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Friday, December 30, 2011
Wary Hispanic voters favor Obama over GOP rivals
President Obama holds a wide lead among Hispanic voters when matched against potential Republican challengers, even as widespread opposition to his administration?s stepped-up deportation policies act as a drag on his approval ratings among these voters, according to a new poll.
The survey, conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center, revealed a dramatic general election weakness for Republicans among an increasingly influential voting bloc ? with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry each winning less than one-fourth of the Hispanic vote in hypothetical matchups against Obama.
Obama leads Romney 68-23 and Perry 69-23 among Hispanic voters, with an error margin of plus or minus 5.2 percentage points for the voter sample.
The president?s strong position with Hispanic voters comes even as Hispanic adults overall express strong disapproval with the way his administration is handling deportations of illegal immigrants, by a 59-27 margin. (The margin of error among adults is 3.6 percentage points).
The U.S. has deported more than 1 million illegal immigrants under Obama, removing an average of nearly 400,000 per year -- a record rate that has drawn criticism from immigrant advocates who charge the policy is tearing apart families and punishing harmless workers. Administration officials have said they are targeting criminals for deportation.
Obama?s job approval rating has dropped among Hispanic voters by 9 points since last year, the survey found, dipping to 54 percent ? in part due to a 15-point drop among Hispanic Democrats. His job approval among voters overall stood at 49 percent in a Washington Post-ABC News poll earlier this month, meaning the president remains more popular among Hispanics than the broader electorate.
?Many Latinos are aware that deportations are up, and among them the president?s approval rating is lower,? said Mark H. Lopez, associate director of the Pew Hispanic center. ?However, even among them, the president wins in head-to-heads against Romney and Perry.?
The findings suggest major challenges ahead for Republican strategists, many of whom believe the party cannot win the White House unless it slices into Obama?s support among Hispanics.
In the latest available data from Gallup, Obama?s numbers among Hispanics have recovered alongside a rise among the broader public. Fully 60 percent of all Hispanic adults interviewed by Gallup in late December said they approved of Obama?s overall job performance, a high in polls back to May.
The support level for Romney and Perry lags behind the 31-percent share won by party nominee John McCain in 2008. Obama won 67 percent of Hispanics that year.
At the time, many Republican strategists said failing to improve that number in the future could doom Republican presidential contenders in battleground states with fast-growing Hispanic populations, such as Colorado and Florida. They set a 2012 goal of winning 40 percent, about the same level of support among Hispanics won by President George W. Bush in his 2004 reelection victory.
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Portland, Maine, mayor undergoes cancer surgery (AP)
PORTLAND, Maine ? The mayor of Maine's largest city has undergone cancer treatment.
Portland officials say Mayor Michael Brennan had successful surgery last weekend to remove a tumor from his small intestine. The tumor was discovered when Brennan sought treatment for abdominal pain.
Brennan will get additional, non-invasive treatment for lesions found on his liver. He says neither chemotherapy nor radiation is needed.
Brennan was released from the hospital Thursday. He intends to return to City Hall next week on a limited basis.
He says his ordeal made him realize that it is important to ensure that all Maine residents have access to health care. He says nearly one in four does not have health insurance.
Brennan won the election last month. He is first popularly-elected mayor in nearly 90 years.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
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Mass protests in Syrian city as monitors arrive (AP)
BEIRUT ? Tens of thousands of defiant Syrian protesters thronged the streets of Homs Tuesday, calling for the execution of President Bashar Assad shortly after his army pulled its tanks back and allowed Arab League monitors in for the first time to the city at the heart of the anti-government uprising.
The pullback was the first sign the regime was complying with the League's plan to end the 9-month-old crackdown on mostly unarmed and peaceful protesters.
Yet amateur video released by activists showed forces firing on protesters even while the monitors were inside the city. One of the observers walked with an elderly man who pointed with his cane to a fresh pool of blood on the street that he said had been shed by his son, killed a day earlier.
The man, wearing a red-and-white checkered headdress, then called for the monitor to walk ahead to "see the blood of my second son" also killed in the onslaught.
"Where is justice? Where are the Arabs?" the old man shouted in pain.
Syrian tanks had been heavily shelling Homs for days, residents and activists said, killing dozens even after Assad signed on early last week to the Arab League plan, which demands the government remove its security forces and heavy weapons from city streets, start talks with opposition leaders and allow human rights workers and journalists into the country.
But a few hours before the arrival of the monitors, who began work Tuesday to ensure Syria complies with the League's plan, the army stopped the bombardment and pulled some of its tanks back.
The British-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that government forces fired on protesters while the monitors were inside Homs and said at two people were killed from the fire.
About 60 monitors arrived in Syria Monday night ? the first foreign observers Syria has allowed in since March, when the uprising against Assad's authoritarian rule began. The League said a team of 12 visited Homs.
After agreeing to the League's pullback plan on Dec. 19, the regime intensified its crackdown on dissent; government troops killed hundreds in the past week and Syria was condemned internationally for flouting the spirit of the agreement.
On Monday alone, security forces killed at least 42 people, most of them in Homs. Activists said security forces killed at least 16 people Tuesday, including six in Homs.
One group put Tuesday's toll at 30, including 13 in Homs province. Different groups often give varying tolls. With foreign journalists and human rights groups barred from the country, they are virtually impossible to verify.
Amateur videos show residents of Homs pleading with the visiting monitors for protection.
"We are unarmed people who are dying," one resident shouts to one observer. Seconds later, shooting is heard from a distance as someone else screams: "We are being slaughtered here."
Given the intensified crackdown over the past week, the opposition has viewed Syria's agreement to the Arab League plan as a farce. Some even accuse the organization of 22 states of complicity in the killings. Activists say the regime is trying to buy time and forestall more international condemnation and sanctions.
"The Syrian government will cooperate symbolically enough in order not to completely alienate the Arab League," said Bilal Saab, a Middle East expert at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. "But make no mistake about it, its survival strategy is to keep kicking the can down the road, until domestic and international circumstances change in its favor."
Opponents of Assad doubt the Arab League can budge the autocratic leader at the head of one of the Middle East's most repressive regimes. Syria's top opposition leader, Burhan Ghalioun, called Sunday for the League to bring the U.N. Security Council into the effort. The U.N. says more than 5,000 people have been killed since March in the political violence.
Shortly after the tanks pulled back and stopped shelling, the videos showed tens of thousands flooding into the streets and marching defiantly in a funeral. They carried the open casket overhead with the exposed face of an 80-year-old man with a white beard.
"Listen Bashar: If you fire bullets, grenades or shells at us, we will not be scared," one person shouted to the crowd through loudspeakers. Many were waving Syria's independence flag, which predates the 1963 ascendancy of Assad's Baath party to power.
"The people want to execute Bashar," chanted a group as they walked side-by-side with monitors through one of Homs' streets. "Long live the Free Syrian Army," they chanted, referring to the force of army defectors fighting Assad's troops.
The amateur video also showed a man picking up the remains of a mortar round and showing it to the observers.
In another exchange, a resident tells a monitor: "You should say what you just told the head of the mission. You said you cannot cross to the other side of the street because of sniper fire."
The monitor points to the head of the team and says: "He will make a statement." The resident then repeats his demand, and the monitor, smoking a cigarette, nods in approval.
The Observatory for Human Rights said as the monitors visited Homs, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in some neighborhoods to "reveal the crimes committed by the regime."
Later, the Observatory said some 70,000 protesters tried to enter the tightly secured Clock Square but were pushed back by security forces that fired tear gas and later live bullets, killing at least two, to prevent them from reaching the city's largest square. The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, said security forces were shooting at protesters trying to reach the central square.
Homs, Syria's third-largest city, has a population of 800,000 and is at the epicenter of the revolt against Assad. It is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of the capital, Damascus. Many Syrians refer to it as the "Capital of the Revolution."
Opposition activist Mohammed Saleh said four days of heavy bombardment in Homs stopped in the morning on Tuesday and tanks were seen pulling out. Another Homs activist said he saw armored vehicles leaving early on a highway leading to the eastern city of Palmyra. He asked that his name not be made public for fear of retribution.
"Today is calm, unlike previous days," Saleh said. "The shelling went on for days, but yesterday was terrible."
The Observatory said some army vehicles pulled out of Homs while other relocated in government compounds "where (they) can deploy again within five minutes."
A local official in Homs told The Associated Press the team of monitors, headed by Sudanese Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, met with Ghassan Abdul-Aal, the governor of Homs province. After the meeting, the monitors headed to several tense districts including Baba Amr and Inshaat, sites of the most intense crackdowns since Friday.
The official later said that most members of the Arab team headed back to Damascus, while three will spend the night in Homs. The official refused to give details about where the observers will stay for security reasons.
In addition to the deaths reported by activist groups Tuesday, Syrian state-run news agency SANA said two roadside bombs targeted a bus carrying employees of a state company in Idlib, killing six and wounding four.
Also Tuesday, a Lebanese-based al-Qaida-linked group, Abdullah Azzam Brigades, claimed that two suicide attacks against Damascus security offices that killed at least 66 Friday were the work of the Syrian regime, and not al-Qaida as Syrian authorities said.
And in Lebanon, security officials said Syrian troops opened fire at a car that crossed illegally into northern Lebanon, killing three Lebanese men. Some Syrians have fled to Lebanon to escape the fighting, and Syria has complained that weapons are smuggled across its borders. It was not immediately clear if the shooting was related to the uprising in Syria.
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Associated Press writer Albert Aji contributed to this report from Damascus, Syria.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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Unified Communications (UC) over IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS): Solutions and Market/Business Analysis?
Unified Communications over IP Multimedia Subsystem?Market?
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IP Multi-media Subsystem (IMS) is defined by various standard body include 3GPP, TISPAN, etc. It?s a fully standardized architecture with detailed definition of interface/protocol/procedures. It?s a platform enabler facilitating a multi-tenant environment, including residential users, wireless users and enterprise UC users.
This report includes both technical information (technology, architecture, solutions) as well as business information (SWOT analysis of key players/offerings, application evaluation, business case, and market forecasting) for UC over IMS. Players/solutions evaluated include 8?8, Apple, AT&T, Google, and Telstra. The report also analyzes UC feature/functionality including presence, IM, UM, team collaboration, conference and telephony servers. The report also evaluates call/session scenarios in operation and applicability for UC over IMS deployment.
Audience:
- Fixed and mobile network operators
- Application and software development companies
- IMS and NGN infrastructure and support service providers
1. WHAT?S UNIFIED COMMUNICATION 1.1. Unified Communication Solution Models 1.2. SWOT analysis with UC models 1.3. Key players SWOT analysis in hosted UC market 2. WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS IN UNIFIED COMMUNICATION SOLUTION? 2.1. UC Enabler/Core 2.2. UC Applications 2.3. Session Border 2.4. Access Layer 2.5. User Equipment Layer 3. WHAT?S NETWORK ARCHITECTURE OF IMS HOSTED UNIFIED COMMUNICATION? 3.1. IMS Hosted UC Network Architecture Overview 3.1.1. IMS Network Core/UC Enabler Layer 3.1.2. Access Border Layer 3.1.3. Application Layer 3.1.4. OSS/BSS Layer 3.1.5. Access Layer 3.2. Key functions to allow enterprise UC to be hosted by IMS carrier Network 3.3. Typical UC Scenarios through IMS network 3.3.1. User Register Scenario 3.3.2. On-Net Call 3.3.3. Off-Net Call 3.3.4. Presence/IM 3.3.5. Voice Message delivery 3.3.6. Remote Access 3.3.7. High Availability Scenario 4. WHY IMS HOSTED UNIFIED COMMUNICATION? 4.1. Benefits to Enterprise customers 4.2. Benefits to Telecom Carrier 5. CONCLUSION Figures Figure 1: On-Premise UC solution Figure 2: Hosted PBX UC solution Figure 3: IMS Hosted UC Solution Figure 4: Unified Communication Components Figure 5: IMS Hosted UC Network Architecture Figure 6: User Registration Figure 7: On-Net Call Scenario Figure 8: Off-Net Call Figure 9: Presence Status Update Figure 10: IM Call Flow Figure 11: UM delivery Call Flow Figure 12: Remote Access Call Flow Figure 13: High Availability 1- Disaster Recovery Figure 14: High Availability 2 - LAN outage Tables Table 1: UC Market Growing Drivers 2011-2016 (Source: Frost & Sullivan) Table 2: Unified Communication Feature Categories Table 3: Notes For User Registration Scenario Table 4: On-Net Call Notes Table 5: Off-Net Call Notes Table 6: Presence Status Update Scenario Notes Table 7: IM Scenario Notes Table 8: Remote Access Scenario Notes
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Best iPad Apps for OC Living: Urbanspoon
BY Orion Tippens
December 15 - 2011 4:56 PM
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Urbanspoon
Orange County foodies, this app is for you. Click and roll to find that next favorite restaurant ? based on location, type and budget. The map or list interface below quickly reveals just where and what is ready to satisfy those buds. For example: a search for a vegan, decently ($$) priced meal, in Newport Beach showed me the True Food Kitchen in Fashion Island. Users who dare can also use Urbanspoon's Spin feature for some random options. Plum's Cafe in Costa Mesa? Sure, why not ? thanks Spin feature! Available restaurant information, pics and reviews also come in handy in impressing significant others. ?
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Study: Smiles on Facebook mean more than smiles in real life
By Natalie Asorey
College freshmen might want to take a look at their Facebook profile pictures for a peek at their life satisfaction once it?s time to turn the tassel.
Two longitudinal studies showed that smile intensity coded from a Facebook profile picture from participants? first semester in college predicted self-reported life satisfaction as they approached graduation.
The studies were conducted by Shigehiro Oishi and J. Patrick Seder of the University of Virginia?s psychology department, and results were published in October.
Oishi and two other research assistants coded for smiling intensity by looking at two muscles associated with smiling ? one that causes raised cheeks and squinting and another that raises the corners of the mouth ? and rated each from one to five. The scores were added to create an intensity scale of two to 10, with 10 being the most intense.
Participants with higher intensity scores were found to be more satisfied with their lives both at the end of their first semester and after three and a half years, as they were about to graduate.
According to the report, the association ?between smile intensity and life satisfaction was partially mediated by the quality of participants? first-semester social relationships.?
The research does not show the extent to which such social relationships act as a link, however.
According to the report, smile intensity may indicate that a person acts similarly in ?real life? and therefore has more positive relationships or that those who smile more intensely may elicit the same positive responses in others, thereby solidifying relationships.
Alexander Cantillo, a junior psychology major at the University of Florida, says she believes both may be valid reasons.
?The more you smile, the more positive you feel about yourself and the happier you become with life,? he said. ?The positive energy derived just by a simple smile rubs off on others, and that is why you see that trend.?
Kim McCall, interpersonal communication professor at the University of Florida, said smiling communicates positive energy, reactions and emotions.
?When we smile or see another person smile, it makes us think the other person likes us and we are much more likely to start a conversation,? she said. ?Smiling can be an asset when meeting someone new, during a job interview or even when having lunch with a friend.?
Among the studies? limitations is that the first set of participants were University of Virginia freshmen who had a Facebook profile in 2005, when the platform expanded to over 800 college networks and had more than 5.5 million users.
It?s plausible that this group of participants used Facebook in a much different way than those who use it now, according to the report.
Facebook now boasts more than 750 million users, according to the website, and has added content-sharing features throughout its years.
Marc Briz, a sophomore history major at Brown University, said he prefers artistic profile pictures rather than those with a ?straight-forward smile.?
?I feel like the study might be simplifying how students approach Facebook in the first place,? Briz said.
?Even kids who are sad are not going to put pictures of themselves with a frown,? he said. ?They?re going to put a picture that reflects well of them.?
You might also be interested in:
- Facebook memorials a part of campus life
- Real life: In college with my Mom
- The Odyssey: Facebook adds a new dimension to employment
- 5 ways to take your life back from Facebook
- Let?s be ?Facebook Official?
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of USA TODAY.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
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Tulsa Church Recovers From Christmas Eve Fire
TULSA, Oklahoma -
A Tulsa church isn't letting a fire keep them from worship. The Cornerstone Free Will Baptist Church was destroyed by fire on Christmas Eve. On Sunday, the congregation met to celebrate Christmas.
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It might have been any other Sunday at the Cornerstone Free Will Baptist Church. But this Sunday's service is different.
"Well, today's Christmas, the Lord's birthday and I couldn't be more excited and that's the honest truth. I was so encouraged yesterday, not by the fire, by the heart of our people and today I even feel better," Pastor Ben Langley said.
Pastor Ben Langley's church was destroyed by fire on Saturday, Christmas Eve. The Fire Marshall ruled it accidental, saying it was started by a faulty electrical motor in furnace. No one was injured, but the building will need to be torn down.
"It's kind of like God's saying, 'Here's your chance. We're either going to have you rebuild or we're going to have you move on to another building.' Like I said, the Lord's going to open up another door for us. Lots of memories in the building, so it's hard to see it go down," church member Michael Bence said.
Sunday's Christmas service was held in the church's Family Life Center, next door to the sanctuary, but untouched by the fire. The service was full of song and praise and filled with messages of hope.
In the back of the makeshift sanctuary was a table filled with items salvaged from the destroyed fire. There're pictures from Sunday school along with pages and pages of sermons Pastor Langley had written but not used.
"Hopefully we'll be able to salvage some of those thoughts," Langley said.
Church members say no matter what happens, the congregation will make it through, they're just amazed at the timing of the fire, the day before Christmas.
"It's crazy, absolutely crazy. But, like he said, God has something else in store for us so we'll see what happens in the future," church member Jennifer Bence said.
The church will continue to meet here in its Family Life Center until it determines when or where a new sanctuary will be built.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Giants pound Jets
Bradshaw's strong running powers Big Blue; Week 17 vs. Dallas will decide NFC East
By DENNIS WASZAK Jr.
updated 7:27 p.m. ET Dec. 24, 2011
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Rex Ryan was brash and confident all week, insisting his Jets were the kings of New York.
Well, the Giants shut him up in a big way ? taking the city bragging rights and setting up an even more important showdown with the Dallas Cowboys next weekend with a 29-14 victory Saturday.
"I hate to use that cliche, but this is a huge one," left tackle David Diehl said. "This is about the city, the city of New York and what team wants to be responsible. They have talked all week and said what they wanted to say. From Day 1, they're our big brother and other stuff. We went out there and played our game and showed whose stadium this is."
Ryan said the Jets were the better team the last two years, based on their consecutive trips to the AFC championship game and the Giants missing the postseason. Tom Coughlin responded by saying, "Talk is cheap. Play the game."
It was the Giants who did.
"They were the better team today, and they're the better team this year," a humbled Ryan said. "Clearly, I was wrong."
The Giants kept their postseason hopes alive, helped by Victor Cruz setting two franchise receiving records and Ahmad Bradshaw running for two touchdowns. While neither team looked much like playoff material, the Giants (8-7) are now in position to win the NFC East with a victory at home next Sunday against Dallas."Given everything that was at stake, and all the noise that has been coming out of Florham Park," Giants co-owner John Mara said, "yeah, it means a little more."
Running back Brandon Jacobs said he had an exchange with Ryan after the game in which the coach approached him, used an expletive and said, "Wait till we win the Super Bowl."
Added Jacobs: "And I told him I'll punch him in the face. I told him out of all these Giants players on this team you're talking to the wrong one. And that was that."
Ryan acknowledged that he and Jacobs "had a private conversation. He doesn't like me; I respect him."
The back-and-forth went on even in the hours before the game, when Jacobs and kicker Lawrence Tynes both removed black curtains placed by the Jets over the Giants' Super Bowl logos. The Jets said it was simply their standard practice to cover those logos for every one of the team's home games, regardless of opponent, because it is the players' entrance.
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Meanwhile, the Jets' playoff hopes took a devastating hit, and at 8-7 they'll need to win at Miami next week and get major help from several other teams. They have to hope for Cincinnati and Tennessee to lose, and have either Oakland or Denver lose.
"I mean, we don't deserve to control our own destiny," Jets linebacker Bart Scott said. "We haven't played good enough football to do that. We need to try to finish strong, but if you don't make it to the playoffs, you've got nobody to blame but yourself."
Cruz, who had three catches for 164 yards, broke Amani Toomer's single-season mark for yards receiving ? and the team's record for longest touchdown reception, a 99-yarder that gave the Giants the lead for good in the second quarter.
"It's just amazing," Cruz said, "and to beat the Jets in the process is added incentive."
It was a brutal game at times, with both offenses sluggish and prone to mistakes. The Jets were also penalized 10 times, including a late hit call on Aaron Maybin, who plowed into D.J. Ware in the fourth quarter ? a play on which Coughlin was injured out of bounds. The Giants coach needed to be checked out on the bench briefly before limping back to the sideline.
"Never better," a smiling Coughlin said when asked how he was feeling.
Eli Manning finished just 9 of 27 for 225 yards. Mark Sanchez completed 30 passes on a career-high 59 attempts but put up only 258 yards and was intercepted twice. The Jets were also a brutal 4 for 21 on third-down conversions.
"I left a lot of completions out there," Sanchez said.
The sloppiest stretch came midway through the fourth quarter with wild swings of momentum.
The Giants thought they had stopped the Jets on fourth down, but a pass interference call gave them new life. Plaxico Burress ? playing against the Giants in the regular season for the first time since they cut him in 2009 and he served a 20-month prison sentence on a gun charge ? thought he had scored a touchdown, but offensive pass interference called it back. The Giants thought they'd recovered a fumble by Sanchez, but officials reversed the call on a challenge, saying his arm was going forward.
The Giants got their turnover moments later, though, when Sanchez fumbled the snap in the end zone.
The Jets weren't done. David Harris intercepted Manning's pass that tipped off Hakeem Nicks' hands, and the Jets had another apparent fumble by Sanchez reversed on review.
On third-and-12 from the 13, Sanchez scrambled for 11 yards ? and Antrel Rolle was called for holding, putting the ball at the 1. Sanchez dived into the end zone, making it 20-14 with 7:17 left.
But the Jets wouldn't get any closer. Chris Canty sacked Sanchez for a safety, and after an onside free kick by the Jets was recovered by the Giants, Bradshaw had a 19-yard TD run with 2:04 left.
"It's real sad right now," Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis said. "We needed this win. We made some mistakes and they outplayed us."
Cruz's 99-yard catch ? the longest scoring pass in team history ? came with the Giants in dire straits facing third-and-10 from the 1. Manning, standing in the back of the end zone, zipped a pass to Cruz, who dodged tackle attempts by Antonio Cromartie and Kyle Wilson and took off down the right sideline. Eric Smith was the only one with a chance to get him, but Cruz outran him to give the Giants a 10-7 lead with 2:12 left in the opening half.
It was also the longest offensive play against the Jets in team history.
Now the Jets will prepare for the Dolphins ? and keep their fingers crossed.
"If the gates open," wide receiver Santonio Holmes said, "we're going to walk right through them."
Notes: DE Jason Pierre-Paul had two of the Giants' five sacks, giving him 15? this season. ... Jets S Brodney Pool said he experienced migraine symptoms during the game, worsened after a hard hit in the third quarter when Bradshaw slammed into him. He said he was fine. ... Jets LB Garrett McIntyre hurt his knee covering the opening kickoff, and there was no immediate word on the injury.
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Could the new Earth-like planets harbor life?
Scientists have discovered a pair of Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star. Could these planets, dubbed Kepler 20e and Kepler 20f, support life?
For life as we know it to arise on another planet, scientists think the alien world must have three key ingredients: organic molecules that can form complex structures, energy to jiggle those molecules, and liquid water for them to jiggle?in. It's a short recipe, but nonetheless, only planets that are extremely similar to Earth can possibly have all three items in stock.
Skip to next paragraphIf a planet is much closer to its star than we are to ours (and assuming that star is similar in size to our sun), all the water on its surface will evaporate in the heat. If it's much farther away, all its water will freeze. Similarly,?planets much larger than Earth?are gaseous, with no solid surface for an ocean to slosh around on, while those much smaller wouldn't have had enough gravity to form in the first place. Thus, in the search for "candidate planets" which could host alien life, "alien Earths" are the Holy Grail.
In a paper published today (Dec. 20) in the journal Nature, a team of scientists who study data collected by NASA's Kepler telescope report the?discovery of a pair of exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, that are almost exactly the same size as Earth. The distant worlds, labeled Kepler-20e and 20f, orbit a star called Kepler-20 located 950 light-years away, and have diameters 0.87 times and 1.03 times that of Earth, respectively.
At those sizes, the planets' gravity would be strong enough to make them rocky like Earth, rather than gaseous like Jupiter. "Theoretical models suggest that the material inside the planet could be iron in the core surrounded by a mantle of silicates," said Guillermo Torres, a member of the Kepler team based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. If that's the case, they would have, respectively, masses 1.7 times and three times Earth's mass, he said. [Infographic: Earth-Size Alien Worlds]
The planets are roughly Earth-size, but do they have what it takes to sustain life? Unfortunately, not quite. "These are just way too hot to be habitable," Torres told Life's Little Mysteries.
Both Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f orbit extremely close to their star, with years just 6 days and 20 days long, respectively. Though their star is slightly dimmer than our own, it still blasts them with too much heat. "For the inner one, the temperature is about 1,000 degrees Celsius [1,800 degrees Fahrenheit], and for the outer one it's about 700 degrees C [1,300 degrees F]," Torres said.
Unfortunately, that's far too hot for liquid water to survive. And because there are no swirling oceans on the new planets ? no?primordial soups for organic molecules?to slosh around in ? there has been no genesis of life there, the scientists say.
But is there any chance that life that doesn't require water could exist on Kepler-20e and 20f? Torres said he gets this question a lot: "Why do we think that life has to be like we have it here on Earth? Well, the thing is we don't have any other examples of life, so we have to start with what we know. We cannot rule out that there might be other types of life that don't require water? if that's possible? but that seems a little far-fetched."
Two weeks ago, the Kepler team announced its discovery of another planet that was close to being habitable, but which missed the mark for a different reason. "We announced Kepler-22b, which has the right temperature for life, but it's too big. Now, we're announcing a planet that's the same size as Earth but it's too hot," said Dave Charbonneau, another member of the Kepler team based at Harvard's CfA.
"What we're doing next is trying to look for a planet that's the best of both worlds: Earth-size and the right temperature. That's the big one," he said.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
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Southern China protest stretches to 4th day
By Hannah Belcher, CNN
updated 4:35 AM EST, Fri December 23, 2011
Police block villagers at the scene of environmental protests in the town of Haimen, Guangdong Province, on December 22, 2011.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: Police detain news crew, cable network says
- Tear gas is used again on a large crowd of people
- Witnesses say some protesters have been beaten this week
- The protesters are concerned about pollution from a coal power plant
Beijing (CNN) -- Police fired tear gas Friday at demonstrators gathered for a fourth straight day of protests over a coal power plant in the southern Chinese town of Haimen and for the release of villagers detained during earlier scuffles with authorities.
Video from CNN affiliate i-CABLE News showed a large group of protestors running from clouds of tear gas on a main street. The Hong Kong-based cable network later reported that its reporting team was being detained by police.
Thousands of protestors gathered at the entrance of a local expressway, according to Mr. Zheng, a local resident who declined to give his full name for fear of being identified by authorities. Police blocked the expressway entrance several days ago and maintain a heavy presence there.
The protests began Tuesday morning when a group of residents went to the local government with a petition asking for the removal of the power plant and to stop the construction of a second.
When they did not get a response, they gathered on a street outside the government building. Some people were beaten.
Protests have been on the rise in China, where public displays of dissatisfaction are typically rare. The protests are driven by socioeconomic issues like income inequality, corruption, pollution and inflation, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
7 hurt as strong storms roar across Georgia
ROME, Ga.?? At least seven people were injured in Georgia as powerful storms roared across the state, damaging homes, downing trees and knocking out power to thousands, authorities said.
A survey team planned to visit Gordon County on Friday to determine whether a tornado was responsible for damage Thursday to homes near Calhoun, said Robert Garcia, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Ga.
"We've received reports that we had some major structural damage reported in southern Gordon County with at least one home destroyed and several damaged," Garcia told The Associated Press.
One home was blown off its foundation and the family inside was tossed into the yard.
"The house started shaking and then we started moving, and I said, 'here we go,'" Davison Sheriff told Atlanta station WSB-TV.
His pregnant wife, Ashley, said her husband clung to her and their 1-year-old son with a bear hug as they rolled through their yard.
"He definitely saved our lives, him and God, that's for sure," she told WSB. "It shows you that you are not guaranteed tomorrow."
In the northwest Georgia city of Rome, about 20 miles southwest of the Calhoun area, high winds tore the roof off a building at Shorter University, the Rome News-Tribune reported.
Georgia Power estimated more than 19,000 customers lost electricity Thursday evening, with about two-thirds of them in the Rome area.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Spanish Christmas lottery dishes out billions (AP)
MADRID ? Days before Christmas, a tiny town of 2,000 in cash-strapped Spain found itself richer by euro720 million ($940 million) Thursday after scooping the top prize in the nation's famed Christmas lottery.
Billed as the world's richest, the lottery dishes out some euro2.52 billion ($3.29 billion) to winners across the nation.
The top prize ? dubbed "El Gordo" (The Fat One) ? was split among the holders of tickets bearing the number 58268. The number appeared on 1,800 tickets, giving winners euro400,000 for their euro20 ticket.
The state lottery agency said all 1,800 tickets with that number were sold in the town of Granen, located in the arid and barren northeastern Los Monegros area.
Spain is struggling to emerge from a near two-year recession that has left it with a eurozone-high 21.5 percent unemployment rate.
The Gordo lottery aims for a share-the-wealth system, rather than a single jackpot, and thousands of numbers yield at least some kind of return. Lots of people chip in together and buy shares of several or many tickets, meaning it is common for multiple prizes to go to the same town.
Other lotteries have larger individual top prizes but El Gordo is ranked as the world's richest for the total sum paid out.
The winning number was picked and announced by pupils of Madrid's Saint Ildefonso School in a nationally televised draw.
Since it began in 1812, the Dec. 22 lottery has become a favorite holiday tradition. This year, it sold an estimated euro2.7 billion in tickets and the state lottery agency estimated per-capita spending of about euro70.
Spain holds another big lottery Jan. 6 to mark the Feast of the Epiphany. It is known as "El Nino" (The Child), in reference to the baby Jesus.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
UN unfreezes assets of 2 Libyan banks (AP)
UNITED NATIONS ? The U.N. Security Council on Friday ordered assets of two Libyan banks that had been under the control of Moammar Gadhafi to be unfrozen, clearing the way for the return of more than $40 billion to help the new government rebuild the country.
The transitional government had asked the council's committee monitoring sanctions against Libya to lift the asset freeze on the Central Bank of Libya and its subsidiary, the Libyan Foreign Bank. There were no objections from any of the 15 council nations who comprise the committee by the deadline Friday evening so the sanctions were immediately lifted.
Soon after, the U.S. government announced that it has rolled back most sanctions against Libya's banks, unblocking more than $30 billion in assets. And British Foreign Secretary William Hague said his government is seeking swift European Union action to pass the regulation required to release about 6.5 billion pounds ($10 billion) in assets frozen in Britain.
Billions of dollars more in Libyan assets frozen elsewhere are also expected to be released.
The Security Council froze the assets of five key Libyan financial institutions in March following the uprising against Gadhafi's 42-year rule and his deadly crackdown on protesters.
After Gadhafi's death and the end of the eight-month civil war in October, the Security Council eased some financial restrictions to allow a resumption of trading. But the freeze on assets that the Central Bank and Foreign Bank held before March remained in place until Friday's delisting.
Britain's Hague welcomed the sanctions committee's decision, saying "Libya's government will now have full access to the significant funds needed to help rebuild the country, to underpin stability and to ensure that Libyans can make the transactions that are essential to everyday life."
"The transitional government must now redouble its efforts to build a transparent and accountable financial system which will underpin a newly prosperous Libya," Hague said.
The White House said unfreezing the assets will give the Libyan government access to most of its worldwide holdings "and will help the new government oversee the country's transition and reconstruction in a responsible manner." The United States is helping Libya with the technical steps to make the assets available as soon as possible, it said.
Libya is still subject to U.N. sanctions, including an arms embargo, and assets of the Gadhafi family and members of his regime remain frozen along with assets of several other financial institutions.
Hague said Britain will continue working with the Libyan government and other countries "to agree the steps required to remove remaining sanctions, so that Libya's assets can be used for the benefit of its people."
The sanctions committee previously ordered the unfreezing of $18 billion of assets, but U.N. officials and diplomats said only about $3 billion had gotten through to Libyan authorities because of a number of problems.
These include concerns over who the money should be released to in Libya and whether it will be used for humanitarian purposes as required in some cases, the diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity because discussions were private.
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Associated Press writer Kenneth Thomas contributed to this report from Washington.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Cholesterol-lowering drugs may reduce mortality for influenza patients
ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2011) ? Statins, traditionally known as cholesterol-lowering drugs, may reduce mortality among patients hospitalized with influenza, according to a new study released online by The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
It is the first published observational study to evaluate the relationship between statin use and mortality in hospitalized patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infection, according to Vanderbilt's William Schaffner, M.D., professor and chair of Preventive Medicine.
"We may be able to combine statins with antiviral drugs to provide better treatment for patients seriously ill with influenza," said Schaffner, who co-authored the study led by Meredith Vandermeer, MPH, of the Oregon Public Health Division.
Researchers studied adults who were hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza from 2007-2008 to evaluate the association between patients who were prescribed statins and influenza-related deaths.
Among 3,043 hospitalized patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza, 33 percent were given statin medications prior to or during hospitalization. After adjusting for various factors, researchers found that patients not receiving statins were almost twice as likely to die from influenza as those who received the medication.
Schaffner stressed that receiving the influenza vaccine each year is still the best defense against influenza. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that between 5 percent and 20 percent of U.S. residents get the flu each year, and more than 20,000 persons are hospitalized for flu-related complications.
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Today on New Scientist: 16 December 2011
Friday Illusion: Morphing blobs conceal trippy effects
Watch spinning ellipses trick your brain as their shape and colour are tweaked
New taker for 'world's smallest frog' crown
Say hello to the smallest frog in the world - and, possibly, the smallest tetrapod
Did Iran capture US drone by hacking its GPS signal?
Reports today suggest that Iran may have jammed a US drone's signal and tricked it into landing at an Iranian base
Snowmageddon: What's behind extreme winter weather
Is the freakishly cold weather that hit Europe and the US in the past two years a fluke or a trend, asks Michael Le Page
Don't blame the usual suspect for cancer
What if proliferation is the norm for cells - and a very different theory of cancers' cause is waiting in the wings, ask Carlos Sonnenschein and Ana M. Soto
The Bollywood psych ward
A theatrical production brings the high drama and glitz of Bollywood into a Danish psychiatric hospital.
Bedbugs owe their success to inbreeding
A genetic analysis suggests that some building-wide infestations of bedbugs may have originated from a single pregnant female
Most chimp experiments unnecessary, says US panel
Outright ban in US ruled out, but bar raised for justifying experiments on chimpanzees
Remote robots: Human-free by land, sea and air
Our gallery of super-secret remote-controlled vehicles include a plane that flies for five years non-stop and a captainless boat
Hubble images celestial snow angel in 3D
See a stunning visualisation of a star-forming region home to a violent young star
Why naked mole rats feel no pain from acid
The pink, hairless subterranean mammal is insensible to pain caused by acid. Now we know why, which could lead to treatments for arthritis
Fix acid oceans by dumping alkali in them? Forget it
Suggestions that we can dump alkaline chemicals into the oceans to prevent acidification seems dead in the water - it would cost trillions of dollars
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
'Drive' Is MTV's #2 Movie Of 2011
Hard to describe and hard to forget, the film (and Ryan Gosling's Driver) oozed cool.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Ryan Gosling in "Drive"
Photo: FilmDistrict
In October, a Michigan woman filed a lawsuit against FilmDistrict for misleading her about the film "Drive." She claimed the movie's trailer promised a more action-packed film and "promoted the film 'Drive' as very similar to the 'Fast and Furious,' or similar, series of movies."
But the suit succeeded in only one respect: It perfectly described why we love "Drive" and why it's #2 on MTV's Best Movies of 2011 list.
Everything about "Drive" subverts expectations. The main character, played by Ryan Gosling, doesn't have a name besides "Driver" and rarely speaks. We root for him despite knowing nothing about him or what's going on behind his stares. All the audience has to go off is his affection for his down-the-hall neighbor Irene, played by Carey Mulligan, and his sudden, violent outbursts, which surprise with horror levels of gore.
This is all the more shocking when you consider that for the first 30 minutes of the movie, the story plays out in a slow and quiet way, more like a romantic comedy than a crime thriller. Driver's relationship with Irene puts the audience so off its guard that when the violence finally erupts, it's instantly unforgettable.
Director Nicolas Winding Refn sets up the film's opening chase sequence in a way that looks and feels like a "Fast and Furious" movie, but as soon as it starts, it stops — literally. Driver parks the getaway car to remain out of sight. It's a subtle move that sets the tone for the rest of the movie.
And speaking of tone, what other film captured as much attention for its use of music and atmosphere? The synth-laced soundtrack by Cliff Martinez and a collection of electro-pop songs had everyone talking. Out of context, the choice for the music doesn't make sense, but the second "Nightcall" drops in over the neon-pink title, all the pieces come together.
When describing the movie to others, most people struggle until they stumble upon the word "cool." "Drive" is cool in a way that most action movies with their overly muscular heroes and explosions could only dream of being. Gosling and Refn captured an exact balance of warmth and coldness, emotion and indifference that makes the film's look, sound, story and characters feel like instant classics.
All of these elements would make for a great film, but that would mean ignoring a stellar supporting cast. Albert Brooks oozed menace and dark humor as the villainous pizza parlor owner/low-level mob boss Bernie Rose, and Bryan Cranston continued his as the most likable actor working today as Driver's mentor Shannon.
For all its surprises and unexpected turns, "Drive" is our second favorite movie of the year. It took tired movie clichés and flipped them on their heads to make one of the most original and hard-to-forget moviegoing experiences in recent memory.
Stick with MTV as we count down the Best of 2011, including the top Artists, Songs, Live Performances and EDM Artists of the year.
Check out everything we've got on "Drive."
For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.
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Father shares pain during military jet crash trial (AP)
SAN DIEGO ? Don Yoon wiped his eyes and struggled to speak on the witness stand as his lawyers showed him a handful of family photos ? the only items firefighters were able to salvage from his home after a U.S. military jet crashed into it, setting it ablaze. His 36-year-old wife, two baby daughters and mother-in-law all perished.
Yoon shared his pain during the second day of a trial to determine how much the U.S. government should award his extended family to compensate for the Dec. 8, 2008, accident that the Marine Corps has acknowledged was caused by multiple mistakes. Closing arguments were scheduled Wednesday.
Yoon burst into tears as soon as he took the witness stand and was asked to state Tuesday's date. It was exactly three years since he buried his wife in the same casket with his baby daughters.
"All we wanted was to grow old and raise babies," said Yoon, a Korean immigrant who came to California at the age of 18 to pursue a better life. "And now everything is gone. I know I'm going to be with them when my time comes. That's the only thing I'm looking forward to."
The case went to court after talks broke down over the undisclosed amount being sought by the family.
The situation is rare because the Marine Corps has said it was responsible. But the Department of Justice is disputing the amount of money that should be awarded. In most wrongful death cases, the government also disputes claims that it was responsible, legal experts say.
"There are very few if any cases like this," said attorney Kevin Boyle, who is representing the families.
Boyle said there was no doubt the military was at fault. Recordings of conversations between the Marine pilot and the military ground crews show the pilot was advised to make a potentially safer landing at a nearby Navy base over open water rather than head toward Miramar Air Station over the populated city.
Government attorneys declined to comment. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller will have the final say on compensation for the family.
California law does not allow victims in such cases to seek money for grief, suffering or punitive damages. Instead, both sides in the case face the difficult task of quantifying not only the future incomes of those who died ? based in part on their life expectancies ? but the worth of the love and compassion the deceased had for surviving family members.
Making it more challenging, lawyers say, is the fact that this case involves a Korean immigrant family stretching across two continents. Family members have had to testify mostly through an interpreter and explain the cultural nuances in describing their relationships.
Yoon described hugging his wife, Youngmi, and telling her he loved her that morning before heading to work at his sister's store. Yoon broke down sobbing, and his attorney Brian Panish withdrew his question asking him to recall how he heard the tragic news that day.
The government has put economic losses at less than $1 million and not given a figure for non-economic losses. The family's lawyers say Youngmi Lee's earnings would have topped $2 million had she lived.
In court filings, Panish pointed out cases in which he has won multi-million dollar awards for families who have lost loved ones in accidents caused by companies or government entities.
He also pointed out a case in which San Diego Gas & Electric Co. awarded $55.6 million to the heirs of four U.S. Marines who died in a 2004 accident when their helicopters crashed into power lines at Camp Pendleton.
During this week's trial, Panish has used testimony of the family and photographs to depict a close-knit family originating from a small Korean farming community, where Youngmi's mother, Seokim Kim Lee, was the pillar, taking care of those in her village and her four children, along with her husband, a cattle farmer.
In video clips taken in Korea, their baby daughter, Grace, is shown playing with Seokim Kim Lee and her husband in a living room filled with their large family.
One by one, the three remaining adult Lee children have testified how their mother's death shattered their lives, leaving them feeling lost.
Jun Hwa Lee, 34, said his mother was No. 1 on his phone's speed dial so he could talk to her quickly about anything. He recalled returning to his village almost every weekend after he moved away for a job and always found his home filled with flowers and food. His father now eats out and is so depressed he spends his days wandering the home in a daze, no longer tending to his cattle, he said.
"My mom was the most important person in my life," he said. "She was the person I loved most, and still is."
Department of Justice attorneys offered their condolences to the family but have raised doubts about how close they were and how much they depended on each other. On Monday, they questioned Yoon's father-in-law, Sanghyun Lee, about why he had not visited his eldest daughter in the four years she was in the United States and why he missed her wedding in Las Vegas.
He said the couple planned to hold a bigger wedding in Korea with the entire family.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Amanpour proves to be wrong fit (Politico)
The Arab Spring. The killing of Osama bin Laden. The WikiLeaks dump of U.S. embassy cables.
If there ever was a time to try injecting more international news into the tried-and-true, Washington-based Sunday public affairs talk show format, these last 18 months were it. And if there were ever a TV journalist with the resume to pull it off, it was Christiane Amanpour.
Continue ReadingBut in the end, the ratings made clear that was not what Sunday show viewers wanted.
?Sunday morning ? it?s ESPN for political junkies,? said Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic and a friend of Amanpour?s. ?If you try to do anything else with it ? boom.?
When ABC News announced on Tuesday that it was ending Amanpour?s experimental run as the anchor of ?This Week,? few were surprised. The move had been rumored for months, and in recent weeks items about her unhappiness had begun leaking into Page Six. The only question was who would succeed her ? her predecessor, George Stephanopoulos, or White House correspondent Jake Tapper, who ran the show to rave reviews after Stephanopoulos decamped to New York and the anchor job on ?Good Morning America.?
In the end, ABC News went with the better known quantity, even though it meant working Stephanopoulos, who will be keeping his morning job, doubletime.
?This Week with Christiane Amanpour? was a bold experiment that failed, sending all parties back to their comfort zones ? ABC back to Stephanopoulos, Amanpour back to foreign reporting and CNN, where she had made a career as the world?s most famous and respected international correspondent. She?ll host a weekday show on CNN International, but continue to appear on ABC as a global affairs anchor.
But how did such an unexpected arrangement come to be in the first place?
Stephanopoulos, the former Democratic operative and Clinton aide, had done well as the Sunday show host, narrowing the gap with the long-dominant ?Meet the Press? while competing fiercely with ?Face the Nation.?
But when he was named the next anchor of GMA in December of 2009, David Westin, the network?s president at the time, struggled to name a successor. It was widely rumored that his boss, Disney CEO Bob Iger, and his wife, Willow Bay ? who both attended Amanpour?s 1998 wedding to Jamie Rubin, then the State Department spokesman ? had nudged Westin to consider Amanpour for the job.
And in March of 2010, jaws dropped around D.C. when ABC announced it had hired CNN?s biggest international star.
The move made sense for ABC News, which prides itself on attracting marquee anchor talent ? see its current roster of Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters and Katie Couric as evidence. And it got Amanpour excited that she could, as she told POLITICO in an interview at the time, ?try to make foreign news less foreign.?
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