Gingrich Won???t Use Negative Attacks Against Romney (ContributorNetwork)

Following his poor showing in Iowa, Republican candidate Newt Gingrich said he will not engage in negative attacks against caucus winner Mitt Romney. He went from being a poll favorite to fourth-place finish in Iowa with just over half as many votes as Romney. That was a fall that had to hurt the ego but he vowed not to attack his opponent but rather share the truth in a positive way.

"Our ads are all going to be happy and positive - we don't have to do anything negative." Gingrich said to reporters in Burlington, Iowa, according to a CNN report.

Some of these "factual differences" appeared in a full-page ad the next day in New Hampshire, and will be run in South Carolina and Florida. The ad compares himself with Romney. One of the comparisons that Gingrich uses is that he is a "bold Ronald Reagan conservative" and Romney is a "timid Massachusetts moderate."

"And if the truth seems negative, that may be more a comment on his record than it is on politics," Gingrich said in a CNN report.

A spotted leopard is still spotted, even if you change the shape from circles to triangles. The same goes for Gingrich. The real fact is it will be the way Gingrich uses these truthful statements and how he says them that will determine whether or not they are attacks.

When I've heard Gingrich talk over the last few days, I've heard a man who wants to take down the front-runner at all costs. His tone has been that of an angry man who is bitter about the Iowa results, not of a man who is trying to use a happy, positive approach.

I don't think anyone is being fooled by his "the truth is not negative" stance. I would much rather have him be honest about wanting to take Romney down than try to cover it with pretty paper and a bow. I hope, if he really wants to be president, that he will rethink this strategy and focus on why he should be elected rather than attacking his opponents.

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Harman Kardon SB 30 has two listening modes, costs eight Benjamins

Looking for a fancy new soundbar for your fancy new home theater system? Don't mind dropping, oh, say, $800 or so on the thing? Why not have a look at Harman Kardon's latest offering, the SB 30? The relatively compact system offers up two listening modes -- virtual and wave, the latter of which promises to "maximize the listening area" in bigger rooms. The SB 30 also packs in Dolby Volume technology for a consistent volume levels and a dual-position equalizer. Harman will be showing the thing off next week at CES. Press info can be found after the break.

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Markets recover on hopes for US jobs gains

(AP) ? European stocks rose on Friday as investors set aside concerns about the euro's debt crisis to focus on the impending release of monthly U.S. jobs data, which many hope will confirm a mild recovery in the world's largest economy.

Asian market indexes closed lower as they reacted to poor economic and financial indicators out of Europe the previous day. That stream of poor European data continued on Friday, with new information showing a drop in retail sales and economic sentiment among consumers and businesses. Unemployment in the 17-nation eurozone, meanwhile, remained at a worrying 10.3 percent.

Traders expect 2012 to be a tough one for Europe, as it slides back toward recession, and appeared relieved to have more upbeat U.S. economic indicators to focus on Friday.

Analysts are projecting hiring gains of about 150,000 when the U.S. Labor Department issues the December jobs report. That would mark a six-month stretch in which the economy generated 100,000 jobs or more in each month. Expectations of the data rose on Thursday, when the private payrolls agency ADP said its own calculations for hiring gains were much stronger than forecast.

An improvement in the U.S. labor market is crucial for global markets because American consumer spending accounts for a fifth of the world's economic activity. A recovery in the U.S. would also mitigate the impact of the sharp slowdown in Europe.

Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.4 percent to 5,644.55, while Germany's DAX rose 0.6 percent to 6,131.25. France's CAC-40 rose 0.8 percent to 3,170.85. Ahead of the opening bell on Wall Street, Dow Jones futures rose almost 0.1 percent to 12,334 and S&P 500 futures gained 0.1 percent to 1,274.50.

Although upbeat U.S. data could push stocks higher, gains were likely to be limited by the lingering fears about Europe's debt crisis. Italy's benchmark 10-year bond yield edged further above 7 percent, a borrowing rate that is considered unsustainable over the longer term.

Italy, along with many other European governments, has to roll over huge amounts of debt in coming months. It is trying to restore investor confidence in its public finances to get those bond yields down and pay lower rates when it auctions its bonds to raise cash from capital markets.

Traders will watch comments from Italian Premier Mario Monti, who will hold talks in Paris with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday.

Banks, meanwhile, are hurting due to fears that they will take big losses on their holdings of government debt and will struggle to raise new cash to plug those holes.

Trading in UniCredit, Italy's largest bank, was halted on Thursday after the stock lost a quarter of its value in two days. The bank said Wednesday it would need to offer huge discounts to investors to raise money in a new share sale. The stock was down another 11 percent on Friday.

Longer-term concerns about the euro and the region's financial system pushed the common currency to 15-month lows on Thursday. It recovered slightly on Friday, rising 0.1 percent to $1.2808.

Outside the eurozone, Hungary was sliding deeper into its own financial crisis. It had to pay a staggeringly high interest rate of 10 percent on its 12-month debt. That is far above the 7 percent level that forced Greece and Portugal to seek emergency bailouts to prevent them from defaulting on their debts.

Investor confidence in the country has deteriorated to the point that the country is considering asking the International Monetary Fund for a standby rescue loan.

Asian indexes ended mostly lower as they reacted to the previous day's European market jitters. Japan's Nikkei 225 Index closed 1.2 percent lower at 8,390.35. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 1.2 percent at 18,593.06 and South Korea's Kospi fell 1.1 percent to 1,843.14. Benchmarks in Taiwan and Indonesia also fell. India and Singapore rose.

In mainland China, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.7 percent to 2,163.39, while the smaller Shenzhen Composite Index gained 0.5 percent to 817.78.

Japanese stocks are hurt by the yen's rise against the dollar, which makes exports less competitive internationally. On Friday, the dollar dropped another 0.1 percent to 77.07 yen.

Benchmark oil for February delivery rose 60 cents to $102.41 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell by $1.41 to end Thursday at $101.81 in New York.

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Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Through hardship to the stars

ScienceDaily (Jan. 4, 2012) ? "Humanity's adventurous, stubborn, mad and glorious aspiration to reach the stars" is the subject of Physics World's lead feature in January.

Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus at Emory University, Atlanta, US, reports from the 100 Year Starship Study (100YSS) conference and discusses the challenges that interstellar travel presents.

With current propulsion technology only able to move spacecraft at 0.005% of the speed of light, a one-way trip to the star system nearest our Sun, Alpha Centauri, would take 80,000 years to travel the four light-years to our nearest stellar neighbours.

Delegates at 100YSS -- from ex-astronauts to engineers, artists, students and science-fiction writers -- looked at the range of issues facing scientists who would like to make the "mad and glorious aspiration" a reality.

Starting with the development of a rocket engine that can reach high velocity, humans are not short of initiative, but, as Perkowitz describes, even with engines based on photon-powered sails or nuclear fusion, we are still a long way from reaching the speed of light.

Some theoretical models present tantalizing options, such as Miguel Alcibierre's idea to contract space-time in front of a spaceship and expand space-time behind it to create a bubble that would propel the spacecraft at any speed without violating special relativity.

Picking on this example, Perkowitz explains that the maths is impeccable but that the model requires negative mass, which, to the best of our knowledge, doesn't exist.

Accepting that interstellar travel will, at very best, take decades, some are now considering using suspended animation, or even carrying the DNA and other resources necessary to recreate humans on an unmanned ship.

As Perkowitz writes, "With the exploration of the solar system by the US space agency NASA and others well under way, and with the discovery of hundreds of exoplanets orbiting distant stars, it may be time to contemplate the next great jump outwards."

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Where is Jon Huntsman? (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | It's been frequently said that Jon Huntsman is the most electable GOP candidate. So where is he?

Is he waiting for the fracas to subside, so he can emerge triumphant after all the others have hopelessly undermined themselves? He's skipping the Iowa caucuses, asserting that Iowa will not be what decides the GOP nomination, according to The Washington Post. Many voters remain undecided. Anything could happen.

According to a New Year's Eve article on the Washington Post, things are improving economically, and our president is not in quite so much hot water with Americans as he's been during his relentlessly challenged presidency. He stepped into a mess that took decades to create, yet many shortsighted Americans want to lay the blame squarely on his shoulders. This is simply illogical. He didn't even have enough time in office to be the cause of the mess we're in. Add to this the blatant hostility and lack of cooperation he's faced from his hopelessly stubborn bipartisan Congress (we pay them how much again?) and it's a wonder that anything at all was accomplished. The president deserves some recognition. His approval ratings are up, and it's about time.

What could President Obama have done in office if he'd had cooperation instead of hostility? I hope we get to find out, but if Republicans simply vote the party line, the next president could immediately undo everything that President Obama has done. That'll show us. What were we thinking, electing a president who actually was willing to step into a big mess and try to fix it?

I want Jon Huntsman to win the GOP nomination because if American voters are so fickle as to switch directions mid-stream, Huntsman is the only candidate that doesn't strike fear into my heart. If any of the other candidates were to unseat our hard working president, I and millions of other struggling middle class Americans will be shaking with terror. If Huntsman wins the nomination and steps into the White House, I will sigh heavily but I will not cry.

Huntsman has been accused of working for the enemy, because he served under President Obama as ambassador to China in 2009. How he handled it is explored in detail by Melinda Liu on Newsweek's Daily Beast, published that year. He was working for the United States first. That's what a president does.

Huntsman was re-elected as governor in his home state of Utah in 2008, by a wide margin. He must have done a good job.

Huntsman has been keeping a low profile, enabling him to escape saying or doing anything profoundly stupid, which none of the others have managed. He also has declined to participate in the mud-slinging, although his daughters are cleverly partaking, according to the Huffington Post.

Jon Huntsman, where are you?

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Funding concerns for California high-speed rail (Reuters)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) ? California's effort to build a massive high-speed rail network suffered another setback on Tuesday when a peer review group charged with evaluating the project recommended lawmakers put it on hold.

Specifically, the group said the state should not move ahead with the sale of the nearly $3 billion in bonds to finance initial construction with the first tranche of $10 billion in state-backed high-speed rail bonds authorized by voters in 2008.

The recommendation is a blow to Governor Jerry Brown, who backs the project as a visionary piece of infrastructure-building that will create tens of thousands of jobs and benefit the state for many decades to come.

The proposed system would make the train competitive with air travel on the heavily trafficked Los Angeles-San Francisco route, and also vastly reduce travels times between those cities and Sacramento, San Diego and the state's Central Valley.

But the cost estimate for the system has ballooned to $98 billion from $43 billion in 2008, the state's finances are in disarray due to the economic slump and Republicans in Congress have vowed to block crucial federal funding for the project.

The first phase of the planned network, a 130-mile track connecting Fresno and Bakersfield, would be financed by $2.7 billion in state bonds and $3.5 billion from the federal government. Groundbreaking on the project won't start until the legislature releases the bond funds, and the state risks losing the federal money if construction is delayed.

California voters, grappling with widespread cutbacks in basic government services, may also be having second thoughts. Nearly two-thirds of California voters would like another referendum on high-speed rail, and a strong majority would reject bonds for it in a new vote, according to a Field Poll survey released last month.

State Senator Joe Simitian, chairman of the budget subcommittee for transportation, said the California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group's recommendation, sent in a letter on Tuesday to the legislature's Democrat and Republican leaders, was "sobering."

Simitian, a Democrat, also told Reuters the review group's recommendation supports his view that lawmakers should postpone the bond issue until the legislature can conduct a thorough review of the project's feasibility.

"There may be some value in taking a time-out," said Simitian. "Might we all be served by a one-year time-out?"

The peer review group in its letter said the planned rail system's funding plan is fundamentally flawed because it fails to identify long-term sources of money - including federal funding - for the project.

The letter said moving ahead with the project "without credible sources of adequate funding, without a definitive business model, without a strategy to maximize the independent utility and value to the State, and without the appropriate management resources, represents an immense financial risk on the part of the State of California."

John Chalker, vice-chair of peer review group and managing director of LM Capital Group in San Diego, said the California High-Speed Rail Authority needs to show how its statewide system could be built when state and federal budgets are tight and with private companies reluctant to get involved in the project.

"We think it would be appropriate to take a pause," Chalker said.

Supporters of the project blasted the peer review group.

"With California facing a jobs crisis and an urgency to upgrade our failing transportation infrastructure, further delay in breaking ground on high-speed rail is neither prudent nor responsible," said Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation.

The High Speed Rail Authority in a statement said the review commission's letter to lawmakers was "deeply flawed, in some areas misleading and its conclusions are unfounded."

"Although some high-speed rail experience exists among Peer Review Panel members this report suffers from a lack of appreciation of how high speed rail systems have been constructed throughout the world, makes unrealistic and unsubstantiated assumptions about private sector involvement in such systems and ignores or misconstrues the legal requirements that govern the construction of the high speed rail program in California," the rail authority added.

(Reporting by Jim Christie; editing by Jonathan Weber, Gary Hill)

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Father: CA condo victims were Navy pilot, sister (AP)

A Navy pilot in training who recently took his first flight in an F/A-18 fighter jet and his sister, a girls volleyball coach, were among the four people found dead in a New Year's Day shooting at a condominium in a toney neighborhood on San Diego Bay, the victims' father said Monday.

David Reis, 25, who was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, and his sister Karen Reis, 24, were confirmed as victims by the Navy, said their father, Tom Reis of Bakersfield.

The siblings were found at the Coronado condo after authorities responded to a report of gunfire shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday.

"It's still a shocker," said Rebecca Bailey, 26, who played college volleyball with Karen Reis and later coached with her at a high school and club program. "This kind of thing doesn't happen to people like her and David. Their family is the family everybody wants to be a part of. They're just so loving, and there's so much love in their family."

The elder Reis said he didn't know who else was at the condo in the wealthy seaside community where his son had been living.

"He just had his first F/A-18 flight," Tom Reis said. "Oh man, he loved it."

David Reis held a mechanical engineering degree from the University of New Mexico. Karen Reis graduated from the University of California, San Diego in 2009 and stayed in the area, coaching volleyball and working at a grocery store.

"She has a really great spirit and knows how to make things fun," Bailey said.

The remaining victims were another 25-year-old Navy man and a 31-year-old man from Chula Vista, authorities said. Their names were not immediately released.

Officials found a dead man in the doorway to the three-story condo and the bodies of two men and a woman inside in different parts of the structure.

It was not immediately clear how the four people died. However, authorities previously said they did not believe there were any outstanding suspects.

Messages left Monday with Navy Region Southwest and the San Diego County sheriff's homicide detail were not immediately returned.

Neighbor Don Hubbard said he was awakened by the shots that he thought were fired by New Year's revelers. He went back to sleep, but two hours later got a phone call and heard SWAT teams swarming the area.

Hubbard, a retired Navy commander, said he saw the body of one man in the condo doorway and recognized him as his neighbor ? a Navy pilot receiving training at Miramar.

"I knew these guys were pilots because I was one and we'd talk about airplanes," Hubbard said. "Even now, you say, how could this have happened? What the hell is going on here?"

The condo is located a few blocks from the famed Hotel del Coronado and a block from the main street lined with boutiques and restaurants.

Coronado is home to Naval Air Station North Island and is a haven for Navy retirees. Homicides are extremely rare in Coronado ? just one was recorded in 2010.

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Iranian border guards still in Pakistani custody

(AP) ? Pakistani authorities have yet to decide what to do with three Iranian border guards detained for allegedly crossing into southwestern Pakistan and killing a man, a government official said Monday.

The incident occurred Sunday in the Mazah Sar area of Baluchistan province, a desolate, unpopulated region where the border is not clearly marked. They allegedly shot and killed one man and wounded another who local authorities said were smugglers.

Aalam Farez, a senior government official in Washuk district, where Mazah Sar is located, said the Iranians have admitted to inadvertently crossing into Pakistan while chasing a vehicle.

They accidentally shot the two men when they fired on the vehicle they were chasing, said Farez. The two men were in another vehicle.

Pakistani border personnel then chased the Iranians back across the border, seized the two men who had been shot and detained the three Iranian guards, Pakistani officials have said.

Farez said he was waiting to hear from Baluchistan's provincial government about what to do with the Iranians.

Iran has not publicly commented on the incident.

Associated Press

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Somali militants gather, recruit at border town (AP)

NAIROBI, Kenya ? Militants from the insurgent group al-Shabab appeared to be gathering hundreds of fighters and attempting to recruit even more in villages outside a Somalia border town invaded by Ethiopian troops over the weekend, residents said Monday.

Hundreds of Ethiopian troops moved into the Somali town of Beledweyne on Saturday, opening a third front against al-Shabab militants, who also face Kenyan troops in Somalia's south and African Union troops in the capital, Mogadishu.

Residents in Beledweyne said Monday that they welcome the presence of Ethiopia's military because it has forced al-Shabab militants out of the town. But a resident in a nearby village said that militants were amassing hundreds of fighters in forests outside Beledweyne. Bearded, masked men also tried to persuade locals in the town of Bulo Burte to join what they were calling "holy jihad," the resident said.

"We fear they will conscript our children because they are asking for more fighters," said Elmi Kheyre, a local elder. "They also visited Quranic schools and asked teachers to convince students to join al-Shabab. We fear rampant conscription of children and elderly people."

Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia in 2006, spawning fierce resistance and the militant group that has become al-Shabab. But residents on Monday said that so far they welcome the Ethiopians' presence. Harsh punishments ? lashings, amputations and stonings ? and strict social rules enforced by al-Shabab has eroded the group's popularity.

"We really feel like we are in a new world after al-Shabab left us," Ali Abdullahi, a resident in Beledweyne, said by phone. "People are free. There is no longer any oppression and fear. The oppressors have left."

Residents say cafes and other social sites are crowded with people talking about their lives under al-Shabab's rule.

"Now people are feeling ... that al-Shabab are gone for good," said Sadiya Hussein, a mother of three.

"If Ethiopians joined the war, we felt it's the final game for al-Shabab. We ask the Ethiopians to avoid killing our people like they did before."

Control of Beledweyne has lurched back and forth between al-Shabab and Somali government fighters and militias. In previous years when Ethiopian troops entered people fled and businesses, schools and mosques closed. Residents said Monday that Ethiopian troops were mingling with locals in cafes and at businesses, showing some sort of sense of trust.

"Previously we feared we will be harmed by Islamists if we do business with Ethiopians," said Nor Sheik, who has a small shop. "But we can now do business with them because the Islamists are no more and will never return," he said, perhaps overly confidently.

U.S.-backed Ethiopian troops moved into Somalia in 2006 at the invitation of the weak, U.N.-backed Somali government. But the incursion was seen by many Somalis as an unpopular invasion. Ethiopians pulled out in early 2009, and there are fears that a new push by Somalia could be a propaganda coup for al-Shabab.

Ethiopia in November said it was considering whether to contribute troops to the African Union force in Somalia. Kenya's parliament recently voted for its forces to join the AU force. That move is awaiting approval by the United Nations.

The central Somalia town of Beledweyne is about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the border with Ethiopia. A commercial hub, it lies on a key road that links Mogadishu with northern Somalia.

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Associated Press reporter Abdi Guled in Hargeisa, Somalia contributed to this report.

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