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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Lohan Sued for Allegedly Hitting Pedestrian (omg!)
Lindsay Lohan has reportedly been sued for an alleged car accident resulting in an injured pedestrian.
Lindsay Lohan Has Positive Probation Hearing
The Associated Press reports that Nubia Del Carmen Preza claims that Lohan was behind the wheel of a Maserati that allegedly struck Preza while she was walking through a West Hollywood intersection in 2010.
Lindsay Lohan Makes Citizen's Arrest
The news source states that the lawsuit cites "disabling and serious personal injuries, pain, suffering and anguish" as afflictions suffered in the alleged accident.
Preza is reportedly seeking damages for medical expenses as well as lost time at work.
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CNN en Espanol anchor to participate in Fla debate
MIAMI (AP) ? CNN en Espa?ol is joining the list of Spanish-language networks to co-host debates and forums with the GOP presidential candidates.
On Thursday, CNN en Espanol's top anchor Juan Carlos Lopez will moderate questions from a panel in Miami during the CNN debate in Jacksonville. The debate is also co-hosted by the Hispanic Leadership Network and the Republican Party of Florida.
Last the fall, Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz-Balart asked questions related to immigration during an MSNBC debate, and he has since interviewed several of the candidates, including Newt Gingrich. On Wednesday Univision anchor Jorge Ramos went head-to-head in a series of "Meet the Candidate" interviews with Mitt Romney, Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
Lopez has collaborated with CNN, before, but Thursday's event will showcase his talents to a much broader, English-speaking audience.
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NC Democratic Gov. Perdue won't seek re-election (AP)
RALEIGH, N.C. ? Democratic North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue, the first woman elected governor in the state, said Thursday she would not seek re-election this year because she believes a bid would make it more difficult to fund education.
Perdue has faced poor poll numbers, continued budget troubles and a campaign investigation while Republicans took over the Legislature last year.
She announced last week she would offer a budget this spring that would seek a sales tax increase for education. Republicans let a temporary sales tax increase expire last summer, and at least one legislative leader called her proposal dead on arrival.
"We live in highly partisan times, where some people seem more worried about scoring political points than working together to address the real challenges our state faces," Perdue said in an email to supporters. A re-election bid, she added, "will only further politicize the fight to adequately fund our schools."
Perdue faced a tough rematch against former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, a Republican she narrowly defeated in 2008 in the state's closest gubernatorial contest since 1972. Perdue's win was partly attributed to Barack Obama's surprise victory in North Carolina ? the first in 36 years for a Democratic nominee for president.
News of Perdue's decision came as North Carolina Democratic Rep. Brad Miller said he also would not seek re-election, avoiding a potential primary contest against fellow Democrat David Price after the Republican-controlled Legislature drew them into the same district.
North Carolina is considered an important state for Obama's re-election prospects and Democrats decided to hold the party convention in Charlotte in September.
Perdue, 65, has struggled with a state economy hit hard by the recession and an unemployment rate persistently above the national average. Polling conducted throughout her term has consistently shown her approval ratings hovering around 40 percent.
She's had to deal with state budget problems that led her and fellow Democrats to raise the sales tax by a penny in 2009 and make deep cuts to education and health care. The first-term governor more recently clashed with the new Republican leadership in the General Assembly, which swept into power after the 2010 elections and gave GOP control of the Legislature for the first time since the 1870s.
Perdue has traded jabs with Republican leaders on issues ranging from jobless benefits to a measure allowing death row inmates to use statistical evidence of racial bias to challenge their convictions. In a sign of the tension, she vetoed a record 16 bills last year.
She faced scrutiny about her 2008 campaign and more than three dozen flights that she didn't initially report on campaign filings required by state election officials. A local prosecutor has said the governor wasn't the focus of his investigation, but four people have been indicted related to the flight investigation, including her former campaign finance director.
Perdue had said for months she was running again, and she raised more than $2.6 million in 2011. The amount was only slightly more than what McCrory had raised during last year ? a poor showing in a state where Democratic candidates routinely outspend Republicans in statewide elections. Perdue's term goes through the end of the year.
"To those of you who have supported me throughout my years of public service, I will always be grateful for the confidence you have placed in me," Perdue said. "In my remaining months in office, I look forward to continuing to fight for the priorities we share, by putting North Carolinians back to work and investing in our children's future."
Democratic state Rep. Bill Faison, who has been hinting he wanted to run for governor, said he was not surprised Perdue is stepping aside. For weeks, prominent people in the party worried about Perdue's low poll numbers had been visiting the governor and suggesting she not run, Faison said.
"I don't think anyone will be surprised by what that announcement is," Faison said.
Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton, another Democrat, would seem to consider a run. Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper, who toyed with a gubernatorial bid in 2008 but decided against the idea, announced Thursday he would run for a fourth term as the state's top law enforcement officer.
A native of Virginia, Perdue worked as a teacher and moved in the 1970s to the coastal town of New Bern, where she became director of geriatric services at a hospital before entering politics. She served in the Legislature and as lieutenant governor before being elected governor.
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Robertson reported from Raleigh. Associated Press writers Michael Biesecker and Tom Breen in Raleigh also contributed to this report.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
World's most powerful X-ray laser creates 2-million-degree matter
ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2012) ? Researchers working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to create and probe a 2-million-degree piece of matter in a controlled way for the first time. This feat, reported in Nature, takes scientists a significant step forward in understanding the most extreme matter found in the hearts of stars and giant planets, and could help experiments aimed at recreating the nuclear fusion process that powers the sun.
The experiments were carried out at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), whose rapid-fire laser pulses are a billion times brighter than those of any X-ray source before it. Scientists used those pulses to flash-heat a tiny piece of aluminum foil, creating what is known as "hot dense matter," and took the temperature of this solid plasma -- about 2 million degrees Celsius. The whole process took less than a trillionth of a second.
"The LCLS X-ray laser is a truly remarkable machine," said Sam Vinko, a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University and the paper's lead author. "Making extremely hot, dense matter is important scientifically if we are ultimately to understand the conditions that exist inside stars and at the center of giant planets within our own solar system and beyond."
Scientists have long been able to create plasma from gases and study it with conventional lasers, said co-author Bob Nagler of SLAC, an LCLS instrument scientist. But no tools were available for doing the same at solid densities that cannot be penetrated by conventional laser beams.
"The LCLS, with its ultra-short wavelengths of X-ray laser light, is the first that can penetrate a dense solid and create a uniform patch of plasma -- in this case a cube one-thousandth of a centimeter on a side -- and probe it at the same time," Nagler said.
The resulting measurements, he said, will feed back into theories and computer simulations of how hot, dense matter behaves. This could help scientists analyze and recreate the nuclear fusion process that powers the sun.
"Those 60 hours when we first aimed the LCLS at a solid were the most exciting 60 hours of my entire scientific career," said Justin Wark, leader of the Oxford group. "LCLS is really going to revolutionize the field, in my view."
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
U2 release From The Sky Down on DVD/Blu-Ray/Download
U2 have just released the documentary, From The Sky Down on DVD, Blu-Ray and video download with bonus interviews and performances. The film documents the history of the band up through the making of the pivotal 1991 album, Achtung Baby. Early in 2011, the band returned to Hansa Studio in Berlin to discuss the making [...]
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Dutasteride Is Seen to Curtail Cancer Left in Prostate
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A study suggests that dutasteride may slow or stop tumor growth in men who decide against surgery.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Solar Eruption Triggers Strongest Radiation Storm
ForgedArtificer writes "A recent eruption on the sun will be exposing Earth to the strongest radiation storm seen since 2005. [The storm] will potentially disrupt communications and put high-flyers at risk of radiation exposure." Says Spaceweather.com: "On the NOAA scale of radiation storms, this one ranks S3, which means it could, e.g., cause isolated reboots of computers onboard Earth-orbiting satellites and interfere with polar radio communications." According to the Christian Science Monitor, "NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a geomagnetic storm watch, and the agency's deputy, Kathy Sullivan, said that polar flights are expected to be re-routed."
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Monday, January 23, 2012
A Facebook Study, Online Piracy, and the South Carolina Primary
?The Brawl: Gingrich and Santorum shined in a boisterous debate. Can a flustered Romney hold them off in South Carolina?? by John Dickerson. Newt Gingrich seized the first five minutes of the South Carolina debate, but ultimately the night belonged to a steady, eloquent Rick Santorum. Both men argued more forcefully than fading front-runner Mitt Romney, though, which suggests that the Republican race might not have a foregone conclusion after all.?
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Romney stance on DREAM Act is magnified in Florida (AP)
MIAMI ? Mitt Romney's promise to veto a measure that would create a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants threatens to turn off some Hispanic voters, whose support could be critical in a general election match-up against President Barack Obama.
The issue is gaining prominence as the Republican front-runner heads toward the Jan. 31 primary in Florida, even though most of the state's Hispanics are Puerto Rican or Cuban-American and, thus, aren't affected by U.S. immigration law, nor view it as a priority. Still, it's a state where 13 percent of registered voters are Hispanic, where the nation's largest Spanish-language TV networks are based and where the nation's third-largest number of illegal immigrants live ? intensifying the focus on Romney's position.
"Latino voters, like all voters in this country, are interested in America being an opportunity nation," Romney said Monday night during a debate in South Carolina, when asked if his promise to veto the so-called DREAM Act was alienating voters. "In my view, as long as we communicate to the people of all backgrounds in this country that it can be better, and that America is a land of opportunity, we will get those votes."
Maybe not.
His veto promise ? first made in the days before the Iowa caucuses ? has hit a nerve with prominent Hispanics, and some Republicans worry that the position will turn off the growing number of Latino voters in swing-voting states, particularly in the west, who are now on the fence after backing Obama in 2008. These Republicans suggest that Romney was trying to curry favor with hardline Republican primary voters at the expense of Hispanics whose support he would need come the fall.
"If Romney's the nominee, he's going to have to come to the center and make some decisions about how to resolve that issue," said Republican Herman Echevarria, a Cuban-American who is the chief executive of a Miami-based bilingual advertising agency and a longtime local political player. "He's trying to be a conservative candidate. And if you don't become a conservative candidate, you cannot be the candidate of the Republicans. But you cannot be elected president just as a conservative candidate."
Already, there are signs of backlash.
For Colombia native Ana Rodriguez, a Miami-based graphic designer who received political asylum and will become a U.S. citizen this year, Romney's comments are precisely what motivated her to vote ? against him. "Because of what I went through," Rodriguez said, "I want more people (elected) who are interested in supporting immigrants and want a more equal and fair system of immigration."
Florida DREAM Act activists, who have been among the most visible in the nation, also are promising to keep the heat on Romney as his campaign comes to the state.
And last week, at El Tropical restaurant in Miami, Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, who has endorsed Romney, told a group of mostly Cuban-American GOP primary voters that the former Massachusetts governor was the only candidate who could fix the economy and protect U.S. security interests. Then, a young Colombian immigrant stepped forward and asked Diaz-Balart, who has championed immigrants' rights including the DREAM Act, how the congressman could support Romney.
"You have been such a friend to us, I just don't understand," said Juan Rodriguez, a student at Florida International University who was among a half-dozen students who walked from Miami to Washington in the winter to raise awareness of the legislation.
The exchange was caught on tape by several Spanish-language media outlets that reach viewers around the world.
Romney has arguably the toughest immigration position of any of the Republican candidates. Newt Gingrich would give legal status to illegal immigrants who have deep roots in the U.S. and lived otherwise lawfully.
Conversely, Romney has been adamantly opposed to any type of amnesty for illegal immigrants since his first White House run in 2008. Previously, he called reasonable a bipartisan proposal to allow immigrants to seek green cards in exchange for certain penalties, though he says he never officially supported such legislation.
Last year, Romney objected to the DREAM Act. But he went further in the days before the Iowa caucuses when asked if he would veto the measure.
"The answer is yes," Romney told voters then, and later referred to the measure as a handout.
While he said he does not oppose creating a path for those who serve in the U.S. military to become permanent residents, he also said he doesn't believe such individuals should be able to adjust their status by attending school, nor should they receive in-state tuition.
Since narrowly winning the Iowa caucuses, Romney has been sending Hispanics mixed messages.
He's working to woo Hispanics and convince them he's sincere in fighting for their causes, recently launching TV commercials in Florida featuring Cuban-Americans Diaz-Balart and fellow U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, as well as his son Craig speaking in Spanish.
But, in South Carolina, he's also been campaigning with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the leading architect behind the tough Arizona-style immigration laws. Even many Latinos who support tougher immigration laws worry such measures will lead to racial profiling because they give broad leeway to law enforcement to stop anyone whom they suspect of being in the country illegally.
"This is all about his primary right now," said Benjamin Bishin, a University of California, Riverside political science professor who has long studied Cuban-American and other Latino political attitudes.
Jennifer Korn of the center-right Hispanic Leadership Network, which is co-hosting a GOP primary debate and Latino conference this month in Florida, said Romney took a risk in alienating Hispanic voters. But, she added, he's also made clear he wants to fix the broader immigration system.
"If he explains it correctly, he definitely has a chance to have the Hispanic community listen to what he has to say," she said.
He seemed to try to do just that during recent debates, saying: "I love legal immigration," but that "to protect our legal immigration system we have got to protect our borders and stop the flood of illegal immigration."
That appeared to be enough for Peter Gonzalez, a Cuban-American commercial attorney and fiscally conservative Democrat.
"It's nice to hear a guy who the media has said is taking a harsh turn to the right on immigration say they love legal immigration," he said.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
US rights group says Iraq becoming 'police state'
BAGHDAD (AP) ? An international human rights group says Iraq's Shiite-led government has cracked down harshly on dissent during the past year of Arab Spring uprisings, turning the country into a "budding police state" as autocratic regimes crumbled elsewhere in the region.
Human Rights Watch says in its World Report 2012, which covers 2011, that Iraq is slipping back into authoritarianism as security forces abuse protesters, harass journalists, torture detainees and intimidate activists.
The New York-based group says that the U.S. failed to leave behind a stable democracy in Iraq when American soldiers exited nine years after toppling the oppressive regime of Saddam Hussein.
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Elizabeth Smart Is Engaged! (omg!)
Happily ever after!
Elizabeth Smart, who, at the age of 14, spent a harrowing nine months as a kidnap victim in 2002 and 2003, is ready to settle down.
PHOTOS: Stars with harrowing pasts
"Elizabeth got engaged last weekend in Salt Lake City," her rep confirmed to Us Weekly. "She's incredibly excited about this next chapter in life and pending wedding."
PHOTOS: Big celebrity weddings
Both Smart, 24, and her rep remain tight-lipped about every further detail of the proposal, wedding plans and even who her fiance is.
"She has decided that she wants to keep the details of her personal life private," her rep continued. "She wants to continue to be involved with her child advocacy work, but, at the same time, she doesn't want her husband or children to be in the spotlight."
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This is the second dose of happy news in the past year for Smart. In July, she landed a paid news contributor position at ABC, where in her role, she "helps our viewers better understand missing person stories from someone with the perspective to know what a family experiences when a loved one goes missing," an ABC spokeswoman said.
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
In solar cells, tweaking the tiniest of parts yields big jump in efficiency
ScienceDaily (Jan. 20, 2012) ? By tweaking the smallest of parts, a trio of University at Buffalo engineers is hoping to dramatically increase the amount of sunlight that solar cells convert into electricity.
With military colleagues, the UB researchers have shown that embedding charged quantum dots into photovoltaic cells can improve electrical output by enabling the cells to harvest infrared light, and by increasing the lifetime of photoelectrons.
The research appeared online last May in the journal Nano Letters. The research team included Vladimir Mitin, Andrei Sergeev and Nizami Vagidov, faculty members in UB's electrical engineering department; Kitt Reinhardt of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research; and John Little and advanced nanofabrication expert Kimberly Sablon of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.
Mitin, Sergeev and Vagidov have founded a company, OPtoElectronic Nanodevices LLC. (OPEN LLC.), to bring the innovation to the market.
The idea of embedding quantum dots into solar panels is not new: According to Mitin, scientists had proposed about a decade ago that this technique could improve efficiency by allowing panels to harvest invisible, infrared light in addition to visible light. However, intensive efforts in this direction have previously met with limited success.
The UB researchers and their colleagues have not only successfully used embedded quantum dots to harvest infrared light; they have taken the technology a step further, employing selective doping so that quantum dots within the solar cell have a significant built-in charge.
This built-in charge is beneficial because it repels electrons, forcing them to travel around the quantum dots. Otherwise, the quantum dots create a channel of recombination for electrons, in essence "capturing" moving electrons and preventing them from contributing to electric current.
The technology has the potential to increase the efficiency of solar cells up to 45 percent, said Mitin, a SUNY Distinguished Professor. Through UB's Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR), he and his colleagues have filed provisional patent applications to protect their technology.
"Clean technology will really benefit the region, the state, the country," Mitin said. "With high-efficiency solar cells, consumers can save money and providers can have a smaller solar field that produces more energy."
Mitin and his colleagues have already invested significant amounts of time in developing the quantum dots with a built-in-charge, dubbed "Q-BICs." To further enhance the technology and bring it to the market, OPEN LLC is now seeking funding from private investors and federal programs.
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GE expects 2012 to be another volatile year (AP)
NEW YORK ? General Electric Co. is bracing for another volatile year. The global conglomerate expects to see emerging markets from China to South America continue to grow while Europe falls into a recession.
Its own results are also telling two different stories: Its fourth-quarter profit improved when the results of sold-off businesses are excluded. But revenue fell short of Wall Street's expectations, partly because of a slowdown in Europe.
Shares of the Fairfield, Conn., company, which makes everything from jet engines to light bulbs, fell about 1 percent in midday trading. They're still up about 6 percent this year.
In a conference call with analysts, CEO Jeffrey Immelt called the last three months of the year "a good quarter (that) could have been even better."
But, he added: "I like our momentum, and really we feel good about where we are and what we can get done in 2012."
The CEO held onto his prediction for double-digit earnings growth despite some areas of concern. Revenue in the energy infrastructure division, GE's biggest, rose 19 percent, but its profit was flat. Health-care division profit was off by 5 percent. Profit at the home and business solutions divisions, which includes appliances, dropped 41 percent.
GE said infrastructure orders rose 15 percent in the final three months of 2011, leaving it with its biggest-ever order backlog of $200 billion. In a note to clients, Citi analyst Deane Dray said that backlog, combined with a 23 percent increase in equipment orders in the quarter, sets the company up to meet the lofty double-digit growth goal.
Including discontinued businesses, profit dropped 18 percent in the fourth-quarter. GE also said it saw slower growth in Europe, and its ongoing effort to make its GE Capital financing arm more efficient reduced revenue at the unit by 9 percent. GE Capital is the company's second-largest segment. The overall revenue decline of 8 percent reflects GE sale of its majority stake in NBC Universal to Comcast last year.
The transportation division was a bright spot. Revenue there grew by 43 percent. The division is the largest producer of diesel-electric locomotives and also makes drive systems for wind turbines and mining trucks.
Excluding discontinued businesses and certain pension costs, earnings were 39 cents per share. That topped analysts' forecast of 38 cents, based on a FactSet survey. But revenue fell below Wall Street's $40.05 billion estimate.
For all of 2011, the company earned $14.15 billion, or $1.23 per share, up 22 percent compared with $11.64 billion, or $1.06 per share, in 2010.
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Blast in southeast Turkey kills 1, wounds 27 (AP)
ANKARA, Turkey ? An explosion apparently targeting a police car killed one civilian and wounded 27 people, including seven police officers, in a mostly Kurdish city of Turkey on Thursday, an official said.
The private Dogan news agency said police had to use tear gas to disperse an angry crowd that gathered at the scene of the blast in the city of Hakkari.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion, but Kurdish rebels who are fighting for autonomy in the region have used roadside bombings against military and police vehicles there in the past.
Gov. Muammer Turker told Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency that the explosion occurred on a busy street in the southeastern city as the police vehicle was driving by.
The blast wounded a total of 28 people, including seven policemen, and one of the civilians died at the hospital, Turker said.
TRT, Turkey's state-run television, said the explosion was caused by a roadside bomb targeting police. The pro-Kurdish news agency, Firat, said the explosion was caused by a bomb that formed a large crater on the ground and shattered the surrounding buildings' windows.
Kurdish rebels, who belong to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, have been branded as terrorists by the U.S. and the European Union. Tens of thousands of people have died during their battle for independence since 1984.
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PFT: Tebow suffered major injuries vs. Patriots
Getty ImagesWith a contract that will expire in just a few weeks and with no progress made during the 2011 season toward a new one and with a record-setting season in his pocket and with a late-game performance against the 49ers that should have been enough to deliver the first road playoff win in franchise history, quarterback Drew Brees and the Saints continue to be on a collision course for awkwardness and ugliness in 2012.
In a season-ending press conference held Tuesday, coach Sean Payton said what he?s been saying for months:? Brees will be back.
?I think if that question were asked to Mickey [Loomis] or Drew right now, I don?t think there would be any timetable [regarding a new contract],? Payton said in comments distributed by the team.? ?Certainly the sooner the better, and yet I think this time away here initially after the season ended will be good for everyone to kind of remove yourself from the emotion of the season.? I think it will be something that would certainly be on our priority list.?
The Saints have the ability to prevent Brees from becoming a free agent, via the franchise tag.? The Saints can even use the ?exclusive? version of the tag, which would prevent another team from extending an offer to Brees that, if not matched by the Saints, would secure the single-season passing yardage record-holder?s rights in exchange for two first-round picks.
The real question remains whether the two sides will work something out on their own before Brees misses offseason workouts, training camp, and/or the preseason.? Like all franchise-tagged players, Brees can stay away until only days before the start of the regular season and still earn the full amount of the franchise-player salary.
If it comes to that, how will Brees be ready to play as of Week One?
And so the Saints and Brees could be destined for a game of chicken, with the team believing there?s no way he?ll stay away from his teammates and undermine his own preparation for 2012 and Brees believing there?s no way the team will want him to miss out on preparation that will be vital to winning enough regular-season games in 2012 to force the road to the Superdome through, well, the Superdome.
That?s the overriding factor in all of this:? The Saints host the Super Bowl next year.? Thus, owner Tom Benson and company surely will want the Saints to play in that game.
To make that happen, the Saints need to play their playoff games in the Superdome, too.? To ensure home-field advantage in the postseason, Brees needs to be fully prepared for the start of the regular season.
To make that happen, Benson and the Saints need to pay Brees an amount reflecting his value to the organization.
At the same time, Brees needs to leave enough cash under the cap to help pump up the defense and replace guys like Marques Colston and Robert Meachem, who surely will be pilfered by teams hoping to weaken the Saints, arguably the best team in the league at the end of the regular season.
To make that happen, they need to make Brees happy.? As Payton says, the sooner the better.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Explosion in Somali refugee camp after media visit (AP)
MOGADISHU, Somalia ? A bomb exploded in a crowded refugee camp in Somalia's capital on Thursday, only minutes after a group of U.N. officials and international journalists left the site. The blast killed two Somalis.
Yasmin Ali, the camp organizer, said one refugee and one Somali soldier died. At least three people were wounded.
Journalists from international agencies like The Associated Press, AFP, BBC and the Spanish newspaper El Pais were on a one-day trip to Mogadishu on Thursday, one day before the six-month mark of the U.N.'s famine declaration in this Horn of Africa country. The blast happened about 20 minutes after the journalists left the camp. There were no senior U.N. personnel on the trip.
African Union and Somali forces for the most part have forced militants from the al-Shabab militant group out of Mogadishu, but pockets of resistance remain and the militants continue to carry out strikes like suicide attacks and roadside bombs.
"I never thought refugee camps would be targeted," said Abdi Warsame, a blast victim, as he lay in a Mogadishu hospital.
"It was an intentional attack. Not no much can be done against those men," he said, referring to al-Shabab, "because they penetrated the camp, so no one can stop them. May Allah bring a power that can stop them."
Somalia, which hasn't had a central government in more than two decades, has long been a dangerous environment for aid groups, the U.N. and journalists. Foreign journalists typically do not move around Mogadishu unless inside an armored vehicle manned with African Union troops or with a private security team.
The U.N. declared a famine in Somalia on July 20. Since then, hundreds of thousands of Somalis fled the hardest-hit areas of the country for refugee camps in Kenya, Ethiopia and the capital, Mogadishu. The U.K. government estimates that between 50,000 and 100,000 Somalis died, and a report released Wednesday blamed aid groups and world governments for not responding to the crisis fast enough.
Many of the refugees who spoke to the AP on Thursday said that the men from refugee families have returned home to plant crops after seasonal rains fell in south-central Somalia in recent weeks.
One refugee, 25-year-old Deqo Hassan Mohammed, said she would return home with her husband if she can find the $10 fare it would cost to travel there.
"Things are still hard but better than before," said the mother of five.
Another woman, Halima Haji Mohammed Omar, though, said she does not want to go back, because of the presence of al-Shabab fighters. Omar said al-Shabab tried to conscript her 20-year-old son.
"How can I go back? There is no reason to back when there is still a war," said Omar, whose husband has returned to plant crops. "They beat us, they conscripted our children."
Underscoring the danger of violence in Somalia, the aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday it is closing its two largest medical centers in Mogadishu after the shooting deaths of two staffers. The group, which is also known by its French acronym of MSF, said the two 120-bed medical facilities treat malnutrition, measles and cholera.
The closure of the two facilities cuts in half the assistance that the aid group is providing in Mogadishu. MSF will continue to provide medical care in other areas of the capital, as well as in 10 other locations in Somalia.
Two MSF staffers were killed Dec. 29 by a disgruntled, gun-wielding Somali employee suspected of theft and receiving kickbacks.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Articles-now.com The Benefits Of Investing In Hedge Funds
A hedge fund is a form of investment that takes part in a wide range of opportunities and trading activities in comparison to other types of funds. Nonetheless, hedge funds are generally open to a particular class of investors as specified by regulatory agencies. Everyone cannot invest in these funds. Only particular investors can place their funds in them. Institutions like university foundations and endowments, pension funds, or individuals with high net worth are allowed to invest. The money invested with a hedge fund is utilized in a wide variety of investments. However, liquid securities are the most common investment that is generally traded. These funds adopt different investing strategies such as leverage and short selling as a way to increase the return on investment.
The investment value of the investor within a particular fund is established by his share of the net asset value of that fund. Thus, the increase and decrease in the total value of the fund?s assets along with the fund expenses are reflected in the sum that an investor can take out later.
The strategies of hedge funds are intended for attaining positive return on investment, regardless of whether the markets are rising or falling. The fund managers are generally professional and properly qualified in handling finances and investments. They?re paid a management fee to compensate them for their expertise in addition to a performance fee when the overall value of the fund increases during the year. Investments valued at billions of dollars are invested in these funds. Based on one estimate, the size of the global hedge fund market is approximately 2 trillion US dollars and it is predicted to grow quickly during the coming years.
Because these types of funds are not available to the general public, there are minimal constraints regarding investment and the methods involved with management of these funds when compared to funds that are available to the general public. That is the primary reason why these types of funds enjoy a great deal of freedom to participate in a diverse range of investment opportunities and trading activities.
Individuals with large amounts of money to invest and are willing to take serious risks prefer to invest in these funds. Since the risks concerned are much higher, investors can lose their whole investment really quickly. Also, these funds promise large return on investment and people could even double their money rather quickly. Therefore, people who love to take risks to gain greater returns like to invest in these types of funds.
Investment in hedge funds offers an excellent opportunity to earn large gains in a very short period of time. However, the risks are just as high. Since the funds are professionally managed, these funds promise higher return on investment in spite of the risks associated with investments and trading activities.
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January 16, 2012
Ministry of Finance Highlights Israel's Economic Success and Fiscal Discipline
Israel's problems, real and imagined, are the focus of persistent media attention. The New York Times, for example, regularly chastises the Israeli government and finds fault with Israeli society wherever it looks. A recent Times op-ed on the treatment of gays chose to excoriate Israel, the region's most tolerant society. Relentless criticism and condemnation of Israel obscures the extraordinary recent accomplishments of the Jewish state. These accomplishments, laid out in a summary report for 2011 published by Israel's Finance Ministry, reveal a remarkable story of fiscal discipline and economic expansion.
Over the past year, while the world's developed economies continue to falter and their fiscal situations grow ever more serious, Israel's economy grew by nearly 5 percent. Its per capita gross domestic product increased by 3 percent. All of its major economic indicators were positive:
Unemployment declined to 5.6 percent.
Inflation was kept low at 2.6 percent.
The Israeli economy's current picture of stability and growth is the culmination of years of fiscal discipline that pulled Israel back from the brink of fiscal collapse just 27 years ago, when it experienced runaway inflation of 445 percent in one year.
A detailed report published by the Ministry of Finance delves further into Israel's economic transformation. This success was in large part due to reducing the burdensome presence of government in the economy coupled with increased emphasis on developing homegrown technologies. Page 12 of the report contains a graph showing the rapid growth of high technology exports since 1990. The destination of Israeli export trade has broadened as well; Asia now ranks alongside the United States and Europe as a major export market.
Despite Israel's continuing need to invest heavily in its military and the continuing legacy of an overwhelming government presence in economic activities, government expenditure has declined from 56 percent of the GDP in 1988 to less than 43 percent today.
A chart on page 14 reveals that Israel has experienced a recurring cycle of increased government borrowing followed by a return to fiscal stability. Yet in sharp contrast to the experiences of many developed economies, the most recent Israeli borrowing cycle that began in 2008 has been marked by a less severe debt load than previous cycles. As a result of responsible fiscal policy, Israel's government debt has declined from 100 percent of GDP in 1987 to 75 percent in 2010. Most of the developed world is heading in the opposite direction of increased debt load.
Page 16 of the report illuminates the most extraordinary achievement. In 1984, Israel experienced a crisis in runaway inflation of 445 percent. The government implemented severe measures, making significant budget cuts and taking away its own authority to print money. Since then Israel has managed to maintain a low single digit rate of inflation usually between 1-3 percent per year.
This extraordinary achievement of economic growth and fiscal discipline receives little notice in the media. It is all the more remarkable when considering the persistent efforts by anti-Israel activists in Europe and the United States to damage the Jewish state's economy through the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) and the longstanding Arab boycott.
One might argue that the BDS movement has unwittingly benefitted Israel by forcing it to emphasize technology exports that are less sensitive to boycotts. While this transition would have happened regardless, the impetus of the boycotters may have sped up the process. Israel's economic success in the face of unrelenting blacklisting and boycotts recalls the famous Arab proverb: Dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on.
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Any Spanish or Portuguese speaking candidate with experience in Trade Finance or Commodity Finance please get in touch. My client a leading Managing Director in field of Trade commodity finance is hiring immediately for one Associate of Trade Finance to join their New York team.
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- Role involves structuring and negotiating trade agreements/ credit approvals/ financings and originating, structuring and executing trade commodity finance transactions for US clients and borrowers in developing countries, particularly Latin America.
- You will learn and develop massively from working with successful senior members of the team and having a broad remit of responsibilities
- Role will involve identifying and mitigating risk associated with transactions/ working on collateral and trade receivables/ commodity pricing and hedging and also pre payment financing and warehouse financing
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- Essential to speak fluent English and Spanish and or Portuguese
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Vitor Belfort overcomes Anthony Johnson?s size to get UFC 142 submission
Fighting in front of his hometown crowd, Vitor Belfort submitted Anthony Johnson in the first round at UFC 142 in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.
Johnson wanted to use his wrestling skills caught a kick for a takedown early in the first round. Belfort looked for submissions from his back, but couldn't find any, and they were stood up by referee Dan Miragliotta. Belfort landed a knee and stuffed Johnson's takedowns, while Johnson was still able to land several big strikes.
As the crowd chanted, "Ole Ole Ole! Vitor, Vitor!" Belfort took Johnson's back and cinched it with a body triangle. Belfort methodically worked his arms under Johnson's chin, and secured the rear naked choke for the submission at 4:49 in the first round.
The fight was in question after Johnson weighed in at 197 lbs. for the 185-lb. division. Johnson had to weigh in again at 2 p.m. on Saturday and weigh less than 205 lbs. for the fight to go on. Johnson fought for years at welterweight and had trouble with the weight cut then.
"I fought big guys. I'm not afraid of size. I'm ready to fight whatever, but I cut 20 lbs. in four days. I've got to be a professional. I cannot control the outcome, but I can control my attitude," Belfort said after the bout.
Belfort lost to Anderson Silva in a title bout last February, but has two first-round wins since then. Next, he is slated to coach the first Brazilian edition of "The Ultimate Fighter" against fellow Brazilian MMA legend Wanderlei Silva.
Johnson is in a precarious position. Not making weight will draw the ire of UFC president Dana White, and it does not help to lose a fight the next day.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
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It's a little early for spring cleaning, but that doesn't mean we can't find a few gems laying around. And that brings us to today's contest, which is only for owners of the Motorola Droid Bionic. We've got a bevy of accessories with someone's name on them, just waiting to be packaged up and sent out. Check the video above for instructions. Good luck!
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Critic's Notebook: Grantland takes on the bigger world of sports
When it comes to sportswriting, I tend to subscribe to George Plimpton's small-ball theory: The smaller the ball, the better the writing about the sport. This has a lot to do with my own biases (I'm a baseball fan, not much interest in basketball or football), but it also seems borne out by the literature. And yet, if Bill Simmons is right, the whole notion of a ball theory (small or large) might turn out to be moot.
"We're trying to fill a void, getting good writers to write about what they want," he says during a recent phone conversation about Grantland, the sports and pop culture website that ESPN launched last June with Simmons as editor. Among Grantland's contributors? Chuck Klosterman, Jane Leavy, Malcolm Gladwell, Colson Whitehead and Dave Eggers, who helped launched the site with an essay on Wrigley Field ("ragged and crumbling and lived-in," he calls the ancient ballpark, "beautiful in an almost accidental way") that deftly evokes why, when it comes to the Chicago Cubs, winning has long been a secondary pursuit.
Eggers is something of a shadow presence in the latest Grantland iteration: a print quarterly, the first installment of which has just been issued in collaboration with McSweeney's Books. His Wrigley piece is not included, but his sensibility is all over the design. A 300-plus page hardcover, bound in imitation pigskin, and full of essays, opinions, graphics and inserts (including a 67-page oral history of Frank DeFord's long-defunct sports daily, the National), it's a bit like an issue of McSweeney's for the sports geek in all of us.
"With the Net," Simmons explains, "things get lost. We thought it would be cool to see it in book form." The idea, he continues, is to use the quarterly to capture ? and, in a sense, preserve ? a particular period in the life of the site: the months leading up to each issue.
Thus, in Issue 1, we find a record of the first half year of Grantland ? Simmons on the paradox of Lebron James (written between Games 4 and 5 of last year's NBA Finals), Anna Clark on Ty Cobb as a metaphor for Detroit, Whitehead from the World Series of Poker ("I have a good poker face," he begins, "because I am half-dead inside"). There are considerations of HBO and Amy Winehouse, as well as a long piece by Tom Bissell that uses L.A. Noire to frame an argument about video games as "one of the most important conceptual shifts between story and storyteller in a hundred years."
But there is more ? and I don't just mean the one effort here that didn't first appear on the Grantland site: Simmons' re-worked take on the movie "Hoosiers," an expansion of an older piece from ESPN.com. No, it's that, in making the shift from Web to print, Simmons is also making a case for the staying power of the material, and by extension, of sports as a whole.
This is the conundrum faced by anyone who writes about what happens on the playing field: How to make it resonate beyond last night's score. Why is it important, what we feel about a particular game or athlete? What is the bigger angle, the bigger connection, the bigger point of view? I think of John Updike, whose 1960 New Yorker piece on Ted Williams' final game, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," frames the dynamic between player and fan as one of nearly mythic significance: "The affair between Boston and Ted Williams," he writes, "? falls into three stages, which may be termed Youth, Maturity, and Age; or Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis; or Jason, Achilles, and Nestor." Or Grantland Rice, the legendary sportswriter for whom Grantland is named, a stolid sentimentalist but one who helped create the conventions of the form.
For Grantland, then, the idea is to rethink those conventions, or disregard them altogether, while also opening the conversation to a new way of thinking about the games we play. That's why the Bissell piece is so illuminating ? because it takes something we don't normally consider in such terms and re-shapes it, contextualizing it in a different way. If video games are now sports, or poker is, then the small-ball theory is not just outdated but irrelevant, a trope that has little to do with how we engage with the idea of sports now. And if sportswriting can blur into entertainment, isn't that a reflection of the larger culture, in which sports is entertainment, and has been at least since Harry Frazee's sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees helped finance his production of the musical "No, No Nanette"?
This, Simmons suggests, is the point precisely, that sports exist as part of a bigger world. As far as Grantland, he wants it to reflect that, to see what develops and move on from there. In addition to the quarterly, he's planning some additional enhancements ? more pop culture and a podcast studio ? but mostly he's intent on letting the project take its own pace. "It's better to be under the radar a bit," he says, although, as he acknowledges, "this is already bigger than I thought."
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Oil jumps to near $101 amid rising Iran tensions (AP)
SINGAPORE ? Oil prices jumped to near $101 a barrel Tuesday in Asia amid concerns that rising tensions between Western powers and Iran could lead to crude supply disruptions.
Benchmark crude for February delivery rose $1.71 to $100.54 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 82 cents to settle at $98.83 in New York on Friday.
Global oil markets were closed Monday for the New Year's Day holiday.
In London, Brent crude was up $1.00 at $108.38 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
On Monday, Iran test-fired a surface-to-surface cruise missile, part of 10-day naval maneuvers scheduled to end Tuesday. Iran's navy chief Adm. Habibollah Sayyari said the test showed the key oil passageway Strait of Hormuz is "completely under our control."
Iran has threatened to close the strait as possible retaliation to new U.S. economic sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.
"Renewed rhetoric out of Iran could force another rush of geopolitical risk premium into the market," energy consultant Ritterbusch and Associates said in a report.
Investors will also be closely watching the latest U.S. economic results this week, especially the December jobs report scheduled to be released Friday.
In other Nymex trading, heating oil rose 3.6 cents to $2.95 per gallon and gasoline futures gained 2.9 cents at $2.69 per gallon. Natural gas futures were down 1.3 cents to $2.98 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Did Stephen King Really Say 'F*** You' On Facebook?
According to a recent internet meme, Stephen King, the beloved author known for spinning such terrifying tales as "The Shining", "Pet Sematary" and "Misery", has strayed from the eloquence of his intricately crafted stories to write a not-so-literary insult on Facebook: "Well, fuck you too, kid."
Not that the remark was completely unwarranted. It was supposedly a response to an earlier comment: "Fuck you, Stephen King. ^__^."
However, not to be killjoys, but the existing official Stephen King Facebook page is run not by the author himself, but by his publishers, Little, Brown - and it uses a different photograph to the one in the meme. Also, King isn't known to be an active public Facebooker. Without any further evidence to the contrary, we must regretfully conclude that the comment and its response probably weren't real.
However, if they were, this certainly wouldn't be the first time that King had so cussingly critiqued online. After he claimed "Twilight" author Stephanie Meyer "can't write," a video surfaced of a woman explaining, "why [he] needs to fuck off." We'd certainly forgive him if he felt the need to respond this time around.
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Let's Talk Sports - Bitter Taste: ESPN Snubs Fallen Hockey Players In Year-End Review
Though it?s true our neighbours to the south are known to sometimes gleam instinctive arrogance and revert to dated stereotypes in reference to our country?s love affair with its most beloved pastime, our nation?s undying passion for the game of hockey is clearest when it?s mistreated ? much the way a certain American sports television network recently did.
ESPN SportsCenter aired its ?In Memoriam? segment this week during their annual Year in Review special and honoured the deaths of Al Davis, Dan Wheldon and Joe Frazier, among others. By all accounts it looked like a genuine good-natured gesture by the folks at ESPN to take time out to remember all the losses suffered by the sports world this year.
The problem? Not a single hockey player was mentioned.
Now granted, ESPN is notorious ? especially in Canadian circles ? for dedicating as much airtime to hockey as it does to obscure Japanese sports where no one is really ever certain of what is going on, but even that doesn?t account for one of the worst snubs since Samuel L. Jackson was robbed of a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Pulp Fiction in 1994.
Yes, it?s personal. No offence, Martin Landau.
In what could easily be classified as the most tragic year in hockey history, ESPN neglected to even mutter the names of former NHL enforcers Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien and Wade Belak, who all died over the summer before the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash that decimated an entire KHL franchise and shook fans from North America to Russia and everywhere in between.
But hey, glad to see Tim Tebow got enough airtime to start his own spin-off if the whole football thing doesn?t work out.
It?d be easy to blow a fuse and go on a rant about how Americans don?t care about hockey and that stuff like this shows why they?re not deserving of owning 23 of the 30 NHL franchises currently in operation. However, the reality is that there is a very strong contingent of American hockey fans that has been integral to the success of the league and it is those real devotees that should not be persecuted for ESPN?s negligence.
The exclusion of hockey player deaths from the In Memoriam segment lies solely on the shoulders of ESPN SportsCenter staff, who either didn?t do their research or simply overlooked one of the most devastating years in the game?s lengthy timeline because they were too busy with baseball, football and basketball.
If that?s the case, don?t claim you?re the ?worldwide leader in sports? but instead the ?worldwide leader in American sports.?
There are plenty of hockey markets ? Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts, New York, to name a few ? in the United States that ooze?hockey, but the fact is the majority of Americans still turn to baseball, football and basketball as their primary sports on any given night.
ESPN may have screwed up big time and completely ignored a section of the United States that loves hockey just as much as Canadians do, but to call them out on that and generalize them as a nation would be unfair to say the least.
And if ESPN really cares about doing a better job with its hockey coverage, they need not look any further than guys like Pierre LeBrun and Craig Custance, who?ve done a great job at ESPN.com.
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