Saturday, December 31, 2011

Health Tip: Wear Your Seat Belt During Pregnancy (HealthDay)

(HealthDay News) -- Wearing a seat belt is particularly important during pregnancy, when you're protecting for two.

The American Academy of Family Physicians offers these suggestions for moms-to-be while traveling in the car:

  • Wear your seat belt properly, with the lap belt beneath your belly and the shoulder strap positioned between the breasts and to the side of the belly.
  • Move your seat back as far as possible if you have airbags. Tilt the seat to give your belly more space.
  • If you aren't driving, sit in the back seat.
  • Always see your doctor immediately after a car accident, even if you don't feel like you are hurt.

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Friday, December 30, 2011

iStock Tools / Apps: GM: All scripts on Google Code


Hi,

I think it is a nice idea to have centralized hosting for all our GM scripts, so I created a Google Code Project for this.

The project is iStock Greasmonkey Tools

Presently only the 4 scripts I have worked on are hosted there. Please anyone interested in adding his script and participating in the project - sitemail me with your email address and script details, so I can add you as a contributor on Google Code.

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Leaked Twitter Subpoena Raises Online Privacy Issues (Mashable)

The leaked subpoena sent to Twitter this month by the Suffolk District Attorney's Office in Boston is causing some hoopla on the web and raising the issue of law enforcement's access to online personal data. On Dec. 14, the D.A.'s Office issued a subpoena to Twitter in order to access the account information of two users who tweeted a list of personal information they allegedly obtained by hacking into the Boston Police Patrolmens' Association. The hackers stole identifying information and Tweeted it to followers. The subpoena requests "available subscriber information, for the account or accounts associated with the following information, including IP address logs for account creation."

[More from Mashable: Twitter 2012: Bigger and More Ads]

In the subpoena, assistant D.A. Benjamin A. Goldberger requests that the investigation be kept from the Twitter users as to not impede the ongoing probe. But the information was leaked. We reached out to Twitter for comment, but have yet to hear back.

On Dec. 23 one of the accounts under investigation, @p0isAn0N Tweeted, "Haha. Boston PD submitted to Twitter for my information. Lololol? For what? Posting info pulled from public domains? #comeatmebro."

[More from Mashable: Today?s Top Stories: GoDaddy Woes, Twitter Lawsuit, No-Glasses 3D]

The D.A.'s office requested details of two Twitter users and also listed the name Guido Fawkes, which is the name but not handle listed for one of the accounts under investigation, as well as the hashtags #BostonPD and #d0xcak3.

One of the accounts being probed is listed in the subpoena as @OccupyBoston, however that account appears to be inactive. It's likely they meant @Occupy_Boston, which Tweets about the occupy movement. Targeting this account has lead some to speculate that the police are monitoring the online activity of occupy protestors.

Twitter's website contains an information section for law enforcement. It states that if a subpoena is issued for a user's information, the company will inform that user before they hand the information to the authorities, unless it is prevented from doing so by court order or statute. According to its site, Twitter was following protocol by informing the user of the subpoena, and, perhaps later providing that user's information to the Boston D.A. This isn't the first time Twitter has been reluctant to hand-over user information to law enforcement.

It's possible Twitter does host some personal information about the owners of the accounts who tweeted the hacked materials. At the very least, it might have IP addresses. However, Twitter doesn't verify identities or email addresses of its users, so using Twitter for detective work might be more harmful than helpful to an investigation, especially if the subpoena is leaked. We contacted the Boston District Attorney's Office and are waiting for a reply.

Do you think Twitter should surrender user information for hackers? Please tell us in the comments.

Image courtesy of Flickr, eldh

This story originally published on Mashable here.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

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Run Time: 127 min
Language: English
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Stars: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy

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The thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy recently debuted at the Venice Film Festival to excellent reviews, and will be released in the U.K. next week, so Focus Features can now concentrate on its domestic campaign, which has been kicked off with a brand new trailer, courtesy of Yahoo!.

Essentially pieced together from parts of three previous international trailers, the latest trailer introduces the story of semi-retired British intelligence agent George Smiley (Gary Oldman) as he attempts to find the Soviet mole that has infiltrated the upper echelon of the British Secret Intelligence Service. The trailer includes some bits of new footage and some changes, removing the slang reference of "the Circus" when speaking of the British Intelligence.

Based on the 1974 novel by John le CarrĂ©, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In), in his English-language debut. John Hurt (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Colin Firth (The King's Speech), Tom Hardy (Inception, Warrior), Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC's Sherlock and the upcoming The Hobbit) and CiarĂ¡n Hinds (The Debt) co-star.


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Kurt Virgin replaced as Eagan boys basketball coach (37)

Kurt Virgin, head boys basketball coach at Eagan High School since it opened in 1989, left that position shortly before the start of the Wildcats' 2011-12 season.

The reason for the departure has not been made public. EHS athletic director Sandra Setter Larsen did not return a phone call from the Sun-Current seeking comment.

Mike Sullivan, who was to be the Wildcats' junior varsity coach this season, has been named interim head coach. He had returned to the Eagan program after serving as sophomore coach and junior varsity coach for eight years in the 1990s.

Eagan has played twice so far, losing to St. Louis Park 64-55 on Dec. 3 and losing to Wayzata 57-53 on Dec. 6. The Wildcats are scheduled to play Fridley at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, in the first round of a tournament at North St. Paul High School.

Virgin also has been Eagan's head boys soccer coach since the school's inception. He is the only high school coach in Minnesota with more than 400 victories in two different sports.

In basketball, he has 485 career victories and led the Eagan boys to four state tournament appearances, including a runner-up finish in 1998.

Before going to Eagan, he was head coach in girls soccer and girls basketball at Apple Valley High School.

- Compiled by Mike Shaughnessy

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Video: No more Mr. Nice Guy for Gingrich?

Richard Ellis?/?Getty Images file

With the Iowa caucuses just a week away, it appears Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gringrich isn?t playing nice anymore. NBC?s Peter Alexander reports.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Forrest Gump, Hannibal Lecter join film registry

FILE- In this Thursday, March 5, 2009 file photo the Library of Congress is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Library of Congress on Wednesday announced that 1994's smash hit ?Forrest Gump? starring Tom Hanks was one of 25 films chosen to be included this year in the National Film Registry. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FILE- In this Thursday, March 5, 2009 file photo the Library of Congress is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Library of Congress on Wednesday announced that 1994's smash hit ?Forrest Gump? starring Tom Hanks was one of 25 films chosen to be included this year in the National Film Registry. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

This undated handout image provided by the Library of Congress shows a Danish poster for Walt Disney?s 1942 animated film ?Bambi." Bambi, Forrest Gump and Hannibal Lecter have at least one thing in common: Their cinematic adventures were chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. (AP Photo/Library of Congress)

This undated handout photo provided byMGM Home Entertainment and the Library of Congress shows Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal ?The Cannibal? Lecter in the 1991 film ?Silence of the Lambs.? Bambi, Forrest Gump and Hannibal Lecter have at least one thing in common: Their cinematic adventures were chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. (AP Photo/MGM Home Entertainment, Library of Congress)

This undated black-and-white handout photo provided by Paramount and the Library of Congress shows Tom Hanks staring as Forrest Gump. Bambi, Forrest Gump and Hannibal Lecter have at least one thing in common: Their cinematic adventures were chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. (AP Photo/Paramount, Library if Congess)

(AP) ? Bambi, Forrest Gump and Hannibal Lecter have at least one thing in common: Their cinematic adventures were chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings.

"The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), a harrowing psychological thriller about the cannibalistic serial killer Lecter, and "Forrest Gump" (1994), starring Tom Hanks as the guileless hero who thinks "life is like a box of chocolates," were critical and commercial successes that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The animated Disney classic "Bambi" is among the most beloved movies ever made.

A majority of the 25 titles chosen this year for inclusion in the National Film Registry are lesser-known ? including silent films, documentaries, avant-garde cinema and even home movies. The Library of Congress announced the selections Tuesday.

The registry began in 1989 under an act of Congress and now includes 575 films. Its aim is not to identify the best movies ever made but to preserve films with artistic, cultural or historical significance. Previous titles chosen range from "The Birth of a Nation" to "National Lampoon's Animal House."

"Forrest Gump" has its critical detractors but was praised for its technical achievements, including the seamless incorporation of the title character into historical footage.

More than 2,200 films were nominated for the registry this year. The National Film Preservation Board pares them down before Librarian of Congress James H. Billington makes the final selections.

"Each year, we do try to pick one of the titles that the public nominated the most, and 'Forrest Gump' was way up there on that list," said Stephen Leggett, program coordinator for the National Film Preservation Board. "Everything on the list is subject to dissenting opinion."

Staffers at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va., work to ensure that each title is preserved for future generations, packing away original negatives or unreleased prints into the facility's massive vault and collaborating with other preservationists, movie studios and independent filmmakers.

"These films are selected because of their enduring significance to American culture," Billington said in a statement. "Our film heritage must be protected because these cinematic treasures document our history and culture and reflect our hopes and dreams."

Leggett said he was pleased by the inclusion of "The Negro Soldier," a 1944 documentary produced by Frank Capra that was groundbreaking for its realistic and positive depiction of African-Americans. It became mandatory viewing for soldiers entering the army in the latter stages of the war and was shown in commercial theaters.

"It was kind of ironic because the official Army policy at the time was still segregation. You had a film which was implicitly if not explicitly promoting integration," he said.

Films must be at least 10 years old to be considered for the registry.

The oldest movies selected this year are both from 1912. "The Cry of the Children" is about the pre-World War I child labor reform movement, and "A Cure for Pokeritis" stars John Bunny, regarded as the American film industry's earliest comic superstar.

"A lot of people would argue that the humor is kind of dated," Leggett said of Bunny's films ? mostly short domestic comedies in which he played a henpecked husband. "He really was a major figure at the time. It doesn't help your reputation when people like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton come after you."

Chaplin's first feature, "The Kid" (1921), was also chosen for the registry.

It was a big year for actress Sally Field, who co-starred in "Forrest Gump." ''Norma Rae" (1979), featuring her Oscar-winning performance as a single mother who fought to unionize a Southern textile mill, also made this year's list.

Among the other titles chosen: "The Big Heat," a 1953 film noir starring Glenn Ford; "The Lost Weekend," Billy Wilder's Oscar-winning alcoholism drama; "Porgy and Bess," starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge; "Stand and Deliver," starring Edward James Olmos as an inspiring East Los Angeles math teacher; and John Ford's epic 1924 Western "The Iron Horse."

Among the lesser-known titles chosen this year, "A Computer Animated Hand" (1972) by Pixar Animation Studios co-founder Ed Catmull was one of the earliest examples of 3D computer-generated imagery. The one-minute film shows a hand turning, opening and closing.

Documentaries picked for the registry include "Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment," which focuses on Gov. George Wallace's attempt to prevent two African-American students from enrolling in the University of Alabama and the response of President John F. Kennedy. "Growing Up Female" from 1971 was one of the first films to document the women's liberation movement.

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Online:

National film registry: http://www.loc.gov/film/filmnfr.html

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Former area prep football coach ready for NFL start

Former area prep football coach ready for NFL start

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Former area prep football coach ready for NFL start

by NewsChannel 36 Staff

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Posted on December 22, 2011 at 3:36 PM

Updated Thursday, Dec 22 at 3:56 PM

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A local high school will have a rooting interest in Sunday Night Football this weekend.

From the sidelines at Marvin Ridge High School as the quarterbacks coac to starting NFL quarterback in just a few weeks, Josh McCown will lace 'em up for the Chicago Bears this weekend.

He was in Marvin Ridge head coach Scott Chadwick's office just a few weeks ago when his agent called and said the Bears wanted to sign him.

Chadwick says all of this couldn't have happened to a better man.

?The Saturday before our first game, we're scouting East Meck at a scrimmage and two days later, this guy had left and gone to the NFL to go to training camp.? But there we are and he's just walking around like a normal old guy and two days later, he's on an NFL practice field,? Chadwick said.

But that short training camp stint in August didn't last too long, and McCown returned to help mentor Chadwick's son, Tyler, who played quarterback this season for the Mavericks, who ended a strong playoff push at 10-2.

McCown last started in 2007.? He played a couple of seasons with the Panthers, only throwing six passes.

As for Sunday, he's ready to go against the Packers, but don't exactly say he's flying high.

?I don't want to get too excited and too amped up because, for me, , absolutely it's a cool story, and a cool moment.? Nut at the same time, I'm a competitor.? I want to win the game.?

McCown and the Bears play at Green Bay at 8:15 p.m. Sunday on NewsChannel 36.

Source: http://www.wcnc.com/sports/From-local-HS-to-the-NFL-136096663.html

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Iran determined to expand ties with Africa: official

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Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said his country attaches great importance to the expansion of ties with all African nations, the local satellite Press TV reported on Monday 26th December.

Addressing a group of Iranian ambassadors to African countries on 25th December, Amir-Abdollahian said to promote ties with African countries is a major priority for Iran, adding that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has agreed to provide African countries with essential resources to facilitate their development and progress, said Press TV.

The deputy foreign minister also called on the ambassadors to speed up implementation of the ongoing Iranian cultural, economic and commercial projects based in Africa, according to Press TV.

Earlier this year, Ahmadinejad suggested an Iran-Africa joint fund should be set up and said the fund could contribute to the expansion of ties with African countries in various fields.

Source: http://pub.mathaba.net/2011/12/27/iran-determined-to-expand-ties-with-africa-official/

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Berkshire completes deal to buy Omaha World-Herald

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2011 file photo, U.S. billionaire investor Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks during a news conference at the headquarters of cemented carbide tool supplier Tungaloy Corporation after inaugurating its new factory in Iwaki city, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. Buffett said Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, Berkshire Hathaway is buying the Omaha World-Herald Co. and expanding the firm's newspaper holdings despite Buffett's misgivings about the industry. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2011 file photo, U.S. billionaire investor Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks during a news conference at the headquarters of cemented carbide tool supplier Tungaloy Corporation after inaugurating its new factory in Iwaki city, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. Buffett said Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, Berkshire Hathaway is buying the Omaha World-Herald Co. and expanding the firm's newspaper holdings despite Buffett's misgivings about the industry. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)

Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks on the sale of the Omaha World-Herald to Berkshire Hathaway Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011 in Omaha Neb. The sale is pending approval of the World-Herald's shareholders. (AP Photo, The Omaha World-Herald, Jeff Bundy) MAGS OUT TV OUT, LOCAL TV OUT

Terry Kroeger, President and Publisher of the Omaha World-Herald Company introduces Warren Buffett Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011 in Omaha Neb. The sale is pending approval of the World-Herald's shareholders. (AP Photo, The Omaha World-Herald, Jeff Bundy) MAGS OUT TV OUT, LOCAL TV OUT

The Omaha World Herald building is seen in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said Wednesday that it is buying Buffett's hometown newspaper, the Omaha World-Herald Co. and expanding the firm's newspaper holdings despite Buffett's misgivings about the industry. Terms of the deal, which must be approved by the Omaha World-Herald's employee owners and other shareholders, weren't disclosed. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks on the sale of the Omaha World-Herald to Berkshire Hathaway Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011 in Omaha Neb. The sale is pending approval of the World-Herald's shareholders. (AP Photo, The Omaha World-Herald, Jeff Bundy) MAGS OUT TV OUT, LOCAL TV OUT

(AP) ? Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has completed the purchase of company chairman Warren Buffett's hometown newspaper, the Omaha World-Herald.

The deal announced Nov. 30, for $150 million and the assumption of $50 million in debt, ended one of the newspaper industry's last sizable employee-ownership plans.

World-Herald spokesman Joel Long said Monday that the deal closed Friday. World-Herald shareholders ? about 275 employees and retirees and the Peter Kiewit Foundation ? approved the sale by an overwhelming vote, Long said. The amount employees received for each of their shares, which are not publicly traded, wasn't disclosed.

Under the agreement, Berkshire acquires the flagship World-Herald and daily newspapers in Kearney, Grand Island, York, North Platte and Scottsbluff in Nebraska; the Council Bluffs Nonpareil in Iowa; a number of weekly newspapers in the region; and World Marketing, a direct-mail company with operations in Omaha, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta and Los Angeles.

Buffett, who is Berkshire's chairman and chief executive, had said he probably wouldn't increase Berkshire's newspaper holdings because of the industry's dwindling returns. Berkshire owns the Buffalo News and it has a sizable investment in the Washington Post Co.

But during a meeting with World-Herald shareholders, he said: "I wouldn't do this if I thought this was doomed to some sort of extinction."

The Omaha World-Herald Co. has about 1,600 employees, including about 650 at the flagship newspaper in Omaha. Its daily circulation is just over 135,000 and a Sunday circulation of a little over 170,000.

World-Herald CEO Terry Kroeger said when the deal was announced that the company's employee-ownership structure was restrictive and had forced the newspaper to repurchase stock from departing employees.

Buffett promised to stay out of editorial decisions at the World-Herald Co.'s newspapers. Berkshire Hathaway usually doesn't make major changes at the companies it buys. Instead, Buffett likes buying well-run companies, allowing them to continue operating in their fashion.

When the deal was announced, Buffett said the World-Herald "delivers solid profits and is one of the best-run newspapers in America."

Berkshire owns more than 80 subsidiaries, including clothing, insurance, furniture, utility, jewelry and corporate jet companies. It also has big investments in companies including Coca-Cola Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.

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Gingrich Off Virginia GOP Primary Ballot: Is His Campaign Already Over?

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Not Enough Signatures

To qualify for the primary election ballot, candidates must present the 10,000 signatures, and must also have a total that includes at least 400 voters from each of Virginia's 11 congressional districts.

According to Voice of America, both the Gingrich and Perry campaigns claimed they collected well over 11,000 signatures in the days leading up to the deadline.

But officials at the Republican Party of Virginia say that when it came time to tally the signatures, both men had less than required.

'A Failed System'

"Despite aggressive efforts collecting thousands of Virginia signatures after Governor Perry's mid-August entry into the race, we were notified this evening of apparently falling short of the 10,000 voter signatures needed to qualify," Perry's campaign said in a statement.

At the same time, Perry's legal advisers are reportedly reviewing the Virginia ruling, considering whether or not to challenge the GOP decision.

Gingrich's campaign, meanwhile, slammed the Virginia primary setup in general, saying the process needed to qualify to run on the ballot was deeply flawed.

"Voters deserve the right to vote for any top contender, especially leading candidates," Gingrich's campaign director Michael Krull said in a statement.

Krull claimed that "only a failed system" would eliminate a frontrunner and a longtime candidate from the race based on state signatures. He also said the campaign would attempt a write-in strategy if the decision wasn't altered.

"We will work with the Republican Party of Virginia to pursue an aggressive write-in campaign to make sure that all the voters of Virginia are able to vote for the candidate of their choice."

State law, however, prohibits write-in candidates in primaries.

"No write-in shall be permitted on ballots in primary elections," Virginia code reads, and Carl Tobias, a law professor at University of Richmond, agrees.

"Virginia code prohibits write-ins," Tobias told Fox News. "He can't do it."

The Importance of Virginia

News of the primary loss comes as a serious blow to both men, but especially to Newt Gingrich, who lives in a Virginia suburb.

Virginia is seen as an important "swing state," one whether neither the party dominates. Past presidential elections have seen the race suddenly shift based on whether the state goes blue or red. Virginia is also the twelfth-most populated state in the U.S., bringing with it significant electoral college numbers.

Even worse, it's one of the 12 swing states where President Obama leads in head-to-head match-ups. In a recent Public Policy Poll, Obama led top GOP candidate Romney by 48 to 42 percent, and beat Gingrich at 50 to 42 percent.

Obama will need to get about half the 151 electoral votes provided by the twelve swing states (Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Virginia) if he wants to win the 2012 presidential election.

And if he has enough support to get Virginia, it's likely Barack Obama will be president again in 2012.

"If he wins Virginia, he's probably going to win the Electoral College," PPP said.

Both Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have qualified to run in the Virginia primary, and are already plotting out their state-focused campaign strategies.

The End of Rick Perry

For Rick Perry, Iowa's expected defeat and the loss of Virginia as a primary ground will be the end of his fitful presidential campaign.

A frontrunner in the Republican race, Perry's disastrous debate performances and PR goofs, including the infamous Texas ranch episode, have caused him to plummet to fourth place, getting in at around 6 percent of the GOP vote in recent polls and placing him behind Romney, Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul.

After Perry's "oops" moment, one of the most excruciating moments of the Republican primary, he tried to restart his campaign with a Christmas ad spot, but only ended up amusing or infuriating more viewers.

"Something is wrong with our country when gays can serve openly in the military but our children can't openly celebrate Christmas," Perry said in the infamous ad.

The TV spot launched numerous viral parodies even as commentators made it the most disliked video on YouTube (over 700,000 users have given the video a thumbs-down).

And despite Perry's fundraising (he'd netted $17 million by October, second only to Romney), many of those funds come from corporations, not donors like those who helped propel Ron Paul's campaign in Iowa.

Perry's fundraising, meanwhile, has been on a steady decline ever since the candidates truly took the national stage.

His positions are less well known than his gaffes, and his Texas swagger doesn't do much in a health care debate. Most of his appearances have only solidified the general impression that, as New York Magazine put it last month, "he's not the sharpest tool in the shed."

Rick Perry has been losing the Republican primary race for months. But this blow in Virginia, even if it ends up being overturned, is just one more campaign gaffe. His presidential campaign is over less than six months after it truly began.

The End of Newt Gingrich?

Newt Gingrich, on the other hand, is used to bouncing back from losses, not plummeting from fast and easy gains.

Unlike Perry, his campaign was declared dead-on-arrival before being re-invigorated this fall, and Gingrich's political career, including when he was Speaker of the House, has often been as much about recovery and spin as it has been about riding the wave of success.

Gingrich, however, also had far more to lose: unlike Rick Perry, he was preparing for a Virginia primary as one of the top candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. That lead was based in part of his assured grasp of political nuances in the recent debates and the impression that his campaign was becoming a well-oiled machine.

Gingrich had planned to use Virginia as a way to continue wooing reluctant Romney supporters over to his side, building on his fought-for advantage. Despite leading in Iowa, he needed more than one state to secure his position as nominee apparent, and the Southern swing state looked to be it.

"It's a demonstration that Gingrich is outrunning Romney in states beyond Iowa," press secretary told WLWT on Wednesday.

Now, however, reports indicate that Gingrich's loss was due to a combination of invalid signatures and poor campaign organization.

With both hints of something murky in the phrase "invalid signatures" and the impression that Gingrich's campaign staff didn't even know their own numbers, his political rivals smelled blood in the water.

Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney, told The New York Times that the mistake was "cringe-worthy."

"It's a gut-check moment for Republicans," Mr. Fehrnstrom said. "Winning campaigns have to be able to execute on the fundamentals. This is like watching a hitter in the World Series failing to lay down a bunt."

Gingrich's failure to realize or admit that he lacked enough signatures, meanwhile, has everyone from political analysts to potential voters on Twitter scratching their heads as to how a man who had been leading in Virginia managed to let the all-important state slip through his fingers.

"It's a disaster for him," said Larry J. Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. "[The lack of organization] suggests you're not a serious candidate."

The Question of Super Tuesday

Gingrich's failure to get on the Virginia primary ballot could also spell trouble for his chances on Super Tuesday, where ten states will join Virginia on March 6 and eleven, including swing states like Colorado, Florida and Michigan, will have cast primary votes.

Newt Gingrich supporters, news sources speculate, might see a vote for Gingrich as a waste if they don't feel he can win without Virginia. Why vote for a Super Tuesday candidate who you already know has been ousted from one of the states in play?

Yet Super Tuesday, following the Virginia primary ballot debacle, could also end up being Gingrich's electoral salvation.

Newt Gingrich is ahead in Iowa, but he remains behind in the polls in New Hampshire, a crucial state. If he can manage to rise in the New Hampshire polls, a comeback which perhaps only a political chameleon like Gingrich can pull off, than other wins on Super Tuesday could still make him the anti-Romney for which the GOP seems desperately to be searching.

The 2012 GOP primary race is not a winner-take-all, but a day-by-day scramble for castoff votes as candidates (reliably neutral Romney aside) continue to rise and fall in the political battle.

Newt Gingrich has an almost guaranteed win in Georgia, which he represented in Congress, and despite the painful loss of Virginia could still net Tennessee or Oklahoma, as well as garnering votes in pre-Super Tuesday states like Florida (where he's at the top) and South Carolina.

If the Republican presidential primaries have taught American viewers (and voters) anything, it's that candidates are never safe at the top. But if Newt Gingrich's political history has taught us anything, it's that the former Speaker is often most dangerous when he's down.

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

A Health Insurance Plan President Gingrich Might Support - Kaiser ...

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has been pounded by his opponents for once backing a mandate that people buy health insurance. But he has received little attention for another health care idea that he has explored and that also could prove controversial.

The lesser known proposal would encourage people to purchase insurance by giving them tax credits or deductions. Those who don?t buy insurance and need care would get it through hospitals and clinics serving the poor, which would receive subsidies not claimed by individuals.

Gingrich has ?explored [the idea] and is generally supportive of it,? David Merritt, a campaign adviser, said in an interview. In March, Gingrich asked the author of the concept, conservative think tank president John Goodman, to explain it at an event sponsored by the Center for Health Transformation, a collaboration of public and private sector leaders that Gingrich founded in 2003.?

But Gingrich hasn?t promoted the idea in his campaign. While his website offers support for tax credits or deductions to purchase private insurance, an approach popular among some conservatives, it doesn?t mention subsidies for so-called safety-net hospitals to care for the uninsured.

The latter proposal raises several important questions, says Alan Weil, executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, a nonpartisan organization that works with states on health policy issues. To begin with, which hospitals and clinics would receive the federal subsidies to treat the uninsured?

While some hospitals are publicly owned and serve a high proportion of indigents, many first-rate urban teaching hospitals also treat a lot of poor patients. ?They are doing the highest-end clinical trials and using the newest techniques, but they are treating every medical problem that walks in the door,? said Weil.

Other issues would have to be addressed, Weil says, including how to deal with the health needs of illegal immigrants who almost certainly wouldn?t receive tax credits. Another would be determining the amount of the tax credit since older people pay more for insurance because medical spending generally increases with age.

Goodman, who heads the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, offers some details. While he isn?t an official Gingrich adviser, he has been talking to Gingrich about health care for more than two decades, and worked with him in the early 1990s to get Congress to promote medical savings accounts, which preceded health savings accounts.

?Newt has been a fan of Goodman for a long time, going back to his advocacy of health savings accounts,? Merritt said. ?They agree on pretty much all of the issues and they?ve swapped some ideas.?

Goodman would restructure tax incentives for health insurance. Currently, both employers and employees get tax breaks for employer-sponsored group health insurance, but individuals who buy policies on their own do not. He would scrap that system and instead make available to every individual a refundable tax credit to purchase insurance. The subsidy would be the same for everyone, regardless of age, income or health status.

Goodman envisions a credit of about $7,000 per family to buy basic, catastrophic coverage. An individual, or an employer, could kick in more money to obtain richer benefits. If a health plan costs less than the subsidy, the person could keep the after-tax savings, after taxes.

For individuals who declined to use the tax credit to buy insurance, the federal government would redirect the subsidy to help fund safety net institutions, which would then care for the uninsured.

?If you turn us down and decide to be uninsured, we take the credit that would have gone to you and put it in a safety net,? Goodman said at the March event. ?We?re not going to let you go without care, and the safety net is not as attractive as private sector medicine. But the government makes a commitment to the people. If you want insurance, we put the money there. If you want to be in a safety net, we put the money there.?

Sitting on the panel with Goodman,?Gingrich stressed the importance of providing access to care to as many people as possible. ?It?s much easier to guarantee access to care than it is to guarantee insurance,? Gingrich said. ?You can design a system that pays for emergency rooms and community health centers. You can guarantee every American gets care. What gets expensive is guaranteeing that every American is going to go to the most expensive place in America, for the most expensive treatment, at their convenience, when they feel like it.?

Giving individuals greater power to make purchasing decisions will only work, however, if the government makes it easier for people to buy coverage in the individual insurance market, said Merritt. For those who have been unable to get affordable insurance because of poor health, Gingrich wants to improve the state network of high-risk pools used by people who have been turned down for individual policies.

?If you put everyone in the same market, it raises premiums for everyone,? Merritt said. ?High-risk pools are a way of providing coverage without raising premiums for everyone else.? Under the health law, high-risk pools are phased out after 2014, when individuals will be able to purchase health insurance through state exchanges.

Merritt says to expect more detailed health proposals if Gingrich becomes the Republican presidential nominee. ?It?s hard to be focused on health care when the focus has been on jobs and the economy,? he said.

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Source: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2011/december/23/gingrich-health-insurance-plan.aspx

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Asteroid named for 'disappeared' Argentine student (AP)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina ? For 35 years, Zaida Franz has not been able to find her daughter, a girl who dreamed of becoming an astronomer and then disappeared without a trace. Now she at least has an address she can think about ? out in space.

"My dearest daughter, at last I can write to you, now that I have a place to find you: Asteroid 11441, between Mars and Jupiter," she wrote in an open letter this month.

"Anadiego," honoring Ana Teresa Diego, is the first asteroid to bear the name of a victim of Argentina's 1976-1983 military regime, which eliminated thousands of dissidents in its crackdown on political dissent. Most were kidnapped, tortured and summarily executed, their bodies disposed of in anonymous graves. Others were drugged and thrown alive from planes miles off the coast.

Argentina's renowned forensic anthropology team has been able to recover and identify only 510 bodies, a small percentage of the thousands of disappeared. In all, 13,000 people were killed, according to the official tally, although human rights groups say the total is closer to 30,000.

Naming the asteroid after her daughter, Franz said, helps "fill an emptiness" she has felt ever since the abduction.

"I never found out where Ana's body was," she said. "Now I know that she is in an asteroid with her name. Not only her, but all of the disappeared."

Ana was 22 when she was abducted while studying at the National University of La Plata.

"It struck me as a good idea to name an asteroid after a student who wanted to become an astronomer and had fought for her ideals," said Adrian Brunini, the university's dean of astronomy. He was the one who proposed baptizing as "Anadiego" an asteroid discovered in 1975 by Argentine astronomer Mario Cesco.

President Cristina Fernandez, who studied law in La Plata in the early 1970s, honored Ana in her address to Congress as she began her second term this month.

"That young woman could have been sitting where I am seated now," Fernandez said, urging the justice system to speed up human rights trials and "definitively turn a tragic page in our history."

"Anadiego" lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, orbiting the sun every 4.1 years. Asteroids are remnants from the birth of the solar system some 4.5 billion years ago.

The International Astronomical Union's Committee on Small Body Nomenclature agreed that Diego "was an excellent student at La Plata Astronomical Observatory in the 1970s who also had a strong social commitment and gave her life in defense of freedom."

The naming committee, with representatives from a dozen countries, usually prohibits naming asteroids for modern figures or events with political connotations. But exceptions have been made for cases relating to human rights. Asteroids have been named after German anti-Nazi dissidents, and one even bears the name "Madresplazamayo," referring to the Argentine human rights group.

"This wasn't an arbitrary selection from among the tens of thousands of disappeared. It seemed natural that astronomers would pay homage to a member of the scientific community," said Uruguayan astronomer Julio Angel Fernandez, Latin America's only representative on the committee.

Friends and colleagues say Diego divided her time between studying and political advocacy with the Communist Party. She had won a scholarship to study astronomy in Europe, but decided to stay in the university city, a center of student protest and idealism in the early 1970s.

Diego took part in assemblies, distributed pamphlets and often painted slogans on walls, but the party did not advocate violence and her family and friends say she never took part in armed actions or terrorist activities.

"We both liked mathematics and physics, but we didn't talk much about astronomy. When we weren't talking about politics or the difficult situation of the killings and disappearances of our friends and colleagues, we talked about our families. Ana greatly admired her father, a mathematician who died in 1975," recalled Carmen Nunez, a friend and fellow activist.

On Sept. 30, 1976, Diego was kidnapped at the university's library.

"The day she was abducted we had left the observatory together. ... Ana remembered that she had forgot to hand in a practical exercise to a professor and decided to go back. I went to a meeting ... and not more than half and hour had passed when someone came running to say that Ana had been taken away in a car without plates. We never saw her again," Nunez said.

Other detainees later said the young woman was taken to a clandestine detention center and tortured for information on fellow militants.

Nunez said she doubts her friend would have talked. "She had very defined ideas and defended them convincingly," she said.

Many detainees were buried anonymously in public cemeteries or in clandestine graves on military or police bases. Some were sedated and thrown alive from military planes into the wide Rio de la Plata river that runs between Argentina and Uruguay.

Evidence of these "Death Flights" was recently provided to Argentina's justice system by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The long-secret archives included more than 100 photos of bodies that washed up on the Uruguayan coast bearing signs of torture.

While some South American democracies have hardly begun to come to terms with the legacy of their dictatorships, Argentina is trying hundreds of former military and police officials for crimes against humanity.

"The justice system is putting on trial those responsible for the genocide. Who would have believed that? I'm telling you that in the last few years there have been many changes," Franz wrote in the letter, listing her address as Villa Ventana, Planet Earth.

"I close my eyes and I see you as a little light in the asteroid, together with all the disappeared who look down on us and greet us with smiles. I feel as though you're OK, happily waiting for us and confident that this humanity will find a way to live in peace, solidarity and harmony."

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111223/ap_on_sc/lt_argentina_asteroid_of_disappeared

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Tear gas fired at protesters in China seaside town (AP)

BEIJING ? Riot police in a southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas at protesters Friday on the fourth day of unrest over a planned power plant expansion, according to a demonstrator's account and TV footage.

A crowd of protesters were locked in a standoff with police near the entrance to a highway in the town of Haimen, demanding authorities release an unknown number of demonstrators, a man surnamed Lin told The Associated Press.

Police fired tear gas at the protesters, who were gathered quietly a few hundred yards (meters) from the highway entrance, Lin said.

"When they saw that more and more people had come to protest, they fired the tear gas to try to chase us away. At the same time, a big gust of wind blew toward us, so we all had to run," Lin said. "My tears ran continuously. Our eyes are all red."

This is the third time police have used tear gas to disperse protesters in Haimen this week.

"We have no weapons at all. All we are doing is standing here and protesting," Lin added.

Hong Kong's Cable TV showed footage of tear gas clouds being blown toward protesters, scattering the crowd of hundreds of people. Riot police with helmets and shields had formed a blockade at the entrance to the highway.

Police have detained five people for vandalism during the protests, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.

The protesters think an existing coal-fired power plant has contributed to what they say is a rise in cancer cases and heavy pollution in the seas, a serious problem for a town where fishing is a source of livelihood.

In response to the protests, the local government said Tuesday it would temporarily suspend the power plant project, Xinhua said.

But protesters say they have not heard directly from authorities on the matter. They were also angered by rumors that one or two young protesters had died in clashes with police, but Xinhua cited a local Communist Party official as saying that no deaths had occurred.

After three decades of laxly regulated industrialization, China is seeing a surge in protests over such environmental worries.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111223/ap_on_re_as/as_china_unrest

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

JingXing S7100: an Android tablet for gaming | Ubergizmo

JingXing S7100It looks like the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY isn?t going to be the dedicated Android gaming device on the block, a company named JingXing has decided to step into that niche with a device of its own: the JingXing S7100. However, the S7100 isn?t a phone and takes the form factor of tablet instead, and features gamepad controls on the sides of the display.

While the specs of the device weren?t revealed, it will be running on Android (as evident by the dedicated Android buttons on the bottom of the device and the Android logo on the back), and will feature a rear camera and a front facing camera. The tablet?s gamepad gives users a 4-way D-pad, 4 regular buttons (circle, triangle, square, x), as well as start and select. No sign of shoulder buttons, so I guess you?ll need to use onscreen controls for those.

Don?t expect to have a dedicated app store like the Xperia PLAY/PlayStation Vita ? but you can be pretty sure that ROM emulators are going to be this tablet?s best friends.?No word on pricing or availability, but we?ll keep you posted if it turns up on this side of the world. It?s always interesting to see tablet manufacturers putting their own spin on Android devices ? with the plethora of tablets available on the market today, they need to find a way to stand out somehow.
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Source: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/12/jingxing-s7100/

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Foster The People 'Experimenting' With Torches Follow-Up

Band broke through to the big time in 2011 with 'Pumped Up Kicks.'
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Matt Elias


Foster the People's Mark Foster and Cubbie Fink
Photo: MTV News

Foster the People were one of 2011's biggest breakouts, first scoring a massive crossover hit with "Pumped Up Kicks," then nabbing a pair of Grammy nominations and finally, landing current single "Don't Stop (Color on the Walls)" in a high-profile ad campaign (and accompanying it with a really excellent video, starring Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe).

So, as the year comes to a close, we asked the guys in Foster to try and sum up the past 12 months, which saw them rocket from little-known L.A. rock outfit to internationally famous buzz band. And, as you can probably expect, for a band that's basically lived on the road in 2011, most of their milestones have to do with the size of the stages they've played on ... and the audiences they've played for.

"It's funny, in January we started a residency at the Echo, which is this club in L.A., and we played every week for about a month, and that kind of kicked it off. The first week, it was half full ... it only holds 300 people, I think there was like 125 people there," frontman Mark Foster laughed. "And then cut to four months later, doing Coachella in front of 15,000 people, and then cut to three months after that, playing Lollapalooza in front of 50,000 people. It's just been wild man, seeing the world and seeing the progression of things. ... It's crazy to think about. I feel like we have 10 years of memories packed into this one year."

While they'll continue to tour in earnest in 2012, most of the year will be dedicated to writing and recording the follow-up to their Torches debut. Not surprisingly, Foster said the band's new stuff has been heavily influenced by their time away from home.

"We've gotten to write some stuff on the road so far, but haven't really gotten to dive into it too much yet," he said. "We've just been kind of throwing everything against the wall, idea-wise, like, 'We should try this and we should try this,' all these different boundaries to work within, because sometimes it can be really daunting I think, if you don't have certain boundaries when writing a song.

"There's definitely musical elements that we've talked about — you know, really leaning on the percussive nature of what our live show has turned into this year, and bringing that more out into the second record — just kind of experimenting, doing some different, weird studio tricks; just having fun with it. But you never really know until you get under the hood, so we'll see what happens when we start."

Are you looking forward to the next FTP album? Tell us in the comments!

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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1676440/foster-the-people-torches-next-album.jhtml

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Friday, December 23, 2011

NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 vs. CCSU 60

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    Hofstra Head Coach Krista Kilburn-Steveskey presents Nicole Caurso #22 with a ball commemorating Nicole joining the 1,000 point club. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    The stands were filled with children from local schools, which made the arena very loud. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    CCSU players chest bump as they are introduced. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    Kirsten Daamen #23 reaches for a rebound. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    CCSU's Lauren Arbogast #11 tries to block out Hofstra's Candace Bond #2. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    Nicole Capurso #22 shoots for three. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    CCSU's Brooke Bailey is double teamed by two Hofstra players. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    Hofstra's Candice Bond #2 is bumped by CCSU's Kaley Watras #3 as she tries to put up a shot. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    Candice Bellocchio #10 flies through the air. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    Kirsten Daamen #23 reaches for a rebound. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    CCSU's Jameilia Dillon #44 puts up a shot between Hofstra's Marie Malone #35 and Deven Green #23. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    Hofstra's Candace Bond #2 reaches between the legs of CCSU's Jessica Babe #5 for the ball. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    CCSU's Jameilia Dillon #44 and Hofstra's Shante Evans #30 battle for the rebound. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    Nicole Capurso #22 puts up a long jumper. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    CCSU's Jessica Babe #5 is held by Hofstra's Nicole Capurso #22 as she prepairs to shoot. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    Hofstra's Candace Bond #2 and CCSU's Kristen Daamen #23. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    Lauren Arbogast #11. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    Jessica Babe #5 goes for the layup. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    Kaley Watras #3 takes a short jump shot. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    CCSU's Jaleen Thomas #22 goes for the open layup as Hofstra's Katelyn Loper #31 trails behind. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    Hofstra's Candace Bond #2 and CCSU's Lauren Arbogast #11. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    CCSU's Jaclyn Babe #1 drives to the basket. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

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    A Hofstra cheerleader performs a Liberty during a timeout. (NCAA Women's Basketball: Hofstra 67 v. CCSU 60, Mack Sports Complex, Hempstead, NY., December 21, 2011)

  • Source: http://www.sportspagemagazine.com/content/bb/wc-bb/gal-wc-bb/ncaa-womens-basketball-hofstra-67-vs-ccsu-60.shtml?50453

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    Guard Troops Patrolling Border Will Be Cut to 300

    The U.S. Department of Defense will drastically reduce the number of National Guard troops currently assisting U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents patrol the border from 1,200 to 300 and replace them with manned aircraft, federal officials said Tuesday.

    Federal authorities will replace the troops with several OH-58 and UH-72 helicopters and RC-26 airplanes, which will focus on detection and monitoring -- not enforcement -- and will greatly increase the troops' viewing of the surveillance area.

    "We are basically going from boots on the ground to boots in the air," U.S. Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner David V. Aguilar said.

    Officials said they couldn't provide the number of aircraft or information on the exact location of where they will be situated because of security concerns. However, Border Patrol Chief Michael J. Fisher said that many will be stationed in Arizona and South Texas.

    Currently, there are 1,200 troops spread across the border. In the El Paso-Las Cruces region, about 82 members of the New Mexico National Guard have been watching for undocumented immigrants and drug smugglers in the desert next to the Mexican border since August.

    Aguilar said the withdrawal will begin in January and is scheduled to conclude in late March.

    Fisher said the shift will make border surveillance more efficient.

    "This is a good news story. CBP continues to increase its own capacity to secure the country's border in less costly ways," he said.

    National Guard troops have been stationed along the border since the summer of 2010 to help CBP prevent illegal border crossings and drug shipments while the Department of Homeland Security increases its own manpower, infrastructure and technology.

    According to Homeland Security spokesman Matthew Chandler, National Guard Soldiers have contributed to make 27,875 apprehensions and helped seize 99,342 pounds of marijuana.

    The troops have not engaged in direct law enforcement activities. Rather, Aguilar said they have helped CBP with surveillance and construction of roads, buildings and fences.

    "As the Border Patrol has been doubled in size, augmented with technology, infrastructure and personnel, DoD was attached to the hip with us," Aguilar said.

    U.S. Rep. Sylvestre Reyes, D-Texas, supported the drawdown, saying that having National Guard troops on the border was not cost effective.

    "I have expressed my desire that any future partnerships between the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense should focus less on boots on the ground and more on proven, practical strategies that wisely use limited government resources to provide support to our existing Border Patrol agents," Reyes said in a statement.

    Some immigration advocacy groups also applauded the strategy shift.

    Brittney Nystrom, director of policy and legal affairs at the National Immigration Forum, said the drawdown was positive since the federal government is under pressure to control spending.

    "With this announcement, DHS and DoD are saying they are trying to be more conscientious about their strategy moving forward," Nystrom said. "It's an attempt to find a balance between a real need for security and the reactions of politicians and other people who want to look tough on the border."

    Source: http://www.military.com/news/article/guard-troops-patrolling-border-will-be-cut-to-300.html?ESRC=topstories.RSS

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    Thursday, December 22, 2011

    40 Years On, the Triumphs and Challenges of America's 'War on Cancer' (HealthDay)

    WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Jack Whelan first knew something was wrong when it got harder and harder to walk from the train station in Boston to the financial district where he worked.

    He knew something was terribly wrong when he started getting nose bleeds.

    A consultation with an oncologist confirmed Whelan's fears: He had advanced Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, a rare form of blood cancer that affects only about 1,500 people in the United States each year.

    Forty years ago, Whelan would have had five years to live -- at the outside -- and who knows what his quality of life would have looked like.

    But today, five years after his diagnosis and almost 40 years to the day that President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act declaring "war" on cancer, Whelan, 63, is power-walking, raking leaves, shoveling snow and back at work as a marketing executive.

    Whelan is just one of the millions of Americans who have benefited from continued advances in cancer research. He has participated in four different clinical trials and is currently taking an experimental drug called LBH589 which, Whelan said, makes him "feel like Popeye the sailor after having spinach."

    Just this month, scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where Whelan is being treated, discovered a single gene mutation present in 90 percent of patients who have this rare type of cancer, raising the hope that an even more targeted treatment will soon be able to attack the disease.

    Since Dec. 23, 1971, and the passage in Congress of the National Cancer Act, research has made tremendous progress against what is still one of the world's foremost killers, experts say.

    "Back at that time point, cancer essentially was a death sentence," said Dr. Raymond N. DuBois Jr., provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

    That's no longer the case, however, thanks to advances in early detection, improved therapies and a better understanding of the genetics driving different forms of cancer, he said.

    "Forty years ago, fewer than one-third of patients with a diagnosis of cancer lived five years. Almost no children with a diagnosis of the most common form of childhood cancer, acute leukemia, lived [that long]," said Dana-Farber president Dr. Edward Benz Jr. "In 2011, nearly 90 percent of children diagnosed with acute leukemia will be cured and nearly two-thirds of all people diagnosed with cancer will live at least five years."

    Since 1991 alone, there's been more than an 18 percent reduction in deaths from cancer, added Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.

    An ounce of prevention

    Much of this progress may have started with prevention.

    Declines in smoking rates, helped by the landmark U.S. Surgeon General's Report in 1964 linking smoking to cancer, have continued over the decades, preventing countless cases of lung malignancies and other forms of cancer.

    Colonoscopies to detect pre-cancerous polyps have not only reduced mortality but prevented many cases of colorectal cancer outright.

    The adoption of regular mammography screening for breast cancer is another success story in its own right, as is screening for cervical cancer.

    Thanks to, first, the Pap smear (which looks for abnormal cells on the cervix) and now the HPV test (which detects the human papillomavirus that can cause cervical cancer), death rates from cervical cancer in the United States plummeted more than 60 percent between 1955 and 1992, according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

    No doubt, incidence and mortality from cervical cancer will continue to decline with the advent of another major weapon: newly approved vaccines that prevent infection with the strains of HPV that cause most cases of this type of cancer.

    These vaccines (two have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) have great potential to reduce head and neck cancers, as well as anal cancer deaths, which can also be caused by HPV, Brawley said.

    But advances in detection have been complemented by improvements in treatment, the experts added. These include better surgical techniques. For example, studies suggest that women who have a lumpectomy to conserve their breast along with radiation typically have as good a prognosis as women who undergo a full mastectomy.

    Targeted radiation has also made treatment much less onerous for prostate cancer patients, and new chemotherapies often arrive with drastically fewer side effects than in decades past.

    The age of "targeted therapies" or "personalized medicine" -- an era ushered in by anti-estrogen breast cancer therapies such as tamoxifen (which debuted in the 1980s) -- is here, Brawley said. Those highly targeted medications were later joined by aromatase inhibitors as well as Herceptin (trastuzumab) to attack a specific form of Her2neu-positive breast cancer.

    Scientists are also finding new targets for lung, colorectal and other cancers. For example, studies show that Tarceva (erlotinib) can improve the average survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer by about two months. That may not sound like much but, in lung cancer, it represents a huge stride.

    "Wonder drug" Gleevec, a medicine used to push certain blood cancers into remission, is another targeted-therapy success story. In fact, a colleague of Whelan's was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia while still in his 20s and subsequently died. Had he been diagnosed a few years later, after the discovery of Gleevec, he would have lived, Whelan believes.

    Brawley agrees that "personalized medicine is the future," and he predicts many more advances in this area in the next five years.

    Dubois added: "We are doing molecular fingerprinting of each individual tumor and, although we're not using that right now to direct cancer care, the idea is once we have that information we will be able to use it to figure out exactly which treatments a patient needs so they're not being given unnecessary treatment. And the treatment they do get is going to be much more effective on the first round of therapy when it really makes the biggest difference."

    Doctors now also know that "multi-modality" therapy -- meaning the combined use of surgery, radiation and drug therapy -- "has given people the best chance for good outcomes for particular kinds of cancer," said Benz.

    Progress lacking on some fronts

    But while there's been undisputed progress, "it's very incomplete progress," Benz and others acknowledged.

    "If you look over the past 40 years, on some fronts we've actually been winning and on some fronts we're losing terribly," said Brawley. "We are our own worst enemy in terms of battling cancer with tobacco control, diet and exercise and getting everybody adequate preventive screening and treatment.

    "In excess of 200,000 of the 500,000 lives that will be lost from cancer this year could have been avoided if we simply adopted all the cancer-control technologies that we've learned over the last 40 years," he added.

    Although the smoking rate has declined dramatically since publication of the U.S. Surgeon General's 1964 report, it's been stalled at about 20 percent for 10 years now, Brawley said.

    There are also lingering disparities in both prevention and treatment by race, socioeconomic status and urban versus rural locations, said Brawley.

    Cancer therapies are also becoming increasingly complicated and expensive "at a time when the trend in health care and in support for cancer research is going down," added Benz. "I worry that we're going to see increasing disparities as cancer and personalized medicine becomes more complicated and expensive. It will be harder and harder to offer it to everybody who needs it."

    Clinical trials may also become more difficult and expensive to conduct, as scientists recognize more and more subtypes of cancer. That means fewer people fit each particular subtype, Benz said.

    Nevertheless, the overall message is a positive one.

    "It's been a huge evolution since 1971," said DuBois. "It's just incredible."

    More information

    There's more on the National Cancer Act at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

    Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/cancer/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20111221/hl_hsn/40yearsonthetriumphsandchallengesofamericaswaroncancer

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    Monday, December 19, 2011

    PFT: Peterson wants to play for fantasy owners

    Broncos Vikings FootballAP

    It took Broncos coach John Fox a while to warm up to the unique skills of Tim Tebow.? Even though Fox apparently has decided to ignore the niceties of the traditional quarterback position and to embrace the fact that Tebow is leading his team to victory after victory in 2011, Fox isn?t ready to anoint Tebow as the team?s quarterback for 2012.

    ?We get that question a lot, whether it?s John Elway or myself,? Fox told Jim Rome on Friday.? ?We?re both his biggest fans.? I mean, we love him.? How would you not at 7-1?? I think right now, all our focus is, let?s get this season done.

    ?We love him, he?s great, we?re pulling for him, and you know, we?ll make those decisions when this season is over and not worry about next season at this point.?

    That?s fine, but what does the guy need to do to show that he?s the team?s quarterback of the future?? Plenty of quarterbacks with far lower winning percentages than Tebow have locked down the year-in, year-out starting jobs with their teams.

    So why not Tebow?? As quarterbacks go, the Broncos could do a hell of a lot worse, and plenty of teams would surely pounce on the opportunity to make the until-further-notice starter a guy who has won games, elevated his team, generated unprecedented excitement among the fan base, and provided an anti-Hurd role model to the youth of America.

    Maybe Fox is worried that it?s all a fluke.? Or maybe he?s concerned that Tebow won?t play as well without the added motivation of constantly having to prove himself.? Regardless, Tebow provides a solid foundation around which to build the team for the next decade.

    If the Broncos won?t realize that, some other team will.

    Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/12/16/adrian-peterson-wants-to-play-for-his-fantasy-owners/related/

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