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Lindsay Davenport Welcomes a Daughter
"We are so excited to say our third child arrived this a.m.," Davenport, 35, writes. "A big, beautiful, healthy baby girl ... 10 lbs!!! Everyone is doing great."
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Romney says he may release tax returns in April (AP)
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. ? Under pressure, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he might be willing to release his tax returns.
But not until April, if then, and the multimillionaire former businessman is not getting much gratitude from his rivals for his grudging change of heart.
"If there's nothing there, why is he waiting till April?" former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told reporters.
Romney seemed hesitant when confronted about the tax returns in a Republican debate Monday night, first sidestepping calls from his rivals to release his records, then acknowledging later that he'd follow the lead of previous presidential candidates.
"I have nothing in them that suggests there's any problem and I'm happy to do so," he said. "I sort of feel like we're showing a lot of exposure at this point," he added.
Romney, the clear front-runner for the GOP nomination after back-to-back wins in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, was under fire from Gingrich and fellow GOP rivals Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum in Monday night's debate as they sought to knock him off stride.
The five will meet again in debate in Charleston Thursday night, the last time they will share a stage before Saturday's South Carolina primary.
The first Southern primary could prove decisive in the volatile contest. Gingrich has virtually conceded that a victory for Romney in South Carolina would assure his nomination as Democratic President Barack Obama's Republican rival in the fall, and none of the other remaining contenders has challenged that conclusion.
That only elevated the stakes for Monday night's debate. It was feisty from the outset, with the attacks on Romney often couched in anti-Obama rhetoric.
"We need to satisfy the country that whoever we nominate has a record that can stand up to Barack Obama in a very effective way," said Gingrich.
The five men on stage also sought to outdo one another in calling for lower taxes. Texas Rep. Ron Paul won that competition handily, saying he thought the top personal tax rate should be zero.
In South Carolina, a state with a heavy military presence, the tone turned muscular at times.
Gingrich drew strong applause when he said: "Andrew Jackson had a pretty clear idea about America's enemies. Kill them."
Perry also won favor from the crowd when he said the Obama administration had overreacted in its criticism of the Marines who were videotaped urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
Gingrich and Perry led the assault against Romney's record at Bain Capital, a private equity firm that bought companies and sought to remake them into more competitive enterprises, with uneven results.
"There was a pattern in some companies ... of leaving them with enormous debt and then within a year or two or three having them go broke," Gingrich said. "I think that's something he ought to answer."
Perry referred to a steel mill in Georgetown, S.C. where, he said, "Bain swept in, they picked that company over and a lot of people lost jobs there."
Romney said the steel industry was battered by unfair competition from China. As for other firms, he said, "Four of the companies that we invested in ... ended up today having some 120,000 jobs." And he acknowledged, "Some of the businesses we invested in were not successful and lost jobs."
It was Perry who challenged Romney to release his income tax returns. The Texas governor said he has already done so, and Gingrich has said he will do likewise later in the week.
"Mitt, we need for you to release your income tax so the people of this country can see how you made your money. ... We cannot fire our nominee in September. We need to know now," Perry said.
Later, a debate moderator pressed Romney on releasing his tax returns. His response meandered.
"If that's been the tradition I'm not opposed to doing that," Romney said. "Time will tell. But I anticipate that most likely I'm going to get asked to do that in the April time period and I'll keep that open."
Prodded again, he said, "If I become our nominee ... what's happened in history is people have released them in about April of the coming year, and that's probably what I'd do."
April is long after the South Carolina primary and the Republican nomination could easily be all but decided by then, following Super Tuesday contests around the country in March.
Santorum stayed away from the clash over taxes, instead launching a dispute of his own. He said a campaign group supporting Romney has been attacking him for supporting voter rights for convicted felons, and asked Romney what his position was on the issue.
Romney initially ducked a direct answer, preferring to ask Santorum if the ad was accurate.
He then said he doesn't believe convicted violent felons should have the right to vote, even after serving their terms. Santorum instantly said that as governor of Massachusetts, Romney hadn't made any attempt to change a law that permitted convicted felons to vote while still on parole, a law the former Pennsylvania senator said was more liberal than the one he has been assailed for supporting.
Romney replied that as a Republican governor, he was confronted with a legislature that was heavily Democratic and held a different position.
He also reminded Santorum that candidates have no control over the campaign groups that have played a pivotal role in the race to date.
"It is inaccurate," Santorum said of the ad assailing him. "I would go out and say: `Stop it. That you're representing me and you're representing my campaign. Stop it.'"
That issue returned more than an hour later, when Gingrich said he too has faced false attacks from the same group that is criticizing Santorum. He noted that Romney says he lacks sway over the group, "which makes you wonder how much influence he would have if he were president."
Romney said he hoped no group would run inaccurate ads, and he said the organization backing Gingrich was airing a commercial that is so false that "it's probably the biggest hoax since Bigfoot."
He called for scuttling the current system of campaign finance laws to permit individuals to donate as much money as they want to the candidates of their choice.
Noting that the debate was occurring on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, one moderator asked Gingrich if his previous statements about poor children lacking a work ethic were "insulting to all Americans, but particularly to black Americans."
"No," Gingrich said emphatically, adding his aim was to break dependence on government programs. "I'm going to continue to find ways to help poor people learn how to get a job, learn to get a better job and learn someday to own the job," he said.
Romney is the leader in the public opinion polls in South Carolina, although his rivals hope the state's 9.9 percent unemployment rate and the presence of large numbers of socially conservative evangelical voters will allow one of them to slip by him.
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Associated Press writer Dave Espo contributed to this report.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
French president: Credit downgrade changes nothing
French President Nicolas Sarkozy gestures during a meeting with Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, not seen, at the Moncloa Palace, in Madrid, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy gestures during a meeting with Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, not seen, at the Moncloa Palace, in Madrid, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, right, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, talk before a join press conference after a meeting at the Moncloa Palace, in Madrid, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, right, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, attend a join press conference after a meeting at the Moncloa Palace, in Madrid, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, right, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, attend a join press conference after a meeting at the Moncloa Palace, in Madrid, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, right, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, shake hands after a join press conference after a meeting at the Moncloa Palace, in Madrid, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
MADRID (AP) ? French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday shrugged off his country's loss of its prized AAA debt rating, saying the downgrade by rating agency Standard & Poor's would change nothing.
The comments, his first since S&P lowered its score on France and eight European other countries on Friday, followed a successful auction by France of euro8.6 billion ($10.9 billion) in short-term debt Monday. The yields, the interest rates charged by investors on the debt, fell ? a sign investors still see the country as a good bet.
France won a further small reprieve Monday, when the Moody's agency confirmed that it would keep its top rating. However, the S&P decision could seriously impair Sarkozy's bid for re-election this spring.
Sarkozy told reporters he was unconcerned with the opinions of ratings agencies.
"We have to react to this (the downgrade) with calm, by taking a step back," he said at a news conference with the new Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. "At the core, my conviction is that it changes nothing."
Sarkozy won support from Rajoy for a new European tax on financial transactions being pushed by France and Germany. Rajoy's center-right government took power last month, and had not previously stated its position on the tax.
The French president said the ratings agencies' decisions would not affect his policies, though he did acknowledge that France has work to do, saying that its deficits and spending were too high and that its growth was too slow.
He also noted that two of the three major agencies still rate France at triple-A, the highest rating. Fitch confirmed the rating last week. The S&P move was especially brutal for France, one of the world's biggest economies and a financier of bailouts for smaller, poorer eurozone countries.
There are more government auctions in Europe this week, including longer-term offerings from France on Thursday, so the European debt crisis will never be too far from investors' minds.
The news conference began combatively when Sarkozy refused to answer a question about whether France's downgrade would affect its ability to lead Europe out of the crisis and if it had any connection with the meeting between the French, Italian and German leaders scheduled for next week being postponed.
Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have taken the lead in proposing solutions to the crisis and major decisions are often hashed out at their meetings ahead of European summits.
"You don't have the latest information," Sarkozy blithely told the reporter, apparently referring to Moody's decision on Monday. The reporter rephrased the question two more times, but Sarkozy again refused to answer.
Later on, in response to other questions, he confirmed that the three-way summit would take place in February and spoke about the S&P downgrade.
Earlier, Sarkozy met with Spanish King Juan Carlos, who said he's confident France and Spain would help Europe find a way out of the crisis.
The king said the two nations were "struggling together for the advance of a unified and prosperous Europe in solidarity that confronts the crisis with strength."
Rajoy's Socialist predecessor also supported the financial tax championed by Sarkozy, but was ousted from office by Spaniards angry about the country's hurting economy and high unemployment.
The European Commission has estimated that the tax could raise as much as euro57 billion ($72.2 billion) a year, funds that could be used to help reduce the substantial budget deficits crippling European economies.
For the tax to be successful, however, it needs to be adopted by as many countries as possible. Sarkozy has said it might be enough to enact it among the 17-nation euro countries. Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti prefers applying it across the full 27-nation European Union, but that would be more difficult because of U.K. opposition.
Part of the reason for the tax would be to raise funds at a time when governments are struggling with high debts.
Moody's cited France's economic strength as a reason for affirming its top rating but said bleak growth prospects in France and the region present "risks to the French government's fiscal consolidation plans."
"France, like other eurozone sovereigns, may face a number of challenges in the coming months. The need to provide additional support to other European sovereigns or to its own banking system cannot be excluded," Moody's warned.
Moody's said Monday it "will update the market during the first quarter of 2012 as part of the initiative to revisit the overall architecture of our sovereign ratings in the EU."
Sarkozy's challengers for the presidency have seized on the S&P downgrade as evidence that his policies are wrong-headed and ineffective.
It will be a bruising election battle for Sarkozy, a dynamic leader who has a strong international profile but is widely disliked at home. Leftists say he has coddled the rich, while many of those who supported him in his 2007 campaign say he hasn't fulfilled his promises.
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Angela Charlton and Sarah DiLorenzo in Paris and Alan Clendenning in Madrid contributed to this report.
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Perfectly spherical gold nanodroplets produced with the smallest-ever nanojets
ScienceDaily (Jan. 13, 2012) ? KU Leuven researcher Ventsislav Valev and an international team of scientists have developed a new method for optical manipulation of matter at the nanoscale. Using 'plasmonic hotspots' -- regions with electric current that heat up very locally -- gold nanostructures can be melted and made to produce the smallest nanojets ever observed. The tiny gold nanodroplets formed in the nanojets, are perfectly spherical, which makes them interesting for applications in medicine.
The 'backjet' phenomenon on which the method turns can be compared to a pebble being dropped into water. Tightly focused ultrafast laser pulses carry sufficient energy to locally melt the surface of a gold film. When a laser pulse of light hits the film, a nanoscale backjet -- a nanojet -- of molten gold surges upward.
As the name suggests, nanojets on the surface of a homogeneous gold film are incredibly small, their size being determined by the distribution of energy in the light pulse. This distribution of energy is in turn dependent on the wavelength of light. Initially, scientists anticipated that nanojets could not be significantly smaller than the wavelength of light. In this study however, Ventsislav Valev and his colleagues show that nanojets can in fact be made much smaller with the help of 'plasmonic hotspots'.
Plasmonic hotspots are regions on the surface of metal nanostructures where light causes very strong oscillation of the electrons. Because electron oscillations constitute an electric current and because electric currents heat up the material the same way an electric stove heats up in the kitchen, the plasmonic hotspots are extremely hot. So hot that they can melt the gold in a spot much smaller than the wavelength of light. Dr. Valev and his colleagues were successfully able to demonstrate that this tiny little pool of molten gold can give rise to the smallest nanojets ever observed.
The gold nanodroplets propelled upward by the nanojets solidify in flight, producing perfectly spherical nanoparticles. These gold nanodroplets can be collected and used for medical applications including cancer treatment. The nanoparticles can be attached to molecules and injected in the blood. Once the molecules attach to cancer cells, light can be used to heat up the gold nanodroplets and destroy the cancer cells. Currently, the gold nanoparticles used in medications are chemically synthesised. These chemically synthesised gold nanoparticles have an unavoidably granular aspect. Conversely, gold nanodroplets created by the plasmonic nanojet method detailed by Dr. Valev and his colleagues are perfectly spherical, ensuring a better efficiency.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Verizon Droid 4 vs. Verizon iPhone 4S (ContributorNetwork)
The Verizon iPhone 4 was one of 2011's most hotly-anticipated smartphones, after years of the iPhone's AT&T exclusivity. And with the launch of the iPhone 4S in October, another major United States carrier was added to the iPhone's lineup: Sprint.
Verizon already has a carrier-exclusive series of smartphones, however, in the form of the Droid brand. And the Droid 4, announced at this year's Consumer Electronics Show and coming to stores soon, is in many ways a 2012-updated, 4G LTE-enabled sequel to the original Droid.
Here's a quick look at what sets it apart from the iPhone 4S:
Hardware design
The iPhone 4S looks basically identical to 2010's iPhone 4. It's a flat piece of glass and aluminum, with a 3.5 inch multitouch screen. Reviewers like "superhero" Dustin Curtis have noted that this size is convenient to reach across with your thumb while using it one-handed, and its size plus its pixel density make it what Apple calls a Retina Display, where the individual pixels are too small to be seen with the unaided eye.
The Droid 4 crosses the original Droid's horizontal slider keyboard with the Droid RAZR's angular styling. It has a five-row physical keyboard with edge-lit keys, as well as a four-inch screen, and has a "water-repellent nanocoating". At half an inch thick it's the " thinnest and most powerful 4G LTE QWERTY smartphone", but is still thicker than the iPhone 4S.
Hardware specs
Apple doesn't publish many of the specs used for comparison between Android devices, including how powerful the iPhone 4S' processor is. The most direct point of comparison is that the iPhone 4S starts at $199 for the 16 GB model, while the Droid 4 will sell for $249 with 16 GB of memory and a microSD slot. The iPhone 4S also lacks 4G LTE wireless speeds.
User experience
In contrast to how tight-lipped it is about the iPhone 4S' specs, Apple goes on at length about iOS 5's new features, like the Siri personal assistant. The iPhone 4S also does not include "crapware" apps that can't be uninstalled, and has what is widely considered to be the best selection of apps on any mobile platform (although it has fewer free apps than Android smartphones like the Droid).
The biggest things setting the Droid 4's experience apart from other smartphones running the Gingerbread version of Android are its hardware features, like its slider keyboard and its 4G LTE wireless speeds. Compared to the iPhone 4S, almost any Android phone offers greater customizability, but also has more carrier crapware. Android Gingerbread is less polished in many ways than iOS, but an upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich will be available soon.
Jared Spurbeck is an open-source software enthusiast, who uses an Android phone and an Ubuntu laptop PC. He has been writing about technology and electronics since 2008.
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