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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Apple lead designer Jonathan Ive knighted for the New Year, how's your 2012 looking?
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Friday, December 30, 2011
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',
container = $('#drop-panel-container'),
contents = $(container).html();
if (isIE8) {
$(container).replaceWith(f+contents+b)
}
}
function dropPanelSetUp(data) {
/* buttons should be a dataobject of strings representing IDs
the hide and show functions are expecting IDs so passing a class will result in a
failure.
click as the action is assumed for now
the data object should look like this:
{ masterlistener:(string[dom id]),
panel:(string[dom id]),
eventgroup1:{ button:(string[dom id]),
content:(string[dom id]),
offset:{x:(int),y:(int)},
on_state_class: ''(string)
},
eventgroup2:{ button:(string[dom id]),
content:(string[dom id]),
offset:{x:(int),y:(int)},
on_state_class: ''(string)
} ... etc
}
The drop panel nodes should be placed so they share the same offset parent as the buttons that activate it.
NOTE: IE8 Got-chya: the ID for the panel is hard coded into the IE8 rouned corners code.
If you have changed the ID for the drop panel and are having trouble with IE8
change the ID in the template string in this function: ie8DropPanel()
*/
var speed = 300,
panel = $('#'+data.panel),
buttons = [];
for (var i=1,eg; eg=data[('eventgroup'+i)]; i++) {
var bp = $('#'+eg.button).position(), //button position
ph = $('#'+eg.button).height(), //button height
panelPos = [bp.top+ph, bp.left, eg.offset];
on_state_class = eg.on_state_class;
buttons.push([$('#'+eg.button),$('#'+eg.content),panelPos,eg.button,on_state_class]);
}
$('#'+data.masterlistener).bind('click',{speed:speed,panel:panel,buttons:buttons},function(event){
var org = event.target,
speed = event.data.speed,
panel = event.data.panel,
buttons = event.data.buttons,
panel_open = isPanelOpen(panel);
for (var i=buttons.length-1, b; b=buttons[i]; i--) {
/*
* b[0] = button DOM object
* b[1] = content DOM object
* b[2] = the display co-ord object:
* [0] = top (int)
* [1] = left (int)
* [2] = offset object
* {x,y}(int,int)
* b[3] = button ID (string)
* b[4] = button 'on' class
*/
var button_id = b[3],
same_content = isSameContent(panel,b[1]);
if ( $(org).attr('id') === button_id || $(org).parents('#'+button_id).attr('id')){
if(!same_content) {
hideAllContent(buttons);
movePanel(panel,b[2]);
if (panel_open) {
showContent(b[1],b[0],b[4]);
} else {
showContent(b[1],b[0],b[4]);
showPanel(panel,speed);
}
} else {
hidePanel(panel,speed,b[4]);
}
}
}
function isPanelOpen(panel) {
return ($(panel).css('display').toLowerCase() === 'block');
}
function isSameContent (panel,content) {
return ($(content, panel).css('display').toLowerCase() === 'block');
}
function movePanel(panel,b) {
// b[0] top, b[1] left, b[2] {x,y}
$(panel).css({
'top': (b[0] + b[2].x)
});
$(panel).css({
'left': (b[1] + b[2].y)
});
}
function showPanel(panel,speed) {
$(panel).slideDown(speed);
}
function hidePanel(panel,speed) {
$(panel).slideUp(speed, function() {hideAllContent(buttons);});
}
function showContent(content, button, btn_class) {
$(content).show();
$(button).addClass(btn_class);
}
function hideContent(content) {
$(content).hide();
}
function hideAllContent(buttons) {
for (var i = buttons.length-1, b; b=buttons[i]; i--) {
$(b[1]).hide();
$(b[0]).removeClass(b[4]);
}
}
})
}
return {
ieRoundedCorners:ieRoundedCorners,
ie8DropPanel:ie8DropPanel,
dropPanelSetUp:dropPanelSetUp
}
})();
var headerNavication = (function($,cw) {
var nav_item_list = $('.cw-header .main-nav ul.main > li'),
channel_id_list = '',
channel,
sub_channel;
var findChannel = function () {
var winloc = isIE ? document.URL.split('/') : document.documentURI.split('/') ,
channel_id = winloc[3],
sub_chanel_id = winloc.length > 5 ? '/'+winloc[4]+'/' : '',
reg_sub_find_id = new RegExp(sub_chanel_id,'ig'),
reg_removed_id = /^nav-/i;
for (var i=nav_item_list.length-1,n; n=nav_item_list[i]; i--) {
if ( channel_id === $(n).children('a').attr('id').replace(reg_removed_id,'') ) {
var list = $(n).children('ul').children('li');
if (sub_chanel_id.length > 0) {
for (var j=list.length-1,l; l=list[j]; j--) {
if (reg_sub_find_id.test($(l).children('a').attr('href'))) {
break;
} else {
l = false;
}
}
}
break;
}
}
findChannel = function () {
return [n,l];
}
return [n,l];
}
var init = (function() {
channel = findChannel()[0] || nav_item_list[0];
sub_channel = findChannel()[1];
if (sub_channel) {
highlightSubChannel();
}
clearNav();
if(isIE) {
cw.ieRoundedCorners();
if(isIE8) {
cw.ie8DropPanel();
}
}
if ($('#handle-header').attr('id')) {
cw.dropPanelSetUp({
masterlistener: 'handle-header',
panel: ('drop-panel-container'),
eventgroup1: {
button: 'btn-newspapers',
content: 'panel-newspapers',
offset: {
x: 5,
y: 0
},
on_state_class: 'newspapers-dropdown-on'
},
eventgroup2: {
button: 'btn-networks',
content: 'panel-networks',
offset: {
x: 5,
y: 0
},
on_state_class: 'networks-dropdown-on'
}
});
}
//need to check state of search radio buttons since firefox doesn't reset to the default checked radio button
if($('.cw-header #radio-btn-yp:checked').attr('id') != null){
$('.cw-header #header-search-form').attr('action','http://canadacom.yellowpages.ca/search/');
$('.cw-header #header-search-string').attr('name','what');
$('.cw-header #radio-btn-yp').siblings('label').removeClass('selected');
$('.cw-header #radio-btn-yp').next().addClass('selected');
}
eventSetUp();
}())
function highlightSubChannel() {
if((document.location+"").indexOf("/sports/football/cfl/") > -1) $(".mainnav-item .cfl").addClass('sub-nav-highlight');
else if((document.location+"").indexOf("/sports/football/grey-cup-2011/") > -1) $(".mainnav-item .cfl").addClass('sub-nav-highlight');
else if((document.location+"").indexOf("/sports/football/nfl/") > -1) $(".mainnav-item .nfl").addClass('sub-nav-highlight');
else $(sub_channel).addClass('sub-nav-highlight');
}
function clearNav() {
clearTabs();
$(channel).children('ul').show();
$(channel).css('background-position', 'bottom right');
}
function eventSetUp() {
$('.cw-header .main-nav ').bind('mouseleave', function(event){
if (isIE) {
if ($(event.relatedTarget).parents('.main-nav').length 0)?"" + value.substring(0,pos) + "" + value.substring(pos, term.length) + "" + value.substring(pos + term.length) + "":value.substring(0, term.length) + "" + value.substring(pos + term.length) + ""; }, scroll: false, selectFirst: false }); });
container = $('#drop-panel-container'),
contents = $(container).html();
if (isIE8) {
$(container).replaceWith(f+contents+b)
}
}
function dropPanelSetUp(data) {
/* buttons should be a dataobject of strings representing IDs
the hide and show functions are expecting IDs so passing a class will result in a
failure.
click as the action is assumed for now
the data object should look like this:
{ masterlistener:(string[dom id]),
panel:(string[dom id]),
eventgroup1:{ button:(string[dom id]),
content:(string[dom id]),
offset:{x:(int),y:(int)},
on_state_class: ''(string)
},
eventgroup2:{ button:(string[dom id]),
content:(string[dom id]),
offset:{x:(int),y:(int)},
on_state_class: ''(string)
} ... etc
}
The drop panel nodes should be placed so they share the same offset parent as the buttons that activate it.
NOTE: IE8 Got-chya: the ID for the panel is hard coded into the IE8 rouned corners code.
If you have changed the ID for the drop panel and are having trouble with IE8
change the ID in the template string in this function: ie8DropPanel()
*/
var speed = 300,
panel = $('#'+data.panel),
buttons = [];
for (var i=1,eg; eg=data[('eventgroup'+i)]; i++) {
var bp = $('#'+eg.button).position(), //button position
ph = $('#'+eg.button).height(), //button height
panelPos = [bp.top+ph, bp.left, eg.offset];
on_state_class = eg.on_state_class;
buttons.push([$('#'+eg.button),$('#'+eg.content),panelPos,eg.button,on_state_class]);
}
$('#'+data.masterlistener).bind('click',{speed:speed,panel:panel,buttons:buttons},function(event){
var org = event.target,
speed = event.data.speed,
panel = event.data.panel,
buttons = event.data.buttons,
panel_open = isPanelOpen(panel);
for (var i=buttons.length-1, b; b=buttons[i]; i--) {
/*
* b[0] = button DOM object
* b[1] = content DOM object
* b[2] = the display co-ord object:
* [0] = top (int)
* [1] = left (int)
* [2] = offset object
* {x,y}(int,int)
* b[3] = button ID (string)
* b[4] = button 'on' class
*/
var button_id = b[3],
same_content = isSameContent(panel,b[1]);
if ( $(org).attr('id') === button_id || $(org).parents('#'+button_id).attr('id')){
if(!same_content) {
hideAllContent(buttons);
movePanel(panel,b[2]);
if (panel_open) {
showContent(b[1],b[0],b[4]);
} else {
showContent(b[1],b[0],b[4]);
showPanel(panel,speed);
}
} else {
hidePanel(panel,speed,b[4]);
}
}
}
function isPanelOpen(panel) {
return ($(panel).css('display').toLowerCase() === 'block');
}
function isSameContent (panel,content) {
return ($(content, panel).css('display').toLowerCase() === 'block');
}
function movePanel(panel,b) {
// b[0] top, b[1] left, b[2] {x,y}
$(panel).css({
'top': (b[0] + b[2].x)
});
$(panel).css({
'left': (b[1] + b[2].y)
});
}
function showPanel(panel,speed) {
$(panel).slideDown(speed);
}
function hidePanel(panel,speed) {
$(panel).slideUp(speed, function() {hideAllContent(buttons);});
}
function showContent(content, button, btn_class) {
$(content).show();
$(button).addClass(btn_class);
}
function hideContent(content) {
$(content).hide();
}
function hideAllContent(buttons) {
for (var i = buttons.length-1, b; b=buttons[i]; i--) {
$(b[1]).hide();
$(b[0]).removeClass(b[4]);
}
}
})
}
return {
ieRoundedCorners:ieRoundedCorners,
ie8DropPanel:ie8DropPanel,
dropPanelSetUp:dropPanelSetUp
}
})();
var headerNavication = (function($,cw) {
var nav_item_list = $('.cw-header .main-nav ul.main > li'),
channel_id_list = '',
channel,
sub_channel;
var findChannel = function () {
var winloc = isIE ? document.URL.split('/') : document.documentURI.split('/') ,
channel_id = winloc[3],
sub_chanel_id = winloc.length > 5 ? '/'+winloc[4]+'/' : '',
reg_sub_find_id = new RegExp(sub_chanel_id,'ig'),
reg_removed_id = /^nav-/i;
for (var i=nav_item_list.length-1,n; n=nav_item_list[i]; i--) {
if ( channel_id === $(n).children('a').attr('id').replace(reg_removed_id,'') ) {
var list = $(n).children('ul').children('li');
if (sub_chanel_id.length > 0) {
for (var j=list.length-1,l; l=list[j]; j--) {
if (reg_sub_find_id.test($(l).children('a').attr('href'))) {
break;
} else {
l = false;
}
}
}
break;
}
}
findChannel = function () {
return [n,l];
}
return [n,l];
}
var init = (function() {
channel = findChannel()[0] || nav_item_list[0];
sub_channel = findChannel()[1];
if (sub_channel) {
highlightSubChannel();
}
clearNav();
if(isIE) {
cw.ieRoundedCorners();
if(isIE8) {
cw.ie8DropPanel();
}
}
if ($('#handle-header').attr('id')) {
cw.dropPanelSetUp({
masterlistener: 'handle-header',
panel: ('drop-panel-container'),
eventgroup1: {
button: 'btn-newspapers',
content: 'panel-newspapers',
offset: {
x: 5,
y: 0
},
on_state_class: 'newspapers-dropdown-on'
},
eventgroup2: {
button: 'btn-networks',
content: 'panel-networks',
offset: {
x: 5,
y: 0
},
on_state_class: 'networks-dropdown-on'
}
});
}
//need to check state of search radio buttons since firefox doesn't reset to the default checked radio button
if($('.cw-header #radio-btn-yp:checked').attr('id') != null){
$('.cw-header #header-search-form').attr('action','http://canadacom.yellowpages.ca/search/');
$('.cw-header #header-search-string').attr('name','what');
$('.cw-header #radio-btn-yp').siblings('label').removeClass('selected');
$('.cw-header #radio-btn-yp').next().addClass('selected');
}
eventSetUp();
}())
function highlightSubChannel() {
if((document.location+"").indexOf("/sports/football/cfl/") > -1) $(".mainnav-item .cfl").addClass('sub-nav-highlight');
else if((document.location+"").indexOf("/sports/football/grey-cup-2011/") > -1) $(".mainnav-item .cfl").addClass('sub-nav-highlight');
else if((document.location+"").indexOf("/sports/football/nfl/") > -1) $(".mainnav-item .nfl").addClass('sub-nav-highlight');
else $(sub_channel).addClass('sub-nav-highlight');
}
function clearNav() {
clearTabs();
$(channel).children('ul').show();
$(channel).css('background-position', 'bottom right');
}
function eventSetUp() {
$('.cw-header .main-nav ').bind('mouseleave', function(event){
if (isIE) {
if ($(event.relatedTarget).parents('.main-nav').length 0)?"" + value.substring(0,pos) + "" + value.substring(pos, term.length) + "" + value.substring(pos + term.length) + "":value.substring(0, term.length) + "" + value.substring(pos + term.length) + ""; }, scroll: false, selectFirst: false }); });
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craigdailypress: Prayers were answered, writes Pastor Linda Taylor, of Maybell Community Bible Church, when her friend Shawn was... http://t.co/1vnZdNUw
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
SMU basketball coach on AAC double-header
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SMU basketball coach Matt Dougherty talks with Dale Hansen about the big double-header at the American Airlines Center on Wednesday night featuring the Mustangs vs. Oklahoma State and Baylor pitted against Mississippi.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Video: Porsche Police Cars on Parade in Qatar
Porsche, Qatar, Videos ? By Lawrence on December 28, 2011 at 11:26 am ? No Comments
We stumbled across a video today showing a procession of Porsche Panamera and Cayenne police cars in the sovereign Arab state of Qatar celebrating the 2011 Qatar National Day. We?re not sure whether these are all real police cars but it seems perfectly plausible. Qatar is a known investor in both Porsche and it?s parent company the Volkswagen group.
Every December 18th, Qatar celebrates their National Day in commemoration of the historic day in 1878 when Shaikh Jasim, the founder of the State of Qatar, succeeded his father, Shaikh Muhammad Bin Thani, as the ruler and led the country toward unity. December 18th is the day they remember how their national unity was achieved, and this impressive parade was part of it.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
CatholicNewsSvc: CNS Rome bureau: Pope says Christmas shows God's will to save people from sin, violence: http://t.co/N2lVjuU6 #CNSstory
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NBA Commish Stern opens season with boos in Dallas (AP)
DALLAS ? NBA Commissioner David Stern opened his lockout-delayed season by hearing boos from fans.
Stern was in Dallas for the NBA finals rematch between the Mavericks and Heat, and he was on the court for the start of the Mavs' banner-raising ceremony honoring their first championship. The jeers came as soon as he started speaking, but he quickly turned them into cheers by offering his congratulations to team owner Mark Cuban.
Cuban's often contentious relationship with Stern could've been as much of a reason for the boos as the lockout, which pushed the opener from Nov. 1 to Christmas and cut the season by 16 games.
Cuban and Miami's Mickey Arison were among five owners who voted against the labor deal. Stern downplayed that, hailing the agreement as beneficial to everyone.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Presidential buzz surrounds leading figure of Russia's protest movement
Alexei Navalny, a vocal critic of Putin and leader in Russia's protest movement, could pose a tough threat to his presidential bid.
Russian blogger-cum-folk-hero Alexei Navalny, who is already being discussed as a potential contender to challenge Vladimir Putin in upcoming presidential polls, was released from a Moscow prison Wednesday to the wild cheers of supporters.
Skip to next paragraphMr. Navalny, whose trenchant and well-documented attacks on Kremlin corruption?have migrated from the Internet to the streets in recent weeks, was arrested and sentenced to 15 days in prison after he took part in an unsanctioned rally to protest alleged vote-rigging in Russia's Dec. 4 parliamentary election.
"These 15 days have taught me not to be afraid. I am not alone. We are the majority," he told a jubilant crowd of supporters.?"I was imprisoned in one country and am being released into another," he added.
He pledged "extraordinary efforts" to build momentum in the protest movement, which saw at least 30,000 mostly young and middle class demonstrators rally on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on Dec. 10 to demand that the allegedly fraud-tainted elections be cancelled and re-staged under fair rules and conditions.
The next rally is set for this Saturday in Moscow, and well over 30,000 people have already signed a Facebook-based pledge to attend. Russian authorities have permitted the rally, but given?covert police actions aimed at discrediting leaders and splitting the movement, they may be extremely worried that the protests could become a real threat to Kremlin dominance.
Navalny is the author of the term "party of rogues and thieves" to describe Mr. Putin's ruling United Russia party (UR), a phrase that went viral in Russia and may have contributed as much as any other factor to UR's massive loss of support in the election.
Even with what critics estimate as up to 20 percent fraudulent boost in its vote tally, UR barely managed to eke out a 50 percent victory in the polls.
After the New Year break, Russia will launch into presidential polls that will see Putin face off against handful of drearily familiar, lackluster opponents, including Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and liberal Yabloko chief Grigory Yavlinsky ? most of whom?have been defeated repeatedly in set-piece elections by Putin.?
A new contender is tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov,?who announced his candidacy last week in the wake of the massive Moscow protest. But few think Mr. Prokhorov, a superwealthy "oligarch" who gained his fortune through murky wheeling-and-dealing in the wild 1990s, can attract any votes beyond Russia's narrow business and emerging professional elites.
Many experts say Navalny, with his street cred and reputation as a democratic nationalist, could be the candidate to appeal beyond the confines of downtown Moscow and pose a genuine challenge in Putin's vast provincial and working class base ? if he were allowed to run.
"I think Navalny is the leader of the future," says Konstantin Bakulev, director of the independent Institute of Socio-Economic Modernization in Moscow. "He has all the right things going for him: he's a new face, not linked to any of the old-line political parties, and he's really trending right now. People say he's a nationalist, but he's really a patriot. If he proves he can work with people, he will go places."
Upon his release Wednesday morning, Navalny fueled speculation about a possible presidential run by aiming a sharp rhetorical barb at Putin personally.
"The party of rogues and thieves is putting forward its chief rogue and its top thief to run for the presidency," Navalny said. "We must vote against him, struggle against him."
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World Juniors: Canada keen on steering clear of repeat performance at world juniors
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
President of India?s Message on the Occasion of Christmas
The President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil today greeted fellow citizens on the auspicious occasion of Christmas, which will be celebrated tomorrow.******
In a message, the President said, ?On the occasion of Christmas, I send my greetings and good wishes to all my fellow citizens.
Christmas is a time of great joy, cheer, hope and happiness. It proclaims Lord Jesus Christ?s message of love and sacrifice, compassion and service, courage and humility, peace and harmony?.
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iMAME app gets pulled from iTunes app store
In barely enough time to get out of the app store and into the hearts of retro gamers everywhere, the iMAME emulator on iOS has already been erased from iTunes -- just days since its release. Alas, that lack of any official endorsement may have reared its ugly head. Well, it was good while it lasted. Guess we'll carry on saving up for that Vita purchase...
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Android Phone Pictures Can Be Stunning, Too
Everyone wants to take the best photo possible and capture the moment in a memorable-favorable way. But a lot of people?s pictures look amateur at best, terribly blurry at worst. Raise your skills to the next level by following a few simple photographic tips. Even with your smartphone, you?ll be surprised to find a new level of quality to your photographic endeavors.
Here are a few tips for taking better pictures on your Android:
- Keep the camera away if you?ve had more than three drinks. Once you?ve moved down the road towards having a good buzz, your focus and image stability have gone. Do yourself a favor and only shoot photos if your hand is steady and sober.
- Speaking of steady, use both hands to hold your phone when snapping a pic. You don?t try to hold a ?real? camera with one hand while capturing a memorable image. Why handicap yourself while using a convenient phone-based medium?
- Don?t snap a picture against the light source. Whether it?s a light bulb, Christmas lights, or the sun, pointing your Android phone towards a bright light source destroys the image before you even try to take the picture. That?s because the light overwhelms the lens aperture. Find the light source, then position yourself where the brightest light source is behind you. Additional tip: A steady light provides a much better lighting prospect than does a flash.
- When touching up your photos, think ?effects? rather than trying to capture the stark reality. High-resolution digital images have a propensity to reveal every flaw in a scene. Focus instead on softening and fading, creating a ?feel? rather than peeling off the layers to reveal every detail.
- Avoid using the digital zoom. Digital zoom simply cuts material out of your picture, bringing a small ?box? of the total image forward. Instead, try to move closer to your subject.
- If you look around and everyone else is taking the same shot with their Android, don?t be just another one doing the same thing. Try to capture the moment by stepping back a few steps, and take a picture of all of your friends taking the same picture. Images that garner people?s attention need to add some detail that other pictures lack.
By putting a tiny amount of thought into your picture taking, you can begin snapping better photos on your Android in no time. Avoid the simple mistakes of blurry images, backlit images, and unoriginal image composition, and you?ll quickly notice how it is easy to shoot like a pro!
About the Author: Tommy Manship is a professional photographer who encourages amateurs to take advantage of the tools they have ? like their cell phones. You?ll be amazed at the stunning images you can create! This article was written by a guest author. Would you like to write for us?
Source: http://www.technozeast.com/android-phone-pictures-can-be-stunning-too.html
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Casey Anthony sued for defamation
ORLANDO, Fla?? The man who found 2-year-old Caylee Anthony's body in 2008 is suing her mother for damages, saying Casey Anthony defamed him during her murder trial earlier this year.
Former meter reader Roy Kronk said in a lawsuit filed in Florida on Wednesday that 25-year-old Anthony and her lawyers tried to shift suspicion away from the young mother and on to him.
Kronk testified he found Caylee's body in the woods near Anthony's home and called police. Casey Anthony was charged with killing her daughter, but a jury acquitted her in July.
In the suit, Kronk claims the defense variously accused him of involvement in Caylee's death. He said lawyers described him as a killer, a child snatcher and morally bankrupt, and accused him of finding and keeping Caylee's body and then placing the remains where they were found.
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But defense attorney Jose Baez also told jurors Caylee accidentally drowned in the family's backyard pool. If that was true, then Anthony and her lawyers knew their statements about Kronk were false, according to his complaint.
Story: Retired prosecutor calls Casey Anthony attorney 'smarmy'Kronk also has sued the National Enquirer tabloid newspaper and bounty hunter Leonard Padilla for defamation.
In a motion to dismiss, the Enquirer claims its article accurately reported Anthony's attempt to blame Kronk and was based on documents filed in court records by her lawyers.
Padilla, who once bailed Anthony out of jail prior to her trial, contends in court records that anything he said about Kronk was opinion and related to a matter of public concern.
Kronk's suit against Anthony is the third she faces in Florida.
She is being sued for defamation by a woman named Zenaida Gonzalez, who claims her life was ruined when Anthony initially told investigators Caylee was kidnapped by a nanny of the same name.
Anthony also is being sued for damages by Texas EquuSearch, a nonprofit group, for expenses incurred during the five-month search for Caylee.
Also on Wednesday, a lawyer for Anthony filed a motion asking that a prosecutor be held in contempt of court for revealing details of her psychiatric evaluations in his new book about the case.
Jeff Ashton, who retired after Anthony's trial, published details from the depositions of two psychiatrists in his book, "Imperfect Justice." The doctors said Anthony claimed she had been molested by her father and her father had drowned Caylee.
Judge Belvin Perry sealed the depositions from public view before the trial began because the allegations were so sensational, according to Ashton, and Anthony's lawyers never called the psychiatrists as witnesses at trial.
Ashton could not be reached for comment on Thursday.
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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45769844/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
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China rebel village, government edge towards compromise (Reuters)
WUKAN, China (Reuters) ? Chinese villagers who have protested for days over seized land and a suspicious death postponed a march on a government office on Wednesday, while top provincial officials blamed the conflict on pent-up social ills and laid out a compromise offer.
In a sign that the confrontation that has simmered for more than a week in Wukan, in the southern province of Guangdong, may be easing, a village organizer said the march would be put off until at least Thursday, when residents would decide whether the government had offered enough concessions.
"Now, (we) will give them one day to reach a consensus. If not, next day," Lin Zuluan, a village elder, told reporters late on Tuesday, before he held talks with Zhu Mingguo, a senior Guangdong province official.
Although the Wukan rebellion is limited to one village, it has attracted widespread attention as a humbling rebuff to the ruling Communist Party, which values stability above all else.
Wang Yang, the Communist Party chief of Guangdong, obliquely acknowledged that the villagers had cause to complain, in comments published on Wednesday in the Southern Daily, the official province newspaper.
"There was something accidental about the Wukan incident, but also something inevitable," Wang said, according to the report.
"This is the outcome of conflicts that accumulated over a long time in the course of economic and social development," said Wang, who is seen by many analysts as nursing hopes of a spot in China's next central leadership.
Guangdong is a prosperous part of China. But the wrenching shifts of urbanization and industrialization have fanned discontent among increasingly assertive citizens, who often blame local officials for corruption and abuses.
DEATH IN CUSTODY
For more than a week, Wukan villagers have driven off officials and police, and held protests in outrage at the death in custody of activist Xue Jinbo, whose family rejects the government's position that he died of natural causes, and against the seizure of farmland for development.
They and fellow villagers believe he was subjected to abuse that left injuries, including welts, on his body. Xue was detained over torrid protests that broke out in September.
On Wednesday, however, about 300 villagers lined the sides of a road into the village, preparing to welcome, Zhu Mingguo, the official negotiating with them.
A man holding a Chinese flag on a pole told the villagers over loudspeaker: "Everyone welcome the Communist Party's work team." Villagers unfurled a banner welcoming officials to come and help "solve the Wukan matter."
"Now that the government is coming, I think we'll get a good result," said a villager surnamed Xue. "The central government has already appealed on our behalf. They know the problem and have sent someone down, they will find a solution for us."
The Southern Daily also explained the concessions that Zhu has offered to the villagers, including foreswearing punishment of rioters who "show sincerity in working with the government to solve the problems."
Zhu also promised an impartial autopsy for the late Xue, and "transparent" disclosure in the media of how the villagers' grievances are addressed.
Underscoring government fears of unrest, in a separate protest on Tuesday in Haimen, a town further east up the coast from Wukan, residents demonstrated in front of government offices and blocked a highway over plans to build a power plant.
Pictures on a Chinese microblogging site, Sina's "Weibo" service, which could not be independently verified by Reuters, showed hundreds of people gathered in front of the offices as riot police kept watch.
(Writing and additional reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Ken Wills, Robert Birsel and Alex Richardson)
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Design Your Own T-Shirt ? While You?re Wearing It
Lots of companies will print your custom design on a shirt for you, but that’s so static!? No one but ThinkGeek lets you design on your shirt as you’re wearing it.? You’ll use the included UV laser to draw any design on your Lazer Shirt Interactive Tee.? When you go into the dark, your shirt [...]
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Investors give 'Farmville' maker a cold shoulder
The corporate logo for Zynga is shown on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011 in New York. Stock in the San Francisco company began trading at Nasdaq, Friday following its IPO. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The corporate logo for Zynga is shown on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011 in New York. Stock in the San Francisco company began trading at Nasdaq, Friday following its IPO. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
"Farmville" by Zynga is shown on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, in New York. Stock in the San Francisco company began trading at Nasdaq, Friday following its IPO. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The corporate logo for Zynga is shown on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, in New York. Stock in the San Francisco company began trading at Nasdaq, Friday following its IPO. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
The corporate logo for Zynga is shown on an electronic billboard at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, in New York. Stock in the San Francisco company began trading at Nasdaq, Friday following its IPO. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2011 file photo, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus speaks at a Zynga event, in San Francisco. Founded in 2007 and named after CEO Mark Pincus? dog, Zynga Inc. follows online deals site Groupon Inc. and professional network LinkedIn Corp. in going public. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? As its workers celebrated with hot chocolate and cinnamon buns, Zynga saw its stock dinged on its first day of trading Friday ? an unexpected turn of events for a closely watched public debut seen as a precursor to Facebook's next year.
Zynga Inc., the online game developer behind "FarmVille," ''Mafia Wars" and other popular time killers on Facebook, raised at least $1 billion in its initial public offering of stock, the largest for a U.S. Internet company since Google's $1.4 billion IPO in 2004.
But by Friday afternoon, Zynga's stock fell 50 cents, or 5 percent, to close at $9.50. The stock priced at $10 on Thursday, at the high end of its expected range. It traded as high as $11.50 on Friday before heading into a downward spiral on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
It was far from the eye-popping jump that has been the trend this year for freshly public Internet darlings such as LinkedIn Corp., which saw its stock double on its first trading day.
Zynga's opening ? with a ticker symbol of "ZNGA" ? was supposed to be big. After all, unlike many others with IPOs, the company is profitable, with more than 220 million people playing its games on Facebook each month.
What this all means for Facebook's IPO, expected sometime after April, is hard to say. One thing is clear, though.
"A hot IPO is not guaranteed," said Kathleen Smith, principal of IPO investment advisory firm Renaissance Capital.
Despite the big-name public offerings this year, the IPO market is not in good health. Buyers are skittish and concerned about the high volatility of freshly public stocks, Smith said. Big name or not, investors don't want to pay sky-high prices for stocks, especially not before a company has proven itself with good earnings reports and analyst ratings.
Seventy percent of the 125 companies that went public this year are now trading below their IPO price, according to Renaissance Capital.
While Friday's drop doesn't look good, it's not devastating for Zynga. Its CEO, Mark Pincus, said the company's focus is on "delivering great products" that expand audience for social games over the next few years ? and not on the next trading day.
"We didn't have any expectations coming into this whole process," he said in an interview. "We decided to go public a long time ago."
Pincus rang the Nasdaq's opening bell in San Francisco, a first in the city for a freshly public company. The company's roughly 1,700 San Francisco employees woke up at the crack of down to celebrate with cinnamon buns and hot cocoa. Zynga also delivered video of the opening ceremony over the Internet to its offices around the world.
Thursday's pricing gives Zynga a market value of about $7 billion. That's roughly half of the value of online deals site Groupon, which began trading in early November. Zynga, though, sold a much bigger chunk of its available shares, 14.3 percent compared with Groupon's 5.5 percent. It's an issue of supply and demand ? selling more shares means investors don't have to scramble to get their hands on them.
Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter said stocks trade based on supply and demand on the first day.
In Zynga's case, he believes the IPO's underwriters placed more shares with investors who were going to "flip" the stock ? that is, buy a hot stock and quickly sell it to make a profit instead of holding on to it for the long run. All that selling tempered the stock's price, and other nervous investors started selling, too.
Sterne Agee's Arvind Bhatia said the issue came down to valuation ? what people are willing to pay.
"You might like a company but not its valuation," said Bhatia, who took the unusual step of starting coverage of Zynga's stock before it went public, giving it an "Underperform" rating and a price target of $7.
With its huge player base and a few loyal spenders, Zynga had net income of $90.6 million in 2010, an unusual pre-IPO money-maker in the sector.
Cowen & Co. analyst Doug Creutz, however, initiated coverage Friday with a "Neutral" rating on the stock. Although Zynga is the leader in Facebook gaming, he's concerned that it won't be able to grow fast enough to justify its stock price. Growth in Facebook gaming has slowed, and Zynga's market share has declined from 50 percent to 38 percent of daily active users, he wrote.
He's also concerned that Zynga's famously aggressive and hard-charging culture may not be the best field to grow good games in. Others have raised concerns that the focus on deadlines and profits might be squeezing out creativity and talent.
In November, Groupon raised $700 million in its IPO. The granddaddy of all Internet IPOs might happen next year, as Facebook Inc. is expected to raise as much as $10 billion.
Bhatia declined to speculate about what Zynga's first-day drop might mean for Facebook. But he pointed out that what was a bad year for Zynga was a good year for Facebook. That's because Facebook stated charging application developers a 30 percent cut of the money they make through its site. That means for every dollar a player spends on "FarmVille" crops, 30 cents goes to Facebook.
"They are in the driver's seat," Bhatia said of Facebook. The company, he added, is "in class of its own."
DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, who sits on Zynga's board, said Zynga and Facebook have both benefited by working together.
"As important as Facebook is to Zynga, Zynga is to Facebook," he said in an interview. "I have seen very good rapport with the two Marks and I would expect that relationship to continue to grow."
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AP Technology Writer Peter Svensson contributed to this report.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
As US troops leave Iraq, some ask: Was the war worth it? (The Christian Science Monitor)
Baghdad ? As the American war in Iraq comes to an end, some troops find themselves grappling with a question that has dogged them through multiple deployments: Was the sacrifice worth the price that US forces paid here?
?I?ve had people come to me, ?Why were we there? What did we do? Why did 4,000 die in Iraq? Why did I lose my friend?? ? says Lt. Col. Mark Rowan, an Air Force chaplain who has served 12 deployments and who has counseled troops returning from Iraq. ?We don?t really know the answer to that yet.?
Commanders say it?s a question that they can?t readily answer, either. ?My opinion about sacrifice is that it?s a very personal thing,? says Maj. Gen. Russell Handy, the senior US Air Force officer in Iraq. To pronounce whether the war was ?worth it,? he says, would mean ?putting words in the mouths of family members? who continue to mourn for loved ones.
IN PICTURES: Leaving Iraq
Beyond those directly connected with the war, few Americans will ever understand the scale of loss for the US military, many here also believe.
It?s ?almost impossible for the American people to comprehend the level of sacrifice? that US troops have made in this war, says Handy.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, flying into Baghdad for the official ?close of mission? ceremony Thursday, addressed the troops, as well as the question that many silently ask themselves.
?To be sure, the cost was high,? he said. But ?those lives were not lost in vain: They gave birth to an independent, free, and sovereign Iraq.?
US forces who have been working with their Iraqi counterparts up until their last hours here wrestle with whether America did indeed accomplish what it set out to do.
They wonder, too, whether the answer to the war's worthiness hinges on another question ??? the question of, say, whether America won the war.
?We came to give them a democracy,? says Staff Sgt. Donald Rice of the 447th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron. ?We gave them a chance at democracy. Was 4,400 lives worth the cost of giving them the chance at democracy?? he wonders.
?I?m not going to judge personal sacrifice,? says Handy, ?but I can tell you it?s tremendously important for this country to be stable.? Iraq today has a ?democratically elected and inclusive government,? he adds, and there remains hope for ?what that might mean to the region,? as the Arab Spring enters the winter season.
Rowan, the chaplain, says he has fielded agonized questions from troops, particularly among those who have experienced the heartbreak of losing their comrades.
He recalls presiding at the moment of death of a soldier, a married father of three who was shot while out on a 2009 patrol in northern Iraq.
?I stayed with him and held his hand,? Rowan says, ?and did all the last rites before he passed.?
When his fellow soldiers learned that he had died, ?they exploded and threw their helmets down.?
They wondered, too, whether the war was worth this ??? the loss they witnessed again and again.
Rowan says that sometimes it helps to turn the question around: ?I ask them, 'What do you think you accomplished there? For the Air Force, or outside the base, maybe you were part of a team that got terrorists out of a town. Were people able to live free again?' ?
The point, he says, is to focus on, ?What good did you do there.? For America, for the politicians, he tells them, ?History will decide the rest.?
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Police search for motive in deadly office shooting (AP)
IRWINDALE, Calif. ? Terrified employees hid under desks and barricaded themselves behind locked doors after a utility company office worker went on a shooting rampage, killing two co-workers and critically wounding two others before taking his own life, police said.
The shooting around 1:30 p.m. Friday at Southern California Edison offices in a business park outside Los Angeles forced a lockdown of a large office complex and nearby schools as officers from surrounding cities and the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's SWAT team responded.
"This is one of the most horrible days in our company's history," said Edison International Chairman and CEO Ted Craver. "We are deeply saddened by today's tragic events."
A man and a woman were wounded by gunfire and were listed in critical condition at local hospitals, said Sheriff's Lt. Holly Francisco.
Three men were killed in the shooting ? two bodies were found on the scene and a third died en route to a hospital. Four of the shooting victims were company employees and the fifth was a contract worker.
"As far as we know there was one shooting suspect, period," Baldwin Park police Capt. Michael Taylor said.
Craver was careful not to provide identifying details for the victims, saying the company was still working to contact family members.
There was no immediate word on what prompted the gunfire.
Police could not confirm media reports that at least two of the targeted victims were believed to be company managers.
No gunfire was exchanged after officers arrived.
In the hours after the shooting, police cars, ambulances and fire trucks surrounded the building, and dozens of workers emerged with their hands over their heads.
The complex is surrounded by a fence and patrolled by a security guard. Employees need a security card to get into the building, said Gil Alexander, a spokesman for Southern California Edison. About 230 employees work in the building where the shooting took place, and about 1,100 employees work in the complex.
The utility's office is in a complex of buildings that also includes a business called California Lighting Sales.
Cindy Gutierrez, the controller for that company, said employees there didn't hear gunshots and didn't realize anything was amiss until building management announced over the intercom that everyone should stay indoors.
Two nearby schools were locked for about two hours after the shooting and no one on the campuses was hurt.
Irwindale is a small industrial city of about 1,400 residents in the San Gabriel Valley, 22 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. It is home to the Irwindale Speedway auto racetrack and large rock and gravel quarries.
Southern California Edison is one of its largest companies, employing 2,100 people.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
An Interesting Fact About Contrarian Investing
Citi's Robert Buckland is out with an interesting note on the merits of "contrarian" investing, which he defines very crudely as buying the bad stocks of the year, and selling the good stocks of the year.
The title of the report is "Contranuary" because of this simple chart.
Over the past several years, January has been the only month in which this kind of crude contrarianism has worked.
All other months, it's been a flop.
If you think this holds, then you're best advised to start getting your bets in now.
And if you are looking to be a contrarian in 2012, Buckland identifies names like Bank of America, HP, Goldman Sachs, Ford, and Credit Suisse, as some of your best bets.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/an-interesting-problem-with-being-a-contrarian-2011-12
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Sony gears up for PlayStation Vita's Japan launch (AP)
TOKYO ? Sony's long-awaited PlayStation Vita portable game machine hits stores in Japan on Saturday, with the company predicting brisk sales even though the launch has missed much of the holiday shopping season.
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. President Andrew House told reporters Thursday that pre-launch orders had exceeded the allocation made for those keenest to get their hands on the device "extremely quickly" in Japan. He declined to reveal numbers.
The PS Vita goes on sale in North America and Europe on Feb. 22.
Enthusiasm for the new machine among gamers could lead to some shortages at first, House said. But he said Sony can handle the expected load.
"I'm pretty confident ... that there will not be major challenges in meeting demand, even though there may be short-term," House said.
For the Tokyo-based electronics and entertainment giant, the Vita is the biggest product launch since the PlayStation 3 console five years ago.
A successful debut would help Sony offset the rest of its struggling business. It projects a loss of more than $1 billion for the fiscal year through March 2012. That would be its fourth straight annual loss.
The next-generation device is a touch-interface and motion-sensitive handheld that Sony hopes will be a strong successor to the PlayStation Portable. Gamers can connect over cellphone networks and Wi-Fi hotspots, and use GPS location-tracking technology.
The Vita has front and back cameras, a touchscreen in front, a touch pad on the back and two knob-like joysticks. It will enable gamers to play against each other using PlayStation 3 consoles over the Internet-based PlayStation Network, a system that was hit with a massive hacking attack earlier this year.
House touted the Vita's advantages over rival Nintendo Co.'s 3DS, which had a disappointing start despite the company's efforts to market its 3-D technology. Critics complained about a lack of interesting games. Nintendo ended up slashing prices on the 3DS after less than six months.
In contrast, two dozen software titles will accompany the Vita's introduction ? the largest number of launch titles in PlayStation history, House said. Games include "Uncharted: Golden Abyss," "LittleBigPlanet," and "Wipeout 2048."
House also questioned whether 3-D actually makes gaming better.
"If you see people out on the blogs saying, 'I turned it off,' then it's not then really acting as a great game enhancer."
The Vita's Wi-Fi only model will cost $249.99 in the U.S. and euros 249.99 in Europe. The Wi-Fi and 3G-enabled Vita will retail for $299.99 and euros 299.99.
Game prices in Japan will range from 2,940 yen ($37.67) to 6,090 yen ($78).
Although the 3DS costs about 40 percent less than the Vita in Japan, House contends that the Sony device offers a "truly unique gaming experience" that will lure hardcore gamers as well as new gamers.
Both Sony and Nintendo are being challenged by the rise of smartphones and tablets, through which casual gamers can play inexpensive and simple games like the mega-hit "Angry Birds."
House, however, said people will pay if it's worth it.
"Clearly, if the experience merits it, I don't think price is necessarily the barrier to entry," he said, citing the $1 billion in sales racked up by the latest "Call of Duty" game by Activision Blizzard in just over two weeks. "The point is being able to give people a sense of value for money."
House, a U.K. national, took over as president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment in September. He has worked at Sony Corp. for more than two decades.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Strassel: Why Ron Paul Can't Win (WSJ)
Fed sees risks from Europe, some improvement in U.S. (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The Federal Reserve on Tuesday warned that turmoil in Europe presents a big risk to the U.S. economy, leaving the door open to possible further steps to boost growth even though it noted a somewhat stronger labor market.
The central bank said the U.S. economy was "expanding moderately" despite an apparent slowing in the world economy. But while there had been "some" improvement in the job market, unemployment remained elevated and housing depressed, it said.
"Strains in global financial markets continue to pose significant downside risks to the economic outlook," the Fed said after a policy meeting, alluding to pressures stemming from the debt crisis in the euro zone, which has raised concerns about tighter credit in the United States.
Some investors had speculated that the Fed might show more urgency about moving ahead with new measures to help the economy.
U.S. stock prices fell, while prices for government debt rose. The dollar, which has been pressured by the Fed's huge-bond-buying programs, gained against the euro.
The Fed's statement was little changed from the one made after its last meeting in early November, although the U.S. central bank pinned uncertainty for the U.S. economy more squarely on events in Europe.
While in November it said risks to the outlook included global strains, on Tuesday it cited only the risk of volatility abroad.
Most economists have said the Fed's next meeting on January 24-25 would be the more likely occasion for any new moves to add to the U.S. central bank's already extraordinary push to bring down borrowing costs and help growth.
FOCUSING ON RISKS
Tuesday's statement touched only lightly on signs of improvement in the economy's performance.
"They are certainly ready to lean against the wind should the economy falter," said Cary Leahey, managing director at Decision Economics in New York.
The Fed offered no new guidance on the changing way it communicates its policies to financial markets; Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has made increased transparency a hallmark of his six years in charge of the central bank.
It also repeated that it expects inflation to settle at levels at or below those consistent with its price stability mandate.
For a second time running, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans dissented against holding policy steady, saying he favored additional easing now.
The U.S. central bank has held overnight interest rates near zero since December 2008 and has bought $2.3 trillion in government and mortgage-related bonds in a further attempt to stimulate a robust recovery.
Fed officials are divided among those who think high unemployment and sluggish growth require more action and those who view the central bank's already-aggressive efforts as bordering dangerously on an invitation to inflation.
Some influential policymakers, including Vice Chair Janet Yellen, have suggested they would be inclined to take additional steps if growth fails to pick up.
LOOKING TO 2012
Changes to the Fed's voting line-up for 2012 will remove three policymakers known to favor a hard line against inflation, while adding only one such "hawk," suggesting support for further easing may strengthen in coming months.
The Fed's activist approach to pulling the economy out of recession and buoying a tepid recovery stands in contrast to the European Central Bank, which has been more tentative. The ECB held interest rates steady until November before delivering two rate cuts as the euro zone began to slide toward economic contraction.
Moreover, ECB President Mario Draghi disappointed financial markets last week by downplaying prospects the central bank would launch an aggressive bond-buying program to ease strains in the region.
So far, the U.S. economy has shown little impact from the events in Europe.
The jobless rate tumbled 0.4 percentage point to 8.6 percent in November, factory activity has quickened and businesses are restocking depleted shelves.
Consumer spending also appears reasonably solid, although a softer-than-expected report on November retail sales on Tuesday offered a hint that spending could be flagging.
The U.S. economy expanded at a 2.0 percent annual rate in the third quarter, a welcome acceleration from a sub-1 percent pace over the first half of the year. Forecasters hope growth will top a 3 percent rate in the current quarter.
However, analysts say the recovery's current strength is partly a snapback from the weakness earlier in the year and caution that a return to more sluggish growth is likely, particularly with a European recession brewing.
INTERNAL DEBATE
Many observers believe the Fed will take steps to stimulate growth in 2012, first through communications measures that drive home the expectation that interest rates will not rise for a long time and then possibly through more bond buying.
Yellen has said the Fed could reinforce its ultra-accommodative monetary stance by publishing policymakers' forecasts for the path of interest rates. Officials are also debating whether to adopt an explicit target for inflation.
The first step would reassure skittish markets that the Fed is not about to tighten policy any time soon. The latter would aim to dispel any doubts about the central bank's commitment to keeping inflation low.
Top officials have also remained open to adding bonds to the central bank's already-bloated portfolio.
Some have said the Fed should resume purchases of mortgage-backed securities to help revive the depressed housing market; others would prefer to stick with purchases of U.S. government debt.
(Additional reporting by David Lawder; Editing by Andrea Ricci, Tim Ahmann and Dan Grebler)
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