Mark Cuban E-Book: Dallas Mavericks Owner To Reportedly Publish Piece On Business, Success

-- Internet billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban will publish a 30,000-word "e-book" focused on business and success, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The e-book, called ""How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It," will be available for $2.99 through online digital-book retailers, the paper said in an article published to its website Sunday. It did not specify the release date.

The book is based on blog postings that Cuban has made in recent years, the paper said, and he hopes his online followers will help drive sales.

The paper also said the book is being published through Diversion Books, a digital publisher owned by Cuban's literary agent, Scott Waxman.

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Leniency for ex-banker who helped the rich hide cash

A former senior UBS private banker who helped the U.S. government expand its crackdown on offshore tax evasion was sentenced to five years' probation Friday for advising wealthy Americans on ways to hide their money from U.S. tax authorities.

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Renzo Gadola, who worked at giant Swiss bank UBS AG from 1995 to 2008, pleaded guilty in December.

He was arrested in Miami after officials secretly taped him meeting a client at a luxury hotel.

Federal prosecutors had sought a lenient sentence for Gadola because of his assistance in uncovering other tax evasion cases.

They asked for less than the 10-month minimum prison sentence recommended in sentencing guidelines.

The prosecutors said Gadola helped build cases against former colleagues and bank customers who had secret Swiss accounts.

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The case is part of a broad Internal Revenue Service campaign to identify wealthy tax dodgers.

UBS in 2009 agreed to disclose the identities of thousands of U.S. clients and paid a $780 million fine for tax evasion.

In July, Reuters reported Swiss financial adviser Beda Singenberger , owner of Zurich-based Sinco Treuhand, had been charged with helping more than 60 U.S. taxpayers hide more than $184 million in Swiss bank accounts.

Singenberger also allegedly helped move assets from UBS AG to other Swiss banks to avoid getting caught.

Singenberger was indicted on a charge of conspiring to hide clients' income from the Internal Revenue Service from 1998 to 2009, the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattan said at the time.

The indictment came nearly 2 1/2 years after UBS avoided U.S. criminal prosecution by agreeing to pay a $780 million penalty and admitting it helped Americans hide income from the IRS. Criminal charges were formally dropped last October.

If convicted, Singenberger, 57, could face five years in prison plus a fine.

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Android-powered bar bot makes a mean Rob(ot) Roy (video)

iZac doesn't want to hear your sob stories. No, this Arduino-crafted bartender just wants to make cocktails, ordered through a tablet-based drinks menu. The bar patron can then place a glass on the digital scales, and iZac will measure out in the prescribed quantities necessary for the meatsack's choice of poison. The liquids are handled by aquarium pumps and laser-cut pinch valves, with accuracy to within one gram (0.035 ounces). Sadly, the bar bot's repertoire is limited by six bottles, arranged on two turntables. Risky drinkers can plump for the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' option, which creates a randomized drink of three (possibly identical) liquids. See how it all comes together in a loud, appropriately shady-looking bar after the break.

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Video: Supporting local small businesses

>> millions of americans gear up to hit the stores in search of black friday bargains, ads are running to promote small business saturday which is also next week. .

>> i pledge to shop small.

>> the effort to get your business this saturday, this sunday morning. your business has jj ramburg. sunday, suspected, suspected. appreciate you joining us. small business saturday is the creation of american express that sponsors your program with all of that aside. it is a great thing to support the small businesses out there.

>> absolutely. most people want to support small businesses . most people would love to.

>> why don't we? what's the problem?

>> often times it's easier to run to a mall where you might be with a chain store or do something online where you are with a big company, but everyone likes the idea of supporting small businesses . what this day is doing is shining a light. go help your local community . the repercussions are bigger than the gift you may buy.

>> what support is this movement getting?

>> a ton of support. we have the mayor on from atlanta. let's hear him talk.

>> this really is a significant public private initiative. we are getting our local stations involved really just to spread the word so that this important shopping period doesn't just focus on large retailers.

>> that's the mayor in atlanta. mayor from 50 cities across the country have signed up and said we support this. they are getting all kinds of things involved from the local radio stations and station. if you go online, you can get as a small business all kinds of support on how to market this.

>> it's interesting with the economy and a turn around, we know that the president tried to offer ways to help small businesses and tax credits and whatever we can do to help support them outside of what the lawmakers are debating right now.

>> we hear from the politicians all the time. taxes and health care and everything they talk about. the small businesses that i talked to they say mostly what we need are people coming through the doors. we need customers.

>> it's great that you were highlighting this on suspected. thank you and a reminder that your business airs 7:30 sunday morning on msnbc. tweet us the name of your favorite small business .

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Myxer Social Radio now available on Android

Myxer Social Radio, a friend-focused social internet radio app, is now available on Android. Myxer Social Radio lets users create "listening rooms" with access to over 12 million songs and invite Facebook friends to listen and chat in real time. Myxer uses your Facebook account to share your listening habits with friends and allows you to see what your friends are listening to. You can also share individual tracks or albums on your Facebook using Myxer's library. Myxer is also available on iOS and on the web at myxer.fm, and can be downloaded now for free in the Android Market.

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Jessica Simpson says she'll give birth in heels

No need to sacrifice style during childbirth!

Fashion empress Jessica Simpson plans to keep on wearing heels up until the moment ? literally! ? she welcomes her and fiance Eric Johnson's baby to the world.

"I'm probably going to deliver my baby in these (4-inch YSL heels)," she joked to the new Us Weekly, on stands Friday. "I went to the doctor yesterday and he said, 'You're gonna need to get out of those heels!'"

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Her response? "I was like, 'Excuse me! I'll be delivering in these heels!'"

The 31-year-old "Fashion Star" mentor is really having fun with her pregnancy style so far. "I like wearing things more fitted," she explained. "You want to show off your bump! It's just so fun. You don't want to wear muumuus so you can moo around town."

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While Simpson said she's "definitely bigger than I've ever been," she's also "never felt so connected with my body in my life."

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"I can imagine my tummy glowing," she gushed. "I'm already like the cheesy mom that my kids are embarrassed by!"

One thing she thinks her future son or daughter will like? Her creative Halloween birth announcement! (She posted a picture of herself and her bump dressed as a mummy to confirm that she was "going to be a mummy!")

"My kid's going to think I'm pretty cool!" she told Us. "This is a cool thing to welcome my baby to the world with."?

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She waited until the end of October to announce her pregnancy because, she said, "I didn't want to announce it before I was supposed to. I couldn't hide it anymore.... I was like my baby (is) ready to be photographed!"

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Did Osama bin Laden raid and pro-US tilt cost Pakistan's US ambassador Husain Haqqani his job?

Pakistan's US Ambassador Husain Haqqani has been embroiled in controversy at home over a claimed civilian government promise to rein in the military's Inter Services Intelligence agency.

When wealthy Pakistani-American investor Mansoor Ijaz penned an op-ed in the Financial Times describing his alleged role as a secret intermediary between Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs Mike Mullen in the aftermath of? the Osama Bin Laden raid, he set in motion a train of events that exposed the growing rifts between Pakistan?s military and civilian governments.

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Now the urbane Pakistani Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani may be out of a job, thanks to the machinations of anti-American politicians and officers who consider him too close to the US _- which is seen by many in the country as a bane, not a benefactor. His departure, not yet confirmed, would be fallout from not just the US assassination of Bin Laden but from growing rifts over Afghanistan, the future of the Taliban, and the security of the region.

On Wednesday Mr. Haqqani, ambassador since 2008, tendered his resignation, according to Pakistani news channels Geo and ARY. Haqqani is popular in the US, the point man in a relationship that involves billions of dollars in military aid, worries about Pakistan's nuclear weapons, and allegations in America that Pakistan is a better friend to the Taliban in Afghanistan than it is to the US.

Foreign Policy's blog The Cable also reported that Haqqani told them he has sent a letter to Zardari offering his resignation

Haqqani spoke at a Monitor breakfast this morning. While he gave no indication a resignation was impending -- and insisted a coming trip home was part of the normal diplomatic routine -- he also hinted at the difficult position he's in as someone who both needs to be close to the US in Washington while representing the opinions and positions of the country's political class.

"The hostile environment towards the relationship also impacts the messengers," Haqqani said. "There are people in Pakistan who basically do not approve of the United States. As I said approval rating is only 12 percent...when they do not approve a close relationship between the United States and Pakistan and then there is this person whose job it is to have this relationship, they become hostile to that person.?

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FDA Revokes Approval of Avastin for Breast Cancer (HealthDay)

FRIDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it is revoking Avastin's approval to treat breast cancer because the drug has not been shown to be safe and effective for that use.

The move follows recommendations by an FDA advisory panel in June, which voted unanimously to rescind approval of the drug for breast cancer treatment.

Avastin (bevacizumab) is still approved for the treatment of certain types of colon, lung, kidney and brain cancer, the agency said.

The FDA had approved Avastin to be used in combination with the cancer drug paclitaxel for patients with HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer who had not been treated with chemotherapy.

That February 2008 approval was given under the FDA's accelerated approval program, which permits a drug to be approved based on data not sufficiently complete to permit full approval.

The accelerated approval program is meant to provide earlier patient access to promising drugs for serious or life-threatening conditions while researchers conduct clinical trials to confirm a drug's safety and benefits.

The FDA said Friday that its decision to revoke Avastin's approval for breast cancer treatment was based on data from several clinical trials and thousands of pages worth of data submitted to a public docket, as well as the proceedings of the two-day advisory committee hearing held in June.

"This was a difficult decision. FDA recognizes how hard it is for patients and their families to cope with metastatic breast cancer and how great a need there is for more effective treatments. But patients must have confidence that the drugs they take are both safe and effective for their intended use," FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg said in an agency news release.

"After reviewing the available studies it is clear that women who take Avastin for metastatic breast cancer risk potentially life-threatening side effects without proof that the use of Avastin will provide a benefit, in terms of delay in tumor growth, that would justify those risks," she added. "Nor is there evidence that use of Avastin will either help them live longer or improve their quality of life."

The risks associated with Avastin include: severe high blood pressure; bleeding and hemorrhaging; heart attack and heart failure; and the development of perforations in the nose, stomach, intestines and other parts of the body, according to the FDA.

One breast cancer expert called the FDA decision "throwing out the baby with the bathwater."

"There absolutely may be subsets of carefully chosen breast cancer patients who benefit from Avastin, and there are current and ongoing trials investigating the role of Avastin in the treatment of certain aggressive types of tumor," said Dr. Elisa Port, co-director of the Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. "Perhaps results from these trials will help us better define groups for whom there is a benefit so that treatment with Avastin can be offered to patients who may benefit, without risking undue and potentially harmful side effects for those who won't," she added.

Doctors can continue to prescribe Avastin to patients "off-label," as they do other drugs. But it's unlikely that insurance companies would cover off-label use of the drug given its high price tag. Avastin costs more than $8,000 a month, according to published reports.

The accelerated approval of Avastin for breast cancer treatment was based on one study that suggested the drug increased the length of time from the start of treatment to tumor re-growth or death.

However, two studies completed by Avastin's maker, Genentech, after the approval showed only a small effect on tumor growth with no evidence that patients lived any longer or had a better quality of life, compared to standard chemotherapy alone.

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The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about breast cancer treatments.

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Penn State powerless to keep Sandusky off campus (Reuters)

STATE COLLEGE (Reuters) ? Penn State says alleged child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky is "not welcome" on its campus, but the university so far has no legal recourse to keep the former assistant football coach away.

In her bail ruling, Judge Leslie Dutchot ordered the former defensive coordinator not to have any contact with minors, witnesses or alleged victims.

The ruling placed no restrictions on his travel. Sandusky's lawyer, Joe Amendola, advised Sandusky and his wife to take a trip ahead of the next legal proceeding to clear his head, he told CNN.

In effect, Sandusky is free to return to the Penn State campus, something school officials are powerless to stop.

"Our legal counsel informed Jerry Sandusky that he is not welcome on our campus," Penn State spokeswoman AnneMarie Mountz said in an e-mail to Reuters on Wednesday.

Requests for information on a possible restraining order against Sandusky, or what officials would do if he tried to return to campus, were not immediately answered.

Nor was it clear if prosecutors would seek to alter Sandusky's bail conditions. Calls to the Pennsylvania attorney general's office were not immediately returned.

Sandusky, once considered a likely successor to legendary Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, is accused of sexually assaulting eight boys over more than a decade.

A grand jury report detailing the accusations said that a graduate assistant with the football team witnessed Sandusky assaulting a boy in the showers of the football building on campus in 2002.

The allegations of sex crimes and their cover-up have rocked the university. The fallout ended the career of Paterno, who along with the university's president, was fired on November 9 by the board of trustees.

Sandusky professed his innocence on Monday, saying he is not a pedophile, but admitting he showered with young boys.

(Editing by Greg McCune)

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Calif. Occupy protests focus on cuts to education

D.J. App, of Berkeley, sweeps the Occupy Cal campsite in Sproul Plaza on the campus of University of California at Berkeley, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, in Berkeley, Calif. Students held the campsite despite threats from the university's police that the lodging was illegal. (AP Photo/Beck Diefenbach)

D.J. App, of Berkeley, sweeps the Occupy Cal campsite in Sproul Plaza on the campus of University of California at Berkeley, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, in Berkeley, Calif. Students held the campsite despite threats from the university's police that the lodging was illegal. (AP Photo/Beck Diefenbach)

University of California at Berkeley students sleep in the Occupy Cal campsite in Sproul Plaza on the campus of UC Berkeley, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, in Berkeley, Calif. Students held the campsite despite threats from the university's police that the lodging was illegal. (AP Photo/Beck Diefenbach)

University of California at Berkeley student Ian Saxton pleads with Lt. Eric Tejada not to take down the Occupy Cal campsite in Sproul Plaza on the campus of UC Berkeley, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Beck Diefenbach)

University of California at Berkeley student Anastasia Somkin dances to music in the Occupy Cal campsite in Sproul Plaza on the campus of UC Berkeley, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Beck Diefenbach)

University of California at Berkeley students hold a general assembly at the Occupy Cal campsite in Sproul Plaza on the campus of UC Berkeley, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Beck Diefenbach)

(AP) ? Police arrested a number of Occupy protesters and students Wednesday who stormed into a downtown San Francisco bank and shouted slogans as they tried to set up camp in the lobby.

The arrests came after more than 100 demonstrators rushed into a Bank of America branch, chanting "money for schools and education, not for banks and corporations."

Police officers in riot gear cuffed the activists one-by-one as hundreds more demonstrators surrounded the building, blocking entrances and exits.

Deputy Police Chief Kevin Cashman said 80 arrests were expected for trespassing. Suspects were taken to jail, cited and released.

Elsewhere, students and anti-Wall Street activists settled into a new encampment at the University of California, Berkeley, and visited the state Capitol to demand the restoration of funding for higher education.

At Berkeley, police watched over about two dozen tents that were pitched Tuesday night on a student plaza despite a campus policy that forbids camping. Police warned that protesters could be arrested if they didn't leave.

Seth Weinberg, a 20-year-old cognitive science major, said he slept in a tent on Sproul Plaza to press the university to lobby for more public education funding.

"There should be a way for anyone who wants to go to college if they choose to," Weinberg said. "What the university doesn't understand is that we are not camping out. This is a constant protest."

In Sacramento, about 75 student leaders and a few administrators from UC Berkeley and the University of California, Davis lobbied lawmakers and the governor to allocate more money to education.

Adam Thongsavat, student body president at UC Davis, called on lawmakers to be "more courageous, more aggressive and more thoughtful."

"Come to our campuses and see how your actions affect us," he said. "I want you all to tell us why prisons deserve more spending than universities."

University of California President Mark Yudof issued a statement of support for the students' "passion and conviction" in support of public higher education.

"We also suffer together the strains caused by what has been a long pattern of state disinvestment in the University of California," he said.

Protesters in San Francisco marched through downtown in a demonstration partly organized by ReFund California, a coalition of student groups and university employee unions.

The group bused in protesters from UC Berkeley, the University of California, Merced and other schools to join Occupy San Francisco activists as they marched to the bank and the state building.

The marches in support of higher education came as police in San Francisco and San Diego cleared encampments in those cities, citing public health and safety concerns.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee met with Occupy SF activists to let them know an expansion of their camp would not be tolerated.

"I did give the order to our police chief this morning that there cannot be an expansion of what we're perceiving to be a health hazard in the city," Lee said after the meeting.

Gene Doherty, a media contact for Occupy San Francisco, said the group was surprised by the early morning raid on the encampment.

"Because of this morning's meeting, we thought that the city would be acting in good faith," Doherty said.

Police once again broke up the Occupy encampment in San Diego that officials said posed a growing problem with violence and mounting trash.

Nine people were arrested and one other was cited and released during the 2 a.m. raid.

As some encampments came down, the tent city at UC Berkeley remained after a day of activism against big banks and education cuts culminated with about 4,000 people rallying Tuesday night at a speech by former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

Occupy Cal's general assembly voted to invite the university's chancellor and Board of Regents to a debate in early December and to send the educational officials a list of demands, including a tuition rollback to 2009 levels.

They also voted in favor of rebuilding their encampment despite earlier violence on Nov. 9, when police jabbed students with batons and arrested 40 people as the university sought to uphold the campus ban on camping.

Alyssa Kies, a 20-year-old geography major, said there was a dance party and lots of discussion throughout the night on the UC Berkeley plaza.

She said she wasn't worried about police action because the political climate was too precarious for any sort of violence to be accepted.

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Duff-Brown reported from San Francisco. Associated Press writers Garance Burke in San Francisco, Julie Watson in San Diego and Juliet Williams in Sacramento also contributed to this report.

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