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Ocean Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES?[Tuesday 27 December 2011]

Sony is set to start selling its 3G/Wi-Fi hybrid Playstation (PS) Vita in Taiwan on February 17, 2012 with its distributor currently negotiating with local carrier Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on bundling 3G services.

Currently, consumer demand for Wi-Fi only Playstation (PS) Vita has been strong since the device's launch on December 23 in Taiwan.

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WASHINGTON ? Watch the political advertising and Elizabeth Warren, the leading Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts, either "sides with extreme left" protesters or has a history of being too cozy with Wall Street. Or Republican freshman Sen. Scott Brown, whom she hopes to defeat next year, is portrayed as an enemy of the environment.

Outside groups on both sides are spending millions of dollars on the race, highlighting the national prominence of the fight over the seat held for nearly 50 years by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. But the level of spending also foreshadows the role that such groups, including special political action committees, will play in many of next fall's big political matchups.

The flood of money and ads from outside the state is expected to surge as the Warren-Brown race intensifies.

"Massachusetts is at the end of the spear of what will be the big trend and the big story of 2012," said Ken Goldstein, president of Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks spending on political ads.

Super PACs have been showing their strength in marquis Senate races. The Supreme Court, in a trio of decisions capped by the landmark Citizens United case in 2010, eased restrictions on the use of corporate money in political campaigns and paved the way for such spending. Massachusetts is front and center, with the conservative Crossroads GPS spending $1.1 million on one spot casting Warren as aligned with radical elements of the Occupy Wall Street movement and another that has her siding with Wall Street bankers.

Crossroads GPS is an affiliate of American Crossroads, a group with ties to Karl Rove, a top political adviser to President George W. Bush. The groups spent more than $38 million to defeat Democrats in the 2010 midterms, raising money from large donors, including many whose identities remain unknown.

Crossroads GPS was by far the largest and most influential super PAC in that campaign year.

Last month, one Crossroads ad used spliced images of Warren with rowdy Occupy Wall Street protesters to claim that she "sides with extreme left" protesters who "attack police, do drugs and trash public parks."

Warren at one point said her philosophies provided the intellectual underpinnings for the Occupy movement, but she has backed off a bit, saying she supports the movement but that the protesters must follow the law.

A second Crossroads ad then painted Warren as being too cozy with Wall Street when she headed a congressional panel that oversaw the Treasury's handling of the $700 billion financial industry bailout, a charge Warren has dismissed as ridiculous given her background as a consumer advocate and leading critic of many Wall Street's practices.

The attacks prompted Warren to spend about $1 million on her first TV campaign ad, in which she says: "Before you hear a bunch of ridiculous attack ads, I want to tell you who I am."

Warren is an especially inviting target for Republicans because many voters don't know much about her, which Anthony Corrado, a campaign finance expert at Colby College in Maine, said explains why these groups have become active at such an early stage of the campaign.

"The first information can often have a powerful influence," he said.

Outside groups have also gone after Brown.

The League of Conservation Voters and the League of Women Voters have spent nearly $3 million on separate ad campaigns accusing Brown of casting anti-environmental votes. Both groups have also run ads against Democrats in other states.

The League of Women Voters' ad rapped Brown for voting with other Senate Republicans to ban the Environmental Protection Agency from controlling gases blamed for global warming. It showed a child breathing through an oxygen mask and urged Brown to "protect the people and not the polluters." Brown complained that the ad was "political demagoguery."

One spot by the League of Conservation Voters slammed Brown for siding with "big oil" and voting "repeatedly against protecting our environment and public health." He has denounced that ad as a distortion.

The League of Conservation Voters said Brown scored a zero on the group's national environmental report card.

The early wave of attack ads has hurt both candidates, a recent University of Massachusetts-Lowell/Boston Herald poll found. The percentage of voters who said they had an unfavorable view of Brown rose from 29 percent to 35 percent between late September and early December. Those viewing Warren unfavorably increased from 18 percent to 27 percent.

Brown wants third-party groups to pull their negative commercials. Warren draws the line at unfair attack ads but defends the rights of political action committees and other independent groups to run ads.

Such talk won't stop outside groups from swarming the airwaves with negative ads, however.

"This is just a harbinger of things to come," said Corrado.

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This undated photo provided by the Allen County Sheriff's Department shows Aliahna Lemmon. Numerous police officers and others are searching in Fort Wayne, Ind., for Lemmon, 9, who was last seen the morning of Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. Allen County Sheriff's Department Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel says investigators have no indication that Lemmon was abducted or what might have happened to her. (AP Photo/Allen County Sheriff's Department)

During an interview Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 Amber Story, left, Tarah's mom, and Tarah Souders talk about Tarah's daughter Aliahna Lemmon, 9, who is missing since Friday in Fort Wayne, Ind. (AP Photo/The Journal Gazette, Cathie Rowand)

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) ? The FBI joined the search for a missing 9-year-old Indiana girl with physical and emotional problems Monday as agents descended on the mobile home park where she lived and that's a known haven for registered sex offenders.

About a half-dozen people in black windbreakers, several of whom identified themselves as FBI agents, were at the mobile home park Monday where Aliahna Lemmon went missing from a family friend's home on Friday. Some with search dogs were seen at a nearby storage facility.

Monday's renewed search came a day after local police declined to search Sunday. Allen County sheriff's department officials also originally had not planned to search Monday either, unless new leads arose through tips from the public or interviews, Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel, a department spokesman, said earlier in the day.

Local police haven't said what they think happened to Aliahna.

Meanwhile, agents at the scene Monday wouldn't say why the FBI was involved. An agency spokesman didn't immediately return phone calls and e-mails seeking comment.

More than 100 emergency workers conducted an extensive search Saturday for Aliahna around the rundown mobile home park on Fort Wayne's north side where she was last seen. No active search was done Sunday for the girl.

According to a state website, 15 registered sex offenders live at the mobile home park that numbers about two dozen homes.

Elizabeth Watkins, 52, who has lived at the park for six months with her 4-year-old granddaughter, said it's well-known that several sex offenders live in the neighborhood.

"It's scary," she said. "I don't know how a parent could leave their child alone."

Aliahna's mother, Tarah Souders, 28, told The Journal Gazette her daughter has vision and hearing problems and suffers from attention deficit disorder and emotional problems. She also has a history of sleepwalking, family members said.

Aliahna and her sisters were staying at a family friend's nearby home because their mother had been sick with the flu and Aliahna's stepfather works at night and sleeps during the day, The Journal Gazette reported Monday.

Mike Plumadore, 39, told the newspaper Sunday that he left the three girls in his mobile home about 6 a.m. Friday and went to a gas station about a mile away to buy a cigar. Authorities have said the store's surveillance video shows him there about that time.

"I had deadbolted the door," he said. "When I got back, all the girls was here."

He said he smoked his cigar and went back to sleep, then woke up about 10 a.m. when Aliahna's mother called. After that call, he realized the door to the home was unlocked and that Aliahna was gone. He said Aliahna's sisters, both 6 years old, told him that Aliahna had left with her mom.

Plumadore said it wasn't until he talked with Aliahna's mom about 8:30 p.m. that they realized she was missing and police were notified.

Plumadore is not listed on the state's website that lists registered sex offenders.

Tarah Souders said miscommunication between the two of them caused the delay in determining that Aliahna had vanished.

"She's never wandered off," Souders said. "She's never done anything like this before."

But Aliahna does have a history of sleepwalking, even unlocking doors and going outside while sleeping, said her grandmother, Amber Story.

"I just hope that she's not suffering or in pain," Story said.

Souders said her daughter also has vision and hearing problems and suffers from attention deficit disorder and emotional problems.

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Anyone that's suffered data loss will know how much of a lifesaver backups are. To the average user, backups can get tedious and intrusive, so modern day systems have been geared towards making the process as simple as possible.

Enter Windows Phone 7. Currently, the OS doesn't have an auto backup feature (unless you turn to the homebrew scene), but a recent job posting looks like that's all set to change. WMPU has uncovered a listing for a Software Engineer to join Redmond's?Windows Phone Backup, Migrate and Restore team.

The listing reads:

Come join the Windows Phone Backup, Migrate, and Restore team. Our goal is to ensure that no matter if someone loses their phone, drops their phone in a lake, buys a new windows phone, or just has their toddler wipe their phone by entering the wrong PIN over and over, a user can quickly and seamlessly get their phone back to a good state. The features we are producing will be new for the next version of Windows Phone and will help ensure Microsoft stays ahead of the competition when it comes to disaster recovery.

The keywords here are "quickly and seamlessly". With Apple's iCloud and Google's web offerings making most phone data recovery pretty straightforward, Microsoft has got a fair bit to live up to. If they can come up with something unobtrusive and simple, they may be onto another winning feature.

Interested in the job? You can read the full listing and apply directly to Microsoft here.

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CyberLink PowerDVD took the top spot with 40% of the votes cast, the far and away winner. Second place was hotly contested however, with AnyDVD HD taking second place with just under 24%, and PotPlayer took the third place slot with 21% of the votes cast. In fourth place was ArcSoft Total Media with close to 10% of the votes cast, and Corel WinDVD Pro bringing up the rear in 5th place with under 5% of the overall vote.

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Particularly in this era of YouTube and Flickr, it's worth pondering what makes an image or a video clip iconic -- or "go viral," to use the social media lingo?

If the question had an easy answer, of course, Hollywood film companies and marketing and public relations firms wouldn't be throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at it.

But, Martin Kemp should be commended for trying to work his way through what's at stake in an image becoming an icon in his new book, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon.

A professor emeritus of the history of art at Oxford University, Kemp tackles 11 important images and figures in his book: Christ, the cross, the heart, the lion, the Mona Lisa, Che, a Vietnam War photo of napalmed children, the American flag, Coca-Cola, DNA, and the equation E=MC?.

Kemp devotes one chapter to each of the themes, symbols, or figures, and some of the chapters reflect particularly interesting research and little-known facts. Anyone who has seen Kemp's Wikipedia page won't be surprised at his wide repertoire, but it bears reiterating. In Christ to Coke, Kemp easily navigates high art and kitsch, and complicated scientific discoveries and sociology and cultural history.

But as dazzling as Kemp's individual chapters are in their information about the first heart transplant (in South Africa, and the Jewish patient's wife worried about her husband's new gentile heart) and who really invented Coca-Cola's semi-erotic-shaped bottle, there is no overarching lesson about icons.

"There is no absolute predictability -- just a series of extraordinary stories about images that exhibit varied kinds of shared and individual characteristics," Kemp writes.

Kemp allows that though only two of his chapters address literally religious subject matter -- Christ and the cross -- the heart has a "conspicuous religious dimension." And if the definition of 'religion' is extended to "embrace devotion that accords a value to something that transcends all its apparent physical existence," he adds, "then the other eight all exhibit either religious or quasi-religious dimensions."

One wonders why Kemp abandons this approach when he seeks larger governing patterns. He calls the American flag "probably the most religious of the apparently secular images" -- as it is a "kind of sacramental object through both law and custom" -- and notes that lions can convey divine majesty, and "No one who has witnessed the elbowing crowds in front of the Mona Lisa can doubt that 'she' is the subject of cultural worship and journeys of pilgrimage."

But after arguing that it'd be tough to characterize the Coca-Cola bottle as religious "without debasing the term 'religious' to embrace such things as the worship of material consumption," Kemp dismisses religious, or quasi-religious, identity as a defining feature of icons. "We all tend to accord value to things that transcend any kind of financial and utilitarian worth," he says.

So apparently transcendence won't do as a contributing factor to icon status, though of course all successful icons are necessarily transcendent, in that they distinguish themselves from the pack of would-be icons. Perhaps identifying transcendence as a prerequisite to achieving iconic status would be a tautology, but it's actually a bit of a deep point.

A Che Guevara portrait isn't necessarily going to be successful because of it's subject matter. The photograph actually needs to be greater than the competition, just like Christ's majesty doesn't mean every crucifixion is going to be great art. Iconic themes certainly don't imply that every treatment of the themes deserve a reward. So Kemp is no doubt onto something in noticing at least some religious aspect to the icons he examines -- even the non-religious ones.

It's no wonder, then, that Kemp's first chapter on the "true icon" is arguably his most interesting one. In his treatment of Jesus' appearance, Kemp carefully traces the history of the acheiropoietos, or image not made by human hands. The sudarium (or Veronica's Veil) literally claimed iconic status by virtue of their divine creators.

Kemp doesn't suggest it, but perhaps all the 11 icons he addresses can be viewed in this light. Viewers are of course interested in Mona Lisa because they are fascinated by the image's creator, Leonardo da Vinci, and the model, Mona Lisa. But I'd argue that the painting has become iconic at least in part because it's so easy to "get lost" in the work and to forget the literal content and the creator. I'd submit that this type of transcendence might be common to all icons. The ones that have so much depth that they can hold our attention in their own right are the ones that we will cling to for many generations.

Of course this won't help us diagnose and predict which images are likely to go "viral," as it's always easier to predict the past than the future when it comes to qualitative judgments like this, but it might still be a useful template to use when we pose the very provocative question of what makes certain images become icons.

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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Authorities have identified the man shot?last week outside a Florida Panhandle bar by a police officer.

Pensacola Police Chief Chip Simmons says 25-year-old Robert?Jason Donson was shot in the stomach after a scuffle Friday?afternoon by 31-year-old Officer Shawn Thompson.

Donson was hospitalized. Police did not release his condition.?Simmons said Thompson was on duty and accompanied by other?officers. He also said a handgun was recovered at the scene.

Simmons declined further comment to the Pensacola News Journal, pending an investigation by the?Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Thompson is on paid administrative leave, which is standard?procedure for any officer-involved shooting.?Escambia County court records show that Donson has several?felony convictions dating back to 2005.

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COMMENTARY | Members of the Obama administration's press office need to have their mouths washed out with soap. Numerous journalists covering the White House beat reported "nasty gram" emails as well as multiple yelling and cursing phone calls from the press secretary Jay Carney's office, according to the Washington Post.

Life is not a kindergarten classroom and flared tempers are to be expected on occasion, but a modicum of professionalism is also necessary. Perhaps the Obama administration has finally come to realize that not every journalist will get a tingle up their leg while discussing the president's actions.

The media and politicians should never become best friends. Presidential press staff members engaging in heated banter with journalists is not a new scenario, but the Obama administration is employing an edgier and street wise set of rules when dealing with reporters attempting to get answers for the American public. An intelligent individual does not need to resort to cursing and screaming to get a point across. The playground retaliatory behavior not only condoned but engaged in by Carney is beneath the office of the presidency of the United States.

White House Correspondents' Association President Caren Bohan told the Post that multiple reporters had complained about their dealings with Obama administration media officials. It is doubtful that any reporters from MSNBC have been the recipients of Carney's vulgar wrath. Tossing softball questions at the president will keep the MSNBC reporters on the press secretary's good side.

Journalist Julie Mason received a "nasty gram" email from Carney after reading one of her articles which he felt was partisan and tendentious, according to the Post. After watching a television interview which included Mason, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor sent her an email with an animated image of a crying mime, implicating she was a whiner, according to the Post. Behaving like petulant children is not appropriate for public employees drawing large salaries funded by the American taxpayer.

Carney should have thought about the legacy the Obama administration will leave before sending the "nasty grams" to journalists. The electronic communications are now a part of the officials Obama White House archives. An adversarial relationship with the press is acceptable, but the juvenile emails and shouted swear words just diminish any credibility the Obama administration has left.

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While most of the rest of the world is covering up due to cold weather, those of us in South Florida are enjoying the 70+ degree temperatures! Spotted earlier today (December 22nd, 2011) actress Gabrielle Union made a splash in a sexy, orange bikini on South Beach, Florida surrounded by friends.

The 39-year-old (!) beauty has been spending a lot of time in the Sunshine State since she started dating Miami Heat shooting guard Dwayne Wade. I bumped into her during the Vogue/Missoni party at Art Basel and she is just fabulous! I?m shocked to see she is turning 40 next fall!

Even though the Heat lost last night 104-100, consider it only practice for the opener taking place against the Dallas Mavericks on Christmas Day.

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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Infrastructure as a service cloud provider and web hosting operator Atlantic Metro Communications posted a press release to its blog on Tuesday announcing that it has become an authorized reseller of the Google Apps suite of communication and collaborations tools.

Google Apps provides businesses with communications and collaboration tools, hosted by Google, including mail, calendar and instant messaging. Along with Google Docs, the tools provide a fairly complete set of hosted, online productivity and business tools.

For some hosting providers, offering Google Apps to customers can be a practical or even ideological alternative to more widely distributed offerings like Microsoft Exchange.

The reseller program enables hosting partners, like Atlantic Metro, to provide customers with access to the Google Apps products. Atlantic Metro says it provides its customers with deployment help, training and support for the tools, along with access to APIs for integrating the apps into their business operations.

More information on what Google can provide to resellers is available at the Google Apps reseller program website.

?Becoming a Google Apps Reseller has expanded our service portfolio and enabled us to offer our clients access to a broad set of powerful and easy to use APIs,? said Stephen Klenert, co-founder of Atlantic Metro Communications, quoted in the announcement. ?Google Apps for Business is a cost-effective solution, and the tools provided allow our customers to communicate and collaborate effectively. Our clients have found that using Google Apps has helped them to complete day-to-day tasks such as scheduling and document management more efficiently and improved overall productivity.?

More information on the offerings available through Atlantic Metro?s reseller relationship with Google Apps is available at the company?s website.

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TOPEKA, Kan. ? Holiday travelers were breathing a sigh of relief Wednesday after a snowstorm that closed interstates across the Great Plains moved out of the region, allowing crews to plow away snow drifts and let stranded motorists leave roadside hotels.

The storm was blamed for at least two fatal car accidents as it crawled from eastern New Mexico and Colorado through the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas. The fierce winds and heavy snowfall closed several major roadways before weakening Tuesday as the weather moved into Missouri and toward the Great Lakes.

But another winter weather system threatened some of the same areas that had been hit, including the Rockies and parts of Wyoming, New Mexico and western Kansas. Those areas could see another round of snow and wind over the next few days, but it wouldn't be as strong as the recent storm, said meteorologist Brian Barjenbruch of the Nation Weather Service's Topeka, Kan., office.

"It's tough to match what we had in some areas with this past storm," he said early Wednesday.

Meanwhile, authorities still reported snow drifts of up to 10 feet high in southeast Colorado, and Texas officials warned drivers to stay off the road in the Panhandle so crews could remove ice and snow. Some highways in the western half of the Oklahoma Panhandle remained closed early Wednesday, with transportation officials warning of hazardous conditions.

At least 40 people were stranded the Longhorn Motel on Main Street in Boise City, Okla., where manager Pedro Segovia said blowing snow had created drifts 2- and 3-feet high and closed the main road.

"Some people cannot even get out of their houses. There is too much snow," Segovia said Tuesday. "It's was blowing. We've got big piles. It's real bad."

Receptionist MaKenzee Grove sympathized with the 50 or so people stranded at the hotel where she works in Guymon, about 60 miles east of Boise City.

"I have this rinky-dink car that does not do well in this," Grove said. "If we wouldn't have had the wind, it wouldn't have been as bad. The winds ... made the drifts really bad."

A few guests traveling to Oklahoma City managed to leave Tuesday, but others would likely have to wait another night before all roads were clear, she said.

Officials reopened Interstate 40 in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico, and portions of Interstate 70 in western Kansas that had been closed Tuesday. New Mexico reopened a closed section of Interstate 25, the main route from Santa Fe to the Colorado line, after crews cleared drifts as high as 5 feet.

The storm dumped as much as 15 inches of snow as it hit parts of five states.

In Kansas, schools in Manhattan canceled classes Tuesday, anticipating several inches of snow. The National Weather Service reported later that 3 inches or less fell.

To the east, a cold rain pelted the Topeka area, turned into a mix of light sleet and snow without much accumulation and tapered off. Forecasters said the storm became less potent as it moved northeast toward the Great Lakes.

Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Ben Gardner said the patrol dealt with dozens of accidents in which motorists slid off highways Tuesday.

"We had ice-covered roads, covered by snow packed on top," he said.

The late-autumn snowstorm lumbered into the region Monday, turning roads to ice and reducing visibility to zero. Many of the areas hit had enjoyed relatively balmy 60-degree temperatures just 24 hours earlier.

The storm was blamed for at least six deaths, authorities said. Four people were killed when their vehicle collided with a pickup truck in part of eastern New Mexico where blizzard-like conditions are rare, and a prison guard and inmate died when a prison van crashed on an icy road in eastern Colorado.

The Colorado Army National Guard said it rescued two stranded motorists early Tuesday in eastern Las Animas County, in the state's southeast corner, using a special vehicle designed to move on snow. Smaller highways in that area remained closed.

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Associated Press writers Jeri Clausing in Albuquerque, N.M.; Matt Curry in Dallas; and Tim Talley in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will offer a compromise on Monday to extend a popular payroll tax cut, a fellow Democrat said on Sunday.

Appearing on the "Fox News Sunday" program, Senator Kent Conrad said Reid's proposal would cover the cost of extending the tax cut, set to expire at the end of this month, but he left it up to Reid to provide details on Monday.

The Democratic-controlled Senate last week defeated competing payroll tax cut extension plans by Democrats and Republicans, showing the need for the two sides to find common ground.

Conrad, a Democrat and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said Reid called him on Saturday and said he would offer on Monday "a compromise plan to extend the payroll tax.

Conrad said Reid's plan will be a "serious attempt to move this ball forward because we should not have a tax increase on the middle income. That just makes no sense in this economy."

In a pair of Senate votes last Thursday, Republicans and Democrats said no to each other's plans.

Republicans objected to Democratic calls to slap a new tax on those making more than $1 million to cover the projected $110 billion cost of extending the payroll tax cut.

And Democrats rejected the Republican proposal to pay for it by extending a pay freeze on federal workers and reducing the federal work force.

Conrad said Reid's plan would represent a compromise.

While he declined to released any details, Conrad said Reid's proposal would be fully paid for and not increase the nation's record $15 trillion debt.

"It will be paid for, it will be in a way that is credible and serious," the senator said.

(Reporting by Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Paul Simao)

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ROME (Reuters) ? Italy would have collapsed without the government's tough new austerity package, Prime Minister Mario Monti said on Monday, saying his country ran the risk of a Greek-style emergency.

Monti spoke to foreign journalists about the 30 billion euro package of tax rises, pension reforms and growth-boosting incentives before presenting it to parliament later on Monday.

Monti's action, agreed by the cabinet on Sunday, kicked off one of the most crucial weeks since the launch of the euro more than a decade ago.

The package, dubbed a "Save Italy" decree by Monti, aims to raise more than 10 billion euros ($13.4 billion) from a property tax, impose a new levy on luxury items like yachts, raise value added tax, crack down on tax evasion and increase the pension age.

"Without this package, we think that Italy would have collapsed, that Italy would go into a situation similar to that of Greece," Monti told the news conference.

Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy, has been at the centre of the crisis since mid-year, when its borrowing costs began to approach the levels that forced Ireland, Greece and Portugal to seek an international bailout.

Markets, primed ahead of a vital meeting of EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, welcomed the measures, which analysts said should be enough to persuade the European Central Bank to continue hold down borrowing costs by buying Italian bonds on the market.

Yields on 10-year Italian bonds dropped to 6.2 percent, around a full percentage point lower than last week, while the risk premium over benchmark German Bunds narrowed to 408 basis points, levels last seen in early November.

The first comment from a European leader was also positive. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who met Monti in Rome on Monday morning, said he was "very impressed" by the package, which was also welcomed by the European Commission.

MEASURES IN EFFECT IMMEDIATELY

Most Italian newspapers praised Monti for biting the bullet in a difficult moment and for distributing the pain.

"There are times when you have to displease everyone and certainly, this, for Italy is one of those moments," the Turin daily La Stampa said.

Packed into a single emergency decree, the measures take effect immediately, before formal parliamentary approval, but Monti will have to secure the backing of legislators within 60 days for them to remain in force.

Monti, appointed at the head of a technocrat government to replace former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi last month, had been under growing pressure to come up with concrete measures to address fears about Italy's towering debt mountain.

He has held to Berlusconi's pledge of a balanced budget by 2013, despite growing signs that Italy is heading into a recession that will make it extremely difficult to make inroads into a public debt of 120 percent of gross domestic product.

Deputy Economy Minister Vittorio Grilli said the measures outlined on Sunday would allow the goal to be met despite a forecast that GDP would contract by 0.4-0.5 percent in 2012.

The package is divided into 20 billion euros of budget tightening and an additional 10 billion euros that will be pumped back into the economy in the form of measures to help companies and boost growth.

Caught between the competing needs of boosting growth and ensuring that cuts do not further depress a fragile economy, Monti's government risks growing opposition after an initial honeymoon period granted by a public fed up with the scandals of the Berlusconi era.

Unions criticized the package and in an early sign of possible opposition to the Monti government, FIM-CISL, a union representing metal workers, said it would call a two-hour strike on Wednesday.

"Yet again, the sacrifices demanded fall mainly on salaried workers and pensioners and on the weaker sections of society," the union said in a statement. ($1 = 0.7446 euros)

(Additional reporting by Philip Pullella and Alberto Sisto, Writing by James Mackenzie; Editing by Barry Moody and Alessandra Rizzo.)

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Well this is good news – Kim Richards is heading back to rehab. After watching her this season, I am very relieved, as I am sure her family is. get the details here. I have been quite concerned for Kim Richards this season. Sure, last season she was a bit kooky, but this time around she is slurring her words, acting irrational, and just weird. So I am not surprised when i learned she was in rehab. You can get all the details at RADAR ONLINE. Here are my other favorite Monday Funday links!!! Olivia Munn Gets Sexy For FHM January 2012 – BACKSEAT CUDDLER. Dang! Check out Svelte Brigitte Nielsen Looking Great at 48 – CELEBRITY SMACK. EARSUCKER has Two And A Half Men Season 9 Episode 11 Recap ?What A Lovely Landing Strip?. Is Robert Pattinson Cheating on Kristen Stewart? VIDEO at I NEED MY FIX. Karina Smirnoff Calls Off Engagement ? Is She the Runaway Bride? – HAVE U HEARD. Beyonce Opens Up About Pregnancy With Katie Couric On 20/20 – DAILY STAB. Kim Kardashian Warned Kris Humphries To Give Up Basketball Or Face Divorce – CELEB DIRTY LAUNDRY. Ugghh, What A LOSER!! Jesse James Calls Sandra [...]

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I think it would fit Lacey well to fall for one of the killers and let her guard down just to kinda see she shouldnt have, the killer doesnt have to really like her back or anything just be flirty or something like that.

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I think that Natalie would make a good Stockholm Syndrome candidate. And start helping her captures.

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Jack, i think, would like Lacey because she doesn't seem so delicate, but i'm not sure yet if he wouldn't kill her later. That might need to be found out later ;)

Maybe he'd like Natalie, too, for the complete opposite reason! (this may end up being a very interesting plotline!)

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Friday, December 2, 2011

Discoveries of new planets just keep coming and coming. Take, for instance, the 18 recently found by a team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

"It's the largest single announcement of planets aside from the discoveries made by the Kepler mission," says John Johnson, assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech and the first author on the team's paper, which was published in the December issue of The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. The Kepler mission is a space telescope that has so far identified more than 1,200 possible planets, though the majority of those have not yet been confirmed.

Using the Keck Observatory in Hawaii?with follow-up observations using the McDonald and Fairborn Observatories in Texas and Arizona, respectively?the researchers surveyed about 300 stars. They focused on those dubbed "retired" A-type stars that are more than one and a half times more massive than the sun. These stars are just past the main stage of their life?hence, "retired"?and are now puffing up into what's called a subgiant star.

To look for planets, the astronomers searched for stars of this type that wobble, which could be caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet. By searching the wobbly stars' spectra for Doppler shifts?the lengthening and contracting of wavelengths due to motion away from and toward the observer?the team found 18 planets with masses similar to Jupiter's.

This new bounty marks a 50 percent increase in the number of known planets orbiting massive stars and, according to Johnson, provides an invaluable population of planetary systems for understanding how planets?and our own solar system?might form. The researchers say that the findings also lend further support to the theory that planets grow from seed particles that accumulate gas and dust in a disk surrounding a newborn star.

According to this theory, tiny particles start to clump together, eventually snowballing into a planet. If this is the true sequence of events, the characteristics of the resulting planetary system?such as the number and size of the planets, or their orbital shapes?will depend on the mass of the star. For instance, a more massive star would mean a bigger disk, which in turn would mean more material to produce a greater number of giant planets.

In another theory, planets form when large amounts of gas and dust in the disk spontaneously collapse into big, dense clumps that then become planets. But in this picture, it turns out that the mass of the star doesn't affect the kinds of planets that are produced.

So far, as the number of discovered planets has grown, astronomers are finding that stellar mass does seem to be important in determining the prevalence of giant planets. The newly discovered planets further support this pattern?and are therefore consistent with the first theory, the one stating that planets are born from seed particles.

"It's nice to see all these converging lines of evidence pointing toward one class of formation mechanisms," Johnson says.

There's another interesting twist, he adds: "Not only do we find Jupiter-like planets more frequently around massive stars, but we find them in wider orbits." If you took a sample of 18 planets around sunlike stars, he explains, half of them would orbit close to their stars. But in the cases of the new planets, all are farther away, at least 0.7 astronomical units from their stars. (One astronomical unit, or AU, is the distance from Earth to the sun.)

In systems with sunlike stars, gas giants like Jupiter acquire close orbits when they migrate toward their stars. According to theories of planet formation, gas giants could only have formed far from their stars, where it's cold enough for their constituent gases and ices to exist. So for gas giants to orbit nearer to their stars, certain gravitational interactions have to take place to pull these planets in. Then, some other mechanism?perhaps the star's magnetic field?has to kick in to stop them from spiraling into a fiery death.

The question, Johnson says, is why this doesn't seem to happen with so-called hot Jupiters orbiting massive stars, and whether that dearth is due to nature or nurture. In the nature explanation, Jupiter-like planets that orbit massive stars just wouldn't ever migrate inward. In the nurture interpretation, the planets would move in, but there would be nothing to prevent them from plunging into their stars. Or perhaps the stars evolve and swell up, consuming their planets. Which is the case? According to Johnson, subgiants like the A stars they were looking at in this paper simply don't expand enough to gobble up hot Jupiters. So unless A stars have some unique characteristic that would prevent them from stopping migrating planets?such as a lack of a magnetic field early in their lives?it looks like the nature explanation is the more plausible one.

The new batch of planets have yet another interesting pattern: their orbits are mainly circular, while planets around sunlike stars span a wide range of circular to elliptical paths. Johnson says he's now trying to find an explanation.

For Johnson, these discoveries have been a long time coming. This latest find, for instance, comes from an astronomical survey that he started while a graduate student; because these planets have wide orbits, they can take a couple of years to make a single revolution, meaning that it can also take quite a few years before their stars' periodic wobbles become apparent to an observer. Now, the discoveries are finally coming in. "I liken it to a garden?you plant the seeds and put a lot of work into it," he says. "Then, a decade in, your garden is big and flourishing. That's where I am right now. My garden is full of these big, bright, juicy tomatoes?these Jupiter-sized planets."

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ISLAMABAD?? Details provided by senior Taliban commanders of the kidnapping of an American aid expert reveal strong links and cooperation between the Taliban and al-Qaida in Pakistan.

These commanders in Pakistan tell NBC News that members of Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP or Pakistani Taliban) were responsible for Warren Weinstein's abduction from his home in Lahore in August. Over the last three-and-a-half months, they say, Weinstein has been shifted from place to place, making him harder to trace. He ultimately landed in what Taliban commanders are calling a "secure" place in Pakistan's tribal areas in the border region with Afghanistan.

According to the militant leaders, TTP members initially kept Weinstein in Lahore, later shifting him just outside the city to a nearby town. He was repeatedly shifted to new locations over the weeks that followed until he could be transferred to an area completely controlled by the TTP and al-Qaida. Only then, say these commanders, was there a public claim of responsibility for the kidnapping.

In an audio recording issued on Islamist websites Thursday, al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Weinstein. The statement by al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri demanded the release of prisoners held by the U.S. at the Guantanamo detention center in Cuba and all others imprisoned for ties to al-Qaida or the Taliban. It also called for an end to airstrikes in Muslim countries in exchange for Weinstein's freedom.

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Before Thursday's statement, there had been no word from any group claiming responsibility, troubling Pakistani security and intelligence officials who had yet to make any significant strides in the case.

Taliban commanders say they declined to take responsibility earlier to prevent the U.S. from pressuring Pakistan to take action or begin negotiations for his release. They say Zawahri wished to have Weinstein safely in their custody, to put Zawahri in a better position to negotiate with the U.S.

Story: 'Enough is enough': Grieving Pakistan questions its role in US war on terror

Weinstein, the commanders say, is still being held by the TTP, but Zawahri is responsible for any negotiations for his release.

The Taliban commanders said TTP and al-Qaida are closely working together in the region, and that TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud considers Zawahri to be his leader.

"There is presently no difference in the TTP and al-Qaida. Both are working together and have the same agenda," said one of the Taliban commanders. "Even the TTP decided to suspend its peace talks with the government as al-Qaida is not happy with the Pakistani leadership."

Weinstein was abducted by armed men from his house in the eastern city of Lahore on Aug. 13. Weinstein, who has a home in Rockville, Maryland, worked in Pakistan for several years and spoke Urdu, the language used by Muslims in Pakistan and India.

He was the country director in Pakistan for J.E. Austin Associates, a U.S.-based firm that advises a range of Pakistani business and government sectors. The company has said Weinstein is in poor health and provided a detailed list of medications, many of them for heart problems, that it implored the kidnappers to give him.

Asked about al-Qaida's claim of responsibility, State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said in Washington that regardless of whether it is true or not, the U.S. remains concerned about his safety and well-being.

He said U.S. officials, including the FBI, are assisting with the Pakistani-led investigation ? "and we're trying to cooperate with them in any way we can."

"We're continuing to offer support as well as to Mr. Weinstein's family in the United States, to try and provide them with any consular assistance that we can." Toner said.

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