Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Are diet soft drinks bad for you?

ScienceDaily (Jan. 31, 2012) ? A new study finds a potential link between daily consumption of diet soft drinks and the risk of vascular events.

Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and her colleagues from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University Medical Center. However, in contrast, they found that regular soft drink consumption and a more moderate intake of diet soft drinks do not appear to be linked to a higher risk of vascular events. The research appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine published by Springer.

In the current climate of escalating obesity rates, artificially sweetened soft drinks are marketed as healthier alternatives to sugar-sweetened beverages, due to their lack of calories. However, the long-term health consequences of drinking diet soft drinks remain unclear.

Gardener and team examined the relationship between both diet and regular soft drink consumption and risk of stroke, myocardial infarction (or heart attack), and vascular death. Data were analyzed from 2,564 participants in the NIH-funded Northern Manhattan Study, which was designed to determine stroke incidence, risk factors and prognosis in a multi-ethnic urban population. The researchers looked at how often individuals drank soft drinks -- diet and regular -- and the number of vascular events that occurred over a ten-year period.

They found that those who drank diet soft drinks daily were 43 percent more likely to have suffered a vascular event than those who drank none, after taking into account pre-existing vascular conditions such as metabolic syndrome, diabetes and high blood pressure. Light diet soft drink users, i.e. those who drank between one a month and six a week, and those who chose regular soft drinks were not more likely to suffer vascular events.

Gardener concludes: "Our results suggest a potential association between daily diet soft drink consumption and vascular outcomes. However, the mechanisms by which soft drinks may affect vascular events are unclear. There is a need for further research before any conclusions can be drawn regarding the potential health consequences of diet soft drink consumption."

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Mad Catz Cyborg M.M.O.7 gaming mouse now on sale, F.R.E.Q 5 headset hits pre-order

Gamers looking for some hardware assistance can breathe a sigh of relief; Mad Catz's latest eye-catching forays into gaming mice and headsets are almost, if not already, upon us. The Cyborg M.M.O.7 mouse (?130) manages to offer up 78 definable commands beneath those eye-catching metallic hues and is available to buy now, while its F.R.E.Q 5 headset ($150) has hit pre-order on the manufacturer's site. Acronym-loving thrill-seekers can check out both at the source below.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Who Won Big at the 2012 SAG Awards?

The cast of The Help had much reason to celebrate at the 2012 SAG Awards. The Civil Rights drama swept in all of its categories, winning outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role, outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role and the night's highest honor, outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture.

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Congress tries to police itself on insider trading

(AP) ? Aware that most Americans would like to dump them all, members of Congress hope to regain some sense of trust by subjecting themselves to tougher penalties for insider trading and requiring that they disclose stock transactions within 30 days.

A procedural vote Monday would allow the Senate later this week to pass a bill prohibiting members of Congress from using nonpublic information for their own personal benefit or "tipping" others to inside information that they could trade on.

Insider trading laws apply to all Americans, but the CBS TV news magazine "60 Minutes" in November said members of Congress get a pass, citing investment transactions by party leaders and a committee chairman in businesses about to be affected by pending legislation.

The broadcast report raised questions about trades of House Speaker John Boehner; the husband of Democratic leader and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi; and Rep. Spencer Bachus, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.

All three denied using any insider information to make stock trades, but the broadcast set off a flurry of efforts in Washington to deal with the public perception.

A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll of registered voters found 56 percent of them favor replacing the entire 535-member Congress. Other polls this year have given Congress an approval rating between 11 percent and 13 percent, while disapproval percentages have ranged from 79 percent to 86 percent.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said he's working on an expanded bill that would go beyond stock transactions and ban lawmakers from making land deals and other investments based on what they learned as members of Congress.

The Senate version of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act would subject any member of Congress who violates the ban on insider trading to investigation and prosecution by regulatory agencies and the Justice Department. It also directs the House and Senate ethics committees to write rules that would make violators subject to additional congressional penalties.

"We can start restoring some of the faith that's been lost in our government by taking this common sense step of making members of Congress play by the exact same rules as everyone else," said Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who with Republican Sen. Scott Brown, wrote the bill "We must make it unambiguous that this kind of behavior is illegal."

President Barack Obama endorsed the bill in his State of the Union speech last week, saying he would "sign it tomorrow." Brown used that opening to briefly speak with the president as he was exiting the House chamber after Tuesday's address.

"The insider trading bill's on Harry's desk right now," Brown told Obama, referring to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "Tell him to get it out, it's already there."

"I'm gonna tell him," answered Obama. "I'm gonna tell him, I'm gonna tell him to get it done."

Obama raised the issue again in his radio and Internet address on Saturday.

"The House and Senate should send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress, and I will sign it immediately. They should limit any elected official from owning stocks in industries they impact," he said.

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

NASA's Kepler announces 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 planets

ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2012) ? NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified Kepler planets and triple the number of stars known to have more than one planet that transits, or passes in front of, the star. Such systems will help astronomers better understand how planets form.

The planets orbit close to their host stars and range in size from 1.5 times the radius of Earth to larger than Jupiter. Fifteen are between Earth and Neptune in size. Further observations will be required to determine which are rocky like Earth and which have thick gaseous atmospheres like Neptune. The planets orbit their host star once every six to 143 days. All are closer to their host star than Venus is to our sun.

"Prior to the Kepler mission, we knew of perhaps 500 exoplanets across the whole sky," said Doug Hudgins, Kepler program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Now, in just two years staring at a patch of sky not much bigger than your fist, Kepler has discovered more than 60 planets and more than 2,300 planet candidates. This tells us that our galaxy is positively loaded with planets of all sizes and orbits."

Kepler identifies planet candidates by repeatedly measuring the change in brightness of more than 150,000 stars to detect when a planet passes in front of the star. That passage casts a small shadow toward Earth and the Kepler spacecraft.

"Confirming that the small decrease in the star's brightness is due to a planet requires additional observations and time-consuming analysis," said Eric Ford, associate professor of astronomy at the University of Florida and lead author of the paper confirming Kepler-23 and Kepler-24. "We verified these planets using new techniques that dramatically accelerated their discovery."

Each of the newly confirmed planetary systems contains two to five closely spaced transiting planets. In tightly packed planetary systems, the gravitational pull of the planets on each other causes some planets to accelerate and some to decelerate along their orbits. The acceleration causes the orbital period of each planet to change. Kepler detects this effect by measuring the changes, or so-called Transit Timing Variations.

Planetary systems with Transit Timing Variations can be verified without requiring extensive ground-based observations, accelerating confirmation of planet candidates. This detection technique also increases Kepler's ability to confirm planetary systems around fainter and more distant stars.

"By precisely timing when each planet transits its star, Kepler detected the gravitational tug of the planets on each other, clinching the case for 10 of the newly announced planetary systems," said Dan Fabrycky, Hubble Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and lead author for a paper confirming Kepler-29, 30, 31 and 32.

Five of the systems (Kepler-25, Kepler-27, Kepler-30, Kepler-31 and Kepler-33) contain a pair of planets where the inner planet orbits the star twice during each orbit of the outer planet. Four of the systems (Kepler-23, Kepler-24, Kepler-28 and Kepler-32) contain a pairing where the outer planet circles the star twice for every three times the inner planet orbits its star.

"These configurations help to amplify the gravitational interactions between the planets, similar to how my sons kick their legs on a swing at the right time to go higher," said Jason Steffen, the Brinson postdoctoral fellow at Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics in Batavia, Ill., and lead author of a paper confirming Kepler-25, 26, 27 and 28.

Kepler-33, a star that is older and more massive than our sun, had the most planets. The system hosts five planets, ranging in size from 1.5 to 5 times that of Earth. All of the planets are located closer to their star than any planet is to our sun.

The properties of a star provide clues for planet detection. The decrease in the star's brightness and duration of a planet transit combined with the properties of its host star present a recognizable signature. When astronomers detect planet candidates that exhibit similar signatures around the same star, the likelihood of any of these planet candidates being a false positive is very low.

"The approach used to verify the Kepler-33 planets shows the overall reliability is quite high," said Jack Lissauer, planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., and lead author of the paper on Kepler-33. "This is a validation by multiplicity."

These discoveries are published in four different papers in the Astrophysical Journal and the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., manages Kepler's ground system development, mission operations and science data analysis. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., managed the Kepler mission's development.

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo., developed the Kepler flight system and supports mission operations with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore archives, hosts and distributes Kepler science data. Kepler is NASA's 10th Discovery Mission and is funded by NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington.

For more information about the Kepler mission and to view the digital press kit, visit http://www.nasa.gov/kepler . More information about exoplanets and NASA's planet-finding program is at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov .

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Nintendo gets with the times, announces Nintendo Network, DLC, and NFC for Wii U (Digital Trends)

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After a decade of lackluster online support, Nintendo may finally be wising up. During an investor?s briefing today, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced that its upcoming console, the Wii U, will have two new features: NFC built into the controller and an Xbox Live-like online service called Nintendo Network. Downloadable content, including fullly downloadable retail games is also a possibility. Details below.

Wii U to have a solid launch in 2012

Iwata began his discussion about the Wii U by stating that it will launch in the United States, Japan, Europe, and Australia in time for the holiday sales season this year. 

?The company is aiming to firmly complete the development of the entire system and prepare sufficient software so that the Wii U will be at its best at the time of the launch,? said Iwata. ?Needless to say, we have learned a bitter lesson from the launch of the Nintendo 3DS.?

NFC in Wii U controller

NFC has been hailed as the next big thing in mobile credit card and payments technology. It enables you to safely transfer data between two objects safely and securely by hovering them about 0-3 inches apart. Google has been one of the biggest early supporters of the technology, building its Google Wallet service around it, which allows you to use your Android phone as a credit card of sorts. Android 4.0 also has a new feature called Android Beam, which lets you exchange almost any information between two NFC equipped Android devices by tapping them together. The feature is a novelty, but pretty cool to experience.

Nintendo has similar plans. Iwata announced that the giant Wii U controller will be NFC enabled, opening up loads of possibilities for the new console. Iwata said that the new system could be used to make micropayments or for tapping cards on your controller to submit game data to the Wii U. Nintendo has done this before. Back in 2001 it launched the Game Boy Advance E-Reader, a peripheral that plugged into the handheld like a game cartridge and used credit card magnetic swipe technology to transfer tiny bits of data from paper game cards to the handheld. It never really took off outside of a few games, but it sounds like Nintendo may be resurrecting the idea using NFC. This will let Nintendo sell or give away physical items and let players add those items directly into a game.?

The possibilities of this technology are far greater. Nintendo has said that the Wii U controller can be used as a multiplayer game surface before. Well, what if the controller sat in the middle of a table and 3-4 players were able to play a board-like game together, but also use the Wii U in different ways by tapping their cards on the controller? This could really make certain board games a lot more fun, if implemented right.

It could also, as Iwata mentioned, make micropayments a lot easier. Currently, if you want to purchase something in the Wii Virtual Console store, you have to first buy Wii Points by entering a credit card (and you have to completely re-enter it every time) or by purchasing a Wii Points card at a store like GameStop or Best Buy and then typing in a long numerical code on them into your Wii. Using NFC, future Wii U Points cards could automatically add their balance to your Wii U account without having to enter anything. You?d just have to tap them to your console and press ?Yes, I?d like to add these funds to my account.?

The Nintendo Network

Nintendo has always been one of the most innovative and stubborn video game companies. It has reinvented itself and the gaming world more than once, but continually refuses to adapt to trends that it doesn?t create. A good example of that has always been online play. The Kyoto game maker has been dipping its feet into the online world as far back as 1987 (read:?a history of Nintendo?s online activities). Its plans weren?t all vapor either. It created a full add-on for the Nintendo 64 designed around an online network, but the concept was never successful enough to leave Japan. Other endeavors in the 90s failed to take off either, so when the Sega Dreamcast and Microsoft Xbox both began to make waves a little over a decade ago, it was not surprising that Nintendo was reluctant to get onboard with online gaming. It could be a fad, after all. The Wii also got away with having no decent online support either due to the massive success of its new controller, but Nintendo?s recent struggles have forced it to reconsider. ?

A mere decade behind the competition, Nintendo is also finally launching the Nintendo Network, which will be available on both the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. The system will be a full online network with actual personal accounts for each user and online communities (like the one in Mario Kart 7). On the Wii and DS, Nintendo does not allow individual user accounts like Xbox Live or PlayStation Network. Instead, users can only play together by trading long numerical codes attached to their consoles. Because of this, the Wii and DS online presence has been muted.

Iwata did not specifically say, but we speculate that the Nintendo Network will somehow incorporate or honor purchases made on the Wii Shop Channel and 3DS eShop.

Downloadable content (DLC) will be available for the Wii U as it has the Nintendo 3DS as well, said Iwata. However, he made sure to point out, as he has in the past, that Nintendo has no plans to mimic the business model of social games like FarmVille that claim to be free but then try to milk money out of users.?

?While we are on this subject [of downloadable content],? said Iwata, ?when we discuss anything relating to add-on content, our remarks are very often reported by the media by their attaching such modifiers or notes as ?the ones used for social games.? Please note that Nintendo, as a software maker, does not plan to deploy businesses where our consumers cannot know in advance which item will appear as the result of their payment and they have to repeat the payments and, before they know it, they end up spending a huge amount of money in order to obtain the items they originally wanted to purchase. As a software maker, Nintendo believes that its packaged software should be sold to our consumers in a form so that the consumers will know in advance that they can enjoy playing the software they purchased just as it is. We believe that our consumers will be able to feel more secure if we offer our add-on content as an additional structure in which those who love the game will be able to enjoy it in a deeper way for a prolonged play time.?

Full downloadable retail games coming, someday

While it doesn?t sound like it will happen immediately due to pressure from retailers who need boxed software to keep their doors open (GameStop, Best Buy), Iwata says Nintendo is ready to sell full games via download as well. Both the 3DS and Wii U will be capable of this. Another potential hurdle is that the the game maker still plans to rely on SD cards as the main way for customers to store purchased content and game saves. This is a far different approach than Microsoft and Sony are taking. Both the Xbox 360 (most of its models) and PlayStation 3 are equipped with large hard drives for storing downloadable games. However, neither company has announced plans to move sales of full retail titles to the Internet either, likely due to the same reasons and that it would take users a very long time to download games, which will likely be 5-50GB a piece in the next generation of consoles.

Good news all around

If you?re a Nintendo fan, today is a good day. While we still haven?t seen the Nintendo Network, from the sounds of it, the service will be a vast improvement to anything offered on the Wii or GameCube. Hopefully, it will also have a robust apps store that allows for open development and has features like saving games to the cloud. There?s nothing quite as scary as losing all of your game saves.?

We still have our doubts about the Wii U (read our CES impressions), but Nintendo might finally nail the online experience.?

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Friday, January 27, 2012

CA-CANADA Summary (Reuters)

Canadian pipeline needs aboriginal consent: chief

OTTAWA (Reuters) ? Enbridge Inc's controversial plan to build a pipeline to the Pacific Coast from oil-rich Alberta requires the consent of aboriginal bands, some of whom staunchly oppose the project, Canada's top native leader said on Wednesday. The contention underlines the difficulties facing Enbridge as it tries to push through the C$5.5 billion ($5.4 billion) Northern Gateway project, which would cross land belonging to many Indian bands, or first nations, so the oil sands-derived crude could be shipped to Asia and California.

Clock ticking on possible Air Canada strike, lock-out

(Reuters) - Air Canada's refusal to extend a period of conciliated labor talks with its pilots' union raises the chance of a strike or lock-out at the country's biggest airline by as early as February. The 3,000-strong Air Canada Pilots Association (ACPA) said on Tuesday the carrier had declined to extend labor contract negotiations that had been taking place under a conciliator appointed by the federal government.

Ontario finance minister sees targeted budget reforms

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ontario's spring budget will see targeted changes to the public sector, rather than cuts across all areas, the finance minister of Canada's most populous province said on Wednesday. "I categorically reject that we will do across the board cuts," Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said in an interview.

Canada education sector toughest job market

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Unemployed workers in Canada's educational services sector faced the toughest job market in the country in the July-September period, according to a new Statistics Canada report on Tuesday. For every 10 unemployed workers in education, there was just one vacancy, the agency's new data on job vacancies in the three-month period showed. The second worst sector was construction where the ratio was 5.1.

Canada's telecoms regulator appoints interim chief

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's telecoms and broadcasting regulator appointed Vice-Chairman Leonard Katz as its interim chairman on Wednesday as predecessor Konrad von Finckenstein's term ended. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said in a statement that Katz will exercise the chairman's powers until the federal cabinet appoints a permanent replacement for von Finckenstein.

Rwanda genocide suspect deported from Canada

KIGALI (Reuters) - A Rwandan man charged with crimes against humanity has been deported from Canada and is due to arrive in the central African country overnight, Rwanda's justice minister said on Tuesday. Leon Mugesera, who lost a 16-year battle to stay in Canada, will face charges of inciting murder, extermination and genocide.

Pilots say Air Canada quit talks; government disagrees

CALGARY/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Air Canada pilots said on Tuesday the airline had abandoned contract talks in the hope that Ottawa would step in to resolve the dispute, but the country's largest carrier said it was awaiting the union's response to its latest offer. Canadian Labour Minister Lisa Raitt also said talks had not broken down and the federally appointed conciliator remained in contact with both parties and was available to assist with negotiations.

Ottawa sees itself as protector of oil sands benefits

VANCOUVER/CALGARY (Reuters) - Canada's government has a responsibility to make sure people can take advantage of the economic benefits Alberta's massive oil deposits can generate, the country's energy minister said on Monday as he once again decried "radicals" bent on stopping Enbridge Inc's Northern Gateway oil pipeline. As about 50 protesters demonstrated noisily outside, Joe Oliver, minister of natural resources, said in Vancouver that "environmental and other radical groups" are indiscriminately opposing any and all large industrial projects and are using Canada's regulatory system as their main battleground.

Canadian minister blasts China ahead of PM's visit

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's foreign minister launched an outspoken attack on China's "abhorrent" treatment of religious minorities on Monday, just weeks before Prime Minister Stephen Harper goes to Beijing in a bid to sell more oil. John Baird's comments came as a major surprise, given Canada's right-of-center Conservative government has gradually toned down its attacks on Chinese human rights issues over the years in favor of boosting trade.

RIM shares bounce back after shuffle-related drop

TORONTO (Reuters) - Shares of Research In Motion rose 8.6 percent on Wednesday, rebounding after two days of declines on disappointment over the choice of an company insider as the BlackBerry maker's new chief executive. The jump followed a 8 percent swoon on Monday and a 3.5 percent drop on Tuesday. Over the weekend, RIM replaced co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie with Thorsten Heins, a four-year veteran of the struggling company.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Video: GOP Battle for the Sunshine State

I think the momentum is back on Mitt Romney's side in Florida, says former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, who adds Mitt Romney is the most capable candidate.

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Gingrich: Romney self-deportation plan a fantasy (AP)

DORAL, Fla. ? Republican Newt Gingrich says Mitt Romney's call for self-deportation of illegal immigrants is an "Obama-level" fantasy that is inhumane to long-established families living in America.

The former House speaker ridiculed that part of Romney's immigration policy during a forum Wednesday with the Spanish-language network Univision. Gingrich laughed at the idea and said it wouldn't work.

Romney said during a recent debate that he favors what he calls "self-deportation" over policies that require the federal government to round up illegal immigrants and send them back to their home countries.

Gingrich says Romney's proposal reflects a candidate who lives, in his words, "in a world of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts." That was a jab at Romney's wealth.

Romney was taping his own segment with Univision later Wednesday.

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Rockefeller impostor ordered to stand trial (AP)

ALHAMBRA, California ? The bizarre murder case against a man who assumed multiple identities including that of a Rockefeller is headed for trial and a lawyer for the defendant said he welcomes the chance to go before a jury.

"He views this as a beginning, not an end," said attorney Jeffrey Denner after a judge ordered Christian Gerhartsreiter to be tried on a charge of murdering the son of his landlady a quarter century ago.

Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant who at times called himself Clark Rockefeller, Chris Chichester and Christopher Crowe, has pleaded innocent in the killing of John Sohus, a crime which had baffled authorities since the 27-year-old computer programmer disappeared with his wife, Linda, in 1985.

No sign of Linda Sohus was ever found, but bones of a man dug up in the back yard of his mother's San Marino home in 1994 were linked to Sohus. The discovery led police to consider the tenant who once lived in a guest cottage there as the prime suspect.

But it was not until last year when Gerhartsreiter was serving a sentence in Boston for kidnapping his own child that authorities in California developed sufficient evidence to charge him with the killing.

Tuesday's decision by Superior Court Judge Jared Moses to hold the defendant for trial came at the end of a five-day preliminary hearing which previewed some of the evidence the prosecution will present to a jury. The standard in a preliminary hearing of proving probable cause for trial is not as stringent as the trial requirement to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Whether the highly circumstantial case will convince a jury remains to be seen. Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian said outside court that "The age of the case proses some challenges." But he said he was confident of achieving a "fair and just verdict."

Balian called 29 witnesses to build a circumstantial case based on the excavated bones, traces of blood found in the cottage and the memories of residents of the upscale community who welcomed the stranger known as Chris Chichester into their homes and churches.

Asked about Gerhartsreiter's reaction to testimony from the townspeople, Denner said, "It's always daunting to see your life unfold in front of you, particularly to see people who were your friends testifying against you."

But he said that given the passage of time, "there are a lot of grey areas out there."

His co-counsel, Brad Bailey, said, "Anytime you're dealing with a case of this vintage it gives the defense a chance to bring up faulty memories and other things that change with the passage of time."

Witnesses who are now elderly had only fuzzy memories of some events, while others remembered everything clearly. One of them was a woman who lived with Gerhartsreiter as his girlfriend for seven years in New York.

Mihoko Manabe testified Tuesday that he lived the life of a hunted man in a plot that could have been plucked from a spy thriller.

Manabe said that after she got a call in 1988 from a Connecticut detective looking for her boyfriend, whom she knew as Christopher Crowe, he became panicked, had her dye his hair blonde, grew a beard, exchanged his glasses for contact lenses, and made plans to leave the country.

Manabe said she met the man she knew as Crowe in 1988 at a major New York City brokerage house where she worked as a translator and he headed the bonds desk.

After they moved in together, a Greenwich, Conn., detective called, and she said Crowe told her the caller was not the police, "that he was somebody bad and that he was going to get him and not to tell him he was there."

"He said that his parents had gotten into trouble," Manabe said. "They were in danger and because of that, he was also in danger."

Another witness said the man he almost hired to work as a bond salesman acted strangely and had an attitude as if he was involved in "something cloak and dagger."

Ralph Boynton said the man he knew as Christopher Crow told him a wild story involving his parents being kidnapped by terrorists and said he had to go and help them.

"It had to do with espionage, spies, kidnapping. It all sounded a bit strange to me. I was looking for a bonds salesman," he said.

Both witness' stories helped bolster the prosecution claim that Gerhartsreiter had a consciousness of guilt, a point that can be raised as circumstantial evidence against him.

The judge set his arraignment for Feb. 9 and set bail at $10 million. Defense attorneys said they hoped the case could go to trial this coming fall.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Pakistan: Bad heart drugs suspected in 25 deaths (AP)

ISLAMABAD ? A government health official says bad drugs are suspected of killing at least 25 heart patients over the last month in the Pakistani city of Lahore.

Javed Akram said Monday that 100 other heart patients who had taken the same medicine have been admitted to hospitals in the city and 50 of them are in critical condition.

Akram is leading a probe into the deaths set up by the government of Punjab province, where Lahore is the capital. He said the suspected drugs were given free to patients by the state-run Punjab Institute of Cardiology.

Akram said patients developed red spots on their skin within days of taking the medicine that is suspected of killing them.

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

A poor year for home building ends on hopeful note (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Builders ended 2011 with a third straight year of dismal home construction and the worst on record for single-family home building. But improvement at the end of the year lifted hopes for an eventual recovery.

In December, builders broke ground on a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 657,000 homes, the Commerce Department said Thursday. A third straight increase in single-family home building was offset by a drop in volatile apartment construction. Building permits, a gauge of future construction, were essentially unchanged.

The housing market still appears years away from full health.

For the entire year, builders began work on 606,900 homes. That's slightly better than in the previous two years. But it's only about half the number that economists equate with healthy markets.

Construction began on 428,600 single-family homes in 2011. It was the fewest on records dating back a half-century. In a good economy, builders tend to break ground on roughly twice as many. Single-family homes are key to a housing rebound because they account for roughly 70 percent of the market.

Still, analysts said the final months point to improvement.

"We expect further sustained gains in starts and permits over the next few months; a real recovery is getting started," said Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics.

Homebuilders have grown slightly less pessimistic because more people are saying they might be open to buying a home this year. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index rose in January to its highest level since June 2007.

The number of actual purchases remains weak. Among new homes, sales last year are likely to turn out to be the worst on records dating back half a century. But the rising interest from would-be buyers, along with record-low mortgage rates, is lifting optimism for stronger sales ahead

Builders are struggling to compete with deeply discounted foreclosures and short sales. (Short sales occur when lenders allow homes to be sold for less than what's owed on the mortgage.)

Though new homes represent just 20 percent of the overall home market, they have a big impact on the economy. Each home built creates an average of three jobs for a year and generates about $90,000 in taxes, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

After previous recessions, housing accounted for at least 15 percent of U.S. economic growth. Since the recession officially ended in June 2009, it has contributed just 4 percent.

Another reason new-home sales have fallen is that previously occupied homes have become a better deal. The median price of a new home is about 30 percent higher than the median price for a re-sale. That's nearly twice the markup typical in a healthy housing market.

"The report shows the housing industry is still in a holding pattern," said Mitchell Hochberg, principal of Madden Real Estate Ventures in New York. He said fewer foreclosures and a drop in unemployment would help spur a turnaround.

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Newport's Dunmore named as PARADE football All-American

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Monday, January 9, 2012

Afghan claim of US prison abuse strains key talks

Gul Rahman Qazi , center, head of an Afghan investigative commission speaks during a media conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. Afghan President Karzai had charged the commission with investigating the detention of some hundreds of suspected militants and the investigative commission has accused the U.S. military of abusing detainees at its largest prison, and says those held without evidence should be freed.(AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Gul Rahman Qazi , center, head of an Afghan investigative commission speaks during a media conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. Afghan President Karzai had charged the commission with investigating the detention of some hundreds of suspected militants and the investigative commission has accused the U.S. military of abusing detainees at its largest prison, and says those held without evidence should be freed.(AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Gul Rahman Qazi, center, head of an Afghan investigative commission speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. Afghan President Karzai had charged the commission with investigating the detention of some hundreds of suspected militants and the investigative commission has accused the U.S. military of abusing detainees at its largest prison, and says those held without evidence should be freed. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Afghan investigators accused the American military Saturday of abusing detainees at its main prison in the country, bolstering calls by President Hamid Karzai for the U.S. to turn over control of the facility and complicating talks about America's future role in Afghanistan.

The investigators also called for any detainee held without evidence to be freed, putting the U.S. and Afghan governments on a collision course in an issue that will decide the fate of hundreds of suspected Taliban and al-Qaida operatives captured by American forces and held indefinitely.

Karzai took Washington by surprise Thursday when he ordered that the U.S. military turn over full control of the prison outside Bagram Air Base within one month, a seemingly impossible deadline given U.S. security concerns about the prisoners and the Afghan government's weak administrative capacity. The countries had been working on phasing a transfer of responsibility of the prison, which hold 3,000 detainees, over two years.

The demand was the latest episode of political brinkmanship as negotiations continued for a Strategic Partnership Document with America that will determine the U.S. role in Afghanistan after 2014, when most foreign troops are due to withdraw. Karzai has demanded an end to unpopular night raids by U.S. troops and control over detainees as a condition of the pact and could be seeking leverage by pushing the detainee issue now.

Karzai spokesman Mohammad Sediq Amerkhil said Saturday that the president's remarks were a direct response to the investigation team's report of abuse and prolonged detentions.

The charges are reminiscent of allegations surrounding the U.S. treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where admitted Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is held.

Detainees interviewed during two visits to the U.S.-run portion of the Parwan detention center outside Bagram Air Base ? about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Kabul ? complained of freezing cold, humiliating strip searches and being deprived of light, according to Gul Rahman Qazi, who led the investigation ordered by Karzai.

Another investigator, Sayed Noorullah, said the prison and all detainees must be transferred to Afghan control "as soon as possible," adding, "if there is no evidence ... they have the right to be freed."

U.S. Embassy spokesman Gavin Sundwall said Saturday that American officials only recently received the commission's report. He said the U.S. investigates all allegations of prisoner abuse.

"We will certainly take seriously the report and study it," he said. He added that the U.S. is committed to working with the Afghan government on a joint plan to turn over detainees "in a responsible manner." He would not specify what time frame would be considered responsible.

Karzai's recent relationship with the U.S. has been rocky, even though he came to power after the 2001 American-led intervention to drive the Taliban regime from power for sheltering al-Qaida. He has frequently lashed out at Washington, although he needs U.S. military and financial strength to back his weak government as it battles the Taliban.

Last year, he accused the U.S. and its allies of serving only their own purposes in the country, and has told a Pakistani television station he would support Pakistan in any war against the United States. In 2010, he was said to have threatened to join the Taliban if foreign donors pressured him too much.

The rhetoric is seen as a play for support from an Afghan population that resents the U.S. presence and is angered by reports of Afghans detained indefinitely and of residents whose homes are invaded without warning. Less clear is exactly what Karzai hopes to gain from Washington with the politics of confrontation.

The Taliban seek to use anti-American resentment to discredit Karzai's government. On Friday, the insurgents mocked the president as a puppet of foreign powers in a statement that specifically mentioned Afghan detainees

"Ostensibly, he speaks of national sovereignty and of the welfare of people but practically, we see that there are thousands of Afghan detainees who have been suffering in the Bagram Air Base and other American bases now for years, and without a trial," the Taliban said.

The Parwan detention center was opened in 2009 to replace an older prison inside the base itself. The deaths of two Afghan prisoners at the previous facility in 2002 led to abuse charges against several American troops.

U.S. and Afghan militaries jointly run the new facility. The Afghan side controls a section holding about 300 detainees whose cases are slated to be tried by Afghan judiciary, while U.S. forces control the rest of the facility.

Qazi, who led the investigation run by the Independent Commission for Overseeing the Implementation of the Constitution, said U.S. officials told him only the 300 detainees in the Afghan section had legal cases against them.

He said he was told that that 2,700 others in the American-run section were suspected Taliban members captured using classified intelligence and were considered a threat if freed.

Prison officials made it clear that many detainees had no evidence against them that would hold up in Afghan court, said Abdul Qader Adalatkhwa, the deputy leader of the investigation.

"So this is their concern," Adalatkhwa said. "That when they hand over the detainees to the Afghan side ... most of these people might get freed."

Holding suspects without prosecuting them raises the risk that innocent people could be caught in limbo with no way to challenge their imprisonment, Qazi said.

He said the investigation team interviewed a 71-year-old man who claimed he had been beaten in detention and had no idea why he had been arrested. Another man told the team he was arrested after coalition forces found a cache of ammunition buried 400 yards (400 meters) away from his home and blamed him. He said the bullets weren't his, but he could not convince anyone.

The prison also holds al-Qaida and other terrorist suspects from several different countries captured in what the U.S. considers battlefield conditions.

It's unclear what would happen to those foreign suspects if they were turned over to Afghan custody, but Adalatkhwa implied that they, too, might be released unless there is evidence to charge them with a crime.

"The legal procedures of Afghanistan would apply to them," Adalatkhwa said.

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Associated Press writer Rahim Faiez contributed to this report.

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NBC says they weren't afraid of Chelsea's vodka (omg!)

Actress and comedienne Chelsea Handler speaks during the panel discussion for the upcoming sitcom "Are You There, Chelsea?" at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour for NBC Universal in Pasadena , Calif. on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) ? NBC's entertainment chief insists that it wasn't squeamishness over booze that got "vodka" dropped from the television version of Chelsea Handler's memoir.

Robert Greenblatt said Friday that the 2008 book's title, "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea," was just too long. Initially, NBC considered just calling the show "Chelsea" but settled instead on "Are You There, Chelsea?" and it debuts on the network next Wednesday.

"There was no mandate from anyone saying don't put vodka in the title of the show," the entertainment president said.

Talk to the author, though, and that's not so clear. Handler said in a telephone conference call last month that "although there is plenty of drinking in the show, you can't have it in the title."

On Friday, Handler joked that "not everyone is into alcohol as much as I am." She said that "this is not cable, this is network" and said taking "vodka" out of the title could broaden the appeal of the show to include people who aren't big drinkers.

Handler has a part-time role in the show. Instead of playing the character Chelsea, she plays her born-again Christian sister. Laura Prepon of "That '70s Show" portrays Chelsea.

The Chelsea character, described by NBC as a "sexually dynamic advanced drinker," is jailed for driving under the influence of alcohol early in the show's history, according to a clip shown to reporters Friday.

"In real life I got a DUI once," Handler said. "I haven't gotten one since."

Handler appears in seven of the 13 episodes ordered by NBC. The comic, with her own late-night show on E! Entertainment, said she was too busy to do much more.

"It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me," she said, "because I've been living this life, and I'm over me."

Actress Laura Prepon, right, and actress and comedienne Chelsea Handler speak during the panel discussion for the upcoming sitcom "Are You There, Chelsea?" at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour for NBC Universal in Pasadena , Calif. on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)

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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Report: Syria troops fire on Arab League monitors

Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar Assad fired on a group of Arab League monitors in a Damascus suburb, according to a report.

Al-Arabiya TV said Friday the observers, who are in the country to assess whether the regime is abiding by a promise to end 10 months of violence against pro-democracy protesters, were touring the streets in the Arbeen district of the capital.

They reportedly withdrew after the attack. There was no immediate word on casualties.

Meanwhile, Qatar's prime minister said the monitors' mission in Syria had made "some mistakes" and that he was turning to the United Nations for help.

Video: Thousands protest Assad regime in Syria (on this page)

Qatari Prime Minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassem Al Thani discussed the month-long mission with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York on Wednesday amid mounting criticism that the observers are simply giving the Syrian regime cover for its ongoing crackdown on the uprising.

"We are coming here for technical help and to see the experience the U.N. has, because this is the first time the Arab League is involved in sending monitors, and there are some mistakes," he said, according to Kuwait's state news agency.

Asked what kind of mistakes, he replied: "This is the first experience for us. I said we have to evaluate what sorts of mistakes we have (made). There is no doubt for me. I can see there are mistakes, but we went there not to stop the killing, but to monitor."

Qatar has been at the forefront of criticism of Syria and has pushed for Arab League sanctions against Damascus.

Despite the criticism from Qatar's prime minister, the team of peace monitors will stay in Syria to check on the government's compliance with the Arab League peace accord ? an agreement to scale back Syrian military presence in cities and free thousands of prisoners detained since the uprising began last March.

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The league's special committee on Syria is due to meet in Egypt on Sunday to debate the initial findings of the mission, which has been criticized by Syrian activists who question its ability to assess the violence on the ground.

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The activists said the teams did not have enough access and were escorted by Syrian authorities, who were manipulating them and hiding prisoners in military facilities.

Syria's opposition has also accused the regime of misleading the monitors by taking them to areas loyal to the government, changing street signs to confuse them, painting army vehicles blue to look like those of police and sending supporters into rebellious neighborhoods to give false testimony.

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An Arab League official said the observers have not reported or complained about being misled by the regime. He said the Syrian opposition is making pre-emptive statements, fearing the regime might try to mislead the monitors.

Addressing the opposition's complaint about painting military vehicles blue to appear as police vehicles ? something that has been seen on amateur videos ? the official said: "Observers know what is for the army and what is for police." The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

He added that additional monitors will head to Syria on Friday to raise the total numbers of observers to about 140.

U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters in New York that Qatar's Sheik Hamad and Ban discussed "practical measures how the United Nations could assist this observer mission."

"The form that could take is that, under the auspices of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, there would be training of (Arab League) observers," he said. "This would be a small-scale undertaking to train observers."

An Arab government representative told Reuters on condition of anonymity that the monitors could not be withdrawn whatever the contents of the initial report.

Syria, keen to show it is respecting the accord, said it had released a further 552 people detained during the revolt against Assad "whose hands were not stained with blood".

Syria also said it provided the monitors with all the facilities they needed.

"What we are looking for is objectivity and professionalism," Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdesi told Lebanese Manar television.

State news agency SANA said some 4,000 detainees had been released since November.

Arab League General Secretary Nabil Elaraby said on Monday the mission had secured the release of about 3,500 prisoners. Campaign group Avaaz said on Thursday 37,000 people detained since March were still being held.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Instagram now flooding Facebook with 6 photos per second

A fun little iPhone application for sharing stylized mobile captures ballooned into a social network of significance in 2011. Today, the app?s insta-photo-sharing effects are felt with increasing force on Facebook and the rest of the web.

Instagram, the still iPhone-only application, is penetrating the world?s largest social network at a rate of roughly six photos per second, co-founder Kevin Systrom shared exclusively with VentureBeat. The figure means that the filter-ific application is now contributing more than half a million photos to the Facebook experience each day.

That?s a hell of a lot of Sepia-tinted photos of bangs, food truck meals and sunsets.

For some perspective, Instagram was averaging a total of three photo uploads per second to its service at the end of 2010. It now sends twice that many photos to Facebook alone each second.

Instagram, launched on the App Store in Oct. 2010, was an insta-success with iPhone owners. The service has more than 15 million users who upload photos at a rate of more than 60 photos per second (based on 2011 year-in-review numbers). A large percentage of those folks ? as much as 10 percent, based on Systrom?s revelation ? love their filtered machinations so much that they push them out to Facebook for their extended networks to enjoy.

Users are also sharing their photos to Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr and other third-party destinations so much so that Instagram, which does not operate a full-fledged web experience, is now seeing 10 million page views each day and 300 million page views per month, Systrom told GigaOm Friday.

In a wise move, the startup just enabled full-sized photo-sharing for members who select to post their photos to Facebook. A photo shared with Facebook from Instagram is now added to an ?Instagram Photos? album, showcased on the user?s Timeline and is large enough so that it looks to be a native part of the experience.

?It feels right to share because you?re giving your Facebook friends a great experience,? Systrom explained of the big-photo update. ?The reaction has been really positive from everyone in the community and we?re glad that people see this as making Instagram even more essential in their every day flow.?

Just how important is Facebook-sharing to Instagram?s continued success? I?d speculate that there?s a strong correlation between the photos shared and the number of new users Instagram signs up each month. Systrom himself provided some anecdotal evidence to support the theory.

?We?ve always been growing fast, but I think network effects help ? we?ve got millions of people who love Instagram and they spread the word for us,? he told VentureBeat in a previous interview.

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