Sleepy Efimova swims world record in morning heats

Russia's Yuliya Efimova celebrates after winning her Women's 50m breaststroke heat in a new world record time of 29.78 at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Russia's Yuliya Efimova celebrates after winning her Women's 50m breaststroke heat in a new world record time of 29.78 at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Russia's Yuliya Efimova, left, celebrates with Ukraine's Mariia Liver after winning her Women's 50m breaststroke heat in a new world record time of 29.78 at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Russia's Yuliya Efimova, right, celebrates with Jessica Hardy of the United States after winning her Women's 50m breaststroke heat in a new world record time of 29.78 at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Russia's Yuliya Efimova, right, United States's Jessica Hardy, left, stretch to finish a Women's 50m breaststroke heat at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. Efimova won the race in a new world record time of 29.78. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Russia's Yuliya Efimova smiles as she leaves the pool after winning her Women's 50m breaststroke heat in a new world record time of 29.78 at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? Worn out from her gold medal performance the night before, Yuliya Efimova slept late, missed her warm-up ? and still swam a world record.

In morning prelims.

"I still don't understand it," the Russian said after breaking the mark in the 50-meter breaststroke Saturday at the world championships. "Yesterday I was ready for a world record. But today, I didn't sleep half the night and I am so tired. I didn't do the warm-up and I am so sleepy ? and I just swam a record. It's crazy."

Crazy, indeed.

Efimova clocked 29.78 seconds in the one-lap race, shaving 0.02 off the previous record set by American Jessica Hardy in 2009 at the height of the rubberized suit era.

Efimova could hardly believe it when she saw her time, dropping her mouth wide open in amazement as she broke into a wide smile.

Hardy qualified second in 29.99, and 100 breaststroke world record holder Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania advanced third in 30.07.

Efimova won gold in the 200 breaststroke Friday after taking silver in the 100. She treated the 50 lightly, as it's not an Olympic event.

"I always like to swim the 200 but actually I am a short sprinter, and for me it's like my birthday," she said. "It's like my holidays ... It's always fun."

There could be more fun in the semifinals later, with Efimova, Hardy and Meilutyte each capable of swimming another record.

The 21-year-old Efimova trains in Los Angeles under U.S. coach and breaststroke guru Dave Salo.

"She's really maturing as an athlete," Salo said. "Years ago, I think she just did it because she was good at it. Now I think she's taken a bit more control over it. She understands now how she good she is. Breaking the world record doesn't happen very often."

Training under Salo means Efimova can practice with Hardy and three-time Olympic champion Rebecca Soni, who is taking the year off.

"I'm not going to learn her language. She's learning my language," Salo said. "And so the more and more she's learned my style of coaching, my language, I think that relationship has gotten better and better. ... She's got some great speed as well as endurance."

Also on the penultimate day of competition, Cate Campbell put herself in position to pull off a sprint double.

A day after taking gold in the 100 freestyle, the Australian led the 50 free prelims with a quick 24.27 seconds.

"It's great standing up on the blocks and looking down the pool and be like, 'I can see where I finish,'" Campbell said. "I'm really thrilled it's the 100 and then the 50 and not the other way around ? 50s are fun. They don't hurt. It's splash and dash, essentially."

Francesca Halsall of Britain qualified second in 24.60. Campbell's younger sister, Bronte, advanced third in 24.65.

Olympic champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands was fourth in 24.68, and American veteran Natalie Coughlin got through to the semifinals in ninth place in 25.00

In other prelims, Chinese standout Sun Yang led the marathon-like 1,500 free in a relaxed 14:54.65, more than 20 seconds off the world record he set at last year's London Olympics.

And Daniel Orzechowski of Brazil led the non-Olympic 50 backstroke in 24.67.

Meet standout Missy Franklin had the morning off.

Franklin will later aim for her fifth gold of the competition, in the 200 backstroke final, and fellow American teenager Katie Ledecky will bid for a world record in the 800 free.

Finals are also scheduled in the men's 50 free and 100 butterfly and the women's 50 fly.

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Buoy 10 sportfishing opens with decent catches; should heat up in ...

ASTORIA -- Not many boats ventured onto the lower Columbia River estuary Thursday for the opening of the popular Buoy 10 salmon season.

It's early, after all, and the Pacific Ocean outside the river's mouth has plenty of salmon still stuffing themselves before wandering inshore and upriver in the next few weeks.

Still, dozens who trolled the entrance to Youngs Bay found willing biters. Many were the highly prized, fat-laden, select-area bright chinook, released from pens to return as commercial prizes.

They're missing left ventral fins, if you're wondering how to tell.

That's important, because this is also the first year of significant returns from another type of hatchery-raised chinook, the tule, also now being released in the bay. They have almost no fat, are nearly ready to spawn when they hit freshwater and are barely marketable. But the hatchery releases were moved away from Big Creek, a small local tributary, to reduce straying onto wild tule chinook spawning beds.

This is likely the last season anglers will get this kind of shot at the select area brights. Legislation recently signed into law by Gov. John Kitzhaber will create a no-sportfishing buffer off Youngs Bay by the 2014 fishing season. The intent is to reduce angler interception of the far more valuable fish in partial exchange for shifting commercial gill-nets off the mainstem Columbia.

BUOY 10 Caution! Don't forget the new barbless-hook rules apply to the Buoy 10 fishery as well as the rest of the Columbia and lower Willamette rivers.

Law enforcement boats spent most of the morning Thursday checking the fleet of anglers outside the bay.

Regulations also allow only one chinook per day inside the estuary (but two-salmon/steelhead overall) and no jacks west of Tongue Point. Coho, but not chinook, must be missing an adipose fin.

Duck/goose seasons set: Duck seasons will look just about like last year, but goose hunters are getting some significant expansions this fall.

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission set fall bird seasons Friday at their monthly meeting in Eugene.

For the first time since restrictive goose regulations began in northwest Oregon, hunters on Sauvie Island's public hunting area will be allowed to take snow geese on certain hunt days. All northwest goose zone permit rules will be in effect and a northwest zone permit will be required. Snow goose hunting will close if a single dusky Canada goose is shot. Officers will watch closely for anyone accidentally shooting a swan.

There will be no more "dark goose" designation. Instead there will be seasons for Canada geese and white-fronted geese, which will get their own category and bag limit (six per day in most areas).

The September goose daily limit has been increased to five in eastern Oregon and the white goose limit in Malheur County will double to 20 per day.

The major changes to duck hunting are a reduction in scaup, with a shorter season (starts Nov. 2 in zone 1) and bag limit (three daily), and an increase in canvasback bag limits to two per day instead of one.

All other duck hunting will mirror last fall.

The Oregon bird-hunting synopsis will be published sometime in the next few weeks and available at all outlets.

Sturgeon retention in 2014: The commission also set 2014 angling regulations Friday.

Highlights include the statewide shift to catch and release fishing only for sturgeon...EXCEPT: Beginning next year, sturgeon can be kept in the Willamette River above (south of) Willamette Falls. Limit is one per day, two per season, between 38 and 54 inches fork length. There are pockets of sturgeon up there, mostly holdovers from years past when baby sturgeon were planted. ?

The commission also approved extension of the no-fishing sanctuary on the Willamette all the way down to the railroad bridge between Milwaukie and Lake Oswego. That means no sturgeon fishing at all, even catch and release, from May 1 to Aug. 31.

Halibut hearings: Anglers are asked to attend public meetings beginning next week to voice their opinions about 2014 halibut fishing seasons and 2015-16 groundfish seasons.

Meetings all begin at 7 p.m. and are set for: Tuesday, Tillamook office of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife; Wednesday, Holiday Inn Express, Newport; Monday, Aug. 12, Best Western Beachfront Inn, Brookings; Tuesday, Aug. 13, North Bend Public Library.

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The Best Internet Mistake, Hands On with the Awesome Moto X, And More

This week, we grew by a phone. That's right, the long-rumored Moto X finally burst onto the scene and it is awesome. But that's not all. We saw the bestest Internet mistake, had a triumphant victory in iOS icon design, explored Henry Ford's lost utopia, and more. Check it out!

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Is DeGeneres part of academy's push for diversity?

FILE - In this April 29, 2013 file photo, TV host Ellen DeGeneres arrives at the season 4 premiere of "Arrested Development" in Los Angeles. Producers announced Friday, Aug. 2, that DeGeneres will return to host the Oscars on March 2, 2014. (Photo by Katy Winn/Invision/AP, File)

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences isn't as much of an old-boys' club as it used to be.

The group named two women to prominent positions this week, including Friday's announcement that Ellen DeGeneres will host the 2014 Oscar show. Earlier in the week, the academy's board of governors elected Cheryl Boone Isaacs president, the first African-American to hold the post and the first woman in three decades.

In June, the organization invited 276 new members to join ? 100 more than the previous year and arguably its most diverse slate ever.

Could this be in response to the 2012 Los Angeles Times study that stung the academy by pointing out what many suspected: Hollywood's pre-eminent film organization is a mostly white, male group?

"This is all in the shadow of Dawn Hudson's appointment as C.O.O. last year," said awards expert Tom O'Neil. "The academy is making an extraordinary effort to embrace women and minorities, and be (more) inclusive."

Other industry watchers say these visible appointments are part of the academy's continuing effort to shed its old-boy image ? one that may have been reinforced last year by Seth MacFarlane's sexist humor and the departure of short-lived Oscar producer Brett Ratner after publicly making homophobic remarks.

"If you wanted to pick somebody that would tacitly or implicitly be an absolute rejection of the bad behavior of the last couple years, what could be a better way to distance yourself from that than to pick the most famous and popular lesbian entertainer in the world?" said Scott Feinberg, an industry analyst for The Hollywood Reporter.

Such prominent academy appointments for Hudson, DeGeneres and Boone Isaacs send a message to women interested in making movies.

"This is the kind of leadership and these are the kinds of examples that stand out for those women who will follow," said Cathy Schulman, president of Women in Film. "This is what gives people hope and encouragement."

DeGeneres is also a proven commodity. She successfully hosted the Oscars in 2007, drawing almost as many viewers as MacFarlane did last year.

"The academy doesn't want to take any chances with the performance skills of the host," O'Neil said. "This is a good, smart choice that will put the focus back on the content of the show, rather than will the host crash and burn."

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who produced the 2013 telecast, are returning for next year's show. O'Neil notes that the veteran producers are also openly gay and vocal supporters of gay rights.

DeGeneres, 55, has developed a devoted following with her 10-year-old daytime talk show, which can serve as a built-in platform to promote the Academy Awards.

Boone Isaacs, the academy's new president, is a veteran marketing executive and longtime academy member and governor.

"She's a very worthy candidate regardless of what she looks like," Feinberg said. "But the fact that she is a relatively younger African-American woman and that's the face of the academy, that's a significant symbolic thing."

For real change, these appointments can't just be exceptions, Schulman said, but "exceptions converted into the norm."

"Change happens when the numbers increase," she said. "Change doesn't happen overnight, but it was long overdue that the academy made some appointments like this."

Among the diverse new members invited to join the academy are Prince, Jennifer Lopez, writer-director Ava DuVernay, Sandra Oh, Paula Patton and songwriter Siedah Garrett.

DeGeneres, Boone Isaacs and the Oscar producers were not available to comment on this story.

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Natick seeking member for Golf Course Oversight Committee

The town administrator is looking for someone to fill a vacancy on the Golf Course Oversight Committee.

The committee monitors the operation and financing of the municipal golf course and advises the town administrator and Board of Selectmen.

Anyone interested in serving on the committee should notify the Town Administrator in writing at 13 East Central St., Natick, MA??01760 by?Aug. 19.

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Eastern Ontario Baseball

PORT HOPE?-?

You can?t judge the Port Hope River Rats bantam team on its win-loss record this Eastern Ontario Baseball Association season.

Instead, the progress the club is making tells a far better story.

Port Hope was 2-18 through 20 EOBA league games, but have won a couple tournament games as well.

There almost was a River Rats entry at the bantam level this summer though. There weren?t enough players to field a team initially so peewee players (as there is no Port Hope team at that level this year) were allowed to try out. The club also recruited some house league, including some from Cobourg, who had never played rep baseball before.

?It?s pretty diverse,? coach Steve Beckett said of his lineup. ?You?ve got some kids playing with kids who are three years older.?

Team members are Owen Bailey, Matt Ward, Tyler Vivian, Dawson Baker, Cameron Enns, John Spotton, Sam Knott, Colyn Swan-Savoy, Keagan Decker, Jakob Brown, Matt Beckett, Brodie Majdell and Cameron Desormeaux.

Port Hope is competing in the EOBA?s major Bantam loop, despite having only a couple of players who fit into that age group. But with those players, the River Rats are unable to drop down to the minor bantam level.

You also have to consider the fact that the River Rats are part of a ?B? centre playing against ?A? and ?AA? opponents.

?It?s been a big challenge,? coach Beckett said, adding it was a ?real challenge to get all the players on the same page, but it?s starting to happen.?

Earlier this month, the River Rats defeated the league-leading Clarington Orioles 17-9.

Then, this past Saturday at Town Park in Port Hope, the River Rats staged a huge comeback before time expired against the visiting third-place Brockville Bunnies.

Port Hope trailed 7-1 in the third inning before rallying, including three runs in their final at-bat, to win 10-9. The River Rats had to win in the bottom of the eighth, rather than the ninth, as they were facing the game being called due to the time limit. A double by John Spotten drove home the winning run.

?It was very rewarding to see them do that,? Beckett said. ?We have great ball players, we just hadn?t seen them pull it together that way as a group.?

Beckett said an early-season activity for the River Rats was a roadside cleanup that consisted of 44 km of roads in Ward 2 Port Hope.

?It was a great bonding experience for the boys,? he remarked.

As for on the field, Beckett believes the pre-game warm-up is key to success and he is pleased to have assistance from Rob Majdell ?who spends a significant amount of time with my players before every game and practice teaching them proper warm-up, throwing and running techniques.?

Having lost pitchers from last year who didn?t return, the River Rats have been required this season to develop a new pitching staff with a collection of players who hadn?t pitched much previously.

Meanwhile, the club has also been offensively challenged, although showed great progress in the wins over Clarington and Brockville.

?Even with the minor defensive errors during these games, the boys have figured out how to keep their heads in the game and apply what they?ve learned and overcome (deficits),? Beckett said.

Beckett said his club is building towards the Ontario Baseball Association bantam ?B? championship tournament Labour Day weekend in Woodstock when they?ll finally face teams of an equal classification.

?Playing in the current EOBA loop has been tough this year, but thankfully I have the support of the parents who understand what we're up against,? Beckett remarked. ?However I believe that if we take what we've learned from these higher calibre teams and apply and execute these principles, we'll be in good shape for the OBA?s.

?We just want to make sure everyone is contributing and enjoying themselves,? the coach added.

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Iran offers India $1 bln sovereign guarantee for oil shipments

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI | Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:08pm IST

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Iran has offered to underwrite insurance for its vessels to keep oil exports to India flowing, after New Delhi asked for assurances to help halt a fall in shipments.

Letters seen by Reuters show Iran is offering sovereign guarantees of up to $1 billion per incident to back its ships sailing to India, its second biggest oil customer after China.

India's crude imports from Iran have been hit by insurance problems triggered by western sanctions, falling by 59.4 percent in June, and the state guarantee could keep oil revenues flowing.

In letters seen by Reuters from Iran's industries, mines and trade minister Mehdi Ghazanfari and Oil Minister Rostam Ghasemi told India that liabilities of $50 million to $1 billion are covered by "sovereign guarantee and government special fund".

The two ministers said Iran's finance minister will issue a final letter on the sovereign guarantee in due course.

India abides by United Nations sanctions on Iran but does not follow U.S. and European Union measures which are aimed at choking off funds to a nuclear programme which the West says is a drive to achieve a weapons capability.

With limited options available, India had sought sovereign guarantees for the Kish and Moallem protection and indemnity (P&I) clubs that insure Iranian vessels against personal injury and environment clean up claims.

European Union sanctions on insurance from a year ago bar members of International Group of P&I - who account for the majority of cover for the tanker market - from covering Iranian shipments. U.S. sanctions from July 2013 forced foreign container shipping lines to shun business with Tehran.

New Delhi had given a temporary approval to the two clubs but wanted Iran's backing longer term.

India will take a call on extending long-term approval for the two clubs by end-September.

The biggest potential drawback for vessels insured by Iranian companies, even with a sovereign guarantee, is that they may struggle to pay claims outside Iran because Western sanctions prevent banks from channelling cash out of the country, shipping and insurance officials say.

For liabilities up to $50 million, a consortium of Iranian insurers led by the Central Insurance of Iran (CII) will provide the bulk of the cover, the letters said.

Kish, Moallem and CII have been blacklisted under the U.S. sanctions.

Ghazanfari also said in the letter that a similar guarantee is available for the Qeshm International Trust Alliance P&I Club. This company has not featured so far in the list of insurance clubs approved by India.

(Editing by William Hardy)

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Being In The Minority Can Cost You And Your Company

The racial wage gap in the United States ? the gap in salary between whites and blacks with similar levels of education and experience ? is shaped by geography, according to new social science research.

The next time you are in an office cafeteria, notice who sits next to whom at lunch.

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The next time you are in an office cafeteria, notice who sits next to whom at lunch.

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The larger the city, the larger the racial wage gap, according to researchers Elizabeth Ananat, Shihe Fu and Stephen L. Ross, whose findings were recently published by the National Bureau of Esconomic Research.

"The average racial gap in metropolitan areas of around 1 million people ? and you can think of a place like Tulsa, Okla. ? is about 20 percent smaller than the gap in the nation's largest metro areas of Chicago, L.A. and New York," Ananat says.

Ananat's research suggests that the racial gap is not directly the result of prejudice or, at least, prejudice conventionally defined. Rather, it has to do with patterns of social interactions that are shaped by race ? and a phenomenon that economists call spillovers.

Economists have long noted that multiple companies in an industry often congregate in an area ? think of movie companies in Hollywood or investment bankers on Wall Street ? and observed that these firms become more profitable. Indeed, this may be one reason why an up-and-coming tech company would want to locate in Silicon Valley, rather than in Tennessee, where costs are far cheaper.

But why do companies that congregate become more profitable? It has to do, Ananat says, with the fact that when a number of companies involved in similar work are concentrated in one area, they effectively create an ecosystem where ideas and refinements can spread easily from one company to the next, and increase productivity overall.

"It's stuff in the ether ? you know, these tips that get communicated," Ananat says. "For any given job, it's going to be specific to that job. That's why they are so hard to identify and so valuable. We say, 'Oh, you're not doing that quite right. Do it just this way instead.' "

What does all of this have to do with the racial wage gap? Much of this valuable information that gets transmitted and shared in the ecosystem happens in informal or social settings ? over lunch, or a beer after work, or even at church on Sunday. Those social settings tend to be segregated, with whites tending to spend time with whites and blacks with blacks. (The next time you are in an office cafeteria, notice who sits next to whom at lunch.) In a world where ethnic groups cluster together, those in the minority are less likely to share and benefit from spillover effects in the ecosystem and are therefore less likely to learn early on about important company developments or technological innovations.

"People of the same race are much more likely to have conversations where they share ideas," she says. "The fact is you just talk more about everything with people who you feel more comfortable with than with people you feel less comfortable with. And we know that one of the big predictors of who you feel comfortable with is whether you are of the same ethnicity."

Ananat explains the findings with a hypothetical example: "Say there are 1,000 black engineers in Silicon Valley, compared to 20 in Topeka, and there are 10,000 total engineers in Silicon Valley, compared to 500 in Topeka. Then blacks make up 10 percent of engineers in Silicon Valley, compared to 4 percent in Topeka."

"A black engineer in Silicon Valley has 980 more black engineers to get spillovers from than does a black engineer in Topeka," she writes in an email. "Meanwhile, a white engineer in Silicon Valley has 8,500 more white engineers to benefit from than a white engineer in Topeka. Thus, while both white and black engineers' wages will be higher in Silicon Valley than in Topeka, the white engineer's wages will increase more than the black engineer's do ? in effect, the white engineer is living in a much bigger city (of engineers) than the black engineer is, if only people within one's own race matter for urban spillovers."

Obviously, in the real world, social encounters are not totally segregated and other factors ? including out-and-out prejudice ? could play a role. But what seems to be happening, Ananat says, is that minority groups often miss out on the valuable tips and mentoring that make these ecosystems so productive and profitable. The same thing happens with other ethnic minorities, and even with whites ? when they are in a minority.

Companies that want to take full advantage of spillover effects would do well to find ways to encourage employees to share information, set up mentoring programs and generally encourage employees to connect informally and socially, Ananat says.

Social scientists, she adds, have long talked about the value of "code-switchers" ? people adept at talking across differences and who relate well to those from other groups. Companies with more code-switchers are likely to spread the wealth of spillover effects more equitably.

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This has not been a great month for commercial airlines?or anything that's supposed to stay in the sky without crashing down amidst flames, really. The most recent mark against flying contraptions occurred yesterday evening at LaGuardia, when the front landing gear of a Boeing 737 collapsed and sent the plane skidding across the runway.

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Dolphins May Have Individual Names

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Many animals use sounds to convey information. [Sound of wolf? howl] Humans use particular vocal labels for objects and for people. We call these words, and names. A few creatures, such as parrots and dolphins, can learn specific vocal labels. And wild dolphins are known to have particular, individual signature whistles. Scientists at Scotland?s St. Andrews University wanted to know: can these whistles be used as labels? The researchers analyzed sounds from dolphins off Scotland?s east coast, and extracted these signature whistles. [Dolphin whistle sound] Then they altered the sounds so the calls wouldn?t sound exactly like the originating dolphin. [Altered dolphin whistle]
They played those sounds back to the dolphins, along with whistles from dolphins familiar to the animals and whistles from strangers. When the dolphins heard their own signature whistle [Altered dolphin whistle] they routinely responded with that same sound. [Dolphin whistle sound] That reaction only happened twice when they heard sounds from their pals and not at all when they heard the alien dolphin. The research is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Stephanie L. King and Vincent M. Janik, Bottlenose dolphins can use learned vocal labels to address each other] The researchers think dolphin signature whistles serve as self-identification, and maybe even as a label for addressing each other?just like a name. ?Cynthia Graber [The above text is a transcript of this podcast.] [Dolphin sounds courtesy of Stephanie L. King and Vincent M. Janik, Saint Andrews University] Follow Scientific American on Twitter @SciAm and @SciamBlogs. Visit ScientificAmerican.com for the latest in science, health and technology news.
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Stocks got off to a quiet start, trading mixed early Monday, as earnings reports and company news were the main attractions.

The Nasdaq shed mild losses and edged a fraction into positive territory. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average remained down 0.1% each.

Volume was also tightly mixed in the stock market today, up 1% on the Nasdaq and 10% lower on the NYSE, compared to action at the same time Friday.

Existing home sales slowed in June to an annualized rate of 5.08 million homes, the National Association of Realtors reported. That was below a downwardly revised pace of 5.14 million for May, and weaker than expectations for 5.27 million. Home prices increased for a seventh straight month. But inventory also rose almost 2% to 2.19 million homes, a five month supply.

In stocks, some of the morning's biggest earnings reports spurred only modest moves. Halliburton (HAL) and Corning (GLW), for example, each dipped a fraction after delivering quarterly results.

McDonald's (MCD) slumped 3% in opening trade after reporting softer than expected quarterly results.

Yahoo (YHOO) dropped 4% out of the starting gate. The search engine operator announced Monday that three company directors nominated by hedge fund Third Point will resign July 31, and Yahoo will repurchase 40 million shares of stock owned by Third Point ? reportedly about two-thirds of the fund's Yahoo stake. The sale, at 29.11 per share, is valued at about $1.2 billion.

Yahoo is still a fraction above a 27.78 buy point in a nine-week base.

Leading stocks opened trading primarily in a narrow range. The biggest early gain on the IBD 50 list came from three-dimensional printer maker Stratasys (SSYS), up 2% in strong volume. The stock is trying to retake a 95 buy point after briefly clearing that mark last week. The base is a risky late-stage structure.

Some of the earnings reports due after the close include Netflix (NFLX), Texas Instruments (TXN), Volterra Semiconductor (VLTR) and Zions Bancorp (ZION).

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6 current players, including 2 from NAU, join NCAA lawsuit

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Detroit: 'Enough was enough'?

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Seven governors came and went during the decades-long decay of Michigan's largest city that culminated with a humiliating collapse into financial ruin.

It's the eighth, former business executive and relative political novice Rick Snyder, who is aggressively tying his legacy to the prospects of a Detroit turnaround.

When he took office, Snyder pushed for more powers for the state to intervene in distressed cities and schools. After voters repealed the law last November, he ignored critics and signed another one. He also hired the city's turnaround specialist and, nearly four months later, blessed the request to file for bankruptcy.

For the man with the "one tough nerd" moniker, it's the latest bold decision in a 2 ?-year stretch that's remarkable for the sheer breadth and pace at which Snyder has moved. He's again in the national spotlight just a half-year after making Michigan ? the bastion of the auto industry and organized labor ? a right-to-work state, a move that pollsters say led to a drop in his approval ratings.

Though the impact of the bankruptcy filing on Snyder's 2014 re-election may be difficult to predict, it's still a legacy definer that's being watched not only in Michigan but also by Wall Street and other elected officials across the country.

Snyder, a former venture capitalist and computer company CEO, has no known presidential aspirations.

"I don't spend time dwelling on my legacy. I just try to do my job well," the Republican governor told The Associated Press in an interview. "That's relentless positive action. No blame, no credit. Just simply solve the problem.

"Here was a problem 60 years in the making. The can was being kicked down the road for far too long. It was time to say enough was enough. Let's stop, let's stabilize, let's grow."

Detroit's bankruptcy could last at least through summer or fall 2014, when Snyder is expected to ask voters for another term.

"I deeply respect the citizens of Detroit," Snyder said. "They along with the other 9 million people in our state hired me to do this job. They're my customers. This was a tough step, a difficult decision, but it's the right decision."

The first-term governor, perhaps more than any other state's chief executive, hasn't been afraid to confront mounting retiree pension and health care costs hampering state and city budgets. He's done that mainly by signing laws making public workers pay more of their health costs, ending retiree health care for new hires and enticing teachers to contribute more toward their future pensions.

But the stakes could be higher with the Detroit intervention under Michigan's emergency manager law.

Eric Scorsone, a Michigan State University economist and expert on government finances, said while Snyder helped revise the law to make it one of the toughest in the country, bankruptcy likely was inevitable even under the old law ? unless creditors had voluntarily agreed to accept far less than what they're owed.

"Other governors may have taken different approaches. But even under the old law, if we had a different governor, it's pretty obvious something would have had to be done," he said.

Scorsone said many other U.S. cities have issues similar to Detroit, though not on the same scale. Other states will be watching to see what happens in part because Snyder ? not local elected officials ? is taking responsibility for improving public safety and other basic needs, he said.

"I think it's aggressive in the sense that most states don't intervene in local affairs to the same extent," Scorsone said.

Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, a Democrat who lost to Snyder in the 2010 election, said Snyder "definitely" deserves credit if Detroit emerges in better shape, especially in providing everyday services.

"It's bold and decisive. You've got to give him credit, however late," Bernero said, adding that Snyder should have intervened in Detroit within three months of taking office in 2011.

"There was a sense of inevitability about this bankruptcy," Bernero said. "I would have moved quicker with an emergency manager. The ship couldn't right itself. Why prolong the agony? Lance the boil and move on."

On Meet the Press Sunday, former Gov. Jennifer Granholm noted the connection between Detroit the city and Detroit, the heart of the U.S. auto industry.

?The city of Detroit is the poster child for the desindustrialization of America,? Granholm said. ?Since 1950, which was the heyday of Detroit?s burgeoning auto industry, there were almost 300,000 automotive or manufacturing jobs in the city. Today, it?s 27,000. Ninety percent decline in good paying manufacturing jobs.?

Snyder first struck a consent agreement in April 2012 with the Democratic-led city to wipe out its enormous budget deficit and mountainous debt but appointed Kevyn Orr as emergency manager after that didn't work.

Steven Rattner, who was chief adviser to President Barack Obama's auto bailout task force, said from his detached vantage point in New York, Snyder "has handled this thing quite well."

While acknowledging the political difficulties associated with anything viewed as a bailout, Rattner questioned why the state and possibly the federal government aren't offering Detroit a rescue package.

"It's not logical for there to be political fallout from putting Detroit in bankruptcy because there's no other alternative to that," Rattner said. "The question people can ask is whether Snyder is offering all the help the state of Michigan can offer. ... These are tough politics either way."

There seems little appetite from either Democrats or Republicans in Washington for a federal rescue of Detroit. Bailing out the city with state money could bring resistance in the Republican-led Legislature and prompt anger from out-state residents concerned about funding their own schools and local services.

"There are so many great things going on in Detroit. We resolve the city government issue, Detroit's really well poised to see outstanding growth take place when people can say there are better services," Snyder said. "We're going to get there."

Associated Press writer Ed White in Detroit contributed to this report.

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Matchday: Portland Timbers clash with Philadelphia Union at PPL Park

The Portland Timbers hit the road for an Eastern Conference match agains the Philadelphia Union at PPL Park at 4:30pm PT.

The game is broadcast on ROOT SPORTS with Christian Miles and Robbie Earle on the call. Fletcher Johnson and Adin Brown will do radio on?750 AM The Game?while Spanish language broadcast can be found on La Pantera 940.?

The Timbers will be wearing their Rose City Red?kits for the match.

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Help support our 2013 Timbers Pub Partners by visiting your neighborhood pub on Saturday, July 20 for the Portland Timbers vs. Philadelphia Union match at 4:30 p.m. during "Timbers Neighborhood Watch".?We encourage Timbers supporters to visit official Timbers pubs in their neighborhood that guarantee Timbers viewing parties all season long.?Most Timbers pubs have unique specials and giveaways during all Timbers matches!

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Irishtown Bar & Grill ? 11600 SE Mill Plain Blvd. Vancouver, WA
Kells ? 112 SW 2nd Ave. Portland
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Macadam?s Bar & Grill ? 5833 SW Macadam Ave Portland, OR
Mad Greek Deli ? 1740 E. Burnside, Portland
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McGillacuddy?s Sports Bar & Grill ? 11133 NE Halsey St. Portland
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On Deck Sports Bar & Grill ? 910 NW 14th Ave. Portland
Paddy?s Bar & Grill ? 65 SW Yamhill St. Portland
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Ringlers ? 1332 W Burnside St. Portland
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NASA terminates spacewalk following leak into astronaut's helmet

NASA aborted the walk about an hour into what was supposed to be a six-hour mission outside the International Space Station.

By Elizabeth Barber,?Contributor / July 16, 2013

In this image from a NASA video, astronauts discuss the aborted spacewalk aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday. A dangerous water leak in the helmet of Luca Parmitano (bottom center, facing the camera, in a white suit) drenched his eyes, nose and mouth, preventing him from hearing or speaking as what should have been a routine spacewalk came to an abrupt end.

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A spacewalk outside the International Space Station was canceled on Tuesday, after more than a quart of ?funny-tasting? water leaked into an astronaut?s helmet.?

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The cause of the dangerous leak is still under investigation, NASA officials said at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.

The spacewalk began ahead of schedule at 7:57 EDT Tuesday morning and began to go awry when Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano reported that his carbon dioxide sensor was malfunctioning. He then reported a water bubble burgeoning behind his head. His teammate, U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy, assessed the situation and told mission control that between 1 and 1? liters of water had begun to accumulate.

Since water in space forms globs, Parmitano could not hear, speak, or see as the water seeped into his helmet, NASA officials said.

NASA aborted the walk an hour and 32 minutes into the mission, and the pair re-boarded the ISS at 9:29 a.m. The trip outside had been scheduled to last 6 hours and 15 minutes.

?We have not seen a problem like this before,? said Karina Eversley, a NASA spacewalk officer, at the conference, adding that drowning or choking was a real possibility had the mission not been quickly terminated. ?This was a very serious issue.?

She also said that Parmitano is in good condition: ?Luca is doing great. He?s smiling and happy.?

The scheduled spacewalk was the second of two for the astronaut pair. They spent 6 hours and 7 minutes outside last week to make repairs on the station and to prepare it to dock with a Russian module. The astronauts had planned to finish the remaining work on today?s walk.?

Parmitano was wearing the same spacesuit Tuesday that he wore during the previous walk, which went as planned.

NASA officials said that they had ruled out the 32-ounce drinking water bag as the source of the leak, but said that they are still investigating other causes. Another possible source is the spacesuit?s cooling system, which holds a gallon of water. To prevent bacteria buildup, that water is tinged with iodine, which could explain the ?funny? water taste that Parmitano reported, NASA officials said.

The carbon dioxide sensor?s malfunction is likely related to the water leakage, they added.

Spacewalks, which are a difficult and high-risk process, have at times been troubled. In 2004, a walk outside the ISS was aborted after 14 minutes, when an oxygen tank on an astronaut?s Russian-made spacesuit failed. Since the spacesuit had a backup air supply, the astronaut, NASA?s Mike Fincke, was not in danger.

Still, most spacewalks are uneventful. The aborted walk today was the 171^st walk performed to maintain the ISS, which has been occupied for almost 13 years.?

NASA officials said that the abbreviated mission would still count for the two astronauts as a spacewalk. That makes Tuesday?s walk Parmitano?s second spacewalk. Last week, he wore a red, white, and green flag affixed to his spacesuit when he became the first Italian astronaut ever to make a spacewalk. This was Cassidy?s sixth spacewalk.

?I will soon depend on this cumbersome suit to survive outside the Station,? wrote Parmitano on his blog, before his first walk.

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Defense of the Ancients 2 for Mac, free multiplayer battle game, released on Steam

Valve has announced the release of Defense of the Ancients 2 for Mac. DOTA2 is the standalone sequel to the hugely popular hugely popular DOTA, which first appeared as a mod for Blizzard's strategy game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. The Mac and Linux versions' release only lags the Window's release by about a week.

DOTA 2 is a real-time strategy game that combines elements of role playing games as well. You assume the control of one of two factions - the Radiant or The Dire - as you choose heroes to go into battle. Heroes - more than 100 of them - have special abilities and can level up as they gain experience.

Players must protect their own "Ancient," a base, as they send computer-controlled minions into battle. DOTA 2 is what's known as a MOBA, or Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. Each team can have up to five players.

There was some controversy when DOTA2 was announced because the original game was a mod, and some gamers thought the sequel should be free. In fact, the game is free to download and play - Valve makes money by selling items you can use in-game through a built-in store. It's similar to the system employed by another popular MOBA, League of Legends (or, for that matter, Valve's own popular team-based shooter Team Fortress 2).

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Judge finalizing deal in Toyota acceleration cases

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ? A California judge said Friday that he's finalizing a settlement worth more than $1 billion in cases where motorists say the value of their Toyota vehicles plunged after recalls over claims they unexpectedly accelerated.

U.S. District Judge James Selna said he was approving the deal that was announced in December and will affect 22 million consumers.

Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against Toyota since 2009, when the Japanese automaker started receiving numerous complaints that its cars accelerated on their own, causing crashes, injuries and even deaths. More than 14 million vehicles have been recalled since the claims surfaced.

Toyota has denied the allegations, blaming driver error, faulty floor mats and stuck accelerator pedals for the problems.

Steve Berman, an attorney representing Toyota owners, has said the settlement is the largest in U.S. history involving automobile defects, estimated to be in value of up to $1.6 billion. He added that those who sold their vehicles at a loss can receive anywhere from $125 to $10,000 depending on the level of depreciation.

"This is a great settlement for consumers," Berman said. "It includes both safety fixes to make Toyota vehicles safer, as well as monetary relief for owners who saw a reduction in their vehicle's value."

An email message left for Toyota was not immediately returned. The company had previously said it will take a one-time, $1.1 billion pre-tax charge against earnings to cover the estimated costs of the settlement.

The cases were consolidated before Selna in Orange County and divided into two categories: economic loss and wrongful death. Toyota has settled a couple of wrongful death cases, and the first one to go to trial is scheduled to begin in a Los Angeles courtroom next week.

As part of the economic loss settlement, Toyota will offer cash payments from a pool of about $250 million to eligible customers who sold vehicles or turned in leased vehicles between September 2009 and December 2010.

The company will launch a $250 million program for 16 million current owners to provide supplemental warranty coverage for certain vehicle components, and it will retrofit about 3.2 million vehicles with a brake override system, which is designed to ensure a car will stop when the brakes are applied, even if the accelerator pedal is depressed.

The settlement also sets up additional driver education programs and funds new research into advanced safety technologies.

The main contention in the remaining wrongful death cases is whether a design defect ? namely an electronic throttle control system ? was responsible for Toyota vehicles surging unexpectedly.

Both the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and NASA were unable to find any defects in the automaker's source code that could cause problems.

Associated Press

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