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NEW YORK ? Liam Neeson continues to maul the competition in the winter months.
Neeson's survivalist thriller "The Grey" debuted atop the weekend box office, earning $19.7 million. The 59-year-old actor remains a big draw as an action star, following the thrillers "Taken" and "Unknown."
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:
1. "The Grey," Open Road, $19,665,101, 3,185 locations, $6,174 average, $19,665,101, one week.
2. "Underworld Awakening," Sony/Screen Gems, $12,352,802, 3,078 locations, $4,013 average, $44,978,415, two weeks.
3. "One For the Money," Lionsgate, $11,515,790, 2,737 locations, $4,207 average, $11,515,790, one week.
4. "Red Tails," Fox, $10,370,323, 2,573 locations, $4,030 average, $33,750,118, two weeks.
5. "Man On a Ledge," Summit, $8,001,932, 2,998 locations, $2,669 average, $8,001,932, one week.
6. "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," Warner Bros., $6,980,448, 2,630 locations, $2,654 average, $20,941,702, six weeks.
7. "Contraband," Universal, $6,704,360, 2,650 locations, $2,530 average, $56,573,860, three weeks.
8. "The Descendants," Fox Searchlight, $6,405,285, 2,001 locations, $3,201 average, $58,703,299, 11 weeks.
9. "Beauty and the Beast," Disney, $5,307,807, 2,145 locations, $2,475 average, $41,110,138, three weeks.
10. "Haywire," Relativity Media, $4,002,760, 2,441 locations, $1,640 average, $15,281,962, two weeks.
11. "Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol," Paramount, $3,473,878, 1,654 locations, $2,100 average, $202,565,203, seven weeks.
12. "The Artist," Weinstein Co., $3,315,089, 897 locations, $3,696 average, $16,744,187, 10 weeks.
13. "The Iron Lady," Weinstein Co., $3,204,641, 1,244 locations, $2,576 average, $17,519,123, five weeks.
14. "Joyful Noise," Warner Bros., $3,188,393, 2,021 locations, $1,578 average, $26,675,903, three weeks.
15. "Hugo," Paramount, $2,510,275, 965 locations, $2,601 average, $58,925,857, 10 weeks.
16. "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," Warner Bros., $2,472,141, 1,530 locations, $1,616 average, $182,211,057, seven weeks.
17. "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," Sony/Columbia, $2,190,290, 1,202 locations, $1,822 average, $98,185,403, six weeks.
18. "War Horse," Disney, $2,003,261, 1,861 locations, $1,076 average, $75,618,652, six weeks.
19. "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked," Fox, $1,782,185, 1,070 locations, $1,666 average, $127,041,507, seven weeks.
20. "We Bought a Zoo," Fox, $1,468,347, 1,089 locations, $1,348 average, $71,705,878, six weeks.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Aware that most Americans would like to dump them all, members of Congress hope to regain some sense of trust by subjecting themselves to tougher penalties for insider trading and requiring that they disclose stock transactions within 30 days.
A procedural vote Monday would allow the Senate later this week to pass a bill prohibiting members of Congress from using nonpublic information for their own personal benefit or "tipping" others to inside information that they could trade on.
Insider trading laws apply to all Americans, but the CBS TV news magazine "60 Minutes" in November said members of Congress get a pass, citing investment transactions by party leaders and a committee chairman in businesses about to be affected by pending legislation.
The broadcast report raised questions about trades of House Speaker John Boehner; the husband of Democratic leader and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi; and Rep. Spencer Bachus, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
All three denied using any insider information to make stock trades, but the broadcast set off a flurry of efforts in Washington to deal with the public perception.
A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll of registered voters found 56 percent of them favor replacing the entire 535-member Congress. Other polls this year have given Congress an approval rating between 11 percent and 13 percent, while disapproval percentages have ranged from 79 percent to 86 percent.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said he's working on an expanded bill that would go beyond stock transactions and ban lawmakers from making land deals and other investments based on what they learned as members of Congress.
The Senate version of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act would subject any member of Congress who violates the ban on insider trading to investigation and prosecution by regulatory agencies and the Justice Department. It also directs the House and Senate ethics committees to write rules that would make violators subject to additional congressional penalties.
"We can start restoring some of the faith that's been lost in our government by taking this common sense step of making members of Congress play by the exact same rules as everyone else," said Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who with Republican Sen. Scott Brown, wrote the bill "We must make it unambiguous that this kind of behavior is illegal."
President Barack Obama endorsed the bill in his State of the Union speech last week, saying he would "sign it tomorrow." Brown used that opening to briefly speak with the president as he was exiting the House chamber after Tuesday's address.
"The insider trading bill's on Harry's desk right now," Brown told Obama, referring to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "Tell him to get it out, it's already there."
"I'm gonna tell him," answered Obama. "I'm gonna tell him, I'm gonna tell him to get it done."
Obama raised the issue again in his radio and Internet address on Saturday.
"The House and Senate should send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress, and I will sign it immediately. They should limit any elected official from owning stocks in industries they impact," he said.
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CAIRO ? A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment.
The genetics-environment question is key to understanding cancer.
AUC professor Salima Ikram, a member of the team that studied the mummy in Portugal for two years, said Sunday the mummy was of a man who died in his forties.
She said this was the second oldest known case of prostate cancer.
"Living conditions in ancient times were very different; there were no pollutants or modified foods, which leads us to believe that the disease is not necessarily only linked to industrial factors," she said.
A statement from AUC says the oldest known case came from a 2,700 year-old skeleton of a king in Russia.
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LOS ANGELES ? James Marsh won the documentary prize Saturday at the Directors Guild of America Awards for "Project Nim," his chronicle of the triumphs and trials of a chimpanzee that was raised like a human child.
It was the latest major Hollywood prize for Marsh, who earned the documentary Academy Award for 2008's "Man on Wire." Among those Marsh beat out for the guild award was Martin Scorsese, who had been up for the documentary honor for "George Harrison: Living in the Material World" and also was nominated for the evening's highest honor, for feature-film directing.
The film favorites were guild awards regular Scorsese for his Paris adventure "Hugo" and first-time nominee Michel Hazanavicius for his silent movie "The Artist."
Also in the running were Woody Allen for his romantic fantasy "Midnight in Paris"; David Fincher for his thriller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"; and Alexander Payne for his family drama "The Descendants."
At the start of the ceremony, Guild President Taylor Hackford led the crowd in a toast to one of his predecessors, Gil Cates, the veteran producer of the Academy Awards broadcast who died last year.
Robert B. Weide won the comedy directing award for an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
Other early television winners at the guild ceremony were:
? Reality programming: Neil P. DeGroot, "The Biggest Loser."
? Musical variety: Glenn Weiss, "The 65th Annual Tony Awards."
? Daytime serials: William Ludel, "General Hospital."
? Children's programs: Amy Schatz, "A Child's Garden of Poetry."
? Commercials: Noam Murro.
The Directors Guild Awards are one of Hollywood's most accurate forecasts for who will win at the industry's top honors, the Oscars, which will be handed out Feb. 26. Only six times in the 63-year history of the guild awards has the winner failed to take home the Oscar for best director, and more often than not, the film winning the best director Oscar is voted best picture.
Fincher had been the favorite going into the Directors Guild ceremony last year for "The Social Network," but Tom Hooper came away the winner for "The King's Speech." Hooper went on to win the Oscar, too, and his film also earned best picture.
This time, Fincher's the odd man out at the Directors Guild show. The other four guild nominees made the best-director cut at Tuesday's Oscar nominations, but Fincher missed out. The fifth Oscar slot went to Terrence Malick for the family chronicle "The Tree of Life."
French filmmaker Hazanavicius, whose credits include the spy spoofs "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies" and "OSS 117: Lost in Rio," had been a virtual unknown in Hollywood until "The Artist," his black-and-white throwback to early cinema that has been a favorite at earlier film honors.
"The Artist" won the Golden Globe for best musical or comedy and is considered a best-picture front-runner for the Oscars.
But Scorsese won the Globe for directing over Hazanavicius.
Unlike Hazanavicius, the other nominees all have competed for Directors Guild honors before. Scorsese earned his ninth and 10th guild nominations this season for "Hugo" and his George Harrison documentary.
Scorsese is a past feature-film winner for 2006's "The Departed," as well as a TV drama winner a year ago for an episode of "Boardwalk Empire." The family film "Hugo" was a departure for Scorsese, known for dark crime tales, and the movie also was his first shot in 3-D.
Allen has been nominated five times and won for 1977's "Annie Hall." He had not been nominated since his 1989 "Crimes and Misdemeanors" but has been on a critical and commercial resurgence for "Midnight in Paris," his biggest hit in decades.
This was the third nomination for Fincher. Payne was nominated one time previously, for 2004's "Sideways."
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WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama is pressing his case for changes in how the Senate does business, hoping to ease the partisan gridlock, and he wants to bar lawmakers from profiting from their service.
In his radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama said many people he met during his five-state tour after his State of the Union address were optimistic but remained unsure "that the right thing will get done in Washington this year, or next year, or the year after that."
"And frankly, when you look at some of the things that go on in this town, who could blame them for being a little cynical?" Obama said.
The president reiterated his calls for government reform made in Tuesday's address, saying he wants the Senate to pass a rule that requires a yes-or-no vote for judicial and public service nominations after 90 days. Many of the nominees, he said, carry bipartisan support but get held up in Congress for political reasons.
Obama noted that "a senator from Utah" said he would hold up nominations because he opposed the recess appointment of the head of the new consumer protection agency and three members of the National Labor Relations Board. Obama put the officials in their post during the Senate's holiday break; many Republicans have called that move unconstitutional. Obama said the American people deserve "better than gridlock and games."
"One senator gumming up the works for the whole country is certainly not what our founding fathers envisioned," the president said.
While Obama did not name the lawmaker, Utah GOP. Sen Mike Lee said Thursday that because of the president's "blatant and egregious disregard both for proper constitutional procedures and the Senate's unquestioned role in such appointments, I find myself duty-bound to resist the consideration and approval of additional nominations until the president takes steps to remedy the situation."
Obama said he also wants Congress to pass legislation to ban insider trading by lawmakers and prohibit lawmakers from owning securities in companies that have business before their committees.
In addition, the president is seeking to prohibit people who "bundle" campaign contributions from other donors for members of Congress from lobbying Congress. Obama urged the public to contact their member of Congress and tell them "that it's time to end the gridlock and start tackling the issues that really matter."
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., delivering the GOP address, said Obama's address to Congress lacked much discussion of the president's achievements "because there isn't much."
"This president didn't talk about his record for one simple reason," Rubio said. "He doesn't want you to know about it. But you do know about it, because your feel the failure of his leadership every single day of the week."
Rubio accused the president of driving up the national debt, failing to reduce high unemployment across the country and offering divisive economic policies.
The Florida senator said there is a growing gap between the rich and the poor but the best way to solve the problem is by embracing the American free enterprise system. Rubio said he hopes 2012 "will be the beginning of our work toward a new and prosperous American century."
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Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance, a banking lobby, foreground, and Jean Lemierre, senior adviser to the chairman of French bank BNP Paribas arrive at Maximou mansion to meet Greek Premier Lucas Papademos in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Greece will try to revive a debt relief deal needed to avoid a potentially disastrous default when it resumes talks on Thursday with its private creditors in Athens. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance, a banking lobby, foreground, and Jean Lemierre, senior adviser to the chairman of French bank BNP Paribas arrive at Maximou mansion to meet Greek Premier Lucas Papademos in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Greece will try to revive a debt relief deal needed to avoid a potentially disastrous default when it resumes talks on Thursday with its private creditors in Athens. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance, a banking lobby, arrives at Maximou mansion to meet Greek Premier Lucas Papademos in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Greece will try to revive a debt relief deal needed to avoid a potentially disastrous default when it resumes talks on Thursday with its private creditors in Athens. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance, a banking lobby, arrives at Maximou mansion to meet Greek Premier Lucas Papademos in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. Greece will try to revive a debt relief deal needed to avoid a potentially disastrous default when it resumes talks on Thursday with its private creditors in Athens. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Greece's prime minister was set to resume talks Friday with representatives of private creditors in the hope of reaching a debt reduction deal essential to avoid a disastrous bankruptcy.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, European Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said he hoped a Greek deal would be reached "if not today maybe by the weekend."
Premier Lucas Papademos and Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos were expected to meet Friday evening for a second day with Charles Dallara, head of the Institute of International Finance banking lobby, and Jean Lemierre, senior adviser to the chairman of French bank BNP Paribas, the prime minister's office said.
A senior Greek government official said Thursday that, despite delays in concluding the negotiations, Athens is still aiming to submit its formal offer for the bond-swap deal to banks and other private creditors by Feb. 13.
Athens needs the deal before a euro14.5 billion bond repayment on March 20 that it cannot afford.
Private bondholders are being asked to forgive half their Greek debt, and in return accept cash payments and new bonds with longer maturities. The euro100 billion ($129 billion) writedown is required for a second international bailout with a looming euro14.5 billion bond repayment on March 20 that carries a serious threat of bankruptcy for Greece.
An IIF statement said Thursday's talks focused on legal and technical issues. "Some progress was realized," it said.
A major sticking point is the interest rates the new bonds will carry. Greece's partners in the 17-member eurozone are pressing bondholders to accept a rate considerably lower than they want ? well below 4 percent on average.
Whatever debt relief Greece doesn't get from the investors will have to come from its European partners and the International Monetary Fund, its bailout creditors.
In return for the rescue loans, Greece has imposed tough austerity measures, including salary and pension cuts, repeated rounds of tax hikes and labor reforms.
But frustration has grown at what international officials have said is a too slow pace of reforms, with Greece frequently missing its fiscal targets.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was quoted Friday as saying that, in an interim report on Monday, Greece's international debt inspectors said that "Greece still has not fully implemented the April 2010 agreements" set out in the initial bailout.
"However, we insist on Greece fulfilling the conditions from the first aid program," Schaeuble told the German daily Stuttgarter Zeitung. "We've had enough announcements, now the government in Athens must act. Only then can we talk about a second program."
Debt inspectors from the IMF, European Central Bank and European Commission, known collectively as the "troika," are currently in Athens to negotiate details of the country's second bailout, worth euro130 billion. The debt swap deal is an integral part of the new rescue package.
Government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis said Greece would not default on its debts if it took the right steps.
"I believe that provided we move correctly, we will have time to make the deals and not go to a default," he told Skai television. "The negotiation is difficult. I don't want to create the illusion that everything is going well and that everything is easy. It is a very difficult negotiation."
The troika has been pressing for further labor reforms, with Greece's labor market seen as being uncompetitive.
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Nicholas Paphitis in Athens and Pan Pylas in Davos, Switzerland, contributed.
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Sigh. The mom of young Isabella Barrett of Toddlers & Tiaras fame is suing the MEDIA for over-sexualizing her daughter ... by reporting on Isabella's "Sexy And I Know It" cover.
Susanna Barrett claims media outlets, in reporting that event, portrayed her five-year-old daughter in an "overly sexualized manner." Right. All the media's fault.
In court papers, Susanna claims Isabella "did not act or portray herself sexually, erotically or provocatively" and that coverage of her performance was unfair.'
"She was not 'gyrating' at a 'nightclub' or singing 'about her sex appeal," the elder Barrett claims incredulously. "On the contrary, it is the defendants who, through their articles ... thrust these false and vulgar characteristics on to Isabella."
Yes, this is a real story. The delusional mother seems to see nothing wrong with having her daughter sing a sexually-themed LMFAO song.
The media talking about it though? Shame.
Thanks to TMZ, The Huffington Post, The Daily Mail and other celebrity news sources, “Isabella is now perceived sexually, erotically and pornographically."
Suing for $30 million, Barrett adds, "[The articles] place Isabella in physical danger, attracting the attention of others who would seek to sexualize a child.”
Well, on those grounds, can someone sue her for $30 million too then?
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CANBERRA, Australia ? Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard stumbled and was caught by a security guard as riot police helped her force a path through a crowd of rowdy protesters following a ceremony to mark Australia's national day Thursday.
She was unharmed and later remarked that she was made of "pretty tough stuff" and commended police for their actions.
Some 200 supporters of indigenous rights had surrounded a Canberra restaurant and banged its windows while Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott were inside officiating at an award ceremony.
Around 50 police escorted the political leaders from a side door to a car. Gillard stumbled, losing a shoe. Her personal security guard wrapped his arms around her and supported her to the waiting car, shielding her from the angry crowd.
The protesters had been demonstrating for indigenous rights nearby at the so-called Aboriginal Tent Embassy, a ramshackle collection of tents and temporary shelters in the national capital that is a center point of protests against Australia Day.
Australia Day marks the arrival of the first fleet of British colonists in Sydney on Jan. 26, 1788. Many Aborigines call it Invasion Day because the land was settled without a treaty with traditional owners.
Abbott appeared to be the target of protesters, who chanted "shame" and "racist" outside the restaurant.
The Tent Embassy celebrated its 40th anniversary on Thursday. Abbott had earlier angered indigenous activists by saying it was time the embassy "moved on."
Gillard was unharmed and later hosted another Australia Day function for foreign ambassadors at her official residence.
"The only thing that angers me is that it distracted from such a wonderful event," Gillard told reporters.
"I am made of pretty tough stuff and the police did a great job," she added.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? John Travolta's vintage Mercedes-Benz, stolen from a Los Angeles suburb, has been recovered in pieces and two men have been arrested, police said on Wednesday.
Travolta's convertible 1970 Mercedes-Benz 280-SL vanished from the street in Santa Monica while the "Pulp Fiction" star was visiting a nearby Jaguar dealership in September.
Michael Green, 58, and D.L. Rayford, 52, were taken into custody in December by members of a law enforcement task force investigating a sophisticated car-theft ring, Santa Monica police Sergeant Richard Lewis said.
"Through the collaborative efforts of investigators ... two individuals were identified as suspects relating to the theft of Mr. Travolta's Mercedes, and were arrested by investigators from the task force," Lewis said.
Lewis said leads developed following the theft led investigators to a "chop shop," where stolen vehicles were found, including parts of the actor's car.
"It was not recovered in whole, it was chopped," Lewis said. "We have numerous pieces recovered but not the entire car."
He said the arrests were not announced earlier to avoid compromising a larger investigation into the car theft ring.
Both Green and Rayford were charged with grand theft auto, a Los Angeles County District Attorney's spokeswoman said.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)
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By Rosa Golijan
You can pout and you can shout, but there's no avoiding it: You'll soon be forced to use a new profile page design?? better known as the Timeline???on Facebook. It'll be alright though,?because I'm here to (virtually) hold your hand through this big life change.
Woah! Wait! What is this Timeline thing?
Odds are that you've already?heard about?the Facebook Timeline, but let's have a quick review for the sake of those who might've been on a really long vacation or have a (dangerous) tendency to tune out Facebook-related news.
The Facebook Timeline is a new approach to the profile page. According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it's a way to better present "the story of your life."
When someone looks at your Timeline, he or she will be able to see summaries of the most important events in your personal history ? instead of having to scroll through years of silly status updates. You're able to feature (or hide)?"Stories" ? life?events, images, and other details ??in order to create what you feel is the best representation of your life.
Since your personal history no longer starts with the day you joined Facebook, but the date of your actual birth, you are encouraged to go back and add events which weren't previously on Facebook. Please choose what you enter with absolute care, and bear in mind that what you enter (ahem, place of birth, mother's maiden name) could be used for nefarious purposes.
While a lifelong timeline may seem convenient and logical, our own privacy-minded Helen Popkin said this may be "the ultimate Trojan horse,"?a way for Facebook to squeeze even more personal information out of you by posing as an unrequested but alluring feature.
Oh, and you can also?augment your Timeline by using apps which track books you've read, movies you've watched, music you've listened to, and so on. (Yeah, this can get a bit creepy?? so you'll probably want to fiddle with your privacy settings. More on that later.)
I don't really want this! How do I avoid it?
As I said when we started our journey down the Timeline rabbit hole: You can pout and shout as much as you want, but there's no avoiding Timeline.
As?Paul McDonald, an engineering manager on the Timeline team, explained recently:
Over the next few weeks, everyone will get timeline. When you get timeline, you'll have 7 days to preview what's there now. This gives you a chance to add or hide whatever you want before anyone else sees it. ...?
?You can also choose to publish your timeline at any time during the review period. If you decide to wait, your timeline will go live automatically after seven days. Your new timeline will replace your profile, but all your stories and photos will still be there.
A warning whistle, a seven-day head start, and ... that's it, that's all you're getting. If anyone is trying to convince you that there's a loophole or a way to outsmart Facebook on this particular issue, odds are that he or she is trying to scam you.
Fine. I'll live with this somehow, but can I at least hold on to my privacy?
As Lifehacker's Whitson Gordon points out, the?"one big downside to the Timeline layout is that you can easily see every post you've ever made or received on Facebook. All anyone needs to do is go to a certain year on your profile and click the "All Posts" button."
Yes, that particular downside could lead to quite a bit of embarrassing moments, awkward confrontations, and so on.
Thankfully there are two ways to minimize humiliation. Neither of them is particularly perfect, but they help a bit.
As tedious as it is, you could go through your Timeline and hide (or delete) individual posts. All you have to do is click the little pencil icon on a post and you'll be presented with the different options.
Of course, this process could take forever and a day if you're a particularly active Facebook user. (I told you it wasn't perfect.)
The other action you can take to prevent some embarrassment involves the posts which are visible to the general public or friends of friends. You can change the privacy setting for all of those posts to "friends only" with just one click.?
Are you properly prepared for the arrival of the Timeline?
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Wait. What? This is actually happening?
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I've been ready for this since it was first announced. Wake me up when there's real news.
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I ... I think so. I am, right? Did I forget about something?
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Ready? I was born ready (and made myself some custom Timeline cover images later on).
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You just have to head to the "Privacy Settings" menu, select the "Manage Past Post Visibility" button next to "Limit the Audience for Past Posts." You'll see a little popup which will confirm that you really want to limit the visibility of your old posts and you're done.
But, as?Gordon notes, this particular move "won't hide those posts from your friends, but it will at least keep everyone else on Facebook from being able to browse every post you've ever made public."
Unfortunately that's about all you can do to shelter what little bit or privacy you have left when you're forced to switch over to the Timeline layout. You can?? and should?? be vigilant about what you post in the first place and what sort of state your general privacy settings are in though, of course. (For more details on that, I recommend checking out Lifehacker's "always up-to-date guide to managing your Facebook privacy.")
New York Times columnist Nick Bilton gets creative with his Timeline cover image.
Can I at least make this thing look pretty?
One of the first things you'll notice about the Timeline is that it puts a gigantic photo front and center. This is called the "cover" photo and you're prompted to select one as soon as your profile is converted to this new design. (You can change the cover image as often as you want.)
You can use (or abuse) this feature to make your little corner of the social network look as unique as a snowflake.
Your decorating options include ready-made images ??such as the geeky or intense illustrations artist Sam Spratt made available on BuzzFeed?? or your own creations.
Buzzfeed's Director of Creative Services Tanner Ringerud shows how a profile photo can interact with a cover image on Facebook.
If you're really itching to have a one-of-a-kind image, then the best thing to do is is to brainstorm until you find a way to make the large cover image interact with your profile photo. The only tricky part ? aside from actually coming up with a clever idea ? is that you need to keep the proportions of the images in mind to make sure that everything looks perfect.
So make note that the large cover image is 851 x 315 pixels and that the smaller profile photo is 125 x 125 pixels.
That's really all there is to it?
Yes, that's all you really need to know about the Facebook Timeline??? what it is, why you can't avoid it, how to keep it from embarrassing you, and how to make it look pretty.
Not so bad after all, right?
Now go on and pass this handy-dandy guide on to your confused friends and family members so that you can enjoy your last seven Timeline-free days in peace.
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Want more tech news, silly puns, or amusing links? You'll get plenty of all three if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts, or circling her?on?Google+.
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A healthy genome is characterized by 23 pairs of chromosomes, and even a small change in this structure such as an extra copy of a single chromosome can lead to severe physical impairment. So it's no surprise that when it comes to cancer, chromosomal structure is frequently a contributing factor, says Prof. Ron Shamir of the Blavatnik School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University.
Now Prof. Shamir and his former doctoral students Michal Ozery-Flato and Chaim Linhart, along with fellow researchers Prof. Shai Izraeli and Dr. Luba Trakhtenbrot from the Sheba Medical Center, have combined techniques from computer science and statistics to discover that many chromosomal pairs are lost or gained together across various cancer types. Moreover, the researchers discovered a new commonality of chromosomal aberrations among embryonic cancer types, such as kidney, skeleton, and liver cancers.
These findings, recently published in Genome Biology, could reveal more about the nature of cancer. As cancer develops, the genome becomes increasingly mutated and identifying the pattern of mutation can help us to understand the nature and the progression of many different kinds of cancer, says Prof. Shamir.
Looking at the big picture
As cancer progresses, the structure of chromosomes is rearranged, individual chromosomes are duplicated or lost, and the genome becomes abnormal. Some forms of cancer can even be diagnosed by identifying individual chromosomal aberrations, notes Prof. Shamir, pointing to the example of a specific type of leukemia that is caused by small piece of chromosome 9 being moved to chromosome 22.
When analyzing many different kinds of cancer, however, the researchers discovered that chromosomal aberrations among different cancers happen together in a noticeable and significant way. The researchers studied a collection of more than fifty thousand cancer karyotypes representations of chromosomal layouts in a single cell and charted them according to commonalities. The researchers were not only able to confirm different chromosomal aberrations that appeared in specific cancer types, but also for the first time identified a broader effect of pairs of chromosomes being lost or gained together across different cancer types.
It was also the first time that researchers saw a connection among solid kidney, skeleton, and liver cancers. While it was known that these cancers all develop in the embryo, they were previously analyzed independently. The TAU researchers have now confirmed that they share chromosomal characteristics and aberrations, much like various forms of leukemia or lymphomas.
Aberrations a driving force for cancer
Under normal circumstances, even a small change to a person's chromosomal structure can be devastating. For example, Down's syndrome is caused by a single extra copy of Chromosome 21. "But in cancer, there are many cases of extra or missing chromosomes. Yet cancer cells thrive more effectively than other cells," Prof. Shamir says.
Prof. Shamir hopes that future investigation into these chromosomal aberrations will give researchers more clues into why something that is so detrimental to our healthy development is so beneficial to this disease. Cancer is the result of sequences of events, he says, each causing the genome to become more mutated, mixed, and duplicated. Tracking these changes could aid our understanding of the driving forces of cancer's progress.
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Prof. Shamir heads the Edmond J. Safra Program for Bioinformatics and holds the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in Bioinformatics.
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Internationally recognized for the scope and groundbreaking nature of its research and scholarship, Tel Aviv University consistently produces work with profound implications for the future.
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A healthy genome is characterized by 23 pairs of chromosomes, and even a small change in this structure such as an extra copy of a single chromosome can lead to severe physical impairment. So it's no surprise that when it comes to cancer, chromosomal structure is frequently a contributing factor, says Prof. Ron Shamir of the Blavatnik School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University.
Now Prof. Shamir and his former doctoral students Michal Ozery-Flato and Chaim Linhart, along with fellow researchers Prof. Shai Izraeli and Dr. Luba Trakhtenbrot from the Sheba Medical Center, have combined techniques from computer science and statistics to discover that many chromosomal pairs are lost or gained together across various cancer types. Moreover, the researchers discovered a new commonality of chromosomal aberrations among embryonic cancer types, such as kidney, skeleton, and liver cancers.
These findings, recently published in Genome Biology, could reveal more about the nature of cancer. As cancer develops, the genome becomes increasingly mutated and identifying the pattern of mutation can help us to understand the nature and the progression of many different kinds of cancer, says Prof. Shamir.
Looking at the big picture
As cancer progresses, the structure of chromosomes is rearranged, individual chromosomes are duplicated or lost, and the genome becomes abnormal. Some forms of cancer can even be diagnosed by identifying individual chromosomal aberrations, notes Prof. Shamir, pointing to the example of a specific type of leukemia that is caused by small piece of chromosome 9 being moved to chromosome 22.
When analyzing many different kinds of cancer, however, the researchers discovered that chromosomal aberrations among different cancers happen together in a noticeable and significant way. The researchers studied a collection of more than fifty thousand cancer karyotypes representations of chromosomal layouts in a single cell and charted them according to commonalities. The researchers were not only able to confirm different chromosomal aberrations that appeared in specific cancer types, but also for the first time identified a broader effect of pairs of chromosomes being lost or gained together across different cancer types.
It was also the first time that researchers saw a connection among solid kidney, skeleton, and liver cancers. While it was known that these cancers all develop in the embryo, they were previously analyzed independently. The TAU researchers have now confirmed that they share chromosomal characteristics and aberrations, much like various forms of leukemia or lymphomas.
Aberrations a driving force for cancer
Under normal circumstances, even a small change to a person's chromosomal structure can be devastating. For example, Down's syndrome is caused by a single extra copy of Chromosome 21. "But in cancer, there are many cases of extra or missing chromosomes. Yet cancer cells thrive more effectively than other cells," Prof. Shamir says.
Prof. Shamir hopes that future investigation into these chromosomal aberrations will give researchers more clues into why something that is so detrimental to our healthy development is so beneficial to this disease. Cancer is the result of sequences of events, he says, each causing the genome to become more mutated, mixed, and duplicated. Tracking these changes could aid our understanding of the driving forces of cancer's progress.
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Prof. Shamir heads the Edmond J. Safra Program for Bioinformatics and holds the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in Bioinformatics.
American Friends of Tel Aviv University (www.aftau.org) supports Israel's leading, most comprehensive and most sought-after center of higher learning. Independently ranked 94th among the world's top universities for the impact of its research, TAU's innovations and discoveries are cited more often by the global scientific community than all but 10 other universities.
Internationally recognized for the scope and groundbreaking nature of its research and scholarship, Tel Aviv University consistently produces work with profound implications for the future.
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LONDON (Reuters) ? Shareholders should be given a binding vote over how large British companies manage executive pay and more companies should be able to claw back cash from highly-paid staff who fail to deliver, Business Secretary Vince Cable said on Monday.
Firms should also need 75 percent of shareholders to agree to any pay proposals, Cable told parliament, announcing measures to improve executive pay policy at Britain's biggest companies.
Big bonus payouts at Britain's banks - and large pay rises for bosses at other firms - have sparked a public and political backlash over perceived excess in executive pay, at a time when the economy is stalling and many workers are enduring negligible pay increases or wage freezes.
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has pledged to clamp down on out-of-control pay culture, although ministers are wary of pushing too far with regulation, for fear of driving talent away from Britain's top companies.
"No proposal on its own is a magic bullet but together they can enable a major transformation to get under way," Cable told parliament.
"Shareholders need new powers to hold the board (of companies) to account and I will consult shortly on specific proposals to reform the current voting arrangements and give shareholders a binding vote, enabling them to exert more pressure on boards," he said.
The binding vote will cover how directors' performance is judged and the scope of potential payouts. The government will also extend to all big firms a requirement for contracts to include clawback mechanisms -- not just in financial services.
Simon Wong, a partner in corporate governance watchdog Governance for Owners said moves to explain how pay structures reflect and support company strategy were welcome but investors would need to develop the capacity to assess the merits of individual arrangements instead of standard performance metrics like earnings per share.
UNIONS ATTACK
Trade unions, some representing millions of public sector workers who have had their pay frozen as part of Britain's budget deficit reduction plan, complained that Cable's much-hyped proposals had not gone far enough.
"Ministers have spectacularly failed to make any significant changes to the status quo," said Brendan Barber, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress umbrella organization.
"Whilst the business secretary has announced a few welcome tinkers to current boardroom pay regime, he has shied away from the big decisions on all of the major proposed reforms, from worker representation to company pay ratios and open advertising for posts on remuneration committees."
Barber's views echoed those of Alan MacDougall, managing director of proxy agency PIRC, who said real change depended on asset managers using their new powers responsibly.
"..If the strongest emphasis is put on giving shareholders better information and more powers then a huge amount rests on the voting decisions of asset managers. With notable exceptions, their recent voting behavior does not lend confidence that they will shoulder the burden effectively," he said.
Sacha Sadan, director of corporate governance at Legal & General Investment Management, said public confidence in executive pay would only be restored if the basic principles of simplicity, transparency and alignment were applied.
"Pay and especially bonuses need to be aligned to the long-term interests of shareholders and executives themselves should own a meaningful amount of shares in the company," Sadan said.
Cable, a Liberal Democrat, said he wanted to engineer greater diversity on the remuneration committees which decide executive pay, but fell short of making it compulsory.
Speaking on BBC radio following his speech to parliament, Cable conceded that the proposals were unlikely to stir immediate or sweeping reforms.
"I don't think anyone's going to be terrified but I think what they will recognize is that this is the beginning of serious change of culture in the business community and in executive pay," Cable told BBC radio.
Britain's big state-supported banks - RBS (RBS.L) and Lloyds (LLOY.L) - have come under further pressure this year to pay less in bonuses than last year, with many blaming irresponsible behavior in the sector for triggering the global economic and debt crises.
"We've made it very clear that we do expect to see restraint in bonuses in the banking system - and RBS in particular - and we will see what happens," Cable said.
The government says FTSE 100 CEO pay increased by an average 13.6 percent per year between 1999 and 2010, compared with an average increase of 1.7 percent on the FTSE 100 index itself.
(Additional reporting by Sinead Cruise; Editing by Mohammed Abbas and Helen Massy-Beresford)
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Ashton Kutcher ditched his long hair and beard as part of a plot twist on "Two and a Half Men."
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A clean-cut Ashton Kutcher said Wednesday that he's interested in continuing with "Two and a Half Men" beyond this season -- and CBS wants him, too.
Kutcher's addition to television's most popular comedy following star Charlie Sheen's implosion was a grand experiment that has worked out better than CBS or the producers could have dreamed.
The show is up 20 percent in viewers over Sheen's final season, the Nielsen ratings company said, and Kutcher has also brought in a younger crowd.
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"I've had a blast," said Kutcher, who plays the heartbroken Walden Schmidt. "Since I stopped doing 'That '70s Show' I've always wanted to go back and do television."
Kutcher appeared at a news conference without the long hair and beard he has worn this season. It was cut as part of the plot in an episode of "Two and a Half Men" that airs Monday, he said.
"I'm sure there will be people now that I've cut my hair and shaved my beard that want me to have long hair and a beard," Kutcher said. "And there were people that when I had a beard and long hair they wanted me to be? shaved and have a haircut.
Us Weekly also reports that Kutcher, who split from wife Demi Moore after six years of marriage,?fidgeted with his wedding band throughout the talk.
Series creator Chuck Lorre said he gave thought to ending the series after Sheen left last season and couldn't imagine it continuing. But CBS and his co-creator, Lee Aronsohn, nudged him to continue.
"Lee said, 'Why not try? If we fail, no one would be physically harmed,'" Lorre said. "It seemed like such a heartbreaking way to end, and we didn't want it to, so we said let's keep the light on."
Lorre, who was the target of sharp barbs from Sheen last spring after he was fired, said he wished his former star well.
"I really do," he said. "I'm glad he's sober and I think it's terrific."
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WINDHAM, N.H. ? Judging from the presidential forums being held all over New Hampshire ahead of Tuesday's Republican primary, the biggest threats to America appear to be online piracy, an insidious United Nations and "crony capitalism."
Rick Santorum, for instance, fielded questions for 48 minutes from a crowd of 600 in Windham on Thursday before anyone mentioned jobs, the issue that's supposed to dominate the 2012 elections. He got a dozen questions before that, including two about alleged U.N. subversion of U.S. sovereignty, one each about states' rights and Judeo-Christian values, and two about a treaty to "stop online piracy."
Iowa and New Hampshire ? small, largely rural and overwhelmingly white ? both have unemployment rates far below the national average of 8.5 percent. It may help explain their voters' interest in non-economic issues. And it may leave the states a bit out of touch with the anxieties afflicting so much of the country.
Many Iowa and New Hampshire residents care deeply about jobs, of course. And former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney tends to get economic-related questions more often than do the socially conservative Santorum and the libertarian-leaning Ron Paul, a congressman from Texas.
But particularly in New Hampshire ? the "Live Free or Die" state, which has no income tax or sales tax ? the Republican presidential debate is deeply colored by issues that would leave many financially strapped Americans scratching their heads. It might not matter much in the long run. But it conceivably could give President Barack Obama's allies a chance to paint the GOP as out of touch with average Americans.
Some New Hampshire residents, hinting at conspiracies by the federal government or international powers, have urged the presidential candidates to embrace positions on the fringes of U.S. political debate. A man in Windham invoked Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in arguing that states should be able to ignore federal laws they consider unconstitutional.
"We had a war about nullification," Santorum reminded him, noting that the Civil War closed the lid on southern assertions of states' rights.
Another man, saying, "I fear my government," asked Santorum to condemn a new defense authorization bill that allows indefinite detention of terrorism suspects, even if they are U.S. citizens. The issue was raised at several New Hampshire events last week. Santorum said terrorism is a serious threat, but incarcerated U.S. citizens must have access to federal courts.
A teenage boy implored Santorum to look into the Stop Online Piracy Act, saying a friend of his might go to prison for five years for posting a cover version of a song on the Internet.
Such questions might raise few eyebrows at small forums sponsored by libertarians or tea party groups. But the Thursday event drew a large cross-section of people who packed Windham High School's sparkling and spacious auditorium.
Santorum isn't the only candidate fielding questions that rarely focus on jobs. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, at a military museum in Wolfeboro Saturday, was asked about numerous other topics, including whether he would padlock the Environmental Protection Agency and Education Department.
Gingrich said he probably would "order them to re-review every proposed regulation and keep them rope-a-doping for a while."
A Harvard student asked Gingrich how he could govern while refusing to raise taxes to help close budget deficits. Gingrich drew nods of approval when he replied: "I'm happy to cooperate. I'm not willing to compromise. Compromise in Washington means sell-out."
Romney, the favorite to win in New Hampshire, tends to draw more mainstream Republican audiences. Even he, however, has to field unexpected zingers.
At a spaghetti dinner in Tilton, a woman said she was struggling financially. "I know you're a multimillionaire," she said. "I read this morning you have four houses. Would you be willing to give up some of that so that the people in America could get some tax cuts?"
"That's a good idea," Romney said with a nervous laugh. "The best way I can help middle-income Americans is to become president of the United States, to cut taxes for middle-income Americans, which is what my proposal does, and to get jobs for middle-income Americans."
For the record, Romney said he owns only three houses.
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Associated Press writers Kasie Hunt, Steve Peoples, Phil Elliott, Holly Ramer, Beth Fouhy and Shannon McCaffrey contributed to this report.
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(January 9, 2012)--Thunderstorms in the Houston prompted tornado warnings Monday morning and knocked out electricity to nearly 20,000 homes and businesses while in Central Texas, authorities were keeping a close eye on low-lying areas as heavy rain fell.
Killeen firefighters rescued a man who was canoeing Monday morning in Nolan Creek.
Deputy Fire Chief Kenneth Hawthorne said the man was pulled from the creek at around 10 a.m. Monday in the area of Lowes Boulevard between Trimmier and W.S. Young after running into difficulties in the swift-moving water.
He was treated at the scene for minor injuries.
Killeen officials planned to keep a close eye on the creek and other flood-prone areas as rain continued to fall Monday.
The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings Monday morning for Harris County and several neighboring counties, but they expired with no confirmed reports of tornadoes on the ground.
CenterPoint Energy on Monday reported power outages affecting about 19,600 customers.
In Central Texas, rain chances stand at near 100 percent Monday and isolated thunderstorms are possible.
Rain chances continue Monday night and into Tuesday.
(Rachel Cox contributed to this story)
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The race to pick a Republican who will take on President Barack Obama in November 2012 was always going to have a negative streak as the candidates try to bump front-runner Mitt Romney from the top spot ? and as Mr. Romney?s supporters try to protect his lead.
Mr. Romney won the Iowa caucus vote on January 3rd by a mere eight votes, and he has double-digit leads over his rivals in the New Hampshire primary taking place Tuesday January 10th.
The televised debates are a natural place for candidates to deliver their well-honed line of attack against their rivals.
But nothing does it like a TV attack ad financed and produced by the various ?super political action committees,? or super PACs, that support various candidates.
Super PACs have emerged as important players in the race to lead the GOP because they allow groups to raise unlimited money and they face few restrictions compared to a candidate?s own political action committee, or PAC.
According to ad buying data shown to the Associated Press, the most money spent on campaign and super PAC ads was in Iowa: $13-million ahead of the caucuses. In New Hampshire so far: $5-million.
As candidates head in to today?s New Hampshire primary and look ahead to the next primary in South Carolina, where candidates are expecting to make a decisive anti-Romney stand, here are the various lines of attack each candidate can expect:
Line of attack on Mitt Romney
The former Massachusetts governor who made a lot of money leading the investment firm Bain Capital and received kudos for his management of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City faced what one news organization described as the ?weekend from hell.? Back-to-back televised debates on Saturday and Sunday, just days ahead of the New Hampshire primary vote, meant a gang-up on the front-runner was inevitable.
But Mr. Romney escaped relatively unscathed on Saturday night, and Sunday morning?s debate produced a few tangles - with Newt Gingrich blasting his ?pious baloney? line across Mr. Romney?s bow ? but Mr. Romney still appears to be cruising to a win in New Hampshire.
Mr. Romney has been called a ?flip-flopper?, a ?chameleon?, and a ?Massachusetts moderate? whose economic policy is ?timid? and ?virtually identical to Obama?s failed policy.? But the line of attack on Mr. Romney is about to go up a notch: as our Washington correspondent reports, with a Newt Gingrich super PAC purchasing a short 28-minute film that attacks Mr. Romney?s track record in business and his claim to have created over 100,000 jobs. An ad that is described as a trailer to the film will be aired in South Carolina where the GOP race heads next.
The ad leaves little doubt about the line of attack: Mr. Romney?s business leadership was, in fact, the behaviour of a ?corporate raider? whose actions resulted in the loss of jobs and suffering. It was, the ad alleges, a display of ruthlessness worse than anything on Wall Street.
Having a GOP presidential hopeful with considerable business experience will be attractive to voters looking for a president who can fix the ailing U.S. economy.
However, expect GOP candidates to step up their attack on Mr. Romney?s business record. Candidate Rick Santorum weighed in over the weekend: ?Being a president is not a CEO. You?ve got to lead and inspire.? And Mr. Gingrich has already questioned whether ?on balance, were people better off or worse off by this [Mr. Romney?s] style of management.?
Line of attack on Newt Gingrich
Remember the ad that compared Mitt Romney?s economic plan to President Obama?s, claiming that the two are virtually identical?
That line of attack against the ?Massachusetts moderate? was led by Newt Gingrich following Mr. Gingrich?s Iowa caucus loss.
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