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The Cybernet ZPC-D5 ($384 direct) is a very inexpensive, very compact nettop. The ZPC-D5 line starts at $349, so the only difference between the base model and this review unit is $35 for an extra 2GB of system memory. It has an attractive price point for the business owner who has to outfit a bunch of office users on a tight budget, especially if their actual needs are sparse. Sure, it's kind of weak on the benchmark tests, but it's adequate if your daily workload consists of checking email and utilizing business web apps, social media, and IM. It's not for every business user in your company, but if you absolutely, positively need to spend as little as possible on your business PC and need it to fit in a small space, then take a look at the ZPC-D5.

Design & Features
The ZPC-D5 has its keyboard and a touchpad built into its chassis, reminiscent of the Commodore 64 of the early 1980s with its simple design, though the three inch tall Commodore 64 was much thicker than the ZPC-D5 (roughly one inch thick). Another thing the ZPC-D5 has over the Commodore is a tray-loading DVD burner, which is rare even for a modern nettop class desktop. The touchpad to the right of the keyboard is full sized and has a single mouse button that rocks for left or right mouse clicks. It's relatively easy to get used to, but may initially feel "out of place" if you're left handed or used to the touchpad being below the keyboard like on a laptop.

Like most compact systems (though let's face it, this is essentially netbook without a screen), the ZPC-D5 doesn't have too much internal expansion space. However, there is an easy to open access panel on the bottom of the unit to get to the notebook class 2.5 inch hard drive and the single memory slot. Our unit came with a 250GB 5,400rpm WD drive and a 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM. The system has four USB 2.0 ports, a HDMI-out port, a VGA port, SD card reader, and an Ethernet port. These are sufficient for a system in the nettop class, since nettop users likely won't need huge storage and the requisite high-speed ports like USB 3.0 or eSATA. The VGA and HDMI ports allow simultaneous use for dual display. Note that the HDMI port is limited to 1,024-by-768 resolution, so the system isn't suitable for HD video output to a large screen via HDMI. Strangely enough, the VGA port will output 1,920-by-1,080 (1080p HD) resolution graphics. Chalk the limitations up to the integrated Intel GMA 3150 graphics, which can handle 1080p HD, but not on simultaneous displays in this system. Not a problem for a business user, but a consumer user would want the resolution capabilities reversed.

The nettop is designed as a business system, since Cybernet has years of experience building systems for vertical markets (like hospitals and warehouses). The ZPC-D5 is the latest in a long line of "zero footprint PCs," so called because they take up as much desk space as an external keyboard. As such it is pretty free of any extraneous programs or bloatware?a good thing for IT folks and users, since there's nothing to clean up off the hard drive. The system comes with a one-year warranty.

Performance
The Intel Atom D525 is a dual-core nettop processor made more for energy saving than performance. Therefore, it's no surprise that the ZPC-D5 got us some of the lowest scores on our benchmark tests. It managed to encode a video in Handbrake in 8 minutes 41 seconds and took 20:51 on our Photoshop CS5 test script. If multimedia performance is important to your business, you're better off buying our business Editors' Choice HP Compaq 4000 Pro ($549 direct, 4.5 stars) (2:38 Handbrake, 5:04 CS5), even our consumer nettop EC, the Acer Revo RL100-UR20P ($569.99 list, 4 stars) is faster, thanks to an AMD dual-core processor (5:43 Handbrake, 13:69 CS5). That said, this lack of performance could be a good thing for some businesses: business apps for line workers (email, accessing inventory databases computed on a server, point of sale, etc.) usually don't need a lot of computing power, so there will be very little incentive for your workers to waste time with web-based games or working on editing YouTube videos. If you consider this system to be the equivalent of the VT100 terminal from 1980s computing, then you'll be alright.

The Cybernet ZPC-D5 is a niche player in the business PC field. It's not very powerful, but it's also not very expensive. Our current EC for midrange business desktops the HP Compaq 4000 Pro is $165 more expensive, but also has a lot more expandability and performance. Likewise on the consumer side, our nettop EC the Acer Revo RL100-UR20P is also more powerful and more capable. For the money, the ZPC-D5 isn't a bad buy, especially if you're outfitting users that have limited needs or are abusive to their PCs. The $349-$384 isn't a lot to spend to replace a system, and it's powerful enough for basic business use. Call it recommended with reservations, but if you have a need for a cheap, compact PC for your business users, the ZPC-D5 is a decent buy.

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ORLANDO, Fla. ? Florida State rallied from a 14-point second-half deficit and used a pair of touchdown passes by E.J. Manuel and two field goals from Dustin Hopkins to slip past Notre Dame 18-14 in the Champs Sports Bowl on Thursday night.

The victory was FSU's fourth straight bowl win. FSU receiver Rashad Greene, who caught one of Manuel's touchdown passes, was named the game's MVP.

The No. 25 Seminoles started four freshman on their offensive line and gave up five sacks, but FSU's defense picked off Notre Dame quarterbacks Tommy Rees and Andrew Hendrix three times and also piled up four sacks of its own.

Notre Dame shuffled between Rees and Hendrix throughout the game, but both struggled to get the Irish points inside the red zone.

After some stagnant offense on both sides in the first half, FSU trailed 14-0 early in the third quarter before finding some momentum through the air.

The Seminoles closed the gap to 14-9 with an 18-yard touchdown pass from Manuel to Bert Reed to open the fourth quarter, but failed on their 2-point conversion attempt.

They took the lead just 1:32 later after Nigel Bradham intercepted a Hendrix pass inside the Notre Dame 20 to set up an 18-yard touchdown catch by Greene to make it 15-14 with just over 13 minutes to play following another failed 2-point try.

The Seminoles added their second field goal of the game a series later.

Notre Dame punted on its next touch, but pinned FSU inside its own 5 and forced a quick three-and-out.

A poor punt by the Seminoles and a face mask penalty on the return gave the Irish the ball on the FSU 28 with 3:56 to play, but Rees was picked off in the end zone with 2:48 left and FSU was able to all but run out the remaining clock.

Notre Dame took a 14-0 lead on its opening drive of the second half by capping a 9-play, 62-yard drive with a 5-yard touchdown pass from Rees to Michael Floyd. Floyd fought Seminoles cornerback Greg Reid for the ball on to play, juggling it multiple times before finally getting his hands around it.

Reid stayed down on the turf after the play and left the game with concussion symptoms.

FSU bounced right back with a 77-yard kickoff return by Lamarcus Joyner, but Notre Dame's fifth sack of the night on Manuel helped force the Seminoles to settle for a 42-yard field goal by Hopkins.

Notre Dame's defense was responsible for the lone score of the first half.

The Irish forced a quick punt on FSU's opening possession of the game, and used a 41-yard return by Floyd and a series of runs by Cierre Wood to set up a first-and-goal inside the 5-yard line.

But the threat ended just a play later when Rees was picked off by Joyner in the end zone.

The Seminoles' ensuing drive lasted only one play itself, with Devonta Freeman fumbling a pass from Manuel into the hands of Notre Dame safety Zeke Motta, who then returned it 29 yards for the touchdown.

Both offenses struggled to find any traction in the opening 30 minutes.

Along with each team's turnovers, Florida State's offense gained only 104 total yards to Notre Dame's 91.

The Seminoles also failed to covert on any of their seven third-down attempts, while allowing four sacks. Notre Dame safety Jamoris Slaughter was responsible for two of them, tying a bowl record.

FSU's special teams didn't fair too much better, coming up a yard short on a fake punt run midway through second quarter.

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Chad Poston of VTrans moves a sign on Route 107 in Bethel, Vt. in preparation for its reopening, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. The state highway is the last to reopen after being washed out by flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

One of the first vehicles travels on Route 107 after it reopened Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011 in Bethel, Vt. The state highway is the last to reopen after being closed by flooding. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Workers install guard rails on Route 107 in Bethel, Vt. in preparation for its reopening Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. The state highway is the last to reopen after being washed out by flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

A sign advises drivers on Route 107 in Bethel, Vt., in preparation for its reopening Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. The state highway is the last to reopen after being washed out by flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2011 photo, an excavator works in the White River in Stockbridge, Vt. State officials are going to mark the reopening of Vermont Route 107, the last state highway closed by flooding from tropical storm Irene to reopen. It marks the completion of the Herculean task of getting Vermont going again after Irene. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

STOCKBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) ? After hundreds of thousands of tons of rock were hauled out and tens of thousands of man-hours were spent, Vermont celebrated the completion of the biggest single engineering challenge following the flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Irene.

Just in time for the new year, and four months after the storm hit, Route 107 between Bethel and Stockbridge was reopened Thursday. The state highway, a major east-west thoroughfare, is the last to reopen after being closed by flooding.

The road's reopening was marked with a ceremony at a Stockbridge school, where scores of local residents and state officials tossed fluorescent orange baseball caps into the air.

"It will cut our commute time down, it will lessen our trauma of looking at all the damage and the moonscape," said Stockbridge resident Melissa Thompson, who had to navigate a 70-minute detour to get her son to school and to get to work for the past few months. "We'll probably miss all the flaggers (who) we got to know on the way. It just means so much to us to not have to make that commute every day."

Much remains to be done on Route 107 and across the state, but Vermonters used the reopening as a moment to pause and celebrate. Many people are still struggling to rebuild their homes and their lives. The state is just totaling up the bill, and the Legislature is preparing to deal with a variety of Irene-induced, long-term challenges.

The repair of Route 107 posed one of the biggest tests following the storm that left a dozen towns cut off from the outside world for days, damaged or destroyed more than 500 miles of roads and 200 bridges, killed six and reshaped much of the low-lying countryside.

Irene ripped up Vermont on Aug. 28. The downtowns of communities from Whitingham in southern Vermont to Waterbury, just west of Montpelier, were flooded to levels not seen since the state's epic flood of 1927.

Neale Lunderville, the state's appointed chief recovery officer, said it would be years before many Vermont families are back to what he calls "a new normal."

"If we want to have a robust recovery and one that brings us back to a place where we are stronger, smarter and safer than before Irene, we have to continue to remember what Irene did and what we need to do to recover from that," Lunderville said. "It's going to take a concerted effort and ongoing attention at high levels in order for us to have a really strong recovery."

The stretch of highway between Bethel and Stockbridge is one of the state's major east-west arteries, and sections of the highway were part of the riverbank where the road and the White River pass through a narrow cut in the Green Mountains. Irene's run through Vermont funneled record volumes of water through that narrow pass, where it tore riverbanks to pieces.

"All of a sudden the road ended and then we were looking at river and mud and what used to be huge sheets of asphalt that had shifted into the river," said Maine Army National Guard Capt. Norman Stickney, of Gardiner, who arrived five days after the storm. "It was like something fell from the sky and completely crushed all of the asphalt and scooped it away and dumped it into the river."

In the three-mile section of road that was hardest hit, about 4,000 feet of Route 107 was completely gone, said Vermont Transportation Agency Engineer Eric Foster, who oversaw the rebuilding of the highway. A job that would normally take two years was done in 119 days after the first work crews ? the soldiers from the Maine National Guard and other states ? arrived.

In addition to the guard, it took two contractors, 250,000 tons of rock, at least 20,000 hours of heavy equipment time, 7,500 feet of guardrail, 38 culverts and 46 companies over 16 weeks to repair the highway, according to information provided by the Vermont Transportation Agency.

The biggest challenge was getting the rocks and other fill material to Bethel. A special "rock train" was used to bring fill from distant quarries before it was unloaded a couple of miles from the work site. The train saved an estimated 6,600 truck trips.

In other parts of the state, officials have said some of the repairs done on the fly to get traffic moving again might have to be redone. That's not the case for Route 107.

The roadway was built with layers of different sized rock and the banks sloped to withstand another Irene, said Glenn Cairns, of the Windham, N.H., contractor George Cairns and Sons, which brought its specialized equipment ? excavators and dump trucks that are up to twice the size of those usually found on Vermont highway projects.

It's designed to withstand another "Irene, plus two feet," said Foster.

Both Stickney and Cairn said they were amazed by how grateful Vermonters were despite the challenges they faced.

"Even though these people, their lives were turned upside down, they were friendly," Cairns said. "They really didn't mind sitting in traffic waiting for us ? the hardship that they went through and everybody was just thankful and waved and smiled.

"They went through a lot. I could understand how they could be bitter, 'Why isn't my road back together?' But I've got to say the people were just extremely friendly and welcoming."

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MILWAUKEE, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Brandon Jennings scored 24 points and Andrew Bogut added 15 Tuesday to lead the Milwaukee Bucks past Minnesota 98-95.

Jennings hit half of his 14 shots from the field and was 9-of-10 from the free-throw line for the Bucks, who evened their record to 1-1 in their home opener.

Stephen Jackson contributed 16 points to the Bucks' effort and Jon Leuer scored 14 off the bench.

Kevin Love led winless Minnesota with 31 points and 20 rebounds. Love hit six field goals and was 19-for-24 from the free-throw line.

Minnesota made a bid to steal the win with a late run that cut Milwaukee's lead to 94-92 with 1:41 to play on a jumper by Michael Beasley off one of Ricky Rubio's four assists, but Love's 3-point attempt with 2.9 to play missed the mark.

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The?Chinese currency?closed up against the dollar on today after hitting an all-time high, guided by a stronger mid-point by the?People?s Bank of China, and looks set for an over-4-per cent appreciation for 2011, traders said.? The Yuan is expected to remain stable or rise slightly in the last week of the year to close 2011 near 6.30 versus the dollar, in line with market expectations.

The currency is likely to continue to appreciate next year as China continues to post big trade surpluses despite a slowdown in exports and amid pressure from the United States to let the Yuan rise to balance bilateral trade, traders said.

The Yuan has appreciated 4.27 per cent so far this year, with most of the gain being recorded in the first 10 months of the year as China tries to rebalance trade and use the currency to help fight high inflation.

While the government has recently halted Yuan appreciation amid slowing exports, it also seems to be wary of a weaker Yuan that may lead to capital outflows.

Some overseas investors appear to have been shorting the Yuan in recent months amid signs that China?s growth is slowing under the double weight of a global slowdown and the country?s monetary tightening policy in place since October last year.

In an unexpected announcement ?Japan?and China will promote direct trading of the Yen and Yuan without using dollars and will encourage the development of a market for companies involved in the exchanges, the Japanese government reported today

Japan will purchase Chinese bonds next year, allowing the investment of renminbi that leaves China during the transactions, the Japanese government said encouraging direct yen- Yuan settlement should reduce currency risks and trading costs.

China is Japan?s biggest trading partner with 26.5 trillion yen ($340 billion) in two-way transactions last year, from 9.2 trillion yen a decade earlier. The pacts between the world?s second- and third-largest economies mirror attempts by fund managers to diversify as the two-year-old European debt crisis keeps global financial markets volatile.

Given the huge size of the trade volume between Asia?s two biggest economies, this agreement is much more significant than any other pacts China has signed with other nations.

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An unidentified model walks down the fashion show runway this weekend with the wedding dress that the manga/anime creator team CLAMP designed in the motif of Cardcaptor Sakura. The dress was on display at Tokyo Bridal Festa 2011, which ran at the Tokyo Big Sight event center on Friday and Saturday.

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ScienceDaily (Dec. 23, 2011) ? One of our genes is apolipoprotein E (APOE), which often appears with a variation which nobody would want to have: APOE?4, the main genetic risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer's disease (the most common form in which this disorder manifests itself and which is caused by a combination of hereditary and environmental factors). It is estimated that at least 40% of the sporadic patients affected by this disease are carriers of APOE?4, but this also means that much more still remains to be studied. The researcher at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Xabier Elcoroaristizabal has opened up a channel for making a start by analysing candidate genes which, always in combination with APOE?4, could help to explain more cases.

His thesis is entitled "Molecular markers in mild amnestic cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease" (Marcadores moleculares en deterioro cognitivo leve tipo amn?sico y enfermedad de Alzheimer). An initial article on this can be read in the journal BMC Neuroscience.

The long-term aim is to contribute towards the early detection of Alzheimer's disease by identifying signs that could be detectable in the very early phases. And, as Elcoroaristizabal explains, while there is no cure for this disorder, the alternative is to get ahead of it and delay its development: "Certain preventive measures involving cognitive stimulation delay its appearance. There are even new drugs that could start to be used earlier. Today there is no solution, but the more we maintain a person's correct cognitive state, the better."

Mild amnestic, cognitive impairment

The individuals who develop Alzheimer's go through a transition period first of all, and this could be the key moment for the effective application of preventive measures. This is mild cognitive impairment (MCI), in which slight cognitive alterations take place but do not affect everyday activities. Among the different types of MCI, one affects memory almost exclusively (amnestic MCI), and those people who suffer from it have a high probability of developing the disorder. The difficult and interesting part is knowing which genetic components are linked to this impairment and also in determining by what percentage the risk of developing the disease increases, a task which Elcoroaristizabal has set himself. "If we can identify which genes are involved and what susceptibility factors there are, preventive measures could be taken," he explains.

So a contrast study has been carried out among a sample of patients with MCI, ones with Alzheimer's and healthy people. This can be used to observe the changes and narrow down the field for the zones to be studied, so that candidate genes can be sought there. Elcoroaristizabal himself notes one example among the many others identified: "It has been observed that the brain's capacity to control cholesterol levels seems to play a key role throughout the illness. So, protein encoding genes linked to this control have been analysed."

In this quest for candidate genes, Elcoroaristizabal has confirmed that the APOE?4 genetic variation is, in fact, the main risk factor for developing Alzheimer's disease. But it does not end there; he has identified several genes which, as long as they are manifested in combination with APOE?4, could take us one step further towards the early detection of this disorder. "Genes that in some way are connected with neurotransmission channels, oxidative stress or the effectiveness of oestrogens seem to be linked to a greater risk for APOE?4 carriers," he explains. Specifically, the candidate genes are as follows: COMT (neurotransmission), SOD2 (oxidative stress elimination) and ESR1 and ESR2 (oestrogen action facilitators).

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MOSCOW ? Tens of thousands of demonstrators on Saturday cheered opposition leaders and jeered the Kremlin in the largest protest in the Russian capital so far against election fraud, signaling growing outrage over Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule.

The demonstration in Moscow was even bigger than a similar protest two weeks ago, although rallies in other cities in the far east and Siberia earlier in the day drew smaller crowds than on Dec. 10. The demonstrations are the largest show of discontent the nation has seen since the 1991 Soviet collapse.

Rally participants densely packed a broad avenue, which has room for nearly 100,000 people, about 2.5 kilometers (some 1.5 miles) from the Kremlin, as the temperature dipped well below freezing. They chanted "Russia without Putin!"

A stage at the end of the 700-meter (0.43 mile) avenue featured placards reading "Russia will be free" and "This election Is a farce." Heavy police cordons encircled the participants, who stood within metal barriers, and a police helicopter hovered overhead.

Alexei Navalny, a corruption-fighting lawyer and popular blogger, electrified the crowd when he took the stage. A rousing speaker, he had protesters shouting "We are the power!"

Navalny spent 15 days in jail for leading a protest the day after the Dec. 4 parliamentary election that unexpectedly drew more than 5,000 people and set off the chain of demonstrations. Since his release, he has helped to further galvanize the opposition.

Putin's United Russia party lost 25 percent of its seats in the election, but hung onto a majority in parliament through what independent observers said was widespread fraud. United Russia, seen as representing a corrupt bureaucracy, has become known as the party of crooks and thieves, a phrase coined by Navalny.

"We have enough people here to take the Kremlin," he shouted to the crowd. "But we are peaceful people and we won't do that ? yet. But if these crooks and thieves keep cheating us, we will take what is ours."

The recent protests in Moscow and other cities have dented Putin's authority as he seeks to reclaim the presidency in a March vote. The Kremlin has responded by promising a set of political reforms that would allow more political competition in future elections.

But protest leaders say they will continue pushing for a rerun of the Dec. 4 parliamentary election and punishment for officials accused of vote fraud. They say maintaining momentum is key to forcing Putin's government to accept their demands.

"We don't trust him," opposition leader Boris Nemtsov told the rally, urging protesters to gather again next month to make sure that the proposed changes are put into law. Along with liberals, the rally also drew Communists, nationalists and other groups.

Nemtsov called on the demonstrators to go to the polls in March to unseat Putin. "A thief must not sit in the Kremlin," he said.

"We want to back those who are fighting for our rights," said 16-year-old Darya Andryukhina, who said she had also attended the previous rally.

"People have come here because they want respect," said Tamara Voronina, 54, who said she was proud of her three sons, who had also joined the protest.

The protests reflect a growing public frustration with Putin, who ruled Russia as president in 2000-2008 and has remained the No. 1 leader after moving into the prime minister's seat due to a constitutional term limit. Brazen fraud in the parliamentary vote unexpectedly energized the middle class, which for years had been politically apathetic.

"No one has done more to bring so many people here than Putin who managed to insult the whole country," said Viktor Shenderovich, a columnist and satirical writer.

Putin has accused the United States of fomenting the protests in order to weaken Russia and has said, sarcastically, that he thought the white ribbons many protesters wear as an emblem were condoms.

In a response to Putin's blustery rhetoric, one protester Saturday held a picture montage of Putin with his head wrapped in a condom like a grandmother's headscarf.

"We can't tolerate such a show of disrespect for the people, for the entire nation," journalist and music critic Artyomy Troitsky said in a speech at the rally. He wore a white gown that resembled a condom, mocking Putin's comment.

Although Putin has derided the demonstrators as Western stooges, he has also sought to soothe public anger by promising to relax his grip on the political scene.

He has promised to liberalize registration rules for opposition parties and restore the direct election of governors he abolished in 2004. Putin's stand-in as president, Dmitry Medvedev, spelled out those and other proposed changes in Thursday's state-of-the nation address, promising to restore direct elections to fill half of the seats in parliament and ease rules for the presidential election.

Some opposition leaders welcomed the proposals, but stressed the need for the protests to continue to force the Kremlin to quickly turn the promises into law.

"These measures are insufficient," said Arina Zhukova, 45, another participant in Saturday's rally. "They are intended to calm people down and prevent them from showing up at rallies."

The electoral changes, however, will only apply to a new election cycle years away, and the opposition has stressed the need to focus on preventing fraud in the March presidential election and mounting a consolidated challenge to Putin.

In another sign of the authorities' efforts to stem the tide of public anger, the presidential human rights commission early Saturday issued a statement condemning violations in the vote and backing protesters' calls for the ouster of Central Election Commission chief Vladimir Churov.

It said that allegations of widespread fraud have led to a "moral and political discrediting of the election system and the lower house of parliament, creating a real threat to the Russian state."

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Vladimir Isachenkov and Lynn Berry contributed to this report.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Character actor and Hollywood dialect coach Robert Easton, whose successes include teaching Forest Whitaker to speak like Idi Amin in the 2006 movie "The Last King of Scotland," has died in Los Angeles. He was 81.

Daughter Heather Woodruff Perry tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/rEfhAQ ) that Easton died of natural causes on Monday at his home in the San Fernando Valley.

His movie credits include "Paint Your Wagon," ''Pete's Dragon," ''Pet Sematary II" and "Primary Colors."

When he was younger, he mainly played country bumpkins on TV shows because of his Southern drawl.

He feared being typecast so he worked on different accents and learned he could mimic regional speech patterns.

As a dialect coach, he worked Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlton Heston, Liam Neeson, Anne Hathaway and Robert Duvall.

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The Palestine they don?t want you to see

Israel and the American media want you to believe that Palestinians are fanatics; existing only for Israel?s destruction. They want you to believe Palestinians hate Jews and Christians and all other ?infidels?, that they?re all strapped around in bombs, wearing suicide costumes, ready to die. The Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich even openly said that Palestinians are ?terrorists?.

This is the Palestine they don?t want you to see, that they never show you. The top picture (10th December 2011) shows Palestinians working on a huge Christmas tree in Bethlehem?s Manger Square, in Palestine. Yes, that is a mosque right next to it. The bottom-left picture was taken today, 15th December 2011, showing a Palestinian boy scout marching band playing during the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Manger Square, outside the Church of the Nativity, the site revered as the birthplace of Jesus, in Palestine. [Getty/Reuters]

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? Use of a class of anti-anxiety drugs fell during the past decade among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, a large U.S. study shows.

The trend is encouraging, researchers say, because current guidelines recommend against using the drugs, benzodiazepines, to treat symptoms associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

"One of our concerns is that it's very, very difficult to get patients off benzodiazepines," said Dr. Matthew Friedman, executive director of the National Center for PTSD and a professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth, who co-authored the study.

Benzodiazepines include the medications alprazolam (Xanax), diazepam (Valium) and clonazepam (Klonopin). They are used to manage conditions such as anxiety and insomnia, which are often linked to PTSD. Long-term use of the drugs can lead to high tolerance and addiction.

The study, which looked at data from more than 498,000 patients in the Veterans Affairs health care system between 1999 and 2009, found decreases in the frequency, duration and doses of benzodiazepines given to veterans with PTSD.

Treating veterans with PTSD will become even more important in coming years, the team notes, due to recent and ongoing U.S. military conflicts. The number of veterans with PTSD treated in the Veterans Affairs health care system rose nearly 200 percent between 1999 and 2009.

The percentage of PTSD patients given benzodiazepines fell from about 37 percent in 1999 to about 31 percent in 2009. Of patients taking the drugs, the proportion of long-term (more than 90 days) users dropped from about 69 percent in 2000 to about 64 percent in 2009. Daily doses fell 14 percent on average, according to findings published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Veterans with PTSD have an increased risk for harm because they often also suffer from substance abuse disorders, the researchers note. Estimates place the co-occurrence of alcohol abuse and PTSD around 25 percent, or higher, nationally.

Emerging evidence also suggests benzodiazepines may interfere with prolonged exposure therapy, which has been one of the most effective treatments for PTSD, Friedman said.

Guidelines issued by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs earlier this year recommend against using the drugs to treat veterans with PTSD. Instead, experts generally recommend psychotherapy to treat core symptoms such as hypervigilance, avoidance and flashbacks. The guidelines also recommend using antidepressant medications to treat PTSD symptoms.

"We believe a lot of benzodiazepines are being prescribed for problems with sleep, which is also a symptom of depression," Friedman told Reuters Health. "If we treat the depression, perhaps the insomnia will also go away."

The study found that new PTSD patients -- those who were diagnosed and began treatment at a Veterans Affairs medical center -- in 2009 were prescribed benzodiazepines at the lowest rate, about 21 percent. Newly diagnosed patients are often the first to benefit from updated treatment guidelines.

TRADING ONE RISK FOR ANOTHER?

But the possibility that benzodiazepines are simply being swapped out for other risky drugs concerns some experts.

Substituting more modern medications such as zolpidem (Ambien) or quetiapine (an antipsychotic) is not the answer, said Dr. Alexander Neumeister, a professor of psychiatry and radiology at New York University.

"Unfortunately, when you look into databases like the VA's, it is pretty evident that there is a lot of off-label use of medications like quetiapine to treat sleep issues," Neumeister told Reuters Health, referring to the ability of doctors to prescribe drugs approved for conditions other than PTSD.

"Even if you avoid the abuse problem, you're nevertheless treating a patient with a medication that really should not be used for that indication. Not at all."

The study authors also recognized that possibility.

"We are trying to characterize these diagnoses to get a better handle on who's prescribing what, who's getting what, and for what reasons," said Friedman. "Based on that information, we can develop our educational approaches to inform clinicians who may not be as familiar with clinical practice guidelines."

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/rAcuOG Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, online November 29, 2011.

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The final GOP debate before the Iowa caucuses happened last night, and candidates are now hoping to hold everyone's attention, right before Christmas. NBC?s Chuck Todd reports.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? A top U.S. trade official on Tuesday said the United States was not satisfied with how China was meeting its obligations in the World Trade Organization and has been stepping up its enforcement activity.

"We are intensifying our efforts and we are not going to let go," Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China Claire Reade told the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

However, Reade said she was unable to say how the administration would respond if it received a formal petition from the private sector or members of Congress asking it to investigate China's currency practices as an unfair trade practice.

Reade noted the U.S. Treasury Department has the lead on currency issues.

The administration of former President George W. Bush turned down several requests to investigate China's currency practices, but President Barack Obama's administration has never received such a petition.

(Reporting by Doug Palmer, Editing by Neil Stempleman)

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Monica, seen here supporting son Matias before a challenge on "Fear Factor," doesn't appreciate the comments she heard on the show.

By Ree Hines

On the premiere episode of the revamped "Fear Factor," viewers met Monica and Matias, a close -- really, really close -- mother and son team that was ready for any challenge or gross-out gag host Joe Rogan was willing to throw their way. But as it turns out, there was one thing the two?weren't ready for -- the way other teams, and even Rogan, reacted to their relationship.

See, Monica and Matias were hand-on with their support of each other on Monday night's show, and that left their competition with plenty to talk about.

"(Matias) and his mama -- they're touching each other a little too much for me," one member of the yellow team mentioned. "(They're) making me feel kind of funny."

It was a sentiment Rogan shared.

"I think a lot of people at home feel funny, too," he said on behalf of the home audience before adding, "I hug my mom every time I see her, but then I let go."

Now Monica has something to say about that.

"I am appalled and disgusted at the comments of people on the show about Matias? and my relationship and how it seems ?inappropriate? for a mother and son," she told TMZ. "Are you kidding me?"

Take that, yellow team.

Monica also insisted that "in no way, shape or form am I inappropriate with my son."

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TORONTO (Reuters) ? The high cost of Ontario's green energy plan may drive up electricity bills significantly in the province in the future, the government's auditor general said in his annual report on Monday.

He also said wind and solar projects launched under the province's green energy plan had been fast-tracked without the usual oversight.

"There has been a lack analysis that you'd normally find when you're investing billions of dollars," Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter said.

He added it is critical that the government do more analysis so that it can strike a balance between promoting renewable energy through the provision of financial incentives and managing the impact of those incentives on the energy bills of homeowners and businesses.

The government has already said it is concerned about the impact of its generous green energy subsidies on ratepayers and that it will address the issue in a review of the program that it launched recently.

The auditor general's annual report will likely be used as ammunition by opponents of Ontario's minority Liberal government. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has championed green power, arguing that building solar and wind projects will create jobs and build expertise in a growing sector. But opposition politicians have complained bitterly about rising electricity costs.

The value-for-money audit also scrutinized the special debt retirement charge for Ontario Hydro, the former government-owned power company, on monthly electricity bills in the province. It said that since they started paying the charge in 2002, taxpayers have already paid C$900 million ($888 million) more than the initial assessment of C$7.8 billion for Ontario Hydro's "residual stranded debt", without the required update from the finance ministry.

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(Reporting by Claire Sibonney and Jeffrey Hodgson; Editing by Peter Galloway)

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PSFK challenged top creative agencies worldwide to come up with concepts that address issues put forth by The Climate Reality Project. Participants in the Gaming For Good challenge were encouraged to leverage trends identified in PSFK?s Future Of Gaming report to create potential solutions.

We will be highlighting the strongest concepts over the next week, and in doing so PSFK hopes to shine a light on the ways that by working together, The Climate Reality Project and other like-minded businesses can solve some of the environmental issues that face our entire civilization.

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Realitree is a digital manifestation of our local environment and the role that we are playing in sustaining its wellbeing. It is a game played by different groups in many places. Individuals, teams, communities, cities and even countries compete against their counterparts via Twitter, Facebook and through other social tools.

A Realitree is like a huge Tamagotchi for which thousands of people care. It is a massive projection showing a digital image of a tree, complete with leaves, branches, roots, sky and earth. Realitree functions like a real tree, in that it will thrive and suffer according to the health of its surrounding environment.

Realitree?s environment takes into account news media, so news stories that are in conflict with climate reality will reflect negatively on its health. Realitree will expose agents of the fossil fuel industry who propagate smear, innuendo, criminal hacking and leaking of out-of-context snippets or lies.

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, new research has shown.

In the first functional MRI brain scan study to investigate the impact of physical abuse and domestic violence on children, scientists at UCL in collaboration with the Anna Freud Centre, found that exposure to family violence was associated with increased brain activity in two specific brain areas (the anterior insula and the amygdala) when children viewed pictures of angry faces.

Previous fMRI studies that scanned the brains of soldiers exposed to violent combat situations have shown the same pattern of heightened activation in these two areas of the brain, which are associated with threat detection. The authors suggest that both maltreated children and soldiers may have adapted to be 'hyper-aware' of danger in their environment.

However, the anterior insula and amygdala are also areas of the brain implicated in anxiety disorders. Neural adaptation in these regions may help explain why children exposed to family violence are at greater risk of developing anxiety problems later in life.

Dr Eamon McCrory, lead author from the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences and the Anna Freud Centre, said: "We are only now beginning to understand how child abuse influences functioning of the brain's emotional systems. This research is important because it provides our first clues as to how regions in the child's brain may adapt to early experiences of abuse in the home".

Dr McCrory added: "All the children studied were healthy and none were suffering from a mental health problem. What we have shown is that exposure to family violence is associated with altered brain functioning in the absence of psychiatric symptoms and that these alterations may represent an underlying neural risk factor. We suggest these changes may be adaptive for the child in the short term but may increase longer term risk".

In the study, which is published in the journal Current Biology, 43 children had their brains scanned using an fMRI scanner. 20 children who had been exposed to documented violence at home were compared with 23 matched peers who had not experienced family violence. The average age of the maltreated children was 12 years old and they had all been referred to local social services in London.

When the children were in the scanner they were presented with pictures of male and female faces showing sad, calm or angry expressions. The children had only to decide if the face was male or female ? processing the emotion on the face was incidental. As described, the children who had been exposed to violence at home showed increased brain activity in the anterior insula and amygdala in response to the angry faces.

Professor Peter Fonagy, Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre and professor of psychology at UCL, said: "Dr McCrory's groundbreaking research has undoubtedly taken us an important step closer to understanding the devastation which exposing children to violence can leave in its wake. His exciting findings confirm the traumatic effects these experiences have on brain development.

Professor Fonagy added: "The report should energize clinicians and social workers to double their efforts to safeguard children from violence. By helping us understand the consequences of maltreatment the findings also offer fresh inspiration for the development of effective treatment strategies to protect children from the consequences of maltreatment."

Dr McCrory said: "Even though we know that maltreatment represents one of the most potent environmental risk factors associated with anxiety and depression, relatively little is known how such adversity 'gets under the skin' and increases a child's later vulnerability."

"The next step for us is to try and understand how stable these changes are. Not every child exposed to family violence will go on to develop a mental health problem; many bounce back and lead successful lives. We want to know much more about those mechanisms that help some children become resilient."

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Rachel Maddow reports on an offshoot of the Occupy movement dedicated to defending struggling Americans for foreclosure and eviction.

By Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com

?Occupy? protesters and housing rights activists are planning to help families resist eviction from foreclosed homes and take control of? vacant properties in some 25 U.S. cities on Tuesday,? an effort aimed at focusing attention on the ongoing housing crisis and giving the movement a new focus after the dismantling of many of its encampments.

The protesters have been crafting proposals ? often quietly to prevent police from learning about their intentions beforehand -- to defend families facing eviction or return others home. In Minneapolis, for example, they plan to help a Vietnam War veteran stay in his home, in New York, protesters will try to help a family get back into their house, and in Chicago, two sisters and their seven children will be moved into an abandoned single-family home, activists said.

"It?s part of a national day of action that we hope will kick off a wave of defenses and home re-occupations,? Max Berger, 26, told the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly late Thursday while requesting $6,400 in funding to buy tools for the project. "This is not just about one event; this is a huge frontier for us. We can do these kinds of actions all the time, and we should. And it doesn?t have to be just us. We got to do this one right so we can inspire people to do it theirselves.?

?Occupy? protesters already have been squatting in vacant houses in cities like New York, Seattle, Portland, Oakland and London, where protesters have taken over an abandoned office block bought by UBS several years ago and dubbed it the "Bank of Ideas." They also have made scattered efforts ? some of them successful -- to help families facing eviction defend their homes, including in California and Minneapolis.???

One of those efforts is ?Occupy 477,??where protesters joined families facing eviction from a West Harlem building and restored heat and water to the building, activists said.

Housing rights groups and ?Occupy? encampments have long been in talks about a national day of action, with regular conference calls involving dozens of activists, said Rob Robinson of Take Back the Land,?a national network of organizations focused on housing rights and securing community control over land.

"As part of the 99 percent, we feel like corporations, big banks, are what's holding us back, what?s keeping us impoverished. This is folks' way of fighting back against those institutions," Robinson said.

Banks are expected to repossess some 800,000 homes this year, down from more than 1 million last year, said RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio. But the number of U.S. homes that received a first-time default notice during the July to September quarter increased 14 percent compared to the second quarter of the year, according to the firm.

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The increase is a sign that banks are now moving more aggressively against borrowers who have fallen behind on their mortgage payments following industrywide foreclosure processing problems that emerged last fall. Those problems resulted in a sharp drop in foreclosure activity early this year.

The "ultimate message" of the anti-foreclosure protests is "bank reform," said Anthony Newby, a community organizer with Neighborhoods Organizing for Change in Minneapolis.

The focus on the housing crisis could also give some new direction to the Occupy movement, which has faced evictions from their camps across the country.

"In some ways, it's a natural progression for lots of reasons for this whole Occupy movement to get away from the plaza and actually start doing things on Main Street ... that are affecting individual people's lives in a very direct way," Newby said.

There also are some practical reasons for more scattered occupations.

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A group of "Occupy" protesters?in Minneapolis?is?looking for an empty?building that they can take over for their winter encampment after authorities attemped to?evict them from their current headquarters three times in the last 36 hours, said Nick Espinosa, a 25-year-old unemployed social worker and protester.

?We?re really looking right now to take a vacant space that ? we could use for an occupation," he said, noting they would be scouting properties later Friday. "Ideally it would be a space where we could do both (help a family keep their home and occupy) to keep the message really sharp about why we're doing this and about homelessness and people who don't have homes as a result of the foreclosure crisis.

"But, you know, at the end of the day, we do need some sort of a space here where we can meet and continue to organize and ... grow and build our community here through the winter."?

At Occupy Wall Street, Berger noted that protesters had been frequently asked when they would begin engaging in politics, to which he said: "We are."

"The great thing about housing is it?s macro and it?s micro," he said. "People don?t understand a thing about proprietary trading ? but they know they have a mortgage that they're behind on."

?This movement is about taking back this country for regular people and that?s exactly what we?re doing with these actions," he later added. "We?re not going to let the power of the banks keep people from having what they need."

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That tablets are beginning to supplant the bog-standard PCs in some people's lives shouldn't come as a surprise, but what about outside of the home? Tablets are in some ways better suited to certain situations where managing PCs can be a real hassle. Dan Frommer ran into such a situation not long ago -- while at JFK International Airport, Fromm found himself relaxing at the MasterCard Lounge surrounded by a handful of iPads intended for guest use.

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