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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Ex-CIA officer charged over classified leaks (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? A former Central Intelligence Agency officer has been arrested and charged with illegally disclosing classified information to journalists, including the identity of a covert officer and details about the capture of terrorism suspect Abu Zubaydah, the Justice Department said on Monday.
John Kiriakou, 47, worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004 as an intelligence officer and then worked as a senior staff member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2009 until May 2011.
He was accused of revealing to one journalist in 2008 the identity of the covert CIA officer who was involved in the agency's program to secretly capture terrorism suspects, bring them to U.S.-run detention facilities and interrogate them.
Kiriakou was also accused of revealing to three reporters the identity of a second CIA officer involved in the capture and interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, believed to be al Qaeda's field commander who was captured in March 2002 in Pakistan.
The case emerged after their names were included in sealed filings made by defense lawyers in the cases involving terrorism suspects held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to the criminal complaint.
The covert officer's name was never publicly revealed, but the New York Times published the second officer's name in 2008. U.S. authorities said they never provided that information to the defense lawyers.
Kiriakou provided contact information for both officers as well as details about the second officer's role in the Zubaydah operation, it said.
Photographs of the second individual were also found among materials held by the terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo prison. After those incidents, U.S. officials launched an investigation.
"Both Officer B's association with the RDI (Rendition, Detention and Interrogation) program, and the Abu Zubaydah operation in particular, were classified until that information recently was declassified in order to allow this prosecution to go forward," according to an FBI affidavit.
The Justice Department said that one of the journalists that Kiriakou aided had provided the information about the two CIA officers to an investigator for the defense team for detainees at the prison.
CONTROVERSIAL INTERROGATION
Defense lawyers used the photographs in a group of unidentified people to see if the detainees recognized anyone who participated in the questioning of them. No charges were filed against the defense team.
The interrogation of Zubaydah has been controversial because interrogators used the technique known as waterboarding, which simulates drowning, to try to obtain information from him. Two other terrorism suspects were also subjected to waterboarding.
Kiriakou denied any wrongdoing during an interview with the FBI last week. Kiriakou's lawyer was not immediately available for comment.
He was charged with one count of revealing the identity of a covert agent, two counts of violating the Espionage Act for disclosing national defense information and one count of making false statements.
The count charging illegal disclosure of a covert officer's identity carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, which must be imposed consecutively to any other prison term. The two espionage counts each carry up to 10 years in prison while lying provides for up to five years in prison.
CIA Director David Petraeus issued a statement saying the agency supported the investigation and reminded employees of their obligation to keep classified information secret.
"Given the sensitive nature of many of our Agency's operations and the risks we ask our employees to take, the illegal passage of secrets is an abuse of trust that may put lives in jeopardy," he said.
(Reporting By Jeremy Pelofsky; Editing by Philip Barbara)
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GOP race turns to new terrain in Florida
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, greets supporters at a campaign rally in Coral Springs, Fla. Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Mitchell)
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, greets supporters at a campaign rally in Coral Springs, Fla. Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve Mitchell)
Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, is joined by wife Ann, following his speech during the South Carolina Primary night rally Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is greeted by supporters after Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? Now it's Florida's turn.
And Republican presidential rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have just 10 days to navigate a state unlike any they've competed in so far. Florida is six times larger than New Hampshire, has almost five times more Hispanics than Iowa, and, with numerous media markets, is much more expensive for candidates than South Carolina. That's where Gingrich trounced Romney on Saturday night, suddenly scrambling the GOP presidential race ahead of Florida's Jan. 31 primary.
"It's been fascinating spectator sport so far," Beth Schiller, 48, said inside Buddy Brew Coffee shop the next morning. "But it's coming here now. They're all coming."
Indeed, the remaining candidates in a shrunken field ? Romney, Gingrich, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Rep. Ron Paul ? planned to be in the state Monday for the first of two presidential debates this week.
All eyes were certain to be on what's essentially a two-man race.
After a crushing South Carolina defeat, Romney no longer faces the prospect of wrapping up the nomination quickly and now is forced to regroup. He has spent months planning for the Florida campaign, essentially building a firewall in the state. He has the largest organization of any candidate. And he and his allies combined have had the TV airwaves all to themselves for weeks, already spending roughly $6 million combined. The former Massachusetts governor's areas of strength in the diverse state may be with the transplanted Northeasterners and snowbirds along the Gold Coast.
But now there are doubts about whether he can knit together the broad cross-section of Republican voters he'd need to win in this state, much less the nomination.
"I'm looking forward to a long campaign," Romney said on "Fox News Sunday," an acknowledgment that he wouldn't sew up the nomination with a Florida victory as aides once had hoped.
Gingrich, for his part, will work to keep his momentum going despite continued division among tea party and religious activists who, to a certain degree, continue to divide their support between him and Santorum. The state's conservative panhandle may be fertile ground for the former Georgia lawmaker who talks of his Southern roots often. His team also is working hard to court evangelicals, who vote in droves in the state's GOP primaries and who tend to look skeptically on Romney.
He dramatically trails Romney in fundraising and organization in the state, underscored by his launching of an online "money bomb" Saturday night to try to raise $1 million to help fund his efforts in Florida.
"My job in Florida is to convince people that I am the one candidate who can clearly defeat Obama in a series of debates and the one candidate who has big enough solutions that they would really get America back on track," Gingrich told CNN's "State of the Union."
His South Carolina victory is certain to change the dynamics in a state where Romney has led in polls for weeks.
"People want to get behind a winner," said Tom Gaitens, co-founder of the Tampa Tea Party and state director for the conservative organization FreedomWorks. "People will be drawn to Newt like a magnet."
Florida's size and diversity creates challenges for all the candidates. And the issues may be far different than those in the previous states.
There are 10 distinct media markets in Florida, which helps explain the tremendous cost of running a statewide campaign here.
And the voters are anything but homogenous.
Northern Florida along the panhandle is as close to the South as the state offers. It's the least populated and considered the most culturally conservative. Southeastern Florida, including the Miami area, is traditionally not as conservative as the rest of the state, offering a large Latino population and many Northeastern transplants and Jewish voters. The bulk of the state's Republicans, including a significant collection of evangelicals, live along central Florida's Interstate 4 corridor, including Tampa and Orlando.
Exit polling from the 2008 GOP primary shows that approximately 39 percent of voters identified themselves as born-again or evangelical Christians. That's a significant voting bloc Gingrich has been targeting. He won evangelicals soundly in South Carolina, where they constituted roughly 65 percent of the electorate.
Hispanics are also key.
Romney is already on television running an advertisement in Spanish. Gingrich plans to do the same. The Gingrich team is based in the Miami area, the epicenter of the state's considerable Cuban population. Cubans make up roughly a third of the state's Hispanic population and figure to play prominently.
Romney's team is based in Tampa, and it has spent weeks working to woo the 200,000 people who already have cast ballots through absentee and early voting.
Like everywhere else, the economy is certain to dominate the race in Florida. The unemployment rate here is 10 percent, much higher than the national 8.5 percent jobless figure. And more than 2 percent of all Florida housing units were involved in foreclosure last year, according to the RealtyTrac foreclosure listing service. Florida also is third in the number of homes with "upside down" mortgages, at 44 percent of all mortgaged properties, according to the CoreLogic real estate data firm.
But other topics also will dominate.
Florida is a retirement mecca, so expect discussion about Social Security. It's also home to a number of environmentalists working to protect the coastline and fight drilling, so those topics are all but certain to be touched on. And with a heavy influx of Hispanics, immigration is certain to be raised.
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Altitude sickness causes Tracy Morgan Sundance collapse (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? "30 Rock" actor Tracy Morgan collapsed at the Sundance film festival over the weekend and is being treated for exhaustion and altitude sickness, his publicist said on Monday.
Spokesman Lewis Kay said initial reports that Morgan was drunk were untrue.
"From a combination of exhaustion and altitude, Tracy is seeking medical attention. He is with his fianc? and grateful to the Park City Medical Center for their care. Any reports of Tracy consuming alcohol are 100% false," Kay said in a statement.
Morgan, 43, was taken to the hospital in Park City, Utah, on Sunday while attending a charity event during the annual Sundance film festival in the ski resort.
The actor's new comedy "Predisposed" is one of the dozens of films at the festival, which champions independent movies.
(Reporting By Jill Serjeant)
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Sean Penn shares film's dream of ducking stardom (AP)
PARK CITY, Utah ? Sean Penn's new movie casts him as a former rock star who turns his back on stardom and goes into exile overseas.
Penn can relate. He says he's thought often enough about ducking out of the limelight.
"This Must Be the Place" had its U.S. premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where Penn first came 27 years ago with "The Falcon and the Snowman."
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, "This Must Be the Place" stars Penn as Cheyenne, a raven-maned, mascara-caked former pop icon whose look was inspired by Robert Smith of the Cure.
After his father's death, lost soul Cheyenne embarks on a road trip to track down a former Nazi who brutalized his dad in a concentration camp.
The film opens in the U.S. in March.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Exxon Mobil to Pay $1.6 Million in Penalties for Yellowstone River Oil Spill (ContributorNetwork)
Exxon Mobil has reached an agreement with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to pay $1.6 million in penalties over the Yellowstone River oil spill, according to the Associated Press. The agreement specifically details that the oil company will spend $1.3 million on future environmental projects, pay $300,000 in cash, and reimburse state agencies for $760,000 in emergency response costs. The penalty is the largest in the history of the agency.
With this landmark decision, here are some facts and information about the Yellowstone River oil spill and the following events leading up to Thursday's announcement:
* KTVQ Billings reported that the spill occurred on the night of Friday, July 1, 2011, after an underground line underneath the Yellowstone River broke and the initial spill estimates were 750 to 1,000 barrels.
* In less than 24 hours, the unrefined crude oil had spread from the town of Laurel, Mont., to Hysham, a town about 100 miles east.
* CNN added that the about 200 residents were evacuated after the oil company reported the spill but were allowed back to their homes the following morning.
* Ecological concerns have also been raised since the river is home to trout and helps provide habitat and food for geese, otters, and bald eagles, all of which could be at risk for ingesting toxins.
* Cleanup efforts included utilizing 48,000 feet of absorbent boom, 2,300 absorbent pads, and vacuum trucks and tankers.
* In light of the $1.6 million agreement, Exxon Mobil increased its estimate of the total number of crude oil spilled by 50 percent from the earlier estimate of 1,000 barrels to at least 1,509 barrels, according to the Billings Gazette.
* Gov. Brian Schweitzer had disputed with Exxon, saying that the 1,000-barrel estimate was too low and, in addition, only about 10 barrels of crude oil were recovered by cleanup crews.
* The New York Times reported that 10 days into the spill, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) testing showed that air and drinking water quality did not pose safety risks.
* During the time of the spill, raging flood waters prevent water tested and the EPA was unable to proceed until flood waters receded.
* In October, eight landowners filed a lawsuit against Exxon seeking unspecified damages for harm to their property and businesses as a result of the oil spill, reported the Associated Press.
* The rupture happened in a pipeline buried 5 to 7 feet below the river and since the burst, a 12-inch pipeline was been reburied about 60 to 70 below the river and oil transport has resumed.
Rachel Bogart provides an in-depth look at current environmental issues and local Chicago news stories. As a college student from the Chicago suburbs pursuing two science degrees, she applies her knowledge and passion to both topics to garner further public awareness.
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Oil above $101 on hopes IMF to curb Europe crisis (AP)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia ? Oil rose above $101 a barrel Thursday in Asia after the IMF promised to raise lending to mitigate a worsening financial crisis in Europe. Stronger U.S. economic data also gave oil a lift.
Benchmark crude for February delivery was up 66 cents at $101.25 a barrel at late afternoon Kuala Lumpur time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 12 cents to end at $100.59 on Wednesday.
"Trading has been choppy but the market recovered on news that the IMF will boost its lending capacity for Europe," said Natalie Robertson, commodities analyst with ANZ Banking Group in Melbourne.
The International Monetary Fund estimated countries around the world would need about $1 trillion in loans over the coming years and said it aimed to increase its financial firepower by around $500 billion so it can give out new loans.
The IMF has put up about a third of the financing for Europe's bailouts over the past two years, but there are growing worries that non-European countries will also need more help given the worsening economic outlook.
Robertson said prices were also supported by the American Petroleum Institute's report Wednesday showing an unexpected drop in crude inventory last week. The government is expected to release its weekly data later Thursday.
Strong U.S. housing figures, an improvement in U.S. manufacturing activity in December and increased orders and production also buoyed crude prices, she said.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch predicted limited upside, with crude prices to average $101 a barrel this year. it cited weak oil global demand after the International Energy Agency cut its forecast for oil demand growth to 1.1 million barrels a day, down from an earlier estimate of 1.3 million barrels a day.
In other energy trading, heating oil rose 0.9 cent to $3.02 per gallon and gasoline futures rose 0.5 cent to $2.83 per gallon. Natural gas fell 3.7 cents to $2.43 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Video: Satisfy your cravings for ravioli
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Nintendo bringing free game demos to 3DS eShop (Digital Trends)
Launching nearly ten months after the Nintendo 3DS hit North American shores, Nintendo is rolling out support for demos that can be downloaded through the Nintendo eShop. As of January 19, Nintendo 3DS owners can download a trial version of Capcom?s Resident Evil: Revelations, a title that?s launching in North America in approximately three weeks. During the following week, 3DS owners will be able to check out?Sega?s?Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games.?Other demos included on the docket are?Konami?s?Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D?and Ubisoft?s?Rayman Origins, however no date has been announced on the availability of either demo.?
Previous to this announcement, Nintendo touted that 3DS sales crossed the four million mark after the busy shopping season at the end of 2011. It?s also outpacing the Nintendo Wii in sales according to the gaming company. Sales of the PlayStation Vita have slowed considerably in Japan since launch according to Media Create?s most recent report. As of last week, Vita sales dropped to less than 20,000 units sold and trailed sales of the Nintendo 3DS by over 80,000 units.
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Virgin Media suffers three hour outage days after announcing super-fast broadband
Less than a week after announcing it would double customers broadband speeds nationwide, Virgin Media suffered a nationwide blackout that sent the network dark for most of Tuesday evening. At 5:00, the service dropped after router hardware decided it couldn't go on streaming the same episode of The Jeremy Kyle Show to the nation. The company admitted to the fault and service was restored by 8:00pm. Had it been smarter, it could have gotten away with passing the whole thing off as a SOPA protest, but we admire Virgin's honesty -- even if it did lead to the brilliant comment on Twitter pictured above.
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Austrian panel strikes ball from culture list
[unable to retrieve full-text content]VIENNA (AP) ? A committee reporting to the U.N.'s culture organization has struck the Viennese Ball from its list of Austrian cultural traditions.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
How Cancer Drugs Make Cancer Worse and Kill Patients [Science]
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Razer Arctosa Gaming Keyboard ? Silver - Woot
Hey! Get away from there!
What the hell do you think you?re doing?!
?What?s the big deal? I just needed to send an email and you were taking a crap-?
I was BLOWING MY NOSE. And if you?re going to send an email, use a writing keyboard, not my refurbished Razer Arctosa Gaming Keyboard.
?Right, blowing your nose. For 25 minutes. Anyway I don?t see what the problem is. It?s a keyboard, isn?t it??
It?s a GAMING keyboard, you moron. It?s got fully-programmable keys for all my macro needs, Hyperresponse Technology, Anti-Ghosting for WASD use, and a 1ms Response Time. You can?t just go clacking away on it with your big, dumb, sausage fingers.
?I don?t have sausage fingers! And what?s the point of having a keyboard if you can?t use the keys??
You use they keys for committing gross acts of pwnage against idiots on the Internet. Ugh, now I?m going to have to clean the whole thing again.
?I think you?re overreacting. Did you have a tough time in the bathroom??
I was blowing my nose. And I?m not overreacting. You wouldn?t walk into Eric Clapton?s house and start noodling on the first Stratocaster you stumble across, would you?
?Sorry, are you now saying you?re the Eric Clapton of gaming? Does that mean you play a style of game that most people feel like white people shouldn?t be playing??
Will you just shut up and listen?
?Or does it mean you fell in love with some other famous gamer dude you were friends with and wrote a song or, I guess in this metaphor you would be playing a game, about his wife to steal her away??
THE POINT IS DON?T TOUCH MY KEYBOARD!
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Condition: Refurbished
Features:
- Fully-programmable keys with macro capabilities
- Selective anti-ghosting for WASD gaming cluster
- Slim keycap structure with Hyperesponse technology
- Easy access media keys
- Gaming mode option for deactivation of the Windows key
- 10 customizable software profiles with on-the-fly switching
- 1000Hz Ultrapolling / 1ms response time
- Detachable wrist rest
- Approximate size:
- 18.5? L x 6.5? W x 1.0?H ? without wrist rest
- 18.5? L x 8.75? W x 1.0?H ? with wrist rest
Additional Photos:
System Requirements
- PC with USB port
- Windows? 7 / Windows Vista? / Windows? XP
- Internet connection (for driver installation)
- At least 35MB of hard disk space
In the box:
- (1) Razer Arctosa Keyboard ? Silver
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
NBA roundup: Heat dominate 2nd half vs. Spurs
Published: Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 11:50 p.m. MST
MIAMI ? LeBron James scored 33 points, Chris Bosh added 30 and the Miami Heat used a historic third-quarter turnaround to erase a big deficit and beat the San Antonio Spurs 120-98 on Tuesday night, snapping a three-game slide.
Miami outscored San Antonio 39-12 in the third quarter ? the second-largest differential for any quarter in Heat history, and the second-worst differential for a period in Spurs history. The Heat trailed 52-35 late in the second quarter.
Mike Miller made his season debut and shot 6 for 6 on 3-pointers, finishing with 18 points and tying his career-high for makes from beyond the arc. And the Heat did it all without Dwyane Wade, sitting out on his 30th birthday because of a sprained right ankle.
Danny Green scored 20 points for the Spurs, and Tony Parker had 18.
MAGIC 96, BOBCATS 89: At Orlando, Fla., Dwight Howard had 25 points and 17 rebounds to lead Orlando to its fifth straight win.
Jameer Nelson scored 17 points, Hedo Turkoglu had 15 and Von Wafer 13 as the Magic won for the 10th time in 12 games.
Gerald Henderson had 22 points for Charlotte, which has lost eight of its last nine. The Bobcats are also winless in their last five trips to Orlando.
Charlotte stayed close throughout the game and pulled within a basket late in the fourth quarter before Ryan Anderson's 3-pointer extended Orlando's lead to 86-81 with 1:33 to play.
Turkoglu and Wafer scored eight points each in the decisive fourth quarter.
WARRIORS 105, CAVALIERS 95: At Cleveland, David Lee scored a season-high 29 points ? 13 in the fourth quarter ? and Nate Robinson added 17 points, leading Golden State past the road-worn Cavaliers.
Lee scored 7 straight points midway through the final period to help the Warriors pull away from the Cavs, who were coming off a seven-game road trip.
Golden State's Monta Ellis had to be helped from the floor bleeding in the final minute with a cut on his face. He was accidentally struck by an elbow from Cleveland's Anderson Varejao. Ellis finished with 10 points ? 13 below his average.
Antawn Jamison scored 19 and rookie Kyrie Irving had 18 for Cleveland, which committed a season-high 25 turnovers.
BULLS 118, SUNS 97: At Chicago, Carlos Boozer scored 26 of his season-high 31 points in the first half, leading short-handed Chicago past Phoenix.
Boozer hit 12 of 15 shots in the opening half and scored eight points during a 12-point burst that opened up a 20-point lead for Chicago, which was playing without Derrick Rose for the second straight game because of a sprained left big toe.
The Bulls improved to 6-0 at home for the first time since 1996-97, though they allowed more than 74 points to an opponent for the first time at home this season.
Steve Nash led Phoenix with 25 points and nine assists.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Cancer..Who Handles IT Better?
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Who handles a diagnosis of cancer better??
I know in this household, Leroy and I were very different when it came to understanding and dealing with his disease.? This wasn't a care giver vs. patient issue.? This was the way we approached the cancer.
I couldn't learn enough about it.? My questions to his doctors weren't just about procedures and what they would do to the cancer, but I needed details.? He didn't go there at all.?? When he found out he had colon cancer, that was all he needed to know about that.? He had a name for it, he pretty much knew there was a genetic connection and the next step was to fight like hell to beat it.
When a particular treatment was suggested, he certainly thought long and hard about it, weighing the pros and cons, but he did it in his head.? Just like he did if he was going into a war zone.? He would think it through..the entire trip...it was his way of controlling the outcome.
But we were just one couple facing this hard journey.? One boy and one girl who managed it together, but separately.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Size of U.S. debt now equals entire economy: $15.23 TRILLION
America?s national debt has reached a worrying milestone ? it is now as big as the whole of its economy.
The amount owed by the federal government to its creditors, combined with IOUs to government retirement and other schemes, now stands at $15.23 trillion.
The government estimated the value of goods and services produced by the economy in a year at $15.17trillion as of September.
Private projections showed that the economy grew to roughly $15.3 trillion by December, which the debt is likely to surpass this month, USA Today reported today.
Steve Bell of the Bipartisan Policy Center, which has proposed cutting nearly $6trillion over ten years, said: ?The 100 per cent mark means that your entire debt is as big as everything you?re producing in your country. Clearly, that can?t continue.?
According to long-term forecasts, debt will carry on growing faster than the economy, which would need to expand by at least 6 per year to keep pace.
President Obama?s 2012 budget shows the debt passing $26trillion ten years from now.
By historic standards, that is still high.
The total national debt topped the size of the economy for three years during and after World War II.
It dropped to 32.5 per cent of the economy by 1981, and then started a steady climb under President Reagan, doubling over the next 12 years.
The combination of recession and stimulus spending caused it to soar again under Obama.
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Wall Street edges lower on new euro worries (AP)
NEW YORK ? U.S. stock indexes were slightly lower in midday trading as worries about a recession in Europe outweighed hopes that the U.S. economic recovery will gather steam.
The first week of the quarterly earnings season did little to help the market. Grocery store operator Supervalu plunged after reporting a wider loss Wednesday morning. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 38 points, or 0.3 percent, to 12,423 shortly after noon.
Germany reported that its economy contracted slightly at the end of 2011. The European Commission also said Hungary has taken "no effective action" to contain its deficit. Stock markets in Germany and France fell slightly and the euro dropped half a percent against the dollar.
"Europe is still the main risk," said Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial. "Yes, they've been making progress on their budgets but they clearly have growth problems."
Worries about Europe have weighed on stock prices and helped drive analysts' earnings estimates lower. S&P Capital IQ says analysts now expect that year-over-year growth in earnings at S&P 500 companies will "slow dramatically" to 7.2 percent in the fourth quarter from 17.6 percent in the third quarter.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 2 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,289 in midday trading Wednesday. The Nasdaq composite edged up 2 points to 2,703.
The recent jump in orange juice futures hit Coca-Cola, owner of Minute Maid, and PepsiCo, which has Tropicana. Coca-Cola Co. sank 2 percent, the most in the Dow. PepsiCo. Inc. fell 1 percent.
Orange juice futures have been rising sharply in volatile trading since late December, largely over concerns that cold weather in Florida could damage the crop there. They spiked 11 percent to $2.08 a pound Tuesday on news that the government would increase testing for a fungicide that was found in low levels in juice.
The contract fell back 8 percent to $1.90 Wednesday; analysts said the jump Tuesday may have been an overreaction and the market is waiting to see whether the Food and Drug Administration's tests turn up more problems. OJ is still up 15 percent from its recent low of $1.65 on Dec. 21.
Among companies making large moves:
? Urban Outfitters Inc. dropped 17 percent, the steepest fall of any stock in the S&P 500, following the abrupt resignation of its CEO, Glen Senk. The company, which also runs the Anthropologie and Free People stores, said last week that tough competition and a drive to reduce inventory led to more markdowns than expected during the holiday shopping season.
? Supervalu Inc. plunged 10 percent. The grocery store operator, which owns the Albertsons and Jewel-Osco chains, reported a wider loss because of high food prices and costs related to a turnaround plan. The company cut its forecast for full-year sales for the second quarter in a row.
? Commercial Metals Co. fell 6 percent to $13.89 after the investor Carl Icahn said he would end his hostile takeover attempt of the company. Only 23 percent of Commercial Metals' shareholders supported Icahn's $15-per-share offer, far short of Icahn's goal of 40.1 percent.
? Lennar Corp. rose 7 percent. Sales rose as the builder delivered more houses. Lennar reported a drop in quarterly earnings but said the housing market is starting to stabilize with the help of lower home prices and low interest rates.
The Dow closed at its highest point since July 26 on Tuesday, following European markets higher after Fitch Ratings said that it would not downgrade France's credit rating this year. The average of 30 large company stocks is up 1.7 percent to start the year. The S&P 500 is up 2.5 percent.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Syracuse easy No. 1 again in AP poll
Syracuse, one of three unbeaten teams in Division I, is on top of The Associated Press' college basketball poll for the fifth straight week.
The Orange received 60 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel. Kentucky, which got the other No. 1 votes, North Carolina and Baylor remained second through fourth.
Ohio State moved up one spot to fifth and was followed by Michigan State, Indiana, Duke, Missouri and Kansas in the Top 10.
Baylor and No. 15 Murray State are the other unbeatens.
Creighton, which was out of the poll for one week, moved back in at No. 23, while Seton Hall, which has won 11 of 12, moved in at No. 24, its first appearance since January 2001.
Wisconsin, ranked as high as No. 9, fell out from 18th after its third straight loss. Harvard, which was ranked three of the last five weeks, fell out from 22nd.
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Tipping the scales at less than about a million suns in mass, middleweight black holes may hold clues to how their much larger siblings, and galaxies, first formed
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In Brief
- Black holes with a billion times the sun?s mass already existed early in the universe. How did these behemoths grow so big, so fast? What process formed the ?seed? black holes from which they grew?
- Did the death throes of the first stars provide numerous small seeds that then merged together, or did vast primordial gas clouds bypass the star stage and collapse to form larger seeds directly?
- Astronomers are trying to solve this mystery by finding and analyzing leftover seeds??middleweight? black holes. Early indications suggest that middleweights formed by direct collapse.
Astronomers have known for some 10 years that nearly every large galaxy contains at its core an immense black hole?an object having such intense gravity that even light cannot escape. The death of stars can produce small black holes?with masses ranging from about three to 100 times the mass of the sun?but such stellar-mass black holes are tiny compared with the behemoths at the centers of galaxies, measuring millions to billions of solar masses.
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Frog claims 'world's smallest vertebrate' title
A frog that can perch on the tip of your pinkie with room to spare has been claimed as the world's smallest vertebrate species, out-tinying a fish that got the title in 2006. But the discoverer of another weensy fish disputes the claim.
A tempest in a thimble, some might say.
An article Wednesday in the journal PLoS One named Paedophryne amauensis (pee-doh-FRY-nee AM-OW-en-sis) as the world's smallest animal with a spine.
The adult frogs are about three-tenths of an inch long (7.7 millimeters long), and a millimeter or so smaller than a carp found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The frogs are so small that Louisiana State University herpetologist and environmental biologist Christopher Austin had to enlarge close-up photos to describe them.
But the adult males of a species of deep-sea anglerfish are smaller by as much as a millimeter and a half, said University of Washington ichthyologist Theodore Pietsch, who described them in 2006. The males, which come in at 6.2 to 7.4 millimeters in length, don't have stomachs and live as parasites on 1.8-inch-long (46-millimeter-long) females.
Austin discovered the tiny frogs ? along with another small frog species ? in August 2009 while on a trip to Papua New Guinea to study the extreme diversity of the island's wildlife. He said he knew about the anglerfish but felt that the average species size made more sense for comparison.
Steven J. Beaupre, a University of Arkansas scientist and president-elect of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, said many vertebrates have males and females of very different sizes, "so it is reasonable that the world's smallest vertebrate may end up being either the males or the females of some specific fish or amphibian species."
Size isn't everything
He said he doesn't pay attention to "tiniest" reports, but the frogs themselves are a significant discovery.
"The discovery of two new frog species comes as great news against the background of more prevalent accounts of tropical amphibian extinction," he wrote in an email.
Knowing about such tiny creatures and their ecology, he said, helps scientists "better understand the advantages and disadvantages of extreme small size and how such extremes evolve. Fundamentally, these tiny vertebrates provide a window on the principles that constrain animal design."
Austin said that since these frogs hatch out as hoppers rather than tadpoles and live on the ground, their existence contradicts the hypothesis that evolution at large and small extremes is linked to life in water.
At least 29 species of minuscule frogs in equatorial regions worldwide live in leaf litter or moss that is moist year-round and eat even tinier invertebrates, creating a previously unknown "ecological guild" of similar animals with similar life habits, he said.
"We realized these frogs were probably doing something incredibly different from what normal frogs do ? invading this open niche of wet leaf litter that is full of really tiny insects that other frogs and possibly other creatures weren't eating," Austin said.
Following the 'tinks'
In August 2009, Austin and graduate student Eric Rittmeyer were collecting and recording the mating calls of frogs at night in a tropical forest near the village of Amau in eastern Papua New Guinea, when they heard a chorus of high-pitched "tinks."
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"This frog has a call that doesn't sound like a frog at all. It sounds like an insect," he said. The calls seemed to surround them, and it took a while to be sure they were coming from the ground.
Since they couldn't locate the noise-maker, they snatched up some habitat, expecting to find a six-legger in it.
"We found it by grabbing a whole handful of leaf litter and putting it into a clear plastic bag and very, very slowly going through that litter leaf by leaf by leaf until we saw that small frog hop off one of those leaves," he said.
Getting photos took some effort ? the frogs can leap 30 times their own length. After hopping around for a bit, they settled down long enough for a close-up or two, Austin said.
Their expedition, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, later turned up another new species of tiny frog, found farther west along the island's coast. The other is closely related, but a millimeter or so larger, and it had a different call.
Hotspot of diversity
Austin estimated that they found 20 previously unknown species in New Guinea, which is such a hotspot of diversity that scientists figure they've described only about six-tenths of all the species living there.
Maurice Kottelat, a Swiss scientist who found the tiny carp called Paedocypris progenetica, wrote in an email that it's hard to compare frogs and fish, because they're measured differently: frogs from nose-tip to the excretory vent, and fish from nose to tail.
"It is not so interesting to know which is really the smallest. Tomorrow will bring another smallest anyway," he wrote.
He concluded a long email, "I have a great concern. It is not when will we discover the next smallest, but whether habitats where to discover them will still be there. Or how long will the habitats survive.
"Since the discovery of Paedocypris most of the fragile peat swamps that it inhabits have been destroyed."
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Greek bond swap falling short, governments may fill gap: sources (Reuters)
FRANKFURT (Reuters) ? Talks about private sector creditors paying for part of a second Greek bailout are going badly, senior European bankers said on Wednesday, raising the prospect that euro zone governments will have to increase their contribution to the aid package.
"Governments are mulling an increase of their share of the burden," said one of the bankers, who is familiar with the talks.
Banks and investment funds have been negotiating with Athens for months on a bond swap scheme to cut Greece's debt burden from 160 percent of the nation's annual output to a more manageable 120 percent by 2020. This is central to a second, 130 billion euro ($165 billion) bailout that international lenders have drawn up to help the country avert default.
As part of these talks, banks have agreed a "voluntary" 50 percent write-down on Greek debt holdings but have faced demands to make further concessions, a factor that has made it less attractive for some of the investors to take part on a voluntary basis.
The participation rate among private sector investors is currently less than 75 percent, which means Greece's debt will be reduced by far less than expected, the source said.
Asked whether governments will have to put up more cash to make up for such a shortfall, another senior banker said: "Nothing is decided yet, but the bigger the imposed haircut, the less appetite there is for voluntary conversion."
A third senior banker, who was asked the same question, said: "Private sector involvement is going badly."
There are suggestions in euro zone government circles that ministers are realizing they may need to bolster the planned second bailout if the voluntary bond swap scheme falls short of expectations.
Stumping up yet more money would be politically difficult in Germany and other countries in the northern part of the currency bloc.
An Athens-based source close to the talks on private sector involvement (PSI) insisted: "The government is pushing hard and is close to signing a deal." But the source declined to give an indication about take-up.
MERKEL, SARKOZY INSIST
On Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy insisted private-sector bondholders must share in reducing Greece's debt burden and said no further aid would flow to Athens without a deal.
Banks and other private sector creditors attempted to agree a deal before Christmas to cut the value of their bonds by half in return for a mix of cash and new bonds.
But the talks hit trouble over the details of the debt swap such as the coupon, maturity and the credit guarantees. These will determine the bonds' Net Present Value (NPV), and thereby the actual hit the banks need to take.
Policymakers insist agreement is near despite weeks of talks already. EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Tuesday negotiators were "about to finalize shortly".
Athens needs to conclude the deal and secure funding from its euro zone partners and the International Monetary Fund to be able to redeem 14.5 billion euros of maturing bonds on March 20. A deal needs to come well before that, because the paperwork alone takes at least six weeks.
Hedge funds who have picked up Greek debt are intent on staying out of the bond swap deal, sources say. They either prefer letting the country go under, which would trigger the credit insurance they have bought, or hope to get paid out in full if enough others sign up.
But Athens could change its laws and impose Collective Action Clauses which would force all creditors to sign up to the bond swap if a clear majority had voluntarily done so.
Charles Dallara, the head of a group representing private-sector banks, will hold talks in Athens on Thursday with Greek government officials on a voluntary swap of privately held Greek bonds, a spokesman for Dallara's Institute of International Finance said.
According to a weekend report in German magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday, the IMF believes Greece will still be sinking under the burden of its debts even after a bond swap deal is struck, and that further measures may need to be taken if the country is to avoid default.
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(Reporting by Edward Taylor and Philipp Halstrick,; additional reporting by Dina Kyriakidou; writing by Mike Peacock; Editing by Ruth Pitchford)
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
QOOQ tablet gets a dual-core bilingual upgrade: We get our chef on (video)
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Online Degree: 10 Meanest Things Owners Love To Do To Their Pets
Dress them up
Put tape on their paws
Pets withstand a lot of humiliation, but one of the meanest things that owners love to do to them is put office tape on their paws. Pet owners have a blast watching cats and dogs squirm and stick to the floor with every sticky step. This seemingly innocent prank is actually just plain mean!
Wake them up
Tease them
Some pet owners are downright mean and love to tease their dogs and cats with toys and treats. You might get a good laugh watching your dog search relentlessly for a ball you never threw, but this kind of teasing can come back to bite you big time. Teasing and play-fighting can cause dogs to become aggressive and disobedient.
Put cats on leashes
Make them dance
Unless your dog is related to the salsa-dancing golden retriever on YouTube, he or she probably doesn't like to dance. And cats? Forget about it. People love to swing around their pets and make them stand up and dance against their will, but this cruel activity often ends in biting, scratching, and a hatred for dancing.
Paint their nails
Put them in strollers and purses
Put their embarrassing moments on YouTube
Pet owners get a lot of entertainment from watching their dogs and cats every day, but that doesn't mean you should share their embarrassing moments with the whole world. Pet owners love to videotape their animals playing, sleeping, and making complete fools of themselves and put these moments on YouTube for all to see.
Take glamour shots
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HP Envy 14 Spectre official: 3.79 pounds, NFC, Radiance display and glass chassis, arriving February 8 for $1,400
Well, folks: we were right (except for the thin part, anyway). HP just unveiled the Envy 14 Spectre, and is billing it as a "premium Ultrabook." Which makes sense, since the laptop starts at $1,400, making it even pricier than the 13-inch MacBook Air (to say nothing of all those $900 ultraportables hitting the market). Above all, the company is justifying that price with a daring glass design, which HP insists makes the laptop more durable, not less so. In addition to cost, though, the trade-off to all that armor is some extra heft: the Spectre weighs in at 3.79 pounds and measures 20mm thick, making it the chubbiest 13-inch Ultrabook we've seen yet.
So what does $1,400 get you, aside from a memorable design? We're told the laptop comes standard with a 14-inch, 1600 x 900 Radiance Display (hurrah!), Core i5-2467M CPU, 4GB of RAM, a nine-hour battery, backlit keyboard, carrying case and -- get this -- an NFC chip built into the palm rest for transferring URLs from your phone's browser. Other bells and whistles include Intel Wireless Display, HP's CoolSense technology, Beats, HP Wireless Audio, full copies of Photoshop and Premiere Elements and a two-year subscription to Norton Internet Security. Got that, guys? Upgrade options include a 256GB SSD and an extra 4GB of RAM, but other than that, what you see is what you get (and to be fair, you get a lot).
The Spectre will go on sale in the US on February 8, continuing on to Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Chile and Mexico in March. For now, though, head past the break for a walk-through video and some early impressions from yours truly.
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