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GRAPEVINE, Texas?? The man believed to have killed six relatives and then himself on Christmas Day was dressed as Santa Claus, police said Monday.
The shooter "showed up shortly before the incident took place" in the Santa outfit and was a member of the family opening gifts in the apartment in this Dallas suburb, said Grapevine police spokesman Sgt. Robert Eberling.
Late Sunday evening, police intently searched a sport utility vehicle parked outside the apartment. The vehicle is registered to a man who listed his residence as a home two miles away in the neighboring suburb of Colleyville.
Thomas Ehrlich, who lives near the home in Colleyville, told the AP he heard from neighbors that police went to the house Sunday. He said it was his understanding that the man and women who once lived there were estranged.
Records show the couple had financial problems and that their home, most recently valued on the county tax rolls at $336,200, had been sold in 2010 at a foreclosure auction.
Eberling said the identity of the man and the victims would be released after autopsies are conducted and relatives were notified.
The dead ? four women and three men ? were found late Sunday morning in an apartment living room in Grapevine by police answering a voiceless 911 call.
Two pistols were recovered from the home, said Eberling, who called it a "gruesome crime scene" and the worst outburst of gun violence in the town's history.
No one was found alive by police arriving at the home, he said.
A community of about 46,000 people some 20 miles northwest of downtown Dallas, Grapevine is known for its wine-tasting salons and was recently proclaimed by the state Senate as the "Christmas Capital of Texas" for its abundance of annual holiday-season events.
"This is obviously a terrible tragedy," said Mayor William Tate. "The fact that it happened on Christmas makes it even more tragic."
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The victims' ages were 15, 19, 22, 55, 56, 58 and 59, said Grapevine police Lt. Todd Dearing. The victims in their 50s were two couples.
Voiceless 911 call
Police dispatched at about 11:30 a.m. local time on Sunday found the bodies in the first-floor living room of a two-story unit in the Lincoln Vineyards apartments.
The 911 caller never spoke to police, and officers did not see the telephone when they arrived, officials said. Eberling said he believed police had to kick in the door to enter.
Many of the nearby apartments are vacant, and police said no neighbors reported hearing anything on a quiet Christmas morning when many people were not around.
Eberling said the victims appeared to have just opened Christmas presents when the shooting started, and there was no visible sign of forced entry or a struggle.
"By all appearances, they're all part of the same family," Eberling said. "It's a gruesome crime scene to say the least, with that many victims in that (small an) area suffering gunshot wounds."
The bodies remained in the apartment well past dark as investigators worked into the early hours of Monday morning processing the crime scene, police said.
Lincoln Vineyards is a middle-income complex near Colleyville Heritage High School, one of the area's most highly regarded schools.
Several neighbors said children frequently played in front of the apartment, and they regularly saw young adults leaving for work.
Vanessa Barerra said the killings were especially disturbing in light of Grapevine's reputation as a safe place to live.
"I did research and chose to live here because of the safety and the school district," she said. "I'm glad my kids weren't here. They're with their dad."
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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FILE - Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks at a Hy-Vee store in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in this Dec. 20, 2011 file photo. The former House speaker has moved to the top in recent polling in Ohio, just as Republican presidential candidates prepare for the Jan. 3 caucuses in Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
FILE - Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks at a Hy-Vee store in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in this Dec. 20, 2011 file photo. The former House speaker has moved to the top in recent polling in Ohio, just as Republican presidential candidates prepare for the Jan. 3 caucuses in Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) ? For "Anybody but Romney" Republicans in a key conservative region of Ohio, Newt Gingrich has been picking up support as an alternative to the former Massachusetts governor.
The former House speaker has moved to the top in recent polling in Ohio, just as Republican presidential candidates prepare for the Jan. 3 caucuses in Iowa, followed closely by the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries. Ohio's presidential primary is scheduled for March 6, one of the biggest prizes for Republicans among about a dozen states voting on "Super Tuesday."
Mitt Romney hasn't excited some of the party's staunchest conservatives for reasons that include his past support of abortion rights and enactment of a Massachusetts health care plan that's often compared to President Barack Obama's overhaul.
Some conservatives had flirted with supporting Herman Cain, drawn to his business background and unconventional campaign style. But Cain suspended his campaign this month following allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior and a longtime extramarital affair. Cain's decision and Gingrich's performance in nationally televised debates helped some make up their minds.
"He's sold me," said Dan Keith, 61, of Hamilton. Keith and his wife, Pat, said they are convinced that Gingrich has the experience and savvy to be strong against Obama. "I can't see anybody else coming onto the scene that we would go to."
The Keiths said they were undecided when first interviewed three months ago.
"I think before, people liked the other candidates because they were an alternative to Romney. But I'm hearing more people who like Gingrich as Gingrich," said Bill Langdon, co-owner of the Grand Ole Pub, a popular gathering spot for Republican partisans in West Chester. Langdon had been interested in Cain, but doubted whether Cain could win the presidential nomination.
Gingrich is now his choice. "He's the guy they think can go toe-to-toe with the president," Langdon said.
Sandra Arno, of nearby Springdale, turned out for Cain's visit to West Chester in November and liked what she heard. She was deciding between him and Gingrich before Cain stopped campaigning, and most recently was leaning toward the former speaker.
"I think they're both very intelligent, and I think Newt will be good as the candidate," Arno said.
Republican-dominated suburbs like this one ? home of House Speaker John Boehner ? just north of Cincinnati provide a stronghold of votes in a state that no GOP nominee has ever reached the White House without winning. Their enthusiastic turnout to vote for George W. Bush by 2-to-1 margins in 2004 is credited with delivering Ohio to clinch his re-election. It's important for the Republican nominee to be able to attract big numbers in GOP-oriented suburban and rural regions to offset Democratic urban bastions led by Cleveland.
Ohio could be more crucial to Gingrich than some of his rivals because the former House speaker failed to qualify for Virginia's primary ballot. Gingrich's campaign has said he will pursue an aggressive write-in campaign in Virginia, although state law prohibits write-ins on primary ballots.
The state party said over the weekend that both Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry had failed to submit the required 10,000 signatures to appear on the March 6 ballot. Failing to get on the ballot in Virginia, where Gingrich lives, underscores the difficulty first-time national candidates have in preparing for the long haul of a presidential campaign.
In Ohio, a series of Quinnipiac University polls tracked Gingrich's rise from low single-digits to 36 percent between September and early December. Cain had fallen to 7 percent after leading the pack at 28 percent in October. The sexual harassment allegations against Cain surfaced in late October.
Lori Viars, a conservative activist and anti-abortion leader in Lebanon, predicted that a Romney nomination would keep some Christian evangelicals on the sidelines in November because of concern about his previous positions on issues, led by abortion. Some in her crowd ? Viars is among them ? might also hesitate over Gingrich's personal history, which includes two divorces and acknowledged marital infidelity.
"Newt makes a lot of sense," Viars said. "But everyone makes mistakes, and he certainly is right on a lot of issues."
Several of those who have come around to Gingrich say they're not put off by his personal past.
"Would I want him as marriage counselor? No," said Keith. "But that's not what we're electing."
Keith's wife thinks Gingrich's candidacy is on firmer ground because he's already undergone years of scrutiny.
"They've already raked him over the coals pretty good," Pat Keith said.
Other Republican activists say it's still too soon to pick a candidate in a state where there has been little campaigning, and with the GOP field likely to be smaller by the time of Ohio's primary in March.
This region of Ohio is home to some of the nation's first tea party groups, and a number of activists are loyal to Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who has attracted a band of followers with libertarian-minded calls to bring home U.S. troops and keep the government out of personal decisions.
Cincinnati tea party leader Mike Wilson, though, is "watching and waiting."
Wilson's favorite candidate was Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor who dropped out in August. Wilson doesn't share the worry about Romney becoming the nominee. He also said a respectable Iowa finish by Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann or Texas Gov. Rick Perry could give either of those conservative favorites some traction heading into the contests that follow.
Wilson said Romney can defeat Obama and would work with a Republican-controlled House, should it stay in GOP hands.
"I think we know who the ultimate opponent is ? Barack Obama," Wilson said. "With John Boehner as speaker, I think Romney will sign a lot of Republican legislation over the next four years."
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TOKYO (Reuters) ? Japanese and Indian stocks outperformed the rest of Asia in thin trade Monday, with sentiment partly lifted by signs of U.S. economic recovery, although trading was subdued with many markets closed for Christmas holidays.
Tokyo's Nikkei stock average (.N225) ended up 1 percent, above its 25-day moving average of 8,459, while India's main 30-share BSE index (.BSESN) rose 1.14 percent, as investors sought holiday-season bargains.
But MSCI's broadest index of Asia Pacific shares outside Japan (.MIAPJ0000PUS) slipped from a two-week high touched earlier in the day to trade down 0.1 percent.
U.S., European and some Asian markets including Hong Kong and Singapore were closed Monday.
Wall Street stocks rose Friday, with the broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) breaking through its 200-day moving average after a four-day rally lifted stocks to bring the index up 0.6 percent for the year at last week's close.
The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) rose to its highest in five months Friday.
"The Nikkei is moving with New York. The gains in the U.S. and Europe gave some sense of relief to markets," said Hajime Nakajima, a wholesale trader at Cosmo Securities in Osaka, Japan.
In a sign the markets may be stabilizing for the time being, the CBOE Volatility index VIX (.VIX) fell to 20.73 on Friday, near a five-month low, reflecting receding investor desire for protection in stock index options against future losses.
The VIX -- a measure of expected volatility in the S&P 500 over the next 30 days -- fell to its lowest since the global financial crisis of October 2008 at 14.3 earlier this year, before picking up to a year high of 48 in August. It has been slipping since hitting a high above 30 earlier this month.
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The Shanghai Composite Index (.SSEC) fell 0.5 percent on concerns over corporate earnings outlook, pushing below the psychologically important 2,200 level in light trading.
The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (.KS11) slid 0.6 percent on doubts over the euro zone debt crisis getting resolved.
"Program selling was the main drag on the index today, and despite the optimistic U.S. data, foreign investors aren't ready to re-enter the market in force as long as the (European Central Bank) isn't taking more concrete measures," said Lee Kyung-soo, a market analyst at Shinyoung Securities.
Investors will be looking for clues over the strength of the U.S. economy from data due this week, including the S&P Case-Shiller house price index for October and consumer confidence for December.
U.S. consumer spending growth was tepid and a gauge of business investment fell for a second month in November, data showed Friday, but recent labor and manufacturing figures implied a more-lasting and fundamental strengthening of the recovery.
The U.S. Congress Friday approved a two-month extension of a payroll tax cut that will preserve income for most Americans, supporting their purchases of goods and services and helping sentiment.
The euro was up 0.13 percent to $1.3060, well above its 11-month trough of $1.2945 hit earlier this month.
The latest Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed investors reduced their short euro positions slightly, potentially giving support to the single currency.
"Given a lack of factors to trade and low liquidity, activity is expected to be lackluster this week, but sluggish results of French and Italian government debt sales scheduled this week could pressure the euro amid an absence of progress in bolstering euro zone safety net," Barclays Capital said in a research note.
The 10-year Italian government debt yield stayed near 7 percent, above which many say is unsustainable for managing public finances and the economy, while 10-year Spanish government bond yield also stood at an elevated 5.40 percent.
Wariness about European banks' health and risks of another global credit crunch made banks reluctant to borrow to each other, pushing the London interbank offered rate for three-month dollars up further Friday to 0.57575 percent, its highest since early July 2009.
(Additional reporting by Dominic Lau and Mari Saito in Tokyo, and Joonhee Yu in Seoul; Editing by Richard Borsuk)
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LATHAM, N.Y. - The New York Military Forces Honor Guard performed more military funeral honors in 2011- over 10,500 - than at any time since it was created in 1999.
Last year the Honor Guard provided honors at the funerals of 10,415 soldiers, service members and veterans. As of Dec. 23, Honor Guard members had participated in funerals for 10,564 veterans, said Don E. Roy, the director of the program since 2003.
He anticipates providing military honors at more than 10,600 funerals across New York by New Year's Day, 2012, Roy added.
The bulk of these funerals, more than 90 percent, were for veterans of the Second World War, Roy said.
The 60 New York Army soldiers who work full-time with the Honor Guard and the 70, who participate in funerals on a part-time basis work out of nine offices located across the state from Long Island to Buffalo.
On average, the New York Honor Guard, which took first place in the most recent nationwide National Guard Honor Guard competition in 2010, conducts 900 funerals each month.
So far in 2011, the breakdown for each regional office is:
- New York, 1,638;
- Long Island, 3,677;
- Hudson Valley (Newburgh), 853;
- Capital Region, 821;
- Binghamton, 455:
- Buffalo, 1267;
- Rochester, 652;
- Syracuse, 781;
- Finger Lakes (Bath), 420.
The number of funerals conducted on Long Island is large because of the presence of two national veterans cemeteries there, Roy explained.
While the bulk of funerals have been for World War II veterans, the Honor Guard is now participating in the funerals of more and more Korean War veterans and Vietnam War veterans, Roy said.
The Honor Guard has participated in the funerals of the 32 New York Army National Guard soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, although there were no funerals for New York National Guard soldiers in 2011.
However, the Honor Guard did participate in 10 repatriated remains ceremonies in 2011, Roy said. These were cases in which remains from past wars were finally identified and laid to rest.
The reason for the increase in funerals, aside from deaths in an aging population, is that more people are becoming aware that their loved one may be entitled to military honors at their funeral, Roy said.
Any veteran, with an honorable discharge, whether they served during peacetime or wartime, whether they retired or not, is entitled to military honors at their funeral, Roy said.
The Honor Guard has been conducting more than 10,000 funerals annually since 2007. Only California's Honor Guard performs more funerals than New York's, Roy said.
Since the program started in 1999, the New York Military Forces Honor Guard has participated in over 88,000 funerals for serving service members and veterans.
"People are starting to hear about us, and we are proud to honor those who served." Roy said.
Federal law requires that at least two Honor Guard members, from the parent service of the deceased, be present to play taps, fold and present a flag to the next of kin for all former soldiers when requested the family or a designated representative. For most of those funerals, the Honor Guard sends three members whenever possible. Soldiers killed in action, general officers, retired general officers, retired sergeants major and Medal of Honor holders require many more soldiers.
The Honor Guard's primary function is to provide military honors at the funerals of Army, Army Reserve, Army Air Corps veterans from World War II, and Army National Guard Veterans, Roy said. The Honor Guard will fill in when the other services cannot provide military honors if time permits, he said.
Honor Guard soldiers go through a week-long training program before they go out into the community to represent the Army and the Army National Guard.
It's a demanding program. The key is to focus on the drill moves required and attention to detail in uniform appearance, said Spc. Vanessa Banks, an Honor Guard member since 2010.
Banks, a Niagara Falls resident, works with the Honor Guard team based at the Masten Avenue Armory in Buffalo. Her office, one of the busiest offices in the state, does at least two funerals a day every day of the week, she said.
A cook in Company D of the 427th Support Battalion who will deploy to Kuwait in 2012, Banks said it's a real honor to represent the Army and the Army National Guard at military funerals.
"You're the last military representative of the United States Army the family gets to see," she explained. "There is a real sense of satisfaction. It makes you really proud."
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Onlookers gather around a car destroyed in a blast next to St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing scores of people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. (AP Photo/Sunday Aghaeze)
Onlookers gather around a car destroyed in a blast next to St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing scores of people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. (AP Photo/Sunday Aghaeze)
Onlookers and security staff gather around a car destroyed in a blast next to St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing scores of people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. (AP Photo/Dele Jones)
An armed soldier walks past a car destroyed in a blast next to St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing scores of people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. (AP Photo/Dele Jones)
A victim of a bomb blast at a Catholic church near Nigeria's capital lays on a bed at Suleja General Hospital in Suleja, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing scores of people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. (AP Photo/Dele Jones)
A victim is tended to by medics in an ambulance following a blast at a Catholic church near Nigeria's capital lays on a bed at Suleja General Hospital in Suleja, Nigeria, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing scores of people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. (AP Photo/Dele Jones)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) ? Terror attacks across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect killed at least 39 people Sunday, with the majority dying on the steps of a Catholic church after celebrating Christmas Mass as blood pooled in dust from a massive explosion.
Authorities acknowledged they could not bring enough emergency medical personnel to care for the wounded outside St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla near Nigeria's capital. Elsewhere, a bomb exploded amid gunfire in the central Nigeria city of Jos and a suicide car bomber attacked the military in the nation's northeast as part of an apparently coordinated assault by the sect known as Boko Haram.
The Christmas Day violence, denounced by world leaders and the Vatican, shows the threat of the widening insurrection posed by Boko Haram against Nigeria's weak central government. Despite a recent paramilitary crackdown against the sect in the oil-rich nation, it appears that Africa's most populous nation remains unable to stop the threat.
The White House condemned what it called a "senseless" attack, offered its condolences to the Nigerian people and pledged to assist authorities in bringing those responsible to justice.
In a statement, Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague said, "These are cowardly attacks on families gathered in peace and prayer to celebrate a day which symbolises harmony and goodwill towards others.".
The first explosion on Sunday struck St. Theresa Catholic Church just after 8 a.m. The attack killed 35 people and wounded another 52, said Slaku Luguard, a coordinator with Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency.
Though billions of dollars of oil money flow into the nation's budget yearly, Luguard's agency could only send text messages to journalists asking for their help in getting more ambulances.
Those wounded filled the cement floors of a nearby government hospital, with television images showing them crying in pools of their own blood. Corpses lined an open-air morgue.
The bombing and the delayed response drew anger from those gathering around the church after the blast. The crowd initially blocked emergency workers from the blast site, only allowing them in after soldiers arrived.
"We're trying to calm the situation," Luguard said. "There are some angry people around trying to cause problems."
In Jos, a second explosion struck near the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church, state government spokesman Pam Ayuba said. Gunmen later opened fire on police guarding the area, killing one officer, he said. Two other locally made explosives were found in a nearby building and disarmed.
By noon Sunday, explosions echoed through the streets of Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state where fighting between security forces and the sect already had killed at least 61 people in recent days. The most serious attack on Sunday came when a suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives at the state headquarters of Nigeria's secret police, the State Security Service.
The bomber killed three people in the blast, though the senior military commander apparently targeted survived the attack, the State Security Service said in a statement.
After the bombings, a Boko Haram spokesman using the nom de guerre Abul-Qaqa claimed responsibility for the attacks in an interview with The Daily Trust, the newspaper of record across Nigeria's Muslim north. The sect has used the newspaper in the past to communicate with public.
Boko Haram has carried out increasingly sophisticated and bloody attacks in its campaign to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria, a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people. The group, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language, is responsible for at least 504 killings this year alone, according to an Associated Press count.
This Christmas attack comes a year after a series of Christmas Eve bombings in Jos claimed by the militants left at least 32 dead and 74 wounded. The group also claimed responsibility for the Aug. 26 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria's capital Abuja that killed 24 people and wounded 116 others.
The sect came to national prominence in 2009, when its members rioted and burned police stations near its base of Maiduguri, a dusty northeastern city on the cusp of the Sahara Desert. Nigeria's military violently put down the attack, crushing the sect's mosque into shards as its leader was arrested and died in police custody. About 700 people died during the violence.
While initially targeting enemies via hit-and-run assassinations from the back of motorbikes after the 2009 riot, violence by Boko Haram now has a new sophistication and apparent planning that includes high-profile attacks with greater casualties. That has fueled speculation about the group's ties as it has splintered into at least three different factions, diplomats and security sources say. They say the more extreme wing of the sect maintains contact with terror groups in North Africa and Somalia.
Targeting the group has remained difficult, as sect members are scattered throughout northern Nigeria and nearby Cameroon, Chad and Niger. Analysts say political considerations also likely play a part in the country's thus-far muted response: President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south, may be hesitant to use force in the nation's predominantly Muslim north.
In a statement, Jonathan condemned the blasts as a "unwarranted affront on our collective safety and freedom."
"I want to reassure all Nigerians that government will not relent in its determination to bring to justice all the perpetrators of today's acts of violence and all others before now," Jonathan said.
However, Jonathan has made the same promises after a series of spiraling attacks by the group. His spokesman, Reuben Abati, defended the president by saying the country planned to spend more on security and had made arrests targeting the group.
"The administration is very determined to address this new threat of terrorism that seems to have slipped into our environment," Abati told the AP.
But anger continues to grow over the sect's apparent ability to strike at will ? anger that could be seen at St. Theresa Catholic Church. After the blast, someone picked up a burnt piece of wood to scrawl: "Revolution now in the country" on its cement walls.
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Associated Press writers Bashir Adigun in Abuja, Nigeria and Njadvara Musa in Maiduguri, Nigeria contributed to this report.
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Jon Gambrell can be reached at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP.
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Khushi L. Matta, an award-winning former scientist at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., has filed a patent lawsuit against the institute and Roswell Park noted scientists Ravinda K. Pandey and Thomas J. Dougherty.
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Sheree Whitfield is the latest member of this franchise to release a single, as "Who Gon’ Check Me Boo?" is now available on iTunes, although NeNe Leakes might not want to download a version. The track includes apparent disses aimed at this co-star, with Whitfield "singing" lines that include...
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Planet hunt finds two orbs of terrestrial proportions orbiting a distant sunlike star
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The newest exo-apples of the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope?s unblinking eye are two rocky, Earth-sized planets hovering around Kepler-20, a sunlike star 950 light-years away.
Though snuggled too close to their star to be habitable, these first Earth-sized worlds confirmed by the Kepler team are another big step forward for the planet hunters, who recently found a planet somewhat larger than Earth orbiting a sunlike star at a distance hospitable to life. Finding habitable distant worlds ? Earth-sized planets at the right distance from their stars to allow the presence of liquid water ? is the team?s ultimate goal.
One of the planets, the pragmatically named Kepler-20e, is a bit smaller than Venus ? 0.87 times as wide as Earth ? and completes a trip around the star every 6.1 days. The other, Kepler-20f, is 1.03 times as wide as Earth, and a year on that planet would last just 19.6 days. Because the planets are so small, they?re probably made of ingredients similar to Earth?s.
Depending on where and how it formed, Kepler-20f could even have developed a water vapor atmosphere, says planetary scientist Jonathan Fortney of the University of California, Santa Cruz. ?If it started out with the amount of water we had on Earth and Venus, it?s probably long gone ? just like it is on Venus,? he says. ?But if that planet had a tremendous amount more water, then it might have some left over.?
The Kepler-20 system is a quintet comprising three large planets (Kepler-20b, c and d) and the two Earth-sized ones, all tucked in nearer to their star than Mercury is to the sun. Moving out from Kepler-20, the five spheres alternate in size, with the runts of the planetary litter bracketed on either side by their bigger siblings.
?It?s one of the most shocking architectures we?ve seen,? says David Charbonneau, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., and a coauthor of the study describing the small planets, which appears online December 20 in Nature. ?Exoplanets have had a lot of surprises, but this is going to be very difficult to explain.?
The strange ? but stable ? configuration is encoded in the blips and blinks the planets produce as they pass in front of their sun, which is one of more than 150,000 in a field of stars the telescope stares at. Different-sized blips correspond to different-sized planets, and watching the star for long enough reveals how frequently each planet completes its journey.
Currently set to wrap up at the end of 2012, the mission could be extended for several more years if limited budgets allow. More observing time will let scientists monitor Kepler?s starry patch for long enough to detect Earth-sized planets in longer, habitable orbits.
?The spacecraft doesn't know about politics and financial difficulties ? it will continue to beam data back to Earth until at least 2015, even if no one is listening,? says astronomer Debra Fischer of Yale University. ?You just have to keep the lights on, and keep the science team intact. The next three years are where they?re going to detect the Earths at habitable distances.?
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The Marlins have repeatedly said that they have no intention to trade Hanley Ramirez following the addition of shortstop Jose Reyes, but it?s clear that he?s not yet on board with moving to third base.
Marlins president Larry Beinfest made some interesting comments to?Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald yesterday, admitting?that??it may take a little bit of time for him to get comfortable? with the idea of switching positions.
?The conversations we?ve had, we?re going to keep between us. But there?s been quite a bit of communication. He?s excited about playing for Ozzie Guillen. Ozzie is excited to have him. Everyone reacts to change differently.
?Even though we communicated with him and let him know what our intentions were in terms of Jose, he was the shortstop for six years, a very good one. We?ve asked him to move to third. Sometimes it just takes a little time for things to sink in. I think he recognizes we?re a better team with Jose.?
Another Marlins? official told Jackson that they would like Ramirez to publicly endorse the signing of Reyes and a move to third base, but they haven?t pressured him to do so. The hope is that he?ll come around to the idea before spring training, but if the Marlins continue to face resistance, it stands to reason that they?ll explore the possibility of trading him.
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Broadcom Introduces World?s Broadest Automotive Ethernet Product Portfolio ? Ushers in Next Generation Connected Car
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Press recover date: Dec 7, 2011
Dramatically Reduces Connectivity Cost and Cabling Weight
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? Enables emigration from mixed sealed applications to singular open, scalable Ethernet-based network
? Delivers high-bandwidth connectivity for in-vehicle network applications (driver assist, diagnostics, infotainment)
? World?s initial Ethernet automotive resolution to broach 100Mbps over unshielded singular disfigured span cable
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a tellurian creation personality in semiconductor solutions for connected and wireless communications, now announced a world?s broadest automotive Ethernet portfolio, engineered to accommodate a severe education and final of a automotive semiconductor market. Broadcom?s BroadR-Reach? automotive portfolio delivers high-performance bandwidth of 100Mbps and over while dramatically shortening connectivity costs adult to 80 percent(1) and cabling weight as most as 30 percent(2). Visit go.Broadcom.com/Automotive to learn more.
Enabling a Next-Generation Connected Car
As consumer direct for in-vehicle connectivity continues to grow, automotive manufacturers are underneath vigour to broach competitive, innovative facilities while minimizing cost. Broadcom?s BroadR-Reach automotive solutions concede mixed in-vehicle systems (such as infotainment, on-board diagnostics and programmed motorist assistance) to concurrently entrance information over unshielded singular disfigured span cable. By expelling cumbersome, safeguarded cabling, automotive manufacturers can significantly revoke connectivity costs and cabling weight.
The Broadcom automotive Ethernet product portfolio consists of 5 inclination including 3 rarely integrated switches with embedded PHYs, and dual stand-alone PHY solutions. Each device in a automotive portfolio is designed to accommodate in-car EMC mandate and impassioned automotive heat grades. Broadcom is TS16949 agreeable and AEC-Q100 gift is now underneath way.
Proliferation of Automotive Ethernet Connectivity
This proclamation follows a new introduction of a OPEN (One-Pair Ether-Net) Alliance Special Interest Group (SIG). Established to expostulate far-reaching scale adoption of Ethernet-based automotive connectivity as a customary in automotive connectivity, a SIG will residence attention mandate for improving in-vehicle safety, comfort, and infotainment, while significantly shortening network complexity and cabling costs. Members embody Broadcom, NXP Semiconductors N.V., Freescale Semiconductor, Harman International, BMW, Hyundai Motor Company and Jaguar Land Rover. License to selection for BroadR-Reach is accessible to all meddlesome OPEN Alliance members underneath RAND terms around a permit from Broadcom. Visit www.opensig.org to learn more.
Market Drivers:
? In-vehicle wiring flourishing in volume and complexity(3)
? Ongoing emigration from analog electromechanical systems in cars to digital
? Increase in series of cameras, sensors, diagnostics, ADAS, infotainment, etc.
? In-dash arrangement consoles apropos computerized haughtiness centers for driver/passenger control
? Automotive manufacturers need open, scalable, in-vehicle connectivity(4)
? Need for a common network that supports mixed electronic systems and devices
? New inclination solutions need aloft bandwidth and convergence(5)
? Prevalence of in-vehicle wiring has scarcely doubled in a final decade(4)
? Consumer direct for automotive connectivity augmenting during a fast pace(3)
Product Portfolio Key Facts:
BCM89500 7-port, covering 2 switch with 4 integrated BroadR-Reach PHYs
Designed to support IEEE 1588 and IEEE 802.1AS timing functions
Deep nap and ultra-low energy modes for reduced energy consumption
BCM89501 7-port, covering 2 switch with 5 integrated BroadR-Reach PHYs
Designed to support IEEE 1588 and IEEE 802.1AS timing functions
Deep nap and ultra-low energy modes for reduced energy consumption
BCM89200 4-port, covering 2 switch with dual integrated BroadR-Reach PHYs
Supports several uplink ports for connectivity to outmost inclination
Designed to support IEEE 1588 and IEEE 802.1AS timing functions
Deep nap and ultra-low energy modes for reduced energy consumption
BCM89610 Single-port, 10/100/1000BASE-T PHY
Optimized for in- car evidence applications for when car is powered off
Supports accumulation of connectivity options for outmost devices
BCM89810 Single-port, 100Mbps BroadR-Reach PHY
Optimized for mixed in-car network applications for when car is powered on
Supports accumulation of connectivity options for outmost devices
All inclination (with difference to BCM89610) are agreeable with OPEN Alliance specifications.
Availability
Devices are now sampling with prolongation volume slated for a second half of 2012.
Quotes:
Dr. Ali Abaye, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Broadcom
?The augmenting volume of gadgetry used in vehicles now rivals that of a consumer wiring segment. Broadcom is on a forefront of engineering innovative technologies that capacitate people to bond probably all in a home, palm and infrastructure. Automotive connectivity a good fit and a healthy subsequent step for Ethernet technology, and we intend to lead a approach in simplifying in-vehicle connectivity while dramatically shortening costs for automotive manufacturers.?
Thilo Koslowski, Automotive Practice Leader, Gartner
?Network connectivity in automobiles represents a essential event for new product and business creation a automotive industry. By 2016, a infancy of consumers in mature markets will cruise in-vehicle Web entrance a pivotal pattern in their car purchase. Connected car technologies will capacitate automotive companies to residence pivotal attention trends: sustainability requirements, digital lifestyle convergence, changing marketplace demographics, rising travel policies and new mobility innovations. The connected car represents a start of a new epoch for a automotive attention where a partnership element of ?controlled openness? will lead to new patron practice and successful business strategies.?
Resources:
Automotive Portfolio Featured Product Page
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About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500? company, is a tellurian personality and dignitary in semiconductor solutions for connected and wireless communications. Broadcom? products seamlessly broach voice, video, information and multimedia connectivity in a home, bureau and mobile environments. With a industry?s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded program solutions, Broadcom is changing a universe by Connecting everything?. For some-more information, go to www.broadcom.com.
(1) Based on stream marketplace prices for unshielded singular disfigured span FlexRay cables and weight of two-meter twisted, single-pair FlexRay cables and connectors
(2) Based on total weight of 2-meter twisted, single-pair FlexRay cables and connectors contra 2-meter LVDS cables with LVDS connectors
(3) Gartner ? The Automotive Industry Accelerates Innovations; Published: 16 Nov 2010 ID:G00209090
(4) ABI Semiconductor Forecast 2011
(5) IEEE 802.1 AVB Task Force Meeting, Mar 2011
Broadcom?, a beat logo, Connecting everything?, a Connecting all logo, and BroadR-Reach are among a trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or a affiliates in a United States, certain other countries and/or a EU. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are a skill of their particular owners.
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Presenter Woody Harrelson gives his new movie "Rampart" a plug onstage during nominations for the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Golden Globe Awards will be held on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Presenter Woody Harrelson gives his new movie "Rampart" a plug onstage during nominations for the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Golden Globe Awards will be held on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? Woody Harrelson used the early-morning Golden Globes nominations announcement to plug his new movie.
The actor was among the stars helping the Hollywood Foreign Press Association reveal nominees for the 69th annual Golden Globes on a worldwide telecast Thursday, and he appeared to include his yet-to-be-released police drama "Rampart" in the best picture category.
As he read the nominees for best dramatic film, Harrelson said, "'Rampart,'" followed by a long pause, "opens January 27, but I don't see it on the list here."
The nominees for best drama film are "The Descendants," ''The Help," ''Hugo," ''The Ides of March," ''Moneyball" and "War Horse." Harrelson, along with Gerard Butler, Sofia Vergara and Rashida Jones, made the announcement at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the Golden Globes will be presented Jan. 15.
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NEW YORK ? Jason Reitman was under the same impression many are of Charlize Theron. He knew she was a fiercely talented actress, prone to burying her stunning beauty behind gritty, intense performances like her Academy Award-winning one as a murderous prostitute in 2003's "Monster."
Then she told him a dirty joke.
Theron approached Reitman at last year's Oscars to tell him how much she liked his then recent film "Up in the Air" and that she'd love to work with him.
"I got a tap on the shoulder and I turn around and it's all 6-foot-6 of Charlize Theron," recalls Reitman, intentionally exaggerating Theron's height by 8 inches. "I was really understandably intimidated."
But when Theron, already a few drinks into the night, revealed a more depraved sense of humor than her image would suggest, Reitman realized they had more in common than he expected: "I was like, `Oh! I like you.'" (Theron, for her part, doesn't recall the joke, but, with a glimmer in her eye, acknowledged, "That sounds about correct.")
The meeting was both fortuitous, in that it directly led to Theron staring in Reitman's new film "Young Adult," and an early hint to the tone of their collaboration. In "Young Adult" (which was penned by Diablo Cody of "Juno"), Theron plays Mavis Gary, a teen fiction ghost writer who returns to her hometown in rural Minnesota to lure her now-married former boyfriend. As a woman whose nostalgia has swelled to demented proportions, Theron is bitingly caustic and hilariously candid.
The performance not only reveals Theron's comedic side, but shows more of her true nature than her previous work. Not that Theron is anything like Mavis' more deplorable aspects, but she shares Mavis' sharp elbows and sharper wit.
"Most people who know me who have seen the film are not that shocked," Theron said in a recent interview during which she was self-deprecating, unguardedly foul-mouthed and thoughtful. "The film is way more my personality and closer to anything that I've done."
It's also Theron's first film in nearly three years. In between, she prepared to star in an ambitious "Mad Max" sequel, "Fury Road," which was repeatedly delayed and still hasn't been shot. She worked on developing projects with her production company, including a drama series for HBO with David Fincher. She also split with the Irish actor Stuart Townsend after nearly a decade together.
"I'll be very honest: I wasn't missing it," Theron says of acting. "It's hard to miss something when nothing was kind of sparking that instrument to get excited about."
That period, though, appears to be over. Following "Young Adult" ? which is earning Theron her best reviews since "Monster" ? she'll be seen in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" and the fantasy "Snow White & the Huntsman," which also stars Kristen Stewart.
Theron, 36, grew up on a farm outside Johannesburg, South Africa. While she was a teenager, her mother shot and killed Theron's alcoholic and abusive father. When she was 16, she became a model in Milan. She later moved to New York to train as a ballet dancer, but a knee injury pushed her out of dance and toward acting.
After a number of small roles as girlfriend types in films such as "The Devil's Advocate" and "The Cider House Rules," her performance in "Monster" changed her trajectory considerably. When she won best actress at the Oscars, Nelson Mandela hailed her for putting South Africa "on the map."
Since then, Theron, who lives in Los Angeles, received a second Oscar nomination for her performance as a miner in "North Country." Though the science fiction "Aeon Flux" bombed, Theron drew acclaim again for a supporting role in the somber anti-war film "In the Valley of Elah" and for the atypical superhero film "Hancock."
But all the while, there were hints in her filmography of comedic leanings. In 2005, she had a memorable arc on "Arrested Development" as the love interest of Jason Bateman's character. Her character was mentally disabled, but the joke was on those around her, who didn't notice because of her British accent.
The opportunity arose when "Monster" director Patty Jenkins directed an episode of the series, and Theron asked her to relay to creator Mitch Hurwitz her pleading to be on the show. She calls the experience a "great, great learning experience" in how comedy needn't be played for comedy, but rather portrayed realistically.
Theron also appeared on an early episode of Zach Galifianakis' faux-interview Web series "Between Two Ferns," as revered of a comedy calling-card as there is. On it, Theron flirted with Galifianakis before pulling the rug out from him, cackling at the idea of her being attracted to a "fat garden gnome."
"The bizarre thing is that I've always had kind of a sick, twisted sense of humor," says Theron. "But my work, for some reason, has always veered to the dramatic stuff. I think that's because I've never really been that driven by genre, but I find that I want to play people that feel real. I do think in comedy it's harder to find non-caricatures. I always said that I would love to do something like that kind of comedy that the Coen brothers do, that more character study stuff. And that stuff is hard to come by, and I feel like my career was setting itself up to be another thing."
The comedian-actor Patton Oswalt, who plays an old high school acquaintance of Mavis' who turns into a drinking buddy in "Young Adult," said at the Gotham Awards that Theron "has the kind of humor that someone who looks like me has."
The two found an unlikely chemistry in "Young Adult" right from the start. Before ever meeting, they did a table read in Reitman's dining room and immediately connected.
"I realized I was going to be working with a really great actor," says Oswalt. "It made me work even harder so that I could be on her playing field. She is so instinctual and already ready to go every shot."
Whether it's "Monster" or "Hancock" or "Young Adult," Theron typically commits fully to a character. Asked how she manages that, she doesn't miss a beat: "Alcohol."
But thinking a little more about it, she says that ballet instilled in her a relish for performance. Though she acknowledges she's not a trained actor, she says she learned from other actors as her career unfolded.
"It was amazing to watch Al Pacino at 3 in the morning and suck ... and then be brilliant," says Theron, recalling "The Devil's Advocate." "It was one of the greatest teachings that I could have been given. He taught me that in order to be great, you have to be willing to fall on your face. You don't get to that place unless you go balls out."
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