Dodgers win, still clinging to playoff hopes

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updated 12:12 a.m. ET Sept. 30, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Dodgers' faint playoff hopes are still flickering, and Matt Kemp does not want to see them extinguished if he can help it.

Kemp homered twice, Joe Blanton pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning, and the desperate Dodgers climbed within two games of the second NL wild-card spot with a 3-0 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night.

Los Angeles' fourth straight victory, coupled with St. Louis' 10-inning loss to Washington, gave the Dodgers a much-needed boost with four games left. After this weekend, they finish up with a three-game series against NL West champion San Francisco. The defending World Series champion Cardinals close out the regular season with a three-game set at home against Central champion Cincinnati.

"Right now we have to find a way to sneak into those playoffs," Kemp said. "We're both going to be playing good teams next week, so it's going to come down to the end. We've just got to keep going out there and playing hard and see where we end up."

The loss was the Rockies' 96th, breaking the franchise record set in their inaugural 1993 season and equaled in 2005. Blanton (10-13) scattered seven hits over six-plus innings, struck out six and walked none. The Rockies got only one runner as far as third base against the right-hander, who has only two victories in 10 starts with the Dodgers since he was acquired from Philadelphia on Aug. 3 - including a 10-8 win over the Rockies on Aug. 29 at Coors Field.

"You hope when you're traded, you're put in a position to pitch in the playoffs or do all you can to get in the playoffs," Blanton said. "You just hope you get those opportunities. You never know in this game what's going to happen. Last year was a prime example of that. So as long as there's games left and you're still in it, anything could happen. That's the way you've got to treat it and try to win every game."

Ronald Belisario and Kenley Jansen each pitched a perfect inning and Brandon League did likewise in the ninth for his 15th save in 21 chances with the Dodgers and Seattle Mariners. He has converted all six opportunities with Los Angeles.

Tyler Chatwood (5-6) threw 74 pitches over four innings, allowing two runs and five hits. The 22-year-old right-hander, who began his big league career down the freeway with the Angels last season, was 4-5 with a 4.88 ERA in his 12 starts with the Rockies this season, including an 8-4 home win over the Dodgers on Aug. 28.

Kemp led off the fourth with a drive into the left field pavilion that traveled an estimated 461 feet. Hanley Ramirez singled one out later, stole second and scored on a two-out single by A.J. Ellis - his fifth consecutive game with at least one RBI after going 15 games and 44 at-bats without one.

Kemp added his 22nd homer in the eighth, an opposite-field drive to right against Josh Roenicke. It was his fifth career multihomer game and second this season, the other coming on April 14 against San Diego at Dodger Stadium.

"I'm just seeing the ball and hitting the ball, putting some good wood on mistake pitches and driving the ball. That's what I'm used to doing and what I'm capable of doing," Kemp said. "As long as I can get strikes to hit, I can be a pretty good hitter. It felt good to hit balls that hard. Hopefully I can do it the next four days."

Kemp is batting .229 with five homers and 13 RBIs in 23 games since hurting his left shoulder crashing into the center field fence at Coors Field in consecutive games last month while trying to catch triples by Josh Rutledge and Tyler Colvin.

"I feel like any other player would feel in the month of September," Kemp said. "Everybody's banged up at this time of the year, so you can't make excuses."

Colorado manager Jim Tracy, using a patchwork lineup because of injuries to Colvin, Todd Helton, Troy Tulowitzki, Carlos Gonzalez, Jason Giambi, Dexter Fowler, Michael Cuddyer and Eric Young Jr., had little to choose from on the bench to pinch-hit for Chatwood in the fifth with runners at the corners, two out and the Rockies trailing 2-0. So Chatwood batted for himself and grounded into a fielder's choice before Josh Outman replaced him on the mound in the bottom half.

"That's where we're at right now," first baseman Jordan Pacheco said. "We're not really in a position to do anything, so we're not going to hurt anybody anymore. It stinks when you're in that position with a chance to do something, and we haven't had many situations like that - especially in this series. So all you can do is roll with the punches."

NOTES: LHP Clayton Kershaw, the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner, has a league-best 2.58 ERA with one start remaining. If he stays on top, he would become the first Dodgers pitcher with back-to-back ERA titles since Sandy Koufax's career-ending five-year run from 1962-66. ... The Rockies have lost eight straight on the road and 13 of their last 14 away from Coors Field. ... Blanton was 1-4 with a 5.46 ERA in his previous 10 home starts with the Dodgers and Phillies. ... Dodgers RHP Josh Beckett, who beat the Rockies in Game 1 of the 2007 World Series while pitching for Boston, starts Sunday's series finale against LHP Jorge De La Rosa.

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No. 9 West Virginia beats No. 25 Baylor 70-63

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) ? No. 9 West Virginia and the Big 12, perfect together.

Geno Smith and the fast-moving, high-scoring Mountaineers proved they fit right in with their new conference, outracing No. 25 Baylor 70-63 on Saturday in the Big 12's highest-scoring game ever.

Smith tied a conference mark with eight touchdown passes and narrowly missed another one with 656 yards passing.

"It did feel like one of those classic Texas shootouts," said Smith, whose school moved over from the Big East this season. "That's kind of what the Big 12 is about."

Smith outdueled Baylor's Nick Florence, who broke Heisman Trophy-winning predecessor Robert Griffin III's school record with 581 yards. Florence threw for five TDs.

School, conference and FBS marks all got rewritten in this one.

The game also set a new record for the most points scored in a game involving a team ranked in The Associated Press poll. The previous mark of 124 was set in No. 12 Oklahoma's 82-42 win over Colorado in 1980.

How wild was it? Smith, the early Heisman front-runner, had more TD passes than incompletions (six). He finished 45 of 51 and still doesn't have an interception this season.

"Can you please tell me how you can improve on that?" West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said.

Maybe not on offense, but both defenses have plenty of work to do.

West Virginia amassed a school-record 807 yards and the teams combined for 1,507 yards of offense and 67 first downs. Six receivers had at least 100 yards receiving.

The Bears' Terrance Williams set a Big 12 record with 314 yards receiving. The old mark was set minutes earlier by West Virginia's Stedman Bailey, who had 303 yards and a school-record five TDs.

Williams' 8-yard scoring catch brought Baylor (3-1) within 70-63 with 3:08 left.

But Dustin Garrison ran for 17 yards on third down and the Mountaineers ran out the clock to snap Baylor's nine-game winning streak, the second-longest in the nation.

"We expect to score that many points a game," Florence said. "But the goal is to score more than our opponent and we came up a little short today."

The combined 19 touchdowns tied an FBS mark, last reached when Navy beat North Texas 74-62 in 2007. That matchup set the FBS record for most points in a regulation game at 136.

Baylor, meanwhile, tied an FBS mark for the most points scored by a losing team.

Among the other records, Smith set school single-game marks for completions, yards and touchdown passes.

Bailey and Tavon Austin became the first FBS teammates with 200 yards receiving since 2007.

Going back to the Orange Bowl, West Virginia has scored 10 touchdowns three times in its last five games.

"Statistically, it's my best game ever," Smith said. "But I think it's more about the team, and I think it just lets us know that we're going to have to battle it out every week against some really tough teams in the Big 12.

"I could care less about a Heisman Trophy. The big thing for us what that we won the game today. We're on a mission, and we want to win them all."

West Virginia went ahead for good early in the third quarter, but Baylor almost always had an answer.

Austin made long touchdown grabs three minutes apart while Baylor punted and missed a long field goal. Smith stayed in a groove, throwing three passes of 45 yards or more in the third quarter alone. His 47-yarder to Bailey set up Andrew Buie's second short TD run for a 56-35 lead.

The way this game was going, though, no cushion was safe.

Williams caught a 37-yard scoring pass from Florence and, after Baylor's defense forced a rare punt, Florence's sneak brought the Bears within 56-49, and there was still 14:14 left.

But Bailey scored on TD grabs of 87 and 39 yards after that.

"We fought hard," said Baylor coach Art Briles. "But we didn't respond well enough to win the game."

Holgorsen talked at length about how impatient he got watching Maryland's offense run the clock down before each snap last week.

There was no chance of a slowdown from Baylor.

The teams scored on 10 of their final 13 possessions of the first half. Seven of those drives lasted under two minutes.

Smith, whose passing yardage total was 5 yards shy of the Big 12 mark, completed a school-record 14 straight passes at one point. After a dropped pass, Smith completed 12 more in a row.

Smith's fourth TD pass came with 29 seconds left until halftime, but that was more than enough time for Florence. On second down he threw down the left sideline to Lanear Sampson, who juked two defenders and went 67 yards untouched to tie the score at 35-35.

The Mountaineers now must hope they can generate points on the road when they head to No. 12 Texas and Texas Tech over the next two weeks.

"Not every Big 12 game is like this," Holgorsen said.

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Williams College's Adam Marske gets a second chance against Trinity

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Williams’ Jeff Riemann, right, scores a touchdown before Colby’s Daniel Maddox can tackle him in the Ephs’ season-opening win Sept. 22.

Saturday September 29, 2012

WILLIAMSTOWN -- Twelve months ago, Adam Marske was toting a clipboard and watching Chris Cleary play quarterback for Williams College.

Cleary was sacked on Williams? second drive at Trinity, played in the third and then retired to the bench with an ankle injury. Marske played the rest of the game and came close to leading the Ephs back for an upset victory.

"It?s always a little bit weird to think back to that game," Marske said. "When we prepared [for today], we watched that game on film. It?s different to see how far we have come as a team. It brings back those feelings I had during that game, and how unexpected it was. I didn?t have any time to think."

Marske and the Ephs will host the Bantams this afternoon at Weston Field, one year after Trinity escaped with a 21-13 win. In that game a year ago, Marske brought the Ephs back to within a touchdown on a four-yard TD pass to Darren Hartwell with 54 seconds left. Williams linebacker Chris Cameron recovered the onside kick, but the Ephs were flagged for illegal procedure. That forced a rekick, which was recovered by the Bantams, who ran out the clock. In that game, Marske was 20 of 33 for 237 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

The junior from LaGrange, Ill., has picked up where he left off. He was 22 of 27 for 277 yards, three touchdowns and one interception in last week?s 41-7 thrashing of Colby. Marske leads NESCAC in pass efficiency

and is 36 points ahead of second-place Jesse Warren of Wesleyan.

The Bantams come to town having beaten Williams seven out of the last 10 games. Trinity is 4-1 in the last five games, but the average margin of victory has been 5.8 points. The last blowout win in the series came in 2006 when the Ephs earned a 41-16 win. If you are keeping tabs, the only two wins by the Ephs in the last 10 years came in seasons where Williams ran the table and went 8-0.

The Ephs will start junior Marco Hernandez at tailback. Starter Alex Scyocurka bruised a shoulder last week, and while available, won?t start. Tom Wohlwender, who did not dress in the opener, will make his season debut against the Bantams. Greg Payton, who did not play against Colby, will be in uniform. Left tackle Cong Tien, who did not dress last week, will be available and it will be a game-time decision for the coaches if he plays.

Williams will be tested by junior running back Evan Bunker, who ran for 146 yards and two touchdowns in Trinity?s win over Bates last week. He is the younger brother of Eric Bunker, who ran for 132 yards and a touchdown in last year?s win over the Ephs. If Williams can control the line of scrimmage, quarterback Ryan Burgess will have to win the game for the Bantams. He was 13 of 26 for 161 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions last week.

"They?re fast, they?re physical," said Kelton. "They?re very athletic. They have a good contingent of returners. They?re a typical Trinity team in that they?re strong at the running back position and have a good defense."

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Prep Football Scores - Friday, September 28, 2012

Class A
Bellevue East 42, Omaha Northwest 7
Bellevue West 50, Omaha South 22
Creighton Prep 62, Omaha Bryan 13
Grand Island 28, Fremont 21
Kearney 48, Lincoln High 7
Lincoln North Star 42, North Platte 10
Lincoln Pius X 31, Lincoln East 0
Lincoln Southwest 34, Lincoln Northeast 0
Millard North 49, Papillion-La Vista 42
Millard South 42, Omaha Westside 25
Omaha Burke 15, Omaha North 14
Papillion-La Vista South 51, Omaha Benson 6

Class B
Aurora 34, Crete 14
Bennington 35, Mount Michael 7
Blair 42, Omaha Roncalli 14
Elkhorn 40, Platteview 22
Gering 16, Hastings 13
Gretna 42, Waverly 14
Lexington 24, Sidney 6
McCook 45, Alliance 14
Norris 49, Nebraska City 7
Omaha Gross 21, Elkhorn South 13
Omaha Skutt 23, Columbus 0
Plattsmouth 41, South Sioux City 35, OT
Scottsbluff 23, Northwest 21
Seward 14, Holdrege 0
York 33, Schuyler 0

Class C-1
Adams Central 40, Central City 0
Ashland-Greenwood 21, Bishop Neumann 11
Boone Central/NG 35, David City 21
Boys Town 42, Omaha Concordia 0
Broken Bow 33, St. Paul 8
Chase County 44, Mitchell 7
Columbus Lakeview 42, Madison 7
Cozad 42, Gothenburg 7
Falls City 32, Syracuse 8
Fillmore Central 26, Milford 25, 3OT
Fort Calhoun 29, Arlington 6
Grand Island CC 22, Gibbon 6
Gordon-Rushville 26, Bridgeport 13
Kearney Catholic 27, Minden 0
Lincoln Lutheran 56, Auburn 19
Logan View 29, Douglas County West 0
O'Neill 53, Ainsworth 3
Ogallala 14, Chadron 7
Ord 28, Valentine 7
Pierce 46, Columbus Scotus 14
Sandy Creek 27, Fairbury 6
Wahoo 26, Raymond Central 20
Wayne 30, West Point-Beemer 15

Class C-2
Aquinas 52, Yutan 0
Archbishop Bergan 53, Stanton 21
Bayard 21, Hershey 17
Blue Hill 40, Ravenna 6
Centennial 35, Twin River 20
Crofton 2, Homer 0, forfeit
Doniphan-Trumbull 73, Superior 0
Elmwood-Murdock 14, Weeping Water 6
Johnson County Central 28, Palmyra 22
Louisville 25, Brownell-Talbot 6
Lutheran High NE 20, Hartington CC 13
Malcolm 42, Tekamah-Herman 20
Oakland-Craig 54, North Bend Central 14
Perkins County 32, Kimball 7
Ponca 26, Wisner-Pilger 0
Southern 37, H-TR-S 0
Southern Valley 33, Wood River 7
Sutton 14, Hastings St. Cecilia 6
Thayer Central 31, Centura 8
Tri County 46, Conestoga 20
Wakefield 37, Laurel-Concord 12
West Holt 42, Battle Creek 36

Class D-1
Alma 50, Southwest 38
Arapahoe 28, Overton 18
BDS 58, Red Cloud 12
Burwell 43, CWC 14
Clearwater/Orchard 65, Boyd County 0
Creighton 34, Bloomfield 8
Elgin/PJ 68, Niobrara/Verdigre 20
Elm Creek 28, Twin Loup 20
Exeter-Milligan 32, Lourdes CC 10
Franklin 55, Heartland 32
Freeman 53, Pawnee City 34
Guardian Angels CC 50, Clarkson/Leigh 12
Hartington 78, Winnebago 20
High Plains 83, Shelby 20
Howells-Dodge 72, Omaha Christian 22
Johnson-Brock 62, Friend 12
Maxwell 69, Sutherland 6
McCool Junction 57, Harvard 26
Nebraska Christian 44, East Butler 18
Omaha Nation 44, Cedar Bluffs 42
Palmer 49, Loup City 22
Paxton 62, Morrill 22
Pender 26, Emerson-Hubbard 20
Plainview 37, Neligh-Oakdale 26
Randolph 56, Allen 22
South Loup 44, Ansley-Litchfield 6
St. Mary's 38, North Central 22

Class D-2
Anselmo-Merna 60, Eustis-Farnam 24
Bertrand 63, Loomis 0
Brady 42, Wallace 26
Diller-Odell 77, Deshler 22
Elwood 69, S-E-M 6
Falls City SH 76, Meridian 6
Garden County 58, Sandhills/Thedford 8
Giltner 44, Fullerton 0
Humphrey 52, Bancroft-Rosalie 40
Humphrey St. Francis 54, Lyons-Decatur NE 14
Kenesaw 58, Wilcox-Hildreth 0
Lawrence-Nelson 30, Axtell 12
Leyton 63, Banner County 8
Lindsay Holy Family 44, Scribner-Snyder 8
Medicine Valley 84, Hitchcock County 26
Mullen 40, Hay Springs 12
Nebraska Lutheran 60, Mead 20
Osceola 52, Dorchester 13
Osmond 68, Winside 22
Pleasanton 64, Heartland Lutheran 36
Potter-Dix 60, Crawford 26
Shelton 72, Amherst 14
South Platte 20, Creek Valley 14, OT
Spalding/SA 69, Cedar Valley 9
Sterling 34, Lewiston 16
Wausa 62, Newcastle 8

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Where are the gay voices in ads for gay marriage?

Four states will vote on gay marriage this November, but gay people speaking for themselves have been?noticeably?absent from the TV ads promoting gay marriage.?

By Patrick Condon,?Associated Press / September 26, 2012

John, (l.), and Kim Canny, Catholic Republicans from Savage, Minn., in a commercial in which they say they oppose a proposed constitutional amendment this November that would ban gay marriage. Some gay activists question an ad strategy that rarely puts actual gay people on camera, saying it contradicts their philosophy of openness and hasn?t worked.

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Each of these ads ran recently in states with gay marriage issues on the November ballot. What's missing? Gay people speaking for themselves.

Four states are voting on gay marriage this fall, and gay rights groups are pouring tens of millions of dollars into key TV markets in hopes of breaking a 32-state losing streak on the issue. But even as gay people and same-sex relationships gain acceptance through pop culture staples such as "Modern Family" and "Glee," the idea is still seen as dicey by media strategists involved in the ballot campaigns, resulting in ads that usually involve only straight people talking about the issue.

The decision to keep gays in the background has been widely noticed in the gay community and debated on gay-oriented blogs, with some activists complaining that the move contradicts the central message of the gay rights movement for a number of years.

"If we don't show ourselves, people aren't going to get comfortable with who we are," said Wayne Besen, director of Vermont-based gay rights group "Truth Wins Out," one of many that presses gays to live openly with pride in who they are.

But others counsel deference for the complexities of public messaging, pointing out that the ads are designed to speak to the fears and values of the heterosexual majority, whose vote will decide the issue.

"The moderate tough guys we need to flip to win a couple of these races are still the ones who say that gays are gross," said Andy Szekeres, a Denver-based fundraising consultant who has worked on several state campaigns and had access to focus group data. "Pushing people to an uncomfortable place, it's something you can't do in a TV ad," said Szekeres, who is gay.

The definition of marriage is on the ballot this fall in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. Beyond those, according to the Human Rights Campaign, 37 states prohibit gay marriage while six and the District of Columbia permit it. Gay activists and their allies are hoping that any wins in November would throw new momentum their way at a time when polls nationwide have shown growing acceptance for gay marriage.

Six of the seven ads broadcast in the contested states this year have featured only straight people talking about the issue. One ad, which played only in Maine, included a firefighter who talked of being accepted by his colleagues. The ads, along with most that ran in the 2008 campaign in California and in other past statewide races, rely on heterosexual family members and friends of gays talking about how the inability to marry has deprived their loved ones of rights and opportunities they should have.

Gay marriage opponents, who also have well-funded campaigns in the four states, plan to begin airing ads soon. In recent interviews, an organizer said the key message is aimed at parents, suggesting legal recognition could result in their kids being told in school and in society that it's OK to be gay.

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Women In Business program $35 for six months of learning ...

MUSKOKA ? Looking for a new direction? Maybe it?s time to invest in yourself.

Sign up now for the ever-popular Women in Business program.

As the leaves on the trees turn brilliant new colours, women in Muskoka can explore a brighter future and turn over a new leaf through Muskoka YWCA?s Women in Business (WIB) program.

Registrations are now being accepted for the 2012/2013 session and this year promises to be as exhilarating as ever.

?I?ve been given hope, confidence and visualization through this course.?
?2012 WIB graduate

Like a breath of fresh air, the WIB program is designed to help women take a fresh glance at their lifelong journey, and begin to take charge of an exciting new future while in a safe and caring environment. With a trained facilitator as their guide, and with the support of other women exploring their own vision of the future, WIB participants are challenged to learn, discover and dream.

?I have become more excited for the future and have gained more confidence.?
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For some women that vision could include starting a business, while others find themselves looking at their career choices with new eyes. Others decide to go back to school, while some just decide to embrace their lives and themselves with a new depth of understanding, knowledge and meaning. Unique to YWCA Muskoka, the WIB program fully integrates life skills and business/employment skills development, while allowing for improved self-discovery, self-improvement and self-confidence.

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While about 40 per cent of the WIB graduates do decide to start a business, others attend the program to increase their skill levels and build new personal and professional networks, ultimately leading to greater economic independence. Participants are invited to create a Life Plan or a Business Plan ? or both!

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Participants in the Women in Business program attend two sessions a week beginning just after Thanksgiving and wrapping up with a graduation celebration in March.

?Women from all walks of life participate in the program,? said WIB program coordinator Liz Angell. ?It is truly wonderful to see women come together in such a supportive environment to really explore direction for their lives and to grow in self-confidence. We all learn from each other ? it?s awesome.?

This year, the program is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the day in Bracebridge and Monday and Wednesday evenings in Huntsville.

Support for transportation and child care are available.

The registration fee for the six-month program is $35, which includes a YWCA Membership and a Canadian business skills textbook.

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YWCA Muskoka is committed to creating a safe, inclusive community that advances gender equity through building community leadership, partnerships and advocacy. Today, the organization serves more than 1,500 individuals annually in over 25 locations across Muskoka through services and activities relevant to the needs of the women and girls of our community.?

For more information about the Women in Business program or to register, please call 705-645-9827, email langell@ywcamuskoka.com or visit www.ywcamuskoka.com ??to register online. Like us on Facebook ? YWCA Muskoka and the Women in Business program are now on Facebook!

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Turkey's Erdogan to consolidate grip as ruling party renews

KONYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Surveying the street lights sparkling like jewels on the plain below, Tahir Akyurek looks back with satisfaction on his first eight years as mayor of this central Turkish city.

Two-lane highways have been widened to six, a fast train line has put Ankara just an hour and a half away, and there is a new park where students and the elderly chat over tea or wander among pristine lawns in the shadow of elegant minarets.

More so than the teeming streets of cosmopolitan Istanbul, the ordered avenues of Ankara or the resorts of the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts, this conservative industrial city on the Anatolian plateau epitomises the reformist ambitions of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party.

"Konya is connected with its traditions and embraces the new ... Being conservative, being devoted to tradition, does not mean being reactionary," Akyurek told Reuters, sipping tea and chewing almonds on a cafe terrace overlooking the city.

His sentiments reflect the self-image of the Islamist-rooted AK Party as it prepares for its biggest overhaul since sweeping to power in Turkey a decade ago. Critics are less charitable, viewing it as a threat to the modern secular republic founded by Kemal Ataturk on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire 90 years ago.

The party's September 30 congress is unlikely to offer any sign Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, viewed by many Turks as their strongest leader since Ataturk, is loosening his grip on a heavily-centralized party or on the country as a whole. AK, its initials spelling out the word for purity, is Erdogan's child.

New members of the party's administrative body will be picked to steer it through an election cycle beginning next year, but Erdogan will make sure those close to him remain in charge, helping smooth his way to an expected bid for a newly-constituted executive presidency in 2014.

"The importance of this convention is that it will determine the people who will be at the core of the party after Erdogan becomes president," said Koray Caliskan, associate political science professor at the Bosphorus University and a columnist for the liberal daily Radikal.

"He will want the leader to obey him but at the same time to balance different opinions in the party."

AUTHORITARIAN FIGURE

Erdogan created the AK Party as Turkey slid into a financial crisis in 2001, rallying around himself an array of center-right democrats and nationalists as well as religious conservatives. The party swept to its first victory a year later as an angry populace rejected long established parties tainted by corruption, personal rivalries and economic mismanagement.

The past decade has seen per capita income nearly triple and re-established Turkey as a regional power, with Western nations seeing its mix of democratic stability and Islamic culture as a potential role model in a volatile region.

It has been Turkey's longest period of single-party government for more than half a century, ending a history of fragile coalition governments punctuated by military coups.

But while he may be a towering figure of Turkish politics with three successive landslide victories, Erdogan's autocratic style makes him loved and loathed with equal passion.

Hundreds of politicians, academics and journalists are on trial as part of a five-year investigation into an alleged secularist network known as "Ergenekon", accused of plotting against the government. More than 300 army officers were handed long jail terms last Friday for an alleged plot to topple Erdogan almost a decade ago.

"Democracy is not making progress in this country. It is regressing in terms of the separation of powers, the independence of the judiciary and freedom of expression," said Faruk Logoglu, vice chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).

"(Erdogan's) primary aim will be to conduct a congress that will navigate him to the presidency and to a new constitution which he hopes will be of his making and design."

The CHP, the party of Ataturk, has struggled to mount any effective opposition to AK, in parliament or on the streets. Some observers contend that the only real threat to the party might come when Erdogan relinquishes power. Without him, they say, it could dissolve into the many and disparate political parts from which he forged it.

Party officials expect as many as 30,000 people at the convention in a sports arena in Ankara. Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, who was swept to power last year after a popular uprising, is among the regional leaders invited.

Erdogan, a devout Muslim who once served a brief prison sentence for religious incitement, championed the pro-democracy uprisings of the "Arab Spring", which saw decades-old dictatorships unseated in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

"There was great interest in Prime Minister Erdogan when he visited Egypt and Libya," said Idris Bal, an AK Party deputy and member of parliament's foreign affairs commission, when asked about Mursi's invitation.

"The main attraction of our party is that it is not based on religious or ethnic nationalism," Bal said.

But after a decade in power, Erdogan has failed to bring about much hope of an end to a 28-year-old war with Kurdish militants in Turkey's mountainous southeastern border region with Iraq, a topic likely to be high on Sunday's agenda.

The government has broken taboos with some reforms such as authorizing Kurdish language teaching and broadcasting. But recent fighting with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) - considered a terrorist organization by Ankara, the United States and European Union - has been some of the heaviest since it took up arms in 1984 with the aim of carving out a Kurdish state.

Thousands of pro-Kurdish trade unionists, politicians, academics and journalists have been detained since 2009, accused of links with the PKK.

Masoud Barzani, president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, has been invited to the party congress, as has Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whose Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad has been irritated by Ankara's courting of Iraqi Kurds.

CREEPING CONSERVATISM

Senior figures from smaller rival parties look set to be given roles in the AK Party administration as part of the overhaul, a bid to consolidate its support base for the coming electoral cycle.

Numan Kurtulmus, head of the former Islamist-rooted HAS Party, and Suleyman Soylu, one-time leader of the conservative Democratic Party, have joined the AK Party in recent weeks and could be rewarded with senior administrative roles.

"What they are trying to say is we want to agree with everyone on the political right and center, we are taking them into our ranks. The prime minister's initiative is trying to portray the party as inclusive," said Tarhan Erdem, the head of Turkish polling company Konda.

"(The congress) is a major turning point for the AK Party. But it will not be a turning point because of ideas put forth by party members ... New policies will be formed and implemented by the party leader. That is all there is to it. One shouldn't see this as a part of democratic activity," he said.

Erdogan's taming of the military, self-appointed guardians of Turkish secularism, has fuelled suspicions in Western-facing cities like Istanbul and other coastal towns that the AK Party has a hidden agenda of creeping Islamic conservatism.

Some disdain the appearance of the Islamic headscarf in public institutions, something banned since the foundation of secular Turkey nine decades ago. Revelers complained tighter alcohol restrictions meant there was little other than drinking yoghurt or soda on offer at a recent Madonna concert in Istanbul, seeing it as another sign of diminishing freedoms.

But in the bars, restaurants and clubs of the historic Beyoglu district there are few such signs. Thousands of tourists and locals party into the small hours, spilling out into the narrow back streets to a soundtrack of thumping dance music.

Mayor Akyurek's conservative Konya can seem a world away.

Here, few restaurants serve alcohol, the Islamic headscarf is more in evidence, and the tourists are descending on the tomb of Rumi, a widely-read 13th century Sufi mystic who founded the order of the Whirling Dervishes.

Konya is one of the "Anatolian Tigers", cities whose industries and small businesses have thrived over the past decade of AK Party rule and whose electorate can be counted on to deliver solid support for the status quo.

There is little fear of creeping conservatism here. Talk of an AK Islamist agenda is rarely heard and eyes, rather than turning inward, look to export markets beyond Anatolia, in the Middle East and Europe.

"Turkey, like Konya, is devoted to its traditions but also open to the rest of the world," said Akyurek, who won a second term in 2009 with one of the highest majorities ever recorded in a Turkish local election.

(Additional reporting by Pinar Aydinli in Ankara, Asli Kandemir in Istanbul, Suadad al-Salhy in Baghdad; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Ralph Boulton and Janet McBride)

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A healthy bond: By improving pain treatment, therapy in dogs, research offers medical insight for humans

ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? A Kansas State University professor's research improving post-surgery pain treatment and osteoarthritis therapy in dogs may help develop better ways to treat humans for various medical conditions.

From the use of hot and cold packs to new forms of narcotics, James Roush, professor of clinical sciences, is studying ways to lessen pain after surgery and improve care for small animals, particularly dogs. He is working with the clinical patients who come to the College of Veterinary Medicine's Veterinary Health Center.

Because humans and dogs experience some diseases in similar ways, his research may improve how doctors and physicians understand human health, too.

"Several of our projects have human applications, particularly one involving intra-articular prolotherapy," Roush said.

Here's a closer look at three of Roush's current projects:

* A recent project with Ralph Millard, former Veterinary Health Center resident, focuses on ways that hot packing and cold packing affect tissue temperature in beagles and beagle-sized dogs after surgery.

After surgery in both humans and dogs it is common to put a cold pack or hot pack on tissue to prevent and reduce swelling. How long the pack is used and what type of cold or hot pack is used depends on the type of injury and surgery. Roush said that no studies have looked at how deep in the tissue the packs affect temperature and how long the packs must be applied so that the tissue reaches a desired temperature.

The researchers studied the temperature and tissue depth that hot and cold packing affected and the time it took to reach that temperature.

"We found that you don't really need to cold pack anything longer than 10 minutes because there is not a great change in temperature after that," Roush said.

When tissue is cold packed, it will stay cold for a while after the ice pack is removed. But when tissue is hot packed and the pack is removed, the tissue temperature will return to normal much more quickly. Leaving the hot or cold pack on the tissue longer than 10 minutes will extend the time that the tissue stays at the same hot or cold temperature, Roush said. There just will not be a great change in temperature after 10 minutes.

The same technique of hot and cold packing after surgery is also used in humans. Although more research in humans is needed, Roush said there is a strong possibility that a similar 10-minute time frame for hot and cold packing may apply to humans as well.

The research appears in two upcoming publications in the Journal of Veterinary Research.

* For another project, Roush and Matt Sherwood, Veterinary Health Center resident, are using a mat system to study lameness and osteoarthritis in dogs. When dogs step on the mat, it measures the pressure in their step.

The mat system is a useful clinical tool for evaluating and developing treatment of lameness, Roush said. Roush and Sherwood are using the mat for measuring lameness and determining in which leg the lameness is worse.

"We've designed the study to help improve osteoarthritis treatment," Roush said. "We will also use it to measure clinical patients when they come in for regular checkups. We can measure their recovery and a variety of other aspects: how they respond to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, how they respond to narcotics or how they respond to a surgical procedure that is designed to take that pressure off the joint."

* Roush also is working with Marian Benitez, Veterinary Health Center resident, on an analgesic pharmacology study. Rose McMurphy, professor of clinical sciences, and Butch KuKanich, associate professor of anatomy and physiology, are also involved.

The researchers are studying the effectiveness of a painkiller used to treat dogs and researching potential alternatives to the drug. The same drug also is commonly used to treat pain in humans.

"To achieve the drug's effect, the dosage in dogs is much higher than in people," Roush said. "It also may not be a very good analgesic in dogs. We want to see if there is an alternative that requires smaller doses and does not have not as much of a discrepancy for patients."

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IT Support Insider: How Can ITIL Benefit My IT Services?

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of guidance books developed by the United Kingdom?s Office of Government Commerce (OGC). The guidance, as documented in the set of books, describes an integrated, process-based, best practice framework for managing IT services.

ITIL was created by experts who incorporated the learning experiences and practices of leading organizations, ?best-in class? practitioners and IT service providers

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Cryopreservation of induced pluripotent stem cells improved the most by one product

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Tampa, Fla. (Sep. 25, 2012) In a study to determine the best cryopreservation (freezing) solution to maintain induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, a team of researchers from Japan compared 12 kinds of commercially prepared and readily available cryopreservation solutions and found that "Cell Banker 3" out-performed the other 11 solutions by allowing iPS cells to be preserved for a year at ? degrees C in an undifferentiated state.

The study is published in a recent special issue of Cell Medicine [3(1)], now freely available on-line at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/cm.

"iPS cells are a promising alternative to embryonic stem cells and can be used in place of bone marrow cells, stromal cells and adipose tissue-derived stem cells," said study co-author Hirofumi Noguchi, MD, PhD, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Transplant and Surgical Oncology at the Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine. "However, the viability of human iPS cells, like embryonic stem cells, decreases significantly during cryopreservation. A wide variety of cryopreservation solutions have been used, however many are toxic or ineffective for use in extended cryopreservation."

The researchers concluded that Cell Banker 3 showed the highest cell viability and proliferation of all the solutions examined and can be widely used as it does not require any special skills for use.

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This research was among those studies presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Organ Preservation and Medical Biology (JSOPMB). Sixteen studies were published in this special issue of CELL MEDICINE. The theme of the issue is "Organ/Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine."

Citation: Miyamoto, Y.; Noguchi, H.; Yukawa, H.; Oishi, K.; Matsushita, K.; Iwata, H.; Hayashi, S. Cryopreservation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Med. 3(1):89-95; 2012.

Contact: Dr. Hirofumi Noguchi, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Transplant and Surgical Oncology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata, Okayama 700-8558 Japan
Tel + 81-86-235-7257; Fax + 81-86-221-8775
Noguchih2006@yahoo.co.jp / noguch-h@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

The editorial offices for CELL MEDICINE are at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, College of Medicine, the University of South Florida. Contact, David Eve, PhD. at cellmedicinect@gmail.com

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Tampa, Fla. (Sep. 25, 2012) In a study to determine the best cryopreservation (freezing) solution to maintain induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, a team of researchers from Japan compared 12 kinds of commercially prepared and readily available cryopreservation solutions and found that "Cell Banker 3" out-performed the other 11 solutions by allowing iPS cells to be preserved for a year at ? degrees C in an undifferentiated state.

The study is published in a recent special issue of Cell Medicine [3(1)], now freely available on-line at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/cm.

"iPS cells are a promising alternative to embryonic stem cells and can be used in place of bone marrow cells, stromal cells and adipose tissue-derived stem cells," said study co-author Hirofumi Noguchi, MD, PhD, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Transplant and Surgical Oncology at the Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine. "However, the viability of human iPS cells, like embryonic stem cells, decreases significantly during cryopreservation. A wide variety of cryopreservation solutions have been used, however many are toxic or ineffective for use in extended cryopreservation."

The researchers concluded that Cell Banker 3 showed the highest cell viability and proliferation of all the solutions examined and can be widely used as it does not require any special skills for use.

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This research was among those studies presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Organ Preservation and Medical Biology (JSOPMB). Sixteen studies were published in this special issue of CELL MEDICINE. The theme of the issue is "Organ/Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine."

Citation: Miyamoto, Y.; Noguchi, H.; Yukawa, H.; Oishi, K.; Matsushita, K.; Iwata, H.; Hayashi, S. Cryopreservation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Med. 3(1):89-95; 2012.

Contact: Dr. Hirofumi Noguchi, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Transplant and Surgical Oncology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata, Okayama 700-8558 Japan
Tel + 81-86-235-7257; Fax + 81-86-221-8775
Noguchih2006@yahoo.co.jp / noguch-h@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

The editorial offices for CELL MEDICINE are at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, College of Medicine, the University of South Florida. Contact, David Eve, PhD. at cellmedicinect@gmail.com

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How you can Produce an online Company with Affiliate Programs ...

Just ten years ago, having a Net presence was perceived as one thing rather exotic. Web pioneers had been wanting to locate a strategy to bring the world wide web towards the masses, and e mail was still in its infancy as individuals battled to stay on the internet with their dial-up connections.

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Beyond the affiliate hyperlinks, your website will also have exciting and helpful up-to-the-minute info for your website visitors. For example, you might have a news banner that supplies visitors with headline news, world news, and news about technologies and entertainment. It might also have stock quotes and weather info.

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iPhone 5 vs iPhone 4S vs iPad 3 vs Android: Benchmark review

For some, simply knowing the new [iPhone 5] is twice as fast as the last iPhone is enough. But some of us want numbers. We want to know how much faster. Sure, Apple typically brings experience to a spec fight, but it's the specs that drive the experience. It's the engine in the meticulously appointed car. It's the stats behind the championship team. It's the science behind the art.

So with that in mind we ran the iPhone 5 through a whole battery of benchmarks, and to give it some context we put it up head to head, device to device against the iPhone 4S, iPad 3, and added in scores for the Samsung Galaxy S3 and a sampling of other competing phones.

Here's the results:

Environment

Pulling a device out of the box and running benchmarks is fine but it doesn't necessarily give real world results. Odds are the first thing you'll do is load up your iPhone 5 with the usual suspects - apps, games, contacts, calendars, reminders, music, video, etc..

So for this test I restored an iCloud backup to my iPhone 5 that's already on my iPad 3 and iPhone 4S so they're both loaded with tons of the same data. It seems a little more practical than comparing it straight out of the box. All devices were also running the iOS 6 public release candidate.

As a preface, the only thing I did before performing any of these benchmarks was close out all apps from the multitasking tray. At the time either the benchmarking app was the only thing running or Safari in order to obtain the benchmarks.

Geekbench

When it comes to Geekbench, we used the iOS app Geekbench 2 in order to benchmark. Higher numbers are better in this instance. Geekbench looks at all kinds of information across the entire system resulting in an entire system benchmark. Included data is integer, floating point, memory, and stream performance. Geekbench takes all these scores and gives you an average for the entire system.

iPhone 5

The iPhone 5 scored between 1500 and 1650 each time we ran the rest. The average of 5 consecutive tests was 1615. We performed the test after killing every app and hard rebooting the device.

iPhone 4S

Just like the iPhone 5, before performing benchmarks I made sure to kill everything from the multitasker and do a hard reboot. After 5 consecutive tests, the average was around 635. Much lower than the iPhone 5 when it comes to system benchmarks.

iPad 3

The iPad 3 outperforms the iPhone 4S but doesn't come close to the iPhone 5 in terms of Geekbench results. Our average result on Geekbench was around 750 after 5 consecutive tests. All apps were closed except for the Geekbench 2 iOS app and a hard reboot was performed.

The A5X processor obviously performs significantly better than the iPhone 4S' standard A5 but when it comes to the A6, the iPhone 5 wins each and every time.

Other devices

If you're wondering how it stacks up against other devices that have been benchmarked using Geekbench, here are some reference numbers from some popular non-Apple devices on the market.

• Samsung Galaxy S III - 1543
• Motorola Droid Razr M - 1480
• HTC One X - 1821

Sunspider

While Geekbench looks at your system as a whole, Sunspider will exclusively measure Javascript performance on your device via a test done through your web browser.

In the case of Sunspider, a lower number is better since it's measuring your device's response time in milliseconds for each test. After running each test 5 times, Sunspider will give you an average number of time (in milliseconds) that it took your device to complete the test.

iPhone 5

I ran Sunspider on my iPhone 5 three times and each time I ended up around the 915 to 920 ms mark. While running the test I had no other app open on the device other than the native Safari browser.

iPhone 4S

Just like the iPhone 5, we ran the rest three times on the iPhone 4S will nothing open but Safari and after another hard reboot. All three tests resulted in a time of around 1800 ms.

When it comes to rendering Javascript, it's quite obvious the iPhone 5 can handle it and process it almost twice as fast as the iPhone 4S can.

iPad 3

Same routine as before, after a reboot and Safari being the only app open, the iPad 3 faired better than the iPhone 4S with an average score of around 1450 ms. It isn't a huge difference when it comes to rendering Javascript and probably not one that many users would even notice.

When compared to the iPhone 5, the A5X chipset can't hold its own against the A6 any longer. It's obvious the iPhone 5 is an all around faster device when it comes to system and rendering benchmarks.

Other devices

Here's some average benchmarks for other popular devices on the market and how they score with Sunspider on average. Remember, the lower the number the better.

• Samsung Galaxy S 3 - 1442
• HTC One X - 1735
• Nokia Lumia 900 - 6800

HTML5Test.com

HTML5Test.com does nothing more than measure how well your browser supports and handles HTML5 content. While it isn't as in-depth as tests like Sunspider and Geekbench, it's still worth taking a look at.

iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, & iPad 3

Considering the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, and iPad 3 all run the same version of iOS and support the same native Safari browser within it, all three devices scored a total of 360 points plus 9 bonus points. HTML5Test.com uses a 500 point scale.

Other devices

Here's how a couple other devices stacked up when it came to HTML5 compatibility and support.

• Blackberry 10 - 447 plus 10 bonus points
• Windows Phone 8 - 300 plus 6 bonus points
• Android 4.0 - 280 plus 3 bonus points

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PFT: Kolb to skip game if wife goes into labor

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Jets coach Rex Ryan shortened practices and meetings this week to ?gain a little advantage? in anticipation of playing in the South Florida heat.

Pats coach Bill Belichick on whether his offense had a ?tell? against Arizona:? ?We?re on to Baltimore.?

Dolphins FB Jorvorskie Lane has lost 47 pounds in the last year.

Bills DE Mario Williams will get a chance to start earning his millions against Browns rookie RT Mitchell Schwartz.

Ravens teammates are helping LG Ramon Harewood get ready for his date with Pats DT Vince Wilfork.

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin is 6-2 against QB Carson Palmer.

The Bengals offensive line has overcome injuries and inexperience to perform well, so far.

The Browns are expected to move S Eric Hagg out of the starting lineup after two starts to start the season.

Is Texans coach Gary Kubiak glad QB Peyton Manning is out of the AFC South?? ?I might not be the only one who would say that,? Kubiak said.

The Titans? wideouts are finally healthy.? (So maybe they?ll only lose by single digits this week.)

Colts P Pat McAfee says it?s his goal to be ?the best to ever do it.?? (We think he?s talking about kicking footballs.)

Jaguars owner Shahid Khan will take his Oppa Gangnam Style to London, where he?ll be a featured speaker at a Leaders Sport Summit.

Though he practiced all week and wasn?t on the injury report, Raiders RB Mike Goodson was a spectator at practice on Friday.

Broncos DE Elvis Dumervil says he has no sacks because of constant double teams.

Chargers QB Philip Rivers is a member of Team Replacements.

The man at the center of a bomb-scare misunderstanding in Kansas City once had his season tickets to Chiefs games revoked over ties to the original World Trade Center bombings of 1993.

Giants WR Ramses Barden, who finally has broken out in his fourth season, was humble the day after the biggest game of his career; ?Obviously I would like as many opportunities as possible,? Barden said.? ?We got a talented group.? We got an All-Pro group. . . .? I just want to be an asset wherever I can.?

The Cowboys opted not to use many blitzes against the Seahawks and QB Russell Wilson last Sunday.? ?If we did, that kid would have woke up missing,? defensive coordinator Rob Ryan.? (Instead, Ryan?s defense never showed up.)

A two-time cancer survivor who used Redskins games to get him through his illness will serve as honorary captain for the home opener.

With WR Jeremy Maclin (hip) out and WR Riley Cooper (collarbone) still not ready to go, the Eagles will have four wideouts on Sunday:? DeSean Jackson, Jason Avant, Damaris Johnson, and Mardy Gilyard.

Vikings LG Charlie Johnson will get help in handling 49ers DE Justin Smith, who nearly chose Minnesota when he left Cincinnati via free agency.

Lions S John Wendling was fined $7,875 for busting the nose of 49ers QB Alex Smith.

Packers LB Clay Matthews is excited to face his former USC coach for the first time.

Bears TE Kellen Davis returned to the team because he thought he?d have a bigger role . . . and he has one catch in two games.

The Falcons are 5-0 on the West Coast under coach Mike Smith.? (Maybe they should move to Los Angeles.)

Saints CB Jabari Greer is ready to return to the starting lineup after recovering from sports hernia surgery; ?I was wasting away in Shawshank over here,? Greer said.? (At least he didn?t have to crawl to freedom through 500 yards of sh-t-smelling foulness.)

Bucs K Connor Barth has shaved his beard despite converting on an NFL-best 21-straight field goals.

Panthers PR/KR Joe Adams may have fumbled away his job.

The Cardinals? special teams are not ordinary.

49ers TE Vernon Davis has seven touchdown receptions in his last four games.

Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch has run for 100 or more yards in seven of his last 11 games.

Rams rookie K Greg ?The Leg? Zuerlein is 11-for-12 on field goal tries in the NFL, with the only miss coming from 62 yards in the preseason finale.

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Apple Map Disasters, Real-Life Warp Drive, Cam Girl Secrets, And More [The Best Stories Of The Week]

This week we finally witnessed the arrivial of the iPhone 5, but it brought with it a pretty questionable and sometimes horrifying map app. But that's not all, NASA is working on warp drive, we delve into the bleak world of Internet cam girls, we caught a peek of (maybe) the iPad Mini, and watched a rapper lose his Google-virginity. Catch up below. More »

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