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Nora Ephron's Most Memorable Quotes About Food

It's nearly impossible to talk about Nora Ephron without talking about food. And, it seems like Nora Ephron never had any problem talking about food either. If she says butter is okay, we're going to treat her as the gospel. Her relationship with food was one we can admire -- she was honest with her thoughts on the topic and certainly appreciated a good meal.

Check out our favorite Nora Ephron quotes about food:

• "Every time I'm forced to watch them eat egg-white omelettes, I feel bad for them. In the first place, egg-white omelettes are tasteless. In the second place, the people who eat them think they are doing something virtuous when they are instead merely misinformed." <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/the-informational-cascade_b_67923.html" target="_hplink">Huffington Post</a>, October 2007</em>

• Q: Do you consider any food a romantic deal-breaker? A: I respect vegetarians, but I could never fall in love with one. Q: The New Yorker described you as someone who eats "slowly" in "small, tidy bites." What should we infer from that? A: That I want my meals to last forever. <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/opinion/02dowd.html" target="_hplink">Interview with Maureen Down, New York Times</a>, August 2009</em>

• Q: Foie gras: Yes or no? A: Yes! Are you kidding? <em><a href="http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/chefsexperts/interviews/noraephroninterview" target="_hplink">Epicurious</a></em>

• "If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other." <em>Interview with <a href="http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/chefsexperts/interviews/noraephroninterview" target="_hplink">Epicurious</a></em>

• "It's not that I'm not obsessed about food. I really am and I'm sitting in a room right now with food and I'm 10 feet away from it and I've been thinking the whole time I've been talking to you, is the telephone cord is long enough for me to get some food?" <em><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/pop-vox/2009/08/03/15-food-questions-for-nora-ephron.html" target="_hplink">Newsweek</a>, August 2009</em>

• "There's no point in making piecrust from scratch." <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/what-i-wish-id-known_b_26337.html" target="_hplink">I Feel Bad About My Neck</a></em>

• "And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it -- it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so." <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/thanksgiving-recipes-food_b_786217.html#s191990&title=Artichoke_Pie" target="_hplink">Huffington Post</a>, November 2010</em>

• "I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them." <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heartburn-Nora-Ephron/dp/0679767959/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1340742110&sr=8-2&keywords=heartburn" target="_hplink">Heartburn</a></em>

• "Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?" <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Feel-Bad-About-My-Neck/dp/0739342924" target="_hplink">I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman</a></em>

• "Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!" <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heartburn-Nora-Ephron/dp/0679767959/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340742679&sr=1-1&keywords=heartburn+nora+ephron" target="_hplink">Heartburn</a></em>

• "[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don't bump into vinaigrettes that good.)" <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heartburn-Nora-Ephron/dp/0679767959/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340742679&sr=1-1&keywords=heartburn+nora+ephron" target="_hplink">Heartburn</a></em>

• "Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. I think of it as my own personal bride's disease." <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/CRAZY-SALAD-PLUS-9-Ephron/dp/067150715X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340742652&sr=8-1&keywords=crazy+salad+plus+nine" target="_hplink">Crazy Salad Plus Nine</a></em>

• "I guess I've always been a food obsessive, and it has gotten worse the older I've gotten." <em><a href="http://www.gourmet.com/food/2009/08/my-day-on-plate-nora-ephron" target="_hplink">Gourmet</a>, August 2009</em>

• "Everybody dies, there's no avoiding it and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake. By the way the same thing is true of olive oil. What difference could it possibly make if there's a little olive oil in your salad dressing? It does not take one day off your life." <em><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/pop-vox/2009/08/03/15-food-questions-for-nora-ephron.html" target="_hplink">Newsweek</a>, August 2009</em>

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"Super Earth" Found Near "Hot Neptune" in Space

Scientists used to assume that if other stars had solar systems, they would be like our own - small, rocky planets (i.e. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) orbiting relatively close to the star, with gas giants (think of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) farther out.

So much for that.

Since the 1990s, astrophysicists report they have identified at least 600 stars with planets circling them and found that solar systems like ours are a rarity.

Take Kepler 36, reported Friday in the journal Science.

It's a solar system about 1,200 light-years away, with two very different planets right on top of each other (illustrated above). One's a rocky "super Earth," about 1.5 times as large as our world. The other is a gaseous "hot Neptune," about 3.7 times as large.

They are the closest of any planetary system found to date, and were found using NASA's Kepler probe, which has been planet-hunting since 2009.

Both worlds are so close to their host star that they zip around it in 14 and 16 days, respectively, and are five times closer than the moon is to us.

To put that in perspective, if you've ever been struck by moonrise on a summer night, imagine a moon about 12 times as large high in the sky.

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Vice-Presidential Vetting Process Under Scrutiny at Retreat

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Pre-summit document presses EU banking union

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European leaders will discuss specific steps towards a cross-border banking union, closer fiscal integration and the possibility of a debt redemption fund at a summit on June 28-29, according to a document prepared for the meeting.

Two officials familiar with the 10-15 page document, drawn up over the past month and which is still being revised ahead of the summit, said it sets out in detail the four "pillars" required for a strong economic and monetary union which leaders believe is necessary to secure the currency project's future.

As well as progress towards a banking union, the paper discusses the need for a more integrated budget policy, steps required for deeper economic integration, and how to retain "democratic legitimacy" if countries give up some sovereignty.

The document has been drafted by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi, and Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the Eurogroup countries using the euro.

European leaders have already said the first area they need to work on is a banking integration as they try to break the link between bad banks and indebted governments, with the worsening situation in Spain an immediate concern.

EU officials believe that could be achieved in a year, although Berlin wants to see much more progress towards fiscal integration first, something that would require much longer due to the need to change the European Union treaty to achieve it.

The document goes into most detail on the banking proposals, setting out the need for a single European banking supervisor, a common EU deposit-guarantee scheme and a single bank-resolution fund to wind down the region's bad banks, the officials said.

The paper sets out options under each heading, saying that when it comes to a single banking supervisor it could either be charged with overseeing all EU banks, or else look after the major systemic banks with cross-border operations, while another body looks after broader, day-to-day oversight.

The expectation is the ECB will eventually be given sole responsibility for overseeing Europe's biggest banks, while the European Banking Authority watchdog retains a broader oversight role along with coordinating the work of national regulators.

On a common deposit insurance mechanism, the paper suggests that there needs to be a strengthening of and closer integration among national guarantee schemes to provide a more reassuring backstop across the whole European Union.

On a resolution fund to deal with failing banks, it calls for a single mechanism "with a large envelope" that would be financed via levies on the banking sector, such as a financial transaction tax, and would offer "an integrated EU solution for resolution".

The document, which draws heavily on proposals made by the European Commission on June 6, says an "immediate and permanent mutualisation" of risk may be required to backstop the banking sector. It suggests the euro zone's permanent ESM bailout fund could be used to recapitalize banks directly, rather than having to lend to governments for on-lending to banks.

All of those proposals would be possible under existing EU treaties and could be implemented relatively rapidly, the document indicates.

Even if it took only a year, this will probably not come quick enough to ease market pressure on Spain and Italy that is now reaching danger levels, although some analysts believe a strong signal of intent could help. That could also persuade the ECB to step in.

"Short term, there is clearly a risk that the summit will disappoint markets yet again. If that were to be the case, I have no doubt that the ECB will step in," said Erik Neilsen, global chief economist at Unicredit.

That could take the form of an interest rate cut, further easing of collateral rules for Spanish banks so they can continue to access ECB funds or even a resumption of the bank's bond-buying program, which several of its policymakers oppose, he said.

BUDGET INTEGRATION

In a second section examining the steps required for closer fiscal coordination, the document says there is a need to go beyond existing legislative proposals such as the fiscal treaty, which 25 of the EU's 27 countries have signed up to and which commits them to a balanced budget.

The paper says that as closer banking and fiscal integration is achieved, the issue of mutualisation of debt will become more immediate and it raises the option of a debt redemption fund along the lines of that proposed by Germany's "wise men".

That is an idea that France, Italy and others have pushed hard for but which German Chancellor Angela Merkel opposes.

Merkel has not ruled out a sharing of debt per se, but has said any discussion on it can only happen at the end of a long process of integration that is likely to take many years. In contrast, France will find it difficult to stomach the loss of sovereignty that fiscal union would demand.

"The political leaders are now trying to move to a degree of fiscal and political union within a very short period of time. In democracies, such changes usually take a few years, and whether enough can be achieved in time remains to be seen," Neilsen said.

"However, in my mind, this does not imply an imminent risk of a breakdown of the euro zone ... It's a political project, and political leaders are unlikely to throw in the towel because markets don't like the policies."

Other sections of the document discuss the broader aims of greater EU labor mobility, efforts to improve pan-EU competitiveness, and to examine common taxation such as a common corporate tax base and a financial transactions levy.

There is likely to be heated discussion on issues such as debt mutualisation and any pooling of liability under a banking union, with Germany adamant that it will not be put on the line to underwrite the liabilities of other euro zone countries.

No decisions are expected at the summit, but if leaders agree that there are grounds to push ahead, Barroso, Van Rompuy and the others will be given a further mandate to develop the ideas in greater detail, including more specific timelines.

Van Rompuy has said he hopes to have a more thorough set of plans drawn up by the next EU leaders' summit in October or possibly the one after in December.

(Writing by Luke Baker; Editing by Ralph Gowling)

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Roderick Lawrence signs with Miami University's basketball team

OXFORD, OH (FOX19) - Miami University men's basketball?head coach John Cooper?announced on Friday that 6-foot-4, 180-pound guard Roderick Lawrence?has signed with the team.

?We are excited to have Roderick join the family,? remarked Cooper. ?Our staff is very familiar with him through the recruiting process last year. He decided to sign with Morehead State, but after they went through a coaching change and he re-opened his recruiting we were able to get involved. It came down to us and Penn State, and we?re fortunate to have Roderick come to us from Orlando, Florida. He?s a terrific kid who has really continued to improve, and I think that improvement will flourish as he gets stronger and continues to increase his weight. He has some good skills and with some of the things we want to do he?ll certainly fit in well, and he?ll fit in well as a person because he?s a classy kid.?

Lawrence averaged 16.3 ppg, 8.0 rpg, 2.0 spg and 3.1 apg for Dr. Phillips High School as a senior last season as the Panthers amassed a 23-6 record and a 7-0 league mark while advancing the regional semifinals.

The team was ranked as high as No. 3 in the state in 2011-12. During his sophomore and junior campaigns, the Panthers compiled 28-7 records each year, while earning No. 2 rankings in the state and advancing to the Class 6A State Championship game both seasons.

During Lawrence?s three seasons on the varsity team, Dr. Phillips went undefeated in league action each season, compiling a combined 23-0 league record while posting 79 overall wins.

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Vatican hires Fox News reporter as communications advisor

Details:

The Vatican has brought in the Fox News correspondent in Rome to help improve its communications strategy as it tries to cope with years of communications blunders and one of its most serious scandals in decades, The Associated Press learned Saturday.Greg Burke, 52, will leave Fox to become a senior communications adviser in the Vatican?s secretariat of state, the Vatican and Burke told the AP.

?I?m a bit nervous but very excited. Let?s just say it?s a challenge,? Burke said in a phone interview.

He defined his job, which he said he had been offered twice before, as: ?You?re shaping the message, you?re molding the message, and you?re trying to make sure everyone remains on-message. And that?s tough.?

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, confirmed the move to the AP, saying Burke will help integrate communications issues within the Vatican?s top administrative office, the secretariat of state, and will help handle its relations with the Holy See press office and other Vatican communications offices.

Burke, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, is a member of the conservative Opus Dei movement. Pope John Paul II?s longtime spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, was also a member of Opus Dei.

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South African daffodils may be a future cure for depression

Friday, June 22, 2012

Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have previously documented that substances from the South African plant species Crinum and Cyrtanthus ? akin to snowdrops and daffodils ? have an effect on the mechanisms in the brain that are involved in depression. This research has now yielded further results, since a team based at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences has recently shown how several South African daffodils contain plant compounds whose characteristics enable them to negotiate the defensive blood-brain barrier that is a key challenge in all new drug development.

"Several of our plant compounds can probably be smuggled past the brain's effective barrier proteins. We examined various compounds for their influence on the transporter proteins in the brain. This study was made in a genetically-modified cell model of the blood-brain barrier that contains high levels of the transporter P-glycoprotein. Our results are promising, and several of the chemical compounds studied should therefore be tested further, as candidates for long-term drug development," says Associate Professor Birger Brodin.

"The biggest challenge in medical treatment of diseases of the brain is that the drug cannot pass through the blood-brain barrier. The blood vessels of the brain are impenetrable for most compounds, one reason being the very active transporter proteins. You could say that the proteins pump the drugs out of the cells just as quickly as they are pumped in. So it is of great interest to find compounds that manage to 'trick' this line of defence."

The results of the study have been published in the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology.

New cooperation between biologists and organic chemists

It will nonetheless be a long time before any possible new drug reaches our pharmacy shelves:

"This is the first stage of a lengthy process, so it will take some time before we can determine which of the plant compounds can be used in further drug development," says Birger Brodin.

Yet this does not curb his enthusiasm for the opportunities from the interdisciplinary cooperation with organic scientists from the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology and the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

"In my research group, we have had a long-term focus on the body's barrier tissue ? and in recent years particularly the transport of drug compounds across the blood-brain barrier. More than 90 per cent of all potential drugs fail the test by not making it through the barrier, or being pumped out as soon as they do get in. Studies of natural therapies are a valuable source of inspiration, giving us knowledge that can also be used in other contexts," Birger Brodin emphasises.

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South African daffodils may be a future cure for depression

Friday, June 22, 2012

Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have previously documented that substances from the South African plant species Crinum and Cyrtanthus ? akin to snowdrops and daffodils ? have an effect on the mechanisms in the brain that are involved in depression. This research has now yielded further results, since a team based at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences has recently shown how several South African daffodils contain plant compounds whose characteristics enable them to negotiate the defensive blood-brain barrier that is a key challenge in all new drug development.

"Several of our plant compounds can probably be smuggled past the brain's effective barrier proteins. We examined various compounds for their influence on the transporter proteins in the brain. This study was made in a genetically-modified cell model of the blood-brain barrier that contains high levels of the transporter P-glycoprotein. Our results are promising, and several of the chemical compounds studied should therefore be tested further, as candidates for long-term drug development," says Associate Professor Birger Brodin.

"The biggest challenge in medical treatment of diseases of the brain is that the drug cannot pass through the blood-brain barrier. The blood vessels of the brain are impenetrable for most compounds, one reason being the very active transporter proteins. You could say that the proteins pump the drugs out of the cells just as quickly as they are pumped in. So it is of great interest to find compounds that manage to 'trick' this line of defence."

The results of the study have been published in the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology.

New cooperation between biologists and organic chemists

It will nonetheless be a long time before any possible new drug reaches our pharmacy shelves:

"This is the first stage of a lengthy process, so it will take some time before we can determine which of the plant compounds can be used in further drug development," says Birger Brodin.

Yet this does not curb his enthusiasm for the opportunities from the interdisciplinary cooperation with organic scientists from the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology and the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

"In my research group, we have had a long-term focus on the body's barrier tissue ? and in recent years particularly the transport of drug compounds across the blood-brain barrier. More than 90 per cent of all potential drugs fail the test by not making it through the barrier, or being pumped out as soon as they do get in. Studies of natural therapies are a valuable source of inspiration, giving us knowledge that can also be used in other contexts," Birger Brodin emphasises.

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GOP hardliners won?t attack Romney?s ?amnesty? plan

Republican hardliners in both chambers are holding their tongues over Mitt Romney?s plan to grant qualified illegal immigrants legal status and even U.S. citizenship.

Similar proposals in the past have led to charges from these conservatives that the beneficiaries would be rewarded with ?amnesty? after entering the country illegally. They?ve called instead for tougher enforcement and the deportation of all illegal immigrants.

Yet 24 hours after Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, outlined a broad proposal extending permanent residency to some illegal immigrants ? and creating a pathway to citizenship for others ? those same Republicans have been uncharacteristically silent on the idea.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee who?s long been critical of ?amnesty? proposals like the DREAM Act, praised Romney?s plan this week, saying it was ?right to recognize that immigration reform needs to be geared towards bolstering our economy and job creation.?

Smith blamed President Obama?s economic policies for high unemployment among Hispanics, and he blasted the administration?s recent executive action allowing some illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as children to stay and work, saying it?s ?amnesty? that will ?further diminish job opportunities for Hispanics struggling to find a job.?

But the Texas conservative made no mention of Romney?s proposal to extend permanent residency to qualified illegal immigrant students and forge a pathway to citizenship for those who join the military. The latter provision goes even a step further than Obama?s executive directive, which does not include the possibility of citizenship.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), another DREAM Act opponent, also praised Romney?s plan without mentioning the ?amnesty? provisions.

?I applaud Governor Romney?s commitment to working to improve our broken immigration system,? he said. ?America has been, and remains, a welcoming country for legal immigration. But the President?s last-minute, election-year ploy can?t erase the fact that he has failed to lead.?

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), among Congress?s most vocal opponents of illegal immigrant rights, was also notably uncritical of Romney?s plan, telling The Wall Street Journal that he?s happy to see Romney advocating for tougher enforcement policies at the border. While King said he has questions about some parts of the plan, according to the Journal, he also expressed confidence that Romney is ?committed to the rule of law.?

The offices of a number of other immigration hardliners ?including Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), and Reps. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) and Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.) ? did not respond to requests for comment on Romney?s plan.

The immigration issue has been a prominent one in this year?s presidential race, with both sides vying for a bigger slice of the ever-growing Latino vote. Romney has started at a disadvantage because he tacked far to the right amid the GOP primary, vowing to veto the DREAM Act and proposing to make life so tough for illegal immigrants that they would ?self deport.?

Recognizing an opening, Obama last week overhauled his immigration policy, announcing he will forego deportations for qualified high-achievers brought to the U.S. before the age of 16 ? roughly the same population targeted by the DREAM Act.

The surprise move left Romney and other GOP leaders scrambling for a strategy to counter the new policy without alienating either Latinos or their conservative base.

On Friday, Romney sought to thread that needle, releasing the contours of a plan that?s both tough on the enforcement side and more lenient to some illegal immigrants than many conservatives want to go.

Characterizing comprehensive immigration reform as a ?moral imperative? and an ?economic necessity,? Romney proposed to increase the number of border patrol agents, make e-verify mandatory for employers, complete the fence along the Mexican border and advance an exit-verification system designed to identify and deport legal visitors who overstay their visas ? all ideas sure to win favor from conservatives.

Hoping to appeal to Latinos, Romney also offered green cards to ?every foreign student who obtains an advanced degree in math, science, or engineering.? For those entering the military, his plan goes further.

?Mitt Romney believes that young illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as children should have the chance to become permanent residents, and eventually citizens, by serving honorably in the United States military,? reads the Romney campaign?s fact sheet on the plan.

Roy Beck, president of Numbers USA, which advocates for tougher immigration laws, welcomed the plan, praising Romney for resisting temptations to walk back his primary promises to veto the DREAM Act, finish the border fence and mandate an e-verify system. Beck called this restraint ?quite remarkable? given that Romney unveiled his plan before the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEAO).

Still, foreshadowing the likely push-back from conservatives on Capitol Hill, Beck said ?there are things we oppose and we will oppose? in Romney?s proposal, particularly the notion of providing green cards to recipients of advanced degrees.

?The idea that somehow or another we need more legal immigrants,? Beck said Friday in a telephone interview, ?is kind of preposterous.?

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Eurocom Monster 11.6-inch notebook: Ivy Bridge, Kepler, 16 GB RAM, multiple personalities

Mobile gamers and server pros aren't exactly cut from the same cloth, but Eurocom is targeting them both with its Clevo rebadged, 11.6-inch, sub-four-pound Monster notebook. That idea is crazy enough to work, since a fully spec'd model will have an Ivy Bridge Intel Core i7-3920XM processor, 16GB of DDR3-1600 of RAM, a 240GB SSD or 1GB Hybrid drive, and on-board NVIDIA GT 650M graphics running at 850MHz. The 1366 x 768 screen might be a touch undersized for gamers, but they could let that slide since the processor can be safely overclocked up to a decent 3.8GHz. As for business pros, the company claims the Monster could be used as a portable server, run multiple VMs of Windows and Linux, or high-end engineering apps like MatLab. As usual with Eurocom, you can configure the system in dozens of ways, including matte or glossy screen, Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge processors and multiple RAM or disk setups. Pricing and delivery dates weren't given, but if it's up your alley, check the PR and your wallet -- or hit up Ned in accounting.

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Maine independent King could become key player in U.S. Senate (reuters)

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Warner Bros. Puts the Brakes on Johnny Depp's Thin Man

Director Rob Marshall now has a little more time to find a fitting actress to star opposite Johnny Depp in The Thin Man, as Warner Bros. has put a halt to production on the remake.? Depp was set to star as Nick Charles, one half of a married couple who solves murder mysteries while bantering back and forth and almost getting killed themselves.? This delay is, at the moment, less of a behind-the-scenes melodrama and more due to practicality.? Deadline reports that Depp is eager to take a break between films.? This also allows Marshall to move forward with his long-gestating Disney project, Into the Woods, a feature version of Stephen Sondheim?s fairy-tale musical.? Though The Thin Man was never officially greenlit, there is also some talk of budget concerns, which will likely push back the planned November start while the particulars are sorted out.

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Precinct analysis: The two races we?re all glad to see the end of (Offthekuff)

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Cuban blog gathering prompts official criticism

HAVANA (AP) ? Cuban bloggers and tweeters have gathered in Havana for a technology and social media forum that official media denounced as subversive.

Organizers and attendees deny any political agenda, and say people from all ideological stripes are welcome.

About 50 people were at Thursday's event Thursday in western Havana.

Dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez complained about Cuba's sluggish, satellite-based Internet, saying islanders are ready to become "human beings of the 21st century."

State-run website Cubadebate seized upon Sanchez's participation in denouncing the event. It also criticized Spanish-based organizer Spain Blog Event for getting corporate sponsorship.

It alleged that the true intent of the gathering is to create technological networks "ahead of an aggression, as was done in Libya, Syria."

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Kim Kardashian Explains Why It Took 'So Long' To Date Kanye West

In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the reality star explains why their longtime friendship just recently turned romantic.
By Christina Garibaldi

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Kim Kardashian seems to finally have found her Prince Charming in Kanye West. The two have been parading around Paris, proving along the way that their relationship is not merely a publicity stunt.

Kim is now opening out about her blossoming relationship to Oprah Winfrey in the second part of her Kardashian family interview on "Oprah's Next Chapter." In an excerpt from the upcoming episode, the talk-show host asks Kim if her relationship with Kanye is her new fairytale, a question that immediately makes her blush.

"We met maybe almost a decade ago, I've known him for a really long time, we've been friends for like six or seven years, so it's very comforting to have someone that knows everything about you that respects you, understands, has gone through similar things," Kim said. "I can really relate to his mother passing, he can really relate to my father passing. I mean, there's so many similarities in our life that I feel like I'm at a really happy, good space."

While the two could have started dating a while ago, Kim said she feels that her experiences, namely her divorce from Kris Humphries, were things she had to go through in order to be ready for this relationship.

"I don't know why it took so long for us to kind of get together," Kim said. "But I think I needed to go through all my experiences and some that he's gone through."

In addition to questioning Kim on her relationship, Winfrey also sat down with her sister Khloé and her husband Lamar Odom. The two, who married in 2009 after dating a month, were asked if they feel the pressure from the public to make their marriage work.

"I don't feel the pressure by outsiders," Khloé said. "I'm not someone who is easily influenced by the public. This is my marriage, this is my real life. I feel the pressure from me from myself to be a great wife."

Khloé and Odom have had to deal with their fair share of hardships this past year. After moving from Los Angeles to Dallas for his basketball career, Odom parted ways with the Dallas Mavericks, their reality show "Khloé & Lamar" went on hiatus and there are constant rumors that Khloé is pregnant. But they try not to pay attention to all the gossip.

"I don't get tabloids, I try to not go on blogs, but does it come to me through, of course, our publicists or this or that or my sisters," Khloe said. "Even my grandmother will text me and be like 'You're having twins?' I'm like, 'Not yet, I'm sorry.' "

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'Royal Pains' Sneak Peek: Hank Helps Guest Star Michael B. Silver In Exclusive Clip (VIDEO)

"Royal Pains" sneak peek

On this week's episode of USA's "Royal Pains" (Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET), Hank (Mark Feuerstein) -- an emergency doctor, who's wrongly blamed for a patient's death and moves to The Hamptons -- is dealing with the business split form his brother Evan (Paulo Costanzo) and of course, treating yet another wealthy Hamptonite.

As Hank examines a patient (guest star and "NYPD Blue" alum Michael B. Silver) in our exclusive sneak peek below, he seems to wonder if the ailment is connected to his manscaping tendencies. As the patient says of his bare chest, "It's for the ladies ... Clean and smooth like a sexy porpoise." (Apparently, "sexy porpoise" is a thing.)

Here's the official description of the episode, entitled "Dawn of the Med":

Hank and Evan heatedly compete for a new business opportunity. Stubborn illnesses in three different patients turn out to be related. Divya attempts to covertly reconcile the brothers' differences, and Jill gets a goodbye party. Guest stars: Henry Winkler, Ben Shenkman, Michael B. Silver.

Check out the sneak peek below of the June 20th episode and tune into "Royal Pains" on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on USA.

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US 'encouraged' by Europe's plan to stem crisis

LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) ? Seeking to sooth global economic fears, U.S. officials said they were encouraged that European leaders appeared ready to undertake a more forceful response to the continent's crippling debt crisis while still focusing on much-needed growth.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, speaking Tuesday at the close of the Group of 20 summit, said Europe was nearing key decisions aimed at stabilizing the eurozone. Those steps, he said, include a stronger framework to strengthen the continent's financial system and helping countries like Spain and Italy borrow at sustainable interest rates.

"We're encouraged by what we heard from the European leaders today and by the broad focus around the world we're seeing to the need to strengthen economic growth," Geithner said.

Geithner spoke following President Barack Obama's private meeting Tuesday with the leaders of Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Spain and the European Union. The continent's leaders were to outline the specifics of their plans during a summit in Brussels next week, a meeting Geithner called "critical."

A senior U.S. official said Europe would offer a "more forceful response" than they have contemplated to date during the Brussels summit. The Obama official said the European strategy will be based around building more viable financial institutions over time but also economic growth measures in the short term, a step Obama has been urging for some time.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to characterize private talks without trumping the formal comments of leaders.

While Obama, as leader of the giant but struggling U.S. economy, is central to the Europe talks, it is the continent's leaders, led by German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who carry both the power and responsibility to stabilize a eurozone reeling from debt, banking and political problems.

Obama immersed himself in the economic talks Tuesday before meeting separately with Chinese President Hu Jintao and holding a news conference. He was to be back in Washington by the early hours of Wednesday, where a fierce re-election campaign and a slumping U.S. jobs market await him.

The leaders gathered on the Mexican coast seemed intent on sending the right signals to jittery markets and unhappy electorates. Merkel told reporters Tuesday that the European leaders present made a unified statement that they were willing to tackle their problems.

Still, European leaders were showing flashes that they have heard enough about their troubles, particularly from Americans.

"The eurozone has a serious problem, but it is certainly not the only imbalance in the world economy," Italian Prime Minster Mario Monti said Tuesday. He said the United States' own problems were mentioned in G-20 talks "by almost everybody, including President Obama."

Central to the G-20 debate is how nations can boost jobs and consumer demand without sinking deeper into debt. Obama has implored governments to spend and grow, not just cut.

Obama sent some upbeat signals during the summit amid a sense of global relief that Greece, based on new elections, would not renege on its bailout terms and ditch the euro currency.

Europe's ability to turn around its fortunes fast will have direct bearing on whether Obama wins a second term. The bigger the drag from abroad, the harder the job growth in the United States.

Obama said all countries must "make sure that we're contributing so that the economy grows, the situation stabilizes, confidence returns to the markets."

Although the foreign gatherings allow Obama to show off statesmanship, every day spent away from the U.S. and a direct focus on jobs in America quietly gives headaches to his campaign aides. While Obama was in Mexico, his Republican competitor, Mitt Romney, was campaigning in the American heartland, trying to pull Michigan from Obama's column.

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Associated Press writer Michael Weissenstein contributed to this report.

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Airbnb Hits Hockey Stick Growth: 10 Million Nights Booked, 200K Active Properties

It looks like Airbnb, the online marketplace for listing and booking short-term housing accommodations, has officially accelerated out of startup mode and into a full-on major business. The San Francisco-based company will announce today that it has reached a major milestone: 10 million guest nights have been booked worldwide through the site since it was founded in August 2008.

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Google Sounds Censorship Alarm in Free World

Google announced Monday that it had received more than 1,000 requests from authorities to take down content from its search results and YouTube video service during the past six months. Google has characterized this as an "alarming trend." The company also released its twice-yearly Transparency Report, noting noted that the requests were aimed at removing some 12,000 items overall.

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New consumer agency launches tell-all website

By Bob Sullivan

The nation's new consumer protection agency is about to start naming names, albeit in baby steps.

Despite vocal opposition from?the?financial industry, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday will launch a website that will allow consumers to browse through complaints filed against large financial companies.

Website users will be able to see the name of the company targeted by each complaint, the nature of the issue, the company response -- including timeliness -- and the zip code of the complainer.? Users can also generate charts showing which banks attract the most complaints, which issues are hardest to resolve and which regions of the country seem most irritating by bank practices.?

?(This) is a major milestone for consumers and all those who are interested in knowing more about their day-to-day experiences,? said Richard Cordray, the bureau's first director.? ?We believe this is the first time that the general public has been able to see such individual-level consumer complaint data for financial products and services.?? ?Anyone with access to the web will be able to review and analyze the information, and draw their own conclusions.?

Initially, the website?will?include only a small fraction of the 17,000 complaints filed regarding credit cards since July of the last year, when the agency began receiving customer gripes. Only complaints filed since June 1 will be available at first, as the agency works out the kinks in its "beta" launch of the database.?

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That means as few as 100 complaints will be made public on Tuesday, said an agency official, speaking on background.? A change in the way the agency categorizes resolutions has forced the agency to limit the initial release. Older complaints are being re-categorized and will be added to the public database by the end of the year, the official said.

Complaints about mortgages and checking accounts will also be added later, making Tuesday?s launch a bit of a baby step toward providing full access of complaints to consumers.

The financial industry has complained that release of the data is unfair, as the complaints will represent raw, unverified data that could be misleading. ?

"Bureau publication of complaint data alone implies an official endorsement of inferences drawn out of context and suggests reliability about overall issuer customer experience and satisfaction that is not well-founded and that invites untrustworthy analysis that will mislead consumers, said the American Bankers Association in its public comments on the consumer bureau's proposal to publish the data.

The bank lobbying group also complained that publication of unverified complaints is at odds with the bureau's mission to be a data-driven banking regulator.

"The Bureau?s proposal expands its role by inventing a new mission of publicly outing information about an issuer?s customer experience and satisfaction record, a function that is fundamentally at odds with its obligation to handle confidentially supervisory information," it said.

Other banking officials have compared public release of the data to gossip, and the database to the customer review site Yelp.com, complaining that many consumer complaints are unfounded, and some are fraudulently posted by competitors.

But the bureau official said each individual complaint was a worthy data point that consumers should consider when weighing decisions on banking products, and that release of the data would give banks an incentive to compete on customer service.

The agency will confirm that an authentic business relationship exists between complainer and target, but nothing else about the complaint will be verified. A warning will tell users that accuracy of the information has not been confirmed, according to the agency official. Complaints will not appear until a bank has responded, or until the 15-day response period has passed, nor will the agency offer opinions on the meaning of the data, the official said.

Initially, the "narrative" section of the complaints will not be published, because the agency has not yet determined how to sanitize the information to avoid publishing personal information, which could be harmful to the consumer. In fact, Cordray stressed that none of the complainers' personal information will be published.

Most government complaint data is not public, a situation which has drawn criticism in the past from consumer advocates. The Federal Trade Commission, for example, collects hundreds of thousands of complaints from consumers but only makes the information available in aggregate, or when it files litigation against a firm. Because only a tiny fraction of complaints lead to litigation, the possibility exists that consumers fall for scams or unfair business practices committed by firms that are already attracting a pile of complaints in a government database.

The consumer bureau?s model suggests consumers might be able to learn from each other, and avoid unfair treatment that way. The data will provide a real-time view of what's happening in the marketplace, the agency official said, and could prevent consumers from falling for new tricks or traps invented by the financial industry.

But even in the Internet age, where sites like Yelp that let consumers warn each other are common, ?sharing of complaints filed with government agencies is extremely controversial.? Last year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission made its complaints available for the first time at SaferProducts.gov. Almost immediately, an as-yet-unnamed firm filed a federal lawsuit to keep a complaint about an allegedly dangerous product off the public website.

Cordray said he hoped publication of the data would make it easier for consumers to seek fair treatment from financial institutions.

?Nobody needs to be told there are deep problems in the consumer financial product marketplace ? it is why we were created in the first place?For every consumer who reaches out to us to tell us about their troubles, we know that many others have the same troubles but suffer them in silence,? Cordray said. ?These complaints tell us personal stories of real pain. ? Do your own digging.? Find your own information.? And help us make the marketplace a better and safer place.?

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Jennifer Nettles: Pregnant!

Jennifer Nettles isn't just singing on Duets. The country music star is now living the concept as well.

That's right, the Sugarland crooner is pregnant with her first child!

Nettles married Justin Miller (an entrepreneur) in November and they reportedly got right into procreation-based lovemaking, as the artist's manager tells People her client and her husband are "thrilled beyond belief" over the news.

Jennifer is due in November and we wish her nothing but the best!

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Cave art suggests that Neanderthals weren't such Neanderthals, after all (+video)

New tests of paintings in Spanish caves suggests that they were at least 15,000 years older tan previously thought, suggesting that they were created by Neanderthals, not Homo sapiens.

By Seth Borenstein,?AP Science Writer / June 15, 2012

This undated photo shows a detail of the 'Panel of Hands' in El Castillo Cave, Spain, showing red disks and hand stencils made by blowing or spitting paint onto the wall. A date from a disk shows the painting to be older than 40,800 years, making it the oldest known cave art in Europe.

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New tests show that crude Spanish cave paintings of a red sphere and handprints are the oldest in the world, so ancient they may not have been by modern man.

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Some scientists say they might have even been made by the much-maligned Neanderthals, but others disagree.

Testing the coating of paintings in 11 Spanish caves, researchers found that one is at least 40,800 years old, which is at least 15,000 years older than previously thought. That makes them older than the more famous French cave paintings by thousands of years.

Scientists dated the Spanish cave paintings by measuring the decay of uranium atoms, instead of traditional carbon-dating, according to a report released Thursday by the journal Science. The paintings were first discovered in the 1870s.

The oldest of the paintings is a red sphere from a cave called El Castillo. About 25 outlined handprints in another cave are at least 37,300 years old. Slightly younger paintings include horses.

Cave paintings are "one of the most exquisite examples of human symbolic behavior," said study co-author Joao Zilhao, an anthropologist at the University of Barcelona. "And that, that's what makes us human."

There is older sculpture and other portable art. Before the latest test, the oldest known cave paintings were those France's Chauvet cave, considered between 32,000 and 37,000 years old.

What makes the dating of the Spanish cave paintings important is that it's around the time when modern humans first came into Europe from Africa.

Study authors say they could have been from modern man decorating their new digs or they could have been the working of the long-time former tenant of Europe: the Neanderthal. Scientists said Neanderthals were in Europe from about 250,000 years ago until about 35,000 years ago. Modern humans arrived in Europe about 41,000 to 45,000 years ago ? with some claims they moved in even earlier ? and replaced Neanderthals.

"There is a strong chance that these results imply Neanderthal authorship," Zilhao said. "But I will not say we have proven it because we haven't."

In a telephone press conference, Zilhao said Neanderthals recently have gotten "bad press" over their abilities. They decorated their tools and bodies. So, he said, they could have painted caves.

But there's a debate in the scientific community about Neanderthals. Other anthropologists say Zilhao is in a minority of researchers who believe in more complex abilities of Neanderthals.

Eric Delson, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and John Shea at Long Island's Stony Brook University said the dating work in the Science paper is compelling and important, but they didn't quite buy the theory that Neanderthals could have been the artists.

"There is no clear evidence of paintings associated with Neanderthal tools or fossils, so any such evidence would be surprising," Delson said. He said around 41,000 years ago Neanderthals were already moving south in Europe, away from modern man and these caves.

Shea said it is more likely that modern humans were making such paintings in Africa even earlier, but the works didn't survive because of the different geology on the continent.

"The people who came in to Europe were very much like us. They used art, they used symbols," Shea said. "They were not like Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble."

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