Penn State acting athletic director David Joyner speaks during a news conference Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in State College, Pa. The new leader of Penn State's athletic department is promising change for an athletic program in turmoil after former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight boys over 15-year span. (AP Photo/Andy Colwell)
Penn State acting athletic director David Joyner speaks during a news conference Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in State College, Pa. The new leader of Penn State's athletic department is promising change for an athletic program in turmoil after former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight boys over 15-year span. (AP Photo/Andy Colwell)
Penn State acting athletic director David Joyner speaks during a news conference Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in State College, Pa. The new leader of Penn State's athletic department is promising change for an athletic program in turmoil after former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight boys over 15-year span. (AP Photo/Andy Colwell)
Penn State acting athletic director David Joyner speaks during a news conference Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in State College, Pa. The new leader of Penn State's athletic department is promising change for an athletic program in turmoil after former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight boys over 15-year span. (AP Photo/Andy Colwell)
Penn State acting athletic director David Joyner speaks during a news conference Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in State College, Pa. The new leader of Penn State's athletic department is promising change for an athletic program in turmoil after former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight boys over 15-year span. (AP Photo/Andy Colwell)
Penn State acting athletic director David Joyner speaks during a news conference Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, in State College, Pa. The new leader of Penn State's athletic department is promising change for an athletic program in turmoil after former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight boys over 15-year span. (AP Photo/Andy Colwell)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) ? The new leader of Penn State athletics promised change Friday for a department in turmoil after former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight boys over 15-year span.
David Joyner was formally introduced Friday as the school's acting athletic director. The Penn State graduate, who played offensive line from 1969-1971 under ousted Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno, said he will make sure that the "core values" of the school's sports programs are aligned with the university's academic side.
Joyner takes over a job held until last week by Tim Curley. Curley was charged with lying to a grand jury and failing to pass on a 2002 abuse report to police that allegedly occurred at the football building. Lawyers for Sandusky and Curley have maintained their clients' innocence.
"I'm sure there will be change," Joyner said. "There's always change when you come in and have a new process."
Curley is on paid administrative leave. Whether the size or power of the athletic department had a hand in the scandal, Joyner said, will become clearer as both criminal and internal investigations unfold.
"I'm just here to tell you that whatever has or has not gone in the past, we're going to go forward in the athletic department with my view ... that this is an academic unit," Joyner said. "Now if we've lost some of that luster because of things that have happened, I can tell you that I've never lost that core value, and this athletic department will reflect that core value."
Wearing a blue ribbon on his lapel to signify support for victims of child abuse, Joyner's introduction took place at an auditorium near the Old Main administration building. It was an unusual location for an athletics event at a school which typically makes major sports announcements at Beaver Stadium or the Jordan Center.
"I'm sorry I'm here for this reason," Joyner said in opening up his 25-minute news conference. "And first and foremost, I want to tell you how sad I am for the victims in this case."
Paterno, the winningest coach in Division I history with 409 victories was fired in the aftermath of Sandusky's arrest and replaced by defensive coordinator Tom Bradley on an interim basis. Joyner was a member of a board of trustees that unanimously approved Paterno's dismissal roughly 12 hours after the iconic coach had announced he would retire at the end of the season.
Mounting questions about whether school leaders should have done more about allegations against Sandusky led to the dismissal, though Joyner sidestepped a question about whether he felt his old coach should have acted differently and referred to the board's unanimous decision.
Joyner has since suspended his position on the board to take on his new duties.
"We made a decision based on what the circumstances were at this time," Joyner said about Paterno's firing. "We felt that decision was in the best interest of all parties involved."
Allegations about Sandusky dated back to 1994, according to a 23-page grand jury report which included the 2002 allegation. According to the report, then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary testified that he witnessed Sandusky raping a boy in the football showers, and told Paterno, who then passed on the report to Curley.
McQueary then spoke to Curley and a university vice president who oversaw the campus police department, the grand jury report said, but the allegation was not passed on to police.
Now the receivers coach, McQueary remains on administrative leave.
Joyner was a starting offensive tackle and co-captain on the 1971 team that finished 11-1 and beat Texas in the Cotton Bowl. He also wrestled for three seasons at Penn State, including an NCAA runner-up finish at the heavyweight division in his junior year in 1971.
Joyner's sons Andy (1993-94) and Matt (1996-98) also played football under Paterno.
But the new athletic director said his deep Penn State roots won't affect his decision-making. He said he told his staff Thursday "I'm here to do the right thing."
There was no timetable on finding a permanent replacement for Paterno. Joyner didn't rule out Bradley as a potential candidate, saying all applicants would be considered.
Joyner earned a bachelor's degree and a medical degree in the 1970s from Penn State. He has also worked with the U.S. Olympic Committee extensively, serving as head physician to U.S. teams at the 1992 Winter Olympics, chairman of the sports medicine committee and vice chair of the anti-doping committee.
Penn State plans to continue play the rest of its football schedule, starting with Saturday's game at Ohio State. The Nittany Lions could play as many as four more games, including the inaugural Big Ten title game and a bowl bid.
The Rose Bowl on Thursday said Penn State would be free to take the Big Ten's automatic berth to that lucrative Bowl Championship Series game should the Nittany Lions win the conference.
"I understand people's feelings. This is a terrible time for victims and everybody else," Joyner said about talk of the school sitting out the rest of the season. "We can move forward very respectfully, continue the season and show people how to do it the right way."
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An employee at the Home Depot wears an apron in Irving, Texas, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. Spending on home projects and storm-related repairs helped boost Home Depot Inc.'s third-quarter net income 12 percent, the home-improvement retailer said Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
An employee at the Home Depot wears an apron in Irving, Texas, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. Spending on home projects and storm-related repairs helped boost Home Depot Inc.'s third-quarter net income 12 percent, the home-improvement retailer said Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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ATLANTA (AP) ? Spending on home projects and storm-related repairs helped boost Home Depot Inc.'s third-quarter net income 12 percent, the home-improvement retailer said Tuesday.
Home-goods sellers are facing cautious consumer spending and a weak housing market. Atlanta-based Home Depot Inc.'s smaller rival Lowe's Cos. reported Monday its third-quarter net income fell 44 percent on restructuring costs.
But Home Depot fared better. Its results beat expectations and the company raised its 2011 earnings outlook and its dividend.
"Our third quarter was driven by strength in our core categories and storm-related sales as well as strong operating performance," said CEO Frank Blake in a statement.
The No. 1 U.S. home-improvement retailer's net income rose 12 percent to $934 million, or 60 cents per share. That compares with $834 million, or 51 cents per share, last year.
Revenue rose 4 percent to $17.33 billion from $16.6 billion last year.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected net income of 59 cents per share on revenue of $17.11 billion, according to Fact Set.
Revenue in stores open at least a year rose 4.2. percent globally and 3.8 percent in the U.S. The measure is considered a key gauge of a retailer's fiscal health because it excludes stores that open or close during the year.
The company now expects net income of $2.38 per share for the year, from August guidance of $2.34 per share. It reiterated it expects revenue to rise 2.5 percent, implying revenue of $69.7 billion. Analysts expect earnings of $2.36 per share on revenue of $69.66 billion.
Home Depot also raised its dividend to by 4 cents to 29 cents. The dividend is payable on Dec. 15 to shareholders of record as of Dec. 1.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? A team of U.S. scientists believe they have found a piece of advice that breast cancer -stricken mothers can give their daughters to help them stave off the disease: stay clear of alcohol.
The team found that among teen girls with breast cancer in the family, those who had a drink a day on average were more than twice as likely as nondrinkers to develop benign breast disease.
That's not really a disease, but a catch-all for lumpy breast tissue that isn't dangerous in itself. A few of those lumps may turn into cancer down the road, though, so the new study uses them as a stand-in for breast cancer risk.
To researcher Catherine Berkey, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, that means adolescent girls and young women from breast cancer-stricken families "should be aware that drinking alcohol may increase their own risk for (benign breast disease) and for breast cancer later on."
Berkey told Reuters Health in an email that she believes that in adults "alcohol is the primary preventable dietary risk factor for breast cancer."
But an independent expert said the advice to give up alcohol, while well-intentioned, is unlikely to make a significant dent in breast cancer risk.
"It is mostly an interesting observation, but it is going to have a very limited public health impact," said Dr. Steven Narod, who heads the Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit at Women's College Hospital Research Institute in Toronto.
Berkey and her colleagues, whose work is published in the journal Cancer, tracked nearly 7,000 girls from 1996, when they were between nine and 15 years old, until 2007.
Seventeen percent had either a mother, an aunt or a grandmother with breast cancer, and slightly more had a mother with benign breast disease.
Among the heaviest drinkers (at age 22, that amounted to about a drink a day) 3.1 percent had benign breast disease. For abstainers, the number was 1.3 percent, Berkey said.
Because the study is based on observations, and not a real experiment, there is no proof that alcohol caused the extra breast lumps, however. And most lumps never become cancer, Narod pointed out.
"I would be very, very reluctant to say that a 24-year-old woman with benign breast disease is at increased risk of breast cancer," he told Reuters Health.
"Even if it were true that family history and alcohol together increase the risk of benign breast disease, and benign breast disease increases the risk of breast cancer, I think the maximum number of breast cancers you could prevent would be much less than one percent," Narod added. "Is there any hope for this approach? No."
It's not the first time alcohol has been linked to breast cancer.
Earlier this month, for instance, a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) estimated that 2.8 percent of teetotalers would develop the disease over 10 years, compared to 3.5 percent of women who downed up to 13 drinks a week.
But since alcohol has also been tied to fewer heart attacks, it's difficult to know what to do with this information, said Narod, who wrote an editorial about the JAMA findings.
"It's not even clear that stopping drinking would prevent breast cancer," he told Reuters Health.
There are several risk factors for breast cancer, such as having the disease in the family, having dense breasts, being older or drinking alcohol.
"The fact that they are risk factors is a scientific truth," said Narod. "But it certainly does not lead to the conclusion that one can eliminate breast cancer by eliminating all risk factors." Often the risk factors are too rare to have a big impact, or their link to the disease is too weak, or they can't be changed.
"I think we should keep our eyes on the prize: finding the cause of breast cancer," said Narod.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/h73jcS Cancer, online November 14, 2011.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. ? A program from the first World Series game has sold at auction for $241,500.
Hunt Auctions says the program was sold Saturday at the Louisville Slugger Museum.
Company President David Hunt said there was enormous demand for the rare 1903 program from the series between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates, which Boston won.
He said he was "aware of only one other copy of this 1903 World Series program, and that copy resides in the Baseball Hall of Fame."
The program is well-preserved with its bound edge intact. It features pictures of Pittsburgh Pirates stars including Hall of Fame shortstop Honus Wagner. The item sold for 5 cents at the game
Other auction highlights included a Pete Rose-autographed, 4,000th-hit baseball that sold for $66,700 and a baseball signed by Cy Young that sold for $51,570.
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As you've likely heard by now, today is Nigel Tufnel day. Tufnel, who revolutionized the music world in the early-80s with the introduction of volume knobs that go to 11 (rather than a mere 10), is being honored worldwide because of today's date: 11/11/11 (get it?). It's a nice gesture, but Tufnel's current employer, Google, apparently isn't giving him the day off: he just sent me an email invite to a special event that's being held next week in Los Angeles. Thankfully Google's at least let him inject some personality into the invite: the top of the invite fittingly says "These Go To Eleven" at the top, though it gives little indication as to what to expect. The event will be held November 16,and will be livestreamed at YouTube.com/Android ??which, presumably, means that it's going to be Android related. My hunch? I think we're going to see some of the fruits of Google's @Home project, which was announced at Google I/O this year.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Ch8FiOi0PPw/
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