Charlize Theron has a secret to share. Despite her gorgeous model looks and undeniable talent, she was bullied in school. Even more shocking? The Young Adult actress says boys weren't into her when she was a teen.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? What do Bob Dylan and Miley Cyrus have in common -- besides their perpetually chipper demeanor, of course?
They're both doing their part to benefit human rights organization Amnesty International on its 50th anniversary.
The human-rights organization is releasing a sprawling, four-CD collection, "Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International," on January 24, with the proceeds going to AI, according to numerous news reports.
The collection, which primarily consists of cover versions of tunes from the Dylan catalog, encompasses 80 artists. Among those taking a crack at Mr. Zimmerman's songbook: Adele, Sting, Elvis Costello, My Chemical Romance, Ke$ha and, yes, "Party in the USA" songbird Cyrus, who will contribute her take on Dylan's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go."
On the other end of the age spectrum, 92-year-old folk icon Pete Seeger will offer his version of "Forever Young," accompanied by a children's chorus.
Aside from Dylan's original 1964 rendition of "Chimes of Freedom," all of the songs will be new recordings.
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Insight on European worries weighing in on U.S. futures, with Tony Crescenzi, Pimco executive vice president,/market strategist/portfolio manager who says countries in Europe are playing a game "hot potato" with debt.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe ? The state broadcasting authority says it has issued two licenses to commercial radio stations to compete with the sole government-owned broadcaster loyal to Zimbabwe's president.
The independent Media Institute of Southern Africa on Friday criticized the announcement by the authority and said the new stations were not fairly chosen by officials appointed by the information ministry run by President Robert Mugabe party.
Zimbabwe Newspapers, publishers of the main pro-Mugabe daily Herald, will launch a Talk Radio channel. The second channel, ZiFM, is controlled by a black empowerment campaigner and stalwart of Mugabe's party who says it will go on air within six months.
A coalition deal with the former opposition in 2009 called for an end to the three decade monopoly of Mugabe's Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corp.
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LONDON ? Officials says six people are missing and two are recovered alive after a cargo ship sank in the Irish Sea.
The Holyhead Coastguard says the Swanland cargo ship, with eight people on board, sent a mayday call early on Sunday from 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of the Llyn peninsula in north Wales after its hull cracked.
It said the two men recovered from water were taken to a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, Wales.
Jim Green, a coastguard official, says the 81-metre cargo carrier was carrying 3000 tones of limestone and it appears to have sunk.
The coastguard says two helicopters and two life boats were sent to the scene to help with the rescue efforts.
Gale-force winds battered the Irish Sea during Sunday and the coastguard believe this could have caused the incident.
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In his new book The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways writer Earl Swift looks at the history and people behind the world's largest public works project ? the U.S. interstate superhighway system.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? By now, it's certainly no surprise that Tilda Swinton has turned in another riveting performance in a dark and difficult movie; from "Orlando" to "I Am Love," that's what she does, with occasional detours to play the white witch in the Narnia films and win an Oscar as a corporate lawyer in "Michael Clayton."
Swinton's latest, which has made her a dark-horse Oscar candidate, is "We Need to Talk About Kevin," an intense, intimate and disquieting drama drawn from Lionel Shriver's novel about a woman struggling through the aftermath of a horrific crime committed by her son.
Her performance is often wordless; she may be the only person in the family aware of the depths of evil that reside within her son (played by Ezra Miller and two younger actors), but she's unable to communicate with her husband (John C. Reilly) or turn to anyone in the aftermath of Kevin's actions.
Oscilloscope Laboratories is opening the film on December 9 for a one-week Oscar-qualifying run. Its commercial release begins on January 27.
Swinton flew to Los Angeles from her home in Northern Scotland for the Governors Awards earlier in the month. Not surprisingly, she's out of the loop when it comes to Hollywood buzz -- when I told her that Billy Crystal had signed on to host the Oscars just moments before we met, she was completely unaware of the turmoil that had surrounded the show in the previous few days.
TheWrap: Billy Crystal just tweeted that he's hosting the Oscars.
Tilda Swinton: Things have been happening with that show, haven't they? I didn't know anything about it, and then I got to L.A. and people were talking about something. But the news doesn't reach those of us who live on other planets.
TheWrap: Yeah, the original producer had to quit because he said "rehearsal is for fags" at a Q&A, and then talked about his sex life on the Howard Stern show.
Swinton: How fantastic! How fantastic.
TheWrap: You went through that circus once, with "Michael Clayton."
Swinton: Well, apparently so, but it didn't feel like it. I was somehow oblivious at the time. I'm trying to remember anything from it. I think maybe the second time you can feel it happening. It's like taking an anesthetic the first time. You don't feel it going in.
TheWrap: I understand your agent has your Oscar.
Swinton: My agent has my Oscar. His Oscar. I gave it to him.
TheWrap: I expected "We Need to Talk About Kevin" to be disturbing, and it was, But I didn't expect it to be as lyrical as it was.
Swinton: Did you know the book?
TheWrap: No, I didn't.
Swinton: The book is a lot less lyrical. That's one of the great things about (writer-director) Lynne Ramsay adapting the book. Because she is someone who is ... "Lyrical" is not exactly the word that I'd use, but she is definitely someone who is interested in atmosphere, particularly a kind of atmosphere of discomfort.
And it was important that it be beautiful. It's got a kind of elegiac quality, this feeling of her nostalgia for this life, as well as being a horror story.
TheWrap: Were you familiar with the book before the movie came along?
Swinton: Yeah, I was. I knew the book, and I was very keen to know what Lynne was doing next, and very interested that she had chosen to adapt this book. There had been this really unwieldy gap of time since (Ramsay's 2002 film) "Morvern Callar," and I was wanting to help her make another feature film in any way I could. But then this point came when it became clear that I wanted to be in it.
I can't really remember if it was my idea or hers. But we sort of slowly moved toward that idea.
TheWrap: Why?
Swinton: As it became more and more developed, and less and less about the social atmosphere in the book, more and more about this woman's interior life, then the more interested I became in playing it.
And to be honest, I think it was partly to do with a sort of huge budget cut that we faced at a certain point. I always hate to say this, because it sounds like I'm arguing for the stringencies of people cutting budgets, but it became very clear that we were only going to get about half of what we wanted. Which meant that we were going to really have to streamline it and reduce the social context. And there had to be less people in it, less locations. More claustrophic, in fact. Much more Greek. All the action had to take place offscreeen.
The cheaper it got, the better it got. But that's not always the case.
TheWrap: So the more it departed from the book, the more it improved?
Swinton: Well, it became much clearer as a Lynne Ramsay film. The book is very much about someone who's trying to work it out. She's writing letters, trying to work out what happened, trying to explain it to herself and to her husband. It's quite a political book about Bush-era America, and it's very socially aware. And we sort of pulled out of that, and locked into her mind, her memories, her fantasies, her nightmares.
It became a sort of phantasmagoria, and the more it became about someone who is lonely, who doesn't have anybody to talk to or to explain things to, the more it became interesting to me. That's really something I'm interested in, the idea of inarticulacy or dumbness.
TheWrap: Does it take away some of your tools as an actress?
Swinton: To me, it feels like you gain more capacity, the less you get to say, in cinema at least. I always say that I think cinema has gone downhill since people started talking in it.
It's just a personal preference. I like it when people ... Like what I'm doing now. I think I know what I want to say, but I'm searching for the words. I like that. I don't like it when people become playwrights on-screen. I like a level of inarticulacy, and also silence.
TheWrap: They may have helped develop the material, but did the time and budget constraints feel limiting when you were shooting?
Swinton: It meant that we had to work in a more prescribed way than we would have liked to do. Lynne and I were talking earlier about how we're both looking forward to working in a more loose way. But that is a luxury in this kind of filmmaking. If you get two takes, you're lucky. It's a discipline, and it's painful at times, but you've got to keep trucking.
TheWrap: Can it be frustrating as an actor?
Swinton: In terms of performance, when you've been thinking about doing something for four years and then you have to do it in half an hour and then leave it, that's always a bit tricky. But you just have to do it.
TheWrap: Your character, Eva, has a complicated bond with her son -- she's the one who really knows that something is wrong, but she's also connected to him in a deeper way than his father is.
Swinton: We were always clear that we wanted this to be a sort of double portrait of one person. We knew that Kevin and Eva had to feel like two sides of the same coin. The thing that's so horrendous is not that his violence and badness is exotic and foreign to her. It's really familiar -- that's the worst part. She knows it's hers, and he's acting it out in front of her.
So we needed them to feel very closely linked physically. If he had been short and round and red-haired, I would have been short and round and red-haired. As it happened, he looked like Ezra Miller, so I had to go that way. He led the way, and I had to follow.
TheWrap: Do you have to be sensitive when you're acting with younger children in a work that involves tough, disturbing material?
Swinton: To me, it's much, much easier to play with children. Children know that it's play. You ask a 6-year-old to dress up as a dog, he'll go there. You ask a 45-year-old to dress up as a dog, and you'll have to go through all sorts of questions of method and psychological background.
With children, it's very easy and relaxed. You ask a 3-year-old to be bad and growl at his mommy, it's easy. It's what a 3-year-old loves to do. So no, it's really graceful and easy, working with children.
TheWrap: As the lead actor but also a producer, was it easy for you to maintain the split focus required?
Swinton: Honestly, that's always been the way that I've worked.
If anything, it's stranger for me and rarer for me to just come in and play and get a check and go away. That's only happened to me a handful of times in my life. Most of the time I'm minding the shop as well. And I like that.
There's a kind of myopia you get with performance that feels to me potentially hazardous and weird. And I quite like having the actualities of knowing what time it is, and knowing how quickly you have to work.
TheWrap: What are you doing next?
Swinton: I feel like a farmer who's had a big harvest. There were three films that I was working on for the last 12 years. "I Am Love" I worked on for 11 years, "Julia" for five and this one for five. And they've all now been made, so I'm very happily facing a bit of a plowed field. I worked very briefly and very happily on the new Wes Anderson film, but apart from that I'm back to the drawing board.
TheWrap: Do Hollywood-type movies factor into your plans?
Swinton: I don't quite know how to answer that, because I never factored in Hollywood-type movies in the first place. You know, the mountain does tend to go to Mohammed, as far as I'm concerned. I'm totally available to have conversations with pretty much anybody who's inclined to chat. I have some projects that I'm slowly beginning to seed at home, but given my track record, they'll probably take so long that there'll be room at the table.
TheWrap: Did "Michael Clayton" and the Oscar change your profile with the industry?
Swinton: You'd be the one to tell me. I've got no idea.
TheWrap: Are you seeing different or better scripts from Hollywood?
Swinton: Well, the thing is, everything that I've done since then, I was going to do anyway. Because that 12 years I've just described, "Michael Clayton" was in the middle of it. I was already working on "I Am Love," and "Julia," and this. So I don't know.
The only real change I can see is that people ask me how my life has changed since then. And we'll see now, I suppose. If it helps take a little film like this and give it a bigger release than it would have had otherwise, then I'm really grateful.
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MILAN ? Italy's borrowing rates skyrocketed during bond auctions Friday, battering stock markets in Europe as the continent's escalating debt crisis laid siege to the eurozone's third-largest economy.
The auction results are another sign that Italy's new technocratic government under economist Mario Monti faces a battle to convince investors it has a strategy to cut down the country's euro1.9 trillion ($2.6 trillion) debt. They are also likely to fuel calls for the European Central Bank to use its firepower to cool down a debt crisis that's rapidly getting worse.
"Mario Monti has failed so far to impress bond markets he has the power and authority to do what is required," said Louise Cooper, markets analyst at BGC Partners. "I don't rate his chances either."
Driving the markets fears is the knowledge that Italy is too big for Europe to bail out, like it has done with smaller nations Greece, Portugal and Ireland. Given the size of its debts ? Italy must refinance $300 billion next year alone ? the government has to continually tap investors for money. But when borrowing rates get too high, it fuels a potentially devastating debt spiral.
Friday's auctions indicated that investors see Italian debt as increasingly risky. The country had to pay an average yield of 7.814 percent to raise euro2 billion ($2.7 billion) in two-year bills ? sharply higher than the 4.628 percent it paid in the previous auction in October. And even raising euro8 billion ($10.7 billion) for six months proved exorbitantly expensive. The yield for this auction spiked to 6.504 percent, nearly double the 3.535 percent rate in October.
Following the grim auction news, Italy's borrowing rates in the markets shot higher, with the ten-year yield spiking 0.34 percentage point to 7.30 percent ? above the 7 percent threshold that forced other nations into bailouts.
Italy was not the only country in the 17-nation eurozone in experiencing a disappointing auction this week. Even Germany ? the region's strongest economy and the main funder of eurozone bailouts ? suffered a shock Wednesday when it failed to raise all the money it sought, its worst auction result in decades. Spain too saw its borrowing rates ratchet sharply higher even after a landslide election victory for the conservative Popular Party, which has made getting Spain's borrowing levels down its top priority.
Monti, who replaced Silvio Berlusconi as Italy's leader earlier this month, has pledged to quickly implement new austerity measures followed by deeper reforms. He spent much of his first week in office meeting with European Union officials and the leaders of France and Germany laying out his plans.
During the meetings, Monti emphasized his intention to balance the budget by 2013 and to introduce "fair but incisive" structural reforms," his office said in a statement following a Cabinet meeting Friday.
Monti also has pledged to reform the pension system, re-impose a tax on homes annulled by Berlusconi's government, reduce tax evasion, streamline civil court proceedings, get more women and youths into the work force and cut political costs.
EU monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn told the Italian Parliament that "full and effective implementation will be key."
He urged a "clear and ambitious roadmap for reform and an ambitious timeline" and expressed particular concern about low employment among Italian youth.
"Over the longer term, productivity will depend on a well-educated labor force," Rehn said. "I am particularly concerned about high unemployment, which is a tremendous waste of talent that Europe simply cannot afford."
Rehn was in Rome to monitor Italy's compliance with promises to liberalize its labor market, reduce the bloated public sector and sell off some state assets.
There were also signs that contagion over Europe's debt crisis was moving eastward. Moody's downgraded Hungary's sovereign debt to junk status ? from Baa3 to Ba1 with a negative outlook ? a decision Hungary hotly criticized. Hungary is not a member of the eurozone, but trades with many eurozone members.
This week's developments have ratcheted up the pressure on the European Central Bank to step up its bond purchases in the markets, though Germany remains adamantly opposed. The current program is designed to support bond prices in the markets, thereby keeping a lid on the borrowing rates.
So far, the ECB has been buying limited amounts of bonds and has to sell an equivalent amount of assets. The ECB said Monday it bought bonds worth only euro4.5 billion last week, down from euro9.5 billion a week earlier.
Potentially, the ECB has unlimited financial firepower through its ability to print money and many countries in the eurozone, including France, want the bank to act more decisively to solve the debt crisis.
However, Germany finds the idea of monetizing debts unappealing, warning that it lets the more profligate countries off the hook for their bad practices.
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-- Ruth Stone, an award-winning poet for whom tragedy halted, then inspired a career that started in middle age and thrived late in life as her sharp insights into love, death and nature received ever-growing acclaim, has died in Vermont. She was 96.
Stone, who for decades lived in a farmhouse in Goshen, died Nov. 19 of natural causes at her home in Ripton, her daughter Phoebe Stone said Thursday. She was surrounded by her daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Widowed in her 40s and little known for years after, Ruth Stone became one of the country's most honored poets in her 80s and 90s, winning the National Book Award in 2002 for "In the Next Galaxy" and being named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for "What Love Comes To." She received numerous other citations, including a National Book Critics Circle award, two Guggenheims and a Whiting Award.
She was born Ruth Perkins in 1915, the daughter of printer and part-time drummer Roger Perkins. A native of Roanoke, Va., who spent much of her childhood in Indianapolis, Ruth was a creative and precocious girl for whom poetry was almost literally mother's milk; her mother would recite Tennyson while nursing her. A beloved aunt, Aunt Harriette, worked with young Ruth on poetry and illustrations and was later immortalized, with awe and affection, in the poem "How to Catch Aunt Harriette."
By age 19, Stone was married and had moved to Urbana, Ill., studying at the University of Illinois. There, she met Walter Stone, a graduate student and poet who became the love of her life, well after his ended. "You, a young poet working/in the steel mills; me, married, to a dull chemical engineer," she wrote of their early, adulterous courtship, in the poem "Coffee and Sweet Rolls."
She divorced her first husband, married Stone and had two daughters (she also had a daughter from her first marriage). By 1959, he was on the faculty at Vassar and both were set to publish books. But on a sabbatical in England, Walter Stone hung himself, at age 42, a suicide his wife never got over or really understood.
In the poem "Turn Your Eyes Away," she remembered seeing his body, "on the door of a rented room/like an overcoat/like a bathrobe/ hung from a hook." He would recur, ghostlike, in poem after poem. "Actually the widow thinks/he may be/in another country in disguise," she writes in "All Time is Past Time." In "The Widow's Song," she wonders "If he saw her now/would he marry her?/The widow pinches her fat/on her abdomen."
Her first collection, "In an Iridescent Time," came out in 1959. But Stone, depressed and raising three children alone, moving around the country to wherever she could find a teaching job, didn't publish her next book, "Topography and Other Poems," until 1971. Another decade-long gap preceded her 1986 release "American Milk."
Her life stabilized in 1990 when she became a professor of English and creative writing at the State University of New York in Binghamton. Most of her published work, including "American Milk," "The Solution" and "Simplicity," came out after she turned 70.
Her poems were brief, her curiosity boundless, her verse a cataloguing of what she called "that vast/confused library, the female mind." She considered the bottling of milk; her grandmother's hair, "pulled back to a bun"; the random thoughts while hanging laundry (Einstein's mustache, the eyesight of ants).
"I think my work is a natural response to my life," she once said. "What I see and feel changes like a prism, moment to moment; a poem holds and illuminates. It is a small drama. I think, too, my poems are a release, a laughing at the ridiculous and songs of mourning, celebrating marriage and loss, all the sad baggage of our lives. It is so overwhelming, so complex."
Aging and death were steady companions ? confronted, lamented and sometimes kidded, like in "Storage," in which her "old" brain reminds her not to weep for what was lost: "Listen ? I have it all on video/at half the price," the poet is warned.
Stone was not pious ? "I am not one/who God can hope to save by dying twice" ? but she worshipped the world and counted its blessings. In "Yes, Think," she imagines a caterpillar pitying its tiny place in the universe and "getting even smaller." Nature herself smiles and responds:
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"You are a lovely link
in the great chain of being
Think how lucky it is to be born."
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Associated Press Writer Holly Ramer in Concord, N.H., contributed to this report.
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Starting on Black Friday and running through the entire shopping season, the?Promenade Temecula shopping mall in southern California and Short Pump Town Center shopping mall in Richmond, Virginia plan to track customers locations within the mall by monitoring cell phone signals as reported by CNN earlier today. The malls intend to follow the path of each shopper and collect data to understand typical shopping patterns. While the malls claim that the data collected will be anonymous, mall officials will be able to tell which portion of the mall is unpopular, the amount of time that people spend inside a particular store and which stores compliment each other based off customer behavior.
The malls do plan to alert customers of the tracking program and encourage shoppers to turn off the cell phone while shopping. However, it?s unlikely that customers will turn off their main device for communication and busy shoppers may miss the notifications posted within the mall. ?Forest City Commercial Management is the company that manages both malls and equates the tracking program to monitoring migratory patterns of birds. The name of the tracking system is?FootPath Technology and uses a group of?antennas that monitor the?unique identification number used by each phone while the customer travels through the shopping mall.
It?s?impossible?for?FootPath Technology to tie identifying personal details to the cell phones without the cooperation of wireless providers like Verizon, AT&T and Sprint. The system also cannot capture personal information being transmitted from the phones like text messages or photos. The system is designed by a British company called?Path Intelligence and has been rolled out within shopping centers in both Europe and Australia. Both Home Depot and?JCPenney are both considering rolling out the tracking system in stores, but haven?t made any official announcements regarding a potential launch.?
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Many meat and poultry products probably carry drug-resistant bacteria before cooking. Katherine Harmon reports.
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Thanksgiving is just days away, a time to feast with family. And to avoid food-borne bacterial infections.
The National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System, or NARMS, is a joint effort of the CDC, the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Microbiologist Lance Price talked about NARMS data last month at the ScienceWriters2011 conference in Flagstaff:
?What?s the probability of not finding drug-resistant bacteria on your meat and poultry? So pork chops you have about a one-in-10 chance of NOT finding drug-resistant bacteria. And this is just based on four bacteria that NARMS tests for: Campylobactor, Salmonella, E. coli and Enterococcus. Ground beef, one in 20. Chicken breasts, less than a one-in-100 chance of not finding drug-resistant bacteria. And then ground turkey, forget it: less than a one in 300 chance. Pretty much every sample of ground turkey will have drug-resistant bacteria.?
So remember, if you buy ground turkey for meatballs or burgers once the whole bird is gone, cook it. Thoroughly.
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ROME ? A new AP-GfK poll has found that two-thirds of Italians consider legal immigration "good" for their country and many would welcome more migrants.
The results are surprising given the persistent sentiment in Italy linking foreigners to crime and other social ills like unemployment and drug trafficking.
Analysts suggested Wednesday the findings indicate Italians' split view of immigration: While many have a knee-jerk hostile reaction to immigrants because of security fears, many also realize they are needed to do the jobs Italians won't do, to pay into Italy's overburdened pension system and to care for the country's aging population.
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AP Poll is at http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com
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COMMENTARY | Despite not actively campaigning in Iowa, Mitt Romney is finding himself in the mix for a victory in the state. The latest Bloomberg News poll shows Romney in a statistical tie with Herman Cain, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich in Iowa. This surprise development has left many in Romney's camp pondering a possible play for Iowa.
The decision to contest or not to contest in Iowa is a pivotal one for the Romney's campaign. If the former Massachusetts governor wins Iowa, the Republican nomination is virtually his. He will be able to focus his resources and energy on beating Barack Obama. If he actively campaigns in Iowa but is defeated, all his investments in New Hampshire and other key primary states could go to waste. There are big risks and rewards in whichever strategy he chooses.
As much as Romney wants to quickly wrap up the nomination, memories from his bitter Iowa defeat in 2008 are surely on his mind. Four years ago, Romney invested heavily in the Hawkeye State only to lose by a considerable margin to Mike Huckabee. He went on to lose New Hampshire and the GOP nomination to John McCain, who skipped Iowa. Surely, Romney would not want history to repeat itself.
There are also financial considerations. Romney has already spent a big chunk of his campaign resources on New Hampshire. If Romney bets big on Iowa but still loses the state, it will give his campaign serious financial strains. Hillary Clinton faced this situation in 2008 after she expended most of her resources on Super Tuesday only to underperform. She eventually had to lend her campaign big sums of money to keep it going.
Romney's campaign should also be wary of Iowa opinion polls. Unlike most states, Iowa uses the caucus system that values dedication over participation. It takes a dedicated voter to attend time-consuming caucuses in wintry weather just to say "aye" for his or her favorite candidate. There is nothing that indicates Iowa voters are super excited about Romney. Just because the polls show Romney competitive in Iowa does not mean Iowa voters will go through all the troubles to vote for him.
Weighing all the risks and rewards, Romney appears better off skipping Iowa to focus exclusively on New Hampshire.
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WASHINGTON ? Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Texas Gov. Rick Perry are clashing over whether the United States should continue to provide more than $1 billion in aid to Pakistan.
Perry says that Pakistan has shown "time after time" that it cannot be trusted and that he would not send the country "one penny ? period."
Bachmann says Perry's approach is "naive," arguing that the U.S. needs to have a presence in the region to protect its national security. She called Pakistan a "violent, unstable nation" with more than a dozen nuclear sites that could be penetrated.
The Obama administration has said the U.S. relationship with Islamabad is vital to the nation's national security and has urged Pakistan to crack down on the Taliban-linked Haqqani network.
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A key climate action advocate points to four key communications points she thinks critical coming out of the upcoming Durban UN Framework Convention meeting.
?The current negotiation process is stupid, useless and endless. It is based on this principle: two parties reach an agreement, a third one comes along and says it doesn?t agree and it reduces the ambition of the others. In essence, even if we reach an agreement, it will be an agreement about nothing. It will be so diluted that it will be of no use.?
That recent comment by Maldives President Mohammad Nasheed exemplifies the communications challenges that will arise when representatives of 194 countries meet in Durban, South Africa, November 29 as parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
News-hungry media feast on comments like these. With prospects remote for a game-changing breakthrough in Durban, we can probably look forward to more headlines like this one from Time magazine: ?The Kyoto Accords ? and Hope ? Are Expiring.? The unfortunate conclusion many readers will draw: The negotiations are a waste of time, and worse, a failure in Durban spells failure for climate action more generally. Both conclusions are incorrect.
For better or worse, the December 2009 Copenhagen meeting is probably the benchmark against which many journalists will measure results in Durban.
On the one hand, we are living with the legacy of high expectations from 2009. We were supposed to get a fair, ambitious, and binding international agreement on climate change that year ? after all, 120 heads of state came to Copenhagen to do the deal! A binding agreement has thus become the yardstick for measuring success, and anything less is seen by some as abject failure. Given two decades of unfulfilled promises by developed countries, that view is not entirely unreasonable, but it?s not very helpful either.
Conversely, if expectations reached their peak in the run-up to Copenhagen, the frenetic negotiations of the final 48 hours (and the disappointing outcome that resulted) may forever be viewed as the nadir of the multilateral negotiating process. Many analysts will therefore judge Durban, as they did last year?s Cancun meeting, against a backdrop of expected failure. This explains why incremental progress made last year in Cancun was joyfully celebrated when an 11th-hour collapse was narrowly averted. Any forward momentum in Durban could thus be put in a positive light.
This year?s outcome will not be judged solely against high or low expectations, however. There is an added level of urgency this time around. The International Energy Agency made headlines with its 2011 World Energy Outlook and a dramatic statement that the door to 2 degree C is closing. This adds a new dimension to the communications challenge. As Grist described the IEA statement in its own inimitable way, ?The point of no return on climate change is fast approaching. Either we halt it in five years, or ? well, imagine I?m drawing my finger across my throat while making a ?kkkkkhhhhhh? sound.? The IPCC has been making those ?kkkkkhhhhhh? noises for years, but coming from an organization like the IEA, the warning that we are headed for a 6 degree C world is all the more frightening. Remember that the IEA has always been a fossil fuel cheerleader, created as it was in the aftermath of the 1973 oil shock.
So here?s the conundrum: how to communicate the extreme urgency for action (to secure the future of the Kyoto Protocol, increase ambition, get money on the table and so forth) while simultaneously communicating that failure to achieve breakthrough outcomes in Durban does not mean all is lost? If, after all, a sense of despair and defeatism takes hold, it will be all the harder to inspire people to take action.
One thing is clear. We can?t sugar coat the reality ? climate change is happening and we are perilously close to a dangerous point of no return.
Here are four important things that need to be effectively communicated while at Durban:
Whatever happens in Durban, we need to remember that climate change is about real people being affected right now. We need to consider the day-to-day realities they face ? now, and not just in some distant future ? and link climate solutions to those concerns. Yes, the changing climate is a vastly complex problem and it will take many more years to work out the mechanisms to fix it. But we have no alternative. The need to solve climate change is an imperative we have no choice but to follow.
Kelly Rigg, who lives and works in Amsterdam, is the Executive Director of Global Campaign for Climate Action, which is headquartered in Montreal and has a Secretariat spread around the world.
Source: http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2011/11/communications-challenges-coming-from-durban/
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 20, 2011) ? The human brain is bombarded with a cacophony of information from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. Now a team of scientists at the University of Rochester, Washington University in St. Louis, and Baylor College of Medicine has unraveled how the brain manages to process those complex, rapidly changing, and often conflicting sensory signals to make sense of our world.
The answer lies in a relatively simple computation performed by single nerve cells, an operation that can be described mathematically as a straightforward weighted average. The key is that the neurons have to apply the correct weights to each sensory cue, and the authors reveal how this is done.
The study, to be published online Nov. 20 in Nature Neuroscience, represents the first direct evidence of how the brain combines multiple sources of sensory information to form as accurate a perception as possible of its environment, the researchers report.
The discovery may eventually lead to new therapies for people with Alzheimer's disease and other disorders that impair a person's sense of self-motion, says study coauthor Greg DeAngelis, professor and chair of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester.
This deeper understanding of how brain circuits combine different sensory cues could also help scientists and engineers to design more sophisticated artificial nervous systems such as those used in robots, he adds.
The brain is constantly confronted with changing and conflicting sensory input, says DeAngelis. For example, during IMAX theater footage of an aircraft rolling into a turn "you may find yourself grabbing the seat," he says.
The large visual input makes you feel like you are moving, but the balance cues conveyed by sensors in your inner ear indicate that your body is in fact safely glued to the theater seat. So how does your brain decide how to interpret these conflicting inputs?
The study shows that the brain does not have to first "decide" which sensory cue is more reliable. "Indeed, this is what's exciting about what we have shown," says DeAngelis. The study demonstrates that the low-level computations performed by single neurons in the brain, when repeated by millions of neurons performing similar computations, accounts for the brain's complex ability to know which sensory signals to weight as more important.
"Thus, the brain essentially can break down a seemingly high-level behavioral task into a set of much simpler operations performed simultaneously by many neurons," explains DeAngelis.
The study confirms and extends a computational theory developed earlier by Alexandre Pouget, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester and a coauthor on the paper. The theory predicted that neurons fire in a manner predicted by a weighted summation rule, which was largely confirmed by the neural data. Surprisingly, however, the weights that the neurons learned were slightly off target from the theoretical predictions, and the difference could explain why behavior also varies slightly from subject to subject, the authors conclude. "Being able to predict these small discrepancies establishes an exciting connection between computations performed at the level of single neurons and detailed aspects of behavior," says DeAngelis.
To gather the data, the researchers designed a virtual-reality system to present subjects with two directional cues, a visual pattern of moving dots on a computer screen to simulate traveling forward and physical movement of the subject created by a platform. The researchers varied the amount of randomness in the motion of the dots to change how reliable the visual cues were relative to the motion of the platform. At the end of each trial, subjects indicated which direction they were heading, to the right or to the left.
The experiments were conducted at Washington University, and the team included Christopher Fetsch, now a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Washington, and Dora Angelaki, now chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine. The research was supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, and the James McDonnell foundation.
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CAIRO (Reuters) ? Cairo police fought protesters demanding an end to army rule for a third day on Monday and morgue officials said the death toll had risen to 33, making it the worst spasm of violence since the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
The bloodshed in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square, epicenter of the anti-Mubarak revolt, threatens to disrupt Egypt's first free parliamentary election in decades, due to start next week.
Clashes have raged on and off since police used batons and tear gas to try to disperse a sit-in in Tahrir on Saturday.
Protesters have brandished bullet casings in the square, but police deny using live fire. Medical sources at Cairo's main morgue said 33 corpses had been received there since Saturday, most of them with bullet wounds. At least 1,250 people have been wounded, a Health Ministry source said.
"I've seen the police beat women my mother's age. I want military rule to end," said 21-year-old Mohamed Gamal. "I will just go home in the evening to change my clothes and return."
Islamists dominated demonstrations against army rule on Friday, but the unrest in Tahrir since then has drawn in many of the young activists who helped topple Mubarak on February 11.
Army generals were feted for their part in easing him out, but hostility to their rule has hardened since, especially over attempts to set new constitutional principles that would keep the military permanently beyond civilian control.
Police attacked a makeshift hospital in the square after dawn on Monday but were driven back by protesters hurling chunks of concrete from smashed pavements, witnesses said.
"Don't go out there, you'll end up martyrs like the others," protesters told people emerging from a metro station at Tahrir Square, where about 4,000 had gathered by midday.
CLOUD OVER ELECTION
The violence casts a pall over the first round of voting in Egypt's staggered and complex election process, which starts on November 28 in Cairo and elsewhere. The army says the polls will go ahead, but the unrest could deter voters in the capital.
Some Egyptians, including Islamists who expect to do well in the vote, say the ruling army council may be stirring insecurity to prolong its rule, a charge the military denies.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called for an end to the violence. "This is quite evidently an attempt to thwart a democratic transition process and we are opposed to that attempt," he said.
Political uncertainty has gripped Egypt since Mubarak's fall, while sectarian clashes, labor unrest, gas pipeline sabotage and a gaping absence of tourists have paralyzed the economy and prompted a widespread yearning for stability.
The state news agency MENA said 63 flights to and from Cairo had been canceled because of the latest unrest.
The military plans to keep its presidential powers until a new constitution is drawn up and a president is elected in late 2012 or early 2013. Protesters want a much swifter transition.
The army said on Monday it had intervened in central Cairo to protect the Interior Ministry, not to clear demonstrators from nearby Tahrir Square, whom it also offered to protect.
"The protesters have a right to protest, but we must stand between them and the Interior Ministry," said General Saeed Abbas. "The armed forces will continue in their plans for parliamentary elections and securing the vote."
"SAME MENTALITY"
The Interior Ministry, in charge of a police force widely hated for its heavy-handed tactics in the anti-Mubarak revolt, has been a target for protesters demanding police reform.
"Unfortunately the Interior Ministry still deals with protests with the same security mentality as during Mubarak's administration," said military analyst Safwat Zayaat.
The latest street clashes show the depth of frustration, at least in Cairo and some other cities, at the pace of change.
"Military rule is defunct, defunct," crowds chanted. "Freedom, freedom."
Internet clips, which could not be verified, showed police beating protesters with sticks, pulling them by the hair and, in one case, dumping what looked like a body on a rubbish heap.
Residents reacted angrily when police fired tear gas into a crowd gathered below a burning building 200 meters (yards) from Tahrir Square, hindering the rescue of trapped residents.
Outside the burning apartment building, protesters chanted "Tantawi burned it and here are the revolutionaries," referring to Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Mubarak's defense minister for two decades and leader of the army council.
"I don't want Tantawi ... I am staying tonight," said Ayman Ramadan, a data entry clerk, said early on Monday morning.
Doctors in orange vests were treating casualties on pavements in the middle of Tahrir.
The April 6 Youth movement told MENA it would stay in Tahrir and pursue sit-ins in other cities until its demands were met, including one for a presidential vote by April.
Other demands include replacing the cabinet with a national salvation government and an immediate investigation into the clashes in Tahrir and trial of those implicated in it.
Presidential candidate Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, a Salafi Islamist, told protesters: "We are demanding as the minimum that power be handed over within six months."
Presidential hopefuls Mohamed ElBaradei and Abdallah al-Ashaal denounced violence against protesters and called for a national salvation government, MENA said.
Liberal groups are dismayed by the military trials of thousands of civilians and the army's failure to scrap a hated emergency law. Islamists eyeing a strong showing in the next parliament suspect the army wants to curtail their influence.
Analysts say Islamists could win 40 percent of assembly seats, with a big portion going to the Muslim Brotherhood.
(additional reporting by Erik Kirschbaum; writing by Alistair Lyon; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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It hasn't been the best year for HP, what with the demise of webOS and the uncertainty surrounding its status as a PC maker. But, Meg Whitman hasn't taken the bridge of a sunken ship, though things are far from peachy keen. HP just posted its Q4 2011 earnings, and the company cleared a healthy $9.7 billion operating profit in 2011, though that's down 10 percent from last year. Total revenue for the quarter was 32.1 billion, a three percent decline from 2010. And, for those wondering just how much the death of webOS cost the company? Turns out that dalliance took a $3.3 billion chunk out of HP's bottom line. So, the news isn't the best for you HP fans, but we'll be listening in on the earnings call later today, so stay tuned for more details. Impatient folks can find plenty more financial figures in the Source link and PR that follow.Continue reading HP releases Q4 2011 earnings: $9.7 billion operating profit for fiscal year
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Minnesota Timberwolves forward Anthony Tolliver was watching back in March, when pro football players such as Tom Brady and Drew Brees announced they were disbanding their union and suing the NFL under antitrust law.
"We'll see how the next steps go," Tolliver said at the time. "Hopefully we'll learn from them."
Well, now it's time to find out what Tolliver and his peers picked up. He's one of a handful of basketball players, including All-Stars Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant, who filed class-action antitrust complaints against the NBA in federal court during the past week.
That could lead to a dragged-out legal process or ? as happened with the NFL's labor dispute ? wind up bringing the sides back to the negotiating table.
"We've seen every twist and turn, and I imagine we'll see many more. Hopefully a settlement can be reached, relatively quickly, and the (NBA) season can be saved," said Jeffrey Kessler, outside counsel for both the NFL and NBA players' associations. "That would be the best result for everyone, to have a litigation settlement now."
The NBA's lockout came swiftly on the heels of the NFL's, already has lasted longer, and there's one significant difference: Football's labor dispute resulted in the loss of only a single exhibition game, while the NBA is on its way down the path toward a shortened regular season ? if one is played at all.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell spoke repeatedly about getting a deal done and keeping the season intact. When the most recent round of NBA talks broke off Monday, Commissioner David Stern spoke about a "nuclear winter" and said it appeared "the 2011-12 season is really in jeopardy." Tuesday was the first time players missed out on a twice-a-month paycheck because of the lockout; people who work at an NBA arena or a nearby bar or restaurant already began feeling lighter in their pockets last month, when preseason games began getting wiped out.
"This lockout doesn't just hurt players. It hurts workers. It hurts cities. It hurts people who really need the income provided by the NBA," Kessler said. "But what people have to keep in mind is that the players don't want this lockout."
For the time being, the only chance to see All-Stars such as LeBron James or Dwight Howard in action is to catch one of the player-organized games for charity. Unless, that is, some of them follow through on opportunities to play overseas: Kobe Bryant was in contact with a team in Italy; Dwyane Wade authorized his agent to listen to viable offers.
NFL players didn't have that international option, of course.
Both leagues' labor problems began, at their heart, as arguments over how to divide billions of dollars in revenues ? about $9 billion for the NFL, $4 billion for the NBA ? but also over how to change the rules governing player contracts and free agency. Both featured acrimonious dialogue in public. Both bothered fans who couldn't understand why it was so hard to find common ground.
"The NFL owners and players had time to let the legal battle play out," said Gabe Feldman, director of the Sports Law program at Tulane. "The NBA owners and players don't. This has to be a quick legal strike and, unfortunately in our litigation system, there aren't many opportunities to get a quick legal strike."
The two disputes' timelines:
? After 16 days of negotiations overseen by federal mediator George Cohen, the NFL Players Association announced it was dissolving on March 11, hours before the old collective bargaining agreement expired as a result of the owners' having opted out of the deal. That day, Brady and others sued. As the calendar changed to March 12, the owners imposed the lockout, creating that league's first work stoppage since 1987. There were nearly five months to go until the first preseason game on Aug. 7 (the only one that eventually was wiped out) and nearly six months until the start of the regular season on Sept. 8. After legal proceedings began, with some wins and losses for both sides, discussions with a different mediator led to progress and, eventually, the NFL's new, 10-year CBA was signed Aug. 5.
? The NBA owners had an option to extend their CBA for one year but allowed it to expire on June 30, and imposed a lockout as the calendar turned to July 1, saying they lost of hundreds of millions of dollars in each season of the old deal and needed to fix things. The league and union accused each other of bargaining in bad faith. They said they were far apart philosophically and financially and didn't meet again until Aug. 1. With not enough progress made, the league began postponing the Oct. 9 start of the preseason on Sept. 23; by Oct. 11, the Nov. 1 start of the regular season was being pushed back. Here we are, more than two weeks past that date, and there's no indication when the sides might be back in a room together.
NBA players announced Monday they were rejecting the league's latest offer and disclaiming interest in their union ? and, no longer governed by labor law, would sue under antitrust law, something they did Tuesday in California and Minnesota.
But it was the NBA that first went to federal court, filing a complaint Aug. 2 in New York, saying the players were threatening to dissolve their union. At the time, Stern told The Associated Press that players were "preparing to use the same strategy that the NFL ? who uses the same lawyer ? used."
That would be Kessler, the top negotiator for both sports' players, and he's hardly the only familiar face. Cohen, for example, tried mediating between the NBA and basketball players, too, but couldn't help them get a deal done, either.
Kessler recently was joined on the NBA players' legal team by David Boies, who gained fame representing Al Gore during the recount fight in the disputed 2000 presidential election ? and, it so happens, was one of the lawyers who opposed Kessler only months ago while working for the NFL.
A lawyer who helped Boies defend the NFL against the antitrust claim filed by Brady and others, former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, is now working for the NBA. And a firm that represented NFL owners during their lockout, and NHL owners during their lost-season lockout, is working for NBA owners, too.
Asked to compare the NFL and NBA situations, Clement said in a telephone interview: "If anything, it may be that in the NBA case, it's even more transparent that the NBA players' supposed disclaimer is only designed to achieve a more favorable result in collective bargaining. One thing I think that's true in both cases is that no one thinks that the union is gone forever or that the collective bargaining is really over at the point of the disclaimer. Right now, with the NBA, that should be clear."
Later, he added: "It's not like a light switch. You can't run from the bargaining table, flip the switch, and say, `All right, we're not a union anymore.'"
The players say Stern issued a "take-it-or-leave-it" offer last week, leading to the end of talks; in private conversations, the league disputes the characterization of the most recent proposal as a hard ultimatum.
Here's what the sides do agree about: They were pretty much ready to settle on a 50-50 split of revenues ? with the players giving up the 57-43 guarantee they had under the old CBA, and the owners giving up the idea of reducing the values of existing contracts ? but could not get on the same page when it came to how the contract system would work.
"All the pundits were saying (about the NFL) ... `when they get close to losing the games and the season, there will be a deal.' And lo and behold that happened," NBPA head Billy Hunter told the AP. "Unlike our case. We're trying, but the owners have decided all along not to negotiate."
Clement's response?
"To say, `Well, I really didn't like the way the other side was behaving at the bargaining table and therefore I'm going to disclaim and file an antitrust lawsuit so I have better leverage to get a better-negotiated agreement at the end of the day,' is really kind of a non sequitur and the law is pretty clear that kind of maneuver is just invalid."
The last time NBA owners locked out players, Stern and Hunter barely beat an early January 1999 deadline to cancel the entire season, using an all-night bargaining session to salvage 50 of 82 games.
So it can be done.
But, as Tulane's Feldman put it: "The clock is ticking."
"Both sides know the litigation can't play all the way through in time to save this season ? or maybe even next season," he said. "The players have lost control of the situation. It's given over to the courts. So there's more urgency to negotiate."
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AP Basketball Writer Brian Mahoney and AP Sports Writers Jon Krawczynski and Rachel Cohen contributed to this report.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus ? Cyprus' president plans to visit a U.S. rig on Monday that is carrying out exploratory drilling for gas off the island's coast, despite protests from Turkey that the hydrocarbon search ignores the rights of breakaway Turkish Cypriots.
A government statement released on Sunday said President Dimitris Christofias will travel to U.S. company Noble Energy's rig about 115 miles (185 kilometers) south of the island along with four other senior government officials.
Noble estimated last week that the field inside Cyprus' exclusive economic zone may yield between 3 to 9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Cyprus said a formal estimate on the deposit's size will be made early next month when drilling is completed.
Christofias' visit comes amid ongoing peace talks aimed at reunifying the island, which was split into a Greek- speaking south and a Turkish-speaking north in 1974, when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of union with Greece.
Turkey said drilling may jeopardize the talks, but Greek Cypriots argue it could act as an incentive to speed up a peace accord because Turkish Cypriots would share in any gas wealth.
Cyprus joined the European Union in 2004, but only the internationally recognized south enjoys membership benefits. Turkish Cypriots declared and independent state in 1983, but only Turkey recognizes it and maintains 35,000 troops there.
Commerce Minister Praxoulla Antoniadou said in an interview with Kathimerini newspaper Sunday that just 1 trillion cubic feet of gas could meet the island's energy needs for 30 years.
Cyprus is preparing to invite tenders for more exploratory drilling inside the island's 17,000 square-mile (51,000 square-kilometer) exclusive economic zone before the end of the year.
Antoniadou said she receives daily "knocks on her office door from three to four" local and foreign investors looking put their money in either further exploration or gas spinoff industries.
She said that Cyprus could become a gas supplier to the EU, if deposit estimates are confirmed.
Israeli energy company Delek has proposed a partnership with Cyprus to build a facility on the island to process and export gas found in Cypriot and Israeli waters. Delek is part of a Noble Energy-led consortium exploiting Israel's offshore natural gas finds.
Relations between Turkey and Israel, formerly close allies, remain strained following last year's Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that killed eight Turkish citizens and a Turkish-American.
Turkey has said it would consider a Cypriot-Israeli deal demarcating their maritime borders as invalid.
Turkey has raised tensions in the region by recently sending a warship-escorted research vessel to look for gas deposits in the area and signing its own maritime accord with the Turkish Cypriots.
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