Mexico army rescues 15 kidnapped Honduran migrants (AP)

MEXICO CITY ? Mexico's Defense Department says soldiers have rescued 15 Honduran migrants who had been kidnapped and were being held in a house in Nuevo Laredo on the border with the United States.

The military says troops patroling in the Privada Esmeralda neighborhood on Monday detained a man who was watching over the migrants.

A statement Wednesday gives no other details of the rescue in Nuevo Laredo, which is across the border from Laredo, Texas.

Soldiers and federal police have been increasingly rescuing migrants kidnapped by drug cartels. Authorities say migrants are kidnapped for ransom or to be forced to work for the crime syndicates.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/usmilitary/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111102/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_kidnapped_migrants

end of the world end of the world jerome harrison ryan leaf ryan leaf carlos santana jahvid best

Record number of 20-point comebacks already

/

By BARRY WILNER

updated 5:52 p.m. ET Oct. 31, 2011

NEW YORK - No lead is safe in the NFL this year, especially if a bad team is holding it against a good team. Sunday's rally by the Ravens (the good team) to beat the Cardinals (the bad team) is proof.

It also was the fifth time this season someone has come back from 20 or more points down to win. That's already a league record with nine weeks remaining on the schedule.

The Ravens were well aware that big comebacks have been almost routine in 2011, so even while trailing 24-3 they never lost faith.

Nor should they have considering the Cardinals have one of the worst pass defenses in football and are one of the leaders in turning over the ball.

"You're going to keep fighting," coach John Harbaugh said of the Ravens' attitude at halftime. "If you watch around this league, you can come back and win."

Just as the Lions did against the Cowboys and the 49ers did at Philadelphia on Oct. 2. Detroit trailed by 24 points in the third quarter and San Francisco was behind by 20 in the second half against the Eagles.

And just as the Bills stormed back from 21-0 behind at home to beat New England the previous Sunday, the same day the Lions staged their first humongous rally, overcoming a 20-0 halftime hole at Minnesota.

In nearly every case, the team overcoming the lead was playing an opponent with a weak or struggling defense. Plus, the rallying side was comfortable with a no-huddle offense.

That was especially noticeable in Baltimore on Sunday.

"I had seen a couple of teams come back from pretty big deficits this year, and it was our day to do that," quarterback Joe Flacco said.

Added Anquan Boldin, who victimized a porous secondary for seven catches and 145 yards against his former team:

"We felt like they had young corners, and that's one of the things we felt like we could take advantage of, and we did that today. We know we played poor as an offense in the first half, and we felt like this team wasn't better than us, point-blank. Even though they were up 24-3, we felt like we were able to go out and put drives together and put points on the board."

The penchant for coming back from big deficits has much to do with the rules favoring offenses nowadays. Teams are unafraid to throw ? even those with untested quarterbacks ? because of how the game has opened up. There are so many restrictions on defensive backs and linebackers in pass coverage that the old Woody Hayes standby that when you throw, three things can happen and two of them are bad no longer applies.

Yes, there can be incompletions and interceptions, but there also can be defensive holdings and interferences and illegal hits, all of them being enforced more heavily than ever.

There's also the mindset on the leading team's side. Instead of continuing to do what helped build the big lead, those teams tend to back off a bit, get conservative to protect the lead.

Bang! The lead is gone.

"At halftime, we all talked about it," Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb said. "We knew what was coming in the second half. You can't let down in this league, especially against a team like this. It wasn't a lack of focus, it was a lack of execution.

"This league is all about trying to find a way to win. I give them credit for the great comeback they had. In the second half they brought a little bit more pressure."

Exactly. The trailing team gets extra aggressive and, too often, the team in front gets a tad comfortable.

Oddly, the level of experience doesn't seem to matter in this year's comeback scenarios. None of the club's that lost, not even the Cardinals, is callow. New England, Minnesota, Philadelphia and Dallas all are filled with veterans, many of them solid players.

Yet they succumbed.

"When you're playing this game, you have to play loose, no matter what," Boldin said. "No matter how you look, you still have to play loose. Whenever you are tight, guys just try to make things happen and end up making mistakes, and that's not how you play football."

At least not winning football.

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

advertisement

More newsJamie Squire / Getty Images

Chiefs pull off wild OT win

??Ryan Succop kicked a 30-yard field goal in overtime, giving the Kansas City a stunning 23-20 victory over the San Diego Chiefs on Monday night and moving the Chiefs into an improbable tie atop the AFC West.

Source: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/45110153/ns/sports-nfl/

orcl william shatner brooke mueller tucker carlson tucker carlson richard castle richard castle

'Glee' star Charice 'very sad' after dad's killing

NEW YORK (AP) ? Filipina singer and "Glee" star Charice says she and her relatives are "very sad" after the killing of her father. She calls it a "terrible tragedy."

Forty-year-old Ricky Pempengco was fatally stabbed late Monday near the Philippines' capital, Manila, after a brush with a drunken man in a grocery store.

Charice said Tuesday in a statement she wants to thank her fans around the world "for their support and love at this very difficult time."

The 19-year-old starred on "Glee" last season and was touring in Southeast Asia. She cancelled the rest of the tour dates and has flown to the Philippines to be with her family.

Charice and her father had been estranged for several years. But she wanted to reconcile.

Police are searching for her father's killer.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/4e67281c3f754d0696fbfdee0f3f1469/Article_2011-11-01-People-Charice/id-7860f4948e6148b7ab338b8498bce185

iaa blackberry torch 2 the closer ea sports ovarian cancer symptoms angola manny ramirez

Many radiologists disagree on management of incidental findings, study finds

Public release date: 1-Nov-2011
[ | E-mail | Share ]

Contact: Heather Curry
PR@acr.org
703-390-9822
American College of Radiology

According to a recent study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, many radiologists disagree on the management of incidental findings found on body computed tomography (CT) scans. An incidental finding is something found that is unrelated to the present illness and is discovered unintentionally.

Advances in CT resolution have improved radiologists' ability to identify small or subtle findings. In conjunction with increasing CT utilization, this has fueled the rate with which incidental findings are discovered. However, published guidelines for the management of many incidental findings are only just emerging.

"The purpose of our study was to evaluate for agreement among body CT attending radiologists, both within departments and across academic institutions, for the management of a number of commonly encountered incidental findings on body CT," said Pamela T. Johnson, MD, lead author of the study.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University administered a multiple-choice survey to 27 radiologists at three separate academic institutions, asking them how they would handle 12 incidental findings on body CT. Results showed that seventy percent or greater agreement on interpretation was identified for only six findings.

"It is important to note that at present, 100 percent agreement was not identified for the management of any of the 12 findings. An equally essential discovery is the lack of agreement across academic institutions and even within individual institutions for other incidental findings," said Johnson.

"Our findings signal the need for individual departments to develop internal guidelines so that radiologists make the best recommendations on the basis of existing evidence and provide consistent advice to referring physicians," said Johnson.

###

For more information about JACR, visit www.jacr.org.

To receive an electronic copy of an article appearing in the JACR, or to set up an interview with a JACR author, please contact Heather Curry at 703-390-9822 or PR@acr.org.

---

[ | E-mail | Share ]

?

AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.

Public release date: 1-Nov-2011
[ | E-mail | Share ]

Contact: Heather Curry
PR@acr.org
703-390-9822
American College of Radiology

According to a recent study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, many radiologists disagree on the management of incidental findings found on body computed tomography (CT) scans. An incidental finding is something found that is unrelated to the present illness and is discovered unintentionally.

Advances in CT resolution have improved radiologists' ability to identify small or subtle findings. In conjunction with increasing CT utilization, this has fueled the rate with which incidental findings are discovered. However, published guidelines for the management of many incidental findings are only just emerging.

"The purpose of our study was to evaluate for agreement among body CT attending radiologists, both within departments and across academic institutions, for the management of a number of commonly encountered incidental findings on body CT," said Pamela T. Johnson, MD, lead author of the study.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University administered a multiple-choice survey to 27 radiologists at three separate academic institutions, asking them how they would handle 12 incidental findings on body CT. Results showed that seventy percent or greater agreement on interpretation was identified for only six findings.

"It is important to note that at present, 100 percent agreement was not identified for the management of any of the 12 findings. An equally essential discovery is the lack of agreement across academic institutions and even within individual institutions for other incidental findings," said Johnson.

"Our findings signal the need for individual departments to develop internal guidelines so that radiologists make the best recommendations on the basis of existing evidence and provide consistent advice to referring physicians," said Johnson.

###

For more information about JACR, visit www.jacr.org.

To receive an electronic copy of an article appearing in the JACR, or to set up an interview with a JACR author, please contact Heather Curry at 703-390-9822 or PR@acr.org.

---

[ | E-mail | Share ]

?

AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.

Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/acor-mrd103111.php

ohio state angus t. jones belgian malinois honey badger girl fight wake forest wake forest

Switched On: The clamshell mystique

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

In 2009, Switched On discussed the potential of Android on netbooks, finding an uneasy match between what was then high-flying hardware and still nascent software. More than two years later, though, the tables have turned in terms of momentum. As netbooks have settled into a relatively small part of the overall PC market, Android is leaping beyond the smartphone. In doing so, though, it is focused on tablets, not clamshells,

There are a few ways today to get Android on a diminutive notebook, but all have major flaws. On eBay, for example, you can buy cheaply made 7-inch Android netbooks for about $100. These are little more than novelties with poor ergonomics and battery life. Or one can download the Android x86 distribution and fire it up on an Asus Eee or other netbooks, but this is a hobbyist pursuit.

Continue reading Switched On: The clamshell mystique

Switched On: The clamshell mystique originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/30/switched-on-the-clamshell-mystique/

whole foods blood pressure uhs uhs google street view google street view gluten free diet

Bosnia stalemate may signify end to Palestine vote (AP)

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina ? Palestinian hopes of rallying the required nine vote majority in a U.N. Security Council vote on Palestinian statehood suffered a major blow Monday with a Bosnian presidential adviser saying the country will be forced to abstain.

Palestinian officials have said they already have eight votes, and had counted heavily on Bosnia to give them the ninth.

The United States has promised to veto the measure in any case. But the Palestinians had hoped to win enough support to trigger the veto, which would have embarrassed the U.S. by forcing it to go against the will of the international community.

Dzenan Selimbegovic, an adviser to the three-member presidency, said Monday that because the trio still disagrees on the issue, there is no official stand and the chance of someone changing his mind is "theoretical."

"Officially the presidency has no position and if there is no position then the Bosnian ambassador to the U.N. has no position," he told The Associated Press.

Selimbegovic said the presidency will be left with no choice than to abstain.

The three presidents had to agree in order for Bosnia to vote. So far the Muslim Bosniak leader supports the bid, the Serb member is pro-Israeli and the Croat member has not yet not clearly stated his position. The three members have to agree on a common policy or abstain.

With peace talks stalled for the past three years, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked the Security Council in September to admit the Palestinians as a full member state. The Palestinians say that although any vote will not end Israel's occupation of lands they claim, they believe a strong international endorsement would boost their position in future negotiations.

The U.S. and Israel have argued that peace can be achieved only through negotiations.

The Palestinians have been trying to arrange a Nov. 11 vote in the Security Council, though Abbas acknowledged in an interview on Israeli TV last week that he might not be able to muster nine votes.

Last week both the Israeli and Palestinian foreign ministers visited Bosnia to lobby for their cause, but the stands of both Bosniak and Serb members remained unchanged.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman additionally visited the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka where decisions are made on how the Serbs will vote in joint state institutions.

The leader of the Bosnian Serbs and president of their mini-state, Milorad Dodik, said after the meeting that the Serb representatives in the central institutions are against the possibility of Bosnia voting at the Security Council for the Palestinian bid.

He added that he now expects Bosnian Serbs and Israel to strengthen economic ties and work on tourism and agriculture.

Lieberman, a Russian speaker who was born in Moldova, was on his second visit to the Bosnian Serbs this year, and spent several days of his vacation in the Bosnian Serb part of the country.

In the West Bank town of Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian government, Orthodox, Catholic and Muslim clergymen held a news conference on Monday urging Bosnia to reconsider its Security Council position.

"I was shocked today when I received the statement saying the Serbian president of Bosnia rejected recognition of Palestine," said Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hana.

"I assume the Serbian president of Bosnia would represent the morals of the Orthodox Church, which always stood beside the oppressed in the world."

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki told reporters in late September that the membership bid has support so far from eight Security Council members: Russia, China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Lebanon, Nigeria and Gabon. He said the Palestinians are lobbying for more votes, including from Bosnia and Colombia.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited Colombia on Oct. 11 and was told by President Juan Manuel Santos that Colombia will only recognize a Palestinian state that has been established through negotiations with Israel, leaving Bosnia as the likely key to a ninth "yes" vote.

The Palestinians did, however, become a full member of UNESCO on Monday, in a highly divisive move that could cost the agency a fifth of its budget and that the U.S. and other opponents say could harm renewed Mideast peace efforts.

Bosnia abstained from the vote.

______

Mohammed Daraghmeh contributed to this story from Ramallah

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111031/ap_on_re_eu/eu_bosnia_palestinian_bid

roasted pumpkin seeds roasted pumpkin seeds pumpkin seed recipe mark madoff disturbia ufc results hines ward

China cop accused of drunken crash; 5 killed

BEIJING?? A police officer was suspected of driving a police van drunk and killing five people in a central China crash that sparked angry crowds to smash and flip police cars in the latest burst of public anger against the authorities.

1. Only on msnbc.com

   1. Iowa Poll: Cain, Romney top field ahead of caucuses
   2. Bachmann defends stance on kids of illegal immigrants
   3. Do science and politics mix?
   4. Facebook says 600,000 account logins compromised every day
   5. Sports fans play the Washington game
   6. Rock Center: Birth tourism becomes a global industry
   7. Michael Moore confesses: I am the 1 percent

Wang Yinpeng, the head of a township police station in Henan province's Runan county, was charged with endangering public security after the van crashed into two street lamp poles Saturday afternoon, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The poles fell, fatally crushing five victims and injuring three more.

The Runan county publicity department said the officer was suspected of driving drunk, Xinhua reported.

Crowds surrounded the crashed van as well as two other police cars and two vans, and overturned and smashed them out of unhappiness with how the police were handling the crash, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.

The paper cited a witness as saying police arrived at the scene and apparently tried to move the bodies to a funeral parlor without first conducting an investigation.

The newspaper said that according to a family member, the victims were mostly farmers who were waiting for long-distance buses to take them to Zhejiang to find work.

Photos said to be taken at the scene were circulating on China's popular Sina Weibo, showing bodies lying face down on the road and overturned police cars with smashed windows, as well as large crowds.

Xinhua said the county police department has set up a special investigation team.

Reports of road rage and drunken driving have increased in Chinese media as auto sales have boomed and new drivers hit the streets with little training.

China has also seen more frequent protests, sometimes violent, that are sparked by one-off incidents that point to a deep-seated unhappiness with abuses of power and officials who see themselves as above the law.

Generally apolitical, the incidents spark a deep unease among authorities who worry they may spill out of control and go from attacks on local issues to challenges to the ruling Communist Party.

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45094345/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/

x factor judges x factor judges lemony snicket lemony snicket raiders raiders news raiders news