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Hollywood body parts identified; name withheld

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Coroner's officials identified the man whose dismembered head, hands and feet were found in a Hollywood park, but they're not releasing his name as police continue to hunt for his killer, authorities said Friday. By Jason Redmond, AP Women hiking in Griffith Park near the Hollywood sign close to the location where a human head, hands and feet were recently discovered. The identity, age and hometown of the victim was withheld because his next of kin had not been notified and because police investigators had placed a "security hold" on the information, Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Ed Winter said. The head was found Tuesday by a dog walker at Bronson Canyon, and police searchers turned up the man's hands and feet during a two
-day search that ended Thursday. The park reopened Friday. Police concluded that no other body parts had been dumped in the wilderness park a few miles from the Hollywood sign but visitors who find anything should contact police, police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said. Dozens of police searched 7 acres of brush in the park for two days after Tuesday's discovery of a man's head in a plastic grocery bag. Two hands and feet believed to be from the same victim were found on Wednesday and Thursday before authorities concluded the ground search. The man is believed to have been killed elsewhere, police have said. Coroner's officials are trying to identify the man through fingerprints, dental records and DNA databases, police said. No arrests had been made, but detectives were plowing through dozens of leads, Smith said. Smith declined to comment on media reports that search warrants were served Thursday night at a
Hollywood apartment building and that a car there was towed away. However, the commander said there were several other investigations under way in the area, including narcotics investigations. The dead man was between 40 and 60 years old. His head, found by a dog that was let off leash by a dog walker, had been there a few days at most. Longer, and coyotes would have destroyed them, police said. "If it had not been for the dog walker, we might never have found it," Smith said Thursday at the park. Police don't believe the head, feet and hands are connected to a torso police in Tucson, Ariz., found Jan. 6, Smith said. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ's. To
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France threatens to pull its troops out of Afghanistan early

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PARIS (AP) France suspended its training operations in Afghanistan and threatened to withdraw its entire force from the country early, after an Afghan wearing an army uniform shot and killed four French troops Friday and wounded others. By Michel Euler, AP A big part of the French role recently has been training Afghan troops ahead of an expected pullout of the around 4,000 French troops currently there in 2014. The attack the second time this month an Afghan soldier has killed French forces came during a particularly deadly 24 hours for the international military coalition. Six U.S. Marines also died in a helicopter crash late Thursday. It was the latest in a series of attacks by members of the Afghan security forces, or those dressed in their uniforms, against coalition partners that have raised fears of increased Taliban infiltration of the Afghan police and army as foreign combat forces prepare to withdraw from the country by 2014. The impact of the French suspending training operations is unclear, but it would result in a major setback for the U.S.-led
coalition if other troopcontributing nations stopped training Afghan national security forces or decided to pull out earlier than planned. French officials said the attack happened during a training exercise at a base jointly operated by French and Afghan forces. French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the French deaths in Paris and the suspension of training programs. He did not specify how many French forces or which programs would be affected. "The French army is in Afghanistan at the service of the Afghans against terrorism and against the Taliban. The French army is not in Afghanistan so that Afghan soldiers can shoot at them," Sarkozy said. He added that if security for troops is not restored, "then the question of an early withdrawal of the French army would arise." Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said the French soldiers were unarmed when the attacker opened fire in Gwan in the Kapisa province during a very difficult training exercise at high altitude. "We don't know at the moment whether it's a Taliban member who infiltrated, or someone who decided (to attack) for reasons that we don't know," he said on France-2 television.
He said the Afghan was in custody of the Afghan army's 3rd brigade, held by a general "whom we trust." A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, praised the Afghan attacker but did not claim he was an infiltrator or provide other details. Afghan Ministry of Defense spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi also said the shooting occurred while Afghan and French forces were on a joint operation in Tagab district. He also did not confirm whether the shooter was an Afghan soldier or a militant dressed as one. "An individual in an Afghan army uniform opened fire over the French troops," he said. "This happened outside the base while they were on an operation." The ministry sent a delegation to the area to investigate the shooting, he said, confirming that the attacker was arrested and was being questioned. Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed deep regret over the attack. The number of wounded in the attack was unclear. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said 15 troops were wounded but did not indicate their nationalities. Longuet said eight French troops were wounded, and the commanding officer was in
serious condition. Friday was among the most deadly days for French forces in the 10 years they have been serving in the international force in Afghanistan. The latest deaths bring to 82 the number of French troops killed in the Afghan campaign. "From now on, all the operations of training and combat help by the French army are suspended," Sarkozy said. The defense minister and the chief of staff of the French army are heading Friday to Kabul. Once they report back, Sarkozy said, the French government will decide how to proceed. A big part of the French role in Afghanistan recently has been training Afghan troops and police ahead of an expected pullout of the around 3,600 French troops currently there in 2014. Unpopular at home, Sarkozy is facing a potentially tough reelection campaign for elections in April and May and appeared determined Friday to act swiftly and sternly to the latest troop deaths. The candidate who tops opinion polls ahead of France's elections, Socialist Francois Hollande, said in a statement Friday that he would aim to pull out French forces by the end of this year if he becomes president.
Friday's attack was all the more painful for the French because it came just weeks after an Afghan army soldier shot and killed two members of the French Foreign Legion serving in the NATO force on Dec. 29. French forces fired back and killed the assailant. It remained unclear how likely or swift a French pullout could be. France has the fourth-largest force in the international coalition. "Today there is clearly a new truth. It is not the first time that an Afghan soldier assassinates French soldiers," Foreign Minister Juppe said. He called it a question of "responsibility to adapt our timetable for withdrawal by taking into account these new circumstances." Longuet was more cautious, saying French officials should maintain calm when making any decisions. Sarkozy said he'd discuss France's role in Afghanistan with Karzai when he visits Paris next week. Afghan security forces or insurgents dressed in their uniforms have attacked and killed international troops or civilian trainers more than a dozen times in the past two years, according to an Associated Press count. Earlier this month, a U.S. service FRANCE page 4
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A fierce debate caps a rollercoaster day in Republican race

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her for an "open marriage" that would allow him to continue an affair he was having with a NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. staffer. A debate that featured fierce "I think the destructive, vicious, exchanges among Republican negative nature of much of the presidential contenders Mitt news media makes it harder to Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick govern this country, harder to S a n t o r u m b e g a n w i t h a n attract decent people to run for extraordinary rebuke of another office, and I am appalled that you figure on stage: moderator John would begin a presidential debate King of CNN. on a topic like that," the former By Win McNamee, Getty House speaker replied icily amid Images From left, former U.S. cheers from the audience at the Sen. Rick Santorum, former North Charleston Coliseum. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, describing the story as Gingrich, former Massachusetts false, said he was "tired of the Gov. Mitt Romney, and U.S. Rep. elite media protecting Barack Ron Paul (R-Texas) place their Obama" by attacking potential hands over their hearts during the Republican opponents. That won playing of the national anthem a standing ovation though it before Thursday's debate in South was hard to judge whether he had Carolina. succeeded in defusing the issue among the Palmetto State's By Win McNamee, Getty Images conservative voters. From left, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania Santorum, former Speaker of the senator, said he was grateful for House Newt Gingrich, former God's forgiveness but indicated M a s s a c h u s e t t s G o v . M i t t the topic was legitimate. "What Romney, and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul we did in our lives are issues of (R-Texas) place their hands over character for people to consider," their hearts during the playing of he said. the national anthem before Texas Rep. Ron Paul noted that Thursday's debate in South "my wife of 54 years is with me Carolina. tonight." In his opening question, King Romney's brief comment: "Let's asked Gingrich whether he get on to the real issues." wanted to respond to allegations Romney and Gingrich turned by an ex-wife that he had asked their fire on each other, and
and cost some communities jobs, including two towns in South Carolina. Romney accused Gingrich of adopting an attack he expected from Democrats. "I know we're going to get attacks from the left, from Obama, on capitalism," the former Massachusetts governor Santorum took particular aim at said. "My view is that capitalism Gingrich. The exchanges were works. Free enterprise works." If and when Obama makes tumultuous because the stakes similar arguments, Romney were high: The outcome of the South Carolina primary Saturday vowed, "We're going to stuff it and, perhaps, the course ahead of down his throat." Meanwhile, Santorum accused the Republican presidential race. Romney and Gingrich of "playing Paul was not the target of the others' barbs and at times seemed f o o t s i e s w i t h t h e l e f t " b y overshadowed by their exchanges. supporting health care proposals At one point, when he wasn't that included mandates requiring given the opportunity to respond individuals to have insurance, a to a question about abortion, fans provision of the health care law in the audience yelled "Ron Paul!" Obama signed in 2010. Santorum also disputed until he was allowed to speak. Gingrich's claim to far-reaching The 17th televised Republican debate of the campaign had the achievements as House speaker. fewest participants. Earlier in the "I served with him," Santorum day, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said. "It was an idea a minute. No withdrew from the race and discipline. No ability to pull endorsed Gingrich, narrowing the things together." Gingrich replied that he had been field to four. a bold voice, then and now. "How Gingrich demanded that Romney provide more information and big a scale of change do we want defense of his tenure at Bain in Washington?" he demanded. Capital, the private equity firm he Romney then cited the exchange founded. The former House as "a perfect example of why we speaker said some of the firm's need to send to Washington corporate takeovers had made it someone who has not lived in harder for companies to survive Washington."
The group sparred over immigration, job creation, the consistency of their conservative positions and whether to release their income tax returns, an issue that has dogged Romney. Gingrich released his returns Thursday evening. Romney said he wouldn't follow suit until April, then drew scattered boos in the audience when he said he didn't know how many years of returns he would release. "Every time we release things, drip by drip, the Democrats go out with another array of attacks," he said. Several polls released Thursday showed Gingrich narrowing Romney's double-digit edge in the state after a strong performance in Monday's forum. An NBC News/ Marist Poll showed Romney at 34%, ahead of Gingrich, by 10 percentage points, but his advantage had been cut in half by Tuesday, the last day of polling. Paul was third and Santorum fourth. If Gingrich won on Saturday, he would pierce the aura of inevitability the Romney camp has fostered. He could gain momentum and money to wage a campaign for the Jan. 31 Florida primary and the contests to follow. FIERCE page 4
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member was killed when a man in an Afghan army uniform opened fire at a base in the south of the country. In one of the worst incidents, a veteran Afghan military pilot opened fire at Kabul airport on April 27, 2011, killing eight U.S. troops and an American civilian contractor. In Riga, Latvia, NATO Secretary -General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said this was "a very sad day for our troops in Afghanistan and for the French people," but insisted that such incidents are "isolated." The helicopter crash, which occurred in the southern Helmand province, was the deadliest in Afghanistan since August, when 30 American troops died after a Chinook helicopter was
apparently shot down in Wardak province in the center of the country. The cause of Thursday's crash is still being investigated, but a coalition statement said there was no enemy activity in the area when it happened. A senior U.S. defense official said all six reported killed were U.S. Marines and there was no indication that the helicopter had been hit by enemy fire. The defense official spoke on condition of anonymity because the U.S. command in Afghanistan had not yet publicly released details, including the nationalities of the dead. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef claimed insurgents shot down the helicopter, a Chinook, in Musa
Qala district of Helmand province, killing all on board. The Taliban frequently exaggerate the number of people they claim to have killed. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Etta James, acclaimed blues and R&B singer, dies at 73 - Los Angeles Times
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Etta James, the earthy blues and R&B singer whose anguished vocals convinced generations of listeners that she would rather go blind than see her love leave, then communicated her joy upon finding that love at last, died Friday morning, said her son, Donto James. She was 73. She died of complications from leukemia at a hospital in Riverside, said Dr. Elaine James, her personal physician. James had been in failing health for years. Court records in the singer's probate case show she also suffered from dementia and kidney failure. Her two sons had been in a court battle with their stepfather over conservatorship of her $1-million estate. Doctors announced in December that she had chronic leukemia. PHOTOS: Etta James | 19382012 James spent time in a detox facility for addiction to painkillers and over-the-counter medications, James, told Reuters in 2010. And she had wrestled with complications since undergoing gastric bypass surgery in 2002 to remedy a lifelong struggle with her weight. After that procedure, which actress Roseanne Barr had
recommended to her, James lost 200 pounds. Before the surgery, her weight had gone past 400 pounds. When she performed, she often had to be escorted on and off the stage in a wheelchair. "I thought I was going to die," she told Ebony magazine in 2003. "I was constantly worried that I was going to have a heart attack." Perhaps the quintessential R&B diva, James, who was born and lived much of her life in Los Angeles, was equally at home singing unadulterated blues, searing R&B and sophisticated jazz, the latter receiving special attention in her recordings over the last decade. Her dusky voice, which could stretch from a sultry whisper to an aching roar, influenced generations of singers who came after, from Tina Turner to Bonnie Raitt to Christina Aguilera. And Beyonce carefully studied James before portraying her in the loosely historical 2008 film "Cadillac Records." Despite her early commercial success, James struggled for much of her life with her weight, with addictions to heroin, cocaine and alcohol, and with her tumultuous relationship with her mother, who was just 14 when she gave birth to Jamesetta Hawkins on Jan. 25, 1938. She was adored by rock's elite, including the Rolling Stones, who
drafted her in 1979 as the opening act on their U.S. tour, and voters at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, who inducted her in 1993. "It really does mean a lot," James told The Times upon her induction. "It shows that if you're hanging around the candy store long enough, people start giving you things." James' six-decade recording career began at the top of the R&B charts when her bawdy 1955 single "The Wallflower," better known as "Roll With Me Henry," quickly made her a national star. In the rollicking early days of rock 'n' roll, James' saucy song answered Hank Ballard's thenrecent hit "Work With Me Annie," a ribald, thinly veiled invitation to a woman to have sex. James' response, in which she assertively put forth the same offer on her own terms, was wildly popular but equally controversial coming from a 17year-old girl long before the sexual revolution of the '60s upended traditional sex roles. She is best known for"At Last," the powerhouse ballad that became a hit in 1961 and which has been enshrined in the Grammy Hall of Fame. Bending and stretching the notes of the bluesy melody to reflect the hardwon realization of a lifelong
desire, and channeling a sense of joy that sounded as though the gates of heaven had just opened to welcome her in, James sang: "At last, my love has come along/My lonely days are over/My life is like a song." The other song with which she became inextricably connected was"I'd Rather Go Blind," which she said she co-wrote in 1968 with her friend Ellington Jordan while he was in prison. He outlined the song and James finished it, but for tax reasons she gave the co-writing credit to Medallions singer Billy Foster, to whom she was briefly married. It conveys the desperation of a woman who prefers losing her sight to seeing her man with someone else. Rolling Stone critic Dave Marsh included it in his 1999 book "The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made." It was subsequently recorded by artists including Rod Stewart, B.B. King, Koko Taylor and Beyonce in "Cadillac Records," but it remains most closely associated with James. James, the child of a single teenage mother growing up in South Los Angeles during World War II, never knew her father but remained convinced throughout her life that he was pool shark Minnesota Fats.
With her blond curls and light complexion, she stood out in the African American community, and she started to make a mark singing in the choir of St. Paul Baptist Church. The church's music minister, a prominent figure in gospel circles known as Professor James Earle Hines, quickly singled her out for solos when she was just 5 or 6, said biographer David Ritz. The church was frequented by Hollywood stars such as Lana Turner and Robert Mitchum and had a weekly radio broadcast that helped spread word of the girl's talents. James' mother left her to be raised by foster parents, but when her foster mother died when James was about 12, she was reunited with her biological mother and they lived for a time in San Francisco. As a teen, James formed a trio called the Peaches, which was discovered by R&B musician and promoter Johnny Otis(who, coincidentally, died Tuesday at age 90). Soon, she was in a duo called Etta & Harvey with Harvey Fuqua of the Moonglows, the R&B group behind the 1955 hit "Sincerely." Early on, she toured with Johnny Guitar Watson, the Texas singer, songwriter and guitarist, in an ETTA page 14
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Gingrich nails "open marriage" question, bests a flustered Romney - CBS News
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This post originally appeared on Slate. CHARLESTON, S.C.-- Newt Gingrich said "No." Mitt Romney said "Maybe." And Rick Santorum said everything better than he has in any other debate. The last Republican debate before Saturday's South Carolina primary --and the first with just four candidates--was perhaps the most lively of the 17 that have come during this campaign. It was a battle on two fronts: Front-runner Romney was attacked by his rivals, and Gingrich and Santorum skirmished repeatedly in order to emerge as the sole alternative to Romney. There were sharp exchanges over health care and temperament, over open marriages and closed borders. The South Carolina primary is hours away, and the debate capped one of the nuttiest campaign days in recent memory. Mitt Romney's lead is slipping, but we don't know by how much. Iowa Republicans declared Santorum the new winner of their caucuses, overturning Romney's eight-vote victory. Rick Perry quit his campaign (perhaps just to avoid another debate) and endorsed Gingrich. Gingrich, the
candidate of the moment, suddenly faced accusations from his ex-wife, who claimed he had advocated for an "open marriage," when he was having an affair with the woman who sat in the debate audience as his current wife. Debates never live up to the opening montage networks play before the candidates are introduced. CNN called this one "The Fight for the South," making it sound like the four contenders would go at it with dull knives. But this debate's opening exchange surpassed the hype. CNN moderator John King asked Newt Gingrich if he would like to address his ex-wife's report earlier in the evening on ABC that he had asked for an "open marriage." His answer: "No." He then went on to denounce CNN and John King at length with barely restrained anger. He denied his ex -wife's charge and offered only brass-knuckle contrition. Talking about how everyone in the audience had known personal pain, he concluded: "To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question for a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine." (For a historian, he has a low bar for despicable.) South Carolina GOP debate: Winners and Losers
Gingrich slams CNN for asking about ex-wife It was Gingrich's second debate in which he received a standing ovation. After the first five minutes, it looked like it would once again be Gingrich's night. Republican voters in South Carolina want to beat Barack Obama badly. When they've seen Gingrich advocating for conservative principles, battling with rivals and moderators, they can imagine him taking on the president just as forcefully. Rick Santorum, overshadowed in the first South Carolina debate, wasn't going to let that happen again. He launched into a sustained attack on Romney and Gingrich over their support of the individual mandate. "Governor Romney tells a very nice story about what his plan is now. It wasn't his plan when he was in a position to do a plan," he said. Ending Obama's health care plan will be a signature fight of the fall campaign and Santorum was the only one of the three who was not compromised on that issue: "These are two folks who don't present the clear contrast that I do." Santorum so flustered Romney that in a response, the front-runner used the perjorative "Romneycare" to refer to the health care plan passed when he
was governor of Massachusetts, the political equivalent of getting Mister Mxyzptlk to say his name backward. Santorum gave a series of other strong answers advocating for middle-class voters "paddling alone" in the economy, and nailed a question on China by pushing for his tax plan, which would zero out corporate taxes for companies that manufacture products in America. Of each candidate's closing remarks his, identifying himself as a conservative who had not compromised, were the strongest. Romney: I'll release my tax returns in April Romney defends tenure at Bain And Santorum and Gingrich slugged it out all night. They traded blows over whether Gingrich was too arrogant to lead. Gingrich said Santorum's accomplishments were too small. Santorum said Gingrich was "grandiose," which made him unpredictable. He portrayed himself as an unflashy Steady Eddie, whereas with Gingrich voters would always have to worry that "something's going to pop." Romney joined in, puncturing Gingrich's claims about helping Ronald Reagan. "I looked at the Reagan diary, you're mentioned once," he said, pointing out that the reference
was Reagan saying Gingrich had an idea that wasn't a particularly good one. Romney's campaign sent a press release out listing all of Gingrich's grand claims about himself--comparing himself to everyone from William Wallace to Pericles. Gingrich responded grandiosely, listing his accomplishments, from creating a Republican majority in 1994 to passing welfare reform to balancing the budget. "You're right. I think grandiose thoughts. This is a grandiose country of big people doing big things. And we need leadership prepared to take on big projects." Romney did not have a great night. He clearly decided that he would show a more forceful side than he did in the last debate. He was at his best when he defended the free-market system behind his career at Bain. He said that he found it "strange" that the attacks were coming from Republicans, saying he expected them to come from Obama. When Gingrich suggested that Romney had profited because of the laws that Gingrich had passed in Washington, Romney turned it against him--saying that when he was in the private sector he didn't wring his hands wondering how Washington could help him. GINGRICH page 14
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For Brands, Twitter's Enhanced Profile Pages Make Every Tweet Count
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HP, Best Buy, and JetBlue reveal how they use Twitter's enhanced profile pages to make every tweet sing. Its still officially in velvet-rope mode, but Twitters enhanced profile pages are heavily in play for those brands among the first to sign up. So how are the early reviews? Dubbed#letsfly by Twitters hashtag-happy tweeps, the program--which provides businesses with space for a big, splashy banner and brand-centric layout, and highlights promoted tweets with expandable videos or photos--needs to catch on if the micro-blogging platform plans to hit$400 million in ad revenue forecasted by 2013. Simple Usabilitys eye tracking study took an early read on the enhanced profiles and found that a branded page has even less of an opportunity to make a lasting impression than a 15-second TV ad or a banner on a website. The brand page potentially has one shot at attracting the user to become a follower," the study concluded. "If the companies fail to do this, then they will have lost potential followers, and potential customers, and therefore they will have a much narrower audience
and customer base receiving updates from them." The ability to "pin" promoted videos gives companies the opportunity to better shape the conversation about their brand. McDonalds, say, can promote a video like the one featuring farmers who supply the restaurants beef as a way to
combat such potential brand damagers as the photo that went viral twice depicting the mysterious pink slurry said to be the main ingredient in its chicken McNuggets. As with anything this new, it may take some time (and tweaks to tweets) before everything runs on maximum ROI. Fast Company
chatted with social media and communications executives at JetBlue, Best Buy, and HP about their strategies for hooking new followers and how they're working. JetBlue: Customer care without the complaints. The low-cost airline hung its shingle on Twitter nearly five
years ago to cement its relationship with customers through "honest dialogue," according to Morgan Johnston, JetBlues manager of corporate communication. However, Johnston says, "our messages were often lost in a sea FOR page 12
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Gingrich Goes After the Media in Final SC Debate

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presidential debate. I am tired of the liberal media protecting Barack Obama." ABC News aired an exclusive (Photo: Reuters/Jason Reed) interview with Gingrich's ex-wife, Former House Speaker Newt Marianne Gingrich, late Thursday Gingrich scolds CNN moderator night. In the interview, she John King at the beginning of a claimed the former House speaker R e p u b l i c a n p r e s i d e n t i a l admitted to a six-year affair with candidates debate in Charleston, Callista a Congressional aide at South Carolina, January 19, 2012. the time and now his wife and then asked Marianne if they could Gingrich said the story being have an open marriage. aired Thursday night by ABC was She refused and the two divorced "false." later, she said. She also told ABC "I think the destructive, vicious t h a t N e w t G i n g r i c h n e v e r negative nature of much of the a p o l o g i z e d t o h e r . news media makes it harder to Like us on Facebook govern this country," an angry Thursday was undoubtedly one Gingrich remarked on Thursday at of the more eventful days of the the Republican presidential debate GOP presidential campaign after King asked if he wanted to season. r e s p o n d t o h i s e x - w i f e ' s The day began with Texas Gov. allegations. "I am appalled that R i c k P e r r y a n n o u n c i n g h i s you would begin a presidential withdrawal from the race, saying debate on a topic like that." there was "no probable way" he "My two daughters wrote to the c o u l d w i n t h e n o m i n a t i o n . head of ABC and made the point Moments later he threw his that it (the story from his former support behind Gingrich. wife) was wrong, that they should Also, Mitt Romney's eight-vote pull it and I am frankly astounded victory in the Iowa caucuses was that CNN would take trash like erased with Pennsylvania Senator t h a t a n d u s e i t t o o p e n a Rick Santorum unofficially
declared the winner by a 30-plus vote margin. But Gingrich had to weigh Gov. Perry's endorsement with the languishing story of his former wife's revelations. Jackie Gingrich Cushman and Kathy Gingrich Lubbers, the former Speaker's daughters from his first marriage, quickly came to the defense of their father. The former Speaker's personal life wasn't the only issue that drew a response from the audience in the North Charleston Coliseum. Some in the audience booed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney when he refused to offer his tax returns until April of this year, instead indicating he would "probably" release multiple years' taxes. "Maybe," said a nervous Romney. Interestingly, Romney's father released 12 years of returns when he ran for president in 1968. "I don't know how many years I will release. I'll I'll take a look at the documents we have," Romney said. Gingrich released his 2010 taxes returns moments prior to the Thursday debate and paid over
$900,000 in taxes. Texas Rep. Ron Paul said he had no intentions of releasing his tax returns, saying he would be "embarrassed" at disclosing his income when compared to the three others on the stage. Santorum said he did his own taxes and his returns were on his personal computer at home and he couldn't get to them until he took a break from the campaign trail. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Santorum held his own in the final debate before the South's first primary by staking his position as a defender of social values and taking a swipe at Gingrich in the process. But what irritated Santorum the most was Gingrich's suggestion that he withdraw from the race. "Grandiosity has never been a problem with Newt," Santorum remarked. "A month ago, he was saying, 'oh, I'm inevitable.'" "I was two and 0 going into South Carolina, and I should get out of the race?" a stunned Santorum asked. "These are not cogent thoughts. Let's just be honest. I'm steady. I'm solid. I'm not gonna go out and do things that you're
gonna worry about. I'm gonna make Barack Obama the issue in this campaign." Gingrich smiled during Santorum's comments and quickly grabbed the "grandiose" label as a badge of honor. "This is a grandiose country of big people doing big things." In the latest Rasmussen Reports poll in South Carolina, Gingrich has eclipsed Romney by two points, taking a 33 to 31 percent lead. Paul is third with 15 percent and Santorum has 11 percent. Another PPP poll, known to lean Democratic, had Gingrich with a 6-point lead. Post a Christian job now or browse employment opportunities to get hired fast on ChristianHire.com, your best Christian jobs site. Browse Christian Jobs now This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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emergency since the sinking of the Amoco Milford Haven, loaded Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:11:14 AM with 144,000 tonnes of oil, off the A woman watches the Costa coast of Genoa in 1991. Concordia cruise ship that ran The clean up of that area was aground off the west coast of Italy completed in 2008, 17 years after at Giglio island at dusk January the accident, and the Haven 19, 2012. shipwreck is still on the seabed, Credit: Reuters/ Paul Hanna said Luigi Alcaro, head of By Silvia Aloisi maritime emergencies at ISPRA, ROME| Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:57am Italy's government agency for the EST environment. (Reuters) - Italy risks its worst "If the Costa Concordia slides environmental disaster in more further down and the fuel begins than two decades if the 2,400 seeping into the water, we could tonnes of thick fuel in the be talking years and dozens of capsized Costa Concordia pollutes millions of euros before it can be one of the Mediterranean's most cleared up," Alcaro told Reuters. prized and pristine maritime The amount of fuel on board the reserves. Costa Concordia, 2,380 tonnes of Seven days after the 114,500 heavy diesel fuel and lubricating tonne liner capsized off the oil, is comparable to that carried Tuscan coast, its vast wreck is b y a s m a l l o i l t a n k e r , shifting precariously on an Environment Minister Corrado undersea ledge, threatening to Clini told parliament this week. slide further and undermining The fuel tanks appear to be intact plans to pump the oil out safely. for now. The ship keeled over after HIGHLY TOXIC striking a rock and is now lying Clini said even a contained on its side on a shelf in about 20 leakage would be highly toxic for metres of water off the little island the flora and fauna in the area, a of Giglio. Eleven people were natural maritime park noted for its killed and 21 are still unaccounted clear waters, varied marine life for. and coral. With hopes of finding any The Giglio island is a renowned survivors all but gone, experts diving site and the surrounding warn that beyond the loss of lives, archipelago is home to more than this could turn into Italy's worst 700 botanical and animal species, m a r i t i m e e n v i r o n m e n t a l including turtles, dolphins and
seals. Alcaro said the most optimistic scenario would be to stabilise the ship and pump the oil out through a technique known as "hot tap". "The oil on the ship is very thick and sticky, so you'd have to drill a hole in the hulk and warm it up to make it more fluid and easier to extract," he told Reuters. "That could be done in about a month for the 13 external tanks on the ship. There are another 10 tanks inside, and those are a lot more difficult to reach," he said. But if the ship slips deeper underwater, it would actually be better if the tanks ruptured open and the fuel floated up to the surface, he said. "There would be panic for a couple of weeks of course but a 'black sea' of fuel would make it visible and easier to recover. The very worst scenario is having oil slowly leaking out." He pointed to the precedent of the cruise ship Sea Diamond, which sank off the Greek island of Santorini in April 2007, saying oil from the wrecked vessel kept seeping into the water for three years at the rate of 30 kg a day. Tourism is the top industry on Giglio and locals are worried about the potentially devastating impact of pollution. "If there's a massive fuel spill, we might as well close everything
down, throw away the key and come back in 10 years," said Massimiliano Botti, 40, owner of the Porta Via restaurant along the Giglio quay. "Environmental damage is what concerns us most. If the oil pollutes the coast, we're ruined." Giglio's mayor Sergio Ortelli said the recovery of the fuel was likely to start within the next 48 hours, but the wreck shifted further on Friday as the weather worsened, forcing a new suspension in the rescue work. "We can only hope that the weather remains acceptable, that efforts to stabilise the wreck continue speedily, and that God gives us a hand to preserve what many consider a little Mediterranean paradise," Fulco Pratesi, founder of the conservation group WWF in Italy, wrote in the Corriere della Sera newspaper. (additional reporting by Steve Scherer in Giglio; Editing by Philip Pullella and Janet Lawrence) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
With anti-government protests in Romania moving into their second week, demonstrators are showing a persistence unusual for this part of the world, underscoring the symbolic importance they have placed in calling attention to their widespread grievances. The woes that have brought Romanians to the streets -- low incomes, corruption and rising authoritarianism -- are familiar to many in Eastern Europe. Indeed, the protests, which according to police estimates brought 13,000 people to the streets across the country over the weekend, follow similar demonstrations in Russia and Hungary, leading some to suggest that this is the European incarnation of the Arab Spring. Tensions initially boiled over in Bucharest, where cars were set alight, shops vandalized and missiles hurled at the police, who responded with tear gas. Hundreds of arrests and dozens of injuries have been reported. ... This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Watch out, Craigslist: Cinchified aims to match buyers and sellers in a ridiculously simple way. Eric Berry is one of the untold thousands of people whove tried (and failed) to sell his stuff on Craigslist. "Every time tried to make a genuine listing, take photos, and write copy, it was really frustrating, because Id get an offer for, like, $4, and then the listing would expire, he tells Fast Company. And while he owns up to his assortment of "random junk," items like computer speakers, monitors, and lamps shouldnt be that difficult to unload. Most people would have cursed a few times and dumped the stuff off at Goodwill. But Berry is not most people. With undergraduate and masters degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from MIT, Berry (who also happens to be a lawyer) thought about building a new and better way to sell through classifieds. Sharing his frustrations with then-colleague Shaun Zacharia, the two former Appnexus executives are now attempting to turn their negative experience into a solution. Called Cinchifieds, the soon-to-launch
platform is geared to simplifying the sales process for both buyers and sellers. What will set Cinchifieds solution apart is the platforms ability to pair buyers and sellers according to demand. "On Craigslist, the seller creates a listing without any sense of what the demand is," Berry says. With no built-in metrics for matching demand, especially for out-of-
season merchandise, Craigslist fails its users, he adds. The way Zacharia and Berry envision Cinchifieds, a buyer or seller need only list the name of the item. For example, to sell a television, the user logs on and lists 32-inch flat screen TV, along with their email address. The back-end architecture of Cinchifieds makes a match, putting potential buyers in touch
with the seller directly via email. Thats it. Trying to shift all those complexities off the user isnt going to be easy, Berry acknowledges. Ive worked on the human genome project, so this huge dataset world is pretty familiar to me, he says. However, linguistics is a discipline he and Zacharia have had to learn as the business
progresses. Berry explains that there are a significant number of semantic hurdles to overcome if their matching process is going to be as user-friendly as it sounds. Bigrams--two words together that mean a very specific thing, such as "New York"--need to be seamlessly incorporated into CINCHIFIEDS' page 15
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Congress plots new moves to sidestep Obama on Keystone pipeline

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for those who are looking for work. Submitted at 1/20/2012 4:15:00 AM "President Obama is destroying Key Congressional leaders are tens of thousands of American determined to find a legislative jobs and shipping American end-run around President Barack energy security to the Chinese," Obamas decision this week to Boehner said. "Theres no other kill the Keystone XL pipeline way to put it: the president is project. selling out American jobs for R e p . F r e d U p t o n ( R - M I ) , politics." chairman of the Energy and The pipeline project was studied Commerce Committee, will begin by the State Department for three hearings next week and has asked years, and required a final stamp State Department Secretary of approval from the president. Hillary Clinton to testify. Obama punted that decision late House Speaker John Boehner (R- l a s t y e a r t o a p p e a s e h i s OH) says all options are on the e n v i r o n m e n t a l b a s e , b u t table including new legislation to Republicans forced him to make a make an end-run around the decision before February when president to okay the $7 billion they wrote the deadline into project that would create 20,000 legislation that also extended the new jobs and boost the countrys payroll tax cut Obama requested. struggling economy. The pipeline would have Republicans will also look at stretched 1,700 miles from l e g i s l a t i o n a l r e a d y m o v i n g Canada to Texas and carried 1.4 through the approval process to million barrels of oil a day to U.S. see whether language authorizing refineries. the pipeline can be attached, The president had a choice Boehner said. between jobs and politics, and he Ill just say this: this is not the is choosing politics, Upton said. end of the fight, Boehner said. This pipeline has been carefully Republicans in Congress will v e t t e d , e n v i r o n m e n t a l l y continue to push this because its s c r u t i n i z e d , a n d p u b l i c l y good for our country and its good discussed for more than three for our economy and its good for years. We can't wait any longer the American people, especially and the American people should
not have to keep waiting for jobs and energy security, Upton said. If President Obama cannot say yes to jobs, Congress will, Upton said. Obama is also getting some backlash from within this own party. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) said he will round up support in the Senate to get final approval for the project. It's time to move forward on the jobs and energy security our nation deserves, and I'll keep fighting tooth and nail until that happens, Baucus said. Obamas move might have appeased the environmental supporters in his party, but it angered the labor unions that were counting on the new jobs for their members. The Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) issued a statement criticizing Obamas decision, and said that environmental groups have used the Keystone XL as a disingenuous proxy for arguments about global warming. Once again the President has sided with environmentalists instead of blue collar construction workers even though environmental concerns were more than adequately addressed,
said Terry OSullivan, president of the LIUNA. Blue collar construction workers across the U.S. will not forget this. The score is job-killers, two; American workers, zero, OSullivan said. We are completely and totally disappointed. This is politics at its worst. Audrey Hudson, an awardwinning investigative journalist, is a Congressional Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS. A native of Kentucky, Mrs. Hudson has worked inside the Beltway for nearly two decades -- on Capitol Hill as a Senate and House spokeswoman, and most recently at The Washington Times covering Congress, Homeland Security, and the Supreme Court. Follow Audrey on Twitter and Facebook. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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of responses and conversations with our customers." The brand page offered the company a way to ensure its key messaging stayed on top, even as it maintained its tweeting style. JetBlues main objective on Twitter is to reinforce its commitment to customer care and to further the companys mission to bring humanity back to air travel, Johnston says. "With social media, we use a variety of tactics, both human and automated, to track not just engagement and spread of the messages were pushing out to the community, but what the sentiment of those comments coming in are, and using what we hear to create an informed operations group with the ability to affect change internally." Johnston says JetBlues following hasnt jumped significantly because of the new page but adds, "those tweets we do promote do see a higher percentage of engagement." Best Buy: Creating clarity. Best Buy has built a formidable presence on Twitter, and set up
several pages to deal with specific customer needs. Indeed, Twitter is central to its customer-care strategy--tweets to Best Buy's help desk, @Twelpforce, are answered by one of 3,000 Best Buy employees. Alix Hart, senior director of digital marketing, says signing on early to get branded pages provided more opportunity to define its "handles" to consumers in addition to visually representing the brand. "Our @bestbuy handle is dedicated to conversations about entertainment and technology. We share video content, highlight new products and events, and our biggest sales like our Black Friday door busters. We have a separate handle, @bestbuy_deals, dedicated to all of our best deals every week. Our customer care handle @twelpforce handle is focused on providing solutions to consumers on their technology," Hart explains. Since last month, Hart says the company has increased its follower base, but since the switch also came during peak holiday season, she's not making a direct
correlation. Hart says branded page or not, for Best Buy Twitter is still all about two-way conversations. "We see it as a place to communicate and listen to a diverse set of topics based on how consumers want to get information," Hart says. "We want to start positive conversations around technology and support our consumers with solutions around technology." HP: Bringing existing followers back to the page. Simple Usability's study found that consumers were immediately drawn to a promoted image of a bulldog giving the side eye to an HP printer. Turns out, HP retweeted the image, which came from a customer. A company spokesperson who leads the social media for HP's global communications says this is part of the plan. "The new features can influence the editorial [content] and strengthen our connection to the community. For example, the capability to pin a tweet at the top of the page is great for promoting
a certain message, but weve used it to highlight content from our followers. HP drew the image from a minicampaign it ran on the day of the brand-page launch in which followers were asked to "tweet a pic of how HP helps you do what you do." Selected messages were then retweeted and featured at the top of the feed. In this way, HP's essentially created a reason for existing followers to return to the branded page. Who doesn't want to see their precious pup (cat, child, significant other) featured in a promotion? Related: 4 Strategic Requirements For Corporate Tweeting. For more leadership coverage, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. [Image: Flickr user Images by John 'K']
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Hindu Business Line Team Anna targets Congress in its campaign pamphlet Times of India Team Anna on Friday released a campaign pamphlet for the upcoming assembly polls in which it attacked the Congress accusing it of betraying the country on Lokpal issue. NEW DELHI: Team Anna on Friday released a campaign pamphlet for the upcoming... Team Anna releases campaign pamphlet, targets Congress IBNLive.com Will not campaign against any party in state elections: Team Anna Economic Times Pamphlet targets all political parties over Lokpal, CBI Tehelka Hindu Business Line- Firstpost all 56 news articles
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Mark Levin: Liberals ooze of greed and envy

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We know the Democratic playbook by now, right? Liberals always fall back on the politics of greed and envy. Rich people are to be blamed for everything: the bailout of banks, health cares uninsured, laid-off teachers, soaring deficits, back-breaking debt, high unemployment, falling home values, and Michael Jacksons death (too soon?). How are Republicans responding to such leftist rhetoric? Poorly, says Mark Levin. Very poorly. The government is never big enough. It never has enough money. It never spends enough. It builds all these monuments to itself; and then it complains it doesnt have enough money, argued Levin in his latest interview with HUMAN EVENTS. And all this while the government is destroying our financial system and draining wealth from the private sector. Levin, whose brand-new book Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America skyrocketed to No. 1 on Amazon.com, says that the Left tries to destroy the individual to
distract the people from their agenda of an ever-expanding government. Watch part four of our interview with Mark Levin: For what we consider individual success and productivity, liberals must create devil terms, he added. Oh, youre a selfish profiteer. While Levin hopes our republic can be restored, hes not so sure it will happen. Its getting close to ... where I wonder. Levin says that the country must answer this fundamental question: Do we want to live in America, or do we want to live in an Ameritopia? If the former, he notes, then we have a lot of unconstitutional laws to unravel.
Decades' and decades' worth. So many decisions made about our lives today are out of our control. Theyre made by bureaucrats and judges and temporary politicians who try to make permanent changes to our society. Levins pessimisms is derived from the fact that the utopians have done an enormously effective job in conditioning the American psyche to devalue the Constitution and replace it with the bonds of government entitlement. Heck, Obama employs this tactic every day. Hes attacking who we used to be, and saying who we need to be. That brings up a good point:
What incentive does a person beholden to the entitlement system have to vote for a constitutional conservative after being trained by the utopians to vote to take more private property away from others in order to keep the obscene government gravy train flowing? Youll have to watch the video above to see Levins answer. Mr. Mattera is the editor-at-large of HUMAN EVENTS and the author of the New York Times bestseller Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation(Simon & Schuster). He also hosts The Jason Mattera Show on News Talk Radio 77WABC. Previously, he was the Spokesman for Young America's Foundation and a TV correspondent for Michelle Malkin. Follow Jason on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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association that figured prominently in her approach to music for the rest of her life. "Her real role model was not a woman, it was Johnny Guitar Watson," said Ritz, James' collaborator on her 1995 autobiography, "Rage to Survive." "Johnny also could do all three things: blues, R&B and jazz. ... Where he really influenced her was in his vocals. He would sing standards and then kind of bluesify them. Just as Nancy Wilson modeled herself on Little Jimmy Scott a man Etta James modeled herself on Johnny. ... He had an enormously healthy and rich influence on her." She also fell under the positive and negative influences of musicians she revered, such as Billie Holiday, as well as some with whom she crossed paths on the road, including Ray Charles and Chet Baker, all of whom struggled with addiction. "All of my role models at that time, the ones I looked up to most, were heroin addicts," she told The Times in 1993. "I think subconsciously I thought that was
a cool thing." In the mid-1970s, after getting caught writing bad checks to support her drug habit, James was offered a choice between prison or rehab. She chose the latter and kicked heroin, but she started using cocaine a few years later. A spiritual epiphany led her to give up cocaine and alcohol, and in the 1980s she began a personal and professional renaissance, reestablishing her credibility in the music world. She coaxed esteemed R&B producer Jerry Wexler, who had been pivotal in the careers of Aretha Franklin, Ruth Brown, Otis Redding and many others, out of retirement to oversee her 1993 album "The Right Time." At the time, Wexler said, "I've never done anything better, and I've done a lot of records." In 1994, James saluted Holiday with an album of jazz standards called "Mystery Lady," which yielded the first Grammy Award of her career, for jazz vocal performance. She collected two more Grammys: for 2003's "Let's Roll," named best contemporary
blues album, and her 2004 collection "Blues to the Bone," named best traditional blues album. Those works became family affairs when she enlisted her sons, Donto and Sametto James, as coproducers. The family moved to Riverside around the time of the L.A. riots because James said she had had enough of gang violence and other troubles in South Los Angeles. In addition to her two sons, James is survived by Artis Mills, her husband of 42 years; and several grandchildren. PHOTOS: Etta James | 19382012 randy.lewis@latimes.com This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
He ignored one question about Bain and attacked Obama as a crony capitalist. The point was to show that Newt Gingrich wasn't the only one who could take it to Obama in the fall. "I know we're going to get hit hard from President Obama," Romney said, "But we're going to stuff it down his throat and point out it is capitalism and freedom that makes America strong." (Ashley Parker of the New York Times dubbed this the foie gras strategy). Romney's weakest moment once again came when talking about his tax returns. Asked if he would follow his father's example of releasing 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president, Romney said "maybe." He seemed unprepared for the question. Gingrich said releasing the returns would let voters know if there was anything they should worry about before the general election. If there was nothing to worry about, why not release them? Santorum amused the audience when he said he could not release his taxes at the moment, saying: "I do my own taxes. They're on my computer and I'm not home." (Oddly, he also chose this moment to go into a sort of Southern accent.) South Carolina Republicans like
to boast that they pick presidents. Every GOP nominee since 1980 has won the South Carolina primary. That was what had once led Newt Gingrich to say if Romney won it would pretty much be all over. But after the debate , he said he would continue no matter what the result. Romney may win on Saturday, but it won't be the death-blow many expected. It has been a bruising week for the front-runner. He'll be happy to stand on the winner's platform no matter what the margin, but it looks like he's going to have to keep fighting on. More from Slate: Why Iraq Must Fix Its Own Problems The Final 24 Hours of Rick Perry's Misbegotten Presidential Campaign Why Is San Francisco So Liberal? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Cinchifieds' search functions. Otherwise, someone typing New York Yankee ball cap into the search bar is going to get results with any item having the words new and york in its name. Berry notes that when you add in the fact that there are regional differences in the way people speak, there isnt one even one standard language model to build on. Then theres the problem of asynchronous matching. Just because the seller has that 32-inch flat screen doesnt mean theres a buyer right away. Without making an immediate connection, Berry says its possible that users will get discouraged and the Cinchifieds marketplace wont be as robust as it needs to grow. This, he says, will be Cinchifieds' toughest problem, even if it offers
its service for free. Currently, theres a vast network of buyers and sellers with (possibly grudging) loyalty to the existing marketplaces. Craigslist-and to an extent, Oodle--havent seen too much competition (other than in specific niche channels) because of the sheer size of their respective user bases. Partnering with Facebook and Twitter solidified Oodles marketplace, by putting people who are already socially connected in touch to sell goods and services. The bright spot in all this is that Cinchifieds caught the attention of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA). As part of its second class of startups, all participants get a $25,000 investment, office space in Times Square, and access to ERAs group of more than 200 mentors.
Last years class scored funding from such high-profile VCs as First Round Capital, Lightbank, and RRE Ventures. Berry says Cinchifieds is not nearly as developed as its officemate Appy Couple, but hes taking it one day at a time. We feel like we have a compelling offering and we are giving it our earnest and best effort. Three months is enough time to get something together for [the mentors] to invest in if they want to, he says adding, Its a work in progress. For more leadership coverage, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. [Image: Flickr user Mark Brown]
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#OpMegaupload, a reaction by the hacktivists group Anonymous to a strict takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload (and the arrest of employees) on piracy charges, has been pretty successful in disabling the websites of the Department of Justice, the MPAA, the RIAA and others. Partly carried out via Twitter messages, this new effort by Anonymous is only superficially similar to previous distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that Anonymous has carried out to punish its targets. It's emerged that many of the attacks are being triggered by average Joe Internet users who merely click on a weblink, unaware that the action then activates code that tries to
swamp a website with too much traffic. Previous Anonymous DDoS attacks have used tools like the group's so-called Low Orbit Ion Cannon(that's a Wikipedia link, not the code itself), which is a piece of software that volunteer hacktivists download to their PCs
and choose to run, whereby it then starts blasting the target website with traffic. But the people behind the new campaign are either keen to achieve a more potent attack technique, or are hedging against the fact that Anonymous volunteers have been tracked down through the LOIC tool. By
move as it means the blame for the DDoS is diluted across many more people. And though taking part in a DDoS attack is a criminal offense in some places there's likely to be a massively sticky legal situation if the authorities succeed in tracking many unwitting offenders. It also means you should be extra-careful when clinking on suspicious links on Twitter, in emails, on other social networks for the time being, even if they appear to come masking the DDoS system in an from friends. otherwise innocuous weblink, [ I m a g e : F l i c k r u s e r t h i n k Anonymous may be ensuring a n o n y m o u s ] many more people take part--even Chat about this news with Kit if they do so inadvertantly, or E a t o n o n T w i t t e r a n d F a s t without realizing the implications C o m p a n y t o o . of what they're doing. This maneuver, some may say "trick," may be a very clever
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ROUBINI AND BREMMER: The Fate Of Global Growth Depends On US-China Relations
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Economists Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer appeared on Bloomberg TV today to discuss all the major issues in the global economy right now. The biggest focus? China. While they butted heads about the immediacy of the threat, both pointed out that political tensions between the U.S. and China are going to significantly influence the global economy. A few more notable tidbits via Bloomberg TV. Watch the whole video below: Roubini on Greece: "Even if they reach an agreement there are going to be so many holdouts that then they'll have a problem. They'll either pay the holdouts and that becomes expensive, or if they don't pay them you'll have a series of defaults, because they're going to stop paying them. Or the way to avoid the holdouts from being holdouts is then to change domestic legislation, to cram down the terms of the majority on the holdouts. But if that happens then the CDS will trigger and that becomes a credit event. So either
way you're going to get a credit event." "The credit event can be two forms, either a form of defaultanother one is if there are holdouts and you don't pay them and technically that's a default on the bonds on which you don't pay so there's a series of defaults on which you don't pay. Or three, if you change the terms of the bonds through legislation then that's considered a credit event by ISDA by the event triggering the CDS. And one way or another you get a credit event. One extreme is a default, another one is CDS triggering." Roubini on the chances of recession in the U.S.: "I would say latest numbers out of the US have been better for the fourth quarter. I even expect a slowdown so I think the probability of a recession in the United States is lower than 60 percent right now.A lot depends on the eurozone, if the eurozone situation becomes disorderly." Bremmer on geopolitics: "The economics are driving the geopolitics and that's after decades when security issues drove the geopolitics, the U.S. talking about geopolitics. U.S.
talking about economic statecraft right now about, they've done this not in a proactive way, they've done this because American allies in Asia have been begging for the US to show commitment, whether it's Singapore or Vietnam, whether it's Japan or all the rest." Bremmer on China's Obama concern: "The Chinese are very concerned about what the Obama administration defense policy will
be in the region, and saying that the Chinese are opaque. This will lead to more confrontation over the South China Sea, over the East China Sea, because the Chinese clearly want to ensure that they're not on the back foot in a part of the world that's utterly critical for their own security sensibilities." Roubini, Bremmer on China: Roubini: "I do expect there's going to be a significant
slowdown of growth in China this year. We're going to see it already in the Q1 numbersthe Chinese will react by reducing the reserve requirement ratio and interest rates to try and jumpstart the economyI think it's going to happen in the first half of the year." Bremmer: "When it comes to the United States and China let's be clear. Structurally these countries are moving towards more conflict. These are the world's two largest economies and that clearly is problematic in terms of economics volatility over the longer term. But as of this year the American economy is dominating, not foreign policy. And there can be a little bit of noise on Iran, a little bit of noise on China. When it comes to currency, the Chinese have been moving at their pace, very slowly, very incrementally, and American politicians have to show they don't like it. But to be clear, American multinational corporations are perfectly happy with it, they manufacture in China. They are on the other side of it. It's American Labor that has the problem with it. And they ROUBINI page 20
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This Could Be The Big Mortgage-Related Lawsuit That Blows Up In JPMorgan's Face
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for relief of stay by a mortgage lender is tantamount to saying, Judge, let me grab the house. A n o t h e r l a w s u i t a g a i n s t The "manufactured evidence is JPMorgan Chase is brewing in systemically utilized to deceive California, and this one has the bankruptcy players and increase potential to blow up big as it t h e p r o f i t s o f C h a s e , " t h e c l a i m s J P M o r g a n C h a s e complaint reads. The court filing systemically engaged in forgery to alleges that Chase obtained relief gain an upper-hand in thousands of stay permission on all 95% of of bankruptcy cases since 2009. [ the 7,000 cases where such via Huffington Post] motions were filed. The lawsuit, which is still waiting In addition, the complaint claims to obtain official class-action that Chase offered financial designation by the California incentives to their attorneys who c o u r t s y s t e m , a l l e g e s t h a t were able to obtain the relief from JPMorgan Chase fabricated stay motions and proofs of claim mortgage-related documents in the quickest. thousands of bankruptcy cases to The fabricated documents also make a profit and remove itself allowed JP Morgan Chase to from the responsibility of money- s h o w t h e y t r a n s f e r r e d t h e losing mortgages. mortgage notesessentially a The complaint claims that written promise by the borrower documents were "photo-shopped" to pay back debtto mortgage to show Chase had the rights to securitization trusts when they money due under mortgage loans, might not have, the court filing allowing the bank to obtain "relief alleges. The following segment from stay" motions in bankruptcy from the filing breaks down how court. Chase essentially removed itself Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism from the chain of liability through breaks down how that "relief from such actions [ via Courthouse stay" motion is beneficial to News] : Chase: That said practice allows Chase R e m e m b e r t h a t f i l i n g f o r to dump defaulted loans that were bankruptcy puts a stay or hold, never properly securitized by on all creditor claims. They all go WAMU and other originators wait while the court determines acquired by Chase into private which creditors get what from the mortgage backed security trusts under water borrower. Amotion by creating the illusion of a valid
transfer. Said practice shifts the liability of defaulted loans not properly securitized by WAMU, from Chase to private mortgage backed security trusts. The practice allows Chase to effectively mitigate the millions of dollars in liability of the WAMU acquisition, where WAMU failed to transfer MLNs of its portfolio before its demise. Said practice shifts losses from WAMU to MBST bond investors. The lawsuit certainly carries a lot of oomph in its allegationsthough it is still in its infancy, the court filing is dated Jan. 13and could mean further
legal ramifications for JPMorgan depending on how the bank will act. By now, most are familiar with JPMorgan's habit of paying down its mortgage-related lawsuitsmost recently, the bank settled with the SEC for $153.6 million on misleading investors in mortgage securities in June 2011. This is also not the first time JPMorgan has made legal headlines related document forgery. Just last week, the American Banker reported that the bank had dropped several credit card debt collections across the U.S. because of possible "documentation irregularities." From American Banker:
Robo-signing, or the highvolume production of signed legal documents, has been a key element of the governmental and media foreclosure reviews. Chase's current pullback raises at least the possibility that at least some banks may have documentation problems in other business lines. The suit also sounds remarkably similar to the charges that the Massachusetts Attorney General brought against Bank of America, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Ally Financial in early December on deceptive foreclosure conduct. Please follow Clusterstock on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Bonuses Are Confidential? Nonsense. This Is Why You Should Talk About Your Bonus And Why Banks Need You To Here's What To Expect From Goldman's Earnings Tomorrow Here's The Silver Lining On This Quarter's Mixed Bag of Bank Earnings Presented By: Win New Customers Ads by Pheedo
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New year, new round of shady foreign scams. These come courtesy of celebrity sweepstakes and foreign lotteries, tempting games to play when you hear the odds of winning are better overseas. But don't be foolishthese "once in a lifetime offers" will turn your pockets inside-out. Among the top scams in 2011, according to the Better Business Bureau, were ones in which celebrities like Mark Zuckerberg"messaged" consumers, saying they were the recipient of $1 million from Facebook. In such cases, the scammer explains that in order to collect the winnings, the recipient needs to send money for processing fees and taxes. The scammer then promises to wire the money once the fees are received, but of course that never happens. In the second scenario, victims will receive an unsolicited money order or check, which they're then asked to deposit at their bank.
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don't have a lot of influence with the Republicans right now." Roubini on whether the slowdown in Europe and the United States will spread: "In the case of the eurozone it's clearly the periphery is not just in a recession but a deepening recession. So the eurozone is in a recession, the UK looks like it's going towards a recession. The data from the United States has been somehow more mixed, positive lately but in my view the process of deleveraging the public and private sector is going to continue that implies slow domestic growth demand and the exports of the United States are not going to improve." Bremmer on Iran oil sanctions: "The main implication behind the
oil sanctions against Iran is that China will get cheaper oil from Iran, let's be clear about that. But leaving that aside, the Obama administration has actually recently said that purpose of those sanctions is regime change in Iran and they're doing that for domestic reasons because the Republicans have outflanked them a little bit. They said well we might have to engage in military actions. Obama doesn't want to look soft but wants to change his policy. So here's a way of saying same policy, tougher line. Great for domestic policy, not so great for dealing with Iran." Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
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The Realist Prism: Iran's Nuclear Pipedream, and Washington's

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of a nuclear capacity, albeit an ambiguous one? Submitted at 1/20/2012 3:18:00 AM By all indications, Iran's leaders With the possibility of a clash believe so, based on their read of between the United States and recent history. Since the end of I r a n o v e r T e h r a n ' s n u c l e a r the Cold War, according to this program looming on the horizon, narrative, regimes that the U.S. one cannot help but wonder: Is it dislikes for their internal behavior worth it for Iran, now grappling or external activity -- and Iran w i t h i n c r e a s i n g l y o n e r o u s certainly qualifies on both scores sanctions, to continue its pursuit - run the risk of being on the
receiving end of America's expeditionary firepower, unless they possess a suitable deterrent capability. Serbia in 1999, Iraq in 2003 and Libya in 2011 were all subject to military operations because each country lacked nuclear weapons, giving the United States a free opportunity to strike without fear of dramatic consequences. ...
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AP Jan. 19, 2012: Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul applaud before the start of the latest Republican presidential candidate debate in Charleston, S.C. Newt Gingrich, rising in the polls, may have captured momentum by not only slamming the door on questions about his personal life, but reminding his rivals -- and voters -- that he's battling to the end to win the hearts and minds of America's conservatives. The former House speaker, ahead of Saturday's South Carolina primary, used the debate stage Thursday night to position himself as the chief challenger to Mitt Romney. Though he faced tough questions over his leadership style and past support of a controversial health insurance mandate, it was his opening response to a question about salacious allegations made by his second ex-wife that set the tone for the night and left no doubt that Gingrich would take on all-comers. I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that, Gingrich told the moderator. To take an ex-wife
and make it, two days before the primary, a significant question in a presidential campaign, is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine. The attention on Gingrich comes as he rises in the polls, even picking up the endorsement of Rick Perry after the Texas governor dropped out of the race Thursday morning. Against this new dynamic, Gingrich found himself sparring frequently not only with Romney but Rick Santorum, who lunged at Gingrich at the debate over his past support for an individual health insurance mandate and described him as an ineffective and undisciplined leader dating back to his time as House speaker. Santorum said that while hell give Gingrich his due on having grandiose ideas, he cant say the same about his ability to execute those ideas. Four years into his speakership, he was thrown out by the conservatives. There was a coup against him in three, Santorum said. It was an idea a minute, no discipline, no ability to be able to pull things together. Santorum, by contrast, described himself as steady and solid. Ceding no ground on the debate stage, which to date has been Gingrichs place to shine, the former speaker accused Santorum
of writing a selective history. Long before Rick came to Congress, I was busy being a rebel, creating a conservative opportunity society, developing a plan to win a majority in the Congress, Gingrich said, describing that history as fact even if its inconvenient for Ricks campaign. The clash came after Gingrich earlier in the week suggested Santorum, as well as Perry, drop out of the race. While Perry bowed out Thursday, Santorum is vowing to put up a stiff fight in Saturdays South Carolina primary Santorum was buoyed by new certified results out of Iowa that showed he led Romney by 34 votes in the caucuses. Though Romney was not technically conceding defeat, Santorum goes into South Carolina claiming hes one-for-
two in the first two presidential contests. Romney won the New Hampshire primary by a decisive margin. But recent polls show Gingrich creeping into the lead in South Carolina. And at the top of the debate, Gingrich defended himself over a story that could potentially threaten his rise a pair of interviews his ex-wife Marianne granted in which she claimed Gingrich once sought an open marriage. The story is false, Gingrich said. Gingrich confronted CNN moderator John King, who posed the question about Mariannes claims. He said, I am frankly astounded that CNN would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate. As the debate proceeded, Ron
Paul at times suggested he was being ignored as the other three candidates took shots at one another. Paul, who came in second in the New Hampshire primary, stressed that with Perry out he is the only veteran left in the race. He also reiterated his call to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget. In a reflection of the complex political dynamics of the race, first Gingrich and then Santorum challenged Romney over his welldocumented switch of position on abortion. Once a supporter of a woman's right to choose, he now says he is "pro-life." Gingrich didn't exactly question Romney's change in position, but he didn't embrace it, either, saying, "He had an experience in a lab and became pro-life." Romney bristled. "I'm not questioned on character or integrity very often. I don't feel like standing here for that." Both Gingrich and Romney faced heated criticism from Santorum over their past support for the idea of a requirement that Americans buy health insurance. Santorum accused Romney of standing by Massachusetts plan, which he helped implement as governor, despite it being an abject failure. GINGRICH page 24
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appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that." By Steve Holland and Sam King had asked the former House Youngman of Representatives speaker about CHARLESTON, South Carolina| ex-wife Marianne Gingrich, who Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:43am EST told ABC News Gingrich had ( R e u t e r s ) - R e p u b l i c a n sought an "open marriage" when presidential candidates tore into he was having an affair in the each other on Thursday and Newt 1990s. Gingrich denied the Gingrich snarled at the CNN allegation. moderator in a raucous debate two Gingrich stands a growing days before the South Carolina chance of defeating former primary, which may decide the Massachusetts governor Romney nomination race. in South Carolina and puncturing The two-hour prize fight came at his drive to win the Republican the end of one of the campaign's presidential nomination to face most tumultuous days, with Texas Democratic President Barack Governor Rick Perry dropping out Obama in November. and a new winner emerging in the A new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Iowa caucuses held more than two the South Carolina race getting weeks ago. closer with Romney at 35 percent Tension has increased as polls support, Gingrich with 23 percent show the race tightening between and former Pennsylvania senator front-runner Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum with 15 percent. Gingrich, who took offense at a Romney was again dogged by q u e s t i o n a b o u t a p r e v i o u s questions about his tax payments marriage from CNN moderator after spending days on the John King and lashed out. campaign trail fending off "I think the disruptive, vicious, criticism for paying taxes at a low negative nature of the news media 15 percent rate. makes it harder to govern this Asked whether he would release country," Gingrich fumed. "I am tax returns covering many years,
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Romney answered: "Maybe." That drew boos from the audience in the picturesque coastal city of Charleston. TAX WARS Eager to upset the front-runner, Gingrich's team released their candidate's most recent tax returns half an hour into the debate, a reminder that multi-millionaire Romney still had not produced his own. Romney will take a huge step toward claiming the Republican nomination if he wins on Saturday after his New Hampshire win on January 10 and his near-victory in Iowa on January 3. But he is suddenly looking beatable in South Carolina, under pressure on taxes, attacked over his record as a private equity executive and struggling to convince rock-ribbed Republicans here he is a true conservative. Perry quit the presidential campaign on Thursday and endorsed Gingrich, while Romney lost his place as winner of the Iowa caucuses when the Republican Party announced Santorum had actually won more votes.
Santorum is anxious to make a breakthrough in South Carolina to revive his fading hopes. Gingrich took the brunt of Santorum's fire in the debate. He gave a blistering critique of Gingrich's tenure as House speaker, calling him "grandiose" and suggesting he has behaved erratically. "I don't want a nominee that I have to worry about going out and looking at the paper the next day and ... worrying about what he's going to say next," Santorum said. Gingrich insisted he led a Republican revolution and worked with Republican President Ronald Reagan. "I participated in the '80s in an enormous project of economic growth and, with President Reagan's leadership, the American people created 16 million jobs," he said. But Romney quibbled with how much Reagan actually appreciated Gingrich, pointing out that Reagan mentioned Gingrich only once in his presidential memoir. "I mean, he mentions George Bush 100 times. He even mentions my dad once," Romney
said. Romney came into the debate under strong pressure to turn back Gingrich. He faced questions again about his experience at Bain Capital, which bought companies and restructured them, sometimes resulting in job losses. The issue has hurt him in South Carolina, where unemployment remains around 10 percent. Gingrich lobs frequent attacks at him on this. Romney pledged to release his own taxes in April and defended his wealth. "I'm not going to apologize for being successful," he said. (Editing by Alistair Bell and Todd Eastham) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Romney Lowers Expectations, Says 'Newt Will Win Some Primaries'

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In an interview with radio host Laura Ingraham this morning, Republican presidential candidate
Mitt Romney acknowledged that Newt Gingrich is likely going to win a few states over the course
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for further proceedings. At issue were the maps that Texas will use in its primary Texas delegate Sandy Golden contests set for April 3 that will watches the proceedings from decide party candidates for behind a US flag at the 2008 congressional and state legislature Republican National Convention elections in November. in St. Paul, Minnesota September The dispute had been closely 4, 2008. watched because it could help Credit: Reuters/John Gress decide whether Republicans or By James Vicini Democrats gain as many as four WASHINGTON| Fri Jan 20, seats in the U.S. House of 2012 12:40pm EST Representatives in November. (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Texas Republican officials Friday ruled in a Texas political appealed to the Supreme Court, dispute, rejecting judge-drawn said the lower-court overstepped election maps favoring minority its authority and argued the judges candidates and Democrats in the should have deferred to the maps 2012 congressional and state drawn by the elected lawmakers. legislature elections. Those maps favor Republican In its first ruling on political candidates. boundary-drawing based on the The officials won at least a 2010 U.S. Census, the high court partial victory, though the court unanimously set aside the interim stopped short of adopting the maps created by federal district maps drawn by the Republicancourt judges in San Antonio. dominated legislature. The high court said it was unclear The Supreme Court ruled that the whether the judges in Texas j u d g e s a p p e a r e d t o h a v e f o l l o w e d t h e a p p r o p r i a t e unnecessarily ignored the state's standards and sent the cases back plans in drawing certain districts
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and those maps can at least be used as a starting point. "Some aspects of the district court's plans seem to pay adequate attention to the state's policies, others do not and the propriety of still others is unclear," the court held in its opinion. Redrawing the Texas districts has been a major political and legal battle. The state's population went up by more than 20 percent, or 4.2 million people, over the past decade, with Hispanics accounting for 2.8 million of the increase. After the 2010 Census, Texas got four new congressional seats, giving it 36. The legislature's plan, signed by Texas Governor Rick Perry, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race on Thursday, created only one new heavily Hispanic district. The interim maps drawn by the judges in Texas were designed to remain in place until different court in Washington decided whether the Texas state plan should be approved or rejected
under the federal voting rights law. A trial in that case is underway. That case ultimately is expected to determine the final maps to be used in Texas in future years. The Obama administration, the state Democratic Party and minority groups have challenged parts or all of the state's redistricting plan for violating the voting rights law, and said the judicially drawn one should be used on an interim basis. The Supreme Court cases are Perry v. Perez, No 11-713; Perry v. Davis, No. 11-714, and Perry v. Perez, No. 11-715. (Reporting By James Vicini; Editing by Doina Chiacu) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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And Santorum said either candidate would have a hard time going up against President Obama in a general election because of difficulty they would have distinguishing themselves over the individual mandate issue. These are two folks who dont present the clear contrast that I do, he said. Ive been fighting for health reform, private sector bottom up for 20 years, while these two guys were playing footsies with the left. Romney defended the Massachusetts plan, saying it has slowed the growth of health insurance costs in the state. He vowed to repeal the federal health care overhaul, calling it a monster. Santorum accused Romney and Gingrich of previously backing what was at the core of the federal health care overhaul. But Gingrich said hed have a retort for Obama should he bring that up in a general election I can say, you know, I was wrong and I figured it out. You were wrong
and you didnt. Though the candidates sparred with Gingrich on several issues, they steered clear of the controversy involving his ex-wife. "Let's get onto the real issues, that's all I've got to say," said Romney, although he pointed out that he and his wife, Ann, have been married for 42 years. All four remaining GOP candidates lustily attacked Obama, while Santorum in particular sought to raise his own profile. Santorum jabbed at both Gingrich and Romney, but seemed to focus more attention on the former. If Gingrich is the party nominee, he said, "you sort of have that worrisome moment that something's going to pop. And we don't need that in a nominee." Romney is also facing pressure to release his income tax returns before the weekend. He told reporters it wouldn't happen. "You'll hear more about that. April," Romney said, a position he renewed during the debate.
Gingrich released his own tax return during the day, reporting that he paid the IRS nearly $1 million in taxes on more than $3.1 million in income. He also donated about 2 percent of his income to charity. His effective tax rate, roughly 31.6 percent of his adjusted income, was about double what Romney told reporters earlier this week he had paid. The candidates had one area of agreement. Standing in near unison, the candidates condemned a proposed anti-online piracy law that its critics say is overly aggressive. Romney said the law is "far too intrusive" and too broad. He said if the Stop Online Piracy Act becomes law, it could stop job creation and hurt the economy. Gingrich said the law preemptively censors the Internet on behalf of corporations. He said there are patents and copyrights to protect creators' rights and that, if someone is stealing, then the owners should sue under existing
laws. Santorum said he doesn't like the law but added that the Internet is not somewhere "where anyone can do anything they want." And Paul said the bill threatens freedom. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Related Stories On roller-coaster day, Gingrich braces for ex-wife interview while picking up Perry endorsement Gingrich paid $994,000 in taxes in 2010 Santorum claims victory in Iowa, but confusion hangs over results This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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The iDevice cases of CES

Victor Agreda, Jr. (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 1:00:00 PM
If you review cases I have to feel bad for you. With so many to choose from, it must be like reviewing bags of sugar. By now there are also only so many ways to skin an iPhone, so the cases
you see tend to be decorative, protective or novelty. That's about it. And we saw hundreds of cases at CES. In the gallery below there's a sampling of some of the hundreds of cases we saw. From scented and minimal to sporty and sturdy to gaudy and impractical, there's a one of you. Walk among the case out there for each and every aisles and wind up with the same
thousand-yard stare we did after seeing such choice. Now you realize why they only carry so many in your favorite retailer's iOS accessory section. Retailers make the tough decisions of which of these cases might actually sell -- and I don't envy them in that task. Gallery: Cases of CES 2012
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Home sales at 11-month high

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Submitted at 1/20/2012 9:35:30 AM
Marketing Genius: Two Twins Giggling As They Sell You Designer 3D Glasses
Jordan Crook (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:48:52 AM
A view of a house for sale is seen in Los Angeles in this February 24, 2010 file photo. Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni/ Files WASHINGTON| Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:35am EST (Reuters) - Sales of previously owned homes rose to an 11-month high in December and the supply of properties on the market tumbled to a near 7-year low, pointing to a nascent recovery in the housing market. The National Association of Realtors said on Friday existing home sales increased 5 percent month over month to an annual rate of 4.61 million units. November's sales pace was revised down to a 4.39 millionunit pace, previously reported as a 4.42 million-unit rate. Economists polled by Reuters had expected sales to rise to a 4.65 million-unit sales pace. Sales in December were up 3.6 percent from a year ago. A total of 4.26 million homes were sold in 2011, up 1.7 percent from the prior year. "A sector of the economy that has been a large weight on growth has started to stabilize over the last
few months and we will continue to look for momentum in 2012," said John Doyle, currency strategist at Tempus Consulting in Washington. The third straight month of gains in sales added to hopes that a tentative recovery in the housing market was starting to take shape, but progress will be painfully slow given a glut of unsold properties that is weighing down on prices. Data this week showed singlefamily home starts rose for a third straight month in December and optimism among builders this month was the highest in four-and -a-half years. But the sector, responsible for the 2007-09 recession, remains challenged by an oversupply of homes amid an 8.5 percent unemployment rate. In addition, declining prices have left many Americans with homes that are worth less than their mortgages. But there are tentative signs of improvement. There were 2.38 million unsold homes on the market last month, the fewest since March 2005. That represented a 6.2 months' supply at December's sales pace, the lowest since April 2006, and compared to 7.2 months' supply in
November. However, the inventory of unsold homes tends to decline in winter. A supply of 6 months is generally considered as ideal and anything above indicates further declines in house prices. The median sales price fell 2.5 percent to $164,500 from a year ago. Sales last month rose across all four regions, with gains in both the multifamily home and singlefamily home segments. Single family home sales rose 4.6 percent, while multi-family dwellings advanced 8.7 percent. But the road to recovery will be bumpy. Distressed properties, foreclosures and short sales which typically occur at deep discounts, accounted for 32 percent of overall sales last month, little changed from November. A third of pending existing home sales contracts were canceled, the NAR said. (Reporting by Lucia Mutikani) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
your prescription glasses, clip it on, and put your glasses back on How cool is that?!?! If you thought Apples marketing The glasses-free twin then squad was genius, just wait until accuses the bespectacled twin of you watch this Kickstarter video not having prescription glasses. from Ingri:Dahl. If you arent A n d a f t e r s o m e m o r e a l r e a d y f a m i l i a r w i t h synchronized giggling and what t h e c o m p a n y , w h i c h y o u seems to be twin ESP, the duo shouldnt be, its basically two shows off the t-shirt youll receive sisters named Kine and Einy, and after pledging a $15 donation they want to sell you a 3D clip-on towards their project. for your glasses. But the commercial cant end Its actually rather clever. The before we venture back to the girls market fashionable 3D roots of Ingri:Dahl: the Popcorn eyewear, and this 3D clip-on is model of fashionable 3D eyewear, just the latest in their collection. a n d t h e c o m p a n y s f i r s t But that isnt really the point. design.Its classical, its simple, Im more interested in how this and its super comfortable. set of twins is pitching their Sounds like a cant-miss product. A glance at their website opportunity if Ive ever heard one. would lead you to believe that No, but seriously. I kid around, theyve got a legit business (and I but this could actually work for believe thats the case), but the the Paulsen twins, who are about way they market themselves and $2,500 shy of their goal with ten their products on Kickstarter begs days left to go. Theyre real, fun to differ. young women who seem to really The video goes a little something enjoy what theyre building. like this:Hey guys! How are If you think you might enjoy it you? too, just head over to Ingri:Dahls (giggle, giggle) Kickstarter page and make a Whispered: Lets do that again. pledge. This giggling twosome Hey guys! How are you? deserves it. Were going to show you how to use the 3D clip-on You take off
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'Fast and Furious' Official To Plead Fifth at Hearing

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World's biggest NES controller and other giant tech in video

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Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:22:16 AM
deposition next week, I am writing to advise you that my client is going to assert his constitutional privilege not to be Reuters December 8, 2011: compelled to be a witness against Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) asks a himself." Romero told Issa. question to U.S. Attorney General This schism is the first big break Eric Holder during the House in what has been a unified front in Judiciary Committee hearing on the governments defense of itself Capitol Hill in Washington. in the gun-running scandal. Cunningham claims he is a victim The chief of the Criminal of a conflict between two Division of the U.S. Attorneys branches of government and will Office in Arizona is refusing to not be compelled to be a testify before Congress regarding witnesses against himself, and Operation Fast and Furious, the Washington DC attorney stunned that my client relayed inaccurate make a statement that could be federal gun-running scandal that congressional staff. Last week, information to the Department later used by a grand jury or Cunningham, the second highest upon which it relied in preparing special prosecutor to indict him sent U.S. weapons to Mexico. Patrick J. Cunningham informed ranking U.S. Attorney in Arizona, its initial response to Congress. If, on criminal charges. the House Oversight Committee was scheduled to appear before as you claim, Department officials January 25, 2011: A cache of late Thursday through his attorney Issas committee voluntarily. have blamed my client, they have seized weapons used in the ATF t h a t h e w i l l u s e t h e F i f t h Then, he declined and Issa issued blamed him unfairly, the letter to gun-running operation 'Fast and a subpoena. Issa says. Amendment protection. Furious' is displayed at a news Cunningham is represented by Romero claims Cunningham did conference in Phoenix. Cunningham was ordered Wednesday to appear before Tobin Romero of Williams and nothing wrong and acted in good Chairman Darrell Issa and the Connolly who is a specialist in faith, but the Department of This entry passed through the House Oversight Committee white collar crime. In the letter, he Justice in Washington is making Full-Text RSS service if this is regarding his role in the operation suggests witnesses from the him the fall guy, claiming he your content and you're reading it that sent more than 2,000 guns to D e p a r t m e n t o f J u s t i c e i n failed to accurately provide the on someone else's site, please read the Sinaloa Cartel. Guns from the Washington, who have spoken in O v e r s i g h t C o m m i t t e e w i t h the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentfailed operation were found at the support of Attorney General Eric information on the execution of only/faq.php#publishers. Five Fast and Furious. murder scene of Border Agent Holder, are wrong or lying. Filters recommends: Donate to Department of Justice officials "To avoid needless preparation by Wikileaks. Brian Terry. The letter from Cunninghams have reported to the Committee the Committee and its staff for a
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The world's largest video controller has been unveiled at London's Liverpool Street Station. The controller is an exact replica of an old NES joypad, scaled up 30 times in each dimension. Hit play on our video (above) to see the massive pad in gigantic action. The working humungopad, which is 4 meters long and weighs 120 kilograms, was created by British engineering student Ben Allen and collaborators from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. It takes two people to play and has to be transported in a lorry."We built the controller to celebrate the 105th anniversary of our student association," Allen told us. "We're all electrical engineering students, and every five years we like to do something crazy." Read more of " World's biggest NES controller and other giant tech in video" on Crave UK. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Body-Parts Mystery Deepens Near Iconic Sign

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Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:32:31 AM
DEVELOPING: Coroner's officials identified the man whose dismembered head, hands and feet were found in a Hollywood park, but they're not releasing his name as police continue to hunt for his killer, authorities said Friday. The identity, age and hometown of the victim was withheld because his next of kin had not been notified and because police investigators had placed a "security hold" on the information, Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Ed Winter said. The head was found Tuesday by a dog walker at Bronson Canyon, and police searchers turned up the man's hands and feet during a two -day search that ended Thursday. The park reopened Friday. Police concluded that no other body parts had been dumped in the wilderness park a few miles from the Hollywood sign but
coyotes would have destroyed them, police said. "If it had not been for the dog walker, we might never have found it," Smith said Thursday at the park. Police don't believe the head, feet and hands are connected to a torso police in Tucson, Ariz., found Jan. 6, Smith said. Jan. 18: Two women hike in Griffith Park near the Hollywood sign after a plastic bag containing a human head was discovered Tuesday by two women walking their dogs on a nearby trail off Canyon Drive in Los Angeles. visitors who find anything should contact police, police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said. Dozens of police searched 7 acres of brush in the park for two days after Tuesday's discovery of a man's head in a plastic grocery bag. Two hands and feet believed to be from the same victim were found on Wednesday and Thursday before authorities concluded the ground search. The man is believed to have been killed elsewhere, police have said. No arrests had been made, but detectives were plowing through dozens of leads, Smith said. Smith declined to comment on media reports that search warrants were served Thursday night at a Hollywood apartment building and that a car there was towed away. However, the commander said there were several other investigations under way in the area, including narcotics investigations. The dead man was between 40 and 60 years old. His head, found by a dog that was let off leash by a dog walker, had been there a few days at most. Longer, and This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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iRig Pre makes iOS device a pre-amp

Steven Sande (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
VocaLive (an effects processing app for singers). And like the entire range of iRig Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:00:00 PM accessories, it's highly portable IK Multimedia is always coming thanks to its pocket-sized form out with new ways for musicians factor for recording anywhere. to use their iOS devices to assist iRig PRE features in performing or recording. Now -40 cm (15.75") TRRS cable to the company has introduced the connect to any iOS device headset iRig PRE, a mic preamp designed jack to let you use standard XLR mics -XLR input connector for with your iPhone or iPad. microphones The unit (US$39.99) won't be -Gain control available until the early part of the -+48 V phantom power second quarter of 2012, but when -Headphone output it's finally in the hands of music -On/Off switch makers everywhere, they'll enjoy -Power/Phantom Power provided the features of the iRig PRE. It's by 9V battery powered by a standard 9V battery, -Battery life is approximately 40 and can amp up a dynamic mic hours with dynamic microphones for up to 40 hours or a condenser and 15 hours with phantom mic for up to 15 hours. The powered condenser studio dongle, which plugs into the microphones. headset port on your device, also iPad Pricing and availability allows musicians to use their hours of continuous use. has a 3.5 mm jack for monitoring January 2012 - IK Multimedia is favorite high-quality stage or The 3.5mm (1/8") standard stereo iRig PRE costs only $39.99/ your music, auto gain control, and proud to present iRig[TM] PRE, studio mics with their iOS device. h e a d p h o n e o u t p u t a l l o w s 29.99 (excluding taxes) and will the aforementioned XLR jack. t h e u l t i m a t e s o l u t i o n f o r The microphone plugs directly monitoring while recording. be available in early Q2 2012 IK Multimedia plans to ship iRig c o n n e c t i n g a n y t y p e o f into the standard XLR connector The lightweight housing sports a f r o m e l e c t r o n i c a n d m u s i c Recorder and VocaLive with the microphone - from regular stage of iRig PRE with no need for convenient cable for iOS device r e t a i l e r s a r o u n d t h e w o r l d . PRE, so if you're not already an microphones to expensive studio extra cables or adapters. connection and also includes a iRig Pre makes iOS device a preowner of these apps you'll get a models - to any iPhone, iPhone Its adjustable thumbwheel gain V e l c r o s t r i p s l o t f o r e a s y amp originally appeared on nice bonus. The full scoop from touch or iPad providing access to control allows the user to easily mounting on a mic stand or other TUAW - The Unofficial Apple IK Multimedia is hidden below -- the widest range of recording make precise level settings. The stage locations. Weblog on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 push the button, Frank. applications. onboard 9V battery provides the Like all other IK Multimedia 12:00:00 EST. Please see our Show full PR text IK Multimedia iRig PRE is the first high-quality necessary voltage for phantom- microphones, it includes 2 free terms for use of feeds. presents iRig PRE microphone preamp designed p o w e r e d s t u d i o c o n d e n s e r apps: iRig Recorder (an easy-to- Source| Permalink| Email this| The universal microphone specifically for iOS devices that microphones for at least for 15 use recording/editing app) and Comments interface for iPhone/iPod touch/
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Pinterest Works Better Than Google+

Jon Mitchell (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:10:00 PM
TechStars Grad Promoboxx Signs Deal With Chevy On Super Bowl Campaign
Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Let's be grown up about this. Pinterest is an app for sharing lists of scrumptious-looking stuff. It's not for girls or guys, it's for people who like looking at things. The story I've heard is that it was designed for architects and designers and "then brides found it." This is why, my sources explain, it tends toward the jewelry-and-table-settings end of the spectrum. But like on any social network, it just depends on whom you're following. On Pinterest, you have fine-grained control over what pins appear in your feed. In fact, for all Google's efforts to figure out how to control unwanted social stuff with Circles, I daresay they got it backwards. Pinterest is the reverse of Google+ circles, and it's better for users. Sponsor Pinterest has been around for a while, but lately it has caught on intensely. The statistics suggest that lots of women use it, but lots of non-women and businesses also use it. It's inspiring blatant imitators, and Alexia Tsotsis even thinks that Google wants to buy it. Why all this interest all of a sudden? Pinterest is visually
noisiness of groups you're following, but the people in those circles are just sharing wherever they share. The recipient has to do her or his best to keep all the senders organized. Pinterest Is the Reverse of Circles But Pinterest nails the mechanics of this. On Pinterest, users create "boards" for different things they want to share. When you follow a person on Pinterest, you follow all their boards. You can also follow driven, which makes it easy and individual boards. If someone you pleasurable to use, but I think its like has a board for "desserts," mechanics as a social network are which you like, and a board for more interesting than that. "spaceships," which you love, but Facebook's Smart Lists and they also post to their "cute Google+ Circles have popularized puppies" board all day long (and the idea that we need the ability to you hate puppies), the solution is share different things with simple: You unfollow "cute different audiences. That lets us puppies," and everything else have fun with some people and be remains. boring with others without having Both the pinner and the follower to maintain two profiles. But only have to think about their own neither of those networks offer tastes. They don't have to guess much control for the person on the what other people are like. People receiving end. are more likely to enjoy Facebook's News Feed algorithm themselves that way. Because is a bit of a magic soup. You can hey, if Pinterest teaches us tell it you want more or fewer anything, it's that we have updates from certain things in impeccable taste. certain situations, but for the most Do you use Pinterest? Do you part, if they're sharing it with you, need an invite? Let's get some you're going to get it. Google+ i n v i t e g i f t i n g g o i n g i n t h e lets you turn down the volume on c o m m e n t s . D i s c u s s your circles, so you can adjust the
retailers with offline materials (posters, ads, etc.), but very little Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:48:26 AM of that goes for online marketing. Promoboxx, a TechStars Boston With Promoboxx, the goal is to 2011 company focused on brand- enable a brands individual stores to-retailer marketing, is going to t o s e t u p t h e i r o w n r e t a i l the Super Bowl! (Well, kind of.) promotions in minutes using an The startup has signed a deal with online dashboard. In addition to Chevy, which will allow 6,000 of TechStarss seed funding, the its dealers to share Chevys Super company raised a $565,000 angel Bowl ads prior to the big game round for its service back in via social media, email and on December. their own websites. Headquartered in Kendal Square, The co-branded campaigns Cambridge, MA, Promoboxx is Chevy creates will be powered by also working with brands like Promoboxxs marketing platform. Primesport, Cat Footwear, Bates Individual dealers will be given Footwear, Vertx, and Mattingly access to tools, including an easy- Sports. The companys founders, to-follow checklist, that will help Ben Carcio, Sonciary Honnoll and them take the national TV ads, Dan Koziak, all have extensive customize them, and post them to marketing backgrounds. social networks, including Says Promoboxx CEO Ben Facebook and Twitter, share them Carcio of the new Chevy deal, via email and promote them on were working with one amazing their own websites. and historic brand. By helping Promoboxxs big idea is to divert Chevy co-promote online with more of brands marketing dollars their massive dealer base, its like to Internet-based promotions. our own version of the Super Today, brands spend nearly $30 Bowl. billion each year supporting
Debt crisis: live

Matthew Sparkes (Finance News - Business news from the UK and world)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:09:45 PM
Investors in Greek bonds are reportedly facing a haircut of up to 70pc as IIF talks continue over
the weekend, while Germany would consider a bourse tax as a compromise if this could bring Britain in line with its EU partners.
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Megaupload Saga Teaches Painful Lessons About Cloud File Storage

John Paul Titlow (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:45:41 AM
Time Warner Cables New iPhone App Brings Live TV To The Small Screen
Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:22:23 AM
After yesterday's dramatic, international sting operation, the people behind Megaupload are in custody, their Web empire and fancy cars having been seized by authorities. Founder Kim Dotcom and his associates are charged with piracy on a massive scale, among other things. As for Megaupload.com, the site is inaccessible, perhaps indefinitely. That's a bummer for the millions of people who used it to share copyrighted albums, movies and software. It's an even bigger let down for users who used the service to store personal files, sometimes without a backup. Sponsor While the site was indeed used for illegal activities, many uploaded their personal documents, work files and multimedia to the service, using it for remote access much like services like Dropbox and Box are used. After the shutdown,
order to function. It also offers a number of features typical for TV provider mobile apps, including a Time Warner Cable is today remote control functionality, the in downtime. l a u n c h i n g a n e w i P h o n e ability to program your DVR (this To some, it's hard to have application that allows customers feature also works remotely), and sympathy for people who thought to watch live television from their the ability to configure parental Megaupload was a safe place to iPhone or iPod Touch device as controls, among other things. store personal files, especially well as control, manage and The app is fairly backwardgiven the controversial nature of program their DVR. With the new compatible, however, as it works the site. Yet for a lot of rank-and- app, users can browse the TV on iPhone 3GS and up, iPod file users of the Web, there is a guide, favorite channels and Touch (3rd or 4th gen) and any certain inherent, blind trust given search for programs by title or iPad, all of which have to run at to Web-based services. They keep episode name. least iOS 4.3. Customers will also their email in the cloud, their There is a small catch to all this have to have the Navigator set-top calendars, their social contacts live TV-viewing, of course: it box or a DVR in their home, as and activities. Seldom does other models may not function many users started complaining anything disappear out of thin air. only works within the home. via Twitter that they were no In the case of Megupload, the site The app joins TWCs iPad app, properly. longer able to access their files, as offered premium accounts, which released back in March 2011 and TWC isnt the first to add mobile the Android app launched last phone support for its TV service. Torrent Freak reported. users paid for. Surely a service for month. The new iPhone version is Comcasts app arrived on the It's a painful lesson for those which you shell out money users, who may never see their couldn't just disappear overnight. actually a universal app, meaning scene in May 2011, Cablevision one download now supports both launched on iOS in August and files again. It's also a reminder to Could it? Verizon FiOS has FlexView, the rest of those of us who use the Megaupload's takedown may be the phone and tablet platforms. As you may expect, you cant which works on the iPad and Web everyday that online file on the more dramatic end of the storage is never a substitute for "what if" scale, but there's no watch live TV just anywhere the Android (but not iPhone). safely backing up data on a local guarantee other services won't go iOS device has to be connected to TWC TV for iOS is available hard drive, far away from the down for any number of reasons. the homes Wi-Fi network in here on iTunes. c l o u d . G r a n t e d , l e g i t i m a t e If backing up one's local hard personal file storage services like drive to an external device is a no Dropbox, YouSendIt and the brainer, doing the same for cloudcountless online backup providers hosted data should be even more probably won't get raided by the imperative. Discuss (Cooking Light: Editor's Picks) demonstrates how to make FBI, but that doesn't mean some superfast and family-friendly Beef Submitted at 1/20/2012 3:00:00 AM catastrophic event couldn't result and Mushroom Sloppy Joes. [unable to retrieve full-text content] Allison Fishman
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The order books open for the electric BMW ActiveE

Liane Yvkoff (CNET News)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:43:45 AM
electric, don't drag your feet-availability will be on a first come, first served basis. The BMW ActiveE. Details on the EV's battery pack With only 700 ActiveEs to lease, are scarce. Rather than a single you'll have to move fast if you large battery pack, three lithiumwant to be one of BMW's electric ion storage cells are housed in pioneers. front of the cowl and where the Months later than expected, drivetrain and fuel tank used to BMW officially opened the order be. These liquid cooled batteries books for the all-electric ActiveE provide a range of approximately field trial today. The manufacturer 100 miles, depending on how the was supposed to take reservations vehicle is driven. Using a 240-volt last year, but delayed it to charger, the ActiveE has a streamline the delivery process. charging time of approximately The first electric sedan has 25 miles per hour, or four to five already been delivered to EV hours to recharge an empty veterans Tom and Meredith battery. M o l o u g h n e y , w h o l e a s e a n Unlike the MiniE, which lost its e l e c t r i c M i n i E f r o m t h e back seat to accommodate a bulky manufacturer. battery pack, the BMW ActiveE If you think you're ready to go will seat four. Based on the 1-
series, it boasts an output of 170hp with 184 lb-ft of torque, and a 0-60 time of under 9 seconds. The top speed is electronically limited to approximately 90 mph. Although the performance may
not be what most Bimmer fans are used to, the price will be. Like most EVs, the BMW ActiveE doesn't come cheap. You can lease one for $499 per month for a closed 24-month lease and a with
a $2,250 down payment. On the upside, you won't be paying for gas. The BMW ActiveE field trial is open to customers in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Boston, and Connecticut. Feedback from the trial will be used to further refine the upcoming BMW i3 and i8 plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Twitter buys iPhone app Summify

Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
confirmed on Thursday that it's being acquired by Twitter and shutting down the service. Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:00:00 AM In a blog post, Summify detailed Summify is a curation service this transition from standalone t h a t c h e r r y p i c k s t h e m o s t service to Twitter property. important news from your twitter Starting yeasterday, the Summify stream. Known to many because app is no longer available from of its iOS app, Summify helped the App Store, and the service is you eliminate the noise coming no longer accepting new account will continue for the next few from Twitter. In an announcement registrations. Profile and influence weeks, but, eventually, the whole that'll likely disappoint its users, pages are also being removed service will be turned off. the Vancouver-based company immediately. Email summaries The team will leave Canada and
move into Twitter's San Francisco office, where they will continue to work under the leadership of the social network. Presumably, many
of the popular curation features of Summify will make their way into Twitter's web and mobile apps. Twitter buys iPhone app Summify originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Now You Can Jailbreak Your iPhone 4S and iPad 2

John Paul Titlow (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:05:44 PM
Owners of Apple's newest mobile gadgets can now break their devices free from the confines of the company's restrictions. The iPhone 4S and iPad 2 can be jailbroken without being tethered to a computer for the first time thanks to a new tool called Absinthe A5. Last month, hackers released a jailbreak for iOS 5 that covered all compatible devices except for those with an A5 processor. That meant that iPhone 4S and iPad 2 owners were out of luck if they wanted an untethered jailbreak solution. Today that changes, thanks to the efforts of the Chronic Dev Team and other developers in the jailbreaking community. Sponsor The iOS 5 jailbreak for non-A5 devices was released in December
by pod2g, a well-known iOS hacker. After he succeeded in jailbreaking everything but the A5 devices, he decided to release his work as a public tool via greenpois0n and redsn0w and share his progress with the Chronic Dev Team to expedite the process of hacking the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. December's release was the first untethered jailbreak made available for iOS 5 since the operating system's launch in October. Previously, users could
only jailbreak the OS using a "tethered" solution, meaning it required devices be connected to a desktop or laptop whenever they are rebooted. It may have hit the spot for hardcore jailbreak addicts, but for most users a solution of that nature is too cumbersome. While the practice is officially discouraged by Apple, jailbreaking unlocks a world of unauthorized apps and user interface tweaks that aren't available via the iTunes App Store. For some, allowing their laptop to piggyback off their phone's data connection for free makes it worth the effort. Others like customizing the phone, playing vintage video game emulators or open the phone using facial recognition instead of a pin number. Last year we rounded up more than 30 reasons to jailbreak, a list that has only grown since then. Discuss
After a century, the Kodak moment has finally faded beyond recognition
Mic Wright
Submitted at 1/20/2012 10:29:00 AM
I spent the first weekend of December 2009 in a motel that sits awkwardly on the edge of the highway outside Rochester, New York. When I checked in, the desk clerk informed me matter-offactly that a man had been shot a few blocks away earlier that evening. The chilly walk to the nearby Applebee's in search of food gained an extra frisson after that. I was in Rochester to investigate
another near-death experience. Rochester is a company town and from 1889, when George Eastman founded the firm, that company was Kodak. It dominated the city's employment prospects and fostered its social and cultural life with investments in schools, theatres and universities. But, by the 1990s, the company that had once defined photography was facing serious trouble. By: Mic Wright, Edited by: Nate Lanxon Continue reading...
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Nike unveils Fuelband, its 24/7 fitness-monitoring Jawbone Up rival

Mike Dent
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:00:00 AM
EU Internet czar piles on, says SOPA is bad news

Don Reisinger (CNET News)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:20:47 AM
Neelie Kroes is no fan of SOPA.(Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) It's becoming increasingly clear that supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a political mistake--even if you live in Europe. European Commission vice president and European Union Internet czar Neelie Kroes tweeted today that she's happy to see the "tide is turning on SOPA," adding that we "don't need bad
legislation when (we) should be safeguarding benefits of (the) open Internet." That "tide" came on quite strong recently, with major Web sites, including Google and Wikipedia, staging protests and attracting Web users to stand behind them. Things have become so difficult on the SOPA and Protect IP Act (PIPA) fronts that earlier today, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) announced that they would put both bills on hold due to the critical outcry. "It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to
Hey, Nike+, have you been working out? Since its launch in 2006, Nike+ has, its creator claims, logged over 700 million kilometres of distance runs by its users. Time, then, to hand the baton on to something fresher? The popularity of life-logging devices such as the Fitbit and Jawbone Up has clearly not gone unnoticed address the problem of foreign movement of information across by Nike, who unveiled its t h i e v e s t h a t s t e a l a n d s e l l the Internet." FuelBand this week at a New A m e r i c a n i n v e n t i o n s a n d Although Neelie Kroes agrees, York launch event attended by products," Smith wrote today in a she tried a less-direct tack to get pro basketball player Kevin statement. her point across, tweeting today Durrant, current world's fastest But legislators aren't the only that "speeding is illegal too, but woman Carmelita Jeter, and politicos running from the bills. you don't put speed bumps on the cycling legend Lance Armstrong. L a s t n i g h t , R e p u b l i c a n motorway." By: Mike Dent, Edited by: Nate presidential nominees held a This entry passed through the Lanxon Continue reading... debate in South Carolina, and said Full-Text RSS service if this is that they don't support the bills. your content and you're reading it Former Massachusetts governor on someone else's site, please read Mitt Romney was especially the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentoutspoken last night, saying that only/faq.php#publishers. Five the bills are "far too intrusive, far Filters recommends: Donate to too expensive, far too threatening Wikileaks. (to) the freedom of speech and
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LG X3 quad-core ICS smartphone teased in detail

Chris Burns (SlashGear)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:28:29 AM
This week its time to get serious about quad-cores, be it in the tablets that defined CES 2012, the HTC Edge or Endeavor, whatever it ends up being called, and now the LG X3, the device you see in the image here in this post. This device has been tipped to PocketNow as having the fabulous NVIDIA Tegra 3 quadcore processor inside, working with a 4.7-inch 1280 x 720 pixel resolution display, and all the while working with a profile thats under 9mm. If this device feels half as nice as the LG G2X we saw last year, were gonna love the heck out of it. This device is set to be running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box as all good 2012 smartphones coming with Android should, so says the source leaking this image and the details that come with it. The rear facing and front facing camera sizes come as no surprise at 1.3
Shutdown of 'rogue site' Megaupload raises further questions about Sopa

Olivia Solon
Submitted at 1/20/2012 9:49:00 AM
megapixels and 8 megapixels, and storage inside the device is said to be 16GB. Inside weve also got a 21Mbps HSPA for connectivity along with 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0. The battery on this monster is set to be a lovely 2000mAh and inside youll also find NFC capabilities. Were expecting this device to make its debut next month at Mobile World Congress
2012, and well be there LIVE to let you know how it goes. This device will likely be released early Summer, 2012. [ via PocketNow] LG X3 quad-core ICS smartphone teased in detail is written by Chris Burns& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Yesterday the FBI shut down file -hosting site Megaupload after a two-year investigation, claiming it had infringed US copyright to the value of $500 million (323 million). This came the day after Wired, Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing and others held a black out to protest two bills that propose to protect US copyright abroad -Sopa and Pipa. The key argument for Sopa and
Pipa is to clamp down on "foreign rogue sites" that cannot be reached under existing US law such as the DMCA. Sites that supporters of the bill often refer to as rogue include Megavideo, Megaupload and Rapidshare, despite the fact that they have dotcom domains and would therefore not be directly targeted by the bills. By: Olivia Solon, Continue reading...
Vodafone wins landmark Indian tax case

Katherine Rushton (Finance News - Business news from the UK and world)
Shares in Vodafone rose 1.5pc, tax office over a $2.5bn (1.3bn) after the mobile phone giant won bill. its long-running battle with India's
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AntiCrop for iPhone, iPad 2 expands photos beyond their borders

Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:52:13 AM
When you take a photo at the wrong angle on a camera, youve got no choice but to either cut off all the edges and get a smaller photo or just take it again altogether but with AntiCrop for iPhone and iPad 2, that process has been automated and magically moved forward. What this application does is, should you want to turn your photo on its side, to fill in the blank spots that
are then created with an intelligent duplication process. While you could technically do this yourself with a 3rd party tool like Photoshop, this is just so simple its undeniable! Have a peek at this example here, a photo of my dog. Shes a tiny dog and even when I take a photo of her sleeping, theres always a shot or two that I want to flip sideways. Here with the app, that process is made super simple, the editor showing off its skills by filling in the edges in less than a
few seconds where otherwise Id have had to have taken minutes at least. As Sarah Perez says, its a pretty amazing trick.
This process doesnt work for all photos of course, odd things like collections of oddly shaped items for example, but should you have
a simple border like weve got here, presto! A good example how how this can create odd results is also contained in the gallery below extend the dog! This application is a cool$0.99 on the iTunes App Store today. AntiCrop for iPhone, iPad 2 expands photos beyond their borders is written by Chris Burns& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Kia Optima and Kia Rondo recalled amid faulty airbags

Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:09:02 PM
Theres another recall on the books, auto owners, this time for 146,000 Kia vehicles on the road due to faulty airbag systems. The models youve got to look out for at the 2006-08 Kia Optima as well as the 2007-08 Kia Rondo, and the situation is that the spring system in the drivers side of the vehicle may become damaged over time this resulting in no airbag deployment in crashes, that
being bad. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration administered this recall alert this week. Kia reported this problem last week, and the recall is expected to take place en masse starting in March, so says that NHTSA. This vehicle has otherwise had no such similar problems, and youre encouraged top contact you local dealer now if youd like to get a fix in the future. Customers affected by the problem will be able to have the problem fixed at
look any good? Is it a law that theyre not allowed to hire graphic designers with any salt? [ via CNN] Kia Optima and Kia Rondo recalled amid faulty airbags is written by Chris Burns& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved. their local dealer free of charge when the time comes. You can also call the NHTSA vehicle safety hotline at 1-888327-4236 or visit the NHTSA at SaferCar.gov, taking special note of the terrible graphic design theyve got going on there. Sidenote: why is it that government run websites never
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Mish on Capital Account Live TV: Discussion of Money Supply, Inflation, the Fed, SOPA; GOP Chairman Shelves Stop Online Piracy Act - A Triumph for Whom?
noreply@blogger.com (Mike Mish Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
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minutes after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced he would shelve the Senate's version of the anti-piracy Submitted at 1/20/2012 10:37:00 AM On Thursday I had the pleasure legislation, the Protect IP Act. of doing another segment on The move is a stunning Capital Account with Lauren acknowledgment of failure for the Lyster. I come in at about the 3:45 powerful chairman. minute mark for much of the rest Smith was the author of SOPA of the 30 minute session. and its most vocal proponent. He Link if video does not play: had repeatedly said the bill did not SOPA's War on the Financial need to be changed and accused Blogosphere, Mark-to-Market and the critics of "spreading lies." Depression Economics with Mish But support for the bill collapsed I had fun doing this and may be after a massive Web protest on back next week. Wednesday. Major sites including SOPA Dead (for Now) Google and Wikipedia either shut By the way, thanks to silicon down in protest or displayed valley companies including messages opposing the legislation. Google and Facebook, as well as Triumph for the Little Guys vast majority of bloggers who This was a triumph "for" the little were well out in front of this guys (bloggers and alternate news issue, The Hill reports GOP sources). It was also a triumph for chairman shelves Stop Online justice and common sense (as Piracy Act. well as defense of freedom of House Judiciary Committee speech). Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) I would like to report this was a announced on Friday that he will triumph "by" the little guys but postpone consideration of his Stop unfortunately it wasn't. When Online Piracy Act (SOPA) until campaign contributions stop from there is wider agreement on the Google and other big money controversial legislation. corporations, politicians listen. Smith's announcement came just This was one set of big donors
(media giants) vs. another set of big donors (internet companies). Lamar Smith vowed to revisit the issue. "It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products." Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
Brees: Focus on keeping Saints together

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Drew Brees says he would be "beyond stunned" if he and the New Orleans Saints don't come to
an agreement on a contract Payton this week. extension during this offseason, echoing comments by coach Sean
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Obama Pushes Hard to Hearing Focuses The LWOT: Al-NashiriProtect Big Bankson from Fraud Mail DebateProsecutions ... But We Can Stop Him
JENNIFER ROWLAND (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 7:49:43 AM
George Washington the New Foreign Policy and America 1/20/2012 11:07:18 AM Submitted at Foundation bring you a twice weekly brief on the legal As we've noted can read on war on terror. Youfor years,itthe entire strategy of Washington foreignpolicy.com or get it towards the economy is to cover delivered directly to your inbox -up sign up here. BY JENNIFER justthe fraud which caused the financial crisisJANUARY 20, ROWLAND| ... even though prosecuting fraud and re2012 establishing the rule of law is the Al-Nashiri hearing focuses on only way mail debateto get out of this depression. Guantnamo Bay The Saudi One i n e front c u s e d o f d e t amajor e a incWashington's cover-up effort the 2000 USS mastermindinghas been to settle fraud bombing, Abd big banks for Cole cases with the al-Rahim alpennies on the dollar.a This is a Nashiri, appeared at pre-trial backdooron January 17, banks, hearing bailout for the where encourages them to the defense's debate centered on commit more fraud, and fails to plug the basic motion to stop the reading of holes in the economy which are privileged attorney-client mail by preventing practice ordered by prison staff,aa recovery. Why are we bringing this up Guantnamo commander Rear now? David Woods ( AFP, Adm. Because R e a r A d m . W giant C N N ) . Obama is making ao o d s push to pressure 17 states testified on January the that the attorneys general to settle(PRT) Privilege Review Team all of their mortgage-related fraud examines the prison's incoming claims against the contraband, mail only to look for banks for pennies glancing at each as well as on the dollar. page to cYvesk Smith - twho has v e ear e n h e c t h a t h e y h a an b e to properly marked as "privileged" ( Post, Reuters, McClatchy). Navy Commander Andrea Telegraph Staff (Finance News Lockhart testified at al-Nashiri's - Business news from the UK hearing on January 18 that the and world) new mail-reading orders had come on December 27 after a copy of al-Qaeda in the Arabian
the ground on this - warns that a settlement which hurts consumers and the economy will happen very quickly if people don't raise a ruckus. Smith is asking people to call their state attorney general (not their elected reps) to oppose the settlement: Here are some of the reasons to oppose a settlement: 1. There have been virtually no investigations, and the Administration has engaged in cover-ups rather than trying to get to the bottom of the mortgage mess 2. The big argument made in favor of the deal, that it will help borrowers, is patently false. Remember, Countrywide entered into a deal with attorney generals just like this, where they agreed to do mods in return for a settlement on abuses. Guess what? They didnt do the mods. To add insult to injury, they actually abused homeowners who should have gotten mods. Nevada AG is suing Countrywide now over its failure
to comply with the terms of its settlement. And even if some mods miraculously did get done, the settlement is designed to have banks hit a dollar amount. That means they will focus on the biggest loans, which means any relief will go to a comparatively small number of people in (originally) big ticket houses. 3. The Administration has only one chance to get this right. Now you might argue that Team Obama has no intention of getting the mortgage mess right, but the tectonic plates suddenly seem to be moving in elite circles. The Fed realizes that housing is a BIG problem and has even started making noise about it. Yet Obama is moving forward with a plan cooked up in late 2010 that is completely out of whack with the urgency and severity of the problem. Note that this settlement will NOT stop private actions, such as borrowers fighting foreclosures. And we will continue to banks refuse to take losses and drag out foreclosures to
maximize fees. That will lead to continued pressure on housing prices in many markets as buyers stay on the sidelines, fearful of buying before a large shadow inventory clears. Leaving the AGs free to investigate and increase the pressure that is already building up in the system is the best chance we have to deal with widespread fraud. The attorneys general really need your support. It helps them to hear that their constituents appreciate them standing up to the banks and the Obama administration. PLEASE call them TODAY. Here is a list of phone numbers. If you cant get through, send an email. Please also sign this petition from Campaign for Americas Future (it has some talking points if you need them for the AG calls). Note you can opt out of being put on their mailing list (I know that has been a sore point with some past petitions). I know it is futile to ping Obama, but they will collect
the number of people who sign, and that will in turn bolster the dissident AGs. Please call today. Unlike Congresscritters, who get a lot of constituent mail and phone calls, AGs get much less in the way of messages from state citizens, so your calls will make a difference. Smith tells me that it is especially important for residents of California, Virgina, Texas, Florida and South Carolina to call their attorneys general and tell them that they need to stand firm in the face of pressure from Obama. Average: Your rating: None This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
UK retail sales rise as shops cut prices

Shoppers came out in force during December, according to official retail sales figures, which Zarein Ahmedzay, --of trying to recruit a fourth suspect identified suggested the high street might be in a less dire position than feared. Pakistani-American, Moeed Abdul Salam, whose wealthy massive church bombing on Christmas Day 2011 escaped from Two bomb blasts rocked the Northern Irish city of
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Time to Concede Home "Ownership" is a Fraud; Fixing the "Un-Real Estate Mess"
Submitted at 1/20/2012 2:54:00 AM
Every week someone sends me an idea on how to fix various housing problems. Many want home prices to stop falling and many others want to bail out homeowners because banks were bailed out (as if two wrongs make a right). Others want to stop foreclosures even though the very best thing for most of the people in trouble would be to shed the albatross by walking away. The one thing they all have in common is a misguided proposal to bailout someone at the expense of someone else (typically the government but few figure out the government means taxpayers). I have long-stated the best thing to do is nothing. Indeed if nothing is done, home prices will drop low enough that investors will want to buy them. Delays in foreclosures only serve to delay the housing recovery. Fixing the "Un-Real Estate Mess" Last week I received a different kind of proposal that merits a much closer look than all of the various bailout proposals I have seen to date. My friend "BC" writes ... Hello Mish The only long-term durable
solution to the unreal estate mess is to cease further securitization by agencies and shut them down. It's time to concede that "homeownership" is a fraud. When there is $16 trillion in mortgage and consumer debt outstanding and an estimated $16 trillion in residential unreal estate value, with the risk of another 20% decline in prices, there is no "ownership". Rather, virtually everyone with a mortgage is renting debt-money from a lender and leasing the land from a local taxing authority. The mortgagees have a "dead pledge" in the value of the debt owed, not an "asset". The lenders and taxing authorities are the "owners" of a lien (a bond or constraint on the real property), which entitles them to income in the form of compounding interest and tax receipts in perpetuity. Unreal estate is the best investment for lenders and taxing authorities, not dead-pledgers. The value of an unreal estate loan should not exceed the householder's income and should be 100% collateralized by an asset or funds other than the property. If someone wants to mortgage a house, and his household income is $50,000 (around the current US median household income), he should not be lent more than $50,000, and he should have at
least that much in collateral in order to qualify for a "dead pledge". That way, the debt is selfliquidating. Terms should be no more than 10 years. By the way, this system was generally the norm for centuries before the period after WW II. We assume that what has been the norm in our lifetimes is the only way it should be or can be. We have the colossal mess because we have allowed ourselves to be taken over by the rentier mentality, which always leads in the extreme to unserviceable debts, extreme wealth and income concentration, and economic and social crises and collapse. A further decline of 15-20% in residential unreal estate values will mean a complete wipeout of all US household net wealth/ equity of the bottom 90% in terms of mortgage debt and consumer credit outstanding. In effect, 270 million or more Americans are already renters or neo-feudal peasants "bound to the land" by mortgage and consumer debt and the tax code. It is appalling and obscene that we assume as a normative condition spending 5-6 times the perceived market value (debtbased value) of a house over a lifetime when costs of principal, interest, taxes, and maintenance/
improvements are included, whereas the rentiers have little or no accompanying social obligations to support public infrastructure required for productive enterprise. Worse yet, in the process of favoring and enabling the rentier domination, we punitively tax labor, production, productive capital investment, savings, and productive capital accumulation while encouraging rentier speculation, waste, ecological degradation, and resource depletion. Increasing non-productive rentier gains to the top 0.1-0.4% of US households have resulted in deindustrialization, militarization, financialization, hopeless indebtedness, obscene wealth and income concentration, and the gutting of the productive capacity of the US economy. Banks should not be permitted to take a $1 deposit, set aside $0.03 in reserve, and then lend $1 at a 710%/yr. growth rate and then go broke and have to be recapitalized by the central bank and government borrowing every 9-11 years when compounding interest burden exceeds labor product growth. Banks should be required to collateralize all loans at 100%; that is, only be allowed to lend their own money, not depositors'
money. However, banks should be allowed to charge whatever they like for custodial services. Banking should not be permitted to make money from making money and thus encourage wider use of increasing leverage to capture eventually all net after-tax real labor product for a generation, leaving labor incapable of sustaining itself after taxes and debt service. Of course, all of this would mean effectively returning to something like a Victorian-era banking standard, which no rentier, politician, or most of the public will accept. My friend "HB" replied to "BC" ... I absolutely agree, except I would also allow banks to be middlemen between savers and borrowers, i.e., allow them to lend out savings that have a fixed term for a corresponding fixed term. That way no new deposit money would be created. Libertarian Approach Under the conditions outlined above, home prices would be very stable. Some might question how that would fit in with a libertarian approach. I have an answer: In a free market there would not be a Fannie Mae, a Freddie Mac, a HUD, or an FHA. More importantly, fractional reserve TIME page 41
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Chinese Manufacturing Recession Continues 3rd Straight Month; Romneys Tough China Talk May Fall Flat in South Carolina
Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:41:00 AM
The manufacturing slowdown in China continues for the third consecutive month prompting a Bloomberg headline China Manufacturing Boosts Case for Easing A Chinese purchasing managers index signaled manufacturing may contract for a third month as a slowing economy boosts the case for the government to further loosen credit controls. The preliminary January reading of 48.8 for the gauge, released by HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics today, compares with a final 48.7 number for December. The dividing line between contraction and expansion is 50. Chinas central bank last month reduced banks reserve requirements for the first time in three years to encourage lending and Premier Wen Jiabao this month reiterated a pledge to finetune policies as needed to support growth. The nations central bank is allowing the five biggest lenders to increase first-quarter credit by a maximum of about 5 percent from
a year earlier, said two people at state lenders who have knowledge of the matter. Separately, the banking regulator is weighing a plan to relax capital requirements, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. Chinas gross domestic product increased 8.9 percent in the last three months of 2011 from a year earlier, the fourth straight quarterly slowdown and the weakest pace in 10 quarters. Growth may drop to below 8 percent this quarter, according to estimates from UBS AG, Nomura Holdings Inc. and Societe Generale SA, as export demand cools further and the government maintains its campaign to rein in housing costs. Home prices fell last month in 52 of 70 Chinese cities from November, according to government data released Jan. 18. The worlds largest exporter posted the smallest gains in overseas sales and in imports for two years in December from a year earlier, excluding holiday distortions. Romneys Tough China Talk Please consider Romneys Tough China Talk May Fall Flat in SC While Mitt Romney is a long way from the White House, he
already knows what he would do on his first day in the Oval Office: crack down on Chinese cheating on trade. Romney vows to designate China a currency manipulator and impose duties on its imports if the yuan isnt allowed to float freely. As Republicans prepare for tomorrows presidential primary in South Carolina, that pledge may cheer companies such as steelmaker Nucor Corp. (NUE), which has a plant in Darlington and is among those blaming Chinese subsidies for eroding profits. Yet South Carolina, long a battleground for textile makers fighting to block imports, is increasingly prospering through overseas ties and could suffer in any trade war. Companies such as Frances Michelin & Cie., Germanys Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Swedens Husqvarna AB employ more than 102,000 state residents. And a dozen Chinese manufacturers have set up shop. We cant be protectionist; look at who our biggest employers are, said Bob Faith, former state commerce secretary, who cited several foreign-owned companies. That is South Carolina, and these
are South Carolina jobs. China Threat Plays The Communist Chinese are a threat to our economy and way of life gets play among a broad spectrum conservative base no matter where you sing that tune, e-mailed Scott Huffmon, director of the Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory at Winthrop University in Rock Hill. It just so happens that the 2012 tour is swinging through S.C. this week. Other Republican candidates have warned of Chinas emergence. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has described the nations rise as a threat, although he says the U.S., which ran a $26.9 billion trade deficit with China in November, can defeat the challenge by rebuilding its manufacturing base and maintaining a strong defense. At a candidates debate last night in North Charleston, Representative Ron Paul said Americans shouldnt be frightened about trade because it often helps them to save money by buying cheaper products from overseas. Former Senator Rick Santorum said the corporate tax rate should be cut to zero for companies that manufacture in the
U.S. to stem the loss of American jobs. I do not know if his Romney's talk will fall flat in South Carolina, but I do know the results will be a disaster if actually implemented. Expect to see a net loss of jobs if Romney is economically-stupid enough to do what he says. If Romney increases tariffs three things will happen, all of them bad. Prices will rise Growth will slow China will retaliate with tariffs of its own or by buying more goods from Europe instead of goods from US produces In essence everyone will pay higher prices for goods and services in hopes of bring back a few hundred manufacturing jobs (while losing tens-of-thousands of jobs in the ensuing economic slowdown). Once again, Ron Paul is the only candidate on the right side of this issue. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My CHINESE page 41
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The Stock Ramp Is Just More Deja Vu "Insanity" Warns Morgan Stanley
Tyler Durden
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:23:01 AM
When Morgan Stanley now agrees with most of what Zero Hedge has been saying (especially when it earlier announced that a short covering rally in the EURUSD is imminent, as we have been warning for the past two weeks), it may be time to get
concerned. From Morgan Stanley: "Most investors I speak with concur with the view that growth is likely to be below trend for the next several years thanks to deleveraging and a more stringent regulatory environment. However, there is quite a bit of excitement over the probability of QE3 being implemented at some point during 2Q. Exhibit 5 shows just how
excited stock investors seem to be getting over this prospect, especially in relation to their fixed income peers. But, this is almost always the case when animal spirits get going. The last time I pointed out such a divergence (October of last year), the SPX had a swift 10% correction over the proceeding 3 weeks. I have no idea whether we are likely to get
such a correctly immediately, but I sure cant rule it out and I am pretty confident you wont be able to get out of the way unscathed. Just another reason for why I want to be paired off right now." Also, this time will never be different: " Didnt we learn anything from the Japanese experience of the past 20 years! I might be more on board with the
program if I thought we were making real progress on the things that matter for sustainable organic growth. Unfortunately, I just dont see it." Morgan Stanley's Mike Wilson Insanity Wasnt it just a year ago that we had the exact same set-up? STOCK page 41
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Growth was slowing, Greece was close to default and there was unrest in Middle East. I guess one could argue China is no longer tightening policy and Europe is closer to the end of their crisis. On the other hand, earnings growth in the US is now decelerating and likely to get worse over the next several quarters. Furthermore, the political environment in the US has rarely been more charged and bipartisan than it is today. The S&P500 is trading almost exactly where it was at this time last year, but with a lower multiple. This is the direct result of higher earnings in 2011 than 2010 but with the prospect of lower growth going forward. This makes sense to me. Most investors I speak with concur with the view that growth is likely to be below trend for the next several years thanks to deleveraging and a more stringent regulatory environment. However, there is quite a bit of excitement over the probability of QE3 being implemented at some point during 2Q. Exhibit 5 shows just how excited stock investors seem to be getting over this prospect, especially in relation to their fixed income peers. But, this is almost always the case when animal
spirits get going. The last time I pointed out such a divergence (October of last year), the SPX had a swift 10% correction over the proceeding 3 weeks. I have no idea whether we are likely to get such a correctly immediately, but I sure cant rule it out and I am pretty confident you wont be able to get out of the way unscathed. Just another reason for why I want to be paired off right now. Id like to end this weeks note with a quote from Albert Einstein who said Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome. I feel like this is exactly where we are today with respect to the policy choices being made all over the world. Do we really think the result of QE3 is going to be any different than QE2? Or that the second European LTRO is going to end up resolving Europes solvency problems simply because the Fed is now supporting a larger effort via its open swaps line? Didnt we learn anything from the Japanese experience of the past 20 years! I might be more on board with the program if I thought we were making real progress on the things that matter for sustainable organic
growth. Unfortunately, I just dont see it. While I am watching many things to determine if the facts are actually changing, there is one metric in particular that has to turn for me to get more constructive fundamentally. I am talking about personal income growth excluding government transfers. Until this shows some signs of life, I will remain highly skeptical that additional policy stimulus will end differently than what we have recently experienced. Exhibit 6 tells the sad story of our current plight and how this current rally will likely end. Until then, I will look forward to my next lunch with Adam Parker. Average: Your rating: None Average: 5( 1 vote) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
lending would be outlawed as fraud, and there would be no Fed. Perhaps some lenders would be willing to make loans longer than 10 years, but not many. I would not stop those who did. Rather than a set of rules that "BC" proposed, a free market left on its own accord would gravitate to a set of workable procedures, probably very close to what "BC" suggested. Long-Term Solution In light of the above, the required solution is to Get rid of the Fed Get rid of fractional reserve lending Get rid of Fannie Mae, Freddie, Mac, HUD, and the FHA One presidential candidate has those views. That person is Ron Paul. Mike "Mish" Shedlock
h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
A Month-by-Month Guide to Grocery Sales [Saving Money]

Melanie Pinola (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 9:00:00 AM
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Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and
low volatility, regardless of Pacific. market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka
Grocery items go on sale in predictable cycles, thanks to seasonality and weird holidays like National Oatmeal Month (January). This means you can save tons on your food budget
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EIA: Boosting Natural Gas Exports Will Trigger A Monster Surge In Prices
Rob Wile (Money Game)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:21:00 AM
Everyone's aware of the enormous backlash from environmentalists over the effects of drilling for natural gas. Hydrofracking has been said to cause earthquakes, pollute the water and even warm the earth. But there's another, more important fight brewing over the future of the country's fastestgrowing industry. A study released Thursday by the Energy Information Administration concludes that allowing natural gas exports to increase could cause domestic prices to surge as much as 54 percent, as early as 2018. Bloomberg reports that as Congress reviews new export permits, leading members have voiced concern about new approvals. The U.S. may be trading away the enormous economic advantage of having large, lowcost domestic natural gas supply, Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon told Bloomberg. Economics 101 says that's not a surprising find prices must
increase eventually. But the study sets the stage for a fight that will determine just how fast they'll rise. In May, according to Lou Kilzer of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Department of Energy quietly gave approval for Houston-based Cheniere Energy Inc. to export 2.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day from its Sabine Pass, La., port terminal the first time the government granted permission to export American-
produced gas overseas from the lower 48 states. But T. Boone Pickens told Kilzer that allowing exports would cripple consumers and amount to a natural security issue. If we do it, Pickens said,"we're truly going to go down as the dumbest generation." "It's bad public policy to export natural gas a cleaner, cheaper domestic resource and import more expensive, dirtier OPEC oil," he said.
Were exports limited to 6 billion cubic feet and phased in over six years, prices would only rise up to 14 percent by 2022. Boosting exports to 12 billion cubic feet over four years would drive prices up 36 percent in 2018, the report stated. The Natural Gas Act states the Department of Energy must grant a permit "unless it finds that such action is not consistent with the public interest." The EIA study seems to make a strong case that fast-tracking permits would not be. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: This Big Red Bar Explains Why Natural Gas Prices Are Plummeting SocGen: 'This Time Is Different' For North American Natural Gas Germany Will Avoid Recession Even As 2012 Growth Slows
Matt Kisses Luciana as Their Getaway With Elsa and Chris Continues
Mackenzie Wagoner (PopSugar)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 9:19:39 AM
Luciana and Matt Damon continued their vacation with Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky on St. Barts yesterday. There was more shirtless time in store when Chris put his Thor muscles to the test by bodysurfing. Matt, meanwhile, passed the afternoon swimming and kissing his wife, Luciana. Despite Matt Damon being shirtless for a dip Wednesday, this time he was covered up in a rash guard. Being pregnant hasn't slowed down Elsa! Elsa went watersliding in her bikini during the trip, and continued to test the water in her two-piece. View Slideshow
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Hungary Looks Likely To Back Down In EU Legal Dispute

Gavan Reilly (Money Game)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:01:20 PM
THE HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT has given a strong indication that it is likely to back down in its legal dispute with the European Union over controversial changes to its constitution which go against EU law. Prime minister Victor Orban told a radio interview that the complaints raised by the European Commission which this week initiated legal proceedings against Hungary over the changes would be not an especially difficult matter. The government had already come up with proposals to address the crisis, the Budapest Business Journal reports Orban as saying, with the parliament ready to adopt the proposals when it returns from recess on February 13. The Daily Telegraph said Orkan was also abandoning his plans to merge the central bank and the regulator of its financial markets. The European Commission had cried foul over the proposals which brought in an enforced
retirement age for the countrys judiciary, forcing 274 judges into compulsory retirement, a move which contravenes EU treaties. The government had also given itself the power to govern the national data protection body, as well as giving its finance minister a seat on the board of governors of the national central bank. That move meant that the government could take a direct role in monetary policy and
financial circumstances, which have required it to begin talks with the IMF over an alternative source of funding. Markets remain reluctant to lend to Hungary, which was today being charged over 9.3 per cent interest for 10-year loans. EU takes legal action against Hungary over new constitution Hungary asks EU to explain legal threats over new constitution Please follow Europe on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: The EU Is Taking Legal Action Against Hungary Over New potentially result in political Constitution Bulgaria Votes pressure being put on the ECB, if Overwhelmingly To Ban Fracking Hungary was to join the euro and have its central bank take a seat SETH GODIN: If You're An on the ECBs governing council. Average Worker, You're Going Further progress is likely to be Straight To The Bottom made next week when Orban Presented By: Win New meets with the European Council Customers president Herman van Rompuy, and with European Commission Ads by Pheedo president Jose Manuel Barroso. Hungarys concession is most likely because of its deteriorating
Eeks! Beavis and Butt-Head in real life

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Submitted at 1/20/2012 10:02:00 AM
Makeup effects artist Kevin Kirkpatrick extracts the toon from Beavis and Butt-Head with eerily lifelike sculptures of the horny, headbanging, video-critiquing MTV stars. Enjoy your nightmares, bungholes. Heh heh heh. More images at Reddit. Sometimes art is creepy. Permalink| Leave a comment
Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in Calif. (AP)

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Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:52:03 AM
AP - Etta James' performance of A n g e l i c - s o u n d i n g s t r i n g s the enduring classic "At Last" was harkened the arrival of her the embodiment of refined soul: passionate yet measured vocals as
she sang tenderly about a love finally realized after a long and patient wait.
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Global Deleveraging - You Are (Not) Here

Tyler Durden
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:07:19 AM
In most countries, deleveraging is only in its early stages. In a report today, McKinsey notes that total debt to GDP has declined in only three countries since the 2008-09 crisis (US, South Korea, and Australia) as total debt has actually grown in the world's ten largest mature economies (due mainly to rising government debt - Keynesian style?). Greatly concerned that the UK and Spain are slow to delever, they do note that the US is more closely following the two phase deleveraging process that 1990s Finland and Sweden followed but point to the household segment as leading the way with 15% reduction in debt to disposable
borrow and fill the aggregate Keynesian hole left behind. McKinsey points out deleveraging normally takes 4-6 years which we suspect will remain an anchor for demand and growth in the mean-time (perhaps as disappointing earnings revisions are already pointing to). Average: Your rating: None Average: 3( 2 votes) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it income (driven unsurprisingly in significant pressures(which will on someone else's site, please read major part by mortgage defaults). inevitably impact aggregate the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentT h e b o t t o m l i n e i s U S demand given governmental only/faq.php#publishers. Five (households) are at best one-third borrowing pressures) as their Filters recommends: Donate to o f t h e w a y t h r o u g h t h e i r deleveraging has only just begun. Wikileaks. d e l e v e r a g i n g a n d t h e U K Historically, deleveraging has (financials) and Spain (non- begun in the private sector and financials) face much more government has stepped up to
Keep Cakes Moist Overnight with a Slice of Bread [Baking]

Melanie Pinola (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 9:30:00 AM
It might sound (and look) a bit ridiculous, but the Baked Bree blog swears that this trick works for preventing cakes and other baked goods from getting stale before their time: Put a slice of bread on them. More
Europe's Stock Market Rally Finally Fails

Simone Foxman (Money Game)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 10:56:40 AM
Major European markets closed down today, amid renewed concerns about Greece. Germany's DAX: -0.07% France's CAC 40: -0.15%. England's FTSE 100: -0.18% Greece and its creditors looked close to reaching an agreement on
debt swap plans that are an integral piece of its next bailout. However, a CNBC report that no deal had been reached yet that came out not long before the European closing bell ensured that markets closed in the red today. Bond yields in Spain and Italy also began marching back up black swans of the European today. Financial companies were the markets today, with many banks
still closing in the green. Here are selected gains so far in U.S. markets: Societe Generale: +4.05% Commerzbank: +7.11% Credit Suisse:+1.41% Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also:
The Market Is Incredibly Complacent In The Midst Of Horrible Headlines GLOBAL RALLY CONTINUES: European Yields Continue To Tank Here's A Look At Spain's Unemployment Rate Versus The Rest Of The Developed World
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'2012: Prophecy or Panic' Director Warns Dec. 21 Could Bring Deception

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historians, researchers, authors, astronomers and theologians in a discussion over the meaning of the enigmatic date (Dec. 21, ( P h o t o : C l o u d T e n 2012). Van Heerden shared in an Pictures)"2012 Prophecy or interview with The Christian Post P a n i c " d i r e c t o r A n d r e v a n that the film is trying to show how Heerden in front of the Mayan the changes going on in the world ruins in this undated photo. might align with biblical prophecies, such as the Rapture. Dec. 21, 2012, marks the end of The Mayan prophecies are based the Mayan calendar, and has on this big round calendar [which stirred much discussion and says that] the world is supposed to debate about what that might end on December 21 of this year. signify. Some fear the end of the Along with that, there are many calendar might mark the time of people who say that a weakening the end of all life; others predict it magnetic pull, increased solar will be the dawn of a new era. activity, the elliptical alignment of However, Andr van Heerden, the the universe, as well as planet writer and director of 2012: Nibiru, also known as 'Planet X,' P R O P H E C Y O R P A N I C ? might affect our planet. believes it is wise for Christians to Others, beside Van Heerden, b e p r e p a r e d f o r a n y t h i n g have referenced planet Nibiru. regardless of what actually may However, NASA scientists insist happen on that day. that no such planet exists. Van Heerden, who is also an Like us on Facebook executive producer at Cloud Ten Nibiru is ridiculous because it Pictures, the production company doesn't exist it never existed as behind the movie, has worked on anything other than a figment of a number of Christian-themed the imagination by pseudofilms in the past, such as "Left s c i e n t i s t s w h o d o n ' t s e e m Behind" (2000) and "Revelation" bothered by a complete lack of (1999). evidence, Don Yeomans, 2 0 1 2 : P R O P H E C Y O R manager of NASA's Near-Earth P A N I C ? b r i n g s t o g e t h e r Object program office at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told SPACE.com. Van Heerden insists that the culminating apocalyptic theories involve more than just looking at the Mayan prophecy alone. All these theories seem to come to a climax on December 2012, so there is this pseudo- science that goes on with the Mayan predictions. We look at each of those and talk to experts regarding their field and see what their opinions are on those sort of things, Van Heerden said of the 2012 documentary. He elaborated that the overall theme throughout 2012: PROPHECY OR PANIC? is that there are many theories about the end of the world circulating in the public, some of which sound compelling. Despite opinions about which theories may actually be considered credible, people should nonetheless be aware of what is going on, the director said. The world is changing, and one of those changes could be the return of Christ, Van Heerden insisted. He continued with a warning to believers: There is so much focus on December 21, 2012 that
we believe there is going to be some sort of deception happening on that date. We are warning Christians not to get caught up in all the media hype and all the speculation. And if something does actually happen, Van Heerden said, Christians should not go Oh, they are right, and my Bible is wrong. They need to look at it objectively, through the lens of the Bible, and realize that the Rapture may happen through events that are set up this year. We are encouraging Christians to be ready and aware of the world that we live in, he said. On the subject of possible preparations some people may be making amid apocalyptic fears, Van Heerden revealed: I have heard of some people paying up to $100,000 for underground shelters being built in preparation of different things that can happen in 2012, and looking at the big budget Hollywood movie, '2012,' and those sorts of natural disasters that can happen. I personally think it is foolish to spend so much money for something like that the best way to prepare for the future is to read
the Bible and see what it has to say about our current world and current events that are coming up, (and seeing how they align) with biblical prophecies. He added, The Bible has been 100 percent accurate (in terms of predictions) be it with returning the Jews to Jerusalem, the problems in the Middle East, all those sorts of things we really do believe that the Rapture is coming. In terms of building shelters I think it is people putting their faith in themselves and man-made things rather than in an eternal God. 2012: PROPHECY OR PANIC? is available on DVD on Cloud Ten Pictures' website. A trailer for the film can be seen below: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Gay Activists Rebuked for 'Bullying' Santorum Over Opposition to Gay Marriage
announced his exploratory committee, she announced. She then explained her son was gay, although he had no problem (Photo: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi) with Santorums stance on gay Republican presidential candidate marriage: I dont have any f o r m e r U . S . S e n a t o r R i c k problems with his stance on gay Santorum (R-PA) speaks during a marriage because I dont believe R e p u b l i c a n p r e s i d e n t i a l in gay marriage, her son told her. candidates debate in Concord, Although her son was accepting New Hampshire, January 8, 2012. of Santorums stance, she said his (Photo: REUTERS/Jason Reed) friends were still very influenced Republican presidential candidate by others. I still have that sense and former Pennsylvania Senator of guilt, because his friends react Rick Santorum listens to a to what they hear, she said. question from a member of the What he (my son) hears is Oh, a u d i e n c e a s h e s p e a k s t o Rick Santorum hates gays. supporters at The Flight Deck She asked Santorum how best to restaurant in Lexington, South deal with such harsh comments. Carolina, January 17, 2012. The Like us on Facebook South Carolina Primary will be Karen Santorum, the GOP held on January 21. candidate's wife, immediately stepped up to address the issue T h i s i s a p u b l i c p o l i c y and reject the false claims. I difference. I think the problem is think its very sad what the gay t h a t s o m e s e e t h a t p o l i c y activists have done out there, she difference as a personal assault, said. Rick does not hate anyone, Santorum asserted. he loves them. What he has The issue arose as Santorum was simply said is that marriage conducting his campaign in South ( b e t w e e n t h e m ) s h o u l d n t Carolina Monday. A mother in the h a p p e n . audience used the question time to She referred to the slanderous explain her dilemma: I have been comments as backyard bullying. supporting the senator since he Gay activists, such as Dan
Savage, have been accused of such bullying. The activist, who also owns and licenses website, It Gets Better ironically an anti-bullying site for young teens has developed his own site to bash Santorum. The website contains several lewd remarks about the senator and his views. Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, called Savage's site "heinous and malicious Web slander," and described it as "advanced cyber-bullying, pure and simple. Santorum himself went on to express disappointment over the comments the mother referred to in her question on Monday. He clarified his views on traditional marriage and his reasons for supporting it. I believe the reason governments include marriage in their laws is because we need to consider what is best for mothers, fathers, and children. Santorum clearly stated that he held no hatred toward homosexuals and had no issues accepting others relationships, so long as it did not negatively impact the future of society. He explained, We need to affirm
that people can have other relationships that are important, affirm that they are fine but they cant be what is essential to the future of our country. We shouldnt be a society that denies our children and our future whats best for them. Its already rough enough out there, he said. We should not change the law to create an atmosphere where children and families are not being supported. Santorums success in the Iowa caucus (he came in second) has created increased awareness over the impact Christian evangelicals may have in the elections. Gary Marx, executive director of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, attributed some of Santorums success to the fact that he has reached out to younger evangelicals. He's been more on the side of talking about the poor and compassionate conservative concepts and that is something that does bridge out to younger evangelicals, Marx said in a statement to The Christian Post. Over the weekend, Santorum also received an endorsement from evangelical and conservative
Christian leaders who met in Texas to try and unite around a candidate. A supermajority voted at the meeting to back Santorum while around a quarter chose to support Newt Gingrich. Prominent evangelical Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, indicated on Monday to Fox News that Santorum was chosen because he has stood on the issues of life and family through thick and thin. Post a Christian job now or browse employment opportunities to get hired fast on ChristianHire.com, your best Christian jobs site. Browse Christian Jobs now This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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What Did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Think of Homosexuality?

The ongoing debate was recently sparked by Michael Long, author of the upcoming book Keeping It Straight? Martin Luther King, Jr., Homosexuality, and Gay Rights, who feels the civil rights leader would have sided with those advocating for gay marriage. However, most do not believe King would have petitioned for homosexual marriage. The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of The Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, told The Christian Post that in studying Kings speeches, he could not conceive the civil rights leader heading a gay rights movement. King was a man sent by God to do His will and there is no way that you can have that type of relationship with God and accept wrong as right," Peterson told CP. "In the scriptures it says that homosexuality is an abomination against God. However, the author of the controversial new book, Long, has
decided to assert that King would have been a gay activist. Dr. King never publicly welcomed gays at the front gate of his beloved community. But he did leave behind a key for them his belief that each person is sacred, free and equal to all to others, Long said, attempting to infer that universal freedom and equality would equate to an acceptance of homosexuality. Like us on Facebook In a CNN report, the author recently highlighted a 1958 letter published in Ebony magazine. In the letter, King responded to an anonymous boy who was confused about his homosexuality. I am a boy, the anonymous person wrote. But I feel about boys the way I ought to feel about girls. I don't want my parents to know about me. What can I do? King, responded to the boy by calling his feelings toward the same gender a problem, but stating that he could find a solution. The type of feeling that you have toward boys is probably not an
innate tendency, but something that has been culturally acquired, King responded in the 1958 column. You are already on the right road toward a solution, since you honestly recognize the problem and have a desire to solve it. However, despite King's clear reference to homosexuality as a "problem" and something "culturally acquired," others still choose to believe that King would have supported gay activists in today's era simply because he loved all people. The Rev. C.T. Vivian has expressed the belief that King would have had sympathy for the gay cause. Vivian, who worked with King at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said the late civil rights leader loved all people of God. Martin was a theologian, Vivian said in a CNN report. Martin starts with the fact that God loves everybody, and all men and all women were created by God. He based his whole philosophy on Gods love for all people. However, most others do not
come to the conclusion that just because King believed in God's love towards all people, that this would mean he would have supported gay activist agendas, such as the push to redefine marriage to include homosexuals. The generally held conservative Christian viewpoint is that God's love is indeed for everybody, but that homosexuality is described in the Bible as a sin, and that God's universal love would not equate to the acceptance of sinful actions, such as homosexual acts. King's own daughter has openly taken a strong stance against gay activism. In 2005, the Rev. Bernice King led a march to her father's grave, asking for a constitutional ban on gay marriage. Bernice, who once attended Bishop Eddie Long's church, announced that she would begin her own ministry after a homosexual scandal developed in Long's congregation. "Im going to launch a ministry. Im not calling it a church right now, she said during an interview with Atlanta radio
station Praise 102.5 last year. What God is showing me doesnt look like what people are accustomed to. At a conference in New Zealand, Bernice spoke about her father's position on homosexuality saying, "I know deep down in my sanctified soul that he did not take a bullet for same-sex unions." Although the Rev. Peterson did not know King in the same way Bernice did, he acknowledged that the civil rights leader would most likely disapprove of the acts homosexuals were committing. Nothing indicates that he would think homosexuality is from God, normal and something that we should take on as right, Peterson told CP. He wouldn't tell us to hate homosexuals, but to show them how to overcome sin. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Design a Samuel Adams beer

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 10:20:00 AM
Now this is a fun project. Im
helping Samuel Adams tap the knowledge of beer drinkers and crowd source its next brew. Join the party by getting the app and
designing your beer:
The final brew will be released in Austin in the first week of March. #sponsored Permalink| Leave a comment
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Robo-Copter Will Keep Tabs on Navy's Biofuel Plants

Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:00:00 PM
Photo: Leptron The Navy is hoping to one day run a huge chunk of its fleet on biofuels. So the Navys advanced researchers and their partners at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are turning to a tiny robotic helicopter to help them figure out which crop they might be able to convert into their fuel of the future. The experiment is taking place over 35,000 acres of Maui soil, on the fields of Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar, the states largest commercial sugar plantation. Thats the site of a $10 million, five year gamble to test which of plantations crops might work as grow-your-jetfuel. The drone helicopter will track every temperature fluctuation and sprouting bud emerging into the Hawaiian sun. But its hardly certain that any of the plants will actually wind up in the engines of destroyers or F/A18s. Yes, the Navy is betting big on alt-energy the goal is to cut its fossil fuel usage in half by 2020. And yes, the Navy just made its biggest-ever purchase of biofuels: 450,000 gallons for $12 million, enough to power an entire aircraft carrier strike group during
a demonstration voyage this summer. But half of that order went to a division of Tyson Foods, which coverts fats and waste greases into biofuels. The other half went to Solazyme, which uses algae as a means of fermenting everything from plant matter to municipal waste into
fuel. In other words, neither of them is really grow-your-own. Nevertheless, the Office of Naval Research and the Agriculture Department are wondering whether Mauis mix of plants, tropical sun, and nutrient-rich soil can produce a bumper crop of clean, renewable energy. Enter the
Leptron corporations tiny drone helicopter, the Avenger. Its about to be the Navys robotic horticulturist in Hawaii. The Department of Agriculture recently bought an Avenger not to be confused with the nextgeneration Predator drone so its thermal imaging cameras can
gather small plot specific data, particularly about crop temperature. The department wants a drone instead of a manned helicopter so it can keep the Avenger hovering over the patch of farmland and taking pictures ROBO-COPTER page 49
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Reid Calls Off Protect IP Act Vote

David Kravets (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 8:56:00 AM
Photo: studio08denver/Flickr Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) on Friday delayed indefinitely a vote on the Protect IP Act, the proposed antipiracy legislation that drew a widespread internet revolt Wednesday. In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesdays vote on the Protect IP Act, the senator said in a statement. Reid urged Sen. Patrick Leahy (D -Vermont), the chief sponsor of PIPA, to continue engaging with all stakeholders to forge a balance between protecting Americans intellectual property, and maintaining openness and innovation on the internet. PIPA was scheduled for a procedural vote on the Senate
floor on Tuesday, the first step toward breaking a rarely used hold on the measure imposed by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon). Reids announcement means that, for the moment, there is no timecertain action scheduled on either the Senate version of the antipiracy legislation or the House version, the Stop Online Piracy Act. The move comes a day after rumblings that President Barack Obama was losing financial support from Hollywood, a major backer of the House and Senate measures, because of his opposition. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and lead sponsor of SOPA, has tentatively set a February vote date to consider watered down versions of the original measure he floated late last year. The measures face an uncertain
future given widespread legislative opposition to the proposals in their current form. On Wednesday, as thousands of websites blacked themselves out or altered their appearance in protest, Republican and Democratic lawmakers in both the
Senate and House began distancing themselves from the non-partisan bills they had once supported. A key provision Smith and Leahy have agreed to remove is one that had mandated DNS redirecting of websites deemed dedicated to
infringing activity. That provision would have required ISPs to prevent Americans from visiting blacklisted sites by altering the system known as DNS that turns site names like Google.com into IP addresses such as 174.35.23.56. Here is a primer on what else is up for negotiation in the two similar bills, which many claim is unworkable and amounts to censorship. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
10 Cool Inventions from the 1980s

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fell. During the decade, inventors created some cool devices. Submitted at 1/20/2012 3:00:12 AM This list could easily hold Do you remember the 1980s? It frivolous and quirky inventions -was a decade of big hair, neon- there was no shortage of odd bright clothing and consumerism. products in the 1980s. For A new television network called example, there was the DeLorean Music Television, or MTV, DMC-12 sports car. The vehicle launched early in the decade and was a strange one -- journalists gave rise to the popularity of who took it on road tests reported music videos. By the end of the that it handled poorly, didn't 1980s, global politics would accelerate as quickly as other change forever as the Berlin Wall sports cars and wasn't particularly
fast. The car had a distinctive look with its stainless steel panels and gull-wing doors, but it seemed doomed to obscurity. But then a little film called "Back to the Future" came out and propelled the DeLorean to new fame. It joined the ranks of other beloved time machines like the Doctor's TARDIS and Bill and Ted's phone booth. Now that we've cleansed the pallet with a goofy entry, let's get
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longer than a human being could handle. The idea is that the Avengers persistent stare will alert researchers to any problems with the crops including jatropha, sweet sorghum, and sugar cane before the entire experiment is jeopardized. The team figures that Hawaii is an ideal venue for the experiement: its a high-fertility environment thats already home to the Pacific Fleet. A perfect storm of ROBO-COPTER page 50
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opportunity, is how the Navys top energy official described Hawaii in 2010. In a way, Hawaii is a microcosm of the energy situation the Navys in. As an archipelago in the middle of the Pacific, importing fuel means energy prices are sky high; but because of all its sunlight, warmth and high rainfalls, its ability to grow more crops per acre than most of the mainland U.S. raise the prospect of growing an energy solution. Hawaii also has one of the first biodiesel plants in the U.S., Pacific Biodiesel, which is much touted by the Department of Agriculture and the Navy and whose fuel powers the Navys tour boats for the Pearl Harbor memorial. If the Hawaii experiment or, frankly, any of the Navys biofuel
experiments go gangbusters, it wont just be sailors who benefit. Along with the Agriculture and Energy departments, the Navy will pump over half a billion dollars into the biofuels industry, with the hope of eventually driving down costs of renewable, green fuel that doesnt come from volatile global hotspots. Still, the sugar-derived biofuel is only an experiment, not necessarily a harbinger of the Navy definitely planting fuel in the future. Industrial agriculture can actually require lots of money and, ironically, fossil fuels to produce. Its entirely possible that recycling greases or other wasteproducts will turn out to be cheaper and greener. But the first lookout for whether grow-your-own fuel is even viable will be the diminutive, svelte
Avenger, whose main rotor is merely six feet in diameter. In addition to optional remote control or programmable autonomous flight options, it comes with a pair of video goggles, which Leptron calls a Personal Media Viewer, to give a person below a drones eye view. Watching the grass grow was never this captivating. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Dexter's Michael C. Hall Reunites With Ex-Wife Jennifer Carpenter For Coffee
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 9:59:10 AM
Michael C. Hall and his ex-wife Jennifer Carpenter were spotted in LA getting coffees together on Wednesday. They apparently followed up the caffeine date with dinner at the Peninsula Hotel. The couple split up back in 2010 after nearly two years of marriage, and their divorce was finalized last month. Michael and Jennifer continued, however, to work on their Showtime series Dexter together and seem to still be on friendly terms. It's not clear, though, whether there is a romantic reunion for Michael C.
Hall and Jennifer on the horizon. They'll continue to costar on the small screen for a few more years since Dexter has been renewed for an additional two seasons. View Slideshow
Another Spice Girls Reunion in the Works?

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Submitted at 1/20/2012 8:55:05 AM
Will the Spice Girls reunite for the Olympics?- Huffington Post Etta James has passed away at 73- People Anne Hathaway gets an outfit right in a major way- Lainey
Gossip The coolest Bond cars everThe Daily Beast Elton John's husband apologizes to Madonna after a Globes feudThe Insider Why is Jessica Biel still hiding her ring?- Us Weekly See Johnny Weir's new wedding ring- TooFab
Excited for a production from Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego
Luna?- Rotten Tomatoes Get pumped for the premiere of Robert Pattinson's Bel Ami!Hollywood Reporter Halle Berry's stalker sentenced to jail time- Wonderwall Steven Tyler and Carrie Underwood team up for a Super Bowl special- Lifeline Live The latest Joshua Jackson action
on Fringe- BuddyTV Jude settles with News Corp. over the phone hacking scandalZap2It Have Johnny and Vanessa been over for a year?- Celebitchy
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Google Abandons Anonymous Accounts With New Signup Form

Scott Gilbertson (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 10:47:00 AM
Grace goes four clear as Olazabal rolls back years

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Google is experimenting with a new sign up form that eliminates the ability to create anonymous accounts. The new form is part of an effort to expand the Google+ social network by automatically adding every new Google account to Google+. Because Google+ requires a name and gender the new sign up form effectively eliminates the anonymous Google account. The new account creation page can be found by following the links on Googles homepage. As the Google Operating System blog points out, the older Google account page, which does not require signing up for Google+ or Gmail, is currently still accessible through Google Reader, Calendar and other Google services. The revamped Google account
creation page adds some additional fields to the sign up form, including name and gender which are both necessary for creating a Google+ account. Theres also a new agreement turned on by default granting Google permission to use my account information to
personalize +1s on content and ads on non-Google websites. In addition to the Google+ integration, signing up for a Google account now means getting a profile page and a Gmail account; gone are the days when you could use an outside email address with your Google
account. It is still possible to go in and delete the Google+, Google profile and Gmail portions of your new Google account after its been created, but given that few people ever change their default settings its safe to assume that most people wont. It should come as no surprise that Google is working hard to get more users signed up for Google+, after all, despite marginal momentum, Google+ is far behind Facebook when it comes to signing up new users. Photo: Anonymous9000/Flickr/ CC. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
GEORGE, South Africa (Reuters) - South African Branden Grace stormed into a four-shot lead after the Volvo Golf Champions second round Friday to boost his chances of recording back-to-back European Tour victories. Grace fired a sevenunder 66 for a 12-under total of 134, four ahead of fellow countryman Thomas Aiken (70) and Briton Lee Slattery (65). Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal (68), seeking his first win for seven years, was fourth on 139. ...
Vintage American tourism posters from sea to shining sea

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Submitted at 1/20/2012 9:25:00 AM
Jill Harness at mental_floss has
handpicked a striking array of tourism posters from the collection of the Library of Congress that might have you
itching to scratch that road-trip
bug this summer Full story at mental_floss. So much to see. Permalink| Leave a comment
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France suspends Afghan troop training

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it's unacceptable," Sarkozy said, dispatching Defence Minister Gerard Longuet to Afghanistan. France has suspended its training Longuet and army chief of staff programmes for Afghan troops Admiral Edouard Guillaud will after an Afghan army soldier establish the circumstances of opened fire in eastern part of the Friday's shooting. country, killing four French "Between now and then all soldiers, according to both NATO training, joint combat operations and Afghan accounts. by the French army are Sixteen more members of the s u s p e n d e d , " S a r k o z y s a i d . French armed forces were injured Hamid Karzai, the Afghan in Friday's shooting, in the Tagab president, expressed his "heartfelt district of Kapisa province, north condolences" over the incident. of the capital Kabul, a security Rahim Wardak, his defence official told the AFP news agency m i n s i t e r , h a s o r d e r e d a n on condition of anonymity. immediate investigation. The attack took place inside the NATO chief Anders Fogh base during a training session Rasmussen also expressed his conducted by French forces. condolences. French troops had surrounded "This is a sad day for our troops their base in Kapisa and were not in Afghanistan and the French allowing any Afghan soldiers to p e o p l e , " R a s m u s s e n t o l d approach, a security source told r e p o r t e r s . AFP. But Rasmussen warned against The shooter has been arrested by seeing a new trend of insider NATO's International Security attacks on the 130,000-strong Assistance Force (ISAF), the foreign contingent in Afghanistan. source said. "Such tragic incidents are terrible Nicolas Sarkozy, the French and grab headlines but they are president, said he was mulling an isolated. The reality is that every early withdrawal of French troops day 130,000 ISAF troops from 50 out of Afghanistan. nations fight and train with over "The French army is alongside its 300,000 Afghan troops. That allies but we cannot accept that a takes a lot of trust among a lot of single one of our soldiers be soldiers," he said. wounded or killed by our allies, Afghan soldiers'gutless'
There has been a number of incidents of Afghan soldiers turning their weapons on members of the NATO-led foreign force fighting an uprising by the Taliban. Last month, two soldiers with the French Foreign Legion serving in Afghanistan were shot dead by a man wearing an Afghan army uniform during a mission in Kapisa, site of the main French base in Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed responsibility for that attack. The latest deaths brought to 82 the number of French soldiers killed in Afghanistan since French forces deployed there at the end of 2001. Last year was the deadliest so far, with 26 killed. France has about 3,600 soldiers serving in the country, mainly in the provinces of Kabul and Kapisa. Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland, reporting from Paris, said "depending on the outcome of their inquiry the president will decide" whether to pull out two years earlier than planned or resume French operations. Though NATO does not publicly release figures for coalition soldiers killed at the hands of the Afghan soldiers they train and fight alongside, a report - A Crisis
of Trust and Cultural Incompatibility- shows three dozen attacks against coalition forces by Afghan soldiers since 2007. An Afghan army colonel, speaking to the New York Times, described his own soldiers as thieves and drug addicts, but also called the Americans "rude, arrogant bullies who use foul language." "US soldiers dont listen, they are too arrogant," said one of the Afghan soldiers surveyed, in the report. Another said: "They get upset due to their casualties, so they take it out on civilians during their searches." An American soldier was quoted in the same report saying Afghan soldiers "are pretty much gutless in combat; we do most of the fighting". Helicopter crash The shooting of the French soldiers marked the culmination of a week of violence, including a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, killing six American soldiers, on Thursday. In a brief statement, ISAF said early on Friday that there was no enemy activity in the area at the time of the crash on Thursday night.
The cause of the crash is still being investigated, NATO said. Earlier on Thursday, seven civilians were killed outside a crowded gate at Kandahar Air Field, a base for US and NATO operations, after a suicide attacker set off a vehicle laden with explosives. Eight people, including two civilians and two Afghan soldiers, were wounded in the incident near the entrance of the Kandahar airport, a provincial spokesman, Zalmay Ayoubi, told local Afghan media. The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying they were targeting a NATO convoy. It was the second suicide bombing in as many days in southern Afghanistan, officials said. ISAF said no NATO troops were killed. It does not disclose information about injured troops. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Gingrich attacks 'vicious' media in US debate

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Rams to play NFL games in London for next 3 years

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Newt Gingrich, a US Republican presidential contender, has strongly criticised the US media at a presidential debate in South Carolina and strenuously denied an allegation that he asked his second wife to tolerate an "open marriage". Thursday's event was the final chance for rivals to reduce frontrunner Mitt Romney's South Carolina lead in the context of a debate. "I'm appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that," Gingrich told CNN's debate moderator. Gingrich, a former speaker of the US House of Representatives, is rising in the polls in the run-up to Saturday's primary vote in South Carolina in which he is campaigning as the conservative alternative to Romney. The former congressman has made the media's coverage a frequent target during the 2012 campaign. 'Vicious' media Gingrich came under attack frequently in the debate of almost
two hours and deftly defended himself with the kind of strong debate performance that has buoyed his up-and-down campaign all year. However, the fact that character issues were aired publicly, as well as sharp questions about his 1990s tenure as House speaker, could damage Gingrich's hopes. In a move designed to embarrass Romney, Gingrich released his most recent tax returns, a reminder that the multimillionaire Romney still had not produced his own. Romney
off to an unpredictable start when John King, the moderator, asked Gingrich to respond to charges put forth by his ex-wife Marianne that he had sought an "open marriage" while having an affair. "I think the disruptive, vicious, negative nature of the news media makes it harder to govern this country," Gingrich said. Patty Culhane, Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting from South Carolina, said "Gingrich received a huge round of applause" following his attack on the media. "The crowd seemed to like it," she pledged to do so in April. In- said. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll depth coverage of the US conducted of 656 likely South presidential election "I'm not going to apologise for Carolina voters showed Romney being successful," Romney said. with 35 per cent support, Gingrich Romney will take a big step with 23 per cent support, and towards claiming the Republican former Senator Rick Santorum nomination if he wins on Saturday with 15 per cent support. after his New Hampshire win on This entry passed through the January 10 and his near-victory in Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it Iowa on January 3. Romney's rivals had him in their on someone else's site, please read sights to try to deny him victory, the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentexpressing doubts about his only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to conservative convictions. The CNN-sponsored debate got Wikileaks.
The St. Louis Rams took the first step to becoming Britain's "home" team Friday, agreeing to play a regular-season NFL game in London in each of the next three seasons.
The Man Who Fell for Fusion - dagblog (blog)

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Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:09:48 AM
The Man Who Fell for Fusion dagblog (blog) His Cold Fusion Update discusses the current claims of Italian entrepreneur Andrea Rossi: There have been enough developments in the cold fusion story during the last two weeks to warrant revisiting the subject. For those of you who came in late,...
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Soul singer Etta James dies in California

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for prayers for the singer. "It's a tremendous loss for her fans around the world," De Leon Etta James was honoured with a said. "She'll be missed. A great star on the Hollywood Walk of American singer. Her music Fame in 2003 [GALLO/GETTY] defied category." Etta James, a pioneering US The singer was discovered at age blues and soul singer who became 15, when she would sing on street a music legend with hits like "At corners in the Northern California Last" and "Tell Mama", has died c i t y o f S a n F r a n c i s c o , b y at the age of 73 from cancer. She b a n d l e a d e r J o h n n y O t i s . would have turned 74 on James forged her mother's Wednesday. signature in order to go to Los Lupe De Leon, the singer's Angeles with Otis for a recording manager, announced James' death session, and after her 1955 debut, on Friday, saying that she had she toured with Otis' revue. passed away early in the morning She soon scored her first hit at Riverside Community Hospital when she was just a teenager with in Southern California, with her the suggestive "Roll With Me, husband and sons at her side. Henry", which had to be changed James had been suffering from to "The Wallflower" in order to dementia, kidney problems and get airplay. diabetes, and in December 2011, Over the years, she would notch her physician announced that her many more hits, carving a niche leukemia was terminal, and asked for herself with her husky, soulful
voice and a sassy attitude, which permeated her songs. Throughout her career, James suffered through drug addictions, but managed to return to the stage each time. She toured into the 2000s, and
her famed "At Last" was sung by Beyonce as the first couple's dance song on the eve of US President Barack Obama's 2008 inauguration. James' accolades include a 1993 induction into the Rock Hall of
Fame in 1993, Grammy awards in 1994, 2003 and 2004, and was also given a special lifetime achievement award from the Grammys that coincided with the dedication of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003. Otis, credited with discovering James as well as other well known artists of the era like Little Richard and Hank Ballard, died on Tuesday, aged 90, in Los Angeles. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Flash In The Brain Pan: Together Alone

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Submitted at 1/20/2012 10:00:00 AM
Together Alone is one of those games that you'll either fly through in minutes or swear at a whole bunch, which is exactly the sort of thing we figure you guys need after a Woot Off. In this
game, you're playing two starcrossed lovers who need your help to solve the puzzle that is life. Sometimes you'll be the dude, trying to cross those tan platforms which disappear as you pass them. Sometimes you'll be the chick, platforms which right, exactly making her way across the blue
the same as the dude. And sometimes, you'll be both of them at the same time. You're trying to make all the tiles disappear and get these two lovebirds together. Can you do it with logic? Can you do it with brute force? It doesn't really matter which you use, it's not like
we're gonna check up on you or anything. Just remember that Together Alone gets harder as it goes on, so if you're not good with solving patterns well, let's just see how far you can get before we define you. Incidentally, we found this one via Jayisgames.
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Crystal Bell: 'The Vampire Diaries' Recap: The Ties That Bind Are Hard To Break
Crystal Bell (TV on HuffingtonPost.com)
Submitted at 1/19/2012 11:27:00 PM
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 3, Episode 12 of The CW's The Vampire Diaries, entitled, "The Ties That Bind." I have a problem. After last week's episode of The Vampire Diaries, I found myself rooting for Team Klaus. I thought Stefan went a little too far with that whole "I'm going to drive Elena off the bridge" act, but now I'm conflicted once again. "The Ties That Bind" was an emotional roller coaster of an episode, and it kind of made fall in love with Stefan again. For the first time in weeks, he left his poker face at the door, and we got to see a glimpse of the old Stefan. It was a welcome return. As much as I love this new, badass Stefan, his irrational antics were starting to get on my nerves, until tonight. He never stopped loving Elena. He had to push her away to protect her from Klaus, so I can imagine his shock when Elena told him about her and Damon's kiss. Stefan didn't have to say anything. His eyes said everything: he was hurt. Yet he knows that it was his arrogance that drove her away. So Stefan, despite his pain, tells Elena that he's sorry -- sorry for
driving over the bridge and scaring her. And that's what made me fall in love with Stefan all over again. Well, his apology and this: "You're better than him, Elena. You're better than both of us." Paul Wesley gave a phenomenal performance during this scene. He was able to say so much without really saying anything at all. However, I still think Elena shouldn't have dropped that kiss on him so carelessly. I mean, why did she even tell him in the first place? Meanwhile, Bonnie is having more nightmares about the locked coffin, but this time, she thinks she may have found some sort of answer in her dream. It looks like she'll need her mother's help if she wants to figure out what's inside that coffin. But there's one little problem: Bonnie's mother Abby left Mystic Falls 15 years ago and never returned. It's kind of a sore subject for Bonnie, who feels rightfully abandoned by mama Bennett. Damon meets up with Alaric, where he reveals that the medical examiner, who just so happens to be Dr. Fell's ex-boyfriend, is dead. He took a stake to the heart. Not exactly a painless way to die, if you ask me. Naturally, Damon's suspicious of Alaric's new friend. Stefan and Klaus have their own
meeting. After sending away all his hybrids, Klaus now has no one to keep him company, except for the punk rock band that he's currently blasting in the Salvatore mansion. He wants his family back, but Stefan is content with stringing Klaus along for a few more months. But what Stefan doesn't know is that Klaus is always one step ahead. It looks like Klaus sent one of his hybrids to a certain Abby Bennett's house. Speaking of Ms. Bennett, Elena and Bonnie decide to take a road trip -- sans Damon -- to visit Abby. Even though Bonnie's not exactly thrilled to meet her mother after all of these years, they need her help. When Stefan calls Elena to see where she is, she lies, telling him that she's going over to the lake house to clear her head. Of course, Stefan knows that she's lying, having seen the police profile of Abby Bennett on Elena's kitchen table. Silly Elena, doesn't she know that Stefan's always one step ahead of her? Bonnie and Abby's reunion is a little underwhelming, but we do find out that Abby and Elena's mom Miranda were best friends. In fact, it was Miranda's death that drove Abby away from Mystic Falls. Mikael came after Elena, and in order to protect her, Abby
cursed Mikael and put him in his coffin. But because she had to use all of her magic, Abby was left powerless and fled Mystic Falls. Back at the hospital, Damon confronts Meredith. You see, he doesn't think that she's as innocent as she claims to be, especially given that her ex-boyfriend ended up staked, and he doesn't want Alaric to be her next victim. And just when you think that things between them can't get any more awkward, Dr. Fell turns into Dr. Psycho and attacks Damon, rendering him unconscious. Next thing we know, she's drawing some of Damon's undead blood. But what for? Turns out that Dr. Psycho is not as psycho as I thought. She uses vampire blood to save her patients. She's a doctor who doesn't really like death, which means her success rate is probably 100 percent. Meanwhile, back at Abby's house, Stefan's not too happy with Elena for running off with Bonnie and not telling him... so he finds her and sneaks up on her! Obviously, Elena is thrilled. Jamie witnesses their fight and rushes in to save Elena, and just when you think Stefan's about to kill the poor kid, Jamie unexpectedly comes at him with a gun. Before Elena even knows what's going on, Jamie shoots
Stefan! I gasped. It was all very shocking. And then he ties up Elena, while Abby poisons Bonnie, temporarily taking away her powers, and takes her to go meet with Klaus' hybrid. It turns out that Jamie's been compelled to shoot himself if Bonnie doesn't reveal the location of the coffins, so all Bonnie has to do is tell the hybrid where the coffins are, and she does. But it's not like Jamie would have shot himself anyway, because Elena tricks Jamie and ends up knocking him out. After last week's damsel-in-distress act, this was a nice change for Elena. I like when she stands up for herself. Does anyone else miss Katherine and her gorgeous curls? Elena's badass behavior even got Stefan's attention, who was lying on the ground with chunks of wood in his chest. So what does Elena do? She sticks her hand inside his chest and proceeds to pull it out. Yes, it's just as gross as it sounds. If only Elena wouldn't have ruined the moment by telling Stefan about her and Damon's kiss. But can someone please tell me why Stefan always leaves Elena stranded in the middle of nowhere, especially when Klaus is on the loose? CRYSTAL page 58
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Nora Zelevansky: 'Project Runway All Stars' Recap: This Little Piggy Went To Mood
Nora Zelevansky (TV on HuffingtonPost.com)
Anyway, Anthony feels challenged and in his southern lilt, remarks, "'Project Runway All Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:57:33 AM Stars' is pulling out the talent from Note: Do not read on if you have our toenails, honey. They're not seen Episode 3 of Lifetime's pulling it from our feet on up. I'm "Project Runway All Stars." going to get to design a dress for a In this body-conscious fashion Muppet." Why yes you are, world, there's not generally much Anthony! But you can create it room for pigs. But that all for your model and it will be changed on this week's trough- modified for Miss Piggy's figure. breaking episode of "Project Phew.(You can just imagine the Runway All Stars." complaints from nervous As the 11 remaining designers designers if that wasn't the case: gaze up from their folding chairs "I just don't usually design for beside the runway, host Angela size 14 stuffed animals.") Lindvall explains that they'll be About Miss Piggy, Michael creating "flamboyant cocktail Costello says, "I'm so excited to dresses" for "one of the most meet her. She's like fashion's famous fashionistas in the world." dream client!" I'm starting to (I wish someone would just erase worry about him. Does he know that "f" word from the world's that she's fictional or is this going vocabulary.) to be like a five-year-old learning Who could it be? Well, Miss the truth about Santa Claus? Piggy, of course. And apparently, The gang heads back to sketch: she's had powerhouses like Mila is thinking '60s mod, Burberry and Prada custom design s o m e t h i n g n o t t o o s i l l y o r for her in the past. Big hooves to costume-like. She's worried about fill. translating her POV for the Austin exclaims, "Miss Piggy!" M u p p e t . K e n l e y i s e x c i t e d April is thrilled. Kenley's nieces because Miss Piggy reminds her are gonna flip. But I'm confused: of herself. April is considering The diva Muppet is supposedly Miss Piggy's "vavavoom." looking for a dress in which to At Mood, Gordana notes that a promote her new movie ... which lot of people are buying black. is not new at all. It's been out for She and Austin go for pink. "Why weeks, if not months. Me thinks not?" she asks. "Pink is a happy something got pushed in the color!" She also says that while a scheduling department. lot of the designers are doing
structure, she's going to stay true to her personal style. ]"I'm more about youthful and free-flowing and showing the feminine side of the women," Gordana explains. Immediately, her little frock looks a bit ... ethereal for the diva pig. Pink is a happy color, but Gordana has picked more of a mauve and, if Michael Kors was around, I could just hear him calling the dress "sad." Mondo describes it as "pretty and quiet," but not right for the challenge, adding, "It doesn't make enough of a statement." Rami says the vibe in the workroom is serious: "The pressure is on." It's oink or be bacon out there. And apparently, he's right because Mondo and Kara (who is in fact South African, as you all corrected in the comments) are bickering over pink gloves from the Neiman Marcus accessory wall. Mondo let's her have them, but he's not pleased and Kara is too busy trying to "sex Miss Piggy up and show some skin" to notice. Rami is using orange and pink polka dot organza, which he describes as "happy." That seems to be a common word this week. Michael thinks it's pretty, but a little safe. Anthony feels he's comfortable with this challenge because it fits his mantra: "I always say, 'Being a
lady never goes out of style.'" April was in the bottom two last week, so she's got her eyes on the prize, making sure the garment is impeccable. Joanna Coles shows up to mentor and announces that she thinks this is "one of the best challenges in the history of 'Project Runway.'" Wow. They're really trying to sell this thing. I guess Disney paid Bravo a lot of cash. Mondo says he appreciates Joanna's sophistication. Gordana's critique is first. About Miss Piggy she says, "I want to show off her legs because I've noticed in pictures that she has really pretty legs." I'm sorry. Is this an alternate universe? We're still talking about a puppet here, right? Don't get me wrong, I love "The Muppets" too. A lot. But this is bordering on delusional. Anyway, Joanna says it looks like a nightgown. I agree. She adds: "I don't think comfort should really matter when you're dressing a mega-celebrity like Miss Piggy." Again, she's stuffed, people! Mila considers creating a headband, but Joanna reminds her of Miss Piggy's big ears. Austin says, "Mila's aesthetic is really so severe that I'm concerned whether she'll be able to bring the humor and whimsy." He, on the other
hand, feels that he and Miss Piggy are kindred spirits. He says, "I like to pepper my conversation with little French phrases. Sometimes I refer to myself as 'moi.'" Wait? Is Miss Piggy modeled after a gay man like they say about Samantha on 'Sex and The City'? Anthony thinks Michael's dress is amateurish. Michael thinks Gordana's dress could be from a regular department store. Mila is annoyed that Kara and Kenley are becoming "quite codependent." She adds, "This isn't a team competition. Only one person can win." I think they should all stop worrying about each other and actually create something that's not fugs. We watch clips of them laughing harmoniously back at the hotel ... blah blah blah. Back at the workroom in the morning, Anthony says he felt "convicted" about eating bacon for breakfast. I think he means "conflicted." But whatev. There's more accessory drama for Kara, when Austin takes her pearls and purse by accident. Kenley feels that she'll probably win. "I always feel confident!" she says. But April doesn't agree about Kenley's princess-seamed number in a pink giraffe print. NORA page 59
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Barbara Hannah Grufferman: Will the Authentic Paula Deen Please Stand Up?
Barbara Hannah Grufferman (TV on HuffingtonPost.com)
right up front about this: I have no issue with what she has been touting all these years to millions. Submitted at 1/20/2012 8:01:00 AM But I'm feeling strangely To be authentic, according to uncomfortable with the fact that most authorities on authenticity, is she didn't talk about her type 2 to be true to one's own self, to diabetes until three years after her one's own nature. I suppose Paula diagnosis, and now she's going to Deen, while instructing viewers to make even more money by add butter, sugar, and more butter promoting a drug to treat the and sugar (and then deep frying illness. everything in more butter) to her I believe in privacy. Everyone is recipes -- allegedly based on her entitled to it. But if you're in the "Grandmama Paul's Southern public eye -- as Ms. Deen is -- and cooking" -- was being authentic y o u r t e l e v i s i o n s h o w a n d even as she was, perhaps not cookbooks offer recipes that when knowingly, helping to lead prepared according to instruction, millions of Americans on the path and consumed regularly, could towards obesity. contribute to weight gain -Of course, there is such a thing as resulting in a whole host of free will. We could watch -- as related health issues including many of us do -- Ms. Deen on TV diabetes -- one might expect the having a grand old time whipping celebrity to share the information up these calorie-laden, high-fat with her fans a little sooner. It's content foods purely for the not a privacy issue. It's all about e n t e r t a i n m e n t v a l u e . S h e ' s being real. charming, funny and a real (shall I Studies have shown that obesity say authentic?) down-home gal. contributes to many illnesses and So, let me set the record straight diseases including diabetes, which
is running rampant in this country. Often referred to as the "lifestyle illness," contributing factors of type 2 diabetes include too much weight and too little exercise. Ms. Deen, being an authentic woman, ate her own cooking while urging others to follow suit, even in the face of an alarming rate of obesity among young children, who conventional wisdom suggests, get their meals cooked for them by parents. These parents might very well be influenced by the authentic cooking of Ms. Deen and other chefs who believe in a style of food preparation we can only describe as indulgent. For sure, we don't usually develop diabetes from food alone. Heredity and lack of exercise certainly play a role. In an interview for the New York Times article about Ms. Deen's announcement, however, a spokesperson for the American Diabetes Association said: You can't just eat your way to Type 2 diabetes. But, there's no denying
that Paula's food has a lot of what we call the deadly triangle: fat, sugar and salt. Diabetes is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke and is the number one cause of kidney failure, blindness and lower limb amputations in America. Diagnosing and controlling diabetes is especially important for women, because cardiovascular disease is actually "more deadly" in diabetic women than in diabetic men. Ms. Deen, still being true to herself, announced her diabetes on the "Today Show" and along with her two sons, is embarking on a nationwide tour promoting new, improved, healthier recipes and the importance of exercise to keep diabetes at bay. All good. I wonder, however, how her legions of fans will feel about Ms. Deen's recent revelation that she will be a spokesperson for Victoza, a diabetes medication from Norvo Nordick, which costs about $500 a month. No question
there are followers who are understandably supportive and forgiving, but there are many who are not. The posts on social media have been fast, furious and ferocious. One tweeter noted, Paula Deen has a golden opportunity to send a very important message to this country, if she wants to join the fight against diabetes in a truly authentic way: eat less, eat healthier, move your body ... and do all these things BEFORE you develop diabetes. Then, maybe you won't need to take the drug to treat it. Her authentic self will be standing ... and we'll be listening. * * * For tips on living your best life after 50, check out The Best of Everything After 50. Stay in touch: "Friend" me on Facebook and "Tweet" me on Twitter (BGrufferman). And remember: Turning 50 is more than an age . . it's a movement. RELATED
PolitiFact's 'Epic Fail'

Mark Hemingway (The Weekly Standard)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:52:00 AM
Photo Credit: PolitiFact A lot of people are buzzing about
this blog post by Tom Bruschino, assistant professor of history at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Bruschino asked to weigh in on Mitt was contacted by PolitiFact and
Romney's claim that "Our navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our air force is smaller and older than any time since 1947."
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Meanwhile, back at the witches' cabin, Klaus has arrived to pick up his family members. After a few witchy threats (and a major headache), Klaus forces the witches to show him the coffins, and they do, but there's a catch. The forth coffin -- you know, the V.I.P. one -- is mysteriously missing. It looks like Damon won this battle, Klaus. He was one step ahead of you, taking the locked coffin and hiding it before you could get to it. Is anyone else getting whiplash from all of these twists and turns? Not to mention that this was one of the bloodiest episodes of the season. Let's not forget about poor Tyler. He feels a bit guilty for almost killing Caroline. I, however, couldn't care less, because the thought of Caroline and Klaus having some sort of relationship excites me way more than Tyler and Caroline's relationship ever did. And I know that I'm not the only one!
But he still feels guilty, so he enlists the help of Caroline's dad - and his unusual methods -- to help him break Klaus' sire bond over him. He chains Tyler to the wall and forces him to turn. It just so happens that when Tyler turns, he breaks about every bone in his body. It's just as disgusting as it sounds. And it only gets worse when Mr. Forbes starts to threaten him with an axe. In the end, Tyler turns... and he sends Mr. Forbes to the hospital. Luckily, Dr. Fell is there to save Caroline's dad with vampire blood. Then we find out that to break the sire bond, turning needs to be painless, and I have to agree with Mr. Forbes on this one. Tyler's turning looked like it was anything but painless. This is going to be one excruciating lesson for Tyler. Back at the Salvatore mansion, Damon may have hidden the V.I.P. coffin, but he still kissed Stefan's girl, so Stefan punches
him. It was like a Season 1 flashback, and it was an awesome reminder that at the heart of The Vampire Diaries is the relationship between Damon and Stefan. But they're not the only brothers going through a little drama. Elijah is back! Unfortunately for Klaus, he doesn't look happy. "What'd I miss?" he asks Klaus. Oh Elijah, how I've missed you. Quotables: Elena (being funny?): "OK, Damon, look. Bonnie hasn't seen her mom in over 15 years. She doesn't need you and your snarky commentary narrating the whole thing." Damon, to Bonnie: "We kissed. Now it's awkward." Mr. Forbes, to Tyler: "How badly do you want your freedom?" Damon, to Dr. Psycho: "I think psychopaths can be incredibly high-maintenance." Damon, to Klaus: "Insulting a bunch of dead witches? Not smart. I did the same thing when I
first came here." Stefan, to Elena: "You've changed. There's something different about you. You seem stronger." Elena, ruining the moment: "I kissed Damon." Dr. Fell, to Alaric: "You wanted to know my secret. I cheat. I'm a doctor, and I hate when people die." Stefan, as I fall in love with him again: "You're better than him, Elena. You're better than the both of us." Mr. Forbes, laying down the law with Tyler: "Until you're capable of acting on your own free will, I'm not letting you anywhere near my daughter." Damon, to Stefan: "If you're betting on Bonnie's mama to open it, you're screwed. She doesn't have any powers." Elijah!: "What'd I miss?"
Photos: Detroit Tigers players visit patients at DeVos Children's Hospital on ... MLive.com
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MLive.com Photos: Detroit Tigers players visit patients at DeVos Children's Hospital on... MLive.com (Emily Zoladz | The Grand Rapids Press) Detroit Tigers Visit Helen DeVos Children's Hospital gallery (7 photos) Not every kid can say their cast has been signed by Detroit Tigers baseball players. Abigail Thompson, 15, of Lake Odessa can.... and more
Paradox announces 'A Game of Dwarves,' coming this year

Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:30:00 PM
Another tidbit from Paradox's convention in Sweden now: the company has revealed A Game of Dwarves. Developed by Zeal Game Studio, which has had some
experience with dwarves-- and pirate ... griddles-- A Game of Dwarves is a strategy title that has players in control of a dwarf settlement, in which you must "manage your crew of dwarves to d i g , b u i l d a n d d e f e n d Shotgun. themselves," reports Rock, Paper, A Game of Dwarves is slated for
release this year, though other Please see our terms for use of details remain under wraps for the feeds. moment. Head over to RPS for Permalink| Email this| Comments some more screens. Paradox announces 'A Game of Dwarves,' coming this year originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:30:00 EST.
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She thinks it's "just like the dresses she has already done." The Runway: This process is probably always difficult, but now they're being ripped apart by a puppet, so it seems a little more humiliating potentially. But maybe it brings levity. Isaac is gone for the week, so the judges are Georgina Chapman of Marchesa, Eric Daman (costume designer on "Gossip Girl") and, well, Miss Piggy natch, who is oddly dressed like a First Lady in a gray blazer, pearls, crystal broach and a red maxi skirt. The runway show commences and I personally am kind of into Jerrell's dress which looks very flapper, but with a bit of Belle Epoque feathered shoulders. Rami's looks to me like a child's birthday party vomited all over itself and it could not be more over-accessorized. It's very Easter Parade. And Gordana's dress -which she calls "happy" again -does in fact look like a pouty little nightgown. The top and bottom six are called out: Austin's combo of pink (again, sad mauve) and gray is criticized. Georgina says the construction is beautiful, but the pink is wrong. Eric Daman says the bows on either side are going to accentuate
the hips. (In private during the judges deliberation, he calls it "90's redux," good for "Pigs In Space." I'm kinda liking this guy. He's funny! Miss Piggy's Take: "Can you hula hoop in that?" Michael's dress is more sophisticated. Georgina likes the zipper down the back. They wonder if there's too much black. Miss Piggy's Take: "I love the dress. It looks like a present!" Kenley's color was great, they think, and they love the fabric and mesh hat; but they're worried about the construction in the boob area. Eric says the hat is good "because she's sensitive about her ears." Miss Piggy objects to that. I actually like this dress best of the top six maybe. It's cute for a Muppet. Miss Piggy's Take: "I do love the hat though because after a big night out on the town, I can use the hat to clean my pots and pans." Rami's dress is a huge success (a big surprise to me). Georgina says he went for it and Eric calls it "Parisian Hog Couture." (Georgina does admit that under other circumstances, the dress would not have made sense.) Miss Piggy's Take: "The most garish, outlandish, ridiculous thing I have ever seen and I love
it. It looks like a candy store exploded." Hey. That's what I thought! (But in a bad way.) Mila's dress is missing the flamboyance. It's too black and white. She didn't really complete the challenge, which was about pleasing the client ... a puppet. Miss Piggy's Take: "I like that it's retro. It just doesn't scream Miss Piggy!" Then, after Miss Piggy attacks Eric Daman for talking about her ears, they come to a decision: The Winner: Michael. I guess they realized that it's still a fashion competition, so Rami's dress is a close second, but doesn't win. Going Home: It's between Mila and Gordana. And ultimately, Gordana goes home because they feel she didn't push the envelope. After a strong handshake from Angela, Gordana leaves with these parting words from Miss Piggy: "You really are an all star, Gordana. Remember that." She will, Miss Piggy. She will. "Project Runway All Stars" airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST on Lifetime.
Average American Worker Spends Nearly $1,100/Year On Coffee

Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:15:00 AM
Some say that coffee is the fuel that keeps the American workforce moving forward. And it's a fuel that comes with a hefty price tag, as a new study shows that the average member of the American workforce spends almost as much on coffee every year as they do on commuting to and from their job. According to Accounting Principals' latest Workonomix survey, the average American worker is shelling out more than $20 a week on coffee, for a yearly average of $1,092. Whereas commuting costs for the average worker come out to around $1,476 per year. And when you consider the volume of your typical coffee drink versus a gallon of gasoline, it looks like we place a higher value on our java jolt than we do on the 87 octane in our gas tanks. The younger whippersnappers (ages 18-34) in the office are paying almost about $10 more per week on coffee than their 45-andolder counterparts ($24.74 vs. $14.15, respectively). Another huge expense for the
American worker is lunch, with 66% of the workforce opting to buy their midday meal rather than pack one. This comes at an average cost of around $37/week, making it significantly more expensive than commuting or coffee. However, with times still being tough, 35% of the survey respondents told Accounting Principals that they have made it a goal to start packing lunch this year to save money. And, perhaps not surprisingly, that 18-34 age group is paying a lot more for lunch than the 45+ set ($44.78 vs. $31.80, respectively). Worth mentioning here is that, when asked what they thought their biggest work week expense was in the last year, 42% of respondents thought it would be commuting costs, and only 11% chose lunch expenses. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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LifeSmart 1500W Infrared Quartz Heater

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Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:00:16 AM
Mysterious As A Dr. Strange Artifact They say this heater doesnt get hot. Its great for safety, but then how does it WORK? Its right there in the feature list for the LifeSmart 1500W Infrared Quartz Heater. This heater does not get hot and will not burn your children and pets. Of course this is fantastic, because who wants their children and pets to get burned? But weve got to ask one question how does this heater actually work? The most likely answer is that the hot parts are well shielded and impossible to touch, but we like to think its magic. We like to think that the LifeSmart 1500W Infrared Quartz Heater has a tiny demon inside, maybe strapped to a little silver chair, angrily pushing out wave after wave of cozy-causing heat (enough to warm a 1500sq ft room, even!) as it struggles to escape the itty bitty bonds holding it in place. Naturally, this idea will be scoffed at by science, but can science explain how the
LifeSmart1500W Infrared Quartz Heater only uses about a dollar of electricity a day? Or how there are no parts to replace or service? Or how the cherry stain wood front brings real style to the whole design? Or what that glowing thing inside is? And can science explain it using words which will prove to be as interesting as demon and magical flaming sword are known to be? We doubt it. We doubt it very much, So this winter, dont use wood stoves and gas heaters. Use the demon-powered LifeSmart1500W Infrared Quartz Heater to make your room feel as warm as the depths of Hades! Be aware: you will have to plug it in to start the enchantment. Authorized for SquareTrade Extended Warranty Warranty: 1 Year LifeSmart Condition: New Features: Infrared Quartz Heater is designed to heat your home without reducing humidity or oxygen, maintaining a healthy and comfortable living environment all while saving you money on your heating bill Fills your room with even heat wall to wall and floor to ceiling
No parts to replace or costly service repairs like many other heaters, and best of all its safe for you and your family This heater does not get hot and will not burn your children or pets 1500 Watt system heats up to 1500sq ft room 3 Element Infrared Quartz Heater 1 Quartz, 2 Mica Wood Cabinet with beautiful cherry stain finish Includes Easy-to-Use Remote Control Reduces energy consumption by 35% to 50% Electricity costs average $1 per day Additional Photos: Remote Package Contents Technical Specifications: 3 Element Infrared Quartz Heater 1 Quartz, 2 Mica Heats a room up to 1500 sq ft 25,000 hour lifespan 1500 maximum watts 5100 BTU Low: 750 Watts High: 1500 Watts Furniture grade wood Lifetime washable filter
Electronic thermostat with timer LED display and controls for time and temperature 59 86 F (15-30 C) Temperature Settings Range Hi/Low/ECO Modes When in ECO mode, the heater will set the temperature automatically to 68 F (20 C) 12-Hour Auto Power-On Timer 12-Hour Auto Shut-Down Timer 6-Foot Power Cord (4) caster wheels ETL/CETL Listed Voltage Rating: 120 V (60Hz) Power Consumption: 1500W Dimensions: 13.1W x 16.5D x 17.7H Control Panel Safety Electro Lock Weight: 26.9 lbs In the box: (1) LifeSmart1500W Infrared Quartz Heater Model# LS15003 (1) Remote Control User Manual Discuss this product Price: $109.99
la Gloire de L'conomie Franaise

Ike Brannon (The Weekly Standard)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 9:55:00 AM
In case anyone skipped their daily dosage of news over the three day MLK holiday, it was New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristofs turn to pillory Republicans for acquiescing to the unequal income distribution in the United States, and more generally to defend the economic glory that is France.
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Recall: Kia Optima Man Attempts To Occupy House He Doesn't Own, Uses and Rondo vehicles' air bags might not deploy Claim-Jumper's Defense
Mary Beth Quirk (The Consumerist) Consumer Reports News (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 6:59:59 AM
Northwest Florida Daily News. Robert says he found the home open with unsecured locks so he Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:00:00 PM moved in and bought locks for the When living in a home that residence, under the Adverse doesn't happen to be yours, you Possession law, which we'll call should have an excuse. And one "Claim Jumper's Rule"* after man in Niceville, Fla. (how nice!) those fellows in the Old West who says he was just squatting there by would squat on another's deeded way of the a law that makes it land and keep it by force. It's fun okay for what the pioneers used to and old-timey, see? call "claim jumpers" to hang on to Unfortunately, claim-jumping or property they don't own. adversely possessing for two Here's how it works, under the months wasn't cool with cops, as Adverse Possession law: You just R o b e r t w a s c h a r g e d w i t h live there, make improvements burglary, larceny and fraud. He and stay for at least seven years. should've followed the example of Unfortunately for Robert, a the man who got a $300K home substitute teacher arrested Dec. 29 f o r $ 1 6 u n d e r s i m i l a r for squatting in a home owned by c i r c u m s t a n c e s . Bank of America, he was only *(In case you were wondering, there two months, says the our knowledge of claim jumping
Recall: Kia Optima and Rondo vehicles' air bags might not deploy The U.S. National Highway traffic Safety Administration has issued a recall alert for nearly 145,800 vehicles from Kia Motors America. Certain models of 20062008 Kia Optima sedans and 2007 -2008 Kia Rondo wagons may have front air bags that might not deploy, increasing the risk of injuries to drivers. According to the NHTSA, the problem stems from the clock spring assembly of the driver's air bag system. Over time, the assembly may become damaged and develop a high electrical resistance in the air bag's electronics which will prevent the safety device from deploying during a collision. NHTSA believes the issue affects (Verse of the Day) on Today's Verse... What an it all. My Prayer... O LORD, 2006-2008 Kia Optimas made incredible world we live in! The Almighty God, your works of Submitted at 1/20/2012 2:00:00 AM from September 2005 through expanse of space is humbling. The creation astound me with your For since the creation of the majesty of the mountain peaks incredible sense of majesty, grace, January 2008 and 2007-2008 Kia world God's invisible qualities -- takes away our breath. On and on wonder, awe, and beauty. Thank Rondos made from September his eternal power and divine we could go, describing all the you for making your fingerprints 2006 through March 2008. nature -- have been clearly seen, beautiful, magnificent, and awe- so clearly seen in our incredible In March, Kia is expected to alert being understood from what has inspiring wonders of the universe. world. In Jesus' name I praise. customers affected by this safety recall. Owners of the recalled been made, so that men are The variety, the order, the Amen. without excuse. symmetry, and the unexpected all Romans 1:20(NIV) Thoughts testify to God, the Genius behind
comes almost entirely from Laura Ingalls Wilder books, so we're happy to have utilized it.) **Thanks for the tip, George! Previously: Neighbors Are Mad At Guy Who Got $300K House For $16 Man squatting in home buys locks for doors, says its OK because of Adverse Possession law[Northwest Florida Daily News] This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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vehicles will be instructed to bring their Kia Optima or Kia Rondo to local dealerships where mechanics will replace the air bag clock spring assembly will be replaced free of charge. For more information, consumers can contact Kia (800-333-4542) and reference Kia's recall campaign number: SC094. They can also visit the NHTSA's website, www.SaferCar.gov, for more information about NHTSA Recall Campaign ID # 12V014000. Recall: 2006-2008 Kia Optima / 2007-2008 Kia Rondo - Air bags C a m p a i g n I D # : 12V014000[NHTSA] Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
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Uptick in remodeling Megaupload activity a sign of housing users can't get to market recovery their legal files
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Submitted at 1/20/2012 8:05:59 AM
Uptick in remodeling activity a sign of housing market recovery The latest Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA), released this week by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, projects a strong 2012 for the industry. Sales of existing homes have been increasing in recent months, offering more opportunities for home improvement projects, said program director Kermit Baker, in the news release. As lending institutions become less fearful of the real estate sector, financing will become more readily available to owners looking to undertake remodeling.
If you're planning a remodel, now is the time to get your finances in order and start talking to professionals, assuming the scale of the project is beyond DIY. In general, anytime you're knocking down walls and moving around water and electrical lines, it pays to hire a contractor. Simple spruce ups, such as painting and upgrading appliances, are usually DIY-friendly. Replacing countertops and refinishing
cabinets require more time and effort, but you may be able to manage them depending on your skill level. Whether you do the work or hire it out, take advantage of our Ratings to find the best products and materials. Our Home Remodeling & Improvement Guide includes a room-by-room interactive, with detailed information on appliances, countertops, flooring materials, paints and more. Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
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Megaupload users can't get to their legal files Yesterday's shutdown of filesharing and storage service Megaupload has left many of its legitimate customers without access to legal content that they were storing on the site. Many of them are tweeting their distress, as TorrentFreak reports. We don't yet know whether the Department of Justice will allow these users access to their digital property, and we'll follow the story until we find out. But as it appears now, they may be out of luck. This situation underscores the need to backup your computer data to more than one resource. Whether you use an online service, an external hard drive, flash drives, or other method, don't assume that just one solution is sufficient: Nothing is foolproof, as Megaupload users are finding
out. And if you do opt for a cloud storage service, you probably should make sure the site doesn't also offer obviously pirated material for download. Because if it does, its days may be numbered. For advice on what kinds of backup are available, check out our Computer backup system buying guide on ConsumerReports.org. Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
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century. They couldnt shut up. They couldnt do their talking on the Editor's note: This is Bill Burt's field. second column in the Baltimore This time it was an unlikely Sun. He is executive sports editor source, Ed Reed, arguably the of The Eagle-Tribune. He has best player in the National covered the Patriots and the NFL Here we go again. that order -- the Ravens have been Football League the last 10 years for 21 years. He has covered six The only thing missing this knocking on the door at elite not named Tom Brady or Peyton Super Bowls, including the m o r n i n g i s B i l l M u r r a y s status in the conference. Manning. Ravens win over the Giants in character, weatherman Phil And this year, at 12-4, their Reed, for all intents and Tampa Bay in 2001. You can Connors, in Ground Hog Day, quality wins (teams with double- purposes, said Ravens quarterback email Bill Burt a t s l a m m i n g t h e c l o c k - r a d i o digit wins) is the best in the NFL Joe Flacco isnt cutting it and if b b u r t @ e a g l e t r i b u n e . c o m . realizing he is reliving Feb. 2 all at 6-0. he doesnt up his play on Sunday, Related And lest we forget to mention the Ravens are finished. over again. Photos: Pictures: Ravens- The Baltimore Ravens fans might their defense, which has been I understand Reeds impatience. Patriots - Game by game as well be croaking that clock- towing the rope, sometimes better Hes on the 16th or 17th hole of Photos: Pictures: Ravens- radio. than others, for more than a his career, quite possibly the best Patriots through the years The Ravens job was going to be decade now. to ever play his position of free Photos: Matt Vensel's NFL h a r d e n o u g h t h i s S u n d a y But enough with blowing kisses safety with no rings to show for it. power rankings for Jan. 16 afternoon. They are facing the their way. Lets get to the point: But why now? Do you think Confidence heading into New England Patriots, which The Ravens are not going to win Flacco, who didnt know how to Ravens-Patriots? even with holes in their defensive on Sunday. react to Reeds criticisms, needed Photos: Five Things We backfield, are a force to be Or let me put it another way, a future Hall of Famer looking Learned in the Ravens' victory reckoned with. w i t h o u t s i x s a c k s o r f o u r over his shoulder? over the Texans S i m p l y p u t , b e a t i n g B i l l interceptions or five fumbles, or This is what the Ravens do. They Photos: Mike Preston grades the B e l i c h i c k a n d T o m B r a d y , some mini combination of the shoot themselves in the foot. Ravens' 20-13 win over the p a r t i c u l a r l y t h i s y e a r , i n above, the Patriots are going to They havent been to a Super Texans F o x b o r o u g h i s a l o s i n g the Super Bowl. Bowl in 11 years, which means Video: Ravens' John Harbaugh p r o p o s i t i o n . Why? Because the Ravens dont theyve lost a lot of big games on Patriots quarterback Tom The Ravens, though, are a get it. In fact, maybe thats why since. Brady formidable foe in the AFC this franchise has comfortable It appears that coach John See more stories c h a m p i o n s h i p . B e h i n d t h e been the fourth best in the Harbaugh is good guy and a good Patriots, Steelers and Colts-- in conference since the turn of the coach. But is he in total control?
Submitted at 1/20/2012 10:17:26 AM
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Can he be in total control with larger than life veteran personalities like Ray Lewis and Ed Reed around? Before anybody that owns a purple Ravens jersey points to the 2009 AFC divisional game at Foxborough, a game the Ravens won convincingly, from box-towire ... dont go there. That Patriots team was a mess. At 10-6, it lost three games at home that year. It wasnt tough. It had a few malcontents. And, the heart and soul of the team, Wes Welker, who led the NFL in receptions (123) and was second in yards (1,348) in only 14 games. These Patriots are tough and theyre ready. And, maybe best of all, theyll do their talking on the field. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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LEAD: Ailing James drops in 31 points as Heat dominate Lakers 98-87 - Monsters and Critics
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after the outcome had been decided for the Lakers, who lost for just the second time in the last L o s A n g e l e s - L i s t e d a s eight games. questionable after being sent 'They were the aggressors on both home from shoot-around with flu- ends of the floor until the last few like symptoms earlier in the day, minutes of the game,' Lakers Miami Heat superstar LeBron coach Mike Brown said of the James left no doubt he was the Heat. 'We were aggressive the last best player on the court in evening 6, 7 minutes. You can't go over a games Thursday. 48-minute game against a team James collected 31 points with like this and allow them to be the eight assists and eight rebounds, aggressor for most of the night.' a s t h e s h o r t - h a n d e d H e a t Showing no signs of illness, dominated the visiting LA Lakers James had 13 points and six 98-87. assists staking the Heat to a 52-37 'There were a few times I felt halftime lead, while the Lakers exhausted,' James said after were held to a frosty 31 per cent logging 37 minutes. 'A chest cold field goal shooting. can get to you at times, but I just Miami continued to dominate, wanted to be there for my opening up 77-56 cushion after teammates, I felt like I could help three quarters that swelled to 83the team.' 60 early in the fourth. Chris Bosh had 15 points and Bryant's late flurry pulled the eight rebounds for Miami, which Lakers to within 94-84 with two led by as many as 23 en route to minutes remaining, but Derek consecutive wins after a season- Fisher missed a three-pointer. At high three-game slide, while All- the other end, Mario Chalmers Star guard Dwyane Wade (right made two free throws and James ankle sprain) sat out his second followed with a floater to seal the straight game. win. Spaniard Pau Gasol scored a Elsewhere: Houston Rockets 90, season-high 26 points while Kobe New Orleans Hornets 88 (OT): Bryant made just 8-of-21 shots Kevin Martin scored 27 of his 32 and finished with 24 points, points in the first half, Samuel including 14 in the fourth quarter Dalembert had 15 points with 17
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rebounds and the go-ahead dunk with 11 seconds left in overtime, as the Rockets escaped the visiting Hornets for their fifth straight victory. Jason Smith scored 17, Marco Belinelli added 15, but missed the potential-game-winning threepointer at the buzzer for the Hornets, who fell for the 12th time in 13 games after wiping out a 12-point fourth-quarter deficit. Dallas Mavericks 94, Utah Jazz 91: Shawn Marion scored a season-high 22 points, including a late layup after Jason Terry drilled the tie-breaking triple with 2 minutes 26 seconds remaining, and the reigning NBA Champ Mavericks held off the Jazz to stop a modest two-game slide Al Jefferson had 22 points, C.J, Miles added 17 for host Utah, which lost for just the second time in its last 10 decisions. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Play.com lists 'Ubisoft Triple Pack,' containing Beyond Good and Evil HD, Outland, From Dust
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exist for the Triple Pack on any of the usual US retailers' websites. We've contacted Ubisoft for It looks like more downloadable c l a r i f i c a t i o n r e g a r d i n g t h e titles will be getting the packaged collection's availability and retail treatment, this time courtesy pricing, but we feel safe in of Ubisoft. Similar to the various assuming that it'll cost more than other retail packs we've seen in $1 and less than $100 million, and the past, the "Ubisoft Triple Pack" that it'll be available in a country will contain three previously somewhere on this specific planet. download-only titles for PS3 and Play.com lists 'Ubisoft Triple Xbox 360: Beyond Good and Evil Pack,' containing Beyond Good HD, Outland and From Dust, and Evil HD, Outland, From Dust a c c o r d i n g t o a l i s t i n g o n originally appeared on Joystiq on Play.com. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:00 EST. Play.com's pre-order price of Please see our terms for use of 14.99 equates to roughly $23, feeds. although no listings currently Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Ukrainian coach charged in sex case faces hearing NJ.com

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sexual activity because he allegedly transported the boy from Submitted at 1/20/2012 7:32:48 AM the home of a host family in Jan. 20, 2012, 10:47 a.m. EST Wilmington, Del. PHILADELPHIA (AP) A The website for the coach's Ukrainian hockey coach who hockey school, Ivan Pravilov's allegedly had sexual contact with Unique Hockey School, says it a teenage boy attending clinics in held a number of camps up and the United States frequently down the East Coast this summer. traveled with teens, transporting The site lists New Jersey Devils them from city to city for camps, forward Dainius Zubrus as a according to court documents. former student. Ivan Pravilov is due in court later Pravilov had been holding Friday for a detention hearing in practices with Ukrainian boys at Philadelphia. Prosecutors want The Rink at Old York Road in Pravilov kept in custody because Elkins Park since November, rink they believe he's a risk to flee general manager and hockey overseas. director Justin Adamski Sr. said. Pravilov was charged Tuesday Pravilov had done practices at with committing sex acts with a rinks throughout the area that boy attending hockey clinics with would give him free ice time, him in the United States. Adamski said. According to court documents, a Adamski said he never saw 14-year-old boy told investigators anything inappropriate going on he had sexual contact with between Pravilov and the boys, Pravilov at an apartment in who were mostly between the Philadelphia on Jan. 3. A second ages of 12 and 15. teen gave an identical account, "We were giving him ice time to a c c o r d i n g t o t h e c r i m i n a l skate," Adamski said. complaint. A woman who helped host Pravilov was charged with families in the United States said transporting a minor to engage in she knew Pravilov well, having
volunteered her time for the boys. "It's still very hard to comprehend everything," said Denise Reid, a contact listed on Pravilov's website for another Philadelphiaarea ice rink where he held camps. "We're devastated. We're worried for the boys." A coach at Pravilov's school who declined to give his name declined to comment. The Interior Ministry, which oversees the Ukrainian branch of Interpol, had no comment. An attorney for Pravilov, who authorities said had been staying with a friend in Cherry Hill, N.J., didn't return messages seeking comment. There was no answer at the New Jersey address listed for Pravilov in court documents. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Metal Gear Solid 3DS slithers into view, looks snazzy

Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
way to even have a chance to purchase the unit is by winning a raffle offered by Konami in We've gotten our eyes on the February. The bundle will run limited edition Metal Gear Solid 22,980 ($298) for those lucky 3: Snake Eater 3DS once before, enough to grab one, and it'll come but only a shallow glance offered with the game itself, the fancy via Hideo Kojima's cell phone. 3DS, a "snake-styled" 3DS, and Frankly, we wanted a better look, two ... folders. Like, the kind you and now we've got it. Feast your use in high school, except they eyes on that snakeskin embossed have MGS3 characters on them. bad boy above! Hoo-ah! Metal Gear Solid 3DS slithers Unfortunately for us outside into view, looks snazzy originally Japan, there won't be a lot of appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 20 Jan opportunity to actually purchase 2012 13:00:00 EST. Please see the unit. That kind of goes for the our terms for use of feeds. folks in Japan as well, as the only Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Tesla's Model S Sets a New Standard for Battery-Powered Cars

John Voelcker (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:05:51 AM
'Fast & Furious' Official to Plead the Fifth

(The Feed)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 10:57:39 AM
Tesla Model S Tesla Until now, there hasn't been an all-electric car fit for roadtripping. But Tesla's Model S, due out late in 2012, is made for extended drives. Its battery goes up to 300 miles on a charge. Its cabin is spacious enough for seven passengers. And it can get up to cruising speed fast-the Model S accelerates from 0 to 60 in 5.6 seconds. BIGGER BATTERY At 85 kilowatt-hours, the Model S boasts more than triple the battery capacity of the Nissan Leaf. Its thousands of lithium-ion cells use a new electrode chemistry from Panasonic, which could allow them to store more power than other comparably sized cells. FAST CHARGE
Tesla plans to install proprietary 440-volt charging stations (first along the I-5 Corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco) built to match up with the Model S's circuitry. They will provide a full charge in an hour. Standard chargers will require a full night. TEMPERATURE CONTROL
To protect the motor, circuitry and battery from heat, channels filled with liquid coolant run through the components. Pumps cycle coolant through a front radiator and a pair of A/C condensers. This helps the motor deliver twice the power of its Roadster predecessor.
LIGHT BODY To increase the sedan's range, the designers of the Model S kept its weight low with a body constructed from 97 percent aluminum. They added heavier structural steel only where necessary for safety: in central supports and front-end crash zones. ROOMY CABIN The Model S's batteries sit beneath the floor in a large flat pack that spreads the width of the car and about two thirds of its length. This arrangement leaves ample space in the trunk for cargo or two backward-facing jump seats. The main interior holds five adults. Top Speed: 130 mph Range: 300 miles Seats: Five adults, two children Price:$77,400
Gallery: Interactive Gym Equipment to Make You Sweat Smarter

Brett Zarda (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:57:57 AM
ProForm Tour de France Claire Benoist
Working out can be boring, and sometimes the easiest way to get moving is to be entertained. But new interactive gym equipment brings real-world workouts to your basement, making your
See the gallery.
Via Fox News: The chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorneys Office in Arizona is refusing to testify before Congress regarding Operation Fast and Furious, the federal gun-running scandal that sent U.S. weapons to Mexico. Patrick J. Cunningham informed the House Oversight Committee late Thursday through his attorney that he will use the Fifth Amendment protection. Cunningham was ordered Wednesday to appear before Chairman Darrell Issa and the House Oversight Committee regarding his role in the operation that sent more than 2,000 guns to the Sinaloa Cartel. Guns from the failed operation were found at the murder scene of Border Agent Brian Terry. . . So he can plead the fifth yet keep his job? Greg Pollowitz This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
home training more fun and more effective.
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Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Peruvian Burial Ground

Amber Williams (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 10:03:06 AM
Photos: Gary Eichten retires Minnesota Public Radio

Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:14:28 PM
Ancient Peruvian Sacrifice Click here to get a bigger view of this amazing image. Mariana Bazo/ Reuters An offering of children and llamas Last August in Huanchaquito, a town on the arid northern coast of Peru, the winter winds uncovered six human skulls. A villager alerted Yale University archaeologist Oscar Gabriel Prieto Burmester to the find, and soon thereafter Burmester and his team
had unearthed the ancient remains of 43 children and 76 llamas, and not a single adult-a sacrificial site. Preserved by the area's dry climate, the 900-year-old mummies date to the age of the
pre-Columbian Chim culture. The bodies, which lay facing the coast, rested in a single sediment layer, suggesting that they were killed as a group as an offering to an ocean deity, Burmester says,
perhaps as an attempt to control the weather. A thick layer of sediment surrounding the mummies indicates that it rained violently right before or during the slaughter. For the sacrifice, the Chim people offered the best they had. Children represented fertility and renewal, Burmester says, and llamas provided food, clothing and transportation. The now-excavated mummies await further study in a museum in the nearby city of Chan Chan.
Minnesota Public Radio Photos: Gary Eichten retires Minnesota Public Radio (MPR Photo/Jennifer Simonson) link to this photo St. Paul, Minnesota, USA Gary Eichten, left, interviews Governor Mark Dayton during one of the last Midday programs Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 in the MPR News studios. (MPR Photo/Jennifer Simonson) link... and more
Obamacare Is Losing CLASS Fast

Alyene Senger (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
run long-term care insurance program and a major failure of Obamacare. It has been described in a variety of degrading ways, Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:45:35 AM It may be only a few days since most notably as unsustainable, an Congress began its new session, insurance death spiral, and a ponzi but it has already done some scheme of the first order. decent work. This week, the As Heritage has previously H o u s e W a y s a n d M e a n s explained: Committee held the markup of From its creation, the CLASS H.R. 1173, which would repeal Act was completely unsustainable the Community Living Assistance as written into law. Due to the Services and Supports (CLASS) effects of adverse selection, the Act. program would charge high The CLASS Act is a government- premiums that would deter less
risky individuals from participating. Indeed, participating in the CLASS program would only appeal to those in poor health expecting to need long-term care in the future, further escalating premiums. Thankfully, the inherent policy flaws of the CLASS Act have been recognized, and congressional action is being taken. Representative Charles Boustany (RLA), a physician and chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on
Oversight, is the sponsor of the repeal bill. In a recent Politico oped, he urges Congress to act and warns, CLASS could return to haunt us if it isnt fully repealed before October 2012. Legal experts at the Congressional Research Service warn that a federal judge could force [the Administration] to revive CLASS after this key deadline in the law expires. The CLASS Act, like the rest of Obamacare, is rife with problems. The repeal bill is expected to be
taken up by the entire House in February. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Supremes Shut Down Judicial Activism Over Voting Maps

Andrew Grossman (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
adopted by the Texas legislature under section 2 of the VRA, at the same time that another court in Washington, D.C., was slowwalking challenges to the entire Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:04:34 AM Today, the Supreme Court tossed plan under section 5 of the VRA out the work of a district court ( w h i c h r e q u i r e s c o v e r e d that attempted to force its own jurisdictions, like Texas, to electoral maps on the state of obtain preclearance of changes to Texas, while ignoring the maps electoral processes), the court drawn by the Texas legislature. decided to simply ignore the The unanimous decision is a legislatures handiwork and enact major victory for constitutional its own plan that it believed federalism, and a blow to runaway place[d] the interests of the judicial activism. citizens of Texas first, over the Drawing electoral districts is one states vigorous objections. of the core responsibilities of state Judge Jerry Smith, of the Fifth legislatures, and a vital part of the Circuit, vigorously dissented, democratic process, and the arguing that the majoritys actions federal courts have at least paid were untethered from the lip service to the principle that applicable law and that the legislator-passed electoral maps practical effect of courts action are due significant deference. But was to award judgment on the s o m e c o u r t s h a v e b e e n pleadings in favor of one sidea increasingly eager to intervene in s l a m - d u n k v i c t o r y f o r t h e t h e r e d i s t r i c t i n g p r o c e s s , plaintiffsat the expense of the substituting their views for those redistricting plan enacted by the of elected representatives in cases Legislature, before key decisions challenging maps under the have been made on binding Voting Rights Act and Equal questions of law. Protection Clause. According to the Supreme Court, The three-judge district court Judge Smith had it exactly right. here was one of the most The Court confirmed that aggressive in recent memory. redistricting is primarily the duty F a c e d w i t h a c t i v i s t - g r o u p and responsibility of the State, challenges to the redistricting plan and that the fact of an ongoing
section 5 challenge does not give a court license to throw out the states electoral maps and start over. Instead, it must take guidance from the States policy judgments on where to place new districts and how to shift existing ones and should only deviate from those choices where they are subject to challenges are likely to succeed or are, at the least, not insubstantial. In this way, a states redistricting plan, even if it has not yet been precleared by federal authorities pursuant section 5, still has force, and a district court cannot choose to wholly ignore the States policies in drawing maps that will govern a States elections, without any reason to believe those state policies are unlawful. Accordingly, the Court sent the case back to the district court to try again, this time taking the Texas legislatures plan into account. The issue lurking in the background of this decision is the constitutionality of section 5, which imposes a unique burden on states, in a very sensitive area, based on discrimination in voting processes decades ago that is no longer supported by the current
facts on the ground. The Court ducked this issue several terms ago, ruling that DOJ had to make it easier for states to escape section 5 coverage, but the Obama DOJ has been wielding section 5 like a baseball bat against state voter-ID laws and redistricting plans, making the Courts ultimate resolution of the issue inevitable. Justice Thomas filed a concurring opinion today, however, again declaring his view that Section 5 was unconstitutional and thus should be ignored in drawing up any interim map. The decision today, while modest, demonstrates that the entire Court takes states rights and prerogatives in drawing electoral maps seriously and is wary of any scheme that intrudes on those state interests without a compelling and persuasive legal basisas well it should be. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
10 Tidy iPhone Cases to Replace Your Wallet

Amy-Mae Elliott (Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:51:58 AM
1. Case-Mate ID Credit Card Case Case-Mate's card-carrying option gives you a snug space for two cards and comes in an impressive 15 different colors. Cost:$35 Click here to view this gallery. Whether you want to ditch your wallet for good, or have the option to travel light on occasion, an iPhone case with slots for credit cards, ID and cash is a handy tool. Weve found 10 cases that allow you to leave your wallet at home and save on valuable pocket space. SEE ALSO: 10 Rock-Steady Rugged iPhone Cases Take a look through our gallery of iPhone cases complete with card slots. Let us know in the comments about any others youve seen that fit the bill. More About: accessories, apple, cases, features, iphone, iphone accessories, iphone cases
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Japans Inability to Make Decisions

Robert Warshaw (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:15:31 AM
Draconian defense budget cuts of at least $450 billionand possibly as much as $1.2 trillion under sequestrationare casting doubt on the U.S. commitment to peace and security in the AsiaPacific. Japans inability to come to agreement with its principle ally complicates this already disconcerting picture. It only increases insecurity in a region groping for ways to cope with a rapidly modernizing Chinese military, an unstable North Korea, and other security threats, according to Heritage expert Bruce Klingner. Kevin Maher, former director of the Japan desk at the State Department, highlighted the foremost reason for the Japanese conundrum at a Heritage discussion of his book, The Japan That Cant Decide. Maher said Japans inability to make decisions has negatively impacted the U.S.Japan alliance through mishandling of the Okinawa base
relocation, hindered Tokyos initial response to the March 2011 natural disasters, and contributed to the phenomenon of disposable prime ministers, in which the position has been akin to a revolving door. Japanese officials have become so fraught with indecision, he said, that Japan is mired in a perennial policy stalemate. Maher identified several reasons for this situation, including a consensusbuilding parliamentary system that empowers small minorities to block major decisions, a loss of confidence among politicians resulting from Japans lost decades of economic stagnation, and an aversion to taking risks and assuming responsibility. Maher blamed Japans consensus -building approach and emphasis on domestic political concerns for the ongoing stalemate over the planned U.S. military realignment on Okinawa, particularly the Marine Corps Futenma Replacement Facility. Japan has passed the buck on implementing the previously agreed-upon plan of relocating Futenmas air assets
to Camp Schwab, transferring 8,000 Marines to Guam, and reducing the burden on the local population. Maher emphasized that Japans populace and political leadership must take security issues more seriouslya weakness underscored by the meager 1 percent of GDP spent on defense. Maher condemned proposals to relocate Futenmas helicopters off Okinawa, noting that Marine Corps units must constantly train with integrated air, ground, and logistics assets. In his words, if they dont train together, they die, and we will not sacrifice Marines lives for Japans domestic political concerns. Japan must simply wake up to its security environment and understand why U.S. Marines on Okinawa are essential to peace and security in the Pacific. Finally, regarding Japans future, Maher noted that Prime Minister Noda is more of a realist than his predecessors, making decisions on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the F-35 program, but he is still hindered by small interest groups
and the opposition Liberal Democratic Party. With Japan besieged by numerous economic and demographic problems, Maher noted that voters have tired of this indecisiveness, with 49 percent of the Japanese public not supporting any political party. Americas longstanding commitment to peace and security in the AsiaPacific relies on capable allies, and while the U.S.Japan alliance is not in a state of crisis, it is beleaguered by Japans indecision on the base relocation issue. Japan needs a leader who can make the tough decisions and weather the political fallout. And for its part, the U.S. must stand firm in supporting this alliance, especially in troubled times. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Photos: Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in California - Denver Post
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:59:39 AM
9NEWS.com Photos: Legendary blues singer Etta James dies in California Denver Post (Nathan W. Armes/Special to The Post) In this Friday, April 18, 2003, photo, legendary singer Etta James points to her star after an unveiling ceremony on the Walk of Fame, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. The singer's manager says Etta James... PHOTOS: Remembering Etta James 9NEWS.com Etta James dies at 73 in Riverside after struggle with leukemia ( photos, videos) 89.3 KPCC A Look Back at Etta James' Career in Photos and Videos Vibe all 1,227 news articles
Mitt Romney Family History

Ta-Nehisi Coates (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:00:00 PM
It's worth checking out this Fresh Air interview with Romney
biographers Michael Kranish and balanced in the best sense. Scott Helman. There's good stuff See web-only content: on Romney's business ventures, http://www.theatlantic.com/ the time he spent proselytizing, politics/archive/2012/01/mittand his relative liberalism as romney-family-history/251690/ Mormon official. It's pretty well This article available online at:
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Hands-on With the Nike+ FuelBand [PICS]

Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:02:15 PM
Nike+ FuelBand The Nike+ FuelBand is a new wristband that tracks a metric that Nike has developed called "Fuel," which measures all physical activity across sports. Click here to view this gallery. Nike unveiled the Nike+ FuelBand Thursday, a new
wristband that aims to track all physical activities and provide a common metric for tracking performance across sports. I had an opportunity to test out the device for several hours, taking it from Nikes press conference in New York City to a tennis training session and a lunch. The device performed as promised after syncing with an
iPod touch after each stop, the Nike+ FuelBand app charted my progress and allowed me to share it on Twitter and Facebook (although those features wont work in full until the device goes live next month). Not surprisingly, it charted a huge spike in activity during the tennis session (I earned about 500 fuel points in 45 minutes), was fairly flat during a bus ride
between locations, and picked up slightly while casually walking around. The FuelBand itself features only one button, which lets you sync with the iPod touch or iPhone and cycle through the metrics that it tracks: Fuel score, calories burned, steps and the time. It comes in three sizes and fit to my wrist snug; its also waterproof,which means itll
work for swimming (or take a post-workout shower without removing it). To get a closer look at how these features operate, as well as some shots of Nikes star-studded press conference, check out the slideshow above. More About: exercise, fuelband, Nike, sports
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Social Media Marriage Proposals: 10 Clever Ways to Pop the Question

Brian Anthony Hernandez (Mashable!)
let us know how you proposed in the comments! 1. Internet Memes Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:30:00 AM Timothy Tiah Ewe Tiam snuck Want proof that love spawns up on his long-time love interest, creativity? Look no further than A u d r e y O o i F e n g L i n g , a t these clever marriage proposals, N e r o t e c a , a r e s t a u r a n t i n which take advantage of mediums Malaysia, and began showing her and tools that werent available to poster-sized printed memes such previous generations of lovers. as Socially Awkward Penguin, Y SEE ALSO: Top 10 Wedding U NO Guy and Success Kid. Dance Videos on YouTube At the end of the meme-ridden cant see myself living without What are you waiting for? Grab surprise, he knelt and confessed, you in my life. Will you marry some tissues (the first video is Im very nervous and terrified me? way too precious) and flip about this, but I love you and I Click here to view this gallery. through the galleries below. And think youre my soul mate. And I 6. Google+ Video Game
A gamer named Mihai surprised his girlfriend, Miruna, with a virtual ring in the Crime City mafia video game on Google+. Funzio, makers of the massively
multiplayer online role-playing game, helped Mihai pull off the proposal. Miruna found the ring in her character's inventory and said yes. Click here to view this gallery. More About: features, Gadgets, Google, Google Maps, groupon, Lists, memes, Social Media, trending, video games, words with friends
Muslims guilty over gay leaflets

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homosexuality. They were convicted by a jury at Submitted at 1/20/2012 9:37:09 AM Derby Crown Court of 20 Jan 2012 distributing threatening written Three Muslim men have been material intending to stir up found guilty of stirring up hatred hatred on the grounds of sexual o n t h e g r o u n d s o f s e x u a l orientation in the first prosecution orientation after distributing a of its kind since legislation came leaflet that said Islam called for into force in March 2010. a n y o n e c a u g h t c o m m i t t i n g Mehboob Hussain and Umar homosexuality to be executed. Javed, who were also charged Ihjaz Ali, Kabir Ahmed and with the same offence, were found Razwan Javed handed out the not guilty by the jury. Judge John pamphlet, called The Death Burgess, Honorary Recorder of Penalty?, which showed an image Derby, adjourned sentencing until of a mannequin hanging from a February 10 for pre-sentence noose and quoted Islamic texts reports. that said capital punishment was During their trial the jury of the only way to rid society of seven men and five women heard
the men, who are all from Derby, admitted distributing the leaflet, but said they were simply quoting and following what their religion teaches about homosexuality and did not intend to threaten anyone. The leaflet was handed out outside and near the Jamia Mosque in Derby's Rosehill Street and in streets around the local neighbourhood in July 2010. It was made and used as part of a campaign to publicise a protest in response to the Gay Pride parade due to be held in Derby on July 10 that year. Taxi driver Ali, of Fairfax Road, who the prosecution said was believed to be the main organiser
and supplier of the leaflets, was found guilty of four counts of distribution on July 2 and July 4. Ahmed, who is married with a nine-month-old daughter and lives in Madeley Street, and Razwan Javed, of Wilfred Street, were convicted of distribution in the area of the mosque on July 2. But married taxi driver Mehboob Hussain, of Rosehill Street, and Razwan's brother Umar Javed, a married takeaway worker who lives in Whittaker Street, were both cleared of distribution relating to posting the leaflets through the letterboxes of homes on July 4. Gay rights group Stonewall
welcomed the convictions, which it said "vindicate" its fight against hate crimes. Chief executive Ben Summerskill said: "We're satisfied to see these extremists convicted for distributing offensive and inflammatory leaflets that suggested gay people should be burnt or stoned to death." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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China extradition paedophile jailed

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not have an extradition treaty but the handover was eventually secured through a diplomatic 20 Jan 2012 agreement. A paedophile who was the first Price was arrested by the Chinese person extradited from China to last May and brought back to the the UK after he skipped bail on a UK under Merseyside Police false passport has finally been escort in November. jailed for seven years and eight Due to the extradition months. arrangement, the Crown David Price, 69, fled abroad in Prosecution Service was not able October 2003 after being caught to charge Price with specific with hundreds of images of sexual assault offences. Judge himself and others sexually Mark Brown told Price that he abusing children under the age of w o u l d h a v e r e c e i v e d a 13. He was jailed at Liverpool "considerably longer sentence" if Crown Court after admitting 21 this were not the case. specimen counts of possessing, The court was told that Price, making and distributing indecent who worked in the construction images of children. industry before he fled the P r i c e , f r o m S o u t h p o r t , country, was jailed for four years Merseyside, travelled to Kenya in 1990 after being convicted at and Tanzania before Merseyside Liverpool Crown Court of gross Police tracked him down in Hubai indecency against a young girl. Province, central China, where he He returned to the police's was teaching English to primary attention in May 2003 when he schoolchildren. was caught supplying indecent Police spent the next six years images of children over the monitoring his movements as the internet to an undercover officer H o m e O f f i c e a n d C r o w n in Colorado, United States. Price Prosecution Service worked to also told the American officer, secure Chinese cooperation with who was posing as a sex offender, his arrest. The two countries do he could help him travel to Dubai
so that he could abuse children, the court heard. Henry Riding, prosecuting, told the court one of the Dubai-based children was under the age of six and the others were aged six, eight and 10. Price "preyed" on the mother of the girls, who was a Pakistani national whose husband had left her, the court was told. She was said to be in "grinding poverty" and "moved from slum to slum". Price wrote numerous letters to the woman, known to him as Helen, in which he applied pressure, saying the only way she could get by was to take money from him so that he could use her daughters for his own sexual gratification, the court heard. In one letter he told her he had "no moral considerations at all". This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
On Looking Like A Ghetto Crackhead

Ta-Nehisi Coates (Politics : The Atlantic)
I am aware that saying the first black president looks like "a skinny ghetto crackhead," might Submitted at 1/20/2012 1:00:00 PM not strike some people as One other way Obama represents particularly racist. It's true that the is simply by being all black and president is, in fact, skinny. It's normally, and thus driving white true that ghettos didn't originally racists even more batshit insane. refer to places where black people Take for instance the following lived. It's also true that white clip where a guest on Fox says: people, do in fact, smoke crack. "How long do you think Sean Likewise, poor white trash could Hannity's show would last if four r e f e r t o t h e g a r b a g e c a n times in one sentence, he made a somewhere in the Kentucky comment about, say, the President hills.It's not like we can read of the United States, and said that minds, or anything. he looked like a skinny, ghetto This article available online at: crackhead?" Bozell wondered. http://www.theatlantic.com/ "Which, by the way, you might politics/archive/2012/01/onwant to say that Barack Obama looking-like-a-ghetto-crackhead/ does." 251727/ What starts out as halfway-fair This entry passed through the critique degenerates into utter Full-Text RSS service if this is racism, at Obama's expense. That your content and you're reading it five percent of black America on someone else's site, please read that's conservative, or left and the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contenthave qualms about him see that only/faq.php#publishers. Five and their decision is made for Filters recommends: Donate to them. Wikileaks.
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has walked free after being charged with murdering securityforce members. 20 Jan 2012 There were nasty scenes outside A t e r m i n a l l y - i l l d i s s i d e n t the court as the republican republican will spend his final e m e r g e d , w i t h l o y a l i s t years in prison after being demonstrators hurling vitriolic convicted of murdering two abuse at him and his supporters as British soldiers in Northern he was hastily driven away in a Ireland. waiting car. Cystic fibrosis sufferer Brian Earlier, relatives of the two Shivers, 46, was handed a life sappers wept openly in court as he sentence after a judge found him was acquitted. But the room fell guilty of being part of the gang completely silent an hour later that gunned down Sappers Patrick when Justice Hart delivered the Azimkar, 21 and Mark Quinsey, guilty verdict for Shivers at the 23, outside Massereene Army conclusion of what was a threebarracks in Antrim on March 7 hour judgment. 2009. After the verdicts, Sapper Just months before unemployed Quinsey's sister Jaime said they d i v o r c e e S h i v e r s , f r o m had got a measure of justice. Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, "Mark and Patrick were murdered took part in the killings, a doctor as a result of a vicious cowardly told him he had only three or four act, they were unarmed and years to live. preparing to go to serve their His co-accused, high-profile country in Afghanistan. After republican Colin Duffy, from nearly three years of heartache we L u r g a n , C o A r m a g h , w a s have come a little bit closer to acquitted of the charges in the non justice." -jury trial at Antrim Crown Court Sapper Azimkar's mother by Mr Justice Anthony Hart. It Geraldine added: "This was a was the third time in the last two terrible crime which stole Patrick decades that 44-year-old Duffy and Mark's young lives from
them." She added: "Losing Patrick has devastated our family and has forever cast a dark shadow over our lives." The English soldiers from the 38 Engineer Regiment were about to begin a tour of duty in Afghanistan when they were gunned down in an attack by republicans opposed to the Good Friday peace deal of 1998. Sapper Quinsey, from Birmingham, and Sapper Azimkar, from London, were dressed in their desert fatigues and were within hours of leaving the base. They were collecting pizzas at the front gate when they came under fire. Two other soldiers and two pizza delivery drivers, were injured in the gun attack. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
RIM's BlackBerry Porsche Design P'9981 gets splayed by the FCC

Dante Cesa (Engadget)
conveniently splays three snaps of the teutonic device's interior. Submitted at 1/20/2012 1:09:00 PM Sure, it isn't a proper iFixit Thus far, the Waterloo-Stuttgart dissection -- ripe with details and wnderchild's been scooped, color -- but it'll probably be the made official and even toyed with closest anyone will get to the back at this year's CES. What innards of the $2,000 BlackBerry hasn't happened yet, is a proper for quite a while. Read this far? review, but until that joyous day Go on, don't be shy, espy the comes we'll take what we can get governmental shakedown at the i n t h e f o r m o f t h i s q u a s i - source link below. teardown, courtesy of the FCC. RIM's BlackBerry Porsche Those with stellar memory and a Design P'9981 gets splayed by the keen eye will recall we'd seen it FCC originally appeared on pass through governmental annals Engadget on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 once before, yet at that time any 13:09:00 EDT. Please see our revealing imagery of its internals terms for use of feeds. Permalink were strictly verboten. That's Wireless Goodness| FCC| Email changed, as that once barren page this| Comments now houses a PDF titled "Temp Confid_Internal Photos" which
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Reality Check: This Is Still Romney's Race to Lose

Reid Wilson (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:26:10 AM
Forget Newtmentum, tax-return controversies, and Santorum's Iowa victory. Only Romney is ready for the long haul to the nomination. The fundamentals of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign are strong. Even in the wake of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's surging momentum in South Carolina, the fact remains that Romney is the overwhelming frontrunner for the Republican nomination -- and Saturday's primary won't do anything to change that. That's not to pooh-pooh Gingrich's comeback. The former speaker's recovery in South Carolina has come against all odds, including sustained attacks from a pro-Romney super PAC, a damaging tell-all interview from his second wife, a sustained push by social conservatives to unite behind Rick Santorum, and the fact that Gingrich is still running a campaign virtually bereft of the infrastructure that past serious candidates have needed to win key primary states. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL Newt is Debater-in-Chief. But President?
Brokered Convention? 8 Scenarios for SC and Beyond Congress Postpones Votes on Piracy Bills
wise decision to abandon a highroad strategy that has never been rewarded in presidential politics in favor of mixing it up with front -running Romney. Gingrich's roller-coaster ride in But Gingrich is living a hand-topublic-opinion polls began its mouth existence, while Romney initial climb thanks to strong has sowed seeds he can reap later performances in debates in on in other states. The Republican November. His revival, after a presidential campaign is, at the barrage of attack ads in Iowa, end, a race for 1,144 delegates, came thanks to two more strong and the former Massachusetts performances this week and his governor's campaign is in a far
better position to harvest those delegates in later primaries. So far, Romney has collected an estimated 14 delegates, thanks to his performances in Iowa and New Hampshire, while Gingrich has just two. South Carolina will award 28 delegates, likely split between the four remaining candidates. The first real delegate prize comes on Jan. 31, when the winner of the Florida primary collects all 50 of the state's
delegates. Gingrich campaigned in Florida briefly last week. Romney has competed in Florida before, and a super PAC that backs his campaign is helping to give him a jump. Reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show Restore Our Future, the proRomney super PAC, spent about $300,000 on mailings and $1.5 REALITY page 76
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Reid punts on PIPA

Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 10:35:53 AM
posted at 11:35 am on January 20, 2012 by Ed Morrissey And now, Cowboy Poetry Corner: There once was a cowboy from Searchlight Who tried to grab power through copyright Reids Hollywood backers Tried to claim all were hackers But the Internet roped Reid in the fight. Yeah, the meters off a bit, but Im pretty sure I qualify for a government subsidy anyway. And now, Harry Reid will have more time on his hands to get me the cowboy poetry cash, too: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will postpone a cloture vote on a controversial bill to crack down on foreign websites that use pirated content. His move comes after a public campaign by websites concerned the bill would expose them to lawsuits turned once bipartisan support for the measure to strong opposition in both parties. In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesdays vote on the PROTECT I.P. Act, Reid said in a statement.
The vote was put off despite Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahys continued efforts to cut a deal on an amendment that addressed critics concerns. Reid did not say when the bill may come up again. Thats about as clear a retreat as one will see. Its an admission that PIPA and its companion House bill SOPA have become so toxic that they cant be amended into acceptability. In order to proceed on a bill to act in protection of copyright and intellectual property, Congress will have to start from scratch, with a process that doesnt give the federal government plenary powers to seize internet traffic without the proper run of due process. Reid could try to keep PIPA off the agenda for a few weeks and try again later, with some amendments, but as it gets close to the election, the worse the stink will be. PIPA and SOPA have bipartisan opposition, and the more Reid keeps pushing it, the more Republicans benefit from the fight. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) became the latest Republican co-sponsor to abandon the effort, calling to scrap the bills entirely: Tennessee Republican
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, an early co-sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act(SOPA), delivered a statement Thursday evening on Facebook renouncing her support of the bill in its current form. Its clear that online piracy legislation in its current form is not workable, said Blackburn. Its time to scrap the bill and start over. I will continue to work with my colleagues to find the best possible solution to ensure the constitutionally guaranteed property rights of our nations innovators are protected. Well, every cowboy sings a sad, sad song and Reid was starting to sing it solo. The entertainment industry will double down on its pressure to get PIPA and SOPA revived, but dont expect to see it this session, at least not in anything like its current form, and certainly not with the current bill titles. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Absinthe A5 jailbreak released for iPhone 4S, Hacker Dream Team makes untethered dreams come true
Joseph Volpe (Engadget)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:23:00 PM
applause to yourselves, as over ten million users submitted crash reports which led to the discovery Been waiting with bated breath to of the exploit. But enough of the liberate that dual-core A5 within backstory -- head on over to the your shiny, white (we presume) source to get your download Jony Ive-designed device? Well, started. you can exhale now, as a "Dream [Thanks to everyone who sent this Team" of iOS hackers have just in] r e l e a s e d A b s i n t h e A 5 : a n Absinthe A5 jailbreak released untethered solution for the iPhone for iPhone 4S, Hacker Dream 4S and iPad 2. For the uninitiated, Team makes untethered dreams this particular hack will not only come true originally appeared on free your handset or tablet from Engadget on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 Apple's controlling grasp, it'll also 12:23:00 EDT. Please see our retain the jailbreak upon reboot. terms for use of feeds. Permalink But don't just thank this hacker iJailbreak.com| greenpois0n,(2)| collective for the successful Email this| Comments effort, you can direct some of that
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million on television in Florida this week alone; the filings suggest the television time is dedicated to negative ads focused on Gingrich. Gingrich gets his chance to share the stage with Romney twice, first on Tuesday at a debate cosponsored by National Journal, NBC News, and the Tampa Bay Times and then again on Thursday at a CNN/Republican Party of Florida debate in Jacksonville. He will have to hope that once again, strong debate performances will overcome the rush of negative advertisements that has already begun. After Florida, Gingrich's outlook becomes even more bleak. The February calendar presents Romney with the opportunity to do to Gingrich what Barack Obama did to Hillary Clinton in 2008. Caucuses in Nevada, Colorado, and Minnesota will benefit a more organized campaign, giving Romney and Rep. Ron Paul a boost over Gingrich. The two primaries that month, in Arizona and Michigan, will take place on Romney-
friendly turf; Arizona has a sizable Mormon electorate, while Michigan is Romney's home state. By the end of February, Romney is likely to have the majority of the 274 delegates awarded to that point. Paul's focus on caucus states means Gingrich may not even be in second place by the end of the month. Then comes Super Tuesday, when 10 states will allocate a total of 407 delegates. With few debates left on the horizon, Gingrich won't have the time, the exposure, or the money to build the type of national campaign Romney has already started to build (Gingrich isn't even eligible for the 46 delegates from Virginia; his campaign didn't submit enough valid signatures to make the ballot there). In short, South Carolina presents Gingrich's last real chance to be on equal footing with Romney before the race goes national. Barring a sustained surge in campaign contributions for Gingrich and a real stumble by Romney's campaign, the reality is that the race for the Republican
nod is as clear today as it was before Gingrich's revitalization: There will be no extended fight for delegates a la Obama-Clinton, there will be no brokered convention, and Romney will be the Republican nominee. The deck is stacked too much in Romney's favor to give Gingrich's campaign anything more than a temporary reprieve. Image: Jason Reed / Reuters This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2012/01/realitycheck-this-is-still-romneys-race-to -lose/251728/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Brookstone's WiFi cufflinks let you discreetly share data, internet connections
Sean Buckley (Engadget)
Submitted at 1/20/2012 12:27:00 PM
If you somehow aren't satisfied with your growing collection of Nintendo, PlayStation, Game Boy Color and steampunk styled cufflinks, Brookstone just might be the Q to your Bond. In addition to rocking the USB-storage trick we've seen in other technological shirt links, this sleeve fastener also promises to act as a WiFi hotspot when paired with a hardwired PC. Rounding out your technologically augmented
wedding attire with these 'cuffs will set you back $250 -- unless you're working with Her Majesty's Secret Service, of course, then they're probably just standard issue. Brookstone's WiFi cufflinks let you discreetly share data, internet connections originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Time Techland| Brookstone| Email this| Comments
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Supreme Court unanimously tosses judicialdrawn redistricting in Texas
Video: Why is Solyndra destroying millions of dollars in parts?

Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
parking lot. Solyndra still owes the German company that made the tubes close to another $8 Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:45:59 AM Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top In its first ruling on political not just for the new districts but million. Picks) boundary-drawing based on the for all 36 Texas districts in the posted at 12:45 pm on January Solyndras liquidators claim that 2010 U.S. Census, the high court House, as well as for the state Submitted at 1/20/2012 11:10:48 AM 20, 2012 by Ed Morrissey the glass tubes cant attract a unanimously set aside the interim legislature. posted at 12:10 pm on January maps created by federal district Given that the Supreme Court Well, why not just toss out market for discounted sale. It 20, 2012 by Ed Morrissey court judges in San Antonio. unanimously rejected the judges millions in assets? Isnt that what didnt take KCBS long to find a Democrats in Texas lost a big The Supreme Court ruled that the ideas for redistricting and there the Obama administration did in buyer, though, who is hardly battle at the Supreme Court today, j u d g e s a p p e a r e d t o h a v e wont be much time left for the subsidizing Solyndra in the first unknown to the liquidators. David and lost it big, too. Democrats unnecessarily ignored the states legislature to act, that means that place? The CBS affiliate in San L u c k y b o u g h t s o m e o f t h e sued to stop a legislative effort at plans in drawing certain districts the courts best option is to tell Francisco catches Solyndra in the completed solar panels in an redistricting that was controlled and those maps can at least be Democrats that they lost the last act of destroying millions of e a r l i e r a u c t i o n a n d i s n o w by Republicans in the state, and used as a starting point. several elections and have to live dollars in glass tubes after a court reselling them from his base in had won at the district court Some aspects of the district w i t h t h e c o n s e q u e n c e s . ruled that the company was Las Vegas. Lucky also tells CBS level. The judge in the case c o u r t s p l a n s s e e m t o p a y Redistricting is a political process, spending more than they were that the glass tubes didnt get sold selected new maps that favored adequate attention to the states not a judicial process, and the worth on storage, another theme because the liquidator didnt Democrats in the effort to create policies, others do not and the Courts unanimous rejection of with a familiar ring in this bother to list them in the auction. KCBS then contacted the the four new House districts p r o p r i e t y o f s t i l l o t h e r s i s judicial intervention on the basis ongoing tale of crony capitalism and the Obama administration manufacturer of the glass tubes, allocated to the state through unclear, the court held in its of an intrusion on legislative still owed millions from Solyndra. reapportionment following last opinion. prerogative, at least to some (via William Amos): years census. Texas Republicans The court declined to order the extent, is a warning signal against After filing for bankruptcy last No one ever told them that the year, Fremont solar company liquidators intended to destroy the challenged that decision and lower court to adopt the maps judicial activism. won a unanimous decision that d r a w n b y t h e l e g i s l a t o r s , This entry passed through the Solyndra still owes American merchandise. They could have now demands a resolution of the however. That means that Texas Full-Text RSS service if this is taxpayers half a billion dollars. tried to negotiate a return of the underlying lawsuit quickly: doesnt have a map for this years your content and you're reading it B u t C B S 5 c a u g h t t h e m product to reduce the debt load on The Supreme Court on Friday Congressional election while the on someone else's site, please read destroying millions of dollars taxpayers in the collapse. Instead, theyre busy tossing these glass ruled in a Texas political dispute, lower court considers the lawsuit the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- worth of parts. rejecting judge-drawn election from Democrats. The decision only/faq.php#publishers. Five At Solyndras sprawling complex tubes into steel dumpsters in the m a p s f a v o r i n g m i n o r i t y puts a lot of pressure on the court Filters recommends: Donate to in Fremont, workers in white parking lot and trying to keep jumpsuits were unwrapping brand the media from pointing it out. candidates and Democrats in the to make a decision soon, so that Wikileaks. new glass tubes used in solar And that sounds exactly like the 2012 congressional and state Texas can start the political panels last week. They are the Obama administrations approach legislature elections. process of choosing its candidates latest, most cutting-edge solar to Solyndra, doesnt it? technology, and they are being This entry passed through the thrown into dumpsters. Full-Text RSS service if this is Solyndra paid at least $2 million your content and you're reading it for the specialized glass. A CBS 5 VIDEO: page 78 crew found one piece lying in the
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