An Israeli law center said Thursday it is threatening to sue Twitter unless the social network cuts off access to groups, including Hezbollah, that are considered terrorist organizations by the United States.
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Bright House Networks will be featuring the?123rd Tournament of Roses Parade live in stunning 3D - at no additional cost for digital HD customers.
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BEIRUT?? Arab League monitors gathered accounts about the Syrian government's crackdown on dissent in the central city of Homs Wednesday as fresh violence flared just dozens of miles away. Activists said troops opened fire on thousands of unarmed protesters, killing at least six.
Though President Bashar Assad's regime has made concessions to the observers, including the release of nearly 800 prisoners, the military was pressing ahead with a campaign to put down mostly peaceful protests.
In the two days since the Arab monitors arrived, activists said troops have killed at least 39 people, including the six shot in the central city of Hama on Wednesday.
On Thursday, the monitors are expected to visit Hama, Idlib and Daraa ? all centers of the uprising.
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The continued bloodshed ? and comments by an Arab League official praising Syria's cooperation ? have fueled concerns by the Syrian opposition that the Arab mission is a farce and a distraction from the ongoing killings.
Arab League: 'Nothing frightening' in Syria hotspotThe opposition suspects Assad is only trying to buy time and forestall more international sanctions and condemnation.
"This mission has absolutely no mandate, no authority, no teeth," said Ausama Monajed, a member of the Syrian National Council, the main opposition group. "The regime does not feel obliged to even bring down the number of casualties a day."
The 60 monitors ? the first Syria has allowed in during the nine-month uprising ? are supposed to be ensuring the regime is complying with terms of a plan to end a crackdown the U.N. says has killed more than 5,000 people since March.
The plan, which Syria agreed to on Dec. 19, demands that the regime remove its security forces and heavy weapons from cities, start talks with the opposition and allow human rights workers and journalists into the country. It also calls for the release of all political prisoners.
On Wednesday, the government released 755 prisoners following a report by Human Rights Watch accusing authorities of hiding hundreds of detainees from the monitors. It was the second concession in two days.
The army on Monday pulled some of its troops back from the central city of Homs after bombarding it for days and killing scores of people. Monitors who were allowed into the city were met by tens of thousands of protesters who called for Assad's execution.
Images obtained by The Associated Press from the city in the days leading up to the monitors' visit show army defectors inside a bombed-out building, firing machine guns through gaping holes in a wall.
In another, a huge crowd fills the street for a nighttime rally behind a giant banner of the uprising's revolutionary flag. A row of women wear the flags and a large sign overhead reads: "All the doors are closed except your door, God."
There are also photos of wounded civilians lying on a floor in pools of blood, and being treated with crude medical equipment. Another shows an alleyway with blood smeared on a wall and pooled on the ground.
At a Dec. 21 protest, a banner reads: "To the Arab League: Your initiative cannot protect us from death." Young girls with headbands that read "Leave!" and sashes calling for the "execution of Bashar" protest under banners with "Freedom and Dignity."
The images show the intensity of the opposition against Assad's regime, which brought on the offensive against Homs that began on Friday and lasted until monitors arrived Tuesday to start their one-month mission with a visit to the city.
Several from the team of 12 stayed in Homs overnight and they continued to work there Wednesday. There was no word on whether other teams went to different cities.
According to officials and activists, the monitors went to several districts of Homs, including trouble spots in Baba Amr, Bab Sbaa and Inshaat.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45808426/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/
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A NASA satellite captured an image of Tropical Cyclone Thane barreling toward India today. The storm is expected to make landfall south of Chennai late tomorrow (Dec. 29), according to the United Kingdom's Met Office.
The storm formed over the southeastern Bay of Bengal Dec. 25. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center lists the maximum sustained winds at 86 mph (138 kph). The storm is expected to intensify to 90-to-100-mph (145-to-161-kph) winds before making landfall.
In the North Indian Ocean, a tropical cyclone is a storm with winds of 39-to-54 mph (63-to-87 kph). Thane would be called a hurricane in the United States, but in this part of the world, Thane is a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm, which is the name used for storms with winds between 74-and-137 mph (119-to-220 kph).
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Last year's season ran from May 17 to Dec. 8.More than 400 people died during that storm season.
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The report comes from The Jerusalem Post.
Air Force kills Gazan terrorist in missile attackThe Israel Air Force, working with the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), fired a missile at Gazan terrorists involved in recent attacks on Israel, killing one and injuring two others, Israeli media reported Tuesday.
Hamas identified the man as Abdullah Telbani, an operative of Islamic Jihad's Saraya Al-Quds wing in his 20s.
Two other Palestinians were also injured in the attack when the explosion ripped through their tuk tuk, a motorized rickshaw, according to medics in the Strip. They were taken to Amal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
The IDF Spokesman's Office said Hamas was responsible for all terrorist activity coming out of Gaza.
"The IDF will not tolerate attempts to harm Israeli citizens or IDF soldiers and will continue to operate strongly and decisively against anyone who uses terrorism against Israel," the spokesman said in a statement.
Army radio reported that the militant was in his vehicle when the missile hit, and that the defense establishment was preparing for rockets in response to the attack.
Palestinians fired two short-range rockets into Israel on Sunday and Monday, causing no damage. No Gaza factions claimed responsibility for those attacks.
Israel has also said it is on alert for attempts by Gazan gunmen to slip into neighboring Egypt and attack it from there.
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GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) ? Police have found seven people dead in a Dallas-area apartment after gaining entry to the unit on Christmas Day.
Grapevine police told the Dallas Morning News that the four women and three men were all apparently shot. The ages of the victims are unknown. Police say they were responding to an emergency call when they discovered the bodies.
Authorities didn't immediately return a call for details.
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BAGHDAD ? A suicide bomber set off a car bomb Monday at a checkpoint leading to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, killing seven people and injuring 32 others, officials said.
The attack followed a series of bombings last week that killed up to 70 people in a single day, increasing fears about Iraq's future after U.S. troops withdrew this month.
Two police officers said the bomber struck during morning rush hour, hitting one of many security barriers set up around the ministry's building. Five policemen were among the dead, they said.
Two doctors at nearby hospitals confirmed the causality figures. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information.
No one has claimed responsibility, but suicide attacks are the hallmark of the al-Qaida in Iraq terror group.
U.S. and some Iraqi officials have warned of a resurgence of Sunni and Shiite militants and an increase in violence after the full U.S. troop withdrawal.
Adding to Iraq's troubles is an increase in political tension stemming from a showdown between the Shiite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and the top Sunni political leader in the country.
Al-Maliki's government has issued an arrest warrant for Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi on charges that he ran hit squads against government officials.
Al-Hashemi has denied the charges and said they are politically motivated.
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That puts the 3DS ahead of the Vita by 13% in the week's sales. Surely Mario and company helped drive sales with a pair of million unit sellers. Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land moved software with 3DS units to the tune of 2 Million copies.
Looks like the mustachio'd plumber isn't ready to let the fat koopa sing. With Nintendo, people are always quick to call things a failure and a disaster, but the company has been around for over 100 years. You can't say that about Sony or Microsoft.
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Ricky Gervais' battle with Christian fundamentalists heated up on Thursday, following a report by The Huffington Post detailing the comedian's week-long Twitter dialogue with religious extremists.
The "Office" star has been fighting back -- and sometimes mocking -- attacks on his atheism, as well as pushing back on homophobic and otherwise intolerant messages from a number of twitter users, including user @GodsWordIsLaw, who has been his primary antagonist.
Gervais tweeted HuffPost's initial article, writing "Christians and all other faiths.. Pls RT And say no to bigots preaching hate in the name of your God. Peace."
That created a commotion on the social networking service, with users both backing Gervais and @GodsWordIsLaw trading barbs. Tweets poured in at @GodsWordIsLaw (who lists himself as Keith from Minnesota), starting arguments over the existence of God, the alleged sins of homosexuals and the veracity of evolution.
Keith tweeted HuffPost's original article, writing, "How UNBELIEVABLY bias is this article? I really loathe liberal publications, so intellectually dishonest."
In addition to debating various other users, Keith posted a video of himself burning a photo of Gervais on a mock cross that originally came from a recent issue of New Humanist Magazine. Keith was unable to finish burning the photo of Gervais because he burnt his own finger in the process.
He also wrote, "Christian Soldiers need to start fighting 4 their beliefs or we'll go down in history as the generation that allowed Atheist bigots to win."
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BALTIMORE (AP) ? A renovated theater at Johns Hopkins University has been renamed for "The Addams Family" actor John Astin.
Astin starred as Gomez Addams in the television show from 1964 to 1966. He has taught at the university since 2001 and is credited with revitalizing the school's theater program.
The Baltimore Sun reports that the 104-seat John Astin Theater recently underwent a $210,000 makeover.
Astin graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1952.
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MOFFET FIELD, California (Reuters) - The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday.
The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a list of more than 500 planets found to orbit stars beyond our solar system. It is the smallest and the best positioned to have liquid water on its surface -- among the ingredients necessary for life on Earth.
"We are homing in on the true Earth-sized, habitable planets," said San Jose State University astronomer Natalie Batalha, deputy science team lead for NASA's Kepler Space Telescope that discovered the star.
The telescope, which was launched three years ago, is staring at about 150,000 stars in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, looking for faint and periodic dimming as any circling planets pass by, relative to Kepler's line of sight.
Results will be extrapolated to determine the percentage of stars in the Milky Way galaxy that harbor potentially habitable, Earth-size planets.
This is the first detection of a potentially habitable world orbiting a Sun-like star, scientists reported in findings to be published in The Astrophysical Journal.
Kepler-22b is 600 light years away. A light year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion km).
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Planets about the same distance from their parent stars as Earth take roughly a year to complete an orbit. Scientists want to see at least three transits to be able to rule out other explanations for fluctuations in a star's light, such as small companion stars. Results also are verified by ground and other space telescopes.
Kepler-22b, which is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth, sits squarely in its star's so-called "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on the surface. Follow-up studies are under way to determine if the planet is solid, like Earth, or more gaseous like Neptune.
"We don't know anything about the planets between Earth-size and Neptune-size because in our solar system we have no examples of such planets. We don't know what fraction are going to be rocky, what fraction are going to be water worlds, what fraction are ice worlds. We have no idea until we measure one and see," Batalha said at a news conference at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffet Field, California.
If Kepler-22b has a surface and a cushion of atmosphere similar to Earth's, it would be about 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22 C), about the same as a spring day in Earth's temperate zone.
Among the 2,326 candidate planets found by the Kepler team, 10 are roughly Earth-size and reside in their host stars' habitable zones.
Another team of privately funded astronomers is scanning the target stars for non-naturally occurring radio signals, part of a project known as SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
"As soon as we find a different, a separate, an independent example of life somewhere else, we're going to know that it's ubiquitous throughout the universe," said astronomer Jill Tarter, director of the SETI Institute in Mountain View.
The Kepler team is meeting for its first science conference this week.
(Additional reporting by Debby Zabarenko in Washington; Editing by Jane Sutton and Philip Barbara)
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Siemens this morning announced that it will acquire all of the stock of eMeter in an effort to enhance its smart grid offering. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, is expected to be completed by the end of the year. eMeter will be part of the Smart Grid Division of the Siemens Infrastructure & Cities Sector, which is housed within Siemens.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ajRRKkIOur4/
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WASHINGTON -- Eighteen years after he led Republicans to an unexpected takeover of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich looks increasingly poised to engineer yet another improbable election win.
The former House Speaker, whose presidential campaign was left for dead a few months ago amidst heavy debt and a staff exodus, sits atop the new Des Moines Register poll, at 25 percent. In the last Register poll -- released in late October -- he was at seven percent.
The poll was conducted Nov. 27-30 among 401 likely Republican caucus-goers, and has a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points.
Gingrich is trailed by Rep. Ron Paul at 18 percent and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, with 16 percent. Businessman Herman Cain, who earlier in the day announced that he was suspending his beleaguered presidential campaign in response to allegations of an extramarital affair and past charges of sexual harassment, was favored by eight percent of voters, down from 22 percent in the Register's last survey.
In line with other recent surveys, the new poll shows that Cain was fading fast in Iowa as well as nationally before suspending his campaign.
The decline is likely music to Gingrich's ears. Several recent national polls have shown Gingrich potentially gaining the most ground among Cain supporters in the event the former Godfather's Pizza CEO dropped out of the race. According to the Register: "More respondents choose Gingrich as their second choice than any other candidate. Together, 43 percent of likely caucusgoers pick him as first or second."
With just weeks until Iowans gather to vote, the race for the Hawkeye State has boiled down to three candidates, none of whom, really, have devoted much time or energy to the primary battleground.
Paul maintains a devoted following, but has been primarily a national candidate rather than running an Iowa-centric campaign. Romney has campaigned tepidly in Iowa -- wary of being dealt a setback like the one he suffered when he finished second there in 2008. In the Register poll released in late October, he stood at 22 percent. On Saturday, however, Romney received the backing of the Sioux City Journal, a fairly powerful editorial board inside the state. That endorsement came after the field period for the new survey had ended.
Gingrich, meanwhile, just recently opened his first office in the Hawkeye State -- his campaign debt having eliminated any chance for an earlier investment. And yet, Saturday night's poll is only one of several recent surveys to show him on the rise.
The candidates who have spent the most time in Iowa, ironically, have remained stagnant in the polls. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) earned eight percent support in Saturday night's Register poll; former Sen. Rick Santorum received the backing of six percent; while Texas Gov. Rick Perry clocks in at six percent.
The Des Moines Register's Iowa survey is the nation's longest continuously running newspaper poll, beginning in the 1980s. As the Huffington Post's Mark Blumenthal noted in late October:
The Register and its current pollster Ann Selzer gained further acclaim four years ago when their final pre-caucus survey was the only public poll to show Barack Obama with a wide lead over Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. It was also the only poll to accurately forecast the "dramatic influx" of first-time caucus-goers that helped propel Obama to his eventual Iowa victory.Because of the very low turnout of eligible adults to the Iowa Caucuses, however, all past polling of likely caucus-goers has been notoriously volatile. Although the Register poll accurately forecast Obama's win four years ago, its October poll conducted just three months earlier showed Obama running in third place, seven percentage points behind Clinton. Thus, with more than 10 weeks still remaining before the 2012 caucus, caution is in order.
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ATLANTA ? The 73-year-old Georgia man accused of masterminding a plot to buy explosives and weapons to target government officials asked a judge to release him on bond because he said federal charges accusing him of being a domestic terrorist are "overblown."
The appeal filed Tuesday highlighted Frederick Thomas' long service in the U.S. Navy and his history of heart problems and lung disease. Defense attorney Jeff Ertel said his client cannot even lift his arms above his head, let alone raise a rifle to his shoulder.
The filing says "Mr. Thomas has never harmed anyone in his seventy three years of existence."
Thomas and three other men, age 55 to 73, were denied bond last month by U.S. Magistrate Susan Cole. She said that despite their age, the four could still carry out attacks.
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BANGKOK ? Asian stock markets were mixed Friday as markets nervously awaited U.S. employment figures and a key speech by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in hopes she might unveil new steps to stanch Europe's escalating debt crisis.
Benchmark oil lingered above $100 per barrel while the dollar rose against the euro and the yen.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.4 percent to 8,627.85, and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 gained 1.1 percent to 4,272.90. But South Korea's Kospi was marginally down at 1,913.88 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.5 percent to 18,909.07. Benchmarks in Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and mainland China were also lower. Malaysia and New Zealand rose.
Merkel's speech Friday before Germany's parliament about Europe's financial crisis comes ahead of a summit of European Union leaders on Dec. 9, whose goal is to deliver a long-term solution to the debt crisis.
Merkel has acknowledged the need for changes to the European Union treaty to impose stricter financial controls on countries that use the euro common currency to prevent them from taking on too much debt.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of England and the central banks of Canada, Japan and Switzerland said they were working together to make it easier for banks to borrow dollars.
The coordinated effort was meant to prevent Europe's debt crisis from exploding into a global panic. Should a European bank fail or if a country default on its debt, investors fear it could result in a freeze-up in global lending like the one that occurred in 2008 when Lehman Brothers collapsed.
China's central bank also acted to release money for lending and to shore up growth by lowering bank reserve levels for the first time in three years. The bank actions caused global stocks to rally Thursday.
Linus Yip, a strategist at First Shanghai Securities in Hong Kong, said the huge boost to markets on Thursday led some investors to cash in shares for profits Friday.
"We had a big gain yesterday. The Hang Seng gained about 1,000 points, so for today maybe it is reasonable to consolidate," Yip said.
Gambling shares were among those being sold off. Hong Kong-listed Wynn Macau lost 6.5 percent and SJM Holdings Ltd. fell 4.5 percent.
South Korea's Samsung Electronics fell 1.3 percent after Australia's highest court temporarily extended a ban on sales of the company's Galaxy tablet computers in the country. The case stems from a suit by Apple that accuses Samsung of copying the iPad and iPhone and violating Apple's patents.
Another rise in applications for weekly U.S. unemployment benefits dampened the mood on Wall Street on Thursday.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.2 percent to close at 12,020.03. The S&P 500 index slipped 0.2 percent to 1,244.59. The tech-heavy Nasdaq inched up 0.2 percent to 2,626.
The Labor Department said initial applications rose to 402,000 last week, the second weekly increase in a row. The figures didn't change expectations for the government's monthly labor report, which comes out Friday. Economists forecast that the unemployment rate will remain at 9 percent.
Traders also got little encouragement from a better manufacturing report. The Institute for Supply Management said that manufacturing grew last month at the fastest pace since June. The crucial jobs report for November will be released by the Labor Department on Friday.
Benchmark oil for January delivery was down 7 cents to $100.13 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange on Friday. The contract lost 16 cents to end at $100.20 per barrel on the Nymex on Thursday.
In currency trading, the euro fell to $1.3458 from $1.3460 late Thursday in New York. The dollar rose to 77.78 yen from 77.76 yen.
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>> thank you. david gregory is moderator of "meet the press." let's start with herman cain . he acknowledged giving money to ginger white. he says his wife didn't know. unlike the sexual harassment allegations no one is leaping to his defense here. do you think voters moved on?
>> i think he has a problem with women and social conservatives who are important in iowa. as you see newt gingrich rise it's a sign herman cain is suffering damage. he can't raise money and that's a problem. he's reassessing. he doesn't have people rallying around him.
>> have you ever seen a political ad where he says a lie detector has examined him?
>> i haven't. i don't need to check with my wife to know not telling your wife that you are financially supporting another woman is not a good idea in politics or generally.
>> thanks for the relationship add a vice. let's go to newt gingrich . the polls show he's the new front runner . we hear according to reports that romney is preparing a strategic offensive against romney . he'd blown off other front runners .
>> he recognizes and his team recognizes something dangerous here. gingrich has the potential to run the table a little bit and be the anti- romney candidate. this is a right for the right. it's gingrich and romney . gingrich says, i will be the nominee. i'm the real conservative in the race by any rational standard. romney wants to keep his fire trained on president obama . that helps with the base because he's certainly more conservative than obama. in this case he knows gingrich will come after him and he'll start to go after gingrich .
>> do you think the matchup has the potential to be the epic prolonged battle we saw for example in 2008 with hillary clinton and then senator obama ?
>> much too early to say. one, newt gingrich has a history of saying things like his comments about children working. 17 years ago he talked about kids going into orphanages and talked about boys town . 17 years to the day almost. he can be undisciplined and gets in trouble. romney has money and they think that helps him. makes it a longer affair. the kind of support gingrich doesn't have right now.
>> romney did an interview. he hasn't done a ton of national interviews and there were moments he seemed irritated by the questioning. what does it say about romney ? does it go to the likability issues he may have with voters?
>> it does. and he doesn't want to do one on one interviews now. he's been debating effectively. he'll have to answer questions about you said this and this. the question about authenticity, these are issues within the primary.
>> what's on "meet the press" this weekend?
>> we'll talk about the presidency. david axelrod and reince preibus will be with me.
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The Internet, and all of the new technology that it has spawned, has made information available at the fingertips of businesspeople instantaneously. The sheer volume of information now accessible on line is staggering. Information continues to become more available to more people in less time; from Websites to email to RSS feeds to Twitter, we have input at an unprecedented rate and volume. Ironically, as the frequency of information grows, the length of messages shrinks (e.g., Twitter's 140-character limit. This isn't necessarily a bad thing; think of haiku). And, amazingly, the vast majority of this information is free.
All of this information has been a boon to the business world. This ready access to important information has made businesspeople more efficient than ever. "Cloud sourcing" has created never-before-possible opportunities for collaboration that has resulted in an explosion of creativity and innovation at all levels of the corporate world. This new technology has enabled the business world to increase productivity to levels never seen before.
At the same time, for all its benefits, any businessperson will tell you that there are costs to this 24/7 connectivity and accessibility. I have already addressed the issue of multi-tasking and work/life balance in previous writings. Today, I want to explore another unfortunate consequence of this torrent of information, namely, that our "mental inbox" becomes overloaded.
With your mind spilling over with information, your primary motivation is to empty it as quickly as possible. You probably use two "information survival" strategies when your inbox fills up. You output as quickly as possible without sufficient thought to either the incoming or outgoing information. The obvious downside to this approach is that your input lacks thorough consideration and evaluation and your output lacks quality. Or, you are so overwhelmed by information that you simply delete large swathes of information without even looking at it. The obvious downside here is that important information may be missed.
Information overload isn't the only problem with this deluge of data that comes to those of you who are connected to the office 24/7. Such large and never-ending quantities of input interfere with your ability to "innerput," a word I created to denote your thought processes in response to input, including analysis, synthesis, judgment, and decision making. With so much information coming in and the need to get information out, innerput suffers; there is neither the time nor the energy to adequately process all of the information.
Information is only a tool; it's value lies in how you use it. And information has limited value, either as input or output, without innerput. Only through innerput does information become meaningful, only then can it morph from simple data to knowledge, insights, and ideas. And that only comes when there is time for innerput; stopping in the middle of this flood of information to think about, wrestle with, challenge, and build on the information that arrives at your technological doorstep.
The dangers of input and output without innerput can be seen daily in the business world. Unfounded rumors that aren't investigated or analyzed adequately before they are posted spread across the Internet and are accepted and remain as "truth" even when they are definitively debunked later. Information without context limits its value by restricting your understanding and its meaning to your professional life. One-sided stories without the balance of another perspective create the illusion of accuracy and correctness. And all of this input doesn't just describe phenomena that are happening in the world. It also impacts those very events because the business world, for example, analysts and investors, make judgments about and decide on how we will respond based on these limited data.
For individual businesspeople, input without innerput has serious consequences. It means staying on the surface of information rather than diving deep into its meaning and implications. The absence of innerput prevents you from taking real ownership of the information and integrating it into your knowledge base. It also keeps you from transforming the input from cold and lifeless data into a power plant of insight, creativity, innovation, and action that will be beneficial to your current job responsibilities, your long-term career, and the company for whom you work.
So how can you swim against the tide of information overload and find the time for innerput? The answer to this question is really quite simple, but nonetheless far from easy. The power to control the amount of input you allow in, foster innerput, and ensure the quality of the output you produce is in your individual hands. Too often, I see businesspeople becoming slaves to technology rather than being its master, information junkies who just crave the input regardless of its value, victims of technology who act as if they are powerless to control it.
You can control the flow of information in several ways. First, ask yourself what purpose all of this input serves and whether the typical information you receive each day really brings something of value to the table. You'll likely realize that you're inputting a great deal of information simply out of habit or perhaps a concern that you will miss out on something really important if you limit your input. Ask yourself: Do you really need to follow all of those people on Twitter or Facebook or check your smartphone every two minutes? Hopefully, answering these questions will put your input into perspective and show you that much of your input is unnecessary.
Next, choose the input you deem most important and jettison that which doesn't clear that self-determined threshold of importance to your work. When you commit to input filtering and limits, you will establish new and healthier input habits. And your work life will become so much more manageable.
With your input load reduced and your new understanding of the importance of innerput (you already knew it intuitively; I just needed to bring it into your consciousness), you now have the time to devote innerput to the input that you really value. The result? Less feeling of drowning in information, less stress, more time, more cogent thinking, and better quality output. All of which will lead you to my 3 p's of prime business: improved performance, increased productivity, and, most importantly, greater profitability.
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DETROIT ? Aaron Rodgers threw two touchdown passes and the Green Bay Packers built a big lead in the third quarter, taking advantage of Ndamukong Suh's ejection and beating the Detroit Lions 27-15 Thursday.
The defending champion Packers (11-0) have won 17 straight, including the playoffs. They passed what was expected to be one of their toughest tests toward joining the 2007 New England Patriots as the NFL's only teams to have 16-0 regular seasons.
Detroit (7-4) has lost a franchise-record eight straight on Thanksgiving and added to its misery in ugly fashion.
Suh was tossed for stepping on Evan Dietrich-Smith's arm and Matthew Stafford threw three interceptions.
The Packers turned Stafford's interceptions into two TDs and a field goal.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. ? Arkansas' football team was in mourning Sunday following the death of backup tight end Garrett Uekman.
The university said Uekman was pronounced dead at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville on Sunday.
The cause of death wasn't immediately known, but the university said Uekman was found unconscious and unresponsive in his dorm room on campus at approximately 11:15 a.m. Sunday. He was last seen playing video games by a roommate approximately an hour earlier.
When emergency services personnel arrived, Uekman was in cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead at 12:10 p.m.
"Garrett Uekman was a special member of our family, and we are all saddened by his passing," Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino said in a statement. "His loss is a terrible shock, and it makes you realize how precious life is."
University police Lt. Mat Mills said there were no suspicious circumstances about Uekman's death, and his body will be sent to the state medical examiner for an autopsy.
Petrino spoke briefly Sunday night, fighting back tears as he read from a statement. He noted that Uekman's final game, Arkansas' 44-17 victory over Mississippi State on Saturday, was in Little Rock's War Memorial Stadium ? where he played his high school games while at Little Rock Catholic.
Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long also spoke and said the university wasn't aware of any pre-existing medical condition with Uekman. He said the Razorbacks' players showed "shock and dismay" when told of Uekman's death at an afternoon team meeting.
Long also said the school would hold a candlelight vigil Monday night in honor of Uekman and said his family had expressed the desire for the No. 3 Razorbacks to play Friday's game at No. 1 LSU as scheduled.
"Certainly the feelings of Garrett's family (are) that football and the University of Arkansas and the Razorbacks were very important to him," Long said. "And that he would want us to continue to complete."
The 19-year-old Uekman redshirted last season for the Razorbacks and played in nine games this season. He was majoring in applied exercise science.
Uekman's parents, Danny and Michelle, released a statement through the university.
"Our son was living his dream of going to the U of A and playing football for the Razorbacks," the statement read. "He loved his school, his coaches, and his teammates and classmates, and was an influence and inspiration to so many people. We ask for your love and prayers for Garrett, our family and his friends as we all cope with this heavy and painful loss."
David Estes, the football coach at Little Rock Catholic where Uekman played in high school, said he was told by Arkansas running backs coach Tim Horton that Uekman had been found by his roommate in his dorm room on campus. Estes said he watched Uekman play and was "beaming from ear to ear" Saturday night in War Memorial Stadium as the Razorbacks beat Mississippi State.
"Garrett was any parent or coach's dream," Estes said. "He was one of those special kids and had a passion for everything. He loved Catholic High, loves UA and wanted to be a Razorback forever.
"He got to live that dream."
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Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, left, speaks as Mitt Romney, listens during the CBS News/National Journal foreign policy debate at the Benjamin Johnson Arena, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 in Spartanburg, S.C. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)
Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, left, speaks as Mitt Romney, listens during the CBS News/National Journal foreign policy debate at the Benjamin Johnson Arena, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 in Spartanburg, S.C. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)
Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain, left, speaks as Mitt Romney, looks on during the CBS News/National Journal foreign policy debate at the Benjamin Johnson Arena, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 in Spartanburg, S.C. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)
Republican presidential candidates Jon Huntsman, left, speaks as Michele Bachmann, looks on during the the CBS News/National Journal foreign policy debate at the Benjamin Johnson Arena, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 in Spartanburg, S.C. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)
From left, Republican presidential candidates, Jon Huntsman, Former Governor of Utah, Michele Bachmann, U.S. Representative from Minnesota, Ron Paul, U.S. Representative from Texas, Herman Cain, Businessman, Mitt Romney, Former Governor of Massachusetts, Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of House, Rick Perry, Texas Governor, and Rick Santorum, Former U.S. Senator, prepare to speak at the CBS News/National Journal foreign policy debate at the Benjamin Johnson Arena, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 in Spartanburg, S.C. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)
El aspirante presidencial republicano Rick Perry, gobernador de Texas, habla durante el debate sobre pol?tica exterior auspiciado por CBS News/National Journal en el Benjamin Johnson Arena, el s?bado 12 de noviembre de 2011 en Spartanburg, Carolina del Sur. Perry brome? durante el debate acerca de su lapsus en un debate previo, cuando olvid? la tercera agencia gubernamental que eliminar?a si fuera elegido presidente. (AP foto/Richard Shiro)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Herman Cain contradicted himself on torture, Mitt Romney offered a prescription for challenging China that didn't add up and Newt Gingrich seemed to forget about crucial help by Pakistani intelligence in running down terrorists.
Factual missteps in the latest Republican presidential debate suggested that on some the knottiest foreign policy and national security issues of the time, contenders were out of their comfort zone. Several raised the prospect of an eventual war with Iran that the U.S., by any current measure, is ill-prepared to start.
A look at some of those claims Saturday night and how they compare with the facts:
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ROMNEY on President Barack Obama and Iran: "What he should have done is speak out when dissidents took the streets and say, 'America is with you.' And work on a covert basis to encourage the dissidents."
GINGRICH: "First of all, as maximum covert operations ? to block and disrupt the Iranian (nuclear) program, including taking out their scientists, including breaking up their systems. All of it covertly, all of it deniable. "
THE FACTS: It is widely believed that the Obama administration has been covertly attacking the Iranian nuclear program. By definition, covert action is not publicly acknowledged, so criticizing Obama for not doing something that he might very well be doing adds little to the debate. On just one front, there are strong suspicions the Obama administration either unleashed the sophisticated Stuxnet computer worm on Iran's nuclear program or supported Israel in that effort. The attack infected systems at the Bushehr power plant and set back Iran's nuclear development.
It is also believed the administration has provided secret help to Iranian dissidents, even if to little effect so far. Romney, Gingrich and most other contenders do not know what the U.S. is doing, and not doing, covertly. Michele Bachmann, as a member of the House intelligence Committee, might. If so, she's legally barred from talking about it.
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ROMNEY on China: "On Day One, it's acknowledging something which everyone knows, they're a currency manipulator. And on that basis, we also go before the WTO and bring an action against them as a currency manipulator. And that allows us to apply, selectively, tariffs where we believe they are stealing our intellectual property, hacking into our computers, or artificially lowering their prices and killing American jobs. We can't just sit back and let China run all over us."
JON HUNTSMAN: "I don't think, Mitt, you can take China to the WTO on currency-related issues."
THE FACTS: As Huntsman, former ambassador to China, said, the World Trade Organization has no specified mandate to adjudicate allegations that a country is manipulating its currency to gain an unfair trade advantage. But using currency in a trade dispute hasn't been tried, so it's unclear how that might play out in practice.
Even if the international trade panel does take the case, any remedy would come long after Day One. As a highly political case, it would drag out. For example, the U.S. and European Union have been litigating a dispute over alleged subsidies to Boeing and Airbus since 2004, with no resolution in sight.
Nor is it clear how a currency case could address the theft of U.S. intellectual property, an issue unrelated to the price of Chinese exports.
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CAIN: "I will trust the judgment of our military leaders to determine what is torture and what is not torture. That is the critical consideration."
CAIN: "I would return to that policy (waterboarding). I don't see it as torture. I see it as an enhanced interrogation technique."
THE FACTS: Cain's conclusion that waterboarding is a legitimate means of interrogation contradicts the judgment of military leaders ? and his own statement that he would be guided by them. The Army Field Manual prohibits waterboarding. It was the CIA, with the approval of the White House and Justice Department that conducted waterboarding, not the armed forces. As president, Cain could certainly decide that interrogators need not be constrained by the Army Field Manual rules. But if he did so, he would not be letting military leaders determine the tactics.
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GINGRICH: "We don't have a reliable intelligence service. We don't have independent intelligence in places like Pakistan. We rely on our supposed friends for intelligence. They may or may not be our friends. And the amount of information we might or might not have, might or might not be reliable."
THE FACTS: U.S. killing of a succession of al-Qaida figures in Pakistan, none more prized by America than Osama bin Laden, demonstrates that the United States indeed gets vital and reliable intelligence out of Pakistan. While it may have been true when Gingrich left government in 1999 that the CIA's spy network was limited, since 2001 the agency has dramatically expanded its on-the-ground operations worldwide. The CIA station in Islamabad is now one of the most important in the world and officers there are responsible for building sources and helping select targets for the long and successful campaign of drone attacks.
Gingrich is right that Pakistan's intelligence agency is an often-unreliable U.S. partner and elements of the country's power structure have supported U.S. terrorist enemies. But as the bin Laden raid shows, the CIA is hardly impotent in its ability to operate alone in Pakistan.
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ROMNEY: "The president should have built (a) credible threat of military action, and made it very clear that the United States of America is willing, in the final analysis, if necessary, to take military action to keep Iran from having a nuclear weapon."
GINGRICH: "Every possible aspect short of war of breaking the regime and bringing it down. And I agree entirely with Governor Romney. If, in the end, despite all of those things, the dictatorship persists, you have to take whatever steps are necessary to break its capacity to have a nuclear weapon."
CAIN: "I would not entertain military opposition.... We could deploy our ballistic missile defense ... warships strategically in that part of the world. We have the biggest fleet of those warships in the world. And we could use them strategically in the event that they were able to fire a ballistic missile."
THE FACTS: It is an open question whether the U.S., stretched thin by two long wars and a massive debt, is in a position to make a credible threat of war against Iran right now.
As it stands, U.S. plans to put additional forces in the Middle East, including in Kuwait, are part of a military hedge against Iran. So is a program to put missile defense radars and interceptors at sites around Europe and the region. The threat of U.S. attack might become more credible in time, whether from Obama or the next president.
Meantime, Obama, like George W. Bush before him, has not ruled out military action against Iran as a final resort.
The U.S. certainly has military force readily at hand to destroy Iran's known nuclear development sites in short order. This is highly unlikely, however, because of the strategic calculation that an attack would be counterproductive and ultimately ineffective, spawning retaliation against U.S. allies and forces in the region, and merely delaying eventual nuclear weapons development.
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GINGRICH: "You're giving some country $7 billion a year. So you start off ? or, or, in the case of Egypt, $3 billion a year. So you start off every year and say, 'Here's your $3 billion, now I'll start thinking'? You ought to start off at zero and say, 'Explain to me why I should give you a penny.'"
THE FACTS: In supporting Rick Perry's proposal to make every recipient of U.S. foreign aid justify the money before it is approved, Gingrich exaggerated the amount of aid the U.S. gives to Egypt. The Congressional Research Service says total aid to Egypt is about $1.5 billion annually.
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BACHMANN: "Now President Obama has made a very fatal decision in Afghanistan. He's made the decision that by next September, our troops will be withdrawn. "
THE FACTS: By September 2012, Obama is only planning to withdraw the additional forces he sent in. Once the 33,000 "surge" troops are gone, 68,000 will be left. They are to be pulled out gradually and won't be gone until the end of 2014, barring some change in the drawdown of troops.
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RICK PERRY: "This country can sanction the Iranian central bank right now and shut down that country's economy. And that's what this president needs to do, and the American people need to stand up and force him to make that stand today."
THE FACTS: Perry is right that sanctions have stopped short of tough action against Iran's central bank, which handles the country's massive oil commerce around the world. The debate moved on without the pros and cons of that step being explored. The option of banning U.S. and European dealings with the bank is being considered by Western powers and their allies, even if it is a stretch to expect such a move would shut Iran's economy as Perry suggested. The downside risk is significant: Isolating the bank could drive up oil prices and imperil the fragile world economy.
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Associated Press writers Matt Apuzzo, Robert Burns, Jim Drinkard, Bradley Klapper, Lolita C. Baldor and Anne Gearan contributed to this report.
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