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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Grizzles rally from 20 down to beat Warriors 91-90

Memphis Grizzlies small forward Rudy Gay (22) celebrates in front of Golden State Warriors power forward David Lee (10) during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game in Oakland, Calif., Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. The Grizzlies won 91-90. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Memphis Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley (11) dribbles past Golden State Warriors power forward David Lee (10) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Oakland, Calif., Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. The Grizzlies won 91-90. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Memphis Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley (11) drives past Golden State Warriors power forward David Lee, rear, and power forward Ekpe Udoh (20) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Oakland, Calif., Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. The Grizzlies won 91-90. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Golden State Warriors shooting guard Monta Ellis (8) and shooting guard Brandon Rush (4) walk on the floor during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Memphis Grizzlies in Oakland, Calif., Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. The Grizzlies won 91-90. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry (30) walks on the floor during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Memphis Grizzlies in Oakland, Calif., Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. The Grizzlies won 91-90. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ? Rudy Gay scored 23 points, three in the final 23 seconds, and the surging Memphis Grizzlies rallied from 20 points down in the second half to beat the Golden State Warriors 91-90 on Monday night.

Mike Conley had 20 points and nine assists for the Grizzles, who extended their winning streak to seven games with one of the biggest comebacks in franchise history.

Memphis trailed 63-43 with 3:23 left in the third quarter, then pulled within 16 heading into the fourth. The first-place Grizzlies scored 39 points over the final 12 minutes to remain a half-game ahead of San Antonio in the Southwest Division.

Marc Gasol added 15 points and 11 rebounds while Tony Allen had 14 points and eight rebounds for the Grizzlies (10-6).

Monta Ellis had 20 points and five assists for Golden State, which was outscored 11-5 over the final 2:15.

The Grizzlies kicked off their four-game West Coast trip with a win despite getting outplayed for most of the night before breaking loose in the fourth quarter.

Allen had 10 points in the final period, Conley added nine and Marreesse Speights scored all eight of his points to help fuel the comeback.

Conley came up big on both ends of the court. He forced a pair of late turnovers, then scored the go-ahead basket on a driving layup after stealing a pass from Stephen Curry.

Gay, who finished 10 of 21 from the floor, then made a 17-foot fadeaway and later added an insurance free throw.

Golden State, which has dropped its last three, missed a flurry of 3-pointers in the waning moments but pulled within 89-87 on Brandon Rush's long jumper. After O.J. Mayo sank a pair of free throws for Memphis, Ellis made a 3 with 0.6 seconds left for the final margin.

Curry finished with 18 points in his second game back from an ankle injury. David Lee added 13 points and 12 rebounds, and Rush scored 10 off the bench.

Golden State built a 17-point lead with just more than 4 minutes left in the first half before Memphis closed to 42-33 on a pair of free throws by Gay with 9.4 seconds left.

Gay and Gasol both had 12 points apiece before halftime but Curry, who missed nearly three weeks with that recurring ankle injury, raced down the court and scored on a layup to make it 44-33 at the break.

The Warriors got a big boost from their bench in the second quarter.

Backup guard Nate Robinson had six assists and Klay Thompson added seven points while Ekpe Udoh and Dominic McGuire combined for seven points as part of a 10-2 run.

Memphis, which played only one team with a record above .500 during its winning streak, looked tired playing its third game in four days.

The Grizzlies missed 10 of their first 13 shots, committed 11 turnovers in the first half and allowed the hustling Warriors to dish out 14 assists before intermission.

Ellis kept Golden State rolling with a pair of quick buckets in the third quarter. Curry added a 19-foot jumper and Lee scored on a dunk to give the Warriors a 55-39 advantage.

Rush, who had a 3-pointer during Golden State's run early in the second, added another dunk later to push the lead to 63-43.

Memphis pulled within 85-84 when Allen stole a pass from Curry and scored on a short jumper with 1:49 remaining in the fourth quarter. The Grizzlies went ahead for good on Conley's layup.

Notes: Golden State's current six-game homestand is its longest of the shortened season. ... The home team had the won previous seven games in the series. ... The Warriors are 0-6 against teams from the Western Conference.

Associated Press

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Yahoo delivers another listless performance in 4Q

In this Jan. 4, 2012 photo, the Yahoo company logo is displayed at their headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yahoo Inc., reports quarterly financial earnings Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, after the market close.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Yahoo's latest financial results show the Internet company is still losing ground in the battle for online advertising.

The fourth-quarter breakdown announced Tuesday is the latest in a succession of ho-hum performances.

The company earned $296 million, or 24 cents per share, in the October-to-December period. That is down 5 percent from $312 million, or 24 cents per share, a year earlier. The earnings matched analysts' estimates.

Fourth-quarter revenue dropped 13 percent from the previous year to $1.32 billion.

After subtracting commissions, Yahoo's revenue totaled $1.17 billion. That was $20 million below analyst projections.

It's the 13th straight quarter that Yahoo's net revenue has declined from the prior year.

Yahoo Inc. recently hired former PayPal executive Scott Thompson as CEO in its latest attempt at a turnaround. Thompson is the fourth CEO in less than five years to try to snap Yahoo out of a financial funk that has depressed its stock.

Yahoo dipped 2 cent to $15.67 in extended trading after the report came out. The stock price has fallen by about 40 percent from its levels five years ago.

As the company ushers in Thompson, Yahoo isn't making any promises for a quick start under his leadership. Yahoo predicted its net revenue in the first quarter will range from $1.02 billion to $1.1 billion. The mid-point of that target works out to $1.06 billion, unchanged from last year's first quarter.

Yahoo's financial malaise comes as advertisers are shifting more of their budgets to the Internet as people spend more of their time on the Web. The biggest beneficiaries of this boom so far have been Internet search leader Google Inc. and Facebook, the owner of the largest online social network.

While Yahoo continued to struggle during the final three months of last year, Google's revenue rose 25 percent from the same period in 2010. As a privately held company, Facebook doesn't disclose its financial results, but data compiled by independent research firms show its website has been luring advertisers away from Yahoo.

Associated Press

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President Obama to answer questions via a live Google+ Hangout (Yahoo! News)

The president will use the group video chat tool to field questions on Monday, January 30

Just days after the White House?joined Google+, President Obama has announced that he'll be putting one of the social network's most unique features to good use. In Google+, members of the social network can participate in group video chats using the site's aptly named?Hangouts feature. As a follow-up to Tuesday's 2012?State of the Union address, Obama has invited users to submit questions on its official?YouTube page for the Hangout,?will take place on Monday, January 30.

As another video product under Google's wing, Hangouts tie in closely with YouTube. In a Hangout, up to ten users can chat seamlessly, including the user who convenes the Hangout ? in this case, Obama himself. Hangouts feature a few cool tricks, like the ability to automatically highlight the G+ user who is speaking at any given moment and slick integration with YouTube that lets all ten users simultaneously watch a video on YouTube, right in the chat window itself.

If you're interested in getting heard ? or being one of the nine attendees featured in the group video chat ? submit your best questions as we gear up for tomorrow's State of the Union address, which you can?watch live online, tomorrow at 9 p.m. Eastern.

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[Image credit:?U.S. Government]

This article originally appeared on Tecca

Monday, January 23, 2012

Rep. Dennis Kucinich: The Future of American Democracy (Huffington post)

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Reality-TV winner just might go into space

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Reality-TV impresario Simon Cowell poses for photos with fans as "Britain's Got Talent" kicks off its annual talent search Friday with an event at the Lyric Theatre in Manchester.

By Alan Boyle

More than a decade after the first effort to blend reality TV with real-world spaceflight,?talent-show impresario Simon Cowell says the winner of "Britain's Got Talent" could go into outer space on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane.

"I love the idea that if they are up for it they have the option of performing in space,"?Cowell told?Britain's Daily Star. The comment comes as Cowell is ramping up for a new season of the show that?inspired "America's Got Talent."

Cowell has already signed up for his own flight on SpaceShipTwo, which could start flying passengers beyond the 100-kilometer (62-mile) boundary of outer space on $200,000 suborbital rides as early as next year. The longtime record producer, who left an enduring mark on reality-TV history as the black-garbed, brutally frank judge on "American Idol," hinted that he's worked out a deal with British?billionaire Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic.

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"It's tens of millions of pounds, but Richard genuinely is up for doing it," Cowell told the Star. "I am being serious, I swear to God and on my mum?s life. Don?t worry about the details, we?ll make it happen."

If Cowell is to make it happen anytime soon, the winner would?most?probably have to travel to New Mexico to follow through on the flight plan. And it seems unlikely that going into space would be a requirement placed on the winner, whoever?he or she?turns out to be.

Producers have tried for years to put together a reality-TV show focusing on spaceflight. The highest-profile effort was "Survivor" executive producer Mark Burnett's plans?in 2000?for a?show that would follow contestants through?the training routine for spaceflight. The winner would have?been sent?to?Russia's Mir space station ? but that concept fizzled out even before Mir was deorbited in 2001.

Other proposed entertainment?projects have revolved around?pop singer Lance Bass and film director James Cameron. Just last week, Beyonce and Jay-Z were said to be interested in doing a music video aboard SpaceShipTwo.

No Hollywood space effort has yet gotten off the ground, but if anyone has the required combination of guts, glitz and gold, I suppose that'd be Branson. Like Cowell, Branson is a veteran of reality TV, having starred in "The Rebel Billionaire," a series that aired on Fox in 2004-2005.

Who knows? In the next year or two, there may be more than one way for reality-TV contestants to get into outer space. Andrew Nelson, chief operating officer for XCOR Aerospace, says his company is moving ahead with its own Lynx rocket plane ? and he's not shy about courting Cowell's attention.

"If Simon wants to take a more exciting ride at half the price, I'd take his call," Nelson told me today.

More about commercial space:

Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.?

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Boehner: State of Union speech may be `pathetic' (AP)

WASHINGTON ? House Speaker John Boehner doesn't sound like he's going to have a fun time listening to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night.

Obama is expected to outline an economic blueprint built around manufacturing, energy and education, and officials have said he'll propose fresh ideas to try to get the wealthy to pay more in taxes.

Boehner says it sounds to him like "the same old policies" of more spending, taxes and regulations that have hurt the economy.

The Ohio Republicans tells "Fox News Sunday" that if that's what Obama is going to talk about, then "I think it's pathetic."

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Search resumes in cruise ship amid rough seas

The cruise ship Costa Concordia is seen off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. The cruise captain, Capt. Francesco Schettino, who grounded the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast with 4,200 people on board did not relay correct information either to the company or crew after the ship hit rocks, the cruise ship owner's CEO said as the search resumed for 21 missing passengers. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The cruise ship Costa Concordia is seen off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. The cruise captain who grounded the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast with 4,200 people on board did not relay correct information either to the company or crew after the ship hit rocks, the cruise ship owner's CEO said as the search resumed for 21 missing passengers. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) ? Rescuers on Sunday resumed searching the above-water section of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise liner, but choppy seas kept divers from exploring the submerged part, where officials have said there could be bodies.

Civil protection officials said that until the waves slacken off, divers will not swim into the submerged part of the vessel near the port of Giglio, a tiny island off the Tuscan coast.

Coast Guard divers have been concentrating on parts of the ship where survivors have said many passengers were awaiting evacuation the night of Jan. 13 after the Concordia's hull was gashed by a reef as the cruise liner came too close to the island.

After divers on Saturday extracted a woman's body from a corridor near what had been an evacuation staging point, the death toll rose to 12. Twenty people, most of them passengers, are still missing.

So far, the Concordia's fuel tanks are holding, but special crews are waiting for the end of rescue efforts so they can extract 2,200 metric tons (nearly half a million gallons) of heavy fuel.

In a separate undersea mission, police divers on Saturday swam into the captain's cabin to retrieve his safe, suitcases and documents.

The Italian captain is under house arrest as prosecutors investigate him for suspected manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the ship while many of the 4,200 passengers and crew were still aboard.

Rescuers are racing against the clock, because the Concordia has been slightly shifting on its precarious perch on a rocky ledge of seabed close to where the seabed steeply plunges.

The search had been interrupted early Sunday after instruments monitoring any movement of the Concordia indicated that vessel had shifted slightly.

Three bodies were found in waters around the ship in the first hours after the accident. All the bodies found since then have been recovered by divers inside the Concordia. The victims were apparently unable to escape the lurching ship during a chaotic evacuation launched almost an hour after the accident.

Operator Costa Crociere, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Carnival Cruise Lines, has said that Capt. Francesco Schettino had deviated without permission from the vessel's route in an apparent maneuver to sail close to the island and impress passengers.

Schettino, despite audiotapes of his defying Coast Guard orders to scramble back aboard, has denied he abandoned ship while hundreds of passengers were desperately trying to get off the capsizing vessel. He has said he coordinated the rescue from aboard a lifeboat and then from the shore.

Light fuel, apparently from machinery aboard the capsized ship, has been spotted in the water, authorities said Saturday, but there has been no indication that any of the heavy fuel oil has leaked from the ship's double-bottomed tanks.

Giglio is in the middle of a national marine park renowned for its pristine waters.

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D'Emilio reported from Rome.

Associated Press

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US Internet piracy case brings New Zealand arrests

This undated image obtained by The Associated Press shows the homepage of the website Megaupload.com. Federal prosecutors in Virginia have shut down one of the world's largest file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws. (AP Photo)

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ? With 150 million registered users, about 50 million hits daily and endorsements from music superstars, Megaupload.com was among the world's biggest file-sharing sites. Big enough, according to a U.S. indictment, that it earned founder Kim Dotcom $42 million last year alone.

The movie industry howled that the site was making money off pirated material. Though the company is based in Hong Kong and Dotcom was living in New Zealand, some of the alleged pirated content was hosted on leased servers in Virginia, and that was enough for U.S. prosecutors to act.

The site was shut down Thursday, and Dotcom and three Megaupload employees were arrested in New Zealand on U.S. accusations that they facilitated millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content, costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue.

New Zealand Police also seized guns, artwork, more than $8 million in cash and luxury cars valued at nearly $5 million after serving 10 search warrants at several businesses and homes around the city of Auckland.

News of the shutdown seemed to bring retaliation from hackers who claimed credit for attacking the Justice Department's website. Federal officials confirmed it was down for hours Thursday evening and that the disruption was being "treated as a malicious act."

A loose affiliation of hackers known as "Anonymous" claimed credit for the attack. Also hacked was the site for the Motion Picture Association of America.

On Friday, New Zealand's Fairfax Media reported that the four defendants stood together in an Auckland courtroom in the first step of extradition proceedings that could last a year or more.

Dotcom's lawyer raised objections to a media request to take photographs and video, but then Dotcom spoke out from the dock, saying he didn't mind photos or video "because we have nothing to hide." The judge granted the media access, and ruled that the four would remain in custody until a second hearing Monday.

Dotcom, Megaupload's former CEO and current chief innovation officer, is a resident of Hong Kong and New Zealand and a dual citizen of Finland and Germany who had his name legally changed. The 37-year-old was previously known as Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor.

Two other German citizens and one Dutch citizen also were arrested and three other defendants ? another German, a Slovakian and an Estonian ? remain at large.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends free speech and digital rights online, said in a statement that the arrests set "a terrifying precedent. If the United States can seize a Dutch citizen in New Zealand over a copyright claim, what is next?"

The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to make it easier for authorities to go after sites with pirated material, especially those with overseas headquarters and servers.

Before Megaupload was taken down, the company posted a statement saying allegations that it facilitated massive breaches of copyright laws were "grotesquely overblown."

"The fact is that the vast majority of Mega's Internet traffic is legitimate, and we are here to stay. If the content industry would like to take advantage of our popularity, we are happy to enter into a dialogue. We have some good ideas. Please get in touch," the statement said.

Several sister sites were also shut down, including one dedicated to sharing pornography files.

The $8 million in cash seized had been invested in various New Zealand financial institutions, and has been placed in a trust pending the outcome of the cases.

Police spokesman Grant Ogilvie said the seized cars include a Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe worth more than $400,000. Two short-barreled shotguns and a number of valuable artworks were also confiscated, he added.

According to the indictment, Megaupload was estimated at one point to be the 13th most frequently visited website on the Internet. Current estimates by companies that monitor Web traffic place it in the top 100.

Megaupload is considered a "cyberlocker," in which users can upload and transfer files that are too large to send by email. Such sites can have perfectly legitimate uses. But the Motion Picture Association of America, which has campaigned for a crackdown on piracy, estimated that the vast majority of content being shared on Megaupload was in violation of copyright laws.

The website allowed users to download some content for free, but made money by charging subscriptions to people who wanted access to faster download speeds or extra content. The website also sold advertising.

Megaupload was unique not only because of its massive size and the volume of downloaded content, but also because it had high-profile support from celebrities, musicians and other content producers who are most often the victims of copyright infringement and piracy. Before the website was taken down, it contained endorsements from Kim Kardashian, Alicia Keys and Kanye West, among others.

The company listed Swizz Beatz, a musician who married Keys in 2010, as its CEO. He was not named in the indictment and declined to comment through a representative.

The five-count indictment, which alleges copyright infringement as well as conspiracy to commit money laundering and racketeering, described a site designed specifically to reward users who uploaded pirated content for sharing, and turned a blind eye to requests from copyright holders to remove copyright-protected files.

For instance, users received cash bonuses if they uploaded content popular enough to generate massive numbers of downloads, according to the indictment. Such content was almost always copyright protected, the indictment said.

The Justice Department said it was illegal for anyone to download pirated content, but their investigation focused on the leaders of the company, not end users who may have downloaded a few movies for personal viewing.

A lawyer who represented the company in a lawsuit last year declined to comment Thursday. Efforts to reach an attorney representing Dotcom were unsuccessful.

Although Megaupload is based in Hong Kong, the size of its operation in the southern Chinese city was unclear. The administrative contact listed in its domain registration, Bonnie Lam, did not respond immediately for a request for comment sent to a fax number and email address listed.

The indictment was returned in the Eastern District of Virginia, which claimed jurisdiction in part because some of the alleged pirated materials were hosted on leased servers in Ashburn, Va. Prosecutors there have pursued multiple piracy investigations.

The Justice Department also was investigating the "significant increase in activity" that disrupted its website. It said in a statement that it was working to "investigate the origins of this activity, which is being treated as a malicious act until we can fully identify the root cause."

The site appeared to be working again late Thursday. A spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America said in an emailed statement that the group's site also had been hacked, but it too appeared to be working later in the evening.

"The motion picture and television industry has always been a strong supporter of free speech," the spokesman said. "We strongly condemn any attempts to silence any groups or individuals."

____

Matthew Barakat reported from McLean, Va.

Associated Press

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

iTunes U Puts Entire College Courses on Your iPad [Apple]

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Between coming up with a curriculum, teaching, assigning homework, and getting important info to students, teachers have it rough. The iTunes U app is going to let them do all of that from an iPad. Which means students can basically take entire courses from their tablets. More »

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Silence is still golden for the Oscars (AP)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. ? If Oscar buzz is any indicator, Hollywood is on the brink of making Academy Awards history. For the first time, silent films may bookend the best-picture category.

The first, and only, non-talkie to win the motion picture academy's top prize was director William A. Wellman's high-flying 1927 drama "Wings," starring Clara Bow and Buddy Rogers.

Now, the 2011 silent film "The Artist" is gathering some serious award-season momentum as a best picture favorite at the 84th annual Oscar ceremony on Feb. 26. The silent-period Valentine from French director Michel Hazanavicius has won numerous honors, including best comedy or musical at Sunday's Golden Globes.

Meanwhile, in a touch of silent symmetry, an extensively restored version of "Wings" thrilled celebrities and regular folks alike this week at special screenings sponsored by the motion picture academy. And next week, the restored "Wings" will be released on DVD.

"I know my father would be clapping," said William Wellman Jr. at a Tuesday night VIP screening at the academy's Beverly Hills headquarters. The son of the "Wings" director is author of "The Man and His Wings: William A. Wellman and the Making of the First Best Picture."

The "Wings" screening also served as a kickoff for an academy exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of Paramount Pictures, which originally produced the World War I drama.

In reality, it's pure coincidence that the "Wings" restoration and DVD release come at the same time as "The Artist's" mounting recognition on the awards circuit.

Nevertheless, "there's such a nice tribute to the history of cinema in ("The Artist"), that I'm thrilled about it," noted Andrea Kalas, a Paramount archivist who oversaw the "Wings" restoration. "And the fact that `Wings' gets mentioned in its context doesn't upset me in the least."

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Razer Arctosa Gaming Keyboard - Woot

Gamers Don?t DO Style Handbooks

WASD: the new Lorem ipsum.

Gone are the days when the quick brown fox would jump the lazy dog! Now that sentence is typed ddddddddddwddddddddddd. Games are the new novels, you see, and if you want to carry across a deep and serious idea to the world, you?ve GOT to let them experience it themselves. That chick in Twilight is hated on every day, but don?t you DARE insult the noble sacrifice of Aeris online!

So gamers, stop buying those keyboards that are made for typing purposes. Look into a Razer Arctosa Gaming Keyboard with the selective WASD anti-ghosting. You?ll get the power to program your keys with on-the-fly switching, and that?ll let YOU determine the best way to spell victory.

Warranty: 90 Day Razer

Condition: Refurbished

Features:

The Hyperesponse keys of the Razer Arctosa reduce key latency and maximize response for critical actions during competitive gameplay ensuring fast, accurate and consistent actuation response in the intense frenzy of competitive gameplay
The Razer Arctosa addresses ?ghosting? signal failure that occurs when you press multiple keys simultaneously on traditional keyboards. Selective anti-ghosting around the WASD gaming cluster on the Razer Arctosa allows more commands to be entered at any one time without the ?ghosting? signal failure
Fully programmable keys with macro capabilities that enable instantaneous, multiple commands with a single keystroke

Specifications:

Fully-programmable keys with macro capabilities
Selective anti-ghosting for WASD gaming cluster
Slim keycap structure with Hyperesponse technology
Easy access media keys
Gaming mode option for deactivation of the Windows key
(10) customizable software profiles with on-the-fly switching
1000Hz Ultrapolling / 1ms response time
Detachable wrist rest
Approximate Dimensions: 18.50?(W) x 8.74?(H) x 0.91?(D)
Approximate Weight: 1.59 lbs

In the box:

Razer RZ03-00260800-REFB Arctosa Gaming Keyboard

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Obama's Dream Debate (Taegan Goddard's Political Wire)

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Larry Page: Display Advertising Is A $5 Billion Business

The engine of Google's business is search advertising, but its display advertising business is becoming a very large business. During today's earnings call, CEO Larry Page that Google's display advertising business is at an "annualized run rate of $5 billion." That doesn't mean that $5 billion of Google's $38 billion in revenues in 2011 came from display advertising. It means that if you annualize the display advertising revenues in the fourth quarter, you would get $5 billion.

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Gordon Ramsay to Open First Las Vegas Restaurant at Paris

Paris Las Vegas is pleased to announce internationally-renowned Chef Gordon Ramsay will open his first Las Vegas restaurant, Gordon Ramsay Steak, in the spring of 2012 in the heart of the picturesque resort. The new restaurant will replace Les Artistes Steakhouse. Michelin Star Chef Gordon Ramsay, known not only for his refined cuisine, but also [...]

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Razer Arctosa Gaming Keyboard - Woot

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Warranty: 90 Day Razer

Condition: Refurbished

Features:

The Hyperesponse keys of the Razer Arctosa reduce key latency and maximize response for critical actions during competitive gameplay ensuring fast, accurate and consistent actuation response in the intense frenzy of competitive gameplay
The Razer Arctosa addresses ?ghosting? signal failure that occurs when you press multiple keys simultaneously on traditional keyboards. Selective anti-ghosting around the WASD gaming cluster on the Razer Arctosa allows more commands to be entered at any one time without the ?ghosting? signal failure
Fully programmable keys with macro capabilities that enable instantaneous, multiple commands with a single keystroke

Specifications:

Fully-programmable keys with macro capabilities
Selective anti-ghosting for WASD gaming cluster
Slim keycap structure with Hyperesponse technology
Easy access media keys
Gaming mode option for deactivation of the Windows key
(10) customizable software profiles with on-the-fly switching
1000Hz Ultrapolling / 1ms response time
Detachable wrist rest
Approximate Dimensions: 18.50?(W) x 8.74?(H) x 0.91?(D)
Approximate Weight: 1.59 lbs

In the box:

Razer RZ03-00260800-REFB Arctosa Gaming Keyboard

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Nadal overcomes knee problem to win 1st match

Spain's Rafael Nadal waves to the crowd following his first round match against Alex Kuznetsov of the US at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Spain's Rafael Nadal makes a forehand return to Alex Kuznetsov of the US during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Kim Clijsters of Belgium celebrates after winning a point against Maria Joao Koehler of Portugal during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill)

China's Peng Shuai returns a ball to France's Aravane Rezai during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/John Donegan)

China's Li Na wraps an ice towel around her face during her first round match against Ksenia Pervak of Kazakhstan play at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ? Rafael Nadal has a new injury ? a tendon problem in his right knee that nearly forced him to forfeit a first-round match at the Australian Open on Monday that he won handily.

Roger Federer, defending champion Kim Clijsters and top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki were also bothered by injuries coming into the year's first Grand Slam event, but all advanced in more routine fashion and appeared to be over their ailments.

That wasn't the case with Nadal. Bothered by a left shoulder injury late last year, the Spaniard's right knee was heavily taped during his 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 win over Alex Kuznetsov.

"I was sitting on a chair in the hotel, I felt like a crack on the knee ... really strange," Nadal said. "I stand up. I felt the knee a little bit strange. I moved the leg like this two times to try to find the feeling. After the second time, the knee stays with an unbelievable pain completely straight. I have no movement on the knee."

He wasn't completely sure he could play but decided to do so after an MRI exam showed no major damage. although he still had concerns.

"I started with a little bit of a scare at the beginning, and nervous because I was really disappointed yesterday," he said. "But after the first 10 games ... I started to play with normal conditions.

Nadal added that he doesn't quite understand what happened, but "I am really happy that today I was ready to play and I played a fantastic match."

Federer, who pulled out of a tournament in Doha two weeks ago because of a sore back, began his bid for his 17th Grand Slam title ? and first since the 2010 Australian Open ? with a 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 win over qualifier Alexander Kudryavtsev. It was the 60th win at the Australian Open for Federer, who also has 60-plus wins at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.

The third-seeded Swiss took the first two sets and was up a break in the third before the Russian rallied with a break of serve in the fifth game of the final set. Federer, however, broke Kudryavtsev in the next game with a backhand cross-court winner and sealed the match when the Russian hit a forehand wide.

"No problem," Federer said. "I am happy to be 100 percent fit."

Just as quickly, he batted away speculation about a possibly divisive issue with Nadal. Nadal was critical of Federer on Sunday for not speaking out publicly in support of players who are pushing the ATP for changes in scheduling and prize money.

"Things are fine between us, you know. I have no hard feelings towards him," Federer said. "It's been a difficult last few months in terms of politics within the ATP."

Nadal has "mentioned many times how he gets a bit tired and frustrated through the whole process, and I shared that with him. It's normal. But, for me, obviously nothing changes in terms of our relationship. I'm completely cool and relaxed about it."

Clijsters opened with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Portuguese qualifier Maria Joao Koehler, showing no signs of the hip spasms that forced her to withdraw from a tuneup event in Brisbane 10 day ago.

Wozniacki, who injured her left wrist in a quarterfinal loss at the Sydney International, cruised past Australia's Anastasia Rodionova 6-2, 6-1 in the last match of the evening on Rod Laver Arena.

"I got a bit nervous about my wrist in Sydney, but I am happy I could play full out," Wozniacki said.

Li Na, who lost the Australian final to Clijsters last year, defeated Ksenia Pervak of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-1. In the first featured match of the tournament, third-seeded Victoria Azarenka won 12 straight games to rout Heather Watson 6-1, 6-0 on center court.

The Hisense Arena crowd was solidly behind Nadal, particularly the groups of young women who screamed and whistled when he changed his shirt and between games yelled, "We love you Rafa" and "Vamos Rafa!" He didn't give them a chance to cheer for long, needing only about 30 minutes each to win the final two sets.

Clijsters similarly had an easy time in the second half of her match, breaking Koehler in the deciding game of the first set and reeling off 13 straight points to start the second. She said the win wasn't as easy as it looked.

"It was hard to really get a good rhythm out there," Clijsters said. "I did feel like I was seeing the ball probably not always as good as I would like to."

She said she'd dealt with the "emotions and stress" of her hip injury, adding she was lucky even to get a few warmup matches in Brisbane.

Li was a trailblazer for China last year, reaching a Grand Slam singles final for the first time before losing to Clijsters at Melbourne Park. At the next major, she won the French Open to become the first player from China to win a Grand Slam singles title.

"I hope I can go one better this year," Li said, referring to her Australian Open campaign. She had a confidence-boosting buildup at the Hopman Cup and Sydney.

Of the six women who can reach the top ranking, eighth-ranked Agnieszka Radwanska has the biggest task, having to win the Australian title. She had to scrap just to make the second round, fending off American Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-7 (10), 6-4, 6-2 in a three-hour match on Show Court 2.

Other women advancing included No. 16-seeded Peng Shuai of China, No. 20 Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia, No. 22 Julia Goerges and No. 26 Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain. Eleni Daniilidou of Greece beat 41-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan 6-3, 6-2.

No. 19 Flavia Pennetta, No. 23 Lucie Safarova and No. 28 Yanina Wickmayer were among the first-round losers.

Most of the local attention Monday was on 19-year-old Bernard Tomic, who rallied from two sets down to beat No. 22 Fernando Verdasco 4-6, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-2, 7-5. A five-set win over the 2009 semifinalist will no doubt bolster Tomic as he attempts to become the first Australian man since 1976 to win the national title.

"Today wasn't fun, it was torture," said Tomic, who reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals last year. "I don't know how I found the energy to lift, how I did it, but I thank the crowd."

Eighth-seeded Mardy Fish, the highest-ranked U.S. man, defeated Gilles Muller had a 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 to progress along with 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro, No. 7 Tomas Berdych, No. 10 Nicolas Almagro, No. 13 Alexandr Dolgopolov, No. 18 Feliciano Lopez, No. 21 Stanislas Wawrinka and No. 30 Kevin Anderson.

No. 25 Juan Monaco, No. 28 Ivan Ljubicic and No. 31 Jurgen Melzer joined Verdasco as other seeded players to lose.

Associated Press

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Study faults research linking hormone therapy to cancer | The Raw ...

By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

A landmark investigation which found that hormone treatment for the menopause boosts the risk of?breast cancer?is riddled with flaws, a new study published on Monday alleges.

The so-called Million Women Study (MWS) unleashed headlines when it was first published in 2003.

Based on questionnaires returned by more than a million post-menopausal women in Britain, it said?hormone replacement therapy(HRT) led to a rise in breast-cancer incidence.

Its estimate caused a wave of anxiety ? and much confusion ? among regulators and doctors and among women using HRT.

HRT uses the female hormones oestrogen or progestogen, sometimes combined, to ease menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, loss of sex drive and vaginal dryness.

Updates of the MWS have finetuned the perceived risk. The MWS website says there is an increasedcancer?risk of 30 percent in oestrogen-only treatment, and a twofold risk in oestrogen-progestogen therapy, compared with women who do not take these drugs.

The risk increases the longer a woman uses HRT, but drops to normal level within five years after stopping use, the MWS says.

But an assessment published on Monday in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health says the MWS?s design has so many problems that a safe conclusion cannot be drawn.

?HRT may or may not increase the risk of breast cancer, but the MWS did not establish that it does,? the paper says bluntly.

Among half a dozen points, the authors say cancers detected within a few months of the study?s start would have already been present when the women were enrolled.

But these cases were not stripped out of the cancer count, it says.

The review also points to ?detection bias? through the choice of participants.

The volunteers were taking part in a breast screening programme when they were invited to join the study.

They would thus have already known about breast lumps and suspect lesions that point to breast cancer. As a result, the MWS found a 40-percent higher incidence of breast cancer among its volunteers ? regardless of whether they used?hormone therapy?or not ? than in the population at large.

The paper also notes that breast cancers typically take many years to develop. It was thus ?biologically implausible? that so many would have cropped up within a year or two of enrolment in the study, as the MWS maintained.

?The name ?Million Women Study? implies an authority beyond criticism or refutation,? say the authors, led by Samuel Shapiro, a professor of public health at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

?Yet the validity of any study is dependent on the quality of its design, execution, analysis and interpretation. Size alone does not guarantee that the findings are reliable.?

In an email to AFP, the leaders of the MWS rebutted the criticism, saying that more than 20 studies had replicated its findings and a decline in the use of HRT had led to a fall in cases of breast cancer.

?Hormone-sensitive cancers are still three times as common in HRT users as in non-users or ex-users,? said Richard Peto, a professor of statistics and epidemiology at Oxford University.

Independent commentator Anne Gombel, a French professor who is a member of the International Menopause Society, said a complex picture about breast cancer was emerging.

Breast density, alcohol and obesity, and not just HRT are now emerging as risk factors that should be taken into account, and not just HRT, said Gombel.

?HRT does not carry the same risk and benefit for each woman; some women will have increased risks, some will have only benefits, and this also applies to breast cancer.?

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Norwegian UN worker kidnapped in Yemen

SANAA, Yemen ? A Norwegian man who was working for the United Nations was kidnapped by armed tribesmen in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday, officials said.

Norwegian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ford Overland Andersen said the ministry was informed the 34-year-old Norwegian man was abducted early Sunday, but would not give more details.

According to a Yemeni security official, the U.N. worker was kidnapped in the capital Sanaa by armed tribesmen who transferred him to central Marib province, 110 miles (170 kilometers) east of the capital.

The official said the U.N. worker was taken hostage by the Obeyid Marib tribe. They were demanding the release of a tribesman who was arrested on charges of killing four soldiers assigned to guarding oil tankers.

Tribal leaders with close ties to the Obeyid Marib tribe said the U.N. worker was in good health and that his captors were in contact with the U.N. office in Yemen.

Also Sunday, a Yemeni military official said al-Qaida militants executed two soldiers who had been abducted two months ago while fighting al-Qaida militants west of Zinjibar, the provincial capital of Abyan province.

The official said the bodies of the soldiers were found in the country's south.

Al-Qaida's dangerous Yemen branch has been taking advantage of nearly a year of internal turmoil over demands that President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down to take control of areas in Yemen's south.

For the past two days, around 200 al-Qaida militants have been occupying an 500-year-old mosque and school in the central province of Bayda.

On Friday the militants overran the building, which has not been in use for years. The site was a tourist attraction in the town of Radda.

An Associated Press photographer who visited Radda said the militants put up a nearly 40-meter cordon around the site and are armed with RPG's, automatic rifles and other weapons.

Residents of Radda said the black al-Qaida flag has been raised atop the historic mosque. Some feared that if security forces try to storm the site, they would be forced to flee their homes.

A top security official in Bayda said it was not the responsibility of police to remove the militants from the school, but to maintain general calm in the province.

All Yemeni officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.

Bayda, about 100 miles (150 kilometers) south of the capital Sanaa, has seen large anti-Saleh street protests over the past year.

Yemen's opposition has accused Saleh of trying to torpedo a power transfer deal by allowing security to deteriorate in the south as a way of arguing that he must stay in power.

The U.S. long considered Saleh a necessary ally in combatting Yemen's active al-Qaida branch, which has been linked to terror attacks on U.S. soil and is believed to be one of the international terror organization's most dangerous franchises. The U.S. withdrew its support last summer and said he should step down.

Islamist militants began seizing territory in the southern Abyan province last spring, solidifying their control over the town of Jaar in April before taking the provincial capital, Zinjibar, in May.

Yemeni security forces have been trying unsuccessfully to push them out since then in fierce fighting that has caused many casualties on both sides. The conflict has forced tens of thousands of civilians from Zinjibar and the surrounding area to flee, many to the port city of Aden.

At least 2,000 displaced Yemenis returned home to Zinjibar for the first time in months on Saturday, raising fears that al-Qaida may be trying to use the civilians as human shields.

Associated Press

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Monday, January 16, 2012

How stable are cruise ships like the Costa Concordia?

One of Europe's largest cruise ships, the Costa Concordia, carrying 4200 passengers and crew, suffered a fatal and spectacular accident on Saturday. The vessel was holed on rocks off the Italian island of Giglio ? and then quickly keeled over, preventing lifeboats on its port side from being lowered and trapping some passengers and crew in the bowels of the ship. At 12:00?GMT today, six people had been confirmed dead and a further 15 were missing. So how stable and safe are these vertiginous floating multistorey hotels?

Why was this massive ship so close to shallow rock outcrops?
Mark Staunton-Lambert, technical director of the London-based Royal Institution of Naval Architects, says this is the main question investigators will want answering. GPS and sonar instruments should have warned of the danger, he says.

Why might the Costa Concordia's depth-sounding sonar have been ignored?
Like aviation, seafaring is in the midst of major computerisation, with bridges in modern ships like Costa Concordia becoming "glass cockpits". The transnational maritime trade union Nautilus International says that the technology at the heart of this ? the Electronic Charts Display and Information System (ECDIS), which marries GPS and seabed sonar data in one screen ? can be a problem. First, it says that the data on seabed obstacles can be out of date; second, the system generates too many alarms that can lead mariners to ignore them. "The ECDIS screens are only as good as the data that goes into them," says Nautilus spokesman Andrew Limington. "And there are major problems with their user interfaces and ergonomics."

So is that what went wrong on this occasion?
Possibly. The captain Franceso Schettino is under arrest and could face manslaughter charges, though he claims his electronic charts showed the rocks to be 100 to 150 metres away when his ship struck them. The BBC quotes his boss, Costa Cruises' chief executive Pier Luigi Foschi, saying the vessel ran aground after making an "unapproved, unauthorised" course deviation.

The ship keeled over pretty quickly. It's 13 storeys high yet only 8.2 metres of the vessel sit below the waterline. How can that be stable?
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) specifies the stability that ships must have ? and if a vessel complies with those rules it should be fine, says Staunton-Lambert. All the heavy stuff ? the engines, water ballast tanks and fuel oil ? are kept low in the hull, and the tall accommodation blocks above are largely empty space peppered with much lighter contents: people and furniture. "These cruise ships may seem high," says Staunton-Lambert. "But the trick is to ensure that the weight distribution is correct, focusing on where the centre of gravity is."

How is the degree of stability of such a ship decided?
The IMO regulations specify how quickly the vessel must return to upright when it has been upset by freak weather, a grounding or a collision ? and is has to do this even if damaged.

What is done to certify that a ship is stable and properly rights itself?
When a vessel is near completion in a shipyard, tests are undertaken in which massive steel weights or tanks full of water are moved from one side of the ship to the other while the boat is in the water. "This centre-of-gravity shifting is done to check that the ship moves only to angles theoretically predicted on paper, in computer designs and in simulations," says Staunton-Lambert. Damage to watertight compartments is also simulated, he adds, with often hundreds of cases of such damage considered.

And this vessel will have passed such tests?
Yes, it must have. The vessel would not have been been given clearance to sail unless it complied with all stability regulations, so the fact it tipped over so quickly is alarming.

So what went wrong?
"The question investigators have to ask now is: how long did Costa Concordia stay upright? And how soon did it take that large angle of heel? That's what people will be concerned with ? stability is meant to give the crew time to get people off in an orderly manner," says Staunton-Lambert.

Why was the evacuation, so close to land, seemingly so chaotic?
They lost one side of the ship for lifeboat launches when the ship listed so much the boats could not be lowered into the water. Such ships are not designed to launch lifeboats at high angles ? one reason, says Staunton-Lambert, why there are often twice as many lifeboat and life-raft places on a ship as passengers and crew.

Are evacuation tests involving real people undertaken ? like those aircraft makers have to undertake?
No ? the sheer number of people involved would make it difficult to do that for every ship ? but there has to be a solid plan to get people off within an hour of an incident if the ship cannot get to port. This 1-hour ruling dates back to the Titanic inquiry a century ago. It's hard to meet, but as New Scientist reported in 2001, efforts to make physical simulators that improve evacuation procedures are under way.

What else don't we know?
There was a power outage during the incident. Investigators do not know what caused it, how long it lasted, nor what effect it may have had on the crew's reliance on the ECDIS electronic navigation data.

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