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Friday, December 30, 2011
Verizon to add $2 bill-pay charge, admits 4G network (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Verizon Wireless, which this month angered customers with three separate data service problems, said on Thursday it will add a $2 fee for one-time telephone and online bill payments.
The planned change, to take effect on January 15, was greeted by a storm of criticism.
Consumer blog Engadget said charging customers to pay was "downright ludicrous." Another tech website, cnet.com, said the move "made little sense."
"The fee is designed to address costs incurred by us for only those customers who choose to make one-time bill payments in alternate payment channels (online, mobile, telephone) and who choose not to use the other options available to them ...," Verizon Wireless spokesman Thomas Pica said in an email.
Verizon Wireless rivals AT&T Inc and Sprint Nextel Corp said they do not charge their customers for any bill-payment options.
In addition, some customers complained on Verizon's online forum on Thursday about problems activating their new phones.
The episode followed reports of a problem with the company's high-speed network on Wednesday. Verizon said on Thursday that it had resolved that issue overnight.
"GROWING PAINS" WITH 4G NETWORK
Verizon, the biggest U.S. mobile service provider, admitted on Thursday it was having "growing pains" with its new fourth generation, 4G, high-speed wireless network and had suffered several separate technical problems that caused service outages.
After saying earlier in the day that services on its older third generation, 3G, network were not affected, the company admitted Thursday night that 3G customers were also affected.
Verizon said it had proactively "moved" its fourth-generation (4G) wireless users onto its third-generation (3G) network to ensure all would have a data connection.
However, Verizon admitted that for brief periods, such as on Wednesday, 4G customers could not connect to the 3G Network as quickly as the company would have liked.
The company also said that it is working closely with its network suppliers to ensure smooth functioning of its 4G network, while estimating that connectivity has been available at about 99 percent of the time this year.
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Some customers had earlier complained that they were having 3G service problems, while others said their 4G service was being restored on Thursday morning. One person complained about the lack of a public announcement.
"At least acknowledge there is a problem, do you really expect your paying customers to not notice??" one person wrote on Verizon's online message board.
Verizon Wireless spokesman Thomas Pica told Reuters that the company does not plan to compensate its customers who had experienced service problems.
Earlier this month the company, which has long boasted that its service is "most reliable," faced two data service problems.
On December 8 some Verizon customers were unable to access the Internet on their wireless devices for about 24 hours. The company had to fix another problem on December 21.
Verizon Wireless is a venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc.
(Reporting by Sinead Carew and Sakthi Prasad; Editing by Dave Zimmerman, Matthew Lewis, Steve Orlofsky and Ed Lane)
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Panels recommend gearing back on prostate-cancer screenings, cancer
Anxiety deepens, of course, if a biopsy confirms a cancer diagnosis, to the extent that many men demand surgery or radiation even when they don't need it.
Now, two national health panels have made startling recommendations that call into question the way doctors have been handling prostate cancer testing and treatment. One panel said men should skip standard prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, testing unless they have symptoms such as urinary blockage or pain. A second panel urged many men with low-risk prostate tumors to turn to "active surveillance" rather than immediate surgery or radiation.
The recommendations - the first is part of a draft report by the U.S. Preventive Services task force in October, the second came from a panel convened by the National Institutes of Health this month - have generated controversy, even as researchers work to develop better methods. "Skipping the PSA is the wrong way to approach it. It's an extreme viewpoint that will have terrible ramifications on public health if it goes forward," says Dr. Bruce Kava, interim chair of urology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
"I've had patients whose cancer was discovered by a PSA test," adds Dr. Rakesh Singal, a urologist and prostate cancer researcher at the University of Miami medical school.
The Preventive Services task force recommendation came after a months-long study of clinical trials around the world. "The common perception that PSA-based early detection of prostate cancer prolongs lives is not supported by the scientific evidence," the draft report said. The task force is a congressionally mandated panel of doctors, nurses and other specialists that develops recommendations for doctors and hospitals.
The second recommendation, from a "consensus panel" of 14 researchers and clinicians convened this month by the National Institutes of Health, tackled the treatment side: "Treatment of low-risk prostate cancer with radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy leads to side effects such as impotence and incontinence. Active surveillance has emerged as a viable option."
Responding to those concerns, researchers in South Florida and around the world are working on better screening tests to replace or at least supplement the PSA test, which has been use since 1986. Such improved tests could make the screening controversy "moot," the U.S. Cancer Foundation says. It says studies also are under way to better guide how aggressive treatment should be when cancer is confirmed.
The prostate, a small-plum-sized gland that sits above the base of the penis and helps produce semen, becomes enlarged in half of all men by age 60, and half of those will have symptoms such as frequent urination, weak stream or inability to completely empty the bladder.
And the symptoms raise the question: Is it benign prostate hyperplasia (enlargement) or prostate cancer? Cancer is not rare. One-third of men ages 40 to 60 and three-quarters of men older than 85 have prostate cancer, federal health officials say - even though most of it is microscopic and clinically insignificant.
Researchers say most of those diagnosed with prostate cancer are likely to grow old and die of something else first. The lifetime risk of death from prostate cancer is only 2.5 percent, and the median age of death from prostate cancer is 80, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Still, it's the second greatest cause of male cancer deaths after lung cancer, killing 32,000 men a year.
"We realize it's a dilemma," says Kava, the urologist, calling the number of positive PSA tests that lead to negative biopsies "unacceptably high. ... And biopsies are not innocuous. Some find them painful. Also, false positives can create anxiety, sometimes depression."
Biopsies also cause fever, infection, bleeding and transient urinary difficulty in 68 of every 1,000 procedures, the task force report says. Seeking to balance the benefits of the PSA test against the harms, the task force concluded that men without overt symptoms should skip the PSA tests.
Protest came quickly from the American Urological Association: "We are concerned that the task force's recommendations will ultimately do more harm than good," it said. "It is our feeling that, when interpreted appropriately, (the PSA test) provides important information in diagnosis."
Research at several U.S. universities soon might produce better screening tests to replace or supplement the PSA test, said the California-based Prostate Cancer Foundation, which raises funds for research. Foundation president Jonathan Simons said his group's 2011 annual Scientific Retreat heard presentations of 17 new tests under way that might improve on the PSA.
"The PSA debate can become moot with intensive and accelerated research that delivers a better test," he said.
One new test is being developed by Rakesh, the University of Miami urologist, and a team of researchers who say a DNA blood test may increase the accuracy of diagnosis when added to the PSA test.
"I think it can be very useful in helping decide whether to go on to a biopsy," he says.
The test needs funding for more study, but could be ready in a year or two, he says.
Another promising method, being developed at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center by director Arul Chinnaiyan and his team, would use a two-gene DNA test they say is 80 percent accurate to detect prostate cancer. The study was published Aug. 3 in the peer-reviewed journal Science Translational Medicine. The university hopes to offer the test to its patients within a year and to the general public soon after.
But even if new tests improve upon the PSA, it still leaves the issue of treatment for confirmed cases. Anxiety can cause men to demand aggressive treatment even when they don't need it, the task force said.
"Over three quarters of men with localized prostate cancer undergo prostatectomy or radiation therapy," the task force report says. "Radiotherapy and surgery result in adverse effects, including urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction, in at least 20 percent to 30 percent of men treated with these therapies."
Men with aggressive prostate cancers clearly need aggressive treatment, the task force says. But many others don't need such drastic measures: "Even when asymptomatic cancer is found by PSA, a majority of the tumors will progress so slowly that the man will die of something else."
The report notes there is "no consensus about the best treatment of localized disease."
Kava, the Sylvester urologist, says he has seen anxiety over PSA tests lead men to demand more aggressive treatment than they need.
"We try to temper their emotional response by giving them data," he says. "But we're a patient-driven practice. If they want therapy, we will go forward with it."
Kava says doctors increasingly are turning to two methods of tracking the progression of the cancers - "active surveillance" and "watchful waiting."
A major new active surveillance program funded in 2010 by $5 million from the Prostate Cancer Foundation is the National Proactive Surveillance Network, designed and run by Johns Hopkins University and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in New York.
In the program, open to men across the country, local doctors do the testing and submit results to Johns Hopkins online. Men with PSA scores lower than 15 who have biopsy evidence of small-volume, low-grade cancer are examined and their PSA levels analyzed at six-month intervals, with annual biopsies. In the program's first year, only 32 percent of the men followed have progressed to where they need radiation or surgery.
The University of Miami Medical School and Sylvester have similar surveillance programs, Kava says, following more than 800 men with prostate cancer.
For older men and those in poor health from other causes, with life expectancies under 10 years, Kava says less-rigorous "watchful waiting" programs may be appropriate, with fewer biopsies and other intrusive procedures.
Meanwhile, Simons says his foundation is funding more studies into how doctors can identify which tumors need aggressive treatment and which don't. The University of Michigan search for a DNA test to supplement the PSA test also is designed to give better information about how aggressive the cancer is, based on tumor size and appearance under a microscope.
It comes down to this, Simons says: "Experts believe many prostate cancers will never cause a problem the rest of your life, even if you're diagnosed at 50. But others will kill you. We need to understand what makes one prostate cancer indolent while another is lethal.
"The overtreatment of prostate cancer will go away when we can look at a man and say, 'Mr. Jones, this cancer is a turtle, and this one is a shark.' We're a few years away."
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How best to detect and treat it?
The gold-standard test for prostate cancer is the praised and vilified PSA test, a blood test that measures a protein that can signal prostate cancer. Or not. In men who got a routine PSA test even though they didn't have serious symptoms of pain or blood in the urine or semen, one study said the test found evidence of cancer in 25 percent. Indication of cancer was defined for purposes of that study as a PSA of 4.0 nanograms per milliliter or higher. But subsequent biopsies determined that 80 percent of those "positives" were false. (Higher PSAs are considered more likely to indicate cancer, although the National Cancer Institute says there is no specific normal or abnormal PSA level.)
(c)2011 The Miami Herald
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Palermo?s Chinese Palace
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There are two types of eccentrics: those you feel sorry for, and those you?re secretly envious of. The first kind are poor, and fill their house with cats. They have crazy, stringy hair and scream obscenities at the malicious neighbor kids. The second kind have the good fortune of being royalty, and are able to indulge every screwy whim. ?Bring in that funny peasant boy. Now do your silly dance! I need more cats, a leopard perhaps. And build me a palace? a Chinese palace!? If you?re going to be an eccentric, it?s certainly better to be the rich kind.
On the northern end of the Parco della Favorita is one of Palermo?s strangest buildings: a large and fully decorated Chinese palace. Built in 1799 for King Ferdinand III, during the height of the European craze for all things Oriental, the palace is jarringly out-of-place in the Sicilian capital. We visited just a couple days after the it had been re-opened, following a full renovation.
The tour was free, and we were the only visitors. Despite that, the guide rushed us through as quickly as possible, hardly giving J?rgen time to snap any pictures. I think our lack of Italian made her nervous, or perhaps she was worried we?d start making fun of the palace, which certainly does encourage a sort of mocking incredulity. We were whisked through the rooms of the queen on the second floor, the servants quarters, the dining hall and guest rooms. The king, being eccentric, chose to sleep in the middle of a huge room on the bottom floor, his bed on wheels.
The palace consists of three floors, each decorated with Chinese patterns, writing, or frescoes of pastoral Chinese life. There?s an interesting ?mathematical table? set in the middle of the dining room, with an dumbwaiter carved into its center. With everything freshly renovated, the colorful palace walls and decorations were especially beautiful. Although the focus was Chinese, there are Italian elements as well ? one room is done entirely in the style of Pompeii, painted in the deep red identified with the destroyed city.
Before leaving, we took a stroll through the Italian-style gardens behind the palace, which are nearly as beautiful as the dwelling itself. Strange and compelling, the Chinese Palace is without a doubt the most unexpected building that we?ve found in Palermo. It?s a little difficult to reach with public transportation, but worth the effort, especially considering that you can visit the excellent Pitr? Ethnographic Museum right next door.
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Facebook unwelcome in Vietnam, but Zuckerberg OK
In this Dec. 26, 2011 photo, Facebook website founder Mark Zuckerberg rides a water buffalo in northern resort town of Sapa in Lao Cai province, Vietnam in this picture taken. Vietnam may block its citizens from using to Facebook, but that didn't stop website founder Mark Zuckerberg from spending his vacation there. Zuckerberg spent Christmas Eve in the popular tourist destination Ha Long Bay, local official Trinh Dang Thanh says. (AP Photo/VnExpress, Le Thanh Hieu) EDITORIAL USE ONLY
In this Dec. 26, 2011 photo, Facebook website founder Mark Zuckerberg rides a water buffalo in northern resort town of Sapa in Lao Cai province, Vietnam in this picture taken. Vietnam may block its citizens from using to Facebook, but that didn't stop website founder Mark Zuckerberg from spending his vacation there. Zuckerberg spent Christmas Eve in the popular tourist destination Ha Long Bay, local official Trinh Dang Thanh says. (AP Photo/VnExpress, Le Thanh Hieu) EDITORIAL USE ONLY
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) ? Vietnam may block its citizens from using Facebook, but that didn't stop website founder Mark Zuckerberg from vacationing in the communist country.
Zuckerberg spent Christmas Eve in the popular tourist destination Ha Long Bay, local official Trinh Dang Thanh says.
State-run media say Zuckerberg arrived in Vietnam on Dec. 22.
Zuckerberg spent Christmas Day at an ecolodge in the northern mountain town of Sapa and rode a buffalo, said Le Phuc Thien, deputy manager at Topas Ecolodge.
Zuckerberg, Facebook's 27-year-old CEO, founded the social networking site in 2004.
Vietnam's aggressive Internet censors block access to Facebook and other websites, but young Vietnamese easily bypass the restrictions.
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Royal Dutch Shell says Nigeria spill contained (AP)
ABOARD THE BONGA FLOATING OIL VESSEL ? The worst Nigeria offshore oil spill in more than a decade has been contained before reaching the West African nation's coast, officials with Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Monday, less than a week after one of its lines bled crude into the Atlantic Ocean.
An investigation into how the spill of less than 40,000 barrels ? or 1.68 million gallons ? happened remains ongoing, though company officials acknowledged workers only discovered the leak after seeing a sheen of crude in water surrounding its Bonga offshore oil field.
Meanwhile, Shell officials say the company will clean up another spill it discovered while containing its own ? highlighting how prevalent pollution remains in oil-stained Nigeria after more than 50 years of production.
"We can undeniably say we traced our oil ... and stopped it," said Cliff Pain, who manages the Bonga operation for a Shell subsidiary.
Shell organized a helicopter flight Monday for journalists to see the Bonga field ? controlled from a large ship as opposed to a stationary rig ? about 75 miles (120 kilometers) off Nigeria's coast. There, waters appeared free of the oil sheen as ships continued to patrol along the underwater lines linking the vessel to oil fields and transfer buoys for filling tankers.
The leak discovered Dec. 20 came from a break in a flexible line about 360 meters out from the vessel that sends oil to tankers, Pain said. While the vessel has a variety of gauges to check pressure on the line, it wasn't until daylight broke that workers noticed a sheen surrounding the Bonga vessel, he said.
It takes about 25 hours to fill a waiting tanker with 1 million barrels of oil from the vessel, Pain said. That means the leak could have spewed for hours before being noticed.
At its height, Shell statistics show the sheen spread across about 350 square miles (900 square kilometers), matching an estimate earlier issued by an independent watchdog group called SkyTruth. Nigerian government officials previously said the spill only affected an area a third that size
Using ships and aircraft, workers spread chemical dispersants to break up the oil, which also evaporated in the region's warm water and air, said Steve Keedwell, a Shell employee who helped oversee the cleanup operation. Shell ultimately stopped the sheen about 11 miles (18 kilometers) before it made landfall, Pain said.
However, workers then discovered a separate oil spill around the mouth of a river in Delta state, said Mutiu Sunmonu, Shell's Nigeria country chairman. Sunmonu said samples of the oil showed it came from a different source, though the company would clean it up as well.
"When I sighted it myself, my initial reaction was anger, but I told myself: 'You know, you just cannot afford to be angry, just deal with it,'" Sunmonu said.
The Nigerian group Environmental Rights Action, which monitors spills around Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta, has blamed Shell for the new spill. Nnimmo Bassey, the group's executive director, could not be immediately reached for comment Monday night.
Shell operates the Bonga field in partnership with Italy's Eni SpA, Exxon Mobil Corp., France's Total SA and the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. It produces about 200,000 barrels of oil a day ? around 10 percent of production in Africa's most populous nation. The field remains shut down and Shell officials offered no estimate Monday of when production could resume at a field vital to Nigeria's government finances.
Nigeria, an OPEC member nation producing about 2.4 million barrels of crude oil a day, is a top supplier to the United States. However, pollution from spilled oil stains its Niger Delta region, with crude lapping against beaches and leaving a black ring around creeks in an area about the size of Portugal.
Some environmentalists say as much as 550 million gallons of oil poured into the delta during Shell's roughly 50 years of production in Nigeria ? a rate roughly comparable to one Exxon Valdez disaster per year. Many blame Shell and foreign companies working in Nigeria for the pollution. However, Shell in recent years has blamed most of its spills on militant attacks or thieves tapping into pipelines to steal crude oil, which ends up sold on the black market or cooked into a crude diesel or kerosene.
Talking with journalists, Sunmonu acknowledged that the limited spill, open ocean and favorable weather had helped Shell quickly contain the spill. If it had been on land, the oil could have sunk into the soil, remaining there for years, he said.
It also would have pushed Shell into negotiations with village elders to clean up the spill, something it often contracts other companies to handle. Many view the company with hostility after its years in the delta, and its employees remain targets of kidnap gangs and militants.
"You don't have communities to contend with" on the ocean, Sunmonu said.
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North Korea to be center of Japan-China talks
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda arrives in Beijing on Sunday for talks focused on North Korea and promoting stability in the closed country after the death of Kim Jong Il.
Noda's first official visit to Beijing would normally have focused on bilateral issues, such as squabbles over islands claimed by both countries, but the death of Kim a little more than a week ago and the announcement of his son as the country's "supreme leader" has shifted the focus away from bilateral issues.
Noda is the first foreign leader to meet China's leaders since Kim's death and Japanese officials say he will emphasize the need to get stalled six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program back on track.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
The Week's Best Animal Photos
The holidays aren't just for humans. Animals around the world have been getting into the holiday spirit this year.
If you've never seen dogs sing Christmas carols, this video will be sure to put you in the holiday spirit. Not to be outdone, the "Jingle Cats" also know how to spread holiday cheer.
Family pets may be an important part of holiday celebrations for some people, but some experts recommend you avoid gifting pets during the holidays.
If you know someone who's a big pet advocate, check out Petside.com's list of the top 10 pet people of 2011 and see how they compare.
If cute animals are more your thing, this orphaned polar bear cub will warm even the coldest grinch's heart.
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Switched On: The Year of Reversal
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
Back in 2005, Switched On dubbed its first full year of existence "The Year of the Switch" as IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo, Apple announced plans to leave the PowerPC platform for Macs and Microsoft moved to PowerPC processors for the XBox 360. But the dramatic reversals we saw in 2011 made even some of those decisions look tame by comparison. 
Back in 2005, Switched On dubbed its first full year of existence "The Year of the Switch" as IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo, Apple announced plans to leave the PowerPC platform for Macs and Microsoft moved to PowerPC processors for the XBox 360. But the dramatic reversals we saw in 2011 made even some of those decisions look tame by comparison.
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Melanie Amaro wins 'The X Factor' (AP)
LOS ANGELES ? Melanie Amaro has "The X Factor."
The powerful 19-year-old vocalist from Sunrise, Fla., won the Fox talent competition Thursday over soulful 30-year-old singer Josh Krajcik of Wooster, Ohio.
Amaro, who was mentored by judge Simon Cowell and was at one point eliminated then reinstated to the contest, was awarded the grand prize: a $5 million recording contract and a starring role in a Pepsi commercial.
"Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God," Amaro repeated after host Steve Jones announced her as the champion.
Despite continued prodding from Jones, an overly emotional Amaro couldn't quite formulate words when she was revealed to have captured the most viewer votes, and she struggled through tears to reprise Beyonce's "Listen," the soaring ballad that Amaro crooned at her audition and on Wednesday's final performance round.
"I want to say, `America, thank you for giving this girl an opportunity,'" said Cowell.
Krajcik, the struggling single father who delivered a stripped down rendition of "At Last" for his final routine, seemed content with his status as "X Factor" runner-up to Amaro, who was born in the British Virgin Islands.
"Melanie deserves it," Krajcik said. "She has a wonderful voice. I had such an incredible experience here. I got to be myself, sing what I want to sing, and I couldn't be happier."
Chris Rene, the recovering 28-year-old singer-rapper from Santa Cruz, Calif., came in third place.
Before the winner was unveiled, the three finalists crooned classic Christmas tunes, and Justin Bieber, Stevie Wonder, Leona Lewis, Pitbull, Ne-Yo and 50 Cent performed various songs with former contestants. Amaro and Krajcik also dueted on David Bowie's "Heroes."
Unlike "American Idol," the contest was open to both solo singers and groups, and had a lower minimum age of 12 and no upper age limit.
The judges also served as mentors. Cowell represented female vocalists, including Amaro; L.A. Reid headed male singers, including Rene; Nicole Scherzinger was in charge of over-30 singers, including Krajcik; and Paula Abdul helmed the groups.
Despite consistent viewership, "The X Factor" has failed to achieve popularity similar to "Idol," which Cowell left last year to import "The X Factor" from the U.K. to the U.S. Fox announced last month that "X Factor" would return for a second season next fall.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Arizona sheriff faces new setback over immigration (AP)
PHOENIX ? America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" has been dealt another setback to his immigration enforcement efforts by a federal judge's ruling that bars deputies from detaining people based solely on the suspicion that they're in the country illegally.
The ruling issued Friday sets the stage for a possible trial in a lawsuit that alleges racial profiling in the patrols in Arizona's Maricopa County, and would further limit Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration authority after Washington yanked his federal powers earlier this month.
Lawyers pushing the lawsuit on behalf of five Latino clients also won class-action status that lets other Hispanics join the case if they have been detained and questioned by Arpaio's deputies as either a driver or passenger in a vehicle since January 2007.
U.S. District Judge Murray Snow hasn't yet ruled on the ultimate question of racial profiling, but notes the case's evidence could lead a judge or jury to conclude that Arpaio's office racially profiles Latinos.
"Sheriff Arpaio has made public statements that a fact-finder could interpret as endorsing racial profiling," Snow said.
The judge noted that the sheriff has said that even without authority to enforce federal immigration laws, his officers can detain people based upon their speech or they appear to be from another country.
The 40-page ruling marked a qualified victory for the lawyers who pushed the lawsuit. They didn't get the case decided without going to trial, as they had hoped, but it came closer to the result they were looking for.
"We are encouraged by the Court's recognition of the strong evidence showing the (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office's) pattern and practice of racial profiling and its conducting of operations for reasons that are racially biased," Stan Young, lead attorney for those who filed the lawsuit, said in a written statement.
Arpaio won a small victory when the judge dismissed part of a claim by a Hispanic couple who are among the five people who filed the lawsuit.
Snow ruled that one of Arpaio's deputies had probable cause to pull over the couple on a closed roadway. The couple's illegal search claim was thrown out, but the judge didn't dismiss their racial profiling claim.
Messages left for Arpaio's lawyers weren't immediately returned late Friday.
The lawsuit alleges that Maricopa County officers made some traffic stops solely because Hispanics were driving. The plaintiffs say authorities had no probable cause to pull them over and made the stops only to question their immigration status.
Arpaio has denied the racial profiling allegations, saying people pulled over in the patrols were approached because deputies had probable cause to believe they had committed crimes and that it was only afterward that deputies found many were illegal immigrants.
During the patrols known as "sweeps," deputies flood an area of a city ? in some cases, heavily Latino areas ? over several days to seek out traffic violators and arrest other offenders. Illegal immigrants accounted for 57 percent of the roughly 1,500 people arrested in the 20 sweeps conducted by his office in earnest since January 2008.
Separate from the lawsuit, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a Dec. 15 report that accused Arpaio's office of having a pattern of racially profiling Latinos, basing immigration enforcement on racially-charged citizen complaints and punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish.
Arpaio faces a Jan. 4 deadline for saying whether he wants to work out an agreement to settle the civil rights allegations. The Justice Department has said it's prepared to sue Arpaio and let a judge decide the matter if no agreement can be worked out.
The Justice Department report prompted U.S. Department of Homeland Security to strip Arpaio's office of its federal powers to verify the immigration status of jail inmates. The severing of those ties came after an October 2009 decision by Homeland Security to take away the federal immigration arrest powers from 100 of Arpaio's deputies.
Arpaio is left with only state immigration laws to carry out his patrols ? and those powers were limited by the judge Friday.
Apart from the lawsuit and civil rights report against the sheriff's office, a federal grand jury also has been investigating Arpaio's office on criminal abuse-of-power allegations since at least December 2009.
Grand jurors are examining the investigative work of the sheriff's anti-public corruption squad.
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Mel Gibson, wife finalize divorce in Los Angeles
FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2011 file photo, Mel Gibson poses at the 25th American Cinematheque Award benefit gala honoring actor Robert Downey Jr., in Beverly Hills, Calif. Gibson has finalized his divorce from his wife of 28 years. Attorneys for the Oscar winner and his ex-wife appeared briefly in a Los Angeles courthouse Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, to submit a proposed judgment, which a judge signed hours later. Robyn Gibson filed for divorce in April 2009, just months before Gibson's then-girlfriend gave birth to a daughter. The "Braveheart" star indicated in his own court filings that the couple separated in 2006. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2011 file photo, Mel Gibson poses at the 25th American Cinematheque Award benefit gala honoring actor Robert Downey Jr., in Beverly Hills, Calif. Gibson has finalized his divorce from his wife of 28 years. Attorneys for the Oscar winner and his ex-wife appeared briefly in a Los Angeles courthouse Friday, Dec. 23, 2011, to submit a proposed judgment, which a judge signed hours later. Robyn Gibson filed for divorce in April 2009, just months before Gibson's then-girlfriend gave birth to a daughter. The "Braveheart" star indicated in his own court filings that the couple separated in 2006. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Mel Gibson's three-decade marriage is officially over.
A judge finalized the actor-director's divorce on Friday from his wife Robyn, who was married to Gibson during his acting heyday and his more recent public downfall.
The judgment entered by Superior Court Judge Mark Juhas keeps virtually all details of the pair's split confidential. Neither Gibson nor his ex-wife, whose name is being restored to Robyn Moore, attended Friday's proceedings.
It does not indicate an official date for the former couple's separation. Robyn Moore did not list a date in her April 2009 divorce filing, although Gibson indicated they had been living apart since 2006.
The former couple have seven children together, but only their 12-year-old son is a minor and subject to a custody agreement.
The Gibsons' divorce has been more dramatically more low-key than Gibson's custody battle with Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva, who the "Braveheart" star agreed in August to pay $750,000 to settle a bitter dispute and split custody of their young daughter.
Recordings that sounded distinctly like the Oscar winning director engaged in a racist and sexist tirade were leaked during the couple's dispute. Grigorieva accused Gibson of domestic violence and he pleaded no contest, although admitted no fault, to a misdemeanor battery count earlier in March.
Robyn Moore came to her estranged husband's defense, filing a brief declaration in the Grigorieva case stating that Gibson had never physically abused her or their children.
Attorneys handling the divorce have worked for months to reach a settlement in the case and records show Robyn Moore signed the final judgment last week. Gibson signed it Wednesday, records show.
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Dutch cup match may be replayed after fan incident
By TOBY STERLING
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AMSTERDAM (AP) -The Dutch football federation said Thursday it has yet to decide whether to replay a cup match between Ajax and AZ Alkmaar that was halted after a supporter ran onto the field and tried to attack Alkmaar's goalkeeper.
The alert Costa Rican goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado deflected the attack by a 19-year-old fan, tripping him with a karate-like kick. But Alvarado was given a red card for kicking the supporter again in anger twice immediately afterward before the intruder was dragged off by security guards.
Alkmaar coach Gertjan Verbeek ordered his side to walk out in protest rather than play with 10 men and the game was halted in the 36th minute. Ajax was leading 1-0 on a goal by Gregory van der Wiel.
Ajax director Jeroen Slop said the supporter had already been banned from the stadium for a year due to a previous run-in with security guards, but managed to sneak into the cup match with a ticket purchased by a friend. He has now received a lifetime ban from all Ajax matches.
Later Thursday, the Dutch football association rescinded the red card, saying Alvarado's reaction was triggered by the unprovoked attack on him - but adding that referee Bas Nijhuis was acting according to the rules when he sent the goalkeeper off.
The federation said Alvarado's reaction "will not result in a ban."
Opinions were divided about whether Alvarado deserved to be sent off in the first place.
Nijhuis defended the decision, saying that once the supporter was on the ground, he no longer posed a threat.
But Ajax coach Frank de Boer noted that for all Alvarado knew, the supporter could have been carrying a weapon or gotten up to attack again.
"Maybe I would have done the same thing, maybe not," said De Boer, a renowned former defender for Netherlands' national team, of Alvarado's reaction. "But emotionally I do understand it."
The Dutch players' union had demanded that the red card be retracted.
"This cannot lead to a suspension" for Alvarado, said union chief Danny Hesp, arguing that Alvarado's reaction was in self-defense after an unexpected, unprovoked attack. The union "will do everything it can to fight this" decision, he said.
The federation said Thursday it will decide "soon" whether Wednesday's match should be replayed, resumed, or have Ajax declared the winner.
Police are holding the 19-year-old supporter, whose name was not released, on assault charges. Police are also holding 25 other supporters arrested during and after the match. After the early end to the round-of-16 match, Ajax supporters clashed with riot police outside Amsterdam's ArenA stadium.
Alkmaar defended its decision not to continue playing. The team's players "didn't feel safe anymore in this situation," said club director Toon Gerbrands.
In a highly unusual move, the country's justice minister Ivo Opstelten got involved in the debate, saying the attack was "beastly" and that "jerks and nuts don't belong on the field." He added that he thought AZ's Verbeek was right to walk out under the circumstances.
"I have a lot of respect for how he acted," Opstelten said. "Intervene immediately, that warms my heart."
Slop, the Ajax director, apologized for the security lapse, and he said AZ had accepted the apology.
"An incident with one half-wit in a stadium of 40,000 people, you don't have control over that," he said. He said the supporter had "in all likelihood been drinking."
He added that the fan "had made it known that he detests the AZ keeper and that's why he attacked him."
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Bulls announce 5-year extension for Rose
DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) ? Derrick Rose was going down the list, thanking just about everyone who helped him become one of the NBA's best players, when he looked to his right.
Seated off to the side was his mother, Brenda.
"I think I can finally say this now. Mom, I finally made it," he said.
Rose, the Chicago Bulls' superstar point guard and the league's reigning MVP, agreed Wednesday to a five-year contract extension worth more than $94 million that kicks in next season.
It's fair to say Rose made it long before this latest news conference. The extension is just another stop in a rapid and steady rise from a tough neighborhood on Chicago's South Side to a starring role with his hometown team after being taken with the No. 1 pick in the draft.
He's gone from Rookie of the Year to All-Star to MVP in just three seasons, becoming the youngest player to win the award. That's why the extension was more a formality than a surprise.
The only thing missing from his resume is a championship and that's something he hopes to change in Year 4.
"He embodies all the characteristics that you look for," coach Tom Thibodeau said. "It's a lot more than the talent. The talent is the obvious part. Then, when you look at his will to win, basketball IQ, unselfishness, his humility ? I think those are the things that you can build a championship-caliber team around."
The Bulls came close to winning it all last year, leading the league with 62 victories during the regular season and advancing to the Eastern Conference finals before losing to Miami.
That capped a spectacular season in which Rose showed up for camp wondering why he couldn't be MVP after LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh turned down Chicago to unite in Miami. Then, he backed it up with one of the best seasons by a point guard.
He averaged 25 points, 7.7 assists and 4.1 rebounds over 81 games, the only NBA player last year to rank in the top 10 in both scoring and assists. He also became just the fifth player in history (along with Oscar Robertson, John Havlicek, Michael Jordan and James) to post 2,000 points, 600 assists and 300 rebounds in a single season
More important to Rose, he led Chicago to its best season since the Michael Jordan-Scottie Pippen championship era, and he joined Jordan as the only Bulls players to win the MVP award.
He keeps adding new wrinkles to his game, too. In the past, he extended his shooting range. This past offseason, he worked on his post moves.
"I don't think you can put a ceiling on what Derrick can become," general manager Gar Forman said. "It's scary to think that I think he'll continue to get better and better throughout his career."
The extension could bring some more pressure.
Rose shrugged it off. He said money is "the last thing I think about."
Even so, he has some ideas about how he might use it.
He mentioned pouring some of it back into his old neighborhood in Englewood, one of the roughest sections of Chicago. He pointed out a lack of indoor courts and after-school programs for youngsters in that area.
He also thought about how far he's come, going from there to here, and he acknowledged he's sometimes amazed. Along the way, he helped Simeon Career Academy win back-to-back state championships, then led Memphis to the NCAA championship game before the Bulls drafted him with the top pick in 2008 after defying long odds to win the lottery.
Rose is now all of 23 years old.
"Coming from where I'm coming from, I can't explain it," he said. "I really can't explain it. I never would have thought in a million years that I would have signed a contract like this, especially coming from an area where I'm from. No one from Englewood has ever been in my position so sometimes I think, 'Why me?'"
Forman thought about that day when the franchise's fortunes changed. The Bulls' director of player personnel at the time, he was at home and wasn't really paying close attention to the draft lottery. After all, the Bulls' had just a 1.7-percent shot at winning it.
"What I remember most about it is the ice cream truck was coming down the street right then," Forman said. "I went out with my two boys and we got ice cream to celebrate."
Rose will be approaching his 29th birthday when his deal expires, and he wants to spend his entire career with the Bulls "unless they trade me or something."
That seems unlikely. He was also asked if he thought about taking less money in order to give the team some extra salary-cap space.
"I don't even know how much I make right now, to tell you the truth," Rose said.
Forman pointed out that Rose made it clear he wanted to stay with the Bulls and didn't seek a player option.
''Derrick absolutely didn't want that," he said. "He wanted a full commitment to the Chicago Bulls and to stay in Chicago. To us, that's really special. He stepped up. The maximum length he could sign is what he wanted to sign."
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iOS 5, Ice Cream Sandwich and Windows Phone 7.5 Mango: Which is the Best OS?
It is a tough ask to compare two very different but established mobile operating systems - Apple's iOS 5 and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) - with the new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.
iOS, the first mobile operating system, was launched on Oct. 12, 2000.?It was then known as the iPhone OS, named as it was after Apple's flagship smartphone series. A year later, the Android OS made its debut, with the launch of HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1). Windows was a later entrant to the sphere.
In any case, it appears the stage is now set for a battle among these three. Google's Android has been given more firepower with the acquisition of Motorola handsets. Microsoft finds solace in a promising collaboration with Nokia and Apple.
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Each of these platforms has its own strength and weaknesses, which are discussed below:
iOS 5 vs WP7 Mango vs Android 4.0
- When it comes to apps, the iOS rules the market with a massive archive of more than?500,000 apps, including custom-built games, software and media and music. It is closely followed by Google's Android Market, with more than 250,000 apps, while Windows Mango has the weakest app support with just about 30,000 apps.
- The iOS 5 comes preloaded with an inbuilt music player (iTunes), a custom browser (Safari) and a stock productivity suite (iWork). While, the Android 4.0 lacks a pre-loaded music player, it does include a custom browser, Google Chrome, and a stock productivity suite - Google Docs. Windows Mango, on the other hand, offers Zune - a music player, a custom browser - IE9 and a stock productivity suite - Office Mobile.
- Apple's iOS 5 added Twitter integration to its software but does not support Flash. On the other hand, both Ice Cream Sandwich and Windows Mango support Flash alongside Twitter.
- Android misses out on Wi-Fi Sync support, something that both the iOS 5 and Windows Mango have native support for.
- Fortunately for hard-core gamers, all three platforms support hardware acceleration.
- The iOS 5 has carrier support limited only to AT&T, Verizon and Sprint. Meanwhile, both Windows Mango and the Android upgrade extend support to all major U.S. carriers.
- The iOS 5 incorporates "Pseudo-multitasking" wherein only one application window is active at a time; the others run in the background. On the other hand, both Windows Mango and Ice Cream Sandwich enjoy the privilege of real-time multitasking capability.
- Finally, iOS 5 and Windows Mango include robust integrated security features and hence no third-party security is necessary. But their Android counterpart is vulnerable to security exploits and malware attack, and third-party security is a must.
- Apple's software is limited to icon-centric home screens, whereas both Windows Mango and Ice Cream Sandwich extend support to widgets besides icons.
- Both the iOS 5 and the Android 4.0 include platform support for tablets, while Windows Mango misses out on this key feature.
- The iOS 5 supports limited customization options after jailbreaking the device. Windows Mango offers barely any such support. On the other hand, the Android counterpart supports a much richer range of possibilities.
- Over-the-air updates and screenshot functions are limited to the iOS 5 and Android 4.0, while Windows Mango loses out.
- In addition, both the iOS 5 and Google's Android support their native e-book stores, namely iBooks and GoogleBooks; Windows Mango misses out on this.
- iOS 5 supports a wireless Cloud Backup with up to 5GB free storage. The other two platforms just don't qualify.
Apple's iOS 5 has been designed and revamped to offer maximum feature support for users while keeping?customization to a minimum, although this is expected to come at the expense of reliability and performance.
Google's Android upgrade aims at delivering superior performance, complete customization capabilities and regular updates to users' feature requirements.
The decision of choosing one over the other - revolving as it does around questions of balance between features, usability and performance - is that of the final user.
Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/271884/20111223/ios-5-ice-cream-sandwich-windows-phone.htm
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