New Year's Eve Football Schedule: Last 5 Bowl Games Of 2011

By Alfie Crow

As you get ready to ring in the New Year, there are still five games left to be played in the 2011 NCAA Bowl season.

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Dec 31, 2011 - As we get ready to head into 2012, there are still some NCAA football games left to go down in 2011. Here's a quick run down of the final five games of 2011:

Meineke Car Care Bowl: Texas A&M Vs. Northwestern, 12:00 pm ET, ESPN

Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald and senior quarterback Dan Persa are trying to win the Wildcats their first bowl game since they won the 1949 Rose Bowl. Texas A&M on the other hand looks to finish out a disappointing season with a win as they get ready to start the Kevin Sumlin era. You can follow the game here at our StoryStream.

National Football Post Says keep an eye on: Kain Colter. The NU all-everything offensive performer has played quarterback, receiver and running back this season. In case Persa goes down, he's someone who can fill in and this offense won't miss a beat. He's also emerged as a legit receiving weapon.

Sun Bowl: Georgia Tech Vs. Utah, 2:00 pm ET, CBS

Paul Johnson will bring the Yellow Jackets triple option and No. 3 ranked rushing attack to the Utah defense, which is one of the top ranked defenses in the country. Georgia Tech will be looking to snap a six game bowl game losing streak while Utah continues their steak of post-season bowl game appearances. You can follow the game here at our StoryStream.

National Football Post says keep an eye on: GT's ground attack vs. Utah's rush defense. Simply put, this is the most important "game within the game." The Jackets were third in the nation in rushing while the Utes finished seventh in rushing defense. Georgia Tech rushed for 44 touchdowns this fall while Utah allowed only six rushing scores. Something has to give in this one.

Liberty Bowl: Cincinnati Vs. Vanderbilt, 3:30 pm ET, ABC

The Cincinnati Bearcats may get back starting quarterback Zack Collaros, who's made a speedy recovery from the injury that knocked him out for part of the season. Vanderbilt on the other hand are in just their fifth bowl in school's history, as first-year head coach James Franklin tries to cap off the season with a win. You can follow the game here at our StoryStream.

National Football Post says keep an eye on: Turnover margin. Last season, Cincy was last in the Big East at minus-15 in turnover margin. This year, the Bearcats led the Big East at plus-11. Collaros is expected to play because his recovery is ahead of schedule, but he likely will be a game-time decision. If Collaros is unable to play, sophomore Munchie Legaux will get the nod. In the final four games, he threw for 688 yards with five touchdowns and four interceptions. He is talented, but Collaros gives Cincy the best chance to win and to avoid costly turnovers.

Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl: Illinois Vs. UCLA, 3:30 pm ET, ESPN

Appropriately nick named the "Interim Bowl", both Illinois and UCLA enter the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl with interim head coaches after firing coaches Ron Zook and Rick Neuheisel after disappointing seasons and tenures as head coach. Both teams have dealt with disgruntled employees and player suspensions heading into the game, so it should be an intriguing one to watch. You can follow the game here at our StoryStream.

National Football Post says keep an eye on: UCLA's special teams. The Bruins have a very good punter in Jeff Locke, who placed 41 percent of his kicks inside the 20-yard line. But what about at kicker? The Bruins lost two players to injury at the position and saw that Locke wasn't the answer, so the team promoted Tyler Gonzalez, who was a student manager on the soccer team. Seriously. He went 7-of-10 on field-goal attempts, but can he continue his success against the Illini?

Chick-Fil-A Bowl: Auburn Vs. Virginia, 7:30 pm ET, ESPN

The Virginia Cavaliers look to cap off a promising season that saw them compete for the ACC title. On the other side of the coin, Auburn enters the game after losing it's offensive coordinator and with offensive workhorse running back Michael Dyer suspended. You can follow the game here at our StoryStream.

National Football Post says keep an eye on: Special teams. Auburn led the SEC in kickoff return average (24.3), and Mason ranked 19th nationally in that category. The Tigers also ranked 19th in net punting at 39 yards per attempt. The Tigers' special teams advantage could come into play in a close game.

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For Lab Mice, The Medical Advances Keep Coming

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Takashi Yokoo, head of a project researching kidney regeneration at Tokyo's Jikei University School of Medicine, holds a mouse at his laboratory.

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Takashi Yokoo, head of a project researching kidney regeneration at Tokyo's Jikei University School of Medicine, holds a mouse at his laboratory.

When scientists want to test new therapies for cancer or heart disease, they frequently turn to mice for help. For most mice, this isn't the best thing that could happen to them. Being a research subject has definite disadvantages, at least for mice.

But most people prefer a new therapy be tested in a rodent rather than making a human patient the guinea pig ? if you'll forgive the twisted metaphor.

So every year, mice get the latest therapies. And some of the time, they're cured. For example, Richard Vile, a researcher at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., works with a strain of lab mice that are prone to getting prostate cancer.

"What we've done is we've vaccinated mice against tumors," he says.

Vile says the vaccine is made from a special virus containing cancer cell genes. The modified virus energizes the mouse's immune system so it can fight off the cancer. The vaccine doesn't prevent cancer; instead, Vile gives the vaccine to mice that already have tumors.

"In a proportion of the mice, in our best experiments, those tumors would actually go away," Vile says. "It is good news for mice."

The good news doesn't end with prostate cancer. Scientists have reported progress this year in melting away all sorts of tumors, as well as promising treatments for a variety of other ailments.

Lois Smith, an ophthalmologist at Children's Hospital in Boston, has been studying an eye problem that afflicts premature infants and people with diabetes. The problem is caused by abnormal blood vessel growth in the eye that can lead to blindness. She's turned to mice to answer some fundamental questions:

"How do we promote normal blood vessel regrowth?" she asks. "How do we prevent the abnormal new blood vessels from growing?"

This year, she reported that giving mice omega-3 fatty acids ? that stuff you find in fish oil ? was an approach that shows promise.

"It decreases by 50 percent the abnormal new blood vessel growth," she says. This approach only works before the problem develops. It won't be much help for the three blind mice we've all heard so much about.

But just as some therapies are tested in mice before they are tested in humans, some are tested in mouse cells before they are tested in live mice.

Jeffrey Holt, an otolaryngologist, also at Children's Hospital in Boston, has found some genes that have the wrong DNA sequence in people with an inherited form of deafness. So he's working with mice that have the same problem.

"The idea is then to replace those genes with the correct DNA sequence and hopefully restore function," he says. This year, Holt was able to correct that problem in mouse cells.

"That was done in vitro, in a dish. And now we want to do it in the live animal," he says. "We're pretty close. That's something we have planned for the next year or so."

So for that good news, mice still have to wait a while.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/31/143862860/for-lab-mice-the-medical-advances-keep-coming?ft=1&f=1007

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Justin Bieber and Busta Rhymes Help Launch NBA Season

12/29/2011
. (popmusiclife) After a lengthy lockout, the NBA returned on Christmas Day. The 2011-2012 season will be a shorter one than usual, due to the impact of the lockout, but fans are still pumped for pro basketball's return.

Justin Bieber and Busta Rhymes were featured in a season-starting promo for a sports network; the pair are mixed in with shots of NBA players while they perform their version of the holiday classic, "Little Drummer Boy."

Bieber and Busta recorded the song for Justin's latest album, "Under The Mistletoe." Check out the video here.

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Stephen Hawking seeks help to make voice heard

LONDON (AP) ? Can you help make Stephen Hawking's voice heard?

The famed British physicist is seeking an assistant to help develop and maintain the electronic speech system that allows him to communicate his vision of the universe. An informal job ad posted to the famed physicist's website said the assistant should be computer literate, ready to travel, and able to repair electronic devices "with no instruction manual or technical support."

Hawking has long struggled against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease which left him almost completely paralyzed.

He lost his real voice in a tracheotomy in 1985, but a wheelchair-mounted computer helps synthesize speech by interpreting the twitches of his face. The synthesizer's robotic monotone has become nearly as famous as Hawking himself, but the computer ? powered by batteries fastened to the back of Hawking's wheelchair ? isn't just for speaking.

It can connect to the Internet over cell phone networks and a universal infrared remote enables the physicist to switch on the lights, watch television, or open doors either at home or at the office.

It's a complicated, tailor-made system, as the ad makes clear. A photograph of the back of Hawking's wheelchair, loaded with coiled wires and electronic equipment, is pictured under the words: "Could you maintain this?"

"If your answer is 'yes,' we'd like to hear from you!" the website says.

Hawking's website says that the job's salary is expected to be about 25,000 pounds ($38,500) a year.

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Snow and tears mark funeral for North Korean leader (Reuters)

SEOUL (Reuters) ? The world watched anxiously on Wednesday as North Korea staged a huge funeral in the capital, Pyongyang, for former leader Kim Jong-il, searching for signs of what to expect from the isolated nation that may be close to attaining nuclear weapons capacity.

Bleak pictures from state television showed a funeral cortege led by a limousine carrying a huge picture of the 69-year-old, who died on December 17, passing serried ranks of olive green-clad soldiers whose bare heads were bowed in homage in the main square of the snow-covered capital.

A hearse carrying the coffin was led by a weeping Kim Jong-un, the son and heir, accompanied by Jang Song-thaek, his uncle and a key power-broker in the transition, and Ri Yong-ho, the army chief of staff.

"Seeing this white snow fall has made me think of the general's efforts and this brings tears to my eyes," Seo Ju-rim, a red-cheeked, weeping female soldier, told North Korean television, referring to the late Kim.

One of the myths surrounding Kim Jong-il was that he could control the weather and state media has reported unusually cold and wild weather accompanying his death.

Video showed weeping civilians who swayed with grief and shouted "father, father" as black Lincoln and Mercedes limousines and army trucks streamed past the crowds. It was not clear whether the pictures were live or recorded, although a state television announcer said it had been carried live.

"I wished it was a dream, how can this be true," sobbed one middle-aged woman named Kim. "How can anything like this ever happen in the world?"

At one stage, weeping women were held back by men who linked arms to prevent them surging towards the cortege. The procession ended after about three hours with 21 guns fired in salute as the top leadership looked on from a podium.

Kim Jong-un will become the third member of the family to run the unpredictable North Asian country as it enters 2012, the year that was supposed to mark its self-proclaimed transformation into a "strong and prosperous" nation.

The North has conducted two nuclear tests and Larry Niksch, who has tracked North Korea for the non-partisan U.S. Congressional Research Service for 43 years, believes it could take as little as one to two years to have a working nuclear missile once it produced enough highly enriched uranium for the warhead's core fuel.

The prospect of an untested leader, believed to be in his late 20s, having nuclear capacity has alarmed many.

"Yes, we are watching and will be analyzing how any changes can be reflected in our policy," a South Korean government official said. He was not authorized to speak to the media, so could not be identified.

UNCLE JANG, POWER BEHIND THE THRONE

State television showed Jang Song-thaek walking directly behind Kim Jong-un alongside the limousine carrying the coffin. Jang ranked a lowly 19th in the list of names on the state funeral committee but his public elevation confirmed that he will play a key role in shaping policies.

An ascetic-looking, bespectacled 65-year-old, Jang has overcome a purge, bitter palace intrigue and personal tragedy to become vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, the supreme leadership council which Kim Jong-il led as head of the military state.

"Kim Jong-un is clearly the head of the new leadership but, in terms of hierarchy and influence, Jang appears to have secured considerable position," said Yoo Ho-yeol, a North Korea expert at Korea University in the South.

Strong it may be -- North Korea is backed by neighboring China and has a 1.2 million-strong armed forces -- but prosperous it is not.

On average, the 25 million North Koreans have a life expectancy 3-1/2 years lower than they did when "Eternal President" Kim Il-sung, the new leader's grandfather, died in 1994, according to U.N. data.

The United Nations, in a country program for 2011-15, says North Korea's main challenge is to "restore the economy to the level attained before 1990" and to alleviate food shortages for a third of its people.

Indications from the transition suggest Kim Jong-il's "military first" policy will continue, meaning the military gets the lion's share of scare resources and further hardship for the majority in a country that endured starvation in the 1990s.

Pyongyang's affirmation of the "songun" (military first) policy is a strong indicator that North Korea's policies won't change under Jong-un," said analyst Bruce Klingner of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank.

"As such, speculation that the new leader will be more amenable to reform and to a less belligerent foreign policy since he studied in Switzerland in his youth, will prove short-lived," he said after the funeral.

Leverage from outside, with the exception of China, is limited. All the United States, South Korea and Japan can do is hope that the regime does not collapse, nor flex its military muscle as it did in 2010, when it shelled a South Korean island.

North Korea was established in 1948 and under its founding father, Kim Il-sung, went to war to try to conquer the South. It failed and in 1953 a dividing line that would become the world's most militarized frontier was drawn across the peninsula.

PROSPECTS OF A PURGE

While Kim Il-sung was revered by his people for fighting Japanese colonial rule, the halo over his successors has steadily dimmed to such an extent that his grandson, the new ruler, will have to rely on people such as his uncle, Jang, to hold on to power, at least in the short term.

Official media in the North have built Kim Jong-un, a jowly and rotund man in his late 20s, into a leader worthy of inheriting the crown, naming him "respected general", "great successor", "outstanding leader" and "supreme commander".

This year, dissident groups based in South Korea, citing North Korean refugees and businessmen working in China, linked the youngest Kim to a crackdown on business activities and a tougher policy on people seeking to flee from North Korea.

Those reports could not be verified independently, but would again suggest that under the new man, further repression is more likely than an economic opening.

It also gives little hope for the 200,000 North Koreans who human rights group Amnesty international says are enslaved in labor camps, subjected to torture and hunger or execution.

"There is likely to be a politically motivated purge and imprisonment, and it could go on for a considerable period of time," said Pak Sang-hak, who heads a group in Seoul working to support defectors, and is himself a defector.

"That is especially because of the relative instability of Kim Jong-un's leadership. There might also be persecution as a way of intimidation and discipline."

(Additional reporting by Christine Kim and Iktae Park in SEOUL and Jim Wolf and Paul Eckert in WASHINGTON; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner, Robert Birsel and Eric Beech)

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College football ? Texas tops Cal for Holiday Bowl win

San Diego ? The next time Texas coach Mack Brown sees Joey Harrington, the memory shouldn?t be quite so painful.

David Ash added his name to the list of quarterbacks who?ve caught a touchdown pass in the Holiday Bowl and he also threw for one score to lead Texas to a 21-10 victory against California on Wednesday night.

Ash caught a 4-yard pass from wide receiver Jaxon Shipley in the second quarter to join BYU?s Steve Young, Texas A&M?s Bucky Richardson and Oregon?s Harrington as quarterbacks who?ve caught touchdown passes in the Holiday Bowl.

The Longhorns had the ball first-and-goal when Ash handed off to running back Malcolm Brown who then handed off to Shipley as if the Longhorns were going to run a reverse. Ash slipped into the end zone and caught Shipley?s pass to give Texas a 7-3 lead. Shipley has thrown three touchdown passes this season, all while lining up at wide receiver.

Brown joked on Tuesday how much it still bugged him that Harrington caught a TD pass in the Ducks? 35-30 win against Texas in the 2000 Holiday Bowl. The Oregon offensive coordinator then was Jeff Tedford, who has been Cal?s coach since 2002. Harrington now works for the Longhorn Network.

Brown credited the play to co-offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin, who previously had coached and played at Boise State.

?If you?re not moving the ball, he?s got some imagination in the offense to make a play,? Brown said.

That play helped salvage a little bit of the Holiday Bowl?s reputation for high-scoring, wide-open games.

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?We knew they were going to throw something like that out there,? Cal defensive end Trevor Guyton said. ?It was only a matter of time before they did it. They got us. No excuses.?

Ash had another impressive play in the third quarter when he threw a 47-yard touchdown pass to Marquise Goodwin, who made a nice over-the-shoulder catch in full stride. That gave the Longhorns a 14-10 lead.

The Longhorns (8-5) were even more impressive on defense, getting five takeaways and sacking Cal?s Zach Maynard six times, both season highs.

The Golden Bears (7-6) are winless in five games against the Longhorns dating to 1959.

Texas put it away on Cody Johnson?s 4-yard touchdown run on the first play of the fourth quarter, which was set up when Maynard was sacked and fumbled, which was recovered by Chris Whaley at the Cal 44. Goodwin ran for 37 yards and Johnson had a 3-yard gain before his touchdown run.

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Friend: Texas gunman upset his wife was doing well

LANCASTER, Texas -- Family friends say a Texas man accused of killing six relatives in a Christmas Day murder-suicide was struggling financially and didn't like that his estranged wife was doing well.

Authorities say 56-year-old Aziz Yazdanpanah (ah-ZEEZ' YAWZ'-dahn-pahn-aw) was dressed as Santa when he fatally shot his estranged wife, their two teenage children and three other relatives Sunday inside an apartment in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine.

After a private burial for the six victims Thursday, family friend Azar Shahbazi (AH'-zahr shah-BAH'-zee) said she believed Yazdanpanah was upset because his wife "was doing good on her own."

The wife's brother, Ali Rahmaty (AH'-lee rah-MAH'-tee), says he'd been financially supporting the family. He says Yazdanpanah had been unemployed for more than a decade, but says he never thought Yazdanpanah would become violent.

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The secret behind Royal Wedding Chocolate Cake - 1,700 rich tea biscuits

Once it was agreed he would design the cake he decamped from his base in Holbrook, Derbys, to McVities' test bakery where, amidst tight security, he and a team from the firm worked for 29 days and nights to design a cake to meet royal approval. It was one of six designed.

He said: "With eight days to go, and with the design agreed by Buckingham Palace, we were told we needed to make two cakes which would travel to the Palace in two separate vans just in case there was an accident.

"So with two days to go one van went one way, the other went another way and we had a rendezvous at Buckingham Palace.

"With the wedding on Friday, we spent Wednesday and Thursday building the cake and putting it on a priceless gold salver. It was a bit wobbly and at one stage I had it upside down with a pair of pliers trying to fix it until I was told what it was worth."

He said 24 hours before the wedding, he and the cake, which was adorned with white chocolate dahlias, milk chocolate leaves and a mixture of white and milk chocolate feathers, were visited by the Queen. "She had a chat with us," he said. "She told us how it was Prince William's cake because the middle bit was a recipe by chefs at Buckingham Palace that was his favourite afternoon tea cake.

"She told us how he always used to take some back to boarding school with him."

Mr Colenso said he and his cake-making team were also visited that day by the Duke and Prince Harry. He said: "They were very, very nice guys. Prince William knew all about the cake; they were absolutely fantastic."

The actual cake remained untouched during the wedding, so it could be displayed later. However, 1,000 separate pieces were specially made that were distributed to guests - and he has only now been given permission by United Biscuits to talk about it.

He said: "Even the cake made for the individual pieces had to be 'frock tests', to make sure the cake was the right consistency and didn't crumble onto someone's frock.

The recipe is a strict secret, it's in my head and I haven't even written it down, but it did contain 1,700 rich tea biscuits.

Each of the white decorative flowers took four or five hours to make, so it was very labour intensive. Everything had to be made and then transported separately to Buckingham Palace.

It was something completely new and completely different, but it was a once in a lifetime job; extremely exciting but very stressful. We even talked jokingly if they could move the wedding because we were really up against it."

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U.S. says China not currency manipulator; chides Japan (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The U.S. Treasury again shied away from labeling China a currency manipulator on Tuesday, but it rapped the country for not moving quickly enough on exchange rate reforms.

The United States also chided Japan for stepping into the currency market to stem the yen's rise, and urged South Korea to use such interventions sparingly.

Some U.S. politicians have argued that China has gained an unfair competitive edge in global markets by keeping the yuan artificially low to boost exports, and pressure has mounted in Congress for President Barack Obama to punish China.

But the administration prefers to tread softly and use diplomacy. The U.S. Treasury, in a semi-annual report, as usual said that statutes covering a designation of currency manipulator "have not been met with respect to China."

It repeated its standard line that appreciation in the yuan has been too slow, calling it "insufficient."

"Treasury will closely monitor the pace of appreciation and press for policy changes that yield greater exchange rate flexibility, a level playing field, and a sustained shift to domestic demand-led growth," it said in the report to Congress on international economic and exchange rate policies.

The value of the yuan, which Beijing manages closely, has risen 4 percent against the dollar this year and 7.7 percent since China dropped a firm peg against the greenback in June 2010. The Peterson Institute for International Economics recently estimated the yuan was undervalued by 24 percent against the dollar, down from 28 percent earlier in the year. It attributed the change to both Beijing's policy of gradual currency appreciation and higher Chinese inflation.

At the heart of the friction between the two countries is a U.S. trade deficit with China that swelled in 2010 to a record $273.1 billion from about $226.9 billion in 2009. The cumulative Jan-Oct deficit with China is on track to top that this year, running at around $245.5 billion.

The U.S. Senate this year for the first time passed a bill that would require the administration to slap penalties on Chinese imports if it fails to adopt market-based exchange rates. While the measure has made no progress in the lower chamber and is unlikely to become law, it shows the mounting U.S. frustration with its vital trade partner.

President Obama at the November APEC meetings, in his toughest words yet, told President Hu Jintao that China must play by global trade rules and act like "a grown-up."

The Treasury's decision not to label China a currency manipulator sent a "clear and positive signal" that would soothe the market and benefit trade, according to a commentary in Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, on Wednesday.

Beijing has warned the United States not to "politicize" the currency issue, and some economists have pointed out that nations such as Japan and Switzerland have intervened in currency markets without drawing Washington's ire.

TARGETING TOKYO

The report did point the finger at Japan this time, criticizing Tokyo for its solo yen-selling interventions in August and October that followed a joint Group of 7 action in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake.

"The unilateral Japanese interventions were undertaken when exchange market conditions appeared to be operating in an orderly manner and volatility in the yen-dollar exchange rate was lower than, for example, the euro-dollar market," the report said.

"In contrast to the post-earthquake joint G7 intervention in March, the United States did not support these interventions," the Treasury said, adding that Tokyo should pursue reforms to revive its domestic economy rather than try to influence the exchange rate.

A senior Japanese government official said the report did not change Tokyo's position that its currency policy was in line with G7 agreements.

"This report does not make it more difficult for Japan to intervene," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic. "We are committed to doing whatever is necessary."

Japanese exporters have complained that the ultra-strong yen puts them at a competitive disadvantage. The yen was trading at just under 78 to the U.S. dollar on Wednesday morning, about 3 percent weaker than it was on October 31, when Tokyo aggressively intervened to cap the rise.

The report also noted that South Korean authorities "should limit their FX interventions to exceptional circumstances of disorderly market conditions and adopt a greater degree of exchange rate flexibility."

MORE OF THE SAME

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said the law on the FX report, which requires the administration to determine whether U.S. trade partners are deliberately undervaluing their currencies, is a poor tool to push Beijing on the yuan.

Instead, the United States prefers to argue for change at regular closed-door meetings with Chinese officials. It also uses international economic forums, such as the Group of 20 leading nations and the International Monetary Fund, to ramp up public pressure on Beijing to move more quickly to a more-flexible currency.

China is the biggest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries, with about $1.1 trillion, a position that gives it leverage in international economic negotiations. Foreign exchange traders had not expected a change of U.S. tactics.

"It's not very surprising. It's sort of sliding it in under the radar. They're (Treasury) really not in a position to make any major moves at this point," said Sean Incremona, an economist at 4Cast in New York.

The Treasury Department has not labeled a country a currency manipulator since July 1994, when it cited China. A designation would require the United States to step up negotiations with Beijing on the yuan's value.

The yuan slipped on Tuesday as strong dollar demand from corporations offset a record high mid-point fixed by the People's Bank of China. The central bank set an all-time high dollar/yuan mid-point in an apparent move to let the yuan rise a little more at the end of 2011 so as to make the yuan's full-year nominal appreciation look bigger, traders said.

Some U.S. manufacturers, which have been hit hardest by competition from China and other emerging economies, would still prefer the U.S. government to take a harder line.

"China's currency is still enormously undervalued," said Scott Paul, executive director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, an industry lobby for hard-hit textile, steel and labor groups.

"I'm disappointed that President Obama has now formally refused six times to cite China for its currency manipulation, a practice which has contributed to the loss of hundreds of thousands of American manufacturing jobs."

(Additional reporting by Luciana Lopez and Doug Palmer, and Stanley White in Tokyo; Editing by Leslie Adler and Dan Grebler)

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Mortars hit Iranian dissident camp in Iraq: Iraqi army (Reuters)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) ? Two mortars hit an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq just days after Baghdad extended a year-end deadline for the camp to be closed as the U.N. negotiated resettlement of 3,000 residents there, the Iraqi military said Sunday.

The mortars landed on Camp Ashraf, home to the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran, or PMOI, an Iranian opposition group the United States and Iran officially consider a terrorist group. The camp is 65 km (40 miles) from Baghdad.

"Two mortars landed on Ashraf Camp and we cannot identify the number of casualties because we are not allowed to enter the camp," said an official with the Iraqi army, asking not to be identified.

A statement from Camp Ashraf representatives said the camp was hit by rockets, but did not refer to any casualties.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said last week he had agreed to extend the deadline for closing the camp on condition the U.N. transfer about 400-800 residents to other countries before the end of this year.

Camp Ashraf's future became unclear after Washington turned it over to the Iraq in 2009. Baghdad has repeatedly said it does not want the guerrilla group on Iraqi soil.

The United Nations, along with the European Union, has been trying to resolve the issue. The mortars came just a week after the last U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq, almost nine years after the 2003 invasion.

In the 1970s the group, which is also known as the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK), led a guerrilla campaign against the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran, including attacks on U.S. targets. It says it has since renounced violence.

In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed the agreement between Iraq and the U.N. on Camp Ashraf, saying it "represents significant progress on this issue."

(Reporting by Patrick Markey in Baghdad and Arshad Mohammed in Washington; Editing by Peter Graff)

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Sony release of S-LCD shares to Samsung to benefit Taiwan panel makers, says paper

EDN, December 27; Steve Shen, DIGITIMES?[Tuesday 27 December 2011]

The decision of Samsung Electronics to acquire all of Sony's shares in S-LCD, the two company's flat panel joint venture, will benefit Taiwan-based flat panel makers Chimei Innolux (CMI) and AU Optronics (AUO), the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) quoted David Hsieh, vice president of the Greater China Market at DisplaySearch, as indicating.

After liquidating its shares in S-LCD, Sony may shift more orders for LCD panels to CMI and AUO from its previous primary supplier Samsung, the paper quoted Hsieh as saying.

Hsieh also noted that Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), an OEM TV partner for Sony, has helped deliver CMI's TV panels to Sony for approval, and if approved, Foxconn will be able to optimize the production capacity of its entire group.

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Huge rally increases pressure on Putin

MOSCOW?? Tens of thousands of Russians jammed a Moscow avenue Saturday to demand free elections and an end to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule, in the largest show of public outrage since the protests 20 years ago that brought down the Soviet Union. Gone was the political apathy of recent years as many shouted "We are the Power!"

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The demonstration, bigger and better organized than a similar one two weeks ago, and smaller rallies across the country encouraged opposition leaders hoping to sustain a protest movement ignited by a fraud-tainted parliamentary election on Dec. 4.

The protesters shouted "Russia without Putin" and "New elections, New elections" as one speaker after another called for an end to Putin's reign.

"Do you want Putin to return to the presidency?" novelist Boris Akunin asked from a large stage. Whistling and jeering, protesters chanted: "No!"

The enthusiasm also cheered Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who closed down the Soviet Union on Dec. 25, 1991.

"I'm happy that I have lived to see the people waking up. This raises big hopes," the 80-year-old Gorbachev said on Ekho Moskvy radio.

He urged Putin to follow his example and give up power peacefully, saying Putin would be remembered for the positive things he did if he stepped down now. The former Soviet leader, who has grown increasingly critical of Putin, has little influence in Russia today.

But the protesters have no central leader and no candidate capable of posing a serious challenge to Putin, who intends to return to the presidency in a March vote.

Even at Saturday's rally, some of the speakers were jeered by the crowd. The various liberal, nationalist and leftist groups that took part appear united only by their desire to see "Russia without Putin," a popular chant.

Putin, who gave no public response to the protest Saturday, initially derided the demonstrators as paid agents of the West. He also said sarcastically that he thought the white ribbons they wore as an emblem were condoms. Putin has since come to take their protests more seriously, and in an effort to stem the anger he has offered a set of reforms to allow more political competition in future elections.

Kremlin-controlled television covered Saturday's rally, but gave no air time to Putin's harshest critics.

Estimates of the number of demonstrators ranged from the police figure of 30,000 to 120,000 offered by the organizers. Demonstrators packed much of a broad avenue, which has room for nearly 100,000 people, about 2.5 kilometers (some 1.5 miles) from the Kremlin, as the temperature dipped well below freezing.

A stage at the end of the avenue featured banners reading "Russia will be free" and "This election Is a farce." Heavy police cordons encircled the participants, who stood within metal barriers, and a police helicopter hovered overhead.

Alexei Navalny, a corruption-fighting lawyer and popular blogger, electrified the crowd when he took the stage. He soon had the protesters chanting "We are the power!"

Navalny spent 15 days in jail for leading a protest on Dec. 5 that unexpectedly drew more than 5,000 people and set off the chain of demonstrations.

Putin's United Russia party lost 25 percent of its seats in the election, but hung onto a majority in parliament through what independent observers said was widespread fraud. United Russia, seen as representing a corrupt bureaucracy, has become known as the party of crooks and thieves, a phrase coined by Navalny.

"We have enough people here to take the Kremlin," Navalny shouted to the crowd. "But we are peaceful people and we won't do that ? yet. But if these crooks and thieves keep cheating us, we will take what is ours."

Protest leaders expressed skepticism about Putin's promised political reforms.

"We don't trust him," opposition leader Boris Nemtsov told the rally, urging protesters to gather again after the long New Year's holidays to make sure the proposed changes are put into law.

He and other speakers called on the demonstrators to go to the polls in March to unseat Putin. "A thief must not sit in the Kremlin," Nemtsov said.

The protest leaders said they would keep up their push for a rerun of the parliamentary vote and punishment for election officials accused of fraud, while stressing the need to prevent fraud in the March presidential election.

Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov was among those who sought to give the protesters a sense of empowerment.

"There are so many of us here, and they (the government) are few," Kasparov said from the stage. "They are huddled up in fear behind police cordons."

The crowd was largely young, but included a sizable number of middle-aged and elderly people, some of whom limped slowly to the site on walkers and canes.

"We want to back those who are fighting for our rights," said 16-year-old Darya Andryukhina, who said she had also attended the previous rally.

"People have come here because they want respect," said Tamara Voronina, 54, who said she was proud that her three sons also had joined the protest.

Putin's comment about protesters wearing condoms only further infuriated them and inspired some creative responses. One protester Saturday held a picture montage of Putin with his head wrapped in a condom like a grandmother's headscarf. Many inflated condoms along with balloons.

The protests reflect a growing weariness with Putin, who was first elected president in 2000 and remained in charge after moving into the prime minister's seat in 2008. Brazen fraud in the parliamentary vote unexpectedly energized the middle class, which for years had been politically apathetic.

"No one has done more to bring so many people here than Putin, who managed to insult the whole country," said Viktor Shenderovich, a columnist and satirical writer.

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Two rallies in St. Petersburg on Saturday drew a total of 4,000 people.

"I'm here because I'm tired of the government's lies," said Dmitry Dervenev, 47, a designer. "The prime minister insulted me personally when he said that people came to the rallies because they were paid by the U.S. State Department. I'm here because I'm a citizen of my country."

Putin accused the United States of encouraging and funding the protests to weaken Russia.

Putin's former finance minister surprised the protesters by saying the current parliament should approve the proposed electoral changes and then step down to allow new parliamentary elections to be held. Alexei Kudrin, who remains close to Putin, warned that the wave of protests could lead to violence and called for establishing a dialogue between the opposition and the government.

"Otherwise we will lose the chance for peaceful transformation," Kudrin said.

Kudrin also joined calls for the ouster of Central Election Commission chief Vladimir Churov.

Putin has promised to liberalize registration rules for opposition parties and restore the direct election of governors he abolished in 2004. Putin's stand-in as president, Dmitry Medvedev, spelled out those and other proposed changes in Thursday's state-of-the nation address.

Gorbachev, however, said the government appears confused.

"They don't know what to do," he said. "They are making attempts to get out of the trap they drove themselves into."

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45782810/ns/world_news-europe/

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Sony Sells LCD Venture Stake to Samsung as Losses From TVs Mount

Sony Sells LCD Venture Stake to Samsung as Losses From TVs Mount
Source: Business Week
Monday 26th December, 2011??

Dec. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Sony Corp. sold its stake in the venture with Samsung Electronics Co. to make liquid-crystal displays to the South Korean company after predicting an eighth consecutive year of losses from TVs amid sluggish demand. ...

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Despite reforms, young immigrants still in limbo (CNN)

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Correction: US-NKorea-McCain story (AP)

WASHINGTON ? In a Dec. 19 story about comments Sen. John McCain made about North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, The Associated Press erroneously referred to Paul Stares as a scholar at the Center on Foreign Relations. The name of the organization is the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Saturn moons spied from the side

Cassini captures Titan and Dione against the sixth planet's rings

Web edition : Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Titan, Saturn?s largest moon, hovers in front of the planet?s rings like a holiday ornament in this natural color photo snapped by the Cassini spacecraft and released on December 22. The hazy orange moon looms large next to bright, icy Dione ? Saturn?s third-largest satellite ? against the shadows of Saturn?s rings.

Titan looks murky because of its atmosphere ? a puffy, blue-rimmed nitrogen shroud. The cloudy cover is darker at the moon?s north pole and slightly flattened at the moon?s south pole (see this Casssini image also released December 22). Organic compounds within the smoggy layer form clouds of ethane and methane that seasonally rain down upon Titan?s surface.

Dione ? essentially a spherical ice cube with a rocky core ? is heavily cratered, cut with canyons, and home to icy cliffs. In this image, Dione is 3.2 million kilometers away from Cassini; Titan is 2.3 million kilometers away.

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Make Christmas Cards from Facebook, Foursquare and Instagram memories with PastCards

One of our absolute favorite API hacks turned startups from this year is Timehop, the ultimate daily nostalgia kick, which sends you a daily email with?your tweets, Twitter photos, Foursquare checkins and your Facebook posts from every day, a year ago.

For the holiday season, the team was extra nice this year and pushed out a new product just in time for Christmas. Its new?nostalgia?packed product is?Pastcards??a web app that pulls in your?Foursquare, Facebook and Instagram posts from Christmas seasons? past and then lets you create shareable postcards.

You can edit the postcard or send it out to loved ones via email, Twitter, Facebook or via URL.

Check out an example here:?Happy Christmas to Everyone who reads TNW!! XO CBM?and make your own below!

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France to announce breast implant guidance (AP)

PARIS ? Tens of thousands of women in France, Britain and other countries are awaiting French government guidance Friday on what to do about their breast implants, which may be unsafe.

French health authorities are expected to make an unprecedented move to urge women with silicone gel implants made by French company Poly Implant Prothese to get them removed at the state's expense, because of the risks that they could rupture and leak a questionable type of silicone gel into their bodies.

It's unclear how far the French recommendations will go, and how much the extreme measures could cost the government as it teeters toward a new recession.

Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal and other countries in Europe and South America are keeping a close eye on the French decision, which could have repercussions on their health guidance, too.

Women who have had their implants burst and leading French plastic surgeons are urging the government to act. The death last month of a woman who had the implants and developed a rare cancer catalyzed worries, though authorities have not reported any confirmed link between the implants and increased cancer risk.

About 2,000 Frenchwomen given pre-filled silicone gel implants made by Poly Implant Protheses, or PIP, have filed legal complaints against the company, based in southern France. Investigators say it saved 1 million euros a year by using industrial silicone instead of more expensivfe silicone meant for medical use in the implants.

The French government ordered a halt to production of the implants last year and the company is being liquidated.

The main concern of doctors and patients is the uncertainty surrounding the risks of the silicone used.

"I don't know what might be inside of me," said Annie Mesnil, 62, who had a breast removed after cancer in 1999, and was given a PIP implant.

After the product was recalled last year, a mammogram and ultrasound did not reveal any problem with her implant. But she had it removed anyway, at her own expense, out of fear. When her surgeon took it out and studied it, "he discovered it had already burst."

Among measures being studied Friday is one ordering plastic surgeons to reduce their fees for implant removal. The state health care system only reimburses about 230 euros for such an operation, but most plastic surgeons in France are private practitioners who can charge five to 10 times more than that for a removal.

Replacement implants are also an open question. Women with implants replacing cancer-damaged breasts should get reimbursed for new ones, but they make up a minority of women with implants. Surgery for solely cosmetic purposes is not normally covered by French state health care.

Health officials from several European countries held a conference call Wednesday to discuss the implants.

The health council of Italy's health ministry held an emergency session Thursday to discuss the pending French decision, and asked hospitals to track down women who received silicone implants made by PIP. The ministry estimates that about 4,000 PIP implants are in use in Italy.

The ministry's health council also said the national health system would pay to have the implants removed if medical conditions required it, such as if they ruptured.

While saying there was no proof of any greater cancer risk among women with PIP implants, the council suggested that women with the implants contact their surgeons because there's a "greater probability of rupture and inflammatory reaction."

British health authorities say they see no reason so far to have the French-made implants systematically removed, and have said that there is not enough evidence of a link between silicone implants and cancer.

The implants in question were not sold in the U.S., where concerns about silicone gel implants in general led to a 14-year ban on their use. Silicone implants were brought back to the market in 2006 after research ruled out cancer, lupus and some other concerns.

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Moody's keeps Austria's triple A rating (AP)

VIENNA ? Moody's says it is keeping Austria's triple-A status due to the nation's robust economy and plans to cap budget deficits.

A statement on the rating agency's web site notes Austria's "very high economic strength ... skilled labour force and a competitive export sector ... have helped Austria to grow faster than the European average in recent years."

The statement, issued Friday, says the agency "views positively the recent announcement by the government to introduce a balanced budget requirement into the constitution as well as attempts to limit the sovereign's exposure to the banking system's foreign operations."

Moody's says Austria's outlook remains stable but warns that could depend on the length and severity of the eurozone financial crisis, which could spill over into triple-A countries.

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Lincoln Teacher Gets More Than an Apple

Most people expect socks, sweaters even gadgets for Christmas but one Kooser Elementary Teacher - got something more - an engagement ring.

Anne Frevert teaches 2nd grade at the Lincoln School.

During an holiday assembly - her boyfriend and fellow teacher proposed to her.

A shocked Frevert said "yes."

Here's what's interesting. The duo are both from Wisconsin and lived 3 hours apart. They then attended colleges an hour from one another. However, the cute couple did not meet until coming to Nebraska to teach.

"We knew we wanted to get married, we'd be talking about it for a while. He kept telling me may, then it moved up to April," said Frevert.

"My thing was always the story is too good for you to know when it will happened. So I said I'm going to get you, I'm going to catch you by surprise and I'm going to actually be able to see the look on your face and be shocked," said Ryan Erickson

The newly engaged couple - haven't set a date but, they're looking at the year 2013 to tie the knot.

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What's Wrong with Multitouch in the Galaxy Nexus? [Video]

There looks to be a really weird bug or faulty hardware in the Verizon Galaxy Nexus that's screwing with multitouch. When you hold down the top left corner of the screen, the bottom of the screen doesn't register any input. More »

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Super Bowl to be streamed online and to Verizon phones for the first time

It looks like you'll have a few more viewing options than usual at your next Super Bowl party. The NFL announced today that the Super Bowl, plus wild card Saturday and the Pro Bowl, will all be streamed online for the first time on both the NFL's and NBC's websites, as well as to Verizon smartphones through the NFL Mobile app. What's more, those broadcasts will also give viewers access to quite a bit more than old-fashioned TV watchers have access to, including multiple camera angles, in-game highlights, and live stats. No word if the streams will include ads.

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