Florida State Seminoles men?s youth might derail bid to defend ACC title

TALLAHASSEE -- The No. 25 Florida State men?s basketball team enters the 2012-13 basketball season in uncharted territory ? as the defending Atlantic Coast Conference champion.

During the past decade, coach Leonard Hamilton quietly has raised the profile of Florida State in the massive shadow cast by the school?s main staple, the football program.

Without much fanfare, Hamilton?s teams have posted seven consecutive winning records and made four NCAA Tournament appearances in a row, and last season the Seminoles finally cracked the ACC?s glass ceiling, going 4-1 against perennial stalwarts UNC and Duke on their way to the school?s first ACC basketball championship.

That team, which was knocked out of the NCAA Tournament in the third round by Cincinnati, has largely moved on.

Six seniors are gone, including the team?s most dynamic big man, Bernard James, who now plays for the Dallas Mavericks. In their place is a talented, yet inexperienced group of freshmen is trying to build on the success of that class.

?We have an unusual situation where I have six or seven guys where I?m trying to just let them learn our system a little better,? Hamilton said. ?The good thing is we have a corps of guys that if we just wanted to tighten it down and play fewer guys we could probably be a whole lot more efficient on the floor and just let the other guys come in and earn their playing time.

?But I don?t think that?s the right thing to do. We?ve got to get these guys on the floor, and we?ll have to see how liberal we?re going to be able to be subbing guys and giving them minutes.?

Fortunately for Hamilton, he returns a group that includes senior guard Michael Snaer, a consensus preseason All-American guard, as well as scorers such as juniors Okaro White and Ian Miller.

?I?m very comfortable that Michael [Snaer] and Okaro [White] are where they need to be,? Hamilton said. ?Ian [Miller] needs to improve his defense, Terrance [Shannon] hasn?t played in a year, and I thought that even though he played well the other night [in the exhibition], I think he realizes it?s a conditioning thing.?

Although FSU?s core group of veterans is extremely gifted, the season will hinge on how quickly the newcomers can produce.

?Unfortunately, we don?t have nearly as much time now to experiment,? said Hamilton, whose team will play its final exhibition against St. Leo on Tuesday.

Florida State has boasted one of the nation?s top-five defenses in each of the past three seasons. Although it will likely take some time for the newcomers to learn FSU?s complicated defensive system, this year the Seminoles offense should help carry the team.

?Just knowing we have all these weapons, I know we can win games,? Snaer said. ?I?m just confident enough our offense can actually win us games now. Before it was just straight defense without the offense being asked to win us games. Now we can play up there in the 80s with people, and even though we?re not going to want to ? we want to try to keep teams in the 60s while we?re in the 80s ? but that?s just going to make us that much better.?

But FSU knows it cannot win the ACC with offense alone. For the Noles to defend their ACC title, they will need to get their defense up to speed before conference play starts.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/05/3081828/florida-state-seminoles-mens-youth.html

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UBS shakes up investment bank management

ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) - The new head of UBS's investment bank has stamped his mark on the division with a management reshuffle, days after the Swiss bank said it was pulling back from fixed income trading and cutting 10,000 jobs.

Andrea Orcel, a dealmaker poached from Bank of America Merrill Lynch earlier this year, has moved co-head of the investment banking advisory business Simon Warshaw to a new role, according to a memo seen by Reuters.

UBS's new corporate client solutions division - which will house its merger and acquisitions advisory business, and the teams helping with stock market listings, bond issues and other types of financings - will also now be split along regional rather than product lines, the memo showed.

Orcel became sole head of the investment bank last week after former co-head Carsten Kengeter, in charge at the time of a $2.3 billion rogue trading scandal last September, stepped aside to oversee the winding down of the fixed income business.

Tougher regulations and capital constraints forced UBS's hand, making it the first bank to pull back so drastically in this area, although rivals have also cut back activities such as equities trading, where volumes and margins are thin.

"With this announcement, we closed the strategic debate," Orcel said in the memo, referring to last week's changes. The 10,000 job cuts will fall across the group, although the investment bank will be hit hardest.

Orcel's arrival over the summer raised fears within UBS that an "old guard" of bankers would be moved aside, with his allies given choice jobs. The Italian was followed to UBS by several BofA ML bankers.

But Orcel has picked UBS veteran David Soanes, a capital markets specialist, to run corporate client solutions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the memo showed.

In the Americas he had turned to senior investment banker Steve Cummings, while Matthew Grounds, who had run the global investment banking advisory business with Warshaw, will be in charge of the advisory and financing business for Asia Pacific.

"David Soanes is a UBS-lifer but he is pragmatic and has the 'star potential' that Orcel looks for in bankers," said one UBS banker in EMEA.

Orcel also gave a key role to newer arrival Rajeev Misra, a former Deutsche Bank executive who had run fixed income - the division encompassing bond and rates trading which is now out of favor - and helped build it up in the past three years.

Misra will run financial solutions globally.

Roberto Hoornweg, who was also responsible for fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC), has resigned, a spokesman for UBS confirmed.

Warshaw, seen by many internally as one of the pillars of the Swiss bank's famed advisory business which UBS inherited with SG Warburg - an investment bank it bought in 1995 - will report to Orcel, working on "certain initiatives" to develop the corporate client solutions' group in EMEA.

UBS's trading businesses will come under the investor client services group, and will contribute two-thirds of total revenues in the investment bank, the memo said. The existing global head of equities Mike Stewart will remain in that position.

Chris Vogelgesang and George Athanasopoulos will run foreign exchange and precious metals, the main business lines to survive from the former FICC business. Chris Murphy was named as global head of rates and credit. (Reporting by Katharina Bart and Sarah White; Editing by Mark Potter)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ubs-unveils-investment-bank-line-revamp-090509420--sector.html

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Inhofe starts pro-coal campaign tour for GOP Senate candidates

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) is hitting the road to fire up support for GOP Senate candidates opposed to Obama administration rules?on coal and other energy sources.?

Inhofe began his tour in Montana, where he touted?Rep. Denny Rehberg?s (R-Mont.) coal credentials. Inhofe said the Montana Senate candidate would fight to keep the Corette power plant in Billings, Mont., open, while incumbent Sen. Jon Tester?s (D) support of the administration's air pollution rules put the plant?s future in jeopardy.

?We?re real close to a presidential election win and close to an election that will elect Denny Rehberg and give us a majority," Inhofe said, according to the Billings Gazette.

PPL Montana, the utility that operates the plant, says new air pollution rules will shutter the 154-megawatt coal-fired plant in 2015. The plant, which burns coal from Montana's Powder River Basin, has become a key issue in the Senate race.

Tester?s campaign contends low natural-gas prices are forcing PPL Montana to mothball the Corette plant.

Aaron Murphy, a spokesman for Tester's campaign, noted PPL Montana shut down Corette for more than three months this year due to low demand.

?Jon Tester has a powerful record of supporting responsible coal development, and Dennis Rehberg is lying when he tries to blame Jon for the closure of Corette,? Murphy told The Hill in a statement.

Montana was Inhofe's first stop on a three-state swing in which he will stump for candidates who want to repeal environmental rules the Oklahoman opposes. The current ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Inhofe is in line to take the chair if Republicans control the Senate.?

Next week, Inhofe will become one of just a handful of GOP senators to publicly campaign for Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R) since his controversial ?legitimate rape? comments, in which he suggested pregnancies were unlikely to occur after a rape.

In the House, Akin consistently voted against imposing various environmental and air-quality rules. But the rape remarks sent Akin?s campaign into a tailspin, as he now trails Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) in most polls.

Inhofe also plans to stump for Ohio GOP Senate candidate Josh Mandel. Mandel, the state's treasurer, trails Sen. Sherrod Brown (D).

Inhofe is backing the candidates to bring GOP colleagues to the Senate to achieve one of his key legislative aims ? curbing the administration's environmental and air rules.

Inhofe sponsored a bill that would have prevented the administration from implementing the air pollution rules. Tester voted against the measure, which failed 46-53 in June.

"Missouri, Montana and Ohio are three of the largest coal states of all the states," Inhofe said, according to KTVQ in Billings. "In each one of these states, you have a Democrat incumbent senator who has voted to kill coal."

Rehberg has hit Tester several times on the campaign trail and in advertisements for casting that vote. Inhofe emphasized Monday that Rehberg could help swing a similar vote next Congress if he wins the Senate seat.

Tester?s support for the rules has helped garner backing from environmental group the League of Conservation Voters (LCV). The group has spent $2 million backing Tester, with his stance on the air pollution chief among the reasons for LCV?s support.

RealClearPolitics, a website that aggregates polling data, shows Tester and Rehberg in a dead heat. It gives Rehberg a 0.3-percentage-point lead.

? This story was updated at 10:41 a.m.

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Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/263403-inhofe-lauds-montana-senate-candidate-for-regulatory-stance

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Brees throws 4 TDs, Saints hang on to beat Bucs

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? Once Drew Brees got the New Orleans offense on track, it hardly mattered that Jonathan Vilma wasn't the solution for the Saints' leaky defense.

Vilma played for the first time while appealing a season-long suspension for his role in the Saints' bounty program and Brees shrugged off an early interception to throw for 377 yards and four touchdowns in a 35-28 come-from-behind victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday.

While it's debatable how much Vilma's return affected the defense, the unit turned back two threats near the end zone in the second half, including the drive of the game to preserve New Orleans' second straight win.

Brees extended his NFL record for consecutive games with at least one TD pass to 49, while leading long scoring drives on four straight possessions to turn a 14-point deficit into a 28-21 halftime lead.

The Saints (2-4) barely had the ball in the third quarter, but took advantage of Tampa Bay's inability to get into the end zone when Brees put together a 12-play, 95-yard march that Pierre Thomas finished with a 5-yard TD run that made it 35-21 with just over 13 minutes remaining in the game.

Brees threw TD passes of 17 yards to Marques Colston, 9 yards to Darren Sproles, 48 yards to Joseph Morgan and 20 yards to David Thomas to overcome the New Orleans defense yielding 513 yards. He has thrown for three or more touchdowns in five of six games this season.

Josh Freeman threw for 420 yards and three touchdowns for the Bucs (2-4), who scored on their first three possessions of the game to build a 21-7 lead. Dallas Clark's 3-yard scoring reception trimmed Tampa Bay's deficit to 35-28 with four minutes left, and Freeman completed two passes to Vincent Jackson to help the Bucs get into position to possibly force overtime.

Jackson had seven receptions for 216 yards, but failed to score on a 95-yard play in which safety Malcolm Jenkins ran him down to make the tackle at the Tampa Bay 1. LeGarrette Blount was stopped for no gain on three straight runs, then Freeman lost 4 yards on a quarterback keeper on fourth down.

Brees launched the Saints' final scoring drive from there. He also led TD drives of 80, 80, 79 and 72 on consecutive possessions in the opening half.

Vilma practiced on his surgically repaired left knee for the first time last Wednesday and was moved from the physically unable to perform list to the 53-man roster Saturday.

The ninth-year pro's return could wind up being relatively brief. The hearing on the appeal of his season-long suspension is scheduled for Oct. 30.

Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue has been appointed as arbitrator for Vilma's appeal, as well as the hearings for three other players facing suspensions of various lengths.

Vilma didn't start Sunday, but he did get on the field mostly in passing situations throughout the game.

He pressured Freeman on an incompletion that was nearly intercepted by Roman Harper, and got his hands on another pass that he tipped first with his right hand and then his left before it fell incomplete.

Down a touchdown and out of timeouts, Freeman marched the Bucs from his own 19 to the New Orleans 9 in the final two minutes. He threw incomplete for Jackson, who came down with the ball out of the end zone on third down. On the game's final play, Freeman rolled to his left to find Mike Williams open in the corner of the end zone.

But the receiver had been pushed out of the back of the end zone before coming back into the field of play. So, what appeared to be a possible tying catch was nullified for illegal touching.

Freeman threw TD passes of 13 yards to Tiquan Underwood and 17 yards to Jackson in the first half. Doug Martin scored on a 36-yard run for Tampa Bay.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/brees-throws-4-tds-saints-hang-beat-bucs-204006721--spt.html

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A whale with a distinctly human-like voice

ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2012) ? For the first time, researchers have been able to show by acoustic analysis that whales -- or at least one very special white whale -- can imitate the voices of humans. That's a surprise, because whales typically produce sounds in a manner that is wholly different from humans, say researchers who report their findings in the October 23 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.

"Our observations suggest that the whale had to modify its vocal mechanics in order to make the speech-like sounds," said Sam Ridgway of the National Marine Mammal Foundation. "Such obvious effort suggests motivation for contact."

It all started in 1984 when Ridgway and others began to notice some unusual sounds in the vicinity of the whale and dolphin enclosure. As they describe it, it sounded as though two people were conversing in the distance, just out of range of their understanding.

Those unusually familiar sounds were traced back to one white whale in particular only some time later when a diver surfaced from the whale enclosure to ask his colleagues an odd question: "Who told me to get out?"

They deduced that those utterances came from a most surprising source: a white whale by the name of NOC. That whale had lived among dolphins and other white whales and had often been in the presence of humans.

In fact, there had been other anecdotal reports of whales sounding like humans before, but in this case Ridgway's team wanted to capture some real evidence. They recorded the whale's sounds to reveal a rhythm similar to human speech and fundamental frequencies several octaves lower than typical whale sounds, much closer to that of the human voice.

"Whale voice prints were similar to human voice and unlike the whale's usual sounds," Ridgway said. "The sounds we heard were clearly an example of vocal learning by the white whale."

That's all the more remarkable because whales make sounds via their nasal tract, not in the larynx as humans do. To make those human-like sounds, NOC had to vary the pressure in his nasal tract while making other muscular adjustments and inflating the vestibular sac in his blowhole, the researchers found. In other words, it wasn't easy.

Sadly, after 30 years at the National Marine Mammal Foundation, NOC passed away five years ago. But the sound of his voice lives on.

Audio file of whale: http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/48866.php?from=224114

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1. Sam Ridgway, Donald Carder, Michelle Jeffries, Mark Todd. Spontaneous human speech mimicry by a cetacean. Current Biology, 2012; 22 (20): R860 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.08.044

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Technology brings new life to the study of diseases in old bones

ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2012) ? A study led by The University of Manchester has demonstrated that new technology that can analyse millions of gene sequences in a matter of seconds is an effective way to quickly and accurately identify diseases in skeletons.

Professor Terry Brown, working in partnership with Professor Charlotte Roberts from Durham University, used a next generation sequencing approach, including hybridization capture technology, to identify tuberculosis genes in a 19th century female skeleton found in a crypt in Leeds.

Their study is part of wider research into the identification of strains of TB in skeletons dating from 100 AD to the late 19th century. It's hoped that understanding how the disease has evolved over time will help improve treatments and vaccines. TB rates have been increasing around the world, and it's estimated that one third of the world's population has latent TB. After HIV it kills more people than any other infectious disease.

Certain strains of TB affect the sufferer's bones, especially in the spine. The marks made by the disease remain evident on the bones long after the person's death. It's this evidence that Professor Roberts used to find suitable skeletons to screen for tuberculosis genes.

She sourced 500 skeletons from across Europe that showed evidence of TB dating from the Roman period to the 19th century. Bone samples from these skeletons were screened for TB DNA, and of those 100 were chosen for this particular study.

Professor Roberts explains: "So many skeletons were needed as it's very hard to tell if any DNA will have survived in the bones. You don't really know if there will be any present until you start screening and in the past that has been a lengthy process."

Professor Terry Brown then took on the search for TB DNA in the skeletons. Each small section of bone was ground up and placed in a solution. That was then put in a special machine which captured every gene sequence in the DNA. Millions of sequences were captured and sent to a computer.

Professor Brown and his team then searched for the gene sequences for tuberculosis. Because it is a bacterial disease the bacteria's DNA can remain in the bones after death.

Talking about the process Professor Brown said: "Previously we could only scan the bone sample for specific genes. We wouldn't see everything that was there which meant we could easily miss other genetic information that could be relevant. Using the hybridization screening meant we could search for different strains of TB, not just one."

About 280 bits of sequence in the DNA were found to match known tuberculosis genes. The data placed the historic strain of TB in a group that is uncommon today, but was known to have been present in North America in the 19th century. In fact it was found to be very similar to a strain recorded in a tuberculosis patient in New York in 1905.

Discussing the results Professor Brown says: "The fact that this particular strain of TB was found in both North America and in the skeleton from 19th century Yorkshire is not necessarily unusual. There were many migrants from Britain to America during the 19th century so it makes sense that TB strains were spread."

One of the downsides of hybridization capture identified by the researchers in this study was that it is possible to mistakenly identify DNA. Because it looks at all the sequences across the sample it may identify DNA that isn't from the bone, but actually from the surrounding soil or environment where the skeleton was buried.

In this study the results were checked using the more traditional method of polymerase chain reactions and were found to be accurate. The researchers concluded that using hybridization capture and next generation gene sequencing is an accurate and effective way to obtain detailed genotypes of ancient varieties of tuberculosis. It could potentially be used to study other diseases. Their findings have been published in the journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Professor Roberts says: "We're really pleased with the results of this study and that the technology works. It will save a lot of time in the future. We now hope to publish more of the huge amounts of data we have acquired from the sequencing"

The scientists hope to compare their results with similar studies being done in America to assess what tuberculosis strains have been identified there. They're interested in studying which strains were brought to the country by migrants and what impact those had on the native strains of the disease.

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