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Russia: UN resolution on Syria is path to war

Syrian army defectors distribute bread for children, in the Rastan area in Homs province, central Syria, on Monday Jan. 30, 2012. Syrian forces heavily shelled the restive city of Homs on Monday, and troops pushed back dissident troops from some suburbs on the outskirts of Damascus in an offensive trying to regain control of the capital's eastern doorstep, activists said.(AP Photo)

Syrian army defectors distribute bread for children, in the Rastan area in Homs province, central Syria, on Monday Jan. 30, 2012. Syrian forces heavily shelled the restive city of Homs on Monday, and troops pushed back dissident troops from some suburbs on the outskirts of Damascus in an offensive trying to regain control of the capital's eastern doorstep, activists said.(AP Photo)

Anti-Syrian regime protesters, hold up a Syrian army defector as they chant slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad during an evening protest, in the Rastan area in Homs province, central Syria, on Monday Jan. 30, 2012. Syrian forces heavily shelled the restive city of Homs on Monday, and troops pushed back dissident troops from some suburbs on the outskirts of Damascus in an offensive trying to regain control of the capital's eastern doorstep, activists said.(AP Photo)

Syrian army defectors distribute bread for children, in the Rastan area in Homs province, central Syria, on Monday Jan. 30, 2012. Syrian forces heavily shelled the restive city of Homs on Monday, and troops pushed back dissident troops from some suburbs on the outskirts of Damascus in an offensive trying to regain control of the capital's eastern doorstep, activists said.(AP Photo)

BEIRUT (AP) ? A senior Russian diplomat warned Tuesday that a draft U.N. resolution demanding Syrian President Bashar Assad step aside is a "path to civil war," as Syrian troops crushed pockets of resistance by rebel soldiers on the outskirts of Damascus.

The U.N. Security Council was to meet Tuesday to discuss the draft, backed by Western and some Arab powers. But Russia would likely veto any punitive action.

"The Western draft Security Council resolution on Syria does not lead to a search for compromise," Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov wrote on Twitter. "Pushing this resolution is a path to civil war."

Russia has been one of Assad's strongest backers as he tries to crush an uprising that began nearly 11 months ago. In October, Moscow vetoed the first council attempt to condemn Syria's crackdown and has shown little sign of budging in its opposition.

Russia fears the new measure could open the door to eventual military intervention, the way an Arab-backed U.N. resolution provided the mandate for NATO airstrikes in Libya.

The U.N. estimates that more than 5,400 people have been killed in the Syrian government crackdown. The bloodshed spiked Monday as regime forces retook control of the eastern suburbs of Damascus after rebel soldiers briefly captured them.

The death toll from Monday's offensive was around 100 people, making it one among the bloodiest days since the uprising began in March, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees, an opposition group.

Early Tuesday, government forces moved into the two towns near Damascus still in rebel hands.

"Intense shooting was heard in Zamalka and Arbeen as the tanks advanced," the Observatory said, citing its network of sources on the ground. Regime forces made sweeping arrests in the nearby town of Rankous, activists said.

Western and Arab countries, meanwhile, stepped up pressure on Assad's ally Russia to overcome its opposition to a draft resolution.

The draft resolution demands that Assad halt the crackdown and implement an Arab peace plan that calls for him to hand over power to his vice president and allow creation of a unity government to pave the way for elections. It also rules out the use of foreign forces in the country.

If Assad fails to comply within 15 days, the council would consider "further measures," a reference to a possible move to impose economic or other sanctions.

During a trip to Jordan on Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Assad to stop the killings and he said he hopes Security Council members reach a consensus on Syria.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the British and French foreign ministers were heading to New York to push for backing of the measure.

"The status quo is unsustainable," Clinton said, saying the Assad regime was preventing a peaceful transition and warning that the resulting instability could "spill over throughout the region."

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe described what is happening in Syria as a "scandal."

Assad "has blood on his hands, so it's not possible that he continues to assume responsibilities," he told French radio Europe-1 Tuesday, shortly before flying to New York for the U.N. Security Council meeting.

Juppe ruled out a military intervention saying "things are very different from what happened in Libya. For example, in Syria you have communities that are divided and any exterior intervention could lead to a civil war."

A French official said the draft U.N. resolution has a "comfortable majority" of support from 10 of the Security Council's 15 members, meaning Russia or China would have to use its veto power to stop it. The official said Russia had agreed to negotiate on the draft, but it was not yet clear if it would be willing to back it if changes were made.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity in accordance with department rules.

Also Tuesday, army defectors gained full control of the central town of Rastan after days of intense clashes, according to a town activist who identified himself as Hassan. He refused to give his full name, fearing reprisals.

The town was taken by defectors twice in the past only to be retaken by Syrian troops. Rastan is the hometown of former Defense Minister Mustapha Tlass, who held the post for more than three decades mostly under Assad's father and predecessor, the late Hafez Assad.

Because of the surge in violence, the Arab League halted a month-old observer mission, which had already come under heavy criticism for failing to stop the crackdown. The League turned to the U.N. Security Council to throw its weight behind its peace plan, which Damascus has rejected.

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Associated Press writers Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow and Dale Gavlak in Amman, Jordan, contributed to this report.

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Sudans, Somalia top issues at African Union summit (AP)

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia ? Oil negotiations between Sudan and South Sudan and war and hunger in Somalia are expected to dominate discussion at a summit of African leaders in Ethiopia's capital.

The African Union said Sunday the summit's official theme is trade. But increasingly tense relations between Sudan and South Sudan will likely dominate sideline talks among the 54-member bloc. South Sudan has stopped oil production over the impasse. China said Sunday that Chinese workers were seized in a volatile border region of Sudan.

The leaders will also elect a new chair of the A.U. commission, a position held by Gabon's Jean Ping. Ping will run for a second term but will face South African minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.

The AU is holding the summit for the first time at its new $200 million headquarters, paid for by China.

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Economy grew 2.8 pct. in Q4, but outlook is hazy (AP)

WASHINGTON ? The economy grew late last year at a pace that in normal times would suggest it's healthy.

But the 2.8 percent annualized growth rate in the October-December quarter ? the fastest pace since the spring of 2010 ? isn't being cheered by most economists or investors. That's because growth would need to be much stronger to sharply reduce unemployment. And signs in the data point to slower growth ahead.

For all of last year, the economy grew just 1.7 percent. That was barely more than half the growth in 2010. The outlook for all 2012 is slightly better. The Federal Reserve estimates growth of roughly 2.5 percent for the year.

Though the economy has picked up and is far stronger than during the Great Recession, unemployment is still a high 8.5 percent. Many people remain reluctant to spend more or buy homes. Many employers are still hesitant to hire.

For the final three months of 2011, Americans spent more on vehicles, and companies restocked their shelves at a robust pace. But overall growth last quarter ? and for all of last year ? was held back by the sharpest cuts in annual government spending in four decades, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Several factors are expected to exert more of an economic drag this year: Cuts in military and other federal spending. A slower pace of company restocking. Weak or flat pay increases. Sluggish growth in consumer spending.

Stocks opened lower after the government reported the growth figures at 8:30 a.m. EST. The Dow Jones industrial average was down about 53 points in late-morning trading. Broader indexes were mixed.

"Overall, the pickup in growth doesn't look half as good when you realize that most of it was due to inventory accumulation," said Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics, who expects growth to slow to below 2 percent in the first three months of this year.

In the final three months of last year, consumer spending grew at a 2 percent annual rate. That's up modestly from the third quarter. Consumer spending is important because it makes up 70 percent of economic activity.

Much of the growth was powered by a 14.8 percent surge in sales of autos and other long-lasting manufactured goods.

Incomes, which have been weak all year because of high unemployment, grew at a modest 0.8 percent annual rate. That followed two straight quarters of declining incomes. But unless pay increases pick up, consumers who have dipped into savings in recent months, may pull back.

Business restocking, which can vary widely from quarter to quarter, was the greatest contributor to growth in the October-December period. It added nearly 2 percentage points to the gross domestic product, or GDP.

Government spending at all levels fell at an annual rate of 4.6 percent in the fourth quarter and 2.1 percent for the year ? the biggest decline since 1971. Sweeping federal defense cuts at the beginning and end of 2011 were a major factor.

The economy is measured by GDP, which covers everything from haircuts to hotel bookings to jet fighter planes. Friday's estimate was the first of three for the fourth quarter.

Other data show that in some ways, the economy ended 2011 on a strong note. Companies invested more in equipment and machinery in December. The unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent last month ? the lowest level in nearly three years ? after the sixth straight month of solid hiring.

People are buying more cars, and consumer confidence is rising. Even the depressed housing market has shown enough improvement to make some economists predict a turnaround has begun.

Ian Shepherdson, an economist at High Frequency Economics, is among the more optimistic analysts. He said he thought business investment in capital goods would be stronger and consumer spending higher this year.

Richard DeKaiser, a senior economist at Parthenon Group, expects just 2 percent annual growth in the January-March quarter. But DeKaiser says that should be the weakest quarter. He expects the economy to gain strength in each quarter and grow 2.6 percent for the entire year.

Still, many economists worry that a recession in Europe could dampen demand for U.S. manufactured goods, which would slow growth. And without more jobs and better pay, consumer spending is likely to stagnate.

The Fed signaled this week that a full recovery could take at least three more years. In response, it said it would probably not increase its benchmark interest rate until late 2014 at the earliest ? a year and a half later than it had previously said.

The central bank also slightly reduced its outlook for growth this year, from as much as 2.9 percent forecast in November down to 2.7 percent. The Fed sees unemployment falling as low as 8.2 percent this year.

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Happy 2nd Birthday, iPad. What Will This Toddler Be When it Grows up? (Mashable)

Two years ago Friday -- Jan. 27, 2010 -- Apple unveiled the iPad to the world. At the time, critics and analysts were quick to mock the name, criticize the devices shortcomings and predict that while the Apple name would sell the product, it wouldn't create a new market.

Boy, were they wrong. The device was an immediate success, quickly becoming the fastest-selling gadget of all time.

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Even those of us who were bullish on the iPad have had our expectations blown out of the water.

As a company, Apple just had its most successful financial quarter ever and sold 15.4 million iPads. Apple CEO Tim Cook says he can envision a time when the tablet market will be larger than the PC market, at least in numbers of units sold.

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Looking at the trends in computing -- especially with the rise of Ultrabooks -- the merging of the tablet and the computer into one device certainly seems possible. Some Windows laptop makers are already attempting such a hybrid, with mixed success.

Two years after its introduction, the iPad has not only created the modern tablet market, it has had a transformative effect on publishing, education and entertainment. The rate at which the iPad has become a widely-adopted piece of technology -- from the car service in my neighborhood to hospitals to airlines -- is staggering.

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Why the iPad Matters

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The iPad is the first device that has shown what can happen when you meld the TV and the computer

I was discussing with a friend the changing nature of entertainment, and the role that the iPad has had in convincing networks and content producers to embrace the future.

I remarked that the iPad is the first device that has shown what can happen when you meld the TV and the computer. The size, touchscreen and supported applications has turned the iPad from a simple consumption device to something much more robust.

Two years ago, I watched Steve Jobs unveil the iPad. My reaction: This is the future. Two years later, I'm even more convinced. This is why the iPad matters. No other device in memory has had the ability to integrate into so many different worlds so quickly and will so little resistance.

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All Hail the King

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Over the last two years, plenty of so-called "iPad Killers" have entered the market. Very few found success. The Kindle Fire, the first product to significantly undercut the iPad on price while matching its content ecosystem, has garnered a decent amount of interest -- especially at Best Buy. But as Apple's first-quarter figures showed this week, it's not eroding iPad sales.

Android is the leading platform on mobile. But on the tablet, the number of optimized apps are still extremely low. I'd be surprised if there were as many tablet-specific apps for Android now as there were for the iPad at its launch.

This isn't to say that competition is impossible. With Windows 8 and the Metro UI, Microsoft has shown that it has some chops. Still, as Marco Arment is fond of pointing out, "we still don't know if there is a tablet market. We know there is an iPad market."

The iPad represents the cornerstone of the next era of computing, both for Apple and for the industry. Here's to many more years of disruptions.

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Gingrich, Romney push high-tech job creation as US lead slips (Daily Caller)

U.S. job losses in recent years ? especially high-paying technology jobs ? are a startling reality that even the Obama administration is having to acknowledge, however reluctantly. As the Florida presidential primary looms just five days away,?former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are both ratcheting up their job-creation rhetoric.

The U.S. has lost nearly 30 percent of its technology jobs in recent years, according to a new report from the National Science Board, an advisory panel for the National Science Foundation. Asia is becoming the world?s technology job leader, the report indicates.

The National Science Board?reported this month?that the U.S. lost 687,000 high-tech manufacturing jobs since 2000, and that 85 percent of new?research and development-related job growth for U.S. technology companies occurred overseas.

Although the report portrays that decline as one spread out over the past 10 years, other data indicate a steep slide in recent months.?The hiring website SimplyHired.com indicates that tech hiring in the United States plunged by 15.3 percent during the last year alone.

Gingrich told Miami?media Wednesday that Obama?s policies constitute the ?most anti-job? agenda ever pursued by a U.S. president. Romney called on Obama to stop shifting blame?and do something dramatic to foster job creation.

?Aren?t you the leader of the free world,? Romney rhetorically?asked an absent Obama Wednesday morning. ?Why don?t you draft some legislation??

U.S. employment in high-technology manufacturing peaked 12 years ago?with 2.5 million jobs, the National Science Board report found, during the waning days of the Clinton administration.

Some other recent surveys, like one this week from the recruiting firm Challenger, Grey & Christmas, indicate that tech hiring has picked up in recent weeks.

Examples of tech contraction are seemingly everywhere.

Wells Fargo in November announced that it was cutting 25 staff and leaving 30 positions unfilled in IT, in order to save $188 million.?State Street Financial slashed 850 IT jobs last summer, primarily in Boston. The computing giant Cisco Systems, the cell-phone company Nokia and Blackberry maker RIM collectively announced last year that they had cut 10,000 jobs.

Even Obama, who last year blamed ATMs and factory automation for the loss of many American jobs, agrees there is a problem.

?The Chinese have been surging ahead of the U.S. in creating and nurturing startups and encouraging innovation for the past several years,? Simply Hired?spokesman?Darah Roslyn told?The Daily Caller.??And even with President Obama?s administration recognizing and investing in technology ? the Chinese have continued to surpass us.?

Competitive Enterprise Institute economic analyst?Hans Bader called the president the ?outsourcer-in-chief? in an e-mail to?TheDC. He said?jobs that can be performed here in the U.S. have increasingly moved overseas during the Obama administration?s?first three years.

But what could the leading GOP candidates ? Gingrich and Romney ? do to reverse this seeming trend from the Oval Office?

During a Jan. 7?debate in New Hampshire, Gingrich said the U.S. needs to focus on developing technological infrastructure. ?You cannot compete with China in the long run if you have an inferior infrastructure. You?ve got to move to a 21st-century model. That means you?ve got to be technologically smart and you have to make investments,? he said.

Romney has also written and spoken about improving America?s technology infrastructure, but focuses mostly on lowering tax rates and reforming the tax code so more businesses can thrive.

During an Iowa debate on Dec. 10, the former governor said he disagrees with Gingrich?s view of the government?s role in tech job creation.

?Speaker Gingrich and I have a lot of places where we disagree,? said Romney. ?We can start with his idea to have a lunar colony that would mine minerals from the moon, I?m not in favor of spending that kind of money to do that.?

Gingrich retorted, ?I?m proud of trying to find things that give young people a reason to study science and math and technology, and telling them that someday in their lifetime they could dream of going to the moon ? they could dream of going to Mars.?

Jeff Manber, a Reagan administration appointee who worked on science and technology policy, told?TheDC?that ?Newt gets it? on technology policy. Government investments in computing by the Defense Department led to the creation of the consumer Internet, he explained, and government spending on NASA during the 1960s powered growth in computer chips and satellites.

Even within the GOP, there are splits in the business community regarding different approaches to job creation.

Some, like Viewfinity CEO?Leonid Shtilman, a former professor at Tel Aviv University and the City University of New York, want a focus on entrepreneurial work instead of trade wars overseas.

?It is not realistic to compete with China, India and Korea in heavy industry since the wages are really different,? he told TheDC in an email.

?The attempts of some presidential candidate to point to unfair trade are not serious, since even if you devaluate Chinese currency by 100 percent, the wages in China will be much lower than in USA,? he said. ?The only way to compete is to create a new agenda for development in potentially growing areas, like new energy, nanotechnology and material research. ? [W]e need to create an atmosphere of respect for the sciences.?

Stina Ehrensvard, CEO of the Palo Alto, Calif., tech firm Yubico Inc., is one tech player who wants the president to unleash more government investment. He told TheDC that?he ?advises? the White House to speed up government spending and regulation to ?drive innovation and mass implementation? of online security for Internet companies.

Ehrensvard reckons that firms like PayPal, Facebook and Google are today?s versions of what Apple and Microsoft were the 1980s: job-creating engines of American economic growth.

But too few American students are equipped to take many of those jobs today.

Todd Brabender, a spokesman for Neumont University, a technology college in Utah, told TheDC about a?recent marked ?decline in qualified and engaged U.S. students exploring tech degrees and careers.? His school is beginning to recruit in China for interested students, he said.

As the philosophical battles heat up during this election year, the arguments over America?s tech-jobs future have intensified ? including among those who believe a less tech-obsessed employment culture is a good thing for business.

?America has not declined in technology, but has achieved a bittersweet victory of sorts in multiple dimensions via its outsourcing arrangements to both China and India,? said Phil Lieberman, the CEO of Lieberman Software in Los Angeles.

?In return for peace and the promotion/insertion of capitalism and a mutated form of democracy into these regimes, America has achieved peace and cooperation from former serious combatants,? he told TheDC. ?America has also been the recipient of below domestic market value products and services.?

During that December Iowa debate, Gingrich cast his lot with those who see Lieberman as short-sighted.

?I grew up in a generation where the space program was real, where it was important, and where frankly it is tragic that NASA has been so bureaucratized,? Gingrich added. ?Iowa?s doing brilliant things, attracting brilliant students. I want to give them places to go and things to do. And I?m happy to defend the idea that America should be in space and should be there in an aggressive, entrepreneurial way.?

Along these lines, the London-based?New Scientist?journal recently called Gingrich ?Newt Skywalker? after he won the South Carolina GOP primary, no doubt alluding to the former speaker?s passion for big science projects.

In the current tech-jobs climate, however, President Obama may soon be cast in the role of Darth Vader when voters go to the polls in November. Or perhaps Emperor Palpatine. Join the conversation

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Discovery identifies potential target for anti-craving medications

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have identified a potential target for the development of anti-craving medications for people with addictions to stimulants such as methamphetamine.

The discovery centres on a brain receptor related to the chemical dopamine, which has a complex role in addictive behaviours.

Using brain scans and a novel chemical probe developed in CAMH's Research Imaging Centre, CAMH scientists found that the probe had high levels of binding to the dopamine D3 receptor in some people with methamphetamine addiction, compared with those who had no addiction. Higher levels of D3 were also linked to participants' reported motivation to take drugs.

"This is the first time, to our knowledge, that anyone has shown that D3 receptor levels are high in people with an active addiction to methamphetamine," says Dr. Isabelle Boileau, a scientist in the Research Imaging Centre, part of the new Campbell Family Research Institute at CAMH. Boileau led the study that appears in the January 25, 2012 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.

Using positron emission tomography (PET), Boileau's team looked at D3 levels in 16 people who were dependent on methamphetamine. Participants abstained from methamphetamine use for 14 days prior to brain scans. Their results were compared with scans from 16 participants with no addiction. On a separate day after scanning, participants were given a low dose of amphetamine, and they had to report how much they wanted to use drugs.

D3 receptors appear to have a role in craving, but it is not fully established how they are related to drug-related behaviours. The new chemical probe developed at CAMH, called 11C-(+)-PHNO, binds to dopamine D3 receptors. This probe allows researchers to study D3 in people for the first time, using PET scans, in order to answer questions about its role in stimulant addiction.

Understanding the role of brain receptors in addiction has enabled researchers to develop treatment medications, such as nicotine replacement therapy for smoking. So far, therapeutic strategies for stimulant addiction have focused on increasing activity with D2 receptors, where binding levels have been low.

"We can now suggest that any therapeutic approach aimed at increasing activity with D2 receptors should consider being selective at targeting D2, and not increasing D3 levels," says Boileau. "Our finding also supports the idea that D3 should be considered another target for anti-craving medications."

Boileau is also looking at the role of D3 in different types of addictions, including cocaine and gambling.

Building on CAMH?s record of innovation and discovery, the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute will be accelerating discoveries in the areas of mood disorders, addictions, schizophrenia and cognitive impairment.

CAMH?s Research Imaging Centre is the first of its kind in Canada where positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and imaging-genetics are dedicated to the study of mental illness and addictions.

This new discovery is an example of the innovative brain science at CAMH's new Research Imaging Centre, the first of its kind in Canada where positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and genetic imaging are dedicated to the study of mental illness and addictions.

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U.S. lawmaker may pursue limited China bill (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? An influential Republican lawmaker said on Wednesday he may pursue "narrowly targeted" legislation to ensure the Commerce Department can impose countervailing duties on subsidized imports from China and other "non-market economies."

"I am willing to consider targeted legislation that ensures our countervailing duty laws can be used to protect U.S. employers and workers from unfairly subsidized imports from countries like China," House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp said in a statement.

A recent U.S. court ruling struck down the Commerce Department's ability to apply to countervailing duties to non-market economies, saying that Congress needed to change the law for the department to do that.

Camp emphasized that any legislation to address the ruling "would have to be narrowly targeted ... and be able to pass the House and Senate without complications."

However, the prospect of the Republicans moving any China bill is likely to invite attempts by Democrats to attach a measure to address China's currency practices.

Last year, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed a bill to pressure China on its currency, which many lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say is undervalued and gives Chinese manufacturers an unfair price advantage.

But House Republican leaders have sat on the bill, which they said could start a damaging trade war.

Former President George W. Bush's administration, responding to pleas of domestic producers, changed longstanding policy to allow countervailing, or anti-subsidy, duties to be applied to goods from non-market economies.

Previously, the Commerce Department had taken the position it was too difficult to calculate subsidy levels in economies where the state plays a dominant role in setting prices.

However, U.S. industry groups persuaded the Bush administration that was no longer the case with China.

(Reporting By Doug Palmer; editing by Christopher Wilson)

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10-Year-Old Kid Got Lost Inside a Computer—For Real [Computers]

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Five things to watch for in Obama's State of the Union

Former White House speech writers offer pointers to watching President Obama's State of the Union Tuesday night.

President Obama is offering his fourth third (the first address a new president gives isn?t titled the ?state of the union?) - and, he hopes, not final - State of of the Union address to the nation Tuesday night. Ahead of the annual report on the state of the US (spoiler: We?re guessing the answer is ?strong?), Decoder dropped by the Bipartisan Policy Center for a talk with four former White House speechwriters to get their thoughts on what to look for tonight.

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Here are their five things to watch.

1. Burn the straw men.

John McConnell, a writer for President George W. Bush, told a story related to him by the late great speechwriter Bill Safire, who could not get Richard Nixon to stop saying some variation of ?while some of those close to me have urged me to take the easy way, I have opted for?? before continuing on to what he wanted to do.

Unfortunately, Safire noted, nobody was advising the president to take the easy way. As such, Safire would sometimes walk past the closed door to the Oval Office and whisper ?take the easy way, Mr. President.?

Obama, McConnell advised, should ?avoid strawmen? If you?re contradicting a counter argument, make it a real counter argument.?

Bob Lehrman, a former writer for Vice President Al Gore, concurred.

?Whenever you see somebody say - and Obama does this, I?m sorry to say - ?some may say,? they?re heading straight for a straw man, Lehrman said. ?You can find real people on the other side and you can rebut what they say and you are much more credible when you do it.?

Indeed, one of the best things Obama could do ?is agree with the other side,? Lehrman said. ?People will say ?He?s a reasonable person.??

2. Big themes, but many ideas.

President Obama isn?t just laying out his plans for the next year, pointed out Vinca LaFleur, a former writer for President Bill Clinton. He?s giving a taste of what a second Obama term would look like. That?s going to mean the standard presidential laundry list of proposals - but Obama needs to find broad themes and narratives to encapsulate the policy to make it relateable. Particularly given the President?s election/political goals, making the State of the Union - always a political document - into something approaching a nationally-televised campaign speech.?

3. Watch your tone.

Chriss Winston, the former chief speechwriter to President George H. W. Bush, said Obama would be well-served to ?avoid a hectoring, lecturing tone this evening and perhaps extend the olive branch one more time.?

?The American people have kind of had it with the fighting that?s gone on between the White House and Congress. I would hope that tonight the speech will be President Obama laying out his vision but doing it in a way that allows for the possibility of some progress, at least this spring,? she said.

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Giffords says she's resigning from Congress

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, gravely wounded in a shooting a year ago, will resign from Congress. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.

By Michael O'Brien, msnbc.com

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Updated at 6:02 p.m. ET

Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) will resign from Congress this week, she announced in a video message posted Sunday.?

Giffords, the victim of a gunshot wound to the head in an attack a year ago in her Arizona district, cited her continued work toward recovery as a reason for stepping down from her seat.?

"I have more work to do on my recovery, so to do what is best for Arizona I will step down this week," she said in a video message posted to YouTube. "I will return and we will work together for Arizona and this great country."

According to a statement posted on her Congressional website, Giffords will attend?Tuesday night's State of the Union address as one of her final acts as a member of Congress before?submitting her resignation?to Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday.? The?statement also says Giffords plans to "finish" the Congress on your Corner event where the shooting happened before she leaves office.?

"Gabby Giffords embodies the very best of what public service should be.? She's universally admired for qualities that transcend party or ideology - a dedication to fairness, a willingness to listen to different ideas, and a tireless commitment to the work of perfecting our union.? That's why the people of Arizona chose Gabby - to speak and fight and stand up for them," President Obama said in a statement Sunday evening.? "Gabby's cheerful presence will be missed in Washington.? But she will remain an inspiration to all whose lives she touched - myself included.? And I'm confident that we haven't seen the last of this extraordinary American."

Giffords has enjoyed a remarkable recovery since being shot in that?Jan. 8, 2011 incident that left six dead.?

Prior to that shooting, she had been considered a rising Democratic star, and had been considering a bid for Senate this fall. During the course of her recovery, she has been absent from Capitol Hill except for a surprise return to vote in August on an agreement to raise the nation's debt ceiling.

?I salute Congresswoman Giffords for her service, and for the courage and perseverance she has shown in the face of tragedy.? She will be missed,? House Speaker?John Boehner said in a statement.?

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reacted to the announcement in a statement saying Giffords "has been a true bright star - a dynamic and creative public servant.? Gabby's message of bipartisanship and civility is one that all in Washington and the nation should honor and emulate."? Pelosi continued, "I join all my colleagues in Congress in thanking Gabby for the honor of calling her colleague and wishing Gabby and Mark great success and happiness.? She will be missed in the House of Representatives, but her legacy in the Congress and her leadership for our nation will certainly continue."

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No whooping cough deaths in California last year

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? California did not suffer a single death from whooping cough in 2011, the first year since 1991 that there have been no fatalities in the state from the highly contagious illness, health officials said Tuesday.

The news comes after the state experienced a whooping cough epidemic in 2010 when 9,000 were infected. Most vulnerable to the disease are infants too young to be fully immunized. Ten babies died after exposure from adults or older children.

Cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, dropped to 3,000 last year and authorities were waiting to see how this year goes before declaring the epidemic over.

"Everything seems to indicate we're heading in that direction," said state epidemiologist Dr. Gil Chavez.

Public health officials credited the decline to greater awareness, faster diagnosis and a new state law requiring that middle and high school students get a booster shot before starting school.

At the peak of the epidemic, doctors were urged to spot whooping cough early, send infected babies to the hospital and promptly treat those diagnosed.

"We worked very hard on that and I think it was successful," said pediatrician Dr. James Cherry of the University of California, Los Angeles.

The California Department of Public Health also gave out free vaccines to hospitals and aired public service announcements in English and Spanish.

"People rallied and got vaccinated and it made a huge difference," Chavez said.

Whooping cough cases tend to run in cycles, peaking every five years. It is a highly contagious bacterial disease that in rare cases can be fatal. Whooping cough starts off like a cold but leads to severe coughing that can last for weeks.

A 2009 study in the journal Pediatrics found that children who don't get vaccinated against whooping cough are 23 times more likely to get the disease than vaccinated kids.

Among those vaccinated, authorities recommend a booster shot for older children and teens to guard against the vaccine wearing off.

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Dave McClure Isn?t Worried About The ?Series A Crunch?

In recent months, there's been some hand-wringing about a "Series A Crunch" ? namely, a glut of startups raising seed and angel funding, then struggling once they need to raise a proper Series A. But in a recent interview, 500 Startups founder Dave McClure said the complaints are misguided.

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Exit poll shows SC voters made up their minds late (AP)

South Carolina's late-deciding voters pushed Newt Gingrich to victory, according to exit polls in the state. The former House speaker's strong performances in the debates leading up to the contest plus a conservative-leaning electorate led to a sizable win for Gingrich.

LATE DECIDERS: A majority of South Carolina Republican voters said they decided on a candidate in the last few days, and they favored Gingrich by a 22-point margin. Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney were about even for second among this group.

BROADLY CONSERVATIVE: About 7 in 10 voters in South Carolina said they tilt conservative on most political matters, according to exit polls. That group broke 45 percent for Gingrich to 24 percent for Romney and 19 percent for Santorum. Moderate and liberal voters split between Romney and Gingrich.

RELIGIOUS VOTERS: Almost two-thirds of voters in South Carolina said they are born again or evangelical Christians, and 26 percent said it was deeply important that a candidate share their religious views. Voters in both groups preferred Gingrich to Romney by wide margins.

SEEKING A WINNER: Forty-five percent of voters said the most important trait they sought in a candidate was the ability to beat President Barack Obama in November, and a majority of these voters backed Gingrich. That's a reversal from New Hampshire and Iowa, where voters prioritizing electability backed Romney. Just 38 percent said they would support Romney enthusiastically should he win the nomination.

READING THE RESUME: Two-thirds of South Carolina voters said they had a positive impression of Romney's background investing in and restructuring companies, and Romney held a slim, 40 to 36 percent edge over Gingrich among those voters. However, he carried just 3 percent of the vote among those with a negative view of his time as a venture capitalist.

FACING ECONOMIC CHALLENGES: The share of South Carolina GOP voters who said they are falling behind financially has nearly doubled since 2008, and economic worries are pervasive. Almost 8 in 10 voters said they were very worried about the future of the nation's economy, and 31 percent said someone in their household had lost a job since the start of Obama's term. These voters and those who called the economy their top issue tilted toward Gingrich.

RATING THE GOVERNOR: Two-thirds of South Carolina voters said they approved of Gov. Nikki Haley, who endorsed Romney and campaigned with him throughout the state. Her popularity failed to help Romney, however, as those who approve of her performance in office voted 42 percent for Gingrich to 30 percent for Romney.

These results are from an exit poll conducted for AP and the television networks by Edison Research as voters left their polling places at 35 randomly selected sites in South Carolina. The survey involved interviews with 2,381 Republican primary voters and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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Grass Flip Flops Make Every Day a Walk In the Park [Shoes]

Krispy Kreme (of all companies) created a similar kind of sandal as part of a promotion a few years ago, but Kusa's grass flip flops have two distinct differences. They're made with artificial turf, and you can actually buy them. More »

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After protest, Congress puts off movie piracy bill (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Caving to a massive campaign by Internet services and their millions of users, Congress indefinitely postponed legislation Friday to stop online piracy of movies and music costing U.S. companies billions of dollars every year. Critics said the bills would result in censorship and stifle Internet innovation.

The demise, at least for the time being, of the anti-piracy bills was a clear victory for Silicon Valley over Hollywood, which has campaigned for a tougher response to online piracy. The legislation also would cover the counterfeiting of drugs and car parts.

Congress' qualms underscored how Internet users can use their collective might to block those who want to change the system.

The battle over the future of the Internet also played out on a different front Thursday when a loose affiliation of hackers known as "Anonymous" shut down Justice Department websites for several hours and hacked the site of the Motion Picture Association of America after federal officials issued an indictment against Megaupload.com, one of the world's biggest file-sharing sites.

The site of the Hong Kong-based company was shut down, and the founder and three employees were arrested in New Zealand on U.S. accusations that they facilitated millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content, costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue. New Zealand police raided homes and businesses linked to the founder, Kim Dotcom, on Friday and seized guns, millions of dollars and nearly $5 million in luxury cars, officials there said.

In the U.S., momentum against the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act and the House's Stop Online Piracy Act, known popularly as PIPA and SOPA, grew quickly on Wednesday when the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and other Web giants staged a one-day blackout and Google organized a petition drive that attracted more than 7 million participants.

That day alone, at least six senators who had co-sponsored the Senate legislation reversed their positions. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in statements at the time and again on Friday, stressed that more consensus-building was needed before the legislation would be ready for a vote.

On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he was postponing a test vote set for Tuesday "in light of recent events." House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, followed suit, saying consideration of a similar House bill would be postponed "until there is wider agreement on a solution."

With opposition mounting, it was unlikely that Reid would have received the 60 votes needed to advance the legislation to the Senate floor.

The two bills would allow the Justice Department, and copyright holders, to seek court orders against foreign websites accused of copyright infringement. The legislation would bar online advertising networks and payment facilitators such as credit card companies from doing business with an alleged violator. They also would forbid search engines from linking to such sites.

The chief Senate sponsor, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., cited estimates that copyright piracy costs the American economy more than $50 billion annually and that global sales of counterfeit goods via the Internet reached $135 billion in 2010. He and Smith insist that their bills target only foreign criminals and that there is nothing in them to require websites, Internet service providers, search engines or others to monitor their networks.

That didn't satisfy critics who said the legislation could force Internet companies to pre-screen user comments or videos, burden new and smaller websites with huge litigation costs and impede new investments.

The White House, while not taking a specific stand on the bills, last week said it would "not support any legislation that reduces freedom of expression ... or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet." On Friday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said online piracy is an issue that has to be addressed, "but everybody has to be in on it for it to work and get through Congress."

The scuttling, for now, of PIPA and SOPA frustrates what might have been one of the few opportunities to move significant legislation in an election year where the two parties have little motivation to cooperate.

Until recently "you would have thought this bill was teed up," with backing from key Senate leaders and support from powerful interest groups, said Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., who cosponsored the original bill but quickly dropped his backing on the grounds the bill could undermine innovation and Internet freedom.

Moran said the "uprising" of so many people with similar concerns was a "major turnaround, and in my experience it is something that has happened very rarely."

Moran said PIPA and SOPA now have "such a black eye" that it will be difficult to amend them. Reid, however, said that there had been progress in recent talks among the various stakeholders and "there is no reason that the legitimate issues raised by many about this bill cannot be resolved."

Jeff Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, a consumer protection and privacy advocacy group, said Google and Facebook and their supporters "have delivered a powerful blow to the Hollywood lobby." He predicted a compromise that doesn't include what many see as overreaching provisions in the current legislation.

"It's been framed as an Internet freedom issue, but at the end of the day it will be decided on the narrow interests of the old and new media companies," he said. The big questions involve who should or shouldn't pay ? or be paid ? for Internet content.

Leahy said he respected Reid's decision to postpone the vote but lamented the Senate's unwillingness to debate his bill.

"The day will come when the senators who forced this move will look back and realize they made a knee-jerk reaction to a monumental problem," Leahy said. Criminals in China, Russia and other countries "who do nothing but peddle in counterfeit products and stolen American content are smugly watching how the United States Senate decided" it was not worth taking up the bill, he said.

In the House, Smith said he had "heard from the critics" and resolved that it was "clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products." Smith had planned on holding further committee votes on his bill next month.

The bill's opponents were relieved it was put on hold.

Markham Erickson, executive director of NetCoalition, commended Congress for "recognizing the serious collateral damage this bill could inflict on the Internet."

The group represents Internet and technology companies including Google, Yahoo and Amazon.com. Erickson said they would work with Congress "to address the problem of piracy without compromising innovation and free expression."

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who has joined Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Moran in proposing an alternative anti-piracy bill, credited opponents with forcing lawmakers "to back away from an effort to ram through controversial legislation."

But the CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, former Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, warned, "As a consequence of failing to act, there will continue to be a safe haven for foreign thieves." The MPAA, which represents such companies as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., is a leading advocate for the anti-piracy legislation.

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Here's exactly how much you'll save doing laundry in cold water

The numbers are clear: if you wash on hot, you?re dumping water and money down the drain.

I base this on the numbers calculated by Mr. Electricity on the cost of washing machines, using a set of rather rigorous data.

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If you wash on hot and rinse on warm, you?re going to use an average of 4.5 kWh per load, which at a cost of $0.15 per kWh will cost you $0.68.

On the other hand, if you wash on cold and rinse on cold, you?re going to use an average of 0.3 kWh per load, which at a cost of $0.15 per kWh will cost you $0.04.

The numbers are clear: if you wash on hot, you?re dumping water down the drain.

Of course, there are a lot of counter-arguments for this.

The chief argument for using hot water is that hot water is the best route for getting your clothes as clean as possible. The high temperature of the water is most likely to kill bacteria and also to cause more movement of the water, causing more soiling and germs to be removed from the clothes.

However, hot water also does the most damage to clothes, causing them to shrink, wrinkle, and fade more than other temperatures. I would only use hot water if the clothes are seriously soiled for some reason. For example, I?ll use hot water for a load of cloth diapers or, in my own recent experience, towels that were used to clean up a bathroom in which a four year old girl attempted to flush most of a roll of toilet paper at once.

Most of the time, our clothes simply aren?t dirty enough to warrant the rough treatment that a hot water washing would give them.

What about warm water? It?s the middle of the road choice. I tend to use it on our children?s clothes, as they tend to accumulate food stains and warm water removes them well. I?ll also use it on any adult clothes that became sweaty or particularly soiled due to the day?s activities.

If you?re interested, washing your clothes on warm and rinsing on warm will cost you $0.53 per load, and washing your clothes on warm and rinsing on cold will cost you $0.29 per load.

Still, most of my clothes are washed in cold water. Most days, my non-workout clothes never get very dirty at all. They accumulate a bit of dried skin flakes (as everyone?s clothes do), but so does the carpet in a house and I don?t bathe the carpet in hot water to remove those flakes. Cold water easily removes such particulate matter and the soap leaves the clothes quite clean.

Another factor: cold water washing is also the gentlest choice for your clothes, extending their life. There?s less garment wear on a cold water washing as well as fewer wrinkles (meaning less ironing) and less shrinkage. All of these factors extend the life of your garments, meaning you don?t have to go clothes shopping as often, saving yourself even more money.

What about the rinse cycle? I can?t see a good reason to rinse your clothes in warm water. Your clothes are already clean at that point ? the rinse merely removes any excess soap that still happens to be in there. Using cold water instead of warm for the rinse cycle will save you $0.15 per load.

I advocate using cold/cold for washing and rinsing most non-soiled clothing. When clothing is moderately soiled (with sweat or food, for example), I?ll use warm/cold for a load. I use hot water only for things like cloth diapers or items that have come in extensive contact with bodily fluids.

Assuming that our household runs an average of one load a day, one warm load a week, and one hot load every three weeks (which is about our average), rinsing everything on cold, we would spend $34.06 in energy costs per year. On the other hand, if we ran our daily load with a hot wash and a warm rinse, we would spend $248.20 in energy costs per year. Running mostly cold washes with all cold rinses saves us $214 per year. That?s a savings worth writing home about.

This post is part of a yearlong series called ?365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited),? in which I?m revisiting the entries from my book ?365 Ways to Live Cheap,? which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere.?

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Daily Tip: How to setup a keyboard shortcut for a username, email address or well used phrase

Wondering how to save time and effort entering common information like your name, email address, or phone number? The good news is iOS 5 has a special feature called ?Shortcuts?

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Glencore executive in first key departure since IPO: report (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Glencore, the world's largest commodities trader, will lose Steven Blumgart, one of its most senior executives, in the first significant departure since the company went public last year, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Thursday.

Reuters could not immediately reach Glencore officials for comment outside regular business hours.

Blumgart, who is co-head of aluminum trading and a member of the 13-strong management panel that runs Glencore's day-to-day business, will leave within the year, the paper said on its website, quoting people familiar with the matter.

Gary Fegel, who until now has been co-head of aluminum, will take sole responsibility for the commodity, with Matthew Lucke and Andrew Caplan becoming deputies with responsibilities for aluminum and alumina, respectively, the paper added.

Aluminum prices fell towards $1,950 last month, their lowest since July 2010, as concerns that Europe's debt crisis could spiral out of control hit industrial metals, but production cutback news has helped give sentiment a boost since.

Glencore (GLEN.L), which floated shares at 530 pence last May, closed Wednesday up 2.5 percent around 406.41, or 23 percent off the IPO price.

(Writing by Clarence Fernandez; editing by Miral Fahmy)

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