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You?ve probably already heard about the idea that Gingrich will ?humanize? himself by ?Campaign[ing] With Pets and Music?:
Newt Gingrich?s campaign has decided to take another route on his bid to the Republican nomination: pets and music.
The campaign said today that it will soon launch a ?Pets With Newt? site aimed at Gingrich?s love for animals, intended to show a ?lighter side? of the candidate. ?As speaker I made it possible for people in public housing to keep their pets in 1988. I love pets so we?re going to have an entire project,? Gingrich said.
Gingrich doesn?t have any pets at this time, but he told ABC News today he and his wife Callista want a dog in the White House?
My emphasis. This is emotional tone-deafness on a scale approaching Romney-esque.
The campaign also plans to release a music education video starring Callista, who is a classically trained musician and signer. ?A music education video from my wife will be on the importance of music education and her background as a classical French horn player and a singer in the Basilica.?
The campaign?s approach is to show a fun side of the former Speaker of House and involve Callista more in the campaign.
?We?re going to do things that are interesting and positive and fun and try to get back the idea that you can have citizenship,? Gingrich said. ?Politics doesn?t have to be mean and nasty and disgusting. You can actually have fun as citizens working together.?
Yeaaah?he?s not giving up the Wingnut Welfare fallback career, which may be the only indication of intelligent foresight Newt?s shown recently. And speaking of ?mean and nasty and disgusting?, I do believe Mr. TBogg nails it:
... Callista Gingrich is the singularly least appealing First Lady-in-waiting to shuffle down the pike since probably Mary Todd Lincoln. I can?t honestly believe that Gingrich?s campaign people are on-board with making this botoxed trailer park Pamela Harriman a focal part of the campaign. This is all on Newt. Put aside the six-year adultery binge which is between Callista and her Catholic Jesus (who has his hands full enough as it is with priests treating altar boys like the entree line at the Golden Corral), there ?s not enough Vaseline in the world to soft-focus the lens and make Callista appear warm and fuzzy. As a trophy wife she?s more Third Place Runner-up material and Miss Congeniality she is most definitely not; Callista?s so brittle she makes Nancy Reagan look like Sarah Silverman. Excuse me ? she makes Nancy Reagan look like a drunk Sarah Silverman.
It?s almost as if Newt wants his campaign to dash upon the rocks whereupon he?ll put the blame (No. It?s you, not me?) upon Callista who brought him down with her siren call and also that thing she does with her tongue. Don?t ask. No. Really. You don?t want to know. Then Newt can make plans for another comeback ? his third act ? where he?ll enter [stage right] singing What I Did For Love while letting his piggy eye roam over the chorus line as he casts about for, yet again, another leading lady.
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Iran has claimed to have taken surveillance footage of a US aircraft carrier near the Strait of Hormuz, as both countries raised the stakes in their stand-off over the oil route.
The commander of Iran's navy said the reconnaissance mission was proof that his fleet had "control over the moves by foreign forces" but it was unclear what intelligence could be derived from the grainy video, which was played triumphantly on state television.
Admiral Habibollah Sayyari's statement came as Iranian ships, helicopters and submarines continued a 10-day war game exercise designed to give credibility to the country's threat to close the strait and choke off the world's oil supplies if the West moves ahead with sanctions.
The drill is under way in international waters near the strait and only a few hundred miles from America's Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet.
The US navy has vowed to intervene to prevent any closure of the channel, through which 15 million barrels of oil pass every day.
A US navy spokeswoman would not comment on the footage but confirmed that the USS John C Stennis was on a "routine transit" through the strait.
Despite the Fifth Fleet's advantage in fire power, a senior Revolutionary Guard commander vowed yesterday that "Any threat will be responded [to] by threat".
Barry Pavel, director of the Brent Scowcroft Centre on International Security, said that Iran's navy was capable of closing the strait but would be unlikely to do so because of the country's dependence on revenues from oil exports.
"It would have to be a very extreme situation for Iran to basically shut down its own economy," he said.
The Iranian threat to close the narrow shipping lane was made after the EU, backed by the US, announced it was tightening sanctions on Iran for pressing ahead with its nuclear programme. (? Daily Telegraph, London)
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Travelers considering using Expedia.com to book a room at the three-star Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas will find rates starting at $44 and descriptive copy promising ?newly remodeled? rooms and ?world-class circus acts.?
Sounds fun. But under the ?Guest Reviews? tab, potential guests will also find two recent reviews calling the hotel ?not the best? and ?more like average average.?
Could those write-ups be the handiwork of a couple of clowns from the competition down the road?
Not likely. At least not anymore.
In a move designed to make better use of its growing database of millions of traveler-generated hotelreviews and assure users that its reviews are not faked ??an issue other sites are dealing with ? Expedia has rolled out a new hotel booking platform with a revamped ?Expedia Verified Reviews? program.
The enhanced program allows travelers to filter hotel searches in new ways (for example, by proximity to a sports stadium) and confirms that each review ? good or bad ??was written by an Expedia customer who actually booked and stayed at that hotel.
With a new review form that rolled out last week, Expedia is also gathering more information.
?We?re starting to collect interest information,? said John Kim, Expedia?ssenior vice president of global products. ?We get a lot of requests for reviews that would be useful for people with dogs or for hotels that would be good for foodies. The new form we send out after a hotel stay allows customers to write reviews for a specific audience.?
The verification process may narrow the pool of reviewers, Kim said, ?but we can get high quality, narrow content that is useful because we have so many users.?
Sites such as TripAdvisor, recently spun off from Expedia, that allow user reviews was a transformational travel achievement, said Bjorn Hanson, divisional dean of New York University?s Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management. ?Now the idea of verified reviews is a major enhancement,? he said.
Hanson notes that verifying a review doesn?t prevent unfair or unreasonable reviews, but ?it does prevent the work of unscrupulous competitors and consumers unhappy with a prior experience with that brand from posting a baseless review.
?It doesn?t make TripAdvisor look bad,? said Hanson. ?It makes Expedia look like it?s advancing the state of the art, which is a competitive advantage.??
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Already facing the probable loss of David Beckham, as well as the departure of Juninho to Sao Paulo in Brazil, the Los Angeles Galaxy also might be without MLS Defender of the Year Omar Gonzalez in their title defense next season.
Miguel Herrera, new coach of Club America in Mexico, has named Gonzalez and Club Olimpo center back Oswaldo Vizcarrondo as the team?s transfer targets for the offseason, Goal.com reports.
Club America, the site notes, has the money to offer a transfer for Gonzalez that MLS might have a hard time turning down.
Club America finished 17th out of 18 teams in the Mexican league this season and gave up a league-worst 31 goals?so there?s an obvious need to upgrade on defense.
Gonzalez has also been mentioned in connection with several unidentified English Premier League clubs, but his transfer to the U.K. would likely be held up by work permit issues, according to Goal.com.
Gonzalez is among players called to the U.S. national team's camp ahead of January friendlies.
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BASTROP, Texas ? Concrete foundations that have been cleared of rubble sit eerily empty amid charred remains of once majestic loblolly pines. Driveways, some still complete with patio furniture and basketball hoops, snake their way to nothing but a slab of stone.
More than three months after record-setting wildfires roared through this otherwise charming corner of central Texas, many of the hardest-hit areas stand largely abandoned by homeowners who have moved elsewhere. Others left homeless are starting to rebuild bigger and better houses ? or vow to do so soon ? even as the memories of the raging blazes remain fresh.
"I get to kind of build my dream house, I just haven't been in the spirit yet," said Denise Rodgers, a hospice chaplain. She was among an estimated 5,000 people displaced by the flames that killed two people, destroyed 1,673 homes and charred 33,000 acres ? an area more than twice the size of Manhattan ? in and around Bastrop, about 30 miles southeast of Austin.
Some parts of town are in the midst of a rebuilding boom, with streets crammed with trucks hauling in lumber or earthmoving equipment and carting away debris. Even ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" show got in on the action, taking a week to build a 2,500-square-foot home for a volunteer firewoman and her family who lost their bungalow.
But other areas have made little recovery. No one knows for sure how many residents have moved away already or still could.
"Certainly there are going to be a lot of people leaving," Bastrop Mayor Terry Orr said. "But we certainly want to encourage people to rebuild."
The city of Bastrop and surrounding county of the same name are home to 80,000 people, Orr said, meaning about 7 percent of residents lost homes.
In the days after the wildfires, some displaced families snapped up vacant homes for sale in the area. Others have moved in with friends or relatives, or rented homes while they decide what to do permanently.
Rodgers is living in a vacant home lent by a friend with only some rented basic furniture: "I have stuff only for one drawer." She said her New Year's resolution is getting her new home built ? and that she may put a pool and garden where her original house stood and build on an adjacent lot.
"In the beginning, I was so horrified, I couldn't think of living there," Rodgers said of her home, which was reduced to ash and clumps of melted belongings. "But you get used to seeing certain things and you change ideas."
Returning after the fire, she remembers, "I sat in the driveway and wailed. There was nothing that I could see and recognize."
A Buddha statue, a cross, an angel Christmas ornament missing only a broken wing and a Hindu goddess statue survived the flames.
"Is it uncanny that an eclectic, non-denominational hospice chaplain would find only spiritual icons in the debris? I think not," Rodgers said. "These were all divine signs that all would be OK."
Some have already begun building improved homes, fitted with energy-efficient technology and other upgrades.
Marvin Beck and his wife Anne spent two years beginning in 1992 building their home largely by hand. The fire destroyed it, so the 79-year-old architect drew up new plans and bought a new plot 12 miles from the old one.
Construction will begin in January ? though this time the couple is letting professional builders handle it.
"We had hoped the last house would be our last house," Beck said with a wry chuckle. "Hopefully this one will be."
The Becks said they had far too many friends in Bastrop to think of leaving. But they also conceded that going back to the same spot where their home once stood was too painful.
"We couldn't digest that," Beck said.
Insured losses from the fire should reach $325 million, according to the Insurance Council of Texas, making it the costliest blaze in state history. About 3,080 residents have applied for Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance, said spokesman Ray Perez, and the agency has paid out close to $9.4 million in housing and other relief funds. FEMA provided trailers to 52 displaced families across Bastrop County.
Eric and Cyndi Poe lost everything and wanted to stay but were undecided about rebuilding on their same lot ? until the builder who constructed their original home told them he could do it again in record time. The couple moved into a new home the week before Thanksgiving, barely 10 weeks after the fire.
Except for charred trees in the yard, it's now hard to tell the fire even hit the Poe's house. Their new house is virtually identical to the old one, except the Poes asked for a larger garage and said they could do without a bathtub in the master bathroom.
And, of course, their possessions are gone. Cyndi said that on Thanksgiving, she instinctively opened a cabinet expecting to see a family heirloom.
"I reached up to get the turkey platter we've used all of my life and it wasn't there, and I had a little moment where I was sad," she said.
The Poes live in Tahitian Village, a sprawling subdivision where the fires claimed 282 homes. Some 240 owners whose homes were destroyed have sought refunds for their water deposits ? meaning they won't rebuild.
Still, many leaving the subdivision could move elsewhere in and around Bastrop. Among them is Victor Gonzalez, a 59-year-old attorney who has yet to clear all the rubble of his Tahitian Village home because there's still hope sifting could turn up spared valuables.
The fire leveled dozens of pines and melted a BMW in the driveway. Only the swimming pool survived.
"We had a very secluded portion of heaven," Gonzalez said. "Now we've got a moonscape."
Neighbors on either side of him lost their homes and won't rebuild. Gonzalez is mulling a move to another part of the subdivision.
"Tahitian will be back," he said. "It's just not going to look the same."
PRAGUE ? Czechs and world leaders paid emotional tribute to Vaclav Havel on Friday at a pomp-filled funeral ceremony, ending a week of public grief and nostalgia over the death of the dissident playwright who led the 1989 revolution that toppled four decades of communist rule.
Bells tolled from churches while a wailing siren brought the country to a standstill in a minute of silence for the nation's first democratically-elected president after the nonviolent "Velvet Revolution."
Havel's wife Dagmar, family members, friends and leaders from dozens of countries gathered Friday at the towering, gothic St. Vitus Cathedral which overlooks Prague. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron were among some 1,000 mourners who bowed their heads in front of the coffin draped in the Czech colors.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who was Havel's political archrival, and two friends ? Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ? paid tribute to Havel at the cathedral, which dates to the 10th century and has not witnessed a state funeral since 1875.
"We will terribly miss him but we will never, ever forget him," said Albright, who is of Czech origin, in Czech.
In a message read at the funeral by the Vatican's former diplomatic representative in Prague, Pope Benedict XVI praised Havel. "Remembering how courageously Mr. Havel defended human rights at a time when these were systematically denied to the people of your country, and paying tribute to his visionary leadership in forging a new democratic polity after the fall of the previous regime, I give thanks to God for the freedom that the people of the Czech Republic now enjoy," he said.
At the end of the ceremony, 21 cannon salvos were fired when the Czech national anthem was played.
People were applauding when Havel's coffin was then carried by a military honor guard through the cathedral's Golden Gate to Prague's Strasnice crematorium for a private family funeral. The urn with Havel's ashes will be buried at his family's plot at the city's Vinohrady cemetery alongside his first wife, Olga, who died in 1996.
Havel, whose final term in office ended in 2003, died Sunday morning in his sleep at his weekend home in the country's north. The 75-year-old former chain-smoker had a history of chronic respiratory problems dating back to his time in prison.
Since his death, Czechs have gathered spontaneously to lay flowers and light candles at key historic sites such as the monument to the 1989 Velvet Revolution in downtown Prague, and at Wenceslas Square, where Havel once spoke before hundreds of thousands of people to express outrage at the repressive communist regime.
Similar scenes of remembrance played out across the country ? in a show of emotion not seen since the 1937 funeral of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first president after the nation was founded in 1918.
"Europe owes Vaclav Havel a profound debt," Cameron said before departing from London. "Havel led the Czech people out of tyranny ... and he helped bring freedom and democracy to our entire continent."
Czechs packed a nearby courtyard at Prague Castle and an adjacent square to watch the funeral ceremony on giant screens.
"He was our star, he gave us democracy," said Iva Buckova, 51, who had traveled from the western city of Plzen. "He led us through revolution. We came to see him for the last time."
Prague Archbishop Dominik Duka, who spent time in jail with Havel under Communism, was leading the funeral mass. He was joined by Vatican envoy Giovanni Coppa and bishop Vaclav Maly, Havel's friend and fellow dissident. Poland's former President Lech Walesa ? who led the anti-communist Solidarity movement ? also attended.
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra performed parts of Requiem by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak throughout the ceremony.
Braving the freezing cold, thousands of mourners have waited in long lines every day since Monday to file past Havel's coffin.
Several thousand people joined Havel's widow, relatives and friends in a somber procession through the capital Wednesday as Havel's body was transported to the Prague Castle.
In his final years, Havel made only occasional public appearances, and would often say that he had insufficient time to resume his literary work.
The director of the theater where he began as a stagehand in 1958 before becoming a playwright ? and where he said he spent the best 8 years of his life ? told AP he'd started work on one last play this year. It was to be called "Sanatorium."
"He may be able to finish it in heaven," said the director of Na Zabradli, Doubravka Svobodova.
(Reuters) ? With Santa's departure from the North Pole imminent, preparations to track his global trek were underway on Friday at an aerospace command center in Colorado.
Children eager for Santa's take-off can count down the hours on the track Santa clock on the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Tracks Santa website.
Also on the website, kids can watch Santa prepare for his flight, check out the bustling shops in the North Pole and then watch online "Santa cams" as the big bearded guy in the red suit visits kids around the world.
Year-round, NORAD is tasked with protecting the skies of North America, monitoring man-made objects in space and detecting any potential attack by aircraft, missiles or space vehicles.
Tracking Santa seems to be a natural seasonal extension of NORAD's typical duties.
"His flight is something that we absolutely would track," said Lieutenant Commander Bill Lewis, a NORAD spokesman.
"Rudolph's nose helps us quite a bit with that. His nose puts off quite the heat signature," Lewis said.
The origins of tracking Santa date back to 1955, Lewis said, when a local ad to speak directly with Santa printed the wrong phone number -- instead directing children to a military defense operations center.
Tracking Santa grew from there after officers on duty actually fielded the kids questions, he said.
For more than 50 years NORAD has followed the flight path of jolly old Saint Nick, but these days technology helps children and families pinpoint Santa's more exact route to their own homes.
This year, kids can download mobile device apps to watch Santa and the reindeer traverse the globe.
Otherwise, they can call or email the command center for Santa's coordinates.
Last year, 1,250 military families, civilians and local volunteers from around Colorado Springs took shifts at NORAD's facility to field more than 80,000 calls and countless emails from children asking where Santa is and when he might be coming down their chimney.
But as all good youngsters know, and volunteers remind them when they call in, Santa won't be able to stop by your home until you are sound asleep.
MEXICO CITY ? Mexican officials say a group of armed men attacked people traveling by bus through the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, killing seven.
The state prosecutor's office says in a statement that the same gunmen killed four other people in the Veracruz town of El Higo. Both attacks took place early Thursday.
The statement says that law-enforcement agents confronted the gunmen, killing five in a gunbattle.
On Wednesday, federal officials announced they were disbanding the police in the state's port city of Veracruz and sending in units of marines to patrol the streets.
CAIRO (Reuters) ? Egypt is holding the latest round of its first democratic parliamentary election on Thursday in relative calm after five days of protests in Cairo that prompted a brutal response from security forces.
The latest confrontations, in which 15 people were killed, redoubled the determination of many pro-democracy protesters to see the military council that took over from ousted president Hosni Mubarak hand power to civilians immediately.
But the wider political landscape is changing away from Cairo's Tahrir Square, centre of the protests, as the long-banned moderate Islamist Muslim Brotherhood looks to extend its election lead on Thursday.
Polling finishes on January 11. Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of the military council, said the lower house of parliament would convene on January 23, two days before the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled Mubarak.
Tahrir and surrounding streets were quiet on Wednesday for the first time in a week, not least because the authorities had erected concrete walls to bar access from the square to roads leading to parliament, the cabinet office and the Interior Ministry, where violence has been the most fierce.
A night earlier, police and soldiers had used tear gas and batons to chase protesters out of the square.
Nine provinces, mostly outside the capital, held run-off votes on Wednesday and Thursday in the second round of an election that is being held in stages over six weeks.
The army council has said it will not let the transition be derailed and has pledged to hand power to an elected president by July.
Activists plan a million-man march to Tahrir Square on December 23 to protest against army rule and the latest violence.
A few hundred hardy protesters were still in and around the square on Wednesday, surrounded by streets strewn with rocks exchanged between them and security forces. Some protesters held up bullets and cartridge cases that they said had been used against them. Traffic passed through other parts of the square.
The clashes have driven a wedge between those determined to stay on the streets and other Egyptians desperate for a return to order after turmoil that has damaged the economy and scared off foreign tourists. Many still see the army as the only institution capable of achieving this.
"All demonstrations should stop to end this violence until we finish elections and elect a president, then all the demonstrators can voice their concerns through members of parliament," said Erian Saleeb, 64, who works in the floundering tourist industry.
But many have been shocked by images of police and soldiers hitting protesters with batons even after they fell to the ground and, in one case, dragging a prone woman by her black robe, exposing her bra, and then kicking her.
STRONG U.S. RESPONSE
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week responded with some of the strongest U.S. criticism of Egypt's new rulers, citing cases of women protesters being sexually assaulted.
"This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonors the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform and is not worthy of a great people," she said.
The United States, for which Egypt under Mubarak was a crucial ally, gives Cairo $1.3 billion a year in military aid.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said on Wednesday that Egypt would not accept meddling in its affairs, and did not take comments such as Clinton's lightly.
In a statement, the army council apologized, saying it "respects and appreciates Egyptian women and their right to protest and fully participate in political life."
But other generals and their advisers have condemned the pro-democracy demonstrators, whom they accuse of wreaking havoc.
The credit rating agency Moody's downgraded Egypt's debt on Wednesday and said it might knock it down another notch because political uncertainty was undermining investor confidence - a fresh blow to an economy already reeling from months of unrest.
Moody's said that, without financial support, Egypt's central bank might find it difficult to maintain adequate liquidity in the months or year ahead.
One opposition group that has lowered its profile in the protests is the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood, whose Freedom and Justice Party now leads the election results after the first round, followed by ultra-conservative Salafi Islamists.
A large percentage of the individual - rather than party list - seats up for grabs in the run-offs were being contested between Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi candidates. Egypt's system involves a mixture of party lists and individual candidates.
Analysts say the Brotherhood has kept a low profile as it is determined to see the vote completed, putting it in a commanding position in the new assembly and securing its place in mainstream politics for the first time in its 83-year history.
(Additional reporting by Dina Zayed and Sherine El Madany; Writing by Edmund Blair and Kevin Liffey; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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According to MSNBC, NASA is studying a mission to land two robotic probes on the surface of Europa. Were the Europa landers to be approved, they would be launched as early as 2020 and would arrive at Jupiter's moon six years later.
Why land on Europa?
According to NASA, Europa is slightly smaller than Earth's moon and orbits Jupiter every 3.5 days. It has an iron core, a rocky mantle, and a surface ocean of salty water encased in ice. Tidal forces provide more heat on Europa than would normally be the case for a celestial body that far away from the sun. Thus, scientists speculate, the interior oceans of Europa could be the abode of life, probably in the oceans beneath the ice layer. Some have suggested that Europa is a better candidate for having extraterrestrial life than does Mars, currently the object of an extensive program of robotic exploration.
What would the Europa lander mission consist of?
There would be two landers, much like the Viking landers that first explored Mars in the 1970s, to provide a measure of redundancy. Each lander would be equipped with a mass spectrometer, to search for organic chemicals, and seismometers and several different cameras to study Europa's unique geology. To save weight, the landers would not carry a great deal of radiation shielding. This would mean, thanks to the heavy radiation environment around Jupiter, the landers would have the lifespan of about a week to complete their mission.
The Europa landers would not so much attempt to detect life-though that discovery would be remarkable-but to ascertain if the moon of Jupiter could support life. There are no firm cost estimates for the mission, but it is thought that the Europa landers would cost everywhere from $800 million to $2 billion.
What else may be in the future for Europa exploration?
Currently NASA is looking at a hugely expensive joint venture with the European Space Agency called the Europa Jupiter System Mission. One element of that effort would be a probe that would orbit Europa to study it remotely, ascertaining how the ice layer interacts with the ocean underneath it, for instance. Scientists believe that an exchange of organic compounds between the ice and the ocean may lead to microbial life in Europa's subsurface water. This mission would also launch in 2020 with the Europa orbiter arriving off the moon of Jupiter in 2028. However, as the EJSM would cost almost $5 billion, funding for it is uncertain.
Mark R. Whittington is the author of Children of Apolloand The Last Moonwalker.He has written on space subjects for a variety of periodicals, including The Houston Chronicle, The Washington Post, USA Today, the L.A. Times and The Weekly Standard.
HELSINKI (Reuters) ? Apple's long-awaited iPhone 4S and Samsung Electronics' fresh, broad offering are likely to stand out in this holiday season's smartphone sales which will otherwise be clouded by global economic uncertainty.
Apple, which lost its position as the world's largest smartphone maker to Samsung last quarter, could regain top spot as consumers rush to buy the latest iPhone after waiting 16 months since the previous model went on sale.
Like millions elsewhere, 36-year-old Vanessa Pigeon last week took up an offer from her telecom operator and replaced her aging Blackberry with the latest iPhone.
"I liked the design and I wanted to change for a long time," said Pigeon, a recruitment official in Paris.
In neighboring Britain, which is often seen as the indicator for the rest of the European market, the iPhone took a whopping 43 percent market share in October, overtaking phones using Google Inc's Android platform, according to research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.
"It's really only the iPhone family and the (Samsung) Galaxy family flying off the shelves. Everyone else is just picking up the leftovers," said Neil Mawston, analyst at research firm Strategy Analytics in Milton Keynes, Britain.
HTC and Research In Motion -- No.4 and No.5 smartphone vendors -- have already warned of weak holiday sales. The year end is a key sales season for smartphone vendors as consumers often replace their models for the holidays.
Vendors are expected to sell a total of 142 million smartphones in October-December, up 42 percent from a year ago, according to a Reuters poll of analysts.
NO SANTA?
"At this moment we're still doubtful on whether we'll see any seasonality this Christmas because the demand we see so far is very bad," said Bonnie Chang, analyst at Yuanta Securities in Taipei.
Overall phone sales have been shrinking in western Europe this year as consumers delay purchases in a tighter economy. Analysts expect sales of non-smartphones to stay on a par with year-ago numbers.
Smartphone sales growth, which is driven by swapping for more advanced models, has slowed over the year.
"For Europe, Q4 will not be the usual bonanza. The economy is pushing consumers to be pickier," said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi, adding this played to the advantage of Samsung and Apple.
Sales of Apple's iPhone have surged since early October when the iPhone 4S model became available, and the company is expected to sell around 28 million iPhones in the quarter, a 70 percent surge from a year ago.
Samsung's handset sales this year broke a new annual record by the end of November, boosted by good demand for its flagship Galaxy S II model, whose sales reached 10 million units, the company said a week ago.
The Reuters poll does not break out Samsung smartphone sales as the firm does not report the number, but five analysts forecast those sales should be similar to that of Apple.
Sales of Nokia products will also be closely watched in the quarter for first reactions to its Windows Phone models, although most Nokia smartphones are still powered by its own ageing Symbian software.
"I don't think Nokia joining the force can make a difference," said Yuanta Securities' Chang, noting that HTC and Samsung models using latest Windows Phone software have not fared well.
Analysts expect Nokia's smartphones sales in the fourth quarter to fall 31 percent from a year ago to 19 million phones as the new Windows Phones will not yet compensate for diving Symbian sales. Still, that would be well ahead of HTC's 11 million and RIM's 14 million.
BLACK PLATES WITH BIG SCREENS
With the proliferation of touchscreens and half of all smartphones sold using Google's Android operating system, consumers are struggling to see the difference among the models.
"Everybody is just buying black plates with big screens," said Strategy Analytics' Mawston.
Most top models also have 8 megapixel cameras among other similar features.
"If you look at the phones there is nothing particular really there," said Canalyst analyst Pete Cunningham. "It's a really tough market and it is going to get tougher."
Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei have started to win market share with their cheap smartphones using Android, and cut-price competition is set to continue with chipset supplier Spreadtrum unveiling last week a platform for $40 Android phones.
And the market seems to only be getting more crowded. Last week, Japan's Panasonic Corp said it would return to the European smartphone business next year, six years after it abandoned overseas sales of feature phones.
(Additional reporting by Alice Cannet in Paris and Clare Jim in Taipei, Editing by Mark Potter)
Weather Underground Forecast for Wednesday, December 07, 2011.
A cold front along the Eastern Seaboard will help to spin up a coastal storm on Wednesday. The storm will bring heavy rain to the Mid-Atlantic and portions of the Southeast. In addition to the heavy rainfall, strong winds will develop along the coast, with southerly winds kicking up large surf that will cause beach erosion and minor to moderate coastal flooding along the bays and shorelines of southern Long Island. The storm will intensify overnight into Thursday as the low really starts to gather strength. By Thursday morning, the storm will have moved off the coast and is expected to wrap cold air around its western flank and produce some hefty snowfall totals in the higher elevations.
Out west, another day of pleasant conditions is in store along the Pacific coast through the Rockies and Southwest as high pressure remains firmly in place.
The northern Rockies and High Plains will see a brief period of snowfall on Wednesday as a relatively dry trough moves through the northern tier, snowfall amounts will be generally less than a few inches. Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Tuesday have ranged from a morning low of -20 degrees at West Yellowstone, Mont. to a high of 85 degrees at Inverness, Fla.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Rapper T-Pain released his fourth studio album, "rEVOLVEr," on Tuesday, featuring his hit single "5 O'clock" with Lily Allen and Wiz Khalifa.
A big collaborator on other artists' albums, T-Pain brought in numerous musicians with him on "rEVOLVEr," including Pitbull, Lil Wayne, Ne-Yo and Chris Brown.
The rapper, 26, incorporated his trademark auto-tune sound, known as 'The T-Pain" effect, into his latest album, which features a mixture of up-tempo dance tracks such as "It's Not You (It's Me)" featuring Pitbull and "Best Love Song" featuring Chris Brown, as well as slow, romantic songs such as "Sho-Time (Pleasure Thang)."
With the release of "rEVOLVEr" on December 6, exactly 6 years after the release of the Grammy-winning rapper's debut album "Rapper Ternt Sanga," early critical response has been mixed.
Pete Cashmore of British music publication NME, gave the album a five out of ten rating, saying the rapper, at times, "sounds like a bog-standard rap vocalist who's got a Jew's harp stuck in his throat." But Rocia Anica at ArtistsDirect.com rated the album five out of five, highlighting tracks like "5 O'Clock," "Bottlez" and "It's Not You (It's Me)" and praising the rapper for being "exuberant, but never excessive."
T-Pain recently sat down with Reuters to talk about the new album, his family and building the T-Pain brand.
Q: Is there a theme for this album?
A: "Steam punk. It's a movement that's been happening for a long time and it's got a following that's been crazy. A lot of people don't know about it. It's like the modern world meets the 1800s."
Q: Any songs on the album hold special meaning for you?
A: "There's a song called 'Drowning Again.' It's basically about the problems I've had with my wife, going through all the stuff we went through and how we bounced back. It's like falling in love a second time."
Q: How do you decide when you want to use your auto-tune pitch corrector on songs? "Drowning Again," for example, doesn't use it.
A: "Certain songs are right for it, others don't need it. It's basically just the feeling of the song. It's a fun effect, but if you're trying to do a heartfelt song, you don't want to use a fun effect on it."
Q: You've worked with so many artists. Who is your dream collaborator that you'd love to work with?
A: "Andre 3000 is a dream of mine."
Q: Why hasn't that happened?
A: "Well, right when I got into music, when I came up and got enough rank to work with him, he kind of stopped doing music (laughs). Terrible timing I guess."
Q: Last year you appeared in the movie "Lottery Ticket" starring Bow Wow. Any plans for more acting?
A: "Not really. I'm a terrible actor. With 'Lottery Ticket,' it took Bow Wow to call me to come in real quick. I was like, 'All right, where's the set, what do I say?' It was fun, but it's not like I'm walking around saying, 'I wanna be an actor one day.' It was just a favor for Bow Wow."
Q: Besides the music, you also have a T-Pain microphone that uses a voice modification technique. Are you conscious of building a brand?
A: "Of course. Nowadays everybody's trying to do something to make their brand bigger, whether it be a clothing line or a fragrance. You gotta find different ways (to stand out) in a business that's really overflowing with musicians."
Q: Often on stage you wear big hats, bold sunglasses and a grill on your teeth. What's the real T-Pain style?
A: "T-shirt and pajama pants. That's what it is. That's what I have on right now. That's what I wear every day -- a T-shirt and pajama pants."
Q: You have three young children with your wife Amber. Any of them display musical ability?
A: "My son (six-year-old Muziq) I think, but all of them get in front of a mirror with a hairbrush and go to town."
Q: Do they ever come to your shows?
A: "No, they don't like the noise that much, unless it's noise they're making! (laughs). They don't even come in the studio that much because they end up covering their ears."
Q: Do you have a grand plan?
A: "I just wanna live, that's pretty much it. I just wanna be able to get these ideas out of my head, let other people hear them and live my life."
(Additional reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
'Label-free' imaging tool tracks nanotubes in cells, blood for biomedical researchPublic release date: 5-Dec-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Emil Venere venere@purdue.edu 765-494-4709 Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have demonstrated a new imaging tool for tracking structures called carbon nanotubes in living cells and the bloodstream, which could aid efforts to perfect their use in biomedical research and clinical medicine.
The structures have potential applications in drug delivery to treat diseases and imaging for cancer research. Two types of nanotubes are created in the manufacturing process, metallic and semiconducting. Until now, however, there has been no technique to see both types in living cells and the bloodstream, said Ji-Xin Cheng, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry at Purdue University.
The imaging technique, called transient absorption, uses a pulsing near-infrared laser to deposit energy into the nanotubes, which then are probed by a second near-infrared laser.
The researchers have overcome key obstacles in using the imaging technology, detecting and monitoring the nanotubes in live cells and laboratory mice, Cheng said.
"Because we can do this at high speed, we can see what's happening in real time as the nanotubes are circulating in the bloodstream," he said.
Findings are detailed in a research paper posted online Sunday (Dec. 4) in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
The imaging technique is "label free," meaning it does not require that the nanotubes be marked with dyes, making it potentially practical for research and medicine, Cheng said.
"It's a fundamental tool for research that will provide information for the scientific community to learn how to perfect the use of nanotubes for biomedical and clinical applications," he said.
The conventional imaging method uses luminescence, which is limited because it detects the semiconducting nanotubes but not the metallic ones.
The nanotubes have a diameter of about 1 nanometer, or roughly the length of 10 hydrogen atoms strung together, making them far too small to be seen with a conventional light microscope. One challenge in using the transient absorption imaging system for living cells was to eliminate the interference caused by the background glow of red blood cells, which is brighter than the nanotubes.
The researchers solved this problem by separating the signals from red blood cells and nanotubes in two separate "channels." Light from the red blood cells is slightly delayed compared to light emitted by the nanotubes. The two types of signals are "phase separated" by restricting them to different channels based on this delay.
Researchers used the technique to see nanotubes circulating in the blood vessels of mice earlobes.
"This is important for drug delivery because you want to know how long nanotubes remain in blood vessels after they are injected," Cheng said. "So you need to visualize them in real time circulating in the bloodstream."
The structures, called single-wall carbon nanotubes, are formed by rolling up a one-atom-thick layer of graphite called graphene. The nanotubes are inherently hydrophobic, so some of the nanotubes used in the study were coated with DNA to make them water-soluble, which is required for them to be transported in the bloodstream and into cells.
The researchers also have taken images of nanotubes in the liver and other organs to study their distribution in mice, and they are using the imaging technique to study other nanomaterials such as graphene.
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The paper was written by doctoral student Ling Tong; postdoctoral research associate Yuxiang Liu; doctoral students Bridget D. Dolash and Yookyung Jung; biomedical engineering research scientist Mikhail N. Slipchenko; Donald E. Bergstrom, the Walther Professor of Medicinal Chemistry; and Cheng.
The research is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Writer: Emil Venere, 765-494-4709, venere@purdue.edu
Related websites:
Ji-Xin Cheng: https://engineering.purdue.edu/BME/Research/Labs/Cheng
Purdue Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering: http://www.purdue.edu/bme
Purdue Department of Chemistry: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/
Chen Yang: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/people/faculty/faculty.asp?itemID=81
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Researchers have demonstrated a new imaging tool for tracking structures called single-wall carbon nanotubes in living cells and the bloodstream, work that could aid efforts to perfect their use in laboratory or medical applications. Here, the imaging system detects both metallic and semiconducting nanotubes, false-colored in red and green, in live hamster cells.
A publication-quality image is available at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/2011/cheng-nanotubes.jpg
Abstract on the research in this release can be found at: http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2011/111205ChengNanotubes.html
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'Label-free' imaging tool tracks nanotubes in cells, blood for biomedical researchPublic release date: 5-Dec-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Emil Venere venere@purdue.edu 765-494-4709 Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have demonstrated a new imaging tool for tracking structures called carbon nanotubes in living cells and the bloodstream, which could aid efforts to perfect their use in biomedical research and clinical medicine.
The structures have potential applications in drug delivery to treat diseases and imaging for cancer research. Two types of nanotubes are created in the manufacturing process, metallic and semiconducting. Until now, however, there has been no technique to see both types in living cells and the bloodstream, said Ji-Xin Cheng, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry at Purdue University.
The imaging technique, called transient absorption, uses a pulsing near-infrared laser to deposit energy into the nanotubes, which then are probed by a second near-infrared laser.
The researchers have overcome key obstacles in using the imaging technology, detecting and monitoring the nanotubes in live cells and laboratory mice, Cheng said.
"Because we can do this at high speed, we can see what's happening in real time as the nanotubes are circulating in the bloodstream," he said.
Findings are detailed in a research paper posted online Sunday (Dec. 4) in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
The imaging technique is "label free," meaning it does not require that the nanotubes be marked with dyes, making it potentially practical for research and medicine, Cheng said.
"It's a fundamental tool for research that will provide information for the scientific community to learn how to perfect the use of nanotubes for biomedical and clinical applications," he said.
The conventional imaging method uses luminescence, which is limited because it detects the semiconducting nanotubes but not the metallic ones.
The nanotubes have a diameter of about 1 nanometer, or roughly the length of 10 hydrogen atoms strung together, making them far too small to be seen with a conventional light microscope. One challenge in using the transient absorption imaging system for living cells was to eliminate the interference caused by the background glow of red blood cells, which is brighter than the nanotubes.
The researchers solved this problem by separating the signals from red blood cells and nanotubes in two separate "channels." Light from the red blood cells is slightly delayed compared to light emitted by the nanotubes. The two types of signals are "phase separated" by restricting them to different channels based on this delay.
Researchers used the technique to see nanotubes circulating in the blood vessels of mice earlobes.
"This is important for drug delivery because you want to know how long nanotubes remain in blood vessels after they are injected," Cheng said. "So you need to visualize them in real time circulating in the bloodstream."
The structures, called single-wall carbon nanotubes, are formed by rolling up a one-atom-thick layer of graphite called graphene. The nanotubes are inherently hydrophobic, so some of the nanotubes used in the study were coated with DNA to make them water-soluble, which is required for them to be transported in the bloodstream and into cells.
The researchers also have taken images of nanotubes in the liver and other organs to study their distribution in mice, and they are using the imaging technique to study other nanomaterials such as graphene.
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The paper was written by doctoral student Ling Tong; postdoctoral research associate Yuxiang Liu; doctoral students Bridget D. Dolash and Yookyung Jung; biomedical engineering research scientist Mikhail N. Slipchenko; Donald E. Bergstrom, the Walther Professor of Medicinal Chemistry; and Cheng.
The research is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Writer: Emil Venere, 765-494-4709, venere@purdue.edu
Related websites:
Ji-Xin Cheng: https://engineering.purdue.edu/BME/Research/Labs/Cheng
Purdue Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering: http://www.purdue.edu/bme
Purdue Department of Chemistry: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/
Chen Yang: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/people/faculty/faculty.asp?itemID=81
IMAGE CAPTION:
Researchers have demonstrated a new imaging tool for tracking structures called single-wall carbon nanotubes in living cells and the bloodstream, work that could aid efforts to perfect their use in laboratory or medical applications. Here, the imaging system detects both metallic and semiconducting nanotubes, false-colored in red and green, in live hamster cells.
A publication-quality image is available at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/2011/cheng-nanotubes.jpg
Abstract on the research in this release can be found at: http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2011/111205ChengNanotubes.html
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TORONTO (Reuters) ? Canada believes the United States will ultimately approve TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which Washington put on hold last month for more than a year, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said on Friday. Oliver said the project - which would carry crude from Alberta's oil sands to the Gulf of Mexico coast - still makes enormous economic sense for the United States.
Jobless rate unexpectedly rises in November
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's economy unexpectedly lost jobs for a second straight month in November, raising concern that weakness in other countries may do lasting harm to an economy that has so far been surprisingly robust. Net job losses totaled 18,600 jobs in the month following a hefty 54,000 drop in October, Statistics Canada said on Friday, pointing to a poor economic performance in the final quarter of the year.
RIM caps dismal year with another profit warning
TORONTO (Reuters) - Research in Motion booked a huge charge to write down inventories of its underwhelming PlayBook tablet on Friday, capping a dismal year with a steep profit warning that sent its shares tumbling more than 8 percent. Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM, the company whose now ubiquitous BlackBerry created the concept of on-the-go email, said it now no longer expects to meet its full-year earnings forecast, due to weak sales, the PlayBook writedown and a charge related to a damaging service outage in October.
Natives to oppose West Coast oil pipelines
(Reuters) - Aboriginal groups in the Canadian Pacific province of British Columbia said on Thursday they had formed a united front to oppose all exports of crude oil from the Alberta tar sands through their territories. The declaration is another political blow to the Canadian energy sector and Canada's right-of-center Conservative government after Washington decided last month to delay approving a pipeline carrying oil sands crude to the Gulf Coast.
RBC PMI shows slower manufacturing growth
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian manufacturing growth slowed in November to the weakest level in four months as worsening global economic conditions took a toll on the domestic environment, data on Thursday showed. The RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index came in at 53.31 in November, above the level of 50 that separates expansion from contraction.
TSX climbs on banks, Europe hopes
TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index was higher on Friday morning, on track to post its biggest weekly gain in more than two years, pushed up by strong bank earnings, encouraging U.S. jobs data and talk of more action to ease Europe's debt. Royal Bank of Canada was the most heavily weighted gainer, up 3.8 percent at C$48.80, after Canada's biggest lender reported a quarterly profit that beat expectations, helped by solid growth in mortgages and business loans, which overshadowed weak capital markets-related income.
Supreme Court to hear corn syrup price-fixing
(Reuters) - Canada's Supreme Court said on Thursday it will hear a case that alleges producers of high-fructose corn syrup, including U.S. agribusiness giants Cargill Inc and Archer Daniels Midland Co, conspired to fix the sweetener's price. The case involves efforts to set up a class action lawsuit. It was brought by Sun-Rype Products Ltd, a Canadian juice and fruit-snack company based in British Columbia, and by a consumer representing potential individual claimants.
TORONTO (Reuters) - General Motors market share in Canada hit an historical low in November, an analyst said, as figures on Thursday showed its sales fell 14.2 percent. Ford Motor Co's Canadian sales also fell but it remained the top-selling brand in the country.
RIM, Nokia deny use of Carrier IQ software
TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion does not install, nor authorize, its carrier partners to install "Carrier IQ" monitoring software on its BlackBerry smartphones, the company said on Thursday. RIM made the statement after a security researcher said the "Carrier IQ" application, which can monitor what device users are doing, has been installed on mobile devices from multiple vendors without the knowledge or consent of customers.
Maple says TMX deal could give OSC a pricing role
TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian consortium seeking to buy TMX Group, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, said on Thursday it could give regulators the right to supervise clearing and settlement prices in order to gain approval of the C$3.8 billion (C$3.76 billion) takeover deal. Under its TMX takeover proposal, the Maple Group consortium of Canadian financial services companies wants to also buy Canadian Depository for Securities (CDS), which clears and settles trades in Canada. This aspect of the deal has spurred fears of an unfair monopoly, and Maple said it is ready to compromise to get the deal done.
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