Tuesday, January 24, 2012

S&P says likely to declare Greece in default

Standard & Poor's will likely downgrade Greece's ratings to "selective default" when the country concludes its debt restructuring, but that will not necessarily destroy the credibility of the European Union, an official with the ratings agency said on Tuesday.

"It's not a given that Greece's default would have a domino effect in the euro zone," John Chambers, the chairman of S&P's sovereign rating committee, said in an event organized by Blooomberg Link. (Reporting By Walter Brandimarte, Daniel Bases and Steven C. Johnson)

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Report: Russia to deliver combat jets to Syria (AP)

MOSCOW ? Russia has signed a contract to sell combat jets to Syria in a show of support for President Bashar Assad's regime, a newspaper reported Monday.

The business daily Kommersant said, citing an identified source close to Russia's Rosoboronexport state arms trader, that the $550-million deal envisages the delivery of 36 Yak-130 aircraft. A spokesman for Rosoboronexport refused to comment on the report.

If confirmed, the deal would mark an open defiance of international efforts to put pressure on Assad's regime, which has faced broad condemnation for its brutal crackdown on an uprising. The U.N. says more than 5,400 people have died over 10 months.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said last week that Moscow doesn't consider it necessary to offer an explanation or excuses over suspicions that a Russian ship had delivered munitions to Syria despite an EU arms embargo.

Lavrov told a news conference that Russia was acting in full respect of international law and wouldn't be guided by unilateral sanctions imposed by other nations.

He accused the West of turning a blind eye to attacks by opposition militants and supplies of weapons to the Syrian opposition from abroad and warned that Russia will block any attempt by the West to secure United Nations support for the use of force against Syria.

Russia has been a strong ally of Syria since Soviet times when the country was led by the president's father Hafez Assad. It has supplied Syria with aircraft, missiles, tanks and other modern weapons.

The Yak-130 is a twin-engined combat trainer jet that can also be used to attack ground targets. The Russian air force has recently placed an order for 55 such jets.

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Britney Spears? conservatorship is set to be dropped as she prepares to wed for the third time

The Toxic hitmaker’s father Jamie was handed control of her personal and financial affairs following her much-publicised breakdown in 2008. Spears has since got her life on track – she’s released her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale, and toured the world to promote the release. Her longtime boyfriend and former agent Jason Trawick marked the [...]

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Video: 20 still missing on cruise ship



>> to italy, where the death toll is up to 12 in the cruise ship accident. nbc's duncan golistani is on the island of giglio with the latest. duncan, good morning.

>> good morning, lester. you know the costa " concordia " is so close, and yet for more than a week divers have struggled to get the access they need. the families here are desperate for information so when it does come, it's not what they're hoping for. finally, the costa " concordia " is opening up to rescuers. navy divers have been blasting their way in to search for the missing, yesterday they pulled out the body of a woman near this deck, wearing a life vest , she was close to one of the emergency gathering points. for the families of the other 20 people missing, all they can do is watch and wait. that includes the children of gerald and barbara heil from minnesota. they made the painful trip to the " concordia ," the cruise liner that was supposed to give their parents a dream vacation. meanwhile, new audio of captain schettino telling the coast guard he would be the last person to leave. captain, one question, everyone will abandon or will someone remain on board? the captain's reply, i will stay here. of course, he didn't. later blaming the ship for turning on its side quickly. it's a position that is allowing light oil to leak into the seat. white booms turning dark as they absorb the liquid, and the greater threat is the half a million gallons of fuel sitting at the " concordia 's" tanks. the salvage company to take that fuel off could take up to seven weeks if the weather remains good. in the meantime divers are back on board looking

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Federer through to Australian Open quarterfinals (AP)

MELBOURNE, Australia ? Roger Federer put on a tennis clinic against Bernard Tomic, using deft drops, lobs, booming backhands and 13 aces to beat the 19-year-old Australian 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 and advance to the Australian Open quarterfinals for the eighth straight year.

Tomic came into the match following an upset third-round win over 13th-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov, using slices and a variety of offbeat shots from the back of the court to beat the Ukrainian player.

But four-time Australian champion Federer was having none of that on Sunday night before a packed house of 15,000 at Rod Laver Arena. He stepped up his game when he needed to, breaking the Australian at 4-4 in the opening set and again to open the third.

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Penn State students express concern for Paterno

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) ? Students in State College are expressing concern for seriously ill former Penn State coach Joe Paterno.

Doctors say the 85-year-old legendary coach recently experienced complications from lung cancer. He has been hospitalized since Jan. 13.

Sophomore Max Spangler says he's concerned that the stress of the Penn State sex abuse scandal has compounded Paterno's condition. Paterno was fired in November amid accusations that he didn't do more to alert authorities about child sex abuse allegations against retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

Spangler says, "I don't know how bad his situation is, but I hope it gets better. It's a lot of complications at his age."

Recent alum Ben Woodward says, "It has to be pretty heartbreaking to end on the note that it did, and not on his own terms."

Associated Press

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Rescued kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart engaged (AP)

SALT LAKE CITY ? A Utah woman kidnapped at knifepoint at age 14 and held captive for nine months is getting married.

A spokesman for 24-year-old Elizabeth Smart says she got engaged last weekend and will likely marry in the summer.

No details about the groom-to-be were disclosed. The spokesman says Smart plans to keep her personal life private.

Smart's father, Ed Smart, tells The Associated Press his future son-in-law is a "fine young man." Ed Smart says he's pleased for his daughter and hopes she has a happy life.

Onetime itinerant street preacher Brian David Mitchell was convicted in 2010 of Smart's 2002 kidnapping and sexual assault. He's serving a life prison sentence.

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The Safety Challenge and Promise of Automotive Electronics ...

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The Safety Challenge and Promise of Automotive Electronics: Insights from Unintended Acceleration
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TRB Special Report 308: The Safety Challenge and Promise of Automotive Electronics: Insights from Unintended Acceleration examines how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?s (NHTSA?s) regulatory, research, and defect investigation programs can be strengthened to meet the safety assurance and oversight challenges arising from the expanding functionality and use of automotive electronics.

The report gives particular attention to NHTSA?s response to consumer complaints of vehicles accelerating unintentionally and to concerns that faulty electronic systems may have been to blame.

The committee that produced the report found that the increasingly capable and complex electronics systems being added to automobiles present many opportunities for making driving safer but also present new demands for ensuring their safe performance. These safety assurance demands pertain both to the automotive industry?s development and deployment of electronics systems and to NHTSA?s safety oversight role. With regard to the latter, the committee recommends that NHTSA give explicit consideration to the oversight challenges arising from automotive electronics and that the agency develop and articulate a long-term strategy for meeting these challenges.

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Genetically Engineered Stomach Microbe Converts Seaweed into Ethanol

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A genetically modified strain of common gut bacteria may lead to a new technology for making biofuels that does not compete with food crops for arable acreage


brown-seaweed-harvestSEAWEED TO BIOFUEL: Brown seaweed grows fast, is chock full of sugars to turn into biofuel and doesn't compete for land with food crops. Image: Courtesy of BioArchitecture Lab

Seaweed may well be an ideal plant to turn into biofuel. It grows in much of the two thirds of the planet that is underwater, so it wouldn't crowd out food crops the way corn for ethanol does. Because it draws its own nutrients and water from the sea, it requires no fertilizer or irrigation. Most importantly for would-be biofuel-makers, it contains no lignin?a strong strand of complex sugars that stiffens plant stalks and poses a big obstacle to turning land-based plants such as switchgrass into biofuel.

Researchers at Bio Architecture Lab, Inc., (BAL) and the University of Washington in Seattle have now taken the first step to exploit the natural advantages of seaweed. They have built a microbe capable of digesting it and converting it into ethanol or other fuels or chemicals. Synthetic biologist Yasuo Yoshikuni, a co-founder of BAL, and his colleagues took Escherichia coli, a gut bacterium most famous as a food contaminant, and made some genetic modifications that give it the ability to turn the sugars in an edible kelp called kombu into fuel. They report their findings in the January 20 issue of the journal Science.

To get his E. coli to digest kombu, Yoshikuni turned to nature?specifically, he looked into the genetics of natural microbes that can break down alginate, the predominant sugar molecule in the brown seaweed. "The form of the sugar inside the seaweed is very exotic," Yoshikuni told Scientific American. "There is no industrial microbe to break down alginate and convert it into fuels and chemical compounds."

Once he and his colleagues had isolated the genes that would confer the required traits, they used a fosmid?a carrier for a small chunk of genetic code?to place the DNA into the E. coli cells, where it took its place in the microbe's own genetic instruction set. To test the new genetically engineered bacterium, the researchers ground up some kombu, mixed it with water and added the altered E. coli. Before two days had gone by the solution contained about 5 percent ethanol and water. It also did this at (relatively) low temperatures between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius, both of which mean that the engineered microbe can turn seaweed to fuel without requiring the use of additional energy for the process.

An analysis from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (pdf) suggests that the U.S. could supply 1 percent of its annual gasoline needs by growing such seaweed for harvest in slightly less than 1 percent of the nation's territorial waters. Humans already grow and harvest some 15 million metric tons of kombu and other seaweeds to eat. And there's no reason to fear the newly engineered E. coli escaping into the wild and consuming the seaweed already out there, Yoshikuni argues. "E. coli loves the human gut, it doesn't like the ocean environment," he says. "I can hardly imagine it would do something. It would just be dead."

The microbe could turn out to be useful for making molecules other than ethanol, such as isobutanol or even the precursors of plastics, Yoshikuni says. "Consider the microbe as the chassis with engineered functional modules," or pathways to produce a specific molecule, Yoshikuni says. "If we integrate other pathways instead of the ethanol pathway, this microbe can be a platform for converting sugar into a variety of molecules."

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Climbing higher at German wind farm

A German wind farm offers a ropes course at the foot of a towering wind turbine, providing an alternative view of green energy.

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Welcome to the world?s first ropes course ever installed on a wind farm. Built by the Juwi Group, one of Germany?s leading renewable-energy companies, and located at the foot of one of the farm?s 10 towering wind turbines, it?s attracting tourists in droves.

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?We wanted to make the windmills more inviting,? says Ricarda Schuller, a spokesperson for Juwi. As interest in green energy use grows, the interactive course could help provide an alternative view of wind farms, which are often criticized here for being eyesores.

The course also fits into the company?s overall philosophy of providing attractive services to its employees: In addition to the ropes course, Juwi has a kindergarten, a swimming pool, and a beach volleyball court.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Syria ready to let monitors stay, Obama ups pressure (Reuters)

BEIRUT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Syria is ready to let Arab monitors extend their mission beyond this week, an Arab League source said, but U.S. President Barack Obama said he was looking to increase international pressure on Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to step aside.

Damascus opposes broadening the scope of the Arab League observer mission, the source at the League said, but would accept a one-month extension of its mandate which expires on Thursday.

U.N. officials say more than 5,000 people have been killed in the violence across Syria, where pro-Assad forces are trying to crush peaceful protests and armed rebels.

The government says 2,000 members of its security forces have died.

"Unfortunately we're continuing to see unacceptable levels of violence inside that country," Obama said in Washington after meeting Jordan's King Abdullah.

"We will continue to consult very closely with Jordan to create the kind of international pressure and environment that encourages the current Syrian regime to step aside," he added.

The Arab League must decide whether to withdraw its 165 monitors or keep them in Syria, even though they are expected to report that Damascus has not fully implemented a peace plan agreed on November 2. Arab foreign ministers are set to discuss the team's future on January 22.

"The outcome of the contacts that have taken place over the past week between the Arab League and Syria have affirmed that Syria will not reject the renewal of the Arab monitoring mission for another month ... if the Arab foreign ministers call for this at the coming meeting," the Arab League source said.

The Arab plan required Syria to halt the bloodshed, withdraw troops from cities, free detainees, provide access for the monitors and the media and open talks with opposition forces.

A senior opposition leader said Syrian troops fighting rebels in the town of Zabadani near Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday.

Pro-Assad troops backed by tanks attacked the town on Friday in the biggest military offensive since the Arab monitors entered the country last month.

"FAILED MONITORS"

A rebel army chief said on Tuesday the Arab League monitors should go as they had failed to curb a crackdown on protesters seeking President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow.

"Though we respect and appreciate our Arab brothers for their efforts, we think they are incapable of improving conditions in Syria or resisting this regime," Riad al-Asaad, the Turkish-based commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army told Reuters.

"For that reason we call on them to turn the issue over to the U.N. Security Council and we ask that the international community intervene because they are more capable of protecting Syrians at this stage than our Arab brothers," Asaad said.

The Arab League source said Beijing and Moscow had urged President Assad to accept an extension of the monitoring mission to avert an escalation at the international level.

Syria would agree to an increase in the number of monitors, he said, but would not allow them to be given formal fact-finding duties or be allowed into "military zones" that are not included in the existing Arab peace plan.

Any change in the scope of the mission, whether to militarize it or let it investigate human rights abuses and potentially assign blame, would require a new agreement with Syria, the source said.

Qatar has proposed sending in Arab troops, a bold idea for the often sluggish League and one likely to be resisted by Arab rulers close to Assad and those worried about unrest at home.

Syria's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it was "astonished" at Qatar's suggestion, which it "absolutely rejected."

AN OLD ALLY

The League could ask the U.N. Security Council to act, but until now opposition from Russia and China has prevented the world body from even criticizing Syria, an old ally of Moscow.

Few Western powers favor any Libyan-style military action in Syria, which lies in the heart of the conflict-prone Middle East. Bordering Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Israel, it is allied to Iran and the armed Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah group.

Assad, while offering reform, has vowed to crush his opponents with an "iron fist," but Syrians braving bullets and torture chambers appear equally determined to add him to the list of the past year's toppled Arab leaders.

Army deserters and other rebels have taken up arms against security forces dominated by Assad's minority Alawite sect, pushing Sunni Muslim-majority Syria closer to civil war.

Syria's state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday that what it called terrorists had fired rockets, killing an officer and five of his men at a rural checkpoint near Damascus. Seven others were wounded in the incident, a day after gunmen assassinated a brigadier general near the capital.

Eight people were killed when a bomb hit a minibus on the Aleppo-Idlib road, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

In Homs, tank fire crashed into the Khalidiya district after a night rally against Assad there, activists said. YouTube footage showed a crowd dancing at the rally and waving the old Syrian flag used before the Baath Party seized power in 1963.

The British-based Observatory said eight people were killed in violence in Homs, a flashpoint city of one million racked by unrest, crackdowns and Sunni-Alawite sectarian killings.

(Additional reporting by Ayman Samir in Cairo, Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Amman, and Mariam Karouny and Dominic Evans in Beirut; Writing by Alistair Lyon; Editing by David Stamp)

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Boy, 15, tells cops he killed sister

A 15-year-old described by a neighbor as a "nice young boy" showed up at a sheriff's department in rural Arkansas and told investigators he had shot and killed his 16-year-old sister in his family's home.

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Authorities found the girl's body in a bedroom of the house near Ozark while the teens' parents were out grocery shopping, Franklin County Sheriff Anthony Boen said Monday.

Boen said he didn't believe the girl's death was accidental, although her brother appeared remorseful and had tears in his eyes when he turned himself in. Authorities are treating the death as a homicide.

"He just said that he had just shot and killed his sister," Boen said. "... He didn't give a motive."

The teens' names have not been released. The boy was in custody in nearby Sebastian County because Franklin County isn't set up to house juveniles, Boen said. He's expected to appear before a judge Tuesday, although no charges have been filed yet.

The teen likely killed his sister sometime after 8 a.m. Sunday, when his parents left to go grocery shopping in Fort Smith, about 40 miles away, Boen said. The boy turned himself in at the sheriff's department about an hour and a half later.

Deputies had never been called to the home and there weren't any reports of trouble with the teens, Boen said.

A neighbor described the family as "nice and quiet" and the boy as a "nice young boy." Donna Sheppard, who lives next to the family's home, said her grandson knew the boy from school.

"It's the most shocking thing I could have ever imagined," she said.

Sheppard said she didn't hear any gunshots before she left for Sunday school a little after 9 a.m., and learned about the shooting when she came home from church that afternoon.

The girl's body has been sent to the state crime lab, and preliminary autopsy results are expected sometime this week.

Investigators confiscated multiple guns from the family's home and vehicle and were trying to determine which weapon had been used in the shooting.

"Both the dad and the son were avid hunters," Boen said.

The Arkansas State Police are investigating the case, but spokesman Bill Sadler declined to talk about it.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Tamaggo 360 Panoramic Camera Has Your Back

There are now plenty of ways to shoot panoramas with your iPhone, from add-on donut-shaped lenses to a whole home-screen’s worth of app that will stitch and twist your images into a patchwork poster. But what if, like me, you don’t own an iPhone? The answer, in 360? pano terms at least, is the Tamaggo [...]

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Razer BlackWidow Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - Woot

Just Stock Some Anti-Venom And You?ll Be Fine

We?re 72% sure this Razer BlackWidow Mechanical Gaming Keyboard won?t poison you.

If you weigh that against the odds of being poisoned by a normal Black Widow, it balances out, right? Everybody knows that if you see a normal Black Widow, you can?t go up and start pounding with 50g of force. Yes, you?ll see that Black Widow throw a 1ms response time back at you, but the end result isn?t going to be up to ten customizable software profiles. It?s going to be an angry spider hoping to make you lunch.

But with this refurbished Razer BlackWidow Mechanical Gaming Keyboard? Well, we?re told it?s optimized so as not to try and kill you (and also minimized ghosting). But it?s Razer, so, you know, maybe there?s some kind of edgy ?Doom Mode? or something as an Easter Egg. However the odds are in your favor!

Warranty: 90 Day Razer

Condition: Refurbished

Features:

  • The Razer BlackWidow?s mechanical key technology provides a distinctive tactile feedback in form of a light pronounced tap to your fingers giving you an entirely new feel on your keyboard
  • With its optimized actuation force of 50g and a reduced actuation distance of 2mm the Razer BlackWidow?s keys allow you to actuate your commands faster than on any other standard gaming keyboard
  • Record unlimited macros on-the-fly without having to take your eye off the game and immediately change between up to 10 profiles without the hassle of going into complex driver menus
  • With the simple click of two buttons you initiate and end the recording and you?re all set
  • Expand the amount of easy-to-reach commands with the additional 5 Macro keys on the side and avoid any distractions by switching on the Gaming Mode

Specifications:

  • Full mechanical keys with 50g actuation force
  • 1000Hz Ultrapolling / 1ms response time
  • Programmable keys with on-the-fly macro recording
  • Gaming mode option for deactivation of the Windows key
  • 10 customizable software profiles with on-the-fly switching
  • 5 additional macro keys
  • Gaming optimized key matrix for minimized ghosting
  • Multimedia controls
  • Braided cable
  • Approximate Dimensions: 18.70?(W) x 6.73?(H) x 0.79? (Depth)
  • Approximate Weight: 3.09 lbs

In the box:

  • Razer RZ03-00390100-REFB BlackWidow Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

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Is Skin Color Why Maria Balaban Wants Juliet Steer Exhumed? (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | Juliet Steer wanted to be buried according to Hebrew traditions in the interfaith area of Ahvath Achim Cemetery in Colchester, Conn., in accordance with Hebrew traditions, CBS reports. Steer, a black Christian, got her wish after dying of lymphoma. Her brother, Paul Steer, is being sued with the goal of exhuming his sister and moving her body out of the cemetery.

Maria Balaban is a 72-year-old cemetery board member, according to the Associated Press. Balaban was present when the board voted to allow non-Jewish people to be interred in the interfaith section of the cemetery. A countersuit filed by Balaban's congregation is accusing her of working to be rid of Ms. Steer because of her skin color rather than over religious grounds.

If that's the case what we may have here is a good, old-fashioned case of a bitter, old racist reacting as if the skin color of a corpse will somehow filter through the ground and infect the bodies of lily-white-skinned Jews in nearby plots. The very idea of digging up Steer's body because she is black is shocking to me, particularly when it comes from a member of a religious body so familiar with being on the receiving end of discrimination.

Balaban's lawyer states his client is not a racist, but Steer's brother Paul disagrees, according to CNN. He claims Balaban stated, "If she was buried at the back of the cemetery she would accept it more," and added, "Only a racist would say something like that."

Such a phrase is frighteningly close to pre-civil rights era admonitions to people of color ordering them to sit at the back of the bus. I think Rosa Parks would turn in her grave like a top spun by a teenager hopped up on crystal meth if she heard about this.

While I don't understand most religious motivations I do understand that the rules of the cemetery should be respected. If those rules allow for the burial of non-Jews than Balaban should take her objections and bury them while issuing a vow never to exhume them.

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Santorum's past marked with comments Democrats could exploit if he becomes Republican nominee (Star Tribune)

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Samsung Series 9 monitor and all-in-one eyes-on

After spotting a powered-off Series 9 display at a CES press event earlier this week, we told you we'd revisit it if we could actually show you that 27-inch, 2560 x 1440 panel in all its billion-color glory. Well, folks, here she is. Samsung's first PLS display for the consumer market is arriving in March or April for $1,199, and is arriving with a refreshed design that trades last year's slick surfaces for an aluminum base. We'll let those hands-on photos speak for themselves, but hopefully from where you're sitting you can still appreciate those wide viewing angles, deep blacks and rich colors.

And what of last year's Series 9 monitor? Samsung recycled the glossy, asymmetrical design, added a slot-loading Blu-ray drive and turned it into a high-end all-in-one. The 27-inch display has 1080p resolution, and the same kind of Ultra Clear panel Samsung uses in its televisions to make sure that glossy finish isn't too reflective. And though Samsung doesn't have too many specs to share, we know it has a quad-core Core i7 CPU, 8GB of RAM, a TV tuner and an unspecified AMD graphics card with 1GB of video memory. As you'd expect, it also comes with a wireless mouse and keyboard, the latter of which has some surprisingly cushy keys, given the island layout and all. No word on pricing or availability, though a Samsung rep told us the company has no plans to bring this stateside.

Edgar Alvarez contributed to this report.

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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Thinking of Quick Solutions Of Christian Finance by ...

Debt and financial problems don?t discriminate; you can find people of areas of life and colours which might be experiencing hardships. There is certainly over $800 million in credit card debt, the average household is carrying around a weight of $14k in credit card debt, and those that come in real trouble have 2 xs to 5x a whole lot of, and so are looking for help.

People gravitate towards people of comparable interests, and no secret that a majority of consumers buy from individuals who we all know and trust, so it will be no real surprise that Christians consider Christians form of hosting and financial advice or guidance. Lately there was an increasing number of non-profit (plus a spattering of for-profit) organizations that offer Bible based financial guidance which may have popped in the past decade, and then for some Christians that is what exactly they?re seeking. With regards to getting assist with your money one might feel uncomfortable sharing their personal financial information with somebody, however, if that a person is somebody which has a similar background-or religious preference-as you it could feel less intrusive.

Fortunately, for Christians, that finish up in financial problems, the Bible is a wonderful resource on money matters. In reality the Bible has over 250 verses giving advice in relation to personal finance and money, using the book of Proverbs providing a fantastic chunk of that financial wisdom. That might seem ironic for some who believed that the Bible declared that money was the root of all evil, but in fact the bible says that, ?the passion for funds are the foundation of evil.?

Christians fall prey to the perils associated with financial turmoil, similar to non-Christians, and like stated earlier financial problems happen to anyone indiscriminately. Such things as credit card debt could happen to anybody irrespective of their faith, but luckily for Christians, you will find Christian credit counseling organizations which can help believers get rid of debt or prepare themselves to prevent debt problems in the foreseeable future.

There are many kinds of Christian financial counseling however the hottest form of financial counseling is debt related counseling. While using growing number of individuals getting in credit card debt, it is no surprise that credit counseling keeps growing in popularity and for folks that would feel confident with receiving credit counseling coming from a Christian organization there?s a great deal of credit counseling organizations that offer credit counseling.

Here are several from the popular Christian credit counselors on the market:

1. CCC (Christian Credit Counselors Inc.,)

2. Crown Financial

3. Family Life Credit Services

4. Dave Ramsey

A good start is looking into the web and conducting a few internet searches to discover a credit counselor, a large number of credit counseling organizations will conduct a free debt analysis to get you pointed in the right direction, so that?s something you might like to have a look at if you find yourself in debt deep water.

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Japan police nab inmate after underwear jailbreak (AP)

TOKYO ? A manhunt that riveted Japan ended Friday when police captured a Chinese convict who bolted from a Hiroshima penitentiary clad only in his underwear in the country's first prison break in more than two decades.

Police found Li Guolin, who was serving a 23-year sentence for attempted murder, near an elementary school in the southern Japan city on Friday.

Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, broke into programming to show police taking him into custody. He wore a heavy jacket and ski cap pulled down over his face. NHK said he had a knife when he was arrested.

Li is suspected of breaking into a apartment to steal clothes after he jumped the prison walls on Wednesday. According to the Japanese media, he also stole a beer while he was there ? police reportedly found his DNA on a can he left behind.

Hiroshima police confirmed his arrest, but had no further comment. Officials said it was the first prison break from a Japanese penitentiary since 1989.

The government's top spokesman apologized for the escape and vowed tougher measures to keep inmates from breaking out. Li managed to climb over a wall inside the prison campus and then use scaffolding to get over the 16-foot (5-meter) outer wall, which was under construction for repairs. Sensors on the wall were turned off because of the repair work.

"We apologize for causing serious safety concerns to the neighbors," Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said. "We'll make sure that prisons and related institutions take steps so that they will never repeat the same mistake."

Li, believed to be the leader of a gang of burglars, was convicted in 2005 for shooting at a police officer and stealing a squad car.

Nearly 800 officers had been assigned to the hunt for Li, who had been jailed for shooting at an officer and stealing a squad car in 2005.

The escape was the first ever from the Hiroshima prison. A corrections official with the Justice Ministry said the last escape by an inmate from within a Japanese prison was in 1989.

Li escaped by ducking out of an outdoor exercise session.

Li was sent to the Hiroshima prison in 2008.

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Ohio Amish say not guilty in beard-cutting attacks

Twelve members of a breakaway Amish group pleaded not guilty Wednesday to beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in a feud over church discipline.

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The seven original defendants arrested in November and five more added in an indictment returned last month entered the pleas in the crowded federal courtroom.

U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster refused a defense appeal to release on bond the suspected ringleader, Samuel Mullet Sr., 66, and his son, Johnny Mullet, 37, from eastern Ohio.

A feud over church discipline allegedly led to five attacks in which the beards and hair of men and hair of women were cut, which is considered deeply offensive in Amish culture.

The seven-count indictment includes charges of conspiracy, assault and evidence tampering in what prosecutors say were hate crimes motivated by religious differences.

Samuel Mullet Sr., handcuffed at the wrists and ankles, his beard reaching the V-neck of his orange jail outfit, watched from the jury box and nodded occasionally as his attorney, Ed Bryan, argued that Mullet wasn't a risk of violence or flight.

He said Mullet should be freed pending trial because he has no criminal record and has ties to the community, including scores of grandchildren.

Any suggestion that Mullet could be violent or flee "is not a legitimate fear," Bryan said.

The government said in a court filing before the arraignment that Mullet could not be trusted to appear in court when ordered and sending officers to his farm compound to get him could lead to "the risk of tragic consequences."

Because the compound doesn't have electricity, release with electronic monitoring wasn't an option, the judge said.

He set a March 19 trial date.

Women dressed in traditional Amish apparel and bonnets filled several benches in the courtroom. One wiped away tears after the arraignment and another turned aside an interview request.

The indictment also charges three other children of Mullet, a son-in-law, three nephews, the spouses of a niece and nephew and a member of the Mullet community in Bergholz.

Mullet told The Associated Press in October that he didn't order the hair-cutting but didn't stop his sons and others from carrying it out. He said the goal was to send a message to other Amish that they should be ashamed of themselves for the way they were treating Mullet and his community.

The others charged before the indictment was returned were Mullet's sons Daniel and Lester Mullet; son-in-law Emanuel Schrock; nephew Eli Miller; and community member Levi Miller.

Newly charged in the indictment were Mullet's daughter Linda Schrock; nephews Lester and Raymond Miller; Anna Miller, the wife of another nephew; and a niece's husband, Freeman Burkholder.

Cutting the hair is a highly offensive act to the Amish, who believe the Bible instructs women to let their hair grow long and men to grow beards and stop shaving once they marry.

Amish often mete out their own internal punishment and rarely report crimes to law enforcement. Some beard-cutting victims declined to press charges earlier.

Ohio has an estimated Amish population of just under 61,000 ? second only to Pennsylvania ? with most living in rural counties south and east of Cleveland

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Mixed News on Tough-to-Treat Lung Cancer (HealthDay)

TUESDAY, Jan. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Dutch researchers report disappointing results from an early clinical trial of the drug Nexavar (sorafenib) in fighting a tough-to-treat form of lung cancer.

But, in better news, an experimental drug known as ganetespib showed promise in laboratory and animal experiments.

The results of both studies were to be presented Tuesday at an American Association for Cancer Research/International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer meeting in San Diego.

In recent years, researchers have made some headway in finding treatments to combat lung cancer, which often doesn't respond well to chemotherapy, explained Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.

Those treatments include drugs such as crizotinib (Xalkori) and erlotinib (Tarceva), which are most effective in tumors that contain certain genetic mutations.

However, those drugs tend to not work well in people with tumors that contain a particular type of mutation in the KRAS gene. KRAS is the most common molecular mutation, present in about 25 percent of people with non-small cell lung cancers such as adenocarcinoma, particularly smokers, said Dr. Paul Bunn, a professor of lung cancer research at the University of Colorado and executive director of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.

"The patients who have this mutation have a somewhat worse prognosis than patients who don't have this mutation, and have worse outcomes with chemotherapy," Bunn said. "Most drugs produce a shrinkage of the tumor in less than 10 percent of KRAS patients."

While a smaller, even earlier trial showed sorafenib might be that drug, the latest findings were not impressive. This larger trial by researchers in the Netherlands involving 57 patients with non-small cell lung cancer who had already failed chemotherapy and who had the KRAS mutation showed the median progression-free survival was just 2.3 months. Overall survival was about five months.

"They were undoubtedly hoping that progression-free survival would be longer, maybe four or five months, and overall survival would be six or eight months," Bunn said. "The results were not encouraging. Their basic conclusion is that we should find something better for these patients, and not spend a lot of time on a big randomized trial to show it has a teeny effect or no effect."

In addition, sorafenib was not compared to other drugs, or even to no treatment, Lichtenfeld said, so there is no way of gauging if the 2.3 months represents a true benefit above and beyond what patients would experience otherwise.

A second study done on non-small cell cancer cells and mice with the KRAS mutation showed more promise, experts said.

In it, researchers tested the drug ganetespib, which inhibits the Hsp90 protein. When combined with other cancer drugs, ganetespib seems to affect multiple other proteins present in the cancer cell that help the cancer cell thrive, Lichtenfeld said.

"The presence of this protein [Hsp90] really directs or impacts many proteins within the cancer cell that are necessary for it to survive," Lichtenfeld said. "If you can block that protein's effect, you then have other proteins that are blocked, and by blocking them you could shut down the cancer cell and severely impact the cell and its growth patterns. That is interesting and exciting from a laboratory point of view."

However, Lichtenfeld noted, "the problem we always face is translating what we see in the laboratory to clinical medicine. There are so many times we have promising and exciting findings in the laboratory that don't translate into patients, but occasionally they do."

The next step will be larger trials involving cancer patients, Bunn said.

"I would say this other approach is more promising than the sorafenib, and certainly worthy of additional studies, but not ready for clinical primetime," Bunn said.

Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer. Non-small cell cancers include squamous cell and adenocarcinomas.

"The big picture is we are learning about these mutations that tell us something about lung cancer, which has in some cases given us targets to guide us to use certain drugs because we know they have a higher chance of being effective," Lichtenfeld said.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States for men and women, killing an estimated 157,000 people this year, according to the American Cancer Society.

Experts note that research presented at meetings has not been subjected to the same type of rigorous scrutiny given to research published in peer-reviewed medical journals.

More information

The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more on lung cancer.

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Friday, January 13, 2012

Football News: Crystal Palace v Cardiff City: More Wembley history beckons for Bluebirds

Follow our live updates from Crystal Palace v Cardiff City from 7.30pm, Tuesday

CARDIFF CITY head to Crystal Palace tonight aiming to take the first step towards making history.

In the 52-year history of the League Cup, the Bluebirds have never done better than reach the semi-final stage way back in the 1965-66 season.

Then they found themselves on the wrong end of 10-3 aggregate drubbing by a West Ham team containing the calibre of Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters.

Later that season that ?Holy Trinity? helped England lift the World Cup, so this time around the route to Wembley looks slightly less taxing with Championship rivals Palace standing in the way.

It is a semi-final pairing nobody would have forecast at the start of the competition and the fact Cardiff are not facing one of the Premier League big boys is very much down to Palace heroics in the last round.

The Eagles earned a 2-1 extra-time win over Manchester United at Old Trafford and the luck of the draw saw Cardiff avoid facing Manchester City and Liverpool, who contest the first half of their semi-final tomorrow night.

And Bluebirds boss Malky Mackay admits the pairing of the Championship duo will have intensified Wembley dreams at both clubs.

?The expectation level does rise within the community here because it?s not Manchester City or United or Liverpool,? he said.

?If it were, would people be talking up Wembley so much?

?No, they wouldn?t. We would have to be realistic against one of those clubs in the semi-final.

?I think when we and Palace were drawn together there was a large intake of breath across the country. There certainly was in my house!

?I?m sure it was the same reaction at Palace. But we both respect each other and know how difficult it?s going to be.

?But at the same time I?m sure we are both delighted we missed out on Liverpool and Manchester City.?

Indeed, Mackay?s men go into tonight?s clash as favourites to reach next month?s showpiece final.

After a superb start to the season under their new manager, the Bluebirds currently lie third in the Championship with Palace down in 11th.

To add a further psychological edge for the Bluebirds, they saw off the Londoners 2-0 when the clubs met at the Cardiff City Stadium in November. But Mackay does not expect that to mean anything ahead of Cardiff?s trip to Selhurst Park tonight with the return leg in the Welsh capital on January 24.

?I don?t think my self or Dougie (Freedman, Palace manager) will be looking at the result here in November, although it was a good game for us and Palace had been on a good run,? said Mackay.

?But I don?t think it will have any bearing now. We both know each other pretty well in terms of our squads and our teams.

?It?s going to a tight affair. The fact that it is over two legs does make a difference.

?It?s not that ?one-off? cup-tie feel. It might be like that back here, but certainly in the first leg at Selhurst Park we will approach things as we always do.

?We will approach it like a league game, but in the back of your mind you do know that you?ve got the second half, so to speak, down here.

?We know it?s going to be a tough test, but we are going there with everything we?ve got and to be competitive.?

Cardiff suffered a rare defeat on the weekend when they crashed out of the FA Cup 4-2 at West Bromwich Albion.

Mackay chose to make 10 changes at The Hawthorns to the side which had convincingly beaten Reading in the Championship five days earlier.

But he will revert to a full-strength side tonight with Wembley so close.

Cardiff have been handed a huge boost as full-back Kevin McNaughton has recovered from a calf injury and is ready to return.

The Bluebirds? only injury concern is youngster Rudy Gestede, who turned an ankle at West Brom and will face a late fitness test.

Mackay said with his first-teamers rested there was a good spirit in the camp and maintained his side?s Carling Cup exploits could provide a boost to their promotion ambitions too.

?It can only benefit our club to be in the spotlight and to be involved in the semi-finals of the Carling Cup. It gives our fans a buzz,? he said.

?Things have been good. We are preparing and the boys are in good spirits and raring to go.?

For Mackay, personally, the tie gives him the chance to fulfil a dream he has so far failed to achieve as either a player or as a manager.

Despite reaching three Championship play-off finals as a player, all were played in Cardiff whilst the new Wembley was being built.

?All the play-offs were at the Millennium Stadium and it?s funny that I?m now here living in Cardiff,? added Mackay.

?That is a great stadium, but I?ve not been to Wembley before and it is something that is in the back of everyone?s mind.

?We?ve got a tough double-header now but one Championship club is going to make the Carling Cup final.?

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Bailed-out Portugal's recession seen worsening (AP)

LISBON, Portugal ? Portugal's recession will deepen this year under the weight of austerity measures meant to reduce public debt, the bailed-out country's central bank predicted Tuesday.

Portugal is trying to free itself from a huge debt burden that forced it to ask for a euro78 billion ($100 billion) financial rescue package last year to avoid bankruptcy.

But the Portuguese economy, one of the frailest among the 17 countries that use the euro as its currency, is buckling under the austerity cuts and fueling investor fears about the bloc's chances of recovery from its two-year-old sovereign debt crisis.

The central bank said in a report it expects the economy to contract 3.1 percent this year. Last October, it forecast a 2.2 percent contraction in 2012.

As in bailed-out Greece, the government faces a dilemma as it tries to cut spending while at the same time fostering the growth it needs to settle its debts.

The jobless rate has climbed to a record 13.2 percent, and trade unions have staged strikes and protests against tax hikes and pay and welfare cuts.

Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar told lawmakers Tuesday he planned no new austerity measures this year. He said any funding shortfall would be made up through the sale of state property and gambling concessions.

Portugal went into a double-dip recession last year, contracting 1.6 percent, the central bank said. The economy will be "virtually stagnant" in 2013, it said.

The debt crisis has caused Portuguese living standards to drop, with the central bank estimating that disposable income would decline 11 percent between 2011 and 2013 ? the duration of the bailout agreement.

On a brighter note, the bank predicted 4.1 percent growth in exports but said the increase would not be enough to compensate for a 6.5 percent drop in domestic consumption.

Labor market reforms are "crucial" to get the economy back on track, the bank said, adding that implementation of planned measures must be speeded up.

The center-right government is having a hard time getting agreement with employers and unions, however. It wants to extend working hours by 30 minutes a day with no extra pay, slash worker compensation for layoffs, and make hiring and firing easier. It is also pushing companies and unions to reach an agreement quickly amid fears the measures could aggravate public discontent.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Candidates Push Agendas, Not Heating Oil Solutions (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | It was a double debate weekend for the candidates in New Hampshire. With Saturday night's debate ending at 11 p.m. and Sunday's debate starting at 9 a.m., they only had 10 hours between debates. Rick Perry was definitely sporting bags under his eyes, and all the candidates were more hostile and less reserved than Saturday night. They were also more willing to dodge questions in order to push their own agendas.

Things started to heat up when the topic of heating oil was mentioned. As we all know, President Barack Obama cut heating oil aid by $1.2 billion, as reported by The Huffington Post. That means a lot of poor people won't have heat for the entire winter. When Jon Huntsman was asked if heating oil aide should have been cut for low income families, he quickly responded, "No. We have people in need. We have people suffering."

But instead of answering the question, he shifted the subject to the oil delivery system monopoly by stating, "We have to disrupt the oil monopoly delivery systems." Huntsman compared it to the breakup of the telecom industry. It was an interesting tactic and successfully avoided fully answering the question. His answer should have stated "No." Then he should have explained how he planned to fund heating oil assistance for the poor in the future.

When Mitt Romney received the question he stated, "We don't need to have the federal government saying we need to solve all the poverty problems in the U.S. Every state's poverty line is different." Then he went into a diatribe on the size and overhead of the federal government by stating, "Very little of the money meant to help people reaches the people" via Federal government programs.

While I agree with both Huntsman's and Romney's statements, I don't believe they fully answered the question. Neither explained whether or not they understood the impact of the $1.2 billion cut nor did they explain how they were going to fix that cut if elected president.

What they did say amounted to long congressional conversations on how to demonopolize the oil delivery system, how to reduce government agency overhead, and how to send more money to the states for poverty reduction initiatives. None of those ideas are going to help people heat their homes this winter or next winter. They might be able to heat their homes in 2013, but then that's just about the time the unemployment rate is forecast to go back to its prerecession levels.

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