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She's 0-3 so far, but Jennifer Lopez won't rule out another trip down the aisle.
"I don't know. I don't know. I don't know," the singer told Matt Lauer this morning on The Today Show, responding to whether or not she'd ever get married again. "It's not time to think about that yet. It's still fresh."
That's certainly a fair response, although J. Lo has been getting super cozy over the last few weeks with 24-year old Casper Smart, dining with him and others at Casa Tua in Miami on Saturday and even jumping on the table to perform a dance for her man, sources say.
Over the weekend, Univision premiered ¡Q'Viva! The Chosen, a talent search competition that actually stars Lopez and ex-husband Marc Anthony. Isn't that a bit weird, Lauer asked?
"Marc and I were friends before we got married," Jennifer said. "And we always worked together, so it wasn't an unnatural thing for us to continue working together. And, obviously, we have children together, so it's not going to be like he's not in my life. He's always going to be in my life.
"There is real love there."
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KABUL, Afghanistan ? France's call for a speedier NATO exit from Afghanistan reflects the depth of war fatigue in the West and raises fears that other countries in the U.S.-led coalition will succumb to rising political pressure and pull their troops home early.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to fast-track its withdrawal ? just days after an Afghan soldier gunned down four French troops ? is the latest crack in a coalition already strained by economic troubles in Europe and the United States, the Afghan government's sluggish battle against corruption, on-again off-again cooperation from neighboring Pakistan and a dogged Taliban bloodied but not beaten.
The international coalition is already rushing against the clock to meet President Hamid Karzai's goal of having the Afghan police and army in charge of the nation's security by the end of 2014. France's break with that timetable, which was agreed to by NATO members, now raises the question: Can the coalition stay together until then?
Resetting the date to end the coalition's combat mission could strengthen arguments for President Barack Obama to accelerate U.S. troop withdrawals beyond the 33,000 he's sending home by the end of this year, and reopen a debate over whether setting a withdrawal deadline allows the Taliban to seize more territory once foreign forces are gone.
It's unclear whether Sarkozy's call for all foreign forces to hand security over to the Afghan forces in 2013 will have any traction when it is presented next week at a NATO defense ministers' meeting in Brussels. If other nations see France's move as a green light to speed up their withdrawals, it will complicate the current strategy for a coordinated pullout.
In a gentle rebuke to France, British Prime Minister David Cameron said in London on Saturday that withdrawals should be dependent on security conditions on the ground. Britain has said it's keeping to plans to withdraw its 9,500 troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
"The rate at which we can reduce our troops will depend on the transition to Afghan control in the different parts of Afghanistan, and that should be the same for all of the members of NATO," Cameron said after meeting with Karzai.
Other nations facing extreme economic problems, such as Italy and Spain, are not planning early withdrawals.
"We are a responsible country. We are a big country that honors its commitments that it agrees to make," said Minister Giampaolo Di Paola, defense minister in Italy, which this week signed a pact aimed at supporting Afghanistan after foreign forces withdraw in 2014.
Germany also said it agrees with the goal to hand over security responsibility by the end of 2014 and withdraw combat troops.
Sarkozy said France will speed up its withdrawal and pull 1,000 ? up from 600 ? out this year and bring all combat forces home at the end of 2013. Sarkozy also said France would hand over authority in the province of Kapisa, where the French troops were killed this month, by the end of March.
France, which now has about 3,600 soldiers in the coalition force, joins the U.S., Britain, Germany and Italy in the top five largest troop-contributing nations.
Talk of an accelerated exit alarmed many Afghans, especially those who have cast their lot with the U.S.-backed government but have little confidence in their country's own security forces. Some said France was reneging on its promises.
Afghan lawmaker Tahira Mujadedi, who represents Kapisa, said Afghan forces there aren't ready to go it alone in fighting the Taliban insurgency, which is especially strong in several of the province's districts. She warned that if NATO forces do pull back from Kapisa, it could also destabilize nearby Kabul. Foreign forces should consider staying even longer than 2014, she said.
"When military forces are present in a war zone, anything can happen," said Mujadedi, who expressed sadness about the French troops who were killed.
But she added: "They are not here for a holiday."
Former Afghan interior minister and military analyst Abdul Hadi Khalid said Sarkozy's decision was clearly political. Sarkozy's rival in spring presidential elections in France, Socialist candidate Francois Hollande, has pledged to pull French troops out of the war if he is elected in May.
"Why is he raising this now?" Khalid asked. "He is trying to get political benefit out of it."
So far, Karzai has reacted cautiously to the idea of a 2013 handover. He can ill afford to anger major coalition partners, yet he wants to be seen as the leader of a country capable of security itself.
"We hope to finish the transition ... by the end of 2013 at the earliest ? or by the latest as has been agreed upon ? by the end of 2014," Karzai said.
NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu underscored the coalition's solidarity, saying that all nations agreed at a Lisbon summit in 2010 to complete the transition to Afghan-led security by the end of 2014.
"Transition is well on track to be completed by the end of 2014, as we all agreed," she said. She said NATO nations would "take stock, shape the next stage of transition" at its summit in Chicago in May.
In Chicago, NATO members will discuss another contentious issue: Who will pay the salaries of the more than 300,000 Afghan policemen and soldiers after 2014. Estimates range from $5 billion to $6 billion a year.
Thomas Risse, a political scientist at Berlin's Free University, said the problem of securing commitments to finance the Afghan security forces comes as a general fatigue with foreign interventions grips Europe and the United States.
"The public mood in most NATO countries is that they want their boys back as soon as possible and they don't care much about Afghanistan either way," Risse said. "The political elites have undertaken to keep up the military commitments, but I'm not sure they will be able to sustain those promises in the face of such a strong public mood."
"As far as the money (for the post-2014 period) is concerned, I don't think there is any mood in Germany to throw money after the Karzai regime," he added.
Stories of Afghan security forces killing their foreign partners make it that much harder to sell the war in cash-strapped countries.
The deadly shooting of the four French soldiers on Jan. 20 was the second against French forces in a month; two members of the French Foreign Legion were killed by an Afghan soldier on Dec. 29. On Thursday, an Afghan man wielding a knife tried to attack foreign troops in southern Afghanistan before being arrested. The Taliban said the man was upset about a video that purportedly shows U.S. Marines urinating on Afghan corpses.
The promise to pull out by 2014 has appeased immediate public demand, said Malcolm Chalmers, a professor of defense at Kings College in London.
"But as the (economic crisis) continues to deepen and these types of incidents continue to occur, it's very possible that there will be renewed public pressure to accelerate the pace of withdrawal," he said. "My expectation is that there will be a steady and substantial withdrawal starting this year."
Asked if France's break with the coalition could spark a wider split, Kate Clark, senior analyst with the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said it could be troublesome for countries deploying troops to Afghanistan. While the U.S. contributes the bulk of troops, any cracks in the coalition could dampen morale of all foreign forces on the battlefield, she said.
"The foreign troops have been here for 10 years. That's a long time," she said. "There's a certain war-weariness among the voters of a great many of those countries."
Then again, she pointed out that the Netherlands and Canada have drawn down their forces in recent years and the coalition has not crumbled.
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Lekic reported from Brussels. Associated Press writers Rahim Faiez and Kay Johnson contributed to this report.
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ISLAMABAD ? In a rare victory for Pakistani liberals, a private TV station decided to fire a popular morning show host after she sparked outrage by running around a public park trying to expose young, unmarried couples hanging out, a taboo in this conservative Muslim country.
Pakistani liberals derided host Maya Khan's behavior on Twitter and Facebook, comparing it to the kind of moral policing practiced by the Taliban, and started an online petition asking Samaa TV to end this "irresponsible programming" and apologize.
The company responded Saturday in a letter sent to reporters saying it had decided to fire Khan and her team and cancel her show because she refused to issue an unconditional apology for the Jan. 17 program.
Samaa TV's decision marked an unusual victory for Pakistan's beleaguered liberal minority, which has become more marginalized as the country has shifted to the right and whose members have been killed by Islamist extremists for standing up for what they believe.
Critics of the program also praised the company's decision as a positive example of self-regulation by Pakistan's freewheeling TV industry, which was liberalized in 2000 and has mushroomed from one state-run channel to more than 80 independent ones.
Some shows have been praised for serving the public good by holding powerful officials to account, but many others have been criticized for doing anything that will get ratings, including pandering to populist sentiments at the expense of privacy and sometimes truth.
"Samaa management has set a good example that some others need to follow," said prominent human rights activist and journalist Hussain Naqi.
During the program in question, Khan and around a dozen other men and women chased down young couples in a seaside park in the southern city of Karachi. Several couples raced away from the group. One young man put on a motorcycle helmet to hide his identity, while his female friend covered her face with a veil.
Khan finally accosted one couple sitting on a bench and pestered them with questions about whether they were married and whether their parents knew they were there. The man said the couple was engaged and asked Khan to shut off her cameras and microphone. She lied and said they were off.
"What is the difference between this kind of media vigilantism and that demonstrated by the Taliban?" said Mahnaz Rahman, a director at the Aurat Foundation, an organization that fights for women's rights in Pakistan.
Islamist extremists have been ruthless in targeting liberal Pakistanis who disagree with their hardline views. One of the most prominent examples was in last January, when a bodyguard shot to death the governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, because of his criticism of Pakistani laws that mandate the death penalty for criticizing the Prophet Muhammad.
Following Khan's program, one headline in a local paper called the host and the other women who appeared on the show "Vigil-aunties," referring to the South Asian term "aunty" for a bossy older woman.
A petition posted online that criticized Khan's behavior as "highly intrusive, invasive and potentially irresponsible" and demanded an official apology attracted more than 5,000 signatures.
Khan reportedly rejected the criticism at first but eventually issued on apology on TV to anyone she may have offended, saying "it was not my objective to make you cry or hurt you."
This fell short of the apology that Khan's bosses demanded, according to a letter written by the chairman of Samaa TV, Zafar Siddiqi. It said Khan and her team would receive termination notices on Jan. 30 and her show would be canceled.
Siddiqi said the company did not "absolve such behavior irrespective of ratings the show was getting."
Scores of Pakistanis on Twitter praised Samaa TV's decision.
"Journalists must never forget the dividing line between public interest & private freedom," tweeted Najam Sethi, a prominent Pakistani journalist.
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Khan reported from Karachi. Associated Press writer Zarar Khan contributed to this article.
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Barcode scanner app ShopSavvy has been around for a few years now, but it?s about to receive a major upgrade. The ShopSavvy developers are integrating a feature into the app to allow users to scan an item?s barcode and then list that item for sale to other ShopSavvy users, creating a sort of instant Craigslist that they?re calling SavvyListings.
The combination of barcode scanning and user-to-user transactions is particularly, well, savvy considering that once a user scans the barcode the app will automatically populate with information about the item, meaning the user won?t have to bother with cumbersome descriptions or even provide their own photos.
But if you can?t wait for the feature to be added to ShopSavvy and you have items you want to get out of your house, there are already a few marketplace style apps that can help you out.
You can always go with the standard in online marketplace transactions, Craigslist. There are a number of Craigslist-friendly apps available but Craigslist++ ($0.99) has a robust feature set that should take care of whatever need you have with the website. Users can browse actual Craigslist postings, while the more visually inclined can browse listings via a photo wall. Posting using Craigslist++ is simple and all posts can be edited from within the app. Users who want a chuckle can also browse the ?The Best of Craigslist? for a look at some of the more entertaining postings available.
If you?re more interested in buying or selling offbeat items, like the kind you might find at a garage sale, Yardsellr is a free app worth looking at. Yardsellr is not as feature-rich as Craigslist++ but it allows you to quickly list knickknack style items you?d like to have someone take off your hands. The search function for Yardsellr is also very photo-friendly, so you?ll know exactly what you?re buying before you take out your credit card.
Supposing you?d like another reason to kill time on Facebook when you should be working, Marketplace for Oodle and Facebook (free) should serve as a decent excuse. Users can quickly snap a picture an upload it via the Marketplace app where it will be instantly posted on both Oodle and Facebook.
You can set your own price, or simply give your item away for free if it?s really bugging you. The app has also recently added a ?circles? feature where you can view items posted from like-minded groups. This limits your search options and hopefully provides you with exactly the kind of narrow-focus you need to track down (or get rid of) that one item driving you crazy.
If you?re more interested in buying something but don?t want to put the work in to find it yourself, the free Zaarly app lets you create a post outlining the item you?re looking for and what you?d prefer to pay. From there, other Zaarly users can come to you with offers until the transaction is completed.
Although I?m certainly excited about SavvyListings, and I can?t wait to see exactly how it will be integrated into ShopSavvy, there?s plenty of competition for marketplace apps. That?s not a bad thing, as often one app will have some features that another one doesn?t offer. However, ShopSavvy had better be prepared for some serious competition as it prepares its new offering. After all, it?s a buyer?s market out there.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? A Taiwan official has been scheduled for sentencing Friday, more than two months after she was arrested, charged and pleaded guilty to a federal labor violation accusing her of underpaying and overworking two housekeepers.
Liu Hsien Hsien, who is also known as Jacqueline Liu, pleaded guilty Nov. 18 to one count of fraud in foreign labor contracting as part of a plea agreement that also recommends a sentence of time served and immediate deportation. When the plea agreement was announced, U.S. District Judge David Gregory Kays said he would review the agreement and decide later whether to accept it.
Liu, 64, was the former director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City, which is similar to a foreign government consulate, although the U.S. doesn't recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state. Liu has been in custody since her arrest Nov. 10 at her office in Kansas City.
Liu also agreed to pay a total of $80,044 in restitution to the two women ? one who worked for Liu last year, and another who worked for Liu at her home in suburban Kansas City from 2009 to 2010.
The U.S. Attorney's office said each housekeeper gets a portion of that amount based on 16- to 18-hour days, six and a half days a week.
Prosecutors have said they believe Liu is the first foreign official to be charged with fraud in foreign labor contracting charge in the United States. Others have been prosecuted for mistreating domestic workers, but Liu was accused of violating a law covering the recruitment of foreign workers and their transport into the United States on fraudulent terms.
Prosecutors accused Liu of telling the housekeepers they would be paid about $1,240 a month, work 40-hour weeks and would also be entitled to overtime. Instead, they say, the housekeepers were actually paid $400 to $450 a month, worked 16- to 18-hour days and were monitored with video surveillance equipment at Liu's home in Overland Park, Kan.
TECO, the office where Liu served as director general for about two years, is one of about a dozen similar offices that Taiwan has around the U.S. Taiwan has appointed a new director general for the Kansas City office, but the office did not respond to messages for comment.
Linda Trout, executive director of Kanas City's International Relations Council, said she worked with Liu on several occasions. She said the TECO office is one of two paid foreign service offices in Kansas City. Mexico is the other.
The TECO office has been instrumental in developing and maintaining trade relations between the region and Taiwan, Trout said.
"That office did a lot of work in building relations, and there's no doubt that when you look at our biggest trade partners you'd be surprised to see Taiwan up there," she said.
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“Welcome Back, Kotter” Star Robert Hegyes Dead At 60 (VIDEOS)
“Welcome Back, Kotter” actor Robert Hegyes, who was known as the Jewish Puerto Rican student Juan Epstein on the popular 1970s show, has died at [...]
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Brad Bird passe his audition for a career as a live-action director. And "Ghost Protocol" more than makes its bones as an argument for why Tom Cruise should continue in this role as long as his knees, and his nerves, hold up.
Brad Bird passes his audition for a career as a live-action director. And "Ghost Protocol" more than makes its bones as an argument for why Tom Cruise should continue in this role as long as his knees, and his nerves, hold up.
"Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol" is sheer hurtling mechanism-and it's great silly fun.
As usual with the series, the movie combines a plot line a toddler could understand with gadgets that would baffle an engineering Ph.D.
I'm thinking it, so I might as well say it: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is no Fast Five.
...it's pretty much state-of-the-art.
... a good-size barrel of fun.
still does not have the hang of what made the TV show so good.
Cruises on the WOW! factor.
Snagging Oscar-winning animation director Brad Bird to fill the director's chair proves to be an inspired choice--and, upon thought, a bit of a no-brainer.
The screenplay doesn't rely too much on gimmicks to advance the plot. Instead, the plot is also character-driven to an extent. There are interesting dynamics going on in the Mission Impossible team.
Director Brad Bird juices and gooses the whole affair with edge and excitement, new energy, humor and heartbeat, and a terrific feel for big, bold, audaciously daring sequences that beg for the biggest screen available.
Great stunts and not a dull moment,
Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol could very well be the series' best installment.
It has a few very good ideas, and then, the rest of it is totally lackluster.
Watching Tom leap from a hospital window on to a passing truck, I couldn't help but worry: Tom, those knees won't last forever.
Succeeds in dishing up exactly what you would expect: State of the arts stunts, non-stop action, and a series of clearly laid-out heists and chases that go awry in all kinds of creative ways.
Bird manages the escalations from the preposterous through the more preposterous to the most preposterous with skill and wit...
...great cinematic entertainment.
Better than the tower climb is the scene in which Hunt infiltrates the Kremlin with, essentially, a high-tech magic trick; the playfulness of the effect demonstrates the usefulness of Bird's background in the astonish-the-audience culture of animation.
So exciting you have to remind yourself to breathe.
Ghost pulls off the impossible.
Film number four has found its optimum screen display, its best director for the job and its sense of humour while increasing the gadgets and death-defying stunts.
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Leukemic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (L-CTCL) is a leukemia arising from T-cells, a type of white blood cell. This cancer can involve the skin and other organs, and patients often die within three years.
Rachael A. Clark, MD, PhD, BWH assistant professor of dermatology and associate dermatologist and Thomas Kupper, MD, BWH Department of Dermatology chairman and their colleagues now report a new study that low-dose Campath (alemtuzumab) not only treats patients with L-CTCL but does so without increasing their risk of infections.
The study was electronically published on January 18, 2012 in Science Translational Medicine.
Campath was previously believed to kill all lymphocytes (T-cells and B-cells) in the body and render patients susceptible to infections. However, Clark and Kupper found that Campath only kills T-cells that enter the bloodstream, but it spares a newly discovered population of T-cells that live long-term in the tissues.
"We noticed that our patients were not getting infections, and we looked in the skin. We saw healthy T-cells remaining there despite the fact that there were no T-cells in the blood," said Clark. "We used to believe that most T-cells responsible for protecting against infection were in the bloodstream. But we now realize that highly protective T-cells also inhabit tissues such as the skin, lungs and gastrointestinal tract. It is these tissue resident T-cells that are critical in protecting us from infection on a day-to-day basis."
By showing that Campath kills circulating T-cells, including the cancerous T-cells, but spares tissue resident T-cells, Clark and Kupper have shown that Campath effectively treats L-CTCL while sparing normal immunity. Their findings are also the first demonstration in human beings that tissue resident T-cells provide frontline immune protection of the skin.
"We're very grateful to our patients for entrusting us with their care and for teaching us important lessons about the immune system." said Clark.
In a companion piece, Mark Davis, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, called the work a "translational tour de force."
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WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama embarks Wednesday on a three-day tour of politically crucial states in a post-State of the Union journey to sell his 2012 economic policy goals while pitching his presidency to a divided public.
Fresh from his address to a joint session of Congress, Obama will promote his agenda to attract more manufacturing to American soil by showcasing the bookends of American industry ? a conveyor belt maker in Iowa that evokes a resurgence of the United States' industrial prime and an Intel plant in Arizona that symbolizes the promise of high technology.
Obama will highlight energy security Thursday in Nevada and Colorado and wrap up Friday by pushing education and training proposals at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Presidential travel following the State of the Union is commonplace, allowing presidents to temporarily bask in the afterglow of their prime-time performances, milking their message before key constituencies.
Obama's trip comes amid signs of economic improvements even as battling Republican presidential contenders appeal to conservatives by sounding increasingly hostile to his policies.
Underlying the president's specific policy proposals will be the election-year economic fairness argument that he has been refining since he spelled it out in Osawatomie, Kan., last month, including higher taxes on the wealthy. Reinforcing the political subtext of the trip is the fact that four of the five states he will visit will hold Republican presidential caucuses or primaries within the next month. The two caucuses ? in Nevada and Colorado ? come within two weeks of his visit.
Obama has made a point of grabbing headlines in states in the midst of Republican presidential contests, eager not to cede the political message to his rivals.
What's more, of five paths that Obama campaign manager Jim Messina has charted to win re-election in November, all foresee winning Michigan, three require winning Iowa, two require Colorado and Nevada, and one has Arizona in the Obama win column. In 2008, of the five states he's visiting, Obama only lost Arizona, the home state of then rival John McCain.
Obama will also use his trip to grant two high-profile interviews, one to the Spanish-language television network Univision and the other to ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer. With Univision, the White House hopes to reach an important Latino voting bloc, a constituency that could be important in states such as Arizona and Nevada. The White House also likes the reach ABC gives the president because the interview will be spread among three news shows ? the evening news, "Nightline" and "Good Morning America."
As part of his focus on manufacturing on Wednesday, Obama's trip to Arizona marks his second visit to an Intel plant. He traveled to the firm's Oregon campus in 2011, when Intel announced it would spend $5 billion on a new computer chip manufacturing facility. Intel's CEO, Paul Otellini, is a member of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
Looking to increase domestic manufacturing, Obama on Tuesday reiterated his proposal to eliminate tax incentives that make it more attractive for companies to ship jobs overseas. The proposal would require American companies to pay a minimum tax on their overseas profits in order to prevent other countries from attracting U.S. businesses with unusually low tax rates.
Obama also wants to eliminate tax deductions companies receive for the cost of shutting down factories and moving production overseas. He wants to create a new tax credit to cover moving expenses for companies that close production overseas and bring jobs back to the U.S. He also wants to reduce tax rates for manufacturers and double the tax deduction for high-tech manufacturers in order to create more manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
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The Kentucky senator was detained by TSA officials at the Nashville airport after setting off the alarm on a full body metal detector, then refusing to be patted down. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.
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Updated at 4:25 p.m. ET: Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., clashed with the Transportation Security Administration at a Nashville airport on Monday morning and says that was was "detained" by the government agency.
NBC News reported that he set off a full-body scanning machine while going through airport security. Paul reportedly raised his right pant leg, which may have set off the scanner. Paul, according to aides, said it was ?clearly a glitch? and asked to proceed through the machine a second time. The TSA demanded a full-body pat-down, which Paul refused.
"I was told I couldn't leave, that kind of sounds like you are being detained," Paul told NBC News. "I was put into a small cubicle and told not to leave."
NBC News' Tom Costello reports that, according to sources at the TSA, Paul was not detained, but was escorted by police out of the checkpoint.
In a statement to NBC News, TSA spokesman Greg Soule said, ?When an irregularity is found during the TSA screening process, it must be resolved prior to allowing a passenger to proceed to the secure area of the airport. Passengers who refuse to complete the screening process cannot be granted access to the secure area in order to ensure the safety of others traveling.?
Paul was eventually permitted through airport security, according to Soule. ?The passenger has since rebooked on another flight and was rescreened without incident,? he said in a statement at about noon on Monday.
Paul, who has previously called for the TSA to be abolished, told NBC News that passengers should not be subjected to pat-downs.
"I really think no American should have to go through all of this," he said. "I think if the screener goes off and you don't want to have a pat down search, you ought to be able to go back through the screener." Paul says he was sent back through the screener when he went to board his re-booked flight.
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Laura Scott, of State College, Pa., places a rose at the foot of a statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on the Penn State University campus after learning of his death Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in State College,Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Laura Scott, of State College, Pa., places a rose at the foot of a statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on the Penn State University campus after learning of his death Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in State College,Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
People gather around a statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on the Penn State University campus after learning of his death Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in State College,Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
People gather around a statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on the Penn State University campus after learning of his death Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012 in State College,Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
People gather around a statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on the Penn State University campus after learning of his death Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012 in State College, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) ? A candlelight vigil is under way outside Penn State's administration building to honor former football coach Joe Paterno.
Thousands of people, mostly students, gathered outside Old Main on Sunday night, several hours after Paterno died of lung cancer at a hospital.
The event began with a performance by the Penn State Blue Band.
Those speaking include football players and others whose lives were touched by Paterno.
It's the first of what will be many events to honor the longtime coach.
School officials say they are working on plans to commemorate his life and career.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. ? With the race here seemingly between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, Republican rival Rick Santorum is bracing for a setback and looking ahead to the next contest: Florida.
Santorum planned to visit polling locations in South Carolina and attend an evening rally in Charleston on Saturday before his campaign moved South. Santorum's advisers said he would have no reason to exit the four-man race for the GOP nomination after voting ends and those allies note he went into primary day the top vote-getter in Iowa's leadoff caucuses and besting Gingrich in New Hampshire.
Romney and Gingrich were battling for the top spot in South Carolina and Santorum was looking to post an acceptable showing. During campaign stops on Friday, he cast himself as a Goldilocks candidate: just right when compared to Gingrich's "too hot" rhetoric and Romney's "too cold" personality.
Santorum also looked to disqualify the fourth candidate in the race, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. Santorum said there were three candidates who could capture the GOP nomination and cast libertarian favorite Paul as a gadfly annoyance.
As voting opened, Santorum planned to stop by polling locations in Chapin and Greenville. He also planned an election night party at The Citadel in Charleston.
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A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, was into electronic books and magazines, the second time this regular survey has been conducted.
Between the 10th and 13th of January 2011 1,087 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.7% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, and 27.6% aged fifty or older.
The article points out that since a lot of people who don?t want to read electronic books pointed out that it was difficult to read from a screen, perhaps the awareness of electronic paper is very low.
In recent related news, Rakuten have announced that they have bought Kobo, a makers of ebook readers, and will be bringing a low-cost reader to market. Up to now they have been offering Panasonic?s catchily-named reader, the UT-PB1, as their platform, but perhaps it has not been selling too well?
My own informal research (ie, looking around on the train) tells me that commuters still prefer paper newspapers or books. I?ve seen one person once with an iPad loaded with the day?s newspaper (just a PDF scan, basically), but when it comes to mobile phones, everyone is either emailing, gaming, or reading SNSes. I?ve only once seen a Kindle.
Read more on: ebook,goo researchQ1: Have you ever read an electronic book or magazine? (Sample size=1,087)
Q1SQ1: Do you want to read electronic books or magazines? (Sample size=725)
Combining the two above we get:
Q1+Q1SQ1: Do you want to read electronic books or magazines? (Sample size=1,087)
Already have 33.3% Yes 29.5% No 37.2% (to SQ2) Q1SQ2: Why do you not want to read an electronic book or magazine? (Sample size=404, multiple answer)
Difficult to read from a screen 42.6% Prefer paper books, magazines 39.4% Sufficiently satisfied with paper books, magazines 37.4% Price of specialised readers for electronic books, magazines is high 22.8% Just don?t read books, magazines 18.1% Price of electronic books, magazines is high 13.9% No electronic books, magazines I?m interested in 9.7% Other 2.5% The more popular Other reasons were that it seemed either tiring or bad for the eyes.
The 362 people who have read ebooks were asked why: 60.5% said because they could obtain free books or magazines, 35.9% said it was handy for carrying around, and 29.6% that there were electronic publications they wanted to read. Down towads the end of the list, however, was just 5.8% saying that it was easier to read than paper.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WhatJapanThinks/~3/jmvZfVADgvA/
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NEW YORK ? Stocks rose in midday trading Thursday after a decline in applications for unemployment benefits and strong earnings reports from Bank of America and Morgan Stanley.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 35 points to 12,613 shortly after noon.
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits plunged last week to the lowest level since April 2008, the latest sign that the job market is strengthening. France and Spain also held successful bond auctions, easing worries about that region's two-year-old debt crisis.
Utilities companies were among the few industries to fall, an indication that investors are becoming more comfortable owning riskier stocks. Utilities, which were the best-performing industry last year, tend to pay higher dividends and fluctuate less than companies like Caterpillar Inc. and FedEx Corp., whose fortunes are more closely tied to the economic cycle. Financial technology companies each rose 1 percent, the most of the 10 industries tracked by the S&P 500 index.
In another sign that investors are shedding low-risk assets, the dollar and Treasury prices fell. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.97 percent from 1.90 percent late Wednesday.
Bank of America and Morgan Stanley each rose 5 percent after reporting results that were better than analysts had expected. BofA returned to profit in the fourth quarter while Morgan Stanley's loss was much less than forecast, thanks largely to better stock trading results.
Investors also drove up shares of Renewable Energy Group Inc., the nation's largest producer of biodiesel, in its market debut. The stock rose 1 percent after pricing below what the Iowa company had initially expected. It was the first initial public offering of the year.
Trading was halted in shares of photography icon Eastman Kodak after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The ailing company failed to find a buyer for its trove of 1,100 digital imaging patents.
In other trading, the Standard & Poor's 500 rose 7 points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,315. The Nasdaq composite rose 23 points, or 0.9 percent, to 2,793.
Among other stocks making large moves:
? eBay Inc. rose more than 4 percent after the online auction company beat analysts' earnings forecasts and provided a healthy outlook for the year.
? Southwest Airlines Co. rose nearly 4 percent after it said its fourth-quarter net income and revenue jumped. Southwest said it expects strong revenue in the first quarter too, based on passenger-booking trends.
? Johnson Controls Inc., an auto parts and building equipment maker, fell 7 percent. The Milwaukee-based company reported earnings and revenue that fell short of Wall Street's forecasts. It also cut its estimate for its fiscal year earnings, blaming weaker auto production in Europe, a lower euro and poor demand for batteries.
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Denise Richards has plenty of well-publicized reasons to be wary of ex-husband Charlie Sheen, but the actress says the two are actually quite close.
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