Friday, December 16, 2011

Best Songs Of 2011: MTV Readers React

Music fans agree Adele 'killed 2011' with 'Rolling in the Deep,' but they have their own favorites too.
By James Dinh


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After MTV's roundtable of experts chose Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" as the top two Best Songs of 2011, music fans made their opinions heard, sharing their picks or voicing support for the chart-topping ladies and the rest of the top 10.

Adele received plenty of backup for her Song of the Year win, including from Facebook user Cavisha Brown: "Guys, Adele killed 2011 with 'Rolling in the Deep' and 'Someone Like You.' Adele for the win!" Another Facebook fan, Alvaro Maguiña, wrote, " 'Rolling in the Deep,' 'cause Adele's a boss."

Even the haters couldn't deny the big-voiced singer's 2011 takeover, as Bradley Goodwin confessed, "Even though I don't like her, it's obviously Adele."

"Super Bass" also got support from Minaj's Barbz and Kenz, who appeared on the fence about the MC's face-off against Adele. "What people don't understand is that Nicki is a rapper," Grant Markwell wrote on Facebook. "She didn't get her rise to fame from singing. Adele did, but on the other hand both are styles of music that are looked up to by millions. I think Nicki's rap style is very dominant, and that 'Super Bass' was a breakthrough for female rap. So I pick her..."

Fans of Bruno Mars weren't too happy that hits like "The Lazy Song" and "It Will Rain" were missing from the action. Twitter user @FloureandLeafe wrote, "No @BrunoMars song? Really? I don't agree 'cause bruno is a wonderful artist and he deserves to be in your list."

While Britney Spears' "Till the World Ends" made Bigger Than the Sound's Top 25 Songs of 2011, her hit singles were nowhere to be found on MTV's Best of 2011 list. Team B made sure to voice their thoughts.

"When it comes to awards and 'best of' charts, they ignore her," MTV.com user Alessandro ranted. "Even those who say she's great ... in the end act as if they'd never even said a word."

"You forgot Britt Britt, c'mon!" Joe added.

While Rihanna ruled Facebook in 2011, the pop titan landed at #3 on the list with "We Found Love." Her Navy was none too pleased that the dance anthem did not take home the title. "WTF, 'We Found Love' deserved to be number 1," @helenivyork tweeted.

Among the other tunes fans felt should have been part of the year-end list were Beyoncé's "Countdown," Eminem's "Lighters" and Jennifer Lopez's "On the Floor."

All this week, watch "AMTV" on MTV every day at 8 a.m. ET for our Best of 2011 lists. Then, come to MTVNews.com at 5 p.m. as we reveal our top picks of the year!

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Verizon to begin selling Galaxy Nexus tomorrow for $300

Get the conga line going, folks, because Verizon's finally come out of its non-committal shell and announced that its version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, as expected, can be purchased in stores and online starting tomorrow for $300 with a new two-year commitment. If you go through the official site to grab your copy, you may want to stay up late tonight -- they'll be ready to go at 1AM ET.

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Bonds' sentencing brings BALCO saga near a close

By PAUL ELIAS

Associated Press

Associated Press Sports

updated 3:48 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The largest federal criminal investigation into sports doping began more than nine years ago with a tax agent digging through the trash of the now notorious Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. Barring an appeal, the government's work comes to an anti-climactic end Friday when Barry Bonds - the probe's highest-profile catch - is sentenced for obstruction of justice.

In between, the federal government spent millions of dollars and untold staff hours obtaining the convictions of 11 people. Six of them, including track star Marion Jones, were ensnared for lying to grand jurors, federal investigators or the court. Five men, including Bonds' personal trainer Greg Anderson, pleaded guilty to steroid distribution charges stemming from their BALCO connections.

The investigation in general - and the pursuit of Bonds in particular - ignited a debate over whether the government's long involvement was the best use of public resources.

More than seven years after he testified before a grand jury investigating BALCO, Major League Baseball's all-time home runs leader was convicted on just one of four remaining counts against him. And the jury deadlocked on whether Bonds lied about taking performance enhancing drugs.

Now, federal sentencing guidelines suggest a prison term of between 15 months and 21 months. But federal probation officers are recommending that Bonds receive no time, citing his charitable work, the nature of the crime and his otherwise spotless criminal record. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has sentenced two other BALCO figures convicted of similar crimes to probation and house arrest.

Was it all worth it?

"It absolutely was," said MacGregor Scott, the former U.S. attorney for Sacramento, now in private practice at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. "It brought a focus and awareness to the steroids issue that wasn't there before."

Scott said prosecutors had to go after Bonds once they concluded he lied to the grand jury when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs and said he allowed only doctors to inject him. Dozens of other athletes testified truthfully, Scott said.

"There aren't two sets of laws, one for Bonds and one for everybody else," Scott said. "The grand jury is the bedrock of the criminal justice system in the United States."

The probe did lead directly to former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell's in-depth investigation of drug use in Major League Baseball and his seminal Mitchell Report, which in turn prompted MLB and its players' union to strengthen their steroids policy.

Yet the relatively short list of convictions leaves some, perhaps most notably the BALCO founder himself, unimpressed.

"Obviously, the BALCO case brought about a greater public awareness regarding the rampant use of drugs at the elite level of sport, which is a good thing," said Victor Conte, the BALCO founder and president - who spent four months in prison after pleading guilty to steroids distribution. "As the BALCO case comes to a close, I don't think it was the highest and best use of the tens of millions of taxpayer dollars that were spent on the case."

Bonds will have 14 days after his sentencing to file a notice of appeal.

The trial itself ended ambiguously in April about three weeks after it began.

The jury concluded Bonds purposely evaded responding during testimony to a grand jury investigating steroids distribution in sports with a rambling non sequitur to a question about drug injections, and the jurors convicted him of obstruction of justice. But they couldn't reach a unanimous agreement on the heart of the case, deadlocking on three charges alleging Bonds lied to the grand jury when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs and testifying that no one other than his doctors ever injected him.

Prosecutors in September dropped those charges, foregoing another trial and declaring the one conviction showed the value of the Bonds prosecution.

The government's lead investigator, Jeff Novitzky, said Bonds first came to his attention during his weekly Monday night raids of BALCO's trash during the summer and fall of 2002. Novitzky, who was with the Internal Revenue Service then and is now a Food and Drug Administration investigator, said he found a magazine article quoting Bonds as crediting BALCO with helping him pump up and increase his power.

Novitzky gathered more evidence connecting Bonds to BALCO during September 2003 raids of the lab and the home of Greg Anderson, Bonds' personal trainer at the time. Three months later, Bonds was called before the grand jury and granted immunity from prosecution so long as he testified truthfully.

Despite the jury's mixed verdict, prosecutors still insist Bonds lied.

"The evidence at trial demonstrated that Bonds went into the grand jury with the intention of providing false statements and obstructing the grand jury's efforts to get to the truth in the BALCO matter," prosecutors wrote the judge last week seeking a prison sentence of 15 months for the former San Francisco Giants slugger. "Without truthful testimony, the judicial system simply cannot function properly in its mission-to get to justice."

In recommending that Bonds serve a term of house arrest, probation and community service - but no prison time - the federal probation department called Bonds' conviction an "aberration" and cited his "significant history of charitable, civic and prior good works" as reasons for the judge to "downward depart" from federal guidelines.

The department's report is confidential, but was cited in part by Bonds' lawyers last week in arguing for probation and volunteer work. Earlier this year, Bonds announced he would pay for the college education of the two children of Bryan Stow, the Giants fan who remains hospitalized after the highly publicized opening day beating in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium.

Bonds' lawyers quote an unidentified nurse writing in a letter to Illston that Bonds often visits sick children at the University of California, San Francisco's Benioff Children's Hospital. He paid for the 2009 renovation of what is now the Barry Bonds Family Foundation Playroom, which he visited in June.

"Barry Bonds is a hero to us at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital," the nurse wrote. "I consider being a character witness for Barry Bonds a privilege."

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

U. of Richmond police investigate shots report (AP)

RICHMOND, Va. ? University of Richmond police are investigating a report that shots were fired on the campus in Virginia.

University spokeswoman Linda Evans tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the shots were reported at about 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. Evans says there's no indication gunfire hit anyone.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Critics: 'Tough' sheriff botched sex-crime cases (AP)

EL MIRAGE, Ariz. ? The 13-year-old girl opened the door of her home in this small city on the edge of Phoenix to encounter a man who said that his car had broken down and he needed to use the phone. Once inside, the man pummeled the teen from behind, knocking her unconscious and sexually assaulting her.

Seven months before, in an apartment two miles away, another 13-year-old girl was fondled in the middle of the night by her mother's live-in boyfriend. She woke up in her room at least twice a week to find him standing over her, claiming to be looking for her mother's cell phone.

Both cases were among more than 400 sex-crimes reported to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office during a three-year period ending in 2007 ? including dozens of alleged child molestations ? that were inadequately investigated and in some instances were not worked at all, according to current and former police officers familiar with the cases.

In El Mirage alone, where Arpaio's office was providing contract police services, officials discovered at least 32 reported child molestations ? with victims as young as 2 years old ? where the sheriff's office failed to follow through, even though suspects were known in all but six cases.

Many of the victims, said a retired El Mirage police official who reviewed the files, were children of illegal immigrants.

The botched sex-crimes investigations have served as an embarrassment to a department whose sheriff is the self-described "America's Toughest Sheriff" and a national hero to conservatives on the immigration issue.

Arpaio's office refused several requests over a period of months to answer questions about the investigations and declined a public records request for an internal affairs report, citing potential disciplinary actions.

Brian Sands, a top sheriff's official who is in charge of the potential discipline of any responsible employees, was later made available to talk about the cases. He declined to say why they weren't investigated. "There are policy violations that have occurred here," Sands said. "It's obvious, but I can't comment on who or what."

Sands said officers had subsequently moved to clear up inadequately investigated sex-crimes in El Mirage and elsewhere in the county. He said leads were worked if they existed and cases were closed if there was no further evidence to pursue.

Arpaio's office was under contract to provide police services in El Mirage as the city struggled with its then dysfunctional department. After the contract ended and El Mirage was re-establishing its own police operation, the city spent a year sifting through layers of disturbingly incomplete casework.

El Mirage Detective Jerry Laird, who reviewed some the investigations, learned from a sheriff's summary of 50 to 75 cases files he picked up from Arpaio's office that an overwhelming majority of them hadn't been worked.

That meant there were no follow-up reports, no collection of additional forensic evidence and zero effort made after the initial report of the crime was taken.

"I think that at some point prior to the contract (for police services) running out, they put their feet on the desk, and that was that," Laird said.

Arpaio acknowledged his office had completed an internal probe into the inadequate investigations, but said, "I don't think it's right to get into it until we get to the bottom of this and see if there's disciplinary action against any employees."

A small number of cases from El Mirage were handed over to prosecutors, but the El Mirage Police Department said most were no longer viable ? evidence dating as far back as 2006 had grown cold or wasn't collected in the first place, victims had either moved away or otherwise moved on.

Bill Louis, then-assistant El Mirage police chief who reviewed the files after the sheriff's contract ended, believes the decision to ignore the cases was made deliberately by supervisors in Arpaio's office ? and not by individual investigators.

"I know the investigators. I just cannot believe they would wholesale discount these cases. No way," Louis said. "The direction had to come (from) up the food chain."

Louis said he believes whoever made the decision knew that illegal immigrants ? who are often transient and fear the police ? were unlikely to complain about the quality of investigations. He said some cases also involved families here legally.

El Mirage paid the sheriff's office $2.7 million for a wide range of police protection from 2005 through mid-October 2007, after the city's police department had been criticized in an audit as poorly organized, loosely supervised and mismanaged.

Although a small number of El Mirage officers continued working there during the period, Arpaio brought in patrol officers and detectives and managers who ran the department.

El Mirage police files obtained by The Associated Press through public records requests establish a pattern of sex-crimes not actually being investigated after the crimes were reported to Arpaio's office.

In April 2007, a 3-year-old girl was reported molested by her father, an illegal immigrant who cared for the child while her mother was at work. When the mother confronted her husband about the abuse, he cried and swore he'd never do it again.

Yet a few days later, the mother noticed more signs of sexual abuse on her daughter and called for help. After the initial report, that help didn't come.

The string of unresolved cases left Elizabeth Ditlevson, deputy director for the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence, shaking her head. "My impressions were anger at the system and concern for the people whose cases weren't addressed," she said.

According to both Sands and Scott Freeman, a sheriff's official who heard complaints from then-El Mirage Police Chief Mike Frazier about the quality of the sex-crimes investigations, more than 400 cases countywide had to be reopened. Freeman told outside investigators examining alleged managerial misconduct at Arpaio's office that a number of arrests were made in the reopened cases.

The April 2011 report on alleged managerial misconduct said the sheriff's internal effort to determine what had gone wrong with the sex-crimes investigations was twice derailed.

One delay occurred when the male sheriff's official leading the inquiry was accused of sexual harassment ? this by a female supervisor whose portfolio included some of the mishandled cases, according to the report.

Another internal affairs investigation, launched in May 2008, was stopped after the investigator was pulled away at the direction of David Hendershott, then the top aide to Arpaio, to help with another matter. The internal probe was reopened in December 2010 while Hendershott was on medical leave, according to the 2011 summary.

Hendershott's account conflicted with others.

Hendershott, who has since resigned amid separate misconduct allegations and declined a request by the AP to comment, told investigators the internal affairs inquiry was still in progress when he went on medical leave in 2010.

Still, Hendershott told investigators that the El Mirage Police Department had good reason to be upset about the sex-crimes handled by the sheriff's office.

The report of the 13-year-old who had been inappropriately touched by her mother's live-in boyfriend had been faxed to one of Arpaio's investigators. El Mirage police, who were given back the case about 11 months later, learned that it hadn't been worked.

When El Mirage police finally tracked down the mother, she said her boyfriend had moved out and that she no longer had contact with him. She and her daughter were in counseling and didn't want to bring the case to court.

In their follow-up on the case of the 13-year-old attacked by the man claiming to have a broken car, El Mirage police discovered Arpaio's office hadn't interviewed the victim.

An El Mirage detective went to the girl's home just off the city's main drag. The girl's uncle said she and her mother weren't around and took the investigator's card with a promise to ask them to call.

The mother never called back. She and her daughter's whereabouts are unknown.

The case of the molested 3-year-old was returned to El Mirage police unworked five months after the initial report. The family's beige tract home was deserted, the phone disconnected.

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Mariah Hanson: I Admit it. I Still Play With Dolls.

Booking talent is probably the most entertaining aspect of my job.

It wasn't always easy. Prior to 2006, when I called upon the big guns, CAA, WME, ICM, Paradigm, my calls were rarely, if ever, returned. I was representing a lesbian festival, by God, and with a small budget. Who could be bothered? Not the agencies.

In 2006, my event's mission statement changed. I wanted to build upon my event. The Dinah was considered the largest lesbian dance party in the world, but I dreamt of it also becoming a respectable lesbian music festival. I envisioned cutting edge talent, multiple performances, and thousands of screaming lesbians. But if the agencies weren't taking my calls, how was I going to accomplish that? I was in a bit of a dilemma.

I quickly realized I couldn't do this one on my own. So with the help of a highly placed friend at Universal Music, who reached out to the management team of The Pussycat Dolls (PCD) and pitched my event, I embarked on a new and exciting direction for The Dinah.

The Pussycat Dolls were a new group with a catchy single on the airwaves. PCD, featuring the talented Nicole Scherzinger and Jessica Sutta, and their single, "Don't Cha," was climbing up the billboard charts. I imagined this hot group of performers, all of them straight, singing this soon to be number one billboard hot 100 hit to some 4,000 screaming lesbians. And I couldn't help but smile.

After some back and forth negotiations, and a lot of hesitation on my part as it was a costly investment, the manager send me an advanced copy of Stikwitu, to push me over the edge. I listened to this soulful, romantic ballad, laced with the promise of true love and my suspicion that this group was going to be huge was confirmed.

I had never before allocated such a big budget to talent. I had no idea if raising the talent bar made a difference to my customers. After all, it was already a highly successful event. If it's not broken, why fix it? And then again, why not!

But I envisioned an event that was respected, not just in our community, but also in the music industry, as a prominent festival that delivered world-class entertainment. So I signed on the dotted line, dipped into my line of credit, crossed my trembling fingers and hoped I was right.

Lucky for me, the Pussycat Doll's manager thought playing the largest lesbian event in the world was a novel idea, so novel that they actually detoured from their tour with the Black Eyes Peas and missed their Arizona show, to play The Dinah. How exciting for our community that we lesbians were starting to be recognized as mover and shakers in the music industry.

From the time I booked The Pussycat Dolls, to the time they played my event, almost five months had passed and they now had not one, but four top ten hits. "Stikwitu" was number one in the world. Their debut CD had quickly gone double platinum. They were taking the world and The Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend, by storm. My guests couldn't believe I had booked a number #1 Hot 100 recording group with 4 hits and really, neither could I.

With excitement and awe, I watched their tour bus drive into the parking area of The Riviera Resort and Spa, my host hotel for the event. No one had ever left a tour to play The Dinah, much less arrived in a tour bus. The excitement was palpable.

The performance was amazing. My night went from a raging dance party to a concert in a matter of seconds. Cell phones were flashing, the PCD were mesmerizing, and I had scored my first big hit with an emerging artist. The introduction of The Pussycat Dolls changed the trajectory of my event and since that fateful performance, the event and its entertainment stature, has grown tremendously. Agents take my calls. In fact, agents call me now. Things have changed.

And had it ended there it still would have been one of the greatest successes of my career. But as life would have it, this story came full circle years later. I was sitting back stage with Jeff Haddad, one of the managers for The Pussycat Dolls in 2011. I had booked his artist Luciana, so we were pleasantly reunited again. Jeff's one of those likeable and easygoing personalities rare in this ego driven industry. I adored him. While in the Green room, waiting for Luciana to perform, Jeff told me a story that helped me to fully understand just how important The Dinah, and the lesbian audience, was to emerging artists.

Jeff explained that when The Pussycat Dolls were starting out, they couldn't get booked to perform on late night TV. And they had tried. The exposure late night offers an artist can launch a career. It's the dream of any emerging artist and the goal of their management team. But the Pussycat Dolls Management, even with four top 10 hits on the charts, couldn't make it happen... until The Dinah.

Jeff went on to say that once PCD had played The Dinah, Ellen DeGeneres noticed them and asked them on her talk show. From Ellen, Jay Leno followed suit and invited them on his show. The rest is history. The Pussycat Dolls are considered the 80th most successful group of the 2,000's, in part due apparently to a little lesbian event and music festival whose producer couldn't get the agencies attention before The Dolls. The Dolls changed the importance of The Dinah in the eyes of the agencies, and in turn, their appearance at The Dinah apparently got them a slot on a national talk show (the Ellen show).

For me, the lesson learned is how important it is when it comes to our dreams, to follow our instinct, even when the stakes are high. I am a firm believer that our internal compass always points North. When we listen to that inner voice, despite the odds, despite the risks, despite the costs, and act when our intuition tells us our direction is right, we can't go wrong. Booking PCD was the greatest financial risk I had taken in my career at that time. Believe me, I was scared. But like they say, when your left foot undeniably follows your right foot, it's only the first step that's the hardest.

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Thomson Reuters CEO to end decade-long reign

NEW YORK (AP) ? Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer is stepping down and will be replaced by an executive with closer ties to the family that owns a controlling interest in one of the world's largest news and information companies.

The change in command, announced Thursday, will take effect Jan. 1 when James Smith becomes Thomson Reuters Corp.'s new CEO. It is Smith's second promotion of the autumn; he was promoted to chief operating officer in late September.

Thomson Reuters has been shaking things up during the past six months amid dissatisfaction with the performance of its markets division, which accounts for more than half of the company's revenue.

The company's overall earnings have risen this year. But the markets division, which primarily sells data and analytical tools to financial institutions, hasn't been growing fast enough to please investors. The company's stock price, which closed Thursday at $26.88, has dropped 29 percent so far this year.

The decline translates to a nearly $5 billion loss on paper for the Thomson family, which owns a 55 percent stake in the company through the Woodbridge Co.

Glocer's departure was described as a retirement. But Glocer, 52, didn't sound ready to leave in September when Smith was anointed as his heir apparent.

"I'm going to stay for a good long time to fix and thrive under this business," Glocer said in an interview with Reuters' own news service at that time.

In a Thursday statement, Glocer said he had achieved his goals. "By the end of this year, the organizational, strategy and budget work I have been leading will be complete, and the transition plan I launched last summer will have achieved its objectives," Glocer said. In addition to giving up the CEO job, Glocer is resigning from Thomson Reuters' board of directors at the end of the year.

Glocer became the first American to lead Reuters Group when he became CEO in 2001. He quickly won over investors by cutting thousands of jobs to boost the company's earnings and then oversaw improvements in its financial trading products to be more competitive with Bloomberg and Dow Jones, which is now owned by News Corp.

Those efforts helped lead to Reuters' sale to Thomson Corp. for about $16 billion in 2008. The Thomson family thought so highly of Glocer's performance that he became CEO of the combined company.

"Tom will be remembered as the individual who turned around Reuters 10 years ago, led the company to growth and guided its sale to form Thomson Reuters," company Chairman David Thomson said in a statement.

Smith, 52, has a long relationship with the Thomson family. He joined the Thomson Newspaper group in 1987, where he remained until 2000 when that business was sold. He then moved to the Thomson Corp., where he worked his way up to chief operating officer leading up to the Reuters deal.

David Thomson, the third generation of his family to be involved in the company, said Smith "has earned the respect and confidence of his colleagues and the board alike."

As part of its latest reorganization, Thomson Reuters is creating five business units whose top executives will report to Smith. They are: David Craig, president of financial and risk: Mike Suchsland, president of legal; Chris Kibarian, president of intellectual property and science; Brian Peccarelli, president of tax and accounting; and Shanker Ramamurthy, president of global growth organization.

Steven Adler, the top editor at Reuters news service, also will report directly to Smith. The news service has been expanding its coverage recently.

The changes at Thomson Reuters will result in a charge against its fourth-quarter earnings, according to the company. Excluding those charges, the company affirmed its guidance for that period.

Through the first nine months of this year, Thomson Reuters earned $1.2 billion on revenue of $10.2 billion. At the same point last year, the company had earned $708 million on revenue of $9.6 billion.

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Republicans make pipeline jobs issue for Obama (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Republicans in Congress signaled on Wednesday that they plan to keep the Keystone XL pipeline alive as a tool for skewering President Barack Obama on jobs, the top political issue ahead of the 2012 elections.

The Canada-to-Texas pipeline has been vociferously opposed by environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council, who had threatened to make it an election issue.

In the Senate, 37 Republicans backed a bill that would require the Obama administration to allow work to begin on the pipeline within 60 days of passage, a schedule that will be difficult to achieve in the Democratic-controlled body.

In the House of Representatives, lawmakers were drafting a new bill that would give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) the authority to approve the pipeline, wresting the project's fate out of the hands of the Obama administration, an aide said.

The bill, being drafted by Nebraska Representative Lee Terry, would require the energy regulator to issue an initial permit for TransCanada Corp's $7 billion project within 30 days of receiving the application for the pipeline, the aide said.

Nebraska lawmakers had opposed the pipeline because of its route through the state, but TransCanada and the state have now agreed to an alternate path. "The issues in Nebraska have been resolved," said Mike Johanns, a Nebraska state senator who opposed the original route.

The decision now rests with the State Department, which had originally planned to announce a decision by the end of the year, but delayed its ruling pending a study of a new route. That pushes the decision past the 2012 presidential election.

Approval of the pipeline would create 20,000 jobs at no cost to the government and would displace oil imports from the Middle East, Republican senators said at a news conference.

"We know that there's one major shovel-ready project ready to go, and that's the Keystone pipeline," said Mitch McConnell, Republican leader in the Senate.

WHITE HOUSE: NOT A POLITICAL DECISION

Environmental groups had said their supporters would be less likely to support Obama's re-election campaign if the pipeline went ahead.

"Incredibly, he (Obama) has delayed a decision until after the 2012 election apparently in fear of offending a part of his political base," said Richard Lugar, top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, who sponsored the Senate bill.

A White House spokesman denied the decision was politically motivated, saying the State Department has said it needs more time to review the route's impact on communities and the environment.

"I recognize that there are people in Washington, D.C., who want to apply a political label to every single thing that the president or other members of his administration do," said Josh Earnest, speaking to reporters on Air Force One.

"But at the end of the day this is a decision that falls cleanly in line with the priorities that the president laid out for the need to balance competing priorities," Earnest said.

A State Department spokesman did not immediately have a comment on the bill.

There is hope that some Senate Democrats could sign on to the bill, said Marty Durbin, executive vice president with the American Petroleum Institution, a lobby group for oil companies.

"In either case, having this legislation out there is going to help keep the drumbeat going," Durbin said.

The bill will be fought by lawmakers who want to see a new environmental review of the project.

"I will vigorously oppose any efforts by Republicans in Congress to legislate a rubber-stamp approval for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline," said Bernie Sanders, one of the Senate's most liberal members, who said the project would increase greenhouse gas emissions.

The Republican senators argued Canada will ship its oil east to China if the Keystone pipeline falters. That would lead to more emissions than if the oil were processed through U.S. refineries, said John Hoeven of North Dakota, whose state needs the pipeline to ship oil from its booming shale development.

(Additional reporting by Laura MacInnis aboard Air Force One and Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Philip Barbara, Bill Trott and Paul Simao)

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      "Welcome, one and all young students, to Karma High; located here in Bangladesh is the the top school in the world for those with the highest of blood, the keenest of minds, those of special interest, natives, or simply those who's interest have been peeked. A variety of you attend Karma High, but you all have one thing in common; instead of our teachers stopping student fights, we will be arranging and grading them. We have had you picked up from airports and transported into the thick jungle where our vast campus is hidden for the purpose of privacy while the year's procession trecks on, in which you will participate in fights between each other, and beasts of the Djinn kind native to the jungles of Bangladesh. You are fierce fighters one and all, but an order will rise in which your King and Queen will be on the top, with the rest of you struggling to raise yourselves to their level.

      The education here is one that will make you successful in life outside of High School, but while you are here things will be tough, you will be pushed, and bones will break. While you are here we ask that you abide by the school rules- JAMES ANDERSON YOU HAD BETTER NOT THROW THAT PAPER AIRPLANE- and do not stray outside of the compound unless on a mission, and never alone. You are to be in your beds after dark-SO HELP ME GWEN COOPER PUT THAT CELL PHONE AWAY- and you are never under any circumstances permitted to-BY KALI'S SWORD I SWEAR YOU ALL TO BE THE ROWDIEST BUNCH OF KIDS I HAVE EVER MET!!- I am ALMOST done with the yearly short speech, and you all can't even contain yourselves for five minutes!!! Fine, I give up, most of you know the drill anyway! You are dismissed...." The dull roar of the crowd grew larger as the many teens began pushing and shoving each other out of the auditorium. Although Madame Constanstine was quite aggitated, she found she could not blame the young ones for being robbed of thier focus on the opening ceremony. Directly after the ceremony was when the first fights were held, and all out torrant or one on one battles that decided where they stood in their class, and whether they were to be King or Queen this year. Though those two titles would undoubtedly go to the two same individuals they had always gone to since they came to the school three, almost four, years ago.

      Madame smirked and shook her head, starting to chuckle as challenges and battle crys rang outside. She stepped leasurely off of ther stage and began making her way outside, best to get a head start on mediating. Rather than try and control the mass of fights, the teachers acted as referees during these beginning fights, making sure no cheating was going on.

      This year was going to be interesting according to her visions the past couple months, and Madame wondered if the students were ready for what was to come.

      Plot

      Karma High is an unusual privatised school. The students attending have either been invited, attend because their family is rich, or because they are native to Bangladesh (the school wouldn't keep out natives, that would be rude, and they make up most of the student body actually). It's students are guarenteed to succeed in life outside of school because the school makes them strong, in fact they have regular fights which you can elevate your status or bring it down. On the top of the totem pole is the King and Queen, they are admired and respected throughout the school, and their privileges number in the many. The goal of many however, is to usurp them, and they are on constant guard. The position is not for the faint of heart. At Karma High, if you don't fight, you are at the bottom, and no one wants to be on the bottom.

      On top of that, Djinn in the forest surround the school, they are, for lack of a better description, demons. They come from Hindu lore, and present themselves as shapeshifting terrors that are pretty damn strong and difficult to kill if you don't know how. The school's ulteriror motive is to train students to fight them, and should the world need warriors to overcome them, Karma High has produced many, solving a problem before it becomes true.

      Your character will be a student at the school, and as Madame Constastine has powers that many believe to be supernatural, she is listened to when she says that this year will be interesting.

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      I've tried to set it up before, but it sadly did not lift off like I had hoped. I think advertisement was one of the issues. So before I re-set all of this up I was wondering if anyone would be interested in actually joining?

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      Friday, December 2, 2011

      'Skin bones' helped large dinosaurs survive, new study says

      Tuesday, November 29, 2011

      Bones contained entirely within the skin of some of the largest dinosaurs on Earth might have stored vital minerals to help the massive creatures survive and bear their young in tough times, according to new research by a team including a University of Guelph scientist.

      Guelph biomedical scientist Matthew Vickaryous co-authored a paper published today in Nature Communications about two sauropod dinosaurs ? an adult and a juvenile ? from Madagascar.

      The study suggests that these long-necked plant-eaters used hollow "skin bones" called osteoderms to store minerals needed to maintain their huge skeletons and to lay large egg clutches. Sediments around the fossils show that the dinosaurs' environment was highly seasonal and semi-arid, with periodic droughts causing massive die-offs.

      "Our findings suggest that osteoderms provided an internal source of calcium and phosphorus when environmental and physiological conditions were stressful," he said. As a researcher in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in Guelph's Ontario Veterinary College, Vickaryous studies how skeletons develop, regenerate and evolve.

      He worked with paleontologist Kristina Curry Rogers and geologist Raymond Rogers at Macalaster College in Minnesota, and paleontologist Michael D'Emic, now at Georgia Southern University on the study. Vickaryous helped to interpret the results of CT scans and fossilized tissue cores taken from the dinosaurs.

      Shaped like footballs sliced lengthwise and about the size of a gym bag in the adult, these bones are the largest osteoderms ever identified. The adult specimen's bone was hollow, likely caused by extensive bone remodelling, said Vickaryous.

      Osteoderms were common among armoured dinosaurs. Stegosaurs had bony back plates and tail spikes, and ankylosaurs sported heavily armoured bodies and bony tail clubs. Today these "skin bones" appear in such animals as alligators and armadillos.

      Such bones were rare among sauropod dinosaurs and have appeared only in titanosaurs. These massive plant-eaters included the largest-ever land animals. "This is the only group of lon-necked sauropods with osteoderms," he said.

      Other studies have shown that female titanosaurs laid dozens of volleyball-sized eggs. Modern crocodiles and alligators also lay clutches of dozens of eggs and are known to reabsorb minerals from their osteoderms.

      The researchers found the new osteoderms along with two skeletons of the titanosaur Rapetosaurus. Unlike the hollow adult specimen, the juvenile specimen was solid and showed little evidence of remodelling. That suggests that osteoderms became more important mineral stores as the animals grew, Vickaryous said.

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      Monday, November 28, 2011

      China keen to invest in Western infrastructure: CIC head (Reuters)

      LONDON (Reuters) ? China is keen to invest in the ailing infrastructure of Western countries, especially Britain, the chairman and chief executive of the Asian country's sovereign wealth fund wrote in the Financial Times.

      "Now, infrastructure in Europe and the U.S. badly needs more investment," China Investment Corporation's (CIC) Lou Jiwei wrote in an op ed piece.

      He said while China had traditionally confined itself to the role of contractor in overseas infrastructure projects, the country's investors now saw a need to invest in, develop and operate such projects.

      "In a sign of this determination, the China Investment Corporation ... is now keen to team up with fund managers or participate in public-private-partnerships (PPP) in the UK infrastructure sector as an equity investor," Lou wrote.

      "CIC believes that such an investment, guided by commercial principles, offers the chance of a 'win-win' solution for all."

      Local co-investors need to provide local knowledge for infrastructure projects while the government must encourage domestic players to head them, Lou wrote.

      He proposed PPP arrangements for infrastructure projects whereby governments invest with local or overseas institutional investors to share the risks and returns.

      Lou said long-term investment in infrastructure was inadequate and emphasised the need for governments to implement pro-investment policies such as making fiscal adjustments, lowering taxes and offering bank loans at discounted rates.

      "These measures will generate demand for equipment manufacturing, put more people on the payroll and cut back on unemployment benefit spending," he wrote.

      (Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Dale Hudson)

      Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111127/bs_nm/us_china_infrastructure

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