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Today is the official launch of Roboinvest (http://www.roboinvest.com), a social investing platform that allows anyone to ?look over the shoulder? of top investors in real time. As the first social investing platform to integrate on the E*TRADE API platform, this new technology has the potential to fundamentally change how millions of people invest on a daily basis.
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Launching today with web, iPhone and Android apps, Roboinvest allows top investors called ?leaders? to accept ?followers? who pay to see what they are investing in. This is an entirely new financial data stream being made available in an easy, convenient and fast delivery method.
Referred to by CNNMoney as a ?broadcast-your-trades? system, Roboinvest has the potential to increase the odds of investing successfully by getting to see what the ?gurus? are investing in, which research has shown can be up to 66%* more profitable than investing alone.
Running completely in the background, each trade made by the leader is automatically picked up by Roboinvest and pushed to the web and mobile apps in less than 1 second for their followers to see.
Roboinvest takes this real, verified trading information and using proprietary algorithms, it ranks the top investors giving the followers a fun and easy way to discover a leader that might interest them.
Already attracting talented investors, one of the top leaders on Roboinvest is trend alerts system SmarTrend. Follow and trial SmarTrend for free for 30 days at http://www.roboinvest.com/SmarTrend.
SmarTrend? CEO and Founder, Chip Brian, said, ?SmarTrend has always been an early adopter, innovator and supporter of proven new technologies. We?re proud to be highlighted as a leading trading system, and excited about providing SmarTrend Alerts? to customers via Roboinvest?s great new platform.?
Michael Giles, Founder and CEO of Roboinvest added ?Our real time integration with the E*TRADE API is unique; we can publish a trade in under 1 second. I?d like to take this opportunity to welcome SmarTrend to Roboinvest.?
About Roboinvest
Roboinvest is a social investing platform that allows anyone to ?look over the shoulder? of top investors in real time. With web, iPhone and Android apps, Roboinvest allows top investors called ?leaders? to accept followers who pay to see what they are investing in. Running completely in the background, each trade made by the leader is automatically picked up by Roboinvest and instantly pushed to the web and mobile apps for their followers to see. Roboinvest is based in New York.
About SmarTrend
SmarTrend eliminates guesswork and emotion from stock trading decisions. Based on proprietary time-series pattern recognition technology, SmarTrend provides stock market trend analysis to help improve the timing and results of stock trading activities. Every business day, SmarTrend issues new UPTREND and DOWNTREND alerts on more than 5,000 stocks and ETFs traded on U.S. exchanges and OTC. SmarTrend is available by monthly or quarterly subscriptions and a free product trial is available on the website (http://www.mySmarTrend.com).
SmarTrend? and SmarTrend Alerts? are registered trademarks of Comtex News Network, Inc.
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Throughout his 45-year career, Leonard Cohen has walked a fine line between love, sex, and religion, often embodying the trinity in the same song. Cohen doesn't abandon those themes on his latest album, "Old Ideas," his first studio recording in eight years and perhaps one of his best in decades.
Part of the reason the record succeeds is the honesty that the 77-year singer-songwriter delivers as he questions mortality, god, and betrayal with poetic dignity.
In 2005, Cohen's former manager took the liberty of emptying his savings accounts, leaving the deep-throated troubadour nearly broke. And though the singer won a civil suit in 2006, it's not believed that he's collected any money back. As a result, Cohen has had to spend his retirement years on the road singing for his supper.
But out of this adversity comes an album rooted heavily in his signature prayer-like delivery with an air of aesthetic realism.
?"Old Ideas" kicks off with "Going Home," a poem written by Cohen and set to music by Cohen and co-writer Patrick Leonard. Hearing Cohen's nearly-spoken voice delivery, it becomes a powerful ditty of Cohen's spiritual foundation as well as how he sees himself.
In the song, God says Cohen does what he tells him, even though it's not always welcome. This sets the tone for the remainder of album of a man tormented by mistakes of the past and his growing older.
?Cohen has never been a stranger to religious overtones: After all, he's the man that wrote "Hallelujah," which became immortalized by the late Jeff Buckley.
?But this album seems to provide more weighted spiritual balance. It's not religious, at least in any organized form, but it's definitely more pious than usual. One has to go no further than the record's second track "Amen," a lengthy ominous piece that seems diametric to "Hallelujah," where the singer questions if he's understood by god.
Minimal instrumentation helps support the album's 10 tracks, dominated by Cohen's raspy baritone delivery. While instrumentation varies from guitar to steel guitar and piano and bass, there's a nice compliment of percussive rhythms and background vocals.
?CHECK OUT THIS TRACK: Even on first listen, the albums most upbeat track, "Banjo" (not saying much for the slow-paced album) plays as comfort food for the ears.
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KABUL, Afghanistan ? France's plans to withdraw its combat troops from Afghanistan a year early drew harsh words Saturday in the Afghan capital, with critics accusing French President Nicolas Sarkozy of putting his re-election campaign ahead of Afghans' safety.
A wider proposal by Sarkozy for NATO to hand over all security to Afghans by the end of next year also came under fire, with one Afghan lawmaker saying it would be "a big mistake" that would leave security forces unprepared to fight the Taliban insurgency and threaten a new descent into violence in the 10-year-old war.
Sarkozy's decision, which came a week after four French troops were shot dead by an Afghan army trainee suspected of being a Taliban infiltrator, raises new questions about the unity of the U.S.-led military coalition.
It also reopens the debate over whether setting a deadline for troop withdrawals will allow the Taliban to run out the clock and seize more territory once foreign forces are gone.
"Afghan forces are not self-sufficient yet. They still need more training, more equipment and they need to be stronger," said military analyst Abdul Hadi Khalid, Afghanistan's former minister of interior.
Khalid said the decision by Sarkozy was clearly political. The French president is facing a tough election this year, and the population's already deep discontent with the Afghan war only intensified when unarmed French troops were gunned down by a supposed ally Jan. 20 at a joint base in the eastern province of Kapisa.
Sarkozy announced France's new timetable on Friday alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who was in Paris for a previously planned visit. He also said Karzai had agreed with him to ask for all international forces to hand security over to the Afghan army and police in 2013, a plan he would present it at a Feb. 2-3 meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. He said he would call President Barack Obama about his plan on Saturday.
Afghan lawmaker Tahira Mujadedi said Afghan security forces will not be ready in time for any early NATO withdrawal, saying the current timetable already is rushing the training of national forces.
"That would be a big mistake by the Afghan government if they accept it," she said of Sarkozy's plan. "In my view, they should extend 2014 by more years instead of cutting it short to 2013."
She said she sympathizes in the matter of the French soldiers' deaths, but argued that they present no logical reason for France to deviate from the U.S. timetable for NATO to hand over security by 2014.
"When military forces are present in a war zone, anything can happen," Mujadedi said. The French troops "are not here for a holiday," she added.
France now has about 3,600 soldiers in the international force, which is mostly made up of American troops.
Afghan forces started taking the lead for security in certain areas of the country last year and the plan has been to add more areas, as Afghan police and soldiers were deemed ready to take over from foreign forces.
According to drawdown plans already announced by the U.S. and more than a dozen other nations, the foreign military footprint in Afghanistan will shrink by an estimated 40,000 troops at the close of this year. Washington is pulling out the most ? 33,000 by the end of the year. That's one-third of 101,000 U.S. troops that were in Afghanistan in June, the peak of the U.S. military presence in the war, Pentagon figures show.
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. Karzai's office confirmed that decision Saturday, saying it was made at the French president's request.
The NATO coalition has started to hand over security in several areas of Afghanistan, aiming to transfer about half of the country in the coming months. But Kapisa was not one of the provinces earmarked for handover, according to U.S. Navy Lt. James McCue, a coalition spokesman.
Kapisa lawmaker Mujadedi argued that Afghan forces in her province particularly are not 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.
"We have had so many attacks, ambushes and also suicide attacks in Kapisa," Mujadedi said. "Unfortunately, our national police and army, while present in Kapisa, are unable to provide good security for people."
France's early withdrawal announcement could step up pressure on other European governments like Britain, Italy and Germany, which also have important roles in Afghanistan ? even if the U.S. has the lion's share by far.
Karzai, who praised the role of France and other NATO allies, didn't object at Friday's joint news conference when Sarkozy said the 2013 NATO withdrawal timetable was sought by both France and Afghanistan.
However, the Afghan leader appeared to suggest that it was a high-end target.
"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.
Nick Witney, a senior policy fellow at the Paris-based European Council on Foreign Relations, said public support of the war in Europe started sliding fast after the coalition agreed to end the combat mission in 2014.
"It has become more and more difficult to justify every single casualty, since it's now clear that these are wasted lives," said Witney, a former head of the European Defense Agency.
"Most European policymakers realize that on a purely cost-benefit assessment, we would all leave Afghanistan tomorrow," Witney said.
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Associated Press writers Kay Johnson in Kabul and Slobodan Lekic in Brussels contributed to this report.
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Larry Page recently announced that he is quite thrilled with Google+?s explosive growth -- with 90 million registered accounts and 80% of the people engaging on a weekly basis across all Google properties. The problem, of course, is that very few of these 90M users are actively publishing on Google+. The Google+ strategy of fine-grained sharing of personal content using Circles has not been very effective. It takes a lot of effort to create and maintain circles, and Facebook has proven that most users seem to be comfortable sharing personal content such as family albums and baby pictures with their complete social graph.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/jzNTTj5JPeI/
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Facebook could file regulatory papers as early as Wednesday for its highly anticipated initial public offering of stock, according to a newspaper report.
Facebook's expected launch as a publicly traded company is the most hotly anticipated tech IPO in more than a decade. It would vault it into the top ranks of the largest public companies in the world, on par with the likes of McDonald's Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Visa Inc. and Bank of America Corp.
The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, said Friday that the social-networking company could raise as much as $10 billion in an offering that would value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion.
Either measure would dwarf the $1.67 billion raised in Google's 2004 IPO. That offering gave Google a market value of $23 billion. Google is now worth $184 billion.
CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg, 27, is already considered a billionaire because of shares traded on a closed market.
Facebook spokesman Larry Wu said the company will not comment on IPO-related speculation.
After filing its initial paperwork, a public offering usually takes three to four months.
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Oil prices moved in a narrow range Friday as Iran prepared to consider a ban on crude sales to European Union countries.
Iranian leaders are scheduled to debate the ban Sunday in response to EU plans to embargo Iran's oil by summer because of that country's nuclear program. Investors worry that any ban could cause supply disruptions.
Benchmark oil fell 26 cents $99.44 per barrel in afternoon trading after climbing as high as $100.63 per barrel earlier in the session. Brent crude rose 34 cents to $111.13 per barrel.
EU countries account for about 18 percent of Iran's oil exports. Analysts believe any shortfall in Europe could be made up by other countries. If it stops selling oil to Europe, Iran should find takers in Asia. China is its biggest oil customer.
The U.S. doesn't buy Iranian oil, but has approved sanctions on Iran's banks to make it harder for Iran to sell crude anywhere.
Iran also has threatened to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. About one-fifth of the world's supply of oil is shipped through the strategic waterway. The U.S. and other nations have said they will not tolerate an Iranian blockade. U.S., British and French warships regularly patrol the Gulf.
In other trading, gasoline futures jumped 2.5 percent on concerns about future supplies after next month's closure of the big Hovensa refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It produced about 350,000 barrels per day, but the high price of crude has made it unprofitable. The closure comes as many refineries slow down for regular spring maintenance.
Oil trader Stephen Schork said the big concern is U.S. East Coast refineries, which produce much of the nation's fuel. "The gasoline supply situation in the East is fine but we're looking down the road," he said.
Gasoline futures rose 7 cents to $2.92 per gallon. Futures prices have been rising steadily since December, along with the price of oil.
Elsewhere heating oil rose 2 cents to $3.07 per gallon and natural gas rose 5 cents to $2.65 per 1,000 cubic feet.
At the pump, AAA says the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline rose a penny on Friday, to $3.39. That's about 15 cents more than a month ago and nearly 29 cents more than a year ago.
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AP Energy Writer Jonathan Fahey contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK ? The dollar is falling against most other currencies after the government said that the U.S. economy grew at a slower pace in the fourth quarter than economists had expected.
Traders also bought euros following a successful bond auction in Italy, a sign that investor confidence in the country is improving.
The euro rose to $1.3190 in midday trading Friday from $1.3104 late Thursday.
The British pound rose to $1.5710 from $1.5688. The dollar fell to 76.68 Japanese yen from 77.49 Japanese yen, to 0.9147 Swiss franc from 0.9205 and to 1.0010 Canadian dollar from 1.0014 Canadian dollar.
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LOS ANGELES ? The Screen Actors Guild national board of directors has voted to approve a plan to merge with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
In a statement, SAG says the board voted 87 percent to 13 percent Friday for the proposed merger at its meeting in Los Angeles.
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists' board is scheduled to meet Saturday for a vote on the package. If approved, a referendum will be sent out for a vote by members of both unions in the coming weeks.
The merger plan comes after two years of negotiations between the groups to join forces in a bid to gain more leverage in contract negotiations.
The TV and radio artists' group supported a merger with SAG in 1998 and 2003 only to see those efforts fail.
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By STUART CONDIE
updated 2:45 p.m. ET Jan. 26, 2012
LONDON - Sun and sand in Tahiti or the gray skies of northwest England? For Tim Ream, there was only one choice.
Contacted by English Premier League club Bolton the day after his wedding, the 24-year-old American defender canceled his honeymoon on the Pacific island and headed east instead.
Ream convinced Bolton manager Owen Coyle of his worth while training in December with Bolton's squad and completed a transfer from Major League Soccer's New York Red Bulls on Thursday.
"I was married for all of 24 hours when I got the phone call," Ream said. "The manager asked if I'd be willing to cancel the honeymoon and come to Bolton and honeymoon here. As much as we were disappointed that we had to pass up the trip, I think we both knew it was in our best interests. Hopefully, it shows my commitment to being here and doing well here."
Ream's wife took a little more convincing.
"I can't really repeat what she said," Ream said. "But her and I have talked, and as long as we're together in whatever we do I think both of us will be happy. She wants the best for me, and I just want her to be happy.
"If she says tomorrow that she wants something, then I guess I'll have to give it to her."
Ream fills the gap in Bolton's roster created by the sale of Gary Cahill to Chelsea earlier in Europe's January transfer window.
Ream joins fellow American Stuart Holden, who signed with Bolton in January 2010. The midfielder, a member of the 2010 U.S. World Cup team, has been limited to one appearance since March because of a knee injury.
The transfer fee of about $2.75 million is the highest for an MLS defender and sixth overall, trailing only those for Maurice Edu, Jozy Altidore, Stern John, Tim Howard and Clint Dempsey.
Ream signed a 3?-year contract. Coyle said Arsenal wanted to sign Ream before the current English season.
"I knew there was interest in me when I came over last year and trained for a couple of weeks, and then after Christmas time things really did start to ramp up," Ream said. "Negotiations started, and that's when I knew things were getting serious. Even before that week I aimed to challenge myself in England and, if an opportunity arose, I wanted to come over and try to make it here."
Coyle is sure Ream has what it takes to succeed in the Premier League.
"He is a U.S. international ? a player that year-on-year has progressed and got better, and he will continue to do that," Coyle said. "Tim is everything that we want in the players we are bringing to the club when we spend in the transfer market. He is young, has a tremendous attitude and a winning mentality."
A finalist for the MLS Rookie of the Year award in 2010, Ream was selected to the MLS All-Star team last year and has played seven times for the U.S. national team.
"This was a hard decision for me considering the fact that I enjoyed playing for the Red Bulls and was looking forward to the upcoming MLS season," Ream said. "However, after consulting with those closest to me, I decided that this was a once in a lifetime chance that I could not pass up."
Bolton is 17th in the 20-team Premier League, just a point above the relegation zone after 22 of 38 matches.
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There?s been a second wave of Siri clones on the rise this week, with the launch of Evi gaining plenty of attention. While Android users seek their own version of the popular iPhone 4S artificial intelligence assistant, Evi, SimSimi and others have continued to gain traction in the Android Market. Lookout Labs unveiled a great app for visualizing mobile security threats, giving you deeper insight to malware behavior over time. Apartments.com also broke out with an Android app this week, joining the top real estate resources in the Market.
Evi?s taken the world by storm with an artificial intelligence app to help you ?talk? to the internet. It?s a free search app that looks for matching results and shows you relevant websites, adding a layer of context to your query. The more you ask, the more Evi will learn, providing an increasingly improved set of search results. This Android app is really a decision aid, interfacing between you and your web search with support for natural language for speech recognition. It?s most helpful for things like local search, enabling shoppers and foodies alike. Evi is one of many Siri alternatives to hit the market lately, marking the latest wave of AI tools. Evi won?t help you schedule appointments or send text messages, as Siri does, but it?s a playful novelty for Android users.
From mobile security provider Lookout, the new Mobile Threat Tracker is a fresh way to see mobile threats across time and space. Hailing from Lookout Labs? experimental minds, the Mobile Threat Tracker graphs malware peaks for various regions across the globe, showing historic data as well. You can see what time of day, week or year a mobile threat is likely to hit, and what regions are the most targeted. It?s all done in an artful way, making for an interactive app to educate consumers on mobile malware behavior. Lookout?s always seeking ways to inform and alert mobile users, and this creative Android app is a timely entrant to the Market.
In the market for a rental instead of buying a home? There?s an Android app for that. Apartments.com has finally delivered its core search technology in the convenience of a mobile app, delivering instant access to thousands of apartment listings in the US. Peruse condos, townhomes and houses for rent, with GPS integration for local finds. Filter your search by price, location, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, amenities and more. You?ll also see photos, floorplans and sometimes video walkthroughs of a listing, saving you time and money in the end. Save the searches you like for later access, and share them with your roomie to keep everyone on the same page.
Some things just go well together, like peanut butter and jelly. Mobile navigation apps and urban settings are perfectly suited for each other, taking the stress out of traveling mass transit systems for you. Embark, previously known as Pandav, is a prime example of how an app can consolidate, deliver and even customize mass transit data on your behalf. The free Android app has provided over 20 million trips for urbanites, boasting 2,000 new users every day. With transit tools for twelve major cities, the most recent being Boston, Embark works above and underground to provide the fastest routes to your destination, alerting you of any delays. You can create an entire trip using Embark, share them with friends (group meet ups or tourists), and interactive maps to help you get to where you?re going.
The latest security app for Android, Comodo provides one-touch virus scans and the option to run a virus scan on demand. You?ll get scans for every file and app you download to your Android device, and a ?health check? feature to detect unsafe settings. You can even block annoying text messages by keyword, or set up a private ?area? on your phone to keep protected data such as contacts, phone numbers and text messages. Android?s a popular target for malware attacks, and there?s a slew of security apps to choose from. Comodo packs in quite a bit for free.
The task managers to challenge all other task managers, Producteev sets out to combine your to-do list with the tools you need to manage, track and share your tasks. The key to Producteev is its integration with other services, from the expected (Google Calendar) to the specialized (AIM). You can send and discuss tasks over chat, SMS and email, and you can even outsource your tasks directly to TaskRabbit. Producteev is all about the cloud, syncing your tasks and their integrated services across mobile and web platforms, smartphones and desktops. But what makes Producteev really stand out is its ability to help you get it all done.
Create a list of your favorite Android apps of the week?right here.
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Isabella Barrett at the "Toddlers and Tiaras" Reality Weekly Launch Event benefiting her anti-bullying bracelets on Dec. 29 in Providence, R.I.
By Anna Chan
She's not sexy and she doesn't know it!
That's what "Toddlers & Tiaras" pageant mom Susanna Barrett insists about her 5-year-old glam princess Isabella. Barrett claims that after a video of her little girl singing LMFAO's "I'm Sexy and I Know It" at a night spot?surfaced, several media outlets tried to turn the non-sexual performance into something inappropriate, and she's suing mad.
According to the New York Daily News, Barrett filed a $30 million libel lawsuit on?Tuesday in Manhattan. She claims that TMZ, The Huffington Post and the Daily Mail described the little girl's act? as "gyrating in a nightclub and singing about her sex appeal" when in fact Isabella was sitting during the song.
"(Isabella) did not understand the concept of sex, let alone 'sex appeal' and could not have been singing about her own sex appeal," Barrett said in her lawsuit. Instead, "it is the defendants who, through their articles, have thrust these false and vulgar characteristics on to Isabella," according to the suit.?"As a result, Isabella is now perceived sexually, erotically and pornographically, and (the stories) have placed Isabella in serious physical danger, attracting the attention of others who would seek to sexualize a child."
Not long after the video surfaced, Barrett defended Isabella's videotaped performance to TMZ. She explained that the little girl was at New York's Libation for a pet charity event and started singing when the DJ invited her up, but that they left at the reasonable hour of 9 p.m.
As for how the 5-year-old knows the lyrics to the LMFAO tune? "We just listen to the radio, and that's a real catchy song," she told TMZ at the time.
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Kentucky forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (14) reaches for a rebound as Georgia forward Marcus Thornton (2) defends in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Kentucky forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (14) reaches for a rebound as Georgia forward Marcus Thornton (2) defends in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Kentucky forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (14) shoots as Georgia forward Nemanja Djurisic (42) defends in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Kentucky coach John Calipari directs his team in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Georgia on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Kentucky forward Terrence Jones goes to the basket as Georgia forward Nemanja Djurisic (42) and guard Gerald Robinson watch during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Kentucky forward Terrence Jones (3) and Georgia forward Nemanja Djurisic (42) fight for a rebound during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) ? Surrounded by freshmen, the old man carried Kentucky in its first game back at No. 1.
Senior Darius Miller came off the bench to score 19 points and the top-ranked Wildcats cruised to a 12th straight victory, beating Georgia 57-44 on Tuesday night despite their lowest-scoring game of the season.
Miller, who had started eight of the previous nine games for Kentucky (20-1, 6-0 Southeastern Conference), returned to the sixth-man role he had played earlier in the season. It didn't really matter. The senior made 7 of 8 shots, including all four from 3-point range.
Good thing he did.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, with 14 points, was the only other Kentucky player in double figures. The Wildcats lowest-scoring game before Tuesday was a 62-52 victory over Old Dominion in November.
"I know there are times I have to step up," Miller said. "We have different leaders. We all understand that. We're happy with that. Tonight, the guys were looking for me because they knew I was hitting."
Kentucky used spurts of 10-0 and 10-1 to build a 38-26 halftime lead. The Bulldogs (10-10, 1-5) never threatened in the second half, even though the Wildcats cooled off considerably. They went more than 5 minutes without scoring and made just 7 of 23 shots over the final 20 minutes.
Needless to say, coach John Calipari knows there are plenty of things his team can improve on before its next game Saturday at LSU.
"I'm happy we won," he said. "But I want us to be even better."
Kentucky, which had been No. 1 in The Associated Press rankings for two weeks early in the season, returned to the lead spot after Syracuse lost last weekend.
For one half at least, the Wildcats lived up to the billing against a rebuilding Georgia team that has lost five of its last six, but did start out with some inspired play before its first home sellout of the season.
Led by Nemanja Djurisic's 10 points, Georgia kept it close for much of the opening half. The Bulldogs withstood that 10-0 run by Kentucky and trailed only 23-22 with less than 6 minutes to go in the period.
Suddenly, the Wildcats turned it on. Kyle Wiltjer knocked down a 3-pointer, then passed to Kidd-Gilchrist for a dunk. Dustin Ware answered for the home team with a 3-pointer, but that jumper with 5:01 remaining was Georgia's final field goal of the half.
Kentucky scored 10 of the last 11 points in the half, with Miller putting up seven straight on a 3-pointer and two jumpers from inside the arc.
"We have so many weapons," he said. "Anybody can go off on any given day. We just look for the guy with the hot hand."
This time, it was the lone senior in a seven-man rotation that includes four freshmen and two sophomores.
"He played great," said freshman Anthony Davis, who managed only four points but did have 11 rebounds. "He was knocking down 3s and getting into the lane. That's what Darius Miller can do."
Wiltjer added his second 3-pointer of the half, and the Wildcats went to the locker room with a comfortable 12-point lead. The Bulldogs staggered toward their tunnel with heads down, knowing they had given Kentucky their best shot and still faced a double-digit deficit.
Even though the shots didn't fall in the second half, the Wildcats never let up on the boards or at the defensive end. Kentucky finished with a commanding 41-26 rebounding edge and held Georgia to just 35 percent shooting (19 of 55).
Kidd-Gilchrist had a double-double, pulling down 11 rebounds.
In the second half, neither team seemed to play with as much fire ? maybe because so many shots clanked off the rim ? and the crowd amused itself with dueling chants of "Go Big Blue!" vs. "U-G-A!" There certainly wasn't much to cheer about on the court, with Kentucky appearing to play down to its competition and Georgia never getting closer than 10.
That wasn't good enough for Calipari, who isn't yet convinced his talented young team can make another trip to the Final Four.
"We're just into our own thing right now and you can't be a special team and be that way," he said. "The biggest thing is let's step this thing up. Last year's team, I couldn't believe we were as good as were so I didn't have to say a whole lot. This year's team, we could be really special and we're not right now."
Still, the Wildcats made it look easy. Since their only loss, a 73-72 setback to Indiana on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer, they have won by an average of 17.3 points.
Ware led Georgia with 12 points. Djurisic failed to score in the second half.
"We had a burp there on defense late in the first half," Georgia coach Mark Fox said. "We were never able to get back in striking distance after that. It was a costly time period, but Kentucky is a terrific team. Their defense is just so good."
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>> the president's state of the union was not a campaign speech per se . but his populist rhetoric is something we're going to hear a lot of in the general election campaign ahead. president obama used this election year state of the union address to talk about the future and boast about what he believes are his best accomplishments.
>> the state of our union is getting stronger. we've come too far to turn back now.
>> reporter: bracing for a tough re-election fight the president struck a populist tone.
>> we can have an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone gets their fair share and everyone plays by the same rules.
>> reporter: he went out of his way to strike a patriotic tone using the words " america " and "american" 88 times.
>> what's at stake aren't democratic or republican values but american values . american manufacturers are hiring again. america is back.
>> reporter: sticking to the populist theme he went after easy targets -- wall street and congress.
>> i talked about the deficit of trust between main street and wall street but the divide between this city and the country is at least as bad.
>> reporter: foreign policy mostly took a back seat but one topic came up twice.
>> for the first time in two decades, osama bin laden is not a threat to this country.
>> reporter: the president going out of his way to use the successful bin laden mission as a lesson on how washington should work.
>> one of my proudest possessions is the flag that the s.e.a.l. team took with them on the mission to get bin laden . on it are each of their names. some may be democrats. some may be republicans. but that doesn't matter.
>> reporter: but the presidential campaign was never far from his mind. one of his signature proposals -- creating a 30% minimum tax rate for multimillionaires and billionaires.
>> asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? most americans would call that common sense.
>> reporter: the president could have been talking directly to mitt romney who released his tax returns tuesday showing he paid less than 15%. under the president's proposal romney's tax bill would more than double.
>> he thinks america is on the right track.
>> reporter: in an interview with brian williams , romney questioned the optimistic tone.
>> the idea that we are on the right track is foreign to people here.
>> reporter: the emotional high point of the evening took place before anyone uttered a word. arizona congresswoman gabby giffords who is resigning her seat today received an enthusiastic bipartisan salute, including a special greeting from the president. while the president's traditional post state of the union travel schedule looks awfully like a campaign swing, he's hitting five battleground states in three days from michigan, arizona, nevada, colorado and iowa, matt.
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Nokia has announced a major mobile milestone: over 1.5 billion (with a b) Series 40 (S40) handsets sold since the first device -- the 7110 -- was introduced in 1999. "We are incredibly proud to reach this milestone," wrote Nokia's Executive VP of Mobile Phones, Mary McDowell. "It is gratifying to consider how Series 40 devices have made mobile technology accessible." Breeze on past the break for the official PR with more information about the Asha 303 handset knighted number 1,500,000,000, then feel free to weigh in on how long will take the Lumia line to reach the same milestone.Continue reading Nokia S40: over 1.5 billion served
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ST. LOUIS ? A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiring millions of dollars in advanced treatment ? a burden so costly that it's contributing to the closure of some burn units.
So-called shake-and-bake meth is produced by combining raw, unstable ingredients in a 2-liter soda bottle. But if the person mixing the noxious brew makes the slightest error, such as removing the cap too soon or accidentally perforating the plastic, the concoction can explode, searing flesh and causing permanent disfigurement, blindness or even death.
An Associated Press survey of key hospitals in the nation's most active meth states showed that up to a third of patients in some burn units were hurt while making meth, and most were uninsured. The average treatment costs $6,000 per day. And the average meth patient's hospital stay costs $130,000 ? 60 percent more than other burn patients, according to a study by doctors at a burn center in Kalamazoo, Mich.
The influx of patients is overwhelming hospitals and becoming a major factor in the closure of some burn wards. At least seven burn units across the nation have shut down over the past six years, partly due to consolidation but also because of the cost of treating uninsured patients, many of whom are connected to methamphetamine.
Burn experts agree the annual cost to taxpayers is well into the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars, although it is impossible to determine a more accurate number because so many meth users lie about the cause of their burns.
Larger meth labs have been bursting into flame for years, usually in basements, backyard sheds or other private spaces. But those were fires that people could usually escape. Using the shake-and-bake method, drugmakers typically hold the flammable concoction up close, causing burns from the waist to the face.
"You're holding a flame-thrower in your hands," said Jason Grellner of the Franklin County, Mo., Sheriff's Department.
Also known as the "one-pot" approach, the method is popular because it uses less pseudoephedrine ? a common component in some cold and allergy pills. It also yields meth in minutes rather than hours, and it's cheaper and easier to conceal. Meth cooks can carry all the ingredients in a backpack and mix them in a bathroom stall or the seat of a car.
The improvised system first emerged several years ago, partly in response to attempts by many states to limit or forbid over-the-counter access to pseudoephedrine. Since then, the shake-and-bake recipe has spread to become the method of choice.
By 2010, about 80 percent of labs busted by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration were using shake-and-bake recipes, said Pat Johnakin, a DEA agent specializing in meth.
So instead of a large lab that supplies many users, there are now more people making meth for their personal use. The consequences are showing up in emergency rooms and burn wards.
"From what we see on the medical side, that's the primary reason the numbers seem to be going up: greater numbers of producers making smaller batches," said Dr. Michael Smock, director of the burn unit at Mercy Hospital St. Louis.
It's impossible to know precisely how many people are burned while making shake-and-bake meth. Some avoid medical treatment, and no one keeps exact track of those who go to the hospital. But many burn centers in the nation's most active meth-producing states report sharp spikes in the number of patients linked to meth. And experts say the trend goes well beyond those facilities.
The director of the burn center at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, the state that led the nation in meth lab seizures in 2010, said meth injuries are doubly damaging because patients often suffer thermal burn from the explosion, as well as chemical burns. And the medical challenge is compounded by patients' addictions.
"You're not judgmental in this kind of work, but you see it day after day," said Vanderbilt's Dr. Jeffrey Guy. "We've had patients say, `I'm going out for a smoke,' and they come back all jacked up. It's clear they went out and did meth again."
Few people burned by meth will admit it.
"We get a lot of people who have strange stories," said Dr. David Greenhalgh, past president of the American Burn Association and director of the burn center at the University of California, Davis. "They'll say they were working on the carburetor at 2 or 3 in the morning and things blew up. So we don't know for sure, but 25 to 35 percent of our patients are meth-positive when we check them."
Guy cited a similar percentage at Vanderbilt, which operates the largest burn unit in Tennessee. He said the lies can come with a big price because the chemicals used in meth-making are often as dangerous as the burns themselves.
He recalled the case of a woman who arrived with facial burns that she said were caused by a toaster. As a result, she didn't tell doctors that meth-making chemicals got into her eyes, delaying treatment.
"Now she's probably going to be blind because she wasn't honest about it," Guy said.
In Indiana, about three-quarters of meth busts now involve shake-and-bake. And injuries are rising sharply, mostly because of burns, said Niki Crawford of the Indiana State Police Meth Suppression Team.
Indiana had 89 meth-related injuries during the 10-year period ending in 2009. The state has had 70 in the last 23 months, mostly from shake-and-bake labs, Crawford said.
What's more, meth-related burns often sear some of the body's most sensitive areas ? the face and hands.
"I don't think a lot of these patients will be able to re-enter society, said Dr. Lucy Wibbenmeyer of the burn center at the University of Iowa. "They'll need rehab therapy, occupational therapy, which is very expensive."
Researchers at the University of Iowa found that people burned while making meth typically have longer hospital stays and more expensive bills than other burn patients ? bills that are frequently absorbed by the hospital since a vast majority of the meth-makers lack insurance.
Medicaid provides reimbursement for many patients lacking private insurance, but experts say it amounts to pennies on the dollar.
Doctors at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich., performed a five-year study of meth patients in the early 2000s, then a follow-up study in 2009-2010. Their investigation concurred with the Iowa findings. The Kalamazoo study also found that meth burn victims were more likely to suffer damage to the lungs and windpipe, spent more time on ventilators and needed surgery more often.
That report also found that only about 10 percent of meth patients had private insurance coverage, compared with 59 percent of other patients. And in many cases, their injuries leave them unable to work.
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WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama has offered his condolences to the family of legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who died Sunday of lung cancer.
The White House says the president spoke with Paterno's wife, Sue, and son, Jay, on Monday to express his condolences.
The White House says the president recalled fond memories of when he first met Coach Paterno and said he and first lady Michelle Obama would keep the Paterno family in their prayers.
Penn State is planning a memorial service on Thursday for Paterno, who was fired in November after he was criticized over his handling of child sex-abuse allegations leveled against his former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky.
Paterno won two national championships and 409 games ? the most in the history of major college football.
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2012) ? Wetland restoration is a billion-dollar-a-year industry in the United States that aims to create ecosystems similar to those that disappeared over the past century. But a new analysis of restoration projects shows that restored wetlands seldom reach the quality of a natural wetland.
"Once you degrade a wetland, it doesn't recover its normal assemblage of plants or its rich stores of organic soil carbon, which both affect natural cycles of water and nutrients, for many years," said David Moreno-Mateos, a University of California, Berkeley, postdoctoral fellow. "Even after 100 years, the restored wetland is still different from what was there before, and it may never recover."
Moreno-Mateos's analysis calls into question a common mitigation strategy exploited by land developers: create a new wetland to replace a wetland that will be destroyed and the land put to other uses. At a time of accelerated climate change caused by increased carbon entering the atmosphere, carbon storage in wetlands is increasingly important, he said.
"Wetlands accumulate a lot of carbon, so when you dry up a wetland for agricultural use or to build houses, you are just pouring this carbon into the atmosphere," he said. "If we keep degrading or destroying wetlands, for example through the use of mitigation banks, it is going to take centuries to recover the carbon we are losing."
The study showed that wetlands tend to recover most slowly if they are in cold regions, if they are small -- less than 100 contiguous hectares, or 250 acres, in area -- or if they are disconnected from the ebb and flood of tides or river flows.
"These context dependencies aren't necessarily surprising, but this paper quantifies them in ways that could guide decisions about restoration, or about whether to damage wetlands in the first place," said coauthor Mary Power, UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology.
Moreno-Mateos, Power and their colleagues will publish their analysis in the Jan. 24 issue of PLoS (Public Library of Science) Biology.
Wetlands provide many societal benefits, Moreno-Mateos noted, such as biodiversity conservation, fish production, water purification, erosion control and carbon storage.
He found, however, that restored wetlands contained about 23 percent less carbon than untouched wetlands, while the variety of native plants was 26 percent lower, on average, after 50 to 100 years of restoration. While restored wetlands may look superficially similar -- and the animal and insect populations may be similar, too -- the plants take much longer to return to normal and establish the carbon resources in the soil that make for a healthy ecosystem.
Moreno-Mateos noted that numerous studies have shown that specific wetlands recover slowly, but his meta-analysis "might be a proof that this is happening in most wetlands."
"To prevent this, preserve the wetland, don't degrade the wetland," he said.
Moreno-Mateos, who obtained his Ph.D. while studying wetland restoration in Spain, conducted a meta-analysis of 124 wetland studies monitoring work at 621 wetlands around the world and comparing them with natural wetlands. Nearly 80 percent were in the United States and some were restored more than 100 years ago, reflecting of a long-standing American interest in restoration and a common belief that it's possible to essentially recreate destroyed wetlands. Half of all wetlands in North America, Europe, China and Australia were lost during the 20th century, he said. S
Though Moreno-Mateos found that, on average, restored wetlands are 25 percent less productive than natural wetlands, there was much variation. For example, wetlands in boreal and cold temperate forests tend to recover more slowly than do warm wetlands. One review of wetland restoration projects in New York state, for example, found that "after 55 years, barely 50 percent of the organic matter had accumulated on average in all these wetlands" compared to what was there before, he said.
"Current thinking holds that many ecosystems just reach an alternative state that is different, and you never will recover the original," he said.
In future studies, he will explore whether the slower carbon accumulation is due to a slow recovery of the native plant community or invasion by non-native plants.
Coauthors with Moreno-Mateos and Power are Francisco A. Comin of the Department of Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology in Zaragoza, Spain; and Roxana Yockteng of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France. Moreno-Mateos recently accepted a position as the restoration fellow at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve.
The work was supported by the Spanish Ministry for Innovation and Science, the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and the National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics of the U.S. National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? As kids go from elementary to junior high school ages, the desire to tan gets stronger while the habit of using sun protection gets tossed out the window, according to a survey that tracked kids' attitudes about the sun over three years.
"I think especially at this age, and in general, there are a lot of forces that promote tanning," said Stephen Dusza, a researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and lead author of the new study.
Dusza said he anticipated that, due in part to advertising and the tanning culture of many celebrities, the kids would want to tan more as they got older.
He told Reuters Health that he also expected to see some decline in sunscreen use in adolescence, "but I was struck by the magnitude of the reduction in the use of sunscreen -- a 50 percent drop."
Dusza's group surveyed 360 Massachusetts fifth graders about their time in the sun, how often they used sun protection and their attitudes about tanning.
Three years later, the kids answered the same questions.
Only one in four of the eighth graders said they used sunscreen when they were outside for more than six hours, which was half as many who said they used sunscreen while in fifth grade.
Four out of 10 of the kids also went outside just to get a tan when they were in eighth grade, compared to two out of 10 when they were in fifth grade.
Despite the children spending more time outside trying to get a tan as they approached adolescence, the number of kids who got sunburned remained the same at about 50 percent.
Dusza said he's not certain why sunburns didn't increase, but that maybe the kids defined a sunburn differently as they got older or that their outdoor activities had changed.
Dr. Sophie Balk, an attending pediatrician at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore and a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, both in New York, said the study "underlines that many young people aren't protecting their skin."
This is a concern, Balk said, because of evidence that sun damage at a young age is tied to a higher risk later on of developing melanoma - the most deadly of the skin cancers.
"Kids think looking tan is consistent with looking healthy, but it's the opposite. A tan is the body's response to UV exposure" and it shows there's been damage to the skin, Balk told Reuters Health.
Balk said she tries to change children's attitudes toward sun protection by educating kids and their parents about the dangers of sunburns, and by encouraging young people to be proud of their untanned skin color.
"We need more media messages, more role models, more public health campaigns. As a society we could be doing more to promote skin cancer prevention and skin protection," she said.
Sunscreen is just one way to protect your skin from the sun.
Clothing, hats, sunglasses and limiting sun exposure when the sun is strongest between 10 am and 4 pm also help.
"Outside is good, you just have to do it smart," Balk said.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/xrguxt Pediatrics, online January 23, 2012.
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