Fenway Sports Bantah Akan Jual Liverpool

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, LIVERPOOL - John Henry, pentolan Fenway Sports Group selaku pemilik Liverpool dikabarkan akan menjual The Reds.

Firma asal AS itu, yang juga pemilik klub bisbol Boston Red Sox, disebut kecewa karena sudah mengeluarkan banyak uang namun kesuksesan tak kunjung mampir ke Merseyside.

Namun, kabar itu langsung dibantah.?

"Fenway Sports Group memastikan Liverpool Football Club tidak dijual. Berita itu tak mengandung kebenaran," sebut juru bicara FSG.

"Seperti halnya isu-isu di masa lalu soal penjualan Liverpool, isu kali ini juga sama sekali tak berdasar."

"Tak ada pertemuan dengan siapapun soal penjualan, kami bahkan tak tahu siapa sumber isu ini."

Source: http://www.tribunnews.com/superball/2013/07/27/fenway-sports-bantah-akan-jual-liverpool

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Brad Knighton meets former team as Whitecaps host Union

Brad Knighton was used sparingly during his time with the Philadelphia Union. Now he has a chance to show them what they missed.

Knighton is slated to start against his former squad for the first time Saturday as the Vancouver Whitecaps host the Union at B.C. Place Stadium. If all goes according to plan, the goalkeeper will attempt to keep the Whitecaps (9-6-5) unbeaten at home against the Union (8-6-7), which is in contention for top spot in the Eastern Conference.

Vancouver has gone 7-0-3 at home. Knighton sports a 6-2-2 mark and two shutouts.

"All you can ask for is a chance, and it's what you do with that chance," said Knighton after practice on the club's home turf Friday. "You try and make the most of it and try and show people that have written you off that you deserve to be here, and you're a No. 1 in this league."

Knighton was released by Philadelphia after playing just eight games in 2010, his first and only season with the club. He posted a respectable, albeit unspectacular 3-3-1 record during that span.

The Union put him on waivers, but there were no takers, and Knighton was forced to play the next season in a lower-tier circuit with the Carolina RailHawks.

Current Vancouver coach Martin Rennie guided Carolina that season and, after watching Knighton play every minute of the campaign, brought him to the Whitecaps in 2012.

Knighton, a 28-year-old Hickory, N.C., native, was never drafted by a Major League Soccer club but he has fought his way to starting status last season, when he played in Vancouver's first playoff game, and again this season after Joe Cannon, now the third-stringer, began the campaign as No. 1.

Meaningful match

Accordingly, the opportunity to play against the Union is highly meaningful to Knighton.

"I pride myself on how hard I've worked to get where I was, and all the obstacles that I've had to come through," said Knighton, who entered the pro ranks after four seasons as a starter with the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

"And to be able to find a place where I've been able to get a good run of games and show my capabilities as a starting 'keeper in this league has been fantastic for me, and it's helped my confidence tremendously."

But Knighton's run could come to an end if he can't help his current club succeed against his old one. The Whitecaps signed Danish goalkeeper David Ousted, who became eligible to play July 9.

Ousted has been waiting in the wings since then as Knighton enjoyed centre stage. Knighton has helped the Whitecaps stay unbeaten in six of their last seven games, but the Caps are coming off a road loss to Los Angeles last weekend.

Ousted, who was signed after the Whitecaps traded defender Alain Rochat to D.C. United to clear cap space, reportedly earns much more than Knighton's $66,000 annual base pay. So Rennie, who has praised Knighton's play in recent weeks, could be compelled to make a switch if the Whitecaps are not successful this weekend.

But Knighton, who was also cast adrift by New England following the 2009 season, is determined to keep his place after going down and up the pro soccer ladder.

"Obviously, (succeeding) at the lower level is something a bit different than doing it at the higher level," he said. "I've been fortunate this year and last year to get a chance at a higher level. I'm just trying to make the most of it and show people that I deserve to be here for a long time."

Meanwhile, striker Kenny Miller is also looking to excel after he signed a rare six-month contract extension this week.

"Obviously, that's a mark now that has been put to rest," said Miller, who has six goals in the 11 games in which he has played this season. ... I can just concentrate on the football now, the game (Saturday) and our undefeated home record and, hopefully, continue our good momentum at home as well and get another three points, which should push us up the table and get us to where we feel we should be ... which is the top of the league."

Meanwhile, Whitecaps striker Darren Mattocks has been sidelined indefinitely with a knee injury.

Rennie said Mattocks underwent arthroscopic knee surgery Thursday. The coach said the team does not put a time frame on recoveries, but he does not expect the Jamaican international to miss extended time.

Mattocks has struggled in his second MLS season after leading the club with seven goals as a rookie. He has started just six of the 13 games in which he has appeared, recording three goals and one assist.

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2013/07/26/sp-soccer-mls-whitecaps-union-preview.html?cmp=rss

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Indicted Sudanese leader arrives in Nigeria

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ? Sudan's indicted leader Omar al-Bashir arrived Sunday in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, to a red-carpet welcome and a full guard of honor despite demands from human rights activists that Nigeria arrest him to face trial for genocide in Darfur.

Minister of Police Affairs Kenneth Olubolade was at the airport to meet the private presidential jet Sunday along with troops in ceremonial green and white uniforms and a military brass band.

"Nigeria has the shameful distinction of being the first West African country to welcome ICC fugitive Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir," Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

It said Nigeria's welcome is "in stark contrast" to the stands taken by other African countries. Only Chad and Djibouti have received al-Bashir in the past year.

The Nigerian Coalition on the International Criminal Court said South Africa, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, and Central Africa Republic "have specifically made clear Bashir will be arrested on their territory, seen to it that other Sudanese officials visit instead of Bashir, relocated conferences or otherwise avoided his visits."

The International Criminal Court in The Hague in 2009 indicted al-Bashir for genocide and war crimes committed in Darfur. He was the first sitting African head of state indicted by the court.

"Al-Bashir is sought on the gravest crimes committed in Darfur and Nigeria's hosting is an affront to victims," said Elise Keppler of Human Rights Watch's International Justice Program.

The African Union has urged its 53 member states not to cooperate with the ICC, a stand that Nigeria may cite as an excuse for allowing al-Bashir's visit. No Nigerian officials could be reached for comment Sunday. President Goodluck Jonathan and all senior Cabinet ministers arrived home earlier Sunday from a week-long trip to China.

Al-Bashir is in Nigeria ostensibly to attend an African Union summit on health focusing on HIV and AIDS that is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.

The Nigerian coalition on Sunday called on citizens to picket the summit to protest the presence of al-Bashir.

Coalition director Chino Obiagwu said they are preparing to go to court Monday to demand that Nigeria arrest the Sudanese leader, to fulfill its obligations as a member of the European-based court. Some Africans charge that the ICC is racist in targeting Africans.

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Associated Press writer Michelle Faul contributed to this report from Lagos, Nigeria.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/indicted-sudanese-leader-arrives-nigeria-162002093.html

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Improving crop yields in a world of extreme weather events

July 1, 2013 ? When plants encounter drought, they naturally produce abscisic acid (ABA), a stress hormone that helps them cope with the drought conditions. Specifically, the hormone turns on receptors in the plants. Botanists have identified an inexpensive synthetic chemical, quinabactin, that mimics ABA. Spraying ABA on plants improves their water use and stress tolerance, but the procedure is expensive. Quinabactin now offers a cheaper solution.

Farmers in the United States witnessed record-breaking extremes in temperature and drought during the last two summers, causing worldwide increases in the costs of food, feed and fiber. Indeed, many climate scientists caution that extreme weather events resulting from climate change is the new normal for farmers in North America and elsewhere, requiring novel agricultural strategies to prevent crop losses.

Now a research team led by Sean Cutler, a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside, has found a new drought-protecting chemical that shows high potential for becoming a powerful tool for crop protection in the new world of extreme weather.

Named "quinabactin" by the researchers, the chemical mimics a naturally occurring stress hormone in plants that helps the plants cope with drought conditions.

Study results appear online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

All land plants have intricate water sensing and drought response systems that are tuned to maximize their fitness in the environments they live in. For example, plants in environments with low water grow slowly so that they do not consume more water than is available.

"But since farmers have always desired fast-growing varieties, their most valued strains did not always originate from drought-tolerant progenitors," explained Cutler, an associate professor of plant cell biology. "As a result, we have crops today that perform very well in years of plentiful water but poorly in years with little water. This dilemma has spawned an active hunt for both new drought-tolerant crops and chemicals that farmers might use for improving crop yield under adverse conditions."

Working on Arabidopsis, a model plant used widely in plant biology labs, Cutler and his colleagues focused their efforts on tinkering with one of the plant endogenous systems involved in drought responses. Plant leaves are lined with tiny pores, called stomata, which dynamically open and close to control the amount of water lost to the environment by evaporation. So that the plants can acquire carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the pores need to be open some of the time, resulting in some loss of water.

During drought the stomata close firmly to limit water loss. Behind the scenes, a small hormone called abscisic acid (ABA) orchestrates the opening and closing of the pores. Cells throughout the plant produce increasing amounts of ABA as water levels decrease. ABA then moves throughout the plant to signal the stressful conditions and close the stomata. Inside plant cells, ABA does its job by turning on a special class of proteins called receptors. The discovery in 2009 of ABA receptors by the same team behind the current breakthrough was heralded by Science magazine as one of the top breakthroughs of 2009 because of its relevance to the drought problem.

"If you can control the receptors the way ABA does, then you have a way to control water loss and drought-tolerance," Cutler said. "It has been known for many years that simply spraying ABA on plants improves their water use and stress tolerance, but ABA itself is much too expensive for practical use in the field by farmers."

To address this problem, Cutler and his team searched through many thousands of molecules to identify inexpensive synthetic chemicals that could activate the receptors by mimicking ABA. The team found and named quinabactin, a molecule they show is almost indistinguishable from ABA in its effects, but much simpler chemically and therefore easier to make than ABA. By studying how the new molecule activates the ABA receptors that are involved in drought tolerance, the team also has learned more about the underlying control logic of the stress response system and provided new information that can be used for others interested in developing similar molecules,

"This is a competitive arena that includes agrichemical giants who are busily working to bring similar drought-protecting molecules to market, so this is a landmark discovery because quinabactin is the first-in-class synthetic molecule of its kind," Cutler said.

The work reported this week is the first in a multistep process of bringing a new agricultural product to market. Given the complexity and costs of such a process, the UCR Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) is working with an agricultural leader, Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc., to develop the technology.

Joyce Patrona, a licensing officer in OTC, is coordinating UCR's licensing efforts for quinabactin.

"It has become very apparent to industry engaged in this area of technology of the robustness of Dr. Cutler's research," she said. "This is a credit to Dr. Cutler and his team as well as to UCR for its commitment to bring innovative research to the marketplace."

Cutler's collaborators on the research project are Brian Volkman and Francis Peterson at the Medical College of Wisconsin, who helped unravel the mechanism by which quinabactin mimics ABA by determining the atomic structure of the new molecule bound to one of its cellular receptors. Others who worked with them are Masanori Okamoto (first author of the research paper), Andrew Defries and Sang-Youl Park at UCR; and Akira Endo and Eiji Nambara at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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A space shuttle's final mission: Atlantis opens to the public (+video)

The much-anticipated Atlantis exhibit - showcasing the last space shuttle to make a mission - will open at Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.

By Elizabeth Barber,?Contributor / June 28, 2013

This June 2013 photo shows space shuttle Atlantis on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The 900,000 square-foot facility centering around Atlantis will open to the public on Saturday.

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Space shuttle Atlantis will begin one last mission on Saturday ? and this is one on which we can join her.

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Here's a quick look into the current state of the new Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit opening at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in June 2013.

The Atlantis exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, will open to the public on Saturday, after a Friday event that boasts some 50 astronauts on the guest list.

Some 60 displays and interactive simulators in the new, much-heralded exhibit will tell the story of the entire NASA shuttle program, which was closed in 2011. Those shuttles ? beginning with the April 1981 launch of shuttle Columbia and continuing with the journeys of shuttles Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour ? were the space ambassadors on which Americans pinned their celestial dreams for some three decades.

And so, in the center of it all, is the space shuttle Atlantis.

?Although the multimillion-dollar interactive exhibit encompasses much, much more than the display of Atlantis, there is no denying, she is truly the star of the show,? said Bill Moore, chief operating officer of the visitor complex. ?We know that this majestic beauty, which safely ferried men and women to space and back on 33 successful missions, is the real reason that our guests will travel thousands of miles ? to see her in all her glory."

Bathed in purple-blue light, the shuttle?s new 90,000-square-home looks part hanger, part space. Raised some 30 feet off the ground, the shuttle is tilted at a 43-degree angle, as it would be in flight. Its payload doors are open and its robotic arm is extended. Visitors can walk both under and around the shuttle on suspended bridges, like astronauts bobbing around their home.

?Atlantis is on display as she would be normally in flight. It?s the first time ever that a lot of people are going to see her this close,? Tim Macy, director of project development and construction for Delaware North Companies Parks and Resorts, told Florida Today.

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Snowden seeks asylum in Russia even as Obama, Putin play down crisis

The FBI and Russia?s FSB security agency are in talks ordered by Obama and Putin to try to find a way to end the standoff over Edward Snowden, a Russian news agency reported.

By Howard LaFranchi,?Staff writer / July 1, 2013

Passengers walk to board the Aeroflot flight SU150 from Moscow to Havana, at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow Sunday, June 30. As US and Russian security agencies reportedly try to reach a deal on Edward Snowden's fate, the passport-less leaker of secret US documents remains 'marooned' in Moscow's international airport.

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US and Russian leaders offered comments Monday suggesting once again that they have no interest in allowing self-proclaimed whistleblower Edward Snowden to derail relations between their two countries.

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And even as President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin uttered words indicating that bilateral interests are likely to trump Mr. Snowden?s case, rumors swirled of attempts by American and Russian officials to resolve the week-old standoff over the former National Security Agency contractor?s status.

As US and Russian security agencies reportedly try to reach a deal on Snowden?s fate, the passport-less leaker of secret US documents remains ?marooned? in Moscow?s international airport, in the words of Wikileaks founder and Snowden defender Julian Assange.

The FBI and Russia?s FSB, the Russian state security agency, are in talks ordered by the two countries? presidents to try to find a way to end the Snowden standoff, Russia?s RIA news agency reported Monday.

The report followed comments by Mr. Putin earlier Monday that Snowden, who arrived at the Moscow airport eight days ago on a flight from Hong Kong, is free to remain in Russia on the condition that he stop divulging information that is ?damaging our American partners.?

Adding that he doubted the information freedom advocate would accept such a condition, Putin advised Snowden to decide what country he wants to go to and to ?move there.?

Putin?s comments followed reports, later confirmed by Russian officials, that Snowden applied for political asylum in Russia Sunday night. Putin repeated Monday that Russia will not extradite Snowden to the US, but Russia experts interpreted the Russian leader?s ?move out? advice to Snowden either as a signal to the US that he won?t be allowed to stay or as an attempt to provide Russia with cover from American displeasure should Snowden accept and back off on his leaking activities ? something Mr. Assange says won?t happen ? in order to stay.

Obama, in Tanzania on the last leg of a seven-day Africa tour, confirmed Monday that ?high level? discussions continue between the two countries concerning Snowden?s fate. Playing down any sense of a crisis between the two powers, Obama said only that Russia could resolve the standoff by adhering to ?normal? procedures between countries concerning fugitives from justice.

?We are hopeful that the Russian government makes decisions based on the normal procedures regarding international travel and the normal interactions that law enforcement [agencies] have,? Obama said.

Snowden has been charged with espionage and theft of government records. His passport was revoked by the US government when he was still in Hong Kong. The US has no extradition treaty with Russia.

Snowden on Monday handed Russian officials a list of 15 countries where he claimed to be applying for asylum, reportedly with the assistance of Wikileaks. One Russian official called the list a ?desperate measure,? according to the Los Angeles Times, after Ecuador?s President Rafael Correa appeared to shut the door Sunday on Snowden receiving asylum in his country.

It was President Correa?s apparent change-of-heart on Snowden that led Mr. Assange to describe the leaker as ?marooned? ? a term US officials said Monday is not accurate.

?You?ve heard Mr.?Assange?say earlier that he?s sort of marooned in Russia.??That?s not true,? said State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell Monday. Saying the US is prepared to issue Snowden ?one-way travel documents,? Mr. Ventrell added, ?He?s still a US citizen.?He still enjoys the rights of his US citizenship, which include the right to a free and fair trial for the crimes he?s been accused of.?

On Monday a group of prominent US actors, academics, and former whistleblowers and intelligence officials disclosed a letter they sent to Mr. Correa pleading with him to grant Snowden asylum.

The letter, signed by Hollywood activists Oliver Stone and Danny Glover, as well as Iraq war whistleblower Joe Wilson, was attached to a petition to Correa that the organization Just Foreign Policy claims carries 23,000 signatures.

The letter and petition reached Correa two days after Vice-President Joe Biden telephoned the Ecuadoran president to ask that Snowden be denied asylum.

But Just Foreign Policy believes Correa can and should still grant Snowden asylum.??

?Unprecedented government secrecy and an unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers are threatening the ability of Americans to control their government,? said the organization?s policy director, Robert Naiman. ?If President Correa grants asylum to Snowden,? he said, ?all Americans who love freedom will be in his debt."

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Winklevoss twins plan IPO for Bitcoins digital money

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Picture taken on January 11, 2011 shows Cameron (L) and Tyler (R) Winklevoss, founders of social networking website ConnectU, leaving the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco to attend a court hearing in a lawsuit against Facebook Inc. and its founder Mark Zuckerberg in San Francisco.

If you've been missing the Winklevoss twins (and who hasn't), they're back in the news again with a plan to offer shares to the public that would give investors exposure to the value of digital currency Bitcoins.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who alleged that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the website, have amassed nearly $11 million worth of Bitcoins, according to a report in the New York Times in April. The Winklevoss-Zuckerberg feud was portrayed in the 2010 film "The Social Network."

Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, which is designed to operate like an exchange-traded fund, will initially sell $20 million worth of shares, with each share worth a fraction of a Bitcoin, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed on Monday.

The shares are aimed at investors "seeking a cost-effective and convenient means to gain exposure to Bitcoins with minimal credit risk," the prospectus reads.

Bitcoins are a form of electronic money that is not managed by a single company or government. They are "mined" by software running a set of algorithms and their release is tightly controlled, mimicking a central banking system's control over the minting of money.

The value of a Bitcoin has been extremely volatile since the start of the year, rising from $13 in January to a peak of $266 in April and back down to around $100 last week.

Bitcoins have been touted by some as the future of money and gained in prominence amid the euro zone sovereign debt crisis as more people questioned the safety of holding their cash in the bank.

But others dismiss the currency as a Ponzi Scheme and authorities worry about its lack of regulation. In May, U.S. authorities seized two accounts linked to a major operator in the Bitcoin digital currency market.

The identical twins settled a lawsuit with Facebook in 2008 for cash and stock then valued at $65 million.

Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.

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