AP source: Eagles interview Notre Dame's Kelly

Philadelphia Eagles general manager Howie Roseman speaks to members of the media at the team's NFL football training facility, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, in Philadelphia. Andy Reid's worst coaching season with the Eagles ended Monday after 14 years when he was fired by owner Jeffrey Lurie, who said it was time "to move in a new direction." (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Philadelphia Eagles general manager Howie Roseman speaks to members of the media at the team's NFL football training facility, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, in Philadelphia. Andy Reid's worst coaching season with the Eagles ended Monday after 14 years when he was fired by owner Jeffrey Lurie, who said it was time "to move in a new direction." (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Philadelphia Eagles general manager Howie Roseman speaks to members of the media at the team's NFL football training facility, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, in Philadelphia. Andy Reid's worst coaching season with the Eagles ended Monday after 14 years when he was fired by owner Jeffrey Lurie, who said it was time "to move in a new direction." (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie speaks to members of the media during a news conference at the team's NFL football training facility, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, in Philadelphia. Andy Reid's worst coaching season with the Eagles ended Monday after 14 years when he was fired by Lurie, who said it was time "to move in a new direction." (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie speaks to members of the media during a news conference at the team's NFL football training facility, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, in Philadelphia. Andy Reid's worst coaching season with the Eagles ended Monday after 14 years when he was fired by Lurie, who said it was time "to move in a new direction." (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? The Philadelphia Eagles interviewed Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly for their coaching vacancy, a person familiar with the meeting told The Associated Press.

Kelly was the third college coach Philadelphia interviewed since firing Andy Reid on Dec. 31. The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information, said the Eagles met with Kelly on Tuesday.

Penn State's Bill O'Brien and Oregon's Chip Kelly interviewed with the Eagles last week, but chose to stay at their schools.

The Eagles have interviewed six candidates and plan to meet with four others.

Kelly recently called coaching Notre Dame his "dream job," but he wouldn't be the first to explore his options, perhaps even to get a raise to stay put.

News of the interview comes just two days after Notre Dame lost to Alabama in the BCS national championship game, a 42-14 Tide blowout that was a sour ending to the Fighting Irish season.

Notre Dame had won its first 12 games, raising hope among its fervent fans that the program was back among the elite after years of mediocrity.

Just a year ago, Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick gave Kelly a two-year contract extension to keep him with the Fighting Irish through the 2016 season. Terms have not been released.

Kelly was hired in December 2009, getting a five-year deal. He left an undefeated Cincinnati team that was ranked No. 4 at the time. Fans liked his approach and his resume, which included improved records at Division II Grand Valley State, Central Michigan and Cincinnati.

He has done the same thing in South Bend, begging the question of whether he is ready so soon to make a fresh move, this time to the NFL, or is perhaps trying to parlay a better contract out of Notre Dame.

It wouldn't be the first time that's happened to the Eagles during this search.

Regardless of any candidate's intentions, the Eagles have proceeded slowly.

General manager Howie Roseman, owner Jeffrey Lurie and president Don Smolenski plan to meet with former Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith on Thursday.

"Jeffrey has been very adamant with us that the key is getting the right guy," Roseman said in an interview on the team's Web site. "The key isn't getting the right guy as quickly as possible, so that's what we're going to do."

They met Denver offensive coordinator Mike McCoy on Sunday and plan to interview Indianapolis offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, Seattle defensive coordinator Gus Bradley and Cincinnati offensive coordinator Jay Gruden.

Two other candidates dropped out of consideration. Atlanta offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter signed a contract extension to stay with the Falcons. Syracuse coach Doug Marrone replaced Chan Gailey in Buffalo.

"This whole organization is built to support a head coach and they know that ? not only in actions but in words ? and all they have to do is call Andy Reid," Roseman said. "It's been a positive experience."

The interview with Chip Kelly last Saturday lasted for several hours, fueling speculation that he was going to take the job. But Kelly, who also was pursued by Cleveland, opted for the second straight year to pass up the NFL. He turned down Tampa Bay last year.

What do they discuss in meetings with candidates?

"Everything, every aspect of the organization, how they run meetings, how they run training camp, what they're looking for in players, what they're looking for in coaches," Roseman said. "You have to have a plan and know what you are doing in every area."

This is the third time Lurie is hiring a new coach since he bought the team from Norman Braman in 1994. He hired Ray Rhodes on Feb. 2, 1995, after a long, exhaustive search that included a flirtation with former Eagles coach Dick Vermeil. Lurie needed less time to hire Reid, giving him the job on Jan. 11, 1999.

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Amazon's AutoRip Automatically Downloads Free MP3s for CDs Purchased from Amazon

Amazon launched its new AutoRip service today. The service works with the Amazon MP3 store to give you free MP3 copies of CDs you've purchased from Amazon dating all the way back to 1998.

The AutoRip feature is turned on automatically, so if you purchase a CD from Amazon it will automatically download the MP3 version to the Amazon Cloud Player. When you log into your Cloud Player, any CDs you've purchased since 1998 that qualify for the service are added to your cloud drive as well. You can click the "Purchased" tab in your Amazon Cloud Player to see what tracks have been added. Currently, only about 50,000 CDs are eligible for AutoRip, but most new releases will be available as well.

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Brazilian prostitutes keen to "learn the lingo" for 2014 World Cup

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Prostitutes in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte are signing up in droves for free language classes in order to be ready for a barrage of foreign visitors to the tropical country during the 2014 football World Cup.

The women join many others in Brazilian society, from politicians to construction workers, who are racing the clock to prepare 12 host cities throughout the nation for the international football championship.

"When all this chatter about being ready for the World Cup started last year, we decided the women needed to be prepared for it too," Cida Vieira, president of the Minas Gerais state Association of Prostitutes, told Reuters on Tuesday.

The group has solicited volunteers to teach English, Spanish and even Portuguese, she said, explaining that some of the city's sex workers are immigrants who needed to learn Brazil's primary language.

Vieira said demand for the classes could surpass the 300 women who originally expressed interest, with calls coming in from as far away as Sao Paulo, about 509 km (316 miles) from Belo Horizonte.

"This is important for the dignity of the work, the women need to be able to negotiate a fair price and defend themselves," she said.

(Reporting by Caroline Stauffer; Editing by Paul Simao)

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Chuck Hagel Iraq Opposition Encourages Generals Who Revolted

President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense elevates a man who made his reputation as an unabashed critic of the war in Iraq.

To some, Monday's nomination of Hagel, a combat-wounded Vietnam veteran and former Republican senator from Nebraska, is a provocative move that threatens to further alienate Republicans in Congress. But for members of one group, the pick is a welcome signal of the Obama administration's embrace of a worldview they once put their careers on the line to advocate.

They were the generals who revolted: a half-dozen retired senior military officers who risked relationships with their colleagues, and their own sense of propriety, to speak out against the war in Iraq, and to call for the resignation of then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"I am driven to action now by the missteps and misjudgments of the White House and the Pentagon, and by my many painful visits to our military hospitals," wrote one of the officers, retired Maj. Gen. Gregory Newbold, in an April 2006 op-ed in Time magazine that called the war "a mistake."

"The cost of flawed leadership continues to be paid in blood," Newbold wrote. "The willingness of our forces to shoulder such a load should make it a sacred obligation for civilian and military leaders to get our defense policy right. They must be absolutely sure that the commitment is for a cause as honorable as the sacrifice."

In 2002, Newbold was a top official on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Today, he is a partner at Torch Hill Investments in Washington. The nomination of Hagel, Newbold told The Huffington Post in an interview Monday, is a sign of the triumph of a more thoughtful approach to American military force than the one argued by the Iraq war's early proponents.

"Those that have great clarity on very complex issues of national security are worth wondering about," Newbold said. "I would put Senator Hagel in the category of those who have richly experienced the broad spectrum of consequences of conflict, and that causes him to think very carefully before we commit forces."

Not everyone associated with the generals' revolt was as eager to embrace Hagel. Two, Gen. Anthony Zinni and Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr., declined to comment on the nomination when contacted by HuffPost. A third, Maj. Gen. John Riggs, said that while he hadn't studied Hagel's career closely, and "certainly would not question his patriotism," he worried about any tendency to "cut and run" before a mission is finished. (Riggs had criticized Rumsfeld for failing to put enough troops into Iraq.)

But others were wholly supportive of the nomination. Paul Eaton, a retired general who served in Iraq and is now a senior advisor at the liberal National Security Network, described Hagel as "a warrior who is reluctant to embark on war."

Another of the dissenting officers, Maj. Gen. John Batiste, said he supports Hagel's nomination because he's "a decorated veteran who 'gets it.'"

"When I challenged the Bush Administration in 2006 and 2007 on the flawed strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan, I was supported by a number of senior leaders," Batiste, now president and CEO of Klein Steel, said in an email. "One such leader was Senator Hagel. I appreciated his support then and am confident that he understands what prerequisites must be met before our troops are committed into battle."

Batiste suggested that Hagel's experience will help prevent a war without first fully debating and considering the exhaustive costs.

Hagel "will work to ensure that all elements of our national power are exhausted before we go to war," Batiste said. "If war is required, he well understands the importance of a real strategy with the ends, ways and means in balance."

On this, Eaton and Newbold agreed.

"A good example is Iran," Newbold said. "I think almost all of us think that given the right circumstances, that the military option should be considered. But Senator Hagel's view is that we ought to be very, very circumspect and first explore a combination of international power and international alliances to accomplish our objectives, before we take the 20-year-olds and make them pay the costs of intervention."

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Mechanism of hearing is similar to car battery, researcher learns

Jan. 7, 2013 ? University of Iowa biologist Daniel Eberl and his colleagues have shown that one of the mechanisms involved in hearing is similar to the battery in your car.

And if that isn't interesting enough, the UI scientists advanced their knowledge of human hearing by studying a similar auditory system in fruit flies -- and by making use of the fruit fly "love song."

To see how the mechanism of hearing resembles a battery, you need to know that the auditory system of the fruit fly contains a protein that functions as a sodium/potassium pump, often called the sodium pump for short, and is highly expressed in a specialized support cell called the scolopale cell.

The scolopale cell is important because it wraps around the sensory endings in the fly's ear and makes a tight extra-cellular cavity or compartment around them called the scolopale space.

"You could think of these compartments as similar to the compartments of a battery that need to be charged up so they can drive electrons through circuits," says Eberl, whose paper made the cover of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "In the auditory system, the charge in the scolopale space drives ions, or electrically charged atoms, through membrane channels in the sensory endings that open briefly in response to activation by sounds.

"Our work shows that the sodium pump plays a particularly important role in this cell to help replenish or recharge this compartment with the right ions. The human ear also relies on a compartment called the scala media, which similarly drives ions into the sensory cells of the ear," he says.

How was the research done? This is where the fruit fly love song comes into play.

Testing whether or not a fruit fly can hear the love song -- a sound generated by a vibrating wing -- enables Eberl to learn whether electrical recharging is occurring in the fly ear. The fruit fly love song played a role in the research by stimulating the fly to move whenever a sound was emitted and received.

"In these experiments we tested the fly's hearing by inserting tiny electrodes in the fly's antenna, then measuring the electrical responses when we play back computer-generated love songs," he says.

Eberl notes there are many similarities between fruit fly and human mechanisms of hearing. That means his work on the fly model to identify additional new components required for generating the correct ion balance in the ear will help scientists to understand the human process in more detail.

Eberl's co-authors on the paper areMadhuparna Roy, postdoctoral associate at the University of Pittsburgh, and Elena Sivan-Loukianova, UI biology research scientist. At the time of the research, Roy was a graduate student in the UI Graduate College studying in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Biology.

The title of the paper, published last week, is "Cell-type-specific roles of Na+/K+ ATPase subunits in Drosophila auditory mechanosensation."

The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grant number 5P30DC010362-03) and the Iowa Center for Molecular Auditory Neuroscience at the UI (grant number P30DC010362).

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Gas prices staying down as 2013 starts

NEW YORK (AP) ? U.S. drivers are hoping 2013 doesn't start off like 2012 at the gas pump. So far, so good.

Gasoline now averages $3.30 a gallon, up about half a penny since Jan. 1. A year ago, gas rose about 10 cents in the first week or so because of a jump in oil prices. Gas nearly hit $4 in early April.

Oil prices should dictate what happens next with pump prices. The economic drivers for oil are mixed ? economies in the U.S. and China are showing modest improvement, while Europe remains in recession.

The wild card is the Middle East. In the past two years, threats to shipments of oil from the region drove crude prices higher during the winter. That led to a surge in pump prices by spring.

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'Anchorman 2' Set Burglarized In Northwest Atlanta

Stay classy, Atlanta burglars.

Last month, thieves reportedly stole more than $250,000 worth of equipment from a warehouse northwest of the city, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The building was being used to film "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" -- a sequel to the 2004 comedy "Anchorman," starring Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate.

The building's owner, Davis Nort, told authorities that $300,000 worth of copper wiring had been stripped from the building. The suspects also made off with four Apple computers.

"It's a shame this happened," Nort told WSBTV, "because Atlanta is really trying to get big in the film industry."

Atlanta police told WAOK an alarm had sounded after the break-in, but it was canceled by a Paramount Worldwide Productions official who believed it had been triggered by rodents in the warehouse.

A $5,000 reward has been offered to anyone with information on the theft. Patch reports the break-in is one of several to have occurred in the area in recent weeks.

Assuming the movie production can recover quickly from the copper theft, "Anchorman 2" is set to be released on Dec. 20.

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