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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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NASA Probe Discovers 'Alien' Matter From Beyond Our Solar System (SPACE.com)
This story was updated at 2:26 p.m. EST.
For the very first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system ? material that came from elsewhere in the galaxy, researchers announced today (Jan. 31).
This so-called interstellar material was spotted by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), a spacecraft that is studying the edge of the solar system from its orbit about 200,000 miles (322,000 kilometers) above Earth.
"This alien interstellar material is really the stuff that stars and planets and people are made of ? it's really important to be measuring it," David McComas, IBEX principal investigator and assistant vice president of the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a news briefing today from NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
An international team of scientists presented new findings from IBEX, which included the first detection of alien particles of hydrogen, oxygen and neon, in addition to the confirmation of previously detected helium. [Images from NASA's IBEX Mission]
These atoms are remnants of older stars that have ended their lives in violent explosions, called supernovas, which dispersed the elements throughout the galaxy. As interstellar wind blows these charged and neutral particles through the Milky Way, the IBEX probe is able to create a census of the elements that are present.
Heavy elements in space
According to the new study, the researchers found 74 oxygen atoms for every 20 neon atoms in the interstellar wind. For comparison, there are 111 oxygen atoms for every 20 neon atoms in our solar system, meaning there are more oxygen atoms in any part of the solar system than in nearby interstellar space, the scientists said in a statement.
"These are important elements to know quantitatively because they are the building blocks of stars, planets, people," McComas said. "We discovered this puzzle: matter outside our solar system doesn't look like material inside our solar system. It seems to be deficient in oxygen compared to neon."
The presence of less oxygen within interstellar material could indicate that the sun formed in a region with less oxygen compared to its current location, the researchers said.
Or, it could be a sign that oxygen is "locked up" in other galactic materials, such as cosmic grains of dust or ice. [Top 10 Strangest Things in Space]
"That leaves us with a puzzle for now: could it be that some of that oxygen, which is so crucial for life on Earth, is locked up in the cosmic dust?" asked Eberhard M?bius, a professor at the University of New Hampshire and a visiting professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. "Or, does it tell us how different our neighborhood is compared to the sun's birthplace?"
IBEX also measured the interstellar wind traveling at a slower speed and from a different direction than was previously thought. The research now shows that the interstellar wind exerts 20 percent less pressure on our heliosphere, which is a protective bubble that shields our solar system from powerful, damaging cosmic rays.
"Measuring the pressure on our heliosphere from the material in the galaxy and from the magnetic fields out there will help determine the size and shape of our solar system as it travels through the galaxy," Eric Christian, IBEX mission scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., said in a statement.
A history of the universe
The results of the new study will also help scientists shed light on the history of the material in the universe.
"It tells us things about the part of space that we live in, and the interaction with that part of space with the rest of the galaxy," McComas said.
The observations from IBEX and the ability to determine the ratio of elements in space could help scientists understand how the galaxy has evolved and changed over time.
"I find it really exciting that right on our front doorstep, we can take a sample of this interstellar matter around us," M?bius said. "If you think back all the way to the Big Bang, there was only hydrogen and helium. Then stars and supernovas sprinkled it with heavy elements ? if you imagine that we are made out of the material that has been belched out of the supernovas, and it is continuing. So, 4.5 billion years ago, the sun formed out of the solar nebula, and now we are sampling part of the Milky Way as it is today. It gives us nice data points ? Big Bang and the sun's formation to what is our environment. Then modelers can go and trace how that material has evolved over time in the cosmos." ??
The findings are detailed in a series of papers that were published today in the Astrophysical Journal.
NASA launched the IBEX mission in October 2008 to map the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space. The $169 million spacecraft was originally built for a two-year mission.
IBEX measures and counts particles called energetic neutral atoms, which are created in an area of our solar system known as the interstellar boundary region. Since its launch, the spacecraft has already made groundbreaking discoveries about the heliosphere and the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space.
In 2009, IBEX detected a mysterious ribbon on the edge of the solar system made up of a stream of charged particles that travels a million miles per hour from the sun. In 2010, researchers announced that IBEX had witnessed the first-ever look at solar wind crashing into Earth's magnetosphere.
You can follow SPACE.com staff writer Denise Chow on Twitter @denisechow. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
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Nicki Minaj Confirms On Twitter That She Will Appear On Stage At The Super Bowl
Nicki Minaj hasn’t been able to keep quiet any longer, it seems that the ‘Superbass’ star WILL be appearing on stage with Madonna when the Queen of Pop takes to the pitch during next weekend’s Super Bowl half-time show. Speculation has been rife, ever since it was announced that Madge would be following the likes [...]
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Camilla Williams, black opera pioneer, dies at 92 (AP)
INDIANAPOLIS ? African-American opera pioneer Camilla Williams has died in Bloomington. She was 92.
Williams' attorney, Eric Slotegraaf, said in a statement that the soprano died Sunday.
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music spokesman Alain Barker said Williams died of complications from cancer.
The school says Williams became the first African-American female to appear with a major U.S. opera company when she debuted on May 15, 1946, with New York City Opera in the title role of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly."
She became the first African-American professor of voice at IU in 1977 and retired in 1997.
Williams was born in Danville, Va., on Oct. 18, 1919, the daughter of a chauffeur. Her grandfather was a singer and choir leader, and by age 8 she was singing in Danville's Calvary Baptist Church.
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Scientist at Work Blog: Wolves, Snow and the Red Dragon
John Vucetich, a wildlife ecologist from Michigan Technological University, leads the wolf-moose Winter Study at Isle Royale National Park.
Monday, Jan. 23
Shortly before midnight, our pilot Don Glaser shakes my sleeping bag. The sky has dumped something halfway between snow and rain, and it is freezing to the wings of the Flagship.
We all head to the harbor, wrestling with a northeast wind as we try to stretch nylon covers over the wings. Slush has also begun to bubble up through a nearby crack in the ice. We fear the Flagship?s skis will freeze into the slush, so we prop them up on 4x4s. Then it?s back to bed.
It snows all day. So we occupy ourselves with chores around the cabin: hauling water and setting up a sauna. We also prepare the Red Dragon ? a 25-pound propane tank, 12-volt battery, spark-ignited torch and blower, and a hose, all strapped to a toboggan. As soon as the wet snow stops falling, we?ll need that.
Tuesday, Jan. 24
By early morning, the snow has stopped. The temperature drops, and the northeast wind comes up again. After a bowl of oatmeal by the light of our headlamps, we slog to the harbor. Removing the wing covers, we can see that we put them on too late. Every flying surface of the Flagship is coated with ice. Planes fly because their wings are shaped like a foil. Ice distorts that shape and compromises lift. All the ice will have to be removed.
Luckily, that?s what the Red Dragon does best. We haul the contraption onto the icy harbor next to the plane. Firing up the Red Dragon, we heat the flying surfaces, then brush the ice off as it melts. Ice removal is a delicate affair. The Flagship?s wings are wood covered with fabric. Brush at the ice too hard, and the fabric will tear. Heat it too much, and it will catch fire. For three hours, we gently melt, rub and flake off ice.
Our work, observing wolves and moose, depends on the weather. Waiting for snow or wind to stop is routine. Fixing cold-stricken equipment is standard. Wishing it had been just a few degrees colder, so that wet snow hadn?t frozen to the wings: we make lots of ?if only? weather wishes. But the weather is part of what makes a place, any place, special. And as the weather changes, the wolves and moose have much more at stake than we do. Fighting the weather is futile. Appreciating it, even when it?s not pleasant, is as good as it gets.
By noon, the plane is ready for flight, and by 3 p.m., the wind has lightened up. Rolf Peterson, a co-researcher, and Don depart to look for wolves. They find Chippewa Harbor Pack near the site where we?d seen them a couple days ago. It is clear what kept them there: the carcass of a moose they?d killed. The few remaining bones suggest they?d killed it about five days ago, perhaps the day we arrived. Rolf and Don also find fresh tracks of a lone wolf near Halloran Lake, leaving and then returning to a cedar swamp filled with tracks of the snowshoe hares that probably became the wolf?s dinner.
Rolf and Don spend most of the flight searching for Romeo, a radio-collared male from Chippewa Harbor Pack. Flying at 4,000 feet over the island they should pick up any signal. Static is all they hear.
Wednesday, Jan. 25
I get up at 4 a.m. to fire up the portable generator we use to heat the plane?s engine. I might as well have stayed in my sleeping bag. By 6:30 a.m., the clouds had lowered until they touched the island. Freezing drizzle was threatening, so we put the wing covers on again. Why does the weather keep frustrating our desire to collect information?
In the five days that we?ve been here, we?ve made just two research flights. Actually, that?s a pretty typical rate of being grounded. And on each flight, we?ve gained only fragments of insight. But multiply each observation by the 30 to 40 flights we make each winter, then multiply that by more than five decades. It adds up to a significant bank of data.
I spend each day searching for something significant. During each flight, we record the locations of wolves or their tracks. I have condensed several decades of wolf travel routes onto a single map. We are working to quantify what we?ve long intuited: that the predation risk for moose is greatest near the island?s shoreline. It is easier for wolves to walk along shorelines, where the snow is windswept, and moose are attracted to shoreline habitats because they tend to find better forage there.
Knowing that predation risk decreases with distance from the shoreline is also just a tiny insight. Add this to several other long-term observations and some sophisticated analysis from Robert Montgomery, a habitat expert from Michigan State University, put it all together, and, well, our insight is not in perfect focus yet, but it?s looking as though younger, healthier moose spend more time in these risky shoreline habitats during severe winters than do the aging moose who would be more vulnerable to predation.
It feels good to pore through old maps, recalling individual wolves, many of which are now dead, their travels and lives, and the adventures we had making those observations.
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Lincee Ray: The Bachelor Recap: Top 6 Memorable Quotes
Note: The following contains spoilers if you have not seen Season 16, Episode 5 of ABC's "The Bachelor."
Buenos d?as, "Bachelor" fans! Week five finds us in beautiful Puerto Rico where Ben is going above and beyond to prove that he is ready to find love while wearing only henley shirts from the cool side of the color wheel. In this episode, we were reminded that black underwear shows through white linen pants, all life's goals can be accomplished by the age of 24 and contrary to popular belief, courtesy of "A League Of Their Own" ... there is crying in baseball. I've narrowed the brutal two-hour beating of a show into six memorable one liners that will help you navigate all "The Bachelor"-related topics of conversation of the day. You're welcome.
Most Memorable One-Liners:
1. "It's raining gatos." -- Ben
Ben and Nicki were caught in what could have possibly been the early stages of a tropical storm during their one-on-one date. Since Ben is super witty and moderately skilled in conversational Spanish, he zinged the audience by declaring that it was raining "gatos." I was unsure why it was only raining cats instead of cats and dogs, but whatever. The point is that the two were soaked to the bone and Ben's hair never looked better. One can only assume that Mother Nature was horrified by Nicki's toga-inspired dress that was more than likely purchased from the naughty Cesar section at Party City and she unleashed all her powers on the entire country so Ben had no other choice but to stop at a local shop for them to change into dry clothes. I bet Mother Nature's head was shaking in disbelief when Nicki decided to tie a table cloth around her neck and call it a dress and Ben showed up wearing white linen from head to toe, including a fedora. Ol?!
2. "COME ON, B!TCHE$!!!" -- Kacie B.
Who knew that Kacie B. was such a competitor? She's a machine on the baseball diamond with a glove as well as the 50-yard-line with a baton. The group date was split into two baseball teams, each vying for the chance to win a super romantic beach date with our "Bachelor." At first, I was shocked at how many of these women actually hit the ball, but then I saw Ben was the pitcher and he was lobbing them over the plate so slow and arched that my 97-year-old Mimi would have been able to make a connection. Apparently, the game was a nail-biter and Kacie's battle cry for her fellow red teammates was the ever popular and dainty, "COME ON, B!TCHE$!" Southern charm at is finest, y'all!
3. "I've pretty much done everything in life that I want to do and I'm tired of being single." -- Elyse
Poor Elyse. After dressing in her most sophisticated "Jersey Shore" outfit, she completely bombs on her one-on-one fancy yacht date. She admits that she's done everything in her life that she can at age 24, and is tired of being single. Obviously, this raises more than one red flag with our Bachelor. "You mean there's nothing else you want to do? You're just here because you're tired of being single?" She answers, "Of course not. I'm here because I'm ready to get married." Party foul, Elyse. Drop and give me 20.
4. "Are you going in the water already nude?" -- Ben
Yes, Ben. Typically when skinny dipping, you go into the water nude. How fortunate that Courtney just happened to be at your hotel door in nothing but a robe so you could check "go skinny dipping with a model" off your leap list? Winner.
5. "Tread lightly. I'm just saying ... be careful." -- Ben
Emily apologizes for last week's outburst about how Courtney is nothing but a poser who is here for the wrong reasons. Ben is happy to hear that she has come to her senses. Emily smiles and then confesses that she still stands by her opinion and then proceeds to talk about Courtney again for another five minutes. Ben becomes frustrated and tells her that she doesn't know anything about the importance of leap lists and how certain things need to be checked off before his 30th birthday so just back off.
6. "Jennifer, I'm sorry. Take a moment to say your goodbyes." -- Chris Harrison
It was probably the most dramatic rose ceremony we've had in a while. All six people watching at my house screamed interjections at the television at Ben's disposal of the coolest girl in the bunch. She had an unfortunate exit interview that included choking sobs peppered with hiccups and bouts of ugly crying that I choose to forget. Such a shame. It looks like I'm rooting for Blakely and her new found epiphany.
To read the entire recap of last night's episode, visit www.iHateGreenBeans.com.
"The Bachelor" airs Mondays at 8 p.m. EST on ABC.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Painful memories of unrequited love
goo Ranking recently looked at painful experiences people had when confessing their love to another.
Demographics
Over the 25th and 26th of November 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.4% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, 14.7% in their twenties, 26.9% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 10.7% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
Note I?ve used ?they?, ?them?, and ?their? rather than ?he/she?, ?him/her? and ?his/her? to make the text more readable, I hope.
Ranking result
Read more on: confession,goo ranking,loveQ: What painful experiences have you had confessing your love? (Sample size=1,074)
Rank ? Score 1 I was sure the feelings were mutual but my advance was snubbed 100 2 Before I could confess, a rumour spread that I fancied them 97.8 3 I thought they were free, but they were already in a relationship 83.3 4 When I went to declare my love, I was so vague I didn?t get my feelings across 72.2 5 Against my sober judgement, blurted out my love in a drunken fevour 55.6 6 The day after confessing my love everyone knew all about it 51.1 7= I was nervous and just couldn?t get my words out correctly 42.2 7= I was nervous and just couldn?t get any words out at all 42.2 9 They said they?d reply another day but never replied 40.0 10 I thought they were single, but they were already married 25.6 11 I confessed my love, but was embarrassed and ended with ?By the way, it?s all lies!? 22.2 12 Someone else spotted me as I was declaring my love 18.9 13 When I called out to them, they gave me a dirty look so I couldn?t confess 17.8 14 I sent an ?I love you!? email to the wrong person 13.3 15 I chose a love song at karaoke and stuck their name into it, but they missed it 6.7 16= I came out in a fever so I couldn?t make it to the place I?d asked them to meet me at 4.4 16= I sang a love song I wrote myself, but it put the willies up them 4.4 18 I was so nervous when confessing my love that my clothes were dripping with sweat 2.2 19= I was seen practising my confession speech 1.1 19= I phoned the wrong person but continued to declare my love for them 1.1
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Social Media for Business | The Big Picture
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REAL GDP touch light, NOMINAL GDP very lightPeter Boockvar
After 3 quarters in a row that averaged just 1.2%, Q4 GDP grew 2.8%, a touch below expectations of 3.0% BUT Nominal GDP grew well below forecasts. Because the price deflator was up just .4% vs the estimate of 1.9%, Nominal GDP was up 3.2% vs the estimate of 4.9%. Personal Consumption rose 2.0% vs the forecast of 2.4%. Fixed Investment rose 3.3% helped by a 5.2% increase in equipment and software spending and residential construction rose by 10.9%. Trade was a slight drag on GDP growth and government spending was as well led by a 12.5% decline on national...
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US citizen kidnapped in Nigeria returns to US (AP)
ATLANTA ? A U.S. citizen kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta returned to Georgia on Sunday after being held captive for a week, his family said.
William Gregory Ock arrived in Atlanta on Sunday morning to a warm greeting from family and friends, said his sister-in-law Tamara Lane. She said Ock, 50, is feeling well but not yet ready to talk about his experience.
"We're all very excited. We had a big turnout for him, and he looks great," Lane said. "We just hope he gets some good rest."
U.S. Embassy officials said Ock was released after being captured in Warri in Delta state on Jan. 20 but declined to offer further details, citing privacy rules.
It wasn't immediately clear whether a ransom had been paid to secure his release, although many companies in the region carry kidnap insurance. Authorities say kidnappers had previously demanded a $330,000 ransom for Ock's safe return.
The attack took place outside a bank branch in Warri, one of the main cities in the Niger Delta, an oil-rich region where foreign firms pump 2.4 million barrels of crude oil a day. The gunmen ambushed Ock as he came outside, fatally shot his police escort and then abducted him, said Charles Muka, a Delta state police spokesman.
He said investigators suspect the gunmen trailed him for some time before the attack, one of several recent assaults targeting foreign workers. A recent U.S. State Department travel advisory said there were five reported kidnappings of U.S. citizens in Nigeria in 2011.
Lane said Ock and his family are grateful for all the help they received during this ordeal.
"The family just wishes to thank everybody for their well wishes, prayers and thoughts," Lane said. "We have had such amazing support."
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PIP insurance fraud explained | Naked Politics
Florida is one of the most expensive states for car insurance, according to the Insurance Information Institute.?A fender bender can cost an insurance company tens of thousands of dollars.
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Walt Dartland was targeted in a staged accident years ago in Miami, but he knew immediately what was up. Dartland is a former Florida D deputy Attorney General and is now executive director of the Consumer Federation of the Southeast.? ?All of a sudden they just plain stopped," said Dartland, "and because I was going so slow, I basically hardly touched them. They immediately got out of the car, and I tried to tell them we better call the police department and get a report on this. They said no. They pulled the car across the highway and walked right into a chiropractor?s office.?
The way this works is a clinic owner will recruit a group of people to stage a minor accident. No one is actually hurt, but the passengers go straight to the clinic. No treatment is given, and claims of $10,000 per person are filed under the driver?s PIP coverage. The money is split between the passengers, clinic operators, and lawyers.
Florida?s No-Fault Law was supposed to cover economic losses and medical treatment for crash victims without the need for a lawsuit to establish who?s to blame. But in the last five years, the state has seen a 275 percent increase in PIP related lawsuits.
Gov. Rick Scott calls PIP fraud a billion dollar tax on Florida?s citizens. He told a crowd gathered for a PIP rally at the Capitol, "You are sick and tired of a billion dollars a year in fraud. You?re tired of it. You?re tired of scammers taking advantage of you.?
Cydnee Knoth lives in Tampa and came to Tallahassee to complain about her premiums. ?PIP is the biggest thing I pay for on my insurance, more than liability," said Knoth. "I carry $100,000 worth of liability and that is cheaper than carrying $10,000 of personal injury.?
Tampa and Miami are among the top 10 most expensive cities for car insurance because of staged accidents.? Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater says moving to one of those cities can increase your monthly insurance payment 50 to 100 dollars. He said, ?The average family in Miami-Dade County with a teenage driver is now paying over $3200 a year for the value of coverage that is only worth $10,000.?
Atwater said Florida lawmakers mandated no-fault coverage and they are the ones who must fix it. But he doesn?t want PIP to go away. ?I would say there is value in a no-fault system, that someone can get quick care and coverage when they have access to no other healthcare," said Atwater. "For us in Miami- Dade, there is well over 25% of our population that has no other healthcare other than what?s offered in PIP.?
The Florida House and Senate have two competing bills for PIP reform. Atwater likes the House version. So does the governor as welll as the business and insurance industries. The bill requires accident victims to seek treatment at a hospital, not a clinic, within 72 hours. It also puts a cap on attorneys? fees. The bill has passed one committee so far.
The Senate version is supported by attorneys, chiropractors and some consumer groups. It requires police to use long form reports at accident scenes. It provides for more regulation of clinics and creates a fraud task force. It has not been taken up by any committees.
Both versions would force insurance companies to eventually lower their rates. Changes in the bills are expected, but Atwater thinks some kind of reform will pass. "I believe there?s one last good fight in us and I believe it?s this year,? he said.
Gina Jordan, WLRN-Miami Herald News
Source: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/01/pip-insurance-fraud-explained.html
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Why the US won't fund Palestinian 'Sesame Street'
Following a Palestinian appeal for UN recognition, US congressional funding for aid projects including a local version of 'Sesame Street' have been frozen.
? A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent.
Skip to next paragraphDaoud Kuttab usually produces a Palestinian version of ?Sesame Street? that teaches children how to count. But lately he has had to focus on his own bottom line. Three months after an American funding freeze, his show is so behind schedule that the writers? workshop rooms are empty, the editing studios are dark, and the Muppets have left the West Bank for repairs.
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Mr. Kuttab says that in October he was expecting to receive $2.5 million from the US Agency for International Development for the next three years. But Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) of Florida froze $192 million in congressional funding to USAID?s programs in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations, which the United States opposed.
Each season, Kuttab works with teachers and child psychologists to craft 26 episodes around themes of tolerance, sharing, and friendship. Kuttab said that even if money is restored he will not manage to produce any new episodes in 2012.
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Video: Gingrich takes a tumble after debate
Djokovic wins longest Slam final ever
??Novak Djokovic wore down Rafael Nadal in the longest Grand Slam singles final in the history of professional tennis Sunday, winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 after 5 hours, 53 minutes to claim his third Australian Open title.
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Pink & Daughter Willow Wish Ellen Happy Birthday!
Cutest happy birthday greetings ever?
Darn close if not. Ellen DeGeneres celebrated her 54th on Thursday and to mark the big occasion, Pink sent in a video message to her friend the talk show host.
With daughter Willow in tow!
"Hi Ellen. I love you, I love you, I love you," she said from her yard. "I wish you this year freedom, love, laughter, sleeping in late, getting lots of rest."
From there, the singer went inside, where adorable 8-month-old daughter Willow (dad is husband Carey Hart) was waiting to say hello. Awww!
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Coach honed debating skills of young Newt Gingrich
In this photo taken, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, Chester Gibson, a former professor who ran one of the nation's top-ranked competitive debating programs from the middle of rural Georgia, is photographed in Horton's Bookstore in Carrollton, Ga. As a young college professor running for Congress, Newt Gingrich wanted to sharpen his debating skills. Admirers say the Republican was always a dynamic speaker, but he had flaws. He frowned. He titled his head oddly and fell back repeatedly on the same words. He went for the rhetorical jugular. His supporters worried that TV cameras magnified those delivery problems. Gingrich didn?t need to look far to find help. In the building next to the one where Gingrich taught history at West Georgia College, professor Chester Gibson coached students whose ranks now include a former Georgia governor, high-powered Atlanta attorneys, judges and preachers. He gave Gingrich free help as a new candidate. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
In this photo taken, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, Chester Gibson, a former professor who ran one of the nation's top-ranked competitive debating programs from the middle of rural Georgia, is photographed in Horton's Bookstore in Carrollton, Ga. As a young college professor running for Congress, Newt Gingrich wanted to sharpen his debating skills. Admirers say the Republican was always a dynamic speaker, but he had flaws. He frowned. He titled his head oddly and fell back repeatedly on the same words. He went for the rhetorical jugular. His supporters worried that TV cameras magnified those delivery problems. Gingrich didn?t need to look far to find help. In the building next to the one where Gingrich taught history at West Georgia College, professor Chester Gibson coached students whose ranks now include a former Georgia governor, high-powered Atlanta attorneys, judges and preachers. He gave Gingrich free help as a new candidate. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
In this Sept. 28, 2007 photo provided by Chester Gibson, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is seen at left with Gibson at a book signing in Horton's Bookstore in Carrollton, Ga. As a young candidate, professor Newt Gingrich had a problem: he was not a great debater. Luckily for Gingrich, Gibson ran one of the nation's top-ranked competitive debating programs from the middle of rural Georgia in the campus building next door. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Gibson Family)
In this photo taken, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, Chester Gibson, a former professor who ran one of the nation's top-ranked competitive debating programs from the middle of rural Georgia, is photographed in Horton's Bookstore in Carrollton, Ga. As a young college professor running for Congress, Newt Gingrich wanted to sharpen his debating skills. Admirers say the Republican was always a dynamic speaker, but he had flaws. He frowned. He titled his head oddly and fell back repeatedly on the same words. He went for the rhetorical jugular. His supporters worried that TV cameras magnified those delivery problems. Gingrich didn?t need to look far to find help. In the building next to the one where Gingrich taught history at West Georgia College, professor Chester Gibson coached students whose ranks now include a former Georgia governor, high-powered Atlanta attorneys, judges and preachers. He gave Gingrich free help as a new candidate. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
ATLANTA (AP) ? As a young college professor running for Congress, Newt Gingrich wanted to sharpen his debating skills.
Admirers say the Republican was always a dynamic speaker, but with flaws. He frowned. He tilted his head oddly and fell back repeatedly on the same words. He went for the rhetorical jugular. Supporters worried that TV cameras magnified those delivery problems.
Gingrich didn't need to look far for help. In the building next to the one where Gingrich taught history at West Georgia College, professor Chester Gibson coached students whose ranks now include a former Georgia governor, high-powered Atlanta attorneys, judges and preachers. He gave Gingrich free help as a new candidate.
Strong debate performances have kept alive Gingrich's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination after a bleak period last summer when his staff quit and his campaign fell into debt. After a commanding performance in a pair of South Carolina debates, Gingrich has not performed as strong lately. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was considerably more aggressive in a Florida debate on Thursday, repeatedly putting Gingrich on the defensive.
Now retired, Gibson said he still sees Gingrich's old habits ? good and bad ? in the presidential debates.
"Gingrich is clearly the best debater in the final four," said Gibson, who communicates by email because doctors removed his voice box in 2010 during cancer treatment. "No contest. A Gingrich-Obama debate would be one of the great moments in American political history."
The pair met in 1970 when they started teaching at West Georgia College, now called the University of West Georgia. Gibson coached Gingrich before his first unsuccessful run for the House in 1974 and kept working with him until Gingrich won four years later. Gibson said the coaching continued into Gingrich's early years in office. A Gingrich spokesman did not respond to requests for information for this report.
Gibson, 70, said Gingrich's problem was delivery, not substance.
"He was poised, confident, quick on his feet and well versed in both U.S. and world history," Gibson said. "He read everything that he could get his hands on. His greatest asset was his incredible memory."
In their coaching sessions, Gibson said he filmed Gingrich speaking so he could see his mistakes. The students on Gibson's debate team ? one was Randy Evans, now Gingrich's longtime attorney ? listened and critiqued Gingrich's speeches. They researched the positions of his political opponents and constructed arguments. Gibson traveled with Gingrich to debates so they could practice in the car.
Gibson pushed his students to win.
"He just worked endlessly and worked us very hard because he was as competitive as all get-out," said trial lawyer Paul Weathington, one of Gibson's debaters and a nationally ranked debater in college.
Gibson told Gingrich to work on his body language. When listening intently to another speaker, he tended to frown ? a bad habit that Gibson said the Republican candidate has not fully stopped. In fact, Gingrich recently told reporters that his granddaughter told him to smile more and that she counts his grins during debates.
"I am always pleased when I see a grin because I know that he is ready to launch into a great answer to the question," Gibson said.
Years ago, Gibson encouraged Gingrich to tone down grandiose statements, saying they distract the audience from the message.
Then, as now, Gingrich would occasionally cock his head oddly to the right, Gibson said. When he latched onto a word, he'd use it repeatedly.
"Listen to the number of times that he uses the word 'frankly,'" Gibson said. "You will lose count."
Gingrich understands how to exploit TV debates and has avoided any major gaffes, said Mitchell McKinney, a communications professor at the University of Missouri who studies presidential debates. When his campaign was lagging, Gingrich baited the front-runners to engage him during debates, which helped him get airtime. He also picks messages that are sure to be replayed on TV. It adds up to free publicity.
"These moments get captured and played over and over," McKinney said.
One such moment came last week in the South Carolina. CNN debate moderator John King started the broadcast by asking Gingrich to respond to his second ex-wife's accusation that he asked her for an open marriage.
"I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office," said Gingrich, on his way to gaining a standing ovation from the audience. "And I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that."
He won the primary two days later.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Libyan commander says will retake Bani Walid (Reuters)
SADADA, Libya (Reuters) ? A militia commander whose troops were driven out of the Libyan tribal stronghold of Bani Walid this week said on Friday that his forces were massing to recapture the town but were holding back at the government's request.
"It is our right to reenter Bani Walid and nobody can prevent us," Imbarak al-Futmani said in an interview with Reuters at his desert camp near Sadada, 30 miles east of Bani Walid.
Futmani's troops were pushed out by angry townsmen who he accuses of being the remnants of loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi, the former dictator who was overthrown then captured and killed in October.
Eight hundred of his men were now massed along the eastern flank of the town awaiting his orders to enter by force, said the elderly warrior, who was dressed in an ornate black and gold waistcoast, a skullcap and a white blanket over his shoulder.
Bani Walid, 90 miles south of Tripoli, was one of the last towns to surrender to the anti-Gaddafi rebellion last year.
Hundreds of fighters loyal to the interim government have surrounded the isolated town after hearing word that a pro-Gaddafi uprising had broken out.
Futmani said he faced a couple of hundred "criminals" nostalgic for Gaddafi's time in power, rather than large battalions of organized loyalists.
"We have all the revolutionary fighters with us and we can take Bani Walid in a matter of hours."
"If they don't hand themselves in, they will face what they cannot imagine," he added, his eyes hidden by thick-rimmed, amber Ray-Ban sunglasses.
GADDAFI SUPPORT ALLEGATIONS
On Monday, armed residents surrounded Futmani's brigade, who named themselves the "28th of May," after the date last year when Gaddafi loyalists executed a number of pro-democracy protesters in Bani Walid.
After a battle in which Futmani lost six fighters, his men fled the barracks in the dark of the night.
"Once the Gaddafis broke through the gate and entered the barracks, all they cared about was stealing our tanks. We just walked right out," said one of Futmani's men.
Echoing complaints by residents that the 28th of May Brigade had been harassing people and abusing prisoners, the town elders said they were dismissing the government-backed local council on which Futmani sits and appointing their own local government.
They said they were not Gaddafi supporters but just tired of the militia pushing its weight around their town.
Futmani says the elders profited from Gaddafi and were trying to reclaim their town from its rightful rulers, the western-backed National Transitional Council (NTC) government.
WAITING ON THE PRIME MINISTER
With hundreds of fighters waiting at the gates of Bani Walid, drinking tea and oiling their weapons in the cold desert, why have they have not pushed forward?
Sitting in his base, a former Gaddafi holiday mansion on the top of a rocky hill, Futmani said the prime minister had asked him to hold off to allow civilians to leave the town and, hopefully, for the assailants to surrender.
"The prime minister called me and asked me not to move and I accepted," he said.
"(Prime minister Abdel Rahim) El Keib promised that the government would use force to maintain security, if necessary."
Troops from the nascent National Army, composed of revolutionary fighters who have signed up to the government force, had joined the militias around Bani Walid.
The NTC has been unable to fully establish control over armed revolutionary groups in Libya and has only incorporated a few brigades into a national security force. All of the militias claim loyalty to the government but most are still unwilling to disarm. Instead, they adopt a wait-and-see approach to who comes to power, and if they like them.
Futmani's men cruise around the base in dirty pick-up trucks with machineguns mounted on the back.
He is skeptical of any peaceful solution and saw more violence ahead.
"These pro-Gaddafis, they see us a rats, like Gaddafi did," he said. "They are murderers and criminals, they will never integrate into the new Libya because they know they will face justice now."
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'I Just Want My Pants Back' Cast Calls 'Jersey Shore' 'A Great Show'
'Pants Back' cast throws a party in Brooklyn to celebrate the show's much-anticipated premiere on February 2.
By Jocelyn Vena
Peter Vack and Kim Shaw
Photo: MTV News
NEW YORK — On Thursday night, the cast of MTV's latest scripted comedy, "I Just Want My Pants Back," gathered at the Public Assembly in Brooklyn, where they not only celebrated the show's imminent arrival, but also got to hang out with their Thursday night cohorts, the cast of the "Jersey Shore."
The pilot for the series originally got some love when it made its debut after the VMAs in August, and now it will officially kick off its run next Thursday. The cast, it seems, can't wait to finally have it on air.
"At last! I know everyone's been asking," Jordan Carlos joked to MTV News about the long-simmering delay. "My parents can finally get off my back; it's real. It'll be on on Groundhog Day, which happens to be my birthday as well."
"We've been seeing the commercials for the show for years now," Sunkrish Bala teased. "Slow burn, but it's all coming to a beautiful conclusion right now."
"It feels so crazy to be here right now," co-star Kim Shaw said. "We wanted people to see it at the VMAs to give people a taste of what we were filming, and now that we're finished with the series, we're so excited that everyone gets to see the whole thing."
Having already had one very high-profile premiere, it seems that next week it will get one more thanks to the "Jersey Shore" as its lead-in. "It's awesome," Elisabeth Hower said. "The fact that the network has so much confidence around us really means a lot, and I think that says a lot about the show. Please watch the show. We're nice people."
"It's an amazing lead-in," said Peter Vack, leading man of "Pants Back." " 'Jersey Shore' is a great show."
While "Jersey Shore" and "Pants Back" may seem like different shows on the surface — one's scripted, one's a reality show; one's about hipsters, one's about guidos — they both deal with a group of friends navigating their love lives. "Pants Back" follows a group of twentysomethings in New York City as they pilot love, friendship and the job market with a good dose of dirty humor and some heart thrown in for good measure.
"The show just goes so many fun places," Vack teased. "It's just a crazy ride, and I'm excited for people to take the ride with us."
"Pants Back" premieres on February 2 at 11 P.M. ET/PT right after "Jersey Shore."
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Summary Box: Arrests in breast-implant case (AP)
THE ARRESTS: Police in pre-dawn sweeps Thursday arrested two top former executives of the now-defunct French company at the center of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide.
THE ARRESTEES: Jean-Claude Mas, founder of implant-maker Poly Implant Prothese, was detained as part of a judicial probe in Marseille into manslaughter and involuntary injuries, an official said. A regional official said former No. 2 executive Claude Couty also was detained.
THE IMPLANTS: The suspect implants have been pulled from the market in several countries amid fears that they could rupture and leak silicone into the body.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Archivist challenges Kremlin in Wallenberg saga
MOSCOW (AP) ? A former senior Russian archive official says he saw a file that could shed light on Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg's fate ? challenging the insistence of Russia's KGB successor agency that it has no documents regarding the man who saved tens of thousands of Jews in Hungary before disappearing into the hands of Soviet secret police.
Anatoly Prokopenko, 78, told The Associated Press that in 1991 he saw a thick dossier containing numerous references to Wallenberg that suggested he was being spied upon by a Russian aristocrat working for Soviet intelligence. Russian officials later said the file didn't exist, in line with blanket denials of having information on Wallenberg.
"That file is extremely interesting, because it could allow us to determine the reasons behind his arrest," Prokopenko said, while acknowledging he had only a few minutes to flip through hundreds of pages of documents.
As Sweden's envoy to Nazi-occupied Hungary, Wallenberg saved 20,000 Jews by giving them Swedish travel documents or moving them to safe houses, and managed to dissuade Nazi officers from massacring the 70,000 inhabitants of the city's ghetto. The 32-year-old diplomat was arrested by the Soviets in January 1945 when the Red Army stormed Budapest, and imprisoned in Moscow.
The Soviets had stubbornly denied that Wallenberg was in their custody before issuing a 1957 announcement that he had died on July 17, 1947, in his prison cell of a sudden heart attack. They stonewalled international demands for information about his fate, and rejected allegations that Wallenberg could have lived as a prisoner under a different identify as late as the 1980s.
Prokopenko said that in the fall of 1991, on an inspection tour of the main KGB archive in a tightly guarded facility outside Moscow, he came across a hefty dossier on Count Mikhail Tolstoy-Kutuzov, a Russian aristocrat who left Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and worked alongside Wallenberg in Budapest.
Prokopenko said that he only had a few minutes to peek at the dossier, but he saw Wallenberg's name mentioned repeatedly in what appeared to be Tolstoy-Kutuzov's reports to his handlers in Soviet intelligence.
"I realized that he was following every step Wallenberg made," Prokopenko said.
Prokopenko was fired just over a year later and deprived of his access to the archives ? a move Prokopenko attributes to his efforts to reveal secret Soviet archives to the public.
He said he advised Guy von Dardel, Wallenberg's half-brother who spent years searching for clues to his fate, to ask the KGB successor agency for permission to see the files on Tolstoy-Kutuzov. They turned him down, saying that no such files existed.
When von Dardel said that he knew from Prokopenko that this wasn't true, officials asked him to come back in a few days and handed him a dossier that contained only a few pages lacking any reference to Wallenberg.
Prokopenko said that Stalin's secret police possibly suspected Wallenberg of being involved in secret contacts between the Western allies and the Nazis and were eager to learn about his connections.
Wallenberg had been recruited for his rescue mission in Budapest by a U.S. intelligence agent, with Swedish government approval, on behalf of the War Refugee Board created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. But he is not known to have been engaged in intelligence-gathering.
Susanne Berger, a German researcher who advised a Swedish-Russian working group that conducted a 10-year investigation that ended in 2001, backs Prokopenko's view that the Soviets likely saw Wallenberg as a valuable source of intelligence.
"The Soviet leadership was particularly paranoid about what it perceived as a possible Anglo-American conspiracy against Soviet interests," she said in e-mailed comments.
Berger added that Stalin might have hoped to use Wallenberg for future bargaining with the West.
"The most likely reason for Stalin to arrest Raoul Wallenberg would have been to use him as some kind of 'asset,' to bargain or negotiate for," Berger said. "Stalin may have felt that with Raoul Wallenberg, scion of a powerful Western business family, he held a rather interesting bargaining chip."
The former archivist said KGB officers privately told him that Wallenberg was killed because his refusal to cooperate made him a liability. "They couldn't have set him free, they would have needed to liquidate him," Prokopenko said.
The chief of the archives of the FSB, the main KGB successor agency, admitted in a rare interview with the AP in September that the Soviet version that Wallenberg died of a heart attack could have been fabricated and that his captors may have "helped him die." Lt. Gen. Vasily Khristoforov said that all documents related to Wallenberg likely had been destroyed back in the 1950s and denied that his agency was withholding any information related to his case.
Prokopenko, who headed the Special Archive containing documents from 20 European countries in the waning years of the Soviet Union, allowed researchers working for an international commission investigating Wallenberg's fate to search for clues to Wallenberg's fate amid Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's openness campaign.
They quickly found a document on Wallenberg's transfer from one Soviet prison to another, but the KGB immediately learned of the effort and ordered them out.
Prokopenko lost his job soon afterward, but continued his work to open the archives under the government of Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia until he lost his post of the deputy chief of the Russian state archive agency in early 1993.
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Analysis: Republican Romney back on track in White House race (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Mitt Romney is back on track.
Less than a week after a stinging setback in South Carolina, Romney moved ahead of rival Newt Gingrich again in Florida polls on Thursday and turned in his strongest debate performance yet in a seesawing Republican presidential race.
Three new polls showed Romney taking a solid 7- or 8-point lead in Florida hours before his confident and aggressive debate performance put Gingrich on the defensive repeatedly in their final showdown ahead of Tuesday's state primary.
"This was his best debate exactly when he needed it. Romney won the debate and he may well have won the primary," Republican strategist Ron Bonjean said.
Romney, who saw his lead over Gingrich evaporate after a stinging 12-point defeat in South Carolina, also benefited on Thursday from a wave of new criticism of Gingrich from prominent conservative and party leaders.
It was the latest swing in momentum in a race that has seen many ebbs and flows. Gingrich earlier wiped out Romney's lead in Florida polls after his South Carolina win, and the potential remains for more shifts in momentum.
But a Florida victory for Romney would put him in a strong position to capture the nomination, with the primary map tilting in his favor in February with contests in seven states where he has the potential advantage.
Next up on February 4 is Nevada, which has a big Mormon population and where Romney, who is Mormon, won with 51 percent of the vote during his failed 2008 presidential bid. On February 7 Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri hold contests. Gingrich did not make the ballot in Missouri.
Four states with February contests - Nevada, Maine, Colorado and Minnesota - use caucus systems, where strong campaign organizations can help rally voter turnout. That could give Romney, with his superior financial and staff resources, an advantage.
On February 28, Michigan and Arizona hold primaries. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, was raised in Michigan, where his father was a former governor and car executive.
"If Mitt Romney wins in Florida, he'll be on cruise control all the way to Super Tuesday," Republican strategist Ford O'Connell said. Nine states hold contests on "Super Tuesday," on March 6.
"Florida is a make-or-break state for Gingrich because he needs to win to get his momentum back and restock his campaign coffers," O'Connell said. "He is spending everything he's got to compete with Romney in Florida."
'ROMNEY ATTACK MACHINE'
Gingrich, the former House speaker, blamed the "Romney attack machine" for a blizzard of warnings that a Gingrich win in Florida could put him on the path to a nomination that would doom the party against President Barack Obama in November.
"It is now time to take a stand before it is too late," Robert Dole, a former Senate leader and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, said in a statement.
"If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices," he said. "He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway," Dole said, referring to Gingrich's tenure as House speaker in the 1990s.
The bombastic conservative columnist Ann Coulter also warned a Gingrich nomination could mean a second Obama term in the White House. "Conservatism is an electable quality," Coulter wrote. "Hotheaded arrogance is neither conservative nor attractive to voters."
The one-two punch of conservative criticism and a strong debate could be a crippling political blow for Gingrich.
"Romney's outstanding debate performance combined with the right-wing establishment coming out against Gingrich is a recipe for disaster for him," Bonjean said. "That was a very effective one-two punch."
Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, said Gingrich was being vilified by the party's establishment.
"They're trying to crucify this man and rewrite history, and rewrite what it is that he has stood for all these years," Palin told Fox Business Network.
Romney's restored confidence was evident early in a heated exchange over how to handle the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. Gingrich called Romney the most anti-immigrant of the remaining candidates, which Romney labeled "inexcusable, inflammatory and inappropriate."
When Gingrich insisted Romney's policies would lead to rounding up and deporting grandmothers who had built lives in the United States, Romney shot back: "You know, our problem is not 11 million grandmothers."
(Editing by Alistair Bell and Eric Beech)
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