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NBPA Executive Director Billy Hunter addresses the media alongside Union President Derek Fisher. As usual, back-up point guard Jordan Farmar looks on from the outskirts with jealousy. (Photo courtesy of the AP)

?It?s not practical, possible or prudent to have a full season now.?

Not exactly the words NBA fans were hoping to hear from Commissioner David Stern at the end of Friday?s meetings between the players? union and the owners.

Following the latest breakdown at the negotiating table, Stern has officially cancelled games through November 30th, saying, ?In light of the breakdown of talks, there will not be a full NBA season under any circumstances.?

After two intensive days of talk led to significant progress on so-called ?system? issues, both sides refused to back down on Friday when it came to discussions over how to divide league revenue.

With so much optimism and energy generated over the initial two days of talks, how is it that the meetings fell apart so rapidly? SoB rewinds the tape to investigate.

The two sides reconvened Wednesday following 30 hours of discussions that broke off in dramatic fashion on Oct. 20. Both sides left that Thursday feeling as if the other were negotiating in bad faith, causing federal mediator George Cohen to remove himself from the proceedings entirely. This made the sudden turnaround for the most recent three-day session of negotiations all the more surprising.

The meetings lasted for over 22 hours from Oct. 26 to 27. With neither side willing to compromise on the division of basketball-related income (BRI), the two sides tabled the issue for the first two days and instead focused on a number of issues pertaining to the overall system. Talks progressed without a hitch (I can hardly believe I wrote those words, either!), and deputy commissioner Adam Silver acknowledged there was a ?tentative agreement? on most of the system issues, which included maintaining the mid-level exception at $5 million, agreeing to contracts no longer than five years, and working towards a middle ground on a proposed salary cap.

Regardless of the specifics, the main takeaway at the end of Thursday?s meetings was a pervasive sense of optimism from both parties. Executive Director of the NBA Players? Union Billy Hunter shared his view that the players and the owners were ?within striking distance of getting a deal.?? When asked when the next significant move would be made, Stern answered, ?Tomorrow!? and insisted, ?We?re going to give it one heck of a shot.?

Stern had also said that the players and the owners had bred enough good will and good faith over the first two days ?that will enable us to look forward to tomorrow, where we anticipate there will be some important and additional progress.? But of everything anyone said after Thursday?s bargaining, the next two words Stern uttered may have been the most telling of all:

?Or not.?

Sure enough, when the talks shifted to how to divide (though personally, I think the better term would be ?share?) the league?s revenue between the players and the owners, neither side would relent: the players stood steadfast at 52%, while the owners insisted on a 50-50 split.

In the amount of time it takes for Kevin Garnett to drop an F-bomb during a game, the talks came to a screeching halt.

Just like before, no more meetings have been scheduled.

With a month of the season lost to the lockout, the NBA is looking at roughly $350 million in lost revenue. Stern said the owners? next proposal ?will reflect the extraordinary losses that are piling up now.? Needless to say, that does not bode well for an agreement.

The players will now miss their November 15th paychecks, although each player is due at least $100,000 since players? paychecks from last season did not equal the 57% of BRI that they were due under the last collective bargaining agreement. That is also a bad sign for the ongoing negotiations, since players will be less likely to miss their income with a free 100 grand coming their way (and even though it?s almost Halloween, I?m not talking about the candy bar).

At this point, with both sides entrenched in their positions, lobbing sound bite grenades back and forth through the media, a deal doesn?t look to be coming around the corner any time soon.

Two developments give me hope (at least a tiny bit)?moving forward, though. For one, they finally made some progress on some of the issues preventing the 2011-12 NBA season. (Hopefully we don?t reach the point where it just becomes the 2012 NBA season.)

Second, if the St. Louis Cardinals can overcome an 8.5_game deficit in September to win the wild card, beat the Phillies (only the best team in baseball through 162 games), top the Brewers (including two wins on the road at Miller Park, where the Brewers were only 57-24 during the regular season), and come back to hoist the World Series trophy after twice being down to their final strike in Game 6, then there must be some hope for an end to the NBA lockout after all.

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WASHINGTON ? The committee that sponsors presidential debates during the general election has chosen Denver, Hempstead, N.Y., and Boca Raton, Fla., as the sites for three debates in October 2012.

One vice presidential debate will be held in Danville, Ky., the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday.

The debates between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger will take place Oct. 3 at the University of Denver, Oct. 16 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., and Oct. 22 at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. The vice presidential debate is set for Oct. 11 at Centre College in Danville, Ky.

Washington University in St. Louis will serve as a backup site.

The commission was established in 1987 and has sponsored the official presidential and vice presidential debates since 1988.

To participate in the debates, candidates must have the support of at least 15 percent of the national electorate according to the average of polls conducted by five national polling organizations and appear on a sufficient number of state ballots to have a mathematical chance of winning the majority of the Electoral College. The candidates must also be eligible under the Constitution.

Two of the locations have hosted previous debates. Centre College held the 2000 vice presidential debate and Hofstra was the site of the final presidential debate in 2008.

Formats for the four debates will be announced in the beginning of 2012, along with plans for "Internet-based initiatives," the commission said. Moderators will be chosen next summer.

The three presidential debates in 2008 were moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS, Tom Brokaw of NBC News and Bob Schieffer of CBS News. Gwen Ifill of PBS moderated the vice presidential debate.

Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said the president looks forward to the debates, and once Republicans have selected their candidate, they will work through the debate details with the Republican candidate's campaign and the commission.

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FILE - In this file photo taken Oct. 4, 2011, NBA Commissioner David Stern listens during a news conference following NBA labor talks meeting between basketball players and owners in New York. Stern canceled all November games on Friday, Oct. 28, the 120th day of the lockout. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, file)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Anyone who has been to a car dealership, or bought a home, understands how negotiating works.

One side offers a number, the other counters, and they meet somewhere in the middle and make a deal.

That's not the way it's working in the NBA's labor standoff ? even with potentially $2 billion at stake for each side.

Owners and players keep insisting they are ready and willing to make the necessary financial step for an agreement. Yet talks have broken down each of the last two weeks with little movement and the same type of answer: "We're here, they're there, and that's that."

That won't get players back on the court or fans in the seats.

And with both sides so entrenched, it might be a question of when, not if, another round of cancellations will be necessary.

"I don't know," Commissioner David Stern said Friday when asked about the next deadline. "We just had a difficult day. We'll go back, we'll go to the office Monday and see what to do about this big mess."

They could start with a phone call to the players' association to schedule more talks, and the sides likely will meet again soon. But it will remain pointless if neither side is prepared to offer compromise.

Owners are insistent on a 50-50 split of basketball-related income. Players have proposed reducing their guarantee from 57 percent down to 52.5, saying that will transfer more than $1.5 billion to owners over six years.

And when neither side would go further Friday, NBA officials said union executive director Billy Hunter ended the session.

"Billy said, 'My phone is ringing off the hook from agents and players telling me I cannot go under 52 percent' and he said unless you're willing to go there, we have nothing to talk about," Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said.

The difference between 50 and 52.5 percent is about $100 million annually, based on last season's revenues, or $1 billion over the course of the 10-year agreement the NBA is seeking.

The cost of not making a deal?

"We expect there to be a $2 billion loss for us for the loss of the season, which we will then begin to dig out from under and try to get back, if there were a season's loss," Stern said. "And the players would lose $2 billion. Period."

The losses already have been piling up. Stern said wiping out the preseason schedule, which would have ended Friday, cost the league $200 million. The first month of real games adds another couple hundred million, and Hunter has said missing a month would cost the players about $350 million.

But that's not enough to make players agree to a deal they say would cost them money and limit their options in free agency.

"We think we gave more than enough, and that's what we constantly said to them: 'Look, we did what it was you said you needed, we did it,'" Hunter said. "And now all of a sudden, every time we did it, it's like their eyes got bigger and they wanted more and more and more. So finally we just had to shut it down and just say it can't be."

Stern has made it clear that owners' future proposals could be made with the losses in mind. Players eventually will get their money, just less of it, but the damage to businesses that rely on the game won't be recovered.

"I think it is hard for the average person to understand what it is they're arguing over," said Jim Taggart, the manager of The Four's, an upscale sports bar across the street from Boston's TD Garden. "A lot of the people that work concessions at the Garden come in here, and their pay is budgeted into how they pay their mortgages, how they put their kids through school.

"Events at the Garden are just absolute big business. There's a whole ancillary economy that depends on the Garden, and it's pretty far reaching, all the restaurants and parking garages."

The sides are much closer after three straight days of meetings in consecutive weeks. Besides the BRI split, the list of remaining items is down to just a handful, such as the ability of teams over the luxury tax threshold to use the midlevel exception or participate in sign-and-trade deals.

Those are important to players. The top-spending teams are mostly the ones in the biggest markets, and players want to know teams in the most desired cities won't be prevented from bidding on them.

"What we did not want to do and what we don't want to do is take taxpaying teams completely out of the market for other teams' free agents," union president Derek Fisher of the Lakers said. "We want our midlevel players to be able to sign contracts or at least have the opportunity to sign a contract wherever they would like to play."

There had been a sense of optimism going into Friday after both sides acknowledged progress on the salary cap system over the previous two days. But they hadn't talked about the split, and sure enough, once they did things fell apart again.

Wasted was the meeting room the NBA had reserved through the weekend at a top New York hotel, where it hoped to be announcing a deal by Sunday. The next talks haven't been scheduled, but the sides reconnected quickly after the last breakdown.

"Each time I come here, we've come in thinking we may be here for weeks and we're not going to leave the room," Fisher said. "But sometimes they end and you assume you won't talk again for weeks and you're back the next day."

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AP Sports Writer Howard Ulman in Boston contributed to this report.

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San Francisco 49ers running back Frank Gore (21) is stopped on fourth down at the 1-yard line by Cleveland Browns linebacker Kaluka Maiava (56) and other defenders in the second quarter of an NFL football game in San Francisco, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Braylon Edwards (17) makes a catch in front of Cleveland Browns cornerback Sheldon Brown (24) in the first quarter of an NFL football game in San Francisco, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

San Francisco 49ers safety Dashon Goldson celebrates after hitting Cleveland Browns wide receiver Greg Little in the second quarter of an NFL football game in San Francisco, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

San Francisco 49ers safety Dashon Goldson (38) knocks down Cleveland Browns wide receiver Greg Little (15) in the second quarter of an NFL football game in San Francisco, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree (15) scores on a two-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Alex Smith (11) in the second quarter of an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns in San Francisco, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Frank Gore charged up the middle with his signature burst for a 2-yard gain, taking another step forward in franchise history.

Gore got that coveted new contract and is playing like his old dominant self. Forget the hip injury that ended his season last November. He's a new man making his case for a third Pro Bowl and pushing his team toward its first playoff berth in nine years.

Gore ran for both 125-plus yards and a touchdown in a fourth straight game, Michael Crabtree made his first TD reception of the season, and the San Francisco 49ers beat the Cleveland Browns 20-10 on Sunday.

Alex Smith completed 15 of 24 passes for 177 yards, leading the first-place 49ers (6-1) to their fifth consecutive victory since an overtime loss to the Cowboys in Week 2.

For Colt McCoy and the Browns, it's 0-for the Bay Area. They lost two weeks ago in Oakland, then flopped across San Francisco Bay at Candlestick Park.

No handshake flap this time for Jim Harbaugh, either. And no post-bye letdown for his 49ers ? even if it was far from flashy.

This marked Harbaugh's first game since his seconds-long greeting and firm backslap of Lions coach Jim Schwartz following San Francisco's 25-19 comeback win at Detroit two weeks ago.

Harbaugh says he practiced during the bye week by high-fiving with his toddler daughter. He was polite to fellow first-year coach Pat Shurmur when they met at midfield.

The 49ers ? who were made aware by Harbaugh this week that teams were 3-9 after their byes coming into Sunday ? are off to their first 6-1 start since 1998 in the days of greats Jerry Rice, Terrell Owens and Steve Young.

Cleveland's D'Qwell Jackson committed a costly facemask penalty against Gore that would have stopped San Francisco on third down 2 yards short in the waning minutes. David Akers sealed it with his second field goal of the day, a 26-yarder.

Gore already had 103 yards on 19 carries by halftime, then got the other 7 yards he needed to pass Roger Craig and move into second place on the franchise rushing list with 7,089. Gore wound up with 134 yards on a season-high 31 carries.

San Francisco has a five-game winning streak for the first time since 2001 and wrapped up its first unbeaten October since 1997.

The next big task will be ending an eight-year stretch of frustration in which the team hasn't had a winning season or made the playoffs. The Niners began the day with a comfortable three-game cushion in the division ? nicknamed the NFC Worst last season, when Seattle won with a 7-9 record.

Harbaugh's big brother, John, helped the sibling cause by rallying to beat Arizona 30-27 earlier Sunday.

The banged-up Browns (3-4) improved on special teams but went without their top two running backs. Peyton Hillis didn't play for the second straight game because of a hamstring injury and Cleveland then lost Montario Hardesty to a calf injury in the first half.

McCoy and Co. managed only Phil Dawson's 52-yard field goal on the final play of the first half before Josh Cribbs' 45-yard TD catch with 6:17 to play.

After last week's lackluster 6-3 win over the Seahawks, it didn't get much better for the Browns. They failed to reach the end zone for seven quarters before Cribbs scored.

McCoy accounted for four of Cleveland's five fumbles, one of which was lost and helped set up Gore's early TD run.

McCoy lost the ball on the second play from scrimmage after he was stripped by Ahmad Brooks. Isaac Sopoaga recovered at the Cleveland 20. Gore ran 4 yards for the first points. Gore rushed for a touchdown in his fourth straight game, the first time in his career he's done so.

McCoy was sacked four more times after five last week by the Seahawks.

San Francisco's lopsided first half told the tale far before the clock finally wound down on a crystal-clear, unseasonably warm fall day.

First downs: 15-6. Total yards: 253-93. Time of possession: 18:58-11:02. Rushing yards: 145-25.

Crabtree caught a 2-yard pass to put the Niners ahead 17-0 just before halftime. Dashon Goldson made his first interception of 2011 in the end zone in the third quarter.

Left tackle Joe Staley even was in on the action, catching a 17-yard pass from Smith for a first down midway through the first quarter for his first career reception. He jumped up in celebration and signaled the first down by emphatically pointing down field with both hands. Sopoaga had an 18-yard reception late against the Browns' fourth-ranked defense.

49ers wideout Braylon Edwards returned against his former club in his first action since right knee surgery after getting hurt against the Cowboys. He had four catches.

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SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. ? Millions of people from Maine to Maryland were without power as an unseasonably early nor'easter dumped heavy, wet snow over the weekend on a region more used to gaping at leaves in October than shoveling snow.

The snow was due to stop falling in New England late Sunday, but Halloween will likely come and go before many of the more than 3 million without electricity see it restored, officials warned. Several referred to the combination of the storm's early arrival and its ferocity as historic, yet another unwelcome superlative for weather-weary Northeasterners.

"You had this storm, you had Hurricane Irene, you had the flooding last spring and you had the nasty storms last winter," Tom Jacobsen said Sunday while getting coffee at a convenience store in Hamilton Township, N.J.

"I'm starting to think we really ticked off Mother Nature somehow because we've been getting spanked by her for about a year now."

The storm smashed record snowfall totals for October and worsened as it moved north. Communities in western Massachusetts were among the hardest hit. Snowfall totals topped 27 inches in Plainfield, and nearby Windsor had gotten 26 inches by early Sunday. It was blamed for at least three deaths, and states of emergency were declared in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and parts of New York.

"Look at this, look at all the damage," said Jennifer Burckson, 49, after she came outside Sunday morning in South Windsor to find a massive tree branch had smashed her car's back windshield. Trees in the neighborhood were snapped in half, with others weighed down so much that the leaves brushed the snow.

Compounding the storm's impact were still-leafy trees, which gave the snow something to hang onto and that put tremendous weight on branches, said National Weather Service spokesman Chris Vaccaro. That led to limbs breaking off and contributed to the widespread outages.

"This is not going to be a quick fix," said Peter Judge, a Massachusetts emergency management official.

The 750,000 who lost power in Connecticut broke a record for the state that was set when the remnants of Hurricane Irene hit the state in August, said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

This outage will be worse than the one caused by Irene, said Peter Bloom, 70, of South Windsor, because he relies on electricity to heat his home.

"I'm going to put another blanket on. What else can I do?" he said as he gassed up a snow blower to clear his driveway. "At least I'll save a few bucks on my electric bill."

The severity of the storm caught many by surprise, and it disrupted Halloween plans, too.

Sharon Martovich of Southbury, Conn., who was grocery shopping Sunday morning in nearby Newtown at one of the few businesses open for miles, said she's hoping the power will come back on in time for her husband's Halloween tradition of playing "Young Frankenstein" on a giant screen in front of their house.

"We would be really sad and it would disappoint a lot of people if we can't play `Young Frankenstein,'" she said. But no matter what, they will make sure the eight or so children who live in the neighborhood don't miss out on trick-or-treating.

"Either way we will get the giant flashlights and we will go," she said.

She was already making the best of the outage. After her power went out at about 4 p.m. Saturday, she invited neighbors over for an impromptu Halloween party with wine and quesadillas in front of her propane fireplace.

Around Newtown, snow-laden branches were snapping off trees every few minutes. Roads that were plowed became impassible because the trees were falling so fast.

Along the coast and in such cities as Boston, relatively warm water temperatures helped keep snowfall totals much lower. Washington received a trace of snow, tying a 1925 record for the date. New York City's Central Park set a record for both the date and the month of October with 1.3 inches of snow.

But in New Hampshire's capital of Concord, more than 22 inches fell, weeks ahead of the usual first measurable snowfall. Trees downtown still bright with fall colors were covered with snow. Some didn't survive ? a large oak tree that had stood alongside the Statehouse fell, partially blocking a side street.

By 8 a.m., Dave Whitcher had already been clearing dozens of parking lots around town for eight hours as part of his work as a property manager.

Holding up his shovel, he said, "Me and this guy are going to get to know each other real well today."

Some other inland towns got more than a foot of snow. West Milford, N.J., about 45 miles northwest of New York City, saw 19 inches by early Sunday.

New Jersey's largest electric and gas utility, PSE&G, warned customers to prepare for "potentially lengthy outages" and advised power might not be fully restored until Wednesday. More than 600,000 lost electricity in the state, including Gov. Chris Christie.

Utility crews were out in force Sunday, but downed trees and messy roads ? snowfall totals reached 19 ? were hampering their efforts.

They also delayed rescues of motorists stranded along highways in upstate New York, where 50 to 75 vehicles were towed overnight. A commuter train was also evacuated, and passengers were taken to a shelter, state troopers said.

Residents were urged to avoid travel altogether. Speed limits were reduced on bridges between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and a bridge in Delaware was closed. Roads closed because of accidents and downed trees and power lines, said Sean Brown, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

Two of the airports serving New York City, Newark Liberty and Kennedy, had hours-long delays Saturday, as did Philadelphia's airport. Commuter trains in Connecticut and New York were delayed or suspended because of downed trees and signal problems. Amtrak suspended service on several Northeast routes, and one train from Chicago to Boston got stuck overnight in Palmer, Mass. The 48 passengers had food and heat, a spokeswoman said, and were taken by bus Sunday to their destinations.

In southeastern Pennsylvania, an 84-year-old man was killed when a snow-laden tree fell on his home while he was napping in his recliner. In Connecticut, the governor said one person died in a Colchester traffic accident that he blamed on slippery conditions.

And a 20-year-old man in Springfield, Mass., stopped when he saw police and firefighters examining downed wires and stepped in the wrong place and was electrocuted, Capt. William Collins said.

Parts of New York saw a mix of snow, rain and slush that made for sheer misery at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York City, where drenched protesters hunkered down in tents and under tarps as the plaza filled with rainwater and melted snow.

Technically, tents are banned in the park, but protesters say authorities have been looking the other way, even despite a crackdown on generators that were keeping them warm.

Nick Lemmin, 25, of Brooklyn, was spending his first night at the encampment. He was one of a handful of protesters still at the park early Sunday.

"I had to come out and support," he said. "The underlying importance of this is such that you have to weather the cold."

Adash Daniel, 24, is a protester who had been at the park for three weeks. He had a sleeping bag and cot that he was going to set up, but changed his mind.

"I'm not much good to this movement if I'm shivering," he said as he left the park.

October snowfall is rare in New York, and Saturday marked just the fourth October day with measurable snowfall in Central Park since record-keeping began 135 years ago, the National Weather Service said.

But the unofficial arrival of winter was a boon for some. Two Vermont ski resorts, Killington and Mount Snow, started the ski season early by opening one trail each over the weekend, and Maine's Sunday River ski resort also opened for the weekend.

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Associated Press writers Noreen Gillespie in Newtown, Conn.; Mary Esch in Albany, N.Y.; Ron Todt in Philadelphia; David B. Caruso, Colleen Long and Deepti Hajela in New York; Holly Ramer in Concord, N.H.; and Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton, N.J., contributed to this report.

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PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico ? Tropical Storm Rina battered Mexico's Caribbean coast and the island of Cozumel with winds and rain Friday, as the navy forcibly evacuated some residents who refused to leave a low-lying island north of the storm.

Rina was a far cry from the Category 3 hurricane that some had feared would hit the resort-studded region and many tourists abandoned Cancun and the Riviera Maya ahead of its arrival. The storm was weakening further early Friday, with maximum sustained winds having decreased to near 50 mph (85 kph).

Playa de Carmen, a resort town across from Cozumel, was left without electricity and streets were largely empty as Rina swept the coast just 20 miles (30 kilometer) west of Cozumel with winds of about 60 mph (95 kph). The storm was moving north at about 7 mph (11 kph).

The Mexican Navy took mandatory evacuation orders so seriously that it sent boats to Holbox island, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of where the storm was expected to hit, to haul out by force about 80 residents who had refused to leave the island during an earlier evacuation of about 2,300 people.

At least eight cruise ships changed itineraries away from the storm's path.

Lines snaked from ticket counters in Cancun's crowded airport as airliners heading to Canada and Europe waited in pouring rain. State Tourism Director Juan Carlos Gonzalez Hernandez estimated 10,000 tourists had left by Wednesday night.

NASA cut short an undersea laboratory mission near Key Largo, Florida, bringing the crew back to land.

Schools were ordered closed in communities along the coast and on Cozumel in anticipation of the storm.

Ports also closed to navigation for recreational, fishing and small boats in the state of Quintana Roo, home to Cancun, and neighboring Yucatan state, while the island of Cozumel was closed to larger vessels, including the ferry that connects the island and Playa del Carmen.

But some decided to ride out the weakened Rina. Early Thursday in Playa del Carmen, tourists and residents strolled along the promenade and the beach Thursday under cloudy but not-yet-rainy weather. At the beach, lifeguards were placing red flags warning people not to swim.

"We would prefer to lie on the beach and get in the ocean, but right now all we can do is walk around and go shopping," said Vera Kohler, a 27-year-old tourist from Frankfurt, Germany, who arrived Wednesday and planned to stay in the area until Sunday.

Domenico Cianni, a retired restaurateur from Vancouver, Canada, said he also prepared for a hurricane by buying extra food and beer and putting shutters on the windows of his rental home. But after hearing Rina had been downgraded to a tropical storm he decided to join tourists in Playa del Carmen's pier.

"We were curious about what's happening. We wanted to be part of the action," Cianni said.

A tropical storm warning was in effect for the Caribbean coast from Punta Allen to San Felipe.

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Associated Press writer Gabriel Alcocer in Cancun contributed to this report.

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There is an old joke about an optimistic kid that is left in a room full to the brim with horse shit. The people who left him there return about an hour later, and to their surprise, they find the boy happily digging through the shit and ask "Hey Boy! What are you doing?," to which the boy responds: "With all this shit I figured there's got to be a pony in here somewhere."

I recently took a tour of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in Zuccoti Park, trying to find the pony.

Walking into the demonstration was like peeling layers of an onion. There was an outer layer of police, followed by a layer of observers, next came sign holders, then campers, and intermixed between them were pods of organized committees (media, law, art, tech, etc.). I spoke to many people, trying to get an idea of the main goal and purpose (pony) they were working toward.

The pony I hoped to find would've come in the form of clear policy changes Occupy Wall Street wanted to see. For example, campaign finance reform, Wall Street compensation regulation or Congress term limits. There are still no 'official demands' from the collective, but there has been a lot of press around individuals claiming to make Occupy Wall Street demands. (See the first set of user-submitted demands the media ran with.)

I continued to make rounds inside the camp, and stayed for the 8 p.m. general assembly (which started at 8:30 p.m.). The human microphone system that used people repeating three words of a speech at a time was awesome to be a part of, but the topics -- like whether the group could purchase non eco-friendly storage bins -- were hard to get excited about. The assembly also became incredibly hard to hear, as a poorly timed sacred drum circle started 30 feet away.

It was at that moment it became clearer to me what was going on. This truly democratic group was trying to do things in a new way, trying to hear and act on everyone's voice in the 99 percent. Unfortunately the result of this can turn into a decentralized cacophony of noise, signs, and demands. Aligned but not organized, loud but not focused. (See the conversation tag cloud.)

At the simplest level Occupy Wall Street is the have-nots's response to the haves. Occupy Wall Street has become an open platform for talking and demonstrating about the negative externalities that come from having the "1 percent" guide the direction of the country. Despite some media covering fringe cases of protester demands, there have yet to be any concrete positions taken by Occupy Wall Street.

In 2009 another movement was created that focused on new political discourse and on-the-ground meet ups. In their first two months, the Tea Party garnered millions of impressions and occupied the country's media and political discourse, but this spike didn't last and neither will the Occupy Wall Street attention.

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There are many differences between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, including the fact that the Tea Party was willing to let politicians carry their torch as a formal political party. This has given them a few additional attention bumps after their initial month-long spike of attention in April 2009 due to the political cycle.

Occupy Wall Street has openly rejected any one person speaking for or representing the group -- which has helped it keep it populous and inclusive. Unfortunately a non-Occupy Wall Street affiliated group has purchased OccupyParty.org (and over 40 other Occupy[state] domains) and may end up causing even more confusion for Occupy Wall Street come election time.

The clock is now running for Occupy Wall Street since the 'media silence' was broken in early October, which means media buzz will be dying out by mid-November. Occupy Wall Street has spread across over 50 cities, gathered 500k Facebook fans across 40+ pages, and organized multiple marches.

Now that the silence has been broken, Occupy Wall Street has a limited window of attention and momentum, regardless of how long they intend to physically occupy. So with the clock counting down, I am holding out hope that Occupy Wall Street can find their pony in this room full of drum circles, media hype and message hijacking.

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ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2011) ? The "switching on" or expression of specific genes in the human genome is what makes each human tissue and each human being unique. A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, and the National Institute of Mental Health found that many gene expression changes that occur during fetal development are reversed immediately after birth.

Reversals of fetal expression changes are also seen again much later in life during normal aging of the brain. Additionally, the team observed the reversal of fetal expression changes in Alzheimer's disease findings reported in other studies. The research team also found that gene expression change is fastest in human brain tissue during fetal development, slows down through childhood and adolescence, stabilizes in adulthood, and then speeds up again after age 50, with distinct redirection of expression changes prior to birth and in early adulthood.

Their findings are published in the October 27, 2011, edition of Nature. All of the data are available to the public as a web-based resource at: www.libd.org/braincloud.

Using a number of genomic analysis technologies, the research team conducted genome-wide genetic (DNA) and gene expression (RNA) analyses of brain tissue samples from the prefrontal cortex. Tissue represented the various stages of the human lifespan.

"We think that these coordinated changes in gene expression connecting fetal development with aging and neurodegeneration are central to how the genome constructs the human brain and how the brain ages," said Carlo Colantuoni, PhD, one of the lead authors of the study and a former research associate with the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Colantuoni recently joined the Lieber Institute for Brain Development on the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus.

The research also showed that brain gene expression differences between genetically diverse individuals (of different races, for example) are no greater than the differences between individuals sharing many more genetic traits.

"Our findings highlight the fact that current technologies and analysis methods can address the effects of individual genetic traits in isolation, but we have virtually no understanding of how our many millions of genetic traits work in concert with one another," added Colantuoni.

Authors of "Temporal Dynamics and Genetic Control of Transcription in Human Prefontal Cortex" are Carlo Colantuoni, Barbara Lipska, Tianzhang Ye, Thomas M. Hyde, Ran Tao, Jeffrey T. Leek, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Abdel G. Elkahloun, Mary M. Herman, Daniel R. Weinberger and Joel E. Kleinman.

Funding for the research was provided by the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, Maryland USA and the Intramural Research Program in the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health.

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A new NASA satellite is poised to launch early Friday (Oct. 28) to continue the agency's string of Earth-watching missions, but the new spacecraft has a twist ? it's the first probe ever built to track fast weather systems and long-term climate change, researchers say.

The National polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite system Preparatory Project ? or NPP for short ? is slated to blast off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 5:48 a.m. EDT (0948 GMT) Friday aboard a Delta 2 rocket.

The $1.5 billion NPP spacecraft is the first satellite designed to collect data for both short-term weather forecasting and long-term climate monitoring, researchers said. It will also serve as a bridge to more advanced future satellite systems, which are expected to start studying our planet in five years or so.

"NPP will help us understand what tomorrow will bring, whether by 'tomorrow' we mean tomorrow's forecast, or whether we mean years or decades down the road," Andrew Carson, NPP program executive at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., told reporters Wednesday (Oct. 26). [Video: NASA's NPP Satellite]

A weather and climate satellite

The NPP satellite is about the size of a minivan and weighs 4,500 pounds (2,041 kilograms). It will zip around Earth in a polar orbit, peering down at our planet from an altitude of 512 miles (824 kilometers).

NPP will continue the sort of work done by venerable NASA Earth-observing satellites such as Terra, Aqua and Aura, researchers said. But NPP will provide a marked increase in capability, they added.

"This is the time for the generational leap forward in operational weather forecasting observations," said Jim Gleason, NPP project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

NPP will use five different science instruments to scrutinize Earth, gathering a wide variety of data. For example, it will track atmospheric ozone and dust levels, record land and sea surface temperatures, monitor ice cover around the globe and measure changes in vegetation, among other things.

In all, NPP will measure more than 30 different climate variables and will beam back to Earth 4 terabytes of data ? the equivalent of 800 DVDs ? every day, researchers said.

The satellite's observations should be useful to weather forecasters all over the world, as well as scientists seeking a better understanding of long-term climate change and its impacts. Researchers will also use the satellite to monitor natural disasters, such as hurricanes, wildfires, floods and volcanic eruptions.

The NPP mission should provide "better observations for better predictions, to make better decisions," Gleason said.

A bridge to future systems

While NPP should give meteorologists and climate scientists a lot of data to pore over, the satellite was always envisioned as a stepping stone to even more capable future spacecraft.

For example, NPP was originally proposed as a demonstration mission for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), a joint military-civilian project.

However, ballooning costs and a series of delays doomed NPOESS, and the program was canceled in 2010. The military-civilian partnership was dissolved, and each branch was told to develop its own line of Earth-observing satellites.

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) teamed up on the civilian program, which is called the Joint Polar Satellite System, or JPSS. NPP will help make JPSS a reality, researchers said.

"NPP will lay the groundwork for the JPSS system, by proving out the capabilities and technologies of both the instruments and the ground system," Carson said. "NPP is a critical first step in creating a climate-capable operational system."

NPP is designed to last for at least five years, so it should be able to deliver data until JPSS becomes operational. The first JPSS satellite is due to launch in late 2016, officials said.

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WASHINGTON -- Just over a month after the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network on Thursday announced a lawsuit seeking to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

The lawsuit, first reported by The Huffington Post last week, will be filed in Massachusetts federal court on Thursday on behalf of eight current and retired service members and their families. According to SLDN, the plaintiffs are challenging the constitutionality of DOMA as well as provisions in Titles 10, 32 and 38 of the U.S. Code that prevent service members in same-sex marriages from receiving the same benefits as heterosexual couples.

At an event announcing the lawsuit at the National Press Club, the plaintiffs and their family members cast the challenge in terms of fairness. "The case we are bringing is about one thing, plain and simple: It's about justice for gay and lesbian service members and their families and our armed forces," said Aubrey Sarvis, an Army veteran and the executive director of SLDN. He stressed that all eight plaintiffs were "legally married" in various states.

Shannon McLaughlin, a major in the Massachusetts National Guard and one of the plaintiffs, made a similar argument. Standing at the podium with her wife and 10-month-old son, she declared that the issue boils down to this: "We've been serving our country too long, working too hard, sacrificing too much to see our families denied the same recognition, support and benefits as our straight married counterparts."

Those benefits include medical coverage, access to military bases, allowances for housing and unit programs that provide support and information to family members. Their denial has taken a concrete toll on service members in same-sex marriages.

Army Lt. Col. Victoria Hudson, for example, highlighted the burden on her and her wife when Hudson was deployed to Iraq in 2005. By her own count, she commanded convoys 19 times while overseas, and each time "it makes you think about, if I don't come back, who's going to notify my wife?" She told The Huffington Post that such clear injustice gives her confidence that the public will understand and support repealing DOMA: "When I say that, you know, I go to Iraq and if I had died my wife, Monica, wouldn't have been notified, they're appalled."

With the Obama administration no longer defending DOMA against legal challenges, SLDN hopes that the case will proceed quickly. Christopher Mann of the law firm Chadbourne & Parke, which is handling the case, said that between the administration's stance and the court's previous experience with DOMA issues, he hoped for a resolution within "a few months."

The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has ruled against DOMA in the past, and Mann cited its familiarity with the issue as the reason why SLDN initiated the lawsuit there. "That court's already briefed the issues, they're familiar with it, so it makes sense to go ahead and file there rather than reinvent the wheel before another court," he said. In response to a question, he said the issue may not need to proceed as far as the Supreme Court.

In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to recognize marriage equality. Since doing so, the it has seen more than $100 million in economic benefits from spending on those weddings. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Massachusetts also enjoys the lowest divorce rate in the nation, with 2.2 divorces for every 1,000 couples.

The SLDN lawsuit is not the only current challenge to DOMA. Carmen Cardona, a lesbian Navy veteran, recently filed suit in Connecticut to claim disability benefits for her and her spouse. The payments are currently denied because her marriage, while legal in the state, is not recognized by the Department of Veterans Affairs. But any ruling in Cardona's suit, which will be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, would not apply to gays who are currently serving in the military.

In Congress, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin debate over DOMA repeal on Nov. 3. The proposed Respect for Marriage Act, introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and co-sponsored by 30 others, seeks to overturn federal restrictions on recognizing same-sex marriages. While the bill, supported by the committee's entire Democratic majority, is almost certain to advance to the Senate floor, it stands little chance of passing the Republican-controlled House.

Still, SLDN is hopeful that the legislation is a positive sign. "It's unclear which train will get to the station first, but they will be moving on parallel tracks," said Zeke Stokes, the group's communications director.

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LOS ANGELES?? Lawyers for Michael Jackson's doctor sought to shift blame Thursday to another doctor and a drug different from the anesthetic that killed the star, calling an expert to testify that Jackson was addicted to Demerol in the months before his death.

They suggested the singer's withdrawal from the painkiller triggered the insomnia that Dr. Conrad Murray was trying to resolve when he gave Jackson the anesthetic propofol.

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Murray's attorneys claim Jackson self-administered a fatal dose of propofol as a sleep aid.

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Authorities contend Murray delivered the lethal dose and botched resuscitation efforts. Murray has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's 2009 death.

There was no mention of propofol during the testimony of Dr. Robert Waldman, an addiction expert who said he studied the records of Dr. Arnold Klein, Jackson's longtime dermatologist, in concluding the star developed a dependency on the powerful painkiller. Records showed Klein used Demerol on Jackson repeatedly for procedures to enhance his appearance.

No Demerol was discovered in the singer's system when he died, but propofol was found throughout his body.

Waldman relied on Klein's records from March 2009 until days before Jackson died.

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Under questioning by Murray's lead lawyer, Ed Chernoff, Waldman said: "I believe there is evidence that he (Jackson) was dependent on Demerol, possibly."

Klein has emerged as the missing link in the trial, with the defense raising his name at every turn and the judge ruling he may not be called as a witness because his care of Jackson is not at issue. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing.

But Klein's handwritten notes on his visits with Jackson were introduced through Waldman, who said Klein was giving Jackson unusually high doses of Demerol for four months ? from March through June 2009 ? with the last shots coming three days before the singer's death.

Over three days in April, the records showed Jackson received 775 milligrams of Demerol along with small doses of the sedative Versed. Waldman's testimony showed Klein, who also was Jackson's longtime friend, was giving the singer huge doses of the powerful Demerol at the same time Murray was giving Jackson the anesthetic propofol to sleep.

"This is a large dose for an opioid for a dermatology procedure in an office," Waldman said.

He told jurors the escalating doses showed Jackson had developed a tolerance to the drug and was probably addicted. He said a withdrawal symptom from the drug is insomnia.

On cross-examination, prosecutor David Walgren tangled with the expert, who was hostile to most of his questions. He elicited from Waldman that the law requires physicians to keep accurate and detailed records, which Murray did not. The doctor also said all drugs should be kept in a locked cabinet or safe where they could not be stolen or diverted by anyone.

Waldman said every doctor also must document when the drugs are stored and when they are used. Murray told police he kept no records on his treatment of Jackson.

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Several prosecution experts have said the propofol self-administration defense was improbable, and a key expert said he ruled it out completely, arguing the more likely scenario was that Murray gave Jackson a much higher dose than he has acknowledged.

Jackson had complained of insomnia as he prepared for a series of comeback concerts and was receiving the anesthetic and sedatives from Murray to help him sleep.

Murray's police interview indicates he didn't know Jackson was being treated by Klein and was receiving other drugs.

In response to questions from a prosecutor, Waldman said some of the symptoms of Demerol withdrawal were the same as those seen in patients withdrawing from the sedatives lorazepam and diazepam. Murray had been giving Jackson both drugs.

The final defense witness was to be Dr. Paul White, a propofol expert.

White and Waldman do not necessarily have to convince jurors that Jackson gave himself the fatal dose, but merely provide them with enough reasonable doubt about the prosecution's case against Murray.

Source: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45060754/ns/today-entertainment/

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Real estate investing is not in any list of school choice. You can not get a degree accredited in the real estate investment. You will not find in high school or college guidance of a consultant, WHO recommends a career in real estate investment (in the case of guidance Counselor understand real estate investments, he or she probably will not be a leadership consultant!)In the system of public schools and educational programs in the United States is only a weak attempt to prepare students to simply ?get a job.? Unfortunately, there is no class in ?Making Money 101.? You do not have the opportunity to take in the class ?How to become financially independent.? The teacher had never taught a class in ?How to succeed if others can not.? I never knew anything about succeeding as an entrepreneur or becoming wealthy during my 10 years in the university classroom. I just became a multi-millionaire when I learned the skills of real estate investments, and I paid out of pocket and out of the classroom for learning. I learned these skills in OLE University hard blows through trial and error.

Never disparage the cost of training. There is no free lunch. You need to get this know-how, outside of class, as well as learn how to make money will cost you. But if you think spending on education is expensive, you should calculate the cost of ignorance!Nevertheless, learning real estate investment will not cost you in the arm and leg. Yes, I know real estate investing TV infomercials and the real estate investing seminars held around the country charge big bucks for those 3 day seminars and week-long camp. But this is pocket change compared to the cost they want to collect from you later. Catch this fact: all real estate investing infomercials and seminars target you as a candidate for the ?Real Estate investing coaching.? That?s where they charge you up to $ 25,000 and more than $ 50,000 a year for ?coaching.? And often you have assigned to some kid ?still wet for the ears? to call you every week or month to hold your hand and whisper in your ear what common sense and persistent drive should already tell you! I am not exaggerating the real estate investing educational system, because I know that inside and outside. I personally know many of the so-called ?gurus.? I was close to him for 25 years. My opinion is that the charges are excessive, because the promoters have found deep pockets in the market.When I began real estate investing career many years ago, real estate investing TV infomercials known real estate investment seminars and have been extremely rare. Then Mark Haroldsen followed a trend started in Al Lowry and Nick Nickerson holding occasional real estate investing seminars across the country. Later Robert Allen expanded the industry. Robert Allen promoted real estate investing conventions in major U.S. cities; he found a market for costly real estate investing information packages with tapes and note books. Potential real estate investments today aspirants who want more than an inadequate salary from employment in Dullsville often conclude that they must ?pay through the nose for real estate investing know-how.

However, a diligent search of those wanna-bees often finds that this education in real estate investing more readily available from other sources than they previously imagined.

Real estate investment is probably one of the most easily learned skills never taught in school. Real estate investment is probably one of the most prolific careers on the planet Earth. Of the families who now live in houses instead of caves, houses, you can fix it everywhere. And probably nothing contributes to upgrading deplorable housing conditions across America comparable to real estate investment to repair the properties.The entrepreneur-minded aspirant who discovers the real estate investing industry often catches a vision of life for their work. Books and online courses offer an alternative to expensive seminars and coaching.

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