Juventus and Italy attacker Sebastian Giovinco signs four-year deal with Toronto FC, according to reports in Canada (ESPN)

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MLS Update January 17, 2015 at 01:15PM

Real Salt Lake bolster defensive depth with signing of Homegrown player Phanuel Kavita

After an uncharacteristically busy off-season, Real Salt Lake are finding defensive depth from within, announcing on Saturday the signing of defender Phanuel Kavita as a Homegrown player.

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El líder PSV no afloja el paso en Holanda

AMSTERDAM (AP) Un gol de Adam Maher a los 10 minutos fue suficiente para que el PSV Eindhoven se llevarse el sabado una victoria 1-0 de su visita al Vitesse Arnhem, resultado que le permitio sacar una ventaja de cuatro puntos al frente de la liga holandesa de futbol.



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Panathinaikos draws 1-1 at Panionios

ATHENS, Greece (AP) Panathinaikos goalkeeper Luke Steele saved a penalty in the 87th minute, preserving a 1-1 away draw at Panionios in the Greek league on Saturday.



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Porto wins 3-1 at Penafiel to close on Benfica in Portugal

LISBON, Portugal (AP) FC Porto won 3-1 at Penafiel to cut Benfica's overnight lead of the Portuguese league to three points on Saturday.



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Early Maher goal gives PSV 1-0 win as Dutch league resumes

AMSTERDAM (AP) Adam Maher's 10th-minute goal gave PSV Eindhoven a hard-fought 1-0 victory at Vitesse Arnhem that restored their four-point lead at the top of the Eredivisie on Saturday in the first round after the winter break.



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MLS Update January 17, 2015 at 11:07AM

New York Red Bulls supporters have their say in contentious Q&A with front office

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MLS Update January 17, 2015 at 10:34AM

New York Red Bulls ink first round pick, MAC Hermann-wining midfielder Leo Stolz

The New York Red Bulls officially got themselves a steal.

The club announced on Saturday that they'd inked UCLA midfielder Leo Stolz, who was taken with the No. 18 pick in Thursday's SuperDraft, to a contract. As per team and league policy, details of the contract were not disclosed.

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MLS Update January 17, 2015 at 10:22AM

Target acquired: FC Dallas braintrust say left back Otis Earle was their man all along

FRISCO, Texas – With the 15th pick in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft, FC Dallas made a move designed to shore up their left fullback position by grabbing Otis Earle, a senior for the University of California-Riverside.

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Is 'leap second' this year's Y2K?

Leap seconds make Web software go haywire. Another scheduled for June threatens the Internet once again.



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MLS Update January 17, 2015 at 10:22AM

Target acquired: FC Dallas braintrust say left back Otis Earle was their man all along

FRISCO, Texas – With the 15th pick in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft, FC Dallas made a move designed to shore up their left fullback position by grabbing Otis Earle, a senior for the University of California-Riverside.

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MLS Update January 17, 2015 at 10:08AM

American Exports: Nosedive continues for Brad Guzan's Aston Villa with latest home loss

AMSTERDAM – Brad Guzan's Aston Villa were done in by a flurry of missed chances on Saturday afternoon, as their Premier League win drought reached seven games with a 2-0 home loss to Liverpool.

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Eq. Guinea, Rep. of Congo draw 1-1 in African Cup opener

BATA, Equatorial Guinea (AP) Republic of Congo snatched a late 1-1 draw against host Equatorial Guinea in the opening game of the African Cup of Nations on Saturday, muting a packed stadium of lively red-shirted home fans who thought they were on their way to a surprise win.



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MLS Update January 17, 2015 at 09:36AM

For DC United duo Perry Kitchen and Steve Birnbaum, USMNT call-ups just the first step

When D.C. United gather for pre-season workouts in just a few days, they’ll be without a pair of their key contributors from 2014: Perry Kitchen and Steven Birnbaum.

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MLS Update January 17, 2015 at 08:51AM

Asian Cup: Tim Cahill, Australia finally slowed down in 1-0 loss to South Korea

An Australian team comprised largely of second-stringers saw their canter though the group stage of the Asian Cup halt thanks to a 1-0 loss to South Korea in Brisbane on Friday night.

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Charlie Hebdo printing 7 million copies

Publisher boosts print run of 'survivors issue' as long lines form in Germany.



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MLS Update January 17, 2015 at 08:14AM

American Exports: Seems like old times? Herculez Gomez back on the scoresheet for Puebla

Former US international striker Herculez Gomez scored on Friday on his return to Puebla, the club with which he won the Liga MX goal-scoring title in 2010, but it wasn’t enough as La Franja fell 3-1 away in a key relegation match-up against Veracruz.

Number 9 Gomez came off the bench at halftime and was on hand at the back post to nod in 12 minutes from the end, after a long throw from Michael Orozco from the right was headed into his path by Cuauhtémoc Blanco.

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Chelsea routs Swansea 5-0, Man United beats QPR 2-0 in EPL

LONDON (AP) Chelsea routed Swansea 5-0 for the leader's biggest win of the Premier League season on Saturday, while Manchester United produced only its third away success of the campaign at Queens Park Rangers.



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MLS Update January 16, 2015 at 03:52PM

Denouement for an American Export: Evaluating each of Jozy Altidore's European stops

AMSTERDAM – Hindsight being 20/20 and all, it's time to understand the road Toronto FC capture Jozy Altidore traveled back to MLS from Europe at the age of 25.

Words like "flop" and "failure" get thrown around easily when discussing Altidore's various European tenures in England, Spain and Turkey, while his time in the Netherlands was certainly the highlight.

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MLS Update January 17, 2015 at 07:22AM

New Columbus Crew SC signing Kristinn Steindorsson begins stateside stint with goal in Iceland debut

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Iceland managed to hold off Canada for a 2-1 victory on Friday night in a friendly, but the biggest winner of the evening might be Columbus Crew SC.

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Manucho gives Rayo 1-0 win at Sociedad in Spain

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) Manucho scored a late header to give Rayo Vallecano a 1-0 win at Real Sociedad in the Spanish league on Saturday.



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Liverpool beats Aston Villa 2-0 in Premier League

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) Fabio Borini and Rickie Lambert scored to give Liverpool a 2-0 victory at Aston Villa on Saturday that kept the team in touch with the European places in the Premier League.



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Home-grown coaches meet to open Group B at African Cup

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AP) The first Group B match at the African Cup of Nations will be the only game of the opening round with two home-grown coaches.



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Saudi Prince: Oil will never return to $100

Don't bank on oil rebounding to triple-digit prices. Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed thinks it's a new market now.



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McDonald's new ad: Brilliant or tasteless?

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IRS warns of tax refund delays

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AC Milan signs midfielder Suso from Liverpool

MILAN (AP) AC Milan has completed the signing of Suso from Liverpool, with the 21-year-old Spanish midfielder agreeing a deal until 2019.



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Congress is getting richer

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Where is Charlie Hebdo? In pursuit of a copy

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Book Release: The Beekeeper's Son by Irvin, Kelly.

-- Deborah can’t get out of Bee County, Texas, soon enough. Once her mother and younger siblings are settled, she is on the first bus out of this dusty town. She is only waiting on the letter from Aaron, asking her to return to lush Tennessee to be his -- Gott’s plans for them are more extraordinary than they could have dreamed. But they need to let go of their own past sorrows and disappointments to find the joy and beauty that lies just ahead for them both.



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Yaya Toure sits out practice with Ivory Coast

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AP) Yaya Toure sat out practice Saturday, three days before the Ivory Coast plays its opening match at the African Cup of Nations.



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South Korea edges Australia 1-0 to top Group A at Asian Cup

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) Lee Jeong-hyeop's first-half goal gave South Korea a 1-0 win over host Australia on Saturday and top spot in Group A heading into the Asian Cup quarterfinals.



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Second UK man Arrested Following PlayStation and Xbox DDoS attacks

A UK man linked to the notorious hacking group, Lizard Squad, that claimed responsibility for knocking Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live offline on Christmas Day has been arrested by the United Kingdom police. Lizard Squad launched simultaneous Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks against the largest online gaming networks, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, on

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African Cup of Nations winner to get $1.5 million

BATA, Equatorial Guinea (AP) The winner of the African Cup of Nations will get $1.5 million, the losing finalist will make $1 million and every one of the 16 teams participating at the tournament will receive at least $400,000.



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Dutch football association investigates alleged match-fixing

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) The Dutch football association says it is opening an investigation and calling for a criminal probe into the alleged fixing of two matches in the top-tier Eredivisie.



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Five-Year Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2014

NASA Finds 2014 Was Warmest Year in Modern Record The year 2014 ranks as Earth's warmest since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists. The 10 warmest years in the instrumental record, with the exception of 1998, have now occurred since 2000. This trend continues a long-term warming of the planet, according to an analysis of surface temperature measurements by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York. In an independent analysis of the raw data, NOAA scientists also found 2014 to be the warmest on record. For understanding climate change, the long-term trend of rising temperatures across the planet is more important than any year's individual ranking. These rankings can be sensitive to analysis methods and sampling. While 2014 ranks as the warmest year in NASA's global temperature record, it is statistically close to the values from 2010 and 2005, the next warmest years. Since 1880, the average surface temperature of Earth has warmed by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degrees Celsius), a trend that is largely driven by the increase in carbon dioxide and other human emissions into the planet's atmosphere. The majority of that warming has occurred in the past three decades. Regional differences in temperature in any year are more strongly affected by weather dynamics than the global mean. For example, in the U.S. in 2014, parts of the Midwest and East Coast were anomalously cool, while Alaska and three western U.S. states - California, Arizona and Nevada - recorded their warmest years on record, according to NOAA, which assesses official U.S. temperature records. The GISTEMP analysis website is located at: http://ift.tt/uAzy6c



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2014 Global Temperature Anomalies: United States to Global view

The year 2014 ranks as Earth's warmest since 1880, according to an analysis by NASA scientists. The 10 warmest years in the instrumental record, with the exception of 1998, have now occurred since 2000. This trend continues a long-term warming of the planet, according to an analysis of surface temperature measurements by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York. In an independent analysis of the raw data, NOAA scientists also found 2014 to be the warmest on record. For understanding climate change, the long-term trend of rising temperatures across the planet is more important than any year's individual ranking. These rankings can be sensitive to analysis methods and sampling. While 2014 ranks as the warmest year in NASA's global temperature record, it is statistically close to the values from 2010 and 2005, the next warmest years. Since 1880, the average surface temperature of Earth has warmed by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degrees Celsius), a trend that is largely driven by the increase in carbon dioxide and other human emissions into the planet's atmosphere. The majority of that warming has occurred in the past three decades. Regional differences in temperature in any year are more strongly affected by weather dynamics than the global mean. For example, in the U.S. in 2014, parts of the Midwest and East Coast were anomalously cool, while Alaska and three western U.S. states - California, Arizona and Nevada - recorded their warmest years on record, according to NOAA, which assesses official U.S. temperature records. The GISTEMP analysis website is located at: http://ift.tt/uAzy6c



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Global Temperature Anomalies from November 2014

Residents of the eastern United States know that the temperature was colder then the average temperature in November 2014. This data visualization of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Global temperature anomalies for January of 2014 show the United States and then zooms out to show the global picture. Temperature anomalies indicate how much warmer or colder it is than normal for a particular place and time. For more information on the GISTEMP, see the GISTEMP analysis website located at: http://ift.tt/uAzy6c



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Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan to decide Group B quarters spot

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia will decide which team joins China as the Group B quarterfinalist at the Asian Cup on Sunday. China, which has already sealed top spot in the group, will look to win its third straight match to open the tournament, for the first time.



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Huygens Lands on Titan

Delivered by Saturn-bound Cassini, ESA's Huygens probe touched down on the ringed planet's largest moon Titan, ten years ago on January 14, 2005. These panels show fisheye images made during its slow descent by parachute through Titan's dense atmosphere. Taken by the probe's descent imager/spectral radiometer instrument they range in altitude from 6 kilometers (upper left) to 0.2 kilometers (lower right) above the moon's surprisingly Earth-like surface of dark channels, floodplains, and bright ridges. But at temperatures near -290 degrees F (-180 degrees C), the liquids flowing across Titan's surface are methane and ethane, hydrocarbons rather than water. After making the most distant landing for a spacecraft from Earth, Huygens transmitted data for more than an hour. The Huygens data and a decade of exploration by Cassini have shown Titan to be a tantalizing world hosting a complex chemistry of organic compounds, dynamic landforms, lakes, seas, and a possible subsurface ocean of liquid water. via NASA http://ift.tt/153E6mJ

MLS Update January 16, 2015 at 03:48PM

With goal vs. Iceland, Canada's Dwayne De Rosario hoping to show MLS he's still got it

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Canada sent out a largely inexperienced side in their 2-1 loss to Iceland in an international friendly Friday at the University of Central Florida.

In the end though, it was 36-year-old Dwayne De Rosario who had the biggest impact.

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MLS Update January 16, 2015 at 03:31PM

Despite missing players, Canada's Benito Floro looks on bright side after loss to Iceland: "We played well"

ORLANDO, Fla. – It wasn't the start to 2015 the Canadian national team had hoped for, but head coach Benito Floro was still able to find some positives in their 2-1 international friendly loss Friday to Iceland at the University of Central Florida.

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Book Release: Mathematics without apologies : portrait of a problematic vocation. by Harris, Michael.

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MLS Update January 16, 2015 at 04:00AM

Toronto FC acquire US international Jozy Altidore via Allocation, send Jermain Defoe to Sunderland

Jozy Altidore has officially returned to Major League Soccer.

The US men’s national team striker completed his transfer to Toronto FC from English Premier League club Sunderland on Friday, with the Reds signing the 25-year-old Altidore to a Designated Player contract after acquiring him via the MLS allocation ranking. Per club and league policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Investors dump Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs, the so-called Vampire Squid of Wall Street, reported results that topped forecasts. But the stock still fell as investors have soured on big Wall Street banks.



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Falling oil's next victim: banks

Cheap credit helped fuel the shale boom. Now some banks are likely to be hurt by the plunge in oil prices.



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Wet Seal sinks into Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Unable to keep up with the world of 'fast fashion,' Wet Seal plans to reorganize itself in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.



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Asian Cup: Japan leads Group D, Jordan in contention

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) Keisuke Honda agreed he needed to adjust his radar despite guiding Japan to the top of Group D with a match-winning penalty against Iraq on Friday, putting the defending champions into a prime position to secure a spot in the knockout stages of the Asian Cup.



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Book Release: Even the score by Payton, Belle.

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Book Release: The locker ate Lucy! by Chabert, Jack, author.

Only a week into his job as hall monitor and class protector, Sam Graves and his friends Lucy and Antonio are trying to uncover the secrets of Eerie Elementary, their living and malevolent school--and then Lucy gets eaten by her locker.



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Book Release: Kay's story, 1934 by Whitby, Adele.

The Great Depression is raging across America and even the Vandermeers have fallen on hard times. In an attempt to stay afloat, Kay and her parents have started living in the guest cottage and getting Vandermeer Manor ready for renters. Money starts coming in when a mysterious man purchases some family heirlooms, but questions are raised when it comes to light that the wealthy benefactor has knowingly paid more money for the heirlooms than they are actually worth. Who is he, why does he want to



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Book Release: If I fall, if I die by Christie, Michael.

Will has never been outside, at least not since he can remember. And he has certainly never gotten to know anyone other than his mother, a fiercely loving yet wildly eccentric agoraphobe who drowns in panic at the thought of opening the front door. Their world is rich and loving, full of art, experiments, and music--but confined to their small house.



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Book Release: The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Jääskeläinen, Pasi Ilmari.

"Only nine people have ever been chosen by renowned children's author Laura White to join "The Rabbit Back Literature Society," an elite group of writers in the small town of Rabbit Back. Now a tenth member has been selected: Ella, a young literature teacher. Soon Ella discovers that the Society is not what it seems. What is its mysterious ritual known as "The Game"? What explains the strange disappearance that occurs at Laura White's winter party? Why are the words inside books starting to rear



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Pellegrini: Samir Nasri (calf) will miss Manchester City-Arsenal, could be out 3-4 weeks (ESPN)

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Microsoft Ends Windows 7 Mainstream Support

On January 13, 2015, Microsoft's mainstream support for Windows 7 Service Pack (SP) 1 ended, which means the end of free Windows 7's "mainstream support" period, with the operating system now entering "extended support." Many people are still running the aging Windows XP as well as Windows 7. Microsoft already ended its support for Windows XP officially about a year ago on April 8, 2014,

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Swap transfer official: Sunderland signs 3 1/2 yr deal with Jermain Defoe; Toronto signs Jozy Altidore as DP (ESPN)

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Book Release: Mobile library by Whitehouse, David

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Book Release: The train to Crystal City : FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II by Russell, Jan Jarboe, 1951-

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Book Release: Natural beauty by Curtis, Susan.

An organic beauty and natural remedy resource covers everything from home remedies to natural skin care to essential oils, including recipes for such homemade skin care products as face masks and creams, deodorants, and lip balms.



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Book Release: Death of Wolverine by Soule, Charles.

All roads must end somewhere, and every hero's story eventually comes to a close. For Logan, the century-old mutant known as Wolverine, that time is now.



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NBC's 'Today' gets a new boss

Striving to get past an bruising period for one of its most important brands, NBC News has picked a new leader for the "Today" show: a former senior producer of the show, Noah Oppenheim.



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Amazon using Luxembourg as tax shelter?

Luxemburg might be giving Amazon an unfair advantage by helping the company slash their tax bill, the European Commission said.



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Leonardo seeking compensation from French federation

PARIS (AP) Former Paris Saint-Germain sporting director Leonardo is seeking more than 8.5 million euros ($9.9 million) in compensation from the French football federation following his 14-month suspension.



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Opinion: EU must end austerity

Europe must embrace an alternative economic strategy or face many more lost years, argues Podemos, a new Spanish opposition party that is leading opinion polls before elections later this year.



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Hamburg's Lewis Holtby breaks collarbone, out for 10 weeks

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) Hamburger SV says midfielder Lewis Holtby has broken his collarbone and will be out of action for about 10 weeks.



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Ginola launches FIFA bid backed by bookmaker

LONDON (AP) Former France international David Ginola launched his improbable bid to unseat FIFA President Sepp Blatter with the backing of a stunt-prone bookmaker.



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Meet the vigilante who hacks jihadists

Jester, hacker, soldier, spy. This is what an online vigilante looks like.



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States where taxes hit the poor hardest

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Salzburg striker Alan moves to Guangzhou in China

SALZBURG, Austria (AP) FC Salzburg says striker Alan is leaving the Austrian champions to join Chinese Super League club Guangzhou Evergrande.



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Asian Cup: Japan edges Iraq 1-0 to take lead in Group D

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) Keisuke Honda converted a penalty and hit the woodwork three times as defending champion Japan edged Iraq 1-0 Friday to take the Group D lead and move a step closer to qualifying for the Asian Cup quarterfinals.



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Swiss companies and currency brokers bleed

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Barra: Xiaomi's new phone will silence critics

Hugo Barra has an answer for critics who dismiss Xiaomi as an Apple copycat: the Mi Note.



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Stocks: 4 things to know before the open

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Book Release: What's Your Story? by Frink, Molly

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Arsene Wenger has confirmed that a fee has been agreed for Legia Warsaw midfielder Krystian Bielik. (ESPN)

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Asian Cup: Jordan downs Palestine 5-1 in Group D

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Hamza Aldaradreh scored four goals and set up another as Jordan kept its Asian Cup hopes alive with a 5-1 win over Palestine on Friday.



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Huffington Post on Twitter: "These anonymous gossip sites breed death threats and racist ...

Huffington PostVerified account @HuffingtonPost 7m7 minutes ago. These anonymous gossip sites breed death threats and racist messages.



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Australia, S Korea play for top spot in Group C of Asian Cup

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Australian and South Korea will fight it out for top spot their group, while already-eliminated Kuwait and Oman will be playing for pride alone when Group A of the Asian Cup wraps up Saturday.



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Venezuela lacks more than McDonald's fries

The country is on the verge of default and is begging China and OPEC for help.



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China growth to miss government target

China is poised to report full-year growth that falls short of the government's official target.



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Venus and Mercury at Sunset

Inner planets Venus and Mercury can never wander far from the Sun in Earth's sky. This week you've probably seen them both gathered near the western horizon just after sunset, a close conjunction of bright celestial beacons in the fading twilight. The pair are framed in this early evening skyview captured on January 13 from the ruins of Szarvasko Castle in northwestern Hungary. Above the silhouette of the landscape's prominent volcanic hill Venus is much the brighter, separated from Mercury by little more than the width of two Full Moons. On Friday, planet Earth's early morning risers will also be treated to a close conjunction, when Saturn meets an old crescent Moon near the southeastern horizon at dawn. via NASA http://ift.tt/1zfINqd

MLS Update January 15, 2015 at 04:13PM

New England Revolution forward Diego Fagundez cap-tied to Uruguay after featuring in South American U-20 Championship

Diego Fagundez is well on his way towards an international career, but it won't be with the United States.

The New England Revolution forward started for Uruguay in the South American Under-20 Championship in a dramatic 1-0 win over Colombia on Thursday night, permanently cap-tying the Boston-raised attacker to the country of his birth.

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MLS Update January 15, 2015 at 03:48PM

Canada enters 2018 World Cup qualifying in June against British Virgin Islands or Dominica

The first two rounds of preliminary qualifying for 2018 World Cup in CONCACAF were drawn on Thursday in Miami, and Canada has booked a ticket to the Caribbean to begin their qualifying journey.

Canada will play the winner of the first round match-up between the British Virgin Islands and Dominica when they enter qualifying in round two. Canada was seeded No. 9, while Dominica was seeded No. 25 and the British Virgin Islands were ranked at No. 34. The seedings are based on FIFA rankings from August 2014.

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Holographic Graph Neuron: a Bio-Inspired Architecture for Pattern Processing. (arXiv:1501.03784v1 [cs.AI])

This article proposes the use of Vector Symbolic Architectures for implementing Hierarchical Graph Neuron, an architecture for memorizing patterns of generic sensor stimuli. The adoption of a Vector Symbolic representation ensures a one-layered design for the approach, while maintaining the previously reported properties and performance characteristics of Hierarchical Graph Neuron, and also improving the noise resistance of the architecture. The proposed architecture enables a linear (with respect to the number of stored entries) time search for an arbitrary sub-pattern.

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Classifying sequences by the optimized dissimilarity space embedding approach: a case study on the solubility analysis of the E. coli proteome. (arXiv:1408.3873v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)

We evaluate a version of the recently-proposed classification system named Optimized Dissimilarity Space Embedding (ODSE) that operates in the input space of sequences of generic objects. The ODSE system has been originally presented as a classification system for patterns represented as labeled graphs. However, since ODSE is founded on the dissimilarity space representation of the input data, the classifier can be easily adapted to any input domain where it is possible to define a meaningful dissimilarity measure. Here we demonstrate the effectiveness of the ODSE classifier for sequences by considering an application dealing with the recognition of the solubility degree of the Escherichia coli proteome. Solubility, or analogously aggregation propensity, is an important property of protein molecules, which is intimately related to the mechanisms underlying the chemico-physical process of folding. Each protein of our dataset is initially associated with a solubility degree and it is represented as a sequence of symbols, denoting the 20 amino acid residues. The herein obtained computational results, which we stress that have been achieved with no context-dependent tuning of the ODSE system, confirm the validity and generality of the ODSE-based approach for structured data classification.

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Computational Protein Design Using AND/OR Branch-and-Bound Search. (arXiv:1412.3138v2 [cs.AI] UPDATED)

The computation of the global minimum energy conformation (GMEC) is an important and challenging topic in structure-based computational protein design. In this paper, we propose a new protein design algorithm based on the AND/OR branch-and-bound (AOBB) search, which is a variant of the traditional branch-and-bound search algorithm, to solve this combinatorial optimization problem. By integrating with a powerful heuristic function, AOBB is able to fully exploit the graph structure of the underlying residue interaction network of a backbone template to significantly accelerate the design process. Tests on real protein data show that our new protein design algorithm is able to solve many prob- lems that were previously unsolvable by the traditional exact search algorithms, and for the problems that can be solved with traditional provable algorithms, our new method can provide a large speedup by several orders of magnitude while still guaranteeing to find the global minimum energy conformation (GMEC) solution.

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U.S. airlines eager to fly to Cuba

JetBlue, Delta and United say they plan to start making flights from the U.S. to Cuba.



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African Cup: Welcoming the soccer, watching out for Ebola

MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AP) A gun-like sensor is put against the head of each person as soon as they get off a plane in Equatorial Guinea, the host country for the African Cup of Nations. When the sensor beeps, the man holding it nods and the passenger is ordered to move along.



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MLS Update January 15, 2015 at 02:52PM

Despite last-minute loss, CanMNT U-20 boss Rob Gale vows to "make sure we get it right" in final two games

It was always going to be tough for Canada to reach the FIFA Under-20 World Cup – and things just got a whole lot tougher.



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MLS Update January 15, 2015 at 02:46PM

MLS SuperDraft: Real Salt Lake trade down for cash and still get player they targeted in Boyd Okwuonu

Real Salt Lake traded down in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft on Thursday and still got the player they wanted – along with allocation money.

About to pick Boyd Okwuonu, a 5-foot-8, 175-pound defender from the University of North Carolina, with the 16th pick, RSL's management was approached by Seattle Sounders general manager Garth Lagerwey – who was, until the end of 2014, RSL's longtime GM.

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MLS Update January 15, 2015 at 02:46PM

MLS Commissioner Don Garber gives update on potential expansion cities, including St. Louis

PHILADELPHIA — The list of cities interested in an MLS expansion team is getting bigger, according to MLS Commissioner Don Garber.

The newest market to join the mix is the soccer hotbed of St. Louis, Missouri, which was last involved in an expansion bid that fell through in 2008-2009.

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Lazio's Felipe Anderson out injured for 3 weeks

ROME (AP) Lazio will be without in-form midfielder Felipe Anderson for almost a month after the Brazilian sprained his knee during training.



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Notre Dame pays record low interest rate

Notre Dame plans to spend the money upgrading its football stadium.



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