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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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Video: Romney-Gingrich war heats up
>> our political director and chief white house correspondent chuck todd joins me from our washington news room. it seems gingrich and romney see the path to the nomination is on this question of elect ability. who can face down barack obama in the general election . is that's what's driving this increasingly heated rhetoric we're hearing?
>> it seems to be driving romney 's numbers up. the number one issue, quality in our poll, elect ability. romney had even a bigger lead on gingrich on that one. yes, electability is driving this a little bit, particularly in florida . these big, larger states, unlike iowa and new hampshire, south carolina , where you get more of a chance to know niece candidates, in florida it's all about tv ads. that's been another advantage for romney . he's carpet-bombed the state in a way you can tell it's gotten under gingrich 's skin. the question i have, lester, what does gingrich do after florida if he indeed does lose? because there's an awful lot of space and time before he can get to a state that he has a good chance of winning.
>> we've seen the stop gingrich movement among mainline republicans. at the same time, tea party movements seem to be circling the wagons around gingrich . are we moving up to a day of reckoning in the republican party here?
>> reporter: not yet but i establishment really is nervous about this issue of romney not having more time to basically fix his general election problems. this process is not been good to him. he is upside down in his personal rating. a net negative right now. that's not good. he needs time to fuks that. gingrich clearly isn't going away. what we saw in new hampshire, sort of the revenge of the tea better and the anti-establishment, rallying around newt, don't be surprise tuesday me see that again. this thing is destined to go at least until mid-march. you've got southern primaries and gingrich is going to want to see if he can get some momentum back there and that's where i think the data party's going to try to carry him through. we'll see.
>> chuck todd in our washington
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Norway court convicts two in bomb plot (Reuters)
OSLO (Reuters) ? A Norwegian of Chinese Muslim origin with alleged links to al Qaeda was convicted Monday of plotting to blow up a Danish newspaper that had printed cartoons of Islam's Prophet Mohammad, and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Mikael Davud, who was accused of leading a bomb plot, had admitted he intended some day to attack Chinese interests like the Chinese embassy in Oslo but he was charged only with plotting to bomb the Danish newspaper.
Prosecutors had earlier recommended an 11-year prison sentence for Davud.
A co-defendant, Iraqi-Kurd Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, was also convicted and sentenced to three and a half years in prison while a third defendant, David Jakobsen, an Uzbek with Norwegian residency, was convicted on a lesser charge and sentenced to 4 months, which he has already served.
It was Norway's first terrorism case with alleged international links. Under Norwegian law a charge of planning to commit a terrorist attack requires proof of a conspiracy between two or more people.
(Reporting by Walter Gibbs; Editing by Giles Elgood)
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Firing of TV host a victory for Pakistani liberals (AP)
ISLAMABAD ? In a rare victory for Pakistani liberals, a private TV station decided to fire a popular morning show host after she sparked outrage by running around a public park trying to expose young, unmarried couples hanging out, a taboo in this conservative Muslim country.
Pakistani liberals derided host Maya Khan's behavior on Twitter and Facebook, comparing it to the kind of moral policing practiced by the Taliban, and started an online petition asking Samaa TV to end this "irresponsible programming" and apologize.
The company responded Saturday in a letter sent to reporters saying it had decided to fire Khan and her team and cancel her show because she refused to issue an unconditional apology for the Jan. 17 program.
Samaa TV's decision marked an unusual victory for Pakistan's beleaguered liberal minority, which has become more marginalized as the country has shifted to the right and whose members have been killed by Islamist extremists for standing up for what they believe.
Critics of the program also praised the company's decision as a positive example of self-regulation by Pakistan's freewheeling TV industry, which was liberalized in 2000 and has mushroomed from one state-run channel to more than 80 independent ones.
Some shows have been praised for serving the public good by holding powerful officials to account, but many others have been criticized for doing anything that will get ratings, including pandering to populist sentiments at the expense of privacy and sometimes truth.
"Samaa management has set a good example that some others need to follow," said prominent human rights activist and journalist Hussain Naqi.
During the program in question, Khan and around a dozen other men and women chased down young couples in a seaside park in the southern city of Karachi. Several couples raced away from the group. One young man put on a motorcycle helmet to hide his identity, while his female friend covered her face with a veil.
Khan finally accosted one couple sitting on a bench and pestered them with questions about whether they were married and whether their parents knew they were there. The man said the couple was engaged and asked Khan to shut off her cameras and microphone. She lied and said they were off.
"What is the difference between this kind of media vigilantism and that demonstrated by the Taliban?" said Mahnaz Rahman, a director at the Aurat Foundation, an organization that fights for women's rights in Pakistan.
Islamist extremists have been ruthless in targeting liberal Pakistanis who disagree with their hardline views. One of the most prominent examples was in last January, when a bodyguard shot to death the governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, because of his criticism of Pakistani laws that mandate the death penalty for criticizing the Prophet Muhammad.
Following Khan's program, one headline in a local paper called the host and the other women who appeared on the show "Vigil-aunties," referring to the South Asian term "aunty" for a bossy older woman.
A petition posted online that criticized Khan's behavior as "highly intrusive, invasive and potentially irresponsible" and demanded an official apology attracted more than 5,000 signatures.
Khan reportedly rejected the criticism at first but eventually issued on apology on TV to anyone she may have offended, saying "it was not my objective to make you cry or hurt you."
This fell short of the apology that Khan's bosses demanded, according to a letter written by the chairman of Samaa TV, Zafar Siddiqi. It said Khan and her team would receive termination notices on Jan. 30 and her show would be canceled.
Siddiqi said the company did not "absolve such behavior irrespective of ratings the show was getting."
Scores of Pakistanis on Twitter praised Samaa TV's decision.
"Journalists must never forget the dividing line between public interest & private freedom," tweeted Najam Sethi, a prominent Pakistani journalist.
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Khan reported from Karachi. Associated Press writer Zarar Khan contributed to this article.
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US weapons for future include key relics of past (AP)
WASHINGTON ? The lineup of weapons the Pentagon has picked to fit President Barack Obama's new forward-looking defense strategy, called "Priorities for 21st Century Defense," features relics of the past.
They include the Air Force's venerable B-52 bomber, whose current model entered service shortly before Obama was born. There is the even older U-2 spy plane, which began flying in 1955 and burst into the spotlight in May 1960 when Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union.
When Obama went to the Pentagon on Jan. 5 to announce his new defense strategy he said that as the U.S. shifts from a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan it will "get rid of outdated Cold War-era systems." He was not specific. But when the first details of the Pentagon's 2013 budget plan were announced Thursday, it was clear that some prominent remaining Cold War-era "systems" will live on.
That includes not just the B-52 bomber and the U-2 spy plane, but also the foundation of U.S. nuclear deterrence strategy: a "triad" of nuclear weapons that can be launched from land, sea, and air. That concept, credited by many for preventing nuclear conflict throughout the Cold War, is now seen by some arms control experts as the kind of outdated structure that the United States can afford to get rid of.
Some think the U.S. should do away with at least one leg of that "triad," perhaps the bomber role. That would not just save money and clear the way for larger reductions in the number of U.S. nuclear weapons ? an Obama goal in line with his April 2009 pledge to seek the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said recently that maintaining the current structure of American nuclear forces was "not in keeping with the modern world." He and like-minded lawmakers argue that nuclear weapons play no role in deterring threats such as global terrorists.
The U.S. now has about 5,000 operational nuclear weapons, about half as many as a decade ago. They can be launched from ballistic missile submarines, from underground silos housing intercontinental ballistic missiles, and from B-52 and B-2 bombers at air bases in Louisiana, North Dakota and Missouri.
The Air Force, which provides the land and air legs of the triad, argues for preserving that Cold War-era configuration.
"It remains our conviction that as you go down (in numbers of nuclear weapons), the triad actually becomes more important," Gen. Norton Schwartz, the Air Force chief of staff, told reporters Friday. "The diversity, the variety, the attributes associated with each leg of the triad reinforce each other to a greater degree."
Both the B-52 and the B-2 are capable of doing more than carrying nuclear weapons. The B-52 has been modernized many times and is now used in a variety of roles, including close-air support of troops in conflict and can carry missiles, bombs and mines. The first of the current H models entered service in May 1961.
The land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) force dates to 1959. Ballistic missile subs, known as "boomers," were first launched in 1960; the current Ohio-class fleet dates to 1981.
The administration is nearing completion of an internal review of how many nuclear weapons are required to meet today's security needs; that process will lead to decisions on whether to reshape the nuclear arsenal. That effort is linked to consultations with NATO allies on whether to withdraw the remaining U.S. nuclear weapons from Europe, an arrangement that also is rooted in the Cold War. Also at play is how to set the stage for a new round of nuclear reduction talks with Russia.
The only move the Pentagon is making on the nuclear weapons front in the 2013 budget is a proposed two-year delay in development of a new generation of submarines to replace those how equipped with Trident nuclear missiles.
The Arms Control Association, which favors cutting nuclear weapons, estimates that the new fleet of ballistic missile submarines would cost $350 billion to build and would last for 50 years. It advocates shrinking the number of subs to eight, which is says would save $27 billion over 10 years.
Laicie Olson, senior policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said in an interview Friday that she was surprised, given Obama's commitment to reducing the number of nuclear weapons, that the administration is not using its 2013 defense budget to take substantial steps in that direction.
"All of these things are sticking around," she said, referring also to the U-2 spy plane, which was to have been retired in 2015 and replaced by a high-tech successor, the Global Hawk, which is flown without a pilot aboard.
Preserving such Cold War-era weapons "actually seems like the opposite of what the president set out to do," she said.
The Pentagon announced Thursday that the Global Hawk turned out to be a disappointment and no cheaper to use, so it is being canceled. As a result, the Air Force is extending the lifespan of the U-2, nicknamed "Angel" by Kelly Johnson, the Lockheed engineer who helped design the high-altitude spy plane.
Since 1994 the Air Force has spent $1.7 billion to modernize the U-2, whose claims to fame include the October 1962 flights over Cuba that confirmed the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles, touching off the Cuban missile crisis.
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Pentagon: http://tinyurl.com/84ouz2u
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: http://armscontrolcenter.org/
Arms Control Association: http://www.armscontrol.org
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Quotes from the Screen Actors Guild Awards (AP)
Quotes from the 18th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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"There's no need to be delicate. I grew up in the Bible Belt. I realized that even though I had never really experienced bigotry, to be silent is to be passive." ? Best supporting actress winner Octavia Spencer speaking to reporters after accepting her award for "The Help."
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"This nomination belongs to four of us. Please, please know that I'm dealing them right in with this. I'm not going to let them keep this, but I'll let them see it." ? Betty White, saying during her acceptance speech that her three "Hot in Cleveland" co-stars should share in her best actress in a comedy series award.
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"I am still playing `Words With Friends,' but on Virgin Atlantic." ? Alec Baldwin, making light backstage of his being kicked off an American Airlines flight for refusing to shut off his cellphone while he was playing the game before takeoff.
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"I'm still scared to speak out. I want us to come back very badly next year for another season. When you do speak out, it does cost you." Baldwin, speaking to reporters after winning the best comedy actor award for his role on "30 Rock."
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"I was a very bad student. I didn't listen in class. I was always dreaming. My teachers called me "Jean of the Moon" and I realize now that I never stopped dreaming. Thank you very much. Thank you for this dream." ? Best actor winner Jean Dujardin, accepting his award for his role in "The Artist."
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"Not only did this cast do it, but several of the other movies did the same thing. I am hoping that the industry begins to recognize us as the artists that we are rather than the females that we are." ? "The Help" actress Cicely Tyson on her hope that Hollywood executives realize female-driven films can be successful.
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"A few more people checked my name in the box for whatever reason. This time I kind of fooled them." ? Best actress winner Viola Davis speaking to reporters after her win for "The Help."
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"I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession." ? Christopher Plummer, accepting his award for best supporting actor for his role in "Beginners."
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"Actors are gregarious and wacky, are they not, and I love them dearly. But when they honor you, it's like being lit by the Holy Grail. Thank you, thank you, thank you." Plummer.
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"If more women ate, they'd be a lot happier. I'm real grumpy when I don't eat." ? Spencer, speaking with reporters after winning best supporting actress for her role in "The Help."
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"Thank you to the unions for making sure we're properly fed, have all (our) shots, cleaned and are put in our pens each night by sundown." ? Nolan Gould, accepting the best comedy television ensemble award with his "Modern Family" co-stars, many of whom are child actors.
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Associated Press Writers Anthony McCartney and Beth Harris contributed to this report.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Obama attends exclusive dinner for capital VIPs (AP)
WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama is attending the Alfalfa Club dinner, an annual black-tie event of the capital's political and business leaders. It is the second club dinner the president is addressing in four years.
Obama is at the dinner at a hotel near the White House with his wife, Michelle.
The club's only mission is to put on the steak and lobster dinner and give political leaders a chance to share jokes and make humorous speeches. As in past years, the dinner was closed to the media.
Among those attending were numerous current and former senators, including John Kerry of Massachusetts and Pat Leahy of Vermont.
Obama last spoke at the dinner in 2009. He did not attend in 2010 or last year.
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First quantum jiggles detected in solid object
NOTHING sits still. Even at absolute zero, when the thermal jiggling of matter is frozen, all things must still buzz to the tune of quantum mechanics. Now this subtle jittering has been detected in a small silicon bar, the first solid object ever to reveal its quantum vibrations.
This phenomenon, called zero-point fluctuation, is a consequence of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which says that we can never pin down the precise position and motion of any object. So far zero-point energy has only been seen directly in single atoms or small collections of particles.
The new experiment uses a silicon bar about 12 micrometres long and less than a micrometre across. Oskar Painter at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and colleagues cooled the bar to within half a degree of absolute zero and then used a laser to detect its motion.
Some photons from this laser got a shift in energy when they hit the vibrating bar. Ordinary thermal vibrations can either boost or reduce photon energy, but the zero-point quantum vibration is different. Because it is the lowest energy state possible, it can only absorb energy. Painter's group detected this bias towards lower-energy scattered light, a clear signature of a quantum twang (Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.033602).
"Seeing these effects in large objects can provide us with a way to probe the foundations of quantum mechanics," says Caltech team member Amir Safavi-Naeini.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Country music star Merle Haggard home from hospital (Reuters)
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) ? Country music singer Merle Haggard was resting at home in Northern California on Friday after a long stint in a Georgia hospital, his publicist said.
Haggard, 74, was hospitalized on January 17 for treatment of double-pneumonia. While in the hospital in Macon, Georgia, doctors discovered a number of other conditions for which Haggard needed treatment.
publicist Tresa Redburn said Haggard flew home on Thursday and she had no update on his condition Friday.
Haggard went to the hospital after his illness forced him to cancel a show in Macon just moments before taking the stage.
Doctors had the double-pneumonia pretty much cleared up earlier this week. The singer stayed in the hospital to recover after eight polyps were removed from his colon and for treatment of three stomach ulcers and diverticulitis in his esophagus, all of which were discovered by the Macon medical staff, said Redburn.
Early this week Haggard credited the Macon medical team for "probably saving my life," Redburn said.
Haggard had to cancel the remainder of his January tour. He is planning to resume his tour on February 28 in Tucson, Arizona, Redburn said, and missed dates are being rescheduled in April.
Haggard is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. With influences ranging from Lefty Frizzell to Bob Wills to Jimmie Rodgers, Haggard is an architect of country music's so-called "Bakersfield Sound."
He is best known for songs such as "Mama Tried," "Okie from Muskogee" and "The Fightin' Side of Me."
(Editing by Greg McCune and Mohammad Zargham)
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Android app makers can boost revenue with price cuts, promos (Appolicious)
It?s tough being an Android developer these days. Not only do you have a variety of devices and OS versions to consider, but there?s also some 500,000 apps you?re competing with in the Android Market. You have to be creative, thinking of new marketing strategies and design implementations to launch an app that stands out. Discounted app prices, for instance, have shown to boost revenue, and this is particularly true for the Android Market. A recent study from Distimo shows Android apps reduced in price demonstrate better results over the long term than discounted iOS apps, with an increase in revenue of 29 percent.
Discounts don?t work for all Android apps, however. The Ditsimo report goes on to show that up to 50 percent of discounted apps saw a decline in revenue. Combining your price cut with other promotions, such as landing a spot in the Android Market?s featured apps list, will render the revenue-boosting results most developers are looking for.
Making money has been a long-standing problem for Android developers, seeing much smaller numbers than the iTunes App Store, which generates six times the revenue of the Android Market. The disparity is attributed to the Android Market?s open approach, where free apps reign and in-app purchases and advertising supplement direct sales.
Unification for Android app makers
Sure, the Android Market can be rough terrain for app makers to cut their teeth, but Google?s been rolling out several updates recently to better unify the developer (and ultimately the end user) experience. A few weeks ago Google opened the doors to an Android school, an online resource for developers. Earlier this month Google introduced Android Design in an effort to encourage app makers to better consider mobile interfaces, and also released the App Inventor as an open source platform. Google?s now taking things a step further by removing the Menu button, shifting its functions to the Action Bar it introduced with Android 3.0 Honeycomb.
In a blog post, Android?s developer team explains their decision to better use the Action Bar, hoping app makers can wrap their heads around the bar?s concept, and further, ?action overflow.? Google wants developers to forget about the Menu button altogether, and better determine what actions they can incorporate into a mobile screen, and which truly need to be shifted to the Action Bar. It seems like a strange update, especially given Android?s point of differentiation from iOS around menu items that enable extensive interactivity within a given app. But rest assured, the functionality isn?t going away, and even devices running versions of Android older than 3.0 (which is the majority of Android devices), will still have access to these functions through the system/navigation bar.
From the Android Developers blog:
?This might seem like splitting hairs over terminology, but the name action overflow promotes a different way of thinking. Instead of thinking about a menu that serves as a catch-all for various user options, you should think more about which user options you want to display on the screen as actions. Those that don't need to be on the screen can overflow off the screen. Users can reveal the overflow and other options by touching an overflow button that appears alongside the on-screen action buttons.?
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Poll: Rick Perry about as popular in Texas as Obama after failed bid for GOP presidential nom (Star Tribune)
Pre-debate: Romney hit by Gingrich; targets Obama (AP)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ? Pointing toward an evening debate, Mitt Romney jokingly urged supporters Tuesday to "just storm in" and support him even if they lacked tickets. Newt Gingrich warmed up with a particularly strong attack on Romney.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Rep. Ron Paul also were sharing the stage for the second debate of the week and the last before the Florida primary next Tuesday.
Opinion polls show a close race between Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and Gingrich, who was House speaker for two terms in the 1990s, and the two clashed repeatedly in Monday night's encounter in Tampa.
Gingrich's unexpected victory in the South Carolina primary last weekend upended the race to pick a Republican opponent for Democratic President Barack Obama in the fall, and Romney can ill afford another setback.
In the days since his loss, he has tried to seize the initiative, playing the aggressor in the Tampa debate and assailing Gingrich in campaign speeches and a TV commercial.
An outside group formed to support Romney has spent more than his own campaign's millions on ads, some of them designed to stop Gingrich's campaign momentum before it is too late to deny him the nomination.
Campaigning Thursday at a factory that is scheduled to close, Romney criticized Obama and avoided mentioning Gingrich.
But the evening debate was on his mind ? particularly the makeup of the audience in the hall.
"There may be some give and take. That's always entertaining," he said. "If you all could get in there we'd love to see you all there cheering."
A voice from the audience responded that there were no more tickets, and Romney replied: `No tickets? Just storm in."
Gingrich seemed far less confident as he unleashed an attack reminiscent of his rhetoric a month ago when he was being outspent heavily on television and falling sharply in the polls just before the Iowa caucuses.
He accused Romney and Restore Our Future, the independent group, of dishonest ads, and said, "This is the desperate last stand of the old order. This is the kind of gall they have, to think we're so stupid and we're so timid."
He later told reporters he decided to sharpen his criticisms after Romney released his tax returns. "Here's a guy who owns Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae stock," Gingrich said. "He owns a Goldman Sachs subsidiary, which is foreclosing on Floridians. And on that front he decides to lie about my career? There's something about the hypocrisy that should make every American angry."
Romney released his income tax returns for 2010 and an estimate for 2011 after declining to do so in South Carolina.
Gingrich, also under pressure, disclosed the consulting contract one of his firms had with Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage giant that played a role in the foreclosure crisis that hit Florida especially hard. It showed payments of $300,000 in 2006 for unspecified consulting services.
Romney has pummeled Gingrich in the days since, calling him an influence peddler and a lobbyist who was taking money from the very organization that was harming Floridians.
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Associated Press writers Brian Bakst and Kasie Hunt contributed to this story.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Video: Netflix Surges, Stock Upgraded
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HP open sources Enyo framework, makes webOS-style apps possible for iPhone, iPad
HP has made good on releasing a roadmap for their webOS open source initiative and, as part of it, have fully open sourced the Enyo 2.0 application framework. But
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Lady Gaga Opens Italian Restaurant With Her Dad
Joanne Trattoria named in honor of her late aunt.
By Gil Kaufman
Lady Gaga
Photo: Alo Ceballos/FilmMagic
<P><P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/lady_gaga/artist.jhtml" target="_blank">Lady Gaga</a> is know for being ostentatious, outrageous and making the biggest entrance possible. But for a star that has made her name for shocking our senses, Mother Monster's newest venture is decidedly low-key. </p><div class="player-placeholder right" id="id:1669247" width="240" height="211"></div><p> After dropping several mentions in interviews over the past few months about a new restaurant she planned to launch with her father, Joseph Germanotta, Joanne Trattoria will finally open its doors on Wednesday. The modest Italian neighborhood eatery on West 68th Street in New York was described by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/dining/lady-gagas-parents-to-open-joanne-trattoria.html?_r=2" target="_blank"><I>The New York Times</I></a> as having a "well-stocked bar, a cozy back patio and seating for about 70 people." The walls are covered with scenes of the Tuscan countryside and near a fireplace at the entrance diners will see some Germanotta family photos hanging by a front booth. The restaurant will be run by Joseph and Gaga's mother, Cynthia, and her proud pop admitted that his daughter "just generates a lot of sizzle," helping to get the word out about the venture. The chef and partner in the business is Art Smith, who met Gaga at a taping for the "Oprah Winfrey Show." Smith was Winfrey's personal chef for several years. The name was inspired by Joseph's late sister, Joanne, who died of lupus at age 19. Not only is Joanne Gaga's middle name, but in a number of interviews the singer has <a href="http://newsroom.mtv.com/2011/10/31/lady-gaga-dad-joseph-restaurant-joanne/" target="_blank">opened up</a> about her strong connection with her late aunt. "I thought I was gonna die," she said she said last year. "I wanted to be the artists I loved, like Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol -- and I thought the only way to do it was to live the lifestyle. But then I realized my father's sister Joanne, who'd died at 19, had instilled her spirit in me. She was a painter and a poet -- and I had a spiritual vision I had to finish her business." The <I>Times</I> noted that Gaga is not officially a part-owner of the restaurant, which Joseph said the family could have afforded to open even if his daughter had not risen to global fame. It has long been his dream to open the eatery, he said, and visitors at Joanne will dine on "Southern Italian," given that Smith is from the South and the Germanotta's are Italian. That means they will chow down on dishes such as "Papa G's chicken," traditional offerings like osso buco inspired by Joanne and Cynthia's salad, named for Gaga's mother. Hoping to temper fans' expectations, Joseph said he wasn't sure if he'd post current pics of Gaga among the family photos. Maybe, he said, just and old one in which she's not as recognizable. And though he's happy to have his eldest get the word out about the family business, if fans make the trek expecting to see a trophy case with VMAs and Grammys, "it's not going to happen," he warned.</p></p>
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Report: iPhone 5 ready for summer launch (Appolicious)
Hold on tight as we are again approaching iPhone 5 rumor season.
The latest report of an impending iPhone 5 comes from 9to5Mac, which reports that a Foxconn employee said the iPhone 5 is ready for production en route to a summer launch.
As noted by 9to5Mac, the upcoming iPhone 5 would be equipped with the following:
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4+ inch display (made by LG on at least one of them).
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No teardrop-shaped devices,?as rumored in the lead up to the iPhone 4S. Samples so far have been symmetrical in thickness (also longer/wider).
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Neither of the sample devices have the iPhone 4/4S form factor.
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Neither of the devices are the final versions.
A summer release would almost certainly coincide with Apple?s annual Worldwide Developers Conference held in San Francisco. That was the site of the unveiling of the iPhone 4 in 2010. The iPhone 4S, an incremental yet outstanding improvement over previous models, was released last fall. Sales for that device have been more than OK according to Apple?s earnings report yesterday.
The iPhone 5 is not the only game-changing device Apple is rumored to be working on for a 2012 release. Reports of an iPad 3 and full-fledged Apple TV are also making the virtual rounds.
Stay tuned.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Colgate ups prices at home; first attempt in years (AP)
NEW YORK ? Colgate-Palmolive, stung by higher costs, saw fourth-quarter net income decline more than 5 percent but said Thursday that it had raised prices in North America for the first time in two and a half years.
Raising prices has been risky for consumer products companies like Colgate, with cash-strapped consumers more ready than ever to drop even their favorite brands to save a few cents. Paychecks are already stretched thin and the government's most recent data on jobs, also released Thursday, show that the number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose last week
In recent months, Colgate has taken a pricing strategy that's differed from some of its competitors: It's been raising prices in fast-growing Latin America, where customers seem willing to stomach the higher costs, but lowering prices in North America through discounts and other promotions.
There are signs that the economy is healing, but raising prices in North America has been something that Colgate, until recently, has been unwilling to try.
Since the third quarter of 2009, Colgate has consistently cut North American prices, by an average of 1.5 percent to 4.5 percent each quarter. It has apparently snapped that trend, saying Thursday that it raised North American prices by 0.5 percent in the latest quarter.
That may be because the company thinks it can, or that it must, or perhaps a little bit of both. But Colgate is aggressively seeking to protect market share, even if it has to spend to do it.
"As we enter 2012, macroeconomic conditions and foreign exchange volatility are an increasing challenge," said President and CEO Ian Cook. "Despite that, we are planning to improve our worldwide market shares and volume growth with increased advertising."
For the quarter, Colgate made $590 million, or $1.21 per share. That was down from $624 million, or $1.24 per share, last year.
Excluding one-time expenses like putting cost-saving plans into place and other charges, Colgate earned $1.30 per share. That beat the $1.29 that Wall Street had been looking for, according to a poll by FactSet.
Revenue was $4.17 billion, up from $3.98 billion during the same period last year.
For the year, revenue increased 7.5 percent and net income rose 10 percent.
Shares of Colgate-Palmolive Co. rose more than 2 percent, or $2.04, to $91.48 in early trading.
The decision to try to recoup its margins comes during a fragile time for the U.S. economy.
The jobs data released Thursday show more people sought unemployment benefits. However, the overall trends point to a recovering job market. At least 100,000 jobs have been added for six straight months and the unemployment rate has declined to 8.5 percent, its lowest in almost three years.
But it's not a healthy number yet and the government also released data Thursday showing that fewer people bought new homes in December, sealing 2011 as the worst year for new home sales on record.
Colgate does have something of a buffer against hard times. Many customers will stick to things like name-brand toothpaste when money is tight, even if they do trade down in other products.
Overall, Colgate raised prices 3 percent, which helped fuel a 5 percent increase in revenue. But at the same time, the company recorded a 9 percent increase in the cost of making and transporting its goods. As Colgate paid more for raw materials, profit margins fell 1.7 percentage points.
The company has slashed some expenses to try to offset those costs.
"Our continued sharp focus on cost-saving programs in all areas of the business enabled us to achieve full year gross profit margin at the high end of our forecasted range, while also lowering overheads as a percentage of sales," Cook said.
And Colgate is increasingly relying on foreign markets to fuel growth. Of Colgate's four main geographic regions, North America accounts for the smallest portion and it is where revenue grew the slowest. Latin America grew the fastest, and made up the biggest portion of revenue.
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Obama: US must reclaim values of fairness for all (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Keeping the American dream alive has become "the defining issue of our time," President Barack Obama says. He's using Tuesday night's State of the Union address to draw a stark election-year line with Republicans over how to keep the United States from eroding further into a nation of haves and have-nots.
In excerpts of his speech released in advance, Obama attacked income equality and offered his own economic revival plan built upon boosting manufacturing, energy and education. He warned Republicans in Congress that he will fight them if they try to obstruct him or restore an economy gutted by "outsourcing, bad debt and phony financial profits."
Driving everything about the speech: Jobs, including Obama's own. He was essentially making his case for re-election as he spelled out where he wants to take the country.
Obama was making his pitch to a bitterly divided Congress and to a country underwhelmed by his handling of the economy. Targeting anxiety about a slumping middle class, Obama was calling for the rich to pay more in taxes. Every proposal was to be underlined by the idea that hard work and responsibility still count.
"No debate is more important," Obama said in the excerpts released by the White House ahead of the 9 p.m. EST speech.
"We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number barely get by. Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules," the president said.
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Verizon posts $2B 4Q loss on pension adjustment (AP)
NEW YORK ? Verizon paid dearly to put iPhones in the hands of subscribers in the latest quarter, holding back its profits in the hope that its customers will rack up higher monthly bills and stay loyal.
The quarter saw the launch of the iPhone 4S, the second model to be sold by Verizon, and it was clear that many had been waiting for it. Verizon on Tuesday said it sold 4.3 million of them, and 7.7 million smartphones total.
But by the upside-down logic of the wireless industry, higher sales mean lower profits for the quarter. Verizon Wireless subsidizes each smartphone by hundreds of dollars, figuring that it will make the money back in service fees over a two-year contract. That means the wireless division, though still highly profitable, posted a rare drop in operating income for the fourth quarter.
An iPhone that Verizon buys from Apple for around $600 is sold in stores for $200. The question is whether phone companies ever really make that money back.
Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett argues that the example of AT&T, which has sold iPhones since 2007, indicates that the expected boost to profits never really materializes, because the phone companies have to keep subsidizing each new iPhone release.
"The earnings pop will always be a year away," Moffett wrote Tuesday.
In the results of Verizon Communications Inc., the phone company that owns 55 percent of Verizon Wireless, the effect of the iPhone sales was masked by large charge for adjusting the value of its pension plans.
The New York-based company reported that it lost $2.02 billion, or 71 cents per share, in the last three months of 2011. That compares with net income of $2.64 billion, or 93 cents per share, a year ago.
Verizon had warned that the big pension charge was coming.
Excluding the pension effect and another one-time item, Verizon earned 52 cents per share. That was a penny shy of the average forecast of analysts polled by FactSet. Comparable earnings last year were 54 cents per share.
Verizon had warned that hefty smartphone sales would hold back earnings, but analysts had expected a slightly smaller drop. Verizon shares fell 90 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $37.50 in morning trading. On Jan. 3, they hit a four-year high of $40.48.
Revenue rose 7.7 percent to $28.4 billion from $26.4 billion a year ago. The latest figure was in line with analysts' expectations.
Wireless accounted for all of the revenue increase, as Verizon's wireline division saw a small decrease. The "old" phone company essentially breaks even, despite the popularity of its cable-like FiOS TV and Internet service.
Usually, Verizon's overall revenue increase is driven higher monthly wireless service revenues, as it gains customers. But this quarter, the largest contributor to the rise in revenue was phone sales, which doubled from last year to $2.2 billion.
Verizon Wireless added 1.2 million new subscribers on contract-based plans, which are the most lucrative. It was the second-best result in the last two years, further solidifying the company's position as the industry leader, with 87.4 million phones and other devices on contract-based plans, and 108.7 million total.
Vodafone Group PLC of Britain owns the remaining 45 percent of Verizon Wireless, and lays claim to a corresponding share of the profits.
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Engineered bacteria effectively target tumors, enabling tumor imaging potential in mice
ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2012) ? Tumor-targeted bioluminescent bacteria have been shown for the first time to provide accurate 3-D images of tumors in mice, further advancing the potential for targeted cancer drug delivery, according to a study published in the Jan. 25 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE.
The specially engineered probiotic bacteria, like those found in many yogurts, were intravenously injected into mice with tumors, after which the researchers took full body bioluminescent images. The 3-D images revealed information about the number and location of the bacteria, to the level of precisely revealing where within the tumor the bacteria were living, providing much more information on the interaction of bacteria and tumors than was previously available using similar two-dimensional imaging methods.
According to the authors, led by Mark Tangney of University College Cork in Ireland, "before now, researchers used luminescence to provide an approximation of where a test organism was within the body, and would then follow up with multiple further experiments using different techniques to try to find a precise location."
This new research suggests that such bacteria can be engineered to contain diagnostic or therapeutic agents that would be produced specifically within the tumor for targeted treatment.
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New RIM CEO Can't Save the BlackBerry (ContributorNetwork)
COMMENTARY | Investors at RIM -- the company that makes the BlackBerry smartphone and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet -- have been pushing the company for awhile now to get rid of its two co-ceos, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, on acount of their complete failure to adapt to the changing market. In a nutshell, Apple's iPhone caught them off-guard; and not only did they fail to respond appropriately, they failed to even realize that there was a problem until it was too late.
Well, RIM's replaced its CEOs now, on account of the last two resigned. And according to Reuters, it's got a new one now, former Seimens AG exec Thorsten Heins. He's been given a year and a half by investors to shake things up, and turn the company around from having to write off $485 million in unsold BlackBerry PlayBooks to being able to write off its former competitors.
The problem with this plan? It's still too late for RIM. The company's ...
Not in the game anymore
"At the very core of RIM ... is the innovation," says Heins, in a video interview posted to YouTube. "We always think ahead." But as the graphs posted by Nielsen show, RIM's customers are the ones thinking ahead, by switching to non-BlackBerry smartphones. Almost 15 percent of all current smartphone owners that Nielsen surveyed own a BlackBerry, but only 6 percent of smartphone buyers last quarter chose one.
The BlackBerry Torch was poorly thought-out and panned by reviewers, and the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has seen multiple huge sales as RIM's tried to unload its inventory. It still doesn't even let you check email without owning a BlackBerry smartphone, and the long-awaited Android App Player is still missing. And the reason RIM's so far behind is because ...
Its corporate culture is dysfunctional
Maybe you're skeptical of the tell-all letter an anonymous RIM exec sent to Boy Genius Report, or of the two other letters it got from RIM insiders. Maybe you think they're just upset about something, or the problems are exaggerated, or it's no worse than at the company that you work for. That's okay. A company's performance in the marketplace isn't determined by how many frustrated letters its employees write, to people they feel will actually listen to them.
On the other hand, when outsiders like Jamie Murai run up against RIM's corporate culture, they get a bad impression of it too. And when RIM can't attract app developers like him to write for its gadgets, it might be time for the company to ...
Consider its audience
I don't just mean "developers, developers, developers, developers." I mean actual people, and not corporate IT departments. (Even if Mitt Romney thinks that corporations are people too.)
It didn't take much to wow people in 2005. And the same features that made BlackBerry smartphones attractive to individual buyers, like instant email and great hardware keyboards, made them attractive to corporate buyers as well. Much of RIM's growth has been driven by the corporate market.
But people are starting to use their own gadgets at work now, or even choose iPads for deployment at their companies. The corporate world's starting to realize that by pretending it can make decisions without having any emotions about them, it's missing out on the most powerful, most useful hardware and apps.
Those aren't made by RIM anymore. And it's too late for RIM to realize that.
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Kim Kardashian 'Definitely Tried' With Kris Humphries
'I just need to rewrite my fairytale,' reality star tells Kelly Ripa while co-hosting 'Live!'
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When she wasn't playing with exotic animals during Monday's (January 23) show, Kelly Ripa's latest "Live!" co-host, Kim Kardashian, opened up about her much-publicized split from Kris Humphries, her husband of 72 days.
"I didn't think following my heart would create this much backlash," she said, sitting by Ripa in a skin-tight red dress. The reality starlet continued that despite reports that she married the basketball player for publicity, she was in it for the long haul.
"I definitely tried everything I felt like I could ... I want babies. I want forever love," she said. "I just felt like, you know, if I feel in my heart that this isn't right, then why wait years to have the same result?"
Currently the Kris/ Kim relationship and its demise are playing out in front of America on "Kourtney & Kim Take New York." Admitting that shortly after the split she did some "soul-searching," she added that these days she's had to readjust her ideas on true love. She said, "I really learned that I just need to rewrite my fairytale."
"Me being a hopeless romantic, I wanted it to work so badly," Kardashian said. "I'm a smart woman! I would have stayed married longer!"
On the same day that Kim opened up about her own split, Heidi Klum and Seal announced that they'd be splitting after seven years of marriage. What's Kim's advice for them in the wake of their own very public split?
"It's so sad," she said. "I would never wish anyone to go through a divorce, but then again after what I went through, you don't really know until you're in this person's shoes ... When I see other people when I might not understand their situation, now I really just step back because you don't really know what they're going through."
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Murder charge for suspect in shooting of Ky. mayor
Thomas J. Lattus, 30, of Hickman, Ky. is seen in an undated photo provided by the Fulton County, Ky., Jail. Hickman, Ky. Police Chief Tony Grogan said in a statement that 30-year-old Tommy Lattus walked into the police station early Monday morning, Jan. 23, 2012 and told officers he killed Mayor Charles Murphy. Grogan said a witness came in a short time later and reported hearing shots at Murphy's home. An officer found Murphy unresponsive around 1 a.m. CST. Lattus has been charged with murder and was being held at the Fulton County Detention Facility, where records do not indicate whether he has an attorney. (AP Photo/Fulton County, Ky., Jail)
Thomas J. Lattus, 30, of Hickman, Ky. is seen in an undated photo provided by the Fulton County, Ky., Jail. Hickman, Ky. Police Chief Tony Grogan said in a statement that 30-year-old Tommy Lattus walked into the police station early Monday morning, Jan. 23, 2012 and told officers he killed Mayor Charles Murphy. Grogan said a witness came in a short time later and reported hearing shots at Murphy's home. An officer found Murphy unresponsive around 1 a.m. CST. Lattus has been charged with murder and was being held at the Fulton County Detention Facility, where records do not indicate whether he has an attorney. (AP Photo/Fulton County, Ky., Jail)
In this October 2010 photo provided by the Hickman Courier, Hickman Mayor Charles Murphy poses for a photo in front of the pilot wheel at City Hall in Hickman, Ky. Murphy, the mayor of a small western Kentucky town was shot dead early Monday morning in his home, and a suspect turned himself in shortly afterward. (AP Photo/Hickman Courier, Charlotte Smith)
The City Hall sign for Hickman, Ky., is seen Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. The mayor of the small western Kentucky town was shot dead early Monday morning in his home, and a suspect turned himself in shortly afterward. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee)
A bird feeder blows in the wind outside the Clay Street home of Moyor Charles Murphy in Hickman, Ky., Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. Murphy was found shot to death in his home early Monday morning. Hickman Police Chief Tony Grogan said 30-year-old Thomas Joseph ?Tommy? Lattus walked into the police department around 1 a.m. CST and made a ?pretty clear cut? statement that he had just shot Murphy. Lattus has been charged with murder and is being held at the Fulton County Jail. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee)
Hickman Public Works director Mike Hartigan ties the American flag at the half staff position as his crew member Danny Pruett watches Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, at City Hall in Hickman, Ky. The mayor, Charles Murphy, was found dead at his Clay Street home early Monday after a man turned himself into police admitting to the shooting. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee)
HICKMAN, Ky. (AP) ? A 30-year-old man who grew up in a small town in western Kentucky came to the police station in the middle of the night with chilling news: He told officers that he had just shot the mayor.
An officer rushed to Hickman Mayor Charles Murphy's house and found the side door broken in early Monday. In the bedroom, Murphy lay dead of a shotgun blast.
A day later, Thomas Joseph "Tommy" Lattus was due in court to face a murder charge. The 68-year-old Murphy was a well-liked former educator who had dated Lattus' stepmother on and off over the years.
The shooting stunned residents of the town of about 2,500 people, many of whom knew Murphy as their school principal.
"It wasn't random or anything like that; it's personal," Hickman Police Chief Tony Grogan told The Associated Press about the shooting. "As far as clear motive, I would assume that it's just that he didn't like him."
Multiple shots were fired, but Grogan wouldn't say how many times Murphy was hit. Jail records didn't indicate whether Lattus had an attorney.
Grogan said Lattus may have been upset with Murphy over the relationship with his stepmother, Carole Lattus.
"Sometimes they broke up, sometimes they got back together," Grogan said of the relationship.
The police chief added: "From Tommy's point of view, I think he might have had some friction, from things that happened in the past."
The mayor's brother and neighbor, Fred Murphy, said his nephew told him Monday that the mayor had asked his son to call periodically to check on his welfare when Lattus came to visit him in recent days.
Carole Lattus was out of the country Monday and couldn't immediately be reached. Thomas Lattus had been adopted by Carole Lattus when he was a boy, said Gerald Harris, whose niece is married to the mayor's son. The suspect's father, Carole Lattus' former husband, died years ago.
Another neighbor who had known Tommy Lattus since he was young said he appeared to be unstable. Melissa Somerfield, who has lived near Murphy for 22 years, said his odd behavior included a time when Lattus had a singing outburst at a church service.
"He just got up out of the blue and starting singing aloud. People went and started telling his mother that things were not right with him," she said.
Murphy's friends said Lattus had been living out of town but returned to Hickman in recent days. Grogan said Lattus had been staying at his stepmother's home.
Somerfield said she was awakened by her sister around 2:30 a.m. with the news that the man who once served as her elementary and junior high principal had been killed. Authorities were at Murphy's home until around 4:30 a.m.
"It's been really hard to wrap my head around this," Somerfield said.
Jason Sipes, pastor at West Hickman Baptist Church, said family members gathering at a house would not comment on the shooting.
The city in the extreme southwest corner of Kentucky is known for the Hickman-Dorena Ferry, the only connection for automobiles over the Mississippi River between Kentucky and Missouri. Violent crime there is rare.
"We have speeding tickets and running stop signs, but to have something of this magnitude, we may have something like this happen every five to 10 years," City Manager Larry Myatt said.
Morrison Williamson, manager at Hickman Hardware, said he first heard about the shooting early in the morning from his wife.
"Next thing I know, people started calling the store, saying 'Did you hear what happened?'" Williamson said.
Murphy was in his second term as mayor. He previously served on the city board of commissioners. City Commissioner Charles Choate described Murphy as a small farmer who loved to spend time on his property.
Murphy was also proud that recent audits showed the city's financial situation was improving.
"He was very proud that the city was turning the corner and being more financially responsible," Choate said.
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