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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Israeli police arrest 6 suspects in settler riot (AP)
JERUSALEM ? Israeli police say they have arrested six Jewish extremists wanted for their role in a riot at a military base earlier this month.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says police made the arrests overnight in several West Bank settlements and in Jerusalem. He said on Thursday those arrested are five adults and a minor.
Several dozen settlers and supporters entered the West Bank base on Dec. 13, attacked soldiers and vandalized military property. The riot appeared to be linked to rumors that the military was about to evacuate an unauthorized settlement outpost.
The attack was condemned by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said he had ordered police to take action against extremists among Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Is France's Armenian Genocide law merely a domestic ploy for votes?
The diplomatic repercussions of the vote in France to criminalize denying the Armenian Genocide have been substantial, but so are the domestic benefits.
Lawmakers in France's lower house last week voted to make it a crime to deny the Turkish Ottoman genocide of Armenians in 1915, citing human rights and the protection of memory. Violators will receive?a one-year jail sentence and a nearly $70,000 fine.?
Skip to next paragraphDiplomatic fallout has been severe, with Turkey withdrawing its ambassador to France amid an angry nationalist backlash. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said French massacres in colonial Algeria were themselves a genocide, and has since vowed ?retribution? for the French law that treats with an issue in Turkey that has never been resolved.
But France?s righteous ire about the Armenian genocide couldn?t mostly be about French politics, about currying favor with an estimated 500,000 Armenian heritage French ahead of a tight election, could it?
Consider some relevant data points: In 2001, just ahead of national elections, France officially recognized the Armenian genocide. In fall 2006, again just before the elections that brought President Nicolas Sarkozy into office, French politicians threatened to criminalize the denial of the genocide of Armenians with a five-year prison sentence. Now, just ahead of presidential elections this spring, President Sarkozy?s ruling party led the first-time law to criminalize denying the 1915 genocide. * Correction: The original text misstated when France officially recognized the Armenian genocide.
Never mind that the French foreign minister registered a dissenting opinion over the law, passed on Dec. 22, and that French historians have disagreed with legislating truth on an event less clear than the Holocaust of mid-20th century. Or that the law may well not pass the French Senate when it is debated next year. Or that the Armenian patriarch in Turkey said this week he?d rather the French let the issue be worked out in Turkey, where it remains an unresolved and contentious issue.
?The law is complicating the work of Turkish progressives who have been trying to get Turkish society to address what actually happened in their history. That?s the saddest part,? says Karim Emile Bitar, a senior fellow at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations in Paris. ?The most sensible intellectuals on the issue are being trampled in Turkey.?
Some 20 nations have passed resolutions condemning the Armenian genocide. But while individuals in some nations can be prosecuted for denying mass crimes against humanity or on anti-racial grounds, or for denying the Jewish Holocaust, France may be the first to criminalize the Armenian genocide.
The late Turkish writer and leading intellectual Hrant Dink, who did more than anyone to raise the issue of the massacre and deportations of anywhere from?700,000 to 1.5 million Armenians, said of the French proposed laws in 2006 that he?d rather dance up the Champs-?lys?es denying the genocide than see the law passed in France.
Documentation of the genocide, which took place during or under cover of World War I, is substantial. The historical consensus is that a genocide ? as defined by the United Nations as the ?intent to destroy in whole or in part? an ethnic or religious peoples ? happened. The US ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the time, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., was distraught at the scale of the inhumanity, and wrote prolifically about the details in cables and articles. Yet the carnage was ignored for years as an inconvenient truth or lost in the overall shock of World War I ? and earned the title of ?the forgotten genocide.?
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Tournament of THG Championship: Miley Cyrus vs. Demi Lovato!
Welcome to the Tournament of THG, where fans vote on the most popular star of 2011! The concept is simple: Pick your favorite of the two stars in each poll. Done.
The final round begins right here, right now, with two young stars having emerged from a field of 16 to be the last women standing: Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato!
Miles beat Robert Pattinson fairly handily in the semifinals, while Demi dusted Katy Party. Now they meet each other. Who will be THG's top star, Miley or Demi?
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
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New York Times sends email to millions by mistake (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Some 8 million people received emails from the New York Times on Thursday offering a special discount if they would reconsider their decision to cancel their subscriptions.
The trouble is, the offer was supposed to go to only about 300 people who had decided to stop taking home delivery of the newspaper -- it was erroneously sent by a New York Times employee to more than 8 million people on an email marketing list.
The debacle lit up social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, sparking concerns that hackers might have broken into the newspaper's computer network to send out spam.
A spokeswoman for the newspaper blamed human error, saying hackers were not involved and security was not at fault.
"An email was sent earlier today from The New York Times in error. This email should have been sent to a very small number of subscribers, but instead was sent to a vast distribution list made up of people who had previously provided their email address to The New York Times," the paper said in a statement.
The email offered a 50 percent reduced rate for 16 weeks on home delivery.
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(Reporting By Paul Thomasch in New York and Jim Finkle in Boston; Editing by Steve Orlofsky, Phil Berlowitz)
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Former area prep football coach ready for NFL start
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Posted on December 22, 2011 at 3:36 PM
Updated Thursday, Dec 22 at 3:56 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A local high school will have a rooting interest in Sunday Night Football this weekend.
From the sidelines at Marvin Ridge High School as the quarterbacks coac to starting NFL quarterback in just a few weeks, Josh McCown will lace 'em up for the Chicago Bears this weekend.
He was in Marvin Ridge head coach Scott Chadwick's office just a few weeks ago when his agent called and said the Bears wanted to sign him.
Chadwick says all of this couldn't have happened to a better man.
?The Saturday before our first game, we're scouting East Meck at a scrimmage and two days later, this guy had left and gone to the NFL to go to training camp.? But there we are and he's just walking around like a normal old guy and two days later, he's on an NFL practice field,? Chadwick said.
But that short training camp stint in August didn't last too long, and McCown returned to help mentor Chadwick's son, Tyler, who played quarterback this season for the Mavericks, who ended a strong playoff push at 10-2.
McCown last started in 2007.? He played a couple of seasons with the Panthers, only throwing six passes.
As for Sunday, he's ready to go against the Packers, but don't exactly say he's flying high.
?I don't want to get too excited and too amped up because, for me, , absolutely it's a cool story, and a cool moment.? Nut at the same time, I'm a competitor.? I want to win the game.?
McCown and the Bears play at Green Bay at 8:15 p.m. Sunday on NewsChannel 36.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Oil Spill Moves Toward Nigerian Coast
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Royal Dutch Shell confirmed that the deepwater spill occurred on Tuesday during what the company called a ?routine transfer? of crude from a floating storage device in the Bonga oil fields 75 miles offshore to a tanker; a leak in one of the transfer lines caused the spill. The company said that at most about 40,000 barrels had been lost, which would be less than one percent of the oil thought to have spurted from the well beneath the Deepwater Horizon during the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico spill in 2010. The company also said that 50 percent of the oil had already evaporated into the air or been dispersed by wave action. But Peter Idabor, the head of Nigeria?s National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, said the leakage could be three times as large as Shell contends and may be the country?s worst case of oil pollution in 10 years. ?This is potentially NFL jerseys supply a major incident that is likely to affect the environment and the people for a long time,? Mr. Idabor said. The spill also comes just days after Shell received final permission from the Obama administration to start drilling exploratory wells in the highly ecologically sensitive region of the Arctic, a fact not lost on American critics of the drilling. ?It is a reminder, also, that we have no business drilling for oil in the Arctic waters,? said Bob Deans of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a New York-based environmental advocacy group. ?Look at what this oil is doing in Nigeria, then imagine trying to clean it up in waters choked with ice eight months a year, with gale winds and 20-foot seas, in a place a five-day cruise by cutter from the nearest U.S. Coast Guard station, in Kodiak.? Shell has been blamed for many previous oil spills in the Nigerian Niger Delta, where a majority of the population lives in poverty atop some of the world?s richest reserves of oil and gas. A United Nations environmental assessment report released in August NFL jerseys said Shell?s operations were responsible for the contamination of farmlands and rivers in the Ogoni area of the Delta. Environmentalists say many oil spills go unreported, and they have accused the oil companies of deliberately underreporting those that do become public. John Amos, the president of SkyTruth, a nonprofit organization based in West Virginia that provides independent information on environmental catastrophes, said that his group?s analysis of photos and satellite images indicated that Shell?s estimate of the size of the spill off the coast of Nigeria on Tuesday was not far off. ?We believe the spill is consistent with the high end of their estimate,? Mr. Amos said. SkyTruth estimated the size of the slick at 350 square miles. Nigerian lawmakers said Thursday that if the Bonga spill did indeed occur during a routine loading, that would indicate a weakness in operational standards. ?The spill calls for a need to review the standards in the industry,? said Magnus Abbe, the chairman of the Senate committee on petroleum. Shell said late Thursday that remotely operated underwater vehicles had confirmed that the spill was caused by a leak in a ?flexible export line? that linked a tanker to a large floating storage container. David R. Williams, a Shell spokesman, said the company was investigating what caused the leak in the line feeding the tanker, as well as why the leak was not stopped jerseys cheap before so much oil had spilled. Shell has closed down the entire Bonga oil field, a site 75 miles off the coast of Nigeria that normally produces roughly 200,000 barrels of oil and gas a day. Tony Okonedo, a Shell spokesman in Nigeria, said satellite pictures had shown that the overall area covered by the sheen was less than a hundredth of a millimeter thick in most areas and that the company was deploying considerable resources to combat it. Among the tools Shell said it was using were five ships with dispersants, infrared equipment to locate areas in the slick where the sheen may be thicker and mapping of sensitive ecological areas on land and sea so booms could be placed strategically.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
India This Evening: Former Karnataka Chief Minister Bangarappa Dies
By WSJ Staff
Here is a roundup of news from Indian newspapers, news wires and websites on Monday, December 26, 2011. The Wall Street Journal has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Bangarappa dies: Former Karnataka Chief Minister Sarekoppa Bangarappa died early this morning at a private hospital in Bangalore following a brief illness, family sources said. (Source: NDTV)
Lok Sabha to begin discussion on Lokpal Bill on Tuesday: The Lok Sabha will begin discussion on the much talked about Lokpal Bill on Tuesday, even as Anna Hazare begins his three-day fast at the same time in Mumbai for a ?strong? Lokpal. (Source: The Economic Times)
Anna ?fit to fast,? huge crowds expected: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare left for Mumbai on Tuesday to undertake his 3-day fast.? ?I was not well for two days, but now I am fine and all fit to fast,? Anna said before leaving Ralegaon Siddhi for Mumbai. (Source: CNN-IBN)
Govt asks Anna to wait for outcome of Parliament debate: On the eve of Anna Hazare?s fast against ?weak? Lokpal Bill, government has asked him to wait for the outcome of Parliament?s debate on the legislation before launching his agitation. (Source: Hindustan Times)
IT department to monitor poll expenditure of candidates?: Unlike in the past, expenditure of candidates for the Manipur Assembly elections will be closely monitored by the IT department, officials said. (Source: NDTV)
BJP-JD(U) alliance talks for UP polls fail: The JD(U) has decided not to field any candidate as a mark of protest against the BJP after the party did not concede to the JD(U)?s demands for at least three dozen seats in the state. (Source: CNN-IBN)
Sania to lead Indian challenge in Fed Cup: Sania Mirza was named to spearhead the four-strong Indian challenge in next month?s Fed Cup, where the country will strive to get back to Group I in the Asia/Oceania zone. (Source: Zee News)
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Favorable forecasts are gift for most U.S. holiday travelers (Reuters)
CHICAGO (Reuters) ? Holiday travelers throughout most of the United States are getting the gift of good weather to help their travel plans this Christmas Eve.
On Sunday, Christmas Day, at least 99-percent of the country will not have any snowflakes in the air, AccuWeather reported.
"It doesn't get much quieter than this, this time of year," said Tom Kines, a meteorologist with AccuWeather.
But winter storm warnings in the southern Plains, rain and snow in Texas, and rain in the Pacific Northwest could snarl some travel plans in those areas.
Moderate to occasionally heavy snow will continue on Saturday to blanket parts of the southern Plains where winter storm warnings remain in effect, according to the National Weather Service.
The greatest accumulation is expected in far southeast New Mexico and areas west of Midland, Texas.
Along with the southern Plains, parts of Colorado, areas of the Northeast and the Great Lakes region will see a white Christmas with the snow that's already on the ground.
But most of the country will have no new snow on Sunday, with the exception of parts of the Northeast and Great Lakes region, which may see some snow showers. Rain is also expected in parts of the Southeast, reported AccuWeather.
"A large part of the country is going to be green or brown on Christmas Day," said Kines. "It stinks for Santa because he doesn't have the snow for his sleigh."
Kansas City, like most cities in the Midwest, is no exception. Temperatures there were forecast for 47 on Saturday and 48 on Sunday, under sunny skies.
SNOWLESS MINNEAPOLIS
While snowless Christmases are not that unusual in Kansas City, they are more so for Minneapolis. Last year a winter storm 12 days before Christmas dumped 17 inches of snow on the city and caused the roof of the Metrodome, the Minnesota Viking's football stadium, to collapse.
This year, Minneapolis has no snow and will have temperatures in the high 30s over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
According to AccuWeather, El Paso, Texas, and Chicago are tied for seasonal snowfall so far with a total of 1.7 inches.
In a typical December, Chicago sees 8.5 inches of snow. To date this December, Chicago has seen the lowest amount of snow since 2003, according to Victor Murphy with the National Weather Service.
Drought-weary Texans are welcoming the snow and rain there. The worst one-year drought in the state's history sparked devastating wildfires, killed as many as half a billion trees, and prompted the most serious urban water use restrictions ever.
Some of the most extreme water rationing will be lifted this weekend because of the rain. But Roland Ruiz, Vice President of the Edwards Aquifer Authority, which manages the underground reservoir, a main source of drinking water for millions of Texans, said the severe drought is still very much alive.
"Aquifer levels remain well below historic averages, and a return to severe restrictions is possible early in 2012," he said.
Texas needs 10 to 20 inches of rain in some areas just to return to normal levels for the year, and forecasters are not expecting anything close to that.
The National Weather Service's latest Seasonal Drought Outlook forecasts the drought to 'persist or intensify' across all but northeast Texas through March.
(Additional reporting by Jim Forsyth in Austin and Kevin Murphy in Kansas City; Editing by Jerry Norton)
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Tear gas fired at protesters in China seaside town (AP)
BEIJING ? Riot police in a southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas at protesters Friday on the fourth day of unrest over a planned power plant expansion, according to a demonstrator's account and TV footage.
A crowd of protesters were locked in a standoff with police near the entrance to a highway in the town of Haimen, demanding authorities release an unknown number of demonstrators, a man surnamed Lin told The Associated Press.
Police fired tear gas at the protesters, who were gathered quietly a few hundred yards (meters) from the highway entrance, Lin said.
"When they saw that more and more people had come to protest, they fired the tear gas to try to chase us away. At the same time, a big gust of wind blew toward us, so we all had to run," Lin said. "My tears ran continuously. Our eyes are all red."
This is the third time police have used tear gas to disperse protesters in Haimen this week.
"We have no weapons at all. All we are doing is standing here and protesting," Lin added.
Hong Kong's Cable TV showed footage of tear gas clouds being blown toward protesters, scattering the crowd of hundreds of people. Riot police with helmets and shields had formed a blockade at the entrance to the highway.
Police have detained five people for vandalism during the protests, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.
The protesters think an existing coal-fired power plant has contributed to what they say is a rise in cancer cases and heavy pollution in the seas, a serious problem for a town where fishing is a source of livelihood.
In response to the protests, the local government said Tuesday it would temporarily suspend the power plant project, Xinhua said.
But protesters say they have not heard directly from authorities on the matter. They were also angered by rumors that one or two young protesters had died in clashes with police, but Xinhua cited a local Communist Party official as saying that no deaths had occurred.
After three decades of laxly regulated industrialization, China is seeing a surge in protests over such environmental worries.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Meet Circa, The Stealthy ?News Experience? Startup From Ben Huh And SimpleGeo Founder Matt Galligan
As we heard in August, SimpleGeo founder Matt Galligan left the company to pursue other interests. SimpleGeo was then?bought by UrbanAirship in November, and fellow co-founder Joe Stump left the newly acquired startup to start his own venture, Sprintly. Galligan recently announced that he teamed up with Shervin Pishevar to launch their new organization 1% of Nothing, which is aimed at inspiring early-stage companies and entrepreneurs to donate 1% of their equity to a cause of their choice. And it looks like Galligan may have another startup up his sleeve?Circa. According to this AngelList posting, Galligan is teaming up with Cheezburger founder and CEO, Ben Huh, to launch Circa. Huh will take a non-operational role, but will be an advisor and on the board of directors. Details on what Circa is are unclear but it appears that the startup will be focusing on disrupting the news and content space. From the posting, We want to create the best news experience by optimizing for truths, encouraging diversity, and empowering the readers.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/iYSa-oCID1Q/
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Penn St AD: 'Deliberate, measured' coach search
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) ? Penn State may still be without a replacement for fired coach Joe Paterno by the time the Nittany Lions play in the TicketCity Bowl on Jan. 2
The six-person search committee is taking a "very deliberate and measured approach to the process in order to identify the coach that best fits the requirements of the position," acting athletic director Dave Joyner said Thursday in a written statement.
School president Rodney Erickson and Joyner had both said they hoped to have a new coach before No. 24 Penn State's bowl game.
But Thursday, Joyner said a new coach would be introduced "at the appropriate time," and the statement offered no specific timeline.
Erickson was out of town Thursday for the holidays. Spokesman Bill Mahon said Joyner was providing Erickson with regular updates.
"I think they have both emphasized the most important element here is to get the right coach, not speed up the timing of the search," Mahon said. "There is no update on possible timing."
Longtime defensive coordinator Tom Bradley has been running the program on an interim basis since school trustees fired Paterno on Nov. 9 in the aftermath of child sex abuse charges against retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
Paterno is not a target of an investigation into the Sandusky case by the state attorney general's office, though he was dismissed amid mounting criticism that school leaders should have done more to prevent alleged abuse. Sandusky, who has maintained his innocence, is awaiting trial.
Making a good hire, and soon, is generally seen as a critical step to secure the future of Penn State's storied football program. A couple of recruits have already revoked their verbal commitments to the school in the wake of the Sandusky scandal.
Erickson said earlier this month one of the top criteria in the coaching search is "how that person would fit into the value system of Penn State, which clearly has to be honesty, integrity and commitment to excellence in academics."
According to Joyner, the school "is continuing to talk with individuals that we're interested in and work through the interview process." He called it a "very important hire for Penn State."
Bradley and defensive line coach Larry Johnson are among those who have been interviewed.
Green Bay quarterbacks coach Tom Clements was scheduled to have a phone interview last week, USA Today has reported. At Packers practice Thursday, Clements declined comment on whether he was interested in the job and would not confirm if he had interviewed for it.
Nebraska's Bo Pelini also emerged this week on the seemingly endless rumored list of potential college-level prospects. Pelini after practice Tuesday called the reports irresponsible and untrue, and said he had not interviewed at Penn State.
As for the Nittany Lions, players have gone home for the holidays. They are scheduled to regroup Monday in Dallas to prepare for the bowl game against No. 20 Houston.
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Sports Writer Chris Jenkins in Green Bay, Wis., contributed to this report.
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Pushing racial buttons, a young firebrand stirs up South Africa
The ruling African National Congress party has suspended its youth league leader Julius Malema for hate speech, but his career is far from over.?
For a while, he strode South Africa like a colossus. He was Julius Malema, the ruling African National Congress?s Youth League leader, and if he didn?t like you, he?d tell you to ?jump.?
Skip to next paragraphBut last month, the ANC suspended Mr. Malema from the party for undermining party leadership and for denouncing the Botswanan government of President Ian Khama, in conflict with ANC policies. And Malema had been taken to the ANC?s disciplinary panel before. In May 2010, he was fined 10,000 South African rand (about $1,200) and forced to take anger-management classes after he criticized President Jacob Zuma. (Malema is currently still able to speak at ANC events until the ANC's internal appeal process ends, a fact of some horrified fascination for some South Africans, who thought that perhaps the suspension decision had closed the door on Malema.)
It is this very intemperance in public speaking that explains South Africa?s fascination with this not-so-young youth leader ? he is 30. How in the world, many South Africans wonder, did this young man make it into politics in the first place?
The short answer to that question is that Malema rose to prominence as the ANCYL?s leader. Together with the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the ANCYL endorsed Jacob Zuma to replace President Thabo Mbeki as head of the ANC. Having installed Zuma in power, Malema then set his eyes on changing ANC policy on everything from the ownership of farmland to the nationalization of mines, and anyone who disagreed with him was likely to be branded a traitor, or worse.
In April 2010, Malema kicked out a BBC journalist, Jonah Fisher, from a press conference at the ANC?s headquarters. After Malema had railed against rich, selfish people living in Johannesburg?s posh Sandton neighborhood, Mr. Fisher had pointed out that Malema himself lived in Sandton. Malema expelled Fisher, calling him a ?bloody agent.?
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Video: Gingrich starts to collapse
Holiday surprise for two parents with cancer
Just a few months ago the future seemed impossibly bleak for Elisa and Nathan Bond, young parents who had both been diagnosed with late stage cancers. But just this week the couple got the news that Elisa?s cancer had finally responded to therapy and disappeared.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
IDC: iPad maintains tablet dominance, HP's TouchPad fire sale burned brightly
While the Android tablets continue to roll in, Apple can still lay claim to the lion's share of the tablet market according to IDC's latest report. Its research suggests that the iPad holds onto 61.5 percent of the worldwide market share, down from 63.3 percent last quarter. Android devices in total also saw a slight contraction, down from 33.2 percent to 32.4 percent. This is partly explained by the HP TouchPad's final hurrah, which rocketed the ill-fated webOS tablet up to third place with a 5 percent of share of tablet sales and an estimated 903,354 devices sold. Samsung maintained its Honeycomb tablet crown, nabbing 5.6 percent of all tablet sales. The Korean manufacturer was closely tailed by Barnes and Noble's Nook Color with 4.5 percent and Asus, arriving at fifth place with a four percent share. Tablets in total sold less than the analysts had predicted, although growth has still exploded 264 percent compared to this time last year. Meanwhile, E-readers outperformed estimates, with 6.5 million E-readers sold in the third quarter, up 165.9 percent from last year. IDC expects some disruptive new tablets will spice up the fourth quarter results and you can take a look at its findings and predictions at the full press release below.
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US pleased with Russian shift on Syria (AP)
WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration says it's pleased that Russia has decided to support U.N. Security Council action aimed at halting violence in Syria, but it won't support Russia's proposed resolution unless changes are made.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday that Russia's surprise introduction of a Security Council resolution on Syria was an "important step" and a sign of growing unity on the importance of opposing Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime's brutal crackdown on reformers.
"It's clear from the steps that Russia took, that more and more of the international community is coming together as one, to say to Syria and to the Assad regime that we can no longer tolerate the kind of killings that are going on, the kind of abuse of human rights that have gone on in Syria and that Assad needs to step down," Panetta told a news conference in Ankara.
In Washington, the State Department called the Russian move "good news" but said the U.S. wouldn't vote for the resolution unless it distinguishes the actions of peaceful protesters from those of the government.
Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that "the Russians have recognized that the U.N. Security Council can't be silent any longer and that we've got to use that organization to make clear that the violence needs to end."
But she stressed the administration has concerns about the draft. "We wouldn't be prepared to accept it as written, particularly because it appears to create a sense of parity between these peaceful protesters and the action of the regime which has been extremely brutal and violent," she said.
The United Nations estimates that about 5,000 people have been killed in violence since protests against the Assad regime started nine months ago.
Despite the severity of the situation Russia, along with China, had opposed U.N. Security Council action on Syria.
But on Thursday, Russia surprised council members by introducing a draft resolution that "demands that all parties in Syria immediately stop any violence irrespective of where it comes from." The draft, however, does not mention sanctions, something that Western nations have been pushing.
Nuland said the U.S. wants to work with Russia, as well as with the Arab League, which has condemned the violence, to ensure that all concerns are addressed.
Despite the U.S. reservations, Nuland said the Russian move "begins a new process in New York that we very much welcome."
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Baldor reported from Ankara, Turkey.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
US set to try soldier over leaks, targets Assange
FILE - This is a Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 file photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as he talks during a news conference in central London. As the suspected source for the biggest leak of intelligence material in American history faces his first hearing Friday Dec. 15 ,2011, U.S. prosecutors have their eye on another prize: The man who disclosed the documents to the world. When WikiLeaks' spectacular disclosures of U.S. secrets exploded onto the scene last year, much of Washington's anger coalesced around Julian Assange, the silver-haired globe-trotting figure whose outspoken defiance of the Pentagon and the State Department riled politicians on both sides of the aisle. Pfc. Bradley Manning, long under lock and key, hasn't attracted the same level of ire. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
FILE - This is a Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 file photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as he talks during a news conference in central London. As the suspected source for the biggest leak of intelligence material in American history faces his first hearing Friday Dec. 15 ,2011, U.S. prosecutors have their eye on another prize: The man who disclosed the documents to the world. When WikiLeaks' spectacular disclosures of U.S. secrets exploded onto the scene last year, much of Washington's anger coalesced around Julian Assange, the silver-haired globe-trotting figure whose outspoken defiance of the Pentagon and the State Department riled politicians on both sides of the aisle. Pfc. Bradley Manning, long under lock and key, hasn't attracted the same level of ire. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
LONDON (AP) ? As the suspected source for the biggest intelligence leak in American history faces his first hearing Friday, U.S. prosecutors have their eye on another prize: the man who disclosed the documents to the world.
When WikiLeaks' spectacular disclosures of U.S. secrets exploded onto the scene last year, much of Washington's anger coalesced around Julian Assange, the silver-haired globe-trotting figure whose outspoken defiance of the Pentagon and the State Department riled politicians on both sides of the aisle. Pfc. Bradley Manning, long under lock and key, hasn't attracted the same level of ire.
The pair's fates have been intertwined, however, even if the Australian-born WikiLeaks chief says he didn't know the private's name until after news of his arrest emerged in June 2010. Manning's alleged disclosures put Assange at the epicenter of a diplomatic earthquake.
Assange in turn has worked energetically to drum up support for the imprisoned soldier ? all while emphasizing that the way his anti-secrecy site was set up meant he could not be sure if Manning was his source.
U.S. investigators have been scrutinizing links between the two as they explore the possibility of charging the Australian with serious crimes under U.S. law. A Virginia grand jury is studying evidence that might link Assange to Manning, but no action has yet been taken.
In chat logs recorded by Adrian Lamo, the hacker who turned Manning in, the 23-year-old private allegedly poured his heart out, laying bare his disillusionment with the military and his decision to ship mountains of classified material to Assange. In the logs ? which the military says are genuine ? Manning tells Lamo that he'd "developed a relationship with Assange" and hinted at instant messages swapped via a server maintained by the Germany-based Chaos Computer Club.
But even according to the logs, Manning and Assange do not seem to have learned very much about each other. "He won(')t work with you if you reveal too much about yourself," Manning is quoted as having said.
At least one media report suggested that prosecutors have struggled without success to flesh out the purported links between the pair. NBC News, citing unnamed military sources, said earlier this year that officials had turned up no evidence of direct contact between Assange and Manning.
In any case prosecutors face formidable obstacles. Experts say that a prosecution under the century-old Espionage Act would risk criminalizing practically any form of investigative journalism. A conspiracy charge, which some have floated as an alternative, would also be tough to prove.
"If Manning steals a bunch of information, and gives it to Julian Assange, I think that would be very difficult to show that that was a conspiracy," said Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute. Even if it turns out that Assange had, hypothetically, pushed Manning to divulge the documents, Wittes said it would still be hard to distinguish that from a traditional reporter trying to work a source.
"Is that any different in principle from the relationship between Deep Throat and Bob Woodward?" he asked, referring to the source behind the Watergate scandal and one of the reporters, Woodward, who broke the story.
Inquiries into Assange and WikiLeaks are ongoing. The grand jury has been investigating for more than year and could continue for months or even years longer. Witnesses have been called, though the identities of most are unknown.
A Manning supporter, David House, refused to testify when he was called in June, citing his right against self-incrimination. House said nearly all the questions posed to him centered on Manning. He said he was not asked about Assange.
There remains pressure to haul the computer hacker-turned-openness advocate before an American judge.
Both Democratic Vice President Joe Biden and Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich described Assange as an information-age terrorist, with Gingrich saying that Assange should be "treated as an enemy combatant." Others have been even more explicit, with pundits including former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin calling on American officials to hunt him down.
The bloodthirsty rhetoric may have receded since last year, but the otherwise deeply divided U.S. political establishment remains nearly unanimous in its hostility to Assange.
"At a time when the political parties are polarized, WikiLeaks succeeded in uniting them," said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists.
No matter what happens at Manning's court martial, Assange faces a host of other legal and financial problems.
His WikiLeaks website operation is running out of money and could close by next month. The British Supreme Court could rule on whether to extradite him to Sweden, where he is wanted on sex crimes allegations, as early as next week.
He has spent the last year fighting extraditon from a wealthy supporter's country estate in southeastern England, where he lives under virtual house arrest.
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Matthew Barakat in McLean, Virginia and Richard Lardner in Washington contributed to this report.
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Online:
WikiLeaks: http://wikileaks.org/
Bradley Manning supporters' website: http://www.bradleymanning.org/
Logs of the purported chat between Manning and Lamo: http://ow.ly/7YQMx
Raphael G. Satter can be reached at: http://twitter.com/razhael
(This version CORRECTS Corrects that Assange was a one-time computer hacker, but is no longer.)
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Olympus reveals $1 billion balance sheet hit (Reuters)
TOKYO (Reuters) ? Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp ironed out its crooked accounts on Wednesday after a 13-year fraud, with a $1.1 billion dent in its balance sheet triggering speculation it will need to merge, sell assets or raise capital to repair its finances.
The 92-year-old maker of cameras and medical equipment filed five years' worth of corrected statements, plus overdue first-half results, just hours before a Tokyo Stock Exchange deadline that could have seen it automatically delisted.
The most recent restatement, for end-June 2011, showed an 84 billion yen ($1.08 billion) reduction in net assets. Olympus added that as of end-September, its net assets were just 46 billion yen, down from a restated 225 billion yen in March 2007.
It also revealed a net loss of 32.33 billion yen for the six months to end-September, further fuelling talk the once-proud firm would need to move quickly to shore up its balance sheet or risk becoming prey to a takeover.
"Most probably Olympus has to increase capital. It's best for the company to merge with others rather than rebuild by itself," said Ryosuke Okazaki, chief investment officer at ITC Investment Partners.
Ousted CEO Michael Woodford, who blew the whistle on the loss cover-up and is campaigning to get his old job back, said that if reinstated, he would move fast to recapitalize Olympus.
But he said he favored private equity or a rights issue over a strategic alliance. Rights issues -- where existing shareholders are issued warrants to buy new stock -- are rare in Japan.
"You have to look at improving the capital structure of the company. Because of the litigation risk, you couldn't do that publicly, so you have (as) options a strategic alliance, private equity or a rights issue," Woodford told Reuters.
He said a strategic alliance would lose Olympus its independence, "which I think the employees most of all would not like."
Olympus President Shuichi Takayama has said he may sell assets or accept a capital tie-up to bolster the capital base.
Olympus has been dogged by rumors of bid interest from rivals, such as fellow endoscope makers Fujifilm and Hoya, or from private equity since it sacked its British chief executive and the scandal broke in October.
The stock, which has since lost about half its value to about $4.7 billion, closed down 4 percent on Wednesday.
RELIEVED, BUT NOT OUT OF THE WOODS
"The company might consider recapitalization because 46 billion yen is a very small amount of equity," said Nanako Imazu, an analyst at CLSA in Tokyo. "Any significant change in earnings to the downside or any significant change in the yen versus the dollar or the euro is a big risk."
Olympus' debt is about 14 times its equity, an extremely high ratio that compares to less than 1 for camera and office equipment maker Canon Inc.
Some investors were at least relieved that Olympus had met the deadline to fix its accounts, without sliding into technical insolvency at any stage in its restated accounts. Olympus also assured investors it was able to secure continued funding.
"This is extremely positive for Olympus as it can avoid getting delisted after meeting the deadline to submit its earnings," said ITC Investment Partners' Okazaki.
Other investors, though, remained wary, noting that the exchange could still delist Olympus if it deemed the past misrepresentations of its financial health were large enough.
"Although liabilities had not exceeded assets, it does not change the fact that they were window-dressing and, since the amount involved is so big and the period of time this was going on was so long, it's difficult to say what the Tokyo Stock Exchange will do," said Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management.
"I would not say that fear of delisting has disappeared."
The Tokyo exchange said after the announcements that it was keeping Olympus on its watchlist for possible delisting.
Some of the restated accounts also came with qualified opinions from auditors, with KPMG AZSA LLC noting it had been unable to confirm all the money flows involved in the fraud.
"We were unable to get sufficient and appropriate proof for auditing on specific assets and amounts," the auditor wrote.
'REALISTIC CHANCE'
Olympus triggered the crisis on October 14 when it sacked Woodford, who immediately went public with his doubts about murky past M&A deals. Woodford is now appealing to shareholders to support his comeback as part of a complete board renewal.
The board has committed to resigning over the scandal, but wants to choose its own successors before quitting, setting up the prospect of a proxy war between its own candidates and those being assembled by Woodford as part of his campaign.
"The shareholding balance is such that there is a realistic chance we could win a proxy fight," Woodford said earlier. But he added that such a battle would cause a split between foreign and Japanese shareholders and he hoped it could be avoided.
"I think it would be harmful because it would show potentially Japan institutional investors are a club," Woodford said about a possible proxy battle.
Three big foreign shareholders -- Southeastern Asset Management, Harris Associates and Baillie Gifford & Co -- have said they back Woodford's bid to be reinstated.
"It continues to be clear that management and the board must change as soon as possible," said Josh Shores, a London-based principal at U.S. fund manager Southeastern Asset Management, Olympus's largest foreign investor.
"Olympus needs a credible board with independent directors providing oversight of the clean-up and company revamp," he told Reuters. "The involvement of Mr. Woodford will be a strong sign that the fix will be done in a thorough and transparent manner positioning Olympus for a strong future."
But Japanese institutional investors appear worried about whether he can win over the company's employees as well as his plans to turn the firm around.
Woodford said he was willing to meet Takayama at any time, but added incumbent directors were too discredited to be in a position to choose their successors.
"The only purge Olympus needs is in the boardroom," Woodford said on a live Internet broadcast late on Wednesday as part of his effort to woo employees, investors and the public.
"The culture is a good one. We make wonderful products. We have strong people and the problem is isolated at the board. So change the board and the company can get behind the new management and start moving forward."
He told Reuters he would probably be the sole foreigner on his list of board candidates. If he lost a proxy fight for control of the company, he would likely abandon his efforts to change the company, he said.
A rare foreign CEO in Japan when he led Olympus, Woodford has sought to soothe concerns about his plans for the firm.
"I want no part in selling Olympus or breaking it up," he said, adding he would not close the struggling camera business.
"People say the 'gaijin' president would shut it," Woodford said, using the Japanese word for foreigner. "I wouldn't."
(Additional reporting by James Topham, Mari Saito, Chikafumi Hodo, Nathan Layne, Yoko Kubota and Isabel Reynolds in TOKYO and Sinead Cruise in LONDON; Writing by Mark Bendeich and Linda Sieg; Editing by Ian Geoghegan)
Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/japan/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111214/tc_nm/us_olympus
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Polar race rages on in the history books
On Dec. 14, 1911, a five-man Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen became the first explorers to reach the South Pole. Another five-man expedition reached the pole just 34 days later, this time a led by British Navy Captain Robert Falcon Scott.
But a century later, both teams still seem to be competing against one another.
While Amundsen's team traveled faultlessly back to their base on the edge of Antarctica and then on to civilization, Scott and his companions all died on their return from the pole. Today, both teams in the race to the Earth's southern extremity leave behind legacies that impact the modern understanding of the so-called heroic era of exploration, as well as the scientific understanding of the forbidding continent of Antarctica.
Initially, Scott was seen as a tragic hero, particularly in Britain and other English-speaking countries. Many observers outside Scandinavia regarded Amundsen ? who had secretly changed his destination from the North to the South Pole ? as a usurper who had unsportingly jumped in on Scott's long-planned mission.
Shifting reputations
Then in 1979, a book by Roland Huntford, a British journalist with long experience in Scandinavia, painted an entirely different picture. In "Scott and Amundsen," Huntford portrayed Scott as an incompetent martinet and Amundsen as a perfect team leader who serenely achieved results.
"Scott was the parade ground automaton waiting for orders, while Amundsen wanted to give each man independence and make him feel that he was worth something," Huntford said. "Amundsen made sure that his men never approached the outer limits of exhaustion; he had enough food and a large margin of safety. Scott took delight in exhausting himself, as the English idea was exhaustion and suffering."
"Huntford's book was the first to take a contrary view of Scott," said Heather Lane, keeper of collections at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England. "Possibly more influential in changing public perception was the BBC drama based on it."
Recently, views have begun to change again.
Some historians point to the two ventures' contrasting goals. While Amundsen sought only the pole, they say, Scott's expedition included several prominent scientists who carried out significant research in other parts of Antarctica as the five-man team undertook its polar journey.
"While Scott's objective was to get to the pole, he was completely committed to running a first-rate scientific expedition," said Edward Larson, university professor of history at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.
In addition, some meteorological studies have made Scott a more sympathetic leader, by suggesting that his party encountered unprecedentedly bad weather on their return from the pole.
"The work done by recent biographers and historians has enabled a far more balanced view of Scott's achievements to come to the fore," Lane said.
Fateful decisions
Amundsen's change of destination lies at the crux of the debate over the two men's reputations.
A fearless explorer who had led the first party to navigate the Northwest Passage above Canada's and Alaska's Arctic coast, Amundsen originally planned to sail from Norway on a route that would take him around the tip of South America and then north for an attempt on the then undiscovered North Pole.
But that target became moot in September 1909, when Amundsen learned of claims by two Americans, Robert Peary and Frederick Cook, that they had reached 90 degrees north. Today, most Arctic historians regard both claims as false.
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Burdened by debts incurred in furnishing his expedition, Amundsen decided that he needed a spectacular achievement to appeal to his creditors. He chose the South Pole ? but initially told only his close friends.
That represented a direct challenge to Scott, who, in 1909, had announced his intention to try for the pole. He was in Australia, en route to Antarctica, when learned of Amundsen's new target.
Scott had already led an Antarctic expedition early in the decade, while another British explorer, Ernest Shackleton, had led a party to within 100 miles of the South Pole in January 1909.
Amundsen and Scott relied on markedly different forms of transport.
"Amundsen's technique was the combination of skis and dogs," Huntford said. Indeed, his team included a champion cross-country skier.
Scott, meanwhile, opted for motor sledges, Shetland ponies, and just a few dogs. But the sledges malfunctioned and the ponies couldn't cope with the snowy surface. That left Scott's men with the slow and energy-sapping endeavor of hauling their own sleds. And they used skis only reluctantly.
In speed, that meant advantage Amundsen.
"Whereas Scott was following a track that Shackleton pioneered and mapped to within 100 miles of the pole, Amundsen was blazing a new trail over terra incognita. He was explorer and ski racer rolled into one," Huntford said.
Scott's critics note that for nine days in late March 1912, he and his two surviving companions stayed in their tent, during what Scott described as a blizzard, rather than marching toward a nearby food depot. That decision, they say, provides evidence of his poor organization.
But meteorological studies reported in 2001 by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist Susan Solomon suggested that a stretch of excessively cold weather beginning in late February, rather than poor planning, led to the polar party's deaths.
That assessment remains controversial, however. Among others, Polish physicist Krzysztof Sienicki has recently challenged that view.
Scott's strong science effort
Even supporters of Scott admit that Amundsen bested him at polar travel. However, Larson said, "Scott had attracted a very, very good team of scientists."
"Chief scientific officer Edward Wilson [who died with Scott] wrote: 'We want the scientific work to make the bagging of the Pole merely an item in the results,'" Lane said.
In his book "An Empire of Ice", Larson outlines the expedition's scientific achievements, from studying the movement of glaciers to mapping the continent's snow-free "dry valleys" and collecting Emperor penguins' eggs in the dark Antarctic midwinter.
"Scott's expedition came back with a wealth of fossil fish and plants and evidence of a plant that is the link to ancient flora," Larson said. "There's an enormous amount of research now on very small microorganisms in the Antarctic soil and lakes, based on a foundation of work on Scott's expedition,"
In addition, present-day scientists use the amounts of contaminants in the dead bodies of penguins left behind by the expedition as examples of the levels of atmospheric contaminants at a time and place unaffected by human activity. Other work laid the foundation for modern research on Antarctic microorganisms and historical temperatures.
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Peter Gwynne, a freelance science writer based on Cape Cod, Mass., reached the South Pole by air on Dec. 9, 1973. This report was originally published by the Inside Science News Service as "South Pole Explorers Still Inspire Controversy."
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45671628/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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