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Hits it much earlier than expected.

Though the operating system Windows Phone 7 hasn?t quite found its footing in the marketplace, it now has one solid achievement to boast about ? it has hit the 50,000 app mark in its Marketplace days before it was expected to.

AllAboutWindowsPhone.com lets us know of this milestone and its a pretty big deal for the OS, since the entire life of an OS depends on how many users really make apps for it since that?s a very lucrative draw and the reason why iOS and especially Android have been gaining traction (and why Blackberry isn?t). The report suggests that the OS will reach 100,000 mark by summer 2012 at the rate that it?s going at.

Are you excited about the OS?

Source: http://tbreak.com/tech/2011/12/windows-phone-marketplace-hits-the-50000-apps-mark/

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NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 2011 ? Anthony Mason Jr. of the Sioux Falls Skyforce was today named NBA Development League Performer of the Week for games played Dec 19-25.

For the week, the 6-7, 205-pound forward out of St. John?s averaged 21.0 points on 51 percent shooting, to go with 7.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists, as the Skyforce went 2-1.

Mason Jr. registered his first double-double of the season, finishing with 22 points and 12 rebounds as the Skyforce defeated Springfield, 103-99 on Sunday, Dec. 25, the team?s third game in four nights. Mason tallied 23 points, six rebounds, three assists and three blocks in a 104-95 loss to Canton on Friday, Dec. 23. He opened the week with 19 points on 8-for-13 shooting in a 100-96 win over Fort Wayne on Thursday, Dec. 22. For the season, Mason Jr. is averaging 16.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists.

Other top performers considered include:

...the Reno Bighorns? Blake Ahearn, who averaged 23.5 points and 9.0 assists;
...the Rio Grande Valley Vipers? Stanley Asumnu, who averaged 20.0 points and 7.0 rebounds;
...the Idaho Stampede?s Tony Bobbitt, who averaged 22.0 points and 5.5 assists;
...the Maine Red Claws? Justin Brownlee, who averaged 22.0 points and 11.0 rebounds;
...the Los Angeles D-Fenders? Brandon Costner, who averaged 27.5 points and 7.5 rebounds;
...the Maine Red Claws? Paul Harris, who averaged 19.0 points, 8.5 rebounds and 8.0 assists;
...the Springfield Armor?s Lance Hurdle, who averaged 17.0 points and 5.7 rebounds;
...the Bakersfield Jam?s Juan Pattillo, who averaged 16.0 points and 7.5 rebounds;
...the Maine Red Claws? Courtney Pigram, who averaged 24.0 points and 3.0 assists;
...the Texas Legends? Chris Roberts, who averaged 24.0 points and 3.5 rebounds;
...the Rio Grand Valley Vipers? Julian Sensley, who averaged 18.0 points and 8.0 rebounds;
...and the Iowa Energy?s Ben Strong, who averaged 12.5 points and 5.0 rebounds.

Source: http://www.nba.com/dleague/news/potw_111226.html

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The ShopAndroid.com Deal of the Day for Dec. 28 is the Mobi Products Skin Case for the HTC Rezound. Available in six colors -- black, blue, red, purple, pink or clear -- the case comprises a durable material that feels great in the hand thanks to its anti-slip properties, has an anti-dust coating and has cutouts for all the ports and buttons. And best of all, it's available today only for just $4.95 -- that's 75 percent off! Get yours while supplies last!

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In a study published today in the scientific journal PNAS, NOAA scientists and their collaborators reported Pacific herring embryos in shallow waters died in unexpectedly high numbers following an oil spill in San Francisco Bay, and suggest an interaction between sunlight and the chemicals in oil might be responsible.

In November 2007, the container ship Cosco Busan released 54,000 gallons of bunker fuel, a combination of diesel and residual fuel oil, into the San Francisco Bay. The accident contaminated the shoreline near the spawning habitats of the largest population of Pacific herring on the West Coast.

In this study, scientists found that herring embryos placed in cages in relatively deep water at oiled sites developed subtle but important heart defects consistent with findings in previous studies. In contrast, almost all the embryos that naturally spawned in nearby shallower waters in the same time period died. When scientists sampled naturally-spawned embryos from the same sites two years later, mortality rates in both shallower and deeper waters had returned to pre-spill levels.

?Based on what we know about the effects of crude oil on early life stages in fish, we expected to find live embryos with abnormal heart function, so it was a surprise to find so many embryos in the shallow waters literally falling apart,? said Dr. John Incardona, a toxicologist with NOAA?s Northwest Fisheries Science Center and lead author of the study. ?The study has given us a new perspective on oil threats in sunlit habitats, particularly for translucent animals such as herring embryos. The chemical composition of residual oils can vary widely, so the question remains whether we would see the same thing with other bunker fuels from around the world.?

Two decades of toxicity research since the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill has shown that fish embryos and larvae are particularly vulnerable to spilled oil. Most catastrophic spills, such as the Exxon Valdez, involve large volumes of crude oil. However, residual oils used in bunker fuels are the leftovers of crude oil refining, and are not as well studied as crude oils. Bunker fuel is used in maritime shipping worldwide, and accidental bunker spills are more and more common and widespread than large crude oil spills.

Source: NOAA

Source: http://thestickytongue.org/2011/12/29/spilled-oil-unexpectedly-lethal-to-fish-embryos-in-shallow-sunlit-waters-study/

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CARACAS (Reuters) ? Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina's Cristina Fernandez joined the list of presidents diagnosed with the disease.

It was a typically controversial statement by Venezuela's socialist leader, who underwent surgery in June to remove a tumour from his pelvis. But he stressed that he was not making any accusations, just thinking aloud.

"It would not be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer and nobody knew about it until now ... I don't know. I'm just reflecting," he said in a televised speech to troops at a military base.

"But this is very, very, very strange ... it's a bit difficult to explain this, to reason it, including using the law of probabilities."

Chavez, Fernandez, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have all been diagnosed recently with cancer. All of them are leftists.

Doctors say Fernandez has a very good chance of recovery and will not need chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Her diagnosis was made public on Tuesday.

Chavez said other regional leaders should beware, including his close ally, Bolivian President Evo Morales.

"We'll have to take good care of Evo. Take care Evo!" he said.

The 57-year-old is Latin America's loudest critic of U.S. foreign policy along with Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro, and he frequently lashes out at what he calls the "Yankee Empire".

CASTRO'S WARNING

"Fidel always told me, 'Chavez take care. These people have developed technology. You are very careless. Take care what you eat, what they give you to eat ... a little needle and they inject you with I don't know what,'" he said.

In his comments on Wednesday, Chavez also slammed Washington and its European allies for criticizing Russia's recent parliamentary elections - and said they were planning the same thing for Venezuela's presidential election in October, when he will seek re-election.

"They are crying fraud and saying the elections need to be re-run ... They're trying to destabilize no less than Russia, a nuclear power. That's the madness of the Empire," Chavez said.

"I say this because here in Venezuela, the Imperial Yankee, the local bourgeoisie, and a good part of what they call the opposition parties here, are preparing a similar plan," he said.

"I call on the armed forces to be alert, on the Venezuelan people to be alert. Because we are not going to let the Imperial Yankee destabilize Venezuela again like they did in the past."

Details about Chavez's health remain a closely guarded secret, although he now appears to be recovering and is making longer and longer televised appearances.

Earlier this month he made his first official foreign trip after his surgery, to a regional summit in Uruguay.

Since his return he has often appeared sporting something of a younger, new look: a dark sports coat over an open-necked maroon shirt, and is hair is growing back after chemotherapy.

It is far cry from the green fatigues and red beret that he became famous for wearing for much of his 13 years in power.

(Editing by Kieran Murray)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/europe/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111228/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_venezuela_usa_cancer

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LOMA LINDA, Calif. ? Veterans Affairs hospitals across Southern California are bracing for a flood of veterans with the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

VA hospitals in the region are expecting as many as 16,000 returning veterans. Officials at the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center in Loma Linda expect to see an influx by March.

Program manager Jacqueline Taylor tells the San Bernardino Sun ( http://bit.ly/uwvG50 ) most will initially go to the VA medical centers in San Diego and Long Beach. Some will eventually head to the inland region.

To prepare for the increase, officials at the Loma Linda VA hospital are planning to build a new multistory medical office building.

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Information from: The Sun, http://www.sbsun.com

The Associated Press

Source: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/25/s-calif-va-hospitals-brace-for-returning-troops/

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ABUJA (Reuters) ? Islamist militants set off bombs across Nigeria on Christmas Day - three targeting churches including one that killed at least 27 people - raising fears that they are trying to ignite sectarian civil war.

The Boko Haram Islamist sect, which aims to impose sharia law across the country, claimed responsibility for the three church bombs, the second Christmas in a row the group has caused mass carnage with deadly bombings of churches. Security forces also blamed the sect for two other blasts in the north.

St Theresa's Catholic Church in Madala, a satellite town about 40 km (25 miles) from the center of the capital Abuja, was packed when the bomb exploded just outside.

"We were in the church with my family when we heard the explosion. I just ran out," Timothy Onyekwere told Reuters. "Now I don't even know where my children or my wife are. I don't know how many were killed but there were many dead."

Hours after the first bomb, blasts were reported at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church in the central, ethnically and religiously mixed town of Jos, and at a church in northern Yobe state at the town of Gadaka. Residents said many were wounded in Gadaka, but there were no immediate further details.

A suicide bomber killed four security officials at the State Security Service in one of the other bombs, which struck the northeastern town of Damaturu, police said. Residents heard two loud explosions and gunfire in the town.

A Reuters reporter at the church near Abuja saw the front roof had been destroyed, as had several houses nearby. Five burnt out cars were still smouldering. There were scenes of chaos, as shocked residents stared at the wreckage in disbelief.

"Mass just ended and people were rushing out of the church and suddenly I heard a loud sound: 'Gbam!' Cars were in flames and bodies littered everywhere," Nnana Nwachukwu told Reuters.

Father Christopher Barde, Assistant priest of the church, said: "The officials who counted told me they have picked up 27 bodies so far."

Police cordoned off the area around the church. Thousands of furious youths set up burning road blocks on the highway from Abuja leading to Nigeria's largely Muslim north.

Police and the military tried to disperse them by firing live rounds into the air with tear gas.

"We are so angry," shouted Kingsley Ukpabi, as a queue of hooting vehicles lined up behind his flaming barrage.

ATTACKS INCREASE

Boko Haram - which in the Hausa language spoken in northern Nigeria means "Western education is sinful" - is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.

It has emerged as the biggest security threat in Nigeria, a country of 160 million split evenly between Christians and Muslims, who for the most part live side by side in peace.

Its low level insurgency used to be largely confined to northeastern Nigeria, but it has struck several parts of the north, center and the capital Abuja this year.

Last Christmas Eve, a series of bomb blasts around Jos killed 32 people, and other people died in attacks on two churches in the northeast.

At the church near Abuja, a wounded man whose legs were almost shattered to pieces by the blast was loaded onto a stretcher near an ambulance by security services.

"I'll survive," he said in a hushed voice.

The blast in Jos, a tinderbox of ethnic and sectarian tensions that sometimes sees deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians, was accompanied by a shooting spree by militants, who exchanged fire with local police, said Charles Ezeocha, special taskforce spokesman for Jos.

"We lost one policeman and we have made four arrests. I think we can use them to get more information and work on that," he said. Police found four other explosive devices in Jos, which they deactivated, he added.

President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south who is struggling to contain the threat of Islamist militancy, called the incidents "unfortunate" but said Boko Haram would "not be (around) forever. It will end one day."

The White House condemned "this senseless violence and tragic loss of life on Christmas Day."

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also condemned the attacks and expressed his condolences "to the people of Nigeria and to the bereaved families."

"The Secretary-General calls once again for an end to all acts of sectarian violence in the country and reiterates his firm conviction that no objective sought can justify this resort to violence," a statement released by his office said.

(Additional reporting by Tife Owolabi and Buhari Bello in Jos, Mike Oboh in Kano and a correspondent in Maiduguri; Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Peter Graff)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/africa/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111226/wl_nm/us_nigeria_blast

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Monday, Dec. 26

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Youngstown St. at Stony Brook, 7 p.m.

William Woods at W. Illinois, 6 p.m.

Texas A&M-CC at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Toledo at Northwestern, 7 p.m.

Bucknell at West Virginia, Noon

Bryant at CCSU, 1 p.m.

South Carolina at Drexel, 5 p.m.

Cornell at Canisius, 5:15 p.m.

Quinnipiac at American U., 7 p.m.

Columbia at Fairleigh Dickinson, 7 p.m.

St. Francis (NY) at Manhattan, 7 p.m.

Duquesne at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Howard at Seton Hall, 7 p.m.

UT-Martin at Louisville, Noon

North Florida at Bethune-Cookman, 5:30 p.m.

Gardner-Webb at NC Central, 6 p.m.

Samford at Florida, 7 p.m.

Yale at Florida St., 7 p.m.

Furman at Georgia, 7 p.m.

Winthrop at Mercer, 7 p.m.

Old Dominion at Tennessee, 7 p.m.

Brevard at UNC Asheville, 7 p.m.

George Washington at William & Mary, 7 p.m.

Georgia St. at Jacksonville St., 8 p.m.

Kentucky at Middle Tennessee, 8 p.m.

Marshall at Tennessee Tech, 8 p.m.

Longwood at Notre Dame, 2 p.m.

Morehead St. at SE Missouri, 6:30 p.m.

Providence at Akron, 7 p.m.

Lake Erie at Cleveland St., 7 p.m.

Marygrove at IUPUI, 7 p.m.

Chicago St. at Miami (Ohio), 7 p.m.

Valparaiso at Wright St., 7 p.m.

Alabama A&M at Illinois, 8 p.m.

Sam Houston St. at Kansas, 8 p.m.

Delaware St. at Texas, 4 p.m.

MVSU at Arkansas, 5 p.m.

Houston Baptist at Texas St., 6 p.m.

Texas Wesleyan vs. Prairie View at Houston, Texas, 6:30 p.m.

Nebraska Omaha at Tulsa, 7 p.m.

UALR at North Texas, 8 p.m.

TCU at Oklahoma, 8 p.m.

UTSA at SMU, 8 p.m.

Texas-Arlington at Texas-Pan American, 8 p.m.

UNC Greensboro at San Diego St., 5 p.m.

UTEP at Arizona St., 7:30 p.m.

UNLV at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Troy at Denver, 9 p.m.

Utah Valley at Utah, 9 p.m.

NC State vs. Florida Gulf Coast at the Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, 10 p.m.

Corban at Portland St., 10 p.m.

CS Bakersfield at San Diego, 10 p.m.

Alcorn St. at Hawaii, Mid

High Point vs. UMBC, 5 p.m.

Cincinnati at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m.

Elon vs. UMass, 4:30 p.m.

Wagner at Virginia, 7 p.m.

Morgan St. vs. VCU, 5 p.m.

Holy Cross at Miami, 7 p.m.

Lafayette at Maryland, Noon

Delaware vs. East Carolina, 2:30 p.m.

Coll. of Charleston at Tulane, 7 p.m.

Hampton vs. Cent. Michigan, 9 p.m.

Iona at Colgate, 2 p.m.

Princeton at Hofstra, 4 p.m.

Vermont vs. La Salle at Leede Arena, Hanover, N.H., 5 p.m.

James Madison vs. Richmond at Stabler Arena, Bethlehem, Pa., 5 p.m.

Siena at Maine, 6 p.m.

La Salle at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.

Harvard at Hartford, 7 p.m.

Kansas St. at Marist, 7 p.m.

Rider at Mount St. Mary's, 7 p.m.

Boston College at Saint Joseph's, 7 p.m.

Niagara at Syracuse, 7 p.m.

Loyola (Md.) at Towson, 7 p.m.

Rhode Island at Lehigh, 7:30 p.m.

Fairfield at UConn, 7:30 p.m.

NC A&T at Georgia Tech, 2 p.m.

Savannah St. at North Carolina, 2 p.m.

Md.-Eastern Shore at Wake Forest, 2 p.m.

W. Kentucky at Louisiana-Monroe, 6:30 p.m.

Austin Peay at Tennessee St., 6:30 p.m.

Kennesaw St. at Alabama St., 7 p.m.

SC-Upstate at Coastal Carolina, 7 p.m.

SC State at Jacksonville, 7 p.m.

Xavier at UNC Wilmington, 7 p.m.

LSU at Louisiana Tech, 8 p.m.

SE Louisiana at Mississippi, 8 p.m.

W. Carolina at Vanderbilt, 8 p.m.

Butler at Detroit, 7 p.m.

George Mason at Ohio, 7 p.m.

Missouri St. at Bradley, 8 p.m.

N. Illinois at E. Illinois, 8 p.m.

Ill.-Chicago at Green Bay, 8 p.m.

Loyola of Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

IPFW at N. Dakota St., 8 p.m.

Wichita St. at N. Iowa, 8 p.m.

Oral Roberts at South Dakota, 8 p.m.

Oakland at S. Dakota St., 8 p.m.

S. Utah at UMKC, 8 p.m.

Florida Atlantic at Arkansas St., 6:35 p.m.

UNC Greensboro vs. Penn at Viejas Arena, San Diego, 5 p.m.

North Dakota vs. Idaho at Dahlberg Arena, Missoula, Mont., 6 p.m.

UC Irvine at CS Northridge, 7 p.m.

Cal St. Fullerton at Pacific, 8 p.m.

Southern Miss. at Montana, 9 p.m.

Alcorn St. vs. NC State at the Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, 9 p.m.

Bowling Green at Wyoming, 9 p.m.

Montana St. at E. Washington, 9:05 p.m.

Black Hills St. at N. Colorado, 9:05 p.m.

Brown at Dominican (Cal.), 10 p.m.

UC Riverside at Long Beach St., 10 p.m.

Saint Mary's (Cal.) at Loyola Marymount, 10 p.m.

Washington St. at Oregon, 10 p.m.

Washington at Oregon St., 10 p.m.

Gonzaga at Portland, 10 p.m.

Pepperdine at San Francisco, 10 p.m.

Stanford at Southern Cal, 10 p.m.

CS Bakersfield vs. Texas Tech at Jenny Craig Pavilion, San Diego, 10 p.m.

California at UCLA, 10 p.m.

N. Arizona at Sacramento St., 10:05 p.m.

Florida Gulf Coast at Hawaii, 11 p.m.

NJIT vs. Buffalo, 6 p.m.

New Hampshire at Iowa St., 8:30 p.m.

Albany (NY) at FIU, 6 p.m.

Auburn vs. Charlotte, 8 p.m.

Navy at Fordham, Noon

Coppin St. vs. Boston U., 2 p.m.

Norfolk St. at Monmouth (NJ), 2 p.m.

St. Bonaventure vs. Villanova, 4 p.m.

Third Place, TBA

Championship, TBA

Third Place, 4:30 p.m.

Championship, 7 p.m.

Third Place, 5 p.m.

Championship, 7 p.m.

LIU at Nevada, 5 p.m.

Mississippi St. vs. Oklahoma St., 7 p.m.

Dayton vs. South Florida, 5 p.m.

Binghamton at St. Peter's, 7:30 p.m.

Third Place, TBA

Championship, TBA

Third Place, 7 p.m.

Championship, 9 p.m.

Saint Louis vs. E. Michigan, 4 p.m.

St. Francis (Pa.) at Seattle, 6:15 p.m.

Bryant at Columbia, 4:30 p.m.

Vermont vs. Georgetown at Leede Arena, Hanover, N.H., 5 p.m.

Rhode Island vs. James Madison at Stabler Arena, Bethlehem, Pa., 5 p.m.

W. Michigan at American U., 7 p.m.

Quinnipiac at Army, 7 p.m.

Georgetown at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.

Howard at Fairleigh Dickinson, 7 p.m.

Rutgers at George Washington, 7 p.m.

Sacred Heart at Manhattan, 7 p.m.

Nebraska at Penn St., 7 p.m.

Duke at Temple, 7 p.m.

Richmond at Lehigh, 7:30 p.m.

Florida St. at UCF, 4:30 p.m.

Kent St. at Bethune-Cookman, 5:30 p.m.

Gardner-Webb at Campbell, 7 p.m.

UAB at Clemson, 7 p.m.

Southern Wesleyan at Georgia Southern, 7 p.m.

Notre Dame at Mercer, 7 p.m.

NC Central at North Carolina, 7 p.m.

Elizabeth City St. at William & Mary, 7 p.m.

Air Force at Alabama, 7:30 p.m.

Southern NO at Nicholls St., 7:30 p.m.

Seton Hall at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Jackson St. at Northwestern St., 8 p.m.

Michigan St. at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Chicago St. at Akron, 7 p.m.

Northwestern at Iowa, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Purdue, 7 p.m.

S. Illinois at Illinois St., 7:05 p.m.

Evansville at Indiana St., 7:05 p.m.

Michigan at Illinois, 8 p.m.

Sam Houston St. at Missouri, 8 p.m.

Ohio St. at Wisconsin, 8 p.m.

MVSU at Baylor, 8 p.m.

Ark.-Pine Bluff at Cent. Arkansas, 8 p.m.

Centenary at Lamar, 8 p.m.

Stephen F. Austin at SMU, 8 p.m.

McNeese St. at Texas A&M, 8 p.m.

Rice at UTSA, 8 p.m.

Penn at San Diego St., 5 p.m.

Alcorn St. vs. Florida Gulf Coast at the Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, 6 p.m.

Southern Miss. vs. Idaho at Dahlberg Arena, Missoula, Mont., 6 p.m.

New Mexico at New Mexico St., 8:30 p.m.

North Dakota at Montana, 9 p.m.

Great Falls at Idaho St., 9:05 p.m.

NC State at Hawaii, 9:30 p.m.

Texas Tech at San Diego, 10 p.m.

Third Place, TBA

Championship, TBA

Third Place, TBA

Championship, TBA

Third Place, 1 p.m.

Championship, 3 p.m.

Third Place, 2 p.m.

Championship, 4 p.m.

Third Place, 8 p.m.

Championship, 10 p.m.

Third Place, 5 p.m.

Championship, 7:30 p.m.

Third Place, 4 p.m.

Championship, 6:15 p.m.

Colgate at Syracuse, Noon

Robert Morris at Duquesne, 1 p.m.

Bucknell at Mount St. Mary's, 1 p.m.

Lafayette at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Hartford at Providence, 1 p.m.

Elon at West Virginia, 2 p.m.

Princeton at Drexel, 2:30 p.m.

Boston U. at St. John's, 3 p.m.

Longwood at Appalachian St., Noon

South Alabama at Middle Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Presbyterian at Charleston Southern, 2 p.m.

Winthrop at Coastal Carolina, 2 p.m.

Davidson at Wake Forest, 2 p.m.

Austin Peay at Morehead St., 2:45 p.m.

Florida Atlantic at Louisiana-Lafayette, 3 p.m.

Arkansas St. at Louisiana-Monroe, 3 p.m.

Tennessee Tech at UT-Martin, 3 p.m.

Tennessee St. at E. Kentucky, 4 p.m.

UNC Asheville at High Point, 4 p.m.

Liberty at Radford, 4:30 p.m.

Valparaiso at Detroit, Noon

Marquette at Toledo, Noon

Missouri Western at Nebraska Omaha, 1 p.m.

W. Illinois at IUPUI, 2 p.m.

Murray St. at SE Missouri, 2 p.m.

Jacksonville St. at SIU Edwardsville, 2 p.m.

Cleveland St. at Youngstown St., 2:05 p.m.

Wichita St. at Bradley, 3 p.m.

N. Illinois at DePaul, 3 p.m.

Loyola of Chicago at Green Bay, 3 p.m.

Ill.-Chicago at Milwaukee, 3 p.m.

Missouri St. at N. Iowa, 3 p.m.

S. Utah at South Dakota, 3 p.m.

IPFW at S. Dakota St., 3 p.m.

Oral Roberts at UMKC, 3 p.m.

Drake at Creighton, 3:05 p.m.

Marshall at Ball St., 4 p.m.

Oakland at N. Dakota St., 8 p.m.

Butler at Wright St., 8 p.m.

Troy at North Texas, 2 p.m.

Houston Baptist at Texas-Arlington, 2 p.m.

Texas Southern at TCU, 3 p.m.

Texas St. at UTEP, 4:05 p.m.

Arizona at Arizona St., 2 p.m.

California at Southern Cal, 2 p.m.

Bowling Green at Colorado St., 3 p.m.

Weber St. at Sacramento St., 3:05 p.m.

UALR at Denver, 3:30 p.m.

UC Irvine at Long Beach St., 4 p.m.

Colorado at Utah, 4 p.m.

Utah Valley at Boise St., 4:30 p.m.

San Francisco at Loyola Marymount, 5 p.m.

Washington at Oregon, 5 p.m.

Washington St. at Oregon St., 5 p.m.

Montana St. at Portland St., 5 p.m.

BYU at Saint Mary's (Cal.), 5 p.m.

Brown at San Jose St., 5 p.m.

Pepperdine at Santa Clara, 5 p.m.

Cal St. Fullerton at UC Davis, 5 p.m.

Stanford at UCLA, 5 p.m.

UC Santa Barbara at Cal Poly, 7 p.m.

UC Riverside at CS Northridge, 7 p.m.

N. Arizona at N. Colorado, 7:05 p.m.

Army at Yale, 4 p.m.

Kentucky at Florida, 1 p.m.

Arkansas at Georgia, 2 p.m.

Tennessee at Auburn, 3 p.m.

LSU at Mississippi, 3 p.m.

Alabama at South Carolina, 3 p.m.

Evansville at Illinois St., 1:05 p.m.

S. Illinois at Indiana St., 2:05 p.m.

Stephen F. Austin at Tulsa, 3 p.m.

St. Francis (Pa.) at Gonzaga, 5 p.m.

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North India continued to shiver under cold wave conditions as icy winds lashed the region claiming five more lives pushing the country-wide death toll this winter to 128.

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Uttar Pradesh has been the most severe hit which has so far accounted for 88 fatalities.The capital, Delhi, has been badly hit by the cold snap, along with Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.

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Chilly winds swept the state as mercury plunged to a low of 0.5 degrees Celsius in Najibabad area in Bijnor district.

The national capital witnessed coldest day of the season recording a minimum temperature of 3.3 deg C, five degrees below normal.

Kashmir Valley reeled under under bone-chilling cold with most places recording below sub-zero temperatures.

Hill resort Gulmarg endured intense cold registering a low of minus 11.6 deg C, a MeT official said.

The tourist resort of Pahalgam in South Kashmir recorded a low of minus 7.4 deg C against yesterday's minus 8.2 deg C.

In remote Leh district in Ladakh region, the minimum temperature rose by nearly three degrees to settle at minus 15 deg C, he said.

In summer capital Srinagar, the minimum temperature fell by 2.1 degrees Celsius compared to yesterday to settle at minus 3.3 deg C.

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Punjab and Haryana remained in the grip of a cold wave with Rohtak, the coldest place in the two states, reeling at minus 0.8 deg C.

Chilly winds blew across the Union Territory of Chandigarh which experienced the coldest day of the season with mercury plummeting to a low of 1.9 degrees Celsius.

Holy city Amritsar, Patiala and Ludhiana in Punjab recorded minimum temperatures of zero, 2.8 and 3.7 degrees respectively, the MeT office said.

Mercury dipped in Rajasthan with Churu recording the lowest temperature of the season at minus one degree Celsius,five notches below normal.
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Mount Abu, the only hill station in the state, recorded a low of one deg C.

Thick fog blanketed several places in the region hitting road and rail traffic. Several trains were running behind schedule, a Railway spokesman said.

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PARIS (Reuters) ? If you have trouble putting a name to a face, or remembering where you ate that delicious morsel of food you are craving - and you have an iPhone -- help is now at hand.

Evernote, designed as a memory-aid application for storing text, audio and visual notes across multiple mobile devices and desktop machines has launched two new features - the Evernote Hello and Evernote Food apps.

The aim of Evernote, first launched in 2008 and now used by about 20 million people worldwide, is to function as a "second brain" to give people a better memory, Phil Libin, Evernote chief executive said.

The Evernote Hello app aims to transform and modernize the concept of the historic alphabet-based address book, he said.

"Current technology for remembering people is very antiquated," Libin told Reuters in an interview at LeWeb, a conference in Paris where about 3,500 of the world's top digital experts and entrepreneurs from 60 countries meet each year to discuss the state of the tech industry.

"Your brain doesn't remember people alphabetically -- you remember them based on what they look like, when you met them and the context."

Evernote Hello requires users to swap phones and add their name into the other person's phone. Users are then prompted to hold the phone up so it can automatically take their picture and add it to their profile.

Evernote Hello can then send each person an email containing the new information. It also creates a record of where they met, a picture of the location, a map and the address.

"The idea is that instead of an address book I get a really visual way of remembering everyone I've met," Libin said.

"It remembers everything that's happened around that encounter based on location, time and keywords and it pulls together all the information into a context."

Once added to Evernote Hello, people are displayed within a mosaic of faces.

When it is tapped, a face becomes a profile showing a history of all interactions the two people have shared. It also shows other people who have participated in the same meetings, location information and items related to meetings from the user's Evernote account such as notes and photos.

The Evernote Food app allows users to track and record social events surrounding meals using pictures, location and text. It can also be used to document favorite recipes and share them on Facebook, Twitter and email. Users can also write restaurant reviews or plan diets.

"Evernote Food helps you remember all your best meal experiences," Libin said. "We are trying to make beautiful experiences around the most important things to remember."

Both Evernote Hello and Evernote Food are available free for iPhone and iPod Touch.

(Writing by Julie Mollins, editing by Paul Casciato)

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ATLANTA (AP) -- Strong storms moved through Georgia Thursday evening, and emergency dispatchers reported damage in the Rome area, Gordon County and elsewhere, mostly in northwest Georgia.

Georgia Power estimated that more than 19,000 customers lost electricity early Thursday evening.

Power was reported out in much of west Rome.

Georgia Power spokeswoman Carol Boatright said about two-thirds of the outages in the state were in the Rome area. "Our crews are used to working in bad weather, and they'll be out there working this evening," she said.

Damage in Floyd County "seems to be the result of straight line winds and confined to an area of West Rome, mostly businesses reporting windows blown out," Ken Davis of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency said in a statement.

There were two reported minor injuries in Rome, caused by cuts from flying glass, Davis said.

Davis said utility crews were en route to restore lost power in the area.

A rehab center, described by Davis as a place to get a warm drink and out of the weather, was being established at Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Gordon County reported a couple of homes with damages ranging from major to being destroyed by straight line winds, and some minor injuries. Some power outages were reported in Gordon county, Davis said.

In Adairsville in Bartow County, the National Weather Service said many trees were down and homes were damaged.

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Eke. A nearly-century old outfit is currently giving up office space to Japanese prosecutors, who today moved in on Olympus' Tokyo facilities in a raid surrounding an ongoing accounting investigation. According to reports from The Wall Street Journal and Reuters, the scandal involves many billions of dollars -- "irregularities" that have raised serious concerns about the outfit's handling of funds. It's bruited that the company has been running a scheme to conceal over $1.5 billion in investment losses, and we're told that the raid should pass right on through Olympus' headquarters and into the "homes of executives involved in the cover-up." All of this follows an admission last month that the firm had used "inflated payments made in acquisitions in recent years," and while it remains unclear what all of this means for its future, there's no doubt a few dark months are ahead as things sort themselves out. So much for looking pretty for the camera, eh?

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CARROLLTON - Students in the high school Physics 2 and Calculus classes completed a two-month study of the school's energy needs and made a presentation to the School Board about their findings.

After looking at alternative energy sources, solar, wind and geothermal, the seniors in Mike Scott's Physics 2 class and Pat Dugas' Calculus class recommended solar power as the best option for the high school.

The two classes started off asking how the school can increase its energy independence. The first graph showed projected energy costs through 2030 growing from about $36,000 to more than $46,000.

The students figured out how many kilowatt-hours would be needed and the size of the solar panels necessary to generate that power when looking at solar power for the school. If 335-watt panels were used, the school would need 403 panels and 9,277 square feet of space to set up the panels. Low maintenance and insurance costs for solar and the long life of the system, 25 to 40 years, made solar the first choice, even though start-up costs are high, the "climate here isn't ideal" and there is a 15-year payback period.

The students also questioned whether the Carrollton High School roof could support the panels. A roof ballast-mounted system would run $771,840, the study showed, but because of the age of the roof, students suggested choosing solar trees to mount the solar panels at a cost of $836,160. Geothermal was the most expensive of the options looked at with a price tag of $1,040,696, and the students noted the fact that the area does not have the right terrain or soil type for the geothermal process. Wind power was deemed too expensive because of start-up and maintenance costs.

"It was an extremely well-done presentation. I was impressed by the depth of their material," said Carrollton School District Superintendent Beth Pressler. "It was very cool. They gave us some common-sense ways to save money. It was a good study, and the students had to think deeply about it. It was exciting."

While the students concluded that solar power was the best option, they conceded it is too expensive at this time.

In other action Monday, the School Board approved the annual tax levy. The estimated levy is $1,783,491. The total tax levy increase is 4.44 percent without debt service. The aggregate amount levied for debt service is 99.9 percent of the 2010 extensions. The aggregate levy increase is 4.99 percent.

Pressler explained changes in the immunization process implemented by the state to protect infants from pertussis disease.

"Beginning with school year 2011-2012, any child entering sixth grade shall show proof of receiving one dose of Tdap (defined as tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis) vaccine, regardless of the interval since the last DTap," Pressler explained. "Students in grades seventh through 12th who have not already received Tdap are required to receive the Tdap dose."

Because of holidays in January and February, the board voted to change the dates of board meetings. The next board meeting will be Jan. 23, and the following month the meeting will be Feb. 27. The School Board normally meets the third Monday of the month.

The board accepted the resignation of teaching assistant Alice McAdams, effective Dec. 5.

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NEW YORK (AP) ? Moody's Investors Services on Friday downgraded Belgium's credit rating by two notches, citing strains on eurozone countries as they try to finance their heavy debt loads amid the regional financial crisis.

The ratings agency cut Belgium's local- and foreign-currency government bond ratings to "Aa3" from Aa1," with a negative outlook. The ratings remain investment grade.

Moody's said the downgrade comes as soaring borrowing costs strain the finances of heavily indebted countries that use the euro, like Belgium. The strains are also making it difficult for Belgium to reduce debt and rein in spending.

Other factors included the impact the crisis is having on Belgium's economic growth, and concerns about the small nation's banking sector.

Moody's earlier this week said the debt of the euro area countries is under pressure, because of the uncertainty surrounding efforts to solve the region's debt crisis. The agency has said it is reviewing its ratings on France's debt, and downgraded Hungary late last month. It already rates the bonds of Greece, Ireland and Portugal as "junk."

It downgrading Belgium, Moody's said higher costs for financing public borrowing could "significantly complicate" efforts to reduce the country's overall level of debt. In addition, there is an increased probability ? although it is still low ? that further turmoil could result in the inability to sell bonds.

The ratings agency is also concerned about the ability for the "small and very open Belgian economy" to grow, particularly as the rest of Europe aims to reduce debt by putting strict austerity measures into place. Belgium may find it necessary to further cut spending beyond the roughly ?11 billion to ?16 billion cuts planned, which would further weigh on economic growth.

Moody's pointed to Belgium's recent political trouble as another concern in addressing its economic problems.

Elio Di Rupo took the oath as Belgium's prime minister on Dec. 6, ending 541 days under a caretaker government that resulted from impasse among negotiators trying to bridge the divide between the country's linguistic groups.

"Belgium's recent experience of political bargaining indicates that consensus on additional measures can be difficult to achieve," Moody's said.

Finally, Moody's raised the issue of Belgium's banking sector. The ratings agency is concerned that the continued dismantling of Dexia Credit Local could further increase debt. In October, the Dexia Bank Belgium unit was nationalized at a cost of ?4 billion. That move increased Belgium's exposure to the rest of the banking group. Combined, Moody's estimated that exposure to be close to 10 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.

Earlier Friday, Fitch Ratings said it was considering further cuts to the credit scores of Belgium and five other eurozone nations.

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CAIRO (Reuters) ? Soldiers beat demonstrators with batons in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday in a second day of clashes that have killed 10 people and wounded hundreds, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.

Protesters fled into side streets to escape the troops in riot gear, who grabbed people and battered them repeatedly even after they had been beaten to the ground, a Reuters journalist said. Shots were fired in the air.

Soldiers pulled down protester tents and set them on fire, local television footage showed.

In Reuters footage, one soldier in a line of charging troops drew a pistol and fired a shot at retreating protesters. It was not clear whether he was using blanks or live ammunition.

Health Minister Fouad el-Nawawy told Egyptian television 10 people were killed and 441 injured. Most those appeared to have died on Friday or in the early hours of Saturday. State media said at least 200 people were taken to hospital.

The army-appointed prime minister, Kamal al-Ganzouri, 78, said 30 security guards outside parliament had been hurt and 18 people had gunshot wounds.

Ten months after a popular revolt toppled President Hosni Mubarak, tensions are running high. The army generals who replaced him have angered some Egyptians by seeming reluctant to give up power. Others back the military as a force for badly needed stability during a difficult transition to democracy.

The army assault on Saturday followed skirmishes between protesters and troops during which a fire destroyed archives, some more than 200 years old, in a building next to Tahrir.

An army official said troops targeted thugs, not protesters, after shots were fired at soldiers and petrol bombs set the archive building ablaze, the state news agency MENA reported.

The French Foreign Ministry said in a statement it was concerned by the violent incidents at Tahrir and condemned the "excessive use of force" against protesters.

The bloodshed follows unrest in which 42 people were killed in the week before November 28, the start of a phased parliamentary poll in which Islamist parties repressed during the 30-year Mubarak era have emerged as the strong front-runners.

Voting in the second round of the drawn-out election process, part of a promised transition from army to civilian rule by July, passed off peacefully on Wednesday and Thursday. The last run-off vote for the lower house will take place on January 11.

Friday's clashes pitted thousands of demonstrators against soldiers and plainclothes men who were seen at one point hurling rocks from the roof of a parliament building.

Army vehicles and soldiers were deployed at roads leading into Tahrir Square, the hub of the anti-Mubarak uprising, on Saturday evening. Some protesters and troops threw rocks at each other. Protesters also lobbed petrol bombs at army lines.

BARRIERS

Prime minister Ganzouri blamed the violence on youths among the protesters. "What is happening in the streets today is not a revolution, rather it is an attack on the revolution," he said.

Tahrir protesters and some other Egyptians are infuriated by the army's perceived reluctance to quit power, focusing their wrath on Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of the army council, who was Mubarak's defense minister for two decades.

"This is happening because Tantawi is dirty and he is ruling the country the same way Hosni ruled it," said a taxi driver.

But other Egyptians, desperate for order, voiced frustration about the unrest that has battered the economy.

"We can't work, we can't live, and because of what? Because of some thugs who have taken control of the square and destroyed our lives. Those are no revolutionaries," said Mohamed Abdel Halim, a 21-year-old who runs a store near Tahrir.

MIS-KICKED FOOTBALL?

State media gave conflicting accounts of what sparked the violence. They quoted some people as saying a man went into the parliament compound to retrieve a mis-kicked football, but was harassed and beaten by police and guards. Others said the man had prompted scuffles by trying to set up camp in the compound.

Among the dead was Emad Effat, a senior official of Egypt's Dar al-Ifta, a religious authority that issues Islamic fatwas (edicts). His wife, Nashwa Abdel-Fattah, told Reuters Effat died from a gunshot wound. At his funeral on Saturday, hundreds of mourners chanted "Down with military rule."

A new civilian advisory council set up to offer policy guidance to the generals said it would suspend its meetings until the violence stopped. It called for prosecution of those responsible and asked the army to release all those detained in the unrest. One council member announced he was quitting.

Islamist and liberal politicians decried the army's tactics.

The Muslim Brotherhood, whose party list is leading the election, said in a statement the military must make "a clear and quick apology for the crime that has been committed."

In a statement carried by the state news agency, the army council "expressed its regret about events" on Friday, but it stopped short of an apology.

Pro-democracy activists have accused the army of trying to clear a sit-in outside the cabinet office that a small number of protesters has maintained since the November violence.

The army council is in charge until a presidential election in June, but parliament will have a popular mandate that the military will find hard to ignore as it oversees the transition.

(Additional reporting by Ashraf Fahim, Marwa Awad and Dina Zayed; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

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When we first reviewed the Samsung Focus Flash ($49.99, 3.5 stars), we felt its smaller form factor and?significantly lower price made it a better deal than the Focus S ($199.99). Now that we've tested the Focus S, we're singing a different tune. True, you're only getting a bigger screen, an improved camera, and a thinner profile, but the Focus S brings Windows Phone 7.5 closer than it has ever been to the high-end. That alone makes?this? smartphone?worth a close look,?especially?given?its slick OS.

Design, Call Quality, and Apps
The Focus S measures 5.0 by 2.6 by 0.3 inches (HWD) and weighs just 3.9 ounces; those depth and weight figures lead the class. Like most touch screen Samsung phones, the Focus S is made entirely of plastic. It feels a little cheap, but it's also thinner and lighter than just about any comparable phone. The 4.3-inch, 480-by-800-pixel Super AMOLED Plus is now standard issue for Samsung smartphones; you get vibrant color and deep blacks. Typing is easy in both portrait and landscape modes, and Microsoft's on-screen keyboard is easy to use.

The Focus S is a quad-band EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and tri-band HSPA+ 14.4 (850/1900/2100 MHz) device with 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi.?Reception is average and voice quality is mixed. Calls generally sound good in the earpiece, but voices sound computerized through the mic. On a windy day, the Focus S let through a ton of wind noise. Calls sounded fine through an Aliph Jawbone Era Bluetooth headset ($129, 4 stars) and voice dialing worked perfectly. The speakerphone sounds thin and brittle, but sufficiently loud for outdoor use. Battery life was disappointing at?just 4 hours 29 minutes of talk time;?blame the extra-thin design for the reduced cell capacity.

The single-core Qualcomm MSM8255 S2 1.4GHz processor keeps things moving at a good clip. This phone felt exactly the same as the Focus Flash in testing, which is to say, responsive and intuitive. Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) is a fun OS with smooth animations, deep social networking integration, and a unique tile-based interface that shows you plenty of real-time information at a glance. There are also over 40,000 apps in Windows Phone Marketplace; it's still missing some major apps, but there's real selection now.

On the other hand, Microsoft's stringent specifications for WP7.5 explain the phone's omissions: a dual-core processor, 4G data speeds, a higher screen resolution, and a memory card slot are all nowhere to be found. I approve of Microsoft's hardware button limitations, and keeping a lid on resolution choices?is?much better?for third-party app compatibility than Windows Mobile ever was. But now that Microsoft finally has a solid code base to work with, it should let its hair down a little in order to catch up to Android. (All indications are that Microsoft is finally getting the message.)

Multimedia, Camera, and Conclusions
There's a standard-size 3.5mm headphone jack on top of the phone and a roomy 16GB of internal storage. There's no microSD card slot, but Microsoft's sync software, available for both PCs and Macs, is easy to use and syncs iTunes playlists reliably in addition to other media. The Zune-based music player app is a beauty, with its compelling album art animations, band photos, and transparent interface.?Music tracks sounded fine through?Samsung Modus HM6450 Bluetooth headphones ($99, 4 stars). Standalone videos looked fantastic on the AMOLED display, and played at resolutions up to 720p.

The 8-megapixel camera includes auto-focus and an LED flash. Test photos look decent overall. There's a bit too much grain and a slightly overexposed look indoors, but they're fine otherwise. Recorded 720p (1280-by-720-pixel) videos played back smoothy and averaged 29 frames per second, but are hampered by the same issues that plague the still images. VGA recordings (640-by-480-pixel) pegged the frame rate at a solid 30 and looked sharper and better balanced, thanks to the high data transfer rate. You also get a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video chats.

The Samsung Focus S is the closest Microsoft has ever come to hitting high-end, at least since Windows Phone 7 first hit the market late last year. It's the best Windows Phone right now, but it costs too much, as it's still several leagues behind top-end Android devices. For example, the Motorola Atrix 2?($99.99, 4 stars) offers a dual-core?processor, a higher resolution screen, HSPA+ 21 data speeds, and the ability to run hundreds of thousands of third-party Android apps, all for $100 less up front. The Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket?($249.99, 4.5 stars) is our current Editors' Choice on AT&T; it adds?true?4G LTE data speeds, a 1080p video recorder, and a faster 1.5GHz dual-core processor for only?$50 more than the Focus S.

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WASHINGTON ? Most Americans want Congress to vote to continue the payroll tax reduction, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll that comes as Democrats and Republicans wrestle over whether to extend the cut through 2012.

It's the latest instance in which lawmakers on Capitol Hill have allowed partisan sniping to hold up action that polls show most Americans support, like ending the Bush tax cuts or adding a surcharge on millionaires.

The dragged-out debate over whether to extend an expiring payroll tax reduction is one of many developments that have kept voters furious with their leaders all year. On the brink of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections, virtually all Americans are disappointed and frustrated with the political scene and nearly 6 in 10 say they are angry, the AP-GfK survey showed.

"It seems like there are parties that only want to get their agenda done," said liquor store owner James Jacobsen, 47, of East Hartford, Conn. "They're catering to special interests and not Americans. They are not representing the individual American."

Nearly 6 in 10 respondents say they want Congress to pass the extension, according to the poll. Letting the Social Security payroll tax break expire would cost a family making $50,000 about $1,000.

Yet, Republicans and Democrats are rejecting each other's proposals and trying to make law from what's left, a tactic they've used all year on debates over the budget and the nation's debt. The stalemates have caused a decline in confidence. About 15 percent of all adults and a third of political independents say they don't trust either party to manage the federal budget deficit.

Retired postal worker Larry Collier wishes Congress would get on with what help it can give ? an assurance to 160 million American workers that their payroll tax cut will be extended through 2012.

What really galls him is the inequality he sees: The same Congress hesitating to keep taxes low for working Americans also is hesitating to raise them on the wealthy. Congress this year ignored President Barack Obama's proposal to let expire tax cuts on the richest Americans and impose additional taxes on those who make more than $1 million, though polls showed most people supported those policies.

"Those millionaires wouldn't even miss that money," Collier, of Pace, Fla., said, noting that he voted for George W. Bush and is now a Democrat.

Economic discontent has spilled over into the political sphere all year and could influence the 2012 presidential and congressional elections. Occupy Wall Street and other protests against inequality have grabbed some attention from politicians, with Democrats the most supportive. Last week, a group of demonstrators camped out on the National Mall, crashed stately holiday parties and marched on Capitol Hill, demanding that Congress extend the payroll tax and insurance for the long-term unemployed.

On the payroll tax deduction, 58 percent of respondents said they want Congress to extend the break, while 35 percent want it to expire.

Democrats and independents are the strongest supporters of continuing the tax cut, while Republicans were evenly divided. But the difference is more partisan than ideological: Conservatives supported an extension, 54 percent to the 42 percent who prefer to let the reduction expire.

Those with annual incomes below $50,000 more strongly support the extension compared with higher-income respondents, and seniors were more likely than younger adults to back the extension.

On Wednesday, there was little sign Congress was listening.

Democrats who control the Senate rejected a GOP-ruled House plan to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits, but only with cuts to spending and sped-up approval of an oil pipeline. The Senate is crafting its own proposal in response.

If an agreement is not reached by the end of the year, payroll taxes will jump on Jan. 1 from this year's 4.2 percent back to their normal level of 6.2 percent.

Americans are virtually out of patience, the polling shows. And their distrust crosses party lines.

"I really don't feel that they are having the best interests of us as a people," said Rogersville, Tenn., resident Andrea Stafford, 38, a single mother of two who has been unemployed since the summer.

"And when I say people," she added, "I don't mean millionaires and government officials. I'm talking about the normal person who gets up and fixes their children's lunch and has to take off work when their child is sick because we don't have nannies."

The AP-GfK poll found congressional approval near its all-time low and nearly all Americans disappointed with politics. Eighty-four percent of the respondents disapproved of the way Congress is doing its job, with at least 8 in 10 Republicans, Democrats and independents feeling that way.

As for how to balance the federal budget, more now favor cutting government services as the best means to bring federal spending into balance. Sixty percent think lawmakers should focus on budget cuts over tax increases. That figure had been as low as 53 percent in August, during the showdown over raising the country's debt limit.

The biggest shift on that question has come from independents. In the August poll, 37 percent said lawmakers should focus on increasing taxes and 42 percent said cutting services. Now, that divide stands at 28 percent for raising taxes and 59 percent for cutting services.

The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted Dec. 8-12 by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,000 adults nationwide and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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AP Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta, writer Stacy A. Anderson and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.

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Online: http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) ? Thousands of former supporters of Muammar Gaddafi who fled their town after revenge attacks will try to return next week, their leaders said on Wednesday, risking a confrontation with their neighbors.

Tawargha, a town about 250 km east of Tripoli, was ransacked and looted, and its residents forced to flee, in one of the worst cases of reprisals against Gaddafi loyalists since the Libyan leader was overthrown three months ago.

Elders from the town decided at a meeting in Tripoli that all the residents -- who they said number 30,000 and are scattered in camps and makeshift accommodation across Libya -- will go home on December 20.

Jaballah Mohammed, one of the delegates from the town who was at the meeting, appealed to the Libyan government to help the people of Tawargha return.

"Please understand this request," he said. "We are innocent and helpless ... The people of Tawargha were under Gaddafi's militias, we did not know anything about the revolution (against his rule)."

But an official from the neighboring town of Misrata, one of the centers of the anti-Gaddafi rebellion whose fighters carried out the reprisals in Tawargha, said it was too early for residents to go back.

"It will be dangerous for them because everybody has weapons and we cannot guarantee that the people with weapons in their hands will not make trouble," said Fethi Bashaga, a member of the Misrata military council.

"Nobody forced the Tawargha people to leave the city. They went of their own accord."

He said the Tawargha residents should wait until Libya's caretaker leadership, the National Transitional Council, organizes their return as part of a program of national reconciliation it launched this month.

"All reconciliation should be organized by the state," Bashaga told Reuters by telephone.

SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED

International aid workers at the meeting in Tripoli also said a return to Tawargha next week could be risky.

"If you were to go on the 20th, neither your safety nor your dignity can be protected by us," Joann Kingsley of the Danish Refugee Council told the meeting.

"December 20 is only six days away. To organize the return of thousands of people to a destroyed place after a war takes much more time than six days."

People in Misrata accuse Tawargha of being complicit in a siege of their city by pro-Gaddafi forces which killed hundreds of civilians and fighters.

Rocket and artillery batteries stationed in Tawargha fired on residential districts of Misrata. Some people from Tawargha fought in the city in pro-Gaddafi units. Misrata residents allege that Tawargha men raped women in the city.

Deep-seated prejudices may also be a factor. Tawargha residents are dark-skinned, many descended from sub-Saharan African slaves, while almost everybody in Misrata is from Libya's lighter-skinned Arab majority.

International rights groups say some people from Tawargha may have committed crimes during the fighting in Misrata, but that the reprisals since then have swept up thousands of innocent people.

The attacks in Tawargha took some of the luster off Libya's revolution, which had been feted by its Western backers for its proclaimed ideals of justice, tolerance and democracy.

One Tawargha resident, speaking at the meeting in Tripoli on Wednesday, said a delegation had been to see interim prime minister Abdurrahim El-Keib.

"He said that for now he could not do anything about our problem," said the man, who did not give his name. "So we have to sort the problem out ourselves. Our people are suffering."

(Additional reporting by Hisham El-Dani; Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Robert Woodward)

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[the following is a modified repost from?Myrmecos, February 2011]

Your intrepid blog host contemplating the devil's work (Jatun Sacha, Ecuador)

I had been following an army ant raid for half an hour through dense tropical forest when the trees unexpectedly parted to reveal a small clearing. Sun broke through the canopy and fell on a low tangle of furry plants.? It was a monoculture, looking as though planted by a reclusive sort of gardener.

I had stumbled into a Devil?s Garden.

Local lore holds that malevolent forest spirits create these unnatural crop circles, but the truth is just as weird. Devil?s Gardens are made by ants.

Myrmelachista ants inhabit the swollen domatia of Clidemia

The plant species that compose these gardens- mostly in the genera?Tococa,?Clidemia, and?Duroia- sport swollen structures filled by the nests of tiny?Myrmelachista ants* no more than 3 millimeters long. The ants are meticulous about caring for their hosts, removing pesty herbivores and injecting formic acid into the saplings of competing plants.

Clidemia growing in the Devil's Garden. This particular patch was composed of two plant species (the other is a Tococa, in background), both inhabited by the same ant colony.

A hollow Tococa stem in the garden holds ants, ant brood, and mealybugs that the ants tend for honeydew.

Over time, the systematic removal of non-host species leads to a dense garden composed of nothing but the ant-plants. As the ant colonies are spawned by thousands of continually replaced queens, the gardens are potentially immortal. One?Duroia garden in Peru was?recently estimated to be 800 years old.

Myrmelachista and mealybugs in a Tococa plant.

I had never seen a Devil?s Garden. Finding this one was one of these delightful surprises of tropical ecology- what a treat! I abandoned my planned photo session with the army ants to spend an afternoon shooting the furry little ant plants and their quirky ant partners.

This devil's garden Tococa has a swollen leaf base for housing the ants.

More photos?here.

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*Myrmelachista is an extraordinarily poorly known group of ants. Most species are probably undescribed. Given their ecologically fascinating habits, though, big discoveries certainly await those with the patience to work with these small insects.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Now that President Barack Obama has declared the war over in Iraq, it's time the country got its tableware back. And the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York is happy to handle the job.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said on Wednesday that his office became aware last month that dinner and salad plates once owned by Saddam Hussein had been smuggled into the United States and were subsequently sold on Ebay.

Along with the plates, the smugglers had sold stolen china that dates back to the pre-Hussein royal family of Iraqi King Faisal II.

The U.S. Marshals Service tracked the plates and china to Park Avenue Autumn, a Manhattan restaurant, where they were being used in an art exhibit by the dinnerware's new owners, Creative Time, a nonprofit arts organization.

Bharara said once Creative Time was told about the illegal nature of the plates, it agreed to hand them over to his office.

Justice Department personnel on Tuesday delivered the plates to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations.

(Reporting by Joseph Schuman; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Jerry Norton)

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