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0 minutes. TV Guide lists a new episode of Fear Factor at 9 p.m. on NBC. It’s called “Leaches & Shaved Heads & Tear Gas, Oh My! Part 1.” And yet, as the hour strikes, the screen shows another patriotic montage, this time from Tampa, Florida, introducing the 18th Republican debate. The NFL plays a 16-game regular season. There are nine circles of hell. God got it done in six days. But democracy is unrelenting, a bit like Joe Rogan, with less forced regurgitation and fewer critter challenges. Which is to say, Fear Factor has been preempted. A fearful nation takes its place.
2 minutes. Blue gels on the audience again, like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, except there will be no “dum-dum-dum,” at least as sound effects. Brian Williams, the handsomest man to have never been a movie star, is not wasting any time. He lists a lot of bad stuff former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been saying about former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. “Erratic, failed leader,” it goes on. “Your response tonight Mr. Speaker?”
3 minutes. Gingrich responds by reciting his resume, with extra emphasis on confusing historical analogies that only he knows. He says Reagan carried “more states than Herbert Hoover carried — than Roosevelt carried against Herbert Hoover.” As is often the case with Gingrich, his words form a shield. By the time he gets to, “they’re not sending somebody to Washington to manage the decay,” it’s impossible to remember what was asked.
4 minutes. A wide shot shows Romney standing there, next to Gingrich, with his right hand hanging at his side, ready to draw. But dapper Williams tries again with Gingrich, which allows the speaker to continue taking credit for everything good that happened during his decades in the House. “When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets, the only time in your lifetime, Brian, that we’ve had four consecutive balanced budgets.” This is not true. The four years of surplus ran through 2001. Gingrich resigned from office in 1999. Newt gets two out of four. If this were a history class, he would fail.
5 minutes. Romney gets his chance. “I think it’s about leadership,” he says, “and the speaker was given an opportunity to be the leader of our party in 1994. And at the end of four years, he had to resign in disgrace.” This is the same Mitt Romney who said in the last debate that he wished he had spent more time attacking President Obama, and less time attacking his rivals. Romney calls Gingrich an “influence peddler,” says he encouraged cap and trade and called Paul Ryan’s budget plan “social engineering.”
6 minutes. Gingrich, doing his best imitation of Romney, from when Romney was the frontrunner, acts like he is too big a deal to worry about the criticism. “Well, look, I’m not going to spend the evening trying to chase Governor Romney’s misinformation,” he says, adding that he would rather be attacking Obama. “I just think this is the worst kind of trivial politics.”
8 minutes. Williams still looks like every 1940s radio drama detective sounded. He asks Romney whether he can appeal to conservatives. Romney says he does, and pivots. “Let’s go back to what the Speaker mentioned with regards to leadership,” Romney says. He notes that Gingrich was the first speaker in history to resign. “I don’t think we can possibly retake the White House if the person who’s leading our party is the person who was working for the chief lobbyist of Freddie Mac,” he adds.
9 minutes. Romney says almost exactly what Gingrich said after Iowa: That the last election taught him he can’t sit back. He has to go on offense. “I had incoming from all directions, was overwhelmed with a lot of attacks. And I’m not going to sit back and get attacked day in and day out without returning fire,” Romney says. The too men have traded strategies since South Carolina. Or traded bodies. Gingrich is now aloof and focused on the general. Romney is trying to muddy the field.
10 minutes. Gingrich returns fire with a couple of zingers:”He may have been a good financier,” he says of Romney. “He’s a terrible historian.” So is Gingrich. (See minute 4.) Then Gingrich proceeds to respond to a lot of stuff he just said he would not waste his time talking about. He tells a rosy version of his fall from the atop the U.S. House that would not please his fellow historians. “Apparently your consultants aren’t very good historians,” Gingrich tells Romney. “What you ought to do is stop and look at the facts.” The intellectual insult. A classic Gingrich move. Like I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I?
11 minutes. Debonair Williams, he of the slender face and half-Windsor knot, throws it to former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who has apparently been standing on stage this entire time. How, asks Williams, is Santorum going to actually win? Santorum hits his stump speech, saying he is positive, and that this is not a two person race. [BOLD "MORE:"]What You Missed While Not Watching the Last South Carolina GOP Debate
14 minutes. There is actually a fourth person on stage as well. Texas Rep. Ron Paul gets a question that is basically this: You have no chance of winning, you said you don’t envision yourself in the Oval Office, so will you run as a third-party candidate? Paul says he has been winning the under-30 vote, and otherwise doing “pretty darned well.” Then he calls the historian on his rosy history about giving up the speaker’s gavel. “This idea that he voluntarily reneged and he was going to punish himself because we didn’t do well in the election, that’s just not the way it was.” True that. Then Paul says, once again, that he has “no plans” to go third party.
17 minutes. Gingrich gets a question about Paul. Gingrich praises Paul for his criticism of the Federal Reserve and desire for a “gold commission,” which is nothing like a blue-ribbon panel. It would study bringing back gold as currency.
18 minutes. Romney says he will release his tax returns for two years on Wednesday morning. But again he gets tongue tied. Rich people don’t like to talk about their own money. It is impolite. So Romney says, “The real question is not so much my taxes, but the taxes of the American people.” Suddenly, out of nowhere, Romney, who previously opposed any debt compromise that raised any taxes, is praising the Bowles-Simpson plan, which raises tax revenues by nearly $1 trillion. But Romney doesn’t talk about the deficit part. He talks about the cutting marginal rates part, which by itself would make the debt problem worse. He chastises Obama for having “simply brushed aside” the Bowles-Simpson recommendations, in much the same way that Romney did previously.
20 minutes. More discomfort, as Romney is asked again to talk about his money. “I pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more,” he says. “I don’t think you want someone as the candidate for president who pays more taxes than he owes.” Now that is settled.
21 minutes. Gingrich tries to needle Romney by saying he wants everyone to enjoy Romney’s 15 percent tax rate. Romney points out that under the Gingrich tax plan, investment gains would be taxed at zero. “Under that plan, I’d have paid no taxes in the last two years,” Romney says. This is true. It is the reason Gingrich’s policies are better for wealthy financiers than Romney’s policies. Romney would keep his own tax rate on investments at 15%.
22 minutes. More awkward talk about Romney’s wealth. “I will not apologize for having been successful. I did not inherit what my wife and I have, nor did she. What we have, what I was able to build, I built the old-fashioned way, by earning it,” he says. This is true, if you discount the fact that his father’s money helped to put Romney through college (Bringham Young, Stanford) and joint degrees at Harvard (Law, Business).
25 minutes. Now it’s time to talk about what lobbying means. Gingrich worked for lobbyists at Freddie Mac, a quasi-government agency that conservatives despise. He also took lots of money from health care companies, while at the same time writing articles and giving talks that furthered those company’s agendas in Congress. But technically none of it was “lobbying,” which is a legal term of art. Williams asks the right question, by avoiding the L-word. “You never peddled influence, as Governor Romney accused you of tonight?” Gingrich can’t answer. “You know, there is a point in the process where it gets unnecessarily personal and nasty,” he says, before avoiding the question by saying he never lobbied.
28 minutes. Romney and Gingrich go at it. Romney accuses Gingrich of profiting from an organization that destroyed the housing market in Florida. Gingrich tries to compare his consulting work for lobbyists with Romney’s consulting work for corporations. “Wait a second, wait a second,” protests Gingrich at one point, after Romney admits that his firm made money too. “We didn’t do any work with the government. I didn’t have an office on K Street,” Romney says. It goes on.
33 minutes. Never-a-bad-hair-day Williams cuts them off and goes to commercial break.
36 minutes. We’re back, with charity time for the other two candidates on stage who have not had much time to talk. Paul and Santorum talk about the housing market and say nothing new. Then Romney says he wants to help homeowners too. And Gingrich says he wants to repeal Dodd-Frank, the banking regulation bill, because of its effect on smaller banks. Romney agrees.
43 minutes. Cuban question: “Let’s say President Romney gets that phone call, and it is to say that Fidel Castro has died. And there are credible people in the Pentagon who predict upwards of half a million Cubans may take that as a cue to come to the United States. What do you do?” The premise is a stretch, since Fidel has already ceded most government control to his brother, Raul. Romney tries to make a joke about how Fidel is a bad guy. “First of all, you thank heavens that Fidel Castro has returned to his maker and will be sent to another land,” he says.
44 minutes. Gingrich retells the joke, but gets the punchline right. “Well, Brian, first of all, I guess the only thing I would suggest is I don’t think that Fidel is going to meet his maker. I think he’s going to go to the other place,” he says. Fidel in hell jokes must poll really well in Miami. Then Gingrich says he would authorize “covert operations” to overthrow the Castro regime.
46 minutes. “I would do pretty much the opposite,” says Paul.
47 minutes. Having stirred up the Cuban pot, Williams now accuses the candidates of pandering for votes. Why don’t they care as much about Chinese dissidents and embargo China? Santorum says China is not 90 miles off the coast.
49 minutes. Iran time. Romney criticizes Obama, “We ought to have and aircraft carrier in the Gulf.” Nevermind that the USS Abraham Lincoln is there right now. Gingrich picks up where Romney left off. “Dictatorships respond to strength, they don’t respond to weakness,” he says. The same can be said of Republican primary voters.
52 minutes. Romney tears into Obama on Afghanistan, saying the president should not have reduced troops so much, allowed elections to go bad or announced withdrawal date.
53 minutes. Paul pretty much has the opposite view.
54 minutes. Another break. “I’ll welcome two colleagues out here to the stage when we continue from Tampa right after this,” says Williams. Hope for Joe Rogan and Donald Trump. Or Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey.
58 minutes. We’re back. It’s National Journal’s Beth Reinhard and the Tampa Bay Times’ Adam Smith. After Santorum gets a chance to talk about the evils of Iran, he is asked about offshore drilling. Santorum said the economy in Florida went bad in 2008 “because of a huge spike in oil prices,” which is like saying people watch Fear Factor to see Joe Rogan.
62 minutes. Reinhard asks a great question: How can the candidates be against bilingual balloting, even as they advertise in Spanish to Hispanics. Gingrich and Romney don’t really have answers. So they dance around the edges. Everyone on stage is against multi-lingual education, except Paul who doesn’t mind if states do whatever they want.
66 minutes. Immigration time. Same as before, except Gingrich makes clear that he would support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who serve in the military. Romney agrees. Then Romney says of other undocumented immigrants, “Well, the answer is self-deportation, which is people decide they can do better by going home because they can’t find work here because they don’t have legal documentation to allow them to work here.” Self-deportation is one of those neologisms that gets added to dictionary at the end of the year. Sign of the times.
70 minutes. Questions about sugar subsidies. Gingrich says you can’t beat the sugar lobby, because “cane sugar hides behind beet sugar,” and there are “just too many beet sugar districts in the United States.” Surely someone can work that into a Haiku.
71 minutes. Romney says he is against all subsidies. Then he pivots into a long rant about the awfulness of President Obama. It is telling that it has taken Romney 71 minutes to get into this rant on Obama. South Carolina has transformed him as a candidate.
72 minutes. Paul is asked is he supports federal funding for conservation of the everglades. Paul lets down his strict libertarian guard to pander for Florida votes. “I don’t see any reason to go after that,” he says.
73 minutes. Another break. Things are speeding up. [BOLD "MORE:"] Debates Gingrich Scorches Media at Fierce GOP Debate in South Carolina
77 minutes. Some talk about Terri Schiavo, a woman in a vegetative state who became a cause celeb for conservatives in 2005. The answers are inconsequential.
81 minutes. Space cadet time. No, really. Romney says Obama has no space plan, and America needs a space plan. Gingrich gets asked about going to Mars. He says he wants a “leaner NASA,” but then lists off a terribly expensive list of goals: “Going back to the moon permanently, getting to Mars as rapidly as possible, building a series of space stations and developing commercial space.” At least something new is happening. First time in 18 debates that anyone has talked about Mars.
84 minutes. Gingrich is asked why the Bush tax cuts in early 2000s did not create a lot of jobs. His answer is priceless. He channels Obama, seemingly unaware of the irony. “In 2002 and ’03 and ’04, we’d have been in much worse shape without the Bush tax cuts,” he says. That’s what Obama says about the stimulus bill. Both are basically right, though neither would give the other credit.
85 minutes. Last break. Almost there. Actually scratch that. You will never get there. When this debate ends, there will be another. The next one is Thursday. No joke.
90 minutes. We’re back. Romney is asked what he has done to further the cause of conservatism. He is sort of stumped. Talks about his family, his work in the private sector, neither of which is all that ideological.
92 minutes. Gingrich talks about how he went to Goldwater meetings in 1964, when he would have turned 21.
93 minutes. Santorum is asked about electability. Suddenly he comes alive. It’s the best moment of any of his debates. Yet few will ever notice, and it will almost certainly not matter. He makes the case that he is the only true conservative who can take on Obama, and that both Romney and Gingrich are fundamentally flawed because they are too close to the political positions of Obama. “There is no difference between President Obama and these two gentlemen,” Santorum says. This is not true, if you were wondering.
95 minutes. Paul talks about the constitution.
97 minutes. Romney talks about RomneyCare and ObamaCare.
98 minutes. Gingrich says, “I never ask anyone to be for me. Because if they are for me, they vote yes and go home and say, I sure hope Newt does it. I ask people to be with me, because I think this will be a very hard, very difficult journey.” No doubt.
99 minutes. Romney, who talks all the time about “restoring American greatness,” is asked when America was last great. “America still is great,” Romney says, thus undercutting the meaning of his signature campaign message. 101 minutes. That’s it. See you Thursday.
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finally the story of a sight-seeing trip that went terribly wrong for a
texas
family visiting an island near honduras and the amazing stroke of luck that came just in the
nick of time
. this was how it was supposed to be.
texas
lawyer and any adkins took the same
sea plane
on a sight-seeing tour just two months ago. but returning last week with his wife jenny and 4-year-old son logan along for the ride, something went terribly wrong. the plane’s engine failed.
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crashed into the ocean and flipped over. we’re stuck under water.
>> reporter:
larry was on a nearby boat and witnessed the crash.
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the timing was impeccable. we were just at the right place at the rice time, less than two minutes till we were on the scene and in the water.
>> reporter:
only moments before, the plane’s pilot helped andy get to the surface. but at first there was no sign of his wife or son.
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i dove back under looking for them. i just came up and i had logan in my arms. by the time i got to the surface, jenny was also at the surface with the pilot holding her.
>> reporter:
then another remarkable break. a second tourist boat arrived. it happened to have two doctors onboard. one a
u.s. navy
physician. they immediately began caring for the victims.
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i’m not sure what the outcome would have been without those doctors. i shoulder to think.
>> reporter:
the family spent days in a hospital before returning home to
texas
thursday night.
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it reaffirms your faith in people and humanity that so many people stepped in to help that didn’t have to.
>> reporter:
we are happy to say the family is home safe
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A couple years back, I got to take part in the production of a music video being shot locally on a RED and filmed partially on board a custom helicopter build. It was interesting watching the operator and director work using the rig, but I was struck by how very specialized the copter was. Built from scratch by AerialPan Imaging, it was far from a personalized or affordable solution. A new Kickstarter project called eye3 intends to make just that: an affordable aerial platform that can be automated and controlled from afar, yet is robust and customizable enough to meet the demands of serious photographers.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. ? Current and former Penn State football players are paying their respects to the late coach Joe Paterno.
Former players including Franco Harris are attending a private viewing at a university spiritual center. Those men began arriving shortly after members of Paterno’s last team filed in from the same buses that carried Paterno and his players to Beaver Stadium on fall Saturdays.
Current players began filing out shortly after 10 a.m., either reboarding buses or on foot, saying they had to get to class.
The public viewing is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. and continue Wednesday, before a private funeral that afternoon.
Paterno died Sunday, just over two months after being fired by the school in the wake of a child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant Jerry Sandusky.
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‘I just need to rewrite my fairytale,’ reality star tells Kelly Ripa while co-hosting ‘Live!’
By Jocelyn Vena
Kim Kardashian
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When she wasn’t playing with exotic animals during Monday’s (January 23) show, Kelly Ripa’s latest “Live!” co-host, Kim Kardashian, opened up about her much-publicized split from Kris Humphries, her husband of 72 days.
“I didn’t think following my heart would create this much backlash,” she said, sitting by Ripa in a skin-tight red dress. The reality starlet continued that despite reports that she married the basketball player for publicity, she was in it for the long haul.
“I definitely tried everything I felt like I could … I want babies. I want forever love,” she said. “I just felt like, you know, if I feel in my heart that this isn’t right, then why wait years to have the same result?”
Currently the Kris/ Kim relationship and its demise are playing out in front of America on “Kourtney & Kim Take New York.” Admitting that shortly after the split she did some “soul-searching,” she added that these days she’s had to readjust her ideas on true love. She said, “I really learned that I just need to rewrite my fairytale.”
“Me being a hopeless romantic, I wanted it to work so badly,” Kardashian said. “I’m a smart woman! I would have stayed married longer!”
On the same day that Kim opened up about her own split, Heidi Klum and Seal announced that they’d be splitting after seven years of marriage. What’s Kim’s advice for them in the wake of their own very public split?
“It’s so sad,” she said. “I would never wish anyone to go through a divorce, but then again after what I went through, you don’t really know until you’re in this person’s shoes … When I see other people when I might not understand their situation, now I really just step back because you don’t really know what they’re going through.”
How did Kim Kardashian do co-hosting with Kelly Ripa? Let us know in the comments!
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With a new Android device announced ever hour, it takes a lot to make a device stand out from the crowd. Some devices are marketed heavily, some bring new features and others just fall to the wayside after announcement, and the Huawei Honor is a handset that falls in the middle of a bunch of these categories. Claims of three-day battery life certainly piqued our interest, but we'll have to get this in the States first before we'll celebrate too much. But that didn't slow us down at all. We go thte Honor in our hands, and it's time to put it through its paces.
Could the Huawei Honor bring enough to the table to make some folks want to import the device, or to make it a daily driver for those who are able to purchase and make use of it? Let’s hit the break and take a look at how it rates.
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Make no mistake: The Boogie Board Rip is neither a traditional tablet, like the iPad 2?($499, 4.5 stars), nor is it a drawing tablet, like the Wacom Bamboo Capture?($99, 3.5 stars). It is more of an electronic paper-replacement tool, like a clipboard and marker with unlimited paper and unlimited ink. Unlike previous writing tablets from Improv Electronics, the Boogie Board Rip is the first from the company with the ability to easily save your work and upload it to a computer.?The Rip is a simple and environmentally friendly solution for jotting down quick notes or momentary sparks of inspiration. But at $129.99, ditching the pen and pad and going green will cost you a lot of green.
Design and Use
The Boogie Board Rip measures 11.1 by 7 by 0.5 inches (HWD), with a fairly spacious 9.5-inch LCD writing surface. Above the writing surface are an Erase and Save/Wake button and a status indicator. The left side has a lock switch, while the right houses a microUSB port and a charge indicator. The included plastic stylus slides nicely into a slot on top of the Rip. The design is very minimal, with a dark-gray, plastic construction. The Rip is lightweight at only 11.5 ounces, making it easy to hold and also easy to carry in a backpack?it’s definitely more portable than some of the monstrous 5-subject notebooks I lugged around in my youth. It comes with 8MB of internal storage, which is good for about 200 saved pages. The Rip charges via USB and, according to Improv Electronics, will last more than a week during typical use.
The stylus leaves a green trail on the surface as you draw, varying in width depending on how hard you press. You can see everything you draw, as you draw it, right on the LCD. To begin, you must first make sure the Rip is not locked, press Erase to start on a clean slate, and finally press the Save/Wake button before you start sketching and after you finish. The last part is most important, as the first few times I would forget and end up losing whatever I had sketched before pressing the button. The best way to ensure your input is being recorded is to check the status indicator, which will light up green to assure you the strokes are registering.
Though the Rip is pressure sensitive, it doesn’t always record lighter strokes properly. This made it difficult to draw finer lines, as pressing down hard would make fat, marker-like strokes. The Rip saves files as PDFs, which you can manipulate later in a program like Adobe Illustrator. Pen strokes are recorded as black lines on a white background, and look sharper in digital form than they do on the actual LCD surface.?
Conclusions
The Boogie Board Rip is a great way to take quick notes and sketch out ideas, but the $130 price tag is steep. I had some friends visit over a weekend and use the Rip, which turned out to be a great source of entertainment. It reminded us of a disposable camera; we took turns sketching things throughout the day, and then at the end we uploaded all the files and saw what everyone had been drawing. If you can stomach the price, I could see the Rip being a great table activity for weddings or other parties. The Rip would also be a great tool for any situation where quick and easy visual communication is key, such as in a classroom, a business meeting room, or even for those who can’t speak.
The Rip doesn’t properly record every pen stroke, which is a problem if you are writing a lot of notes. It also doesn’t double as an input device for computers; for that, you’ll need something like the Wacom Bamboo Capture, which works as a drawing tablet and multi-touch input surface, although it doesn’t display anything on its own. The Rip won’t replace your standard notebook, but if you stick to drawing, it’s a fun and simple way to record your sketches.
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LOS ANGELES ? Microsoft Corp. battled through a weak PC market to post flat earnings in the final quarter of 2011, boosting sales of servers, Xbox games and its Office productivity software while trimming losses at its Bing search engine.
The quarter wasn’t as bad as some industry analysts feared, given that flooding in Thailand constricted the supply of hard disk drives used in personal computers. Microsoft also witnessed a wave of consumers buying Apple Inc.’s popular iPad, which cut into sales of miniature laptop PCs known as netbooks.
Still, Microsoft’s earnings modestly topped expectations. That was largely thanks to strong business demand for software and services, and an upbeat holiday season for the Xbox game console and the accompanying Kinect motion controller.
Its shares rose 70 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $28.82 in after-hours trading Thursday.
Net income in the company’s second quarter through December came to $6.62 billion, down slightly from the $6.63 billion a year ago. Earnings per share came to 78 cents, up a penny from a year ago, as the outstanding share count fell.
Revenue rose 5 percent to $20.89 billion.
Analysts polled by FactSet were expecting slightly weaker earnings of 76 cents per share. Sales were below the $20.92 billion expected.
“People were afraid it was going to be much, much worse,” said Colin Gillis, an analyst with BGC.
Gillis said cost controls and a second-consecutive quarter of reduced losses at Bing helped results. Continuing growth in its Office software division was also encouraging, he said.
The company said PC sales were down an estimated 2 percent to 4 percent from a year earlier. Netbook sales made up just 2 percent of the overall PC market, down from 8 percent a year ago as the iPad decimated the lightweight portable computer category.
Microsoft, based in Redmond, Wash., is now looking ahead to the release of Windows 8, an operating system that should work similarly over PCs and tablet computers.
It is also pinning hopes on a new category of PCs called Ultrabooks, which mimic Apple’s MacBook Air in form, but which may also utilize a touch screen that would work on the upcoming Windows. A beta version of Windows 8 is due out late next month.
“We’re on track, we feel really good about where we are on the product, and the next super important milestone is the beta release,” said Bill Koefoed, Microsoft’s general manager of investor relations.
Although analysts expect another weak quarter for PCs, sales are seen strengthening as the year goes on.
The big question is whether Microsoft can deliver results on a whole range of new products from its Windows Phone smartphone operating system to Windows 8 and its Office 365 suite of cloud-based productivity applications.
“It’s a year of the product cycle” for Microsoft, said Josh Olson, a technology analyst for Edward Jones. “How well they bring those product offerings to market will say a lot about the Microsoft story this year.”
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In this photo taken Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, provided by The Wildlife Conservation Society, a 75-pound (34-kilogram) southern river terrapin, one of only some 200 adults remaining in the wild, waddles on sand as it is released near the Sre Ambel river in Cambodia. With a satellite transmitter embedded in its shell, one of the world’s most endangered turtles was released to track how it will navigate through commercial fishing grounds and other man-made hazards. (AP Photo/ The Wildlife Conservation Society, Eleanor Briggs)
In this photo taken Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, provided by The Wildlife Conservation Society, a 75-pound (34-kilogram) southern river terrapin, one of only some 200 adults remaining in the wild, waddles on sand as it is released near the Sre Ambel river in Cambodia. With a satellite transmitter embedded in its shell, one of the world’s most endangered turtles was released to track how it will navigate through commercial fishing grounds and other man-made hazards. (AP Photo/ The Wildlife Conservation Society, Eleanor Briggs)
BANGKOK (AP) ? One of the world’s most endangered turtles has been released into a Cambodian river with a satellite transmitter attached to its shell to track how it will navigate through commercial fishing grounds and other man-made hazards.
The 75-pound (34-kilogram) southern river terrapin ? one of only about 200 adults remaining in the wild ? waddled into the Sre Ambel river in southwestern Cambodia this past week to the cheers of local residents and conservationists.
The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society said the female terrapin was given to the group last year instead of being sold to traffickers who have decimated the country’s population of turtles and other species to cater to demand for exotic wildlife in China.
The southern river terrapin, once considered the sole property of Cambodia’s kings, only survives in the wilds of Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia, the group said in a statement. The population in the Sre Ambel river is estimated at less than 10 nesting females.
But it said the terrapins there have an excellent chance of recovery because coastal mangrove forests in the region are among the largest and most pristine in Southeast Asia, spanning some 175 square miles (45,000 hectares).
The first-ever satellite monitoring of the species hopes to determine how the turtle will fare among fisherman as well as in areas threatened by sand mining and conversion of mangrove forests into shrimp farms.
A small population of the species was found in 2000 in Sre Ambel after being considered locally extinct for many years.
Following the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge in the mid-1970s which left the country devastated, poor rural dwellers scoured the forests for wildlife, much of which was sold to traders connected to China, where many wild animals ? from turtles to tigers ? are believed to possess medicinal and sex-enhancing properties.
The turtle project is being run by the Wildlife Conservation Society in cooperation with the Cambodian government and Wildlife Reserves Singapore, a zoological enterprise.
Associated Press
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CM Punk has faced ? and overcome ? many challenges during his rise to becoming WWE Champion. Not only did he fight tooth-and-nail to wrest the coveted title from John Cena ? twice ? he had to work just as hard to get it back from Alberto Del Rio. However, after everything that’s transpired on Raw SuperShow over the past several weeks, Punk could be up against his biggest challenge yet when he faces Dolph Ziggler at the 25th anniversary of Royal Rumble. (PREVIEW)
On Raw SuperShow, EVP of Talent Relations and Interim Raw General Manager John Laurinaitis admitted that he?s going to try and screw Punk out of his title when he serves as the guest referee at Royal Rumble (WATCH). And if history is any indication, guest refs have been notorious for being anything but fair. (SPECIAL GUEST REFEREES: NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE) Immediately after the shocking confession, Punk responded in a WWE.com Exclusive Video. (WATCH)
Finally, on top of worrying about what Laurinaitis might do, Punk will have his hands full in battling Ziggler ? who has proven to be a formidable competitor for any Superstar. His resume includes Intercontinental, United States, and World Heavyweight Championship reigns.
Now that he has shown his true colors, will Laurinaitis get what he wants? Or will the WWE’s Second City Saint find a way to leave Royal Rumble with his title intact? Sound off now at WWE InterAction.
Source: http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/2012-01-16/are-punks-days-numbered
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