Trick To Shutdown Windows By Skipping Windows Update Installation | Into Windows
millionaire matchmaker shawshank redemption 3 10 to yuma west virginia football west virginia football black friday violence black friday violence
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Trick Windows Into Shutting Down Without Installing Updates [Annoyances]
Former White House candidate Bachmann to seek Congress (Reuters)
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) ? U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann, who three weeks ago ended her campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, said she will seek reelection to a fourth term in Congress, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Bachmann, 55, was first elected to the 6th Congressional District in Minnesota in 2006. Once a Tea Party favorite, the Iowa-born Bachmann withdrew from the presidential race a day after receiving just 5 percent of the vote in the Iowa nominating caucuses.
Bachmann Press Secretary Becky Rogness confirmed that Bachmann had said she would seek a fourth term in Congress during an interview with the Associated Press.
A former tax lawyer, Bachmann launched her bid for president in June and gained momentum with speeches focused on the economy and the goal of thwarting President Barack Obama's election to a second term in office. In dropping out, she urged Republicans to unite behind the party's eventual choice.
The Minnesota 6th Congressional District stretches from Stillwater on the eastern border with Wisconsin, around the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities to encompass St. Cloud. New district lines have not yet been established for 2012.
Bachmann received 52.5 percent of the vote in the Congressional election of 2010.
(Reporting by David Bailey; Editing by Greg McCune)
joe frazier dead topamax lexapro trazodone voting sharon bialek call of duty elite
GOP candidates weigh in on Cuba policy
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ? All four of the Republican presidential candidates say they'd like to see a Cuba free of Castro's rule, though they differ on how they'd approach relations with Cuba.
Mitt Romney says it's important for the U.S. to stand with people who want freedom, including Cubans.
Newt Gingrich says he would use covert operations and other means to bring down Castro.
Rick Santorum says it's important for the U.S. to deal with Cuba but says he can't foresee a relationship before Fidel Castro and his brother are out of power.
For his part, Ron Paul says he would like to see the Cuban people celebrate their own freedom without any U.S. involvement.
The issue of Cuba looms large in Florida, where there are many Cuban expatriates.
Associated Pressfacebook ipo facebook ipo national defense authorization act national defense authorization act seven days in utopia seven days in utopia big 10 championship game
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Julian Assange says he's launching TV talk show
FILE - This is a Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 file photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as he pauses as he makes a statement to media gathered outside the High Court in London. You've read his leaks. Now watch his show. International secret-buster Julian Assange said Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012 he's launching his very own television series. The guests haven't been disclosed, but the 40-year-old Australian has promised to give viewers more of what he's been supplying for years: Controversy. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
FILE - This is a Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 file photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as he pauses as he makes a statement to media gathered outside the High Court in London. You've read his leaks. Now watch his show. International secret-buster Julian Assange said Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012 he's launching his very own television series. The guests haven't been disclosed, but the 40-year-old Australian has promised to give viewers more of what he's been supplying for years: Controversy. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
LONDON (AP) ? You've read his leaks. Now watch his show.
Cyber-transparency activist Julian Assange says he's launching a career in television, hosting what he's billing as a new brand of talk show built around the theme of "the world tomorrow."
The show's guests haven't been disclosed, but Assange has promised to give viewers more of what he's been supplying for years: Controversy.
The WikiLeaks secret-spilling site said in a statement released late Monday that "iconoclasts, visionaries and power insiders" would be brought in so that Assange could challenge them on their vision of world affairs and "their ideas on how to secure a brighter future."
The world of television talk shows is a new one for the 40-year-old Australian, whose group has orchestrated the biggest mass-disclosures of secret documents in U.S. history. But the statement argued that Assange was uniquely qualified for the role given his past as "a pioneer for a more just world and a victim of political repression."
Ellis Cashmore, an expert on celebrity culture at England's Staffordshire University, wasn't so sure.
"Assange has got a good, deep voice and agreeable Aussie accent, but he's a slow, deliberate talker and not especially televisual," Cashmore said in an email. "To be true to his image, he would have to make his proposed show subversive; and that might not appeal to many would-be guests."
WikiLeaks said that the show would begin airing in mid-March, although how the show will be produced and who will carry it are open questions.
It's not even clear Assange will be free to host the show. He's currently fighting extradition to Sweden, where he's wanted over sex crimes allegations, and U.S. officials are still weighing possible charges linked to his attention-grabbing leaks.
In its statement WikiLeaks referred queries about the series to the hitherto obscure Quick Roll Productions, whose website carried no indication of where the group was based or who was managing it. An online records search indicated that Quick Roll's site was created about two weeks ago.
Neither Quick Roll nor WikiLeaks returned emails seeking further details on their project.
___
Online:
WikiLeaks: http://wikileaks.org/
Quick Roll Productions: http://www.quickrollproductions.com/
___
Raphael Satter can be reached at: http://twitter.com/razhael
Associated Pressalaska weather alaska weather election results gop debate live gop debate live nome alaska nome alaska
Romney to release taxes, Gingrich ready for Obama
Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich laughs while speaking during a?South Carolina Republican presidential primary night rally, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Columbia, S.C. Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich laughs while speaking during a?South Carolina Republican presidential primary night rally, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Columbia, S.C. Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, stands with his wife Ann as he speaks at his South Carolina primary election night reception at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in Columbia, S.C., Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won the Republican primary Saturday night. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a South Carolina Republican presidential primary night rally at the Citadel, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Charleston, S.C. Santorum says it's a "wide open race" for the GOP nomination, even after finishing third in Saturday's primary. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during a?South Carolina Republican presidential primary night rally, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, right, is joined by wife Ann, following his speech during the South Carolina Primary night rally Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Newt Gingrich worked to capitalize Sunday on his upset victory in South Carolina's Republican presidential primary, while Mitt Romney moved quickly to cut his losses before the next contest with a promise to release his income tax returns within 48 hours.
Gingrich said in a round of television interviews that his win, both unexpected and unexpectedly large, showed he was the Republican best able to go toe to toe with President Barack Obama in the fall. "I think virtually everybody who looks at the campaign knows I represent the largest amount of change of any candidate, and I think that's why they see me as representing their interest and their concerns, not representing Wall Street or representing the politicians of Washington," he said.
Romney argued that point, but not another, agreeing in a television interview that he had made a mistake by refusing to release his tax returns before the South Carolina vote. "If it was a distraction, we want to get back to the real issues in the campaign -- leadership, character and vision for America, how to get jobs in America, and how to rein in the excessive scale of the federal government," he said.
The former Massachusetts governor, who made millions in business, said he will make his 2010 return and an estimate for 2011 available online on Tuesday.
The decision marked a concession, as if one were needed, that Romney had stumbled on his way through South Carolina, a state where he led handsomely in the polls several days before the primary.
Florida votes next, on Jan. 31, a 50-delegate contest in one of the most expensive campaign states in the country, and one that Romney can ill afford to lose.
The former governor was an easy winner in the New Hampshire primary earlier in the month. Before that, he was a close runner-up behind former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum in Iowa caucuses where the vote count was so confused that he was originally announced the victor.
Despite his loss on Saturday, Romney remains the contender with the largest and best-funded organization. "Three states in now, we got 47 more to go," he said, adding he was looking forward to the rest.
For all the political momentum gained in South Carolina, Gingrich made it immediately obvious that he is short on funds. He urged supporters via Tweet Saturday night to donate money, and then announced the name of his campaign website while making a nationally televised victory speech.
With their comments, both Romney and Gingrich indicated the race was a two-way competition, likely to go into the spring if not longer.
Santorum had other ideas.
"We're going to Florida and beyond," he said. As he did in a pair of debates in South Carolina, he criticized both Gingrich ? calling him a "very high-risk candidate" ? and Romney, whom he called a moderate ill-suited to appeal to conservative voters.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the fourth contender, has already said he will skip Florida and focus on Nevada and other caucus states.
Gingrich won South Carolina despite being outspent. But in addition to the prohibitive cost of campaigning in Florida, a long-term shortage of funds can cripple efforts to compete in the fast-paced series of primaries and caucuses ahead.
Aides say the former speaker raised $9 million in the final quarter of 2011.
Romney has reported taking in $24 million over the same period.
In addition, both men are supported by outside groups that have paid for millions in television advertising. So far, though, Romney's has spent more, and to greater evident effect.
When Gingrich surged in the polls two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Restore Our Future responded with hard-hitting ads that knocked the former speaker off-stride and protected Romney's standing.
Gingrich lacked the funds to respond effectively, lashed out angrily, and sank to a poor fourth place finish. He did not begin to recover until the final days of the race in South Carolina, when he was aided by Romney's missteps, Texas Gov. Rick Perry's mid-week withdrawal and endorsement, and his own strong debate performances.
Also in the interim, Gingrich supporters said that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson had written a $5 million check to an outside group set up to help the former speaker.
Allies of Gingrich have made no secret of their hope that Adelson will help again in Florida, where the pro-Romney organization shows no signs of slowing down.
Even before the polls closed in South Carolina, Romney and a group supporting him had spent $7 million on television advertising in Florida. So far, the only other political ads to run in the state were financed by ASCME, a labor union working to weaken the standing of the former Massachusetts governor.
While a protracted battle for the nomination could benefit Obama, the signs pointed toward a particularly bruising struggle in Florida.
"I don't think that the people of this country are going to choose as the next president of the United States a person who spent 40 years in Washington as a congressman and a lobbyist," Romney said. "That is not going to be, in my opinion, be the most effective way to replace the current president who also spent his career in politics."
Said Gingrich: "I think South Carolinians were the first state to really understand how liberal Governor Romney's record was" as Massachusetts governor said Gingrich. He said his main rival lost ground "as people began to realize that he'd been pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase in a whole range of areas that despite his advertising and his pretending, it was clear that he was way to the left of South Carolinians."
With votes counted from all of South Carolina's precincts, Gingrich had 40 percent to Romney's 28 percent. Santorum won 17 percent to Paul's 13 percent.
Gingrich won at least 23 of the 25 delegates at stake. The other two have yet to be allocated.
Gingrich appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press," CBS' "Face the Nation" and CNN's "State of the Union." Romney was on "Fox News Sunday," while Santorum was on ABC's "This Week" and CNN.
_____
Eds: AP reporter Jack Gillum in Washington and Shannon McCaffrey in South Carolina contributed to this story.
Associated Pressreal steel real steel iphone 4 cases dean ornish dean ornish yom kippur yom kippur
Video: Would would like to forget this
Sorry, Readability was unable to parse this page for content.
Source: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/21134540/vp/46108387#46108387
ides of march miranda july joe paterno near death joepa sc primary heidi klum and seal divorce bill moyers
Drug for Enlarged Prostate May Slow Cancer Growth
Could Avodart Be an Alternative to Surgery, Radiation for Low-Risk Prostate Cancer?
Jan. 23, 2012 -- A drug widely prescribed to treat men with enlarged prostates may also slow the growth of early prostate cancers, according to a new study.
Researchers say the drug Avodart (dutasteride) may reduce the need for aggressive treatments in men who have a very low risk of dying from their disease.
But there are also concerns that the drug and others in the same class may have no effect on more deadly cancers or may actually fuel their growth, leading several experts to conclude that more study is needed before they can be recommended as a treatment of prostate cancer.
?These drugs are not without side effects,? says Durado Brooks, MD, MPH, who is director of prostate and colorectal cancers for the American Cancer Society. ?They do seem to decrease the growth of low-grade cancers, but questions remain about whether they have much activity against high-grade disease.?
Most Prostate Cancers Aren?t Deadly
As many as 1 in 5 men in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some time in their lives, but most have low-risk cancers that will never cause them harm.
Withholding treatment while closely monitoring the cancer, known as watchful waiting or active surveillance, is increasingly recommended as an alternative to surgery or radiation for men with low-risk cancers.
The strategy is now common in many parts of the world, but most American men still opt for active treatment.
?Nine out of 10 men with low-risk disease in the U.S. are still getting treatment, either because they aren?t offered active surveillance or because they rejected it,? Brooks says. ?Americans are action oriented, and the idea of not treating a known cancer goes against the U.S. psyche.?
Since surgery and radiation involve a risk of life-altering side effects, including erectile dysfunction and incontinence, different treatment approaches are needed for men with low-risk disease, says Neil E. Fleshner, MD, MPH, of Toronto?s Princess Margaret Hospital.
Fleshner and colleagues recruited slightly more than 300 men with low-risk prostate cancers to assess the impact of Avodart on cancer progression.
Avodart-Treated Patients Less Anxious
Roughly half the men in the study took the prostate drug for three years while the other half took placebo pills.
Biopsies were performed after 18 months and three years to measure disease progression, and the men completed questionnaires about how anxious they were about their cancer.
Men treated with Avodart reported significantly less cancer-related anxiety.
They were also more likely to have delayed prostate cancer progression and show no evidence of cancer on their final biopsy.
The Avodart-treated patients did experience more drug-related side effects (24% vs. 15%), consisting mainly of sexual dysfunction.
The study was funded by Avodart manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, and the company was also involved in its design, Fleshner says.
It appears this week in the online edition of the journal The Lancet.
jenelle evans jenelle evans jessica capshaw seattle times seattle times colbert super pac colbert super pac