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What happens when you let two bots have a conversation? Cornell researchers Igor Labutov, Jason Yosinski and Hod Lipson find out. Follow the links at the bottom of this post for more about "AI vs. AI."

By Alan Boyle

Laughing babies, talking dogs and Rebecca Black may be Internet sensations, but if you want to add something more substantive?to your viral video diet, turn your dial to dueling chatbots, dancing Ph.D. theses and other highlights from the past year's surfeit of science videos.

Talking bots can be just as surprising and silly as talking dogs. Take "AI vs. AI," for example. Cornell researchers Igor Labutov, Jason Losinski and Hod Lipson took two Cleverbot artificial-intelligence programs, hooked them up to each other, and typed in "Hi" as an ice-breaker. Hilarity ensues.

"We just assembled the pieces, the audio and the avatars, and let the program run," Lipson, an associate professor at the Cornell Creative Machines Lab, told me today.

The funniest line in the video comes when one AI program tells the other that they're chatting together as robots. The other bot replies, "I am not a robot, I am a unicorn." Where did that come from?

"The conversations are based on millions of conversations that it had before," Lipson said. "Probably this term is something it had encountered in some conversation with a human." The best guess is that someone made a reference to the unicorn from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," and somehow that stuck in the Cleverbot's electronic brain.

The takeaway is that artificially intelligent chatbots can become as?petulant and irrational as the?humans who made them. This Cleverbot conversation provides further evidence of that. ("I'm talking about you ... how you are a creep," one clone-bot tells another.)

Here are?10 other clever and creepy science videos from 2011 to while away the minutes with. I've added links to more information about each of them at the bottom of this item:

Science educator James Drake put together 600 pictures from the International Space Station to create this video view of an orbital night flight. It's been viewed more than 6 million times on YouTube since September. Follow the links at the bottom for more night-flight videos.

One of the year's most trafficked videos is "A Day Made of Glass," which depicts Corning's vision for a glassy future. It's been viewed more than 16 million times on YouTube since February. Follow the links at the bottom of this story for more about the future of glass.

An octopus rises from the deep at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in California ... and walks over land on its legs. It turns out this behavior is not all that uncommon. The video is among Txchnologist's top 10 science videos. Follow the links at the bottom for more about walking octopi and the Txchnologist list..

Speaking of octopi, here's a soft robot that crawls along a surface like an octopus out of water. Follow the links at the bottom to see more videos from Chemical & Engineering News.

Soft robots may look cute, but this hard-charging AlphaDog Proto looks downright creepy. It's being developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA and the U.S. Marine Corps. The first version of the complete robot will be ready in 2012. Follow the links at the bottom to learn more about AlphaDog.

Minute Physics focuses on the faster-than-light neutrino research in its latest video. Follow the links listed below for more from Minute Physics.

Quantum levitation sounds like a science-fiction phenomenon, but the Superconductivity Group at the University of Tel Aviv shows that it really, really works. Watch this report from TODAY.com's Dara Brown, and follow the links at the bottom of this post to learn more.

In one of a series of math-themed videos, Vi Hart takes potshots at pi and talks up tau instead. And she proves she can make a cherry pie. Follow the links at the bottom for more about Hart and Tau Day.

Update for 8:35 p.m. ET: For 10 more must-see, humorous science videos, check out this?Tree of Life blog posting by UC-Davis biologist Jonathan A. Eisen. He says his No. 1 pick, ?the "Bad Project" Lady Gaga parody, is "simply awesome" ? and I simply agree.

More about the videos:

More year-end reviews:

Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.?

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LONDON (Reuters) ? For years a bronze statue of Alfred Salter sat on a bench looking out on a quiet bend of the River Thames, a memorial to a doctor who dedicated his life to a London district once infamous for Dickensian levels of poverty and disease.

Now the bench is empty after his statue fell victim to a wave of metal thefts sweeping Britain, threatening artworks and ravaging infrastructure as thieves seek to capitalize on soaring metal prices and a cash-in-hand scrap industry.

Memorial plaques and artworks are unsentimentally lumped together with electrical cables and drain covers in the hunt for illegal metal, which police say costs Britain hundreds of millions of pounds each year and kills two thieves a month.

"He was an inspiration to many people and a tireless campaigner against social injustice and so it's a great shame that thieves have now taken his memorial," said Salter's last remaining relative Johanna Crawshaw, who has pledged to double a council reward for information leading to the statue's return.

Reward posters are plastered all over Bermondsey, once home to a riverside slum depicted by Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist, in the London borough of Southwark.

The borough was also the site of another metal theft earlier this month, from a public park where only two stumps remain of a valuable artwork by renowned British sculptor Barbara Hepworth. The local government called the theft part of a "sickening epidemic."

Churches have reported the theft of metal war memorials and on Thursday Britain's Jewish Chronicle newspaper reported the theft of a bronze memorial commemorating Holocaust victims.

In Wales, University Hospital Llandough was forced to postpone more than 80 operations this month, including on cancer patients, after metal thieves targeted one of its generators.

"Staff and patients alike are appalled by this dangerous and irresponsible act, and it beggars believe that anyone could stoop so low," said Paul Hollard, deputy chief executive of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.

AUSTERITY CRIME?

The theft of rail network copper cables has caused thousands of hours of transport delays across the country, and the theft of power cables has plunged thousands of homes into darkness.

Some hapless thieves have been killed trying to steal live electrical cables.

Since January 2009, the price of the type of copper popular with thieves has more than doubled on the London Metal Exchange. Meanwhile, many more Britons' finances are being squeezed by the harshest public spending cuts for a generation, part of government plans to tackle a big budget deficit.

Scrap yards contacted by Reuters said they pay about 3.50 pounds ($5.50) for a kilo of copper, depending on quality and the market price on the day.

Some media outlets have labeled metal theft an opportunistic "austerity crime" at a time of economic difficulty, but police increasingly point to organized crime networks using sophisticated techniques.

"Police have found adapted ladders, tools, and even vans that have specially adapted trapdoors to winch up a manhole cover as they drive over it without being observed," London's Metropolitan Police service said in a statement.

"In September 2011, four men were arrested .... using two bogus BT (a telecoms firm) trucks, a BT van and a winch to steal underground cable," the statement continued.

Protecting metal from thieves is especially difficult in rural areas, where the police presence is usually small.

The church in the Yorkshire village of Haworth where the authors and sisters Charlotte and Emily Bronte are buried has launched an appeal for cash to fix its roof, whose repeated targeting by lead thieves has hastened its disrepair.

"It's a problem in rural England. These people have free rein to go pretty much undetected. We have a very small police presence. Our neighborhood policing team are great but there's only so much they can do .... We're easy pickings," said John Huxley, chairman of Haworth Parish Council.

POLICE TAKE ACTION

British police are ramping up efforts to tackle the crime, with the Metropolitan Police last week launching a Waste and Metal Theft Taskforce, while police across England and Wales this month took part in a national "day of action" against the practice, during which they searched hundreds of scrap yards.

In England's North East, which police say is the epicenter of railway metal theft, police are from January trialing a system in which scrap sellers must prove their identity so that stolen metal can be traced.

A large chunk of Britain's five billion pound-a-year scrap metal industry is cash-based, making it ideal for making money quickly without leaving a paper trail.

Parliament is considering a bill that would toughen scrap dealing laws, including ending trade for cash and giving greater police and judicial powers to close rogue yards. The British Metal Recycling Association says a cashless system would drive business to illegal yards [ID:nL5E7N51QU].

In the meantime, Southwark Council is carrying out a risk assessment of 165 pieces of public art in the borough, and may use closed circuit cameras to monitor more valuable pieces or put them in storage until they can be made safe.

Two statues already in storage are of Salter's daughter and her cat. Salter's seated statue, placed within sight of London's Tower Bridge, depicted him waving at his daughter in happier times, before she died of scarlet fever at the age of nine.

(Reporting by Mohammed Abbas; Editing by Peter Graff)

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When University of Colorado student Reid Pletcher crossed the finish line first in the men`s 20K classical at the NCAA Skiing Championships in Stowe, Vt., last week, it was the second time that day that a Buff raced those skis to a win.

Earlier, Eliska Hajkova won a sprint to finish first in the women`s 15K classical on the same skis. She didn`t know it until she greeted him at the finish line of his race.

"When we hugged each other, I was like, 'Did you have good skis?'" Hajkova said. "And he said, 'I have your skis!'"

(Actually, they`re team skis. "We were thinking, when we retire them, we`ll have them both sign them and put them on the wall," said Bruce Cranmer, head Nordic coach for the team.)

Hajkova and Pletcher are the 82nd and 83rd skiers to win individual NCAA titles for the ski team -- a legacy that goes back to 1959, when alpine skier Dave Butts brought home two championships for the school. It won four individual titles the next year, a feat students repeated in 1963, 2006 and 2008.

The CU ski team thus leads the nation in total individual NCAA champions; University of Denver follows, with 79.

"We`ve got a good group that push each other in training," Cranmer said. "Our focus has always been to try to win, and certainly some of this goes towards recruiting -- I basically go after the best I can find."

'Psychologically stronger`

Hajkova was almost a runner, not a skier. Her father, who ran hurdles, pressured her to race as a runner at a young age, but it stressed her out. One day at a race, when she heard the pistol, she turned and ran the other way.

"In the period I didn`t race, I was a Girl Scout, and it was just girls all the time; it was boring," Hajkova said with a laugh. "And my mom helped me find a sport that was girls and boys together, and the only thing was cross-country skiing."

Fortunately, Hajkova lived in Jablonec nad Nisou, one of the best places for Nordic skiing in the Czech Republic.

Now, she`s "one of the more fierce, hard-core competitors out there," Pletcher said.

In her classical race at the collegiate nationals, in pouring rain ("When I kicked, I felt the water between my toes in my boots," she said), she knew that it was a race of tactics -- especially against her frequent rival from Utah, Maria Graefnings.

"I wanted to be psychologically stronger," Hajkova said.

Graefnings attacked three times, she said, but she waited for the final hill and the sprint finish. And won.

Cranmer said it was a finish he`d waited all season to see.

The sprinters, at distance

Hajkova and Pletcher had shared skis before last week -- they swapped at the U.S. nationals, too. There, Hajkova was lined up at the start of that race with no skis, making jokes about running rather than skiing, waiting for Pletcher to finish.

Cranmer said Pletcher didn`t have a pair of no-wax skis -- what the conditions called for last Friday in Stowe -- and that he and Hajkova are similar in size and have similar styles. Though they won distance events, both are sprinters.

Pletcher grew up skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho, with his family. Despite skiing strong for the past two years at CU, this was his first chance to go to the championships.

"He was one of the top skiers from our region, but because we had so many good skiers -- I mean, he would have been the top skier for a lot of schools," Cranmer said.

"It breaks your heart when you`re not taking the guy ranked No. 4 in the region."

This year, finally there, he got a rocky start.

"The first race didn`t go well; I got 23rd," Pletcher said of his skate race. "So I didn`t know if I could pull it off, but turned it around for the classic race. I felt way better."

Cranmer said Pletcher recovered well.

"He kind of relaxed and thought about the racing," Cranmer said. "And I encouraged him to take care of the details and don`t worry about the big picture, it`ll take care of itself."

It did. In his classical race, he became only the third American to win an NCAA classical championship. But Pletcher talked about wanting to help the team, and wanting to race for Spencer Nelson, a teammate who died in a climbing accident last summer. (The ski team dedicated its season to him.)

"When I`m skiing for a team, I put a lot of pressure on myself because it`s a lot harder letting the team down than it is letting myself down," he said.

"Skiing, it`s a really close-knit community," Pletcher said. "You know everyone, there`s really good people to hang around with.

"And to be honest, it`s one of the most bad-ass sports."

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This is a private roleplay between myself and AkiraAsylum.

Early morning, when the sun rises and the rooster caws. It meant the start of another day for the servants of the royal court. One in particular, A young Chambermaid to the king himself, woke on this morning. She was quick to dress in her uniform, a pale dress and a dark apron tied around her waist. She had her raven hair tied up and out of the way. When she was satisfied with her appearance she left the servants quarters and rushed to the kitchens. The cook had been awake for a good amount of time now, already preparing breakfast. When the young woman entered she was greeted with a warm smile, One of the few she would see that day.

"Morning Yvette." The cook grumbled through his thick mustache. Yvette returned the warm smiled and nodded. "I am to wake the king in a few moments time. Is his meal ready?" She asked softly, turning to the silver platter that was meant to carry the food. The cook nodded, quickly placing the plates of cooked meats and toast, fresh juices and a plate of eggs. Yvette gave a faint nod and gathered the tray up, turning from the kitchen. She made her way up the twisting stair cases and through the hallways until she came to a large ornate door adorned with a large red and gold lions head.

Yvette nudged the door open with her foot and slipped inside, resting the tray on the dark wooden table by the kinds bed side. She set out the plates, turned to the closet to get the kings clothes for the day ready then turned back to the bed. "My Lord." She said softly, reaching out to gently touch the kinds shoulder. The man stirred and his cold eyes turned up to meet the young maids. He said nothing, only grunted at her presence while he sat. Yvette didn't need to be spoken to in order to know what the king desired. She fetched the plate of assorted meats and presented it to her king, bowing her head.

When the king was fed and dressed he stood, hardly glancing at the maid at his side. "Take these plates to the kitchens, then greet the knights when they arrive." He commanded. Yvette bowed once, gathered the dishes and turned to do as she was asked. She stood at the gates with her hands folded, waiting for the knights to arrive.

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OKLAHOMA CITY ? Kevin Durant thought he might have just given away a victory and let the Dallas Mavericks steal another one in heartbreaking fashion.

Then he found a way to take it right back.

Durant scored 30 points and hit a 3-pointer at the final buzzer to lift the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 104-102 win against Dallas on Thursday night in a rematch of last season's Western Conference finals.

"As a kid, of course you dream about hitting a game-winning shot in the NBA," said Durant, who has hit two other game-winners at the buzzer in his five seasons.

"It's a dream come true."

The Thunder let Dallas wipe away a five-point deficit in the final 46 seconds to go ahead on Vince Carter's 3-pointer with 1.4 seconds remaining. That was just enough time for Thabo Sefolosha to get the ball to Durant, who drilled a 3 from the right wing that improved his team to 4-0.

"It was crazy, a crazy course of events," Durant said. "When two tough teams always go at it, it always comes down to the last play."

Dirk Nowitzki had 29 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Mavericks, whose title defense is off to a 0-3 start. Dallas had been blown out in its first two losses against Miami and Denver before letting a close one slip away.

"I think the more we go out and just play the game itself more, good things happen on the court," Shawn Marion said.

"We've got to just go out there and stop worrying about other things and just go out there and just play the game and just play hard."

Russell Westbrook had 16 points in his second straight subpar performance, but he made up for it with a few critical plays down the stretch.

He started the game 3 for 11 ? with one of the makes coming when Jason Kidd blocked his shot and Brendan Haywood tipped it up and in ? and had seven turnovers before getting a longer-than-usual benching in favor of Eric Maynor.

Westbrook returned when the game got close midway through the fourth quarter, providing a momentary lead with a two-handed breakaway dunk that turned into a three-point play.

He followed that with a 17-footer from the right wing for a 96-93 lead, but the Mavericks ? who made it a habit to stage late comebacks against Oklahoma City in last season's West finals ? had a few tricks left.

Nowitzki tied it at 96 with a 3-pointer but, after a Durant jumper, was called for a technical foul for arguing an offensive foul. Durant hit that foul shot and Westbrook added another jumper from the right elbow to put Oklahoma City up 101-96 with 46 seconds left.

Jason Terry hit a 3-pointer to get Dallas within two. Durant then missed a 3-pointer at the other end and Serge Ibaka missed both of his free throws after getting fouled on an offensive rebound.

Nowitzki pitched it back to Carter for the go-ahead 3, and Durant blamed himself for going for a block against Nowitzki and leaving Carter open.

Durant returned to the bench for a timeout, with rookie Reggie Jackson screaming encouragement that he was going to hit the game-winner.

"I just tried to be confident, tell myself I could make it and luckily I did," Durant said.

"It's special to hit a game-winner," he added. "The season's still young. To beat the champs in the early season is always pretty cool, but we've got to move on and get ready for the next game."

Ibaka finished with 16 points, eight rebounds and three blocks for Oklahoma City.

Terry had 16 points and nine assists, and Delonte West scored 15 for the Mavericks, who rallied from 15 points down in the final 5 minutes of regulation in Game 4 of the West finals ? the teams' last meeting that counted in the arena. Dallas also overcame an eight-point, fourth-quarter deficit in the clinching Game 5.

Before the game, both Oklahoma City All-Stars downplayed a report in The Oklahoman of a dispute between them during the team's win at Memphis a night earlier.

"It wasn't nothing that people should be blowing out of proportions," Durant said. "It happens every single day. Teams go through emotions, things happen. It's a competitive sport. Everybody's not going to always come in and be happy every single day."

Westbrook simply said: "What happened? I don't know what you're talking about."

Coach Scott Brooks said the whole team was frustrated over a series of bad possessions of pick-and-roll defense and everyone, not just the superstars, but he didn't see it as anything out of the ordinary.

"To me, an altercation ? in my world, it's a fight or it's a shove or something like that. A debate or a discussion is totally different than an altercation but that did not happen," Brooks said. "I've been coaching these guys for four years and we haven't had one fight, which surprises me, and we haven't had any issues that were below the belt that I had to step in."

Brooks said he thinks it drew more attention only because the Thunder are now a prominent team.

"I don't really think nothing happened. ... Everybody on the bench was yelling, the coaches was yelling, not at each other in a bad way but trying to get everything in order," Durant said.

NOTES: The Mavs beat the Thunder in five games in the West finals, then lost both preseason games against Oklahoma City. Yet another meeting is scheduled for Monday in Dallas. Thunder coach Scott Brooks admitted revenge could be a factor. "Most of our guys are not too far out of high school, so when your crosstown rival beats you, you want to beat them the next Friday night," Brooks said. ... After being outrebounded 98-68 in its first two games, Dallas was even on the boards. Both teams had 38. ... Oklahoma City had 26 turnovers.

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I watched TRON: Legacy a few nights ago and an idea started to form into my head. A sandbox (free roam) based roleplay about the city of the grid. Set about 20 years (like, 150 cycles..?) after TRON: Legacy so a lot of the tech is updated but not much so as to keep with the TRON universe and not go overboard. I hope I can snag somebody who is rather versed with TRON to help me along with the tech and story as I'm no expert. Although things will be different since its set in the future and I don't have a story set yet. With hope, we can collaborate on how to form the overall story and not make it "just another empty sandbox". So far, I have an idea about a "Rise of the hackers" but thats about it actually.

Hopefully, with all luck, almost any weapon you can think of, from the chakram Identity disk to a claymore to a pistol to a machinegun. A lot of free expression to go along with your characters will be allowed too. As long as you can back it up, it can be done.

Instead of some useless quote, I'm putting my dawning Roleplay ideas here in my Sig. If you see something you like. Message me and we'll talk.

Hmm, digital world, light cycles, users. TRON. Ideas are sprouting my friends

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Hey there,

I'm Akira and I've been role playing for a little more two years now. I'm looking for a few people to start role playing with. I'm usually good at coming up with ideas but like having someone to bump those ideas off of and forming a greater role play with; Like a snowball. :D I'm pretty laid back, at least I like to think so, but I like planning so everyone is on the same page. I'm a little shy so I love it when people speak their minds. :3
I usually write four paragraphs and up. I've had up to eight characters before but prefer around four. I certainly don't mind groups, in fact, I really like them since that means even more people to throw ideas in and make it unique. I usually have male characters but may throw a female in there time to time. I'm fine with pretty much any gender/type relationship.
I am a high school student, currently on break, so there is a good chunk of the day I can't reply but will once I get home. Also, my cat likes to try to type. ^.^;

Role plays I'm interested in

There is a lot more I'd be willing to do but those are just my top few. If you have any ideas and want to throw them my way feel free. I'm open to most ideas.

Here's an idea I had:

Two males in their early twenties enter the life of prostitution. After a few years of working, one gets tired, numbs, and sick of the lifestyle. Something snaps in him and he begins killing females within a certain age group.

2. It could be unknown to the other male and they remain friends until he finds out

3. The other male could find out early on and try to get him to stop

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December 26, 2011

On Monday, PLO official Mohammed Eshtayeh said the Palestinian Authority (PA) might cancel its 1993 recognition of the state of Israel if a peace agreement could not be reached.

Eshtayeh made the comment in an interview the London-based Sharq al-Awsat newspaper, calling the recognition of Israel "an unbalanced one."

Eshtaiyeh also said that the PLO recognized Israel in 1993 "geographically."

"However," he continued, "Israel did not recognize Palestine geographically, but only as an institution. It only recognized the PLO. We now ask for a mutual recognition: we want Israel to recognize Palestine on the 1967 borders."

Eshtayehh also said that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was determined to say there is no difference between the illegal settlement of Har Homa and Tel Aviv, then Palestinians would not differentiate between Ramallah and Jaffa.

According to Eshtayeh, Palestinian efforts from now on would concentrate on internal issues, saying, "Mahmoud Abbas is interested in uniting Palestinians."

Eshtayeh, part of the Palestinian negotiating team, also talked about the possibility to canceling the Oslo agreements, just days after Hamas and the Islamic Jihad agreed to join the PLO and prepare for May elections for the main two bodies of the organization, the Palestinian National Council and the Executive Committee.

PLO executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi said no formal position about recognition of Israel had been decided.

Ashrawi told the "Voice of Palestine" radio that withdrawal of recognition was a last option if Israel made no progress towards peace. She said that first legal responses must be formulated to Israels expansion of settlements and Judaization of Jerusalem. Ashrawi also said that Palestinians must work on civil resistance projects in Jerusalem.

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ? Three U.S. citizens were among those killed when gunmen attacked buses in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, said a U.S. State Department official said on Saturday.

The three were traveling for the holidays when they and several other passengers on the bus were killed by gunmen on Thursday, according to the U.S. official and local media.

The incident was one of several that day in which gunmen attacked busses in the eastern state, a major oil export hub that has lately become a flashpoint for drug gang violence.

On Friday, the tortured bodies of 10 people were found in northern Veracruz, local media reported, as attacks in the region intensify between the Zetas gang and Gulf drug cartels.

In September, 35 bodies were dumped along a downtown highway in the Veracruz city of Boca del Rio.

More than 45,000 people have been killed in cartel-related violence since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006.

(Reporting by Patrick Rucker)

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MELBOURNE | Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:48am GMT

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's callow bowling attack has tantalised with the promise of a brave new era, but faces its stiffest examination against India's veteran batsmen in the first test in Melbourne starting Monday.

Sachin Tendulkar, Vangipurappu Laxman and Rahul Dravid will almost certainly face Michael Clarke's team for the last time Down Under in the four-test series, having come agonisingly close in the past to pulling off India's first series win on Australian soil.

Unlike many chastened visitors, the prolific run-scoring trio have delighted in Australia's quick and bouncy decks and relish the idea of continuing the harvest at the batsman-friendly MCG with unfinished business on their minds.

"Winning against Australia is the dream of all cricketers, not only from India but anywhere in the world, because when you play Australia in Australia it's probably one of the toughest cricket (contests) a player can play," Laxman told reporters on Friday in the bowels of the famed stadium.

"Australian surfaces are best for batting. Personally, I always relish batting on such conditions than the subcontinent conditions because once you see the new ball, there's true bounce on the wicket and you can play a lot of your shots and you get value for your shots.

"I think the key would be to get a big score in the first innings and I firmly believe that at the MCG if you can get a big total in the first innings you can put the opposition under pressure straight away."

India, second in test rankings, have arguably their best shot of breaking their duck Down Under in decades, coming against a fourth-ranked Australian side in flux following their humbling Ashes defeat on home soil last year.

With Mitchell Johnson ruled out for the series and Shane Watson sidelined, Australia's bowling hopes rest largely on the shoulders of a talented 21-year-old quick who has played only two tests and an offspinner who has contested seven five-day matches.

Paceman James Pattinson impressed with two five-wicket hauls in his first two tests against New Zealand but enjoyed the benefit of devilish pitches in Brisbane and Hobart.

Nathan Lyon has given rise to hopes that Australia has found a quality spinner to fill the gaping hole left by Shane Warne, but faces an acid test against India's accomplished players of spin.

BATTING COLLAPSES

More concerning for Australia has been the form of their batsmen, however, who have perfected the art of suffering batting collapses when pressing for victory.

Their 47 against South Africa in Cape Town and their dismal buckling to lose the Hobart test against New Zealand prompted Australia's cricket honchos to convene a batting boot camp to get them to sharpen up before the Boxing Day test.

It also led to the dumping of youngsters Phil Hughes and Usman Khawaja, who squandered their chances to cement their places at the top of the order.

Shaun Marsh has been rushed back into the side to give the batting line-up some spine, ironically after suffering a debilitating back injury, while Ed Cowan, the form player in the Sheffield Shield, will debut at the top of the order after scoring a century during the tour match in Canberra this week.

Australia's transition remains stuck in the middle to some extent, however, with former captain Ricky Ponting and his fellow greybeard Mike Hussey seemingly determined to hang on like party guests ignoring their hosts' hints to leave.

Cut down repeatedly by New Zealand's honest, if workmanlike, bowlers, the pair will hope to make amends against India's depleted attack at the MCG, where the tourists have lost their last four tests and have not won since 1981.

India's bowling lacks the quality of its batting, a fact former Australian players have queued up to point out this week, with Zaheer Khan coming back after a long lay-off with injury and Ishant Sharma rested earlier this week with a sore ankle.

They will not be wanting for crowd support, however, with Melbourne's large Indian population likely to turn out in force to see Tendulkar's bid for his 100th international century, a feat many local fans would also delight in.

The 38-year-old "little master" has come tantalisingly close in recent test matches, each attempt monitored slavishly by his home nation of a billion people. The growing pressure to reach the mark would hardly register on him, though, Hussey told reporters in Melbourne Friday.

"Just seeing how the public deals with Sachin in India, he's under enormous pressure no matter where he plays no matter what the situation, so I'm sure he'll be able to handle it no problems," he said.

(Editing by Pritha Sarkar)

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The 2010 midterm elections were very predictable. But the GOP sweep left me with some concerns for the future that affect me and millions of other Americans who may be in the same boat.

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The top concern I have is talk of a repeal of health care reform, known to some as "Obama Care." The GOP, in particular incoming House Speaker John Boehner, has vowed to cancel major provisions of the recently enacted health care bill.

I am a four-time cancer survivor who cannot get insurance unless I want to pay more than $2,000 a month for it. "Obama Care" would help me reduce out-of-pocket expense of weekly doctor visits and medications that help me sustain life. Canceling funding would mean me and millions of American's who continue to be uncovered.

An additional concern that is equal to the repeal of the health care bill is the possible block of unemployment insurance by the GOP. They have voted to block any further benefits previously, yet our unemployment rate is still high.

If this is blocked, the rate of homeless will increase. There is a black hole when a person becomes homeless, making it harder to gain sustainable employment due to lack of address and, often, hygiene. By blocking these benefits, it could essentially put millions of Americans in that hard-to-get-out-of black hole.

Lastly, the GOP sweep is a blow to the plight of equality for gays. The GOP has strongly opposed gays openly serving in the military and their rights to marry. My brother is an openly gay man who has had his heart broken anti-gay measures around marriage. I am sure he is not the only one to suffer from the inequalities the GOP supports.

The GOP has openly it believes the sanctity of marriage would be affected by gays being allowed to marry. This is farthest from the truth. Their continuing to block equality across the board will do nothing but continue to hold our country back from the potential is has.

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FILE - In this July 27, 2010 file photo shows one of the stacks at the Four Corners Power Plant, near Fruitland, NM. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is slated to release rules aimed at reducing mercury pollution from large coal-fired power plants. The Four Corners Power Plant in the Four Corners region stands ready to meet the rules, but the new standards did play a role in Arizona's largest utility planning to shutter three generators at a coal-fired power plant it runs on the Navajo Nation.(AP Photo/Paul Foy, file)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Clean up or shut down.

That's the decision facing hundreds of the nation's oldest and dirtiest power plants under an Environmental Protection Agency rule announced Wednesday that will force plants to control mercury and other toxic pollutants for the first time.

The long overdue national standards rein in the largest remaining source of uncontrolled toxic pollution in the U.S. ? the emissions from the nation's coal- and oil-fired power plants, which have been allowed to run for decades without addressing their full environmental and public health costs.

The impact of the ruling will be greatest in the Midwest and in the coal belt ? Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia ? where dozens of units likely will be mothballed, according to an Associated Press survey. The majority of facilities will continue to run, and find ways to reduce pollution.

About half of the 1,200 coal- and oil-fired units nationwide still lack modern pollution controls, despite the EPA in 1990 getting the authority from Congress to control toxic air pollution from power plant smokestacks. A decade later, in 2000, the agency concluded it was necessary to clamp down on the emissions to protect public health.

At a news conference Wednesday at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the regulation was the Obama administration's "biggest clean air action yet", trumping a landmark agreement to double fuel economy standards for vehicles and another rule that will reduce emissions from power plants that foul the air in states downwind.

The administration was under court order to issue a new rule, after a court threw out an attempt by the Bush administration to exempt power plants from toxic air pollution controls.

"Before this rule, there were no national standards limiting the amount of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases that power plants across the country could release into the air that we breathe," said Jackson, listing the contaminants linked to cancer, IQ loss, heart disease and lung disease that are covered by the rule, and that also pollute lakes, streams and fish.

In a video released Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama said the decades of delays caused by special interest groups that resulted in standards never being put into place for power plants "was wrong."

"Today, my administration is saying, 'Enough'," he said.

When fully implemented in 2016, the standards will slash mercury pollution from burning coal by 90 percent, lung-damaging acid gases by 88 percent and soot-producing sulfur dioxide by 41 percent.

Power plant operators will have to choose between installing pollution control equipment, switching to cleaner-burning natural gas, or shutting down the plant. None of those choices come cheap ? the EPA estimates the rule will cost $9.6 billion annually, making it one of the most expensive the agency has ever issued.

Some power producers intensely lobbied the Obama administration to weaken the rule and to delay it, and Republicans in Congress passed legislation to do so, saying it would threaten jobs and the reliability of the power grid, and raise electricity prices.

To ease those concerns, the administration will encourage states to make "broadly available" an additional fourth year to comply with the rule, as allowed by the law. Case-by-case extensions could also be granted to address local reliability issues, according to a presidential memorandum sent Wednesday to Jackson.

In the memorandum, Obama directs the EPA to ensure that implementation of the rule "proceed in a cost-effective manner that ensures electric reliability."

Environmentalists said Wednesday that the added flexibility did not jeopardize the public health benefits of the regulation.

"After more than two decades of delay, dirty coal-fired power plants are going to be cleaned up in short order," said Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, who said the EPA "bent over backwards" to accommodate concerns about reliability.

For those in the industry, and some in Congress, the concessions didn't go far enough.

Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate's environment committee, said he would file a joint resolution, a rarely used Congressional tactic, to get the rule overturned.

Some in the industry pushed for an automatic delay, or "safety valve," to make sure that plants that have to run to ensure reliability aren't found in violation of the rule and too many plants don't close down at once. In addition to those that will retire, hundreds of units will need to be idled temporarily to install pollution control equipment. Some of those units are at critical junctions on the grid and are essential to restarting the electrical network in case of a blackout, or making sure voltage doesn't drain completely from electrical lines, like a hose that's lost its water pressure.

The Edison Electric Institute, whose members were split on the toll of the rule, said in a statement Wednesday that while the EPA "made useful technical changes", it believes "the administration is underestimating the complexity of implementing this rule in such a short period of time."

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, which is an association of companies producing electricity from coal, said the rule will destroy jobs, raise the cost of energy and make electricity less reliable. A study by the group estimated that as much as 12 percent of coal-fired generation would be forced to retire due to the regulation.

But an AP survey of 55 power plant producers found that estimate, and others, to be inflated. The mercury rule, along with another to reduce power plant pollution that blows downwind, will force portions of more than 32 mostly coal-fired power plants in a dozen states to retire, and put another 36 power plants on the brink of retirement.

But not a single operator interviewed said the EPA was solely to blame for the decision. And coal is still likely to be the country's dominant electricity source until 2035, according to the Energy Information Administration.

For the older, aging plants, many of which only ran when electricity demand peaked, the rules were the final blow. Coal was already struggling to compete against low natural-gas prices, demand from China and elsewhere driving up its price, and lower electricity demand.

The average age of the units retiring or at risk of shutting down was 51 years old, the AP found. And while they produce enough power for more than 22 million households, experts say they probably won't cause the lights to go out, because in many cases the power is being replaced.

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BRUSSELS ? Europe's main weapon in the battle against climate change is now fighting for its own survival.

In early January, investors in the continent's cap-and-trade system still had to pay some euro14 ($18.30) for the right to emit one ton of carbon dioxide into the air. By last week, the price of one emission allowance had tumbled to a meager euro6.41 ? making it much cheaper to pollute and slashing the financial incentives for companies to invest in low-carbon technologies.

Analysts warn that the prospect of another recession in the debt-ridden continent, and the accompanying decline in emissions, could push prices below euro2 by the end of next month.

The troubles in the carbon market, a system being watched closely from California to China, is linked to the struggles of Europe' other ambitious project, the euro. And just as financial investors have looked to the European Central Bank to save the currency through massive intervention in the bond markets, analysts say the emissions market may need similar centralized help.

Last week, 19 companies, including oil giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Philips Electronics NV and supermarket chain Tesco PLC, sent a letter to the European Commission urging it to reduce the number of emission allowances in the system and figure out how to protect the market from future economic shocks. The commission and national governments jointly manage the cap-and-trade system.

"The lower price is really undermining the development of technologies that will be needed in the decades to come," said David Hone, Shell's climate change adviser.

Shell, which is mostly known for selling oil and gas, has been one of the pioneers of carbon capture and storage, projects in which CO2 emissions are stored underground so they don't get released into the atmosphere and contribute to global warming. But investing in new technologies like carbon capture and storage only becomes commercially viable at a carbon price of between euro25 and euro30, Hone said.

"Over the last few months, we have seen some of these projects disappear," he added.

In October, the U.K. government shut down the carbon capture project in Longannet in eastern Scotland in which Shell was one of the partners.

While the prospect of another recession is the main reason for the recent drop in carbon prices, experts say that ? just like with the euro ? serious flaws in the system are exacerbating the problems and could lead to its failure if they can't be fixed.

The economic crisis has lowered emissions and thus hit the price of carbon allowances. But the drop has been so dramatic because there were too many allowances in the system to begin with.

To get industry and skeptical governments on board, the Commission set a very high cap for emissions when it launched the carbon market in 2005.

Since then, most allowances have been given out for free to the 11,000 power stations and factories covered by the system based on their historical emissions. Companies that emit less carbon dioxide than they are allowed can sell their spare permits to firms that exceed their limit. As of next year, airlines will also be included in the system.

But the big test for Europe's carbon market ? and whether it can provide the financial incentives for cutting emissions ? will come in 2013, when governments start selling a growing number of allowances at auctions.

It is before then that the Commission has to intervene, say the companies that wrote last week's letters.

There are signs that their calls are being heard.

On Tuesday, the environment committee of the European Parliament voted to withdraw some 1.4 billion allowances, about 15 percent of the total, from the carbon market between 2013 and 2020. At the same time, the committee said, the annual cap should be cut by 2.25 percent per year, rather than the 1.74 percent currently planned.

While the committee vote is the first step in a long process of changing the system and few industry watchers expect the figures to survive negotiations among EU states trying to protect their national industries, it caused carbon prices to jump more than 18 percent.

"It opens up a much deeper discussion about what does the intervention look like and when is it going to happen," says Sanjeev Kumar, an expert on carbon trading at environmental watchdog E3G in Brussels.

"Without intervention," warned Kumar, "not only the ETS is over, but Europe's climate policy is over. It will put Europe back into the dark ages."

Apart from failing to encourage the necessary cuts in emissions and technological innovation, the collapse in the carbon price could also worsen Europe's debt crisis.

Between 2013 and 2020, when companies have to pay for more and more of their allowances, the cap-and-tade system could raise as much as euro190 billion for government across the EU if prices recover.

"This is a pretty important revenue stream for most member states," says Rob Elsworth, of climate campaign group Sandbag in London. "And they are watching revenues just disappear."

Experts like Kumar and Elsworth are hopeful that states will garner the political will to save the carbon trading system, which has pioneered the market-based approach to saving the environment.

"If you take away this green-economy narrative," asked Elsworth, "what's really left of Europe?"

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A large burst of air wisped through Nolan?s mouth as he gave a sigh of relief as Carmen left the room. After he had heard that her heels were about five clicks away, he kneeled in closer toward the body to get a better look. ?Mortencia? Where?s Mortencia, get her in her please.? Nolan ordered with a slightly firm, yet still calm voice.

Not more than two seconds later, a tanned-colored woman entered the bathroom stalls. She was very short, around 5? 2? maybe, and had a two purples streaks down each side of her jet black hair. She had multiple piercings on her left ear and only one on her right. Her body was completely covered in protective wear, and she quickly cracked open a black box and got to work. She reached out toward the corpse with her latex covered fingers and felt around the woman?s face and jaw line.

?The victim?s muscles are now going through the rigor mortis process. Although I can?t be for sure without further testing, I?d guess that she?s been dead for three to four hours. There?s red spotting around her face and eyelids, that?s often a sign of death by asphyxiation. Bruising around the neck and?? she paused to slightly tilt the victims head, ?and behind the head. It looks as if a blunt object was used.?

Mortencia continued to reel off other facts and figures that she found from the victim, while Nolan looked around the room for other signs of evidence.
?I hate to say it,? he started, ?but this guy is good. Three years tracking him and he?s yet to make a mistake.?

Mortencia paused and looked up from her work. ?You sound as if you admire this guy.?

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Amidst the hype surrounding Apple's latest smartphone, it's easy to forget what makes the iPhone so popular in the first place. But pick one up, and it's easy to remember: It's the gorgeous, industrial design, killer display, easy-to-use OS, and unbeatable app experience. And now, with the arrival of the iPhone 4S, Apple has finally worked out the calling kinks that plagued its devices in the past.

This time around, the iPhone 4S is available on AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon. AT&T's model is the best of the three. On AT&T you get support for simultaneous voice and data, as well as faster 3G speeds via AT&T's HSPA+ 14.4 network. So why are we rating this phone lower on AT&T than on Sprint? Because AT&T is making a much more aggressive push towards 4G LTE than Sprint is, and the iPhone 4S is not a 4G device.

(Sprint has an existing 4G WiMAX network, but at the moment that carrier's 4G strategy is muddled, as it's in the midst of transitioning between two technologies. AT&T's path is much clearer.)

Cellular Radio and Call Quality
See our review of the iPhone 4S on Sprint?($199.99 - $849.99, 4.5 stars) for a detailed look at the phone's hardware, software, and new features. Here we're going to focus on what makes the AT&T phone different, and how it performs on AT&T's network.

RF reception on the 4S was on par with the?Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket?($149.99, 4.5 stars) and other top AT&T phones.?Call quality on AT&T's network was also very good. Voices sounded loud, full, and natural in the phone's earpiece. Calls made with the phone sounded a bit thin, but still loud and clear, and background noise cancellation works very well. Transmissions through the speakerphone are also clear, and fine for indoor use, but not loud enough to use outdoors.

The 4S switches between its top and bottom antennas depending on which one is receiving better signal, which means it'll ignore whichever one you're covering with your hands. This design killed the "death grip" problem on the Sprint model, and it does the same here. By holding the phone in a strange, two-handed grip I was able to lower data speeds, but it wasn't significant, and it wasn't the kind of grip anyone would ever use to hold or talk on a phone.

The iPhone 4S also delivers on Apple's promise of longer battery life. I got 9 hours, 6 minutes of talk time with a strong 3G signal.

Data Speeds and Conclusions
Judging from the results we collected earlier this year in our testing for the Fastest Mobile Networks, we found that AT&T has the fastest 3G network in the U.S. That means the iPhone 4S, a 3G device, should be faster on AT&T than it is on Sprint or Verizon.

In my tests, the 4S on AT&T easily beat the same model on Verizon. The AT&T device averaged 3Mbps down and 1Mbps up, while the Verizon phone averaged a much lower .8Mbps down and .5Mbps up. The iPhone 4S, which uses an HSPA+ 14.4 modem, is also a lot faster than the iPhone 4, which has a slower HSPA 7.2 modem. In the same series of tests, the iPhone 4?on AT&T ($99.99, 4.5 stars) averaged 1Mbps down and .4Mbps up.

The iPhone 4S is also a good HSPA device in general. Speeds were comparable to those on a Samsung Infuse 4G?($24.99, 3.5 starts), which has an even faster HSPA+ 21 modem. The iPhone 4S on AT&T is also capable of simultaneous voice and data, which is unavailable on 3G phones on Sprint and Verizon.

But the 4S doesn't take the best advantage of AT&T's network. The phone's HSPA+ 14.4 modem works well, but the phone should have an HSPA+ 21 modem to get the best speeds on this network. AT&T also recently started to deploy its 4G LTE network, which is currently available in 15 U.S. cities, and the carrier expects to reach 70 million users by the end of the year.?Right now, there are three phones that support it: the HTC Vivid?($99.99, 4 stars), Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, and LG Nitro HD?($149.99, 4.5 stars). AT&T is anticipated to announce more LTE phones at CES in a few weeks. If you're buying a top-of-the-line smartphone you intend to keep for two years, it should be future-oriented.

LTE is far faster than HSPA+. In a number of head-to-head speed tests, the Nitro averaged 16.5Mbps down and 4.5Mbps up, while the Skyrocket averaged 15.4Mbps down and 3.9Mbps up. Keep in mind, those tests were conducted at the same time and place as the speed tests on the 4S, which pulled in 3Mbps down and 1Mbps up.

The ads are true: Apple's iPhone 4S for AT&T really is "the most amazing iPhone yet." It's an excellent device, and 4G or not, it's still going to be the right choice for many AT&T users. But if you're looking for the fastest, most powerful smartphone right now, then you should be looking for a 4G LTE device like the Samsung Skyrocket or the LG Nitro HD.

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