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Nia fitness class at DanceWorks to benefit Cancer Lifeline
Saturday's Nia fitness class at DanceWorks Studio in Redmond at 16641 Redmond Way will benefit Cancer Lifeline.
The class will be from 10 a.m. to noon and the cost will be a $15 minimum donation, which will go toward Cancer Lifeline.
There will be door prizes from local businesses given away and Eastside Nia teachers will donate their time and studio space for the event.
The teacher are Susan Creighton and Pauline Osborne, both from Redmond, along with Sarah Love from Woodinville and Stephanie Rostad of Issaquah.
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Nia, which began in 1983, uses nine movement forms from the martial arts, dance arts and healing arts are used in a 60-minute cardiovascular workout.
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For more information about the event, call (425) 702-2416 or e-mail pauline@movingtoheal.net.
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Romney, Perry slap at Paul on Iran (AP)
MUSCATINE, Iowa ? Mitt Romney and Rick Perry on Wednesday assailed Republican presidential rival Ron Paul for saying the U.S. has no business bombing Iran to keep it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, drawing a sharp contrast with their rising rival as he returned to Iowa to campaign before the lead-off caucuses.
"One of the people running for president thinks it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon," Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, said in this eastern Iowa city in response to a question from the audience. "I don't."
It was the first time Romney has challenged Paul directly since the Texas congressman jumped in polls. Neither Romney nor Perry, the Texas governor, named Paul, but the target was clear.
"You don't have to vote for a candidate who will allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. Because America will be next," Perry said in Urbandale, reiterating a line of argument from a day earlier.
"I'm here to say: You have a choice," Perry added.
As if in rebuttal, Paul's campaign launched a new television ad describing him as "principled, incorruptible, guided by faith and principle" and the man to restore the economy. "Politicians who supported bailouts and mandates, serial hypocrites and flip floppers can't clean up the mess," it says as photos of Newt Gingrich and Romney appear on screen.
The stepped-up criticism of Paul, the libertarian-leaning Republican, comes as surveys show he's in contention to win Tuesday's caucuses.
In recent days, conservative opponents including Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann have increased their criticism of Paul on social issues, foreign affairs and inflammatory comments in his decades-old newsletter. By tearing him down, they hope voters will give their campaigns another, closer look after a season marked by candidates who have risen quickly in public standing only to fall back down.
Gingrich, whose slide in surveys over the past week has come as Paul has risen, said Tuesday he couldn't vote for Paul if he were to become the GOP nominee and called his views "totally outside the mainstream of every decent American" during an interview with CNN.
Gingrich, the former House speaker, began Wednesday, the second day of his Iowa bus tour with a speech to about 200 people in the atrium of the Southbridge Mall in Mason City. He plugged his support for supply-side economics favored by President Ronald Reagan.
Gingrich said the primary is giving voters a "choice between a populist supply side approach ... and a much more timid Washington-centered approach that will not create jobs."
Bachmann, who was on the 86th stop of her tour of Iowa's 99 counties, criticized both of her rivals from Texas. She accused Perry of spending "27 years as a political insider." He was a Texas legislator and agriculture commissioner before becoming governor in 2001.
Bachmann said Paul would be "dangerous as president" because of his hands-off views on national security.
Paul, for his part, was meeting with supporters near Des Moines, his first visit to the state since before the campaigns went dark for the Christmas holiday. He planned a series of events over the next two days as he looked to take advantage of a burst of momentum.
A conservative, Paul commands strong allegiance from his supporters but appears to have little potential to expand his appeal and emerge as a serious challenger for the nomination. Yet he could complicate other candidates' pathway to the nomination.
His opponents were spreading out across the state to woo potential caucus-goers, many of whom are still undecided amid a flood of television and radio ads.
In Independence, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum mingled with 25 people at a diner and touted his plan to give a tax break to businesses that bring their operations back to the United States.
He told diners: "Things are going great, we've got momentum." He began airing a new radio ad Wednesday that promotes his hardline opposition to abortion and describes him as a "father of seven, a home-schooler and a devoted husband for 21 years."
Romney kicked off a three-day bus tour in the eastern edge of the state, in Muscatine, and shook hands with an overflow crowd at Elly's Tea and Coffee House. The line to get in stretched into the street.
Beginning the day, Romney told Fox News Channel that he was only joking Monday when he criticized Gingrich's failure to earn a spot on the Virginia ballot as something out of the sitcom "I Love Lucy."
"I hope the speaker understands that was humor, and I'm happy to tell my humorous anecdote to him face to face," Romney said.
Gingrich on Tuesday challenged Romney to make the "I Love Lucy" comparison to Gingrich's face.
Perry, looking to recapture the enthusiasm that greeted his entry into the race in August, railed against Washington and Wall Street insiders as he met with conservatives for breakfast near Des Moines.
"Why should you settle for less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and your values without apologies?" he asked, delivering the core rationale for his candidacy.
The packed crowd of conservatives in Urbandale applauded as he pledged to champion a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget, secure the border within a year and crack down on illegal immigration. He also said he would bring his faith with him into the Oval Office, a nod to the Christian conservatives who have strong sway in the nominating process.
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Elliott reported from Urbandale. Associated Press writers Mike Glover in Independence, Brian Bakst in Creston, Shannon McCaffrey in Mason City and Charles Babington in Des Moines contributed to this report.
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Futurity.org ? Test quickly diagnoses infections in pets
Amy DeClue (right) and Kara Osterbur (left) performing an initial evaluation of a dog at University of Missouri Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital Intensive Care Unit. (Credit: University of Missouri)
U. MISSOURI (US) ? A simple blood test that may diagnose pet infections in approximately a third of the current time could lead to a similar test for humans.
?Infections can be difficult to diagnose, and many veterinarians have to send samples to a lab and wait three days or more as the lab attempts to grow a culture,? says Amy DeClue, assistant professor of veterinary internal medicine at the University of Missouri.
?Meanwhile, the infection continues to spread each day that veterinarians wait on lab results, which is detrimental to the patient. In extreme infections, called sepsis, more than half of patients die.
?My group has been evaluating different blood biomarkers that could give a quick and accurate indication of infection, and we believe we?ve found a biomarker that will only require a simple blood test.?
In a ?study published in the journal Veterinary Record, DeClue and colleagues report that measuring the amount of the blood biomarker N-terminal portion of pro C-type natriuretic peptide (NT-pCNP) is a good indication of infection. The same is true in humans.
Working with collaborators at Veterinary Diagnostics Institute, DeClue hopes to develop a portable bedside test that veterinarians could use to quickly test patients for infection and ultimately target a better cure.
?In animal and human medicine, one goal is to reduce the amount of antibiotics used in treatment, to reduce bacterial resistance to antibiotics,? DeClue says. ?If successful, future tests could help veterinarians tailor treatment to the specific problem and reduce antibiotic use.
?The systems in dogs and people are very applicable to each other, so whatever biomarkers we find in dogs could also benefit people.?
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The top 11 scientific twists from 2011
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Visitors watch an on-screen presentation at the "Universe of Particles" exhibition at CERN, where physicists are trying to track down the Higgs boson as well as faster-than-light neutrinos.
By Alan Boyle
The past year brought us the supercomputer that trounced?flesh-and-blood champions on the "Jeopardy" TV show ... genetic discoveries that showed us the tangles in humanity's family tree ... a tsunami that shouldn't have been as catastrophic as it was ... and neutrinos that shouldn't be going as fast as they seem to. Which scientific twist of 2011 do you find most intriguing? Now's the time to cast your vote for the top science story of 2011.
This year's crop of top stories is trickier than usual because they cross so many lines. I've pared them down to a list of 11, but the only reason I'm able to do that is because of the way the lines are being drawn. I've already touched on two of the biggest science stories of 2011 in our "Year in Space" roundup: the end of the space shuttle era and the avalanche of extrasolar planets.?Our "Ancient Mysteries" roundup casts a spotlight on the big stories in archaeology, anthropology and paleontology.?I'm also leaving out?some big?stories with technology angles, such as the Arab?Spring protests?and the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
So what's left? In this list, I'm stressing the twists in science and technology that go against expectations ? or set up great expectations for the year ahead. I'm also including some personal favorites that you can feel free to quibble over. Check out this chronological?list, review the details by clicking on the links, then cast your vote for the year's top science story:
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Japan hit by quake, tsunami, nuclear crisis: The magnitude-8.9 quake that hit Japan in March qualifies as a top story on any scale, but the safety gaps at the Fukushima nuclear facility showed scientifically how nature can confound engineers' best-laid plans. It was just this month that Japan's prime minister announced the facility was in a stable state of "cold shutdown."?Fukushima may be an albatross around the neck of the nuclear power industry for years to come.?Or maybe not. Check out "After the Wave," msnbc.com's special report about the?earthquake's aftermath.?
AIDS virus on the run? An international study finds that people who take antiretroviral drugs ? medicine that weakens the HIV virus that causes?AIDS ? not only benefit from treatment but are far less likely to?infect their sexual partners. The finding?was so remarkable that the results were made public four years early, and last week the editors of the journal Science hailed it as the year's top breakthrough.
Climate highs and lows:?This month, a U.N. climate conference?reached agreement on a new plan to control greenhouse-gas emissions, but it's not clear whether the plan will pay off. Meanwhile, a former climate skeptic says he no longer doubts the reality of global warming, the climate issue creates a controversy on the GOP campaign trail, "Climategate 2.0" fails to gain traction, and Arctic sea ice is?close to?record lows.??
Goodbye, Tevatron ... hello, Higgs boson? After 28 years of service, the Tevatron collider was shut down in Illinois in September, leaving the Large Hadron Collider as the only experiment hunting for the elusive Higgs boson. Discovery of that particle could show scientists how mass arose in the universe. Researchers at the LHC suspect that they've got the?subatomic bugger cornered, but the actual discovery (or determination that it doesn't exist after all) will have to wait until next year.
Faster-than-light neutrinos? Physicists at CERN and Italy's Gran Sasso laboratory say they've clocked bunches of neutrinos traveling between the two labs at a speed that's just a bit faster than the speed of light ? something that relativity theory contends should be impossible. Most observers are confident that the claim will be proven wrong in 2012, due to some sort of experimental error. But a rerun of the test in November, under somewhat different conditions, came up with the same result. Stay tuned...
Watson wins on 'Jeopardy': IBM programmed a supercomputer named Watson?to dominate the "Jeopardy" TV trivia game, and dominate it did. The point of the exercise wasn't to win the $1 million prize, which was donated to charity; rather, the technology behind Watson is being applied to medical diagnoses and other applications. We puny humans can take heart in the fact that Watson is not infallible. After all, it thought Toronto was a U.S. city, and it actually lost a game to U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (although, come to think of it, that might have been a political move on Watson's part).
Gamers untangle protein puzzles: Game-playing humans struck back this year by figuring out the molecular structure of a key enzyme in an AIDS-like virus that afflicts rhesus monkeys. The protein-folding?achievement, accomplished by the players of an online game called Foldit,?served as further evidence that non-scientists can help conduct valuable scientific research through collaborative software. Foldit's game-playing teams even came up with new mathematical algorithms for solving?biochemical puzzles more efficiently.
Genetic family tree gets tangled: Late last year, researchers announced that they found genetic twists in our DNA that pointed to a previously unknown branch of our ancient family tree. Some of our ancestors interbred?with?creatures in Siberia that were not like modern humans or Neanderthals, but were of a distinct strain now known as the Denisovans. This year, geneticists reported that interbreeding with Denisovans and Neanderthals gave a big boost to our ancestors' immune systems. There's also evidence that our ancestors swapped genes with other now-extinct populations even before they left Africa. "Everywhere you look now, we find a little bit of interbreeding," said University of Arizona geneticist Michael Hammer.
Personalized medicine really works: Scientists have been saying for years that someday we'll all have our entire genomes sequenced, and that genomic analysis will open up a brave new world of personalized medicine. This year, it really happened. Physicians found a flaw in a California teen's genetic code that guided them to prescribe new medication for her bouts of sudden breathlessness. The success story serves as "the leading edge of what will become, pretty soon, a deluge of such reports," said Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health.
Heaviest antimatter created: Researchers at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider reported seeing traces of antihelium-4 nuclei, made up of two antiprotons and two antineutrons. These are the heaviest bits of antimatter ever detected on Earth, and that record's likely to stand for a long, long time. Sorry, Dan Brown: The antimatter bomb you wrote about in "Angels?& Demons" will have to remain firmly in the realm of fiction.
Fingerpainting at prehistoric preschool: Here's something completely different: Researchers measured the widths of finger marks? to figure out that kids as young as?2 years old?exercised their artistry?on prehistoric cave walls, with an occasional boost from the grown-ups. It's amazing how archaeology can bring a 13,000-year-old culture to life.
So what am I forgetting? Space-time cloaking devices? New York's new bee species? Remember that I have a whole 'nother list of top stories?for space exploration as well as for ancient mysteries, and that I'm putting the Arab?Spring and Steve Jobs' death in a different category.?Let me know what else is?missing by leaving a comment below, and get ready to take a walk on the wild side later this week when it's time to judge the 2012 Weird Science Awards.
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Elderly can be as fast as young in some brain tasks, study shows
ScienceDaily (Dec. 27, 2011) ? Both children and the elderly have slower response times when they have to make quick decisions in some settings. But recent research suggests that much of that slower response is a conscious choice to emphasize accuracy over speed.
In fact, healthy older people can be trained to respond faster in some decision-making tasks without hurting their accuracy -- meaning their cognitive skills in this area aren't so different from younger adults.
"Many people think that it is just natural for older people's brains to slow down as they age, but we're finding that isn't always true," said Roger Ratcliff, professor of psychology at Ohio State University and co-author of the studies.
"At least in some situations, 70-year-olds may have response times similar to those of 25-year olds."
Ratcliff and his colleagues have been studying cognitive processes and aging in their lab for about a decade. In a new study published online this month in the journal Child Development, they extended their work to children.
Ratcliff said their results in children are what most scientists would have expected: very young children have slower response times and poorer accuracy compared to adults, and these improve as the children mature.
But the more interesting finding is that older adults don't necessarily have slower brain processing than younger people, said Gail McKoon, professor of psychology at Ohio State and co-author of the studies.
"Older people don't want to make any errors at all, and that causes them to slow down. We found that it is difficult to get them out of the habit, but they can with practice," McKoon said.
Researchers uncovered this surprising finding by using a model developed by Ratcliff that considers both the reaction time and the accuracy shown by participants in speeded tasks. Most models only consider one of these variables.
"If you look at aging research, you find some studies that show older people are not impaired in accuracy, but other studies that show that older people do suffer when it comes to speed. What this model does is look at both together to reconcile the results," Ratcliff said.
Ratcliff, McKoon and their colleagues have used several of the same experiments in children, young adults and the elderly.
In one experiment, participants are seated in front of a computer screen. Asterisks appear on the screen and the participants have to decide as quickly as possible whether there is a "small" number (31-50) or a "large" number (51-70) of asterisks. They press one of two keys on the keyboard, depending on their answer.
In another experiment, participants are again seated in front of a computer screen and are shown a string of letters. They have to decide whether those letters are a word in English or not. Some strings are easy (the nonwords are a random string of letters) and some are hard (the nonwords are pronounceable, such as "nerse").
In the Child Development study, the researchers used the asterisk test on second and third graders, fourth and fifth graders, ninth and tenth graders, and college-aged adults. Third graders and college-aged adults participated in the word/nonword test.
The results showed that there was a rise in accuracy and decrease in response time on both tasks from the second and third-graders to the college-age adults.
The younger children took longer than older children and adults to respond in the experiment, Ratcliff said. They, like the elderly, were taking longer to make up their mind. But the younger children were also less accurate than younger adults in this study.
"Younger children are not able to make as good of use of the information they are presented, so they are less accurate," Ratcliff said. "That improves as they mature."
Older adults show a different pattern. In a study published in the journal Cognitive Psychology, Ratcliff and colleagues compared college-age subjects, older adults aged 60-74, and older adults aged 75-90. They used the same asterisk and word/nonword tests that were in the Child Development study. They found that there was little difference in accuracy among the groups, even the oldest of participants.
However, the college students had faster response times than did the 60-74 year olds, who were faster than the 75-90 year olds.
But the slower response times are not all the result of a decline in skills among older adults. In a previous study, the researchers encouraged older adults to go faster on these same tests. When they did, the difference in their response times compared to college-age students decreased significantly.
"For these simple tasks, decision-making speed and accuracy is intact even up to 85 and 90 years old," McKoon said.
That doesn't mean there are no effects of aging on decision-making speed and accuracy, Ratcliff said. In a study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Ratcliff, McKoon and another colleague found (like in studies from other laboratories) that accuracy for "associative memory" does decline as people age. For example, older people were much less likely to remember if they had studied a pair of words together than did younger adults.
But Ratcliff said that, overall, their research suggests there should be greater optimism about the cognitive skills of seniors.
"The older view was that all cognitive processes decline at the same rate as people age," Ratcliff said.
"We're finding that there isn't such a uniform decline. There are some things that older people do nearly as well as young people."
Ratcliff co-authored the Child Development paper with Jessica Love and John Opfer of Ohio State and Clarissa Thompson of the University of Oklahoma. Ratcliff and McKoon co-authored the Cognitive Psychology and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General papers with Anjali Thapar of Bryn Mawr College.
Some of the research was supported with grants from the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Video: Elaborate farewell for Kim Jong Il
Wednesday's state funeral for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il capped more than a week of public mourning. NBC's Adrienne Mong reports.
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Audit Questions University Ticket Office Transactions
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- A state audit has found $18,000 in improper transactions at the University of Northern Iowa ticket office, including $16,000 that was diverted to a former employee's credit cards.Wednesday's report shows former UNItix assistant director John Gogola overrode or reversed transactions made by credit card and refunded transactions to his personal debit and credit cards. More than 280 improper transactions were identified.A telephone message left for a John Gogola in Cedar Falls was not immediately returned. Two other phone listings for a John Gogola in Cedar Falls were disconnected.University officials sought the audit after it was discovered that $996 paid by a customer for season basketball tickets in 2010 had been refunded to Gogola's personal credit card.The report has been forwarded to police and prosecutors for review.Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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GOP primary now a family affair
Tampa?? Mitt Romney's wife gushes about his silly side and devotion to their five sons and 16 grandchildren. Rick Santorum's college-age daughter opines online about missing the campus coffee shop and chats with friends about their Friday night plans. Jon Huntsman's daughters generate much-needed buzz for...
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Reported Sexual Assaults Are Up At Military Academies
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) ? Alarming new numbers show more sex assaults at military academies than ever before.
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Tuesday 27 December 2011
TRENDING: Potential Iowa GOP kingmaker conflicted about endorsing
Washington (CNN) - Iowa GOP Congressman Steve King, whose support is coveted by Republican presidential candidates, said he hoped to endorse one of them months ago. But like many other Iowa Republican voters, he is having a hard time picking a horse in this Republican field.
"I've said all along I want my head and my heart to come together, and when that happens I'll jump in with both feet. That just hasn't happened yet," King told CNN.
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King spoke by phone from his car as he was arriving for a hunting outing with former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania ? someone he calls a good friend, but not a candidate he's ready to endorse for president.
The Iowa Republican is a prominent conservative with rock solid credentials. Although Iowa voters are known for their independence, several Iowa Republican operatives tell CNN King's endorsement would be a big boon to any GOP candidate.
But King spoke with a mixture of bewilderment and lament about his inability to make a decision about which candidate to support. He even said he may change his mind and not endorse anyone at all.
"I have not come to the conviction where I can throw my energy behind a single candidate," said King.
Four years ago, King endorsed Fred Thompson, who was lagging behind but then went on to come in third in the Iowa caucuses.
King says this year he very much likes three of the lower tier candidates: Santorum, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann. Bachmann is one of King's closest friends and political allies in Congress and someone he says he has "great respect for." He made clear one issue he is weighing is whether to back one of these candidates who may not be viable this year, but could be someone he could help position for the next presidential election.
When it comes to Iowa's frontrunners, King had praise for former Speaker Newt Gingrich's economic plans, but called his immigration policies "troubling."
King is one of the biggest hardliners in Congress when it comes to illegal immigration, and Gingrich supports a path to legality for some illegal immigrants.
King said that's not a "deal breaker" but said it does "make it harder" to endorse Gingrich.
The Iowa Republican had the harshest words for his congressional colleague, Ron Paul ? particularly on the issue of foreign policy.
King recalled asking Paul what he would do with the military as commander in chief, and said Paul effectively answered that he would bring U.S. armed forces serving overseas back home.
"I do not want the Chinese knocking at our door, who would fill the power vacuum, as would the Russians, as would anybody else out there with aspirations. I think that would dramatically upset the balance of power in the world and would be something that could go down in history as one of the greatest mistakes this country would have potentially ever made," said King.
With little more than a week until the Iowa caucuses, King is well aware that time is running out for him to endorse, and if he does, for it to have an impact.
"I just haven't gotten to the point where I am convinced that one is so much better than the others and it's different for me than it is for someone going to the caucus to vote. They can put their vote up and walk away," King told CNN.
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Japan, India shares gain in holiday-thin Asia, U.S. hopes help (Reuters)
TOKYO (Reuters) ? Japanese and Indian stocks outperformed the rest of Asia in thin trade Monday, with sentiment partly lifted by signs of U.S. economic recovery, although trading was subdued with many markets closed for Christmas holidays.
Tokyo's Nikkei stock average (.N225) ended up 1 percent, above its 25-day moving average of 8,459, while India's main 30-share BSE index (.BSESN) rose 1.14 percent, as investors sought holiday-season bargains.
But MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) slipped from a two-week high touched earlier in the day to trade down 0.1 percent.
U.S., European and some Asian markets including Hong Kong and Singapore were closed Monday.
Wall Street stocks rose Friday, with the broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) breaking through its 200-day moving average after a four-day rally lifted stocks to bring the index up 0.6 percent for the year at last week's close.
The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) rose to its highest in five months Friday.
"The Nikkei is moving with New York. The gains in the U.S. and Europe gave some sense of relief to markets," said Hajime Nakajima, a wholesale trader at Cosmo Securities in Osaka, Japan.
In a sign the markets may be stabilizing for the time being, the CBOE Volatility index VIX (.VIX) fell to 20.73 on Friday, near a five-month low, reflecting receding investor desire for protection in stock index options against future losses.
The VIX -- a measure of expected volatility in the S&P 500 over the next 30 days -- fell to its lowest since the global financial crisis of October 2008 at 14.3 earlier this year, before picking up to a year high of 48 in August. It has been slipping since hitting a high above 30 earlier this month.
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The Shanghai Composite Index (.SSEC) fell 0.5 percent on concerns over corporate earnings outlook, pushing below the psychologically important 2,200 level in light trading.
The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (.KS11) slid 0.6 percent on doubts over the euro zone debt crisis getting resolved.
"Program selling was the main drag on the index today, and despite the optimistic U.S. data, foreign investors aren't ready to re-enter the market in force as long as the (European Central Bank) isn't taking more concrete measures," said Lee Kyung-soo, a market analyst at Shinyoung Securities.
Investors will be looking for clues over the strength of the U.S. economy from data due this week, including the S&P Case-Shiller house price index for October and consumer confidence for December.
U.S. consumer spending growth was tepid and a gauge of business investment fell for a second month in November, data showed Friday, but recent labor and manufacturing figures implied a more-lasting and fundamental strengthening of the recovery.
The U.S. Congress Friday approved a two-month extension of a payroll tax cut that will preserve income for most Americans, supporting their purchases of goods and services and helping sentiment.
The euro was up 0.13 percent to $1.3060, well above its 11-month trough of $1.2945 hit earlier this month.
The latest Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed investors reduced their short euro positions slightly, potentially giving support to the single currency.
"Given a lack of factors to trade and low liquidity, activity is expected to be lackluster this week, but sluggish results of French and Italian government debt sales scheduled this week could pressure the euro amid an absence of progress in bolstering euro zone safety net," Barclays Capital said in a research note.
The 10-year Italian government debt yield stayed near 7 percent, above which many say is unsustainable for managing public finances and the economy, while 10-year Spanish government bond yield also stood at an elevated 5.40 percent.
Wariness about European banks' health and risks of another global credit crunch made banks reluctant to borrow to each other, pushing the London interbank offered rate for three-month dollars up further Friday to 0.57575 percent, its highest since early July 2009.
(Additional reporting by Dominic Lau and Mari Saito in Tokyo, and Joonhee Yu in Seoul; Editing by Richard Borsuk)
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John Ford-John Wayne Movies
If there was ever a director-actor tandem that defined the Western genre, it was John Ford and John Wayne. Over the course of five decades, Ford and Wayne made over 20 pictures, most of them Westerns and some that stood the test of time as the model for all others to follow.
They made other pictures, too, including war movies and even a romantic comedy. But it was Stagecoach, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and The Searchers for which they were best known and made them one of the most successful director-actor tandems in Hollywood history.
1. ?Stagecoach? ? 1939
Ford?s groundbreaking Western that set the precedent for all others to follow was also Wayne?s breakthrough film after scores of B-films in the 1930s. Wayne played the key role of The Ringo Kid, an outlaw and prison escapee who gets picked up by a stagecoach driven by Marshal Curley Wilcox (George Bancroft) through dangerous Apache territory. Ringo seeks revenge on Luke Plummer (Tom Tyler), who killed his family and sent him to jail on false testimony, but finds himself under arrest by Curley while the motley crew of passengers find themselves without troop protection the closer they get to the Apaches. Not only one of the greatest movies ever made, but also one of the most influential which helped inspire countless other directors.
2. ?The Were Expendable? ? 1945
A stirringly patriotic tale inspired by Ford?s love of the U.S. Navy and born from America?s involvement in World War II, They Were Expendable cast Wayne as a gruff lieutenant to Robert Montgomery?s determined PT boat captain, as they island hop in the Pacific fighting an ever-increasingly dangerous Japanese fleet. Though an obvious attempt by Ford to promote the Navy, his film was actually a far more subdued effort that attempted to layer psychological complexity to his characters while refusing to sugarcoat the romance between Wayne and Donna Reed. An exemplary film, They Were Expendable was one of the more underappreciated efforts between Wayne and Ford.
3. ?3 Godfathers? ? 1948
Though on the surface another Western, 3 Godfathers drew quite heavily from the Bible in its allegorical tale of the Three Wise Men. Wayne played the leader of a bank heist crew that goes on the run with a sheriff?s posse in dogged pursuit. After avoiding ambush, the three outlaws are trapped in a sandstorm that scatters their horses and forces them to flee on foot, where they come across a covered wagon sheltering a pregnant women about to give birth. Following her death delivering the child, the bandits shepherd her newborn to the safety of New Jerusalem, where they hope to find their ultimate redemption. Ford had previously made the film in 1919 as Marked Men, itself a remake of a 1916 silent feature and now considered a lost picture.
4. ?She Wore a Yellow Ribbon? ? 1949
Wayne offered one of his best performances in this second installment of Ford?s Cavalry Trilogy, in which he played Captain Nathan Brittles, an aging cavalry captain on the verge of mandatory retirement who faces an all-out Indian attack following the defeat of Custer. After a series of attacks and reprisals, he manages to secure the peace with the rival chief before his retirement. Filmed in brilliant Technicolor, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon featured breathtaking images of Monument Valley ? Ford?s favorite location ? while Wayne gave a rather moving performance that was highlighted by an emotionally vulnerable scene where Brittles receives a pocket watch as a retirement gift, one of the actor?s most poignant moments on screen.
5. ?The Quiet Man? ? 1952
This romantic comedy was the last film which earned Ford an Oscar for Best Director, and contained one of Wayne?s most diverse and understated performances. Wayne was Sean Thornton, an American boxer who travels to his Irish homeland to escape the trauma of having accidentally killed a man in the ring. There he meets and falls in love with the high-spirited Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O?Hara), sister of a bullying landowner named Red (Victor McLaglen). Red refuses to consent to their marriage. They eventually do, only Red won?t give them a dowry, which forces Sean to confront his demons in the face of Irish tradition. The film earned further nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and became one of the top box office hits of that year.
6. ?The Searchers? ? 1956
The Searchers was the pinnacle of the Wayne-Ford collaboration and one of the greatest Westerns ever made. Wayne delivered his most complex role as Ethan Edwards, a hateful Civil War veteran whose family is brutally murdered by a gang of Comanches and goes in search of his lone surviving niece (Natalie Wood) after she?s taken hostage. The search in question is the five year quest Ethan and his brother?s adopted son (Jeffrey Hunter) undertake to find her, only to discover she has married into the tribe. Ethan suffers a moral quandary that turns to bloody-minded madness, with Wayne unflinchingly delving into the character?s dark side. His Oscar-worthy performance received nary a nomination, but remained his most indelible.
7. ?The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance? ? 1962
Following The Searchers, Wayne made five more films with the aging Ford, whose health began deteriorating in the 1960s. They had another success with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which told in flashback the tale of a young lawyer (James Stewart) trying to take down a gang of outlaws (led by Lee Marvin) who terrorized and robbed him. With the help of a tough local cowboy (Wayne), he learns how to fight back in the ways of the Old West, only to become a champion of a new civilized way as a U.S. Senator. Dismissed as a throwback to Westerns past, thanks in part to the black-and-white photography, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ranked as one of the great efforts between Ford and Wayne, and also one of the last. The pair made one more film, Donovan?s Reef, before Ford?s career gave way to ill health.
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Monday 26 December 2011
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Sunday 25 December 2011
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Henry Martinez, 80, Port Charlotte, Florida
?I'm so sorry for your loss. I've lost loved ones before, expected and unexpected, and it is never easy.
Rita, I remember how just the other day we...Read?More?? ?
1 of 18 | Posted by: Meghan Higdon - St. Louis, MO
?Today is Thursday, and knowing that Henry's funeral was so far away from all of us here in Florida, the tennis players assembled at the Gardens...Read?More?? ?
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?Dear Martinez family,
Please accept my deepest sympathy. I have so many fond memories of all of you and the great, fun times we spent together...Read?More?? ?
3 of 18 | Posted by: Dianne Ripper Moran - Albuquerque, NM
?I will always remember Henry as the life of the party. He could keep you captivated with his stories, no matter what your age. He had such a love...Read?More?? ?
4 of 18 | Posted by: Valerie Reeder (Wizeman) - IL
?Henry was a very special friend who always considered others first. He lived life to the fullest in every aspect ( tennis, dance, cards, fishing and...Read?More?? ?
5 of 18 | Posted by: Keith & Rose Black - FL
?We were so saddened by the passing of our dear friend Hank. He was one of a kind, and it seems like only yesterday that we had the many laughs, and...Read?More?? ?
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7 of 18 | Posted by: Jim & Carolyn Eden - O'Fallon, MO
?Henry's warm smile and booming voice will be missed and remembered fondly. We are so sorry for Rita's loss and the loss shared by all his friends...Read?More?? ?
8 of 18 | Posted by: Mike & Ann Chapin - MO - Friends
?Dear Martinez Family,
I just heard from my sister, Beth, about Henry's passing. Memories are flooding in of our families and the many good times...Read?More?? ?
9 of 18 | Posted by: Connie Ripper Schenke & Karl Schenke - MO
?Such fond memories of Henry and the place he held on Saffron Drive! Our thoughts go out to your family at this time! ?
10 of 18 | Posted by: Laura Buescher-Schaedler - MO
?Rita we are so sorry. Whenever we saw and talked with Henry we left with such a good feeling....he just made us feel good. What a tribute! Wouldn...Read?More?? ?
11 of 18 | Posted by: Jim & Betty Shaw - O'Fallon, MO
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"Hank" was the first adult I ever called by his first name. The minute I recieved the news, memories ran through my head...Read?More?? ?
12 of 18 | Posted by: Matt Brauss - St. Louis, MO
?So many wonderful Innsbrook memories - the parties, the tennis, the dinners out, the Saturday night concerts, all the good times with good friends...Read?More?? ?
13 of 18 | Posted by: Carol Roedder - St Louis, MO
?I didn't know you too well just met you a couple of times. I know of all the stories my grandparents told me about you. I know they had so much fun...Read?More?? ?
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15 of 18 | Posted by: Matt, Kristie and Madissen Johnston - FL
?I had the pleasure of seeing Henry a couple of times a year growing up and they were always good. He was the person everyone wanted to be around...Read?More?? ?
17 of 18 | Posted by: Al & Kathy Wizeman - Canton, GA
?We will really miss seeing Henry and his ever present smile and warm greeting. What a great guy. We are out of town and and will miss his final good...Read?More?? ?
18 of 18 | Posted by: Ann & Dan Wollaeger - MO
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Saturday 24 December 2011
MIT's got a way of using encrypted data without decrypting it, next stop, traveling without moving
Excepting Jersey Shore participants, people generally value privacy and it's a bigger issue when so much data is stored online. Ethical data controllers will keep it encrypted, but much like leaving food in a fridge, you have to take it out if you wanna use it, which is when it's most at risk. A team from MIT, thinks it's found a solution: a database that allows you to ask it questions without taking it out of the fridge... wait, what? CryptDB works by turning data into "homomorphic" information: strings of numbers, which you can then calculate against one another to get the answers you require. The frankensoftware is comprised of other encryption services, layered like an onion -- but capable of switching between processes instantly. The project was funded by Google and Citigroup and has been so successful that DARPA might be rolling some tanks up Massachusetts Avenue to offer the team a $20 million bounty. Head on down to our source link to read the paper that's so complex it made our eyes go cross-eyed.
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Lifestyle in Rome ( by rahulseo87 in Rome, Italy )
Rome is a vibrant city, a center of culture, art and business. Walking through Rome is like stepping into the past, and experiencing the Story of a city and a culture that has influenced almost every part of the world.
Another aspect that makes Rome more than an interesting city is its variety of cultural events. Every month there are fairs, shows, concerts, cinema appointments and more.
Rome is famous throughout the world for its beauty with a unique natural environment and historical and artistic heritage to such an extent that it is called ?ill bell Pease? (beautiful country).Although nowadays Rome pulses with the beat of all international metropolis, you must take a city breaks in Rome, its people largely retain the original character, blending the new traits with the old ones.
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Youngsters tend to live life in full. On one hand they get their share of "La Dolce Vita", in a most relaxed fashion. They are passionate football fans, and they love scooters - apparently reckless as Valentino Rossi, they also know when it's time to drive carefully. Romans just love gatherings and rallies. Although they will possibly inconvenience your visit, they are also spectacular and give you a cross-section of the incredibly witty and humorous Italian popular spirit. Romans, like all Italians, are masters of adaptability and resort to any expedient to survive, or to put lunch and dinner together.
The upper classes naturally are far more mannerly and sophisticated, spending or squandering their time in a most intriguing lifestyle. Yet in Rome the old popular cultural traits are a highly considered reference for all.
Another aspect that makes Rome more than an interesting city is its variety of cultural events. Every month there are fairs, shows, concerts, cinema appointments and more....Yet the personality of the Romans is more complex and distinctively with many contrasting aspects. Are you wondering how it feels to sit down in a "Bar" in front of the Coliseum, drinking a beer while admiring the power of this ancient monument? The best way to know it, it?s just trying it for more info you can also visit http://www.citybreak.uk.com/destina...y-Break.aspx
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Galaxy Tab 8.9 gets a taste of homemade Ice Cream Sandwich (video)
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