Who Left A Tree, Then A Coffin In The Library?

It started suddenly. Without warning.

Last spring, Julie Johnstone, a librarian at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, was wandering through a reading room when she saw, sitting alone on a random table, a little tree.

It was made of twisted paper and was mounted on a book.

Gorgeously crafted, it came with a gold-leafed eggshell broken in two, each half filled with little strips of paper with phrases on them. When reassembled properly, the strips became a poem about birds, "A Trace of Wings" by Edwin Morgan.

What was this?

"This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas..." said a note, addressed to the Library by its twitter name "@ByLeavesWeLive". There was no artist signature, no one to thank. The staff, totally nonplussed, asked on their blog if anybody knew who made it. They described the gift as a "poetree" and waited. Nobody claimed authorship.

Then, it happened again

This time, a coffin, topped by a large gramophone showed up suddenly at The National Library of Scotland. The scene was carved from a book, a mystery novel by Ian Rankin, one of Britain's bestselling crime writers. It seemed like a visual pun, because the book's title was Exit Music.

Once again, a note said, "A gift in support of libraries, books, words, ideas...(& against their exit)."

Next came a movie theater, one of Edinburgh's local art film houses. It got, out of nowhere, a book carved so that a bunch of warriors seemed to be leaping (or in some cases galloping) off a movie screen straight into a startled audience. One of the audience members, if you looked closely, was wearing a tiny photo of the face of mystery writer Ian Rankin. The mystery deepened.

Was this Rankin's doing? His Scottish detective character, named Rebus, has been adapted for television. Perhaps the TV people were trying to gin up some publicity? A new form of viral marketing, maybe? No, said Rankin. He told the Edinburgh papers he had no idea who made these little books and he had nothing to do with it.

Next (and by now we've moved from spring into summer) somebody found a little dragon peeking out of an egg in a windowsill at The Scottish Storytelling Centre. This dragon was carved, once again, from an Ian Rankin mystery and came with the same anonymous tag:

A gift in support of libraries, books, works, ideas... Once upon a time there was a book and in the book was a nest and in the nest was an egg and in the egg was a dragon and in the dragon was a story...

Then, the pace quickened. On a single day in August, two new sculptures showed up at the Edinburgh International Book festival, one at the Bookshop, the other at something called the UNESCO Edinburgh City of Literature. Whoever brought them in, got out unnoticed.

By this fall, these mysterious sculptures had become a hot story. Reporters checked the newest teacup and cupcake, then the little fellow hiding in a forest for some sign of authorship, and once again found a connection to mystery writer Ian Rankin. The hiding man was nestled in a book Rankin had publicly admired.

Mr. Rankin came to the festival, checked out the new sculpture. Here he is, trying to look innocent. The thing is: he probably is innocent.

Because within a week or two, another sculpture, this one a large magnifying glass, something Sherlock Holmes might have used but in paper form, appeared at the Central Lending Library. It was balanced precariously on a book.

This sculpture had no known connection to Mr. Rankin, but it did quote from poet Edward Morgan ? whose poem inspired the first sculpture. Hmmm. First Morgan, then Rankin, then Morgan again ? who is the real perpetrator, asked the BBC, Scotland TV, The Guardian. And what is he? She? They? trying to tell us? Everyone wanted to know.

Just as the news cycle was about to hit boil, The Edinburgh Evening News announced it had cracked the case. It turns out, they said, their own former music librarian, a Mr. Garry Gale, had figured it out. Mr. Gale said when he saw the sculptures he realized they looked exactly like a paper sculpture he had bought a year or so earlier from a certain artist that he didn't name, but the styles were so unerringly similar it had to be the same artist who was dropping these little gifts on major cultural centers in Edinburgh.

Who Did It?

So, OK! Now we find out who did it.

Well, this is where my reporting either falls short or I bump into the respectful quiet that is Edinburgh culture. Instead of having Mr. Gale immediately identify the perpetrator, the Evening News decided to take a poll: Do you really want to know, it asked its readers, who made these gorgeous teacups and dragons and magnifying glasses, or would you rather honor the artist, and let him/her remain anonymous?

Can you even imagine such a thing in America? Can you imagine People magazine or the New York Daily News saying "Shall we protect this shy fellow's privacy?" Shall we honor his modesty?

The readers wrote in. And according to Central Station, a Scottish website, "the general view is that We Don't Want To Know." Presumably a significant number of respondents said they would rather not learn the identity of the sculptor and it would be best if those who know just not tell.

Has the paper published the perpetrator's name?

It hasn't. At least, I can't find any mention on their site. I found possible culprits mentioned, but no authoritative story. Several pages, it seems, have been un-cached and can't be read. Unbelievably (to me) that's how the story ends.

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(P.S.: If you are reading this in Scotland and you know who the artist is, and want to whisper it to us on this distant continent, far across the vast Atlantic, I'm not going to tell you not to. Instead I'm going to tell you to whisper it in the comment section where we can all scroll through and find it and not mention it to each other. While not the most morally admirable of stances, this will give my story a satisfactory conclusion with the minimum of world-wide exposure.

We are a small blog. We are visited by discrete, polite readers who hardly ever get excited, unless the subject is Tea Party politics, global warming, or Sylvia Poggioli. We probably won't recognize the name; we'll forget it the moment you say it, but it's just not knowing is hard for us. What I'm saying is, if you choose to share, your secret is, well, semi-safe with us.)

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The Sweet Smell of Chocolate: Sweat, Cabbage and Beef

What do you smell?: The distinctive and alluring aroma of chocolate sets off some surprising sensory signals, according to new "sensomics" research. Image: iStockphoto/AndrisTkachenko

Chocolate may be the most sought-after treat among trick-or-treaters on Halloween, with little hands grasping for all of the milk- and dark-chocolate morsels they can collect, but the details of its taste and aroma profiles have long eluded scientists.

And new science is revealing why cocoa's potent sensual properties have been so difficult to pin down. A recent analysis found that the individual aroma molecules in roasted cacao beans (the primary ingredient of chocolate) can smell of everything from cooked cabbage to human sweat to raw beef fat. Together, more than 600 of these flavor compounds melt together in just the right combination to yield the taste and scent of what we all call chocolate, according to Peter Schieberle, a food chemist at Munich Technical University and director of the German Research Center for Food Chemistry, who presented the data at this year's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Denver.

Most of the molecules that comprise a food's aroma are volatile, which means they transform into gases easily at room temperature. These volatile compounds are inhaled along with the air we breathe, bringing them into contact with the 900-plus odorant receptors in the upper half of the nostril. In the early 1990s scientists Linda Buck and Richard Axel began the work that would show each odorant receptor recognized one particular compound and was linked to a specific olfactory neuron in the nostril. As a volatile aroma compound latches onto an odorant receptor, it triggers the firing of the olfactory neuron (Buck and Axel won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery). Complex aromas form when multiple volatile compounds trigger their respective olfactory neurons at the same time. The brain identifies flavor by measuring how frequently the different neurons fire.

"By the time you put four chemicals together, your brain can no longer separate them into components. It forms a new, unified perception that you can't recognize as any of those individual aromas," says Gary Reineccius, a food scientist at the University of Minnesota.

Processed foods such as chocolate, beer and tea contain thousands of aroma compounds. This multiplicity of molecules creates a mosaic of odor in the brain as each individual molecule contributes a hint of scent to the final flavor. Just as our brains can often assemble a whole picture from seeing just a sketch of an image, Schieberle and colleagues found that humans can recognize chocolate aroma using only 25 of its 600-plus volatile compounds. Of these, many are also found in much less appetizing items, including cooked cabbage, raw beef fat and human sweat, which are in turn also composed of many different volatile compounds.

Even so, not one of these 25 key compounds can be pegged as a "chocolate" aroma. "The mixture smells completely different from the individual constituents," Schieberle says. "At the moment, there is no way to predict how the final mixture will smell."

Schieberle calls the study of individual aroma and flavor molecules "sensomics," which sifts through the countless potential aroma compounds for those molecules of particular importance to human taste and smell. Schieberle's work has identified which aroma compounds from roasted cacao beans could bind to odor receptors in humans. None of them, it turned out, smell anything at all like the sweet, rich scent we identify as chocolate.

To figure out exactly which molecules contributed to chocolate aroma, Schieberle and colleagues had to pick apart chocolate aroma one molecule at a time. First, the researchers identified those volatile compounds that would react with human odor receptors and were present at high enough levels to register in the brain, which yielded 25 different molecules. These molecules included 2- and 3-methylbutanoic acids (both produce a sweaty, rancid odor), dimethyl trisulfide (cooked cabbage) and 2-ethyl-3,5-dimethylpyrazine (potato chips). Then, they blended these rather un-chocolatey aroma molecules in different combinations and asked human study subjects to smell them. The blend that contained all of the 25 volatile aroma molecules could reliably fool the nose and brain into thinking it had smelled chocolate.

These 25 compounds are what Schieberle refers to as chocolate's chemical signature?those volatile compounds in chocolate that trigger human olfactory nerves in just the right combination "causing a signal in the brain to say 'this is chocolate,'" Schieberle says.

What we think of as "chocolate" smell is due in large part to the way in which the food is made?a process that includes both fermentation and roasting. Foods that are processed by fermentation, roasting or grilling such as wine, coffee and steak, respectively, generally contain the most aroma molecules. It is this process's conversion of otherwise odorless compounds into volatile aroma-bearing ones that helps explain this type of food's popularity. Natural, raw foods like fruits and vegetables also have an appealing aroma and taste, although their flavor profile is much simpler and usually dominated by one or two major molecules.

"That chemical really creates that flavor, and everything else kind of smoothes it and makes it pleasant," Reineccius says of these less complex foods. The combination of volatile aroma compounds as well as the sugars and salts that we taste during chewing combine to create flavor. "Some of our simpler flavors are strawberry and raspberry because they're just what nature happened to provide to keep itself living." The replication of these flavors by food chemists has previously been a process of trial and error.

The goal of his work, Schieberle says, is not to develop artificial chocolate flavorings. Rather, his goal is to find ways to tweak the cacao bean fermentation and roasting process to develop even better tasting chocolates. A recent discovery in his lab, made earlier this year, has taken a small step in this direction. Cacao beans processed in the so-called Dutch style, which adds alkali salt during roasting, have a milder, more pleasant flavor. After deconstructing the molecular makeup of this form of chocolate, the researchers knew that it contained molecules that had a pleasant "mouthfeel." And by adding a tiny bit of glucose to the cacao beans during the Dutch roasting process, Schieberle and colleagues, did not increase the sweetness of the final product, but instead created a more velvety mouthfeel in the final chocolate.

Better understanding chocolate's alluring aroma can also help with tasting technique. Let the chocolate dissolve on your tongue, Schieberle says, so that you can taste the full array of flavor compounds. As the chocolate melts in your mouth and you exhale, some of the volatile molecules will once again pass over your odor receptors, letting you get another whiff before the chocolate melts away.

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Tenn. protesters defy curfew 3rd time; no arrests

Occupy Nashville protesters join hands on the Legislative Plaza on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011, in Nashville, Tenn. Participants in the economic protest returned to the Legislative Plaza after arrests were made the two previous nights. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Occupy Nashville protesters join hands on the Legislative Plaza on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011, in Nashville, Tenn. Participants in the economic protest returned to the Legislative Plaza after arrests were made the two previous nights. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street Movement are seen at the Tennessee Capitol, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Tennessee's safety commissioner says Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's office approved a pre-dawn roundup of Wall Street protesters from the state Capitol grounds. Twenty-nine people were arrested, but a night judge refused to sign warrants because the policy had only been in effect since the previous afternoon. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

State troopers lead people arrested on Legislative Plaza toward a bus parked outside the state Capitol in in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. It was the second straight night of arrests after Republican Gov. Bill Haslam imposed a curfew on areas surrounding the Capitol in an effort to disband a three-week demonstration by Wall Street protesters. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

State troopers attend to an arrested protester on the Legislative Plaza in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. It was the second straight night of arrests after Republican Gov. Bill Haslam imposed a curfew on areas surrounding the Capitol in an effort to disband a three-week demonstration by Wall Street protesters. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? Occupy Wall Street protesters chanted slogans, danced to stay warm and defiantly protested into the early hours Sunday near Tennessee's Capitol building, squaring off for the third consecutive night against state authorities.

But this time, the protesters stayed through the night without anyone being arrested for curfew violations. The arrests in Nashville came during a week of clashes between police and demonstrators that led to arrests in California, Atlanta, Denver and Oregon.

"Whose plaza? Our plaza!" about 50 demonstrators chanted early Sunday in defiance of the curfew, which is in effect from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. CDT.

Capitol police sporadically made their rounds and a state trooper occasionally walked past the protest in the pre-dawn hours, but organizers said authorities did not make arrests as law enforcement agents had done on the two previous nights.

Elizabeth Sharpe, 20, took part Sunday and said she was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement after seeing a 2003 documentary called "The Corporation." She said she felt the need to be an activist in the movement that expresses opposition to perceived greed on Wall Street and across corporate America.

"How can I as an individual change this?" she asked, speaking with an Associated Press reporter. With the Occupy moment's far-flung reach across American cities, she said she felt there was strength in numbers, adding, "I got for the first time a glimpse of hope."

Some danced to keep warm on a chilly morning and others shivered in the frosty air, huddling under blankets.

The protesters have been galvanized by the friction between state officials and a local magistrate who said the demonstrators could not be jailed for remaining at the plaza past curfew. Several new demonstrators showed up at the state-owned plaza near the Capitol for the first time earlier in the day.

As many as 75 people initially remained after the curfew started at 10 p.m. But by early morning only about 50 people remained.

Nashville magistrate Tom Nelson has said recently that there's no legal reason in his city to keep the demonstrators behind bars and he has released them after each arrest. He has refused each night to sign off on arrest warrants for more than two dozen people taken into custody.

Some legal experts agreed with the judge.

The arrests appeared to be a violation of First Amendment rights that allow for people to peacefully assemble, said attorney David Raybin, a former prosecutor. He and others said the nature of the arrests, coupled with the judge's refusal to sign off on the warrants, could become ammunition for lawsuits.

"The government is exposing itself to serious liability here by doing this," Raybin said.

Nelson did not return an email seeking comment, and a phone number for him could not be found.

State troopers had begun enforcing the curfew at the Legislative Plaza on Thursday night.

Others questioned the timing of the curfew. The protesters had been demonstrating for about three weeks before it took effect, a point that Nelson said he factored into his decision.

"You can't pass a curfew mid-protest because you disagree with this group of protesters," said criminal defense attorney Patrick Frogge, who is representing some of those arrested.

The state Department of Safety has been carrying out the arrests. Commissioner Bill Gibbons, who until he joined the Haslam administration was the district attorney in Memphis, said he didn't have a role in developing the curfew but assured Haslam his department could enforce it.

Gibbons developed a reputation as an able and tough prosecutor in Memphis, where gang and drug violence have been problems for years. He ran against Haslam for governor in the GOP primary, touting his law-and-order credential and sharply attacking his multi-million-dollar opponent for refusing to divulge how much income he gets from the family-owned chain of Pilot truck stops.

Associated Press

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No. 13 Nebraska beats No. 9 Spartans 24-3

Nebraska's Rex Burkhead (22) celebrates a touchdown against Michigan State with teammates Kevin Thomsen, left, Mike Caputo, second right, and Jake Long, right, in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Lincoln, Neb., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Nebraska's Rex Burkhead (22) celebrates a touchdown against Michigan State with teammates Kevin Thomsen, left, Mike Caputo, second right, and Jake Long, right, in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Lincoln, Neb., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez (3) is swarmed by Michigan State defenders including Kyler Elsworth, right, in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Lincoln, Neb., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)

Michigan State's Johnny Adams, right, intercepts a pass intended for Nebraska's Kenny Bell in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Lincoln, Neb., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)

Michigan State's Le'Veon Bell, left, runs past Nebraska's Will Compton in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Lincoln, Neb., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)

Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez, right, hands off the ball to running back Rex Burkhead during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Michigan State, in Lincoln, Neb., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ? Rex Burkhead was flat on his back, writhing in pain and holding his left leg after the 31st of his 35 runs against Michigan State. Nebraska coach Bo Pelini rushed across the field to check on his star running back.

"I saw he was cramping up," Pelini said, "and I was pretty relieved."

After going to the sideline for one play, Burkhead was back on the field running a wheel route and catching the 27-yard touchdown pass from Taylor Martinez that sealed No. 13 Nebraska's 24-3 victory over the ninth-ranked Spartans on Saturday.

"Unless he's on crutches, he's going to be out there," Pelini said. "The guy is a warrior. You can't ask for more than he gives this football team."

What Burkhead gave Nebraska was 130 hard-earned yards rushing and three touchdowns in only Nebraska's second win in 17 games against a top-10 opponent.

More important, the Huskers (7-1, 3-1) moved into a tie with Michigan State (6-2, 3-1) and Michigan for the Big Ten Legends Division lead. The Huskers own the tiebreaker with Michigan State and are yet to play Michigan and Iowa.

Burkhead went over 100 yards for the fifth time in six games. The junior scored at the end of 80- and 89-yard drives in the third quarter that broke the spirit of an MSU team that was coming off the high of last week's incredible finish to its win over Wisconsin.

"What a difference a week makes," MSU coach Mark Dantonio said.

Michigan State could have essentially locked up the division with a victory against its third straight ranked opponent. But quarterback Kirk Cousins, as he has throughout his career, struggled on the road.

After throwing for 290 yards and three TDs at home against Wisconsin, Cousins missed on 12 of his first 16 passes and finished 11 of 27 for 86 yards. He was intercepted on the Spartans' first possession, was nearly picked off three other times and often threw into double coverage.

"We're a much better team than we showed today and we still have a lot of things in front of us to accomplish," Cousins said. "It's important to push on and understand that so much of what happens to us this season is not what happened to us but how we respond. It's important that we respond the right way."

Nebraska's defense, criticized after it allowed 486 yards in a 48-17 loss at Wisconsin on Oct. 1 and leaky in the first half of a 34-27 win over Ohio State the next week, held the Spartans to 187 yards in its best performance of the year.

"I thought our guys were locked in this week," Pelini said. "I'm proud of that group. They saw today what we're capable of doing when they play the right way. That's a pretty good football team we played out there today."

The Huskers led 10-3 at half and put away the game with their two time-consuming drives in the third quarter.

Martinez completed only a shovel pass for no yards and was intercepted on a poorly thrown ball in the first half, but offensive coordinator Tim Beck called on him to throw anyway.

He went 4 for 4 on the series and completed third-down passes to Tim Marlowe and Brandon Kinnie before Burkhead scored from a yard out to make it a two-touchdown lead.

Officials initially ruled Burkhead lost a fumble at the goal line, but the video review showed that the ball crossed the goal line.

After another defensive stop by Nebraska, Martinez led the Huskers on a 12-play series that lasted 5:24 and essentially wrapped up the game. Burkhead carried on eight of the first nine plays and then, two plays after limping off the field with that cramp in his left calf, caught his touchdown pass.

"We were in a rhythm, and I wanted to be out there," Burkhead said.

Burkhead led a rushing attack that finished with 190 yards against a defense that had been allowing 88.9 a game.

"You could tell they were getting winded," Burkhead said, "and our guys were getting to them up front. Things were opening up quicker and easier. The no-huddle tempo wore them down a little bit."

Cousins, who last week became the winningest quarterback in MSU history, struggled from the start and was sacked four times.

"There were plays where there was nothing there, no matter how long the protection lasted," he said. "There were plays where protection broke down where I had something. There were plays where it was a combination. It was a total mix."

Lance Thorrell stepped in front of Cousins' pass for B.J. Cunningham and returned it 26 yards to set up the Huskers at the Spartans' 25. Burkhead scored from the 1 seven plays later.

Cousins couldn't get the Spartans into the end zone after Johnny Adams intercepted Martinez and ran it back to the Nebraska 28. A defensive holding call put the ball inside the 10, but Cousins' end-zone pass to Cunningham was too hot to handle and then Nebraska safety Daimion Stafford dropped a bad throw that could have been run back for a touchdown.

The good news for the Spartans is that their schedule becomes much easier the rest of the way. They play Minnesota at home next, go to Iowa, host Indiana and finish at Northwestern.

Nebraska is starting a rugged stretch of games. After playing Northwestern at home next Saturday, the Huskers have back-to-back road games against Penn State and Michigan, and they finish at home against Iowa.

"We've got to win out," linebacker Will Compton said.

Associated Press

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Treasurys dive on hopes for Europe crisis plan (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Treasury prices plunged Thursday as a plan to defuse Europe's debt crisis drew traders into riskier investments.

The yield on the 10-year note hit a three-month high, signaling a broad turn away from ultra-safe Treasurys. A weak auction of seven-year Treasury notes confirmed that demand for U.S. government debt was dwindling.

European leaders agreed early Thursday on a plan to expand their regional bailout fund. Banks also agreed to take steep losses on the Greek bonds they hold. The plan postpones fears of a spreading financial crisis and buys the leaders more time to hammer out details.

Stocks rose sharply as Treasurys declined. The Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index jumped 2.9 percent and 3.4 percent, respectively. The S&P turned positive for 2011.

The price of the 10-year Treasury note dove $1.47 for every $100 invested, pushing its yield up to 2.39 percent at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time from 2.21 percent late Wednesday. It was the highest yield since Aug. 5.

The price of the 30-year Treasury bond plunged $4.13 per $100 invested. That pushed its yield up sharply, to 3.43 percent from 3.21 late Wednesday.

Traders of European government debt appeared less sure that the new plan will work. Many still fear that the debt woes will spread to Spain and Italy, whose economies are far larger than Greece's. Traders have sold Spanish and Italian debt in recent weeks, fearful that one of them would default. That pushed borrowing costs higher for those countries.

Traders bid up Italian debt early Thursday, pushing the five-year yield down to about 5.25 percent. But the yield quickly bounced back up to 5.50, just above the average over the past 10 days. Italy is paying more to borrow than it was at the start of last week.

European banks agreed to take 50 percent losses on the Greek debt they hold. They will be forced to increase their capital cushions to help them survive the market's swings. Europe also agreed to increase the lending power of its bailout fund by using the fund's $610 billion to insure bonds issued by weaker countries. The insurance is designed to keep borrowing costs down for Italy, Spain and others.

If borrowing costs for those nations continue to rise, the fund still might be too small to contain the debt crisis and prevent lending markets from freezing up, said Peter Tchir, who runs the hedge fund TF Market Advisors.

"This whole thing is really designed to make sure Spain and Italy do well," Tchir said. If Italy's yields stay high, that suggests traders were spooked by the 50 percent losses on Greek debt and no longer trust that Italy will repay them, he said.

Also Thursday, the Treasury Department sold $29 billion in seven-year notes at a yield of 1.791 percent. The yield for seven-year notes already trading on the market was 1.758 percent. The higher yield at the auction means bids came in lower than the prices of similar investments on the market. There also were fewer bids than at recent auctions.

In other trading, speculative-grade corporate bonds rallied with stocks as investors took on more risk. The Barclays Capital High Yield Bond Fund, which contains a package of relatively risky corporate bonds, leaped 1.7 percent. That means borrowing costs fell for companies such as CIT Group Inc., First Data Corp. and Caesar's Entertainment.

The yield on the 2-year Treasury note rose to 0.32 percent from 0.29 percent. The yield on the three-month Treasury bill fell to 0.01 percent from 0.02 percent. Its discount wasn't available.

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Coinstar 3Q earnings soar, Redbox prices to rise (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO ? Coinstar's third-quarter earnings nearly doubled as its Redbox kiosks for renting DVDs attracted movie lovers irked by recent price increases at Netflix's video subscription service.

But the results released Thursday contained some more unwelcome news for consumers.

Redbox is raising its prices for renting a standard DVD by 20 percent beginning Monday. The new price will be $1.20 per day, instead of the current $1 daily rate.

That's not as much of a shock as the price increases of as much as 60 percent that Netflix imposed on its subscribers last month. Still, the possibility that Redbox might be driving away some renters seemed to spook investors as Coinstar Inc.'s stock plunged by more than 12 percent despite a quarter that was better than Wall Street anticipated.

Coinstar Inc. earned $37.1 million, or $1.18 per share, in the three months ending in September. That compared with $19.5 million, or 60 cents per share, at the same time last year.

The results for the latest quarter blew by the average estimate of 88 cents per share among analysts surveyed by FactSet.

The company's revenue rose 22 percent from last year to $466 million, about $3 million above analyst projections.

The ubiquitous Redbox kiosks in thousands of U.S. stores provided the spark.

Redbox revenue climbed 28 percent in the quarter to $390 million.

Although Coinstar CEO Paul Davis said the company couldn't know for certain, it appeared Netflix's customers losses are turning into Redbox's gains.

As an indication that more people may have been renting from Redbox for the first time, Davis told The Associated Press that the number of unique credit cards used at the kiosks during the July-September period increased by 8 percent from the previous quarter. And the number of unique email addresses from Redbox renters climbed 10 percent from the prior quarter.

"We always try to roll out the red carpet for customers who may feel disenfranchised," Davis said during an interview with the AP.

Coinstar's shed $6.58 to $46.37 in extended trading after the results were released. The sell-off threatens to wipe out most of the gains that Coinstar's stock picked up after Netflix's higher prices kicked in Sept. 1.

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Police nab top Gambino mob boss in clinic

ROME?? A top boss from the Gambino crime clan convicted in the U.S. of selling heroin was rearrested in a Rome clinic Thursday after he checked in for medical tests, police said.

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Rosario Gambino, 69 ? convicted by U.S. courts in a Pizza Connection heroin probe and sentenced to 45 years in prison in 1984 ? was deported two years ago to Italy so he could serve a 20-year sentence in a separate drug case.

Italian news reports said an Italian tribunal earlier in the week had ordered him released while his lawyers pursue an appeal with the Court of Cassation, Italy's top criminal court. However, police said they moved to arrest him Thursday after an appeals tribunal in Palermo, Sicily, issued a fresh warrant.

Gambino "was surprised inside a clinic in the capital, where he had sought some tests" for an undisclosed medical problem, Rome police headquarters said in a statement. "He has a long career in the ranks of the Italian-Sicilian Mafia on his resume."

Police who carried out the arrest could not be reached for details Thursday night.

Court officers were closed, but the Italian news agency ANSA said that the Palermo court deemed Gambino a flight risk.

Gambino, an Italian-born New Jersey resident, was considered a top figure in the New York-based crime family led by his late cousin Carlo Gambino.

In 1984, Rosario Gambino was convicted in a multimillion-dollar conspiracy to sell heroin in southern New Jersey and sentenced to 45 years in jail. He was linked to a Pizza Connection case involving a then $1.6 billion heroin- and cocaine-smuggling operation that used pizzerias as fronts in the 1970s and early '80s.

He was released in 2007 and transferred to an immigrant detention center in California to await expulsion. Gambino was wanted in Italy since 1980 in a drug trafficking probe. When he was deported to Italy two years ago, he was served the 1980 warrant signed by Giovanni Falcone, the Sicilian prosecutor who was killed by the Sicilian Mafia in a 1992 bombing.

Police said Gambino was convicted by an Italian court in 1983 of criminal association for drug trafficking and sentenced to 20 years.

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If you've been concentrating on which Windows Phones are coming out this fall, here's two more to add to your meditating mind: the Samsung Focus S and its little brother, the Focus Flash, are heading to AT&T on November 6th, according to AT&T's Facebook page. The Focus S, brandishing its 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, 1.4GHz single-core CPU, front-facing cam and 8MP shooter, will be up for grabs at $200; the Flash, meanwhile, can be yours for $50 and still offers the same processor with a smaller 3.7-inch Super AMOLED display, front-facing cam and a 5MP rear camera. Get ready, get set...

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Tenn. dog missing for 3 months turns up in Mich.

In this photo provided by Michigan Humane Society, Petey, a Jack Fussell terrier, is photographed at the Michigan Humane Society's Rochester Hills Center for Animal Care in Rochester Hills, Mich. on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 The Michigan Humane Society says Petey had been missing since July from his home in the Tennessee community of Erin. The 4-year-old dog was being picked up Wednesday by a Michigan Humane Society volunteer who planned to drive him home. The dog had been brought to the Michigan Humane Society's Rochester Hills Center for Animal Care, where he was scanned for a microchip. (AP Photo/Michigan Humane Society)

In this photo provided by Michigan Humane Society, Petey, a Jack Fussell terrier, is photographed at the Michigan Humane Society's Rochester Hills Center for Animal Care in Rochester Hills, Mich. on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 The Michigan Humane Society says Petey had been missing since July from his home in the Tennessee community of Erin. The 4-year-old dog was being picked up Wednesday by a Michigan Humane Society volunteer who planned to drive him home. The dog had been brought to the Michigan Humane Society's Rochester Hills Center for Animal Care, where he was scanned for a microchip. (AP Photo/Michigan Humane Society)

In this photo provided by Michigan Humane Society, Petey, a Jack Fussell terrier, is photographed at the Michigan Humane Society's Rochester Hills Center for Animal Care in Rochester Hills, Mich. on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 The Michigan Humane Society says Petey had been missing since July from his home in the Tennessee community of Erin. The 4-year-old dog was being picked up Wednesday by a Michigan Humane Society volunteer who planned to drive him home. The dog had been brought to the Michigan Humane Society's Rochester Hills Center for Animal Care, where he was scanned for a microchip. (AP Photo/Michigan Humane Society)

In this photo provided by Michigan Humane Society, Aaron Jerome, a Michigan Humane Society staffer , holds Petey, a Jack Fussell terrier, at the Michigan Humane Society's Rochester Hills Center for Animal Care in Rochester Hills, Mich. on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 The Michigan Humane Society says Petey had been missing since July from his home in the Tennessee community of Erin. The 4-year-old dog was being picked up Wednesday by a Michigan Humane Society volunteer who planned to drive him home. The dog had been brought to the Michigan Humane Society's Rochester Hills Center for Animal Care, where he was scanned for a microchip. (AP Photo/Michigan Humane Society)

Petey jumps to get a treat from Aaron Jerome, a Michigan Humane Society staff member, at the Michigan Humane Society's Rochester Hills Center for Animal Care in Rochester Hills, Mich. on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011. The Michigan Humane Society says Petey had been missing since July from his home in the Tennessee community of Erin. The 4-year-old dog was being picked up Wednesday by a Michigan Humane Society volunteer who planned to drive him home. The dog had been brought to the Michigan Humane Society's Rochester Hills Center for Animal Care, where he was scanned for a microchip. (AP Photo/The Detroit News,, Todd McInturf ) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT, NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO TABS, MANDATORY CREDIT

DETROIT (AP) ? Jim Arrighi last saw Petey, his 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, in the backyard of his home in Erin, Tenn.

That was in July, and the 73-year-old retired electrician had nearly given up on seeing his pet again when he learned the dog turned up safe about 500 miles away in suburban Detroit.

A Michigan Humane Society volunteer was expected to return Petey to Arrighi on Thursday morning.

"This is just a little town and everybody is buzzing about it," said Arrighi's daughter, Tyanne Morrison.

Most of Erin's roughly 7,000 residents know one another, and many of them would recognize Petey, which is why Arrighi, Morrison and their friends suspect he was pooch-napped by an out-of-towner.

Morrison believes Petey left his yard "and somebody picked him up."

"We searched. We knew someone had gotten him," she told The Associated Press by phone on Wednesday. "We got on 4-wheelers and went all over the area. There had been some more dogs over the last few months that were missing."

While struggling with the loss of his dog, Arrighi also lost his wife, Juanita, who suffered from pulmonary disease and died Oct. 12.

"Since my mother passed away, even I told him 'why don't we go to the pound to give a home to a puppy that don't have a home,'" Morrison said.

Last week, a homeowner in Rochester Hills, about 20 miles north of Detroit, saw Petey in his backyard and took him to a Humane Society animal care center.

As it does with every recovered dog and cat, the Michigan Humane Society scanned Petey for an implanted microchip, which led the organization to its owner, spokesman Kevin Hatman said.

Arrighi, who has been staying at Morrison's home since his wife died, was thrilled to receive the call, she said.

"He thinks my mother, who is in heaven, sent the dog back to him," Morrison said.

She said their local veterinarian likely recommended Petey get a microchip.

"It was only about $70 total," Morrison said. "Now, a lot of people are inquiring about it."

In September, an implanted microchip helped an animal control agency in New York City locate the owners of Willow, a calico cat who turned up on a Manhattan street after going missing five years ago in Colorado.

The Michigan Humane Society recommends that all pet dogs and cats get microchips implanted, in addition to making sure they have collars and identification tags.

"It's wonderful when we see microchip reunions, including those that seem like miracles," said Marcelena Mace, shelter manager at the Rochester Hills Center for Animal Care. "It really proves that no matter how far your pet may travel, a microchip can help him find his way home."

Microchips, which also are implanted in pet cats, are about the size of a grain of rice and typically injected near the animal's shoulder blade, said Adam Goldfarb, director of pet care issues with the Washington, D.C.-based Humane Society of the United States.

The chips do not have their own power sources and only can be found and read with a scanner.

"In the last few years there has been a real jump in microchip usage, especially in animal shelters," Goldfarb said. "There are not nearly as many that should be microchipped. Sometimes owners are not great in registering their animals with microchip companies or updating their home information."

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Conn. man convicted of kidnapping ex-wife, arson (AP)

HARTFORD, Conn. ? A former advertising executive is facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison after being convicted Tuesday of kidnapping his ex-wife, holding her hostage for nearly 12 hours and burning down the Connecticut home they used to share.

Richard Shenkman, 62, showed no visible emotion as the six-person jury in Hartford rejected his insanity defense and convicted him of all 10 charges, including kidnapping, arson, assault, threatening and violating a protective order. His ex-wife, who escaped without serious injury, testified that Shenkman fired a handgun near her head, prepared a noose for her and claimed to have rigged the house with explosives.

The standoff in 2009 ended when Shenkman came out of the burning home and pointed the gun at his head. Police subdued him with rubber bullets and stun guns and took him into custody. Two psychiatrists testified that Shenkman was psychotic at the time, but the prosecutor argued that he was just acting mentally ill to avoid prison and presented experts who testified Shenkman wasn't psychotic.

Shenkman, who didn't testify, has been detained since his arrest. He is set to be sentenced Jan. 4. The 10 charges carry up to about 90 years in prison.

He also awaits trial for allegedly burning down his and ex-wife Nancy Tyler's former beachfront home in East Lyme in 2007.

Prosecutor Vicki Melchiorre said Tyler was relieved that the trial was over and that he was found guilty instead of not guilty by reason of insanity, which would have resulted in him being sent to a state psychiatric hospital for criminals with periodic reviews on whether he should be released.

"She wants her life back," Melchiorre said.

Tyler, a civil litigation attorney, didn't talk with reporters at the courthouse after the verdict but sent an email to The Associated Press late Tuesday afternoon.

"I'm so grateful to the jury for their hard work and careful deliberation," she wrote. "My family and I are pleased with the verdict and appreciate the prosecutor's hard work, dedication and skill."

Shenkman's lawyer, Hugh Keefe said he was disappointed with the verdict, but wasn't surprised because insanity defenses are hard to prove. He said such defenses are used in only 1 percent of criminal trials and only a quarter of those succeed. He also said he believes juries are biased against mentally ill defendants.

"He knew how difficult this defense was, and he knew he didn't sound pretty on the tapes," Keefe said, referring to recorded calls between Shenkman and police during the crisis.

Jurors declined to comment while leaving the courthouse Tuesday. They began deliberations at the end of the three-week trial Monday afternoon.

On July 7, 2009, police said Shenkman kidnapped Tyler from a downtown Hartford parking garage at gunpoint and forced her to drive about nine miles to the South Windsor home they once shared.

Authorities said Shenkman and Tyler were due in court for a divorce-related hearing later that morning, and he was supposed to turn over the house to her or face jail time for contempt of court.

Tyler testified at the trial about her harrowing ordeal, saying Shenkman handcuffed himself to her, fired a handgun twice near her head, prepared a noose for her and claimed to have rigged the house with explosives as swarms of police surrounded the home. Tyler had called a friend on her cellphone in concern over seeing Shenkman's minivan near her Hartford office and urged her to call police just before she was kidnapped.

Tyler said that Shenkman handcuffed her to an eyebolt in a basement wall at one point, and that she managed to unscrew the bolt and run outside when Shenkman went upstairs to check on police activity.

Shenkman talked on the phone to dispatchers and police officers several times during the crisis. The jury listened to the recorded conversations, in which Shenkman sometimes sounded frantic, screamed, used profanity and several times counted down the seconds to his threatened killing of Tyler.

Police testified that the nearly 15-hour standoff ended when Shenkman came out of the burning home, which was uninsured at the time, and pointed a handgun at his head. Minutes later, officers shot Shenkman with rubber bullets and used a stun gun on him twice before subduing him and taking him into custody.

Shenkman and Tyler married in 1993 and she filed for divorce in 2006. A judge approved the divorce in 2008, but court proceedings continued as Shenkman appealed.

Tyler also testified that Shenkman once told her that he had learned he could get his way in many situations if he acted crazy.

Melchiorre told the jury during closing arguments Monday that Shenkman kidnapped Tyler and burned down the home because he was upset she filed for divorce and he didn't want her to have the house. She also said he was scared to go to prison.

"Fear of going to jail is not psychotic," Melchiorre said, "especially when you're a 60-year-old, short, out-of-shape guy with an annoying disposition. It's not something that would make him popular in jail."

In the East Lyme house fire, Shenkman is being detained without bail on charges he burned that house down just hours before he was to hand it over to Tyler as part of the divorce.

Shenkman is the brother of Mark Shenkman, founder and president of one of the nation's largest money management firms, Shenkman Capital Management. His former advertising firm, Primedia, once produced the former "Gayle King Show" in 1997 starring Oprah Winfrey's best friend, who now has a new TV show with the same title.

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iPod fathers unveil their next project, the Nest Learning Thermostat (hands-on)

Over the summer, we got word that a couple of unnamed ex-Apple engineers were getting ready to unveil an unnamed product, under the guise of an unnamed startup. As it turns out, that startup was Nest Labs, and those Apple alums were none other than Tony Fadell, longtime SVP of Apple's iPod division, and lead engineer Matt Rogers. And yes, the product they had to share makes fine use of a click wheel.

But if you thought they'd be cooking up a next-gen music player, you'd be so wrong. Instead, the pair have been designing a thermostat, of all things, dubbed the Nest. In addition to being the most stylish model ever to grace a dining room wall, it also promises the kind of intelligence we've come to expect in other household appliances -- just not thermostats, per se. It'll go on sale next month for $249 in places like Best Buy, but we managed to snag an early sneak peek. Find some photos below and when you're done, join us past the break where we'll explain how it works.

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