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Republican Presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. meets with patrons at the Nodaway Diner during a campaign stop, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, in Greenfield, Iowa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Republican Presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. meets with patrons at the Nodaway Diner during a campaign stop, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, in Greenfield, Iowa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Republican Presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. meets with patrons at the Nodaway Diner during a campaign stop, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, in Greenfield, Iowa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Republican Presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. meets with patrons at the Nodaway Diner during a campaign stop, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, in Greenfield, Iowa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) ? Michele Bachmann's struggling presidential campaign saw her Iowa chairman defect Wednesday to rival Ron Paul's side, an embarrassing blow that came as some called for her to leave the race to free up her supporters for other candidates.
Hours after appearing with Bachmann at an event, state Sen. Kent Sorenson gave his endorsement to the Texas congressman at a Des Moines rally. Sorenson said he resigned from Bachmann's campaign to back Paul, whom he called the most conservative of the top-tier candidates.
Bachmann said Sorenson made the jump after "he was offered a large sum of money to go to work for the Paul campaign."
"Kent said to me yesterday that 'everyone sells out in Iowa, why shouldn't I,'" Bachmann said in a written statement. "Then he told me he would stay with our campaign. The Ron Paul campaign has to answer for its actions."
Paul campaign chairman Jesse Benton said the campaign was not paying Sorenson and that he was puzzled why Bachmann would make such a claim against an elected official popular with Iowa conservatives.
"We've always known Michele to be an honorable person. She should stop slandering an honorable Iowa state senator," Benton said.
Benton said Paul campaign officials had been begun speaking to Sorenson "in earnest" in the last few days, and that he had informed the campaign Wednesday he was ready to sign on.
Sorenson announced the switch during a Paul veterans rally in Des Moines. He didn't immediately return a phone call from The Associated Press to address Bachmann's charges that the move was financially based.
"The fact is, there is a clear top tier in the race for the Republican nomination for president, both here in Iowa and nationally. Ron Paul is easily the most conservative of this group," Sorenson said in a statement. "The truth is, it was an excruciatingly difficult decision for me to decide between supporting Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul at the beginning of this campaign."
Susan Geddes, a veteran operative in conservative GOP political circles who managed Sorenson's 2008 and 2010 legislative races, said Sorenson had told her several times, as recently as last month, that the Paul campaign had offered him money to leave Bachmann's campaign for the Texas congressman's.
Geddes said Sorenson had damaged his political future in Iowa by abandoning Bachmann's campaign less than a week before the caucuses.
"He just committed political suicide," she said.
Bachmann has been on a frantic 99-county push across Iowa in an effort to recover from the slide that followed her Iowa straw poll victory in August. Paul was a close second in that contest.
Earlier in the day, two influential pastors said they wanted either her or former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to drop out of the running to keep evangelical voters from splitting their support. Bachmann insisted she would see the Iowa caucus campaign through.
Sorenson, who has strong ties to Iowa's tea party, was one of Bachmann's earliest public supporters and joined her for an afternoon stop at a Pizza Ranch restaurant in Indianola. Standing by her side, he declined to speak to the crowd there, citing numbness from dental work.
All day, Bachmann bashed Paul as "dangerous" for having a hands-off foreign policy. It was part of a double-barreled attack on the two Texans in the race. She went after Gov. Rick Perry for "27 years as a political insider."
The aggressive tone underscored Bachmann's role as a chaser in the final week of campaigning. She has bet heavily on Iowa, where she was born.
Bachmann came hardest at Perry, who this week began a television ad lumping Bachmann with other Washington figures seeking the GOP nomination in his attempt to come off as the outsider in the race.
"Just because he's held office outside of Washington, D.C., does not mean he is not a political insider. It's what you do in your office that matters," she said outside a small-town cafe. "There aren't very many politicians who have spent more time paying off political donors than Gov. Rick Perry has."
Perry has served Texas as a legislator, agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor and governor.
Bachmann also said Perry has engaged in "crony capitalism" by helping donors with Texas government contracts or giving them political appointments. And she called Perry a double-dipper for collecting his gubernatorial salary and state pension at the same time.
Campaigning in Indianola on Wednesday, Perry scored what appeared to be a double hit of his own. Although he didn't name his targets, he took aim at lawmakers who sound off in Washington without much influence on policy ? a rap sometimes attached to Bachmann and Paul.
"Some campaigns are about their voting record, on bills that never make it to the president's desk. I'm campaigning on ideas that I've signed into law," Perry said.
As for Paul, Bachmann criticized him as misguided about foreign threats to U.S. interests.
"Ron Paul would be a dangerous president," Perry said. "He would have us ignore all of the warning signs of another brutal dictator who wants to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. I won't. He would wait until one of our cities is wiped off of the map until he reacted. I won't wait."
On Wednesday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told CNN that he would find it personally difficult to vote for Paul if the Texas congressman were to become the party's choice to go up against President Barack Obama next fall. Bachmann refused to go that far, dodging two direct questions about her willingness to back Paul later on.
"He won't win the nomination," she said.
At stop after stop, Bachmann cast herself as America's "Iron Lady," the nickname assigned to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Bachmann sits on the House Intelligence Committee, which she said gives her a firm grip on world affairs.
State Sen. Brad Zaun, who had been Bachmann's Iowa co-chairman, was named full chairman after Sorenson's resignation.
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Associated Press writers Tom Beaumont, Beth Fouhy and Philip Elliott in Iowa contributed to this report.
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Charlie Sheen. The Arab Spring. The arrival of Sun News Network. The CBC under attack and diving for cover. Don Cherry putting both feet in his big mouth. Don Cherry apologizing. Kevin O?Leary putting his foot in his big mouth. Kevin O?Leary apologizing. A federal election fought with vicious TV advertising.
It was a year of weird, of too much news, another year in which television-related stories became big, all-encompassing stories, and vice versa. We look to television first as it engages immediately with unfolding events, imploding societies and the constancy of change. And so this was a year when everything was a television story.
And the above is only the shorthand version of 2011 in the TV world. There?s more ? Toronto Mayor Rob Ford fleeing Mary Walsh from This Hour Has 22 Minutes and calling 911, the Kardashian marriage that was and then wasn?t. The Academy Awards hosted by youth-appeal actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway ? dull and duller. Eerie, frightening coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan followed by a nuclear disaster. A royal wedding. A royal visit. MTV?s series Skins demonized as ?porn? and advertisers pulling out. The miniseries The Kennedys demonized as ?character assassination? and the U.S. History Channel declining to air it. History Television, in Canada, then airing it, and it was just dull.
Let?s start with Charlie Sheen, the iconic figure of 2011. Remember this ? in January of 2010, the big story in the TV racket was Conan O?Brien?s bitter dispute with NBC and raucous departure from The Tonight Show. In January of this year, the story was Charlie Sheen and his increasingly outlandish behaviour, which led to a bitter dispute with CBS and bizarre departure from Two and Half Men.
Now consider the difference between the O?Brien mess and the Sheen meltdown. So much attention has been paid to Sheen; the world has shifted. This was the year that things got weirder than ever.
In January, when the TV critics met the U.S. network bosses for the mid-season powwow in Los Angeles, CBS boss Nina Tassler was asked about Sheen. ?We have a high level of concern. How could we not?? she said, adding, ?Charlie is a professional. He comes to work and he does his job extremely well.? And she ended her remarks by noting, ?The show is a hit.? Weeks later, the world was agog as Sheen disintegrated over and over on TV, railing against CBS, the producers of Two and a Half Men and anyone who suggested he sober up.
Meanwhile, one night on Fox News, Geraldo Rivera declared, ?Autocratic regimes give me the willies.? Then he shouted, ?Mubarak, get out.? And announced, ?That's my editorial.? The Arab Spring brought out the best and worst of TV news. Coverage was chaotic. Sometimes CNN anchors were talking on the phone to American tourists in Cairo who peered out the window and described what they saw. It was the footage of mass protests that mattered, though. No one who saw the multitudes in Cairo?s Tahrir Square or on the streets of Benghazi in Libya would be in doubt that change was happening. And Al-Jazeera, demonized in the United States after 9/11, provided the best, most informed coverage.
It took a while before the true horror of the situation in Japan became evident. And for a while, weirdness reigned. On CNBC, the financial news channel, host Larry Kudlow jawed about what it meant in business terms. A co-host said, ?The markets are taking this in stride.? Kudlow jabbered, ?The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that.? Later, he apologized. The TV footage from Japan was formidably disquieting.
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Abortion Practitioner in New Mexico to Retire on Friday
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Local prolife advocates in New Mexico have confirmed that abortion practitioner Bruce Ferguson is retiring on December 30 after doing abortions destroying the lives of women and unborn children for 30 years.
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DES MOINES, Iowa ? No more Mr. Nice Guy. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich lambasted two of his top GOP rivals on Tuesday, despite his claim that he's sticking to a positive campaign.
Gingrich said he couldn't vote for Ron Paul if he were to become the GOP nominee and called the Texas congressman's views "totally outside the mainstream of every decent American."
In the same interview on CNN, Gingrich also offered a testy rebuke to Mitt Romney, saying that if Romney wants to run a negative campaign attacking Gingrich he should at least be "man enough to own it."
The sharp comments come as the former House speaker has seen his support slip in Iowa amid a barrage of attack ads that have cast him as an ethically challenged Washington insider.
Scrambling to regain momentum, Gingrich and a political action committee supporting him each took the wraps off television spots that will run statewide in Iowa.
The PAC Winning the Future is composed of former Gingrich staffers. The ad, its first, includes a broadside at Romney, although the former Massachusetts governor is never named.
"The Republican establishment wants to pick our candidate," the ad says. "When a principled conservative took the lead, they outspent Newt Gingrich 20 to 1, attacking him with falsehoods. ... Don't let the liberal Republican establishment pick our candidate."
Gingrich has said he will disavow any independent political action committee that spends money on negative ads. His own spot, funded by his campaign coffers, focuses on jobs and economic growth.
The former Georgia congressman launched a 22-stop "Jobs and Prosperity" bus tour, which kicked off Tuesday in Dubuque, in the northeast corner of Iowa. But he found himself on the defensive again on health care as a new memo surfaces that showed he had once praised the law enacted in Massachusetts when Romney was governor.
In an April 2006 memo from Gingrich's Atlanta-based Center for Health Transformation, he called it "the most exciting development of the past few weeks." He also said the law had "tremendous potential to effect major change in the American health system."
The memo also noted shortcomings in the Massachusetts law. Gingrich said the state's many regulations prohibited insurers from offering cheaper plans that would make coverage affordable. But he went on to note that that "we agree entirely with Gov. Romney and Massachusetts legislators that our goal should be 100 percent insurance coverage for all Americans."
Gingrich and others have argued that the Massachusetts law, widely seen as the model for President Barack Obama's national health overhaul, undercuts Romney's conservative credentials. Gingrich also has faced questions about his past support for an individual health care mandate, anathema to conservatives.
A Gingrich spokesman said Gingrich's comments are "old news that has been covered already."
"Newt previously supported a mandate for health insurance and changed his mind after seeing its effects," said the spokesman, R.C. Hammond. "The real question is why `Mitt the Massachusetts Moderate' won't admit that health insurance mandates don't work."
The Gingrich memo was first reported Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal.
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BAGHDAD?? The political party loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Monday for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and new elections in another move that could escalate the country's growing sectarian crisis.
The anti-American Sadrist bloc is a partner in the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Bahaa al-Aaraji, the head of the Sadrists' bloc in parliament, said the elections are needed because of instability in the country and problems that threaten Iraq's sovereignty.
"The political partners cannot find solutions for the problems that threaten to divide Iraq," he said.
Iraq plunged into a new sectarian crisis last week, just days after the last American troops withdrew at the end of a nearly nine-year war.
The new political crisis has been accompanied by a new wave of attacks on the Iraqi capital by suspected Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaida. A suicide bomber set off a car bomb Monday at a checkpoint leading to the Interior Ministry, killing seven people and injuring 32, officials said. Police and hospital officials said the bomber struck during morning rush hour, hitting one of many security barriers set up around the ministry's building.
Al-Maliki is in a political showdown with the country's top Sunni political figure, Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, after the government issued an arrest warrant for al-Hashemi on allegations his bodyguards ran hit squads targeting government officials.
The prime minister threatened to form a government without al-Hashemi's Sunni-backed political party, Iraqiya, which is boycotting parliament and mulling whether to pull out of the ruling coalition.
Iraq was dominated by the minority Sunnis under Saddam Hussein until the U.S.-led war that began in 2003 ousted him. Majority Shiites have dominated the government ever since, though Americans pushed hard for the inclusion of Sunnis with a meaningful role in the current governing coalition.
Bitter sectarian rivalries played out in 2006-2007 in violence that took Iraq to the brink of civil war and the latest tensions have raised fears of a resurgence of Shiite-Sunni violence.
The political crisis taps into resentments that are still raw despite years of efforts to overcome them. The Sunnis fear the Shiite majority is squeezing them out of their already limited political role. Shiites suspect Sunnis of links to militants and of plotting to topple the Shiite leadership.
The Sadrists have played an important role in maintaining Shiite domination over government ? their support last year catapulted al-Maliki back to the prime minister's office for a second term.
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For the proposal to dissolve parliament to gain traction, it would take the consent of at least 1/3 of parliament, the president and the prime minister or a simple majority of lawmakers. Al-Maliki, who only secured his position after nearly nine months of political wrangling after the last elections, would likely be loathe to go through the process again and risk an unfavorable outcome.
Al-Aaraji said the proposal first needs approval of the larger coalition between the Sadrists and al-Maliki's alliance, the two most powerful Shiite parties.
A Shiite lawmaker loyal to al-Maliki, Kamal al-Saiedi, said the proposal should be studied.
"Forming the current government was not an easy issue, therefore going back in the direction of new elections would be more difficult," he said.
A Sunni lawmaker with Iraqiya, the Sunni-backed bloc of the wanted vice president, said new elections would not bring security and stability. He pointed to the prolonged negotiations that were needed to agree on the government in place now, and said a new election would only bring the same people to office.
"We need to sit around the same negotiating table and that is the only path to salvation from this current crisis," said Kamil al-Dulaimi.
Also Monday, a roadside bomb hit a passing army patrol in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and injuring two, a police officer and a doctor said.
Al-Maliki's adviser for National Reconciliation Amer al-Khuzaie, said leaders of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, one of the top Shiite militant groups, had decided to lay down their weapons and join the political system.
Asaib Ahl al-Haq, or Band of the People of Righteousness, was a splinter group from the Mahdi Army, also headed by al-Sadr. They, along with the Mahdi Army, were two of three Shiite militant groups active in Iraq that were dedicated to fighting the U.S. military presence.
Al-Khuzaie said the group had signed an agreement in recent days renouncing violence. He said they would change their name and join the political process. He said he had been negotiating for months with the group, who said they would join the political process after the U.S. military left Iraq. All American troops departed on Dec. 18.
Officials from the group were not available to confirm the decision.
U.S. officials have warned that these Shiite militant groups could turn against the Iraqi government after the American military has gone. A key test to whether Asaib Ahl al-Haq, an Iranian-funded group, is committed to becoming a peaceful part of the political process is whether they actually turn in their weapons, especially the more powerful and sophisticated weapons they're believed to get from Iran.
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Associated Press writers Mazin Yahya, Sinan Salaheddin and Qassim Abdul-Zahra contributed to this report.
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Sony has revealed all of the PS Vita's launch titles for when it hits Canada and the U.S. on February 22nd.
The games will cost $10 to $50 although the company has not put specific price tags on each game, yet. PSN downloads are expected to be on the lower range, while games like uncharted are expected to be the very high end.
Sony's own titles include:
Escape Plan (PSN Only)
Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational
Hustle Kings (PSN Only)
Little Deviants
ModNation Racers: Road Trip
Super StarDust Delta (PSN Only)
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
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Titles from third-party developers:
Army Corps of Hell
Asphalt Injection
Ben 10 Galactic Racing
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
Dungeon Hunter Alliance
Dynasty Warriors Next
F1 2011
EA Sports FIFA Soccer
Lumines Electronic Symphony
Michael Jackson: The Experience
Plants vs. Zombies (PSN Only)
Rayman Origins
Shinobido 2: Revenge of Zen
Tales of Space: Mutant Blobs (PSN Only)
Touch My Katamari
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition
Additionally, the company has revealed their "release window" games, which will likely be available for the handheld console within 6 months:
Gravity Rush
MLB 12 The Show
Reality Fighters
Unit 13
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention
Ninja Gaiden Plus
Ridge Racer
Silen Hill Book of Memories
Supremacy MM: Unrestricted
Finally, the company has officially confirmed the prices of its memory cards. The memory cards are required to save games or use PSN downloads:
4 GB Memory Card $19.99
8 GB Memory Card $29.99
16 GB Memory Card $59.99
32 GB Memory Card $99.99
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Rico Ferro, 88 of Marco Island died, December 24, 2011. He served in the US Army during WWII, and was a barber shop owner in New York City for many years. He is survived by his wife Angelina of Marco Island, a son Thomas (Susanne) Ferro of Cary, NC, a daughter Susan ( Peter) Novick of San Diego, CA, and four grandchildren, Erika and Kathryn Ferro, and David and Jonathon Novick. Memorial services will be held Monday, December 26 at 11:00 am at Fuller Funeral Home, 4735 Tamiami Trail East. Memorial Donations may be made toThe St. Jude League 205 West Monroe Chicago, Illinois 60606.stjudeleague@claretians.org.
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CHISINAU, Moldova ? Yevgheny Shevchuk, a 43-year-old businessman and politician, has been elected the new president of the breakaway Moldovan region of Trans-Dniester, the separatists' official news agency reported Monday.
Olvia-Pres quotes election officials Monday as announcing that Shevchuk won 73.9 percent of votes to defeat Anatoly Kaminski, the candidate preferred by Russia, in Sunday's runoff.
Trans-Dniester broke away from Moldova in 1990 and fought a war with Moldovan forces in 1992 that left 1,500 people dead. The region, which is populated mainly by Ukrainians and Russians, is not recognized internationally, but has its own legal and administrative system.
Moscow has traditionally wielded significant influence there, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent Kaminski a letter of support prior to the runoff. Analysts have said it is too early to predict whether Russia would lose influence in the region.
However, Shevchuk is thought to have a more conciliatory stance toward Moldova and the government in Chisinau than his predecessor Igor Smirnov, who led Trans-Dniester for 20 years. Smirnov came in third in the first round vote Dec. 11.
Shevchuk has shares in Sheriff, a company which has interests in the food, medicine, construction and petrol sectors.
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Here are a few for curating Timeline:
n Start with your older posts. You were probably experimenting with Facebook then, and most of those could go into hiding. Plus, those are the ones you?d need to be most careful about because you had reason to believe only a few friends would see them.
n Find the button for Activity Log. Click that to see all of your posts at a glance and make changes to them one by one. Open Facebook in a new browser tab first, though. Every time you switch between the log and the timeline stream, Facebook resets to a default view rather than let you return to where you were. So have one tab for the log and the other for the stream.
n Think carefully about what you want to highlight when people scroll through your past. Facebook has a secret formula for determining which items are included in your highlights, using such factors as how many friends commented on a post. That may not necessarily be what you want to showcase.
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December 15 - 2011 4:56 PM
Seventh in a series
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Orange County foodies, this app is for you. Click and roll to find that next favorite restaurant ? based on location, type and budget. The map or list interface below quickly reveals just where and what is ready to satisfy those buds. For example: a search for a vegan, decently ($$) priced meal, in Newport Beach showed me the True Food Kitchen in Fashion Island. Users who dare can also use Urbanspoon's Spin feature for some random options. Plum's Cafe in Costa Mesa? Sure, why not ? thanks Spin feature! Available restaurant information, pics and reviews also come in handy in impressing significant others. ?
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Often forgotten during the Mel Gibson-Oksana Grigorieva drama of recent years was the fact that he and wife Robyn were married, albeit separated, the whole time.
No longer.
Mel's net worth of $850 million will be divided evenly between the pair, who were married for 28 years, according to those familiar with their divorce settlement.
The dissolution of their marriage was finalized late last week. Robyn filed for divorced in April 2009, but she and Mel, who have seven children, remain close.
Gibson split with Robyn after announcing he was having a baby with Oksana Grigorieva. Gibson's baby Lucia with Oksana was born October 30, 2009.
That couple split a short time later as documented in the now-infamous Mel Gibson rants. Gibson has since worked out a custody deal with Oksana.
Robyn has asked that her maiden name of Moore be legally restored, but there is clearly much more than restoring her good name involved here.
Believed to be by far the largest divorce settlement in Hollywood history, the actor's payout to Robyn dwarfs others in the nine-figure range even.
Challenge extended, Vanessa Bryant.
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BEIJING (Reuters) ? A rich Chinese couple who had eight babies with the help of two surrogate mothers has been forced to move out of their villa following a public uproar, and could face a large fine for breaching strict family planning laws mandating only one child.
The couple in the booming southern metropolis of Guangzhou had the children last year, but the story only came to light after media discovered a picture of the babies -- four boys and four girls -- taken by a photography studio.
The couple turned to in vitro fertilization after years of trying to have children and spent nearly one million yuan ($157,800) on the procedure, state television CCTV reported this week.
The mother had three of the children herself, and the other five with two surrogates, though the couple had not intended to have so many.
After the babies were born last September and October, the couple hired eleven people, including eight baby sitters and a teacher, to take care of them, state television cited neighbors as saying.
The provincial government has set up a team to investigate the case, media added, especially as most people in China are only allowed to have one child.
"Why did they have to hire so many people to have babies for them? Did they think they had the right to bear children just because they were rich? This was their first mistake," Liao Xinbo, Guangdong's deputy health chief, told CCTV.
"Secondly, what respect to life did they show? Multiple pregnancies are super risky."
A family-planning official added that the couple may face a big fine for breaching the one-child policy.
However, some Chinese media have suggested that the couple may not have done the procedures in China, and that the children could have been born in Hong Kong, in which case they would escape punishment in the mainland.
The issue has triggered heated debate on China's Twitter-like microblogs.
"I don't understand why such law-breakers can still be left alone. Because they are rich, they can have as many babies as they like? That would create chaos!" wrote "Lingning" on Sina's Weibo.
"The case shows the worsening wealth gap in China. The rich, with their money in hand, are shattering social equality," added "A Late 2011."
However, some expressed a degree of sympathy and even envy.
"When I am rich enough, I will have two or three babies," wrote "Sha Guola."
China introduced its one-child policy in 1979 to limit births in the world's most populous nation. It has relaxed the rules somewhat in the past few years and some couples are now allowed to have a second child.
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Are you the type of gamer who enjoys playing retro games, especially the ones that you loved when you were younger? Well check out Mega Man X, which was just released for the iPhone and iPod Touch (sorry no iPad version yet.) I remember playing Mega Man X on the SNES console for hours and now you can do the same on your iPhone.
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David Caton owes me one. I interviewed the head of the Florida Family Association last week during his bigoted but successful crusade to get companies like Lowe's to pull ads from All-American Muslim, the Learning Channel reality show about a community of Muslim Americans. Before Caton hung up on me -- he gets angry when you question his complaint that the show presents Muslims in too positive a light and not as crazed radicals plotting to impose Islamic shari'a law from Maine to Monterey -- I corrected his pronunciation of imam, a Muslim cleric, from Eye-mam to the proper Ee-mawm. Later that day, I heard him say it properly on CNN.
But that's all he got right. I concern myself with Caton -- who also likes to hire small planes to haul banners over Orlando warning people that homosexuals visit Disney World -- only for two reasons. One is that a major corporation like Lowe's actually caved to the Evangelical's ugly Islamophobia. The other is that he got his 15 minutes of fame at about the same time that Christopher Hitchens died, on Dec. 15. Hitchens was best known as one of the "angry atheists" for his 2007 best seller God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and narrow-minded fundamentalists like Caton made his work a lot easier. So of course did extremist Muslims, as well as extremist Roman Catholics, Jews, Hindus and all the fanatics who ruin religion the way drunks ruin driving. Which is why Hitchens' attacks on faith, while brilliantly written, could also feel gratuitous. (See "Christopher Hitchens, RIP.")
So it's fitting, at least for the silent majority of Christians who aren't hatemongering zealots but who derive hope and humane inspiration from our beliefs, that Caton and Hitchens should both be in the news during the Christmas season. The holiday's anticommercialization critics are right to argue that Christians spend too much time on outdoor lights at the expense of the inner light kindled by the story of God's incarnation in a manger. I'm as guilty as anyone in that regard. But Caton and Hitchens at least give us Christians a convenient place to start. They prod us on the one hand to assess what isn't Christian -- like demonizing gays and Muslims -- and on the other hand to reaffirm why Christianity and religion itself are a positive and not always poisonous influence in the world.
The crux of the Florida Family Association's campaign is Caton's preposterous claim, as he told me, that "every Eye-mam in this country wants to put the U.S. under shari'a law." Every imam I know here in Miami rejects the idea. "Muslims are only 6 million out of 300 million in this country," one reminds me. "We rely on U.S. law to protect our rights as a minority." They're also a minority who wish Christians well at Christmas: the Koran reverently mentions Jesus and the Virgin Mary almost 60 times. (See "Do Shari'a Courts Have a Role in British Life?")
One way, then, that Christians can practice Jesus' teachings of love, tolerance and charity this yuletide is by resolving to reassure folks like Muslims that we're not like the Florida Family Association. That we're committed to the code of Christmas -- "Peace on earth to people of goodwill" -- trumpeted by the same angels we place atop the trees in our living rooms.
That's also one of the best ways to answer Hitchens as well as other angry atheists like Richard Dawkins and quite a few members of my own hypersecular profession. It's a fairly widely accepted maxim that atheist fundamentalists, as I call them, can be just as intolerant as religious fundamentalists. And the problem they share is that both take religion way too literally. Just as Christian fundamentalists insist on a literal reading of the Bible, angry atheists tend to insist that belief in God qualifies you as a raving creationist. (See "Why Christopher Hitchens Is Wrong About Billy Graham.")
Here's what they refuse to get: Yes, Christians believe that Jesus' nativity was a virgin birth and that he rose from the dead on Easter. But if you were to show most Christians incontrovertible scientific proof that those miracles didn't occur, they would shrug -- because their faith means more to them than that. Because in the end, what they have faith in is the redemptive power of the story. In Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, an agnostic says to his Catholic friend, "You can't seriously believe it all ... I mean about Christmas and the star and the three kings and the ox and the ass."
"Oh yes, I believe that. It's a lovely idea."
"But you can't believe things simply because they're a lovely idea."
"But I do. That's how I believe."
I'm willing to bet it's how most believers believe. Before Hitchens died at 62 from esophageal cancer, he made a point of declaring he was certain no heaven awaited him. But that swipe at the faithful always misses the point. Most of us don't believe in God because we think it's a ticket to heaven. Rather, our belief in God -- our belief in the living ideal of ourselves, which is something even atheists ponder -- instills in us a faith that in the end, light always defeats darkness (which is how people get through the wars and natural disasters I cover). That does make us open to the possibility of the hereafter -- but more important, it gives us purposeful inspiration to make the here and now better.
With all due respect to the memory of Christopher Hitchens, making the here and now better would be difficult without religion. But it's also hard enough without the un-Christian antics of people like David Caton. As Christmas ought to remind us.
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Published: Dec. 22, 2011 at 2:59 PM
LAGOS, Nigeria, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Royal Dutch Shell's Nigerian division said it shut down an offshore drilling platform because of a leak involving transfer of oil to a shipping tanker.
"The company can confirm it is responding to an oil leak at the 200,000 barrel-per-day capacity Bonga deepwater facility, approximately 120 kilometers off the Nigeria coast. The leak occurred Tuesday, Dec. 20, during a routine operation to transfer crude oil from Bonga's floating production, storage and off-loading vessel to a waiting oil tanker," the company said in a statement.
"An export line linking the FPSO to the tanker has been identified as the likely source," Shell said.
The Daily Vanguard in Nigeria reported Friday Shell stands to lose $21.47 million daily based on the current price of $107.38 for Brent oil.
Shell said it responded quickly as the leak was discovered and "early indications show that less than 40,000 barrels of oil have leaked in total."
Also on Friday, the Nation reported Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Co.'s Oil Spill Response Procedure and Emergency Response Team was called in to manage the spill.
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PACHUCA, Mexico ?? Three U.S. citizens traveling to spend the holidays with their relatives were among those killed in a spree of shooting attacks on buses in northern Mexico, authorities from both countries said Friday.
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A group of five gunmen attacked three buses in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz on Thursday, killing a total of seven passengers in what authorities said appeared to be a violent robbery spree.
The Americans killed were a mother and her two daughters who were returning to visit relatives in the region, known as the Huasteca, said an official in the neighboring state of Hidalgo, where the mother was born.
Hidalgo state regional assistant secretary Jorge Rocha identified the dead U.S. mother as Maria Sanchez Hernandez, 39, of Fort Worth, Texas, and the daughters as Karla, 19, and Cristina, 13. Rocha said all three held dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship. A 14-year-old Mexican nephew traveling with the three was also killed.
A U.S. Embassy official confirmed the women's nationalities, but could offer no information on their ages or hometowns. The official, who was not authorized to be quoted by name, said consular authorities were offering assistance to the victims' relatives.
Story: Mexico disbands entire police force in top port of VeracruzWhile funeral plans were unclear, Rocha said Sanchez Hernandez's mother wants her daughter to be buried in Mexico.
Three other Mexican citizens were killed in the Thursday attacks on the three buses.
The five gunmen who allegedly carried out the attacks were later killed by soldiers.
Earlier in their spree, the gunmen shot to death three people and killed a fourth with grenade in the nearby town of El Higo, Veracruz.
'Exercise caution'
On Thursday, the U.S. Consulate General in Matamoros, a Mexican border city north of where the attacks occurred, said in a statement that "several vehicles," including the buses, were attacked, but did not specify what the other vehicles were.
The consulate urged Americans to "exercise caution" when traveling in Veracruz, and "avoid intercity road travel at night."
While the specific area where the Thursday attacks occurred is not frequented by foreign travelers, other parts of the Huasteca ? a hilly, verdant area on the Gulf coast ? are popular among Mexican tourists and some foreigners.
Story: Mexico makes huge meth precursor chemicals seizureThe attack occurred near the border with the state of Tamaulipas, an area that has been the scene of bloody battles between the Zetas and Gulf drug cartels.
Meanwhile, the tortured bodies of 10 people were found in northern Veracruz, local media reported Friday, as attacks in the region intensify between the rival cartels.
In September, 35 bodies were dumped along a downtown highway in the Veracruz city of Boca del Rio.
More than 45,000 people have been killed in cartel-related violence since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Baseball
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Travis Enger |
The St. Cloud State University baseball team has received a number 11 ranking in the 2012 College Baseball Lineup Division II preseason national poll, which was released by this website that covers college baseball across the United States.
The Huskies were recognized by the pollsters for their 43-11 record from 2011, which included a first place finish at the 2011 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament and a number seed for the 2011 NCAA Division II Central Region tournament.
SCSU hosted NCAA regional play for the first time in 2011, and also set a team record for most victories in a season at 43.? The #11 ranking is one of SCSU's best-ever preseason rankings in a national poll for baseball.
Last year, the Huskies finished the year ranked #17 in the final College Baseball Lineup Division II poll and were ranked as high as #7 in the nation during the course of the season by the DII college baseball polls.
To check out the complete College Baseball Lineup poll, please click on the link listed below:
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To check out the review of SCSU baseball posted by College Baseball Lineup, please click on the link listed below:
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The Pentagon is kicking of a new initiative to monitor military emails in an attempt to detect insider threats.
Backed by DARPA, the project seeks to create "a suite of algorithms [capable of] detecting multiple types of insider threats by analyzing massive amounts of data - including email, text messages and file transfers - for unusual activity." ??
According to the Army Times, military officials hope to identify potential security threats like WikiLeaks suspect Pfc. Bradley Manning who allegedly downloaded thousands of classified documents, or Army major Nidal Hasan who stands accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in New Jersey. (Hasan was in contact with Islamic extremists overseas before the shooting).??
The project, officially dubbed the "Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales program," can best be described as "insider threat detection in which malevolent (or possibly inadvertent) actions by a trusted individual are detected against a background of everyday network activity."
It remains unclear whether the tracking will be limited to official government computers, or how many troops might be monitored during the development phase which could take up to two years.
It should be noted that US military intelligence believes insider threats are steadily increasing, with authorities identifying at least five instances of plots or attacks from troops who had become "radicalized."
?The Fort Hood attack was not an anomaly," Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., recently told a hearing about military insider threats. ??
"It was part of al-Qaeda's two-decade success at infiltrating the US military for terrorism, an effort that is increasing in scope and threat."
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The colorful paint jobs on airplanes have gone the way of free meals and pillows. ...
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Princess Kate, Duchess Catherine, Mrs. Prince Billy, the future Queen of England, call her what you will, I'd like to call her to my castle keep for a late night hearth warming if you know what I'm saying. Kate Middleton is clearly and most decidedly the hottest British Royal since somebody important invented the camera (oil paintings are just great big lies!).?
Kate Middleton hit the streets of London tonight for one of the myriad of charity events she attends to conduct her noble work, and flaunt her noble looks, and...man, do I want to make her my lady for a night. Row boat her down the Thames under cover of darknesst to my studio apartment castle where we would play some wickedly intense games of ?tag, dungeons included, until the sun rose on our nekkid debauchery and Kate was whisked back under cloak to her royal palatial confines, left with nothing but her own fond memories and the distinct smell of cocoa butter.
Dare to dream the regal dream. Enjoy.
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A new game emulator has landed in Apple?s app store, called iMAME, the emulator comes with a number of games, which include games like Circus, Side Track,and Hard Hat, and you can apparently load other games onto the emulator.
It is possible that Apple could pull the iMAME game emulator form the app store at any time as it has done with previous game emulators, and the app is available for free.
You can find out more details about the iMAME game emulator app over at iTunes, and it works with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch running iOS 4.3 or above.
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