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Heat's Riley to leave team to scout lottery picks
The buck stops with me when we won the championship, it stops with me when I have the worst team in the league," he said.
Considering Kansas State forward Michael Beasley and Memphis point guard Derrick Rose stand at the top of the lottery board, the Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, which runs March 13-16, and the Conference USA tournament in Memphis, March 12-15, figure to be on Riley's wish list.
"If I can scoot off and see some of these guys, that's what I'm going to do," he said, declining to name the prospects he would scout because of league rules regarding underclassmen.
Guard Dwyane Wade, the team's most recent lottery pick, said he respected the move.
"No question," he said. "It's no secret we're going to have a lot of balls in the lottery this summer.
Soak up Super Bowl fun in Arizona on a shoestring
If you're an everyman headed to Arizona's "Valley of the Sun" this weekend to participate in the Super Bowl XLII festivities, you'll have to get creative, as high-profile parties will be accessible only to high-rollers and corporate insiders. "It's gonna be nuts," Scottsdale resident Matt Holmes said of the city, which is already crawling with the rich and famous. "Unless you've got a ton of money to blow, there won't be much for you to do." Maybe not much compared to the scope of the event, but there will certainly be plenty -- whether you're someone who likes to be pampered, an outdoors type, a shopper, a barfly or a spiritual seeker, you can find ways to keep yourself entertained before and after the game. .
Queensryche has a tour stop at home
In the late 1980s, it was second only to Heart as the most popular band to come out of Seattle. Dubbed "The Thinking Man's Heavy-Metal Band" because of its smart lyrics and serious approach to music and performance, the band built a following before ever actually playing here. Determined from the start to conquer the world, it bypassed the nightclub route and went straight into the studio. Its independent recordings were hits on local radio, which led to a recording contract with EMI America. The debut "Queensryche" album came out in 1983 to good reviews and impressive sales. After that, the band began doing local shows and touring, building an international audience. Queensryche released its elaborate, political-thriller concept album, "Operation Mindcrime," in 1988, but really hit its stride in 1990 with "Empire," its slickest, most popular release.
One Million Tobacco Deaths A Year In India During The 2010s
A Nationally Representative Case-Control Study of Smoking and Death in India. New England Journal of Medicine, published online 10pm GMT 13 February.
A copy of the research paper, international press release in English and regional Indian languages, a video news release in English (and dubbed versions in Indian regional languages), quotes from noted scientists, FAQs, and PowerPoint slides of the key results are on http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/indiatobacco.
The UK involvement with the origins of the study and with the final report was led by Professor Sir Richard Peto of MRC Clinical Trial Service Unit at the University of Oxford which receives its core funding from Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, and the British Heart Foundation.
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Brucie enjoys birthday in style
Veteran entertainer Bruce Forsyth has said he has no plans to retire as he celebrates his 80th birthday. "If I look as though I'm past it, I'll know it," he said at the London hotel where he will later host a star-studded dinner with 280 guests. Flanked by two beauty queens, he also hit back at claims he is "doddery" and too old to host Strictly Come Dancing. "Senile, yes, but not doddery," joked the former Generation Game host, who has been a star for 50 years. "You try to do live TV for two hours on a Saturday night without mistakes," he added. .
DUP successor 'must do business'
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said he is not concerned if the new first minister has a more distant relationship with him than Ian Paisley. Mr Paisley announced on Tuesday that he would stand down as first minister and DUP leader in May. Mr McGuinness said the issue of Mr Paisley's successor was "no big deal to me". "I am only really interested in working with people who are prepared to do the business, prepared to do the work." Meanwhile, Stormont Junior Minister Jeffrey Donaldson has pledged to back Peter Robinson as the new leader of the DUP. Mr Robinson, the current finance minister, is viewed as the clear favourite to take over after Ian Paisley steps down in May. .
Drive-by download menace spreading fast
Booby-trapped web pages are growing at an alarming rate with unsuspecting firms acting for nurseries for botnet farmers, according to a new study. Security watchers at Sophos are discovering 6,000 new infected webpages every day, the equivalent of one every 14 seconds. Four in five (83 per cent) of these webpages actually belong to innocent companies and individuals, unaware that their sites have been hacked. Websites of all types, from those of antique dealers to ice cream manufacturers and wedding photographers, have hosted malware on behalf of virus writers, Sophos reports. .
The Problem Is Patent Quality, Not 'Trolls'
A site called Prepaid Reviews reports that four US wireless carriers have been hit with a patent lawsuit from a company called Intellect Wireless. Prepaid Reviews writes that "If Intellect Wireless was a firm that bought patents with the implicit intent of lawsuit, I could talk about the need to reform patent law. But if these are original inventions by Henderson, he has a case." I think this fundamentally misconceives the nature of the "patent troll" problem. The fundamental problem is about patent quality, not about motivations or business strategy of the people abusing the system. Advocates of patent reform like to focus on classic patent trolling firms whose only business is lawsuits because the extortionate nature of the transaction is most obvious in those cases. But if an otherwise-legitimate company gets an overly broad or obvious patent and proceeds to sue everyone in sight, that's still a problem, even if the firm really was the first person to develop a product fitting the description of the patent.
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Lakeland team gets help for high school Nordic State Championships
Marshfield Clinic Minocqua Center recently contributed $1,000 to the Lakeland Nordic ski team to assist them in hosting the high school Nordic State Championships. The event will be held in Minocqua at Winter Park on Feb. 8 - 10."This event comes to us once every 10 years and brings more than 400 skiers, coaches and their families from Milwaukee, Madison, central Wisconsin, Hayward and other parts of the state. This weekend will help showcase our area as a great destination for winter sports to the many visitors who will be attending," said Sandy Bolger, event co-chairperson. "We are so thankful for the support of the Marshfield Clinic and other area businesses that are helping us host this event." .
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