Chavez: Did US give us cancer?

No matter what the problem, you can always count on Hugo Chavez to find a way to blame the "Yankee Empire."?

Venezuela's president said he was thinking aloud when he suggested that the US might be plotting against Latin American leaders, after it was announced Tuesday night that Argentina's president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.?

Kirchner has a good chance of recovery.?

But she joins a long list of leaders in the region who have been diagnosed with cancer. Chavez, of course, made his struggle public, making announcements when he traveled back and forth to Cuba for treatment.?

Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have also all been diagnosed with cancer.?

Which led Chavez to muse aloud whether the US might be plotting something nefarious.

Per the Telegraph:

"It would not be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer and nobody knew about it until now ... I don't know. I'm just reflecting," he said in a televised speech to troops at a military base.

"But this is very, very, very strange ... it's a bit difficult to explain this, to reason it, including using the law of probabilities."

Chavez said he's been talking with Fidel Castro, Cuba's former leader, which is probably why he's feeling a little paranoid. Castro was always on alert for assassination plots. But that's also because the CIA for a long time was actively trying ? and failing ? to kill him.?

"Fidel always told me, 'Chavez take care. These people have developed technology. You are very careless. Take care what you eat, what they give you to eat ... a little needle and they inject you with I don't know what,'" he said.

Chavez also warned other leaders, like Evo Morales, the firebrand president of Bolivia who has recently clashed with the US over drug policy and other issues.?

"We'll have to take good care of Evo. Take care Evo!" he said.

It's absurd to think that the US might be plotting the deaths of leaders it considers allies, such as Rousseff and Kirchner. But we can't really blame Chavez for at least thinking it, even partly in jest. The US has caused a lot of havoc in Latin America in the past. That was then, of course, and this is now. But sometimes old wounds take a long time to heal.

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Bye Bye Netbooks: Dell Kills The Mini 10 As It Shifts Focus To ?Thin And Powerful?

Once upon a time netbooks ruled the land. But with the rise of tablets and miniaturization of traditional x86 CPUs, the mini notebooks are quietly dying. The latest victim is the Dell Mini. Liliputing discovered by way of MyDellMini.com that the products are no longer listed on Dell.com. They're dead, my friends, and it seems ultrabooks and similar products are to blame.

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If Freemium Is In, Then Why Do Paid Apps Still Reign Supreme?

Earlier today, we posted on some data from Pando Networks that shows that free-to-play online games, often overlooked in the hype around social and casual games, are growing just as fast and as furiously around the globe as their counterparts. Obviously, much of this has to do with the industry's transition from paid to freemium models -- the examples of which are numerous not only in online gaming, but for web and mobile apps on the whole -- and even startups and SMBs making their way in the consumer Web. While many of us probably take the rise of freemium for granted by now, some new stats and a nifty infographic from Quixey show that we are still very much in a transitional phase.

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StackMob?s Mobile App Platform Is Now Publicly Available

StackMob, a backend service provider for mobile, is today publicly launching its mobile app platform, after having been in private beta for a good part of the year. The company, often described as a "Heroku for mobile" is a fully hosted platform that allows developers to address all the backend needs for their mobile apps including OAuth and social service integration (e.g., Twitter, Facebook), storage solutions, advertising, push notifications, analytics, API creation and more.

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Plant studies miss the full effect of climate change

Climate change is affecting plants' seasonal activities more strongly than biological experiments suggest. The finding suggests that such studies may have to be reworked to get a better picture of the effects of global warming.

"This is huge," says Benjamin Cook, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, and a member of the team behind the study. "We are relying heavily on these experiments to predict what will happen 100 years from now."

Shifts in seasonal patterns of growth and activity are some of the most obvious ecological responses to climate change. For instance, plants may unfurl their leaves or burst into flower earlier in the spring. The study of such changes, known as phenology, is important because big trouble could be in store if species that rely on one another ? such as flowering plants and their pollinators ? get out of sync in a warming world.

To predict what the future holds, ecologists are artificially warming selected plots in natural ecosystems using infrared lamps, soil-heating cables or open-top enclosures that act like greenhouses. But researchers led by Elizabeth Wolkovich of the University of California, San Diego, have found that such experiments aren't a reliable guide to the future.

Day per degree

Wolkovich gathered results from 36 warming experiments and compared them with 14 long-term studies of plant responses to actual environmental warming. In total, she collected information on over 1500 plant species across four continents. Her team looked at the timing of flowering and leaf growth in the spring, expressing the results as a change in days per degree Celsius of warming.

The warming experiments dramatically underestimated responses to climate change, says Wolkovich. They indicated that flowering and leafing would advance on average by about one day per degree of warming, but long-term observations show that responses to climate warming so far have been four to eight times as large.

Some experiments have warmed plots beyond the range recorded in long-term observations, which might suggest that plants' response to warming begins to plateau at higher temperatures. However, Wolkovich says that the discrepancy cannot be explained this way.

When Wolkovich and her colleagues considered only species represented both in experiments and in observational studies, the difference was even more pronounced. For these species the experiments suggested, surprisingly, that plants would flower later on average under warmer conditions. Observational studies have shown the opposite: flowering times have advanced as the world has warmed.

Why warming experiments should be getting it wrong is unclear. Richard Primack of Boston University says the results suggest that warming experiments do not deliver as much heat as researchers think ? some might be dissipated by wind, for instance. Another possibility, notes Wolkovich, is that warming experiments may inadvertently dry soil, which is likely to delay leaf growth and flowering.

Walden data

Primack has studied changes in plant seasonality at Concord, Massachusetts, using records that were started in the 19th century by the philosopher, poet and naturalist Henry David Thoreau. Now Primack is relating the Concord observations to results from the Boston-Area Climate Experiment run by Jeff Dukes of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Preliminary results echo Wolkovich's findings, Primack says.

Changes in seasonal patterns of plant growth and development are not the only likely consequences of climate change. Warming experiments are also being used to investigate predicted changes in total ecosystem productivity and the cycling of carbon, water and nutrients.

Primack suggests that researchers may have to deploy more temperature sensors in their experimental plots to determine how much of the heat they are delivering is being dissipated. "A lot of the results coming out of warming experiments may need to be recalibrated," he warns.

Wolkovich presented the findings at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco last week.

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Body Hair Senses Parasites While Slowing Their Blood Quest

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Volunteers detected bed bugs more quickly on unshaven versus shaved arms. And the bugs took longer to find a feeding spot among the forest of hair. Christopher Intagliata reports

December 13, 2011

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We "naked apes" aren't as hirsute as our primate cousins. We still have an ape-like density of hair follicles?but we sprout out peach fuzz, instead of a thick coat. Those downy hairs may be more than an evolutionary leftover, though. They may be "hair-trigger" sensors for bedbugs and other parasites. So says a study in the journal Biology Letters. [Isabelle Dean and Michael T. Siva-Jothy, Human fine body hair enhances ectoparasite detection, link to come.]

Researchers shaved one forearm on each of 29 student volunteers, and placed a hungry bedbug there. Without looking, the students counted each time they felt something. The researchers repeated the experiment on each victim's unshaven arm as a control. And don't worry?in each case they plucked off bedbugs just as they prepared to dine.

Turns out students were significantly more likely to sense bedbugs crawling on their unshaven arms. And those tangles of hair slowed down the bug's search for a place to snack, too. The authors say our fine human hair may thus be perfectly evolved: thin enough to eliminate hiding spots for bugs, but thick enough to act as an alarm system for bloodsuckers in the night?enough to make anyone's hair stand on end.

?Christopher Intagliata

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'Rango,' 'Rio,' 'Puss,' 'Tintin' earn Annie noms (omg!)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Johnny Depp's "Rango," Anne Hathaway's "Rio," Antonio Banderas' "Puss in Boots" and Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin" are among films competing for best-animated film at the Annie Awards.

The 10 nominees announced Monday also include James McAvoy's "Arthur Christmas," Owen Wilson's "Cars 2," Jack Black's "Kung Fu Panda 2" and three overseas contenders: "A Cat in Paris," ''Arrugas" and "Chico & Rita."

Cast members earning voice-acting nominations for the Annie Awards include "Arthur Christmas" co-stars Bill Nighy and Ashley Jensen, "Kung Fu Panda 2" co-stars Gary Oldman and James Hong and "Puss in Boots" co-star Zach Galifianakis.

Presented by the International Animated Film Society, the Annie Awards will be handed out Feb. 4 at a ceremony in Los Angeles.

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Neuroscientists find greater complexity in how we perceive motion

Monday, December 5, 2011

How we perceive motion is a significantly more complex process than previously thought, researchers at New York University's Center for Neural Science, Stanford University and the University of Washington have found. Their results, which appear in the journal Current Biology, show that the relationship between the brain and visual perception varies, depending on the type of motion we are viewing.

Neuroscientists have posited that our perception of motion is derived from a relatively simple process?that is, it relies on a single cortical area in the brain. This region, MT, has a well-established role in processing information about moving visual objects. However, less clear is the scope of its influence?does it dictate our ability to detect all types of motion or is its function more limited or, perhaps, more nuanced?

With this in mind, the NYU-led team examined how the visual system processes two types of motion: local motion, which involves tracking signals that fall within a small retinal area, and global motion, in which several movements are integrated over larger areas. Specifically, they monitored activity in MT to determine if its neurons were active in response to both types of motion.

In normal scenes, local and global motion are normally in agreement. Here, the researchers conducted experiments in which macaque monkey and human subjects watched specially crafted patterns in which the local and global motion information were in competition. The researchers made physiological and perceptual measurements of brain activity.

Their results showed notable differences in how the visual system functions in processing local and global motion. They found that neuronal activity in MT was controlled by the local motion in the stimulus and unaffected by global motion. Under the same conditions, though, humans' perceptual responses were dominated by global motion, which means that their responses were determined by a second brain mechanism that encodes global motion, whose nature is currently unknown.

J. Anthony Movshon, director of the Center for Neural Science and the paper's senior author, says that the work opens a window for further study: "While comprehending the specifics of this process requires more work, it's clear that motion perception does not depend on a single cortical brain area, but, rather, reflects the action and interaction of multiple mechanisms. We now have new tools to help us identify and study brain systems that are currently unknown."

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'Honey Badger' leads No. 1 LSU past Georgia 42-10

LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu (7) reacts to a fumble recovery against Georgia during the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu (7) reacts to a fumble recovery against Georgia during the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

LSU running back Kenny Hilliard (27) runs into the end zone to score a touchdown as Georgia cornerback Brandon Boykin (2) looks on during the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu (7) runs back a punt as Georgia linebacker Kosta Vavlas (48) makes the tackle during the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

LSU wide receiver Odell Beckham (33) hold the ball after making a catch in the end zone as Georgia cornerback Brandon Boykin (2) defends during the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Atlanta. After review, the touchdown was nullified. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

LSU running back Kenny Hilliard (27) runs the ball into the end zone as Georgia safety Bacarri Rambo (18) defends during the second half of the Southeastern Conference championship NCAA college football game, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)

ATLANTA (AP) ? The "Honey Badger" doesn't care when his team struggles.

He just takes what he wants.

In this case, it's a trip to the national championship game.

Tyrann Mathieu turned in an MVP performance when the No. 1 Tigers needed him most. He ran back a punt 62 yards for a touchdown, set up another score with a fumble recovery and finally finished off No. 12 Georgia with his best play yet ? a whirling dervish of a return that led to the decisive TD in a 42-10 victory in the Southeastern Conference title game Saturday.

LSU (13-0) advanced to a spot in the BCS championship game in New Orleans, just 75 miles from its Baton Rouge campus. The Tigers opponent will be announced Sunday night, but SEC West rival and No. 2 Alabama ? already beaten by the Tigers 9-6 in overtime a month ago ? had the inside track even though it didn't win its division.

The Crimson Tide will have to deal with a fearless sophomore who has the country's best nickname, and is an even better player.

"Last night, I envisioned me having three touchdowns," Mathieu said. "I think I came close to that. It comes down to me trying to do what I can for my team."

His moniker stems from a humorous YouTube video that supposedly depicts the world's fiercest animal ("Honey Badger don't care, he just takes what he wants," the narrator says). Defensive coordinator John Chavis showed the 5-foot-9, 175-pound player the clip on the way back from a victory at West Virginia, believing it fit Mathieu perfectly.

No argument there.

"My teammates love the name, and I think it depicts me on the field," Mathieu said. "I just go with it. My teammates do a great job having my back. Anything I can do to help those guys, lift their spirits, I'll do it. I think the Honey Badger does that sometimes."

The Bulldogs (10-3) raced to a 10-0 lead that could've been even bigger if they hadn't dropped a pair of potential touchdown passes in the first quarter. LSU looked downright awful on offense, going three-and-out on all seven of its possessions before halftime.

The Tigers didn't even have one first down, finishing the half with just 12 total yards.

But, thanks to Mathieu, the deficit was only 10-7 when the teams went to the locker room. He fielded a punt at his own 38, found an opening and was gone ? all the way to the end zone for his second punt return for a touchdown in as many weeks. He had a 92-yarder that sparked a win over Arkansas.

Well, almost to the end zone. A replay showed Mathieu flipped the ball to an official just before he crossed the goal line, but no one on the field caught the blunder.

"I'll have to remember not to do that next time," he said with a smile.

That was long forgotten by the time he was done. On Georgia's first possession of the second half, quarterback Aaron Murray tried to scramble for a first down but had the ball knocked loose just before he hit the turf.

Mathieu was there to fall on it at the Bulldogs 26 for his fifth fumble recovery of the season.

LSU quickly seized its first lead. The Tigers finally picked up a first down before freshman Kenny Hilliard broke off a 15-yard run for the first of his three touchdowns. Normally, that would've been more than enough to win the game's MVP award. Not even close on this day.

Mathieu dropped back to receive another punt. About the only thing the Bulldogs managed to do was keep him out of the end zone. He cradled the ball, took off down the center of the field, cut back to his left, stutter-stepped and turned on a burst of speed, basically came to a stop around the Georgia 30, then took off again and was finally dragged down at the 17.

He avoided or broke away from at least eight of the 11 red-clad guys trying to bring him down, a Heisman-worthy play that should be enough to at least get him to New York for the banquet ? if not earn serious consideration for the award as the nation's top player. Certainly, no defensive player has come up with more game-changing plays.

"As the conference champion in the SEC and being one of the key players on that team, I think he needs real consideration," coach Les Miles said. "He's a special player. He has a special place."

Georgia would certainly be willing to send a letter of recommendation. Mathieu essentially ruined any chance of the Bulldogs ? a 13 1/2-point underdog ? pulling off an upset that would've shaken up the race for No. 1.

"I enjoy watching him play football except when he plays against us." Georgia coach Mark Richt said. "You appreciate the way he plays. There's just something about him. He finds a way to do something special just about every game. He did it again today."

Mathieu has scored four touchdowns this season ? two on returns, two more from his cornerback spot. He's forced six fumbles. He's picked off two passes. He the leading tackler on one of the nation's top defenses.

"I respect him a lot, especially with me being a return guy," Georgia's Brandon Boykin said. "That turned the momentum of the game."

LSU took control with a 21-point third quarter, coming back from a double-digit deficit for the second week in a row and leaving little doubt that it's the best team in country heading into bowl season. The only other unbeaten team, Houston, was blown out in the Conference USA championship game Saturday. All the other top teams have at least one loss.

The Tigers have knocked off five teams in The Associated Press' current Top 25 ? including three of the top eight. They'll still have to win one more game to claim the BCS title, but they could still be voted No. 1 in the final AP poll, no matter what happens Jan. 9 in the Big Easy.

Miles, as least for public consumption, said he looks forward to a rematch with the Tide, a game that will ensure the SEC of its sixth straight national champion.

"I would certainly understand if college football decides it should be two SEC teams playing for the national championship," he said. "It's a very special conference with very special teams."

SEC East champion Georgia came into the game on a 10-game winning streak, and the Bulldogs showed no fear of LSU in the early going. Murray connected with Tavarres King on a 44-yard pass and could've had a TD when a pass across the middle went through King's hands. They settled for Blair Walsh's 40-yard field goal.

Knowing he would have to throw caution to the wind, Richt called an onside kick that worked the perfection. Walsh bounced the ball off the turf and high into the air. Alec Ogletree soared in to grab it beyond the necessary 10 yards, giving the Bulldogs another possession.

They should've scored a touchdown. Instead, they wound up with nothing. Freshman Malcolm Mitchell dropped a pass right in his hands at the LSU 5 with no one around, and Walsh missed a 45-yard try.

But LSU couldn't do anything with the ball. The Tigers' longest play in the first half was 9 yards. Eleven of their 21 plays went for zero or negative yards. Outside of Mathieu, punter Brad Wing was LSU's best weapon, averaging 54.1 yards on his first seven punts.

Both offenses stalled in the second quarter, managing a grand total of 2 yards ? 1 for each team. Georgia went to the locker room with a commanding 135-12 lead in total yards, but certainly a sense it had missed its chance to put away an LSU team that had outscored No. 6 Arkansas 41-3 after falling into an early 14-0 hole.

Hilliard scored on a 4-yard run after Mathieu's second long return to make it 21-10, essentially enough to finish off the Bulldogs, but the freshman runner then hauled in an 8-yard touchdown pass for good measure.

The Tigers romped in the final period. Alfred Blue broke off a 48-yard touchdown run and Morris Claiborne returned an interception 45 yards for the final score. LSU won even though Jordan Jefferson completed only five passes and the offense totaled a mere 237 yards.

Murray had a miserable day, completing just 16 of 40 for 163 yards with two interceptions. Georgia's running game was non-existent with Isaiah Crowell hobbling on a sore ankle. The freshman had only 15 yards on 10 carries.

The Bulldogs will likely settle for a trip to the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla.

Mathieu has a bigger goal in mind.

He doesn't care what it takes to get there.

"There's a part of Tyrann Mathieu that's definitely the 'Honey Badger'," Miles said. "On the football field, he takes what he wants."

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Unemployment Extension Fight Heating Up -- Again (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | The unemployment extension reauthorization battle is heating up again. Again, Congress seems to be waiting until the last minute to pass much needed legislation that will ensure that benefits continue to be made available to millions of Americans currently jobless, victims of a sluggish economy and a stagnant jobs market. Again, Congress seems to be setting up battle lines with Democrats pressing for passage of the extensions and Republicans only willing to allow passage if they get some sort of concession for their cooperation. And again, according to OpenCongress.org, there are over two million of the long-term unemployed, those individuals that unemployment extensions are designed to assist, set to watch their benefits expire by mid-February if some form of reauthorization is not hammered out.

Feel like it's deju vu all over again? It is, just a year removed. Only the particulars have changed. The goals of both parties remain the same. Democrats want the unemployment extensions to advance their political agenda. Republicans want some kind of concession to advance their political agenda.

Last year, Republicans held out past the expiration date for extension benefits in early December. Wanting offsets to the extension proposal (not an unreasonable demand) in order for benefits to be paid for, Republicans were also adamant that allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire for America's wealthiest would not be the method of payment (which was unreasonable). In the end, as most knew would happen, the unemployment extension package passed with a 13-month extension (through to the end of 2011), while Democrats allowed the Bush tax cuts to extend for another two years.

Since most things that get done in Washington occur because of leverage, it would appear that Democrats had lost a crucial bargaining tool to offset the unemployment extension reauthorization. But the takeover of Congress by an intractable group of Tea Party Republicans after the 2010 midterm elections forced congressional gridlock in budgetary matters throughout the year and a debt ceiling deal at the end of July resulted in a radical spending cut plan to social programs and the defense budget to be triggered if a bipartisan "super committee" could not agree on $1.2 trillion in cuts.

They could not. They announced last week that they were unable to reach agreement.

So with the Democrats regaining some leverage (defense spending favored by Republicans), Congress is now setting up battle lines as the unemployment extension deadline nears. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has been attempting to put together a package, according to Politico, that allows for the reauthorization of benefits for a year while at the same time targeting and alleviating defense spending cuts, something the more hawkish Republicans can get behind.

Legislators will eventually pass something. Benefits will be reauthorized. The opposing sides just have to play a little partisan politics and blame each other for obstruction for a few weeks.

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Twitter Gets Google And Facebook Connect

Correct me if I'm wrong here but you weren't always immediately prompted and guided through to finding your Gmail contacts on Twitter?upon login, just like you weren't always able to sync your tweets to Facebook. Some switch just got turned on after midnight on Friday I swear because, yeah now this stuff is possible. It's crazy. Log into your Twitter account and go to Settings and it's there, I promise. Unless I'm hallucinating or part of some strange private beta.

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Obama lawyers: Citizens targeted if at war with US

WASHINGTON (AP) ? U.S. citizens are legitimate military targets when they take up arms with al-Qaida, top national security lawyers in the Obama administration said Thursday.

The lawyers were asked at a national security conference about the CIA killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen and leading al-Qaida figure. He died in a Sept. 30 U.S. drone strike in the mountains of Yemen.

The government lawyers, CIA counsel Stephen Preston and Pentagon counsel Jeh Johnson, did not directly address the al-Awlaki case. But they said U.S. citizens do not have immunity when they are at war with the United States.

Johnson said only the executive branch, not the courts, is equipped to make military battlefield targeting decisions about who qualifies as an enemy.

The courts in habeas cases, such as those involving whether a detainee should be released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, make the determination of who can be considered an enemy combatant.

Late last year, a judge threw out a lawsuit filed by al-Awlaki's father, saying that the courts do not have the authority to review military decisions by the president aimed at protecting the country from terrorists. The cleric's father, Nasser al-Awlaki of Yemen, was suing to prevent the U.S. from targeting his son.

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Oil jumps to $101 on int'l banking plan

NEW YORK (AP) ? The price of oil surged to $101 per barrel Wednesday, as the U.S. and other countries tried to make it easier for banks to lend money and keep the global economy growing.

The Federal Reserve said it will team up with the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the central banks of Canada, Japan and Switzerland to increase the flow of dollars around the world. The coordinated move should be a shot in the arm for Europe, where a festering credit crisis has slowed the eurozone economy and threatened a recession.

Separately China reduced the level of cash its banks are required to keep on hand in an effort to boost lending and ramp up the world's second-largest economy.

Stock markets soared while the dollar sank in morning trading. Major U.S. indexes were up more than 3.5 percent. The U.S. Dollar Index, which measures the dollar versus other currencies, dropped 1.1 percent.

Oil, which is priced in dollars, tends to rise as the dollar falls and makes crude cheaper for investors holding foreign currency. The price of benchmark crude rose $1.14 to $100.93 per barrel in New York. At one point it was as high as $101.75 a barrel. Brent crude, used to price many foreign kinds of crude, rose 35 cents to $110.21 per barrel in London.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that oil and distillate fuel supplies grew more than expected last week. Oil and gasoline demand fell when compared with a year ago, while demand for distillates, which include heating oil and diesel fuel, increased.

Gasoline pump prices are steady at a national average of $3.295 a gallon, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. A gallon of regular is about 15 cents cheaper than it was last month, but it's still 44 cents more than at the same time last year.

In other energy trading, heating oil was virtually unchanged at $3.0222 per gallon, and gasoline futures rose 3.77 cents to $2.5775 per gallon. Natural gas fell 7.6 cents to $3.557 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Associated Press

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Stabile-Pro Tablet Stand Review

Lately, I have been reviewing a variety of iPad and tablet desktop stands.? A few weeks ago I was asked to review the Stabile-Pro Desktop Tablet Stand from Thought Out, and I jumped at the chance as I had read about this new stand and wanted to take a look to see if it would [...]

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Egypt unrest casts shadow over polls (Reuters)

CAIRO (Reuters) ? Egyptian protesters demanding an end to army rule clashed with police firing tear gas in central Cairo on Saturday in a flare-up that cast another shadow over a parliamentary election billed as the nation's first free vote in decades.

Two days of voting begin on Monday in the first stage of a complex, drawn-out election that will be completed in January.

One protester, Ahmed Sayed, 21, died after being hit by a riot police vehicle in the clashes. His death was the first since a truce between police and protesters on Thursday calmed violence that had killed 41 people around Cairo's Tahrir Square and elsewhere.

Alarmed by the violence, the United States and the European Union have urged a swift handover to civilian rule in a country where prolonged political turmoil has compounded economic woes.

The latest clash occurred near the cabinet office on the second day of a sit-in to protest against the army's appointment of 78-year-old Kamal Ganzouri, a premier under ousted President Hosni Mubarak, to form a "national salvation government."

An army source said the ruling military council held separate talks with presidential candidates Mohamed ElBaradei and Amr Moussa. "I met Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi over the current crisis and discussed ways to resolve it," Moussa told Reuters later, but gave no details.

ElBaradei's office said in a statement that he had been in touch with all relevant parties to "activate the demands of the revolution." It said he had met Tantawi and army chief of staff Sami Enan to discuss these demands, without reaching agreement.

Protest groups have named ElBaradei as their choice to head a civilian body to supervise Egypt's transition to democracy instead of the army council that took over from Mubarak.

Ganzouri met with youth activists, but the April 6 movement, prominent in the anti-Mubarak revolt, disavowed those involved, saying they were "planted by the military council."

Ganzouri told reporters he had not yet offered anyone a ministerial portfolio. "I am ready to sit with all political currents. The new government will have new faces and youth will be part of it as they are the backbone of this nation," he said.

Tahrir Square protesters have dismissed Ganzouri, premier from 1996 to 1999, as another face from the past whose appointment reflects the generals' resistance to change.

A television clip circulated on Facebook in the past 24 hours shows him sitting one seat away from Tantawi on January 25, the first day of Egypt's revolt, as they listen to a speech by former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli, who is on trial with Mubarak on charges of ordering protesters to be killed.

"Down, down with the marshal," a group chanted in Tahrir, near tents set up on grassy patches. They were referring to Tantawi, who was Mubarak's defense minister for 20 years.

ACCIDENTAL KILLING

The Interior Ministry said the protester had been killed by accident, an account backed by Ahmad Zeidan, 18, an activist at the sit-in who said he had seen the youth being run over.

"It wasn't deliberate. They (police) were retreating quickly because (protesters) were throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at them," he said. The demonstrators had come from Tahrir to confront police vehicles apparently heading for the square.

The turmoil of the past week has overshadowed the election, whose initial stage involves Cairo, Alexandria and other areas.

One declared reason for the polling marathon is because judges, who retain public respect for their independence, will supervise the election and there are not enough of them available for a single day of nationwide voting.

Reflecting security concerns, Ahmed al-Zind, head of Egypt's Judges Club, told a news conference the organization had taken out private insurance to cover all the judges involved.

Protesters in Tahrir seemed in two minds about the election.

Emad Mohamed, 35, wearing a hat in Egyptian national colors, had no faith in the vote, saying it would enable Mubarak-era politicians to make a come-back. "We do not think it is in our interest. Where are the new parties?" he asked.

But Yasser Nasr, assisting at a makeshift clinic, said: "They cannot delay elections. It will mess up the situation. Once they happen, hopefully things will improve."

The Muslim Brotherhood and other mainstream parties which have not joined the protesters in Tahrir want the election to go ahead, eager to establish a strong presence in parliament.

They have accepted the army's transition timetable, but the demonstrators are demanding an immediate end to military rule.

Instead, the generals have promised that a new president will be elected by mid-2012, sooner than previously announced.

While tens of thousands packed Tahrir Square for what activists dubbed "Last Chance Friday," at least 5,000 people demonstrated in support of the army in another Cairo square, highlighting splits between youngsters bent on radical reform and people upset by the unrest who want to restore normality.

Ganzouri described his task as thankless and "extremely difficult," saying his priority was to secure the streets and revive the economy. Egypt's pound has hit a seven-year low and foreign reserves have dropped by a third since December 2010.

Protest groups have called for another mass rally on Sunday to press demands for an immediate transfer of power.

(Additional reporting by Mohamed Abdellah, Tom Perry, Maha El Dahan and Reuters Television; Writing by Alistair Lyon, editing by Peter Millership and Rosalind Russell)

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