Monday, December 26, 2011

Suicide bomber strikes Afghan funeral, killing 10 (AP)

KABUL, Afghanistan ? A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday during a funeral in northern Afghanistan, killing 10 people, including a member of the national parliament, a government spokesman said.

The attack occurred as mourners were leaving after the end of the funeral in the town of Talaqan, said Faid Mohammad Tawhedi, a spokesman for the governor's office in northern Takhar province. Fifteen people were injured in the blast, he said.

Tawhedi said the dead included parliament member Abdul Mutaleb Baik.

Suicide attacks are rare in Takhar province, which is located 155 miles (250 kilometers) northeast of Kabul and is considered one the nation's calmer regions.

Sayed Ikramuddin Masomi, another lawmaker from Takhar province, confirmed that Baik had died.

"The suicide attacker killed 10 innocent people and unfortunately Abdul Mutaleb Baik was among them," he said in a telephone interview.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. But over the past year, the Taliban have repeatedly struck at prominent government figures. In September, a suicide attacker killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president and head of the nation's peace council.

Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry said Sunday that security forces killed 30 suspected insurgents in a series of clashes around the country.

A ministry statement said army, police and NATO troops launched a total of 11 operations in the past 24 hours across the country. It said seven insurgents were arrested.

Sunday's statement said the killed insurgents were armed and that weapons were recovered in the operations.

Separately, NATO says one of its helicopters crash landed in Nahr-e-Saraj district of Helmand province on Sunday after taking small-arms fire from the ground. There were no injuries among the crew.

NATO relies on helicopters to avoid using roads that are frequently mined by the insurgents.

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

A look at economic developments around the globe (AP)

A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday:

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BRUSSELS ? Talks between Greece and its private creditors on cutting the country's massive debt load have made some progress, but disagreements remain on key parts of the deal, a person close to the negotiations said.

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LONDON ? Stock markets bounced back after upbeat U.S. jobs figures helped shore up sentiment, a day after investors were rattled by the European Central Bank's huge loans to bolster the continent's banks.

The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed up 1.3 percent while Germany's DAX rose 1.1 percent. The CAC-40 in France ended 1.4 percent higher.

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TOKYO ? In Asia, Tokyo's main index declined 0.8 percent and China's benchmark lost 0.2 percent. South Korea's Kospi was down 0.1 percent.

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FRANKFURT, Germany ? The European Central Bank warned that a draft law before Hungary's parliament would undermine the independence of its central bank.

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TOKYO ? Japan's government lowered its economic growth forecasts as the country struggles with the yen's export-sapping strength and the fallout from Europe's debt crisis.

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LONDON ? Britain's economy grew by a slightly better than anticipated 0.6 percent in the third quarter, after unexpectedly stalling in the previous three month period, official figures showed.

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MADRID ? Spain's new Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said he was confident the country would emerge from its severe economic crisis, but failed to outline any new measures to help the ailing economy.

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WARSAW, Poland ? State figures show that Poland's jobless rate rose to 12.1 percent at the end of November from 11.8 percent the previous month.

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ROME ? Italian Premier Mario Monti has easily won a vote of confidence in the Senate, signaling parliamentary approval of the government's $39 billion package of tax hikes and pension changes.

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BRASILIA, Brazil ? Brazil's government statistics agency says the unemployment rate in Latin America's biggest economy was 5.2 percent in November ? the lowest level since the government started keeping records in 2002.

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CAIRO, Egypt ? Egypt's benchmark stock index dropped to its lowest level in over a year as a deepening political crisis in the Arab world's most populous nation clouded its political future and prompted Moody's Investors Service to push the government's bond rating deeper into junk status.

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RIGA, Latvia ? Latvia's three-year $10 billion bailout program that helped the Baltic country avert bankruptcy has come to an end.

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NHGRI to Fund New Africa Genomics Grants, Biorepositories - GenomeWeb Daily News - GenomeWeb

By a GenomeWeb staff reporter

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) ? The National Human Genome Research Institute has just issued two new funding opportunities for research institutions in Africa seeking to conduct genomics projects focused on diseases, building genomics infrastructure, and launching biorepositories around the continent for supporting research projects.

These new NHGRI awards will provide a total of up to $23.1 million through the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) program, a joint effort between NHGRI, Wellcome Trust, and the African Society of Human Genetics, that seeks to catalyze and enable human genomics-based science in Africa that is conducted by Africans.

One of these new opportunities will provide around $6.3 million over five years in grant funding for research projects that explore genomic, genetic, and environmental contributors to human health and diseases in Africa.

The other program will commit a total of $16.8 million funding through two phases for biorepositories, including $800,000 over two years for feasibility projects and $16 million over five years for the launch of up to three full-scale biorepositories.

The H3Africa effort aims to go beyond simply funding African disease research and will seek to improve the capabilities for doing genomics research projects and build up infrastructure in Africa.

"To the extent possible we are trying to develop what is essentially an Afrocentric plan, where the ideas, the identification of the issues, will all come from the African scientific community. The awards when they are made will be made directly to African scientists and institutions, and they will be the driving force," Mark Guyer, NHGRI's Deputy Director and director of its Extramural Research program told GenomeWeb Daily News in early 2011 after the program was unveiled.

The grants seek to establish independent H3Africa research projects that will collaborate with and add a genomics component to ongoing projects supported by the US or funders such as the Wellcome Trust, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The range of topics researchers may explore is broad, but should generally be within the scope of genetic/environmental contributors to disease and health in Africa.

Examples of possible research areas include studies of contributors to non-communicable and communicable diseases; the contribution of the human microbiome to health and disease; Mendelian diseases, causative mutations, and modifier genes; and pharmacogenomics studies that identify genetic variants involved in responses to chemotherapy and other drugs used for treatment of cancer, malaria, HIV, and other infectious diseases.

The biorepositories efforts will seek to meet current challenges researchers have in Africa in trying to access samples, and to do so they will need to store, retrieve, distribute, and manage large-scale collections.

In the first phase, applicants will aim to show that they can feasibly provide a fully functional, scaled-up biorepository, and the second phase projects will seek to develop these resources. These biorepositories will be tasked with supporting the entire H3Africa Consortium, and will be required to deal with as many as 100,000 samples per year including blood and DNA in liquid, frozen, and dry forms. They also must be able to ramp up their abilities to receive and store these samples and distribute them throughout the consortium.

In August, NHGRI issued $36.9 million in new funding opportunities for H3Africa, including grants to create collaborative research centers, fund individual research projects, and create bioinformatics infrastructure to support the consortium.

Source: http://www.genomeweb.com/nhgri-fund-new-africa-genomics-grants-biorepositories

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Friday, December 23, 2011

Eastman Kodak board elects Laura Quatela as President

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Quatela, who is currently the company?s General Counsel, will serve alongside Philip Faraci, who continues as President, effective January 1, 2012. :theflyonthewall.com

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December 22, 2011

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theflyonthewall.com: Eastman Kodak to sell Eastman Gelatine unit, terms not disclosed
Eastman Kodak Company announced that it has agreed to sell its Eastman Gelatine Corporation business to Rousselot, part of the Vion Food Group. Financial details were not disclosed. Subject to customary closing conditions, the transaction is expected to close within 30 days. :theflyonthewall.com

December 20, 2011

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theflyonthewall.com: Arbiter delays Kodak patent ruling due to cash concerns, Seattle PI reports
A U.S. arbiter has decided to delay any ruling on Eastman Kodak's (EK) patent-infringement claim against RIM (RIMM) and Apple (AAPL) until September of next year, in hopes the embattled, cash-short company can reach more solid ground in its fight to avoid bankruptcy, according to Seattle PI. Reference Link :theflyonthewall.com

December 19, 2011

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theflyonthewall.com: Kyocera files suit against Eastman Kodak for patent infringement
Kyocera Corporation (KYO) filed a complaint against Eastman Kodak (EK) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California for infringement of one of Kyocera's patents for inkjet recording head structure. The complaint alleges that the head component of Kodak inkjet printers infringes U.S. Patent No. 7,097,286, which is Kyocera's intellectual property. This patent resulted from the Kyocera Group's research and development efforts and more than 50 years of innovation in the field of advanced ceramics. The suit seeks as-yet undetermined monetary damages, as well as an injunction against Kodak to cease manufacturing and sales of products that infringe said patent. :theflyonthewall.com
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Cores reveal when Dead Sea 'died'

Sediments drilled from beneath the Dead Sea reveal that this most remarkable of water bodies all but disappeared 120,000 years ago.

It is a discovery of high concern say scientists because it demonstrates just how dry the Middle East can become during Earth's warm phases.

In such ancient times, few if any humans were living around the Dead Sea.

Today, its feed waters are intercepted by large populations and the lake level is declining rapidly.

"The reason the Dead Sea is going down is because virtually all of the fresh water flowing into it is being taken by the countries around it," said Steve Goldstein, a geochemist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, US.

"But we now know that in a previous warm period, the water that people are using today and are relying upon stopped flowing all by itself. That has important implications for people today because global climate models are predicting that this region in particular is going to become more arid in the future," he told BBC News.

Prof Goldstein has been presenting the results of the drilling work here at the 2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, the largest annual gathering of Earth scientists.

The Dead Sea is an extraordinary place. The surface of the inland waterway sits at the lowest land point on the planet, more than 400m below sea level.

Its hyper-salty waters descend in places a further 300m. And below the lake bed is layer upon layer of sediments that record the Dead Sea's history and the climate conditions that have prevailed in the region over hundreds of thousands of years.

A consortium of investigators from Israel, the US, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and Norway drilled two cores into the Dead Sea's bed in late 2010. One of them was centred close to the very deepest part of the lake.

At 235m down, the consortium hit a layer of small, rounded pebbles - what the team believes are the deposits of an ancient beach. Given the location of the core, this would suggest the Dead Sea had a complete, or near, dry-down at some point in the past.

Formal dating of the core sediments has not yet been completed, but their pattern leads the team to conclude that the dry-down occurred in the Eemian.

This was a stage in Earth history when global temperatures were as warm, if not slightly warmer, than they are today.

The modern day Middle East is preventing water getting into the Dead Sea. The surrounding countries are using it for agriculture. Fertiliser and salt manufacturing are also having an impact. Since 1997, the lake's surface has fallen more than 10m.

"Lake dry-down happened 120,000 years ago without any human intervention," said Prof Emi Ito, from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. "We're helping the lake level go down much sooner; and there are political implications of this lake drying down because water is what causes a lot of wars and I'll just leave it at that."

Prof Zvi Ben-Avraham, of the Minerva Dead Sea Research Centre, Tel Aviv University, added: "The drilling actually... it gives us perspective. Look what went on in 200,000 years; look how the area can be dry and look at the way it can be recovered. We have to get ready for the future."

Past research has shown very clearly how the size of the Dead Sea has fluctuated with the coming and going of ice ages.

During the interglacials (warm periods), the lake shrank; and during glacials (cold phases), the lake grew. And it was in the midst of the last ice age some 25,000 years ago that the Dead Sea reached its maximum extent, with the then water surface standing an astonishing 260m above where it is today.

This giant palaeo-lake, referred to by scientists as Lake Lisan, would have inundated the whole Dead Sea valley, even encompassing the Sea of Galilee to the north.

The consortium has traced these changes in the laminated sediments that line the surrounding cliffs and hills.

It is possible to see exquisite, alternating bands of light (aragonite) and dark (marl) material in the exposed rock.

The light layers are calcium carbonate precipitated out of the water in warm summer months. The dark bands are winter silts washed into the Dead Sea by storms.

But it is also possible to find layers of calcium sulphate (gypsum) and even salt, which relate to extended periods of dry weather when feed waters to the Dead Sea have not kept pace with evaporation.

"All these deposits from the last ice age are sitting at the edge of the lake, and we've been studying them for 20 years," said Prof Goldstein.

"They're beautifully exposed, but? as soon as we have a warm age, like we have today and like we had before the last ice age, the lake is lower and we have no exposures we can use. The only way we can get to those time periods is to have a deep drill core," he told BBC News.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-15938294

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Exclusive: ?Teen Mom? Chelsea falls for Adam

Chelsea seems charmed by her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Adam, on the season premiere of "Teen Mom 2."

By Ree Hines

Some things never change on ?Teen Mom 2.? If there?s trouble to be had, Jenelle Evans will find herself in the middle of it. If anyone?s going work hard to have it all, it?s Leah Messer. And if there?s one young mom that just can't put a certain teen dad behind her, well, that?s Chelsea Houska.

At the end of the first season of ?Teen Mom 2,? Chelsea finally said "so long" to her on-again-off-again boyfriend. But by the second season premiere, it seems she?s falling for Adam Lindt?s sometimes-good-guy act once again.

In an exclusive sneak peek MTV provided to TODAY.com, Adam can be seen turning on the charm while fawning over daughter Aubree.

?(Aubree) does tricks,? Chelsea told Adam.

?What is she? A dog?? Adam responded, clearly easing into his charming ways.

Aubree then impressed both parents by delivering an adorable ?get mad? face on demand. That inspired Adam.

?I want to hold her ? as a family,? he said.

Chelsea then told her daughter to give each of them a kiss. Aubree obliged, but Adam turned it into something more.

?It?s like we just kissed,? he told a blushing Chelsea.

?No, it?s not!? she said.

?Yes, it is,? Adam insisted. ?You just kissed me.?

The flirty routine continued until Adam finally walked out the door.

?Teen Mom 2? returns to MTV Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 10 p.m. ET.

What do you think of the latest between Chelsea and Adam? Is she just setting herself up for more disappointment from his usual good-dad-bad-dad routine, or is there a chance they can make it work this time? Share your thoughts on our Facebook page.

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Start your week with the Greatest Android Podcast in the World!

Android Central PodcastWe're in that weird part of the year where we're coming off one holiday and getting ready for a couple more. But there's no rest for the wicket, and this past week on the Greatest Android Podcast in the World, we tackled the ASUS Transformer Prime, caught up with the latest in the CarrierIQ saga, and touched some more on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

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Infamous 'geezer bandit' strikes again

By Tony Shin, NBC San Diego

The notorious bank robber "Geezer Bandit" has struck again, according to the FBI official.

But this time, he may have left behind a crucial clue that could give investigators the break they need to capture him.

Friday evening around 5:40 p.m., the bandit robbed a teller at a Bank Of America branch in San Luis Obispo.

"He pointed a revolver pistol at a teller and threatened the teller with the use of that weapon and he did receive some money and he left the area," Special Agent Darrell Foxworth said.

San Luis Obispo police investigators said the bandit didn't get far with the money because a dye-pack exploded as soon as he left the bank.

The thief dropped the money in the parking lot.

"The suspect would possibly have red on his hands and clothing,"said Lt. Bill Proll. "We did have a witness report that a white 5 series BMW took off at a high rate of speed."

But video from the scene of the dye-pack explosion also showed a leather-bound address book or dayplanner lying on the ground. It appears to be very similar to the one the suspect carries during his robberies.

In the surveillance photos from the robbery, you can see him carrying a case that resembles the one found in the parking lot.

FBI agents won't comment on any possible evidence found at the scene.

"Hopefully we'll have additional information from the robbery and that will move the investigation forward," Foxworth told NBCSanDiego.

The suspect has been linked to 16 robberies in California, most of them happened in San Diego County. There is a $20,000 reward for his capture and conviction.

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Singer Mindy McCready's 5-year-old son in custody (AP)

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. ? By the time Arkansas authorities took country singer Mindy McCready's 5-year-old son from her and into custody on Friday evening, one thing had already become apparent to many in America: McCready's life has come to resemble a bad country song.

Since her emergence in the mid-1990s as a honey-voiced success story out of Nashville, McCready has been increasingly known for her personal foibles instead of her music.

This week's custody battle was the latest in a long saga of personal heartache and brushes with the law.

Florida Department of Children and Families spokeswoman Terri Durdaller wrote in an email Saturday that her agency was working with Arkansas state officials to bring McCready's son, Zander, back to her legal guardian in Florida. His maternal grandmother has been Zander's guardian since 2007.

Officials say he's safe and in good health.

"Zander is in Arkansas and we continue to arrange his swift arrival back to Florida," Durdaller wrote.

In Arkansas, Cleburne County Sheriff Marty Moss said Saturday that McCready didn't have permission to be in the unoccupied summer home where she was found Friday evening with her son. Authorities continue to investigate the matter, he said.

The sheriff's office said in a news release Saturday that it was known McCready had been a visitor to the area and that deputies were working with the U.S. Marshals Service to see if the singer might be there. Authorities located McCready after receiving a report of "possible occupants in a summer home that was supposed to be unoccupied," the news release said.

Authorities said officers entered the home and found McCready and her son in a bedroom closet. A man, David Wilson, was also in the residence. Moss said neither had permission to be in the residence, but neither was arrested at the time.

Moss told the Associated Press on Saturday that the house where all three were found is next door to one where Wilson has stayed in the past. He said he doesn't know if McCready is still in the area and doesn't expect that she will face any charges for being at the unoccupied home.

"I don't expect that to happen," Moss said.

Gayle Inge, Zander's grandmother and McCready's mother, was tearful when she talked about the news by phone Friday night with The Associated Press.

"I'm real excited that he's safe," she said. "But I can't explain what this is like. We feel for Mindy and we feel for Zander."

Inge said that her son ? McCready's half-brother ? texted McCready, who responded with a text that said her mother would never see her again.

"I want to wrap my arms around her and tell her that I love her," Inge said.

McCready, who turned 36 on Wednesday, did not respond to emails Friday and Saturday.

The weekend developments capped a days-long struggle between McCready and several others, including state of Florida child welfare authorities, a Fort Myers, Fla. judge and her own mother.

Authorities say McCready took the boy during a visit late last month to her father's southwest Florida home, where she was allowed to visit the boy. McCready's parents are divorced.

A Florida judge signed an order Thursday telling authorities to take the boy into custody and return him. It's not yet clear whether the singer could face criminal charges.

McCready said earlier in the week that she would not bring her son back from Tennessee, where she has a home, despite violating the custody arrangement. She told the AP that her son had suffered abuse at her mother's house, a claim that Inge vehemently denies.

"I'm doing all this to protect Zander, not stay out of trouble," McCready wrote in an email to the AP on Thursday. "I don't think I should be in trouble for protecting my son in the first place."

McCready told the AP Wednesday night she was in Tennessee and couldn't travel because she is seven months pregnant with twins.

The boy's father, Billy McKnight, told NBC's "Today" show Friday he spoke on the phone with McCready and their boy after the judge's Thursday deadline expired.

"He did sound healthy and OK. He wasn't crying or scared," McKnight said about their son.

"I think she believes she has a case and doesn't realize she's pushing her luck on this one," he said.

McCready and her mother have had a long custody battle over the boy, who was living with McCready's mother.

The singer had provided a series of emails to the AP with Lee County Judge James Seals' ruling to return the boy.

"Mom has violated the court's custody order and we are simply restoring the child back into our custody," the judge wrote. "Nothing more. Nothing less. The court makes no judgment about whether Mom will or will not competently care for the child while in her custody. It only wants the child back where the court placed him."

McCready found fame in the mid-1990s when she moved to Nashville at the age of 18, armed with only her karaoke tapes. Her first album, "Ten Thousand Angels," sold two million copies.

Her next four albums weren't as successful. Her personal troubles began encroaching on her professional success. According to her website, she suffers from severe depression.

McCready fought the release of a tape in which she reportedly talked about former Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens, with whom she had an affair as a teenager.

In August, she filed a libel suit against her mother and the National Enquirer's parent company, American Media Inc., over a story published in the tabloid newspaper that quoted Inge.

And in 2008, McCready was admitted to a hospital after police said she cut her wrists and took several pills in a suicide attempt.

During the TV show "Celebrity Rehab 3" in 2010, McCready came off as a sympathetic figure, and host Dr. Drew Pinsky called her an angel in the season finale.

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Helioid?s Search Engine Provides Category Sorting To Aid Research, Targets Students And Professionals

Screen Shot 2011-12-02 at 3.07.22 PMThe floor of Silicon Valley is littered with the carcasses of failed search startups. Without billions of dollars in resources like Microsoft or a tight vertical focus like travel site Kayak to help attract users, would-be competitors haven't been able to pull people away from Google. Helioid is a small startup out of New York that's trying to change that, by delivering results tied to categories of information. It's aiming at students, professionals and others who are trying to do exploratory research across a topic, and aren't just looking for a specific answer to a question. Its search results page shows a color-coded section on the left-hand side for the categories that it determines are most related to the search term. Each result has a dot next to it matching one of these categories, and a label showing the relative size of that category, with the most relevant ones at the top of the section.

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The GOP?s Jimmy Carter fixation (Washington Post)

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Friday, December 2, 2011

Vladimir Putin vs. the Pig in Russia's election Sunday

Vladimir Putin's United Russia party is confronted with a cartoon pig named Nakh-Nakh in Sunday's parliamentary election. A series of animated clips posted on the Internet challenge the status quo leadership.

Vladimir Putin's United Russia party faces an array of Communists, nationalists and liberals in a parliamentary election on Sunday, but one of its ardent opponents is a more peculiar political animal: a cartoon pig named Nakh-Nakh.

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Pushed to the margins since Putin came to power 12 years ago, some of the prime minister's fiercest foes are urging Russians to reject the political system he has put in place by spoiling their ballots in Sunday's State Duma vote.

"This is not an election in the European sense of the word, because no party that presents a challenge, or has not been agreed with the Kremlin, has been allowed to run," said satirist Viktor Shenderovich, a co-founder of the Nakh-Nakh movement.

"The question is what people who understand this is a farce should do."

Their answer: Nakh-Nakh, a bespectacled pig with an orange scarf, a blue beret and a double-entendre of a name that to Russians evokes both the Three Little Pigs and an obscenity which, put more politely, means 'Go away!'.

Shenderovich and his allies have enlisted Nakh-Nakh to show Russians how to show what they think of the election.

In a series of animated clips posted on the Internet, the pink-cheeked pig casts his vote, angrily marking the box for each party with an X and adding a big black X across the entire ballot before slipping it through the slot.

A caricature of?Putin appears repeatedly: in a poster on the wall of the polling place, atop the shoulders of all the poll workers and adjacent to the names of all seven parties' names on the ballot.

In one clip -- "Nakh-Nakh's Scary Dream" -- the pig attends a Kremlin banquet but soon finds he is the main dish, an apple stuffed in his mouth and his body carved into butcher's cuts labeled with the names of the seven parties on Sunday's ballot.

The message: It's the same no matter how you slice it.

"Cross out the thieving authorities. Spoil the celebration. Come to the election. Vote against all," one clip says. "Vote for Russia."

AGAINST ALL

Russians used to be able to register disapproval of their choice by marking an "against all" box on the ballot.

Nearly three million voters did so in the 2003 election to the Duma, Russia's lower parliament house. The "against all" option received 4.7 percent of the votes, more than 19 of the 23 parties on the ballot.

The Duma then passed legislation striking the "against all" option from ballots, part of a series of electoral reforms enacted during Putin's 2000-2008 presidency that critics said were meant to silence dissent and strengthen his grip on power.

The Kremlin-controlled parliament also raised the threshold needed to win State Duma seats to 7 percent and threw up other barriers to potential challengers.

Putin's political foes have also faced plenty of other hurdles, from riot police that routinely break up unsanctioned protests to tightly managed national television and federal authorities they say have barred them from elections illegally.

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Iranian protesters storm British diplomatic compounds (Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters) ? Iranian protesters stormed two British diplomatic compounds in Tehran, smashing windows, torching a car and burning the British flag in protest against new sanctions imposed by London.

Britain said it was outraged by Tuesday's attacks and warned of "serious consequences". The U.N. Security Council condemned the attacks "in the strongest terms". U.S. President Barack Obama called on Iran to hold those responsible to account.

The attacks come at a time of rising diplomatic tension between Iran and Western nations who last week imposed fresh sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program, which they believe is aimed at achieving the capability of making an atomic bomb.

Iran, the world's fifth biggest oil exporter, says it only wants nuclear plants to generate electricity.

The embassy storming is also a sign of deepening political infighting within Iran's ruling hard-line elites, with the conservative-led parliament attempting to force the hand of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and expel the British ambassador.

"Radicals in Iran and in the West are always in favor of crisis ... Such radical hardliners in Iran will use the crisis to unite people and also to blame the crisis for the fading economy," said political analyst Hasan Sedghi.

Several dozen protesters broke away from a crowd of a few hundred outside the main British embassy compound in downtown Tehran, scaled the gates, broke the locks and went inside.

Protesters pulled down the British flag, burned it, and put up the Iranian flag, Iranian news agencies and news pictures showed. Inside, the demonstrators smashed windows of office and residential quarters and set a car ablaze, news pictures showed.

One took a framed picture of Queen Elizabeth, state TV showed. Others carried the royal crest out through the embassy gate as police stood by, pictures carried by the semi-official Fars news agency showed.

All embassy personnel were accounted for, a British diplomat told Reuters in Washington, saying Britain did not believe that any sensitive materials had been seized.

Demonstrators waved flags symbolizing martyrdom and held aloft portraits of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has the final say on matters of state in Iran.

Another group of protesters broke into a second British compound at Qolhak in north Tehran, the IRNA state news agency said. Once the embassy's summer quarters, the sprawling, tree-lined compound is now used to house diplomatic staff.

An Iranian report said six British embassy staff had been briefly held by the protesters. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the situation had been "confusing" and that he would not have called them "hostages".

"Police freed the six people working for the British embassy in Qolhak garden," Iran's Fars news agency said.

A German school next to the Qolhak compound was also damaged, the German government said.

BRITAIN OUTRAGED

Police appeared to have cleared the demonstrators in front of the main downtown embassy compound, but later clashed with protesters and fired tear gas to try to disperse them, Fars said. Protesters nevertheless entered the compound a second time, before once again leaving, it said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the government crisis committee to discuss the attacks which he said were "outrageous and indefensible."

"The failure of the Iranian government to defend British staff and property was a disgrace," he said in a statement.

"The Iranian government must recognize that there will be serious consequences for failing to protect our staff. We will consider what these measures should be in the coming days."

The United States, alongside the European Union and many of its member states also strongly condemned the attacks.

There have been regular protests outside the British embassy over the years since the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah, but never have any been so violent.

The attacks and hostage-taking were a reminder of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran carried out by radical students who held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The United States cut diplomatic ties with Iran after the hostage-taking.

All British embassy personnel were accounted for and safe, a British diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters in Washington.

The diplomat said the attack likely flowed from Britain's November 21 decision to impose new sanctions on Iran because of its nuclear program, including a ban on British financial institutions dealing with their Iranian counterparts.

"It's impossible, really, not to reach that conclusion," the diplomat said, suggesting that the protests may have been sparked by the Iranian authorities.

"In the past we have certainly had demonstrations that have ... been sanctioned, if not encouraged, by the government. I don't know about this one. I don't think we'd put it past them," said the diplomat.

"It's hard to imagine, in a place like Iran, that these were some kind of spontaneous (event)," said a State Department official who declined to be identified.

INFIGHTING

The demonstrations appeared to be a bid by conservatives who control parliament to press home their demand, passed in parliament last week and quickly endorsed by the Guardian Council on Tuesday, for the government to expel the British ambassador in retaliation for the sanctions.

A lawmaker had warned on Sunday that angry Iranians could storm the British embassy.

"Parliament officially notified the president over a bill regarding degrading the ties with Britain, obliging the government to implement it within five days," Fars news agency quoted speaker Ali Larijani as saying.

Ahmadinejad's government has shown no willingness to compromise on its refusal to halt its nuclear work, but has sought to keep channels of negotiation open in an effort to limit the worst effects of sanctions.

An Iranian official told Reuters the storming of the British compounds was not planned by the government.

"It was not an organized measure. The establishment had no role in it. It was not planned," said the official, who declined to be identified. Iran's Foreign Ministry said it regretted the attacks and was committed to ensuring the safety of diplomats.

Police arrested 12 people who had entered the north Tehran compound, Fars said, quoting a police chief as saying they would be handed over to the judiciary.

Protesters said they planned to stage a sit-in at the gates of the north Tehran compound and would not move until they were told to do so by Iran's religious leaders.

Britain, along with the United States and Canada, imposed new unilateral sanctions on Iran last week, while the EU, France and Italy have all said financial measures against Tehran should be strengthened.

(Additional reporting by Hossein Jaseb and Hashem Kalantari in Tehran, Parisa Hafezi in Istanbul, William Maclean and Adrian Croft in London and Arshad Mohammed in Washington. Writing by Jon Hemming, editing by Andrew Roche and Christopher Wilson)

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

North Korea Uranium Enrichment Work Progressing, Country Claims

SEOUL, South Korea ? North Korea claimed Wednesday that it is making rapid progress on work to enrich uranium and build a light-water nuclear power plant. The news increases worries that the communist country is developing another way to make atomic weapons.

Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the construction of an experimental light-water reactor and low enriched uranium are "progressing apace." The statement was carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

Concerns about North Korea's atomic capability took on renewed urgency in November 2010 when a visiting American scientist was shown a uranium enrichment facility. Ostensibly for civilian electricity, a nuclear power plant allows North Korea to enrich uranium, which at low levels can be used in power reactors but can also be used in nuclear bombs in addition to the country's existing plutonium-based atomic weapons program.

Earlier this month, North Korean state media said "the day is near at hand" when the reactor will come into operation. Washington says it is concerned about reported progress on the reactor construction, saying that would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Five countries, including the United States, had been negotiating with North Korea to provide the nation with much-needed aid in exchange for disarmament. North Korea pulled out of the disarmament talks in 2009 to protest international condemnation of its prohibited long-range rocket test.

In recent months, North Korea has repeatedly expressed its willingness to rejoin the talks. South Korea and U.S. officials, however, have demanded the North first halt its uranium-enrichment program, freeze nuclear and missile tests and allow international nuclear inspectors back into the country.

The North Korean statement Wednesday accused the U.S. and its allies of "groundlessly" taking issue with the North's peaceful nuclear activities. They are "deliberately laying a stumbling block in the way of settling the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula through dialogue and negotiations," the statement said.

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Obama road trip: from payroll tax to campaign cash (AP)

WASHINGTON ? One trip, two money pitches. President Barack Obama wants more money in the pockets of U.S. workers ? and in his campaign treasury.

With both goals in mind, the president was to travel Wednesday to swing-state Pennsylvania to press his case for a bigger temporary payroll tax cut that will boost paychecks. He then will descend on donor-rich New York City to raise money for his already flush re-election bid.

The one-day trip to Scranton, Pa., and New York illustrates the dual policy and political demands on Obama as the 2012 campaign season nears. It also draws attention to the different audiences that politicians must court, particularly in a weak economy.

Obama is pushing Congress to extend and expand this year's payroll tax cut, a move designed to increase consumer demand and boost the economy. If Congress does not act by year's end, the full payroll tax of 6.2 percent would be restored, increasing taxes on 160 million Americans.

To make Obama's case, the Treasury Department on Wednesday released a report listing state-by-state estimates of how many taxpayers received tax breaks under this year's 2 percentage point reduction in the payroll tax. For example, the report states that 6.7 million Pennsylvanians will have received $4.7 billion in tax cuts this year. The figures reflect state populations, with California at the top with 16.7 million workers getting $12.6 billion in tax cuts; Wyoming finished the list with 300,000 workers getting $200 million in tax breaks.

As the deadline approaches, bipartisan political support is building for at least continuing the tax cut ? heading off a politically bruising tax hike. But Obama wants the cost of the payroll tax cut to be made up by an increase in taxes on taxpayers who earn more than $1 million, a trade-off that Republicans reject.

White House officials have refused to say what Obama would do if faced with the prospect of signing a law continuing the payroll tax cuts that does not include a method of paying for the extension.

"I don't want to box him or members of Congress in before we've even had a vote on the best way to do this," White House spokesman Jay Carney said on NBC Wednesday.

In selecting Scranton to make his appeal, Obama is venturing into the birthplace of Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bob Casey, the Pennsylvania Democrat who is the author of the payroll tax cut plan in the Senate.

The White House said Obama would meet with a Scranton family in their home before delivering a speech at Scranton High School.

Obama won Pennsylvania with 54 percent of the vote in 2008, but the state of the economy could put it in play in 2012. Its proximity to Washington and its political importance have made it a favorite stopping place for Obama and Biden. The trip comes as Obama steps up his re-election campaign, rolling out two ads that call on supporters to begin to mobilize.

White House spokesman Jay Carney, while conceding that the re-election effort is under way, played down politics as a factor in Obama's Scranton visit.

"It's part of his responsibility, serving the American people, to get out and be among them and to speak with them about his agenda or her agenda," he said.

In New York, Obama will attend three fundraisers: one at a private residence where tickets begin at $10,000; one at the Greenwich Village restaurant Gotham Bar and Grill at $35,800 per ticket; and a reception at the Sheraton Hotel, where tickets begin at $1,000. The money will be split between the Democratic National Committee and the Obama re-election campaign.

Obama also is scheduled to attend a reception celebrating progress on gay rights and the six-month anniversary of New York's approval of gay marriage. Obama has been supportive of gay and lesbian causes but has yet to declare his support for gay marriage.

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Hungary issues Steve Jobs postal sheet, card

(AP) ? Hungary's postal service says it has issued a numbered commemorative sheet incorporating a stamp-sized image of Steve Jobs, in memory of the co-founder of Apple Inc. who died in October.

Magyar Posta said Wednesday that 5,000 copies of the memorial set have been issued, selling for 1,000 forints ($4.40, euro3.30) each.

The sheet includes a perforated portrait of Jobs, while an accompanying card shows silhouettes of some of the inventor's characteristic poses and a quote about Jobs by Erno Rubik, the Hungarian architect who created Rubik's Cube and other mechanical puzzles.

A Budapest software company is planning to unveil a Jobs statue in December.

Jobs died at age 56 on Oct. 5 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

The commemorative sheet cannot be used to pay for postage

Associated Press

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

4 dead, churches burned in north Nigeria attack (AP)

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria ? Witnesses and authorities say at least four people died in an apparent attack on a northeast Nigeria city that saw churches and businesses burned to the ground.

The attack happened Saturday night in the city of Geidam in Nigeria's Yobe state, which sits near the country's arid border with Niger.

Witnesses say attackers blew up a local police station and attacked a bank, as well as set fire to businesses and at least eight churches.

The attacks come after a Nov. 4 attack in the state capital claimed by the radical Muslim sect known as Boko Haram that killed more than 100 people.

Meanwhile, police blamed the sect for two killings Sunday morning in neighboring Borno state.

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Zynga Builds Its CastleVille Walls, As Its Facebook Traffic Flattens And Falls

Screen Shot 2011-11-27 at 12.29.07 PMNew Facebook game CastleVille is one of Zynga's fastest-growing titles ever, as it announced a few days ago.?That's good news for the company, but maybe not good enough when you consider its overall traffic trajectory on Facebook, and its plans for an initial public offering as soon as next week. After launching in the middle of November, the medieval role-playing simulation title has grown to?6.9 million daily active users?today, currently the third-highest out of any Zynga game on Facebook. Overall, the developer has a total of 49.5 million daily actives on Facebook, according to Inside Network's?AppData?application tracking service. It's still by far the largest of any Facebook developer, but it has been falling from its peaks in previous months and years. Up until CastleVille launched, its games had been drifting down over the last 30 days from 48.2 million DAU. And bigger picture, the company's Facebook DAU had been 59 million in the second quarter, and had already fallen to 54 million in the third. In previous amendments to its filing, Zynga had said these changes were due ?to a decline in players of our more mature games and a limited number of new game launches in the first nine months of 2011.?

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Monday, November 28, 2011

A New Deal Flow: Startup Raps For Angel Funding, Venture Firm Responds In Kind

Screen shot 2011-11-28 at 2.58.41 AMLast week, Erick posted a video in which the founders of a stealth, San Francisco-based startup called Undrip spit some rhymes in an effort to raise seed funding for their new venture. Undrip, which is building a service to better filter your social networking streams (like Twitter) and let people consume media content without the noise, hoped to use their creative plea as a way to attract attention from top investors. They even created custom videos that they sent to individual investors, like Ron Conway. (See the video here.) And today, we've been pointed to this response created by Detroit-based venture capital firm, Ludlow Ventures, which seems to prove that some investors are not only listening, they may just want in. You may (or may not) know the Detroit firm as an investor in startups like Hipster, Graphic.ly, Fundly, and FLUD, to name a few. Jonathon Triest, the Co-founder of Ludlow Ventures is the moonwalking, rhyme-dropping emcee above.

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Filipino police arrest 4 suspected AT&T hackers (AP)

Four people have been arrested in the Philippines for allegedly hacking into AT&T customers' phones as part of a plan to funnel money to a Saudi-based terror group, according to police.

The Philippine Criminal Investigation and Detection Group said it worked with the FBI to arrest the suspects last week. The hackers, according to investigators, worked for a group that helped finance a deadly 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.

AT&T's systems weren't compromised but some of its customers were targeted, spokeswoman Jan Rasmussen said Saturday. AT&T cooperated in the investigation with the FBI, she said.

The FBI would not comment Saturday.

AT&T wrote off some fraudulent charges on customers' bills, but Rasmussen wouldn't say how much. Philippine police put the alleged hacking cost to AT&T at $2 million.

Last Tuesday, AT&T said that hackers unsuccessfully attempted to link mobile numbers with online customer accounts, but it wouldn't say on Saturday if that incident was linked to the arrests of the four people in the Philippines.

The hackers were working on commission for a terrorist group linked to Muhammad Zamir, according to the Philippine police. Zamir, a Pakistani, was arrested in Italy in 2007, where he was running a call center that collected money from callers but then routed the calls through hacked phone lines. He also allegedly sold international access codes for long distance calls that were gathered by Filipino hackers.

Since then, police said, Zamir's group has been taken over by a Saudi national. Philippine police didn't name the group, but India has blamed Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant organization, for the Mumbai attacks. Three years ago Saturday, 10 Pakistan-based gunmen laid siege to India's financial hub, killing 166 people.

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November 26, 2011

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