Friday, June 29, 2012

Im Sorry for Cursing - Colon / rectal cancer: And...chemo - Typepad ...

First of all, I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who sent messages with words of encouragement and promises to pray.? I needed it yesterday more than you can know.? Despite the chemo, today has been a much better day emotionally.

So, chemo.? I got my own room today, suckas!? It's kind of nice to know that people aren't watching me drool while I nod off.? It was very quiet.? Nice today.? I'll get the pump off after lunch on Friday.? Very uneventful.

My plan now is to rest and knit.? I finished up some surprises and I'm now moving on to a dress for Reese.? We shall see how that turns out.? So far, so good, I think, although I never quite know until I'm finished.

If I don't pop in for a week or so, no worries.? Our family is going to do some traveling.? :)

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Running With the Mind of Meditation ? Book Recommendation ...

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We are all familiar with the benefits of regular physical exercise. Physical activity increases our strength, flexibility, stamina, can prevent cancer and heart disease, lower blood pressure, and keep us at a healthy weight. Physical exercise is ?also a powerful way of reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression. Many of my clients have benefitted tremendously from taking up regular physical activity, including running.

In the past few decades we are also beginning to become aware of the benefits and importance of exercising the mind. Stress is related to hearth disease, cancer, obesity, and reduced quality of life. Mindfulness meditation is a powerful way to reduce anxiety and stress, and has been linked to improved immune function and increased feelings of happiness and wellbeing.

In his new book Running With the Mind of Meditation?Sakyong Mipham discusses the benefits of exercising both mind and body and the powerful benefits mindfulness and running can have on ones life. He explains that exercising mind and body are not actually two separate things, but that they enhance and complement each other. Bringing the mind of meditation to physical exercise can have a powerful transformative effect on ones life. I have witnessed this firsthand with many of my clients!

Throughout the book, Sakyong Mipham uses his personal experiences with running and meditation to illustrate four stages of development of a running meditator. He describes building a base of fitness and stamina through mindfulness, discipline, and precision. By establishing discipline the next stage is experiencing appreciation and delight, because discipline brings with it the freedom to be truly present and enjoy the moment. The next stage is fearlessness and outrageousness, going beyond hope and fear. The final stage is inscrutability and developing unshakable confidence in your own and others? inherent basic goodness. Thus, the meditating runner goes from increasing his or her own fitness, health, and wellbeing to benefitting others. The book is full of practical tips and exercises and throughout the book the reader is left with a sense that this is completely doable and attainable for anyone who is willing to devote some time and energy to this path. Personally, I am not a runner, but this book inspired me to include a daily twenty minute brisk, mindful walk into my routine. I have noticed that including this walk has already benefitted me in several ways: I experience less stress, am better able to handle adversity, and I have more energy. I highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to make positive changes in their lives and in the lives of others.

Here is a guided running meditation by Sakyong Mipham. You can listen to this on your run:

Guided Running Meditation by Sakyong Mipham

Below is an article the author wrote about his book. Enjoy!

5 Tips for Running With the Mind of Meditation by Sakyong Mipham

Sakyong Mipham is a senior lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He grew up, and was educated, in India, Scotland, the United States, and Canada, and thus has an intimate, personal understanding of both the Western and Eastern cultures and traditions. He is the leader of Shambhala, a worldwide network of meditation centers, and he is a husband and father. Sakyong Mipham is an avid runner, who has completed nine marathons. He is the author of the bestselling Turning the Mind Into an Ally, and Ruling Your World.

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Tags: Exercise, health, meditation, Mindfulness, running, Sakyong Mipham, Shambhala, wellbeing

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Canada: Westport Enters Second Agreement ... - LNG World News

Westport Innovations announced that it has entered into an additional agreement with General Motors for a second advanced technology development program. Westport and GM are now developing two different combustion, controls and emissions approaches to natural gas engines, with the first cooperative technology project being announced in June 2011.?

Both GM and Westport will continue to bring their extensive expertise to develop natural gas engine controls, emissions and performance strategies. This new program will optimize advanced natural gas technologies and applications for maximum CO2 reduction and fuel efficiency in light-duty vehicles.

?The expansion of our advanced natural gas technology collaboration with GM provides the potential for greater fuel efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions for the industry and the consumer,? said Ian Scott, President of Westport Light Duty. ?Our continued growth in light-duty is an important part of Westport?s overall commitment to innovative natural gas transportation solutions.?

Westport continues to be recognized as an advanced gaseous fuels technology partner to global automotive manufacturers. To support OEM programs that will enable personal and commercial vehicles to run on natural gas, Westport Light Duty has recently established The Michigan Technical Center in Plymouth, and has opened an assembly centre in Louisville, Kentucky.

?We have an abundant, inexpensive, and domestic resource in the United States, and there is great potential for natural gas vehicles to realize better efficiency, environmental benefits, and cost savings,? said John Lapetz, Vice President of Westport LD and Managing Director North American Vehicle Programs.

LNG World News Staff, June 27, 2012

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Retired U.S. general Wesley Clark investing in Kosovo economy ...

The Envidity Company owned by General Clark has filed its request to the government of the self-proclaimed republic for permission to extract coal from the deposits in the western part of Kosovo, the Serbian news service B-92 reported on June 26.

The firm of the U.S. general, who with his bombings of the then Kosovo Province sped up Kosovo?s breakaway from Serbia, plans to produce up to 100,000 barrels of synthetic liquid fuel from coal daily.

The Serbian news service says that Wesley Clark has always been on friendly terms with Hashim Thaci, who in the 90s of the last century headed the Albanian mafia group that was involved in the smuggling of arms, drugs and human organs in Eastern Europe.

TASS, Interfax

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Internet Marketing Tips ? How To Improve Your Chances of Success ...

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There are many ways to make money online, it?s just a matter of moving forward in the right direction. No matter what kind of internet marketing endeavor you have in mind, the following tips will help you.

Our first tip that can help you a great deal is to create as many good contacts in the industry as possible. Most of us are quite accustomed to the highly visible IM marketer, but there are very many who are just the opposite. If you want to know where you?ll have a good chance of meeting them, it is in the various web business and marketing forums on the net. Most of them are quite approachable, but just like anywhere else you have to try to find out. No matter what you?re marketing on the web, you?ll find the expert guidance to be extremely helpful. If you go to any good marketing forum, you will always see threads and posts from people who are struggling with something. If you need some proof of what we we?re saying, then go to WarriorForum.com and take a good look in the main IM forum. Who knows, in time you may be able to engage in a joint venture deal, and that happens all the time. So really there are a lot of good reasons to network and make contacts, so don?t immediately dismiss the idea. You never know, if you develop a friendship with an expert, then certain doors can open for you that otherwise never would. You be upfront and very tactfully tell them that you like what they?ve done in business and would love to get to know them better in a business sense. It?s always helpful to maybe even offer something to them that is relevant to business, etc. You really have to play this one by ear, though, and just treat them like you would want to be treated.

One of the most misunderstood Internet marketing tips is to start your own dedicated forum to help get exposure for your own product. It?s not hard nor is it hard to understand why a forum can have such a positive impact on a business. We realize it may sound like a lot of hard work to many, but what they fail to understand is that succeeding in IM is hard work ? but forums really aren?t tough to do. Forums represent targeted traffic, and if you treat your member right by helping them with valuable information, well then? they?ll treat you right, too. Therefore, we urge you to look at your business and target audience, and see if it?s something that is viable; if so, do it. Why not?

Before prospects are going to part with their money and buy something from you, they have to believe you are credible and legitimate. One of the most effective ways to do this is to demonstrate that your product has a good track record and has helped others. To do this, you can either ask previous customers for feedback or request testimonials from established people in your niche. Getting eyeballs to see your ads is important as well, by using a site like Toolbox PH (Buy and Sell Philippines) you can easily get hits from search engines and their own community!

By keeping all of these internet marketing strategies in mind, you will be able to create a successful and lasting business.

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Treasury 'refuse energy grilling'

Treasury ministers are refusing to give evidence to MPs about the Energy Bill.

The House of Commons energy committee says the Treasury should explain its influence on energy policy.

Treasury ministers have given evidence in the past, but now they say it would be improper to comment on another department's legislation.

The MPs believe this is disingenuous because the Treasury's cap on the environmental levy on energy bills will effectively determine policy.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change's Energy Bill is currently out to pre-legislative scrutiny.

The MPs' protest raises a serious question about whether energy policy can be scrutinised as the government says it intends, if the department pulling some of the policy strings refuses to be questioned.

The committee has now written to the Treasury asking for answers to key questions over the future of the levy on energy bills to fund low-carbon power. The Treasury has imposed a cap on the levy to limit the cost to households.

The MPs want to know what happens if the UK cannot meet its legally binding target of 15% renewable energy by 2020 without breaching the cap. (The UK may face heavy fines if it misses the target).

They want to know if the cap overrides government CO2 targets under the legally binding Climate Change Act, which mandates an 80% CO2 cut by 2050.

They are also keen to find out how much research has been done by the Treasury on the impact of the energy levy cap on future investments in the UK's energy infrastructure, which the government agrees are essential.

The questions are pointed: "Would you accept that the introduction of the levy cap has created a new risk and undermined certainty for developers (of low carbon energy)?

"Would you accept that the new risks introduced by the presence of the levy cap will increase the cost of capital and may therefore undermine the whole purpose of the electricity market reform package?"

The MPs had hoped for replies before the Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, whose department has been in a long tussle with the Treasury over policy, appears before them on Tuesday afternoon.

If the Treasury gives frank answers to the questions, the future of the UK's energy policy will look a lot more clear.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Scientists struggle with mathematical details

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Scientists would like to believe that the popularity of new theories depends entirely on their scientific value, in terms of novelty, importance and technical correctness. But the Bristol study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, shows that scientists pay less attention to theories that are crammed with mathematical details.

Dr Tim Fawcett and Dr Andrew Higginson, researchers in Bristol's School of Biological Sciences, found that scientific articles presenting many equations on each page are seldom referred to by other scientists. The most maths-heavy articles are referenced 50 per cent less often than those with little or no maths.

Many scientists, including the celebrated theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, have worried about how mathematics will affect the impact of their work, but the Bristol study is the first to measure the extent of the problem.

Dr Fawcett said: "This is an important issue because nearly all areas of science rely on close links between mathematical theory and experimental work. If new theories are presented in a way that is off-putting to other scientists, then no one will perform the crucial experiments needed to test those theories. This presents a barrier to scientific progress."

So is there any way to overcome the communication barrier between theory and experiments? One long-term remedy would be to improve the mathematical training of science graduates.

But there could be more immediate solutions, as Dr Higginson explained: "Scientists need to think more carefully about how they present the mathematical details of their work. The ideal solution is not to hide the maths away, but to add more explanatory text to take the reader carefully through the assumptions and implications of the theory."

But the authors of the study fear that this approach will be resisted by some scientific journals, for which page space is at a premium.

"The top journals want articles to be extremely concise, with many of the technical details going in an online appendix," said Dr Fawcett.

"Fortunately, our study suggests that equations in an appendix have no effect on citation rates. So moving some of the equations to an appendix may be the most pragmatic solution."

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Angry Birds Heikki: because F1 and fort-breaking games are like peanut butter and chocolate

Rovio launches Angry Birds Heikki because Formula 1 and fortbreaking games are like peanut butter and chocolate

We've seen Angry Birds go into strange places both figurative and literal, but Formula 1 racing? That's a less natural mix than a peanut butter cup. As a way of backing race driver and fellow Finland native Heikki Kovalainen, Rovio has crafted Angry Birds Heikki, a free web game themed all around its namesake's escapades during the F1 race year. The gameplay changes are more cosmetic than functional, although that leaderboard matters a little more in spirit than it might otherwise. Perhaps the biggest draw is simply that your gameplay schedule is intrinsically linked to Heikki's: new sections only unlock as the real-world races get near, so you'll have an incentive to keep coming back until the Sao Paulo race determines the F1 championship on November 21st. Let's just hope that there aren't too many road hogs spoiling either Heikki's fun or our own.

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Sunday, June 17, 2012

'Jack Spratt' diabetes gene identified

Friday, June 15, 2012

Type 2 diabetes is popularly associated with obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. However, just as there are obese people without type 2 diabetes, there are lean people with the disease.

It has long been hypothesised that type 2 diabetes in lean people is more 'genetically driven'. A new study from a research team led by the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (PCMD), University of Exeter, which involved research institutions from around the world, has for the first time proved that lean type 2 diabetes patients have a larger genetic disposition to the disease than their obese counterparts. The study has also identified a new genetic factor associated only with lean diabetes sufferers.

The study is published in PLoS Genetics.

Using genetic data from genome-wide association studies, the research team tested genetic markers across the genome in approximately 5,000 lean patients with type 2 diabetes, 13,000 obese patients with the disease and 75,000 healthy controls.

The team found differences in genetic enrichment between lean and obese cases, which support the hypothesis that lean diabetes sufferers have a greater genetic predisposition to the disease. This is in contrast to obese patients with type 2 diabetes, where factors other than type 2 diabetes genes are more likely to be responsible. In addition, genetic variants near the gene, LAMA1, were linked to type 2 diabetes risk for the first time, with an effect that appeared only in the lean patients.

Dr. John Perry, one of the lead authors of the study, said: "Whenever a new disease gene is found, there is always the potential for it to be used as a drug target for new therapies or as a biomarker, but more work is needed to see whether or not this new gene has that potential."

He added: "This is the first time that a type 2 diabetes gene has been found to act in this way ? we do not know why it should be associated in one sub-group of patients and not another. It could point to the fact that type 2 diabetes may not be one disease, but may represent a number of subgroups. Again, more work is required to prove this hypothesis."

Dr. Perry concluded: "This study is a truly international one, bringing together research teams from around the world and leading UK institutions such as the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, King's College London, the University of Dundee and the University of Edinburgh."

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Police: Breakup led NY doctor to kill lover, self

In this undated photo provided by the Buffalo, N.Y. Police Department, Dr. Timothy Jorden is shown. Jorden is sought as a ?person of Interest? in a fatal shooting of a woman at a Buffalo, N.Y. hospital. (AP Photo/Buffalo N.Y. Police Department)

In this undated photo provided by the Buffalo, N.Y. Police Department, Dr. Timothy Jorden is shown. Jorden is sought as a ?person of Interest? in a fatal shooting of a woman at a Buffalo, N.Y. hospital. (AP Photo/Buffalo N.Y. Police Department)

Law enforcement officers search the home of Dr. Timothy Jorden in Hamburg, N.Y., Thursday, June 14, 2012. Jorden is sought in connection with the hospital shooting death of his ex-girlfriend at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Law enforcement officers search near the home of Dr. Timothy Jorden in Hamburg, N.Y., Thursday, June 14, 2012. Jorden is sought in connection with the hospital shooting death of his ex-girlfriend at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

A Law enforcement officer takes notes at the home of Dr. Timothy Jorden in Hamburg, N.Y., Thursday, June 14, 2012. Jorden is sought in connection with the hospital shooting death of his ex-girlfriend at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Law enforcement officers search near the home of Dr. Timothy Jorden in Hamburg, N.Y., Thursday, June 14, 2012. Jorden in connection with the hospital shooting death of his ex-girlfriend at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

(AP) ? In the end, the gifted trauma surgeon widely beloved as a lifesaver turned to violence, killing himself with a gunshot to the head as he was being sought in the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend.

A two-day nationwide search for Dr. Timothy Jorden ended when police found his body in thick brush a half-mile from his Lake Erie shoreline home. A neighbor had reported hearing a gunshot from the area on Wednesday morning, and police with dogs found the body, dressed in surgical scrubs, on Friday morning.

Authorities had been looking for Jorden since Wednesday morning, when 33-year-old Jacqueline Wisniewski was found shot to death in a stairwell at the Erie County Medical Center, where they both worked. Friends said Wisniewski was afraid of the 49-year-old Jorden and had broken off their relationship some time ago.

Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda said Jorden went to the hospital with a shotgun and a .357 Magnum pistol intending to kill Wisniewski because of their breakup. Jorden lured her to the hospital basement, where he shot her five times at point-blank range, Derenda said. He then ran from the hospital and drove home, where surveillance video showed him arriving about 30 minutes later.

Just four minutes later, Jorden is seen leaving the house, down a path to a ravine and disappearing into the woods.

Derenda said Jorden killed himself with one shot to the head from the .357 Magnum and didn't leave a suicide note. He had withdrawn large sums of money recently and had given friends gifts.

As Jorden's tailspin accelerated, friends, neighbors and colleagues painted a picture of a man in decline. Jorden, once 250 pounds and clean-shaven, had lost up to 75 pounds and let his face get scraggly. His neatly manicured lawn got overgrown. He just didn't seem the same; not as "nice" as before, was how neighbor June Dupree put it.

Dupree said she was distraught over what had happened.

"It doesn't make any sense that he did that and that he killed himself," she said. "Oh, my God, it's just terrible. I can't get over it. I'm just about in tears right now."

She said everybody loved Jorden.

"He saved so many lives," she said. "This is what doesn't make sense. There's got to be more to it."

At the medical center, staff members were left to mourn the death of a respected administrative assistant and try to fathom how two lives could end this way.

"We are just starting the healing process and trying to cope with an incomprehensible event," said Jody Lomeo, the hospital's chief executive officer.

SWAT teams had spent hours Wednesday searching Jorden's home without success.

On Thursday, neighbor Tom Wrzosek told police he had heard a gunshot from the steep, thick terrain behind Jorden's house the morning before, about 90 minutes after Wisniewski was gunned down at the hospital.

Some of her friends told local media outlets that Jorden stalked her after she ended the relationship. One of her friends told WIVB-TV that Wisniewski told her the doctor had put a GPS tracking device in her car and once held her captive in her home for a day and a half, wielding a knife.

A woman who answered the phone listed in the name of Wisniewski's parents said the family would not be commenting.

The Buffalo News reported that Jorden joined the National Guard in high school, went into the Army after graduation and served with the Army's special forces, first as a weapons expert, then as a medic. In those roles, he served in the Caribbean, Japan and Korea.

Jorden earned a medical degree from the University at Buffalo and trained at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash. He received his certification from the American Board of Surgery in 2004.

He was honored by various local organizations over the years for his teaching skills and involvement in the Buffalo community.

Dupree said she will try to remember Jorden as a good neighbor and gifted surgeon.

"It's very quiet here today," she said. "It's like everybody is in mourning."

Associated Press

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Furyk, McDowell share the lead as Tiger tumbles

Tiger Woods lets go of his club after hitting a shot on the 14th hole during the third round of the U.S. Open Championship golf tournament Saturday, June 16, 2012, at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Tiger Woods lets go of his club after hitting a shot on the 14th hole during the third round of the U.S. Open Championship golf tournament Saturday, June 16, 2012, at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Graeme McDowell, of Northern Ireland, watches his drive on the 11th hole during the third round of the U.S. Open Championship golf tournament Saturday, June 16, 2012, at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Jim Furyk hits out of a bunker on the 16th hole during the third round of the U.S. Open Championship golf tournament Saturday, June 16, 2012, at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Graeme McDowell, of Northern Ireland, watches his drive on the fourth hole during the third round of the U.S. Open Championship golf tournament Saturday, June 16, 2012, at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. Left is Nicolas Colsaerts, of Belgium. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Jim Furyk reacts after making a birdie on the seventh hole during the third round of the U.S. Open Championship golf tournament Saturday, June 16, 2012, at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

(AP) ? Graeme McDowell and Jim Furyk, a pair of U.S. Open champions, managed to beat par at The Olympic Club.

Tiger Woods simply got battered.

In the 33 times he has started a round atop the leaderboard at a major, Woods never had a tougher struggle with par than Saturday at the U.S. Open ? a 5-over 75 that made his uphill climb to the majestic clubhouse overlooking San Francisco feel a lot longer.

Thanks to late birdies by McDowell and Furyk, it won't get any easier Sunday.

McDowell showed the kind of fight that won him a U.S. Open two years ago down the coast at Pebble Beach. He scratched out pars and finished with a 4-foot birdie putt that gave him a 2-under 68 and a share of the lead going into the final round at The Olympic Club.

"Probably for the first time this week, I actually enjoyed the round of golf," McDowell said.

Furyk, also bidding for another trophy from golf's toughest test, outclassed Woods in the final pairing with key bunker saves and an 8-foot birdie putt on the 17th for a 70, making him the only player who has yet to have a round over par.

They were at 1-under 139, the only survivors against par.

"Obviously, I like being up front in the position I'm in," Furyk said. "The golf course will take its effect on a bunch of people. And the guys that go out there and deal with the conditions and the situations the best ... those are the guys that are have some success and have an opportunity to win the last few holes."

Woods sure didn't look like one of those guys in the third round. Wearing a key lime shirt, he turned in a lemon.

He fell out of the lead with two bogeys in the first three holes, couldn't make a birdie on the stretch of holes that Olympic allows players to make up ground, and ended with a sloppy bogey on the 18th for a 75. Only eight players had a higher score.

It matched Woods' worst score when he at least a share of the lead after any round of a major, a 3-over 75 in the final round of the 2009 PGA Championship when he lost to Y.E. Yang.

"I'm just going to have to shoot a good round tomorrow, and post early and see what happens," Woods said.

All was not lost for Woods, not to mention another dozen or so players. In a U.S. Open that has lived up to its reputation, it was difficult for anyone to get too far ahead.

McDowell and Furyk were two shots ahead of Fredrik Jacobson, who had a 68. Another shot behind was a group that included Lee Westwood, whose Saturday-best 67 gave him another shot at his first major; and Ernie Els, who holed a long pitch for eagle on the 17th that carried him to a 68. The Big Easy is a two-time U.S. Open champion, with that first title coming 18 years ago.

"Experience helps around here," Els said. "For some reason, I'm patient again this week and that's been kind of my virtue in major championship golf, the ability to be patient and wait it out. And I think you're going to have to do that tomorrow."

Thirteen players were separated by four shots going into Sunday, a list that includes 17-year-old Beau Hossler, who followed bogeys with birdies for a 70.

Woods, who has never won a major from behind, was five shots back. His round ended with a shot from the middle of the 18th fairway that hung up in the right collar of rough, and a stubbed chip that took a hard turn to the left some 10 feet away.

When he two-putted for his sixth bogey, his day got a little worse. Climbing the hill toward the fabled clubhouse at Olympic, a photographer brushed past him and Woods banged his hand into the camera. He shook it several times, but later said he was fine.

The real hurt came from Olympic.

"It was just a tough day on the greens, and most of the day, I just kept getting that half-number, right in between clubs all day," said Woods, who was either well long or short on his approach shots.

Furyk, the only player who has not had a round over par in this championship, and McDowell played together in the opening two rounds. Both are similar players who appear to be a good fit for Olympic ? control off the tee and a strong fight to avoid bogeys. McDowell referred to Furyk as a "plodder," which at the U.S. Open is a high compliment.

"It doesn't have to look or be fancy. It has to work," Furyk said. "And I think we have styles of games where we put the ball into play, we put the ball on the green and take our chance at the putt and then move on."

But this was not shaping up as a two-man race for McDowell and Furyk.

"Looking at the leaderboard, you've got to look down as far as the guys at 3 or 4 (over) as having a realistic chance of winning this tournament," McDowell said.

That includes some regular characters, such as Westwood and Els and even two-time U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen, who was five shots behind. And it features newcomers to this stage like Nicolas Colsaerts, the big hitter from Belgium ? and even a high school kid.

For every bogey Hossler made, he answered with a birdie on the next hole.

His only big blunder came on the 11th, when he was too aggressive with a downhill putt and missed his par putt from 6 feet. Two holes later, he hit a heavy chip from the hazard that rolled back down a slope for another bogey. The kid just wouldn't go away, though, and suddenly he is dreaming big.

Hossler wanted to make the cut. Then, he wanted to be the low amateur. Now?

"My goal now is to win the tournament," he said.

In the 14 majors he has won, Woods was never worse than par in the pivotal third round and had a scoring average of 68.3. There was no way that was going to hold up on a course like Olympic, though Woods was expecting better than what he delivered on this Saturday.

He missed the first fairway, came up short of the third green and wound up with three bogeys through six holes.

"I don't think he looked that far off," Furyk said. "It's just stuff happens at U.S. Opens sometimes.

Woods wasn't alone in making mistakes. David Toms, tied for the second-round lead with Furyk and Woods at 1 under, played that rugged six-hole stretch in 5 over and fell six shots behind with a 76.

Even with the USGA watering the course Friday night and Saturday morning, Olympic was as relentless as ever.

But it wasn't impossible.

Westwood showed that, as did Els, who called it as easy as the course played all week.

Kevin Chappell, who tied for third last year on a soft Congressional course that yielded a record score, had a 68 and takes an unthinkable streak of 24 holes without a bogey into the final round. He was at 3-over 213, along with Webb Simpson, who also had a 68.

Asked if the experience at Congressional would help, Chappell gave an apt description of what awaits Sunday.

"Last year we were trying to make birdies in the U.S. Open," he said. "And here, you're just trying to survive."

Westwood came in right behind Chappell, and while he failed to take advantage on the par 5s, he finished in style with a 40-foot birdie putt on the 18th for a 67. Westwood began this week as the third wheel in a powerful threesome of the top players in the world ranking. Luke Donald, the world No. 1, and defending champion Rory McIlroy have gone home. Westwood now has another chance to pick up his first major.

He twice has missed a playoff by one shot, in the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines and the 2009 British Open at Turnberry. He twice as been runner-up in the majors.

A win on Sunday would end that heartache, and return him to No. 1 in the world.

"I think I've probably been in contention in major championships more than anybody else over the last three or four years," Westwood said. "So I'm looking forward to tomorrow and hopefully go out and have some fun and see what happens."

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Chicks do worse in noisy nests

Human-caused racket may cut baby bluebird survival

Web edition : 3:39 pm

ALBUQUERQUE?? Baby bluebirds don?t survive as well near rumbling traffic and other human din as they do amid natural lullabies.

In a Virginia study, 35 percent more chicks died in the noisiest nests than in the most remote ones. Researchers found that chicks didn?t adjust for the noise by begging louder or at different frequencies. So parents may not have gotten the right cues for nestling care, behavioral ecologist John Swaddle suggested June 12 at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society.

Until recently, most research on how human-made noise discombobulates birds has focused on how adults adjust their songs (or don?t) or on what species will nest at all among the din. Research is now turning to how noise might directly affect the success of a species. One earlier study on reproductive success, in common European birds called great tits, found smaller clutches near roaring highways.

Clutch size didn?t shrink among eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis), said Swaddle, a professor at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Birds settling in to the 43 nest boxes he and his colleagues monitored for two years all started with about the same number of eggs.

Just what made noisier nests less successful after hatching isn?t clear, but Swaddle suspects that noise kept parents from caring for their nestlings properly. Noise might have made food harder to find, or it might have masked normal parent-chick chat. Even though baby birds have become an icon of endlessly demanding maws, parents do tune their feeding effort to begging calls, and research has confirmed the importance of communication.

Microphones set up 15 meters from nest boxes revealed that local human clamor could mask part of the nestlings? peeps. Adult birds often perch at a similar distance from their nests when checking out the local situation.

In theory, baby birds might have adjusted their cheeping to compensate for the noise. In nest boxes with real noises, though, the young bluebirds either couldn?t or just didn?t accommodate.

?Whatever the reason, it?s clear they?re not doing as well,? says Emilie Snell-Rood of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. The 35 percent survival gap ?is a really big number when factored into projections about a population?s future,? she said. She studies behavioral flexibility and points out that hopes for wildlife adapting to human menaces depend on having populations big and varied enough to make meaningful adaptations.
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Majority of dads say they do the grocery shopping

Brian Snyder / Reuters file

According to a survey, 52 percent of dads say they are the primary supermarket shoppers in the household.

By Eve Tahmincioglu

There?s a good chance dad might be shopping for his own Father?s Day breakfast in bed this Sunday. No, he?s not in the doghouse, but apparently dads are doing more of the grocery shopping these days.

According to a survey released this week by brand marketing firm Cone Communications, 52 percent of dads say they are the primary supermarket shoppers in the household, and 35 percent of moms admitted fathers have more influence when it comes to grocery purchases.?

?This research goes against all stereotypes of the ?Father Knows Best? dad who doesn?t concern himself with domestic responsibilities,? says Bill Fleishman, president of Cone Communications, about the online survey that polled 1,000 parents with children under 17.

The company?s research also found dad shoppers aren?t just winging their supermarket hunting. Dad?s polled said they:

  • Create a detailed shopping list ? 63% (vs. 65% of moms)
  • Collect coupons or read circulars ? 56% (vs. 62% of moms)
  • Plan meals for the week ahead of time ? 52% (vs. 46% of moms)
  • Perform background research on grocery products ? 24% (vs. 11% of moms)

And moms are more likely to spend more time in the grocery store than dads. While Cone?s study found fathers were doing more of the grocery shopping, Today Money Facebook fans we informally polled Friday largely said the opposite it true.

?If my husband went to the store we would be having frozen pizza and macaroni and cheese for dinner every night,? said Mariska Colbert of her husband Zac.

And Melissa Klement added, ?Wish my hubby would do it.?

But Roberta Harwood Speller, who works in a grocery store said: ?There are several men that shop each week there for their families. They do very well. Even have their kids with them.?

For those of us who just can?t accept father foragers in the supermarket, it may be time set aside your bias in the aisle.

?We?re finding that dads are not acting so differently from moms in their approach to grocery shopping,? maintained Cone?s Fleishman.

(Full disclosure: My husband does most of the supermarket shopping these days, but I have to write up the list.)

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DNA bolsters Bulgaria's John the Baptist bones claim

LONDON | Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:05am EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Bulgaria's claim to have unearthed six bones belonging to John the Baptist has received a boost from scientists who have concluded after dating them and analyzing their genetic code that they could indeed be relics of the man who baptized Jesus.

The remains, which include a molar and a piece of cranium, were found in July 2010 in a marble sarcophagus in the ruins of a medieval church on the island of Sveti Ivan, or Saint John, off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast near the resort of Sozopol.

They are on display in a church in Sozopol where thousands of worshippers have flocked to view them, untroubled by questions about their authenticity.

"When I first heard this story in 2010 I thought it was a bit of a joke, to be honest," said Tom Higham of the University of Oxford's Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, one of the world's top laboratories for carbon dating of archaeological material.

Higham's team dated a knuckle-bone to the first century AD, when John the Baptist would have lived, while geneticist colleagues from the University of Copenhagen established the full DNA code of three of the bones.

The genetic analysis showed that the bones were from the same person, a man who most probably came from the Middle East.

Higham, who is an atheist, said that it was obviously impossible to say with any certainty that the remains belonged to John the Baptist. But it could not be ruled out.

"I'm much less skeptical than I was at the beginning. I think there's possibly more to it. But I'd like to find out more," he told Reuters on Friday.

12 HANDS AND SIX HEADS

Relics of saints or fragments of the True Cross on which Jesus was crucified, according to Christian tradition, have been a powerful draw for pilgrims and tourists for centuries. Thousands of such relics can be found in churches across Europe.

But skeptics have always dismissed these items as a scam to lure the credulous, and some joke that if all the bones said to have belonged to John the Baptist were authentic the Biblical figure would have had 12 hands and six heads.

Higham plans to apply for funding to analyze purported John the Baptist relics from other places to see if any of them came from the same individual whose remains were found on Sveti Ivan.

"I look at this as a bit of fun. I'm not a hard core ecclesiastical researcher. I actually study Neanderthals and stuff like that, older stuff," said Higham.

"But I'm really interested in applying radio carbon dating more widely to find out information about the past."

John the Baptist, who is revered in Christianity and Islam, announced the coming of Jesus and baptized him in the River Jordan. The Gospels say King Herod had him beheaded.

Oxford archaeologist Georges Kazan, who wrote his doctoral thesis on the movement of relics in the 5th and 6th centuries, said that there was historical evidence to support the claim that the Sveti Ivan remains could be authentic.

The evidence includes a small box made from volcanic tuff, or consolidated ash, which was found next to the bones and is inscribed with John's name and his feast day in Ancient Greek.

The tuff came from Cappadocia, in modern Turkey, which was one of the routes used to take purported relics from the Holy Land to Constantinople, now Istanbul, where in the 5th and 6th centuries Eastern Roman Emperors were keen to acquire them.

The emperors, who were copied by pious aristocrats, wanted relics for devotional purposes or to be buried with them.

"They were often bestowed as a sign of favor. The monastery of Sveti Ivan may well have received a portion of relics as a gift from a patron, a member of Constantinople's elite," said Kazan, adding that the island was an easy distance from the Byzantine capital on a major Black Sea trading route.

(Additional reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova in Sofia; Editing by Jon Hemming)

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Hawking Is First User of "Big Brain" Supercomputer

I never expected Germaine Greer to be used on this board.
Regardless of the impression given, there is a need for celebrity scientists. Second rate scientist with a first rate promotional skill is just what the TV needs. Plus the promotion time couldn't be better spent in the lab either.
These people inspire the young to become scientists and raise public awareness for what ever cause made the news that week.

How on earth did you bring Germaine Greer into this? That's wonderful..

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China puts its first woman astronaut into orbit

JIUQUAN, China | Sat Jun 16, 2012 7:22am EDT

JIUQUAN, China (Reuters) - China put its first woman into orbit on Saturday, one of three astronauts to attempt a critical space docking in the latest challenge for the country's ambitious space programme.

A Long March rocket blasted off in the early evening from the remote Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the northwestern Gobi Desert, carrying with it the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft and the three astronauts, including 33-year-old female fighter pilot Liu Yang.

This is China's fourth manned space mission since 2003 when astronaut Yang Liwei became the country's first person in orbit, and comes as the United States has curtailed manned launches over budget concerns and changing priorities.

The launch was carried live on state television, and until moments before blast-off, a camera showed the three astronauts in the cabin occasionally waving. A red placard with the Chinese symbol for good fortune hung behind them.

Within days, the astronauts will try to dock with the orbiting Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 1 module launched last September, part of a 13-day mission crucial to China's ambition to put a space station in orbit around 2020.

"I believe that we can achieve this goal, because we already have the basic technological capability," Zhou Jianping, the chief designer of China's manned space engineering project, told reporters before the launch.

A successful manned docking mission for China would be the latest show of the country's growing capabilities in space, to match its expanding military and diplomatic clout.

Still, Beijing is playing catch up with the United States and Russia, which, along with other countries, jointly operate the International Space Station some 240 miles above Earth.

Rendezvous and docking techniques such as those which China is only testing now were mastered by the United States and the former Soviet Union decades ago, and the 10.5 meter-long Tiangong 1 is a trial module, not a full-fledged space station.

Linking with the unmanned module will be an important hurdle in China's efforts to acquire the technological and logistical skills needed to run a full space lab that can house astronauts for long stretches.

Fears of a space arms race with the United States and other powers mounted after China blew up one of its own weather satellites with a ground-based missile in January 2007, though China has insisted its programme is peaceful.

"China's manned space programme has never been for military purposes. It is mainly to research how mankind can go into space, use space peacefully," He Yu, the general commander of China's manned spacecraft project, said before the launch.

The United States will not test a new rocket to take people into space until 2017, and Russia has said manned missions are no longer a priority.

But NASA has begun investing in U.S. firms to provide commercial spaceflight services and is spending about $3 billion a year on a new rocket and capsule to send astronauts to the moon, asteroids and eventually to Mars.

Chinese scientists have talked of the possibility of sending a man to the moon after 2020, the final step in a three-stage moon plan, which includes the deployment of a moon rover in 2013 and the retrieval of lunar soil and stone samples around 2017.

China's space programme has come a long way since late leader Mao Zedong, founder of Communist China in 1949, lamented that the country could not even launch a potato into space.

(Writing by Michael Martina in Beijing; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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SPORTS BRIEFS

CRICKET

Third ODI rains out

The third one-day international (ODI) between Sri Lanka and Pakistan was abandoned because of rain in Colombo on Wednesday. Pakistan were 12 for 2 off 6.2 overs after electing to bat when play was called off, with Asad Shafiq unbeaten on five and skipper Misbah-ul-Haq yet to open his account. Pacemen Lasith Malinga and Nuwan Kulasekara each bagged one wicket for Sri Lanka. Malinga struck with his fourth delivery when he had Mohammad Hafeez caught by wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara for no score, while Kulasekara trapped Azhar Ali LBW in his third over. Azhar, who made 96 in the previous match, scored only seven. The five-match series is tied 1-1, with Pakistan winning the opening ODI by six wickets and Sri Lanka winning the second game by 76 runs in Pallekele. The fourth ODI is scheduled to be played in Colombo tomorrow.

CYCLING

Schleck pulls out of Tour

Tour de France contender Andy Schleck has pulled out of the three-week race because he has a fracture in his pelvis, the Luxembourg rider said on Wednesday. Schleck, who was handed the 2010 title after winner Alberto Contador failed a dope test during the Tour, finished second overall last year and had been expected to challenge Cadel Evans of Australia and Briton Bradley Wiggins. His doctor, Torsten Gerich, said the type of injury suffered by Schleck usually needed four to six weeks to heal and cycling was not possible. The RadioShack-Nissan rider suffered the injury in a crash during an individual time trial in the Criterium du Dauphine earlier this month. Schleck, 27 added that he was still looking forward to the Olympics. His older brother, Frank, is now expected to be the team?s leader on the Tour, which starts on June 30 in Liege, Belgium.

CYCLING

Isaychev wins fifth stage

Vladimir Isaychev, riding for the Katusha team, won the fifth stage of the Tour of Switzerland on Wednesday. The Russian crossed the line at the end of the 192.7km run from Trimbach/Olten clear of Spaniard Ruben Perez, with Italy?s Salvatore Puccio in third place. Movistar rider Rui Costa of Portugal retained the leader?s yellow jersey with an 8 second advantage over Luxembourg?s Frank Schleck (RadioShack). Isaychev prevailed when getting the better of a six-strong breakaway group in a dash for the finish after a day?s race staged in continuous rain. This was the 26-year-old?s first stage victory in his fifth season. He was part of a group that broke away from the peloton after 8km. They quickly pushed clear with a 10 minute cushion and remained clear for the entire stage. Yesterday?s seventh stage was a 198.5km ride from Wittnau to Bischofszell.

SOCCER

Corinthians get first-leg win

Corinthians picked up an important 1-0 away victory against defending champion Santos in the first leg of their Copa Libertadores semi-final on Wednesday. The Brazilian champions need only a draw in the second leg next week to reach the final for the first time in their history. Striker Emerson scored the sole goal with a well-placed shot from just inside the area in the 28th minute, finding the right upper corner of the net, beyond the outstretched arms of Santos goalkeeper Rafael. Emerson was sent off in the 77th after a hard foul on Santos striker Neymar, who was mostly ineffective. The match was interrupted near the end because of a power outage.

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Tethered Wallenda walks wire across Niagara Falls

Nik Wallenda walks over Niagara Falls on a tightrope in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda has finished his attempt to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls. The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)

Nik Wallenda walks over Niagara Falls on a tightrope in Niagara Falls, Ontario, on Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda has finished his attempt to become the first person to walk on a tightrope 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of roaring Niagara Falls. The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)

Spectators and media gather to see the 550 metre-long tightrope that Nik Wallenda will use hangs over Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada., on Friday, June 15, 2012. Conditions appear good leading up to the nationally televised stunt scheduled for Friday night. When Wallenda leaves terra firm about 10:15, it should be in the low 60s with winds under 10 mph from the east, roughly at his back. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)

Nik Wallenda greets fans after inspecting the wire prior to his walk across Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Friday, June 15, 2012. Wallenda will attempt what nobody has done before: A high wire walk directly over the precipice at Niagara Falls and 190 feet (58 meters) above the churning torrent below. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

The 550 metre-long tightrope that Nik Wallenda will use hangs over Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada., on Friday, June 15, 2012. Conditions appear good leading up to the nationally televised stunt scheduled for Friday night. When Wallenda leaves terra firm about 10:15, it should be in the low 60s with winds under 10 mph from the east, roughly at his back. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)

Bogumila Zbyszewska of Toronto photographs the tightrope that Nik Wallenda will use hangs over Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada., on Friday, June 15, 2012. Conditions appear good leading up to the nationally televised stunt scheduled for Friday night. When Wallenda leaves terra firm about 10:15, it should be in the low 60s with winds under 10 mph from the east, roughly at his back. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)

(AP) ? Daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls, taking steady, measured steps Friday night for 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of the roaring falls separating the U.S. and Canada.

Afterward, he said he accomplished the feat through "a lot of praying, that's for sure. But, you know, it's all about the concentration, the focus, and the training."

The seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas had long dreamed of pulling off the stunt, never before attempted. Other daredevils have wire-walked over the Niagara River but farther downstream and not since 1896.

"This is what dreams are made of, people," Wallenda said shortly after he began walking the wire.

He took steady, measured steps amid the rushing mist over the falls as an estimated crowd of 125,000 people on the Canadian side and 4,000 on the American side watched. Along the way, he calmly prayed aloud.

ABC televised the walk and insisted Wallenda use a tether to keep him from falling in the river. Wallenda said he agreed because he wasn't willing to lose the chance and needed ABC's sponsorship to help offset some of the $1.3 million cost of the spectacle.

For the 33-year-old father of three, the Niagara Falls walk was unlike anything he'd ever done. Because it was over water, the 2-inch wire didn't have the usual stabilizer cables to keep it from swinging. Pendulum anchors were designed to keep it from twisting under the elkskin-soled shoes designed by his mother.

The Wallendas trace their roots to 1780 Austria-Hungary, when ancestors traveled as a band of acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, animal trainers and trapeze artists. The clan has been touched by tragedy, notably in 1978 when patriarch Karl Wallenda, Nik's great-grandfather, fell to his death during a stunt in Puerto Rico.

After he made it to the Canadian side of the falls, Wallenda said that at one point in the middle of the stunt, he thought about his great-grandfather and the walks he had taken: "That's what this is all about, paying tribute to my ancestors, and my hero, Karl Wallenda."

About a dozen other tightrope artists have crossed the Niagara Gorge downstream, dating to Jean Francois Gravelet, aka The Great Blondin, in 1859. But no one had walked directly over the falls, and authorities hadn't allowed any tightrope acts in the area since 1896. It took Wallenda two years to persuade U.S. and Canadian authorities to allow it, and many civic leaders hoped to use the publicity to jumpstart the region's struggling economy, particularly on the U.S. side of the falls.

A festive crowd gathered on both sides of the border to watch Wallenda, spreading blankets and setting up folding chairs under picture-perfect blue skies and summer-like temperatures.

Associated Press

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In accordance with the law nationwide, all university camps must carry an effective means of communication and the satellite tv for pc phone is but one very effective system that the regulation advocates with regard to. This is to ensure the children that go for the camp ground are safe in addition to their supervisors could possibly get help in situation of an crisis. In addition, the particular satellite mobile phones can be used to require aids as well as supplies to get replenished in the event of anything.

This law ended up being implemented due to the fact parents depend on teachers along with supervisors to manage their children throughout school camp and they need to ensure that almost all communication programs are available for their children while from camp. Professionals should ensure that they maintain either the fogeys or school administration advised of their whereabouts and their position at selected intervals. This may eradicate virtually any fear or even worry for the parents' part. The particular satellite phones are available for acquire in many different places.

Another reason why the law requires all college camp activities to have a satellite tv phone is because communication is not deterred through regular terrestrial community connections. This particular therefore ensures that there will be guaranteed communication regardless of camp spot. The law mandates that children become safeguarded as well as their security helped by priority.

For example proper interaction that is not merely limited to satellite tv for pc phones but in addition can include using UHF radio techniques, land lines as well as regular cellphones. The type of conversation system or perhaps device to work with is determined by within the camp as well as the available communication channels and also networks offered at the location. In addition to that, all institution camps must have an effective means of travelling so that they can transfer the campers quickly in case of an emergency.

Aside from satellite telephones, the law furthermore requires that college camps always be equipped with locater beacons in case the satellite tv phones fail. However, satellite television phones are able to work at year 'round unless they've got low battery power. Therefore, institution camp professionals should make certain that they carry spare batteries to ensure that they've standby interaction at all times.

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McCain: Foreign cash sneaking in via super PACs

FILE - In this March 28, 2012 file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCain said in an interview posted online Friday that "foreign money" was helping fellow Republican Mitt Romney's presidential hopes and singled out one of his ally's most generous supporters. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FILE - In this March 28, 2012 file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCain said in an interview posted online Friday that "foreign money" was helping fellow Republican Mitt Romney's presidential hopes and singled out one of his ally's most generous supporters. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FILE - In this April 12, 2012 file photo, Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson speaks at a news conference for the Sands Cotai Central in Macau. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said in an interview posted online Friday that "foreign money" was helping fellow Republican Mitt Romney's presidential hopes and singled out one of his ally's most generous supporters. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

(AP) ? Sen. John McCain said in an interview posted online Friday that "foreign money" was helping fellow Republican Mitt Romney's presidential hopes and singled out one of his ally's most generous supporters.

McCain, the GOP's 2008 presidential nominee, suggested casino magnate Sheldon Adelson's $10 million contribution to a pro-Romney super PAC was a conduit for Adelson to use profits from properties in Macau to shape American elections. McCain also criticized the Supreme Court ruling that allows individuals and corporations to make such unlimited donations to nominally independent political action committees.

"That is a great deal of money. And, again, we need a level playing field and we need to go back to the realization that Teddy Roosevelt had: that we have to have a limit on the flow of money and that corporations are not people," McCain said in an interview with PBS' NewsHour.

The ding about corporations was a direct shot at Romney, who last year told a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that "corporations are people, my friend." Romney's critics seized on the comment as proof the wealthy candidate favored businesses over individuals.

McCain, a Romney rival in 2008 and now one of his top supporters, said the Supreme Court got it wrong in Citizens United, the court case that paved the way for super PACs. He called the decision "the most misguided, naive, uninformed, egregious decision of the United States Supreme Court, I think, in the 21st century."

"I just wish one of them had run for county sheriff," McCain said of the justices.

McCain is a longtime critic of money's outsized role in politics and, despite his support of Romney, has remained steadfast in his support for tighter rules on campaign cash. That would include limits on donations such as the one Adelson and his wife, Miriam, made this week to the pro-Romney Restore Our Future PAC.

McCain said Adelson earns his money through a global casino empire, and "much of Mr. Adelson's casino profits that go to him come from this casino in Macau.

"Obviously, maybe in a roundabout way, foreign money is coming into an American campaign," McCain said.

Foreign citizens cannot make political contributions to U.S. campaigns.

Adelson is head of the Sands Corp., which owns three casinos in Macau. His company also runs Las Vegas' Venetian complex. Forbes has estimated that he is worth $24.9 billion.

Adelson previously supported former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's presidential bid with more than $20 million that kept Gingrich's candidacy alive.

Associated Press

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