Harris leads Wake Forest past Boston College 75-72

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - C.J. Harris scored a career-high 29 points and Wake Forest held off a late Boston College rally for a 75-72 Atlantic Coast Conference win Saturday.

Travis McKie added 18 points for the Demon Deacons (9-6, 2-1), who overcame shooting problems early in the first half to win their second straight ACC game.

Lonnie Jackson scored 23 points, Olivier Hanlan added 18 and Ryan Anderson had 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Eagles (9-7, 1-2), who trailed by 12 points in the second half.

Wake Forest still led by 10 with five minutes remaining when Boston College began its comeback.

The Eagles cut the Demon Deacons' lead down to one point twice in the final two minutes, the last at 73-72 on a pair of Joe Rahon free throws with 1:28 remaining. With a chance to take the lead, Rahon missed a heavily-contested layup with five seconds left.

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Frozen Lakes And Ponds In Denver Parks Are Not Considered Safe ...

Copter4 flew over a dog rescue in Green Valley Ranch on Wednesday afternoon. (credit: CBS)

DENVER (CBS4) ? Denver Parks and Recreation (DPR) released a statement on Thursday reminding visitors that walking or skating on frozen lakes or ponds in the Denver park system is prohibited.

DPR said the ice may appear to be thick enough, but the ice layer is actually very thin and unstable.

?We?ve had many incidents over the past several weeks where people were walking or skating on frozen lakes in our parks around the city,? said Scott Gilmore, Deputy Manager of Parks and Planning for DPR. ?These individuals are putting their lives at risk. The big swing in frigid and mild temperatures we see in Denver makes the ice layer on our ponds and lakes very unstable. It would be very easy for an adult or child to fall through the ice, creating a very dire situation.?

Over the past few weeks CBS4 has reported on several dogs that have died and others rescued after chasing birds onto a frozen pond or lake. Pets are required to be kept on a leash at all times.

DPR says the leash law is in place for the animal?s safety as well as the safety of others.

?Sadly, in the last month we?ve had at least two separate instances where a family pet has drowned after falling through the ice in one of our parks,? Gilmore said. ?This is a tragic outcome that could have been avoided had the animal been on a leash.?

The department is asking all park visitors to also be vigilant and to report any potential rule violations or safety issues to park staff on site or by calling the Denver Park Rangers hotline at (303) 331-4050.

Anyone who witnesses an emergency situation that requires an immediate response should always call 911 right away. If you see an animal or a person fall through the ice, do not go in after them. Stay on land and call 911 and wait for emergency personnel to arrive.

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NASA'S Galex Reveals The Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy

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WASHINGTON -- The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers from the United States, Chile and Brazil has crowned it the largest-known spiral, based on archival data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission. GALEX has since been loaned to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif.

Measuring tip-to-tip across its two outsized spiral arms, NGC 6872 spans more than 522,000 light-years, making it more than five times the size of our Milky Way galaxy.

"Without GALEX's ability to detect the ultraviolet light of the youngest, hottest stars, we would never have recognized the full extent of this intriguing system," said lead scientist Rafael Eufrasio, a research assistant at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and a doctoral student at Catholic University of America in Washington. He presented the findings Thursday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach, Calif.

The galaxy's unusual size and appearance stem from its interaction with a much smaller disk galaxy named IC 4970, which has only about one-fifth the mass of NGC 6872. The odd couple is located 212 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Pavo.
Astronomers think large galaxies, including our own, grew through mergers and acquisitions -- assembling over billions of years by absorbing numerous smaller systems.

Intriguingly, the gravitational interaction of NGC 6872 and IC 4970 may have done the opposite, spawning what may develop into a new small galaxy.

"The northeastern arm of NGC 6872 is the most disturbed and is rippling with star formation, but at its far end, visible only in the ultraviolet, is an object that appears to be a tidal dwarf galaxy similar to those seen in other interacting systems," said team member Duilia de Mello, a professor of astronomy at Catholic University.

The tidal dwarf candidate is brighter in the ultraviolet than other regions of the galaxy, a sign it bears a rich supply of hot young stars less than 200 million years old.

The researchers studied the galaxy across the spectrum using archival data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the Two Micron All Sky Survey, and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, as well as GALEX.

By analyzing the distribution of energy by wavelength, the team uncovered a distinct pattern of stellar age along the galaxy's two prominent spiral arms. The youngest stars appear in the far end of the northwestern arm, within the tidal dwarf candidate, and stellar ages skew progressively older toward the galaxy's center.

The southwestern arm displays the same pattern, which is likely connected to waves of star formation triggered by the galactic encounter.
A 2007 study by Cathy Horellou at Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden and Baerbel Koribalski of the Australia National Telescope Facility developed computer simulations of the collision that reproduced the overall appearance of the system as we see it today. According to the closest match, IC 4970 made its closest approach about 130 million years ago and followed a path that took it nearly along the plane of the spiral's disk in the same direction it rotates. The current study is consistent with this picture.

As in all barred spirals, NGC 6872 contains a stellar bar component that transitions between the spiral arms and the galaxy's central regions. Measuring about 26,000 light-years in radius, or about twice the average length found in nearby barred spirals, it is a bar that befits a giant galaxy.

The team found no sign of recent star formation along the bar, which indicates it formed at least a few billion years ago. Its aged stars provide a fossil record of the galaxy's stellar population before the encounter with IC 4970 stirred things up.

"Understanding the structure and dynamics of nearby interacting systems like this one brings us a step closer to placing these events into their proper cosmological context, paving the way to decoding what we find in younger, more distant systems," said team member and Goddard astrophysicist Eli Dwek.

The study also included Fernanda Urrutia-Viscarra and Claudia Mendes de Oliveira at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and Dimitri Gadotti at the European Southern Observatory in Santiago, Chile.

The GALEX mission is led by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, which is responsible for science operations and data analysis. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also in Pasadena, manages the mission and built the science instrument. GALEX was developed under NASA's Explorers Program managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. In May 2012, In May 2012, NASA announced it was loaning GALEX to Caltech, which continues spacecraft operations and data management using private funds.

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Tackling inform Lasith Malinga will be exciting says David Hussey ...

Tackling inform Lasith Malinga will be exciting says David Hussey ? Cricket News Update

Australian veteran batsman, David Hussey, has warned his teammates that tackling Sri Lankan spearhead Lasith Malinga won?t be easy, terming the latter as ?in the form of his life?.

Hussey and Malinga played alongside each other during the ongoing Big Bash League, where the latter lit the competition with some impressive performances for the Melbourne Stars, including a magical 6 for 7 spell against Perth Scorchers.

However, with international duty calling, both will now face each other in the ODI series which starts this Friday. The tourists will certainly do with the services of their ODI spearhead, having being totally outplayed in the recently concluded Test series, which they lost 3-0.

The inexperienced of the Lankan?s Test attack and the lack of depth has been debated by many former Australian players, and calls to bring Malinga back into the Test area were also mooted before the player himself played down any such talks.

However, Hussey was quick to praise Malinga and warned his own teammates as they prepare for the first two ODIs without some of their seasoned players. Michael Clarke has been advised rest by the selectors as George Bailey takes in charge of the side. Moreover, the two W?s, Warner (rest) and Watson (injured), will be missing from the lineup, along with David?s elder brother, Michael, who recently decided to retire from international cricket.

"They've got some of the best bowlers in the world," Hussey said. "Lasith Malinga, I was lucky enough to play with him at the Melbourne Stars and he's in the form of his life. All our batters have to really get down to business and do their homework and really try to take him out of the equation.

"Never scared [of facing him] - it's always exciting. You always want to play the best bowlers in the world. It's a great opportunity to face him. If you do well against him, it gives not only your team a lot of confidence but yourself and your game a lot of confidence as well."

Hussey will also be aiming to put on a good show after suffering a considerable dip in form, the last time he took the field for the national team, which included an ODI series against Pakistan, along with a bit-part appearance in the subsequent World T20.

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T-Mobile USA to soon sell iPhones, cut subsidies: CEO

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG unit T-Mobile USA will start selling the Apple Inc iPhone in about three to four months and will enforce its plan to get rid of cellphone subsidies in a similar timeframe, according to Chief Executive John Legere.

Legere declined to disclose details about the company's agreement with Apple, except to say that T-Mobile USA's timing for selling the smartphone would be sooner rather than later, along with its subsidy elimination plan.

"They're all, I would call them, in three to four months as opposed to six to nine months, Legere told Reuters in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

T-Mobile USA said late last year it would eliminate handset subsidies in 2013 to give customers more flexibility and lower service prices. It said at the same time that it will also sell the iPhone, making it the last U.S. mobile provider to do so.

The company hopes to attract customers from bigger rivals like AT&T Inc and Verizon Wireless with the combination of selling iPhones and removing subsidies, which would be a first for the U.S. wireless industry.

The executive said he could possibly increase T-Mobile USA's market share by 5 percent or higher from bigger rivals who still depend on subsidizing phones to give their customers a device discount in exchange for tying them into a two-year contract.

"If the old industry structure chooses to ignore what we do," he said, "That's a potential."

While the company is currently focused on gaining regulatory approval and closing its merger with MetroPCS Communications in the second quarter this year, Legere said that he might not stop there.

For example, the executive said he could explore a relationship with satellite provider Dish Network Corp or a combination with smaller rival Leap Wireless International Inc .

T-Mobile USA is currently seeking approval to merge with smaller wireless rival MetroPCS and analysts have long said that MetroPCS and Leap networks would go well together.

Leap is "one of those things that makes extreme sense for us to look at" Legere said.

Meanwhile Dish, which recently gained approval to use airwaves it bought for a wireless service, has said that it is looking at options including a network sharing partnership with another U.S. wireless carrier. {ID:nL1E9C805E]

Analysts have said that they see Sprint Nextel Corp or T-Mobile USA as the most likely partners for Dish.

Legere said that he has not had talks with Dish, but when asked if he would consider a partnership with the satellite company he said: "The answer is obviously yes."

"They'd be interesting for us to talk to and we'd be fascinating for them," he added.

While Dish announced today that it will battle Sprint to buy another smaller wireless company, Clearwire Corp , some analysts have said that it is unlikely to succeed in that bid so could still need a wireless network partner.

(Reporting By Sinead Carew; Editing by Matt Driskill)

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Cuba to free doctors from onerous travel rules

FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, just graduated doctors have their picture taken holding their diplomas after a graduation ceremony at the Karl Marx theater in Havana, Cuba. A Cuban doctor says the Caribbean nation is eliminating longstanding restrictions on health care professionals' overseas travel as part of a broader migration reform. The doctor says hospital directors met Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 with Health Minister Roberto Morales and were told of the new policy, effective Jan. 14. For many years Cuban physicians have been limited in their ability to travel or had to undergo cumbersome bureaucratic procedures. But now they are supposed to be treated "like any other citizen" when it comes to traveling abroad. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, just graduated doctors have their picture taken holding their diplomas after a graduation ceremony at the Karl Marx theater in Havana, Cuba. A Cuban doctor says the Caribbean nation is eliminating longstanding restrictions on health care professionals' overseas travel as part of a broader migration reform. The doctor says hospital directors met Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 with Health Minister Roberto Morales and were told of the new policy, effective Jan. 14. For many years Cuban physicians have been limited in their ability to travel or had to undergo cumbersome bureaucratic procedures. But now they are supposed to be treated "like any other citizen" when it comes to traveling abroad. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

A woman reads a passport application form as she waits in line outside an immigration office in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. A Cuban doctor says the Caribbean nation is eliminating longstanding restrictions on health care professionals' overseas travel as part of a broader migration reform. The doctor says hospital directors met Saturday with Health Minister Roberto Morales and were told of the new policy, effective Jan. 14. For many years Cuban physicians have been limited in their ability to travel or had to undergo cumbersome bureaucratic procedures. But now they are supposed to be treated "like any other citizen" when it comes to traveling abroad. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

HAVANA (AP) ? Cuba is eliminating longstanding restrictions on health care professionals' overseas travel as part of a broader migration reform that takes effect next week, an island doctor told The Associated Press on Monday.

Hospital directors learned of the new policy, which takes effect Jan. 14, in a Saturday meeting with Health Minister Roberto Morales and word of the change was relayed in hospital staff meetings, according to the doctor, who attended one of the subsequent gatherings.

The minister's directive: "A doctor will be treated like any other citizen starting now and can exit freely, as long as the destination country allows it" by issuing an entry visa, said the physician, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to foreign journalists.

"Apparently it has been completely repealed," he said. "No restrictions of any kind."

Another doctor confirmed that she had been told of the new policy.

For many years Cuban doctors have been limited in their ability to travel or had to undergo cumbersome bureaucratic procedures. They are routinely denied permission to travel or receive it only if they plan to leave for good and after a five-year process of being released from their duties.

The restrictions were justified as necessary to prevent brain drain from a sector that is the pride of Cuba's Communist leaders, and which lost thousands of skilled professionals in the 1960s as the country increasingly embraced socialism following the Cuban Revolution. Many more left during the economic crisis of the 1990s.

Other individuals in strategic occupations such as scientists, military officers and athletes have also had a hard time getting permission to travel.

In October, authorities announced the end of the widely detested exit visa known as the "white card," which for decades was required of any Cuban seeking to travel overseas. The reform also extended to two years the amount of time Cubans can stay abroad without losing their full rights as citizens.

The United States offers special refugee status to Cuban doctors who defect from international missions in Venezuela and other countries ? something the island government calls "theft" of talent.

The new policy on health care workers applies to both those seeking to emigrate and those simply wanting to travel as tourists or to visit family overseas.

The rules may not result in an immediate, massive exodus of medical workers to Miami. Most would not be able to travel there without a U.S. visa, although some who enjoy dual Spanish citizenship could get around that requirement.

"They told us they did a study and found that a high percentage of doctors who go abroad (on missions or for conferences) return to the country, so they don't have a reason to restrict medical personnel," the doctor said.

According to government statistics, the island had 265,000 health care workers last year, including 78,000 doctors.

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Award-season hopefuls stop in Palm Springs

Sally Field appears on stage at the 24th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 in Palm Springs, Calif. The gala honors individuals in the film industry with awards for acting, directing, achievement in film scoring and lifetime achievement. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP Images)

Sally Field appears on stage at the 24th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 in Palm Springs, Calif. The gala honors individuals in the film industry with awards for acting, directing, achievement in film scoring and lifetime achievement. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP Images)

Richard Gere appears on stage at the 24th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 in Palm Springs, Calif. The gala honors individuals in the film industry with awards for acting, directing, achievement in film scoring and lifetime achievement. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP Images)

Ben Affleck appears on stage at the 24th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 in Palm Springs, Calif. The gala honors individuals in the film industry with awards for acting, directing, achievement in film scoring and lifetime achievement. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP Images)

Helen Mirren appears on stage at the 24th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 in Palm Springs, Calif. The gala honors individuals in the film industry with awards for acting, directing, achievement in film scoring and lifetime achievement. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP Images)

Naomi Watts appears on stage at the 24th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 in Palm Springs, Calif. The gala honors individuals in the film industry with awards for acting, directing, achievement in film scoring and lifetime achievement. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP Images)

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) ? The Award Season Express made its first stop of the new year in the middle of the desert a couple hours east of Hollywood at the annual Palm Springs International Film Festival gala.

A blast of Golden Globe nominees and Oscar hopefuls walked the press gauntlet Saturday night, including Naomi Watts ("The Impossible"), Helen Hunt and John Hawkes ("The Sessions"), Ben Affleck ("Argo") and "Arbitrage" star Richard Gere, who received the night's so-called Chairman's Award.

"Great," Gere noted with more than a touch of sarcasm. "That's better than the Governors Award?" he inquired with a chuckle. "What's the pecking order of these awards? I want to know. Am I getting the best award? I'm not going in unless I'm getting the best award!"

Though the 63-year-old Gere has never received an Oscar nomination, there were previous Academy Award winners aplenty at the Palm Springs gala. Among them, Sally Field, the night's honoree for career achievement, including her hard-won role of Mary Todd in director Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln."

"I still can't believe I got the role," Field replied, cracking a smile. "Did I get it."

Turning serious, Field told the black-tie audience she was proud to be part of the film and happy to still be working. "I'm very lucky. ... Next year it'll be 50 years that I've been in the business as a professional. It's been a wild ride," she said.

This upcoming week, the Awards Season Express has a bit of a wild ride itself, with the People's Choice show, two critics awards ceremonies and Thursday morning's Oscar nominations.

So how does the phrase "Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper" sound to the "Silver Linings Playbook" actor?

"That would be incredible," Cooper answered, explaining that he just may sleep through the pre-dawn nomination announcements. "Yeah, I'm sure I'll get up, but maybe I'll be asleep. I don't know."

And just three days after the Oscar nominations, it's the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards ? a "much, much friendlier" show, exclaimed "Hitchcock" nominee Helen Mirren.

"And it has to do with those tables in still quite a small room," she added. "They haven't allowed it to get enormous. ... Everybody table jumps and chats. It's always slightly naughty. The hosts are always naughty. I can't wait to have Tina Fey and Amy Poehler doing it. That's going to be such fun."

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Complete list of 2013 Palm Springs International Film Festival honorees:

__"Argo's" Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin and Bryan Cranston received the Ensemble Performance Award.

__Bradley Cooper, the actor Desert Palm Achievement Award for "Silver Linings Playbook."

__Naomi Watts, the actress Desert Palm Achievement Award for "The Impossible."

__Helen Hunt, Spotlight Award for "The Sessions."

__Helen Mirren, International Star Award for "Hitchcock."

__Mychael Danna, the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing for "Life of Pi."

__Richard Gere, Chairman's Award for "Arbitrage."

__Robert Zemeckis, Director of the Year Award for "Flight."

__Sally Field ("Lincoln"), Career Achievement Award.

__Tom Hooper, the Sonny Bono Visionary Award for "Les Miserables."

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