Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas has confirmed the club has agreed a fee with Newcastle for Bafetimbi Gomis, and he expects the transfer to take place in the next 48 hours.
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Aulas told French website Journal du Dimanche: "We accepted the proposal of Newcastle, which is 8 million euros, plus 2 million bonus.
"The agreement is now linked to the acceptance of agents' fees. I understand that the problem is in the amount and manner of payment of commissions.
"There are several people involved in the operation, which complicates the negotiations. But I am hopeful that things will be resolved within 24 or 48 hours."
Newcastle are not expected to have any problems agreeing personal terms with Gomis, with some reports in France suggesting Newcastle and the player had an agreement in place three weeks ago.
Gomis, who has played 12 times for?France, has been one of the most consistent players in the French league in recent years, scoring at least 10 goals in each of the last seven seasons.
A survivor of last week's deadly train derailment in Spain illustrates how disaster can alter your mind
By Lucas Laursen
Image: Flickr/elentir (Contando Estrelas)
My cousin Guillermo Cassinello Toscano was on the train that derailed in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, last week when it went around a bend at twice the speed limit. Cassinello heard a loud vibration and then a powerful bump and then found himself surrounded by bloody bodies in wagon number nine. Shaking, he escaped the wreckage through either a door or a hole in the train?he cannot recall?then sat amid the smoke and debris next to the track and began to cry. Seventy-nine passengers died.
Cassinello doesn?t remember everything that happened to him. The same mechanisms that kept his brain sharp enough to escape immediate danger may also make it harder for him both to recall the accident, and to put the trauma behind him. "The normal thing is that the person doesn't remember the moment of the accident or right after," says clinical psychologist Javier Rodriguez Escobar of trauma therapy team Grupo Isis in Seville, who helped treat and study victims of the 2004 Madrid train bombings. That's because the mind and the body enter a more alert but also more stressed state, with trade-offs that can save your life, but harm your mind?s memory-making abilities.
As the train fell over, several changes would have swept through Cassinello?s body. His adrenal glands, near his kidneys, would have released adrenaline (also known as epinephrine) into his bloodstream. The adrenaline would have directed blood to the powerful muscles of his arms and legs, where it would help him escape the wreckage faster. The hormone would have raised his heart and breathing rates. It also would have stimulated his vagus nerve, which runs from his spine to his brain. Although adrenaline cannot cross the blood?brain barrier, the vagus can promote noradrenaline production in the brain. That hormone activates the amygdala, which helps form memories.
Just the right amount of noradrenaline, researchers have found, can boost memory storage; too much can destroy it. Figuring out the balance could allow researchers to harness the hormone. Neuroscientist Christa McIntyre at the University of Texas at Dallas and colleagues have been studying how the chemical shapes memory-making in rats (her team is planning a human trial). When the team stimulated rats? vagus nerves the animals? memories improved. McIntyre has to keep the dose low, however, because other experiments have shown that too much noradrenaline appears to impede memory-making[OR, TO VARY: formation]. Researchers are still trying to determine whether the excess noradrenaline directly causes the memory lapses or if the hormone is associated with high stress levels that cause some other chemical system to interfere. "That's the part we don't really understand: if there's too much [noradrenaline] or if there's another system that kicks in and puts a brake on it," McIntyre says.
Cassinello's memory lapses may be due to a noradrenaline overflow. But there may be other explanations for the gaps in his memory. His brain may have narrowed his attention at the time of the crash to only those things that matter for survival, such as escaping the train, leading him to ignore things that do not, such as whether the path out of the train passed through a door or a hole. Researchers have shown that humans report selective hearing during stressful events and that stressed people pay attention to different things than do unstressed people (pdf).
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Samsung launches new ?online store? that would compete with Google Play Store, the official online store of the Android ecosystem.?
JULY 21, 2013, 7:09 PM. Article by Raphael Labuguen.
Samsung Electronics is updating its Galaxy S3 and Note 2 devices today, as reported by Android Police, but it isn?t for the much anticipated Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 yet. The new upgrade is for the Samsung Hub, the updated version of the company?s own content store which would merge both the Media and Music hubs into one catalog. It makes sense because it?s quite obvious that Samsung wants to create its own ecosystem within Android that would allow the Korean-based phone giant to generate revenue even after the phone purchase.
Clemson's Darius Robinson has joined the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit against the NCAA. (USATSI)Judge Claudia Wilken recently told the plaintiffs in the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit that if they wanted to proceed with their class-action lawsuit against the NCAA -- one that could force the NCAA and its member conferences to split revenues with their athletes -- they would have to add at least one current athlete to the plaintiffs' roster.
The O'Bannon attorneys added six Thursday, all of whom are seniors at BCS schools: Vanderbilt linebacker Chase Garnham; Clemson cornerback Darius Robinson; linebacker Jake Fischer and kicker Jake Smith from Arizona; and tight end Moses Alipate and wide receiver Victor Keise of Minnesota. They join a roster of 16 former NCAA athletes, including UCLA basketball player O'Bannon, already listed as plaintiffs.
"These athletes are incredibly brave. They are well-aware of the risks of standing up to the NCAA, and yet they felt that this was the right thing to do," the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, Michael Hausfeld, said in a statement.
"This is definitely something that I would love to get involved in," Robinson told Sports Illustrated's Andy Staples, "because I really do believe in it."
Robinson has started six games each of the past two seasons for the Tigers and told SI he had zero doubt the Clemson cornerback labeled "No. 21" in the EA Sports NCAA Football video game franchise represented him.
"That's me all the way," he said. "It's as close as it gets. Size, ratings. I don't have the best hands as a corner, so I always drop interceptions on the video game."
EA Sports is also named in the lawsuit, which began as O'Bannon's attempt to claim a share of the revenues from a video game, which featured his likeness and has since expanded into a potential class-action suit that could cause major change across college athletics. EA Sports alleged use of real players as models for their virtual counterparts -- with the NCAA's supposed blessing -- is a critical issue for the lawsuit.
The NCAA announced this week it was declining to renew its licensing contract with EA Sports, though the company plans to continue the series under a different name.
"It's admission of a practice that goes to the heart of the contention that the NCAA believes it is above the law," Hausfeld said.
An NCAA spokeswoman told the Associated Press it would not comment on the additions of the new plaintiffs until it has time to read the amended complaint.
Like Robinson, Fischer (who led Arizona in tackles in 2012) and Garnham are expected to be major contributors for their teams; Smith is expected to compete for the Wildcats' starting kicking job. SBNation writes that all four of those players appear to have been models for players in the current NCAA Football game, noting that "Smith and Garnham are identical in height, weight, and uniform number, while Fischer's avatar is a few pounds lighter than the real thing."
While the two Minnesota players appear to be absent from the game, Staples notes that their additions to the suit could be related to a release form Big Ten athletes are required to sign.
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