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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Candidates pile on Romney in South Carolina debate (The Ticket)
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With just five Republican presidential candidates on stage after former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman's departure from the race earlier that day, the candidates at Monday's Fox News debate in Myrtle Beach went hard after frontrunner Mitt Romney questioning his business record, if he supported allowing convicted felons to vote and whether he would ever release his personal tax records.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich got the first shot at Romney tonight and swung for the fences. For the past few weeks, Gingrich has hammered Romney for his record as the head of private equity firm Bain Capital in the 1990s, accusing him of padding his wallet at the expense of middle class jobs. A 28-minute film produced by Winning Our Future, a pro-Gingrich super PAC, featured interviews with workers laid off under Bain's management. On the debate stage, Gingrich accused Romney of running companies with a pattern: leaving them "with enormous debt and then within a year or two or three having them go broke."
You can watch a clip of Romney and Gingrich sparring over super PACs below:
Gingrich, who once defined his debate presence by blasting moderators for trying to pit the candidates against each other, defended the line of attack and explained the reasons why he was now happy to answer questions about other candidates' records. "I raise questions that I think are legitimate questions," he said. "I think that's what part of a campaign is about is to raise questions and see whether or not your competitor can answer them effectively before you get to a general election where you know those questions are going to be asked."
Romney knew it was coming.?"Some of the businesses we invested in weren't successful and lost jobs, and I'm very proud of the fact that we learned from the experience," he said. "We invested in well over 100 businesses, and the people have looked at the places that have added jobs and lost jobs and that record is pretty much available for people to take a close look at. But my record as the governor of Massachusetts and as the person who led the Olympics flowed from the fact that I had experience turning around tough situations."
When asked to weigh in on the discussion about Romney's business practices, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, also a harsh critic of Romney's record at Bain, was asked to name the regulations on venture capital he would support. He declined to answer, instead calling on Romney to release his tax returns--another charge the frontrunner was expecting.
"I think I've heard enough from folks saying, look, let's see your tax records," Romney said. "I have nothing in them that suggests there's any problem and I'm happy to do so. ... If I become our nominee, and what's happened in history is people have released them in about April of the coming year and that's probably what I would do."
"My income taxes have been out every year," Perry said. "Mitt, we need for you to release your income tax so the people of this country can see how you made your money."
"We cannot fire our nominee in September," Perry added. "We need to know now."
You can watch a clip of the candidates debating appropriate tax rates below:
When given the opportunity, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum jumped into the Romney pile-on by calling out a pro-Romney super PAC? for releasing an ad that criticized Santorum for his support of a bill that let convicted felons vote once they had served their time. Santorum hit back, saying he felt that people who served their time should be allowed to vote and pressing Romney on his own position.
You can watch a clip of Santorum going after Romney over felons below:
"This is Martin Luther King Day," Santorum said, interrupting Romney when he tried to defend himself. "This is a huge deal in the African American community, because we have very high rates of incarceration--disproportionally high rates particularly with drug crimes within the African American community."
Romney held firm on his position. "I don't think people who have committed violent crimes should be able to vote again," Romney replied. "That's my view."
But Santorum had set a classic debate trap: while Romney was governor of Massachusetts, the state allowed felons to vote, even while on probation.
"It's very interesting you should say that, Governor Romney," Santorum said. "Because in the state of Massachusetts, when you were governor, the law was not only could violent felons vote after they exhausted their sentences, but they could vote while they were on probation and parole, which was a more liberal position I took when I voted for the bill in the Congress."
One of the most dramatic moments of the debate, however, came when Fox News commentator Juan Williams pressed Gingrich on his plan to replace unionized school janitors in public schools with students, asking Gingrich to comment on the charge that his comments were "insulting to all Americans, particularly to black Americans."
"No," Gingrich said. "I don't see that."
Williams pressed further, charging that Gingrich's comments could be construed as being "intended to belittle the poor and racial minorities."
"So here's my point," Gingrich concluded, his voice rising. "I believe every American of every background has been endowed by their creator with the right to pursue happiness, and if that makes liberals unhappy, I'm going to continue to find ways to help poor people learn how to get a job, learn to get a better job and learn some day to own the job."
You can watch a clip of Gingrich's thoughts on the poor and jobs below:
The debate will set the tone for the next week of campaigning in the Palmetto State, where current polls show Gingrich within 8 percentage points of Romney. Whatever the candidates' complaints about nasty messaging funded by super PACs, there will be no shortage of ads bombarding South Carolina's airways from now until Saturday.
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24 million customer accounts hacked at Amazon's Zappos (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Online shoe retailer Zappos told customers this weekend that it has been the victim of a cyber attack affecting more than 24 million customer accounts in its database.
The popular retailer, which is owned by Amazon.com, said customers' names, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of credit cards numbers and scrambled passwords were stolen.
But it said the hackers had not been able to access servers that held customers critical credit card and other payment data.
"We were recently the victim of a cyber attack by a criminal who gained access to parts of our internal network and systems through one of our servers in Kentucky," Zappos chief executive Tony Hsieh said in an email to staff which was posted on the company's blog on Sunday.
"We are cooperating with law enforcement to undergo an exhaustive investigation," he added.
Zappos said it was recommending that customers change their passwords including on any other website where they use the same or similar password.
The company, which is well known for its customer service, said due to the high volume of customer calls it is expecting it will temporarily switch off its phones and direct customers to contact via email.
(Reporting By Yinka Adegoke)
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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Tigers' Martinez injures knee, could miss season (AP)
DETROIT ? Tigers star Victor Martinez could miss the entire 2012 season after injuring his left knee during offseason conditioning.
The Tigers said Tuesday the 33-year-old Martinez tore his left ACL last week. An MRI on Monday in Lakeland, Fla., revealed the injury. The slugging designated hitter will be evaluated again next week, but the team fully expects Martinez to need surgery.
Detroit won the AL Central by 15 games last year and reached the AL championship series behind Justin Verlander, Miguel Cabrera and Martinez. The Tigers suddenly face a much murkier outlook for 2012.
"After you feel sorry for yourself for a day or so, you move on," general manager Dave Dombrowski said. "We have a good club. We've got a lot of players who will step up."
Team trainer Kevin Rand said it will be hard to estimate when Martinez may return until after surgery.
"We get a timeline coming out of that," he said.
Martinez hit .330 with 103 RBIs in 2011, helping Detroit win the division in his first season with the Tigers. He signed a $50 million, four-year contract before last season.
Martinez and Cabrera formed a powerful pair in the middle of the lineup, and manager Jim Leyland had nothing but nice things to say throughout the year about Martinez's upbeat presence in the clubhouse.
Although he spent some time on the disabled list early in the season with a right groin problem, Martinez was still able to play 145 games. He was brought in to fill the DH spot and also play occasionally behind the plate, but he had a hard time catching toward the end of the season after hurting his left knee in August.
That injury was bothersome but not nearly as serious as this one. Martinez also hurt his ribcage during the postseason.
Detroit signed Gerald Laird recently to back up catcher Alex Avila, but aside from that it's been a quiet offseason so far for the Tigers. They added reliever Octavio Dotel but kept their everyday lineup largely intact. With Martinez out, they might need to make another move to replace his bat, although Dombrowski wasn't tipping his hand much.
Slugging first baseman Prince Fielder remains a free agent, but it's unclear if the Tigers would want to make a major financial commitment to a long-term contract to replace the injured Martinez.
"Most likely, I would say it's short term," Dombrowski said. "But I don't know that for sure. Depends on what position somebody plays and who they are."
Dombrowski did seem to shoot down the possibility that Cabrera could move from first base to third, with another first baseman joining the team.
"We're not looking at that as a full-time option," he said.
Cabrera hit .344 with 30 home runs and 105 RBIs last season, and Avila hit .295 with 19 homers. Shortstop Jhonny Peralta also had a fine year with the bat, hitting .299 with 21 homers. The Tigers may need all three to repeat those productive performances in Martinez's absence.
When Martinez was acquired last offseason, Detroit was looking for another big bat to support Cabrera. Martinez provided one, but outfielder Magglio Ordonez and second baseman Carlos Guillen struggled with injuries, and neither was expected back with the Tigers.
Detroit traded for outfielder Delmon Young last August, and the Tigers could get a boost if outfielder Brennan Boesch can stay healthy. Boesch hit 16 homers in 115 games last year, but he was shut down late in the season with an injured right thumb.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Explosions damage Italy tax agency: Naples police (Reuters)
NAPLES (Reuters) ? Three explosive devices blew up outside the Naples offices of Equitalia, a state agency that collects overdue taxes and fines, breaking windows but injuring no one on Monday night, a police official told Reuters.
Police said no group had claimed responsibility for the attack on the building on Corso Meridionale near Naples central rail station.
Equitalia, whose offices have been attacked before, is deeply unpopular among many Italians who accuse it of using strong-arm tactics to collect taxes.
Italy's technocrat government says it wants to increase Equitalia's powers as part of a war on tax evasion that robs the exchequer of an estimated 120 billion euros ($152.07 billion) a year.
Separately, members of right wing association Roma Nord said they hung dummies outside Equitalia offices in Rome overnight to protest against the agency's methods, Italian news agency ANSA reported.
Equitalia's Naples offices were hit by a similar explosion in December.
Two letter bombs were also sent to Equitalia's offices in Rome in December. One was intercepted but the other blew off part of a finger of the agency's director general. An anarchist group said it carried out those attacks.
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(Reporting By Laura Viggiano and Catherine Hornby; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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Mega Mirror To Power Massive New Telescope
One upon a time, the largest glass telescope mirror was 100 inches in diameter. Today, scientists are casting a mirror 27 feet in diameter that will be part of one of the most powerful telescopes on Earth. NPR's Joe Palca speaks with weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz from the mirror laboratory, located under the football stadium at the University of Arizona.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/01/14/145235055/mega-mirror-to-power-massive-new-telescope?ft=1&f=1007
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