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December 30, 2011, 6:00 AM ? Google's Android and Apple's iOS gained a larger percentage of the U.S. smartphone market in the latter part of the year, while Research in Motion's share declined along with Microsoft and Symbian, according to the latest figures from market researcher comScore.

Android's market share rose from 43.8 percent at the end of August to 46.9 percent at the end of last month, comScore said. A total of 91.4 million people in the U.S. own a smartphone, and comScore surveyed more than 30,000 users to derive its figures.

Apple held 28.7 percent of the market, up from 27.3 percent. RIM slid from a 19.7 percent share to 16.6, the biggest decline of five platforms ranked by comScore. Microsoft declined .5 percent to 5.2 percent, and Symbian fell from 1.8 percent to 1.5 percent.

Google's open-source Android operating system is used by a variety of major manufacturers, including Samsung, LG, Motorola and HTC. Andy Rubin, Google's senior vice president of mobile, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that 3.7 million Android devices were activated on Saturday and Sunday alone.

As far as manufacturers, Samsung held 25.6 percent of the market and LG at 20.5 percent. Motorola came in third at 13.7 percent, followed by Apple at 11.2 percent and RIM 6.5 percent.

For RIM, the figures mark what has been a difficult year for the company, which experienced a major service outage in October and a tough launch of its PlayBook tablet.

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Sam Blackburn has been responsible for the technology which allows Stephen Hawking to communicate for the past five years. Now he's moving on. The challenge for his successor: to keep that well-known voice in working order

You have been Stephen Hawking's technician since 2006. What was top of your to-do list when you started work?

At first the system was breaking all the time. I'd get calls at 1 o'clock in the morning saying "Stephen can't speak, what do we do?" So I needed to modernise the system. One of the first pieces I improved was the infrared sensor mounted on Stephen's cheek. That kind of incremental improvement is much easier for him to accept than a radical new system, because the learning curve associated with that is very steep. Stephen wouldn't be able to ask for help because the very thing he wouldn't be able to use would be the speech system. Understandably that has made him very reluctant to upgrade.

Stephen's voice is very distinctive, but you say there might be a problem retaining it?

I guess the most interesting thing in my office is a little grey box, which contains the only copy we have of Stephen's hardware voice synthesiser. The card inside dates back to the 1980s and this particular one contains Stephen's voice. There's a processor on it which has a unique program that turns text into speech that sounds like Stephen's, and we have only two of these cards. The company that made them went bankrupt and nobody knows how it works any more. I am trying to reverse engineer it, which is quite tricky.

Can't you update it with a new synthesiser?

No. It has to sound exactly the same. The voice is one of the unique things that defines Stephen in my opinion. He could easily change to a voice that was clearer, perhaps more soothing to listen to?? less robotic sounding?? but it wouldn't be Stephen's voice any more.

How exactly does Stephen communicate?

He has used a menu controlled by a computer system to speak since about 1986. Basically, a computer highlights cells in a big grid of letters or words, and when the correct one is highlighted the user presses a switch of some sort. When he became unable to move his hands sufficiently to use the switch, he moved to an infrared system mounted on his glasses, which detects movement in his cheek muscle.

What's going to happen when Stephen can no longer use the muscles in his cheek?

Stephen has motor neurone disease, which causes a progressive decay of the nerves, and now his facial muscles are the only ones he can control reasonably well. Those are now fading too, unfortunately. This has always been known, but Stephen has outlived all the estimates for the stages of his nerve decay.

The result is that the system has now become very slow. Stephen's rate of speech is down to about one word per minute, and while I am making slight advances in the technology he is using, the nerve decay has now reached the point where we need to move to some new technology. We have tried some eye-tracking systems; the other method is brain scanning, and there are all sorts of techniques for that. So far we have only considered those that don't require intervention?? no surgery certainly, and no shaving of the head.

Is he excited about the prospect of using such cutting-edge technologies to communicate better?

I find it exciting. Stephen has a stubborn attitude towards this sort of thing. He feels that he has to prove he can still use his existing system. The result is that when there is a communications expert in the room?? someone trying to show him new technology?? his speed using the existing system suddenly increases.

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by Anne Laurie

You?ve probably already heard about the idea that Gingrich will ?humanize? himself by ?Campaign[ing] With Pets and Music?:

Newt Gingrich?s campaign has decided to take another route on his bid to the Republican nomination: pets and music.

The campaign said today that it will soon launch a ?Pets With Newt? site aimed at Gingrich?s love for animals, intended to show a ?lighter side? of the candidate. ?As speaker I made it possible for people in public housing to keep their pets in 1988. I love pets so we?re going to have an entire project,? Gingrich said.

Gingrich doesn?t have any pets at this time, but he told ABC News today he and his wife Callista want a dog in the White House?

My emphasis. This is emotional tone-deafness on a scale approaching Romney-esque.

The campaign also plans to release a music education video starring Callista, who is a classically trained musician and signer. ?A music education video from my wife will be on the importance of music education and her background as a classical French horn player and a singer in the Basilica.?

The campaign?s approach is to show a fun side of the former Speaker of House and involve Callista more in the campaign.

?We?re going to do things that are interesting and positive and fun and try to get back the idea that you can have citizenship,? Gingrich said. ?Politics doesn?t have to be mean and nasty and disgusting. You can actually have fun as citizens working together.?

Yeaaah?he?s not giving up the Wingnut Welfare fallback career, which may be the only indication of intelligent foresight Newt?s shown recently. And speaking of ?mean and nasty and disgusting?, I do believe Mr. TBogg nails it:

... Callista Gingrich is the singularly least appealing First Lady-in-waiting to shuffle down the pike since probably Mary Todd Lincoln. I can?t honestly believe that Gingrich?s campaign people are on-board with making this botoxed trailer park Pamela Harriman a focal part of the campaign. This is all on Newt. Put aside the six-year adultery binge which is between Callista and her Catholic Jesus (who has his hands full enough as it is with priests treating altar boys like the entree line at the Golden Corral), there ?s not enough Vaseline in the world to soft-focus the lens and make Callista appear warm and fuzzy. As a trophy wife she?s more Third Place Runner-up material and Miss Congeniality she is most definitely not; Callista?s so brittle she makes Nancy Reagan look like Sarah Silverman. Excuse me ? she makes Nancy Reagan look like a drunk Sarah Silverman.

It?s almost as if Newt wants his campaign to dash upon the rocks whereupon he?ll put the blame (No. It?s you, not me?) upon Callista who brought him down with her siren call and also that thing she does with her tongue. Don?t ask. No. Really. You don?t want to know. Then Newt can make plans for another comeback ? his third act ? where he?ll enter [stage right] singing What I Did For Love while letting his piggy eye roam over the chorus line as he casts about for, yet again, another leading lady.

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As Mitt Romney enters the final stretch in Iowa, poll numbers rising, crowds appearing, the inevitability beginning to sink in, his message is honed down, lean and mean, with declarative sentences that slice the air with the flashy precision of a fruit ninja. "I love this country," he says, as if this sets him apart. Then he adds, "I don't want America to turn into Europe."

No, Romney continues, "I want to make America work again." Then he elaborates. "I want to get America working again for the middle class." Those are subtle digs at the sitting President. But Romney is not trying to be subtle. "I'm frightened that we have a President that doesn't understand America," he says in Clinton, Iowa, on Wednesday afternoon. "He's had his moment. Now is our time." And then: "He will transform America. I will restore America." (Watch TIME's video "Mark Halperin Interviews Mitt Romney.")

Everything Romney says is built for repetition, to be quoted in newspapers, in televised soundbites and seared into the national psyche. Everything is a catchphrase, a bumper sticker waiting to be printed. The lines make tweets feel long. "I don't want class warfare to poison the American spirit," he continues. He says Obama wants an "entitlement society" and Romney wants an "opportunity society." He adds, "I don't want to substitute envy for ambition."

In Clinton, Muscatine and North Liberty, the crowds are not huge -- in the low hundreds -- but they overflow the small spaces Romney has booked for the events. On his second ride in the presidential campaign rodeo, the candidate no longer has to worry about introducing himself. He no longer bothers to assure voters that he is more conservative than they suspect on issues like guns, abortion and gay rights. He is a singularly focused, Obama-destroying machine. "People in Washington think it's government that makes us strong," he says. "It's free people pursuing our dreams that makes us great."

Romney's is an effective presentation, convincing in its single-minded message. The crowds eat it up. These people want what he is promising, after all: to get rid of the sitting President. And no other candidate has yet shown that he or she can compete with Romney's general election competitiveness. They want to win. Romney seems to have Obama's number. "Democrats are scared," says Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock, who introduces Romney at campaign events.

But the very effectiveness of Romney's presentation make the awkward moments that much more striking. He greets a group of seniors eating an Italian lunch in Clinton with the phrases, "Ooh, dinner looks good. I like the pizza. I like the pizza." Or when he opens a town hall at a factory in North Liberty with a comment on the platform he is standing on. "This thing I am standing on is one of the pieces of machinery, a tool, that helps them make the various products they make out of various forms of plastic," he says. When someone in the audience mentions Denver Broncos' quarterback Tim Tebow's religious displays, Romney responds earnestly, "I appreciate people who are willing to stand up for their differences." (Read "Mitt Romney: A Candidate's Rhetorical Evolution.")

And then there is his talk about song. He praises God Bless America. Discusses the national anthem. Repeats the lesser known verses of America the Beautiful, which he calls, "Oh, Beautiful for Spacious skies." "Does corn qualify as amber waves of grain?" he asks off the cuff. "Not really. But you get the point."

The audience does. This is an Obama toppler before them. He talks of an epic battle for the "core" of the country. "I want America to be more like America, again," he declares. And the voters are coming around, he predicts, in Iowa, in New Hampshire, in swing states across the country. Obama's days are numbered, Romney assures the crowds: "They are going to send him back to the private sector where he finally deserves to go."

Put it on a card. Hang it on your wall. Repeat every night before bedtime. This presidency is going to end. Romney's slogans will make it so.

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LAS VEGAS?? Agustina Ocampo is the kind of foreign traveler businesses salivate over.

The 22-year-old Argentine recently dropped more than $5,000 on food, hotels and clothes in Las Vegas during a trip that also took her to Seattle's Space Needle, Disneyland and the San Diego Zoo. But she doubts she will return soon.

"It is a little bit of a headache," said Ocampo, a student who waited months to find out whether her tourist visa application would be approved.

More than a decade after the federal government strengthened travel requirements after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, foreign visitors say getting a temporary visa remains a daunting and sometimes insurmountable hurdle.

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The tourism industry hopes to change that with a campaign to persuade Congress to overhaul the State Department's tourist visa application process.

"After 9/11, we were all shaken and there was a real concern for security, and I still think that concern exists," said Jim Evans, a former hotel chain CEO heading a national effort to promote foreign travel to the U.S.

At the same time, he said, the U.S. needs "to be more cognizant of the importance of every single traveler."

Tourism leaders said the decline in foreign visitors over the past decade is costing American businesses and workers $859 billion in untapped revenue and at least half a million potential jobs at a time when the slowly recovering economy needs both.

While the State Department has beefed up tourist services in recent years, reducing wait times significantly for would-be visitors will likely be a challenge as officials try to balance terrorist threats and illegal immigration with tight budgets that limit hiring.

"Security is job one for us," said Edward Ramotowski, managing director of the department's visa services. "The reason we have a visa system is to enforce the immigration laws of the United States."

Anti-immigration proponents argue travel to the U.S. is already too accessible and that allowing more visitors would put the nation at greater risk.

"Everybody would like to find a way to admit as many people as possible to visit here providing that they visit and then go home," said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigration group based in Washington, D.C.

"A lot of consular officers underestimate how much people want to come and live here," she said.

Nearly 7.6 million nonimmigrant visas were issued in 2001, compared with fewer than 6.5 million in 2010. The number of visa applicants also dropped sharply after 2001. Those combined forces pushed the U.S. share of global travelers down to 12 percent last year, from 17 percent before 2001.

The proposed immigration overhaul has largely been driven by the U.S. Travel Association, the tourism industry's lobbying giant, and has been endorsed by business titans such as the National Retail Federation, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Republicans and Democrats in Congress are backing the proposed changes through six bills in the House and Senate.

Geoff Freeman, the travel association's chief operating officer, said the State Department should be required to keep visa interview wait times at a maximum of 10 days.

"Every day a person is waiting for that interview is a day a person cannot be here supporting the American economy," he said.

For most foreigners, taking a last-minute business or leisure trip to New York, Los Angeles, Miami or other U.S. travel hubs would be nearly impossible. The average wait time for a visa interview in Rio de Janeiro, for example, was 87 days, according to the State Department.

The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan agency that audits federal programs, concluded that wait times are likely much longer than reported because some department employees artificially reduce the wait times by not scheduling interviews during high-demand periods.

The vast majority of visitors enter through the country's visa waiver program, which allows travelers from 36 nations with good relationships with the U.S. to temporarily visit without a visa. Travel proponents want to add nations whose residents are unlikely to illegally move to the U.S., including Argentina, Brazil, Poland and Taiwan.

Tourists from the rest of the world, including India, China, Mexico and other nations with affluent travelers looking to use their passports, must obtain a nonimmigrant visa. The process can be expensive and time-consuming.

People living far from a visa processing center must arrange travel to the interview location, not knowing whether they will be approved. Roughly 78 percent of all tourist visas were approved so far in 2011.

Tourism proponents want the department to embrace videoconferencing as a way to interview more people quickly. The department has no plans to implement videoconferencing interviews because of safety and technological concerns, Ramotowski said.

In-person interviews weren't the norm before 9/11, when consular officials had the authority to approve travelers based on an application alone. Since then, however, screenings have become more strenuous, with fingerprint checks and facial recognition screening of photographs.

The State Department has made moves to boost its tourist services in recent years, transferring employees from underworked offices to bustling embassies and consular posts. Many visa processing centers are also operating under extended hours.

Other proposed changes include granting more multi-entry visas and charging premium fees to tourists who want a visa right away, similar to the premium passport fee charged to Americans with last-minute passport requests. The tourism industry also wants more visa processing officers and to allow travelers to submit applications in their native language.

"We can't afford to treat them in a way that gives them an impression that maybe they aren't welcome," said Rolf Lundberg, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's top lobbyist.

To help make the U.S. appear more welcoming, Congress approved last year a $200 million annual marketing campaign.

In Las Vegas, where travelers to the Strip have traditionally kept Nevada's economy afloat, tourism and government leaders are desperate to keep businesses open and create jobs in a state with the nation's highest unemployment rate.

"The industries affected by tourism are all behind it," said Republican Rep. Joe Heck of southern Nevada, who has sponsored a bill in the House that would require shorter visa interview delays, among other measures. "We need the jobs."

Ocampo, who spent her vacation shopping at upscale boutiques and visiting family in California, said she would be more eager to come back if she knew her business was wanted.

"Everyone wants to visit the Statue of Liberty and Disneyland," she said.

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The 30-year-old actress was spotted taking a dip in the pool while vacationing in Mexico with some family and friends, and debuted her fantastic bikini bod after giving birth to her second daughter Haven Garner in August.

Earlier this year, Jess was spotted on the beach in Mexico, but instead of toned abs, she was?flaunting?her growing bump!

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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, December 28, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Art lovers have until the end of January 2012 to catch the Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer exhibition in Manchester.

Taking place at the Manchester Art Gallery, the show represents the first major exhibition of the English painter's work since 1964 and features approximately 140 pieces.

It is due to run until Sunday January 29th, with admission to the Mosley Street gallery priced at GBP8. Concessions are available for GBP6 and under-18s can go in for free.

Divided into 11 key themes, the exhibition explores different stages of Brown's life in an attempt to support a better understanding of his work and influence on the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

Visitors can also learn about the years the artist spent in the north-west city working on the Manchester Murals - a series of 12 historical paintings he completed at the Town Hall.

Curated by Victorian art expert Julian Treuherz, the exhibition is due to move to a gallery in Ghent, Belgium after it closes in Manchester.

The Manchester Art Gallery is open between 10:00 and 17:00 GMT, Tuesday to Sunday.

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WASHINGTON D.C.???If you like offense, the 25,042 fans in RFK Stadium were treated to a special afternoon Wednesday by Air Force and Toledo. The Falcons and Rockets ran up and down the field with little opposition.

But, in the end, Toledo held on for a 42-41 victory in the Military Bowl after Air Force gambled trying for a two-point conversion with 52 seconds left. The Falcons' David Baska, the holder on the fake conversion, pitched wildly to Parker Herrington, who couldn't corral the ball on an option play to the left. The ball bounced out of bounds in the end zone. Air Force then tried an onside kick, but Toledo recovered and ran out the clock.

Toledo scored first and never trailed in a wild back-and-forth

contest, as Air Force kept putting the pressure on.

The Rockets' defense pinned Air Force in its territory for much of the fourth quarter. A 33-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Terrance Owens to receiver Bernard Reedy put Toledo ahead, 42-35, with 5:01 to go. But, as they did all game, the Falcons responded, scoring on a fourth-down pass from quarterback Tim Jefferson to a wide-open Zach Kauth to make it 42-41. Coach Troy Calhoun then called for the fake conversion.

There were many bowl-game highs for the Falcons. Jefferson's touchdown pass to Jonathan Warzeka in the second quarter was his first in four postseason games.

Toledo coach Matt Campbell deserted his two-quarterback system most of the way. He stayed mainly with Owens, and the sophomore left-hander delivered with big plays.

Air Force scored late in the second quarter to tied the game at 28. The Rockets took a 35-28 lead on Jermaine Robinson's 37-yard interception return of a tipped pass. The Falcons tied the score at 35 on fullback Mike DeWitt's two-yard slant to the left side later in the period.

There was hardly time to catch a breath in the first half.

The Rockets and Falcons moved up and down the field in just about

every way imaginable, from big kick returns, to long runs to big passing plays. Toledo's 87-yard kickoff return by Eric Paige with 2:17 left in the first period put the Rockets up 21-7. By that point the Falcons already had given up a 17-yard touchdown pass by Owens and a 41-yard touchdown run by Thomas.

But, as if an alarm had gone off, the Falcons woke up.

Jefferson signaled there was some life with a 22-yard scoring run that made it 14-7 before the kickoff return by Page. The Falcons scored three times in the second quarter to knot the game by halftime.

Tailback Asher Clark scored from the one on fourth down to tie the score at 21. After Owens hit a 49-yard touchdown pass to put the Rockets up 28-21, Jefferson threw a 37-yard score to Warzeka with 2:07 left in the period.

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The annual British day of bargain-hunting was cut short in London on Monday by shopping rage, as a young man in London was stabbed to death just after noon.

The Metropolitan Police said that 10 people were being held in connection with the stabbing, which happened in the center of the city?s West End shopping district as it was packed with thousands of holiday shoppers taking advantage of Boxing Day sales.

Much of the famous shopping street remained closed into the evening as the police continued to investigate.

The police reported a second stabbing hours later, Sky News reported, though it was not clear whether the two episodes were connected.

Mark Dunne, of London?s Metropolitan Police, said the first attack took place after two groups of young people appeared to have become involved in a large-scale altercation, The Associated Press reported. He said the police were likely to find many witnesses. ?This is probably the busiest place in the United Kingdom right now, on the busiest shopping day,? he said.

A little like Black Friday in the United States, the day after Christmas in Britain has become a traditional time of barnstorming stores offering deep discounts.

But unlike their American counterparts, British shoppers are not known for engaging in the sorts of stampedes and violence that have marred Black Friday sales in the United States in recent years.

A Twitter user named Kentis Gopalla posted the following image of panicked shoppers on Oxford Street after the stabbing:

Another picture posted to Twitter by a London-based user showed a man seated behind an area cordoned off by police as an officer stands over him.

The motive for the attack in London was not immediately known. Sky News reported that it occurred in or around a Foot Locker branch along the busy street.

That appeared to be confirmed by video posted online later on Monday that showed a chaotic scene outside a Foot Locker on Oxford Street as the police struggled to control crowds and emergency medical technicians worked on a man lying on the pavement.

It was not the first time that shoppers on Oxford Street were scattered by violence. In August, a similar stabbing occurred outside an H&M clothing store along the street, The Daily Mirror reported.

British shoppers also faced snarled transportation on Monday as transit workers staged strikes, The Guardian reported.

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India squandered an opportunity to win the women's world chess team championship losing 1-3 to Georgia while China won the title despite losing to Ukraine 1.5-2.5 in the eighth round.

Among other contenders Russia beat South Africa 4-0 but that could only catapult them to second position with no chance of catching up with China on board-points Monday, reports Xinhua.

World champions Hou Yifan, Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi drew their matches, while Zhao Xue on the third board suffered a setback.

Chinese coach Yu Shaoteng said: 'Our players felt tired and as a result we lost the game. The important thing is we became the champions. Tuesday's match is not significant for the team but for the players themselves.'

In other matches, Armenia defeated Vietnam and Greece defeated hosts Turkey.

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BRIGHTON, Mass. -- A couple lost their wedding rings and engagement ring on the T.

The husband had lost the rings on the T after having work done on them at DePrisco Jewelers.

?I got off the train, and I knew something was wrong. I just knew something was wrong, so I felt for my left pocket where it was when I was in the station. Nothing. Right pocket, nothing. Pants pockets, nothing. Looked in my bag, knew something was wrong so I literally ran home. As my wife came home I just took off my jacket, I took off my shirt, emptied out my bag, I?m pouring it on the ground,? said John Hart.

They called the jeweler hoping the rings had been located. In the spirit of the holidays, the owner decided to help the couple, and replaced the lost rings.

?I couldn?t believe it. It just - I was astounded by their generosity. It was wonderful. And then, two hours later, I went into labor,? said Erin Hart.

The couple isn?t sure if the husband was pick-pocketed, or he just dropped the envelope that had the rings from his pocket.

The owner of the jewelers said, ?I was pleased to do it in the spirit of Christmas for some deserving people, and it gave me an extra good feeling because they were so appreciative.?

The couple said the new rings are almost exact replicas of the ones that had been lost.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45792099/ns/local_news-boston_ma/

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MOSCOW ? A prominent Russian opposition activist had barely half an hour of freedom Sunday before being sentenced to 10 more days in jail ? making it the 14th time this year he's been detained.

The decision by a Moscow court late Sunday to find Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov guilty of a charge of resisting police came a day after Russia witnessed the largest protest rally in its post-Soviet history. As demonstrators vented frustration Saturday with the scandal-marred parliamentary election of Dec. 4 that left Vladimir Putin's United Russia party in control, many prominent figures called for Udaltsov's release.

How the Kremlin chooses to deal with Udaltsov could prove a litmus test for how it approaches the opposition in the coming days. During Putin's decade-plus long tenure as president and prime minister, opposition activists have faced numerous crackdowns, but their cause appears to have been boosted by allegations of fraud during the recent election.

The Left Front leader was due to be released Sunday from a hospital, where he was being treated as he served the final days of his previous sentence. Udaltsov, who had been held since election day on claims of staging an unsanctioned rally, had spent much of the month on a hunger strike.

Found guilty of resisting police, Udaltsov was escorted back to the hospital Sunday night after he felt unwell in court.

"He was so stressed out that he fell ill," Udaltsov's lawyer, Nikolay Polozov, said.

Prominent opposition leaders came to the court to support Udaltsov. Many have referred to his constant detentions as political harassment. The Left Front leader has spent at least 50 days in jail this year.

The court on Sunday found that Udaltsov resisted police on Oct. 24 while being detained outside the Central Election Committee's building.

A video of his detention, filmed by the Associated Press Television, shows the activist arrive on a bicycle and later talk to reporters.

Udaltsov was telling the press that he had come out to the election committee's headquarters to stage a one-man picket, which requires no sanction from authorities. Shortly afterwards, police came and took Udaltsov away. Udaltsov did not appear to be putting resistance.

Udaltsov's lawyer said they would appeal the verdict.

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"Carrie" and I were good friends in high school and college. For a few years, she had a rollercoaster-like relationship about which I tried to remain neutral (though I leaned negative). Eventually, she broke up with the guy but not before turning me into a villain and accusing me of all sorts of imaginary slights. We stopped being friends. From time to time, she?d also bad-mouth me to our mutual friends. Later, she ended up getting in a far nastier fight with another member of the group, ?Andrea.? Around that time, Carrie and I saw each other and she expressed delight that I'd "changed," when in fact, I?d simply put on my ?polite pants.? She then apologized, admitting that she?d made up the things I?d done or imagined them. I wrote back and apologized, too?for any?behavior that might have hurt her. But the group was fragmented again, with my newly traumatized friend (?Andrea?) wondering what she?d done to deserve Carrie's wrath. I knew all too well that it didn't take all that much to get Carrie going. For that reason, I continued to have limited contact with her.

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Published: December 26, 2011

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By Shafi'i Mohyaddin Abokar

The Somali Football Federation has vehemently lauded for the job being done by the coach of Somali team in Australia Abdul Haq Mohamed Ahmed whose team promoted to the 1st division in the Western Australia soccer championship this year.

In a press statement issued here in Mogadishu on Monday afternoon, Somali Football Federation president said Mahmoud Nur said that the outsider coach is spending most of his time and energy in producing professional players who are expected to represent Somalia in future international competitions.

"Abdul Haq is a veteran Somali coach who achieved a great victory in Western Australia football in less than four years-he is doing a good job for the entire Somali Football Family and we are very confident that he will come with a talented national team squad in the years to come" president Said Mahmoud Nur said in his statement.

The Somali Football Federation president Said Mahmoud Nur requested the Football Federation Australia Limited and the entire Australian people to give all possible assistances to the Somali coach Abdul Haq Mohamed Ahmed and his expatriate team who are flag carriers despite being refugees.

Late in 2009 the Somali community soccer coach was recognized as the best in the Perth world soccer cup an interesting event which has been held for foreign community football teams in Western Australia since 1977.

Once again the Somali coach was awarded as the 2011 best football coach in Western Australia soccer championship after his team won the second division tournament and promoted to the 1st division. This was the first time in history that a Somali team promotes to the first division championship in Western Australia.

Shafi'i Mohyaddin Abokar is the NewsBlaze Somalia reporter. Contact him through NewsBlaze.

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And to you Ron Paul, how many Christian bodies need to pile up in Africa, the Middle East before we fight back?

From Eric Dondero

As many libertarian-conservatives are aware Smitty is the illustrious other half of TheOtherMcCain team, close allies and friends of us here at LR on the libertarian right.

Yesterday, he penned a tough-minded reaction to the massive Christmas Day bombings in Nigeria. The death toll is now reported to be well into the 40s. Three churches were bombed. Parishioners who fled from some of the churches were gunned down by machine gun fire coming from Islamists. EMT responders were also purposely targeted.

Smitty, a Navy Vet, and contractor who has recently served in Afghanistan, takes the non-interventionists/isolationists in the U.S. to task:

Earlier, this blog noted the plight of the Egyptian Christians.
Memeorandum points to The New York Times (twice today) with atrocious news: A series of apparently coordinated bombings struck three churches during Christmas services across Nigeria on Sunday, killing more than a dozen people and solidifying a recent escalation in violence by a radical Muslim sect.

Anybody who thinks Islamism can be appeased "is a fool"

The Islamic extremists wage jihad, and refer to Western countries as ?Crusaders?.

A fellow Baptist like Ron Paul might balk at U.S. involvement in supporting people in foreign countries who are being butchered. But, as with these Nigerians in today?s outrage, the Copts in Egypt, or the Jews in Europe in the last century, we have a gnawing question: what is the body count at which one triggers that possible Burke line:
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
There really is no formula to compute the crossover point. It?s a matter of context and leadership. Nevertheless, I should expect our serious GOP candidates to offer some kind of policy. On the playground of world religions, there is exactly one bully. Whoever thinks that bully can be appeased is a fool, and needs to have their foolishness escorted away from levers of power.

Photo from massacre of Christians, last year in Jos. Credits - ChristianMessenger, GetReligion.org.

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Remember CUPP Computing's PunkThis board we played with at Computex 2011? It's now left the confines of its 2.5-inch hard drive form-factor and jumped ship from a standard Asus netbook to a Core i5-equipped Eee Slate EP121, taking residence alongside the tablet's battery. As a refresher, PunkThis puts a complete ARM-based system into an x86 computer by replacing the SATA HDD with a single core 1GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 3730 processor, 512MB RAM and WiFi, along with a mini-PCie socket for SSD storage, plus connectors for the hosts video, audio and USB interfaces. While CUPP computing is still working hard to make PunkThis commercially available for tech-savvy individuals, it acquired Israeli security company Yoggie last July and built this demo machine to attract another kind of customer.

The tablet we tested was running Windows 7 Home Premium and Android 2.3.4 simultaneously, and was equipped with an additional button for switching between x86 and ARM modes. Since the Asus EP121 already uses a mini-PCIe SSD instead of 2.5-inch SATA storage, a prototype PunkThis board was designed to fit alongside a modified battery. Gingerbread didn't break a sweat supporting both the 1280x800-pixel capacitive touchscreen and pen-based Wacom digitizer thanks to some additional hardware and software tweaks. Beyond the ability to switch between Windows for heavy lifting and Android for improved battery life, it's possible to use both x86 and ARM side-by-side. Imagine antivirus and firewall software running on the PunkThis board in mission-critical security applications for enterprise, and it's easy to see where CUPP Computing is going with this. Check out the gallery below and our hands-on video after the break.

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