjabi says), adding a snug skirt and tights to what became her signature style.
"The clothes and the look definitely help me perform the character," says Panjabi, adding that, despite all her differences with Kalinda, they share one trait: "There's very few people that intimidate me," she says with a laugh. "That's a little part of me in Kalinda coming through."
In the past, friendship-averse Kalinda had begun to be chummy with Alicia Florrick (played by Margulies), her law firm co-worker. But their connection was dashed when Alicia learned that not only had Kalinda previously worked for her husband (Noth), but had also slept with him.
On this Sunday's episode, Kalinda has an unexpected sexual encounter with another character while investigating a case, in a story arc that promises to heat up for her.
That suits Panjabi fine.
"There are so many smart women I know who are unafraid to celebrate their sexuality," she says. "Kalinda is sexy, yet people are drawn to her also because of the way she thinks. She's really struck a chord with women as well as men, and I don't think we see that kind of character on TV as much as we should."
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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. He can be reached at fmoore(at)ap.org and at http://www.twitter.com/tvfrazier
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska ? Hardy Alaskans turned to ingenuity, cooperation, and in some cases, native culture to deal with the worst storm on the state's western coast in almost four decades.
Before the monster hit, hunters in one village dismantled drift racks used to dry seal and fish. Others along the state's western coast performed traditional Eskimo dances seeking good weather. Some brought subsistence comfort foods like caribou and bowhead whale blubber to share at village emergency shelters.
Still others tended to large sled dog teams by turning their dog houses away from the hurricane-force winds that hammered the weather-whipped region.
When the northwest Alaska village of Point Hope lost power in the barreling storm, locals in the whaling community lined their vehicles along a runway and used their headlights and emergency flashers to help a plane carrying repair workers land safely.
In all, there was damage in 37 communities but no confirmed injuries from the storm that packed wind gusts near 90 in at least one community. However, a 26-year-old man from the village of Teller remained missing, possibly swept into the Bering Sea, searchers said.
"It took everybody working together to make this work," said Marlene Beam, vice principal of the Point Hope school, of the local response. "I was so impressed with the community."
The Inupiat Eskimo village of 700, built on a large gravel spit, took quite a wallop before the storm whimpered out of the region Thursday. The tempest busted water lines and flooded some homes. It also knocked down power poles and lines, including one pole that was cut in half by an old shack that had been sent flying.
The village lost power for more than a day and people flocked to the school that served as an emergency evacuation center. Some locals brought muktuk, the Eskimo name for the skin of a bowhead whale with blubber, to share with others who sought shelter. About 100 people in the school gymnasium on Wednesday joined in a traditional Eskimo dance that's normally done during whaling season, when hunters are seeking good weather.
Beam was among the locals who drove cars to the darkened airport Thursday to provide a headlight guide for a pilot bringing in repair workers from Barrow, 320 miles to the northeast. The plane landed safely.
"He was an experienced pilot," Beam said. "He said it was no big deal."
Power was fully restored the same day.
Down the coast in Nome, mushing is a lifestyle and a passion for some. The town is the finish line for the world's longest mushing race, the 1,150-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Lots dotted with the small houses of dog teams are a common site along the rolling hills of the old gold rush town of 3,600.
Allen Maxwell, Nome's building maintenance supervisor, is a recreational musher with a 16-dog team. During the storm, he kept his dogs dry and comfortable by changing the straw in their houses every day and positioning doors away from the wind.
Maxwell said he struggled just to stand upright while feeding the dogs kibble and halibut outside their little shelters near the height of the storm. But the dogs did just fine, apparently unfazed by the weather.
"They were happy to me to see me every night when I got there," he said. "They came out and ate, no problem."
The storm flooded some basements along Nome's main drag, Front Street, very near the Bering Sea. Water crested over the sea wall and circled around the town's convention center, but crews quickly sealed doors and stacked sandbags, pumping out any water that got in.
Across the street nearby, the famed big burled arch that marks the Iditarod finish line was unscathed.
In Shishmaref, 125 miles to the north, the storm ate up about 20 feet of land after it hit Tuesday, said Tony Weyiouanna, a lifelong resident. The village is one of Alaska's most eroded and many of the 560 residents in the Inupiat community have long wanted to relocate from the barrier island.
The chunk of land that disappeared was in an area used as a subsistence camp where villagers drape seal and fish on driftwood racks to dry.
"Some people dismantled their drying racks when they heard to the storm was coming," Weyiouanna said.
Those who didn't lost the racks to the furious winds.
Another storm with blizzard conditions and winds peaking at 55 mph was moving Friday in the eastern Bering Sea and was expected to head toward the town of Bethel, several hundred miles south of Nome, National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Brown said. It will be nowhere as powerful or widespread as the massive storm from earlier in the week.
"It's still a strong storm, but this is more typical of winter weather southwest Alaska experiences," Brown said.
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WARSAW, Poland ? Polish police say they arrested 210 people during Independence Day marches that turned violent, and that nearly half of them were Germans.
Police spokesman Maciej Karczynski said Saturday that 92 Germans were among those arrested after youths began attacking police with bottles, cobblestones and other objects during Friday's marches. Also arrested were a Spaniard, a Hungarian and a Dane.
He also said that 40 police officers were injured and 14 police cars destroyed.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk was holding a special meeting with key security officials, including the interior and justice ministers, to consult on what turned out to be some of the worst street violence in Poland in years.
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