Tuesday, January 31, 2012

LG Optimus L3 appears in Sweden, packs entry-level style

LG Optimus L3 appears in Sweden, packs entry-level style
It's not every day that we come across an entry-level Android smartphone from LG, especially one that packs this much style. The LG Optimus L3 (aka E400) recently popped up on Swedish retailer CDON's website and appears to be slotted right below the Optimus Hub (successor to the highly popular Optimus One). Specs include Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) with LG's Optimus UI, a 3.2-inch QVGA (320x240 pixels, ouch) capacitive touchscreen, a three megapixel camera, dual-band (2100 / 900MHz) HSDPA 3.6Mbps and quadband EDGE connectivity, WiFi / Bluetooth / GPS / FM radios and a microSD card slot. While there's no word yet on what kind of processor powers the handset, we're guessing it's likely the same 800MHz CPU found in the Optimus Hub. Availability remains a mystery, but the Optimus L3 lists for 1290SEK (about $192) contract-free. See, style doesn't always have to cost a fortune.

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Cell Therapeutics withdraws cancer drug application (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Cell Therapeutics Inc said on Monday it has voluntarily withdrawn the marketing application for its cancer drug, sending its shares down 17 percent before the bell.

The company said it withdrew the application as it needed additional time to prepare for the review of the drug, Pixuvri, designed as a treatment for relapsed or refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in patients who failed two or more lines of prior therapy.

Cell Therapeutics said it had requested the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reschedule the drug's review date prior to the withdrawal, but the health regulator was unable to accommodate the request.

The company plans to resubmit the application later this year.

Shares of the Seattle-based company were down 17 percent at $1.13 in premarket trade. They closed at $1.33 on Friday on the Nasdaq.

(Reporting by Kavyanjali Kaushik in Bangalore; Editing by Supriya Kurane)

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Mexico cops nab suspect in 75 drug cartel killings (AP)

MONTERREY, Mexico ? Police in northern Mexico have captured an alleged member of the Zetas drug gang who confessed to killing at least 75 people, including many who were pulled off buses, authorities said Monday.

Enrique Elizondo Flores told investigators 36 of his victims were bus passengers traveling through the town of Cerralvo, near the border with Texas, said Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene.

Elizondo was detained Jan. 20 in the town of Salinas Victoria, but authorities delayed announcing his arrest so they could verify details of his confession, state Attorney General Adrian de la Garza said.

Domene said the 35-year-old suspect told investigators that he had been working in the area at least three years and that he was in charge of killing members of the rival Gulf drug cartel heading to the towns of Cerralvo and General Trevino.

Elizondo and other gunmen last January began pulling passengers off buses as they arrived at Cerralvo's bus station, Domene said. They are among at least 92 bus passengers the Zetas are accused of killing in three attacks in January and March 2011. Many the victims were originally from the central state of Guanajuato and had arrived in Cerralvo from the border city of Reynosa, Domene said.

Elizondo was known "for torturing, maiming and then killing his victims," Domene said.

Last year, authorities in the neighboring state of Tamaulipas unearthed 193 bodies from clandestine graves in the town of San Fernando. Security forces said they were led to the site by members of the Zetas who confessed to kidnapping and killing bus passengers traveling through the area.

The motive for the bus abductions remains unclear. Prosecutors have suggested the gang may be forcefully recruiting people to work for it or trying to kill rivals they suspected were aboard the buses.

Northeastern Mexico has been engulfed by a turf battle between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas since they split in 2010.

More than 47,000 people have been killed nationwide since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown against drug traffickers in December 2006.

Global Financial Integrity, a program of the Center for International Policy, a Washington-based think tank, said Monday that its analysis found that $872 billion in proceeds from crime, corruption and money-laundering had flowed out of Mexico in the four decades from 1970 to 2010.

In the border city of Ciudad Juarez, police officers killed three men and detained a fourth Monday after being attacked at a gas station, authorities said.

The officers were refueling their patrol cars at a gas station a few blocks from the Zaragoza border crossing into El Paso, Texas, when they were attacked, a police statement said. The officers returned fire, killing three assailants, and they also seized two assault rifles, two handguns and a hand grenade, it said.

Last week, messages signed by the New Juarez drug cartel and left in several parts of the city claimed Police Chief Julian Leyzaola is favoring a rival cartel. It said that one officer would be killed daily if their members continue to be arrested. Five police officers have been killed since.

Leyzaola was not immediately available to comment on Monday's attack.

In a public appearance over the weekend, Mayor Hector Murguia said the recent string of attacks on law enforcement officers was a response from criminals affected by Leyzaola's work.

"Go downtown, there are no more brothels where drugs used to be sold," he said, referring to a police crackdown in downtown Juarez as part of the city's efforts to combat crime.

As a safety measure, police officers are now required to leave precincts wearing street clothes and are allowed to take their guns home. The city also is considering plans to rent hotels to quarter all the police force.

In 2009, then Police Chief Roberto Orduna quit after several police officers were killed and their bodies dumped along with messages saying more officers would be killed unless he resigned.

Leyzaola is no stranger to threats. Shortly after he was hired in 2011, the body of a tortured man was left in a street with a message to Leyzaola that read, "This is your first gift."

In April 2009, when he was police chief in western border city of Tijuana, drug traffickers took over police radio frequencies to say that if he didn't quit, many police officers would die.

A few days after, seven officers were killed in separate but coordinated attacks. Drug traffickers took over the police radio frequencies again to say their threat had been carried out.

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Associated Press writer Juan Carlos Llorca in El Paso, Texas, contributed to this report.

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Troopers: At least 9 dead in wrecks on I-75 in Fla (AP)

GAINESVILLE, Fla. ? Authorities say at least nine people died in a series of crashes apparently caused by heavy smoke and fog overnight on Interstate 75 in north Florida.

Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Patrick Riordan says the pileups happened around 3:45 a.m. Sunday on both sides of I-75 south of Gainesville. All lanes of the interstate are still closed.

He says several people were also injured and taken to Gainesville hospitals. Their conditions were unclear.

Riordan says FHP had closed the highway briefly overnight because of the mixture of smoke and fog in the Paynes Prairie area. It was reopened shortly before the crashes occurred.

The crashes involved four to five large commercial vehicles and at least six passenger vehicles.

Riordan says U.S. 441 is also closed and traffic is being diverted onto U.S. 301 and State Road 27.

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Information from: The Gainesville Sun, http://www.gainesvillesun.com

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Gingrich says GOP rival Romney has adopted 'a basic policy of carpet bombing his opponent' (Star Tribune)

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Democrats and Republicans Finally Agree on One Thing: Gingrich Must Go (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | With the all-important Florida primary approaching, Democrats find themselves in the same position as most prospective Super Bowl viewers. Although the majority of hardcore gridiron fans no longer have a team in the playoffs, they are inevitably drawn to choose sides in the big game. If it's not the Super Bowl, the Florida primary can make a case for being the conference championships of politics, since the winner may well end up with his party's nomination.

Whom should Democrats pull for in this epic struggle?

The obvious choice would be to get behind Newt Gingrich, since all the polling data shows Obama has a better chance of defeating Gingrich than Mitt Romney. However, the Democrats I know are either deeply agonizing over the prospect of a Gingrich candidacy or actively rooting for Romney. Why?

It is not, as one might think, the "be careful what you wish for" theory. That is, no Democrat that I have talked to is concerned about a repeat of 1980, where the candidate they all wanted as the Republican nominee -- Ronald Reagan -- ended up trouncing Jimmy Carter. No one thinks Newt Gingrich is Ronald Reagan.

Instead, these Democrats seem reluctant to pull for a Gingrich victory in Florida for reasons that Peggy Noonan, a former Reagan speechwriter, pointed out in a recent Wall Street Journal editorial when she dubbed Gingrich a "human hand grenade" constantly in danger of blowing up. Recalling that Gingrich shut down the government over a perceived slight on Air Force One, the Democrats I have spoken to fear the sort of retribution the former Speaker might try to exact and from whom were he suddenly thrust into the role of most powerful man in the world. As a result, they find themselves pulling for a Romney victory even though in so doing they are at least in spirit supporting the man they believe has a better chance of beating President Obama.

In putting the interests of their country ahead of party, these Democrats seem to be following the lead of the president himself. During the debt ceiling crisis, Obama dropped his demand for a combination of spending cuts and revenue increases when it became clear the tea party members in Congress were willing to allow the government to default on its debt unless budget cuts alone were used to offset the debt ceiling increase. Rather than risk the harm to the country this would entail, the president essentially caved into their demands, alienating many in his own base and perhaps endangering his chances for a second term. Just so, the Democrats pulling for Romney seem to believe that there are things more important than the President's reelection.

I am not implying that Democrats alone possess the patriotism to put party interest ahead of country. According to Politico, the Republican establishment has started to come out in full force against a Gingrich candidacy. In these partisan times, it is good to see the two parties united over something.

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Hawkeye RB recruit beats cancer | Hawk Central

Given the unusually high rate of attrition at running back on the Iowa football team, somebody with undeniable endurance could be just what?s needed at the position.

Especially if he comes wrapped in a 6-foot-2, 195-pound frame and is considered one of the top high school running backs in the country as is the case with future Hawkeye Greg Garmon.

The Erie, Pa., native is one of the most sought-after prospects in Iowa?s 2012 recruiting class as evidenced by his more than 40 scholarship offers. Garmon also plays a position that?s arguably the biggest focal point in the Iowa pro-style offense, but one that?s been decimated by personnel losses.

?He?s got everything going for him, and the way Iowa trains and develops people he?ll be an All-American barring injury,? veteran recruiting analyst Tom Lemming said of Garmon.

Garmon didn?t always have everything going for him, though.

Persevering through adversity

His life has been a painful and scary journey filled with adversity and uncertainty.

Garmon is among at least 17 high school seniors who are expected to sign national letters of intent with Iowa on Wednesday, which marks the start of the national signing period for football.

Garmon will sign his letter of intent Wednesday morning before competing for the U.S. Under-19 National Team in the International Bowl later that afternoon in Austin, Texas.

He?ll also sign it barely more than four years after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin?s lymphoma of the bone.

Garmon endured three months of medical treatment, which included weekly chemotherapy and radiation before learning that he was cancer free after six months.

?It?s made me grow up faster, and it?s made me appreciate the little things a lot more,? Garmon said in a recent phone interview. ?And it?s reminded me to always stick by your family.

?Your family is always going to stick by you and help you work through everything.?

His passion for football also helped Garmon persevere.

The chemotherapy and radiation severely weakened his body, but not his spirit or determination. Once he was cleared to start exercising again, Garmon attacked the weight room intent on rebuilding his body.

By his sophomore season, he already was flirting with stardom as a running back.

And by his senior year, Garmon had BCS schools from all over the country pursuing him. His bout with cancer was brought up by some coaches during the recruiting process, but Garmon said it never became an issue.

?A love for football?

Garmon ultimately picked Iowa over Arkansas and Miami (Fla.), and he also took official visits to Illinois and North Carolina.

?It made me more anxious to play because I sat that (eighth-grade) year out and I?ve always had a love for football,? Garmon said. ?So once I had the opportunity to play again, I just wanted to get on the field and catch up with the competition.?

Garmon didn?t just catch up with the competition. In most cases, he raced past it, considering he is ranked as the 15th best running back in the 2012 senior class by Scout.com.

And if overcoming cancer wasn?t enough to test Garmon?s perseverance, his family?s house also was destroyed in a fire the summer before he entered the sixth grade. The aftermath of the fire separated the family for a year, with Garmon going to live with a friend and his mother, brother and stepfather living in a hotel.

Lemming was so intrigued by Garmon?s story that more than a year ago, Lemming drove from his home near Chicago to Erie in a snowstorm to learn more about it.

?The kid was smiling the whole time I met him,? said Lemming, who has been a college football recruiting analyst since the late 1970s. ?He was the most engaging kid that I had met.?

Lemming was impressed with Garmon as a person and as a player so much that he made Garmon his first pick to participate in the 2012 U.S. Marine Corps Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl. Lemming selects the rosters for both teams, and the game featured some of the top high school players in the country.

Garmon announced his decision to attend Iowa while participating in the all-star game Jan. 3 in Arizona.

?I asked him to be in that game, and he said yes a year ago and has never looked back,? Lemming said.

Lemming has gotten to know countless recruits through his job as a talent evaluator and with that comes a wide range of background stories.

But Garmon?s story is unlike any other. Asked if he had dealt with anything similar before, Lemming said: ?Not cancer that early and all the problems that he?s had. It?s certainly one of the most unique stories I?ve heard.?

And now a new chapter is about to start with Garmon on the verge of becoming a Hawkeye.

There were a number of factors that convinced him to pick Iowa, including the chance for immediate playing time and the belief that Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz would stay put. Ferentz has coached at Iowa for 13 seasons and has a contract that runs through the 2020 season.

?One thing I like is that coach Ferentz has that contract,? Garmon said. ?So that was a big factor.

?In my mind, I knew I?d be playing for the same coach my whole four years and I wouldn?t have to worry about a new coaching staff or anything.?

It also helped that Iowa already had established a recruiting pipeline to Garmon?s hometown with former star players Bob Sanders, Ed Hinkel and Jovon Johnson ? all Erie natives.

?It helped just to know that they went to Iowa and they were successful,? Garmon said. ?So in my mind, I was thinking since they were successful at Iowa, why can?t I be??

Garmon said his family was pleased with his decision to attend Iowa, partly because of the football program?s connection to Erie.

?They really loved Iowa when they came down with me on my visit,? Garmon said. ?The whole (town) of Erie, Pennsylvania, loves Iowa, and I just knew that if I went there I was going to have a lot of support from the area.?

Garmon is happy to be through with the recruiting process because now people have stopped asking him the same question over and over.

?Everybody doesn?t come up to me anymore and ask me where I?m going,? Garmon said. ?So I?m real happy to be a part of the Hawkeyes.?

Moving away from home will be an adjustment, even for somebody with Garmon?s unique background. But he?s ready to face new challenges and his family is ready to face it with him.

?I was always ready to try something new,? Garmon said. ?My family will try to be at every one of my games so I?ll probably see them every weekend during the season. So moving away from home wasn?t a factor at all.?

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Amnesty: Tear gas used on Bahrain protesters kills

By msnbc.com staff and news services

Bahrain must investigate more than a dozen deaths that followed the use of tear gas by security forces, rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday after the Gulf kingdom reported that a man had died while in custody.

Reuters reported that Bahrain's Interior Ministry said that a man detained by police over "acts of sabotage" died in the?hospital, without elaborating on the cause of death.


According to Amnesty, a Bahraini human rights group has reported at least 13 deaths resulting from the security forces' use of tear gas against peaceful protesters as well as inside people's homes since February 2011, with a rise in such deaths in recent months.

Bahrain fires tear gas, stun grenades to halt protesters

A 20-year-old was seriously injured and hospitalized after being hit in the head by a tear gas canister launched by riot police, the group said. Amnesty went on to document a series of incidents that allegedly showed how tear gas had been used improperly, including against women, children and the elderly.

Bahrain last year crushed protests led by its Shiite Muslim majority demanding an end to sectarian discrimination and limits to the authority of the Sunni ruling family, relying in part on backing from troops from fellow Sunni-led Gulf monarchies.

More than a thousand people were detained in the crackdown, at least four of whom died in official custody. An inquiry Bahrain commissioned into the protests and government crackdown found systematic abuse of detainees, including torture.

The ministry said last month it would begin recording the questioning of detainees in line with the recommendations of the inquiry, which also disputed Bahrain's claim that the protests were fomented by Iran through its Shiite coreligionists.

Bahrain to citizens living abroad: Spy on countrymen, no protests permitted

Washington, which bases its Fifth Fleet on the Gulf island, has linked a $53 million arms sale to the kingdom's response to the inquiry. Bahrain has said it is implementing the inquiry's recommendations, but the top U.N. human rights official argues that Bahrain is not punishing those behind abuses.

Reuters and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.

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Unreleased ABBA track on new album

In this June 14, 1974 file photo, Swedish pop group ABBA, Bjorn Ulvaeus, back left, Benny Andersson, back right, Agnetha Faltskog, front left, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad are shown. ABBA fans will soon again be saying "Thank you for the music" with the release of a new track on a special edition of the disbanded 70's pop group's "The Visitors" album. (AP Photo, file)

In this June 14, 1974 file photo, Swedish pop group ABBA, Bjorn Ulvaeus, back left, Benny Andersson, back right, Agnetha Faltskog, front left, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad are shown. ABBA fans will soon again be saying "Thank you for the music" with the release of a new track on a special edition of the disbanded 70's pop group's "The Visitors" album. (AP Photo, file)

STOCKHOLM (AP) ? Mamma Mia, here they go again.

ABBA fans will soon again be saying "Thank you for the music" with the release of a new track on a special edition of the disbanded 70's pop group's "The Visitors" album.

The record, including new track "From a Twinkling Star to a Passing Angel," is the first official new release by the Swedish group in 18 years.

Universal Music Group spokeswoman Mia Segolsson said Friday that the special edition of "The Visitors" ? originally released in 1981 ? will be available in stores from April 23.

ABBA ? Agnetha Faeltskog, Benny Andersson, Bjoern Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad ? split in 1982. The band has never reunited.

Known for catchy hits in the 70s and 80s ? such as "Dancing Queen," and "Money, Money, Money" ? ABBA have sold 400 million records worldwide.

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Friday, January 27, 2012

AP Interview: Haitian leader could pardon Duvalier (AP)

DAVOS, Switzerland ? Haiti's president suggested Thursday that he might pardon former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, saying reconciliation for his nation is more important than making the man known as "Baby Doc" pay for his bloody rule.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Michel Martelly pledged to respect the independence of the judge expected to rule within days whether Duvalier should face trial on corruption and human rights violations. Duvalier was driven into exile in 1986 and returned to Haiti a year ago.

But Martelly suggested he has little appetite for a trial that could be explosive for the Caribbean nation, recovering from decades of political turmoil and a devastating earthquake two years ago.

"My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past ? because we need to learn from it ? but to mainly think about the future," he said, adding: "You cannot forget those who suffered in that time, but I do believe that we need that reconciliation in Haiti."

Duvalier assumed power in 1971 at age 19 following the death of his notorious father, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. The two presided over a dark period in which their private militia of thugs in sunglasses, known as the Tonton Macoute, tortured and killed opponents. The younger Duvalier has been accused of stealing millions of dollars from public funds; he denies the accusations.

Martelly said any decision on a possible pardon would come only with "a consensus among all leaders, all political parties."

Martelly also pledged to build a new Haitian security force to maintain order without the U.N. peacekeepers ? about 11,000 foreign military and police officers have patrolled Haiti since 2004. They have recently come under fire for allegations of sexual abuse and suspicion of being the source of a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 7,000 people and sickened a half-million.

The president refused to blame the United Nations for the problems, saying individual troops should be held accountable for their own misdeeds. But he said he will replace the peacekeepers with a Haitian security force that will create jobs for 3,000-5,000 Haitian youths and help Haiti become self-sustaining.

Martelly said he'll need foreign cooperation to fund and train the security force, but pledged to have it at least partially in place by the end of his term in 2016. He has run into opposition from donor countries that criticized earlier pledges to build a new Haitian army ? disbanded in disgrace in 1995 ? and he acknowledged Thursday that a new army wasn't realistic.

He refused to put a time frame on an exit for the peacekeepers.

"We are working with them to establish a calendar where they can retreat," he said. "I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out."

The Haitian president spoke on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of global power brokers at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, where he came to meet with potential investors.

Martelly, a popular musician sworn in as president in May, said he has already provided new homes to thousands of earthquake refugees, sent nearly 1 million more children to free schools and made progress on rebuilding the airport and the ports. Investment, he said, is booming.

His main priority, he said, is to create jobs so Haiti can support itself without being dependent on foreign aid.

"The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists," he said. "Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade."

Part of that mission will involve helping Haitians to take over the earthquake reconstruction work, which has been dominated by foreigners working for non-governmental organizations.

"When I came in, Haiti was not governed by Haitians anymore. Probably mostly by NGOs. And that has done what to Haiti? It has weakened our institutions," he said. "We need to focus on the plan that Haiti has today. We have a plan. When we want to go somewhere we are going to have them accompany us. ... We need to organize and better use that aid.

A key part of that will be drawing home well-educated Haitians who have abandoned their country amid corruption and lack of opportunity. This week the foreign affairs minister in Paris appealed to Haitians abroad to return.

"The diaspora will be put back to work. We need them," Martelly said.

But he said he wouldn't be offering them specific incentives: "It's not we have anything to offer. They need to have something to offer too. They need to come back and understand that Haiti is their country. By going away..." He broke off and sighed.

"Don't they always come back?"

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Millions now manage aging parents' care from afar

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ? Kristy Bryner worries her 80-year-old mom might slip and fall when she picks up the newspaper, or that she'll get in an accident when she drives to the grocery store. What if she has a medical emergency and no one's there to help? What if, like her father, her mother slips into a fog of dementia?

Those questions would be hard enough if Bryner's aging parent lived across town in Portland, Ore., but she is in Kent, Ohio. The stress of caregiving seems magnified by each of the more than 2,000 miles that separate them.

"I feel like I'm being split in half between coasts," said Bryner, 54. "I wish I knew what to do, but I don't."

As lifespans lengthen and the number of seniors rapidly grows, more Americans find themselves in Bryner's perilous position, struggling to care for an ailing loved one from hundreds or thousands of miles away.

The National Institute on Aging estimates around 7 million Americans are long-distance caregivers. Aside from economic factors that often drive people far from their hometowns, shifting demographics in the country could exacerbate the issue: Over the next four decades, the share of people 65 and older is expected to rapidly expand while the number of people under 20 will roughly hold steady. That means there will be a far smaller share of people between 20 and 64, the age group that most often is faced with caregiving.

"You just want to be in two places at once," said Kay Branch, who lives in Anchorage, Alaska, but helps coordinate care for her parents in Lakeland, Fla., about 3,800 miles away.

There are no easy answers.

Bryner first became a long-distance caregiver when, more than a decade ago, her father began suffering from dementia, which consumed him until he died in 2010. She used to be able to count on help from her brother, who lived close to their parents, but he died of cancer a few years back. Her mother doesn't want to leave the house she's lived in for so long.

So Bryner talks daily with her mother via Skype, a video telephone service. She's lucky to have a job that's flexible enough that she's able to visit for a couple of weeks every few months. But she fears what may happen when her mother is not as healthy as she is now.

"Someone needs to check on her, someone needs to look out for her," she said. "And the only someone is me, and I don't live there."

Many long-distance caregivers say they insist on daily phone calls or video chats to hear or see how their loved one is doing. Oftentimes, they find another relative or a paid caregiver they can trust who is closer and able to help with some tasks.

Yet there always is the unexpected: Medical emergencies, problems with insurance coverage, urgent financial issues. Problems become far tougher to resolve when you need to hop on a plane or make a daylong drive.

"There are lots of things that you have to do that become these real exercises in futility," said Ed Rose, 49, who lives in Boston but, like his sister, travels frequently to Chicago to help care for his 106-year-old grandmother, Blanche Seelmann.

Rose has rushed to his grandmother's side for hospitalizations, and made unexpected trips to solve bureaucratic issues like retrieving a document from a safe-deposit box in order to open a bank account.

But he said he has also managed to get most of the logistics down to a routine.

He uses Skype to speak with his grandmother every day and tries to be there whenever she has a doctor's appointment. Aides handle many daily tasks and have access to a credit card for household expenses. They send him receipts so he can monitor spending. He has an apartment near his grandmother to make sure he's comfortable on his frequent visits.

Even for those who live near those they care for, travel for work can frequently make it a long-distance affair. Evelyn Castillo-Bach lives in Pembroke Pines, Fla., the same town as her 84-year-old mother, who has Alzheimer's disease. But she is on the road roughly half the year, sometimes for months at a time, both for work with her own Web company and accompanying her husband, a consultant for the United Nations.

Once, she was en route from Kosovo to Denmark when she received a call alerting her that her mother was having kidney failure and appeared as if she would die. She needed to communicate her mother's wishes from afar as her panicked sister tried to search their mother's home for her living will. Castillo-Bach didn't think she could make it in time to see her mother alive once more.

"I won't get to touch my mother again," she thought.

She was wrong. Her mother pulled through. But she says it illustrates what long-distance caregivers so frequently go through.

"This is one of the things that happens when you're thousands of miles away," Castillo-Bach said.

Lynn Feinberg, a caregiving expert at AARP, said the number of long-distance caregivers is likely to grow, particularly as a sagging economy has people taking whatever job they can get, wherever it is. Though caregiving is a major stress on anyone, distance can often magnify it, Feinberg said, and presents particular difficulty when it must be balanced with an inflexible job.

"It's a huge stress," she said. "It can have enormous implications not only for someone's quality of life, but also for someone's job."

It can also carry a huge financial burden. A November 2007 report by the National Alliance for Caregiving and Evercare, a division of United Health Group, found annual expenses incurred by long-distance caregivers averaged about $8,728, far more than caregivers who lived close to their loved one. Some also had to cut back on work hours, take on debt of their own and slash their personal spending.

Even with that in mind, though, many long-distance caregivers say they don't regret their decision. Rita Morrow, who works in accounting and lives in Louisville, Ky., about a six-hour drive from her 90-year-old mother in Memphis, Tenn., does all the juggling too.

She has to remind her mother to take her medicine, make sure rides are lined up for doctor's appointments, rush to her aid if there's a problem. She knows her mom wants to stay in her home, to keep going to the church she's gone to the past 60 years, to be near her friends.

"We do what we have to do for our parents," she said. "My mother did all kinds of things for me."

Associated Press

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Stressed? Relax in SFO airport's new yoga room

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San Francisco International Airport now has a yoga room where frazzled travelers can take a few moments to relax before or after a flight.

By Harriet Baskas, msnbc.com contributor

Stressed-out travelers willing and able to be flexible now have a new way to relax and refresh at San Francisco International Airport.

On Thursday, the airport officially opens what it claims is the world?s first dedicated yoga room at an airport.

??The room gives modern travelers a space that fosters and supports quiet and reflection. Those aren?t emotions that people typically encounter at the airport,??said Melissa Mizell, design director for Gensler, the Terminal 2 architecture firm that also created the yoga room,?in a statement.

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San Francisco International Airport now has a yoga room where frazzled travelers can take a few moments to relax.

Located just past the security checkpoint in the recently renovated Terminal 2, the new yoga room is bathed in calming blue light, with a floating wall said to symbolize a buoyant spirit and enlightened mind. Lights in the room are low and warm ? to counteract the bright concourse ??and loaner mats are supplied.

The innovative idea is getting early kudos.

"Relax passengers between flights? Help them find balance in the crazy world of travel? How wonderful!," said nurse consultant Anya Clowers of JetwithComfort.com.

"Airports like SFO get it," said Greg Principato, president of Airports Council International - North America. "They are looking at the big picture and meeting the needs of travelers by offering products and services that contribute to their overall comfort."

In the spring, large, felt-constructed rocks will be added to the room and arranged in a nod to Japanese-style, Zen garden spaces.

SFO spokesperson Charles Schuler said the new yoga room will be open whenever the Terminal 2 security checkpoint is open ??currently 4:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. ??and that a list of yoga room rules will soon be posted. ?To help people find the room, we?ve even created signs that feature a stylized pictogram depicting a person in the lotus position.?

Sound too woo-woo for you?

For travelers seeking an alternate space to gather their thoughts without having to get down on the floor, SFO also offers the Berman reflection room ???a center for quiet reflection and meditation? ??pre-security in the International Terminal.

And for those who?find relaxation amid the bright lights and bustle, there's?no shortage of?bars.

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How Much Do Looks Matter in Presidential Politics?

Ever since the first televised presidential debate in September 1960, when Richard Nixon was said to have been deemed the winner by Americans listening on the radio and John F. Kennedy was preferred by those watching TV, conventional wisdom has dictated that looks matter in politics. For decades political observers have pointed out that in presidential match-ups, it?s often the taller man who wins. In recent years, social and political scientists have begun looking seriously at this question, trying to quantify the effects of physical attractiveness in the lab. In presidential politics, does it help to look like Mitt Romney? Or, put another way, how much does Newt Gingrich?s face hurt him?

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Belfry brings Stocks and Weather, other native iPhone apps to jailbroken iPads

Belfry brings Stocks and Weather, other native iPhone apps to jailbroken iPads
Rounding out the honeymoon period with that freshly jailbroken iPad 2? Well now we have some new apps for you to play with, and you may already be acquainted. iOS hacker Ryan Petrich's most recent project, dubbed Belfry, lets you install stock iPhone apps that are otherwise absent from both versions of Apple's tablet including Clock, Voice Memos, Stocks, Calculator, Compass and Weather. As to why these aren't included already is beyond our knowledge, but at least there's an alternative. Users can install Belfry by adding the repository directly within Cydia from the link below. If you're looking for proof to seal the deal, you can catch the bashful Belfry and his silent film antics after the break.

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Romney: Gingrich activity 'potentially wrongful' (AP)

TAMPA, Fla. ? Mitt Romney launched a multipronged attack Monday on rival Newt Gingrich, including a scathing TV ad and personally accusing the former House speaker of engaging in "potentially wrongful activity" in his consulting work over the past decade.

Romney called on Gingrich to release his client list for that period. He offered no proof that Gingrich had engaged in wrongful behavior when, after leaving Congress, he worked with former colleagues to push for a prescription drug benefit for Medicare. Gingrich has never been a registered lobbyist.

"Was he working or were his entities working with any health care companies that could've benefited from that? That could represent not just evidence of lobbying but potentially wrongful activity of some kind," Romney told reporters after a campaign appearance.

When asked if he was suggesting that Gingrich committed a crime, Romney said: "We just need to understand what his activity's been over the last 15 years, and make sure that it's conformed with all the regulations that might exist."

The attacks, combined with the campaign's first negative ad and a conference call in which top surrogates criticized Gingrich, showed a newfound aggressiveness for Romney and set the stage for a presidential debate later Monday. Romney lost big to Gingrich in Saturday's South Carolina primary and has adopted a newly aggressive tone in an effort to try to regain the momentum from Gingrich.

"While Florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, Newt Gingrich cashed in," the TV ad says, noting that the former speaker made more than $1.6 million working for Freddie Mac. "Gingrich resigned from Congress in disgrace and then cashed in as a D.C. insider."

Gingrich has said he was a consultant for Freddie Mac, the federally backed mortgage company that played a significant role in the housing crisis.

Romney said Gingrich should return the more than $1.6 million he made from the company.

While Romney criticized Gingrich, Romney also profited from investments in Freddie Mac.

His most recent financial disclosure forms show he had a direct investment in Freddie Mac worth between $100,000 and $250,000. He made between $5,000 and $15,000 in interest income on it between February 2010 and February 2011.

Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom noted that, even though the former Massachusetts governor profited from the investment, he did not work for Freddie Mac as Gingrich did.

"Newt Gingrich said anybody who profited from Freddie Mac while defending their failed model ought to give the money back," Fehrnstrom said.

While Romney's allies have been attacking Gingrich in television commercials for weeks, the Romney campaign's new commercial marked the first time it has directly attacked any of his opponents.

Romney answered questions from the media after an event Monday that made clear he intends to focus on housing in a state particularly hard hit by home foreclosures and the struggling economy.

But Romney didn't suggest he intends to change his own prescription for fixing the housing crisis. He told the Las Vegas Review-Journal's editorial board last year that the housing market should be allowed to hit bottom.

Still, the attacks set the stage for Monday's debate, a forum in which Gingrich has thrived.

To improve his own performance, Romney was spending much of the day preparing for the two-hour debate with Brett O'Donnell, who advised President George W. Bush and 2008 nominee John McCain.

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Associated Press writer Brian Bakst contributed to this report.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Turkey's Erdogan lambasts France on genocide law (Reuters)

ANKARA (Reuters) ? Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan attacked the French parliament on Tuesday for passing a "discriminatory and racist" bill which makes it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide.

With passions running high in Turkey on Monday's Senate vote, one newspaper denounced the French president as "Satan Sarkozy" and some politicians have already suggested dredging up France's own colonial history.

However, Erdogan appeared keen to avoid an immediate rupture with Paris, saying there was still hope that NATO ally France "would correct its mistake" and that any retaliatory measures would be held back, depending on French actions.

"We will not allow anyone to gain political benefit at the expense of Turkey; the bill which was passed in France is clearly discriminatory, racist," Erdogan said.

"We will adopt a rational and dignified stance, we will implement our measures step by step. Right now we are still in a period of patience," he told parliamentary deputies of his AK Party.

Encouraged by their success in Paris, the influential Armenian diaspora is expected to re-double its efforts in the United States, which like France is in a presidential election year, to have Washington call what happened a genocide.

Many Turks see the French bill, which the lower house of parliament also backed in December, as an insult to their nation, a travesty of history and an infringement on free speech.

As Erdogan spoke, a couple of hundred protesters gathered outside the French embassy in Ankara and consulate in Istanbul in peaceful demonstrations.

The bill now goes to President Nicolas Sarkozy to be ratified. Mostly Muslim Turkey accuses Sarkozy of trying to win the votes of 500,000 ethnic Armenians in France in the two-round presidential vote on April 22 and May 6.

KEEP CALM

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, who was personally against the bill proposed by Sarkozy's party, said the new law was "ill-timed," but called on Ankara to remain calm.

"We need good relations with it and we need to get through this excessive phase," Juppe said on Canal+ television. "We have very important economic and trade ties. I hope the reality of the situation will not be usurped by emotions."

Turkey, a member of NATO and the World Trade Organization, may be limited in its response by its international obligations. However, newspapers listed possible measures that Ankara might take against France.

These included recalling its ambassador from Paris and telling the French ambassador to go home, reducing diplomatic ties to charge d'affaires level, and closing Turkish airspace and waters to French military aircraft and vessels.

Speaking shortly before Monday's Senate vote, Erdogan said the issue of future official visits to France would be thrown into uncertainty if it passed the bill.

French firms stand to lose out in bids for defense contracts and other mega-projects such as nuclear power stations.

Turkey may also seek to press allegations that French actions in Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s during the North African country's independence struggle, amounted to genocide.

However, Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan sent a grateful letter to Sarkozy.

"This is a historic day for the Armenians all over the world - in Armenia, in France, everywhere," he wrote. "This is an unforgettable day, and it will be inscribed in gold into the centuries-long history of the Armenian and French peoples."

"SATAN SARKOZY"

Morning headlines in Turkish newspapers were anything but calm. "A guillotine to free thought" said Star, while Aksam described the French move as "A guillotine to history."

"Shame on France" cried the Vatan daily. While Sozcu, a small newspaper that usually directs its scorn at Erdogan, found a new target with "Satan Sarkozy."

In contrast, most French newspapers carried small stories of the Senate vote in their inside pages.

Ankara's mayor has spoken of renaming the road where the French embassy is located to Algeria Street and erecting a memorial to Algerian victims of French colonial oppression in front of the embassy.

When the lower house backed the bill in December, Ankara cancelled all economic, political and military meetings with Paris and briefly recalled its ambassador for consultations.

Sarkozy is expected to ratify the bill before parliament is suspended in February before the presidential election.

However, it could still be rejected if about 60 lawmakers agree to appeal the decision at France's highest court and this body considers the text unconstitutional. The Constitutional Council would have one month to make its decision.

Turkish President Abudullah Gul urged French lawmakers to apply to the council to quash the bill. "They should not forget that this will leave a lasting mark on the Turkish people. If this (bill) becomes final, relations will certainly take a very different course," Gul said.

Relations between Ankara and Paris have been testy largely due to Sarkozy's opposition to Turkey's bid to join the EU, and the latest row further clouded Turkish relations with the bloc.

"It will blur their ties with Europe Union," said Doroth?e Schmid, head of the contemporary Turkey department at the Paris-based International Institute for Foreign Relations

(IFRI).

Turkey cannot impose economic sanctions on France, given its membership of the World Trade Organization and its customs union accord with Europe, but French firms could lose out on state-to-state-contracts, notably in the defense sector.

France is Turkey's fifth biggest export market and sixth biggest supplier of imports of goods and services, and bilateral

trade was $13.5 billion in the first 10 months of last year.

Armenia, backed by many historians and parliaments, says about 1.5 million Christian Armenians were killed in what is now eastern Turkey during World War One in a deliberate policy of genocide ordered by the Ottoman government.

The Ottoman empire was dissolved after the end of the war, but Turkish governments and most Turks feel the charge of genocide is an insult to their nation. Ankara argues there was heavy loss of life on both sides during fighting in the area.

A French Muslim businessman said on Tuesday that he had set up a 1 million euro fund to pay for any fines imposed as a result of the new genocide law.

Property dealer Rachid Nekkaz already set up a similar fund to cover fines for women who wear Muslim niqabs and burkas despite laws banning them in France and Belgium.

Some ethnic Armenians in Turkey saw the French move as unhelpful. "This only will provide more grounds to nationalism and reactions in Turkey," said Robert Koptas, editor of Agos, a Turkish-Armenian newspaper.

(Additional reporting By John Irish in Paris and Hasmik Mkrtchyan in Yerevan; Writing by Simon Cameron-Moore; editing by David Stamp)

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Libyans storm transitional government headquarters

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) ? Hundreds of angry Libyans on Saturday stormed the transitional government's headquarters in the eastern city of Benghazi, carting off computers, chairs, and desks while the country's interim leader was still holed up in the building.

Libyans have grown increasingly frustrated with the pace and direction of reforms in the country more than three months after the end of the civil war that ousted longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Those concerns spurred residents in Benghazi, where the uprising against longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi broke out in February, to begin protests nearly two weeks ago to demand transparency and justice from the country's new leaders.

The melee at the National Transitional Council's headquarters began after protesters broke through the gates using hand grenades and streamed into the grounds of the headquarters. They banged on the building's doors and demanded officials meet with them.

In a bid to calm tensions, NTC chief Mustafa Abdul-Jalil tried to address the crowd from a second-floor window, but protesters began throwing bottles at him.

Protesters then torched Abdul-Jalil's armored Land Cruiser and broke into the headquarters itself, smashing windows to get inside and cart off furniture and electronics.

A security official in the building said a team of some 50 guards dressed as civilians were trying to calm the protesters.

The official, who served as a revolutionary commander during the civil war, said Abdul-Jalil was still in the building and was refusing to leave. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.

Some of the protesters pitched tents weeks ago outside the NTC's headquarters to protest a set of election laws they say were drafted by the interim leaders without consulting the public.

"The election laws have not been approved by thousands of Libyans and do not honor those who died for our freedom," said Tamer al-Jahani, a lawyer taking part in the protest. "We don't want to replace one tyrant with another."

The NTC is expected to soon pass the packet of laws, which specify how elections for a transitional parliament will be held. The council only took into account public suggestions through an online survey.

The NTC's handling of the draft laws has sparked criticism that the council is not living up to its democratic ideals.

Last week, NTC official Abdel-Hafiz Ghoga was assaulted in Benghazi by protesters angry at what they said is the NTC's lack of transparency.

Some demonstrators were demanding more rights for fighters wounded during the civil war.

Protester Ahmed Boras accused the NTC of sidelining anti-Gadhafi fighters.

"It seems to us that these people are no different than Gadhafi and they only speak the language of force," he said.

Associated Press

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Heidi Klum-Seal Divorce May Not Be a Done Deal ... Yet


Yesterday, reports surfaced that Heidi Klum and Seal split and are headed for divorce court, with an official filing to come as soon as Monday morning.

No separation has occurred, however, and now, a new report suggests reports of the marriage's demise may be premature and they're not divorcing ... yet.

"They've been fighting a lot and it's been rough lately, but they have no plans to announce a split right now," a source tells People. "They're not divorcing."

Seal, Heidi Klum

According to the insider, in recent months, increased distance and time apart has tested the famously affectionate pair, who have four young children together.

On tour to promote his new album, Soul 2, Seal recently flew solo to NYC to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman, then to London for commitments.

Back together at their Brentwood, Calif., home on Saturday, "they seem to be doing a lot better," the source adds. "They're both wearing their wedding bands."

The long distance strains are likely to continue, though.

Seal is due to appear this week on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Tavis Smiley, all of which tape in and around Los Angeles.

Klum, meanwhile is expected to travel to Germany soon to promote the seventh season of Germany's Next Top Model, which premieres February 23.

[Photo: WENN.com]

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Apple reportedly believes Chinese factories faster, more flexible than U.S. counterparts

According to The New York Times, not the cost of labor, not the cost of components, but rather the speed and flexibility with which Chinese factories can respond to manufacturing demands is reportedly the reason Apple prefers them over their U.S. counterparts.


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Friday, January 20, 2012

Video: Preview: 'The Bathtub Mystery'

Dateline NBC

'Dateline NBC,' the signature broadcast for NBC News in primetime, premiered in 1992. Since then, it has been pioneering a new approach to primetime news programming. The multi-night franchise, supplemented by frequent specials, allows NBC to consistently and comprehensively present the highest-quality reporting, investigative features, breaking news coverage and newsmaker profiles.

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Do We Need A ?GarageBand For Books??

Screen Shot 2012-01-17 at 12.50.44 PMMy Dad used to take me to Long's Bookstore on the OSU campus when I was young - I'd say this was during the 1980s and very early 1990s although in my mind these afternoons spent on campus are tinged with a 1970s wash out of color, as if I were remembering my time in Kansas before Oz. We'd rumble through the stacks, picking out used titles from the basement that were beaten and worn by years of the students' buy/read/return-for-a-pittance cycle so common at universities. Most of the books there were, obviously, but Long's stocked quite a bit of ephemera including my favorite Mad Magazine digests and sci-fi. Long's is now a Barnes & Noble, its handsome neon sign taken down during a massive restructuring of OSU's student core. Most of the old book stores are gone. The local head shop, Monkey's Retreat, turned into a Taoist center. Long's and its competitor, the University Book Exchange, are gone. Even Larry's, where I went to poetry readings as a petulant high-schooler is gone. To paraphrase Joni Mitchell, they paved paradise and put up a Quizno's.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Here's the Tool Anonymous Is Tricking the Internet Into Using [Hackers]

Gawker's uncovered a pretty devious plan of Anonymous to wage war in its Megaupload retaliation—tricking Twitter users into firing the Low Orbit Ion Cannon. But what the hell is that? Giz explains. More »


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Israel Says Decision on Iran Attack 'Far Off'

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says any decision on whether to attack Iran's nuclear program is "very far off."

Barak said Wednesday no decision has been made to take such action, as Israel prepares for a visit this week by U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey.

Russia said Wednesday a military strike against Iran would be a "catastrophe" that would inflame tensions between Sunnis and Shi'ites in the region.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said all possible sanctions against Iran's nuclear program have been "exhausted." He said additional sanctions have "nothing to do" with nuclear non-proliferation and instead are aimed at hurting the Iranian economy and people.

The United States and its allies have been tightening sanctions on Iran to pressure it into stopping enriching uranium.? They accuse of Iran of trying to develop a nuclear weapon, but Tehran has repreatedly said its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. ?

European Union diplomats said Tuesday their member states are set to ban the import of Iranian oil from July 1, giving companies time to phase out existing contracts. The deal is expected to be finalized in the coming days.

But as Iran prepares to host a delegation of senior U.N. nuclear officials later this month, Lavrov says an EU embargo could hurt the chances of renewing negotiations with Iran about its nuclear program.

No date has been set for any new talks between the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany, a group known as the P5+1.

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Wednesday during a visit to Turkey that any new negotiations would most probably take place in Istanbul.

The P5+1 last met with Iran a year ago, also in Turkey, but the talks ended with no agreement.

The EU bought about a fifth of Iranian oil last year, collectively rivaling China as the main buyer.

An EU embargo would deprive Iran of vital foreign currency income. Iran is the second largest oil producer in the OPEC cartel after Saudi Arabia.

Iran has threatened to respond to an oil embargo by closing the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for the global oil trade. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Iran's threat "provocative and dangerous."

Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

NYC TechStars Member Blueprint Health Announces Its First Class Of Startups

Blueprint HealthNYC-based?Blueprint Health, a health-focused member of the TechStars Network, is announcing its inaugural class of startups today. The Winter program, which begins on January 9th, will be taking place in a 12,000 square foot loft in SoHo that will be shared with the Health 2.0 NYC team starting later this month. Part of the loft may also be turned into a co-working space for other healthcare-focused area entrepreneurs.

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