Sosa says he and McGwire belong in Hall

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updated 2:30 a.m. ET Jan. 24, 2013

CHICAGO (AP) - Sammy Sosa thinks he and fellow steroid-tainted star Mark McGwire belong in the Hall of Fame.

Slammin' Sammy also said the Chicago Cubs should retire his number, and he left open the possibility of running for president of the Dominican Republic during an interview Wednesday on the website Ustream.com.

Asked if he thinks he or McGwire belong in the Hall, Sosa said: "I think so."

"I'm not going to come here and say anything that is going to jeopardize my future," he added. "But definitely time will determine everything. Right now whatever it is, it is. I am not (somebody who) is going to go out there and say anything I don't want to say. I'm waiting for my time. ... I don't like controversy. Definitely time will determine everything."

Sosa, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were denied entry to the Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility amid suspicions their accomplishments were boosted by performance-enhancing drugs. McGwire, 10th on the career home run list, received 16.9 percent of the vote on his seventh try, far short of the 75 percent needed for election.

Sosa, who finished with 609 home runs and ranks eighth on the all-time chart, received 12.5 percent of the vote. He was among those who tested positive in Major League Baseball's 2003 anonymous survey, The New York Times reported in 2009. He told a congressional committee in 2005 that he never took illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

Meanwhile, Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said at the team's fan convention last weekend that the club might try to re-establish a relationship with Sosa, who left on bad terms following the 2004 season. The organization had different ownership and management back then.

Sosa said he was aware of Ricketts' comments.

"They know where I am," he said. "If they want to find me, they have to call me. I'm always available."

Would he run for president of the Dominican Republic?

"You never know," Sosa said.

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Braves trade for another Upton

HBT: Atlanta acquires Justin Upton and Chris Johnson for Martin Prado, Randall Delgado, shortstop prospect Nick Ahmed and starting pitcher Zeke Spruill to Arizona.

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DeMarco: Pressure on Gibson, GM after Upton deal

??With a roster reconstruction capped by the long-in-the-works departure of Justin Upton, Diamondback general manager Kevin Towers has placed the pressure squarely on himself ? and in turn, manager Kirk Gibson.

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Djokovic advances to Australian Open final

Serbia's Novak Djokovic hits a backhand return to Spain's David Ferrer during their semifinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Serbia's Novak Djokovic hits a backhand return to Spain's David Ferrer during their semifinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Serbia's Novak Djokovic reacts during his semifinal match against Spain's David Ferrer at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill)

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ? Two-time defending champion Novak Djokovic advanced to his third consecutive Australian Open final with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 win over No. 4-seeded David Ferrer on Thursday night.

The top-ranked Djokovic was in dominating form, hitting 30 crisp winners in the 1-hour, 29-minute match. He is aiming to be the first man in the Open era to win three consecutive Australian titles.

On Sunday, he'll meet the winner of Friday's semifinal between No. 2-ranked Roger Federer, a four-time Australian champion, and U.S. Open winner Andy Murray, who is ranked No. 3.

Djokovic, who is now unbeaten in five Grand Slam head-to-heads with Ferrer, allowed his opponent only four points in the first four games of the last set to strangle any chance of a comeback.

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Just add water: How scientists are using silicon to produce hydrogen on demand

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Super-small particles of silicon react with water to produce hydrogen almost instantaneously, according to University at Buffalo researchers.

In a series of experiments, the scientists created spherical silicon particles about 10 nanometers in diameter. When combined with water, these particles reacted to form silicic acid (a nontoxic byproduct) and hydrogen ? a potential source of energy for fuel cells.

The reaction didn't require any light, heat or electricity, and also created hydrogen about 150 times faster than similar reactions using silicon particles 100 nanometers wide, and 1,000 times faster than bulk silicon, according to the study.

The findings appeared online in Nano Letters on Jan. 14. The scientists were able to verify that the hydrogen they made was relatively pure by testing it successfully in a small fuel cell that powered a fan.

"When it comes to splitting water to produce hydrogen, nanosized silicon may be better than more obvious choices that people have studied for a while, such as aluminum," said researcher Mark T. Swihart, UB professor of chemical and biological engineering and director of the university's Strategic Strength in Integrated Nanostructured Systems.

"With further development, this technology could form the basis of a 'just add water' approach to generating hydrogen on demand," said researcher Paras Prasad, executive director of UB's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics (ILPB) and a SUNY Distinguished Professor in UB's Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Medicine. "The most practical application would be for portable energy sources."

Swihart and Prasad led the study, which was completed by UB scientists, some of whom have affiliations with Nanjing University in China or Korea University in South Korea. Folarin Erogbogbo, a research assistant professor in UB's ILPB and a UB PhD graduate, was first author.

The speed at which the 10-nanometer particles reacted with water surprised the researchers. In under a minute, these particles yielded more hydrogen than the 100-nanometer particles yielded in about 45 minutes. The maximum reaction rate for the 10-nanometer particles was about 150 times as fast.

Swihart said the discrepancy is due to geometry. As they react, the larger particles form nonspherical structures whose surfaces react with water less readily and less uniformly than the surfaces of the smaller, spherical particles, he said.

Though it takes significant energy and resources to produce the super-small silicon balls, the particles could help power portable devices in situations where water is available and portability is more important than low cost. Military operations and camping trips are two examples of such scenarios.

"It was previously unknown that we could generate hydrogen this rapidly from silicon, one of Earth's most abundant elements," Erogbogbo said. "Safe storage of hydrogen has been a difficult problem even though hydrogen is an excellent candidate for alternative energy, and one of the practical applications of our work would be supplying hydrogen for fuel cell power. It could be military vehicles or other portable applications that are near water."

"Perhaps instead of taking a gasoline or diesel generator and fuel tanks or large battery packs with me to the campsite (civilian or military) where water is available, I take a hydrogen fuel cell (much smaller and lighter than the generator) and some plastic cartridges of silicon nanopowder mixed with an activator," Swihart said, envisioning future applications. "Then I can power my satellite radio and telephone, GPS, laptop, lighting, etc. If I time things right, I might even be able to use excess heat generated from the reaction to warm up some water and make tea."

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Chennai: Indias Second Largest Shipping Hub

Chennai is a pretty old city, almost 370 years old and is also the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu which lies in the southern part of the country. This metropolitan city is the sixth most populous city of the country and its population stands close to 7.5 million. Chennai is well known as one of the important gateways to the southern part of the country. The art and culture scene of Chennai is rich. The place is also turning into one of the leading medical tourism destinations in the whole country. Also, this city is one of the fastest growing cities in the entire world. But Chennai obviously is not very concerned about its cleanliness. In the context of cleanliness, it ranks 13th in the world. Chennai also has the longest beach fronts in the world. The city is also a coastal city and that is why it remains hot and humid for most part of the year. The weather of Chennai is such that even in winters if you try wearing winter garments you will certainly sweat profusely. Basically its a very tropical kind of weather. The local language of the region is Tamil and it is important that a person staying in Chennai learns the language because auto rickshaw drivers are not very cooperative unless you know the local language. The Tamil language is a rather difficult language and is also a very ancient one. The period of the year from December to March are probably the best time to visit this part of the country since the city is extremely hot at other times of the year.

The international airport of Chennai is known as Chennai International Airport and it has two terminals- one for domestic flights and one for international flights. This airport is the third busiest airport in the whole country. The two airport terminals are located a distance of 150 kilometers from each other.

Also, Chennai is known as a very important shipping center of India. In fact, the city takes care of a huge percentage of its cargo traffic. Another important fact about Chennai is that it is a leading name in the IT market of India and houses many multinational companies in the region. Swimming in Chennais beaches is not allowed because of the strong undercurrents of the water although Chennai does have many beaches. Taking a peaceful walk along the beautiful beaches of Goa will surely relax your soul. Marina Beach is a very famous beach in this Tamil Nadu city. It is in fact the second longest city beach in the world. There are many trains and buses that connect Chennai properly with its neighbouring regions.

Book budget hotels in Chennai at cheap rate. Compare Chennai budget hotels and avail the best deal on budget hotels in Chennai.

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Girls soccer: Pascagoula shuts out Brookhaven 8-0 | gulflive.com

PASCAGOULA --?The dominant run by the Pascagoula girls soccer team continued on Tuesday night, as the Panthers drilled Brookhaven 8-0 in a Class 5A first-round playoff game at War Memorial Stadium.

The victory was the fifth straight by Pascagoula and 11^th in 12 games by shutout. Kimberly Armstrong, Morgan Blalock and Natalie Lechner all scored three goals for the Panthers, who host West Jones on Saturday.

"We've been working on a lot of things, mainly defense, and the first thing I'm proud of is them not scoring a goal," first-year Pascagoula coach Travis Dickey said. "That's been an emphasis all year long. Once we did that, we had to fix scoring, and we did a really good job of that tonight."

Armstrong and Blalock both scored early to give Pascagoula (17-3) a 2-0 lead at the half. The twosome also scored early in the second half as the Panthers took control, and Lechner scored twice in a three-minute span to give Pascagoula a 6-0 lead.

The Panthers' last two goals came from Kayla Stennis and Courtney Lechner in the final 10 minutes. Armstrong now has 16 goals this season.

"I can't complain about the result," Dickey said. "We've got a tough game coming up on Saturday. But I think we're prepared for it at this point."

West Jones beat Bay 4-0 on Tuesday. The Mustangs eliminated Pascagoula in the first round of last year's playoffs.

Brookhaven ends its season at 8-8-1.

Source: http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-sports/2013/01/girls_soccer_pascagoula_shuts.html

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From dark hearts comes the kindness of humankind

Jan. 22, 2013 ? The kind?ness of humankind most likely devel?oped from our more sin?is?ter and self-serving ten?den?cies, accord?ing to Prince?ton Uni?ver?sity and Uni?ver?sity of Ari?zona research that sug?gests society's rules against self?ish?ness are rooted in the very exploita?tion they condemn.

The report in the jour?nal Evo?lu?tion pro?poses that altru?ism -- society's pro?tec?tion of resources and the col?lec?tive good by pun?ish?ing "cheaters" -- did not develop as a reac?tion to avarice. Instead, com?mu?nal dis?avowal of greed orig?i?nated when com?pet?ing self?ish indi?vid?u?als sought to con?trol and can?cel out one another. Over time, the direct efforts of the dom?i?nant fat cats to con?tain a few com?peti?tors evolved into a community-wide desire to guard its own well-being.

The study authors pro?pose that a sys?tem of greed dom?i?nat?ing greed was sim?ply eas?ier for our human ances?tors to man?age. In this way, the work chal?lenges dom?i?nant the?o?ries that self?ish and altru?is?tic social arrange?ments formed inde?pen?dently -- instead the two struc?tures stand as evo?lu?tion?ary phases of group inter?ac?tion, the researchers write.

Sec?ond author Andrew Gallup, a for?mer Prince?ton post?doc?toral researcher in ecol?ogy and evo?lu?tion?ary biol?ogy now a vis?it?ing assis?tant pro?fes?sor of psy?chol?ogy at Bard Col?lege, worked with first author Omar Eldakar, a for?mer Ari?zona post?doc?toral fel?low now a vis?it?ing assis?tant pro?fes?sor of biol?ogy at Ober?lin Col?lege, and William Driscoll, an ecol?ogy and evo?lu?tion?ary biol?ogy doc?toral stu?dent at Arizona.

To test their hypoth?e?sis, the researchers con?structed a sim?u?la?tion model that gauged how a com?mu?nity with?stands a sys?tem built on altru?is?tic pun?ish?ment, or selfish-on-selfish pun?ish?ment. The authors found that altru?ism demands a lot of ini?tial expen?di?ture for the group -- in terms of com?mu?nal time, resources and risk of reprisal from the pun?ished -- as well as advanced lev?els of cog?ni?tion and cooperation.

On the other hand, a con?struct in which a few prof?li?gate play?ers keep like-minded indi?vid?u?als in check involves only those mem?bers of the com?mu?nity -- every?one else can pas?sively enjoy the ben?e?fits of fewer peo?ple tak?ing more than their share. At the same time, the reign?ing indi?vid?u?als enjoy uncon?tested spoils and, in some cases, reverence.

Social orders main?tained by those who bend the rules play out in nature and human his?tory, the authors note: Tree wasps that police hives to make sure that no mem?ber other than the queen lays eggs will often lay illicit eggs them?selves. Can?cer cells will pre?vent other tumors from form?ing. Medieval knights would pil?lage the same civil?ians they read?ily defended from invaders, while neigh?bor?hoods ruled by the Ital?ian Mafia tra?di?tion?ally had the low?est lev?els of crime.

What comes from these arrange?ments, the researchers con?clude, is a sense of order and equal?ity that the group even?tu?ally takes upon itself to enforce, thus giv?ing rise to altruism.

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Too Much To Do Today? Here's How To Handle ... - Sales Training

Are you feeling overwhelmed with the amount of sales calls to make, prospecting to do, admin to catch up on, proposals to complete? Join? the club! There are many people out there who are in despair, not knowing what to do first, second or last.

Firstly, know it?s fine to have too much on your plate ? as the saying goes, it happens! Think about it for a moment. Would you prefer to be sitting there with nothing to do? (Don?t answer that!) What you need to have is a process of dealing with the overwhelm. It?s not going to go away?having a focused plan of action to deal with it is the only way you will progress.

So what can you do when there?s simply too much to do and you don?t know where to start? Here are some suggestions:

1.?Write a list. This may seem obvious, but the fact is that many things overwhelm us because they are in our minds, not on paper or on the screen. Write down or type up everything you need to do. If you work better with a pen in your hand, use a list on paper. If your outlook task manager helps you more, use that. This is critical, because a big part of overwhelm is the mental energy of constantly thinking of all the things you need to do. Once you?ve written it all down, it will release the need to remember, and the fear of forgetting, and a lot of the stress of dealing with things will melt away.

2. Analyse combinations. Are there any tasks that can be done simultaneously or more efficiently if they are grouped together? Maybe you can write all your emails and make all your phone calls at the same time. What about filing and mail? Make the first group by putting the number 1 next to each item that can be grouped together.

Then make the next group and put a number 2 next to each item in that group. Keep repeating until the entire grouping is down. Now put a number next to each remaining items. This will tell you how many real actions you need to take. This often gives you even more relief since there is less to do then when you first wrote everything down.

3. Recognise things that will make you money. Put the emphasis on ?money-gaining? items, things that will bring in profits for your business over the next month, quarter or campaign.

4. Emphasise things that are urgent. Some things will need to be done today, tomorrow or this week. Spend time on those things.

5. Prioritise based on results you will get. Some of those items may seem to be urgent, but most of them will be important too. De-emphasise the urgency if you can and work on the important.

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Remember, overwhelm is really a state of mind. When you plan the order and significance of what you need to do and write it all down, you?ll find any overwhelm will start to dissipate and you?ll be more in control of what needs to be done.

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