Wikipedia Programmer: We Do The Funny Portrait Placement Thing Because It Works

You know, I'm becoming something of a fan of Brandon Harris (the latest face of Wikipedia's fundraising efforts, which you should absolutely donate to.) First, he's a programmer on Wikipedia, which is pretty much the most world-bettering programming gig you could ever have. Second, he stopped in for hugs even as we were sort of poking fun at him. Third, he's taken the time to answer the question we've been asking for over a week now: what's up with the crazy confusing/hilarious donation plea portrait placement?* The answer: They do it intentionally. Because it works.

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Ravens beat 49ers 16-6 in duel of Harbaughs (AP)

BALTIMORE ? John Harbaugh could have gloated. He could have bragged.

Instead, the Baltimore Ravens coach played the role of gracious big brother after he bested Jim Harbaugh and the San Francisco 49ers 16-6 Thursday night in the first NFL game featuring brothers as opposing head coaches.

The Ravens (8-3) tied a franchise record with nine sacks to end San Francisco's eight-game winning streak.

"To the 49ers and to my brother, I can't tell you enough how proud I am of him and the job he's done building that football team," John said of Jim, a rookie NFL coach. "That's a football team. The way they're built, it's pretty hard to figure out a way to beat them."

John, 49, and Jim, 47, grew up dueling each other in all sorts of games. This, however, was the first time their sibling rivalry was displayed on a national stage.

During the final minute, John got a Gatorade bath from his players ? twice. After the game ended, the brothers hugged at midfield.

"There's a saying that says, `As iron sharpens iron, so does one man sharpen another,'" Jim said. "And I have to say my brother John is the sharpest iron I've ever encountered in my life."

The Ravens chased, hindered and battered 49ers quarterback Alex Smith for much of the night despite playing without middle linebacker Ray Lewis, the team's leading tackler and spiritual leader. Lewis was inactive for a second straight game with a foot injury.

Smith completed 15 of 24 passes for 140 yards and an interception, and San Francisco (9-2) was held without a touchdown for the first time this season. Smith never could get into a rhythm against an aggressive defense that rarely let him set up in the pocket.

"It's tough to get ready for a defense like that in a short week. They do so many things," he said. "They're a great front. At home with the crowd noise, they were teeing off."

Terrell Suggs had three sacks for first-place Baltimore, which moved a half-game ahead of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC North.

"That's always the game plan, to get after the quarterback, but I think the No. 1 game plan was to win the Harbaugh Bowl," Suggs said. "Coach tried to downplay it ? act like it's not me against my brother, this is the Ravens vs. the 49ers and let's get win No. 8 and make sure our destiny is in our own hands ? but it was really important to him. We as a team went out there and really wanted to win for him."

Baltimore broke a 6-6 tie with a 76-yard, 16-play drive that lasted more than 7 1/2 minutes and ended with an 8-yard touchdown pass from Joe Flacco to tight end Dennis Pitta with 14:56 left. Flacco went 4 for 4 for 34 yards and a touchdown on third down during the drive.

"When you have that kind of game plan ? your line being so efficient on third downs ? you have to come through," Flacco said.

Billy Cundiff wrapped up the scoring with his third field goal, a 39-yarder with 4:16 remaining.

In a game dominated by both defenses, Flacco finished 15 for 23 for 161 yards and Ray Rice ran for 59 yards on 21 carries.

The 49ers began the third quarter with a 13-play drive that lasted 7 1/2 minutes and produced a 52-yard field goal by David Akers for a 6-6 tie. The key play was an 18-yard completion from Smith to Michael Crabtree on a third-and-17 from the San Francisco 26.

The Ravens responded with their lone touchdown drive of the game.

Baltimore sacked Smith four times in the first half and picked off a pass in taking a 6-3 lead.

The Ravens took the opening kickoff and moved 55 yards ? 38 of them on a pair of Flacco-to-Anquan Boldin completions ? before Cundiff kicked a 39-yard field goal.

Late in the first quarter, a 20-yard completion from Smith to tight end Vernon Davis set up a 45-yard field goal by Akers.

The 49ers blew a chance to take the lead when Frank Gore was penalized for a chop block on a 75-yard touchdown pass from Smith to Ted Ginn, who got behind Cary Williams deep down the middle.

Neither team had much luck moving the ball until San Francisco's Tarell Brown was called for pass interference on a long pass to Torrey Smith. The 50-yard penalty put the ball at the 15, and although the Ravens turned it into a first-and-goal at the 4, they had to settle for a 23-yard field goal with 2:51 left in the half.

NOTES: Baltimore has won all six home games this season and 15 of 16. ... Gore finished with 39 yards on 14 carries. ... Although the Ravens had a first-and-goal at the 4 in second quarter, the 49ers held and kept intact their distinction of not allowing a TD rushing all season. ... Lee Evans had a catch for the Ravens, his first reception since Week 2 after missing seven games with an ankle injury.

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Bargain seekers get jump on Black Friday

Stores are opening earlier than ever and the mad dash for Christmas bargains is already on, and retailers are desperate for shoppers' business. NBC's John Yang reports from Chicago's Magnificent Mile.

By msnbc.com staff and wire reports

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The Thanksgiving holiday isn't stopping some shoppers from lining up at major U.S. retailers trying to get a jump on Black Friday.

Many stores including Toys R Us will open as early as 9 p.m. local time Thursday while Macy's, Target, Best Buy and Kohl's will open at midnight. Walmart slated ?doorbuster? deals for 10 p.m. even though they were open Thursday along with Old Navy and Kmart.

The National Retail Federation says over 150 million people will spend money on Christmas-related gifts this year. And many are looking for markdowns.

Bargain hunters were already lining up, some having camped out since Wednesday night.

In Pittsburgh, for example, TV station WTAE found many people already waiting in line outside the Monroeville Best Buy at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette displayed a photo of three friends in a tent outside at a Homestead Best Buy.

In Indianapolis, http://www.wthr.com/story/16117792/shoppers-hit-stores-early-in-hopes-of-black-friday-deals">NBC station WTHR reported the Meijer grocery and department store was jammed at noon. Some were shopping for last-minute dinner items, but others had lined up at 6 a.m. for a deal on iPads.

Anthony Pierluissi told WTHR that waiting in line for the deals is a family tradition - not just for shopping. ?We make it a family thing," he said. "We all go out together and get stuff."

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Brent Hart, 26, camps out Wednesday in advance of Black Friday on the sidewalk of the Fair Lakes Best Buy store in Fairfax, Virginia.

Brent Hart, 26, began camping out?Wednesday?on the sidewalk of the Fair Lakes Best Buy store in Fairfax, Virginia.

He was fifth in line and planned to?purchase?a $200 42 inch flat-screen TV and a $299 laptop. Hart is a military contractor?leaving in December for Afghanistan and said he wants the laptop to stay in touch with his family.

NBC station WVTM in Birmingham, Ala., found more than two dozen people lined up at the Homewood Kmart store when it opened at 6 a.m. CST for pre-Black Friday deals.

Retailers concede the pressure is on.

"At the end of the day, we are trying to respond to what our customers want to do, and they are telling us that's when they want to shop," Mike Vitelli, president, Americas and enterprise executive vice president of Best Buy, told Reuters.

Two malls are testing a new system that tracks shoppers' movements from store to store by monitoring 'pings' from their cellphones. KNSD's Tony Shin reports.

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Gun issue represents tough politics for Obama (AP)

WASHINGTON ? They are fuzzy about some issues but the Republican presidential candidates leave little doubt about where they stand on gun rights.

Rick Perry and Rick Santorum go pheasant hunting and give interviews before heading out. Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain speak to the National Rifle Association convention. Michele Bachmann tells People magazine she wants to teach her daughters how to shoot because women need to be able to protect themselves. Mitt Romney, after backing some gun control measures in Massachusetts, now presents himself as a strong Second Amendment supporter.

President Barack Obama, on the other hand, is virtually silent on the issue.

He has hardly addressed it since a couple months after the January assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Ariz., when he promised to develop new steps on gun safety in response. He still has failed to do so, even as Tucson survivors came to Capitol Hill last week to push for action to close loopholes in the background check system.

Democrats have learned the hard way that embracing gun control can be terrible politics, and the 2012 presidential election is shaping up to underscore just how delicate the issue can be. With the election likely to be decided largely by states where hunting is a popular pastime, like Missouri, Ohio or Pennsylvania, candidates of both parties want to win over gun owners, not alienate them.

For Republicans, that means emphasizing their pro-gun credentials. But for Obama and the Democrats, the approach is trickier.

Obama's history in support of strict gun control measures prior to becoming president makes it difficult for him to claim he's a Second Amendment champion, even though he signed a bill allowing people to take loaded guns into national parks. At the same time, he's apparently decided that his record backing gun safety is nothing to boast of, either, perhaps because of the power of the gun lobby and their opposition to anything smacking of gun control.

The result is that while Republicans are more than happy to talk up their support for gun rights, Obama may barely be heard from on the issue at all.

"Gun control is a fight that the administration is not willing to pick. They're not likely to win it," said Harry Wilson, author of a book on gun politics and director of the Institute for Policy and Opinion Research at Roanoke College in Virginia. "They certainly would not win it in Congress, and it's not likely to be a winner at the polls. ... It comes down to one pretty simple word: Politics."

Administration officials say they are working to develop the gun safety measures promised after the Giffords shooting, and they say have taken steps to improve the background check system. White House spokesman Matt Lehrich says the White House goal is to "protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens while keeping guns out of the hands of those who shouldn't have them under existing law."

But when it comes to guns and politics, Democrats haven't forgotten what happened in 1994. That year, President Bill Clinton was pushing for passage of a landmark crime bill featuring a ban on assault weapons, and then-House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash., twisted Democrats' arms to get it through the House. Come November, Democrats suffered widespread election losses and lost control of the House and the Senate. Foley was among those defeated, and Clinton and others credited the NRA's campaigning with a big role in the outcome. And when the assault weapons ban came up for congressional reauthorization in 2004, it failed.

Given that history, the NRA expects to see Obama treading carefully on guns through 2012.

"It's bad politics to be on the wrong side of the Second Amendment at election time," said Wayne LaPierre, NRA executive vice president. "They're trying to fog the issue through the 2012 election and deceive gun owners into thinking he's something he's not, which is pro-Second Amendment."

For gun control advocates, it adds up to frustration with Obama and the Democrats. The group Mayors Against Illegal Guns argues that polling shows voters support certain gun safety measures like stronger background checks ? although a recent Gallup poll also finds more support for enforcing current laws than for passing new ones.

"Good policy here is good politics," said John Feinblatt, an adviser to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is a co-chair of the mayors' group. "Unfortunately, for too long the administration has bought the conventional wisdom" that gun control is bad politics.

But the NRA outspends gun-control groups by wide margins, and analysts say that when it comes time to vote, the gun issue is more likely to motivate gun rights activists than gun control supporters.

Since becoming president, Obama has been extremely cautious on the issue. In his 2004 Senate race, for example, Obama said it was a "scandal" that then-President George W. Bush didn't force renewal of the assault weapons ban. But Obama himself has done nothing to promote that issue since becoming president.

Obama's commitment to act on gun safety may also be complicated by an unrelated controversy over a Justice Department program aimed at stanching gun trafficking into Mexico. The government lost track of numerous weapons in connection with the program.

Obama has vowed to figure out what went wrong with the operation and make sure it's corrected, but with Republicans seizing on the issue to attack the White House, the politics around taking action on guns hasn't gotten any easier.

So for now, supporters who hoped to see Obama adopt a stronger stance on guns and act in the wake of the Giffords shooting look like they're going to be disappointed. "We haven't given up hope," said Dennis Henigan, acting president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, "but our impatience is growing with each passing day."

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Lawyers for Jackson doctor ask for probation (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Lawyers for Michael Jackson's doctor have asked that he receive probation following his involuntary manslaughter conviction, while prosecutors have urged a sentence of four years in prison.

In a sentencing memorandum filed Wednesday in advance of sentencing Tuesday, prosecutor David Walgren said Dr. Conrad Murray has shown no remorse for Jackson's death and has placed blame on others.

He asked that Murray also be ordered to pay restitution to Jackson's children.

Defense attorney Nareg Gourjian, citing letters of praise from Murray's former patients, said the doctor is serving a lifetime sentence of self-punishment and asked for probation and community service in the medical field.

The two recommendations were filed with Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor. Murray was convicted Nov. 7 after a six-week trial.

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93% 50/50

All Critics (152) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (142) | Rotten (10)

Still, it's Gordon-Levitt's choices that continue to impress. Sure, he owned one of the most jaw-dropping sequences in last summer's blockbuster Inception. But the actor remains drawn to profoundly human-scale hurts and quiet triumphs.

Gordon-Levitt is an agreeably undemonstrative actor who plays well opposite the burbly Rogen.

Chances are about 90/10 that you'll enjoy 50/50.

Scene by scene, 50/50 can be both amusing and moving, with the tightly wound Gordon-Levitt and the boundaryless Rogen forming an oddly complementary pair. But as a whole the movie never quite coheres.

In other hands, Adam might well be hard to take. But as the comedy in 50/50 turns darker, Gordon-Levitt, who's maybe the most natural, least affected actor of his generation, makes prickly plenty engaging.

An everyman tale with plenty of heart and honesty, the serious subject matter is regularly enlivened with jolts of genuine hilarity, some of it in delightfully questionable taste.

Seth Rogen might be there to puts bums on seats, but it's Joseph Gordon-Levitt who will keep you watching.

It may be a marketing nightmare, but as examinations of mortality go, few come funnier, wiser or more astutely acted.

Whether you're after a comedy-drama about cancer or a Rogen laugh-fest with added heart, this does a remarkable job of balancing the odds.

This is the terminal illness weepie for people who don't watch terminal illness weepies, and it's much the better for it.

It's refreshing to see a movie that embraces the ugly side of what happens to complicated personal relationships. Its quite uncomfortable at times, and the frank exploration of the cancer patient journey makes the comedy even funnier.

It is tough to make a comedy about cancer, since it touches us all. It is not funny. When you have Seth Rogen in a film, however, anything can be funny.

The elements of 50/50 that do work are strong enough to carry the film along and affecting enough to bring losers like me to tears in their cinema seats.

Tackles a distressing subject with a healthy dose of humour, thanks to a sharply observed script, well-rounded, likeable characters, astute direction and a trio of terrific performances from Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick.

There couldn't be a more serious subject, yet Gordon-Levitt and especially Rogen (who co-produced the movie) make the comedy seem both spontaneous and organic.

Nimbly switching gears between heartful drama and uproarious comedy, 50/50 tackles the near-impossible and makes a film about cancer that'll have you crying like a baby one minute and laughing so hard your sides hurt the next.

Jonathan Levine directs a film that may be one of the year's best but still makes one yearn for the serious and uncompromising films of the 1950s and 1960s.

Yes, cancer can be funny. Sort of.

Films about cancer aren't generally this funny. And while this movie isn't a comedy, beyond its generous dose of realistic humour, it has a smart, personal script that dares to face a difficult situation head on.

Life is hard. Cancer is hard. Relationships are hard. Family is hard. '50/50' managed to find the power in all of those things and give us plenty of laughs so we're not simply in a ball crying.

A near-great movie made out of the hardest-to-thread, most oxymoronic genre imaginable - "cancer comedy."

a good movie with a moderate sense of daring that ultimately spends too much time telling the wrong story

With its excellent cast and emotionally intelligent script, 50/50 isn't necessarily a feel good movie about cancer, but is an exceptional telling of one man's story, mixed with a perfect balance of sympathy and laughs.

Interesting commentary on how we deal with difficult situations, and makes a strong case for our desperate need for each other -- especially when the odds are stacked against us.

... surprisingly funny, while also honestly poignant and dramatic.

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Los Angeles Record Stores: The Best Of The Best & Where To Go

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By Mar Yvette

Lookin' for a rekka sto'?? Ease up, old school. Downloading and streaming aren't the only game in town. Vinyl is making a serious comeback. In fact, within the last few years LA has seen more than a few independently owned record stores set up shop. And it's this sort of indie spirit that's driving the recent surge of vinyl record sales across the country. Now, just in time for the holidays: Record Store Day -- a collective of some 900 independently owned record stores in the US, Canada and Europe -- is holding their own Black Friday on November 25 with special-edition vinyl releases and sales. So before you join the herds and head off to the mall at 4am, consider checking out some of these LA record stores for a little vinyl revival.

AMOEBA RECORDS - www.amoeba.com
Think record store and you think Amoeba. Probably because it?s the largest independent record store in the world. (Some would say too large, bordering on big-box bully large, but that?s another story.) This ginormous Hollywood outpost literally has tons of albums, discs, posters and other music-related mishmash as well as constant in-store shows. As for vinyl, you?ll find plenty including limited edition, rare, out-of-print and original pressings.

AS THE RECORD TURNS - www.astherecordturns.com
Cringe-worthy name aside, As the Record Turns is considered by many to be LA's best resource for vinyl. Once you find the actual store (it's hidden in a narrow alleyway off Hollywood Blvd) get ready to find just about any piece of vinyl you can imagine. And if it's not stockpiled in the exhaustive stacks of vinyl, then owner Kevin can probably find it for you one way or another. Just ask Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Marilyn Manson, Steven Speilberg and about a million other famous clients for whom he's sourced music. You might pay more for what you get, but Kevin is known to give a free record to everybody who enters his store. (They're from the clearance section, but are you really gonna complain?)

Amoeba from above: Photo by Kelly Wardle

ATOMIC RECORDS - www.atomicrecordsla.com
Picked in 2011 by LA Weekly as ?Best Record Store for Actual Records,? this Burbank record shop has been open since 1996 and specializes in classic jazz, 60s rock/punk/new wave, soul, blues, strange/exotica and soundtracks. They also do a lot of buying and even make house calls. Don't forget the 50-cent bin where you just might strike vinyl gold.

FREAKBEAT RECORDS - www.freakbeatrecords.com
Forget the 99-cent store. This old-school shop in Sherman Oaks has a 99-cent room with thousands of LPs and CDs that are restocked every day. Half the store is filled with new and used vinyl, with the rock section being the largest, and there's plenty to browse in the jazz and soul bins. There's also an 80s department with lots of flashback vinyl.

ORIGAMI VINYL - www.origamiorigami.com
One of the newer shops on the block (it opened in 2009), Origami Vinyl in Echo Park is the ultimate mom and pop record store for cool kids. The shop is only 400 square feet, but it packs a punch with an eclectic selection of new and used records, much of which is from local artists. (Origami is also an indie record label.) As for in-stores, everyone from Florence and the Machine to Sonic Youth and Ben Harper have taken to the stage. Good things come in small packages.

Records LA: Noize n the 'Hood

RECORDS LA - www.myspace.com/recordsla
Records LA isn't the oldest rekka sto' in LA. In fact, it opened in 2010. But it is the oldest school of the old school with an unpretentious DIY charm that's hard to come by these days. Located on West Adams, the vinyl-only shop is about the size of your one-bedroom apartment's closet, but owner Scott has just the stuff you're looking for when it comes to soul, jazz, R&B, disco, hip hop, reggae and other back-in-the-day rarities. Just remember: this shop is only open Thursday-Saturday.

RECORD SURPLUS - www.recordsurplus.com
One of the largest sellers of used vinyl records and CDs on the West Coast, Record Surplus has a huge selection of music and collectible records that are restocked daily. The store just moved to a new location on the corner of Santa Monica and Centinela with a nice paint job, too. (Not that I judge a record store by its cover, but I do like a pretty space.) You can also find turntables and CD listening stations.

ROCKAWAY RECORDS - www.rockaway.com
This Silver Lake staple is fairly small (it's moved a few times since first opening in 1979), but it's huge on the collectibles inventory. Vinyl, CDs and the usual suspects are here as well as lots of memorabilia ranging from $50 autographed photos to a 1965 Beatles lunch box that can be yours for just $1,250.

Werk It: Wombleton Records

VACATION VINYL - www.vacationvinyl.com
The name might suggest lounging around a sunny beach with a drink in your hand (or maybe that's just me), but this Silver Lake shop is far from checked-out and actually leans a little toward the dark side. Which is to say, you can find a lot of black metal/hardcore/space rock/prog drone/whatever-you-call-it noisy stuff neatly arranged among the shelves. Plenty of in-store shows, too.

WOMBLETON RECORDS - www.wombletonrecords.com
Part of the new York strip of Highland Park emerging with little shops, galleries and bars, Wombleton Records is just the kinda thing you didn't know you need: Bountiful bins of rare pop vinyl you can peruse whilst basking in an Edwardian salon that could double as a swinging London boutique. Opened in late 2010, Wombleton specializes in original pressings of rare, imported used vinyl LPs and 45s with "an uncommonly high concentration of desirable titles from the country of origin." Stop by on Thursday nights for the vinyl DJ listening parties. Ascot and smoking jacket optional.

MORE VINYL RECORD STORES IN LA:
Angel City Books & Records - Best-kept record store secret in Santa Monica
Backside Records - Mostly clothing, new & used vinyl in Burbank and Echo Park
Bombass Muzik - Vinyl, CDs, cassettes & accessories in East LA
Headline Records - punk, thrash, straight-edge, rockabilly, psychobilly on Melrose
Ooga Booga - super-indie shop for vinyl, art, books, misc in Downtown LA
Poo-Bah Record Shop - underground hip-hop, experimental & more in Pasadena
Record Collector - rare and collectible classical & jazz in Hollywood
Turntable Lab - vinyl for DJs who actually scratch; Fairfax Village

More info: www.recordstoreday.com

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Looks like Miley and Demi aren't the only ones sick of people criticizing their bodies. Friends of Christina Aguilera say she is tired of hearing about her weight gain and is happy to sport her curves.

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Leonard Cohen to release first studio album in 8 years (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Singer and poet Leonard Cohen will release his first studio album in eight years in January following the success of his comeback world tour, his publicists said on Tuesday.

Called "Old Ideas", the album has 10 songs looking at love, sexuality, loss and death and is described as the most overtly spiritual of the singer's 40-year recording career.

Cohen, 77, best known for haunting 1960s folk songs like "Suzanne", "Bird on a Wire" and later "Hallelujah", retreated from the world in the mid-1990s to become a Buddhist monk.

But he embarked on a world tour from 2008-2010 that took him to 31 countries and brought glowing reviews.

Recording of "Old Ideas" began in January 2011 but early versions of some of the tracks, including "Lullaby" and "The Darkness" were performed during Cohen's recent tour.

"Old Ideas" is set for release on January 31, 2012. The cover design and drawings are Cohen's own.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Chris Michaud)

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Beckham looks for fantastic?finish

By GREG BEACHAM

updated 5:31 p.m. ET Nov. 19, 2011

CARSON, Calif. - David Beckham has reached the grand finale of his five-year Hollywood saga.

The English superstar will play for his first Major League Soccer championship on Sunday with the Los Angeles Galaxy, hoping to lift the MLS Cup alongside Landon Donovan in vindication of his groundbreaking American experiment.

After posting his best season stateside during the Galaxy's dominant campaign, the midfielder needs just one more victory to earn something he didn't even realize he wanted when he moved to Los Angeles amid all that fanfare in 2007.

"It's only the last year or two that I started to understand the playoff system, to be honest," Beckham said with a grin. "It's something I've got used to now. We've had success in the last three years, but we want the big one. We want the MLS Cup."

For the second straight season, the star-studded Galaxy won the Supporters' Shield as MLS' best regular-season team, which would be the ultimate achievement in any other big soccer league. Los Angeles then rolled to three straight playoff victories, and now they're favored in the MLS Cup against the resilient Houston Dynamo, who must play without injured star Brad Davis.

The neutral-site game serendipitously will be played at Home Depot Center, the Galaxy's home pitch south of downtown Los Angeles. Although the Dynamo are eminently capable of ruining the Galaxy's special day, the stage is set perfectly for Beckham's coronation.

"I felt I'd achieved all I could achieve in Europe, and I wanted another challenge," said Beckham, who finished second in MLS with 15 assists this season before providing similar service in every playoff game. "My experience has been amazing. I've been able to play with some great players. It's gone by really quickly, but I've enjoyed it. ... Of course I want to win the Cup on Sunday, but it's more important for the team that we win it."

Indeed, a victory in Los Angeles' record seventh MLS cup appearance would be a vindication of the Galaxy's star-centered approach to winning in its slow-growth league.

No MLS team has ever won a championship with a designated player ? the salary-cap exception created so Los Angeles could sign Beckham to a $32.5 million deal. Donovan and the Galaxy's new Irish striker Robbie Keane ? who will return to Los Angeles' lineup after international duty ? also are designated players, and much of the league has now taken advantage of the rule in the past two seasons.

This big finish might only be the setup for a sequel for Beckham, who says he'll decide after the season where he'll play next year. While Paris Saint-Germain and a few British clubs are interested, the Galaxy are eager to retain him as the centerpiece of their lucrative new 10-year television deal.

Beckham and his famous family love living in Los Angeles, and the Galaxy also might be the best fit for Beckham's hopes of playing for England at the London Olympics.

"We've lived a pretty normal life," Beckham said before recanting a story about driving his children to breakfast earlier this month and being stunned to see Al Pacino walking around in his neighborhood. "Living in California is something special, and we've enjoyed that."

Although Beckham's chase of his first title draws the attention of the international media and fans who converged on Los Angeles this week, Donovan's determination to win a title also is compelling. The U.S. national team's career scoring leader skipped matches against France and Slovenia in the past two weeks and went on a self-imposed Twitter hiatus to stay focused on the Galaxy's finale.

Donovan already is a three-time MLS champion and the Galaxy's captain, but he's hoping to win another title for coach Bruce Arena, who has transformed the Galaxy from disorganized also-rans into the class of MLS over the past three years.

"He pushes us constantly," Donovan said. "Sometimes it's annoying, he wants it so bad ... but we want to win it for him just as bad."

Nobody in the Galaxy is discounting the Dynamo, the franchise that Donovan led to two MLS titles as the San Jose Earthquakes before it moved to Texas and won two more. Coach Dominic Kinnear's perennial power overcame a slow start this season to roar into the MLS Cup on a nine-game unbeaten streak since Sept. 10, including a 3-1 victory over Los Angeles in the clubs' regular-season finale while the Galaxy rested their best players.

"I think it's pretty impressive we're back here in the final, especially with all the turnover we've had in the last two years," veteran Houston forward Brian Ching said. "We've had new leaders who came in and took on new roles, and we just keep moving forward."

Yet the Dynamo took an enormous blow when Davis, who finished second in league MVP voting, tore a quadriceps muscle during Houston's win at Kansas City two weeks ago. Davis was Houston's leading scorer and the MLS regular-season leader with 16 assists.

"It's kind of a home game for them, but you can't be afraid," said Kinnear, who has earned a spot alongside Arena among the best American coaches in recent history. "We are going to replace (Davis). We can't play with 10. We miss Brad because he makes us a better team, but that's really the last thing we need to talk about."

Either Arena or Kinnear will become the first MLS coach to win three titles.

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Oklahoma State copes with 2nd crash in 10 years

This Nov. 9, 2011 photo shows Oklahoman State women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna during an an exhibition women's NCAA college basketball game against Fort Hays State, in Stillwater, Okla. Budke and Serna were killed when the single-engine plane they were riding in during a recruiting trip crashed near a wildlife management area in central Arkansas. The university said the pair died in the crash Thursday night, Nov. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Bryan Terry)

This Nov. 9, 2011 photo shows Oklahoman State women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna during an an exhibition women's NCAA college basketball game against Fort Hays State, in Stillwater, Okla. Budke and Serna were killed when the single-engine plane they were riding in during a recruiting trip crashed near a wildlife management area in central Arkansas. The university said the pair died in the crash Thursday night, Nov. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Bryan Terry)

FIE - This March 13, 2010 file photo shows Oklahoma State women's basketball head coach Kurt Budke reacting to a 74-69 loss against Oklahoma in an NCAA college basketball game at the Big 12 Basketball Conference tournament in Kansas City, Mo. Oklahoma State University says Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna were killed in a plane crash in central Arkansas. The university said in a news release Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 that the two were on a recruiting trip to Arkansas when the plane crashed near Perryville, about 45 miles west of Little Rock. (AP Photo/Denny Medley, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2011 file photo, Oklahoma State women's basketball coach Kurt Budke makes a point during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Texas A&M, in College Station, Texas. Oklahoma State University says Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna were killed in a plane crash in central Arkansas. The university said in a news release Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 that the two were on a recruiting trip to Arkansas when the plane crashed near Perryville, about 45 miles west of Little Rock. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2011 file photo, Oklahoma State head coach Kurt Budke, left, talks to his team during a time out in an exhibition college basketball game against Fort Hays State in Stillwater, Okla. Oklahoma State University says Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna were killed in a plane crash in central Arkansas. The university said in a news release Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 that the two were on a recruiting trip to Arkansas when the plane crashed near Perryville, about 45 miles west of Little Rock. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

FILE - In this March 21, 2010 file photo, Oklahoma State women's basketball head coach Kurt Budke grins during a news conference in Tempe, Ariz. Oklahoma State University says Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna were killed in a plane crash in central Arkansas. The university said in a news release Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 that the two were on a recruiting trip to Arkansas when the plane crashed near Perryville, about 45 miles west of Little Rock. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

TULSA, Okla. (AP) ? It had been 10 years and 10 months since the plane crash that killed 10 people associated with Oklahoma State's men's basketball program ? long enough for the healing to begin but recent enough to rush old memories to the surface when news of another plane crash broke.

This time, two coaches from the women's basketball team had been killed.

"I feel for the Oklahoma State community. How many more tragedies can they endure?" said head coach of top-ranked Baylor, Kim Mulkey.

Kurt Budke, the head coach for the women's basketball team, and Miranda Serna, his assistant, were killed Thursday when the single-engine plane transporting them on a recruiting trip crashed in steep terrain in Arkansas, the university in Stillwater said. The pilot, 82-year-old former Oklahoma state Sen. Olin Branstetter, and his 79-year-old wife, Paula, also died when the plane sputtered, spiraled out of control and nosedived into the Winona Wildlife Management Area near Perryville, about 45 miles west of Little Rock.

The crash was the second major tragedy for the sports program in about a decade. In January 2001, 10 men affiliated with the university's men's basketball team died in a Colorado plane crash.

For some, the news brought back the emotions felt a decade ago.

"Not a day goes by that I don't think about one of those guys," said Eddie Sutton, the OSU men's basketball coach at the time of the 2001 crash. "It's emotional, believe me. This brings back a lot of unpleasantness."

Roger Engelsman, undersheriff for Adams County in Colorado, the site of the first crash, has attended the service held there each year ? a service attended by OSU officials.

"Quite honestly, it takes a lot to surprise me or shock me, but I was just in disbelief," said Engelsman. "My friends at Oklahoma State are suffering in this fashion again.

"What are the odds of two plane crashes, both affecting the basketball programs?" he said.

After the 2001 crash, the university required that planes used by the school's sports team undergo safety checks before travel. OSU President Burns Hargis said coaches were not bound by the same rules and that the school left such decisions to their discretion.

"When something like this happens and, God forbid it happened again, we have to pull together as a family. We've got to try to do that," Hargis said at a news conference Friday, as he broke down in tears.

Hargis called Budke "an exemplary leader and man of character," and credited him with elevating the team in a tough program. Serna, he said, was "an up-and-coming coach and an outstanding role model" for the players. Former Assistant Coach Jim Littell will serve as interim head coach. The team's games scheduled for Saturday and Sunday were canceled. The university plans to hold a public memorial service Monday at Gallagher-Iba Arena.

Budke turned Oklahoma State's women's basketball team into a winner and hoped he'd found the place where he'd coach until he retired. Serna had passed up opportunities to leave his side, staying loyal to the man whom she had helped to win a junior college national championship and then rebuild a big-time college program.

The university hired Budke from Louisiana Tech seven years ago and the Salina, Kan., native compiled a 112-83 record with three trips to the NCAA tournament. This year's team was 1-0 after defeating Rice on Sunday.

Budke coached Serna and Trinity Valley to a junior college national title in 1996. Serna went on to play for Houston before returning to the community college to become an assistant coach under Budke. He also had Serna on his staff at Louisiana Tech and Oklahoma State. She was the recruiting coordinator for the Cowgirls.

Budke agreed to a five-year contract extension through June 2017 last year and said at the time: "This is where I want to be the rest of my life. This is where I want to finish my career."

Serna, 36, was also devoted to OSU. Top coaches around the country considered her one of the better young recruiters, but she stuck with Budke as the Cowgirls rose from a losing program into one that made the postseason five years in a row.

"She worked hard. She believed in him. That's why she stayed. ... She had some opportunities to look at some other jobs, but she wanted to bring in players and help him win at Oklahoma State," said Carlene Mitchell, another of Budke's former players from Trinity Valley who's now the coach at UC Santa Barbara.

The Branstetters also had ties to Oklahoma State. Jim Berscheidt, spokesman for the OSU Foundation, confirmed that the Branstetters established two scholarships at the university. He could not disclose how much was given to fund them. One was through the university's College of Education and the other was through the business school.

FAA records showed the plane was built in 1964 and registered to Olin Branstetter. Oklahoma State spokesman Gary Shutt said the coaches were going to watch recruits playing in two games in Little Rock.

Perry County Sheriff Scott Montgomery said hunters called emergency officials about 4 p.m. Thursday after they heard the plane apparently in trouble, then saw it nosedive into a heavily wooded area. National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jason Aguilera said it would issue a preliminary report in five days, but it could be more than a year before the agency's investigation is complete.

The weather at the time was clear. The Piper Cherokee Piper PA-28-180 (N7746W) didn't have flight data or voice recorders, Aguilera said, but it's possible a GPS unit might be recovered and used to reconstruct the flight's path.

The Jan. 27, 2001, crash occurred about 35 minutes after the plane took off in light snow. The Beechcraft King Air 200 carrying players and others connected to the OSU men's basketball team crashed in a field 40 miles east of Denver as the Cowboys returned from a game at Colorado.

An NTSB report cited a power loss aboard the plane and said the pilot suffered disorientation while flying the plane manually with still-available instruments.

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Associated Press photographers Sue Ogrocki in Stillwater and Danny Johnston in Perryville, Ark.; writers Jeff Latzke in Stillwater, Okla., and Ken Miller and Sean Murphy in Oklahoma City; and AP Basketball Writer Doug Feinberg in New York contributed to this report.

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House prepares to vote on balanced budget proposal

Rep. Nan Hayworth, R-N.Y., center, accompanied by, from left, Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., Rep. Austin Scott, R-G., and Rep. Rick Berg, R-N.D., shows a photo of her children, Will and Jack, during a House Republican freshmen news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, to discuss a Balanced Budget Amendment. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

Rep. Nan Hayworth, R-N.Y., center, accompanied by, from left, Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., Rep. Austin Scott, R-G., and Rep. Rick Berg, R-N.D., shows a photo of her children, Will and Jack, during a House Republican freshmen news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, to discuss a Balanced Budget Amendment. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

Members of the House Republican freshman class, led by class President Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., center, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, to discuss a Balanced Budget Amendment. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The House votes Friday on whether to adopt a constitutional balanced budget amendment as a means of forcing Congress to come to grips with its inability to deal with spiraling deficits.

The vote takes place as the bipartisan supercommittee tasked with coming up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade appears locked in partisan gridlock. The amendment, dictating that Congress not spend any more than it takes in in any given year, also comes up after a budget year in which government spending topped revenues by $1.3 trillion.

"Only a balanced budget constitutional amendment will save us from unending federal deficits," said Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas. "It is our last line of defense against Congress' unending desire to overspend and overtax."

A majority of House members support the amendment, but it's unclear whether Republicans, the main proponents, can pick up enough Democrats to reach the two-thirds majority needed for passage.

The vote will be the first by the House on a balanced budget amendment since 1995, when a similar proposal passed with the support of the then-new Republican majority and 72 Democrats.

This time, while Republicans enjoy a stronger majority than in 1995, the White House has come out against it and the Democratic leadership, warning of the dire consequences of forced spending cuts during an economic downturn, is urging its members to reject it. The measure would also have an uphill fight in the Senate.

In 1995 and again in 1997, the Senate fell one vote short of approving a balanced budget amendment. Amendments must be approved by two-thirds majorities in the two chambers and be ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures. The last amendment ratified, the 27th in 1992, concerned lawmakers' pay increases.

Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., the chief sponsor of the measure, said Congress "has not made the tough decisions. We have overpromised the American people, and the fact of the matter is now we need to have something in the Constitution that the American people expect and demand of us, and that is a balanced budget amendment."

Democrats countered that a balanced budget requirement could force Congress to make drastic and harmful spending cuts during economic downturns when federal revenues fall and that disputes over how to reach balance could result in Congress ceding its power over the purse to the courts.

"The Republican majority wants to enshrine in the Constitution a permanent hostage crisis for our economy," Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., said.

In a major break from 1995, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland has been leading the opposition to a proposal he supported 16 years before. "While Republicans claim that they want to restore fiscal responsibility, their track record doesn't offer any optimism that they will put partisan politics aside and act responsibly in the event of an emergency," he said.

Another Democrat who said he is changing his yes vote from 1995 was Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia, who said, "I could never have imagined back in 1995 the chaos we experienced this summer" when the country came close to defaulting on its financial obligations because of the fight over raising the government's borrowing limit.

A senior Republican, Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier of California, also said he would not support the amendment as he had in 1995. Dreier said Congress should have the will to balance the budget without changing the Constitution and warned of "protracted legal battles" in which the courts would end up deliberating over budgets that had passed years before.

If all 434 active members of Congress voted and all 242 Republicans supported the amendment, it would still require 48 Democratic votes to reach the 290 needed for a two-thirds majority. There is one vacancy in the 435-member House.

To attract Democrats, Republicans opted for a version of the measure offered by Goodlatte that does not, as many conservatives wanted, set a tight cap on government spending or require a supermajority to raise taxes. It does require a three-fifths vote by both chambers to raise the debt ceiling and a three-fifths vote to approve a deficit in any one year. Congress could also waive the amendment in times of serious military conflict.

The amendment does have the overall support of the so-called Blue Dogs, a 25-member group of fiscally conservative Democrats. "If it does not pass both the House and the Senate," Blue Dog leader Mike Ross, D-Ark., said, "it speaks volumes about the dysfunction of the Congress."

But other Democrats pointed to a letter from some 275 labor and other mostly liberal groups saying that forced spending cuts or raised taxes needed to balance the budget when the economy is slow "would risk tipping a faltering economy into recession or worsening an ongoing downturn, costing large number of jobs."

Democrats also cited a report by the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimating that, if there is not an increase in revenues, the amendment could force Congress to cut all programs by an average of 17.3 percent by 2018.

The amendment would not go into effect until 2017, or two years after it is ratified, whichever comes later, and supporters say that would give Congress time to avoid dramatic spending cuts.

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This is the wrong week for Jets' cockiness

After shellacking by Pats, NY players shouldn't get cocky about stopping Tebow

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Aaron Maybin looks on during the Jets' defeat to the Patriots on Sunday.

By Josh Alper

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updated 5:09 p.m. ET Nov. 16, 2011

No one expects the Jets to become a different team in light of Sunday night's humiliating loss to the Patriots.

It didn't happen when New England embarrassed them last year, it didn't happen during their three-game losing streak this year and it probably wouldn't happen if they turned into this year's Indianapolis Colts.

The Jets talk and complaining about it is about as likely to create change as complaining about Donald Trump's hair.

Having said that, it would be nice not to hear the team already crowing about stopping Tim Tebow on Thursday night. It's never good to count your chickens before they hatch, but it is especially dangerous to count your chickens a couple of days after they all died in the coop of some rare brand of avian flu.

The Jets defenders got their rear ends handed to them on Sunday night, but they weren't showing the least concern about facing Tebow and the Broncos on Tuesday.

Darrelle Revis led the charge by flatly saying that the Broncos can't beat them by running the option offense with Tebow at quarterback and he got help from his friends.

"Up front, it?s going to be a fun game for us," said defensive lineman Marcus Dixon.

There's every reason to believe the Jets are correct about their ability to handle the run-heavy Broncos attack better than the Raiders and Chiefs have been able to do during two straight Denver wins. But there was also every reason to believe that they could have done a halfway decent job against the Patriots after watching the Cowboys, Steelers and Giants shut them down in the three games leading into Sunday night's matchup.

In fact, we heard plenty of talk last week about how the Jets knew just the way to stop Brady and company. We heard it from Revis, from defensive coordinator Mike Pettine and others in the days leading up to the game.

It didn't happen, though, and the Jets' chronic lack of preparation was a big reason why. The short week coming into the Denver game felt scary enough for a team that rarely shows up ready to play its games, but throw in overconfidence about stopping the other team and the fear factor goes through the roof.

Remember, the Raiders were a run-only attack when the Jets faced them earlier this season. How'd that work out for them?

Like we conceded up top, there's no way that you're ever going to shut up the Rex Ryan Jets. Love it, hate it or somewhere in between, we all have to make our peace with it and go on with our lives.

Doing so will be a lot easier if they actually live up to their word this time around.

Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City. You can follow him on Twitter and he is also a contributor to Pro Football Talk.

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Could Women's Use of 'the Pill' Raise Men's Prostate Cancer Risk? (HealthDay)

MONDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) -- With the vast increase in the use of the contraceptive pill over the past 40 years, the amount of estrogen entering the water supply may be partly responsible for the increased incidence of prostate cancer around the world, Canadian researchers speculate.

Excess estrogen is known to cause various cancers, and the widespread use of the pill might raise environmental levels of the hormone.

"Recent studies have shown that estrogen exposure may increase the risk of prostate cancer," said lead researcher Dr. David Margel, a clinical fellow in the Department of Surgical Oncology at Princess Margaret Hospital and the University of Toronto.

"We wanted to explore whether there was an association with a woman's use of oral contraceptives to prostate cancer incidence or mortality," he explained. Although the amounts of estrogen excreted by a woman is minimal, when millions of women do it over a long period of time, it might cause a low-level environmental contamination, Margel said.

The report is published online in the Nov. 14 edition of BMJ Open.

For the study, Margel and his colleague Dr. Neil E. Fleshner, researchers at the university's Health Network, used data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the United Nations World Contraceptive Use report to identify the rates of prostate cancer and prostate cancer deaths as well as the proportion of women using contraceptive pills.

Margel and Fleshner complied data on countries and continents around the world to see if there was any connection between contraceptive pills and prostate cancer.

The researchers looked at some 100 countries and found that where the use of oral contraceptives was high, so was the rate of prostate cancer. These findings did not change based on a nation's wealth, they added.

"It seems as if the European countries had the highest association," Margel said.

The use of other contraceptives such as intrauterine devices, condoms or other vaginal barriers was not associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer.

"I want to stress this is a hypothesis-generating study," Margel said. "In no way do we prove cause-and-effect."

To further explore the connection, the researchers are planning to test water and look for estrogen levels in patients with prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer in the developed world, and the use of the contraceptive pill is widespread, the researchers noted.

Prostate cancer expert Dr. Anthony D'Amico, chief of radiation oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said that "it's hard to know if this is true. This is a study of association, not cause-and-effect. Even the hypothesis it's based on is questionable."

D'Amico noted that even if there is estrogen from contraceptives in drinking water or food, a person would have to drink the water and somebody would then have to measure the amount of estrogen in the blood. But even then, most compounds the body takes in are not absorbed, he added.

In fact, for a man to get micrograms of estrogen into the blood, he would have to ingest milligrams of estrogen. "You would have to have a lot in the water to believe this," D'Amico said.

D'Amico also said that small amounts of estrogen raise the risk for a heart attack. "If you have enough to cause prostate cancer, you also have enough to cause a heart attack -- so it's hard to accept."

Based on these speculative findings, "men should not be concerned," D'Amico said.

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