Monday, October 31, 2011

Professors' views on Jackson death create rift (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? The differing opinions of two professors on how a powerful anesthetic killed Michael Jackson has left jurors with two scenarios to consider about how the King of Pop died, and in the process has also strained the relationship of the two longtime collaborators and friends.

Armed with decades of experience, IV bags and syringes, the men showed jurors how a powerful, milky-white anesthetic may have flowed from a bottle into Jackson's body on the morning of June 25, 2009.

Doctors Paul White and Steven Shafer worked alongside each other for years and are credited with helping bring propofol to operating rooms and making its usage safe.

But their different theories on how Jackson died from the drug ? whether his personal physician Conrad Murray administered it or the singer injected it himself ? have sparked a clash of harsh rhetoric between the two men more familiar with operating rooms and classrooms than the high stakes of a celebrity trial.

White and Shafer were colleagues at Stanford University and conducted research on propofol before it was approved for use in U.S. operating rooms in 1989. Both help edit a leading anesthesia journal. Until White's retirement last year, both were practicing anesthesiologists.

Each man's search to explain how Jackson died led them to conduct their own research and computer modeling.

The tension between them began after Shafer, an affable Columbia University researcher, told jurors on Oct. 20 that he was "disappointed" in White for suggesting earlier that Jackson may have drunk the fatal dose of propofol.

Shafer's dismissive comment that even first-year medical students knew that wouldn't work cut deeply for White, who worked on propofol for six years before it was approved for use in the United States.

As Shafer testified, White occasionally shook his head until being admonished by a judge to stop making any gestures in court.

White, according to a report posted online by E! Entertainment Television, turned to reporters while Shafer testified and called either Shafer or a prosecutor a "scumbag." White later told a judge he didn't recall making the remark but acknowledged talking to an E! reporter about being bothered by Shafer's testimony.

"Of course, when someone makes derogatory comments about you in court, it has an effect on you," White told the judge. "I was very disappointed in Dr. Shafer's remark."

White's interview may earn him a contempt-of-court violation for violating a gag order, but that issue will be decided after Murray's trial is concluded.

The courtroom rhetoric between the men cooled last week, with White repeatedly crediting Shafer for his work.

"Dr. Shafer is actually a good friend, and he actually helped me on a number of the papers," White testified.

White left behind any hurt feelings as he took the witness stand and matter-of-factly detailed his theory that Jackson must have given himself a fatal dose of propofol. It was the only explanation, White said, for the levels of the drug found in Jackson's blood and urine during an autopsy.

Shafer wasn't in the courtroom when White testified but may be called as a rebuttal witness. Prosecutors will begin their cross-examination of White on Monday.

Shafer previously ruled out the self-administration theory, calling it "crazy" and saying Jackson would have been too groggy to pull it off. For emphasis, he placed the theory on a chart and crossed it out with a big red "X." He told jurors the only explanation for Jackson's death was that Murray placed the singer on an IV propofol drip and left the room when he appeared to be sleeping comfortably.

Shafer said Murray committed 17 egregious violations of the standard of care and should have never been giving the singer propofol as a sleep aid.

"We are in pharmacological never-never land here, something that was done to Michael Jackson and no one else in history to my knowledge," he told jurors.

White's testimony did not address Murray's conduct.

The differing viewpoints are understandable, given the lack of information the men have to make their conclusions, said Dr. Zeev Kain, chairman of the anesthesiology department at the University of California, Irvine.

"I was a bit surprised at how much was unknown," Kain said. "When all you have are blood levels in certain body parts and that is it, it is very hard to come up with a theory of what happened. I think that explains the different opinions."

Shafer and White both considered Murray's statement to police two days after Jackson's death and the autopsy results that showed the singer died with propofol throughout his body. The drug metabolizes quickly and is usually gone from the bloodstream within 10 minutes.

Murray kept no medical records of his treatments of Jackson.

Kain said it's not every day that anesthesiologists have such a high-profile stage to discuss their craft, and both White and Shafer have represented the field well.

Murray's case, through the testimony of two respected colleagues, should give the public a better understanding of anesthesiology, Kain said.

Jurors will undoubtedly have a better understanding of the drug when they begin deliberations later this week. Which of the professors' theories they believe caused Jackson's death could seal Murray's fate.

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ICC hunt for Gaddafi son poses dilemma for Niger (Reuters)

NIAMEY/BEIJING (Reuters) ? The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Sunday he has "substantial evidence" that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, now on the run, had helped hire mercenaries to attack Libyan civilians protesting against his father's rule.

Saif al-Islam may be heading for Niger, which could upset Libya's new rulers and its own pro-Gaddafi Tuareg nomads if it hands him over to the ICC in line with its treaty obligations.

"We have a witness who explained how Saif was involved with the planning of the attacks against civilians, including in particular the hiring of core mercenaries from different countries and the transport of them, and also the financial aspects he was covering," ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told Reuters during a visit to Beijing.

Saif al-Islam, 39, is desperately seeking to avoid the fate of his father, Muammar Gaddafi, who was beaten, abused and shot after forces of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) captured him on October 20 after the fall of his home town Sirte.

The NTC is likely to want to try Saif al-Islam itself, but the fugitive Libyan has been in indirect contact with the ICC over a possible surrender, though he may also harbor hopes that mercenaries can spirit him to a friendly African country.

Neighboring Niger has vowed to honor its ICC commitments, but knows that handing over Saif al-Islam could spark unrest in Saharan areas where his father, feted by many desert-dwellers as a hero, nurtured past Tuareg revolts against the capital.

Moreno-Campo said the ICC had witnesses to testify against Saif al-Islam, whom he said he had met a few years ago -- when Saif had backed ICC efforts to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir over alleged genocide and other crimes in Darfur.

"So we have substantial evidence to prove the case, but of course Saif is still (presumed) innocent, and (will) have to go to court and the judge will decide," he said.

Moreno-Ocampo said he would brief the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday about the court's work in Libya.

The Hague-based court has warned Saif al-Islam that it could order a mid-air interception if he tried to flee by plane from his unidentified Sahara desert hideout for a safe haven.

"We received through an informal intermediary some questions from Saif apparently about the legal system -- what happens to him if he appears before the judges, can he be sent to Libya, what happens if he's convicted, what happens if he's acquitted," said Moreno-Ocampo.

NO NEGOTIATIONS

"We are not in any negotiations with Saif," he said, adding that the ICC would not later force him to return to Libya provided another country is willing to receive him after he is either acquitted or is convicted and has served his sentence.

Before a popular uprising imperiled his father's grip on Libya, Saif al-Islam had cast himself as an enlightened supporter of reform at home and across the Arab world. But then he swore to crush opponents of his father's 42-year rule.

Asked about Saif al-Islam's metamorphosis, Moreno-Ocampo said: "After all these years, nothing surprises me."

Niger has not commented on statements by local northern leaders that Saif al-Islam was probably on its side of the mountains straddling its porous border with Algeria and Mali.

An official for the remote northern Agadez region, through which another fugitive Gaddafi son, Saadi, has passed, said on Saturday it had hosted security talks with U.S. officials.

The official, who requested anonymity, spoke of escape plans by Saif al-Islam and former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, both wanted by the ICC for war crimes.

"Senussi is being extricated from Mali toward a country that is a non-signatory to the (ICC) convention. I am certain that they will both (Senussi and Saif al-Islam) be extricated by plane, one from Mali, the other from Niger," he said.

A member of parliament from northern Mali, Ibrahim Assaleh Ag Mohamed, denied Senussi was in his country and said neither he nor Saif al-Islam would be accepted if they tried to enter.

Niger, like Mali, has signed the ICC's statute, but handing over Saif al-Islam would annoy northerners who feel remote from the capital Niamey and have long espoused Gaddafi's vision of a cross-border Saharan people.

"We are ready to hide him wherever needed," Mouddour Barka, a resident of Agadez town, told Reuters, adding that if Niger authorities handed him over: "We are ready to go out onto the streets and they will have us to deal with".

The Gaddafis befriended desert tribes in Niger, Mali and other poor former French colonies in West Africa. Gaddafi, a self-styled "king of kings", lavished funds on other African nations.

The ICC accuses Saif al-Islam of hiring mercenaries to carry out a plan, worked out with his father and Senussi, to kill unarmed protesters inspired by Arab uprisings elsewhere.

Algeria, which took in Saif al-Islam's mother, sister, brother Hannibal and half-brother Mohammed, is not a signatory to the treaty that set up the ICC. Nor is Sudan or Zimbabwe.

(Additional reporting by Barry Malone in Tripoli, Samia Nakhoul in London, Ibrahim Diallo in Agadez; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

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Cerrone moves into title picture by smashing Siver at UFC 137

Cerrone moves into title picture by smashing Siver at UFC 137

LAS VEGAS - The new Donald Cerrone is one scary individual.

The former WEC star continued his assault on the UFC lightweight division by destroying a previously hot Denis Siver in less than three minutes.

Cerrone (17-3, 4-0 UFC) rocked Siver on the feet several times before finishing him with a rear-naked at the 2:25 mark of the first round in the second fight on the UFC 137 Spike broadcast.

[Related: UFC 137: Penn, 'Cro Cop' set to retire after losses]

Cerrone's now won six straight fights and last two have come via brutal knockout. The list of title contenders is long at 155 pounds, but Cerrone has certainly earned himself a shot at one of the guys in the top six.

Both fighters came out throwing, but it was Cerrone who was able to deal with getting hit. He fired back hard shots and when he landed a huge left kick to the head, it was the beginning of the end for the Russian fighting out of Germany. Siver's legs were lost. He wobbled for several seconds before grabbing a Cerrone leg and slowing the down the fight along the cage.

Cerrone moves into title picture by smashing Siver at UFC 137

The fighters separated and Cerrone landed another right straight down the pipe. Siver went down to his knees where Cerrone jumped on his back and quickly got his hooks in. Seconds later, he slapped on the rear-naked choke and Siver tapped almost immediately.

"Donald hits very hard. Both shots got me pretty wobbled and I was unable to collect myself after the second one. That made it very easy for him to sink in the submission and there was nothing I could do."

Cerrone loves to fight so he may not wait until one of the big boys is free to fight. He said before and after the fight, he'd like another bout before the end of 2011. He's 4-0 this year.

"There were a couple of things I should have done differently, but I'll work on it," said the extremely self-critical Cerrone. "I want to fight one more time this year - bring it on. I don't want to wait."

Siver (19-8, 8-5 UFC) had won four straight coming in.

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Asian stocks rise after Europe deal on Greece debt (AP)

BANGKOK ? Asian stock markets climbed Thursday as investors waded into riskier assets, emboldened by European leaders agreeing on a plan to reduce Greece's massive debts.

Oil prices rose to near $92 per barrel while the euro gained strongly following the European summit dedicated to fixing a debt mess in Greece before it provokes a bigger crisis across the continent.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 1.6 percent to 8,888.05 and South Korea's Kospi added 1.2 percent to 1,916.21.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 1.7 percent to 19,399.03. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 jumped 2.5 percent to 4,348.20 after trading resumed following a 4-hour technical glitch.

Benchmarks in Taiwan, Singapore, mainland China, Indonesia and the Philippines also rose.

European leaders agreed early Thursday on a plan to provide Greece with more rescue loans to help relieve its crushing debt obligations. It will involve private investors taking bigger losses on the value of their Greek bonds, making Greece the first nation that uses the euro currency to be rated in default on its debt.

European Union President Herman Van Rompuy said the deal will reduce Greece's debt to 120 percent of its gross domestic product in 2020. Under current conditions, it would have grown to 180 percent.

In addition, the euro440 billion European Financial Stability Facility will be used to insure part of the losses on the debt of wobbly countries like Italy and Spain, rendering its firepower equivalent to around euro1 trillion.

Derek Cheung, chief investment officer at Neutron INV Partners Ltd. in Hong Kong, said he thought the plan was short on specifics and that the enthusiastic reception by investors was overblown.

"They only listen to the positive news," Cheung said. "I don't think it's a solution."

Another factor causing investors to gorge on shares, Cheung said, was speculation that China might relax its inflation-fighting measures that have drained liquidity out of the financial markets. That sent shares in property and railways bounding.

Hong Kong-listed shares of China Railway Group leaped 14.1 percent. China Railway Construction Corp. shot up 9.2 percent. Blue chip property company China Resources Land Ltd. soared 11.2 percent.

Strong earnings reports also propelled stocks higher.

Shares of Hong Kong-listed Agricultural Bank of China, one of the country's four major state-owned commercial lenders, added 4.8 percent after the Beijing-based bank announced its third-quarter profit rose 40 percent on growth in interest and fee income.

Anhui Conch Cement, China's largest cement producer by output, soared 7.1 percent, a day after announcing its net profit more than doubled in the third quarter of 2011.

Also Thursday, Japan's central bank said it had decided to buy Japanese government bonds, hoping to offset the strength of the yen. Electronics giants Sony Corp. gained 3.5 percent and Sharp Corp. rose 3.9 percent.

Shares of camera and medical equipment maker Olympus Corp. soared 23.6 percent, a day after Chairman and President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa announced he was stepping down amid intensifying scrutiny of the company after questions were raised over huge fees paid to financial advisers.

Meanwhile, strong economic reports helped send Wall Street higher on Wednesday.

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 1.4 percent to 11,869.04. The S&P 500 index rose 1.1 percent to 1,242. The Nasdaq composite added 0.5 percent to 2,650.67.

Reports in the U.S. showed businesses ordered more heavy machinery and other long-lasting manufactured goods last month. That indicates businesses are still spending on equipment despite worries about a weak economy and Europe's debt problems. Sales of new homes rose in September after falling for four straight months.

Benchmark crude for December delivery was up $1.66 at $91.86 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $2.97, or 3.2 percent, to end the day at $90.20 in New York on Wednesday.

Brent crude was up $1.15 at $110.06 a barrel on the ICE Futures Exchange in London.

In currencies, the euro climbed to $1.3993 from $1.3908 late Wednesday in New York. Since hitting $1.3172 on Oct. 4, the euro has risen sharply on hopes that the problems in Greece won't spread to other nations and cause a disastrous financial crisis. The dollar weakened to 75.99 yen from 76.20 yen.

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Friday, October 28, 2011

iPad etiquette pro-tips

Rather than table manners, Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz at CNN have written up a not-so-new list of tablet manners — the dos and don’ts when using your iPad in the office, on a date, or around others in public spaces.
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Madoff's wife: We tried suicide after Ponzi arrest (AP)

NEW YORK ? The wife of disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff says the couple tried to kill themselves after he admitted to his loved ones that he'd stolen billions of dollars in the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

Ruth Madoff, who'll appear on Sunday's episode of CBS' "60 Minutes" in her first interview since her husband's December 2008 arrest, says they had been receiving hate mail and "terrible phone calls" and were distraught.

"I don't know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening," she says in the interview, according to excerpts released by CBS.

She says it was Christmas Eve, which added to their depression, and she decided: "I just can't go on anymore."

She says the couple took "a bunch of pills" including the insomnia prescription medication Ambien, but they both woke up the next day. She says the decision was "very impulsive" and she's glad they didn't die.

The couple's son Andrew Madoff also will talk about his experience.

Another son, Mark Madoff, hanged himself by a dog leash last year on the anniversary of his father's arrest. Like his parents, he had swallowed a batch of sleeping pills in a failed suicide attempt 14 months earlier, according to his widow's new book, "The End of Normal: A Wife's Anguish, A Widow's New Life."

Bernie Madoff was arrested on Dec. 11, 2008, the morning after his sons notified authorities through an attorney that he had confessed to them that his investment business was a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. He admitted cheating thousands of investors. He pleaded guilty to fraud charges and is serving a 150-year prison sentence in Butner, N.C.

Madoff, who's in his 70s, ran his scheme for at least two decades, using his investment advisory service to cheat individuals, charities, celebrities and institutional investors.

An investigation found Madoff never made any investments, instead using the money from new investors to pay returns to existing clients ? and to finance a lavish lifestyle for his family. Losses have been estimated at around $20 billion, making it the biggest investment fraud in U.S. history.

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Pens' Malkin game-time decision vs. Islanders

(AP) ? Penguins center Evgeni Malkin could be back in Pittsburgh's injury-depleted lineup as soon as Tuesday night.

Malkin skated with his teammates Tuesday morning, and coach Dan Bylsma said it would be a game-time decision whether he would play that night against the New York Islanders.

Malkin has missed five straight games and seven of eight because of an injured right knee. Bylsma wouldn't go into what the determining factors were regarding whether the All-Star forward would play.

"I just like to have a secret over you guys for six hours or so," Bylsma said.

Malkin had season-ending surgery after tearing two ligaments in his knee against Buffalo in February. He played the first two games of this season, sat out a pair, and then returned on Oct. 13 against Washington and had two assists. He hasn't played since.

Penguins captain Sidney Crosby is still sidelined, recovering from a concussion that has kept him out of action since January. Crosby didn't make the trip to Long Island for the start of the home-and-home series with the Islanders that ends Thursday in Pittsburgh.

In addition to Crosby, the Penguins are also without forward Tyler Kennedy (concussion) and defensemen Zbynek Michalek (broken finger) and Brian Strait (hyperextended elbow).

Michalek was set to miss his first game on Tuesday after he broke a finger on his right hand in Pittsburgh's 4-1 win over New Jersey on Saturday. He is expected to be sidelined for four to six weeks, but Bylsma said the defenseman won't need surgery.

Heading into Tuesday, the Penguins' NHL-high 11th game of the season, Pittsburgh had already lost 39 man-games to injury. The club had the seventh-highest total last season when it lost 350 man-games.

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Deal of the Day: 2750mAh Extended Battery w/ Door for HTC ThunderBolt

HTC 2750mAh Extended Battery w/ Door for ThunderboltThe Oct. 26 Deal of the Day is a hot one for you HTC ThunderBolt owners: It's the HTC 2750 mAh extended battery with extended battery door. It gives you almost double the juice of the stock battery, and it's an official HTC accessory, so it's got the name and might of the manufacturer behind it. And it's on sale today only for $34.95 -- that's 56 percent off. Get yours while supplies last!


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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Leatherface Makes The Cut For MTV's Killer Halloween

Vote for the best and scariest movie murderer in our Killer Halloween matchup.
By Kara Warner


Leatherface in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
Photo: Vortex

MTV's Killer Halloween continues! We're on a mission to find out who the best and scariest movie murderer is based on your votes, and we're ranking these ghastly guys on their deadliest attributes. Freddy Krueger and Ghostface, Jason and Leatherface are just a few of the cinematic terrors on our list.

Check out our latest killer profile, for "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" crazy man Leatherface, and be sure to visit us every day this week to see the latest matchups!

Name: Leatherface
Occupation: Taxidermist, cannibal, serial killer

Weapons: Chainsaw, meat hooks, butcher's hammer, family baggage

Archenemy: Sanity, vegetarians, syphilis (the reason Leatherface doesn't have a nose)

Profile: What's not to love about a killer who wields a chainsaw and wears a mask made of human skin? Not to mention that bloody butcher's apron — it is a killer getup, pun intended. Leatherface made his terrifying debut in 1974's beloved slasher classic "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." The backwoods cannibal's gruesome appeal is enhanced by the involvement of his totally twisted, psychotic, inbred family members, who own and operate the Last Chance gas station and use it to find new victims to torture, kill ... and barbecue.

Horror movie expert Brian Collins of Horror Movie a Day attributes Leatherface's appeal to his simplicity and consistency.

"They never really screwed him up like the other guys. Freddy [Krueger] turned into a cartoon, Michael [Myers] was ret-conned into a henchman for some druid cult, but Leatherface was always just a simple cannibal with a chainsaw and a mask made of human skin," Collins told MTV News. "He always had a group of other killers to play off of, making him a little more three-dimensional than the others who worked alone."

Leatherface and his family, along with their creepy cannibalistic ways, were featured in several other films following the original: "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2," "Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation," the 2003 Michael Bay-produced remake, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and a 2006 prequel, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning."

Their appalling adventures also inspired several comic books: 1991's four-issue series, "Leatherface," 1995's three-issue "Jason vs. Leatherface," and one-off special issues like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Special" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Cut!"

"Leatherface is up there with Freddy, Jason and Michael as far as the die-hard horror fans are concerned," Collins said of the chainsaw wielder's place among favorite horror movie killers, adding that the hankering for human flesh and hacking through it is an unforgettable combo, even if he isn't as mainstream as the likes of Freddy and Jason. "I don't think he's as iconic to the casual moviegoer as the others, since there haven't been as many movies," he said.

Check out everything we've got on "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Tiny World 'Snow White' Has Water Ice and Maybe Atmosphere (SPACE.com)

A mysterious little world nicknamed "Snow White" is covered in ice and may sport the wispy remnants of an atmosphere, a new study of a dwarf planet that lies outside Neptune has found.

Even though Snow White ? officially known as 2007 OR10, and orbiting the sun as part of the Kuiper belt ? is actually red, half of the surface is covered by water ice that probably spewed from ancient cryovolcanoes, researchers said.

The dwarf planet's reddish hue likely comes from a thin layer of methane, the last gasps of an atmosphere that has been bleeding off into space for eons.

"You get to see this nice picture of what once was an active little world with water volcanoes and an atmosphere, and it's now just frozen, dead, with an atmosphere that's slowly slipping away," the study's lead author Mike Brown, of Caltech, said in a statement. [Looking Back on Killing Pluto: Q & A With Mike Brown]

A reddish, icy dwarf

Snow White is about half the size of Pluto. Like Pluto, it's part of the Kuiper belt, which is the ring of icy bodies that orbit the sun beyond Neptune.

At the time of its discovery in 2007, Brown guessed that Snow White had broken off long ago from another dwarf planet, called Haumea. Haumea, a weird, football-shaped body, is sheathed in water ice, so Brown figured this dwarf planet was, too ? hence the nickname Snow White.

However, follow-up observations soon showed that Snow White, like many other Kuiper Belt objects, is actually quite red. So Brown and his team weren't expecting to find a lot of water ice when they used the 6.5-meter Magellan Baade Telescope in Chile to take a closer look at Snow White last year.

But that's just what they saw. Spectral data showed that water ice abounded on Snow White's surface.

"That was a big shock," Brown said. "Water ice is not red."

Brown and his colleagues reported their results last month in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Just like Quaoar?

Scientists know of one other dwarf planet that's both red and covered with water ice: Quaoar, which Brown and his team discovered in 2002. [Meet the Solar System's Dwarf Planets]

Researchers think Quaoar, which is slightly smaller than Snow White, once had an atmosphere composed of volatile compounds such as methane, carbon monoxide and nitrogen. But its gravity wasn't strong enough to hold onto these chemicals, and the icy world began losing its atmosphere to space.

Over time, everything but some methane escaped. And radiation from space has transformed those methane molecules ? which consist of one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms ? into long hydrocarbon chains, researchers said.

Those chains look red to our instruments, and they sit atop Quaoar's water-ice surface.

Snow White's spectrum looks similar to Quaoar's, suggesting that similar processes occurred on both dwarf planets, researchers said.

"That combination ? red and water ? says to me 'methane,'" Brown said. "We're basically looking at the last gasp of Snow White. For four and a half billion years, Snow White has been sitting out there, slowly losing its atmosphere, and now there's just a little bit left."

While Snow White definitely has a lot of water ice on its surface, the evidence for methane is not conclusive, Brown added. Researchers hope to use even bigger telescopes to scrutinize the dwarf planet further.

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Scouts Canada denies having secret files on suspected abusers

VICTORIA ? Scouts Canada is adamantly denying that the organization has secret files documenting suspected abuse by volunteer leaders.

"The suggestion that Scouts Canada is declining to share with police information or files pertaining to abuse by (convicted pedophile Rick) Turley or any other former volunteer leader involved either recently or many years past is equally false," said Scouts Canada spokesman John Petitti.

Turley spent about five years with the 2nd Douglas Scout group in the 1980s and, when suspicions of abuse were raised, was transferred to the Cordova Bay Sea Scouts, but police were not informed. Both troops are in Victoria.

Petitti said all allegations or complaints are now shared with police and no secret files exist.

"There is no corner of our filing cabinets denied to police that is relevant to matters of abuse. That is true now and, as far as we can determine, that is true of years past," he said.

However, CBC?s Fifth Estate worked with the Los Angeles Times to trace documents showing that, in the U.S., Boy Scouts of America had reports about Turley?s sexual assaults on young boys, but failed to stop him from continuing to prey on victims when he returned to Canada.

Toronto lawyer Rob Talach, who devotes much of his work to representing victims of sexual assault, said Turley became a part of Boy Scouts of America?s confidential files, which are designed to prevent people from bouncing around from one group to the next within the organization. Turley admitted to assaulting young boys in an incident in 1979, according to information from the U.S. organization.

"The Boy Scouts became aware of Mr. Turley?s conduct within 24 hours of it occurring and expelled him from scouting in the U.S.," said spokesman Deron Smith.

Turley had already been convicted of kidnapping in 1975, but was still able to volunteer with Scouts. Even after becoming a part of the confidential files, Turley returned home, where he joined Scouts Canada.

Many of the assaults could have been avoided, said Talach, who slammed Boy Scouts of America and accused them of bordering on obstruction of justice for their role in keeping information from the public.

The organization has been shaken by lawsuits that followed a court decision last year that forced the U.S. Scouts to pay $18.5 million in punitive damages to Kerry Lewis, who suffered repeated assaults by former scoutmaster Timur Dykes. Even after confessing to the organization, he was allowed to stay.

The lawyer in that case, Kelly Clark, told the Times Colonist that the confidential files showed a system-wide child abuse problem identified as early as the 1960s. Twenty thousand pages of documents demonstrate there were about 1,200 abusers in a 20-year period, he said.

"They did nothing about it," Clark said. "They didn?t change their policies, they didn?t warn parents and apparently this guy (Turley) was able to cross borders and continue doing it in Canada."

When a child is brave enough to come forward immediately after an assault, people need to take action, Talach said. Most victims come forward many years later. The majority of his male clients come forward after the age of 45. "When a kid tells you at the time, that?s a rare opportunity."

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Monday, October 24, 2011

'Jersey Shore' house rent? $2,500 a night





>>> seems like only yesterday the cast of " jersey shore " was trying to make its way into florence , the part of history known for cultural history .

>> and sami is known as sami the sweetheart and diana is blast in a glass.

>> hook up. let's go home.

>> i love you. you love me?

>> i love you.

>> i'm fine.

>> if you don't feel good, let me know .

>> no. i feel fine.

>> watch your step there.

>> hit the concrete.

>> let me see that again.

>> wow. you guys were watching that video. are you laughing kind of or are you embarrassed? what do you think when you look at that?

>> you know what? i don't get embarrassed at this point any more. when you're there, you drink, we have a good time. down the shore i do that. that's me if i get a little drunk --

>> it is in slow-mo.

>> it's okay.

>> even when you're not drinking, she is always like that.

>> okay. you've been a cast member since the beginning, right? you watched the evolution. how has it changed? you walk down the street normally. now it's a thing.

>> i think people recognize us all the time. i think now because it's gone so far, we have been given opportunities to meet some amazing people and travel and experience new things.

>> it seems like it's gone progressively more wild. in some cases it looks like it got out of control. the drinking, the hooking.

>> multiple sexual partners .

>> actually, in italy , i didn't have sex once there. i really didn't. i made out, yes. when it came to italy , this is what people forget. we're in a house without cell phones, without music, without anything. no communication with the outside world .

>> so it's i like a nonery.

>> kind of. kind of. also, unlike other reality shows where they'll take certain days to film and have a day off, we have no days off. everything is recorded. at that point, especially in italy we were out of our comfort zone . if you're in that house and there is nothing to do, you can hear a pin drop. okay, give me a glass of wine. you know?

>> we agree with you on that. we have common ground here.

>> they don't show us around italy shopping. there are things you don't see.

>> sami the sweetheart. they call you the heartbreaker kid. where did that come from?

>> i don't know about the heartbreaker. sweetheart came from my friends. they call me, you know, the sweetest girls because their friends have an attitude.

>> are you guys dating anyone, anyone from the show, anyone outside the show, each other, anything?

>> each other. best friends .

>> what's happening here? are you guys fighting over him? who is that?

>> we're not fighting over him.

>> is that pauley d.?

>> that's renaldo.

>> who is that?

>> my guy.

>> is that a new one? i can't tell the difference between those. i cannot tell who is who.

>> really? they're very different.

>> i'm sorry. okay. okay.

>> great to see you.

>> thank you.

>> and florence survived. florence is still intact. it's safe to go back.

>> we would love to go back. thank you.

>> thank you for having fun with us. you can catch the season finale of " jersey shore " this thursday on mtv.

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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Hundreds rally in support of Iranian opposition

Demonstrators chant during a march in Washington after rallying in front of the White House Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Hundreds of people rallied, demanding that an Iranian opposition group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), once allied with Iraq's Saddam Hussein, be removed from a U.S. terror list. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Demonstrators chant during a march in Washington after rallying in front of the White House Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Hundreds of people rallied, demanding that an Iranian opposition group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), once allied with Iraq's Saddam Hussein, be removed from a U.S. terror list. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Demonstrators protest in front of the White House in Washington Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Hundreds of people rallied, demanding that an Iranian opposition group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), once allied with Iraq's Saddam Hussein, be removed from a U.S. terror list. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Demonstrators protest near the White House during a freedom rally in Washington Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Hundreds of people rallied, demanding that an Iranian opposition group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), once allied with Iraq's Saddam Hussein, be removed from a U.S. terror list. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Demonstrators protest near the White House in Washington during a freedom rally in Washington Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Hundreds of people rallied in front of the White House, demanding that an Iranian opposition group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), once allied with Iraq's Saddam Hussein be removed from a U.S. terror list. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Hundreds of people rallied outside the White House on Saturday, calling on President Barack Obama to remove an Iranian opposition group once allied with Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime from the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.

Former Pennsylvania Govs. Tom Ridge and Ed Rendell were among speakers urging the U.S. to take the Mujahedin-e Khalq off the State Department's list. Ridge, a Republican, was the nation's first homeland security secretary. Rendell is a top Democrat who helped elect Obama.

"The only group that should be on the list is the country of Iran itself, under the rule of the mullahs," Ridge said, noting recent U.S. allegations of a foiled Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador in Washington.

The U.S. added MEK to its terrorist list in 1997. But last year a federal court ordered the State Department to reconsider and meanwhile the group has rallied 97 members of Congress as well as many former high-ranking U.S. officials to its cause.

Delisting would allow the Paris-based group to raise money and operate in the U.S., which it is currently prohibited from doing.

The MEK carried out a series of bombings and assassinations against Iran's clerical regime in the 1980s and fought alongside Saddam's forces in the Iran-Iraq war. But the group says it renounced violence in 2001.

Ridge and Rendell said the MEK has not been linked to any terrorist attacks since that time. They pointed out that the European Union and the United Kingdom have concluded that the MEK is not a terrorist organization and called on Obama to reach the same decision.

Critics of the MEK say it has cult-like characteristics and that delisting it would be seen even by moderate Iranians as an endorsement by the U.S. of terrorism. A 2010 State Department report on the MEK said: "The group's worldwide campaign against the Iranian government uses propaganda and terrorism to achieve its objectives."

MEK spokesman Ali Safavi called the State Department's description "a political statement and not a factual one." He said the group would not have such broad Congressional support if it was engaged in terrorist activities.

Saturday's noisy protest took place outside the wrought iron gates of the White House.

"We want President Obama to hear us," said Rendell, a former Democratic Party chairman.

Obama left the White House for the drive to Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland to play golf as the demonstration began, and it's not clear if he heard any of it.

During the rally, the mostly Iranian-American crowd broke into regular chants of "MEK, yes. Mullahs, no. They are terrorists. They must go," and "President Obama, listen to us. MEK listing is unjust."

The event was organized by the Iranian American Professionals and Scholars of Maryland.

Organizers say the MEK was put on the terror list to appease Iranian leaders, but has only given the regime an excuse to arrest and kill dissidents in Iran and Iraq. They contend that delisting would strengthen a major Iranian opposition group.

The MEK has revealed the existence of several important Iranian nuclear facilities.

U.S. officials say that Iran is laying the groundwork for a nuclear weapons program, although its leaders may not have decided to build a bomb. Iran says its nuclear ambitions are entirely peaceful.

Speakers at the protest also urged the U.S. to continue supporting more than 3,000 former MEK fighters and others living at Camp Ashraf near Iraq's border with Iran. The Iraqi government wants to close the camp and Iraqi security forces have twice raided Ashraf, most recently in April. The U.N. said at least 34 people were killed in that incident.

The U.S. has pledged to protect camp residents from violence, but those rallying outside the White House said Obama's announcement of a complete pullout of Iraq by the end of the year could make that promise difficult to keep.

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Associated Press writer Douglas Birch contributed to this report.

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Michael W. Waters: Which King Stands on the Mall?

Last Sunday, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial was formally dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Thousands bore witness to the dedication of the first memorial to a non-U.S. President and the first to an African American on the National Mall. A tremendous debt of gratitude is owed to the many people who made this monumental moment in American history possible, in particular the men of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, of which Dr. King was a member, who vigorously championed this cause.

That said, I cannot help but to wonder, which King now stands enshrined on the mall? It is a rather subjective matter, I must confess. Nevertheless, I consider it to be one of great importance. For our answer to this question speaks not only to who we consider ourselves to be as a nation, but also to who we have made Dr. King to be, and what we consider to be his enduring legacy.

Seven years ago, as an Assistant to the Chaplain at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, I had the privilege of serving as the founding director of the SMU Civil Rights Pilgrimage, a traveling seminar to cities and sites significant to the American Civil Rights Movement. As we walked upon hallowed ground in places of sacred memory to the Movement called Jackson, Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham, Little Rock, and Memphis, an important distinction of authenticity began to emerge within our consciousness. During our travels we began to distinguish between sites which were "raw," like the carport of Medgar Evers home where tainted stains from pools of his blood remain visible in the concrete today, and sites that were "sanitized," a countless number of both privately and federally-funded museums that sought to make the horrors of the Movement palatable. We felt that such intended palatability was destructive to the integrity of the Movement and to the tremendous sacrifices of those who participated therein.

Since his assassination on April 4, 1968, in many ways Dr. King's legacy has been sanitized by a revisionist history. This dynamic leader has been regulated to sound bytes that are often taken out of context, and his revolutionary ideals and powerful rhetoric have been reduced to quotations to be inserted at will into term papers, speeches, and debates. The American public knows bits and pieces of his speeches and sermons from video recordings, but very few have read his books, an essential activity towards understanding who Dr. King was and what made him tick.

If we truly remembered Dr. King for who he was and for what he stood, and ultimately, died for, our nation would be held to greater accountability. In this revolutionary season that has broken out across the world, the words and work of Dr. King hold great relevance. Our economy, rocked by corporate greed and the criminalization and scape-goating of the impoverished, would not sit well with Dr. King. In his final book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community, Dr. King called for the immediate elimination of poverty and for a guaranteed living income for all American citizens. Dr. King advocated for the elimination of debts against poor foreign governments. And Dr. King died while supporting a movement for workers' dignity in Memphis, a stop he deemed necessary prior to occupying Washington, D.C. with a Poor People's Campaign. (On a side-note, it's good to see Dr. King finally make it to D.C. after all these years!)

But is that the Dr. King who now stands on the mall? Is that the man that America sees?

The one who spoke out against the injustices of the Vietnam War while many remained silent? The man who died poor and unpopular, even with members of the African-American community? Which King stands on the mall? Is it the diminutive, peacemaker King, the dispenser of wise-sayings of revisionist history, or King, the revolutionary, non-violent militant against injustice, whose boycotts crippled local economies and forced them to the negotiation table?

In this country, we have often done with Dr. King's legacy that which we have done to the legacy of the spiritual leader King followed: Jesus Christ. We have made Jesus into a sheep-carrying, parable-speaking, sandal-wearing blonde whose crucifixion wrought only light speckles of blood, instead of the whip-yielding, table-overturning man with nappy hair who boldly called those sitting in seats of economic, political, and religious oppression snakes and open graves, the man who so challenged the system that, like King, he was Emmett-Tilled by it. The man, who like King, died lonely, poor, and unpopular, crucified for his commitment to justice, for standing against the establishment, against the status quo, and speaking truth to power. We have emasculated both of them, King and Christ, removing from them their rage against machines of marginalization and oppression. In essence, we have made them less threatening to make them more tolerable. More acceptable. Sanitized.

And when sanitized, we make them controllable, something in death they were not in life.

History records that the title of King's final Sunday sermon, a sermon he did not live to preach, was "Why America May Go to Hell." The Mall and the nation could well use such a fearless and truth-telling prophet.

I just don't know if we are ready to place him there.

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Engadget Podcast 261 - 10.21.2011

We're not gonna lie: we're on one. One heck of a crazy week, that is! Two big phone launches kept our feet close to the fire, and a couple of odds n' ends rounded out the week in the way that only odds and ends can -- oddly. It's the Engadget Podcasters, live in a room together, at last, and with devastatingly informative consequences.

Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Guest: Dana Wollman
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Devil's Haircut

02:30 - Samsung and Google's Ice Cream Sandwich event liveblog!
03:30 - Samsung's Galaxy Nexus gets official: Android 4.0, 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED display (video)
06:22 - Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Ice Cream Sandwich hands-on (video)
07:57 - Samsung's Galaxy Nexus launches in November on NTT Docomo, Verizon, and more
08:18 - Android Beam takes us to the future of close-proximity data exchange (video)
18:00 - Motorola Droid RAZR unveiled: LTE, 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display, available November for $299
27:00 - Motorola Droid RAZR hands-on (video)
29:15 - Motorola RAZR to get updated to Ice Cream Sandwich in early 2012
34:45 - Samsung's Won-Pyo Hong: Galaxy Nexus wasn't designed just to skirt Apple patents
38:37 - Motorola Motoactv hands-on (update: video with Dean Karnazes!)
41:45 - Research in Motion announces BBX, 'combines the best of BlackBerry and QNX'
43:36 - Lytro camera hands-on (video)
46:45 - ASUS' Jonney Shih: Padfone will ship in Q1 2012 with Ice Cream Sandwich
46:55 - Microsoft's Andy Lees: Nokia will announce 'its Windows Phones' at Nokia World
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Friday, October 21, 2011

Clinton: Pakistan must boost anti-terror fight (AP)

KABUL, Afghanistan ? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday demanded that Pakistan step up the fight against terrorists within its borders, delivering a blunt message that Pakistanis "must be part of the solution" to the ongoing conflict in neighboring Afghanistan.

Using unusually stern language, Clinton said while visiting the Afghan capital of Kabul that the Obama administration expects the Pakistani government, military and intelligence services to "take the lead" in not only fighting insurgents based in Pakistan but also in encouraging Afghan militants to reconcile with Afghan society.

"We intend to push Pakistan very hard," Clinton told a joint news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Clinton will travel to Pakistan later Thursday to deliver the message wrapped in a new formula called "fight, talk, build" that aims to kill unrepentant insurgents, convince those willing to accept certain principles to make peace, and rehabilitate Afghanistan and integrate it back into the region.

"Our message (to Pakistan) is very clear," she said. "We're going to be fighting, we are going to be talking and we are going to be building ... and they can either be helping or hindering, but we are not going to stop."

Clinton, who will be leading an extraordinarily high-level U.S. delegation to Islamabad to make that case, said it was imperative for the U.S., Afghanistan and Pakistan to cooperate. But she said Pakistan bears much of the responsibility.

"We must send a clear, unequivocal message to the government and people of Pakistan that they must be part of the solution, and that means ridding their own country of terrorists who kill their own people and who cross the border to kill people in Afghanistan," she said.

Clinton noted that U.S. and Afghan forces had recently launched a joint operation against safe havens in Afghanistan used by the Taliban-allied, Pakistan-based Haqqani network. She said the U.S. "would show" Pakistan how to eliminate Haqqani safe havens on Pakistani soil.

"We have to deal with the safe havens on both sides of the borders," she said, adding later: "No one should be in any way mistaken about allowing (attacks) to continue without paying a very big price."

The U.S. sees a political settlement with the Taliban as key to ending the war and is pushing Karzai to lead and expand a reconciliation drive, although the Taliban has indicated no public interest in such a deal. A secret U.S. effort to spark negotiations earlier this year angered Karzai, although he had nothing but kind words of welcome for Clinton.

"Reconciliation is possible," she said. "Indeed, it represents the best hope for Afghanistan and the region."

Clinton's tough comments come as Karzai has expressed frustration with his attempts to woo Taliban fighters away from the insurgency amid increasing attacks by the Haqqani network and the murder last month of elder statesman Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading the outreach. Rabbani was killed when he greeted a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban emissary bearing a reconciliation message.

Karzai said Rabbani's assassination made it clear that Pakistan must be on board and involved in reconciliation efforts.

"It brought us to the point where we felt that those who come to talk to us on behalf of the Taliban actually represent assassinations and killings and not a peace process, and therefore the focus of the peace process, we felt, would serve a better purpose taken to Pakistan," Karzai said as Clinton stood beside him in the garden of the presidential palace.

"We believe that the Taliban, to a very, very great extent ? a very, very great extent ? are controlled by establishments in Pakistan, stay in Pakistan, have their headquarters in Pakistan and launch operations from Pakistan," he said. Therefore, he said, the proper "authority" and "venue" for any peace talks is Pakistan.

Clinton was clearly sympathetic to his argument.

"This is a time for clarity, it is a time for people to declare themselves as to how we are going to work together," she said, referring to Pakistan.

In Islamabad later Thursday, Clinton will be meeting up with CIA chief David Petraeus and the nation's top military official, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, for talks with senior Pakistani officials.

Their presence will be a muscular show of diplomatic force that several officials described as a combined message of support and pressure.

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Thursday, October 20, 2011

DeLorean Back From The Past With New Electric Model [Transport]

There will be plenty of jokes made about this one. 88mph, flux capacitors, fusion drives and so on. But the current license holder of the DMC name is serious about reintroducing the DeLorean, with an all-electric update set to arrive in 2013. More »


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