Pickles and ice cream may not sate this star! With her second bun in the oven, Kourtney Kardashian isn't too concerned with curbing cravings or watching what she eats -- she's just trying to keep food down.
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the commentators benched him after the second turnover. rio benched himself after his fourth in four or five possessions. cole is solid and seems to play both sides of the ball with good defensive instincts. he also cuts harder after passing in the offense and is ready to shoot it when the ball is kicked to him. more of a score first point guard. its as if the rookie isn't intimidated by the setting. will be interesting to see once the minutes become meaningful or he starts missing some of those open looks but it appears you are right on chalmers losing his job last night. rio will have to step it up considerably to play meaningful minutes this year barring injury to cole.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Despite the fact that "The Darkest Hour" was smuggled into U.S. theaters on Christmas Day with no advance press screenings, I went in full of residual holiday good cheer, prepared to give this sci-fi movie the benefit of the doubt that all B-movies deserve.
By the time the closing credits came up, however, I felt drained of my Yule joy, dispirited by this aggressively idiotic movie.
It's the sort of film where our plucky band of survivors learns ways to resist their invisible alien foes, but then never use that information.
Case in point: heroes Sean (Emile Hirsch) and Ben (Max Minghella) figure out that they can avoid detection by hiding under a car. Then this bit of intel is never mentioned again, so instead of crawling under abandoned vehicles when trying to travel down roads, our heroes instead run around screaming, making themselves into perfect targets.
If these dimwits represent the hope of humanity, bring on the alien overlords.
Sean and Max have come to Moscow to peddle an internet venture, but when their ideas get stolen, they head to a hot bar to drown their sorrows. There they run into Skyler (Joel Kinnaman), the stealer of the aforementioned ideas, and Natalie (Olivia Thirlby) and Anne (Rachael Taylor). The latter two apparently have the mutant power of having their hair and makeup look awesome even after a week of being chased by invisible aliens, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Those aliens appear as glowing orbs in the night sky, and they immediately set about making all the power go out and vaporizing any human being or dog who gets too close. The quintet of characters who have been given first names hide out in the nightclub kitchen, but after a few days of living on canned goods, they venture out into the abandoned streets.
They soon realize that while the aliens, who have wiped out most of the population, are invisible, they can be detected by the way they make electrical circuits light up in their presence. Sean comes up with the idea of wearing a light bulb around his neck as an early-warning device, but only Natalie follows suit. And then, run, run, vaporize, meet Nick Frost-ian electronics geek (Dato Bakhtadze as Sergei) with an anti-alien microwave gun, run, run, encounter homemade-weapons-brandishing good ol' boys who look like the cast of a Muscovite remake of "Bellflower."
Writer Jon Spaihts and director Chris Gorak seem unable to provide suspense, shocks, characters, or even memorable technobabble. Hirsch, Minghella and Thirlby have done interesting work in the past, and probably will in the future, but all they have to show for "The Darkest Hour" was the free trip to Russia.
In the final wash, this movie has three interesting things to offer: the empty, post-apocalyptic streets of modern-day Moscow, the unpredictable death of a major character, and a cat named after "Yo Gabba Gabba!" star DJ Lance Rock.
None of those things merits the interruption of your holiday.
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We go through a lot of Applications here at Android Central. Some are good. Some ... not so good. Some are awesome, but I don't need them.
Here's a look at the apps that get me through the day, whether it's at home or on the road.
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One of the nation's most widely planted crops ? a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide ? may be losing its effectiveness because a major pest appears to be developing resistance more quickly than scientists expected.
The U.S. food supply is not in any immediate danger because the problem remains isolated. But scientists fear potentially risky farming practices could be blunting the hybrid's sophisticated weaponry.
When it was introduced in 2003, so-called Bt corn seemed like the answer to farmers' dreams: It would allow growers to bring in bountiful harvests using fewer chemicals because the corn naturally produces a toxin that poisons western corn rootworms. The hybrid was such a swift success that it and similar varieties now account for 65 percent of all U.S. corn acres ? grain that ends up in thousands of everyday foods such as cereal, sweeteners and cooking oil.
But over the last few summers, rootworms have feasted on the roots of Bt corn in parts of four Midwestern states, suggesting that some of the insects are becoming resistant to the crop's pest-fighting powers.
Scientists say the problem could be partly the result of farmers who've planted Bt corn year after year in the same fields.
Most farmers rotate corn with other crops in a practice long used to curb the spread of pests, but some have abandoned rotation because they need extra grain for livestock or because they have grain contracts with ethanol producers. Other farmers have eschewed the practice to cash in on high corn prices, which hit a record in June.
"Right now, quite frankly, it's very profitable to grow corn," said Michael Gray, a University of Illinois crop sciences professor who's tracking Bt corn damage in that state.
A scientist recently sounded an alarm throughout the biotech industry when he published findings concluding that rootworms in a handful of Bt cornfields in Iowa had evolved an ability to survive the corn's formidable defenses.
Similar crop damage has been seen in parts of Illinois, Minnesota and Nebraska, but researchers are still investigating whether rootworms capable of surviving the Bt toxin were the cause.
University of Minnesota entomologist Kenneth Ostlie said the severity of rootworm damage to Bt fields in Minnesota has eased since the problem surfaced in 2009. Yet reports of damage have become more widespread, and he fears resistance could be spreading undetected because the damage rootworms inflict often isn't apparent.
Without strong winds, wet soil or both, plants can be damaged at the roots but remain upright, concealing the problem. He said the damage he observed in Minnesota came to light only because storms in 2009 toppled corn plants with damaged roots.
"The analogy I often use with growers is that we're looking at an iceberg and all we see is the tip of the problem," Ostlie said. "And it's a little bit like looking at an iceberg through fog because the only time we know we have a problem is when we get the right weather conditions."
Seed maker Monsanto Co. created the Bt strain by splicing a gene from a common soil organism called Bacillus thuringiensis into the plant. The natural insecticide it makes is considered harmless to people and livestock.
Scientists always expected rootworms to develop some resistance to the toxin produced by that gene. But the worrisome signs of possible resistance have emerged sooner than many expected.
The Environmental Protection Agency recently chided Monsanto, declaring in a Nov. 22 report that it wasn't doing enough to monitor suspected resistance among rootworm populations. The report urged a tougher approach, including expanding monitoring efforts to a total of seven states, including Colorado, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The agency also wanted to ensure farmers in areas of concern begin using insecticides and other methods to combat possible resistance.
Monsanto insists there's no conclusive proof that rootworms have become immune to the crop, but the company said it regards the situation seriously and has been taking steps that are "directly in line" with federal recommendations.
Some scientists fear it could already be too late to prevent the rise of resistance, in large part because of the way some farmers have been planting the crop.
They point to two factors: farmers who have abandoned crop rotation and others have neglected to plant non-Bt corn within Bt fields or in surrounding fields as a way to create a "refuge" for non-resistant rootworms in the hope they will mate with resistant rootworms and dilute their genes.
Experts worry that the actions of a few farmers could jeopardize an innovation that has significantly reduced pesticide use and saved growers billions of dollars in lost yields and chemical-control costs.
"This is a public good that should be protected for future generations and not squandered too quickly," said Gregory Jaffe, biotechnology director at the Center for Science and Public Policy.
Iowa State University entomologist Aaron Gassmann published research in July concluding that resistance had arisen among rootworms he collected in four Iowa fields. Those fields had been planted for three to six straight years with Bt corn ? a practice that ensured any resistant rootworms could lay their eggs in an area that would offer plenty of food for the next generation.
For now, the rootworm resistance in Iowa appears isolated, but Gassmann said that could change if farmers don't quickly take action. For one, the rootworm larvae grow into adult beetles that can fly, meaning resistant beetles could easily spread to new areas.
"I think this provides an important early warning," Gassmann said.
Besides rotating crops, farmers can also fight resistance by switching between Bt corn varieties, which produce different toxins, or planting newer varieties with multiple toxins. They can also treat damaged fields with insecticides to kill any resistant rootworms ? or employ a combination of all those approaches.
The EPA requires growers to devote 20 percent of their fields to non-Bt corn. After the crop was released in 2003, nine out of 10 farmers met that standard. Now it's only seven or eight, Jaffe said.
Seed companies are supposed to cut off farmers with a record of violating the planting rules, which are specified in seed-purchasing contracts. To improve compliance, companies are now introducing blends that have ordinary seed premixed with Bt seed.
Brian Schaumburg, who farms 1,400 acres near the north-central Illinois town of Chenoa, plants as much Bt corn as he can every spring.
But Schaumburg said he shifts his planting strategies every year ? varying which Bt corn hybrids he plants and using pesticides when needed ? to reduce the chances rootworm resistance might emerge in his fields.
Schaumburg said he always plants the required refuge fields and believes very few farmers defy the rule. Those who do put the valuable crop at risk, he said.
"If we don't do it right, we could lose these good tools," Schaumberg said.
If rootworms do become resistant to Bt corn, it "could become the most economically damaging example of insect resistance to a genetically modified crop in the U.S.," said Bruce Tabashnik, an entomologist at the University of Arizona. "It's a pest of great economic significance ? a billion-dollar pest."
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A still image taken from Egypt's Nile TV shows Hosni Mubarak being wheeled on a hospital stretcher into court for the resumption of his trial on Wednesday.
By Ayman Mohyeldin, NBC News
CAIRO -- The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons, the former minister of interior and six senior security officials resumed in a Cairo court on Wednesday after nearly a?three-month recess.
Egyptian TV showed 83-year-old Mubarak, covered by a green blanket and lying on a hospital gurney as he was brought from a helicopter and taken to an ambulance for the short ride to the courthouse.
The men are all facing murder charges for ordering security forces to kill demonstrators while trying to suppress an 18-day popular uprising against the 30-year rule of Mubarak that began on Jan 25, 2011.
The trial was in recess for close to three months because a separate petition had been filed to replace the presiding judge. That petition was not granted and the same judge will continue to preside over the trial.
On Wednesday, defense attorneys asked the judge to call senior members of the intelligence services and other branches of Egypt's Armed Forces who were serving during the revolution and since then to testify.
The defense is arguing the security forces were acting within the law to contain the uprising but were never given specific orders to "kill" demonstrators.
So far, the most critical testimony of the trial has come from Field Marshall Mohammed Hussien Tantawi, the Commander of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the ruling military council. His testimony has been sealed for security reasons. The defense has also requested the judge hear the testimony of SCAF second-in-command Field Marshall Sami Annan, Chief-of-Staff of the Armed Forces.
The defense believes the two men and other senior officials will testify that they were never given orders by the former president to kill protestors.
The trial has been adjourned until Monday, Jan.?2.
Journalist are allowed to attend the trial under very strict rules as to what they can publish. Egyptian State TV, which was originally allowed to broadcast the trial, has since been barred from broadcasting the trial live.
Revolutionary groups have had a long-standing demand that Mubarak and his aides stand trial for the killing of protestors. The delay in the start of trial and it's lack of transparency has led many to criticize the SCAF that it was?never serious about bringing the former president to justice.
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The panic stories haven't yet begun ? but they're coming.
Soon you will hear the familiar shrieks from Federal Reserve officials bullying against any opposition to raising the debt limit one more time.
The media, too, will be telling you there is no other option. To stop borrowing endlessly will result in death, chaos and an end to life in America as we know it.
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Worse yet, Republicans will posture about the need to cut spending, but most will go along with more borrowing ? providing Barack Obama with all the funny money he needs to continue his scorched-earth policy of destruction of the U.S. economy.
What am I talking about?
The Treasury is now just $149 billion away from hitting the new debt ceiling set last in September. Without immediate real cuts in the budget, which are highly unlikely, that limit will be reached in January.
So here we go again.
I hate to say it, but I told you so. In fact, besides the 22 House Republicans who voted against the last hike in the debt limit, I am pretty much alone in American public life as an advocate of the "No More Red Ink" philosophy.
I hope that is about to change, because there's an old adage that says, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results." It's time to stop doing the same thing over and over again.
It's time for Americans to rise up in anger and demand "No More Red Ink."
What would that mean? How could it be done?
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It would mean that at least one house of Congress would have to say no to more borrowing. I actually thought that's why some of us elected Republicans to control the House in 2010. Most of them pledged to do just that. But they caved in to the establishment politics of Washington, which includes their own leadership.
However, they will get another shot to do the right thing very soon. I am determined to do everything I can to lobby the House Republicans to just say no. We need to make it a 2012 campaign issue. We need to get the Republican presidential candidates to weigh in. (At least two of them were among the House Republicans who voted correctly last August.)
But, most of all, we need to organize and lobby the House Republicans very hard.
That's why I am bringing back, for a second try, the "No More Red Ink" campaign that generated more than 1 million red letters to the House Republicans earlier this year. I believe following the abject failure of House Speaker John Boehner's compromise with Obama in August, more House Republicans will take a principled stand in opposition to endless borrowing.
What I am saying to you is not something you will hear from the TV talking-head, robot-like pundits. Not borrowing is not the end of the world, it's the beginning of recovery for America. It's the beginning of fiscal responsibility and discipline. It's the beginning of a return to constitutionally limited government. And we can do it overnight ? with one simple no vote by House Republicans.
I truly believe this vote is every bit as important as the one we'll all participate in next November when we choose a president. Why? Because, if you believe Obama is taking a wrecking ball to the Constitution and the economy, this is the way to pull the plug on him right now ? with one vote in Congress.
And, let's face it, if we're going to trust the Republican Party next November, shouldn't we expect its members to do the right thing in January?
Is there really a fundamental difference between the parties? Let's find out now!
Please support the new "No More Red Ink" campaign right now. Help me spread the word far and wide.
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Cheyenne Morris, 9, of Southgate (left); Barbara Hernandez; Cameron Priebe, Wayne County assistant ex-ecutive; and Phillip Hernandez enjoy a meal Tuesday at a Holiday Meal and toys for Children event at the Southgate Civic Center.
Southgate Mayor Joseph Kuspa serves food Tuesday at a Holiday Meal and Toys for Children event at the Civic Center. (Photos by Dave Chapman)
Santa Claus and Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano give a toy to Connor Ressler, 4, of Flat Rock at the Southgate Civic Center Tuesday. Ficano was there with other members of his staff and elected officials to give toys to children and food to needy people.
Santa Claus and Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano give toys to children.
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Kalimpong, Dec. 25: The Kalimpong leg of the tea and tourism festival will kick off from tomorrow with ?helicopter-hop?, rickshaw rides and a golf competition, events that are not being held in any other hill town hosting the winter extravaganza.
The main venue for the four-day fest will be the Mela Grounds where cultural programmes and musical soirees will be held on all four days.
The Kalimpong leg will begin with a rally that will snake through the main roads of the town before assembling at the Mela Grounds.
To lend an extra flavour to the festival, cultural groups from Assam and Odisha will perform on the first day along with an army band that will march along the streets.
Tourists can also enjoy ?helicopter-hop? where one can buy a ticket and go around town for almost 30 minutes in a chopper.
The helicopter will take off from the playground of Dr Graham?s Homes and drop the visitors at the same spot after the trip.
The organisers said the ticket prices have not been decided yet.
Visitors can also take a rickshaw ride from Thanadara to Jeevan Jyoti, a distance of about 1km.
?Rickshaws may be common in the plains but it is a novelty in the hills. We are hiring four rickshaws from Siliguri for the event,? said Tshering Topgay, the secretary of the organising committee.
For those who are not too enthusiastic about taking a rickshaw or a chopper ride, the fest also has to offer a flower show at Janmukti Park near Damber Chowk. The flower show will be open on all four days of the festival.
Those who love golf can get themselves registered and participate in a tournament that will be held at the picturesque Durpin course that belongs to the army.
The tea and tourism festival started in Darjeeling on December 20 and several cultural programmes were organised for the visitors. Mirik and Kurseong will also hold the fest that will end on January 5.
Sourabhee Debbarma and Kapil Thapa, the winner and the first runner-up of Indian Idol IV, will perform at the Mela Ground on the last day of the Kalimpong leg.
?Apart from the two, local singers and bands will also perform on all four days of the fest,? said Topgay.
The organisers are hopeful that the festival will draw a huge crowd. Hotels have registered almost hundred per cent bookings on all four days of the fest. ?All the 10 rooms in our hotel are booked till December 29. It is tourist season once more,? said Sarat Rai, the manager of Tribeni Lodge at Thanadara.
Source: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111226/jsp/siliguri/story_14927090.jsp
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Particularly in this era of YouTube and Flickr, it's worth pondering what makes an image or a video clip iconic -- or "go viral," to use the social media lingo?
If the question had an easy answer, of course, Hollywood film companies and marketing and public relations firms wouldn't be throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at it.
But, Martin Kemp should be commended for trying to work his way through what's at stake in an image becoming an icon in his new book, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon.
A professor emeritus of the history of art at Oxford University, Kemp tackles 11 important images and figures in his book: Christ, the cross, the heart, the lion, the Mona Lisa, Che, a Vietnam War photo of napalmed children, the American flag, Coca-Cola, DNA, and the equation E=MC?.
Kemp devotes one chapter to each of the themes, symbols, or figures, and some of the chapters reflect particularly interesting research and little-known facts. Anyone who has seen Kemp's Wikipedia page won't be surprised at his wide repertoire, but it bears reiterating. In Christ to Coke, Kemp easily navigates high art and kitsch, and complicated scientific discoveries and sociology and cultural history.
But as dazzling as Kemp's individual chapters are in their information about the first heart transplant (in South Africa, and the Jewish patient's wife worried about her husband's new gentile heart) and who really invented Coca-Cola's semi-erotic-shaped bottle, there is no overarching lesson about icons.
"There is no absolute predictability -- just a series of extraordinary stories about images that exhibit varied kinds of shared and individual characteristics," Kemp writes.
Kemp allows that though only two of his chapters address literally religious subject matter -- Christ and the cross -- the heart has a "conspicuous religious dimension." And if the definition of 'religion' is extended to "embrace devotion that accords a value to something that transcends all its apparent physical existence," he adds, "then the other eight all exhibit either religious or quasi-religious dimensions."
One wonders why Kemp abandons this approach when he seeks larger governing patterns. He calls the American flag "probably the most religious of the apparently secular images" -- as it is a "kind of sacramental object through both law and custom" -- and notes that lions can convey divine majesty, and "No one who has witnessed the elbowing crowds in front of the Mona Lisa can doubt that 'she' is the subject of cultural worship and journeys of pilgrimage."
But after arguing that it'd be tough to characterize the Coca-Cola bottle as religious "without debasing the term 'religious' to embrace such things as the worship of material consumption," Kemp dismisses religious, or quasi-religious, identity as a defining feature of icons. "We all tend to accord value to things that transcend any kind of financial and utilitarian worth," he says.
So apparently transcendence won't do as a contributing factor to icon status, though of course all successful icons are necessarily transcendent, in that they distinguish themselves from the pack of would-be icons. Perhaps identifying transcendence as a prerequisite to achieving iconic status would be a tautology, but it's actually a bit of a deep point.
A Che Guevara portrait isn't necessarily going to be successful because of it's subject matter. The photograph actually needs to be greater than the competition, just like Christ's majesty doesn't mean every crucifixion is going to be great art. Iconic themes certainly don't imply that every treatment of the themes deserve a reward. So Kemp is no doubt onto something in noticing at least some religious aspect to the icons he examines -- even the non-religious ones.
It's no wonder, then, that Kemp's first chapter on the "true icon" is arguably his most interesting one. In his treatment of Jesus' appearance, Kemp carefully traces the history of the acheiropoietos, or image not made by human hands. The sudarium (or Veronica's Veil) literally claimed iconic status by virtue of their divine creators.
Kemp doesn't suggest it, but perhaps all the 11 icons he addresses can be viewed in this light. Viewers are of course interested in Mona Lisa because they are fascinated by the image's creator, Leonardo da Vinci, and the model, Mona Lisa. But I'd argue that the painting has become iconic at least in part because it's so easy to "get lost" in the work and to forget the literal content and the creator. I'd submit that this type of transcendence might be common to all icons. The ones that have so much depth that they can hold our attention in their own right are the ones that we will cling to for many generations.
Of course this won't help us diagnose and predict which images are likely to go "viral," as it's always easier to predict the past than the future when it comes to qualitative judgments like this, but it might still be a useful template to use when we pose the very provocative question of what makes certain images become icons.
This article originally appeared in Houston Chronicle.
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Chris Christie broke the hearts of many Republicans when he declined to run for president, but his GOP fans may yet see him in the White House ? as the veep.
The New Jersey governor told Fox News that it would be "presumptuous" to disqualify himself from contention for the vice-presidential nomination so early in the race.
"I think it's awful to say I won't do something when it hasn't been offered," Christie said.
Christie discarded the possibility of seeking the GOP presidential nomination back in October, saying his work in New Jersey was too important to leave behind.
While the Republican darling refused to disqualify himself from consideration for vice president, he also reaffirmed his interest in New Jersey's top political spot.
"I think it's going to be President-elect Romney and some other vice president-elect, and Chris Christie the governor of New Jersey," Christie said, speculating on the outcome of the 2012 race.
"I love my job," the New Jersey governor added.
Christie threw his support behind Mitt Romney back in October, becoming one of the first major Republican politicians to endorse the former Massachusetts governor.
Romney enjoys the support of the Republican establishment and jumped out to an early lead for the nomination, but he has struggled since August to climb back to the top of national opinion polls.
An average of national polling data by Real Clear Politics finds that Romney trails frontrunner Newt Gingrich by 3.8 percentage points.
Christie, who has a reputation for not pulling punches, also told Fox he thought Romney should display more emotion.
"Americans don't want an angry president, but they want to see a president who understands their fear and their anger," Christie said. "What my advice to him [Romney\] has been:'show it,'"
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Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:11 PM
North Texas Walmart stores are among some 3,000 nationwide where store employees have pulled a batch of baby formula from the shelves after the death of an infant Missouri boy who had been fed the formula.
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The retailer says it is being "abundantly cautious" after the death of 10-day-old Avery Cornett last Sunday. The Missouri newborn appears to have died from a rare bacterial infection.
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The infant had been fed the baby formula made from 12.5 ounce cans of Enfamil Newborn powder.
The lot number is ZP1K7G.
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The government has not ordered a recall, but Walmart pulled the product as health officials continue to investigate.
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As Avery's family plans a funeral for the infant, samples of the formula he drank have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration.
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The manufacturer, Meade Johnson Nutrition says it tested the formula for the bacteria in question before shipping the product and tests came back negative.
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Depending on the outcome of the investigation, the product could be back on shelves as early as ten days from now.
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In the meantime, Walmart says it will allow customers who have the batch of baby formula in question to return it for a refund or an exchange.
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Portugal's government said on Thursday that China Three Gorges Corp. won the bidding for its 21% stake in EDP-Energias de Portugal SA with an offer of ?2.69 billion ($3.51 billion), in the first of a series of sales of state-owned assets under its austerity program.
The deal marks the first time a mainland Chinese firm acquired a significant stake in a southern European company and may portend other such moves as cash-strapped European governments from Madrid to Athens have been clamoring for Chinese funding to help them finance gaping budget deficits.
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Portugal's government said on Thursday that China Three Gorges Corp. won the bidding for its 21% stake in EDP-Energias de Portugal SA with an offer of ?2.69 billion ($3.51 billion), in the first of a series of sales of state-owned assets under its austerity program.
The deal marks the first time a mainland Chinese firm acquired a significant stake in a southern European company and may portend other such moves as cash-strapped European governments from Madrid to Athens have been clamoring for Chinese funding to help them finance gaping budget deficits.
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BAGHDAD ? Iraq's Shiite Muslim-dominated government ordered the arrest Monday night of Vice President Tariq al Hashimi, a Sunni, after televising the reputed confessions of three bodyguards that implicated him in a string of assassinations of leading Shiite military and government officials.
The arrest warrant and the broadcast, both of which appeared to be initiated by Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, a Shiite, intensified the political and sectarian crisis that erupted over the weekend just as the last U.S. forces rolled south to Kuwait, ending the nearly nine-year American military presence here.
Massoud Barzani, president of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region, warned that the escalating tensions threatened Iraq's multi-party coalition government. Without serious effort to bring about a broad political accord, it could lead to the "collapse of the political process," Barzani said.
Without mentioning Maliki by name, Barzani chided national police for detaining Hashimi and several other top Sunni leaders at Baghdad airport Sunday evening as they were en route to dinner with him. The episode, he said, was "irresponsible and inelegant," and he added: "The security side should not be politicized or used for other purposes."
Hashimi was last reported to be in the Kurdish city of Erbil, and several members of parliament said they thought he might try to flee the country for Turkey. Turkey has had close ties with Hashimi, and Iraqi parliamentarians who just returned from a trip there said that Turkish officials were highly concerned that Maliki was taking extreme and unconsidered measures against prominent Sunni politicians.
The airing of the "confessions" in prime time on state-run Iraqiya television flew in the face of an order by a five-judge committee not to put them before the public until the panel had fully investigated the charges. The U.S. Embassy and many leading political figures had urged the same thing, but in vain.
After the confessions aired, an Interior Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Adel Daham, waved a copy of a document before reporters that he said was a warrant for Hashimi's arrest. Iraqi television reported that security forces ? which have sent hundreds of troops and dozens of tanks, personnel carriers and armored Humvees into Baghdad's Green Zone ? earlier had raided Hashimi's offices.
Although several members of parliament said they believed there was a serious case against Hashimi, the staging of the trial-by-television could backfire against Maliki.
In more than half an hour of grainy black-and-white video recordings, three men described as Hashimi's bodyguards detailed bomb attacks they carried out going back to 2009 that were directed against government security forces. The weapons used were bombs and pistols with silencers.
The men spoke in monotones, and it was impossible to determine if their statements were of their own free will, as claimed by Maliki aides, or coerced. It appeared that a small selection of their interrogations was presented, evidently edited to provide maximum support for the government position that Hashimi headed the chain of command of what amounted to assassination squads.
One guard, Ahmed Abdul Kareem Mohammed, who said he was an Iraqi army officer, denounced Hashimi as "a criminal" who had destroyed the guard's life and that of his family. He quoted Hashimi's secretary as saying: "The vice president assigned you the mission of killing this officer, and I want you to be brave." Mohammed said he told him, "I am ready."
Along with three other guards, he said he waited for the target on the Mohammed Al Qasim highway in Baghdad. After waiting 10 minutes, he received a phone call from a man named Abu Ahmed, who said the officer, named Ehsan, would drive past in a white pickup in about 10 minutes.
"He is a Rafidhi dog," the caller said, using an epithet for Shiites. "After about seven minutes, the target came and we killed him," he said.
Mohammed said that three other men joined him in another operation in April, the assassination of a security officer identified only as Col. Mustafa. The setting was the same Al Qasim highway. He said he was told: "When he passes you with his car, chase him and kill him."
"After six minutes, the target arrived, and Ali Mahmoud killed him," he said, referring to another guard.
Mohammed said he was willing to go before the Iraqi parliament and answer questions live on television, providing evidence of "the previous and new crimes."
Ghassan Abbas Jasim, another officer in the vice president's security detail, also directly implicated Hashimi. He quoted the vice president saying that if another officer, Maj. Ahmed Shawqi, issued an order, "it means these are my orders, and you have to implement them."
The first operation he described targeted security forces near a restaurant in Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood in 2009. He said that he and his brother went with Shawqi to pick up a bomb from one of Hashimi's residences and planted it near a sidewalk. They detonated the bomb when the street was crowded, he said, and when security forces arrived at the scene they detonated a second bomb.
In another operation that same year, he said, Shawqi told them to go to a restaurant in east Baghdad and plant a bomb inside a plastic garbage bag.
"When a convoy came, we detonated the bomb. Later, we knew it was the convoy of the minister of health," Jasim said.
The third officer, identified as Marwan Mtheber al Dulaimi, said he was paid $500 to carry out his first operation, against Iraqi army vehicles in the town of Bab al Sharji. His second was to kill Col. Ehsan.
He also confessed to joining a plot to plant a car bomb against Shiite pilgrims observing the Ashoura holiday earlier this month.
(McClatchy special correspondent Laith Hammoudi contributed to this report.)
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People who kill themselves have more of a type of neuron important for social emotions
?| December 21, 2011
The long cell in the middle is a characteristic von Economo neuron.*
Image: Courtesy of Elisabeth Petrasch-Parwez Ruhr University Bochum
A certain type of brain cell may be linked with suicide, according to a recent investigation. People who take their own lives have more densely packed von Economo neurons, large spindle-shaped cells that have dramatically increased in density over the course of human evolution.
Researchers in Germany analyzed the roots of suicide in the brain by focusing on a neural network linked with psychological pain, which includes regions such as the anterior cingulate cortex and the anterior insula, where von Economo neurons are concentrated. These cells bear receptors for neuro?transmitters that help to regulate emotion, such as dopamine, serotonin and vasopressin. Because they are found in highly gregarious animals such as whales, elephants and apes?with humans possessing the highest densities?scientists believe they might specifically deal with complex social emotions such as shame.
The team compared the density of von Economo neurons in nine patients who died from suicide and 30 who died of natural causes, such as heart failure. All subjects had been diagnosed clinically with either schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. The researchers found the density of these neurons was significantly greater in those who died of suicide than in those who had not, regardless of what disorder they had. Evolutionary psychiatrist and neuroscientist Martin Br?ne of University Hospital Bochum and his colleagues detailed these findings online June 22 in PLoS ONE.
If von Economo neurons do play a role in processing complex emotions such as empathy, guilt and shame, an overabundance may in some cases trigger emotional disturbances, potentially explaining the link seen with suicidal behavior, Br?ne says. He adds that high densities of von Economo neurons do not necessarily cause suicide: ?Having good empathetic abilities is certainly something that is advantageous in most situations but perhaps can have deleterious effects under very specific circumstances.? Future insights into the role of these cells in emotion and cognition might lead to ways of addressing suicidal tendencies, he says.
*Correction (11/1/11): The image in this story was changed after posting because the original did not display von Economo neurons.
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Announced in an official blog post earlier today, Adobe pushed out?Flash Player version 11.1 for Android devices. The new software supports version 4.0 of the Android operating system otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich. The update for Flash Player is?available?on the Android Market and owners of the brand new Samsung?Galaxy Nexus can download the update immediately. Adobe also announced the upcoming release of?Adobe AIR 3.1, software that helps bring applications utilizing Flash to a variety of platforms. Using Adobe AIR 3.1, developers can bring apps to the Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes and Noble Nook and BlackBerry PlayBook as well as Apple and Android platforms.
Adobe will continue to push out?bug fixes and security updates for the mobile version of Flash Player, but will no longer continue development of the product in regards to new features. Adobe officials claim to be shifting to HTML5 development and will seek ways to integrate Flash into HTML5 applications and Web development products. In regards to desktop PCs and laptops,?Flash Player 12 is currently under development and the company is looking for ways to integrate Flash into HTML5 sites.
Microsoft recently announced that the?Metro-style version of Windows 8 will no longer support plugins within Internet Explorer 10. This means that consumers won?t be able to install Adobe Flash on the metro version, possibly a contributing factor to Adobe?s decision to focus on HTML5 development. However, Windows 8 owners that utilize the traditional desktop style will be able to install Adobe Flash and view Flash animations within Internet Explorer 10. While no release date has been announced for the new version of Windows, Microsoft plans to show off the new operating system at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show during January 2012 as well as release the public beta of the software during?February 2012.
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2011) ? Large forest regions in Canada are apparently about to experience rapid change. Based on models, scientists can now show that there are threshold values for wildfires just like there are for epidemics. Large areas of Canada are apparently approaching this threshold value and may in future exceed it due to climate change.
As a result both the area burnt down annually and the average size of the fires would increase, write the researchers of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the University of Michigan in the December issue of the journal The American Naturalist. The strategies for combating wildfires in large parts of Canada should therefore be reconsidered.
According to media reports, after weeks of drought around 1,000 hectares of forest and scrubland were burnt down in the West Canadian province British Columbia in the summer of 2009 alone. 11,000 people had to be evacuated. Are such events on the rise as a result of climate change? This question is being hotly debated by ecologists all over the world. In July a group of US researchers led by Anthony Westerling of the University of California forecasted similar changes in the journal PNAS. They believe that climate change might result in a dramatic increase in the threat of wildfires in Yellowstone National Park and that the forests might disappear here in the 21st century.
Fires are an important factor in many terrestrial ecosystems. They are a result of the interaction of the weather, vegetation and land use, which makes them very sensitive to global change. "Changes in the wildfire regime have a significant impact on a local and global scale and therefore on the climate as well. It is therefore important to understand how the mechanisms which shape these wildfires work in order to be able to make predictions on what will change in future," explains PD Dr. Volker Grimm of the UFZ.
For their model, the scientists evaluated data from the Canadian Forest Service, which had recorded fires greater than 200 hectares between 1959 and 1999, and sorted these by ecozone. This showed that three of these ecozones in Canada are close to a turning point: the Hudson Plains south of the Hudson Bay, the Boreale Plains in the Mid-West the Boreale Shield, which stretches from the Mid-West to the East coast and is therefore the largest ecozone in Canada. The closest to a turning point is apparently the Boreale Shield. In order to check their model and the theory of a threshold value for wildfires, the scientists looked at the fires in this region more closely. Around 1980 the average size of the fires in this part of the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba tripled rapidly. "In our opinion this is a sign that there are also threshold values for forests above which the wildfire regime drastically changes," reports Volker Grimm. "It is likely that the Boreale Plains have in recent decades, particularly around 1980, experienced a change to a system characterised by wildfires. This has fundamental repercussions for the environment and the combating of wildfires. Small changes in the fire propagation parameters have a great impact on the size of the fires." Gradual changes, such as those which can be expected due to climate change, can therefore result in an abrupt and sharp increase in the size of the fires.
The scientists were also interested in the parallels with disease propagation. Prevention strategies, which reduce combustible material, are in a way similar to the vaccinations which are used against the spread of diseases such as the measles. Here too there is a threshold value above which a disease spreads and below which it falls. Other modellers from the UFZ were therefore able to turn this theoretical threshold value into a practical value. With foxes it was shown that only 60 per cent had to be vaccinated against rabies in order to successfully combat the disease. The scientists therefore hope to find out more in future studies which cover both disciplines.
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FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) ? An American Army intelligence analyst suspected of being behind the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history made his first court appearance on Friday, sitting stone-faced as military prosecutors launched their case against him.
Private First Class Bradley Manning, 23, faces charges including aiding the enemy, which could send him to prison for life. He is suspected of being the source of documents that eventually were released on the Internet by WikiLeaks -- data dumps that Washington said jeopardized national security.
Manning was quiet as he sat in the courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland, wearing military fatigues and dark-rimmed glasses, occasionally taking notes during the pre-trial proceedings.
He answered with a quick, "Yes, sir" when investigating officer, Army Lieutenant Colonel Paul Almanza, asked him whether he understood the charges against him.
After questioning Almanza, Manning attorney David Coombs announced that the defense was filing a motion for the investigating officer to recuse himself because of his work at the Department of Justice.
The Justice Department is investigating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. If Justice "had its way," Coombs argued, it would get a plea from Manning that would help it "go after Assange." Almanza rejected the motion.
Security was tight as media and some protesters gathered at the base, which also serves as the home of the secretive intelligence-gathering National Security Agency.
WikiLeaks eventually posted online hundreds of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables that exposed the candid views of U.S. officials and their allies.
It also released about half a million classified U.S. files on the Iraq and Afghan wars.
Prosecutors aim to show there is sufficient evidence to bring Manning to trial at a general court martial on 22 criminal charges.
If convicted of all counts, Manning would face a maximum punishment of life imprisonment, reduction in rank to the lowest enlisted pay grade, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and a dishonorable discharge, the Army said in a statement.
The most serious charge, aiding the enemy, is a capital crime that carries the death penalty but the Army has indicated it does not plan to seek that punishment.
For much of the time since his detention beginning in May 2010 in Iraq, Manning was held on a charge of improperly obtaining a classified gunsight video that showed a 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Iraq, including two Reuters journalists. The video was released publicly by WikiLeaks.
The additional charges were brought against Manning last spring.
HEARING BEFORE BIRTHDAY
The proceedings began one day before Manning, a Crescent, Oklahoma, native, marked his 24th birthday.
Members of the Bradley Manning Support Network demonstrated on Friday, joined by protesters from the Occupy movement's encampments in Washington and on Wall Street, the organizations said.
Supporters plan a march outside the base on Saturday with Daniel Ellsberg, who released the controversial history of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers in 1971, expected to address them.
Manning defenders see him as a hero. Some view the release of the cables, with their frank discussion of corruption in some countries, as having contributed to the Arab Spring protests in the Middle East.
"He stands accused of doing the right thing," said Zack Pesavento, who was at Fort Meade.
Some protesters held signs that read: "Free Bradley Manning" and "The Truth Will Set You Free."
As the first day of hearings ended, a man with the group "Veterans for Peace" shouted inside the courtroom: "Bradley Manning, you're a hero," according to witnesses in the room. Manning, controlled throughout, didn't respond or turn around.
Manning was caught after he bragged about his activities to former hacker Adrian Lamo, who turned him in to authorities, Lamo told Reuters.
Lamo said Manning, who worked as an intelligence analyst for the 10th Mountain Division's 2nd Brigade in Iraq, told him he would bring in CDs and load them with downloaded data from the military's Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, known as SIPRNet.
In Internet chats with Lamo, Manning appears to acknowledged giving materials to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He wrote to Lamo: "I'm a high profile source ... and I've developed a relationship with Assange."
Assange is in Britain fighting extradition to Sweden over accusations of rape and sexual assault made by two female former WikiLeaks volunteers in August 2010. Britain's Supreme Court said on Friday it granted permission for Assange to appeal his case.
(Writing by Phil Stewart and David Alexander)
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RAMALLAH, West Bank ? Vandals set fire to another mosque in the West Bank on Thursday and defaced it with Hebrew graffiti. Suspicion fell on Jewish extremists widely assumed to be behind stepped-up violence against Palestinians and the Israeli military.
The governor of Ramallah, Laila Ghanam, said arsonists doused the mosque in the village of Burqa with gasoline, then set it afire.
The Hebrew words for "war" and "Mitzpe Yitzhar" were painted in red on a wall, and the Israeli military said carpets and chairs were burned.
Mitzpe Yitzhar is an unauthorized Jewish settlement outpost in the West Bank where Israeli security forces demolished two structures early Thursday.
In recent years, settlers have attacked Palestinian and Israeli military targets in retaliation for Israeli government operations they see as overly sympathetic to Palestinians.
The increasing frequency of the attacks, the sparse number of arrests and paucity of indictments have generated allegations that the Israeli government isn't acting forcefully enough against extremists after two years of violence.
On Wednesday, following an assault on an Israeli military base, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved measures to clamp down on extremists, including giving soldiers the authority to make arrests and to ban extremists from contentious areas.
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GREENVILLE, S.C. ? Challenging Newt Gingrich's claim to South Carolina, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney charged into the state Friday with a key endorsement from the tea party-aligned governor, a packed campaign schedule and plans to start airing TV ads in the early primary state.
The show of force by Romney was a clear signal he intends to compete aggressively in a state that stymied him in 2008 and that Gingrich has made a cornerstone of his own campaign.
"It's a real kickoff of a major portion of our campaign," Romney told reporters after accepting an endorsement from South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. "I want to win in South Carolina."
While Romney was planting his flag in a Gingrich stronghold, the former House speaker from neighboring Georgia spent the day off the campaign trail, with a book-signing near Washington and private family events in the capital city.
On Friday and in the previous night's debate, Romney steered clear of pointed attacks on Gingrich, entering the final sprint to the Jan. 3 leadoff Iowa caucuses with an air of confidence after a week of assailing Gingrich's leadership, judgment and temperament. That pivot suggested the Romney camp believes Gingrich's recent rise in opinion polls may have leveled off and Romney can campaign closer to his early stance as the all-but-inevitable nominee.
The New Hampshire primary follows one week after Iowa, then comes South Carolina on Jan. 21. While Romney was still in Iowa on Friday, Haley announced she was supporting him as the best Republican candidate to take on President Barack Obama in the battle for the White House next year.
South Carolina wasn't kind to Romney in 2008. He spent millions here only to come in fourth after disappointing losses in Iowa and New Hampshire. Critics suggested his Mormon faith caused problems with the state's significant conservative Christian vote.
On Friday, Haley argued that her state was past all that. "South Carolina just elected a 38-year-old Indian female for governor," said Haley, who was raised Sikh and converted to Christianity. "What the people of South Carolina care about is values and family and faith."
Not that Friday was all smooth sailing for Romney.
After more than a week of criticizing Gingrich as a loose cannon likely to be savaged by Democrats, Romney opened himself to similar complaints by saying he didn't understand Medicaid until he started working in government. One of the principal avenues of criticism against Romney is that he's spent his life among the privileged and is out-of-touch.
"You know, I have to admit I didn't know all the differences between these things before I got into government," Romney said, referring to the federal-state health care program for the poor, at a campaign stop in Iowa.
Romney later told reporters traveling with him to South Carolina that he understood the program but hadn't quite grasped how it was funded. He called his earlier comment a "self-deprecating understatement."
Meanwhile, he had no harsh words for Gingrich ? seeming content to leave that to his fellow Republican rivals and a political action committee that supports Romney. They have gone after Gingrich aggressively since he claimed the lead in national and Iowa polls this month.
The closest Romney came Friday was a veiled reference to the former congressional leader and longtime Washington consultant.
"What concerns me is that we have in Washington, D.C., a class of people who spent their whole time in Washington," Romney said.
His introductory South Carolina TV spot is upbeat.
The ad cost is modest, just $65,000 on cable television this week and next. But it signals an effort to cut into Gingrich's South Carolina showing heading into the bigger Florida primary, set for Jan. 31.
Romney was confident and relaxed campaigning Friday, traveling with his wife, Ann, and bringing reporters along on the campaign's charter flights for the first time this year.
Gingrich is still facing withering criticism from Texas Rep. Ron Paul and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Romney also hopes to slow Gingrich heading into New Hampshire, a must-win state for Romney, who was governor in next-door Massachusetts. Romney, who has led comfortably in New Hampshire, began airing a new ad there featuring his conversations with New Englanders concerned about the economy.
Romney already had set aside campaign money to step up his South Carolina effort, although the focus will probably remain on advertising, not additional campaign staff.
No doubt in the works for South Carolina is another Romney ad before the Jan. 21 primary, one featuring Haley.
Haley's ties with Romney run deep. She endorsed him in 2008 when she was in the Legislature. Romney returned the favor when she ran for governor in 2010.
"Neither South Carolina nor the nation can afford four more years of President Obama, and Mitt Romney is the right person to take him on and get America back on track," Haley, a rising GOP star, said after announcing her endorsement on Fox News Channel.
She later told The Associated Press that Romney "has led in making decisions," a point Romney stresses in suggesting his decades in business and term as governor qualify him most for the GOP nomination.
Romney has focused heavily on winning New Hampshire's primary on Jan. 10. But he has been spending time, too, in Iowa, where he finished a disappointing second to Arkansas' Mike Huckabee after spending $10 million on his 2008 Iowa campaign.
The candidates ? except for Gingrich ? were making final pitches to voters on Friday before people begin focusing on the holidays.
Bachmann and Texas Gov. Rick Perry were taking their argument that Gingrich isn't conservative enough to lead the party to Iowa voters on separate bus tours in the state's conservative but lightly populated northwest.
Although Gingrich was off the trail, his campaign drew unwanted attention after two New Hampshire Republicans alleged in complaints filed with state authorities that they had received illegal political telephone calls from the Gingrich operation.
New Hampshire law prevents political campaigns from using recorded political messages, or "robo-calls," to contact residents who are registered on a national do-not-call list.
Gingrich's campaign denied wrongdoing.
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Associated Press writer Jim Davenport in Spartanburg, S.C., and Steve Peoples in Washington contributed to this report.
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NORFOLK, Va. ? Sentencing hearings in the United States have been postponed for the last of 11 men who have pleaded guilty to piracy for hijacking an American yacht off the coast of Africa.
Somalis Said Abdi Fooley and Abdi Jama Aqid were to be sentenced Friday in federal court in Norfolk, Va. Piracy carries a mandatory life sentence.
U.S. Attorney's office spokesman Peter Carr said Friday that no new sentencing dates were immediately available.
They're among 14 men charged in the boarding of the Quest in February several hundred miles south of Oman. All four aboard the 58-foot yacht were fatally shot days later after negotiations with the U.S. Navy broke down.
Three men who prosecutors say shot the Americans are facing murder and other charges that could carry the death penalty.
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