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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Florida man kicked off jury for Facebook friend request

The Associated Press

1:55 p.m. EST, December 30, 2011

SARASOTA, Florida ? A Florida man has been removed from a civil trial jury after sending a Facebook friend request to one of the defendants.

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports Jacob Jock arrived for jury duty Dec. 12. He was placed in a jury pool for a personal injury lawsuit from a traffic accident case. That's when he used his phone to access Facebook and see whether he knew anyone involved.

Jock says he accidentally sent a friend request to one of the defendants, Violetta Milerman.

He was selected to serve on the jury, and Milerman informed her attorney about the friend request the next day. Jock was dismissed.

Senior Circuit Judge Nancy Donnellan admonished him for violating her instructions on not to discuss the case or use the Internet to find information.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/orlandosentinelbreakingnews/~3/GZt3yORosCg/os-facebook-juror-defendant-20111230,0,6222494.story

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Lindsay Lohan Threatens Legal Action Over Dubai Party Reports ...

Lindsay Lohan is threatening to take legal action against a party planning company over allegations her name has been used to promote a New Year's Eve bash in Dubai.

Lohan's representatives are to send a cease and desist letter to the unnamed firm to clear up false reports suggesting she will ring in 2012 at a massive party on a cruise ship in the United Arab Emirates, according to TMZ.com.

The actress' spokesman Steve Honig is adamant the story is untrue as Lohan plans to ring in the new year in California.

He tells the website, "Lindsay is not going to Dubai, nor had she ever considered doing so. She will be spending New Year's Eve in Los Angeles with a few close friends and family."

Lindsay Lohan

Source: http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2011/12/30/lindsay_lohan_threatens_legal_action_o

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Tender: UK-London: electronic books/e-books ??? EMA/2011/35/DIS ??? 2 lots

UK-London: electronic books/e-books ??? EMA/2011/35/DIS ??? 2 lots

2011/S 252-410597

Contract notice

Supplies

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)
Name, addresses and contact point(s)
For the attention of: Telephone: E-mail: Fax: European Medicines Agency
7 Westferry Circus, Canary Wharf
Ms Beatrice Fayl
E14 4HBLondon
UNITED KINGDOM
+44 2074188400
library_procurement@ema.europa.eu
+44 2075237455

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: http://www.ema.europa.eu/

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/about_us/general/gener...

Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.2)
Type of the contracting authority
European institution/agency or international organisation
I.3)
Main activity
Health
I.4)
Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)
Description
II.1.1)
Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Electronic books/e-books ??? EMA/2011/35/DIS ??? 2 lots.
II.1.2)
Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Supplies

Purchase

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: European Medicines Agency, 7 Westferry Circus, Canary Wharf, London E14 4HB, UNITED KINGDOM.

NUTS code UKI12
II.1.3)
Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
The notice involves the establishment of a framework agreement
II.1.4)
Information on framework agreement
Framework agreement with several operators

maximum number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged: 3

Duration of the framework agreement

Duration in years: 3

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Estimated value excluding VAT: 150 000 EUR
II.1.5)
Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
The library of the European Medicines Agency is looking for suppliers of electronic books on general knowledge and management (lot 1) and electronic books on medical and pharmaceutical subjects (lot 2) to provide the Agency's staff based in the headquarters in London with access to electronic books on subjects relevant to fulfil the mission of the European Medicines Agency which include pharmacology, medicines, diseases, management, public administration. This list is not exhaustive. Suppliers can tender for 1 or both lots. The tenderer has to provide a 4-week trial of the relevant platform for the evaluation of the tender.
II.1.6)
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
22100000, 22114100, 22121000, 22130000, 79980000
II.1.7)
Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no
II.1.8)
Lots
This contract is divided into lots: yes

Tenders may be submitted for one or more lots
II.1.9)
Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: no
II.2)
Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1)
Total quantity or scope:
Estimated value excluding VAT: 150 000 EUR
II.2.2)
Information about options
Options: no
II.2.3)
Information about renewals
This contract is subject to renewal: no
II.3)
Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Duration in months: 36 (from the award of the contract)

Information about lots

Lot No: 1

Lot title: Lot 1 ??? electronic books on general knowledge and management

1)Short description
Access via subscription and one-off purchases of books in electronic format to be accessed from 1 site via IP recognition and/or user name/password recognition. Subjects of books shall include European languages/dictionaries, the European Union, general administration and health & safety, law and legislation, management and personal development, information technology. This list is non-exhaustive. See tender specification for details.
2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
22100000, 22121000, 22114100, 22130000, 79980000
3)Quantity or scope
Estimated value excluding VAT: 30 000 EUR

4)Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion

5)Additional information about lots

Lot No: 2

Lot title: Lot 2 ??? electronic books on medicines and pharmaceutical subjects

1)Short description
Access via subscription and one-off purchases of books in electronic format to be accessed from 1 site via IP recognition and/or user name/password recognition. Subjects of books shall include herbal medicines, medical and clinical specialities, pharmacology, pharmacovigilance, veterinary medicines. This list is non-exhaustive. See tender specification for details.
2)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
22100000, 22121000, 22130000, 79980000
3)Quantity or scope
Estimated value excluding VAT: 120 000 EUR

4)Indication about different date for duration of contract or starting/completion

5)Additional information about lots

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)
Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1)
Deposits and guarantees required:
Not applicable.
III.1.2)
Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
Not applicable.
III.1.3)
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
All members of the grouping must be jointly and severally liable for the execution of the contract.
III.1.4)
Other particular conditions
The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no
III.2)
Conditions for participation
III.2.1)
Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: All information required is indicated in the technical specifications and invitation to tender letter which can be downloaded at the address of the buyer profile given in point I.1 of this notice.
III.2.2)
Economic and financial ability
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: All information required is indicated in the technical specifications and invitation to tender letter which can be downloaded at the address of the buyer profile given in point I.1 of this notice.
III.2.3)
Technical capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:

All information required is indicated in the technical specifications and invitation to tender letter which can be downloaded at the address of the buyer profile given in point I.1 of this notice.

III.2.4)
Information about reserved contracts

III.3)
Conditions specific to services contracts

III.3.1)
Information about a particular profession

III.3.2)
Staff responsible for the execution of the service

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)
Type of procedure
IV.1.1)
Type of procedure
Open

IV.1.2)
Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

IV.1.3)
Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

IV.2)
Award criteria
IV.2.1)
Award criteria
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document
IV.2.2)
Information about electronic auction
An electronic auction will be used: no
IV.3)
Administrative information
IV.3.1)
File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
EMA/2011/35/DIS.

IV.3.2)
Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

IV.3.3)
Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
IV.3.4)
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
13.2.2012 - 13:00

IV.3.5)
Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)
Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
Any EU official language

Other: The Agency will accept documentation in any EU language. The Agency prefers, however, to receive all documentation in English.
IV.3.7)
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Duration in months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
IV.3.8)
Conditions for opening tenders
Date: 20.2.2012 - 13:30

Place:
European Medicines Agency, 7 Westferry Circus, Canary Wharf, London E14 4HB, UNITED KINGDOM.

Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: yes

Additional information about authorised persons and opening procedure: 1 representative per tenderer is permitted to be present at the opening of the tenders provided that the name of the representative is notified at least 24 hours in advance in writing to the contact given in I.1.

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)
Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: yes

Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 36 months.
VI.2)
Information about European Union funds
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no
VI.3)
Additional information
Please note that the framework contract(s) will run for an initial period of 2 years and may, at the Agency's request, be extended for 1 further period of 1 year, up to a maximum contract duration of 3 years. Please note that only 1 tender may be submitted per tenderer.
VI.4)
Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1)
Body responsible for appeal procedures
E-mail: Telephone: Internet address: Fax: General Court
rue du Fort Niedergrünewald
2925Luxembourg
LUXEMBOURG
generalcourt.registry@curia.europa.eu
+352 4303-1
http://curia.europa.eu
+352 4303-2100
VI.4.2)
Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: Within 2 months of the notification to the plaintiff, or in the absence thereof, of the day on which it came to the knowledge. A complaint to the European Ombudsman does not have as an effect either to suspend this period or to open a new period for lodging appeals.
VI.4.3)
Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
E-mail: Telephone: Internet address: Fax: European Medicines Agency
7 Westferry Circus, Canary Wharf
E14 4HBLondon
UNITED KINGDOM
info@ema.europa.eu
+44 2074188400
http://www.ema.europa.eu
+44 2074188416
VI.5)
Date of dispatch of this notice:
22.12.2011

Source: http://www.publictenders.net/tender/130779

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Developers Outsmart Apple Get "Lock Screen Weather App" Into App Store

Published on 12-30-2011 12:12 AM

Displaying information on iOS?s lock screen is old hat for jailbreakers, but Apple appears to have approved an App that brings weather information to the lock screen of non-jailbroken devices.

Apple normally doesn?t allow applications, even their own, to display information on the lock screen. Apple?s own weather widget in the notification center can?t even display information on the lock screen. How ?Lock Screen Weather App? pulled a fast one on Apple is actually quite simple.

The app actually plays a silent song through the built-in iPod app and then displays the album art in the lock screen. However, the album displays the weather forecast based on your location and comes complete with a five-day outlook. The workaround manages to side step Apple?s rules regarding the lock screen and how apps interact with other programs.

Sadly if the this app is activated no other audio can be output through the device?s headphone jack. So users must weigh their need to know the weather against their love of music as both aren?t mutually inclusive. Also, because the music player is constantly "playing", even if that playing is inaudible, battery life might take a hit.

Lock Screen Weather App is currently available in the App Store for $.99, but knowing Apple they could rewrite the rules and pull the app before the weekend is out. Then again, Apple did approve an app titled ?Lock Screen Weather App.?

Thanks to Dennis for the tip!
Source: iDownloadBlog

Source: http://modmyi.com/content/6432-developers-outsmart-apple-get-lock-screen-weather-app-into-app-store.html

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Foul play suspected in Maine girl's disappearance

PORTLAND, Maine?? Police investigating the disappearance of a 20-month-old girl from her father's home two weeks ago said Friday they believe foul play was involved.

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Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey announced Friday night the case "has evolved from the search for a missing child to a criminal investigation." In a statement, he said the conclusion was based on evidence gathered over the past two weeks. He didn't elaborate.

Ayla Reynolds was last seen on Dec. 16. Her father, Justin DiPietro, told police he put her to bed that night in his Waterville home. He reported her missing the following morning.

Police previously said they believed someone had taken the girl from the home. Police have received hundreds of tips as they've searched for her.

Ayla was wearing green pajamas with polka dots and the words "Daddy's Princess" on them and had a soft cast on her broken left arm. Extensive searches of woods, waterways, fields and private properties around Waterville, a city of 16,000 residents 20 miles north of Augusta, have failed to turn up anything.

Earlier Friday, police said DiPietro and Ayla's mother, Trista Reynolds, of Portland, were cooperating with investigators.

Investigators put up crime scene tape at the father's home last week, and two of the state's top homicide prosecutors were called in to get a look at the site. WABI-TV reported that a state police forensic team was back at the home on Friday.

Ayla was placed in her father's care while her mother was in a substance abuse rehabilitation program, which she has finished.

Trista Reynolds, making an appeal on national television on Thursday, said DiPietro has not returned her calls since their daughter went missing, and she asked him to reach out. On Friday, she had no further comment, her sister said.

DiPietro, addressing the public for the first time early last week, said in a statement he had "no idea what happened to Ayla or who is responsible." He said his family and friends would do "everything we can to assist in this investigation and get Ayla back home."

Former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt said the odds of finding a child lessen if he or she isn't found within the first day or two of disappearing. But he said there's some reason for optimism because there are rare cases of missing children who turn up years later in someone's care.

"If you don't get this child back real quickly, you know that it gets harder and harder," he said. "But you can't give up hope."

Scott Bernstein, founder of Child Recovery International, a New York City-based organization that helps find missing children, agreed the first hours of an investigation are key in tracking down missing children as young as Ayla. Although the situation looks bleak, there's still room for hope, he said.

"One percent hope ? but I'll go for that 1 percent hope," he said.

After Ayla went missing, law enforcement officials likely divided their investigation into two parts, one team looking at people with access to her, such as relatives and family friends, and another group looking at the potential for an abduction by an outsider or stranger, Van Zandt said. Under both scenarios, he said, the odds are that the person who took Ayla knew her or her family.

Strangers' abductions of children do occur, but they're rare, accounting for only 105 to 115 children out of 750,000 to 900,000 missing-persons cases each year in the United States, Van Zandt said.

Van Zandt, who has worked similar cases, said Ayla's disappearance, which once had more than 80 searchers and law enforcement officers involved, has been difficult for law enforcers as well as for distraught family members.

"As an FBI agent working these cases, you never turn off the emotional porch light," he said. "You always leave on the light with the hope that the child will come home again."

___

Associated Press writer Clarke Canfield contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45830323/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

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Friday, December 30, 2011

New Earth-like planets: How did astronomers find them?

NASA's Kepler?spacecraft?has spotted a pair of rocky Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star. How do you find a new planet??

Since 2009, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has been sitting in space, pointing its telescope at a patch of the sky near the constellations Cygnus and Lyrae. Its field of view, a region of the Milky Way galaxy about the size of two open hands raised to the cosmos, contains roughly 160,000 stars. Scientists on the Kepler team are interested not in these stars themselves, but in the planets that may orbit them.

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"The goal of the Kepler mission is to find planets like Earth in the habitable zones of their parent stars," said Guillermo Torres, a member of the Kepler team based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. They are looking for?Earth twins, because these are the likeliest candidates for worlds that could host extraterrestrial life.

To find these alien Earths, the Kepler team uses a technique called the "transit method." They scour the data collected by the Kepler telescope looking for slight drops in the intensity of light coming from any of the stars in its line of sight. About 90 percent of the time, these dips in brightness signify that a planet "has passed in front of its star, essentially?eclipsing the light," Torres told Life's Little Mysteries.

Planets the size of Earth passing in front of a star typically cause it to dim by only one-hundredth of a percent ? akin to the drop in brightness of a car's headlight when a fly crosses in front of it, the scientists say. To detect these faint and faraway eclipses, the Kepler telescope must be extremely sensitive and it must be stationed in space, away from the glare and turbulence of Earth's atmosphere.

Using the transit method, Kepler has detected 2,326 "candidate planets" so far, Torres said. Those are dips detected in starlight that are probably caused by passing planets, but for which other alternative explanations haven't yet been ruled out.? [Could There Be Life on the New Earth-Size Planets?]

"The signals are an indication that something is crossing in front of the star and then you have to confirm it's a planet, not something else," he said. "Roughly 90 percent of the signals that Kepler detects are true planets. The other 10 percent of the cases are false positives. We're not happy with leaving the probability at 90 percent ? we've set a higher bar ? so, even though a priori we know a signal is 90-percent sure [to be a planet], we do more work."

To confirm that a candidate is a true?exoplanet?? a planet outside our solar system ? the Kepler scientists use the world's largest ground-based telescopes to study the star in question, looking for alternative explanations for the transit signal. "One example is an eclipsing binary in the background of the star. There could be two stars behind the star [of interest] that are orbiting each other and eclipsing each other, but because they're in the background they're much fainter. So their light is diluted by the brighter star," he said.

With today's (Dec. 20) announcement of?five new confirmed exoplanets?orbiting a star called Kepler-20 located 950 light-years away, including two that are Earth-size, the number of confirmed exoplanets has moved up to 33.

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Did Cheetah from 1930s Tarzan flicks die? (AP)

PALM HARBOR, Fla. ? A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question.

Debbie Cobb, outreach director at the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, said Wednesday that her grandparents acquired Cheetah around 1960 from "Tarzan" star Johnny Weissmuller and that the chimp appeared in Tarzan films between 1932 and 1934. During that period, Weissmuller made "Tarzan the Ape Man" and "Tarzan and His Mate."

But Cobb offered no documentation, saying it was destroyed in a 1995 fire.

Also, some Hollywood accounts indicate a chimpanzee by the name of Jiggs or Mr. Jiggs played Cheetah alongside Weissmuller early on and died in 1938.

In addition, an 80-year-old chimpanzee would be extraordinarily old, perhaps the oldest ever known. According to many experts and Save the Chimps, another Florida sanctuary, chimpanzees in captivity generally live to between 40 and 60, though Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, Fla., says it has one that is around 73.

A similar claim about another chimpanzee that supposedly played second banana to Weissmuller was debunked in 2008 in a Washington Post story.

Writer R.D. Rosen discovered that the primate, which lived in Palm Springs, Calif., was born around 1960, meaning it wasn't oldest enough to have been in the Tarzan movies of Hollywood's Golden Age that starred Olympic swimming star Weissmuller as the vine-swinging, loincloth-wearing Ape Man and Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane.

While a number of chimpanzees played the sidekick role in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and `40s, Rosen said in an email Wednesday that this latest purported Cheetah looks like a "business-boosting impostor as well."

"I'm afraid any chimp who actually shared a soundstage with Weissmuller and O'Sullivan is long gone," Rosen said.

Cobb said Cheetah died Dec. 24 of kidney failure and was cremated.

"Unfortunately, there was a fire in `95 in which a lot of that documentation burned up," Cobb said. "I'm 51 and I've known him for 51 years. My first remembrance of him coming here was when I was actually 5, and I've known him since then, and he was a full-grown chimp then."

Film historian and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osbourne said the Cheetah character "was one of the things people loved about the Tarzan movies because he made people laugh. He was always a regular fun part of the movies."

In his time, the Cheetah character was as popular as Rin Tin Tin or Asta, the dog from the "Thin Man" movies, Osbourne said.

"He was a major star," he said.

At the animal sanctuary, Cheetah was outgoing, loved finger painting and liked to see people laugh, Cobb said. But he could also be ill-tempered. Cobb said that when the chimp didn't like what was going on, he would fling feces and other objects.

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Associated Press writers Ben Nuckols in Washington and Jennifer Kay in Miami contributed to this report.

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Romney, Perry slap at Paul on Iran

A campaign sign for Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, sits in front of home, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, in Ankeny, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich makes a stop at the National Farm Toy Museum in Dyersville, Iowa, on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, in Dyersville, Iowa. Gingrich also made stops in Dubuque and Decorah Tuesday afternoon and evening. (AP Photo/The Gazette, Nikole Hanna)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry answers questions during a campaign stop at the Glenn Miller Museum in Clarinda, Iowa, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. speaks during a campaign stop at Scooter's Coffeehouse , Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) ? Mitt Romney and Rick Perry on Wednesday assailed Republican presidential rival Ron Paul for saying the U.S. has no business bombing Iran to keep it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, drawing a sharp contrast with their rising rival as he returned to Iowa to campaign before the lead-off caucuses.

"One of the people running for president thinks it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon," Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, said in this eastern Iowa city in response to a question from the audience. "I don't."

It was the first time Romney has challenged Paul directly since the Texas congressman jumped in polls. Neither Romney nor Perry, the Texas governor, named Paul, but the target was clear.

"You don't have to vote for a candidate who will allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. Because America will be next," Perry said in Urbandale, reiterating a line of argument from a day earlier.

"I'm here to say: You have a choice," Perry added.

As if in rebuttal, Paul's campaign launched a new television ad describing him as "principled, incorruptible, guided by faith and principle" and the man to restore the economy. "Politicians who supported bailouts and mandates, serial hypocrites and flip floppers can't clean up the mess," it says as photos of Newt Gingrich and Romney appear on screen.

The stepped-up criticism of Paul, the libertarian-leaning Republican, comes as surveys show he's in contention to win Tuesday's caucuses.

In recent days, conservative opponents including Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann have increased their criticism of Paul on social issues, foreign affairs and inflammatory comments in his decades-old newsletter. By tearing him down, they hope voters will give their campaigns another, closer look after a season marked by candidates who have risen quickly in public standing only to fall back down.

Gingrich, whose slide in surveys over the past week has come as Paul has risen, said Tuesday he couldn't vote for Paul if he were to become the GOP nominee and called his views "totally outside the mainstream of every decent American" during an interview with CNN.

Gingrich, the former House speaker, began Wednesday, the second day of his Iowa bus tour with a speech to about 200 people in the atrium of the Southbridge Mall in Mason City. He plugged his support for supply-side economics favored by President Ronald Reagan.

Gingrich said the primary is giving voters a "choice between a populist supply side approach ... and a much more timid Washington-centered approach that will not create jobs."

Bachmann, who was on the 86th stop of her tour of Iowa's 99 counties, criticized both of her rivals from Texas. She accused Perry of spending "27 years as a political insider." He was a Texas legislator and agriculture commissioner before becoming governor in 2001.

Bachmann said Paul would be "dangerous as president" because of his hands-off views on national security.

Paul, for his part, was meeting with supporters near Des Moines, his first visit to the state since before the campaigns went dark for the Christmas holiday. He planned a series of events over the next two days as he looked to take advantage of a burst of momentum.

A conservative, Paul commands strong allegiance from his supporters but appears to have little potential to expand his appeal and emerge as a serious challenger for the nomination. Yet he could complicate other candidates' pathway to the nomination.

His opponents were spreading out across the state to woo potential caucus-goers, many of whom are still undecided amid a flood of television and radio ads.

In Independence, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum mingled with 25 people at a diner and touted his plan to give a tax break to businesses that bring their operations back to the United States.

He told diners: "Things are going great, we've got momentum." He began airing a new radio ad Wednesday that promotes his hardline opposition to abortion and describes him as a "father of seven, a home-schooler and a devoted husband for 21 years."

Romney kicked off a three-day bus tour in the eastern edge of the state, in Muscatine, and shook hands with an overflow crowd at Elly's Tea and Coffee House. The line to get in stretched into the street.

Beginning the day, Romney told Fox News Channel that he was only joking Monday when he criticized Gingrich's failure to earn a spot on the Virginia ballot as something out of the sitcom "I Love Lucy."

"I hope the speaker understands that was humor, and I'm happy to tell my humorous anecdote to him face to face," Romney said.

Gingrich on Tuesday challenged Romney to make the "I Love Lucy" comparison to Gingrich's face.

Perry, looking to recapture the enthusiasm that greeted his entry into the race in August, railed against Washington and Wall Street insiders as he met with conservatives for breakfast near Des Moines.

"Why should you settle for less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and your values without apologies?" he asked, delivering the core rationale for his candidacy.

The packed crowd of conservatives in Urbandale applauded as he pledged to champion a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget, secure the border within a year and crack down on illegal immigration. He also said he would bring his faith with him into the Oval Office, a nod to the Christian conservatives who have strong sway in the nominating process.

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Elliott reported from Urbandale. Associated Press writers Mike Glover in Independence, Brian Bakst in Creston, Shannon McCaffrey in Mason City and Charles Babington in Des Moines contributed to this report.

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On Location: Inclusion Films Opens Doors In Hollywood - Latimes.com

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Founded by Joey Travolta, older brother of actor John Travolta, Inclusion Films trains adults with developmental disabilities in the nuts and bolts of filmmaking -- from writing the script to building sets and using film and editing equipment -- with the goal of finding them jobs in the entertainment industry or some other field.

Students with autism, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome are trained by working cinematographers, set designers, actors and other professionals who are active in the industry.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

LISTEN: Lady Gaga's Naughty Christmas Gift to Fans

Lady Gaga gave her Little Monsters a special gift for Christmas -- but unlike her ABC holiday special, this one is strictly for the grown-ups! Gaga released a brand new song, "Stuck On F***ing You," via YouTube on Christmas Eve. The naughty, partially-improvised tune celebrates the touring life of sex, drugs and rock n' roll. Listen below (but not at work)!

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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Las ocho cadenas del grupo textil espa?ol acaban de abrir en el reci?n inaugurado Morocco Mall de Casablanca.

Inditex se ha establecido con sus ocho ense?as en el mayor centro comercial de ?frica y del Mediterr?neo, el impresionante Morocco Mall de Casablanca, que ocupa una superficie de 10 hect?reas y ha requerido de una inversi?n de 200 millones de euros. Se trata de un ambicioso proyecto construido en el paseo mar?timo de la capital econ?mica de Marruecos con el que la ciudad pretende captar turismo de compras y equipararse a Marrakech.

El grupo textil espa?ol ha llevado al lujoso Morocco Mall su buque insignia, Zara, junto a las elegantes Massimo Dutti y Uterq?e y la moda joven de Stradivarius, Pull & Bear y Berhska. Adem?s, debutan en Marruecos las propuestas para el hogar de Zara Home y la moda ?ntima y homewear de Oysho.

En el Morocco Mall, que alberga 600 marcas en 350 tiendas, Inditex compartir? espacio con Galeries Lafayette, H&M, la tambi?n espa?ola Mango y primeras marcas de lujo como Fendi, Louis Vuitton o Gucci.

Tras estas aperturas en el centro comercial inaugurado en el primer fin de semana de diciembre, el grupo de distribuci?n espa?ol cuenta con 22 establecimientos en Marruecos repartidos de la siguiente forma: Zara (5), Stradivarius (6), Zara Home (3), Pull & Bear (2), Massimo Dutti (2), Bershka (2), Uterq?e y Oysho.

Durante el primer semestre de 2011, las ventas de Inditex crecieron un 12%, hasta los 6.209 millones de euros, y su red comercial alcanz? los 5.221 puntos de venta propios en 78 pa?ses.

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Cedewain win national schools football award

CEDEWAIN Special Needs School in Newtown has been recognised for its outstanding commitment to disability football.

The school has regularly competed in national events to earn the praise of the Welsh Schools Football Association (WSFA).
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The WSFA marked its centenary season with each of its officers donating trophies for competitions and festivals organised by the association.
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John Mann, WSFA disability football officer, donated a trophy to be awarded to a school demonstrating ?outstanding commitment to disability football.?

Welsh Football Trust development programmes manager Jamie Clewer congratulated the school.

?The award was made to Cedewain School because of an outstanding commitment and development,? he said. ?They have grown as a team and as individual footballers.

?The first year of entering some players were three or four years younger than their opponents. Thisachievement was confirmed when they won the U14 C band competition this year and ended the tournament unbeaten.?

?The team have always exhibited outstanding fair play, never once letting their heads drop when they have lost matches.

?The players play the game with smiles on their faces and supporting and helping opponents when injured or upset.

?For me the school epitomises everything that the disability programme is about.
David Nickless, chairman of the Welsh Schools' FA also endorsed the Cedewain award.

He said: ?I congratulate pupils and staff of Cedewain School on their achievement and I look forward to meeting up with many of them at this season?s festivals.

?Cedewain?s pupils and staff epitomise all that is good about children's football.?

Source: http://www.countytimes.co.uk:80/news/108990/cedewain-win-national-schools-football-award.aspx

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Lugar: Paul not in GOP mainstream

Texas Rep. and presidential candidate Ron Paul is out of line with the mainstream GOP when it comes to foreign policy, Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) says.

In an interview aired Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," host Candy Crowley asked Lugar: "Is that a Republican party message?"

Replied the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "That's one Republican's message." And he?went on to say that Paul's left-of-Obama foreign policy views were not representative of the party.

"No, of course not. ?And it's not a message which really a president of the United States could ever afford to extend. In other words, we're a -- a party and a -- a president of leadership, leadership in the world," he said. "We have a fleet that covers all the seas, that, as a matter of fact, makes foreign trade possible, trade of all sorts. ?We're the only country that can go everywhere all over the world, and, therefore, indispensable to our allies as well as to our own interests."

"These are very, very important parts of our national strength. And they involve foreign policy. They involve armed forces and a combination of these," Lugar said.

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Justice Department Clarifies Stance On Online Gaming And Poker

In a surprise move by the federal government, the U. S. Department of Justice has clarified its stance on internet gaming that could open the doors for intrastate poker to become a reality in the United States.

The legal opinion was issued by the DoJ on Friday, but the original decision was made back in September in response to a request in July by Senators Harry Reid and Jon Kyl for the DoJ to clarify its position regarding the issue of online gaming and poker. According to the New York Times two states, Illinois and New York, had also asked for clarification from the federal government regarding the Wire Act of 1961, one of the major laws used by the DoJ in pursuit of online gaming and poker.

According to the New York Times, the DoJ has reversed its stance on internet gaming and several states will take advantage of this decision to introduce new lottery games within their borders. The new position does bring the possibility into the mix that individual states or a consortium of states could band together to allow online poker to make a comeback in the United States.

The decision announced on Friday by the DoJ says the new policy ?differs from the department?s previous interpretation of the Wire Act, (but) it reflects the department?s position in Congressional testimony at the time the Wire Act was passed in 1961.? The new decision by the DoJ says that the Wire Act only focuses on sports betting and not casino or poker offerings.

Although it reverses the Justice Department?s previous stance that all forms of gambling online are illegal, it does not state that the Justice Department is looking to set regulations for a national online gaming system.

Nevada recently passed legislation that would allow for companies to offer online poker and the new ruling may allow that state to proceed forward with an intrastate online poker offering for its citizens. Earlier this month, the Nevada Gaming Control Board announced that six companies have applied for licenses, but were holding off until the federal government announced a stance. With the change in the DoJ?s opinion, the NGCB may be able to move forward with offering intrastate poker to Nevada residents.

In the District of Columbia, there is a long delayed plan to offer online poker to its residents. The latest decision by the DoJ could pave the way for that plan to actually come to fruition. Other states, such as Iowa, New Jersey, California and Florida, have also considered online poker regulation for its citizens, but previous bills have either been rejected or have been tabled due to the federal government?s opposition to internet gaming.

Whether the states will aggressively attack the new potential for internet poker will be difficult to gauge. The New York Times reports a wide varying amount that internet gaming and poker could bring in ? anywhere from $6 billion to $100 billion yearly ? and this could be the impetus behind the change in the stance by the federal government. The Times quotes Steven Grossman, the chairman of Massachusetts? Lottery Commission and the state?s treasurer, as saying, ?This will put additional pressure on (the) Congress and others to allow online poker and other internet gambling.?

There is the chance that several states could band together to make an online poker offering more attractive. Much like multi-state lotteries as the PowerBall and Mega Millions and some horse racing, a multi-state online poker offering would be more attractive to states, rather than an individual state that may lack the population to drive big revenues.

The new position by the federal law enforcement authorities comes as the momentum for regulation of the online poker industry in the United States on the federal level seemed to have faded. Although there have been hearings in the House of Representatives regarding the issue ? and Texas Representative Joe Barton has a bill for consideration ? there has been no vote on the subject.

With the change of opinion by the DoJ, perhaps such legislation can now move forward for a federal solution to online poker in 2012. If that doesn?t occur, then the states now have the right to move forward.

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Source: http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/justice-department-clarifies-stance-on-online-gaming-and-poker-20833/

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

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Japan?s Meiji Holdings said on Dec. 6 that radioactive cesium was found in infant milk powder made by the food and dairy firm, in the latest food scare to grip the country nearly nine months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Worries over the safety of food supplies have shaken the public after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the worst nuclear accident in 25 years, spreading radiation over a large swathe of northern and eastern Japan.

Cases of excessive radiation in vegetables, tea, milk, seafood and water have stoked anxiety despite assurance from public officials that the levels detected are not dangerous.

Meiji said it is unsure exactly how the cesium got into the powdered milk, but it suspects radioactive substances emitted from the Fukushima accident may have been the source. A company spokesman told Reuters hot air used in the drying process may have contained cesium.

Tests by Meiji showed that up to 30.8 becquerels of cesium was found per kilogram of the powdered milk. That is below the government-set permissible limit, but the firm will nevertheless conduct a voluntary recall of the product, called ?Meiji Step.?

The limit set by Japan?s health ministry is 200 becquerels per kilogram for powdered milk, an official at the ministry?s department of food safety said.

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Beyonce Pantsless For Jones Magazine (PHOTO)

We've grown accustomed to seeing her shine while sporting her growing bump of love like the ultimate maternal bling, but this new photo shoot reminds us that not too long ago, Beyonce was the queen of the pantsless divas.

Bey features on the cover of the Winter Arts & Entertainment issue of Jones Magazine, wearing a bit of fur and little else as she reclines against the terrace of the Maurice in Paris. It recalls her November noir video for "Dance For You," in which she was half Grammy-winner, half Philip Marlowe; as well as her October video for "Love on Top," which recalled New Edition's early dancing days in the 80s.

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Will we see Yu Darvish in Texas? (VIDEO)

The Texas Rangers made a record-setting bid for Japanese star pitcher Yu Darvish, letting the baseball club negotiate a contract with him.? But if he does sign, will he hit the 'Third-Year Wall'?

It's decided: If we see Japanese hurler Yu Darvish in the majors, we'll see Yu in Texas.

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Major League Baseball announced last night that The Texas Rangers put up the highest bid for pitcher Yu Darvish of Japan's Pacific League, clearing the way for the Rangers to negotiate a contract with Darvish and bring him to the States.

The Rangers reportedly set a new record with their posting bid of $51.7 million, which the team will pay to Darvish's Japanese club, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. If the reported figure is accurate, the bid for Darvish would exceed the previous record, set by the Boston Red Sox in 2006 when they paid $51.1 million to the Seibu Lions for Daisuke Matsuzaka.

Daigo Fujiwara of JapaneseBallPlayers.com noted this weekend that Darvish is one of 21 Japanese players who have used the posting system, which was set up in 1998. The posting system merely establishes the right for a US club to negotiate with a player ? contract negotiations may still fall through, and have in the past, leaving the player with their Japanese team. Of the 21 players to have used the system ? including several players like Darvish who are negotiating contracts now ? only 11 have so far successfully transferred to MLB.

Like the Red Sox's Matsuzaka, Darvish will likely draw a contract of over $50 million, putting his overall price tag for the Rangers in excess of $100 million. And the comparisons with Matsuzaka go further. Both Matsuzaka and Darvish were best-of-the-best pitchers in Japan, and key players for Japan's team in the World Baseball Classic.?

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Friday, December 23, 2011

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Ventre: Penn St. ugliness dominated 2011 headlines

Ventre: 2011 was one big surprise party in sports. There were enough astounding developments ? both positive and negative ? to keep mouths agape, eyes agog and Twitter atwitter. Unfortunately, the one that stands out the most is the ugliest story possible.

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SpotiLast Builds Spotify Playlists from Your Last.fm History [Webapps]

SpotiLast Builds Spotify Playlists from Your Last.fm History Discovering new music to listen to in Spotify isn't exactly difficult, but if you could use a little inspiration, Last.fm has always done a great job at suggesting new bands and musicians based on the tracks you've scrobbled from other services. SpotiLast is a new webapp that bridges the two services, and automatically generates Spotify playlists based on the suggested artists from your Last.fm account.

SpotiLast is a third-party webapp; it's not built by Spotify or Last.fm, but it does use their APIs to function. That means you'll have to connect SpotiLast to both music services for it to work. Once you've done that however, it works like a charm. The app pulls in your Last.fm suggestions, and will automatically build you a playlist, and you can click any song to fire up the Spotify desktop player and start listening.

If you scrobble those tracks back to Last.fm, you can always re-run SpotiLast to build a new playlist based on the updated suggestions, and start the process all over again. Do you still use Last.fm for music suggestions, or have you moved on? Perhaps you get enough suggestions inside Spotify. However you discover new tunes, let us know in the comments below.

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Gerard Butler Hospitalized After Surfing Accident: Caption This Photo

Hunky Gerard Butler was in a surfing accident that landed him in the hospital. Never fear though it looks like he is going to be just fine, which is why he is Right Celebrity?s Caption This photo contest for the week, sweet! While filming a surfing scene for his upcoming movie, Butler had a little accident. I know you are all dying to hear what happened and I will gladly tell you in one hot second. First though let me remind you about our Caption This photo contest. All you need to do is take a little glance at the above picture of the smoking hot Gerard and caption it by leaving your witty remarks in the below comments section. Then next week when a brand new hot topic and pic are posted check back to see if your name is in print as the big winner. It is so easy and loads of fun. I mean look at that photo how can you not have something to say about it. Now that we got that out of the way let?s get back to the topic at hand, Butler and his very scary surfing incident. Like I said he was [...]

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Comet defies death, brushes up to sun and lives (AP)

WASHINGTON ? A small comet survived what astronomers figured would be a sure death when it danced uncomfortably close to the broiling sun.

Comet Lovejoy, which was only discovered a couple of weeks ago, was supposed to melt Thursday night when it came close to where temperatures hit several million degrees. Astronomers had tracked 2,000 other sun-grazing comets make the same suicidal trip. None had ever survived.

But astronomers watching live with NASA telescopes first saw the sun's corona wiggle as Lovejoy went close to the sun. They were then shocked when a bright spot emerged on the sun's other side. Lovejoy lived.

"I was delighted when I saw it go into the sun and I was astounded when I saw something re-emerge," said U.S. Navy solar researcher Karl Battams.

Lovejoy didn't exactly come out of its hellish adventure unscathed. Only 10 percent of the comet ? which was probably millions of tons ? survived the encounter, said W. Dean Pesnell, project scientist for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which tracked Lovejoy's death-defying plunge.

And the comet lost something pretty important: its tail.

"It looks like the tail broke off and is stuck" in the sun's magnetic field, Pesnell said.

Comets circle the sun and sometimes get too close. Lovejoy came within 75,000 miles of the sun's surface, Battams said. For a small object often described as a dirty snowball comprised of ice and dust, that brush with the sun should have been fatal.

Astronomers say it probably didn't melt completely because the comet was larger than they thought.

The frozen comet was evaporating as it made the trip toward the sun, "just like you're sweating on a hot day," Pesnell said.

"It's like an ice cube going by a barbecue grill," he said.

Pesnell said the comet, although only discovered at the end of November by an Australian observer, probably is related to a comet that came by Earth on the way to the sun in 1106.

As Comet Lovejoy makes its big circle through the solar system, it will be another 800 or 900 years before it nears the sun again, astronomers say.

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Online:

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: http://1.usa.gov/upZJgS

U.S. Naval Research Lab's Sun-grazing comet website (video, photos at bottom): http://bit.ly/sfAAN5

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