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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
A fan made it into the Octagon at UFC 138
Whoops! The UFC's usually airtight security let a fan slip by and make it all the way into the Octagon in England on Saturday night. Not long after Chris Leben entered the cage and before Bruce Buffer started the introductions for the main event, a man traipsed through the Octagon.
The referees quickly escorted him out of the cage, and Dana White tweeted, "Fan just jumped the barrier and ran into the octagon! That's a first in 10 years!!!!! The Brits lol."
It's mind-boggling that a fan got anywhere near the Octagon without being tackled first. UFC events aren't set up like baseball or football games, with tons of wide-open space and just a wall between fans and the field of play. At each fight, the UFC creates a secure perimeter around the Octagon, and only credentialed media, staff, fight officials and coaches can make it anywhere near the cage. Movement is particularly restricted when a fighter is walking in or out from his bout. They are even more strict about who can get into the Octagon.
Leben, Munoz, and everyone in the cage should thank their lucky stars that this fan was just a thrill-seeker, and?not a crazy person with bad intentions.
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Falcons keep Colts winless with rout
By MICHAEL MAROT
updated 6:04 p.m. ET Nov. 6, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS - The Colts' collapse keeps getting worse.
Rookie receiver Julio Jones touched the ball five times Sunday and scored twice against Indianapolis' porous pass defense, leading the Atlanta Falcons to a 31-7 victory over the NFL's only winless team.
Before fleeing Lucas Oil Stadium in the second half, fans serenaded Colts players with boos after watching Indianapolis go nearly 30 minutes between first downs. By the end of the game, at least 80 percent of the stadium was empty.
"We really feel the last two games we hurt ourselves," quarterback Curtis Painter said after throwing for only 98 yards. "I think we need to clean things up, play a little bit better, starting with myself."
Right now, the Colts (0-9) don't even look competitive.
They've been outscored 75-14 in the first half of the last three games and 120-24 overall.
Indy has lost five straight home games for the first time since 2001 and is on the cusp of falling to 0-10 for the first time since 1997. This was the Colts' worst defeat at home since a 31-3 loss to Seattle on Sept. 14, 1997, the year before quarterback Peyton Manning arrived.
And things aren't improving.
Manning still hasn't practiced since having neck surgery Sept. 8, and now the Colts could be without their top two tight ends. Dallas Clark (lower leg) and Brody Eldridge (hand) both left the game early. Coach Jim Caldwell provided no updates after the game.
Rookie running back Delone Carter was yanked after fumbling on the second play of the game and didn't return until the second half. Painter was pulled in the fourth quarter after completing 13 of 27 passes with one interception.
Defensively, the Colts were abysmal, too.
Atlanta needed only five plays to cash in on Carter's fumble, with a 1-yard touchdown run from Michael Turner. Jones, who was coming back from an injured left hamstring, burned the Indy secondary on TD catches of 50 and 80 yards.
"It gives us another good player, another good option to have the football in his hands," Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan said. "He's a good player, and we're certainly better when we have him."
Jones finished with three catches for a season-high 131 yards and had two carries for 33 yards, one of which set up a late field goal.
Atlanta (5-3) won its third straight to keep pace with NFC South-leading New Orleans, and it looked easy.
Ryan was 14 of 24 for 275 yards with three TDs and one interception. Roddy White caught four passes for 76 yards, and Turner ran 19 times for 71 yards. Tony Gonzalez also got into the act, catching a 1-yard TD pass late in the third quarter to make it 28-7.
Jones was terrific.
He beat triple coverage for the 50-yarder, making a great adjustment on the ball at the goal line. Initially, the pass was ruled incomplete, but coach Mike Smith won a replay challenge, giving the Falcons a 14-0 lead.
"I knew I had caught it," Jones said. "I knew my hands were up under the ball. I didn't bobble it or nothing."
On Atlanta's next possession, Jones ran across the field, catching a 10-yard pass near the left hash mark, then outran the Indy defense for an 80-yard score to make it 21-0 less than three minutes into the second quarter.
"The first one, we kind of lost it," Colts cornerback Jerraud Powers said. "The second one was just us breaking down on defense and it's things like that that we've got to stop giving up to put us in position to win."
Powers came back with a juggling interception at the Falcons 6, returning it 6 yards for Indy's only score. That cut Atlanta's lead to 21-7.
But Indy's stagnant offense never got close to scoring again.
"I haven't had nightmares like that in a long time," Caldwell said when asked if he ever dreamed the Colts could go 0-9. "It's not something that you anticipate is going to happen.
"We just aren't performing well right now," he added.
Notes: Atlanta is 2-13 against the Colts and earned its first road win in the series, which began in 1966. ... The Colts had a video tribute for Falcons cornerback Kelvin Hayden between the first and second quarters. Hayden scored a TD on the game-sealing interception in the Colts' Super Bowl win over Chicago. Hayden was cut before training camp opened and picked off Painter in the first quarter. ... Falcons cornerback William Moore left briefly in the first half with a thigh injury. ... Donald Brown ran 16 times for 70 yards for Indy. ... Powers' interception was Indy's first forced turnover in six games.
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More newsPackers still perfect after wild win
Aaron Rodgers threw touchdown passes to four receivers, Green Bay returned two Philip Rivers interceptions for scores and the Packers withstood a wild finish to hold off the San Diego Chargers 45-38 Sunday and remain the NFL's only undefeated team.
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Eli Manning hit Jake Ballard for a 1-yard touchdown pass with 15 seconds left, giving the New York Giants a 24-20 win over the New England Patriots on Sunday, repeating a comeback victory similar to the 2008 Super Bowl between the teams.
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
MTV's 'True Life' Hits NYC's Zuccotti Park Tomorrow
Special airs Saturday at 6 p.m. ET; Also, activist Davey D gives MTV News an inside look at the fiery Occupy Oakland protests.
By Uptin Saiidi
Bryan in "True Life: I'm Occupying Wall Street"
In the weeks since Americans fed up with the status quo hit New York's Zuccotti Park to protest issues like economic inequality and social injustice, the movement has spread around the globe. On Saturday at 6 p.m. ET, MTV's special "True Life: I'm Occupying Wall Street" will introduce viewers to a handful of the young demonstrators trying to bring about change.
But if there's another U.S. city that has taken to the spirit of the Occupy protests to the next level, it's surely Oakland, California. In downtown Oakland, about 7,000 activists turned out on Wednesday for a general strike, which led to arrests and business shutdowns; the nation's fifth largest port was even forced to close.
Activist and journalist Davey D, an associate of MTV News correspondent and Oakland native Sway Calloway, has been covering the events since they first started. He told us that Wednesday's events made a major statement.
"Shutting down the port of Oakland is a huge thing that hasn't happened in decades and hasn't happened in Oakland in over 65 years," Davey said. "It makes $8 million a day and the money goes toward the 1 percent. It's a tangible movement — each day you shut down something, it delays things."
The Occupy movements are being driven largely by young Americans at a time when the unemployment rate among youths under 25 is 18 percent compared to the national rate of 9 percent. In a recent MTV survey of young adults (ages 18 to 29), 72 percent said they were afraid they might not live up to their potential, while nearly three-quarters of people agreed with the statement, "things are unfair for my generation because we have to start our careers during this economic crisis."
MTV's special "True Life" episode follows a few supporters who fit that description, including Bryan, a high school grad from Massachusetts who doesn't see the long-term benefit of attending college when there are few jobs to had post-graduation. When viewers meet him, he's working to get Zuccotti Park clean after word comes down that the private park's owners want to temporarily evict the protestors in order to fix up the property themselves. Panic spreads as Occupiers fear the eviction will be permanent. College students Kait and Caitlin, who are so nervous about not being able to find a job that they've recruited friends into the rally, are also featured.
MTV's 'True Life: I'm Occupying Wall Street' airs November 5 at 6 p.m. ET.
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Groupon IPO: Company Raises $700 Million, Valued At $12.8 Billion
By Alistair Barr and Clare Baldwin
(Reuters) - Groupon Inc raised $700 million after increasing the size of its initial public offering, becoming the largest IPO by an Internet company since Google Inc raised $1.7 billion in 2004.
The global leader in "daily deals" is now valued at almost $13 billion after saying it increased the offering by 5 million shares to 35 million in total and pricing them at $20 each, above an initial range of $16 to $18.
The debut of the three-year-old company, which sells Internet coupons for everything from spa treatments to nose jobs, is one of this year's most closely watched. Its tiny float represents just above 5 percent of the company and helped drive up demand and price.
That constraint -- one of the smallest floats of the past decade -- should support Groupon's share price when it begins trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker GRPN, analysts say.
But in the longer run, they cited concerns about competition from the deep-pocketed likes of Google and Amazon.com Inc; the need to spend continuously to drive user growth; and questions about accounting after the company altered its IPO filings twice to change the way it accounted for revenue.
"Groupon is expensive. The $12.8 billion valuation is only achievable because of the low float," said Rob Romero, head of technology-focused hedge fund firm Connective Capital Management.
"Today's reaction to LinkedIn floating additional share supply is an indication of how tight supply-demand of shares can distort valuation for a new IPO."
LinkedIn, which remains well above its $45 IPO price, plummeted 9 percent after-hours after unveiling a proposal to sell up to $500 million in stock. It had floated 8.3 percent of its shares during the IPO.
Pandora Media, a music streaming service and another recent dotcom debutante, sold 9.2 percent of the company.
At $12.8 billion, Groupon commands a price tag more than twice what Google offered to buy the company last year.
WIDESPREAD CRITICISM
Beyond Friday, Groupon shares may prove volatile on concern about the company's ability to generate long-term profit and revenue growth, plus the likelihood that existing investors will sell some of their holdings at some point.
Quirky music major and CEO Andrew Mason and his executive team spent almost two weeks on the road pitching to investors and addressing widespread criticism about Groupon's replicable business model, slowing growth and accounting concerns.
"The post-IPO investor will be taking a risk on this deal," said Josef Schuster, founder of IPO research and investment house IPOX Schuster. "It's maybe a good trade for a day trader, in and out in a single day, but I don't want to be in it for the long run."
To pull the deal off, the company cut its valuation by about half. Existing shareholders aren't selling. And it skipped meetings with potential investors in Europe and Asia.
If underwriters, led by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, exercise their right to buy just over 5 million more Groupon shares in the IPO, known as the greenshoe, Groupon will raise more than $800 million, before fees.
Wall Street will scrutinize Groupon's Friday showing for clues as to how other highly anticipated dotcom IPOs -- from the likes of Facebook or Zynga -- may fare.
LinkedIn surged on the first day of trading in May and remains far above its $45 IPO price. Pandora's shares surged initially, then slumped. Its shares traded below the $16 IPO price on Thursday at just over $15.
Groupon "is a company with permission to market to 150 million consumers daily. No other company in the world has ever had that type of reach," said Boyan Josic, chief executive atDailyDealMedia, which tracks the industry.
"Investors who truly understand this business model and the position that Groupon has in this market are buying."
(Editing by Edwin Chan, Tiffany Wu and Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Cablevision reports Q3 earnings, sees profit fall by 65 percent, drop in video subscribers
It's safe to say that Q3 2011 probably won't be remembered as Cablevision's finest. According to the provider's latest earnings report, profits declined by a full 65 percent over the year, with net income plunging to $39.3 million this quarter, compared with the $112.1 million it raked in during the third quarter of 2010. The company also reported a loss of 19,000 video subscribers during Q3, though it added 17,000 broadband customers and 38,000 telephone subscribers. Total customers, however, declined by 15,000 over the past three months. Revenue, meanwhile, increased by eight percent to $1.7 billion, though the New York-area operator lost about $16 million to Hurricane Irene -- not to mention all those legal fees. Smell that? That's a big platter of PR, sitting right there after the break.Cablevision reports Q3 earnings, sees profit fall by 65 percent, drop in video subscribers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center cited for safety violations
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center has failed to keep its operating rooms clean and safe and to protect its patients from possible infection, according to federal inspection reports recently released to The Times.
Inspectors found rooms that had holes in the ceilings or that were dusty and cluttered. Operating rooms were kept at the wrong humidity level, which can lead to the spread of germs, the reports said. Hospital staff members also weren't washing their hands according to policy.
"The hospital failed to maintain a sanitary environment for the provision of surgical services," the reports said. "This could lead to contaminated surfaces in the operating room and the spread of infection."The infection control problems found at the county-run hospital earlier this year were so serious that the federal government sent a letter this summer threatening to revoke Medicare funding, a move that could financially destroy the institution. The county submitted a plan of correction. The federal agency hasn't issued its follow-up report.
"Thank God for the federal inspection," said Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. "It is necessary for the purposes of accountability and quality of care."
Rufus Arther, director of hospital operations for the California office of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which oversees federal healthcare funding, said the agency never likes to arrive at a place where such a letter has to be sent. "We do not take these matters lightly at all," he said.
Delvecchio Finley, who became the hospital's chief executive earlier this month, said the Torrance-area hospital has addressed all the concerns raised by inspectors. The correction report noted several changes, including weekly audits of infection-control risks and more staff education on hand washing. Nevertheless, Finley said, issues continue to arise because of the age of the hospital, which was built in 1963.
"It's an old building," he said. "Because of that, there are certain challenges."
Los Angeles County is spending nearly $323 million to construct a 190,000-square-foot building at the hospital that will replace both the surgical facilities and the emergency room. Completion is expected in 2013.
Ridley-Thomas said the new building is crucial because high-quality healthcare cannot happen in "decrepit" facilities. "It was known that the current conditions were simply unacceptable," he said.
Miguel Ortiz-Marroquin, former chief executive, said Harbor-UCLA has constantly tried to stay ahead of inspectors and to correct problems as quickly as possible. But, he said, "until we have the new building open that will meet all the standards, we will be out of compliance."
Harbor-UCLA, the only trauma center serving the South Bay, struggles to meet patient demand, especially in the emergency room. The hospital, which is affiliated with the UCLA Medical School, has 538 beds. In the last fiscal year, about 80,600 patients visited the emergency room and 23,000 patients were admitted to the hospital.
Since Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center closed in 2007, the hospital has seen an increase in patients, especially in the emergency room, administrators said.
Healthcare-associated infections are a serious issue nationwide, but there have been several successful efforts to reduce them, including programs to increase hand-washing at hospitals, according to Dr. James I. Cleeman, senior medical officer at the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
"When a patient goes into a hospital, they are entitled to expect that they will not get sicker," he said. "And the vast majority of healthcare-associated infections can be prevented."
In addition to the federal reports, the California Department of Public Health also fined the hospital four times in 2008 and '09 for medical errors that put patients at risk of serious injury or death. In one of those cases, a mix-up in labeling caused the wrong patient to have his prostate removed. In another, a sponge was inadvertently left in a patient's abdomen during an operation.
The state also cited the hospital for not quickly screening and stabilizing two patients who went to the emergency room complaining of chest pain. Another patient who had been hit by a car died after nurses failed to closely monitor his condition, according to the state.
The hospital has remained accredited by the Joint Commission, though it had 21 complaints that met the criteria for review by the agency.
Health advocate Lark Galloway-Gilliam said the issues are alarming and the county must ensure that patients can receive safe, high-quality medical care at Harbor-UCLA and the county's three other hospitals.
"You don't want to be that family member of someone who comes down with an infection because someone didn't follow protocol," said Galloway-Gilliam, executive director of Community Health Councils in South Los Angeles.
Katarina del Valle Thompson, a union representative for the nurses at Harbor-UCLA, said she believes inadequate staffing has contributed to the problems. "The best thing we could do to minimize the chances of errors would be to staff adequately," she said.
Several lawsuits also have been filed against the hospital in recent years, alleging medical malpractice and negligence. In January, the county settled a case for $1.175 million involving a woman whose blood vessel was injured during a procedure at the hospital. She had gone to Harbor-UCLA after being in a car accident.
All hospitals face some issues with patient safety and quality, but the problems at Harbor-UCLA should be taken very seriously, said James Lott, executive vice president of the Hospital Assn. of Southern California. The reports should put Harbor-UCLA on alert that it needs to improve ? quickly.
"We only have to recall what happened with the former King/Drew Medical Center," he said. "The downfall of that hospital started with these types of alerts."
anna.gorman@latimes.com
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