Must See HDTV (November 14th - 20th)

This week is all about going retro. Whether we're taking it back hundreds of years with knights and jousting, a half century or so for classics like West Side Story, My Fair Lady, and Looney Tunes, or just a decade to a classic videogame it's time to take a look back at where we've been. The good news is thanks to technology all are able to look better than ever -- although we'll hold off final judgement on the knights for now. Check below for the highlights this week, followed after the break by our weekly listings of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
It's been ten years since Halo set off the storm of console first person shooters, and now the original is back and looking better than ever. This will no doubt thrill those who never got over the loss of its super-powered pistol in the subsequent Halo games, or pretty much anyone with fond memories of CTF runs in Blood Gulch. Our friends at Joystiq found everything intact and upgraded, however the Kinect integration was noted as "perfunctory." We probably won't be yelling "Reload!" at our screens very much but we'll definitely take this chance to rewind the clock in HD & 3D.
(November 15th, $40 on Amazon)

Knights of Mayhem
we've never been in love with this trend of odd reality TV shows taking over networks that were previously devoted to science and exploration, but this one's odd enough that we'll give it a chance. Knights of Mayhem depicts the sport of full-contact professional jousting, all done King Arthur-style on horseback wearing heavy armor. We've seen enough episodes of Game of Thrones to know this can be pretty dangerous, but on the upside, a round might last longer than last weekend's UFC bout on Fox. Check out a trailer embedded after the break.
(November 15th, National Geographic, 9 & 10PM)

MLS Cup Final
The entire MLS season has come down to this weekend's final match between the LA Galaxy and Houston Dynamo. David Beckham has scored Comeback Player of the Year honors for his effort in returning from a torn Achilles to lead LA to the final match, we'll see if he and Coach of the Year Bruce Arena have what it takes to win the cup pictured above. That's about the extent of the soccer analysis we can offer, for the best of America's other pro football, tune in to ESPN Sunday night.
(November 20th, ESPN, 9PM)

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Tokyo stock exchange warns Olympus could be delisted (Reuters)

TOKYO (Reuters) ? Tokyo's stock exchange warned scandal-hit Olympus Corp on Thursday it will be delisted after 62 years as a publicly traded company if it fails to report earnings by December 14, deepening concerns about the Japanese camera-maker's future.

Olympus said it was unlikely to issue its earnings by an earlier November 14 filing date, but it aimed to meet the later deadline.

The company admitted on Tuesday to a decades long cover-up of securities losses that is being investigated by authorities in Japan, Britain and the United States. Tokyo police will also look into the scandal, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Thursday.

The report said police had asked Olympus for internal accounting documents and it would question Olympus executives to determine if financial laws were violated.

The scandal has raised doubts about the outlook for the once-venerable maker of cameras and endoscopes, which in the space of just under a month has lost more than 80 percent of its stock market value.

Experts said the only future for the 92-year-old firm might lie in being taken over, although potential buyers would likely steer clear until the dust settles.

"Delisting does not mean it can't survive, or that it would definitely be forced to declare bankruptcy," said Hiroyuki Fukunaga, CEO of investment expert Investrust. "It has lost a lot of capital but its businesses still have high value.

"Potential investors can't consider buying out the businesses until all of the investigations are complete."

Olympus has to delay its November 14 earnings announcement because its external auditor, Ernst & Young ShinNihon, will not have the information needed to sign off on the accounts, sources with knowledge of the matter said.

The auditor would want to wait for an independent panel appointed by Olympus to complete a review and the expected restatement of past earnings before signing off on its latest results, the sources said.

GLUT OF SELL ORDERS

The Tokyo Stock Exchange said it had placed Olympus on a supervisory list and demanded the company report earnings by mid December or be delisted.

Supervision is designed to prevent short-selling of a stock, but such trading had already been suspended by Japan Securities Finance, the processor of margin transactions.

Lawyers said if the third-party panel found Olympus made material mis-statements in its accounts, delisting would be almost inevitable.

Tokyo police would work with Japan's markets watchdog, which is already investigating, and with Tokyo prosecutors, and swap information with the U.S. markets regulator and the FBI, the Yomiuri newspaper added.

Olympus was first listed in 1949 as Japan embarked on a rebuilding effort following World War Two that led to its modern day industrial might.

Its shares were untraded on Thursday because of a glut of sell orders. The shares were marked down by their daily limit to 484 yen, a decline on the day of 17 percent.

The drop of over 80 percent in the stock since the scandal erupted on Oct 14 has wiped more than $6.7 billion from the company's market value.

The stock price started falling after sacked chief executive Michael Woodford went public with assertions Olympus had improperly accounted for $1.5 billion in payments related to mergers and acquisitions.

He said he was sacked for questioning the payments, although Olympus said he was dismissed over management issues.

For weeks, Olympus had denied any wrongdoing after Woodford turned whistle-blower. But it stunned investors on Tuesday by revealing it had used M&A deals to hide securities investment losses. The Nikkei newspaper said these may have exceeded $1 billion.

The firm said the revelation came to light through the independent inquiry it had commissioned, and it blamed three senior executives. Two of those executives were former president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, who has quit, and ex-vice president Hisashi Mori, who was dismissed. Both are still directors.

SHAREHOLDERS WANT ACTION

The scandal has rekindled criticism of Japanese corporate governance and authorities worry about the fallout on other companies.

"I fear this is inviting a major loss of confidence in Japan's capital markets," said ruling Democratic Party lawmaker Shinsuke Amiya, who is a member of a new party task force looking into possible legal changes as well as perhaps revising listing requirements and boosting the number of securities watchdog inspectors.

Investor pressure has mounted for a change of management.

UK fund manager Baillie Gifford & Co, which says it holds more than 4 percent of Olympus, called on the firm to reinstate Woodford, who had only been in the CEO's job for two weeks.

"What Olympus needs now is a thorough clean-up and we believe Michael Woodford is the best man for the job," Baillie Gifford partner and its head of developed Asia equities, Elaine Morrison, said in a statement.

"The current management of Olympus has been discredited by its original response to Mr. Woodford's allegations and its poor communications with shareholders. We expect all directors or employees linked to this wrongdoing to be dismissed and have their ties to the company severed."

The biggest foreign shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management, which has about 5 percent of the firm, has called for an extraordinary meeting of shareholders to sweep out all the remaining directors and its internal-audit board.

M&A experts and market analysts said potential buyers for Olympus, which has 70 percent of the global market for gastro-intestinal endoscopes, would steer clear until they knew what other problems might be lurking in its books.

"The camera business is not profitable as a whole, but Olympus has an endoscope share that companies envy. Olympus' debt load is what could stop them in their tracks," said Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management.

A report from Jiji news agency on Wednesday that creditor banks were considering changing conditions for their loans increased the uncertainty, although a banking source said it was too soon to consider specific action.

Olympus, founded as a pioneering Japanese manufacturer of microscopes, branched into cameras in the 1930s and two decades later expanded into gastrocameras, which became its mainstay profit earner. The Olympus group employed 39,727 people as of March this year.

(Additional reporting by Mark Bendeich, Chikafumi Hodo, Lisa Twaronite, Taiga Uranaka and Mari Saito; Writing by Linda Sieg; Editing by Dean Yates and Neil Fullick)

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Katy Perry Would 'Love To Have Children' With Russell Brand

'If it doesn't hurt the first time, I'll keep popping them out,' singer tells Ellen DeGeneres.
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Katy Perry and Russell Brand celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary last month, and now Perry is talking about starting a family ... eventually.

During her appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," which airs Friday (November 11), Perry was asked whether she and Brand have been making baby plans (you know, when she's not out on her unending California Dreams Tour), and she answered that yes, they've discussed it, but that's about as far as things have gone.

"I would love to have children. I think that's one of the reasons you get married, and especially to the person that you marry. You think, Hmmm, that person is going to be a good partner, a good parent," Perry told DeGeneres. "But I'm not sure it's yet. We'll see, you know?"

DeGeneres asked whether Perry wanted to have more than one baby, to which the singer replied, "If it doesn't hurt the first time, I'll keep popping them out."

"Word around town is it hurts," DeGeneres joked. "But people keep doing it anyway — they don't care."

Perry also talked about how she and Brand manage their busy schedules, saying they have a self-imposed two-week limit on time apart. "I saw him yesterday," she said. "[It had been] two weeks, that's the longest we ever go. Anything longer than that is not fun."

The couple was married on October 23, 2010, in a "private and spiritual ceremony" in India, one that not surprisingly received more than its fair share of tabloid coverage. A few weeks after the wedding, Perry told MTV News that she found all the rumors and speculation to be quite amusing, and added that she was "too busy getting married" to keep up with all the coverage.

"I don't mind my wedding has turned into kind of a myth. It's kind of cool," she said. "We kept it kind of private, so when we heard some of the things that were going around we were like, 'Ah, that's hilarious."

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Europe drags down General Motors' 3Q profit (AP)

DETROIT ? The fragile European economy is dragging down General Motors' profits, forcing its management to look harder for cost cuts and ways to boost revenue in the struggling region.

GM said Wednesday that its third-quarter net income fell 15 percent from a year earlier, pulled down by losses in Europe and South America and weak earnings in all areas except North America and China.

The company's shares fell over 10 percent to $22.31 Wednesday as GM executives were backed off an earlier prediction that the company would break even before taxes in Europe this year.

Europe faces a financial crisis and could slip into recession. Growth is slow is several key nations. Italy, the region's third-biggest economy, is bucking under the weight of government debt. Greece faces default unless it can accept a new debt deal, and the region also is dealing with high unemployment, stingy bank lending and declining exports. General Motors Co. is among the first U.S. corporations to forecast lower earnings due to the problems.

GM CEO Dan Akerson told industry analysts that the company's performance in Europe is due in part to slower sales "which itself is a manifestation of Europe's economic morass." He said the results in Europe and South America are "not sustainable and not acceptable" and said GM must look for more ways to control costs. But Akerson stopped short of giving specifics.

Sales in Europe are about 18 percent of GM's 2.2 million global total, but they are expected to weaken as the economy slows in the fourth quarter.

Citi Investment Research analyst Itay Michaeli said other automakers have hinted at difficulties in Europe, but GM was sounding a louder alarm based on the third-quarter performance.

Michaeli said he thought GM would have been able to remove more costs in Europe by now. Third-quarter costs at GM Europe were about even with a bad quarter a year ago, so that means more cuts will have to be made, probably by cutting factory capacity with plant closures, he said.

"These guys just aren't going to sit around and let Europe lose a bunch of money," he said. "I imagine they're working on plans to rightsize capacity to make money on lower (sales) volume."

In the third quarter, GM's net income fell to $1.7 billion, or $1.03 per share, compared with $2 billion, or $1.20 per share, a year earlier. The quarter's figures also included $200 million in dividends paid on preferred stock that didn't exist a year earlier.

GM posted a pretax loss of $292 million in Europe. Its profit rose slightly in North America to $2.2 billion, but earnings at its international operations, including China, fell 29 percent to $365 million. South American operations also swung to a loss of $44 million for the quarter.

Without the loss in Europe and the preferred stock payment, GM's net income would have increased.

Chief Financial Officer Dan Ammann said GM had a solid quarter, but needs to improve its profit margins in all regions. The company also needs to take better advantage of its global scale, building the same cars for all markets to cut engineering and research costs, he said.

Ammann said that in Europe, GM will follow the formula used to turn around the company's North American operations. GM cut its break-even point in North America by closing 16 factories since 2008. It also won concessions from the United Auto Workers union, and it rolled out new vehicles that are selling well. But Ammann wouldn't say for certain if plant closures are coming in Europe.

"There's nothing that's off the table," he said.

Ammann said the company has made significant progress in Europe and is more than $1 billion ahead of last year's pretax earnings.

Cutting costs appears to be a bigger challenge than trying to sell more cars in the region. It's difficult for GM to close plants and cut staff in Europe because of strong unions and laws that protect jobs.

European sales rose 4.6 percent during the third quarter. But the growth rate was about half the 9 percent increase GM reported worldwide.

In South America, Ammann said GM is revamping an aging car and truck lineup to try to boost sales. It also offered buyouts to employees that resulted in a 4 percent reduction in the work force there to deal with cost inflation, he said. GM is coming out with nine new vehicles in the next year in South America, including the Chevrolet Cruze compact and a subcompact named the Cobalt, he said.

Ammann said GM plans actions companywide to improve profit margins. Its profit margin, or pretax profit as a percentage of revenue, is around 6 percent, a full percentage point lower than its closest global competitors, Volkswagen AG and Ford Motor Co.

While the company plans to cut costs further, it mainly will boost profit margins by increasing revenue, he said.

"You can't cost-cut your way to prosperity in the business. You've got to grow the business, get the right vehicles on the road," he said.

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Ice Snitches and Cocktails Alike with These Frozen Bullets [Food]

Long known in assassin circles as a means of offing targets without leaving evidence, ice bullets now serve a less-than-lethal function—cooling your drinks. More »


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Auto-suggestion keyboard found hiding inside iOS 5

The panoramic camera mode isn't the only thing to be unearthed from within iOS 5. A familiar-looking predictive typing option has been unlocked by iOS tinkerer, Sonny Dickson, who tweeted several shots of the new keyboard in action. Like the rough-around-the-edges panorama mode, jail-breaking isn't necessary, requiring only the iBackupBot program to tweak your configuration settings. Tick yes to Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboard.plist, and you're away. We'd advise speed-typing obsessives to back up their devices to iTunes first, naturally.

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Malaria's Achilles' heel revealed?

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Researchers have today revealed a key discovery in understanding how the most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, invades human red blood cells. Using a technique developed at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, they have found that the parasite relies on a single receptor on the red blood cell's surface to invade, offering an exciting new focus for vaccine development.

Malaria kills approximately one million people every year, mostly children under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently no licensed vaccine is available.

The blood stage of Plasmodium's lifecycle begins when the parasite invades human red blood cells, and it is this stage that is responsible for the symptoms and mortality associated with malaria. Researchers have tried for many years to develop a vaccine to prevent the parasite gaining entry into our red blood cells, but so far they have been unsuccessful. One of the challenges is that the parasite is adaptable ? although several red blood cell receptors had been previously identified, none were shown to be essential: when entry through one receptor is prevented, the parasite is able to switch to another. This new research has found a single receptor that is absolutely required by the parasite to invade.

"Our findings were unexpected and have completely changed the way in which we view the invasion process," says Dr Gavin Wright, senior co-author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. "Our research seems to have revealed an Achilles' heel in the way the parasite invades our red blood cells. It is rewarding to see how our techniques can be used to answer important biological problems and lay the foundations for new therapies."

The interaction between the parasite protein and the host receptor was discovered using a technique called AVEXIS (Avidity-based Extracellular Interaction Screen). This technology, created by Dr Gavin Wright's team at the Sanger Institute, was specifically designed to detect extracellular receptor-ligand interactions of this type.

As well as identifying the interaction, the researchers demonstrated that disrupting this interaction completely blocked the parasite from gaining entry into the red blood cell. Importantly, this was true across all parasite strains tested, making it appear that the receptor is a universal entry pathway. It is hoped that the parasite's dependency on this one protein can now be exploited to develop new and effective vaccines.

"By identifying a single receptor that appears to be essential for parasites to invade human red blood cells, we have also identified an obvious and very exciting focus for vaccine development," says Dr Julian Rayner, senior co-author from the Sanger Institute. "The hope is that this work will lead towards an effective vaccine based around the parasite protein."

Vaccinating against malaria will be the most cost-effective and simplest way to protect populations against the disease. However, for such an approach to work at the population scale, the vaccine needs to be highly effective so that the vast majority of those vaccinated are immune to the disease. This new research identifies an exciting candidate for such a vaccine.

"Recent reports of some positive results from ongoing malaria vaccine trials in Africa are encouraging, but in the future more effective vaccines will be needed if malaria is ever to be eradicated," says Professor Adrian Hill, Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator at the Jenner Institute, Oxford. "The discovery of a single receptor that can be targeted to stop the parasite infecting red blood cells offers the hope of a far more effective solution."

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Italy Senate votes as Berlusconi era nears end (Reuters)

ROME (Reuters) ? Italy's Senate on Friday began debating economic reforms demanded by the European Union at the start of a rapid process that will end the Berlusconi era and clear the way for an emergency government within days.

The upper house began debating the package at 0930 GMT (4:30 a.m. ET) and is likely to pass it later in the day. It will then go to the lower house which will vote on Saturday, triggering the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Former European Commissioner Mario Monti, who is expected to replace the billionaire media magnate, was welcomed with applause when he took his place in the upper house after being appointed a Senator for life by President Giorgio Napolitano.

The appointment, transforming Monti from academic to legislator, is seen as a clear sign that he will be asked to head a largely technocratic government to push through urgent reforms and head off a perilous crisis. The new government is expected by Monday.

With Italy, the euro zone's third largest economy teetering close to losing control of its towering public debt, global financial markets have been panicked by the weeks of political uncertainty in Italy and the country's borrowing costs rocketed above sustainable levels on Wednesday.

Deeply alarmed by the crisis, Napolitano then banged heads to end the uncertainty and get a new government in place within days.

In a sign of the global concern at the crisis, U.S. President Barack Obama telephoned Napolitano on Thursday, expressing confidence that Italy could have an interim government in place quickly to reassure markets.

Berlusconi, who lost his majority in a vote on Tuesday, has promised to resign after the financial stability law is passed by both houses of parliament. The delay to his resignation, and talk of a long limbo before elections unnerved the markets.

Berlusconi is expected to resign after the Chamber of Deputies vote on the measures on Saturday and Napolitano could give a mandate to Monti as early as Saturday night or Sunday so that a government could be in place before markets open on Monday.

MARKETS CALMER, CENTER-RIGHT UNDER STRAIN

The expected end to political chaos appeared to have brought some calm to markets with yields on 10 year bonds back under 7 percent, the level countries like Ireland and Greece hit before being forced to seek an international bailout.

Monti, a highly respected international figure, has been favored by markets for weeks as the most suitable figure to lead a national unity government to urgently push through painful austerity measures.

A Monti government would be supported by most centrists and the biggest opposition force, the Democratic Party.

But Berlusconi's chief coalition partner, the Northern League, has said it would not back Monti and it is unclear how much support he will enjoy from Berlusconi's ruling PDL party.

With Berlusconi dropping his previous insistence on early elections, cracks have begun to widen between factions in the PDL, pointing toward a possible reshaping of the center-right.

The party, an amalgamation of Berlusconi's original Forza Italia party and the National Alliance, an offshoot of the old far-right MSI party, is built entirely around the billionaire entrepreneur and may break up once he leaves the stage.

"I see this risk. If there's no mediation, there's a risk of a breakup," Gianfranco Rotondi, a minister without portfolio who opposes a Monti-led government, told the daily La Stampa, adding that his opinion was "widely shared" in the PDL.

In one badly needed success that calmed markets somewhat, Italy managed to sell 5 billion euros ($6.8 billion) of one-year bonds on Thursday, but had to pay a whopping 6.087 percent interest rate, the highest in 14 years.

(Writing by James Mackenze, editing by Barry Moody)

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Watch This Image Disappear Before Your Very Eyes [Illusions]

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Geoffrey Mutai, Firehiwot Dado win at NYC Marathon (AP)

NEW YORK ? Geoffrey Mutai likes his chances in any championship-style marathon.

The Kenyan has turned in two eye-popping performances in seven months in races without pace-setters after he shattered the course record in the New York City Marathon on Sunday. He figures to be the favorite at next summer's London Games ? if he can make the Olympic team in a country so deep in the sport.

Mutai's performance was no surprise after he ran the fastest marathon ever earlier this year. Firehiwot Dado wasn't a favorite coming into the women's race and victory seemed impossible with even a few miles left. But the Ethiopian made a stunning comeback for her first major marathon title.

Mutai finished in 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds, crushing the previous mark of 2:07:43 set by Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia a decade earlier.

In April, Mutai ran the fastest 26.2 miles in history: 2:03:02 in Boston. It didn't count as a world record because the course is considered too straight and too downhill.

"I am happy now because even although it was not recognized, I'm happy to be at that level," Mutai said. "And I know one day, maybe I can come to do something. The course here ? it was tough. But the weather was so good. I think I'll try to maintain myself to prove it right."

With little wind on a cool, sunny day, the conditions were perfect for fast times. The second- and third-place finishers also broke the old course record. Fellow Kenyan Emmanuel Mutai (no relation), the London Marathon champ and course-record holder, ran a 2:06:28. Tsegaye Kebede of Ethiopia was third in 2:07:14.

Defending champ Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia was fourth.

Dado trailed London Marathon champ Mary Keitany by nearly 2 1/2 minutes at the 15-mile mark but passed her with about a mile left. The 27-year-old Dado won in 2:23:15 ? almost a minute better than her previous personal best.

"Because she'd been running so fast from the very beginning, I didn't imagine that we'd catch her," Dado said. "But when we did get closer and we saw her, I was very surprised and I was very happy."

Fellow Ethiopian Buzunesh Deba, who lives in the Bronx and enjoyed vocal support, was second for her first podium finish at a major marathon, four seconds back. It was the second-closest women's finish in the race's history.

"I'm so happy when they're cheering me," Deba said. "I know the course ? I train it two times a week in Central Park."

Keitany was third, 23 seconds back. The Kenyan pulled away right from the start and was well under course-record pace for much of the race. But she faded badly over the final miles, feeling fatigue in her legs.

The Ethiopians made up 32 seconds on Keitany between the 23- and 24-mile marks. When they caught her, she glanced over at them and briefly burst back ahead. But after Dado made her move, Keitany couldn't keep up, and Deba soon passed her too.

"Maybe if I come next year and my body will react OK, maybe no problem," Keitany said. "I would run the same. I would not change."

The Mutais still don't know whether they'll make the Olympic team or what the selection criteria will be. They may be competing with other Kenyan stars for just one spot. Abel Kirui is the two-time defending world champion, and Patrick Makau officially broke the world record in Berlin in September with a 2:03:38 ? on a flat course with pace-setters.

"Maybe all of you can see the difference about the races which people are breaking one record," Geoffrey Mutai said. "I don't think if those people can come here and run here, if they can break the world record here."

The 30-year-old Mutai earned $200,000 for winning and setting the course record. He's the first runner to win Boston and New York in the same year since Rodgers Rop in 2002.

Dado took home $170,000. Emmanuel Mutai won a $500,000 bonus as the World Marathon Majors champ.

A record 47,438 runners started the race through the five boroughs.

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