HBT: White Sox might be serious about Cespedes

Between this winter?s trades of closer Sergio Santos and outfielder Carlos Quentin, the White Sox have cut about $10 million in payroll. Could they be gearing up for something (or someone) special?

Perhaps. Maybe. Potentially.

Bruce Levine of ESPN Chicago expects the White Sox to take part in the bidding for Cuban outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, who is scheduled to become a major league free agent sometime in early January.

White Sox GM Kenny Williams did not shoot down that idea when speaking with reporters Saturday:

?What I will say is there are some doors that are now open for us that were not open yesterday because of the savings of dollars,? Williams said. ?But which direction we are heading with that, [talking about it] I think would be counterproductive with us getting something done should we decide to go down that road.?

The White Sox are likely to have?competition?from the Cubs, Marlins, Yankees and Red Sox, but they have a good history with recruiting Cuban talent and would seem to have some available spending cash.

Cespedes, 26, batted?.333/.424/.667 with 33 home runs and 99 RBI in 90 games this past year in Cuba.

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LG Intel Android phone to arrive at CES?

Rumours on Friday suggest that Intel's first venture into the smartphone business will take place at CES with the launch of an LG Android phone.

The Korean Times has it on good authority from sources at both companies that the eagerly-awaited phones boasting the new Medfield SoC will arrive at the Las Vegas tech show.

"LG Electronics will produce Intel's first Android smartphones that use Intel's own mobile platform. The device will be shown at the CES," according to an unnamed 'top-ranking' executive at LG.

Otellini on hand

Intel's top man in Korea Lee Hee-sung told the publication that company CEO Paul Otellini will take to the stage to reveal the device, which could go on sale as soon as March.

He said: "Intel's chief executive Paul Otellini will release Intel's first Android smartphone using our own platform at the CES."

An Intel/LG partnership would represent a second attempt from the company's to forge a partnership based around Google's Android smartphone platform.

The pair announced an Android device as CES last year which was later canned due to a perceived lack of marketability.

CES gets underway on January 9th at the Las Vegas Convention Centre.

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Poll: Are you going to pay Verizon?s new $2 convenience tax?

If you listened to Girls Gone Gadgets last night, you heard Ashley, Kim, and me debate Verizon’s new $2 convenience tax — where and when it’s actually applied and...

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Fiesta, revamped Explorer carry Ford sales above 2 million

December 31, 2011 12:00 AM

By Mark Clothier

Bloomberg News

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. ? Ford Motor Co. said Friday its namesake brand exceeded 2 million U.S. sales for the first year since 2007, led by gains for models such as the Fiesta small car and revamped Explorer sport-utility vehicle.

Smaller cars such as the Fiesta and Focus are on pace for a sales increase of more than 20 percent this year while light trucks that include the Explorer, Escape SUV and F-150 pickup may rise at least 30 percent, the Dearborn, Mich. -based company said.

The second-largest U.S. automaker is benefiting from an auto market that rose 10 percent through November from a year earlier. The company's sales also got a boost from vehicles such as the Fiesta, which debuted in the U.S. in June 2010 and has more than tripled this year through last month, and the Explorer, which has more than doubled.

"The industry sales rate has exceeded 13 million in each of the last three months," Ken Czubay, Ford's vice president for U.S. sales and marketing, said in the statement. "This suggests the current momentum is not an aberration."

Ford-brand sales gained 18 percent to 1.86 million through November, compared with 1.76 million for all of 2010. Ford's total U.S. sales through November increased 11 percent.

The automaker reported net income of $6.6 billion in this year's first nine months. Ford gained consumer consideration as it managed to avoid the bankruptcies that befell its U.S. rivals in 2009. The company borrowed $23.4 billion in late 2006 before credit markets froze, giving it the cash to weather the recession and invest in new models.

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Heartfelt Nengajou (New Year postcards)

By Ken Y-N ( December 31, 2011 at 18:59) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

Let?s end the year on a postive note, a look with goo Ranking at what New Year postcards touched people?s hearts.

Demographics

Between the 18th and 20th of October 2011 1,092 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.3% of the sample were male, 11.2% in their teens, 16.2% in their twenties, 25.7% in their thirties, 25.8% in their forties, 11.5% in their fifties, and 9.5% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Happy New Year to all my readers!

Ranking result

Q: What New Year postcards have touched your heart? (Sample size=1,092)

Rank	?	Score
1	Cards from local friends with a hand-written message	100
2	Just happy to get every card	86.2
3	Just happy to get every hand-made card	53.0
4	Cards from friends, family I haven?t heard from for a while	47.5
5	Cards with a hand-drawn illustration	39.2
6	Cards with a personal message to me	38.2
7	Cards with a picture, text earnestly drawn by a little kid	31.2
8	Cards from a respected teacher, tutor	28.1
9	Cards that are colourful and busy	24.1
10	Cards from a child I teach, from a junior in school, work	15.3
11	Cards with a design made by home-made stamps	15.1
12	Cards with a declaration of love	14.8
13	Just happy to get every card with a photo	14.1
14	Cards from my children, siblings who have just flown the nest	10.8
15	Cards with a photo of beautiful scenery	10.3
16	Cards with a photo of a cute pet dressed up as the Chinese zodiac animal	10.1
17	Cards with a photo of a cute child dressed up as the Chinese zodiac animal	5.8
18	Cards that look as if you put many of them together you get one large picture	4.3

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Gene identified in increasing pancreatic cancer risk

ScienceDaily (Dec. 29, 2011) ? Mutations in the ATM gene may increase the hereditary risk for pancreatic cancer, according to data published in Cancer Discovery, the newest journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most morbid cancers, with less than 5 percent of those diagnosed with the disease surviving to five years. Approximately 10 percent of patients come from families with multiple cases of pancreatic cancer.

"There was significant reason to believe this clustering was due to genetics, but we had not, to this point, been able to find the causative genes that explained the cluster of pancreatic cancer for a majority of these families," said lead author Alison Klein, Ph.D., associate professor of oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins and director of the National Familial Pancreas Tumor Registry.

Klein and colleagues used next-generation sequencing, including whole genome and whole exome analyses, and identified ATM gene mutations in two kindreds with familial pancreatic cancer.

When these initial findings were examined in a large series for patients, ATM mutations were present in four of 166 subjects with pancreatic cancer but were absent in 190 spousal control subsets.

Klein said that knowledge of the presence of the ATM gene could lead to better screening for pancreatic cancer, the fourth most common cause of cancer-related death. However, there are currently no recommended screening tests.

Many doctors use endoscopy as a screening tool for pancreatic cancer, but researchers are still evaluating this technique in clinical trials.

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