Romney Makes Brokaw ???Extremely Uncomfortable??? (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | Tom Brokaw is "extremely uncomfortable," says Mediaite, and doesn't want his name associated with Mitt Romney's GOP primary race.

Through the NBC legal department, the reporter is requesting Romney's campaign stop using a Brokaw clip from a 1997 "NBC Nightly News" broadcast.

If there is bit of anti-Newt Gingrich editorializing in Brokaw's script or even in his tone, "NBC Nightly News" is to blame for that, not Romney. The clip Romney's team is showing is unaltered, unedited and has nothing woven around it.

Essentially, you have a major network, a celebrated reporter and a representation of fact. For NBC to worry years later that the unaltered broadcast might be put to partisan use is an interesting revelation.

NBC apparently felt its original broadcast was objective then. What's different about it now?

In his 1997 broadcast , Brokaw highlighted Gingrich's contradictions in "preaching a higher standard in American politics." Brokaw goes on to report Gingrich "has on his own record the judgment of his peers, Democrat and Republican alike."

Gingrich was censured by the Congress and paid $300,000 in costs.

Romney's team argues the clip meets "fair use" provisions of the U.S. Copyright Office. U.S. copyright law allows educational and noncommercial use of such information as the clip provided.

Is it not educational and noncommercial?

Every political team is busy with "opposition research" and the newspapers and video archives provide a gold mine of useful information. Will the barbs flying between Romney and Gingrich not appear in President Barack Obama's campaign ads?

FactCheck.org pointed out how President Obama made "misleading use of quotes pulled from newspapers" in 2008. Is Romney being unfairly targeted by a network with tentacles into broadcast centers like MSNBC and CNBC?

If I were on Romney's campaign team, I'd advise the NBC legal staff we were considering its request. Then I would stall to let the impact of the ad sink in.

That is cynical perhaps, but it seems to be the course Romney is taking. The latest news from Atlantic Wire is Romney will underscore the kerfuffle by meeting with the NBC lawyers to discuss the matter.

As Romney was quoted in an Associated Press story, politics is not "beanbag." Neither is broadcast or print journalism.

Anthony Ventre is a freelance writer who has written for weekly and daily newspapers and several online publications. He is a frequent Yahoo contributor, concentrating in news and financial writing.

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Ex-Pakistani envoy to US wins court victory (AP)

ISLAMABAD ? Pakistan's top court Monday lifted a travel ban imposed on the country's former ambassador to the U.S. during an investigation into a memo sent to Washington that had enraged the army, in a sign that a scandal that once looked capable of bringing down the government may be losing steam.

Husain Haqqani resigned in November and returned to Islamabad to answer allegations that he masterminded the note, which asked for Washington's help in curbing the powers of the Pakistani army in exchange for security policies favorable to the U.S.

The unsigned memo, sent to Washington following the May 2011 American operation that killed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistan army town, appeared to confirm the army's worst fears that the country's elected politicians were conspiring with Washington ? a potent charge in a country where anti-Americanism runs deep.

The outrage, whipped up by right-wing, pro-army sections of the media, exposed the apparent fragility of the government in the face of generals who have ruled the country for much of its more than 60-year existence and still run defense and foreign policy.

Haqqani, who denies any link to the memo, said he now intends to travel to United States to join family there.

"Anywhere else, this matter would have been laid to rest long ago," Haqqani said. "The memo had no impact on U.S. policy and was consigned to the dustbin by its recipient."

The Supreme Court set up a commission to investigate the affair, dubbed "memogate" in the Pakistani media, after opposition politicians petitioned for an inquest. Despite the fact he had not been charged with a crime, the commission had banned Haqqani from traveling.

On Monday, it ruled that Haqqani ? who has been living in the prime minister's residence, reportedly worried about threats to his life ? could travel. The court said Haqqani had to return to Pakistan if the commission required it. Haqqani said he would comply with the orders.

Up until a few weeks ago, there was speculation that the "memogate" scandal could lead to the demise of President Asif Ali Zardari. But last week, the main accuser ? a Pakistani-American businessman who claimed to have delivered the note to Adm. Mike Mullen, the top U.S. military officer at the time ? said he couldn't come to Pakistan to testify, citing security fears.

That appears to have dealt a sharp blow to the case, even assuming the accuser, Mansoor Ijaz, had a "smoking gun" linking Haqqani and President Zardari to the memo. Many observers have since predicted that the probe is heading nowhere. Some media reports have speculated about a possible agreement between the army and the government to shelve the case.

Haqqani has won support from some U.S. lawmakers and pro-democracy activists in Pakistan, who painted him as a victim of army meddling in the democratic process. While he worked hard in Washington defending Pakistan ? a challenging task over the past few years ? prior to taking the job he was known as having an anti-army line.

The scandal has transfixed Pakistan's media and political class even as the country grapples with more existential threats like Islamist militancy and potential economic collapse.

On Monday, a suicide bomber killed a leader of a militant group that has been fighting a rival outfit in northwest Pakistan close to the Afghan border, said police officer Imtiaz Khan.

Haji Akhunzada was a senior figure in Ansarul Islam, which operates in the Khyber tribal region close to the Afghan border.

Akhunzada was killed along with his son-in-law while visiting his house close to the city of Peshawar, said Khan.

Ansarul Islam is fighting with another militant group, Lashkar Islam, for control of Kyhber, and dozens of people have been killed in the violence.

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Associated Press writer Riaz Khan contributed to this report from Peshawar.

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Sonnen earns his rematch against Silva, grinds out win over Bisping at UFC on Fox 2

CHICAGO -- It was a rough 15 minutes, but Chael Sonnen did enough to get the fight he's coveted for 17 months.

The middleweight title contender locked up a shot against the UFC's 185-pound champ Anderson Silva with a surprisingly tough win over Michael Bisping.

In a fight, that appeared to be a toss-up for some, Sonnen took a unanimous decision, 30-27, 29-28 and 29-28, in the co-main event of the UFC on Fox 2 card at the United Center.

Sonnen's win sets up an intriguing scenario.

UFC president Dana White guaranteed the winner of tonight's tilt the next shot at Silva. The champ has been sidelined since August with shoulder and back issues and the promotion is pointing towards a summer return. But Silva recently hinted that he may be out beyond the summer.

Sonnen (27-11-1, 6-4 UFC) believes Silva is ducking him and has done everything he can to call out the champ. Tonight, he made the wise decision of not poking Silva. Instead, he delivered a hilarious postfight speech talking about his own greatness.

"As I've told everyone before, when you're the best fighter in the world, they don't call you champion, they call you Chael Sonnen," said Sonnen.

Sonnen was good, not great tonight, but much of that had to do with the opponent. Bisping (22-4, 10-0 UFC) rubs plenty of fans and media members the wrong way and, as a result, he's a bit underrated. The common thought was that the Brit would get eaten alive by Sonnen's Olympic-level wrestling, but that didn't happen in the first two rounds.

Sonnen scored two takedowns in the first, but Bisping got to his feet in less than 25 seconds on both occasions. He also stuffed two more takedown attempts. In the second, Sonnen scored a takedown with 2:58 left. Bisping was up a minute later and took minimal damage. The Brit was effective in the striking game, landing a few good combinations, but nothing appeared to rock the hard-charging American. Sonnen admitted during the postfight press conference that he was shaky on one occasion after a big shot from Bisping.

UFC color voice Joe Rogan was convinced Bisping had won the first two rounds. That wasn't the case on the judges' scorecard, but two of them did have things 19-19. Sonnen did what he needed to in the final round. He scored a big takedown and really dominated the position for over three minutes.

Sonnen scored that takedown just 12 seconds into the round. Bisping defended well for the next minute but got a little impatient as he was just about to rise to his feet. Bisping gave up his back standing and Sonnen squashed him. Then he did a brilliant job of getting both hooks in and rolling to dominant position on the ground. He worked to lock on a rear-naked, but it didn't happen. Bisping was protecting from the choke, lost his focus and allowed Sonnen to roll the position into the mount with 2:31 left. With 1:31 left, Bisping hip escaped to full guard. Bisping eventually got to his feet with less than 20 seconds left and scored a takedown of his own. He even landed a few big elbows, but it was too little, too late.

Bisping thought he won the first, but didn't flip out.

"That was a great fight. My hat goes off to Chael, he won the fight tonight. But, I really felt that I did enough in rounds one and two to secure the victory. He won the third, but I really felt that I was up on the judges' scorecards. They saw it differently and it is what it is," said Bisping.

Now the question is when will the fight everyone wants - Sonnen vs. Silva II - actually go down? Sonnen turned up the heat in recent weeks, plainly stating that he'll never get to face Silva because the champ won't accept the fight.

"I'm not going to fight Anderson either way. They can say whatever they want. Anderson is never going to do that fight," Sonnen told "The MMA Insiders" show on Las Vegas' ESPN1100/98.9 FM. "I hope he's healthy and has a good life, but I'm not buying into this mythical world that Anderson is going to some day sign a contract to fight me."

Silva beat Sonnen at UFC 117 via fifth-round submission, but that was after getting dominated for 23 minutes. He's had to hear about it ever since. This is a chance to shut Sonnen's mouth and likely do it in front of a record-sized crowd in Brazil. Why would he pass on the opportunity?

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UK police arrest Murdoch tabloid staff

LONDON?? British police arrested four current and former staff of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling Sun tabloid plus a policeman on Saturday as part of an investigation into suspected payments by journalists to officers, police and the newspaper's publisher said.

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Police also searched the paper's London offices at publisher News International, News Corp.'s British arm, in a corruption probe linked to a continuing investigation into phone hacking at its now closed News of the World weekly tabloid.

News Corp.'s Management and Standards Committee, set up in the wake of the phone hacking scandal, said Saturday's operation was the result of information it had passed to police.

"News Corporation made a commitment last summer that unacceptable news gathering practices by individuals in the past would not be repeated," the committee said in a statement confirming the arrests of four "current and former employees" of the Sun.

The committee is conducting a lawyer-led internal review of News International's remaining titles, which also include The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers, as part of a drive to mend the reputational damage done by the phone hacking scandal.

The committee's investigation into The Sun was "well advanced," News International chief executive Tom Mockridge said in an email sent to staff.

"News International is confronting past mistakes and is making fundamental changes about how we operate which are essential for our business.

"Despite this very difficult news, we are determined that News International will emerge a stronger and more trusted organisation," he added.

Emails warned James Murdoch of phone hacking

News International was providing legal support for the four arrested "colleagues," Mockridge said.

The arrests included The Sun's crime editor Mike Sullivan, its head of news Chris Pharo, and former deputy editor Fergus Shanahan, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters.

Also arrested was the paper's former managing editor Graham Dudman, now a columnist and media writer, the source said.

Police said a 48-year-old man from north London and two other men from Essex, east of London, ages 48 and 56, were arrested at their homes. The fourth man, aged 42, was arrested after reporting to an east London police station.

A Sun reporter, who asked not to be named, said: "Everyone is a bit shocked, there is disbelief really. But there is a big difference between phone hacking and payments to the police."

A 29-year-old policeman serving with the Met Police's Territorial Policing Command, was arrested at the central London police station where he worked.

All five were being questioned on suspicion of corruption.

Operation Elveden
Police searched the arrested men's homes as well as The Sun's offices in Wapping, east London.

Thirteen people have now been arrested over allegations that journalists paid police in return for information.

Their detentions are part of Operation Elveden - one of three criminal investigations into news-gathering practices.

Last week, News International settled a string of legal claims after it admitted that people working for the tabloid had hacked in to the private phones of celebrities and others to find stories.

The phone hacking scandal drew attention to the level of political influence held by editors and executives at News International, and other newspapers in Britain.

It embarrassed British politicians for their close ties with newspaper executives and also the police, who repeatedly failed to investigate allegations of illegal phone hacking.

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Archaeopteryx: Birdlike dinosaur wore black plumage of feathers

Archaeopteryx?lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Bavaria in Germany. First unearthed 150 years ago, the fossil of this carnivore, with its blend of avian and reptilian features, seemed an iconic evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds.

The raven-size creature long thought of as the earliest bird,?Archaeopteryx, may have been adorned with black feathers, researchers have found.

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The structures that held the black pigment may have strengthened wing feathers, perhaps helping?Archaeopteryx?fly, scientists added.

Archaeopteryx?lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Bavaria in Germany. First unearthed 150 years ago, the fossil of this carnivore, with its blend of avian and reptilian features, seemed an iconic evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds.

One recent study has called into question whether?Archaeopteryx?was a true bird?or just one of many birdlike dinosaurs. To learn more about whether birds and birdlike dinosaurs might have evolved flight, and if so, why, researchers often turn to the animals' feathers. Illustrations of the creature are often colorful, but such depictions of its plumage until now had little else but artistic license to draw on.

"Being able to?reconstruct the colors of feathers?can help us gain more knowledge about the organisms and more responsibly reconstruct what they looked like," researcher Ryan Carney, an evolutionary biologist at Brown University, told LiveScience.

Black feathers

An international team of scientists now finds that a well-preserved feather on?Archaeopteryx's wing was black. The color-generating structures within the creature's feather, known as?melanosomes, "would have given the feathers additional structural support," Carney said. "This would have been advantageous during this early evolutionary stage of dinosaur flight." [Images: Dinosaurs That Learned to Fly]

The?Archaeopteryx?feather was discovered in a limestone deposit in Germany in 1861. After two unsuccessful attempts to pinpoint any melanosomes within the feather, the investigators tried a more powerful type of scanning electron microscope.

"The third time was the charm, and we finally found the keys to unlocking the feather's original color, hidden in the rock for the past 150 million years," Carney said.

The group located patches of hundreds of melanosomes encased within the fossil. The sausage-shape melanosomes were about 1 millionth of a meter long and 250 billionths of a meter wide ? that is, about one-hundredth the diameter of a human hair in length and less than a wavelength of visible light in width. To determine the color of these melanosomes, researchers compared the fossilized structures with those found in 87 species of?living birds?that represented four classes of feathers ? black, gray, brown and ones found in?penguins, which have unusually large melanosomes compared with other birds.

"What we found was that the feather was predicted to be black with 95 percent certainty," Carney said.

Did?Archaeopteryx?fly?

To better pin down the structure of the feather, they analyzed its barbules ? tiny, riblike appendages that overlap and interlock like zippers to give a feather rigidity and strength. The barbules and the way melanosomes are lined up within them are identical to those found in modern birds, Carney said.

This analysis revealed the feather is a covert, one that covers the primary wing feathers that birds use in flight. Its feather structure is identical to that of living birds, suggesting "that completely modern bird feathers evolved as early as 150 million years ago," Carney said.

Color may serve many functions in modern birds, and it remains unclear what use or uses this pigment had in?Archaeopteryx. Black feathers may have helped the creature absorb sunlight for heat, acted as camouflage, served in?courtship displays?or assisted with flight.

"We can't say it's proof that?Archaeopteryx?was a flier, but what we can say is that in modern bird feathers, these melanosomes provide additional strength and resistance to abrasion from flight, which is why wing feathers and their tips are the most likely areas to be pigmented," Carney said. "With?Archaeopteryx, as with birds today, the melanosomes we found would have provided similar structural advantages, regardless of whether the pigmentation initially evolved for another purpose."

More feathers will need to be tested across?Archaeopteryx?to see how the animal was colored overall, researchers said. Unfortunately, this is the only?Archaeopteryx?feather discovered with the kind of residues one can test for color.

Still, this one feather is enough to leave an indelible mark on Carney. "I got a tattoo of the feather on the 150th anniversary that?Archaeopteryx's scientific name was published," he said.

The scientists detailed their findings online today (Jan. 24) in the journal Nature Communications. Their work was funded by the National Geographic Society and the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

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Congo presidential coalition leads parliament race (AP)

KINSHASA, Congo ? The coalition of parties supporting Congo's president has won two-thirds of legislative seats, officials said Friday in a belated announcement of partial results for the mineral-rich nation's chaotic November balloting.

Electoral officials also said they want to annul legislative elections in seven of Congo's 169 voting districts and prosecute a dozen candidates accused of introducing irregularities and violence.

Local and international observers already have denounced the Nov. 28 elections for the president and 500 national assembly seats, saying they were too flawed.

Critics say any results issued now are unreliable, given that millions of voters were unable to cast ballots, hundreds of thousands of ballots have been tampered with and a similar amount have gone missing. Even before voting began, the election was compromised by violence and intimidation of the opposition by security forces and a flawed voters roll.

The electoral commission said that President Joseph Kabila's party is leading the national assembly race with 58 of 432 seats counted. They said opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi's party has won 34 seats. A coalition of parties that have governed in a sometimes uneasy alliance with Kabila has won 150 seats to 69 for the three main opposition parties, according to the results.

That indicated some heavy losses for Kabila, whose party held 111 seats in the previous parliament.

Electoral commission president, the Rev. Daniel Ngoy Mulunda, told reporters the results were weeks late because his officers had examined hundreds of complaints of irregularities that required them to deploy across the massive country, which covers an area the size of Western Europe.

Last week, leaders of Congo's powerful Roman Catholic Church called for Ngoy Mulunda and other commissioners to address "serious errors" in the results, or resign.

Ngoy Mulunda said any further complaints about results should be taken to the Supreme Court, which the commission will ask to cancel the elections in seven voting districts in five southern and eastern provinces.

Tshisekedi already has disputed the presidential vote and declared himself president. Since then, he has been under a form of house arrest, with soldiers preventing visitors from entering his home.

Soldiers also have forcefully halted protests. Calls by civil society and church leaders for new elections or a re-count are being ignored.

In a bid to help save at least the legislative elections, the United States sent electoral officials to help monitor belated counting of ballots. But they left in disgust, saying there was nothing they could do to salvage the process.

The November election was only the second democratic vote in Congo's 51-year history, and the first to be organized by the Congolese government. The 2006 election was organized by the U.N. mission in Congo.

Congo, which is sub-Saharan Africa's largest country, has suffered decades of dictatorship and civil war. The country's east is still wracked by violence from a myriad of militias and rebel groups.

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Gingrich reiterates Palestinians 'invented' people

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) ? Newt Gingrich is defending himself after a questioner at the GOP presidential debate criticized him for calling Palestinians an invented people.

A questioner of Palestinian descent asked Gingrich how he could say Palestinians are "invented."

Gingrich answered by reiterating his stance, saying that Palestinians were, in fact, invented in the 1970s. He says before that they were simply identified as Arabs.

Gingrich is also making it clear he is a strong supporter of Israel. He says that President Barack Obama has not stood up in support of Israel amid ongoing tension with Palestinians. Gingrich says he would be a steadfast supporter of Israel.

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Research suggests business directors more likely to use Apple ...

Forrester Research recently conducted a survey of close to 10,000 workers in 17 countries to determine which workers are more likely to own and use Apple products. The New York Times has published the results, which show that "business directors" -- in other words, bosses -- are the employee group most likely to own one or more Apple products and use them at work.

Here's a breakdown of the survey results.

Who uses Apple products:

• 43 percent of people earning $150,000 or more per year -- 87 of 200 respondents
• 27 percent of people earning $100,000 - $149,999
• 23 percent of people earning $50,000 - $99,999
• 19 percent of people earning $49,999 or less -- 1300 of 6800 respondents

21 percent of all 9912 respondents in Forrester's survey said they used one or more Apple devices for work.

The New York Times notes that the increasing penetration of Apple products into the workplace, often driven by people bringing in and using their personal devices, is wearing down traditional IT department hostility toward the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. However, as Ars Technica notes, the research also shows that while 50 percent of firms in "mature markets" offer Macs, only 30 percent of respondents said their companies support them, leaving many Mac users to fend for themselves at work.

Coupled with reports like Good Technology's quarterly results on device activations, it seems that the old practice of business and enterprise environments shunning Apple products is shifting quite rapidly. Forrester's claim that "Windows' dominance is at an end" is premature, however; while Microsoft's share of the enterprise pie is no longer as big as it once was, it's still claiming the majority of users in that sphere.

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Brad Pitt Making "Pancakes for Everyone" to Celebrate Oscar Nomination (omg!)

Brad Pitt's six kids with Angelina Jolie are in for a treat!

"It's gonna be pancakes for everyone this morning!" the 48-year-old actor said when he phoned in to the Today show Tuesday morning. Just minutes earlier, the Moneyball actor was nominated in the Best Actor category at the 84th Annual Academy Awards.

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Pitt -- who will face off against George Clooney (The Descendants), Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Demian Bichir (A Better Life) -- said he's "ecstatic" to be recognized.

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"It means so much considering this film was just dead on the rocks two years ago," Pitt said. "It took a lot of people, a lot of artisans and craftsmen, to get it to the screen. It's a great honor, a real tribute to Billy Beane and Oakland A's organization. I'm really happy."

The actor's 28-year-old costar Jonah Hill also scored his first Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category. "I'm so happy for Jonah Hill," Pitt raved. "I can't tell you."

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Moneyball wasn't the only film to earn Pitt praise. "I'm doubly happy that Tree of Life made it in there," he said. "We thought we were all but forgotten; just excited for [director and nominee] Terry Malick."

The actor and producer, who's been in love with 36-year-old Jolie since 2005, said he's looking forward to seeing Clooney, 50, at the show.

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"It's more fun to have a friend there, and no one does it better than George," Pitt said. "I say give him all the trophies, and when you run out of trophies, make some new ones and give him those, too."

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Apple Q1 2012 by the numbers

Apple held their Q1 2012 conference call today and, as usual, announced a ton of numbers pertaining to revenue, profit, sales, and more.

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iVoices: Revving Up For Election 2012

Excitement surrounds the search for the next Republican nominee but what do voters want in a candidate? iVoices Beth Engelman, Sharon Rowley, Stephanie Dulli and Joey Fortman chime in on the issues that matter to them for the 2012 election.

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The Crow Lawsuit Settled; Reboot Still in Development

There are so many reboots/remakes of well-established properties being developed in Hollywood right now that it?s almost bigger news when one doesn?t?look to be happening. For the past several months, that appeared to be the case with Relativity Media?s reboot of The Crow, which lost both star Bradley Cooper and director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo ? all while a legal battle over distribution rights was being waged between Relativity and the Weinstein Company.

While that lawsuit never fully prevented progress from being made on the Crow reboot, the air of uncertainty surrounding the project?s ability to begin production in the near future (most likely) did help inspire the departure of both its would-be helmer and leading man ? who had already begun preliminary conceptual work on the eponymous character?s renovated design.

Relativity and the Weinsteins have now settled their legal issues concerning the Crow property, along with related ones (or, rather, those that helped fuel the prolonged legal skirmish) concerning the film Nine.

To quote the official statement issued on the matter:

?The lawsuit between Relativity Media and The Weinstein Company concerning THE CROW has been amicably settled out of court, and the parties will continue to work on the film together as planned. In addition, Relativity Media has dismissed all of its claims against The Weinstein Company for any wrongdoing regarding the release and distribution of NINE, and The Weinstein Company has dismissed all of its claims against Relativity Media.?

Hence, momentum is once again on the side of the Crow reboot, now that there aren?t any potential legal complications hanging over its head. We should soon learn more about the project in its current state ? including, an update on whether the film?s script draft penned by Alex Tse (Watchmen) is going to be either abandoned or reworked, now that Fresnadillo is no longer involved.

Eric Draven will return (again) in 'The Crow' reboot

Even thought there?s been plenty of skepticism and fan outrage circling just about every?upcoming rehashing of an older title, it seems like The Crow ranks among those that have prompted the largest outcry. That?s not so much due to the current condition of the franchise ? which is basically dead in the water, following three disliked movie spinoffs and a TV show ? more, it has to do with the continued adoration of director Alex Proyas? original film adaptation of the Crow comic book series.

Proyas? The Crow is overall a pretty loyal screen interpretation of James O?Barr?s source material ? one that captures the stylishly dingy visuals and violently Gothic atmosphere of its inspiration. Hence, claims that the new version will offer an even darker (re: better) version of Eric Draven?s quest for revenge seem like a stretch. And, unlike the RoboCop remake/reboot, the filmmakers behind the Crow redo really haven?t offered much insight on how?it will differ significantly from Proyas? take on the story.

It seems like the only way to really make the Crow reboot feel that different from what?s been done before would be to play down the supernatural elements and aim to ground things more in the real world ? similar to what director Marc Webb is doing with The Amazing Spider-Man?and, one would assume, along the lines of what onetime Crow reboot helmer Stephen Norrington originally had planned.

Whether Relativity has something along those lines in mind still for The Crow ? that remains to be seen. We will be sure to let you know where more information about the reboot?s current status is made available.

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The Legal Theory Bookworm?recommends?Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice by Julie E. Cohen. Here is a description:

The legal and technical rules governing flows of information are out of balance, argues Julie E. Cohen in this original analysis of information law and policy. Flows of cultural and technical information are overly restricted, while flows of personal information often are not restricted at all. The author investigates the institutional forces shaping the emerging information society and the contradictions between those forces and the ways that people use information and information technologies in their everyday lives. She then proposes legal principles to ensure that people have ample room for cultural and material participation as well as greater control over the boundary conditions that govern flows of information to, from, and about them.

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Apple launches software for interactive textbooks (AP)

NEW YORK ? Apple says its launching a new version of its iBooks software, tailored to present vivid, interactive textbooks for elementary and high school students on the iPads.

IBooks 2 will be able to display books with videos and other interactive features.

It's not clear how Apple plans to get it front of students, however, since textbooks are subject to lengthy approval processes by states. Also, few students have iPads, which start at $499.

Apple is revealing the software at an event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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Final results confirm Islamists top Egypt vote (Reuters)

CAIRO (Reuters) ? The Muslim Brotherhood's electoral coalition has won 38 percent of seats allocated to party lists for Egypt's parliament, with Islamists of various stripes taking more than two thirds of the assembly, in line with their own forecasts.

According to final results issued by the High Elections Committee on Saturday, the hardline Islamist Nour Party won 29 percent of list seats. The secular New Wafd and the Egyptian Bloc coalition came third and fourth respectively.

Under a complex electoral system, two thirds of seats in Egypt's 498-seats lower house are decided by proportional representation on closed party lists. The other third are contested by individual candidates.

(Writing by Lin Noueihed)

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LightSquared claims government testing 'rigged' by GPS industry insiders

This is getting interesting.  After the recent news that federal testing determined LightSquared's LTE network plans would never work without interfering with GPS (and a cease to any further testing) LightSquared has come back with guns blazing.  In a statement, the company has accused the GPS industry of rigging the results by using antiquated equipment, shrouding the entire process in secrecy, and using unrealistic parameters for failure.  Jeff Carlisle, LightSquared’s Executive Vice President of regulatory affairs and public policy, Geoff Stearn, LightSquared’s Vice President for spectrum development, and Edmond Thomas, former chief engineer at the FCC held a press conference and had the following to say:

Testing was shrouded in secrecy, no transparency. The GPS manufacturers cherry-picked the devices in secret without any independent oversight authority in place or input from LightSquared. The GPS manufacturers and the government end users put non-disclosure agreements in place for the PNT EXCOM’s tests, preventing any input by an independent authority or from LightSquared before the tests began. This secrecy made it impossible for independent experts to properly oversee or challenge the process and results, thereby leaving taxpayers who paid for the testing no option but to take the PNT EXCOM’s word for it.
The testing protocol deliberately focused on obsolete and niche market devices that were least able to withstand potential interference. When LightSquared finally obtained a list of the devices tested, after all testing in this first phase of tests had been completed, it was able to determine that the testing included many discontinued or niche market devices with poor filters or no filters. The units tested represent less than one percent of the contemporary universe of GPS devices. In fact, the only mass market device alleged to “fail” during this round of testing performed flawlessly during the Technical Working Group testing, which used best practice protocols agreed to by all parties, thus raising doubts about the integrity of PNT EXCOM’s process.
The testing standard does not reflect reality. To guarantee favorable results, the PNT EXCOM selected an extremely conservative definition of failure – one dB of interference. Independent experts agree that a one dB threshold can only be detected in laboratory settings and has no impact on GPS positional accuracy or user experience. In fact, GPS devices are designed with the ability to withstand eight dB or more of loss of sensitivity due to man-caused and natural interference. By setting the definition of interference at one dB, the testing was rigged to ensure that most receivers would fail. It should be noted that PNT EXCOM and others have justified the one dB threshold by citing an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standard. However, that standard explicitly states that it does not apply to general purpose GPS receivers.

They go on to say other great quotables like asking reporters to enquire if it's "fair that taxpayers funded a testing regime they cannot review?" and speaking of violating "conflict of interest" laws.  They are serious, and should be.  Earlier this month, LightSquared was given just 30 days to get regulatory approval by Sprint, who is a heavy investor and has (had?) plans to use LightSquared's service for their nationwide LTE roll-out.  Losing funding from Sprint would be a major financial blow to LightSquared.  We're pretty certain Sprint will still be able to roll out their LTE network as planned, but they see an advantage in using LightSquared and would like to see everything resolved as well.

Were the testing procedures rigged? Will LightSquared get another shot with different testing procedures? Will Sprint continue to invest in the company?  Join us next week for another episode of the Guiding LightSquared.  See the press release after the break.

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Carrier-modified iPhone model without a camera goes on sale in Singapore (Digital Trends)

The camera is one of the most celebrated features of the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S, earning first place on Flickr?s ?most used camera? chart, and spawning many iPhone-only photography apps such as Instagram and Hipstamatic.

While the vast majority of buyers welcome the camera on the iPhone, there?s a select few who don?t ? or indeed, can?t ? buy an iPhone precisely because of the presence of a camera.

One such group is anyone working for Singapore?s Defence Ministry MINDEF, who recently added a directive that the only smartphones that could be used by servicemen were those with the camera modules removed. Not only that, but they would have to produce a certificate proving the work had been done by a local carrier.

Instead of being able to attempt the work themselves, or entrust it to a specialist, this has ensured personnel will be looking to buy smartphones without a camera, and as it?s estimated that half of all smartphone owners in Singapore have iPhones, it?s a gap in the market waiting to be filled.

Local carrier M1 seems to be the first to offer such a service, with both the iPhone 4 and 4S being made available with a camera-removal service option. For S$49 the camera unit is spirited away, along with the warranty too, as this is not an official Apple modification.

A third-party warranty can be added for an extra S$321, but once the cameras ? both front and rear ? have been taken out, there?s no going back, as the units cannot be reinstalled. The camera-less iPhones are not only aimed at those working for MINDEF, but for those who must complete their two-years of mandatory national service too.

It sounds like a good money-spinner, but how will Apple respond to this carrier-approved mangling of their precious phone?

This article was originally posted on Digital Trends

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Apple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks (AP)

NEW YORK ? Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.

The electronic textbooks, which include "Biology" and "Environmental Science" from Pearson and "Algebra 1" and "Chemistry" from McGraw-Hill, contain videos and other interactive elements.

But it's far from clear that even a company with Apple's clout will be able to reform the primary and high-school textbook market. The printed books are bought by schools, not students, and are reused year after year, which isn't possible with the electronic versions. New books are subject to lengthy state approval processes.

Major textbook publishers have been making electronic versions of their products for years, but until recently, there hasn't been any hardware suitable to display them. PCs are too expensive and cumbersome to be good e-book machines for students. Dedicated e-book readers like the Kindle have small screens and can't display color. IPads and other tablet computers work well, but iPads cost at least $499. Apple didn't reveal any new program to defray the cost of getting the tablet computers into the hands of students.

All this means textbooks have lagged the general adoption of e-books, even when counting college-level works that students buy themselves. Forrester Research said e-books accounted for only 2.8 percent of the $8 billion U.S. textbook market in 2010.

Pearson PLC of Britain and The McGraw-Hill Cos. of New York are two of the three big textbook companies in the U.S. market. The third one, Boston-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, also plans to supply books to Apple's store, but none were immediately available.

The new textbooks are legible with a new version of the free iBooks application, which became available Thursday.

The textbooks will cost $15 or less, said Phil Schiller, Apple's head of marketing. He unveiled the books at an event at New York's Guggenheim Museum. Schools will be able to buy the books for its students and issue redemption codes to them, he said.

Albert Greco, a professor of marketing at Fordham University in New York and a former high-school principal, said schools would need to buy iPads for its students if it were to replace printed books.

It wouldn't work to let students who can afford to buy their own iPads use them in class with textbooks they buy themselves, alongside poorer students with printed books.

"The digital divide issue could be very embarrassing. Because if you don't have the iPad, you can't do the quiz, you don't get instant feedback ... that is an invitation for a lawsuit," Greco said. "I would be shocked if any principal or superintendent would let that system go forward."

Greco said hardback high-school textbooks cost an average of about $105, and a freshman might need five of them. However, they last for five years.

That means that even if an iPad were to last for five years in the hands of students, the e-books plus the iPad would cost more than the hardback textbooks.

Apple also released an app for iTunes U, which has been a channel for colleges to release video and audio from lectures, through iTunes. The app will open that channel to K-through-12 schools, and will let teachers present outlines, post notes and communicate with students in other ways.

Greco called the new app "a shot across the bow" of Blackboard Inc., a privately held company that provides similar electronic tools to teachers. It, too, has applications for cellphones and tablets.

Apple also revealed iBook Author, an application for Macs that lets people create electronic textbooks.

According to biographer Walter Isaacson, reforming the textbook market was a pet project of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, even in the last year of his life. At a dinner in early 2011, Jobs told News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch that the paper textbooks could be made obsolete by the iPad. Jobs wanted to circumvent the state certification process for textbook sales by having Apple release textbooks for free on the tablet computer.

Jobs died in October after a long battle with cancer.

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Russia asks if US radar ruined space probe (AP)

MOSCOW ? Russia will look into the possibility that a U.S. radar station could have inadvertently interfered with the failed Mars moon probe that plummeted to Earth, Russian media reported Tuesday, but experts argued that any such claims were far-fetched.

NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs also said the U.S. space agency was not using the military radar equipment in question at the time of the Russian equipment failure, but instead was using radar in the Mojave desert in the western United States and in Puerto Rico.

Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Yury Koptev, former head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, as saying investigators will conduct tests to check if U.S. radar emissions could have impacted the Phobos-Ground space probe, which was stuck in Earth's orbit for two months before crashing down near Chile and Brazil.

"The results of the experiment will allow us to prove or dismiss the possibility of the radar's impact," said Koptev, who is heading the government commission charged with investigating causes of the probe's failure.

U.S. experts suggested that the Russians should look for causes of the failure at home.

"The Russian Space Agency would do themselves and the future of Russian planetary exploration some good to look inside the project and the agency to find the cause of the Phobos-Ground mishap," said Alan Stern, former associate administrator for science at NASA and now director of the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida.

The current Roscosmos head, Vladimir Popovkin, has said the craft's malfunction could have been caused by foreign interference. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin acknowledged U.S. radar interference as a possible cause but said it was too early to make any conclusions and suggested the problem could be the spacecraft itself.

"Practially all disruptions are due to flaws in the technologies manufactured 12 to 13 years ago," he said.

Other space experts said the possibility of U.S. interference should be considered only after investigating all other possible causes.

Alexander Zakharov, a specialist at the Space Research Institute, which developed the Phobos-Ground, called the suggestion "contrived" and doubted the United States has radar powerful enough to interfere with a spacecraft at an altitude of around 200 kilometers (124 miles).

"You can come up with a lot of exotic reasons," Zakharov told RIA Novosti. "But first you need to look at the apparatus itself, and there is a problem there."

The Phobos-Ground fell to Earth on Sunday in the vicinity of Chile and Brazil, but no confirmed impact sites have been reported.

The $170 million craft was one of the heaviest and most toxic pieces of space junk ever to crash to Earth, but space officials and experts said the risks posed by its crash were minimal because the toxic rocket fuel on board and most of the craft's structure would burn up in the atmosphere high above the ground anyway.

The Phobos-Ground probe was designed to travel to one of Mars' twin moons, Phobos, land on it, collect soil samples and fly them back to Earth in 2014 in one of the most daunting interplanetary missions ever. It got stranded in Earth's orbit after its Nov. 9 launch, and efforts by Russian and European Space Agency experts to bring it back to life failed.

Phobos-Ground was Russia's most expensive and the most ambitious space mission since Soviet times. Its mission to the crater-dented, potato-shaped Martian moon was to give scientists precious materials that could shed more light on the genesis of the solar system.

Russia's space chief has acknowledged the Phobos-Ground mission was ill-prepared, but said that Roscosmos had to give it the go-ahead so as not to miss the limited Earth-to-Mars launch window.

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Associated Press writer Seth Borenstein contributed to this report from Washington, D.C.

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Study: Coffee Could Prevent Endometrial Cancer - Health News ...

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UPDATED: 12:37 pm EST January 16, 2012

BALTIMORE -- A recent study says that coffee may play a role in preventing endometrial cancer.According to the American Cancer Society, endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of the reproductive system in women, and thousands are diagnosed with the disease each year.A study on endometrial cancer, posted in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, recently found that women who drank coffee were at less risk for the disease.Mercy Medical Center's Dr. Hyung Ryu said they don't know what's in coffee that guards against endometrial cancer, but doctors believe it may lower the amounts of insulin and estrogen in the body."Insulin is a factor in promoting cancer risk. The theory is that coffee improves the body's ability to process insulin, and so there's less insulin in the body," Ryu said. "If you have too much estrogen, that causes a buildup of the lining of the uterus, and that's one of the big risk factors for developing endometrial cancer."Other risk factors for endometrial cancer include obesity, never having been pregnant and a family history of endometrial or colon cancer.But Mercy Medical Center dietitian Kelly O'Connor said if you're thinking of drinking more coffee to combat it, remember that too much caffeine can be harmful, so drink it in moderation."We really probably wouldn't tell people who don't drink coffee to start drinking four cups a day, and because the study really didn't show actual cause and effect, we probably would just say stick to two cups a day," O'Connor clarified.Researchers also included tea in their study, but tea did not show any protection against endometrial cancer.

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Italy-France-Germany summit in Rome postponed-German embassy (Reuters)

ROME (Reuters) ? A meeting between Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel planned on January 20 in Rome has been postponed and will probably be held at the end of February, the German embassy in Rome said on Monday.

"The planned three-way summit on Friday has been cancelled. It should be rescheduled to around end-February," the embassy wrote in an email seen by Reuters.

An Italian government source said the summit had been cancelled due to an internal French political matter which prevented Sarkozy from attending.

(Reporting By Stefano Bernabei and Giselda Vagnoni, writing by Catherine Hornby)

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Babies lip-read, may offer autism clues

For years, the conventional wisdom was that babies learned how to talk by listening to their parents. But a new study shows they're using their eyes, too, and are actually pretty good lip readers. The finding could lead to earlier diagnosis and intervention for autism.

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Correction: Marines-Haditha story (AP)

It's a freakin WAR people! It's real simple.

Hello? Iraq? Yeah, Hey! I'm going to be sending a butt load of U.S. Marines to your country on....(date) to kill everything they see and blow everything up while clearing the terrorists we find. So, you will want to tell your citizens to do one of three things: 1) LEAVE THE AREA, (War Zone), 2) Pick up a weapon and fight along side us in cleaning up YOUR country for you, or 3) Stand-By to DIE!

Can it be any simpler than THAT?

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Imagine that: How you envision others says a lot about you in real life

Friday, January 13, 2012

Quick, come up with an imaginary co-worker.

Did you imagine someone who is positive, confident, and resourceful? Who rises to the occasion in times of trouble? If so, then chances are that you also display those traits in your own life, a new study finds.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers have found that study participants who conjured positive imaginary co-workers contributed more in the actual workplace, both in job performance and going above and beyond their job descriptions to help others.

The results showed that your perceptions of others ? even ones that are made up ? says a lot about what kind of person you really are, said Peter Harms, UNL assistant professor of management and the study's lead author. Imagining coworkers instead of reporting on how you perceive your actual coworkers produces more accurate ratings of having a positive worldview, he said, because it strips away the unique relational baggage that one may have with the people they know.

"When you make up imaginary peers, they are completely a product of how you see the world," Harms said. "Because of that we can gain better insight into your perceptual biases. That tells us a lot about how you see the world, how you interpret events and what your expectations of others are."

The study consisted of hundreds of working adults in a range of fields, Harms said. It specifically targeted their "psychological capital," a cluster of personality characteristics associated with the ability to overcome obstacles and the tendency to actively pursue one's goals. After asking participants to conjure up imaginary workers in a series of hypothetical situations, they were then asked to make ratings of the individuals they imagined on a wide range of characteristics.

Those who envisioned workers as engaging in proactive behaviors or readily rebounding from failures were actually happier and more productive in their real-life work, the researchers found.

Researchers have long acknowledged the benefits of having a positive mindset, but getting an accurate assessment has always been difficult because people are typically unwilling or unable to make accurate self-appraisals, Harms said.

Through the use of projective storytelling, the UNL researchers were able to predict real-life work outcomes above and beyond other established measures.

"We've known that workplace relations are a self-fulfilling prophecy for some time," Harms said. "If a manager believes that their workers are lazy and incompetent, they will elicit those patterns in their employees.

"It's hard to be motivated and enthusiastic for someone you know doesn't think of you very highly. But most people don't want to disappoint someone who sincerely believes in them."

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