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Name Abel
Gender male
Age appears to be in early thirties
Ethnicity English
Race Vampire
Significance He is a prosecutor, one who is actually responsible for the formation of the special investigation team. His identity as a vampire is secret to those around him and he survives because of a friend in the medical field who gives him blood-bags from people who donated blood. He formed the special team in order to catch Xia, a young vampire moved to New York City five years ago in hopes of finding a life-long companion.
History Much of his past before he was turned is a blur and as time has continued on, he has forgotten exactly how old he really is. He is constantly on the move, changing jobs and identities in order to locate those of his kind and keep them from exposing the truth about vampires. He truthfully believes that Xia is the woman who turned him into a vampire, but he cannot be sure.
Personality Abel is a guy who few try to grow close with. He is very mysterious, showing only a blank face and a smile that says he knows more than he tells. Rarely wasting a moment to joke, his seriousness is a plague that people try to avoid. In truth, he is very lonely, though his only true friend is his doctor friend who provides him with blood, and even he doesn?t understand him fully.
Other Like the vampire prosecutor, he is also strongly drawn to the female prosecutor?s blood.
Name Xia
Gender female
Age appears to be in mid twenties
Ethnicity Asian American
Race Vampire
Significance She is the one responsible for the ?vampire attacks? five years ago. Lately she has been laying low, however, only making kills every now and then to gain the attention of the vampire prosecutor, who she has fallen in love with. Every now and then she will visit him out of the blue or will call his phone and present him with information that helps him with his cases. Her attacks have been in precise locations. If you were to dot them out on a map and then connect the dots, they would be forming an arrow. This arrow is pointing to the part of the city where she is residing and where she awaits the arrival of the vampire prosecutor.
History For many years, Xia has been moving from place to place. Seven years ago while in Los Vegas, she ran into Abel who was visiting relatives. Impressed with his abilities, she turned him into a vampire. However, his response to the change angered her for he wasn?t overjoyed, but horrified. In her anger, she lost track of him. It was two years later when she found him in New York City. In order to gain his attention, she went on a mass killing spree. During the five years up until today, she has been diligently searching for a life-long companion; a mate. In the process she discovered the prosecutor. She turned him into a vampire, hiding her identity in order to force him to find her.
Personality You can sum up Xia in one word: self-centered. She is only out for herself, not thinking of how her actions can affect the lives around her. She lives for the moment and thrives for pleasure ? hence why she is searching for a mate. Because she is on her own, her frustration and anger often takes form of a vampire attack. She loves to play with people?s emotions and will do anything to get what she wants.
Other She is targeting the female prosecutor and the intern out of jealousy.
Name Neo Jelani
Gender male
Age 33
Ethnicity American
Race Human
Significance Neo is the guy that provides the vampire prosecutor the blood he needs. He is the owner of a club named Club Blood ? this is where he stores the blood. Generally he also provides insight and advice while the two sit to drink. Though he isn?t the only one who knows of the prosecutor?s vampire situation, he is constantly looking out for the guy and will try in every which way to help if needed.
History After working for several years as a doctor, Neo retired from his job. He and a friend had a serious argument over disappearing blood bags from the donation branch and in the end, he decided he was done. Wealthy from his years of working, he opened the club. (will add part of meeting the prosecutor later)
Personality Straight forward and honest, Neo is a friendly character. There aren?t many people who dislike him and vice versa. He is generally viewed as a fatherly figure and does his best to help those in need. However, this fatherly figure disappears when someone he treasures is threatened. He suppresses a dark side, one he developed after working as a depressed doctor for many years.
Other His wife died in a massive car accident two years ago.

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Caterpillar 4Q profit rises, tops Wall St. view

PEORIA, Illinois (AP) ? Caterpillar says its fourth-quarter profit jumped 60 percent, boosted by a steep increase in global demand.

The world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment also issued 2012 guidance above Wall Street predictions.

U.S.-based Caterpillar reported net income of $1.55 billion, or $2.32 per share, up from $968 million, or $1.47 per share, in the same quarter last year.

Sales and revenue jumped 24 percent to $17.24 billion from $12.81 billion.

Analysts polled by FactSet expected a profit of $1.76 per share on $15.95 billion.

Caterpillar expects a 2012 profit of $9.25 per share and $68 billion to $72 billion in revenue. Analysts expect a profit of $9.07 per share on $66.99 billion in revenue.

Shares rose $3.40, or 3.1 percent, to $112.45 in premarket trading.

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Gabby Giffords: Some Lawmakers Wish Obama Mentioned Arizonan In State Of The Union Speech

WASHINGTON -- For Democrats, there wasn't much missing from President Obama's State of the Union speech -- except some thought there could have been a little bit more about Gabby Giffords.

Taking another step in her remarkable recovery after her near fatal shooting last year, Rep. Giffords (D-Ariz.) attended the address as one of her last acts before submitting her resignation Wednesday.

In what likely will go down as one of the most touching moments from a presidential speech to Congress, Obama stopped on his way in to wrap Giffords in a warm hug. But he didn't carry that embrace of her to the podium.

Obama had mentioned Giffords in his speech last year, when she was still in a coma and represented by an empty chair in the House chamber. So while Democrats thought the president's public show of affection was certainly adequate, they noticed an absence of words.

"I wish he had said something about Gabby Giffords," said Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), pausing to collect his emotions before adding, "But I think that hug that he and she shared was probably statement enough."

"Gabby and I were in the same class in Congress, so it was very special to see her in the chamber tonight," added Yarmuth, who otherwise rated Obama's speech as "the strongest example of leadership President Obama has ever shown."

"I thought he would give a farewell to Gabby Giffords, who has really triumphed over some difficult times," said Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.). "I'm sure he has reached out over and over again. But I thought it would have been a nice farewell to her until she comes back and makes her next step."

"I think the hug said it all but, yes, there could have been a tribute to Gabby," said Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.). "She inspires this Congress; she inspires this country."

Others thought the hug said more than words ever could. "I think if you watched when the president came in, there was a special moment where they hugged, and I quite suspect that a lot of newspapers will show that picture," said Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.).

Words or deeds mattered less to Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), who simply said he'd miss the Arizonan.

"Gabby Giffords warms everybody's hearts when she walks into the room," Ellison said. "She's just a symbol of courage and fortitude, and I'm just sad she's not going to run again because she was a great colleague."

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Health benefits of exercise may depend on cellular degradation

ScienceDaily (Jan. 20, 2012) ? The health benefits of exercise on blood sugar metabolism may come from the body's ability to devour itself, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report in the journal Nature.

Autophagy is a process by which a cell responds to starvation and other stresses by degrading damaged or unneeded parts of itself to produce energy. It is sometimes called the cell's housekeeping pathway.

"Exercise is known to have many health benefits but the mechanisms have been unclear. Autophagy is also known to have several health benefits, and these benefits correspond closely to the effects of exercise. We hypothesized that some of the health benefits of exercise might be explained through autophagy," said senior author Dr. Beth Levine, professor of internal medicine and microbiology who leads the Center for Autophagy Research at UT Southwestern.

Dr. Levine, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at the medical center, decided to focus on one specific health effect of exercise -- the ability of exercise to prevent blood sugar abnormalities in the face of a high-fat diet. Her mouse study provides the first evidence that exercise stimulates autophagy.

The researchers found that mice genetically unable to increase autophagy in response to short-term exercise have decreased endurance and fail to experience the normal benefits of exercise on blood sugar metabolism.

This discovery led the team to investigate whether autophagy is important in the protective effects of chronic exercise on diabetes. A high-fat diet induced diabetes-like changes in blood sugar metabolism in both control mice and in test mice that were genetically unable to increase autophagy above baseline levels, said Dr. Congcong He, lead author and a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Levine's lab. However, the researchers found that exercise reversed these blood sugar abnormalities in control mice but not in the autophagy-deficient mice.

"Our finding that exercise fails to improve glucose metabolism in autophagy-deficient mice strongly suggests that autophagy is an important mechanism by which exercise protects against diabetes," said Dr. Levine. "It also raises the possibility that activation of autophagy may contribute to other health benefits of exercise, including protection against cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and aging.

Dr. Levine has made fundamental discoveries previously that are in large part credited for expanding the field of autophagy research. In 1999, she identified the first mammalian autophagy gene, beclin 1, and its link to the suppression of breast cancer, which marked the first discovery of an association between defects in an autophagy gene and a human disease.

She similarly is credited with demonstrating that autophagy functions in innate immunity -- protecting against lethal viral encephalitis -- as well as initially reporting that autophagy plays a role in lifespan extension, shown in a study of C. elegans worms.

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1. Congcong He, Michael C. Bassik, Viviana Moresi, Kai Sun, Yongjie Wei, Zhongju Zou, Zhenyi An, Joy Loh, Jill Fisher, Qihua Sun, Stanley Korsmeyer, Milton Packer, Herman I. May, Joseph A. Hill, Herbert W. Virgin, Christopher Gilpin, Guanghua Xiao, Rhonda Bassel-Duby, Philipp E. Scherer, Beth Levine. Exercise-induced BCL2-regulated autophagy is required for muscle glucose homeostasis. Nature, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/nature10758

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'Extinct' monkey rediscovered in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia?? Scientists working in the dense jungles of Indonesia have "rediscovered" a large, gray monkey so rare it was believed by many to be extinct.

They were all the more baffled to find the Miller's Grizzled Langur ? its black face framed by a fluffy, Dracula-esque white collar ? in an area well outside its previously recorded home range.

The team set up camera traps in the Wehea Forest on the eastern tip of Borneo island in June, hoping to capture images of clouded leopards, orangutans and other wildlife known to congregate at several mineral salt licks.

The pictures that came back caught them all by surprise: groups of monkeys none had ever seen.

With virtually no photographs of the grizzled langurs in existence, it at first was a challenge to confirm their suspicions, said Brent Loken, a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University in Canada, and one of the lead researchers.

The only images out there were museum sketches.

"We were all pretty ecstatic, the fact that, wow, this monkey still lives, and also that it's in Wehea," said Loken.

The monkey, which has hooded eyes and a pinkish nose and lips, once roamed the northeastern part of Borneo, as well as the islands of Sumatra and Java and the Thai-Malay peninsula. But concerns were voiced several years ago that they may be extinct.

Forests where the monkeys once lived had been destroyed by fires, human encroachment and conversion of land for agriculture and mining and an extensive field survey in 2005 turned up empty.

"For me the discovery of this monkey is representative of so many species in Indonesia," Loken told The Associated Press by telephone.

"There are so many animals we know so little about and their home ranges are disappearing so quickly," he said. "It feels like a lot of these animals are going to quickly enter extinction."

The next step will be returning to the 90,000 acre-forest to try to find out how many grizzly langurs there are, according to the team of local and international scientists, who published their findings in the American Journal of Primatology on Friday.

They appear in more than 4,000 images captured over a two-month period, said Loken, but it's possible one or two families kept returning.

"We are trying to find out all we can," he said. "But it really feels like a race against time."

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Experts not involved in the study were hugely encouraged.

"It's indeed a highly enigmatic species," said Erik Meijaard, a conservation scientist who spent more than eight years doing field research in the area.

In the past they were hunted to near extinction for their meat and bezoar "stones," he said, which can, on occasion, be found in their guts.

Bezoars, as Harry Potter fans know from lectures given by Prof. Snape to first year students, are believed by some to neutralize poison.

Meijaard said the animal has long been considered a subspecies of the Hose's Leaf Monkey, which also occurs on the Malaysian side of Borneo, but it now looks like that may not be the case.

"We think it might actually be a distinct species," he said, "which would make the Wehea discovery even more important."

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Apple rolls out digital textbook service iBooks 2 (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Apple Inc unveiled a new digital textbook service called iBooks 2 on Thursday, aiming to revitalize the U.S. education market and quicken the adoption of its market-leading iPad.

The consumer electronics giant has been working on digital textbooks with publishers Pearson PLC, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Muffin Harcourt, a trio responsible for 90 percent of textbooks sold in the United States.

It Amazon.com Inc and other device makers have made inroads into an estimated $8 billion market for electronic textbooks.

At the event, Apple introduced tools to craft digital textbooks and demonstrated how authors and even teachers can create books for students.

Marketing chief Phil Schiller said it was time to reinvent the textbook, adding that 1.5 million iPads are in use now in education.

"It's hard not to see that the textbook is not always the ideal learning tool," he said.

"It's a bit cumbersome."

IBooks 2 will be available as a free app on the iPad, starting Thursday. High school textbooks will be priced at $14.99 or less, Schiller said.

"You'll see textbooks for every subject for every level," he added.

Other media and technology companies have eyed the U.S. education market as ripe for some sort of upheaval. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp launched an education business two years ago and hired former New York City Education Chancellor Joel Klein to lead it.

At an event at New York's Guggenheim Museum, the first since the passing of Apple founder Steve Jobs, Schiller said teachers need help and Apple is trying to figure out how it can do its part.

"In general, education is in the dark ages," he said, adding that education has challenges that are "pretty profound."

According to Jobs' biography by Walter Isaacson, Murdoch met with Jobs last year and discussed the possibility of Apple's entrance into a market Jobs estimated at $8 billion a year and believed was ripe for disruption.

(Reporting By Yinka Adegoke and Nicola Leske in New York and Poornima Gupta in San Francisco; editing by Mark Porter)

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IMF seeks $600 billion in new funds, G20 to discuss (Reuters)

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ? The IMF is seeking to more than double its war chest by raising $600 billion in new resources to help countries deal with the fallout of the euro zone debt crisis, but the plan faces roadblocks from the United States and other countries.

The United States and Canada said on Wednesday Europe must put up more of its own money to resolve its sovereign debt crisis, raising doubts G20 talks in Mexico this week can lay the ground for a deal on bolstering IMF resources.

Japan and South Korea also want Europe to do more and China might insist a number of conditions are met before it supports a boost in IMF resources.

"We continue to believe that the IMF can play an important role in Europe, but only as a supplement to Europe's own efforts," a U.S. Treasury spokesperson said. "The IMF cannot substitute for a robust euro area firewall."

Group of 20 deputy officials meet in Mexico City on Thursday and Friday to discuss boosting IMF resources. Any outcome would need leaders' signoff. G20 finance ministers meet in late February.

The IMF plan to boost its lending capacity eased worries on financial markets about Europe's funding difficulties, boosting the value of the euro.

IMF sources said the world faces a $1 trillion financing gap over the next two years if global economic conditions worsened considerably. The IMF's current lending capacity is about $380 billion.

The sources, present at an IMF board meeting on the issue on Tuesday, said the Fund was seeking to raise up to $600 billion to meet those potential financing needs. Of that, $500 billion would be for lending and $100 billion would be a "protection buffer."

An IMF spokesman confirmed the Fund was seeking to raise up to $500 billion in additional lending resources. He said that amount included a European commitment to inject $200 billion into IMF resources.

"At this preliminary stage, we are exploring options on funding and will have no further comment until the necessary consultations," he said.

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The United States repeated that it would not contribute more resources to the IMF.

With a strained budget at home, some U.S. congressional Republicans have threatened to yank $100 billion in U.S. money to the IMF if the funds are used to bail out euro zone countries. The White House is unlikely to want to take the issue on as President Barack Obama seeks re-election this year.

"We have told our international partners that we have no intention to seek additional resources for the IMF," a Treasury spokeswoman said.

"Many countries want the Europeans to move ahead with tougher and clearer measures, which at this moment translates to more resources to its stability fund," said a senior Brazilian government source attending the G20 officials' meeting in Mexico.

China's Foreign Ministry said Beijing stood by G20 commitments to ensure the IMF has ample funds to cope with the financial crisis, but it stopped short of saying the country was ready to put up more cash.

Indeed, China is likely to resist moves to increase IMF resources unless a number of conditions are met, said Xiang Songzuo, vice director of the International Monetary Institute in Beijing, a high-level policy think tank.

He said these would include more voting power for China and other emerging nations, changing the stance of IMF policy more to meet the concerns of emerging countries -- such as on stabilizing capital flows and exchange rates -- and making the mechanism for crisis rescue much more transparent.

"The process of negotiating all of that would be quite time consuming," Xiang said.

Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said it was not clear European governments had done everything necessary to make sure they could fund themselves at sustainable interest rates over the next few years.

"If it makes sense to enhance the resources of the IMF, the principal focus, it would seem, should be on dealing with fallout of the European crisis for innocent bystanders," he told a news briefing in Ottawa.

Japan stands ready to support the IMF fund raising drive but it wants to see strong efforts by European countries to resolve the crisis first, a senior government source said in Tokyo.

South Korea is also pressing for discussions first about Europe's contribution and for it to agree on additional measures, another source connected to the process said. European nations have argued that they have done enough and were calling for more IMF resources now.

"If, with the parallel discussion, we can achieve extra measures from the Europeans and afterwards agree on promises of additional resources for the IMF from non-European countries in the G20, I think it would be a good result," the source said.

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IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the IMF management would explore options for increasing the fund's firepower.

Europe's debt crisis is widely seen as the biggest threat to the global economy. Many countries used up a lot of their financial firepower fighting the global downturn in 2008 and 2009. A fresh global slump would raise fears more countries might need to be rescued by the IMF.

Indeed, the World Bank on Wednesday said Europe was probably already in recession and the euro area debt crisis posed a "real" risk to the global economy. The IMF has warned it will cut its global growth projections when it updates its forecast on January 24.

With credit downgrades in nine euro zone countries by Standard & Poor's last week, including France, and uncertainty over Greek debt talks that risk pushing the country into default, the IMF board has urged euro zone leaders to take steps to contain the crisis.

The board called for policies that would address the European crisis and for euro zone policymakers to make sure there is enough money available to tackle the bloc's debt problems effectively.

(Additional reporting by Alonso Soto in Brasilia; Louise Egan and Randall Palmer in Ottawa; Nick Edwards in Beijing; Editing by Andrew Hay and Neil Fullick)

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Nike+ Fuelband gives iPhone users 24-hour workout and exercise data

Nike has announced the Nike+ Fuelband which gives iPhone users in-depth information on their daily physical activity. With development assistance from the likes of Lance Armstrong, Kevin Durant and Carmelita Jeter, the Nike+ Fuelband is able to keep track of your daily physical goals using a built-in accelerometer.

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Thousand-ship flotilla to mark UK queen's jubilee (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? A seven-mile flotilla of 1,000 ships will sail down the River Thames in one of the biggest and most spectacular events ever seen in London to mark Queen Elizabeth's 60 years on the throne, organizers said on Wednesday.

The 10 million pound ($15 million) pageant will include a royal barge and feature some 20,000 participants, historic boats, working vessels, small kayaks, musicians and an orchestra, as well as a unique floating bell tower.

Organizers predict millions will watch along the 25-mile stretch of the river where the flotilla will pass, with hundreds of millions expected to tune in on TV across the world to see the most dramatic display of British pomp and ceremony witnessed on the river since the 17th century.

"The idea of the flotilla has inspired and captured the imagination of everyone, literally worldwide," said Michael Lockett, chief executive of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Festival.

He called it "an event of monumental proportions, the scale of which has never previously been undertaken, certainly in London."

"It is 350 years since there was a gathering of similar scale on the Thames," he added.

The pageant will take place on Sunday June 3 during four days of celebrations to herald the queen's jubilee, travelling under 14 bridges along the Thames and taking some 90 minutes to pass any point along the way.

The flotilla will involve 10 sections, each one led by a music barge. At its head will be the 88-foot (27-metre) royal rowbarge, powered by 18 oarsmen, while the queen and her husband Prince Philip will be aboard a specially adapted cruiser, the "Spirit of Chartwell" royal barge.

Other vessels include Motor Torpedo Boat 102 on which British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower inspected warships before the 1944 D-Day invasion of France and the yacht Eilean which appeared in the video for pop band Duran Duran's hit single "Rio."

Pageant Master Adrian Evans said it would be "the greatest collection of historic vessels ever to be gathered in London."

In all, the event will encompass a 30-mile stretch of river from Hammersmith in west London to Greenwich in the east, with a free festival for visitors in Battersea Park, which adjoins the river.

London Mayor Boris Johnson said the event had excited some people more than the Olympic Games which comes to the city the following month.

(Editing by Paul Casciato)

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5 tourists killed in Ethiopia: report (AP)

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia ? Five foreign tourists were killed by unknown armed rebels in Ethiopia's restive Afar region in the country's north, Ethiopian state television reported on Tuesday.

The Ethiopian Television, or ETV, cited the Ethiopian Ministry of Defense reporting a group of eight unidentified foreign nationals were attacked near the Eritrean border on Monday.

ETV said two tourists were injured severely and have been brought to a health clinic by defense forces. They are in critical condition, the state television said. Another tourist survived the attack unharmed.

ETV suggested that the attackers were rebels with ties to Ethiopia's archrival Eritrea, which hosts the exiled Oromo Liberation Front, a rebel group listed as a terrorist organization by the Ethiopian government.

Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs acknowledged tourists had been attacked in the Afar region but said it didn't have any further details about the attack or the victims' nationalities.

In Berlin, a spokesman at the German Foreign Ministry, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said it has received "reports of an attack on a tour group with Germans in Ethiopia" and that the ministry is trying to determine what had happened.

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Daily Kos: Obama discusses insourcing, merging federal business ...

You?ve heard of outsourcing ? well, this is insourcing. And in this make or break moment for the middle class and those working to get into the middle class, that?s exactly the kind of commitment to country that we need.

President Barack Obama packed a couple of ideas into his weekly address this morning, discussing both his "insourcing" initiative to give tax breaks to businesses that bring jobs back to America and his proposal to merge six federal agencies to streamline government interaction with business.

He discussed his meeting with American CEO's this past week and the incentives (and disincentives) he plans to push in order to get overseas business operations to relocate back home.

I told those CEOs what I?ll tell any business leader: ask yourself what you can do to bring more jobs back to the country that made your success possible. And I?ll make sure you?ve got a government that does everything in its power to help you succeed.

That?s why, in the next few weeks, I will put forward new tax proposals that reward companies that choose to do the right thing by bringing jobs home and investing in America ? and eliminate tax breaks for companies that move jobs overseas.

He also carefully laid out the case for his seeking authority from Congress to merge agencies and cut down on bureaucracy?a move that will place the obstructionist Republicans in Congress in a tight spot as aim to deny the president any victory in an election year at the same time they're campaigning against "bloated" government:

I asked Congress to reinstate the authority that past presidents have had to streamline and reform the Executive Branch. This is the same sort of authority that every business owner has to make sure that his or her company keeps pace with the times. It?s the same authority that presidents had for over 50 years ? up until Ronald Reagan. And let me be clear: I will only use this authority for reforms that result in more efficiency, better service, and a leaner government.

The practical effects on enterprises, according to the president, will be several:

?instead of forcing small business owners to navigate the six departments and agencies in the federal government that focus on business and trade, we?ll have one department. One place where entrepreneurs can go from the day they come up with an idea and need a patent, to the day they start building a warehouse, to the day they?re ready to ship their products overseas.

And in the meantime, we?re creating a new website ? BusinessUSA ? that will serve as a one-stop shop with information for businesses small and large that want to start selling their stuff around the world.

It's going to be interesting to watch in the weeks ahead what lines conservatives take to shoot this down. Anti-efficiency? Anti-business friendly? Nice little rock and a hard place the president has set up.

The full transcript can be found beneath the fold and on the White House website.

Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
January 14, 2011
The White House

As you can see, I brought a few things with me for this week?s video. A padlock. A pair of boots. A candle. And a pair of socks.

No, we?re not having a yard sale. And these products may not appear to have much in common. But they?re united by three proud words: ?Made in America.? They?re manufactured by American workers, in American factories, and shipped to customers here and around the world.

The companies that make these products are part of a hopeful trend: they?re bringing jobs back from overseas. You?ve heard of outsourcing ? well, this is insourcing. And in this make or break moment for the middle class and those working to get into the middle class, that?s exactly the kind of commitment to country that we need.

This week, I invited executives from businesses that are insourcing jobs to a forum at the White House. These are CEOs who take pride in hiring people here in America, not just because it?s increasingly the right thing to do for their bottom line, but also because it?s the right thing to do for their workers and for our communities and our country.

I told those CEOs what I?ll tell any business leader: ask yourself what you can do to bring more jobs back to the country that made your success possible. And I?ll make sure you?ve got a government that does everything in its power to help you succeed.

That?s why, in the next few weeks, I will put forward new tax proposals that reward companies that choose to do the right thing by bringing jobs home and investing in America ? and eliminate tax breaks for companies that move jobs overseas.

It?s also why on Friday, I called on Congress to help me make government work better for you. Right now, we have a 21st century economy, but we?ve still got a government organized for the 20th century. Over the years, the needs of Americans have changed, but our government has not. In fact, it?s gotten even more complex. And that has to change.

That?s why I asked Congress to reinstate the authority that past presidents have had to streamline and reform the Executive Branch. This is the same sort of authority that every business owner has to make sure that his or her company keeps pace with the times. It?s the same authority that presidents had for over 50 years ? up until Ronald Reagan. And let me be clear: I will only use this authority for reforms that result in more efficiency, better service, and a leaner government.

These changes will make it easier for small business owners to get the loans and support they need to sell their products around the world. For example, instead of forcing small business owners to navigate the six departments and agencies in the federal government that focus on business and trade, we?ll have one department. One place where entrepreneurs can go from the day they come up with an idea and need a patent, to the day they start building a warehouse, to the day they?re ready to ship their products overseas.

And in the meantime, we?re creating a new website ? BusinessUSA ? that will serve as a one-stop shop with information for businesses small and large that want to start selling their stuff around the world.

This means that more small business owners will see their hard work pay off. More companies will be able to hire new workers. And we?ll be able to rebuild an economy that?s not known for paper profits or financial speculation, but for making and selling products like these. Products ?Made in America.?

Thank you, and have a great weekend.

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Rating of Europe's bailout fund rests on Germany: S&P (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? The top credit rating of Europe's bailout fund depends on additional financial backing from Germany and the other three remaining AAA-rated euro zone countries, Standard & Poor's said on Friday.

The fund, also known as European Financial Stability Facility, has its AAA rating at risk after S&P stripped two of its guarantors, France and Austria, of their top credit ratings.

If downgraded, the EFSF could face higher borrowing costs, reducing its firepower to rescue troubled countries in the region.

"If you have a greater commitment from the other countries, then the EFSF could retain its AAA rating," John Chambers, the chairman of S&P's sovereign rating committee, told Reuters Insider in an interview.

"If you've lost two of the six AAA guarantors, either they need to increase the backing from the four remaining AAA guarantors or they need to raise some cash buffers," Chambers said.

Another option would be that the fund raises collateral to cover its outstanding obligations.

Germany and France, the two largest euro zone economies, are the main guarantors of the EFSF.

Chambers also said the European Central Bank's recent measures to increase liquidity to banks promoted a substantial monetary easing in the euro zone, which was "good news" for the ratings.

Some banks may have used the low-cost money from the ECB to invest in government bonds, he added.

Euro zone banks received almost half a trillion euros in the ECB's first-ever injection of 3-year liquidity last month. Analysts have been watching for signs that banks would use this to buy bonds, especially those issued by fiscally troubled euro zone countries.

A stellar Spanish bond auction earlier this week led some to believe that some of that money had indeed made its way into the sovereign debt.

Chambers' comments contrast with recent comments from Fitch Ratings, which said this week the euro-zone debt crisis will not be solved without more active engagement of the ECB.

(Reporting By Walter Brandimarte and Burton Frierson; Editing by Jan Paschal; editing by Carol Bishopric)

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China village protest leader made local party head (AP)

BEIJING ? A man who led mass protests over a land dispute that drove out local officials and police from a village in southern China has been appointed the village's new chief.

December's protests in Wukan village ended after provincial officials intervened and gave in to the protesters' key demands. It was a rare compromise by the Chinese government, which often suppresses rural protests.

Wukan villager Huang Hancan said Monday that protest leader Lin Zulian was appointed chief of the village's Communist Party committee on Sunday.

Huang says about 1,000 villagers gathered at a public square and stood and cheered when the appointment was announced.

Huang says Lin and other leaders will help organize elections for a new village committee.

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As Romney rises, Tea Party sees Senate as "bulwark" (Reuters)

CHICAGO (Reuters) ? As Mitt Romney inches toward the Republican Party's presidential nomination, many conservative activists are increasingly focused on a different political prize for 2012: the Senate.

Republicans, who currently have 47 of the 100 Senate seats, are seen as having a good shot of winning control of the upper chamber because they are defending far fewer seats in the November election.

Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, is the clear frontrunner for the party's presidential nomination after victories in the Iowa and New Hampshire nominating contests this month. He can move a big step closer with a win in the January 19 South Carolina primary.

But some supporters of the Tea Party movement and other conservatives distrust Romney, deriding him as a moderate, and they hope to get a few of their candidates into the Senate to serve as a "bulwark" against him or President Barack Obama.

"Conservatives in Nebraska are very concerned about Romney and disappointed that he may be the nominee," said John Arnold of the Lincoln Tea Party. "So the Senate has become much more important."

Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska recently said he will not seek reelection in his heavily Republican state. The Republican primary for the seat will pit former state attorney general Don Stenberg - who has some Tea Party backing - against the current state attorney general and "establishment" candidate Jon Bruning.

"The Senate is where we feel Nebraska's conservative values will be best represented," Arnold said.

Republicans would need to win four Democratic-controlled seats and successfully defend all their seats to win the Senate. A net gain of three seats would give Republicans control if Romney or another Republican won the White House, as the sitting vice president breaks all tie votes in the Senate.

While Republicans are expected to lose some seats in the House of Representatives, they currently are expected to retain their majority. If the party gains the Senate then even a few conservative senators could have an outsized impact on the 100-member chamber and U.S. politics.

Last year, conservative freshmen congressmen who won seats in the 2010 midterm elections with Tea Party support pushed the Republicans and Washington further to the right.

Apart from running candidates in battleground states, conservatives are also aiming to unseat Republican incumbents they deem too moderate in solid Republican states. Six-term Senators Orrin Hatch of Utah and Richard Lugar of Indiana face primary challenges, a remarkable turn for a party once renowned for its loyalty and unity.

And in Texas, the primary race for the seat being vacated by Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson is expected to be a battle between state Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, seen as the establishment candidate, and former state solicitor general Ted Cruz, who has a lot of Tea Party backing.

"Conservatives won't win every race they want, but they could win enough to double the size of the Senate's conservative contingent," said Russ Walker, vice president of political and grassroots campaigns at FreedomWorks, a Tea Party-aligned group run by former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey. "If that happens and Romney wins, he could go down in the history books as America's most conservative president."

"Not because he wants to," he added. "But because he will have to listen to the Senate."

"NEEDLES IN MY EYES"

It is hard to overstate Tea Party dislike for Romney.

"I'd rather stick needles in my eyes than vote for Mitt Romney," said Pete Harring of the MaineReFounders, a Tea Party group.

In more than a hundred interviews Reuters conducted with Tea Party activists since October, anti-Romney sentiment was prevalent.

Conservative activists are suspicious of Romney's changing positions on abortion and gay marriage. They despise the healthcare bill he passed in Massachusetts, saying it is similar to President Obama's own sweeping 2010 reform. And he is seen as the "establishment" pick by conservative insurgents intent on a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.

Over the past few months, conservatives have embraced then abandoned most of Romney's Republican rivals - U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann, former pizza magnate Herman Cain, Texas Governor Rick Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum.

Representative Ron Paul of Texas, perhaps Romney's biggest challenger, is not seen going the distance and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman will struggle to improve on the third place he won in the New Hampshire primary.

None of them have united or ignited the conservative base.

"The sad fact is there are no top-tier conservative candidates this year," said Richard Viguerie, author of "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause."

Activists like Rachel Delgado of the Galveston Tea Party in Texas say they have "not given up" on an alternative to Romney.

"I don't want a candidate picked by investment bankers," she said. "I want a nominee who reflects the will of the people rather than the will of JP Morgan Chase," a reference to Romney's days at private equity firm Bain Capital.

Others like Chris Littleton of the Ohio Liberty Council, a Tea Party umbrella group, are looking beyond the presidential race.

"We don't like him (Romney) and we don't want him," he said. "But he looks like he's the inevitable nominee."

"The Senate is the difference maker and can serve as a bulwark" against either Obama or Romney.

SLIGHT REPUBLICAN EDGE

Taken at face value, 2012 favors Republican chances of taking the Senate. Of the 33 Senate seats up for reelection in 2012, 23 are currently held by Democrats.

Seven of the nine seats listed by The Cook Political Report, an influential political forecaster, as a "toss up," are held by Democrats - including Virginia, North Dakota, New Mexico and Wisconsin, America's newest battleground state. In all four of those states, the Democratic incumbent is retiring.

"As of now the Republicans have a slight advantage for the Senate," said Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia. "But if the economy strengthens that could change. It's really far too early to say."

Sabato said the main question for the Tea Party is "how much they have truly learned" from the failed Senate candidacies in 2010 of conservatives like Christine O'Donnell in Delaware.

Much may depend on who wins the Republican nomination and general election. The Cook Political Report's Jennifer Duffy said that Michigan's U.S. Senate race, for instance, could turn into a "toss up" from "likely Democrat" if Romney is the nominee. Romney's father, George Romney, was the governor there.

While activists like Brenda Roames of The Greenwich Tea Party Patriots of South Jersey say many in the Tea Party will vote for Romney "not with enthusiasm but out of duty" if he's the nominee, most say they will not campaign on his behalf.

"There is no way on earth I'd campaign for Romney," said Tim Dake of the Wisconsin Grandsons of Liberty. "I will put all of my efforts into getting a conservative U.S. senator instead."

Any conservatives elected would join a small cadre of Tea Party favorites already in the Senate, including Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Florida's Marco Rubio.

If more senators join them and Republicans end up with a majority, conservatives hope they will be able to force their agenda on Romney or Obama. They cite the example of the welfare reform undertaken by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1996 as an example of what a Republican-controlled Congress can achieve regardless of who is in the White House.

"The Senate gives conservatives their greatest opportunity to have an impact in 2012," said Republican strategist and CivicForumPAC chairman Ford O'Connell. "And the Senate is doubly important because no one should underestimate President Obama, he's the best campaigner I've ever seen."

"Once the Republican presidential nomination process is over," he added, "the real story is going to be the Senate."

(Editing by Alistair Bell and Paul Simao)

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2 killed in separate ATV accidents in Florida

BRONSON, Fla. -- Authorities say two people have died in North Florida after separate accidents involving all-terrain vehicles.

Florida Highway Patrol tells The Gainesville Sun ( http://bit.ly/wgSGOv) that a 12-year-old Trenton girl died after the ATV she was driving late Saturday flipped over and landed on her.

FHP says the girl had a 5-year-old passenger when she lost control of the ATV on a limerock road. The younger child was hospitalized with minor injuries.

An FHP report says neither child was wearing a helmet or seat belt.

FHP also reported that early Sunday a 22-year-old Bronson man died after his ATV struck an embankment and overturned, tossing him to the ground.

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Pantech Element poster spied in AT&T store, coming for $300?

We're all expecting to see the Pantech Element shown off at CES this week, but as this image sent to Engadget shows, AT&T seem all set to be selling the tablet soon. 

The AT&T store in question appear to have received their marketing a few days early and were a little keen in getting it out on display. Some of the specs and pricing were also on display which are in line with the earlier reports.LTE, Android 3.2, 16GB of memory, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 5MP rear camera with 1080p video recording, and a 2MP front-facing camera. Price, $300 on a new two year deal, $450 off contract. Availability is slated for the week of January 15.  

Oh, and it is waterproof, more of less. 

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Kinect system tracks you with an eye on your shoes

STARING at customers' shoes as they walk into shops may be the next job for Microsoft's Kinect gaming sensor. Using the system to count shoppers and track their movements through stores could provide a helpful marketing tool - without the privacy invasion of analysing CCTV images.

The idea comes from Stephan Richter and colleagues at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, who were working on a way to help software distinguish people gathered round large tabletop touchscreen computers. The computer tends to struggle to keep track of who is doing what if people move around the screen while working.

The team developed a system called Bootstrapper which works out who's standing where using a downward-facing Kinect camera to recognise their shoes. By measuring how a shoe distorts the infrared grid projected by Kinect's depth camera, Bootstrapper acquires unique, high-resolution 3D images of each person's footwear. Early tests show the system has an accuracy of 96 per cent. The team will present their work at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Austin, Texas, in May.

Team member Patrick Baudisch, also at the Hasso Plattner Institute, says that the system could allow Kinect cameras mounted near to floor level to count the number of customers entering a shop, as well as determine which products they are most attracted to. The idea has promise, says a spokeswoman at shopping behaviour analyst Synovate Retail Performance, based in Milton Keynes, UK.

"If Bootstrapper could differentiate by shoe size it could avoid the counting of children, who are not seen as retail opportunities," she says.

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