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With the latest NBC-Marist poll showing Mitt Romney leading Newt Gingrich by 15 points in Florida, NBC?s Domenico Montanaro and Carrie Dann discuss Gingrich?s road forward in the race for Republican nomination.?
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KITAMAAT VILLAGE, British Columbia -- The latest chapter in Canada's quest to become a full-blown oil superpower unfolded this month in a village gym on the British Columbia coast.
Here, several hundred people gathered for hearings on whether a pipeline should be laid from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific in order to deliver oil to Asia, chiefly energy-hungry China. The stakes are particularly high for the village of Kitamaat and its neighbors, because the pipeline would terminate here and a port would be built to handle 220 tankers a year and 525,000 barrels of oil a day.
But the planned Northern Gateway Pipeline is just one aspect of an epic battle over Canada's oil ambitions ? a battle that already has a supporting role in the U.S. presidential election, and which will help to shape North America's future energy relationship with China.
It actually is a tale of two pipelines ? the one that is supposed to end at Kitamaat Village, and another that would have gone from Alberta to the Texas coast but was blocked by the Obama administration citing environmental grounds.
Those same environmental issues are certain to haunt Northern Gateway as the Joint Review Panel of energy and environmental officials canvasses opinion along the 1,177 kilometer (731 mile) route of the Northern Gateway pipeline to be built by Enbridge, a Canadian company.
The fear of oil spills is especially acute in this pristine corner of northwest British Columbia, with its snowcapped mountains and deep ocean inlets. People here still remember the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989, and oil is still leaking from the Queen of the North, a ferry that sank off nearby Hartley Bay six years ago.
The seas nearby, in the Douglas Channel, "are very treacherous waters," says David Suzuki, a leading environmentalist. "You take a supertanker that takes miles in order to stop, (and) an accident is absolutely inevitable."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada's national interest makes the $5.5 billion pipeline essential. He was "profoundly disappointed" that U.S. President Barack Obama rejected the Texas Keystone XL option but also spoke of the need to diversify Canada's oil industry. Ninety-seven percent of Canadian oil exports now go to the U.S.
"I think what's happened around the Keystone is a wake-up call, the degree to which we are dependent or possibly held hostage to decisions in the United States, and especially decisions that may be made for very bad political reasons," he told Canadian TV.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich quickly picked up the theme, saying that Harper, "who, by the way, is conservative and pro-American ... has said he's going cut a deal with the Chinese ... We'll get none of the jobs, none of the energy, none of the opportunity."
He charged that "An American president who can create a Chinese-Canadian partnership is truly a danger to this country."
But the environmental objections that pushed Obama to block the pipeline to Texas apply equally to the Pacific pipeline, and the review panel says more than 4,000 people have signed up to testify.
The atmosphere has turned acrimonious, with Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver claiming in an open letter that "environmental and other radical groups" are out to thwart Canada's economic ascent.
He said they were bent on bogging down the panel's work. And in an unusually caustic mention of Canada's southern neighbor, he added: "If all other avenues have failed, they will take a quintessential American approach: Sue everyone and anyone to delay the project even further."
Environmentalists and First Nations (a Canadian synonym for native tribes) could delay approval all the way to the Supreme Court, and First Nations still hold title to some of the land the pipeline would cross, meaning the government will have to move with extreme sensitivity.
Alberta has the world's third-largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela: more than 170 billion barrels. Daily production of 1.5 million barrels from the oil sands is expected to increase to 3.7 million in 2025, which the oil industry sees as a pressing reason to build the pipelines.
Critics, however, dislike the whole concept of tapping the oil sands, saying it requires huge amounts of energy and water, increases greenhouse gas emissions and threatens rivers and forests. Some projects are massive open-pit mines, and the process of separating oil from sand can generate lake-sized pools of toxic sludge.
Meanwhile, China's growing economy is hungry for Canadian oil. Chinese state-owned companies have invested more than $16 billion in Canadian energy in the past two years, state-controlled Sinopec has a stake in the pipeline, and if it is built, Chinese investment in Alberta oil sands is sure to boom.
"They (the Chinese) wonder why it's not being built already," said Wenran Jiang, an energy expert and professor at the University of Alberta.
In a report on China's stake in Canadian energy, Jiang notes that if every Chinese burned oil at the rate Americans do, China's daily consumption would equal the entire world's.
Harper is set to visit China next month. After Obama first delayed the Keystone pipeline in November, Harper told Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Pacific Rim summit in Hawaii that Canada would like to sell more oil to China, and the Canadian prime minister filled in Obama on what he said.
Jiang reads that to mean "China has become leverage."
But oil analysts say Alberta has enough oil to meet both countries' needs, and the pipeline's capacity of 525,000 barrels a day would amount to less than 6 percent of China's current needs.
"I don't think U.S. policymakers view China's investment in the Canadian oil sands as a threat," says David Goldwyn, a former energy official in the Obama administration.
"In the short term it provides additional investment to increase Canadian supply; that's a good thing. Longer-term, if Canadian oil goes to China, that means China's demand is being met by a non-OPEC country, and that's a good thing for global oil supply. Right now we are spending an awful lot of time finding ways for China to meet its demand from some place other than Iran. Canada would be a great candidate."
Pipelines are rarely rejected in Canada, but Murray Minchin, an environmentalist who lives near Kitamaat Village, says this time he and other opponents are determined to block construction. "They are ready to put themselves in front of something to stop the equipment," Minchin said. "Even if it gets the green light it doesn't mean it's getting done."
Enbridge is confident the pipeline will be built and claims about 40 percent of First Nation communities living along the route have entered into a long-term equity partnership with Enbridge. The communities together are being offered 10 percent ownership of the pipeline, meaning those which sign on will share an expected $400 million over 30 years.
But of the 43 eligible communities, only one went public with its acceptance and it has since reneged after fierce protests from its members.
Janet Holder, the Enbridge executive overseeing the project, says pipeline leaks are not inevitable, new technologies make monitoring more reliable, and tugboats will guide tankers through the Douglas Channel.
At the Kitamaat hearings, speakers ranged from Ellis Ross, chief of the Haisla First Nation in British Columbia, to Dieter Wagner, a German-born Canadian, retired scientist and veteran sailor who called the Douglas Channel "an insane route to take."
Ross used to work on whale-watching boats, and refers to himself as a First Nation, a term applicable to individuals as well as groups. He testified that the tanker port would go up just as marine life decimated by industrial pollution was making a comeback in his territory.
He held the audience spellbound as he described an extraordinary nighttime encounter last summer with a whale that was "logging" ? the half-doze that passes for sleep in the cetacean world.
"...Midnight I hear this whale and it's right outside the soccer field. ... It's waterfront, but I can hear this whale, and I can't understand why it's so close, something's got to be wrong.
"So I walk down there with my daughter, my youngest daughter, and I try to flash a light down there, and quickly figured out it's not in trouble, it's sleeping. It's resting right outside our soccer field.
"You can't imagine what that means to a First Nation that's watched his territory get destroyed over 60 years. You can't imagine the feeling."
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LONDON ? Two giant pandas on loan to a Scottish zoo have been removed from display while being treated for colic.
Edinburgh Zoo officials say female panda Tian Tian was treated by a veterinarian for the illness on Saturday, just as her male companion Yang Guang is recovering from a bout diagnosed earlier this month.
Officials say the illness is not serious, but can cause discomfort and requires medication.
The zoo said Tian Tian would be allowed "to relax privately away from public view" over the weekend.
Yang Guang is expected to be back on view Monday.
The 8-year-old pair are the first pandas to live in Britain in nearly two decades. They arrived from China in December and are expected to draw huge crowds of visitors to the zoo.
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2012) ? Cells trying to keep pace with constantly changing environmental conditions need to strike a fine balance between maintaining their genomic integrity and allowing enough genetic flexibility to adapt to inhospitable conditions. In their latest study, researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research were able to show that under stressful conditions yeast genomes become unstable, readily acquiring or losing whole chromosomes to enable rapid adaption.
The research, published in the January 29, 2012, advance online issue of Nature, demonstrates that stress itself can increase the pace of evolution by increasing the rate of chromosomal instability or aneuploidy. The observation of stress-induced chromosome instability casts the molecular mechanisms driving cellular evolution into a new perspective and may help explain how cancer cells elude the body's natural defense mechanisms or the toxic effects of chemotherapy drugs.
"Cells employ intricate control mechanisms to maintain genomic stability and prevent abnormal chromosome numbers," says the study's leader, Stowers investigator Rong Li, Ph.D. "We found that under stress cellular mechanisms ensuring chromosome transmission fidelity are relaxed to allow the emergence of progeny cells with diverse aneuploid chromosome numbers, producing a population with large genetic variation."
Known as adaptive genetic change, the concept of stress-induced genetic variation first emerged in bacteria and departs from a long-held basic tenet of evolutionary theory, which holds that genetic diversity -- evolution's raw material from which natural selection picks the best choice under any given circumstance -- arises independently of hostile environmental conditions.
"From an evolutionary standpoint it is a very interesting finding," says graduate student and first author Guangbo Chen. "It shows how stress itself can help cells adapt to stress by inducing chromosomal instability."
Aneuploidy is most often associated with cancer and developmental defects and has recently been shown to reduce cellular fitness. Yet, an abnormal number of chromosomes is not necessarily a bad thing. Many wild yeast strains and their commercial cousins used to make bread or brew beer have adapted to their living environs by rejiggering the number of chromosomes they carry. "Euploid cells are optimized to thrive under 'normal' conditions," says Li. "In stressful environments aneuploid cells can quickly gain the upper hand when it comes to finding creative solutions to roadblocks they encounter in their environment."
After Li and her team had shown in an earlier Nature study that aneuploidy can confer a growth advantage on cells when they are exposed to many different types of stress conditions, the Stowers researchers wondered whether stress itself could increase the chromosome segregation error rate.
To find out, Chen exposed yeast cells to different chemicals that induce various types of general stress and assessed the loss of an artificial chromosome. This initial screen revealed that many stress conditions, including oxidative stress, increased the rate of chromosome loss ten to 20-fold, a rate typically observed when cells are treated with benomyl, a microtubule inhibitor that directly affects chromosome segregation.
The real surprise was radicicol, a drug that induces proteotoxic stress by inhibiting a chaperone protein, recalls Chen. "Even at a concentration that barely slows down growth, radicicol induced extremely high levels of chromosome instability within a very short period of time," he says.
Continued growth of yeast cells in the presence of radicicol led to the emergence of drug-resistant colonies that had acquired an additional copy of chromosome XV. Yeast cells pretreated briefly with radicicol to induce genomic instability also adapted more efficiently to the presence of other drugs including fluconazole, tunicamycin, or benomyl, when compared to euploid cells.
Interestingly, certain chromosome combinations dominated in colonies that were resistant to a specific drug. Fluconazole-resistant colonies typically gained an extra copy of chromosome VIII, tunicamycin-resistant colonies tended to lose chromosome XVI, while a majority of benomyl-resistant colonies got rid of chromosome XII. "This suggested to us that specific karyotypes are associated with resistance to certain drugs," says Chen.
Digging deeper, Chen grew tunicamycin-resistant yeast cells, which had adapted to the presence of the antibiotic by losing one copy of chromosome XVI, under drug-free conditions. Before long, colonies of two distinct sizes emerged. He quickly discovered that the faster growing colonies had regained the missing chromosome. By returning to a normal chromosome XVI number, these newly arisen euploid cells had acquired a distinctive growth advantage over their aneuploid neighbors. But most importantly, the fast growing yeast cells were no longer resistant to tunicamycin and thus clearly linking tunicamycin resistance to the loss of chromosome XVI.
Researchers who also contributed to the work include William D. Bradford and Chris W. Seidel both at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.
The study was funded in part by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
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Police move in on Occupy Oakland protesters on Oak Street and 12th Street as tear gas gets blown back on them in Oakland, Calif. on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. An unlawful assembly was declared as occupiers planned to take over an undisclosed building. (AP Photo/The Tribune, Bay Area News Group) MAGS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
Police move in on Occupy Oakland protesters on Oak Street and 12th Street as tear gas gets blown back on them in Oakland, Calif. on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. An unlawful assembly was declared as occupiers planned to take over an undisclosed building. (AP Photo/The Tribune, Bay Area News Group) MAGS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
Oakland police deploy smoke and tear gas to stop protesters with the Occupy Oakland as they march through the streets of downtown Oakland, Calif., Saturday Jan. 28, 2012. With plans to take over a vacant building, Occupy Oakland spokesman Leo Ritz-Barr said the action "signals a new direction for the Occupy movement: putting vacant buildings at the service of the community." (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Michael Macor) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTOG & CHRONICLE; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
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Protesters break down fences in front of the Kaiser Convention Center, as protesters with Occupy Oakland march through the streets of downtown Oakland, Calif., Saturday Jan. 28, 2012. With plans to take over a vacant building, Occupy Oakland spokesman Leo Ritz-Barr said the action "signals a new direction for the Occupy movement: putting vacant buildings at the service of the community." (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Michael Macor) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTOG & CHRONICLE; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
Protesters break down fences in front of the Kaiser Convention Center, as protesters with Occupy Oakland march through the streets of downtown Oakland, Calif., Saturday Jan. 28, 2012. With plans to take over a vacant building, Occupy Oakland spokesman Leo Ritz-Barr said the action "signals a new direction for the Occupy movement: putting vacant buildings at the service of the community." (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Michael Macor) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTOG & CHRONICLE; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ? Oakland officials say police are in the process of arresting about 100 Occupy protesters for failing to disperse.
Police Sgt. Christopher Bolton says the arrests come after Occupy Oakland protesters marched through downtown Oakland a little before 8 p.m. Saturday, with some of the protesters entering a YMCA building in the city's downtown.
The arrests Saturday night come after 19 people were arrested in Occupy Oakland protests during the day.
Police used tear gas and "flash" grenades on the group Saturday afternoon after some demonstrators threw rocks and other objects at them and tore down fencing.
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Forget E.T. It?s time to meet the intraterrestrials.
They too are alien, appearing in bizarre forms and eluding scientists? search efforts. But instead of residing out in space, these aliens inhabit a dark subterranean realm, munching and cycling energy deep inside the Earth.
Most intraterrestrials live beneath the bottom of the ocean, in an unseen biosphere that is a melting pot of odd organisms, a sort of Deep Space Nine for microbes. Many make their homes in the tens of meters of mud just beneath the seafloor. Others slither deeper, along fractures into solid rock hundreds of meters down.
Scientists are just beginning to probe this undersea world. In the middle of the South Pacific, oceanographers have discovered how bacteria survive in nutrient-poor, suffocating sediment. Off the coast of Washington state, other researchers have watched microbes creep into and colonize a borehole 280 meters below the seafloor, flushed by water circulating through the ocean crust. And near the underwater mountain ridge that marks the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, scientists have yanked up organisms that may be unlike any known sub-seafloor residents.
Such discoveries are helping biologists piece together a picture of a deep, seething ecosystem. Knowing how this world arose, researchers say, will help them understand more about the origin of life on Earth. One day intraterrestrials could even tell scientists more about extraterrestrials, by helping sketch out the extremes under which life can not only survive but even thrive.
Oceanic desert
Considering that oceans cover most of the planet, it?s a no-brainer to try to figure out what?s living in the mud and rock beneath them. ?It?s really the most massive potential habitat on Earth,? says microbiologist Beth Orcutt of Aarhus University in Denmark.
By some estimates, as much as one-third of the planet?s biomass ? the sheer weight of all its living organisms ? is buried beneath the ocean floor. Many of these bacteria and other microbes survive on food that drifts down from above, such as the remains of plankton that once blossomed in the sunlight of the ocean?s upper reaches.
These hardy microbes manage to eke out an existence even where it shouldn?t be possible. In the middle of the South Pacific, for instance, lies an oceanic vortex where water circulates in a huge eddy, or gyre, twice the size of North America. Because the gyre is so far from any landmasses ? from which nutrients wash off and help spur plankton growth and other ocean productivity ? it is essentially a giant oceanic desert, says Steven D?Hondt of the University of Rhode Island?s oceanography school in Narragansett.
In some places in the gyre, seafloor mud builds up as slowly as eight centimeters per million years. That means if you wanted to plant a tulip bulb at the usual gardener?s depth of about 16 centimeters, D?Hondt says, you?d be digging into mud that is 2 million years old.
Such low-productivity regions in the centers of oceans are far more common than nutrient-rich coastal zones, but scientists don?t often visit the deserts because they are hard to get to. In the autumn of 2010, though, D?Hondt led a cruise to the South Pacific Gyre that drilled into the dull seafloor mud and pulled up cores. ?We wanted to see what life was like in sediment in the deadest part of the ocean,? he says.
Among other things, the scientists discovered how microbes in the mud might cope. In other areas of the ocean, where more nutrients fall to the seafloor, oxygen is found only in the uppermost centimeter or two of mud; any deeper than that and it gets eaten up. But in the South Pacific Gyre, D?Hondt?s team found that oxygen penetrates all the way through the seafloor cores, up to 80 meters of sediment. To the scientists, this finding suggests that these mud microbes breathe very slowly and so don?t use up all the available oxygen. ?That violates standard expectations,? says D?Hondt, ?but until we went out there and drilled, nobody knew.?
Another possibility is that the microbes have a separate, unusual source of energy: natural radioactivity. Radioactive decay of elements in the underlying mud and rocks bombards the water with particles that can split H2O into hydrogen and oxygen, a process known as radiolysis. Microbes can then consume those elements, sustaining themselves over time with a near-endless supply of food. ?That?s the most exotic interpretation,? D?Hondt says, ?that we have an ecosystem living off of natural radioactivity that is splitting water molecules apart.?
Easy access
Thousands of miles north and east of drilling sites in the South Pacific Gyre, other scientists are exploring a very different alien realm in the Juan de Fuca Ridge, an underwater mountain range marking the convergence of several great plates of Earth?s crust. Juan de Fuca is one of those coastal areas getting plenty of nutrients from nearby British Columbia and Washington state, and scientists can get there relatively quickly.
As a result, the Juan de Fuca area may be the world?s best-instrumented seafloor. A network of observatories sprawls across the ocean bottom; in one spot, six borehole monitoring stations lie within about 2.5 kilometers of each other. One of the stations is hooked up to the shore via underwater cables, so that scientists sitting at their desks can track the data in real time. ?We can do active experiments there that we can?t do anywhere else in the ocean,? says Andrew Fisher, a hydrogeologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz who helped set up much of the instrumentation.
Many of the stations are observatories known as CORKs, a tortured acronym for ?circulation obviation retrofit kit,? which essentially means a deep hole in the seafloor plugged at the top to keep seawater out. Researchers lower a string of instruments into the hole, then come back several years later to retrieve them. Data from CORKs can reveal what organisms live at what depths within the borehole, as well as how microbial populations change over time.
CORKs are technically challenging to install, but sometimes glitches can yield unexpected discoveries. At one Juan de Fuca site, researchers tucked experiments down a hole in 2004. After retrieving rock chips that had dangled in the hole for four years, the team saw twisted stalks that looked like rust coating the surfaces. It turned out that the CORK hadn?t been properly sealed, and iron-oxidizing bacteria leaked in along with seawater.
Those bacteria initially colonized the borehole and built up the stalks, thriving on the cold and oxygen-rich conditions carried in by the seawater. But over the next few years the borehole began to warm up, thanks to volcanic heat percolating from below. Water from within the surrounding ocean crust began to rise and push out the seawater, reversing the flow within the hole. The iron-loving bacteria died and other types of organisms began to appear: bacteria known as firmicutes, which are found in similarly exotic environments such as the Arctic Ocean?s bottom. ?For us that?s a really interesting finding and a kind of nice serendipitous experiment,? says Orcutt, who published the work with her colleagues last year in the International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal.
Research at Juan de Fuca also shows how water flushes through the ocean crust, offering clues to the best places to look for microbes. People tend to think of water sitting on top of the seafloor, says Fisher, but in fact water zips through undersea rocks ? cycling the equivalent of the ocean?s entire volume through the crust every half-million years or so.
At Juan de Fuca, Fisher and colleagues have spotted two underwater volcanoes, about 50 kilometers apart, that help explain how such high rates of flow might happen. CORK observations reveal that water flows into one of the mountains and flushes out the other. ?This is the first place anywhere on the seafloor where researchers have been able to put their finger on a map and say ?the water goes in here and out here,? ? Fisher says.
Those two volcanoes are arranged along a north-south line that tends to control much of the undersea activity at Juan de Fuca, he says. Most of the fractures in the ocean crust here run north to south, making that the probable direction in which microbes also move. The cracks serve as a sort of microbial superhighway, allowing the microbes to flow along easily, carried by water. Scientists looking for more sub-seafloor microbes might want to also focus on these areas, Fisher says: ?You?ll see very different populations along the superhighways than along the back roads.?
Pond swimmers
Far from being monolithic, the seafloor is home to a surprising range of different environments. One new target, much different from Juan de Fuca or the South Pacific Gyre, is a spot in the mid-Atlantic known as North Pond. Geologists have studied this place, at 22 degrees north of the equator, since the 1970s for what it can reveal about the processes that form young crust at mid-ocean ridges. Now microbiologists are also targeting North Pond for what it can say about deep life.
The ?pond? of North Pond is a pile of undersea mud, cradled against the side of tall jagged mountains. It lies about five kilometers from where seafloor crust is actively being born; all that violent geologic activity pushes water quickly through the mud and rocks and out into the ocean above. Compared with Juan de Fuca, the water at North Pond is much cooler ? roughly 10? Celsius, as opposed to 60? C to 70? C ? but flows much faster. ?Nature finds a balance between temperature and flow,? says Fisher.
He and his colleagues, led by Katrina Edwards of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and Wolfgang Bach of the University of Bremen in Germany, spent 10 weeks at North Pond last autumn. They installed two new CORKs, up to 330 meters deep, and pulled up samples of rock and water to test for any microbes that might be living there. The scientists also tucked long dangling strings of rock chips into the holes and plan to return in the years ahead to see what organisms might appear. ?It was a great success,? says Edwards. ?We set ourselves up for a good decade?s worth of work out at North Pond.?
For now, it?s up to microbiologists back on land to make sense of what?s there. Researchers are just starting to culture the slow-growing microbes pulled up at North Pond, but already they suspect they?ll find surprises.
Overall, studies at different locales reveal that deep-sea microbes are far more diverse than scientists had thought even a decade ago, says micro?biologist Jennifer Biddle of the University of Delaware in Newark. Rather than just a couple of broad classes, researchers have found a rich diversity of bacteria along with archaea ? other single-celled organisms with an older evolutionary history ? plus fungi, viruses and more. ?We were shocked it was so complicated,? says Biddle. ?We thought there was maybe five Bunsens and 10 Beakers, and it turns out there?s the entire cast of the Muppets in there.?
By comparing microbes from different seafloor sites, Biddle has found surprisingly high amounts of archaea compared with bacteria in some places. She thinks that archaea may be thriving on organic matter in seafloor mud, so nutrient-rich coasts have more archaea than sediments in the middle of the ocean. ?The jury?s still out on that one,? she says.
A new project known as the Census of Deep Life will help Biddle and others analyze and compare more of the sub-seafloor microbes. The census could take as long as a decade; the idea is to find overarching rules ? if they exist ? that describe where and how organisms thrive in the seafloor. ?Right now you can get some idea of that by looking at the sorts of energy sources that are present in the subsurface,? says census leader Rick Colwell, a microbiologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. ?But do fractures in various subsurface environments, worldwide, contain certain types of microorganisms consistently??
Plenty of data should be forthcoming. ?We?re not suffering from a lack of things to do,? Orcutt says. Edwards and her team plan to return to North Pond in April to retrieve their first set of instruments. Fisher will go back to Juan de Fuca next summer, in what may be a final visit before turning his attention elsewhere. Next on his wish list: a site off Costa Rica where water flows through the crust some thousands of times faster than at Juan de Fuca.
One day, analyzing the deep biosphere may help NASA and other space agencies in their hunt for life elsewhere in the solar system. At North Pond, expedition scientists have tested out a new tool that, once lowered into a borehole, illuminates the hole?s walls using ultraviolet light. Because living cells turn fluorescent at specific wavelengths, the light can be used to spot films of organic matter coating the hole. This probe, or some elaboration on it, could end up flying on future space missions. And then the intraterrestrials could help scientists find extraterrestrials.
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Deaf? Stupid? Preoccupied? Oblivious? Some combination thereof?
Call it what you want, we don't know what's funnier, the fact that this woman dragged a bag on her ankle for at least an entire city block, or that some dude was shadily creeping behind her filming it for the purpose of YouTubing this "moment."
Either way, enjoy.
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LONDON (AP) -The specter of two recent racist incidents will hang over the FA Cup this weekend, with tensions high as the clubs involved prepare to play each other again.
Manchester United will travel to Anfield on Saturday for the first time since defender Patrice Evra was repeatedly racially abused by Liverpool striker Luis Suarez in a league match in October.
Chelsea captain John Terry is set to play at Queens Park Rangers days for the first time since prosecutors decided to charge him with racially abusing Anton Ferdinand in the last meeting of the west London clubs in October.
Terry's legal team will enter a not guilty plea on his behalf in a London court next week, with the defender not planning to attend the initial hearing.
Fears that any lingering animosity between the players or rival fans could boil over in the weekend matches have prompted statements appealing for calm from the four clubs and a strong police warning about abusive behavior.
Chelsea and QPR tried to quell any tensions by issuing a statement describing Saturday's fourth-round match as "a unique opportunity to show the world that hatred has no place in our game."
The comments from Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck and QPR counterpart Tony Fernandes came after talks between the clubs.
"Abuse and discrimination has no place in football or society," Buck and Fernandes said in the statement. "Both clubs enjoy fantastic support. However, we would remind fans that while we want to hear their passion, it's a fact that hatred and abuse is not what being a fan of Chelsea or QPR is about.
"The clubs will work together with the police to ensure that anyone using discriminatory or inflammatory language is identified and that the strongest possible action is taken against them."
The spotlight will be on Ferdinand and Terry before the match to see if they shake hands, as is customary.
While racial abuse between players was the problem in the October matches, alleged taunts at Anfield was the issue in the third round of the FA Cup earlier this month.
With Liverpool still reeling from Suarez's eight-match ban for the verbal confrontation with Evra, its fans were accused of racially abusing an Oldham player at Anfield.
And police in Liverpool said Wednesday that a "firm, fair and friendly" approach will be adopted for Saturday's visit of United.
Many meetings between the northwest rivals have been fraught with drama, but United manager Alex Ferguson has written to his club's fans to ensure they do not step over the mark with their behavior at Anfield.
"Your support is vital to the team and down the years that has been especially true at Anfield," Ferguson wrote. "But please put the emphasis on getting us into the next round and giving the sort of support you are famous for - positive, witty and loud."
Police warned that all allegations of offensive conduct will be thoroughly investigated.
"We cannot allow this type of behavior to affect the enjoyment of genuine fans, especially families with young children who attend the game," match commander chief superintendent Jon Ward said in a statement. "We will continue with our efforts to deal with the small number of individuals who commit offenses at football matches, in particular with the continued use of football-banning orders."
The racism cases prompted a British parliamentary committee to launch an investigation into whether enough is being done to combat the problem in football, with a hearing due to take place in March that could hear evidence from the accused and victims.
On Wednesday morning, nine men were arrested by police investigating suspected racist chanting by supporters of Charlton Athletic on a train back from their FA Cup match at London rival Fulham on Jan. 7.
"These recent arrests are saddening to all those who have worked so hard over many decades," Charlton chief executive Stephen Kavanagh said.
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We've come a long way in home entertainment products. HDTVs and Blu-ray players now often come with streaming media services, the ability to play media files over USB drives, and even built-in Wi-Fi. If you want to access those services with an older HDTV, the Roku LT ($49.99, 4 stars) can be found for just $50, and the Western Digital WD TV Live Hub ($199.99, 4 stars) offers both a ton of storage and plenty of online services. The Netgear NeoTV NTV 550 tries to offer a similar service, but at $199.99 (list) with no storage, no Wi-Fi, and no Netflix, it falls short as a media hub.
The NeoTV does let you access both local drives and networked devices and play movies, music, and pictures from them, but onboard storage or a better service selection would better justify this device, which effectively does little more than many HDTVs and Blu-ray players with USB ports and DLNA networking. If you have a huge library of media on your networked computer, USB hard drive, eSATA hard drive, or NAS, it can be a worthwhile way to get your content to your HDTV (that is, if you can run an Ethernet cable or spend extra on a Wi-Fi adapter). But if you just want to access a few files over a network or with a USB key, it's too much.
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At first glance, the NTV550 looks like a router, measuring a flat 1.4 by 8.5 by 5.7 inches and weighing just 15 ounces. The front panel holds a Power button, a USB port, and an SD card slot. There's another USB port, an HDMI output, component outputs, a 3.5mm A/V output, an optical audio output, and eSATA and Ethernet ports around back. With no integrated Wi-Fi, you'll need to get Netgear's WNCE2001 wireless adapter for another $80 if you want to use it on your local network without running a cable to your router.
A multitool of file playback, the NeoTV supports over a dozen video file containers and codecs, including H.264, AVCHD, multiple MPEG-4 types, and DVD ISO and VOB files. It can handle plenty of audio files, too, including MP3, FLAC, WMA, WAV, and any digital video or audio media that uses Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS 2.0+, DTS HD, or DTS HD MA for up to 7.1-channel surround sound output. It also supports multiple subtitle file formats for movies and can show JPEG, BMP, PNG, and TIFF image files. All of these files can be loaded through an SD card, a USB or eSATA drive, or a networked computer or hard drive, and the device can automatically scan those connected devices to catalog all the media it can play.
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Despite its impressive file support and local network abilities, the NTV550 is slim on online content offerings. It can access YouTube and a handful of news video feeds and Internet radio stations, but there's no Netflix, Hulu Plus, Vudu, Amazon Instant Video, or any of the other commonly used streaming media services online. The NTV550 might let you watch nearly any video file on your local network, but if you want to use Netflix and other streaming video, you're going to need an HDTV or Blu-ray player with those services.?
When you connect a USB or eSATA drive or insert an SD card, you can scan it and any other connected devices for media and let the NTV550 catalog all photos, videos, and sound files together. Depending on how large the drive is and how many files and folders of any kind are on it, this can take a while. Once cataloged, they can be viewed in neatly arranged lists of genre, artist, and other categories. Like all systems that use metadata, this can result in holes and duplicate genres in your lists, and if your movies don't have any metadata you'll have to browse the catalog like a file manager.
In my tests, the NTV550 handled media files well with only one small hiccup. It played various videos encoded in DivX, AVI, WMV, and even MKV formats. The only issue was an MKV video with dual audio encoded for multiple language tracks, which played silently despite trying both tracks, which the player detected and could be chosen through the Audio menu. Interestingly, it handled subtitles flawlessly. If you have a movie file on your computer, the device can probably play it, and if it can't, you can convert the file to a similar format it can play.
The Netgear NeoTV NTV550 is a nice idea for marrying your PC content with your HDTV, but its high price and lack of online services and Wi-Fi keep it from earning a recommendation. It does exactly what Netgear says it does, but when most decent HDTVs and Blu-ray players can already play files from USB drives and support DLNA for playing files over a network, $200 is too much for a product that still forces you to run a cable. The Editors' Choice Western Digital WD TV Live Hub also lacks built-in Wi-Fi, but it comes with 1TB of storage so you can still keep a big chunk of your media on the box instead of strewn across your home network, and it has more online services, making it a much better media hub for your HDTV. If you want to save money and get built-in Wi-Fi, grab the Apple TV ($99, 4 stars) and put your media on iTunes.
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A miniature football helmet rests among flowers left at the foot of a statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on the Penn State University campus after learning of his death on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in State College,Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
A miniature football helmet rests among flowers left at the foot of a statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on the Penn State University campus after learning of his death on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in State College,Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
A woman pays her respects at a statue of Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on the Penn State University campus after learning of his death Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012 in State College, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Cards featuring Joe Paterno and wife Sue are displayed at the foot of a statue of Joe outside Beaver Stadium on the Penn State University campus on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in State College,Pa. Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died Sunday at the age of 85. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
The house at the end of the block was fast taking on the feel of a shrine when Joe Paterno stepped into the crisp November night with his wife, Sue, by his side. Students had gathered on the lawn, some carrying hand-lettered signs, many near tears and all of them confused, sad and angry.
For the first time in nearly half a century, Paterno was no longer Penn State's head coach, fired moments earlier by university trustees desperate to contain the damage caused by a child sex-abuse scandal involving former defensive coordinator and one-time heir apparent Jerry Sandusky.
An era was ending, Paterno acknowledged.
"Right now, I'm not the coach. And I've got to get used to that," he said.
A mere 74 days later, Paterno was dead.
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Paterno's 46th season in charge at Penn State began with a blindside hit ? an omen, perhaps, of the trouble to come.
As the Nittany Lions ran drills during a preseason practice Aug. 7, Paterno was watching the defense when wide receiver Devon Smith slammed into the then-84-year-old coach, injuring his shoulder and pelvis. Paterno spent two nights in the hospital, and the injuries would keep him in the pressbox during games for much of the season.
But he returned to practice three days after the collision, insisting the injuries would not force him into retirement.
"The day I wake up in the morning and say, 'Hey, do I have to go to practice again?' then I'll know it's time to get out," Paterno said.
The Nittany Lions began the year as unsettled at quarterback as they had been the previous season, when their 7-6 record was their worst since going 4-7 in 2004. But Penn State's resounding 41-7 victory over FCS opponent Indiana State in the season-opener returned the Nittany Lions to the Top 25 for the first time in 11 months ? just in time for a visit from then-No. 3 Alabama, a rare showdown between two of the country's most storied programs.
With Beaver Stadium rocking, Penn State took the lead with a field goal on its first possession. But the Nittany Lions would manage only one more first down the rest of the first half as the Tide rolled to a 27-11 win.
"We certainly deserved a whooping today," Paterno said. "I think we've just got a lot of work ahead of us."
That became even more evident in the following weeks, as the Nittany Lions barely scraped out wins against Temple and lowly Indiana.
But the quarterback debate was eventually resolved ? enough, at least, so that the bruising running game and ferocious defense that had been Paterno's formula for success could take over once again. By the time Penn State headed to Northwestern, where Paterno would equal Eddie Robinson's record for most coaching victories, the Nittany Lions were tied with Wisconsin atop their Big Ten division and eligible for a bowl game at 6-1.
"Joe's always talked about Eddie with a great deal of respect, nothing but admiration for him," Paterno's son Jay, Penn State's quarterbacks coach, said then. "When you're in that kind of company, that's pretty elite company."
A week later, on Oct. 29, Penn State slogged out historic victory No. 409 in the snow against Illinois. The Nittany Lions fumbled six times, losing two of them, but Silas Redd scored on a 3-yard run with just over a minute to play to make Paterno the winningest coach in major college football.
The electronic sign boards lit up with congratulations, and fans braved the cold and snow to stick around after the game and celebrate their beloved "JoePa." At the postgame ceremony, Penn State president Graham Spanier and athletic director Tim Curley presented Paterno with a plaque that read, "Joe Paterno. Educator of Men. Winningest Coach. Division One Football."
"It really is something I've very proud of, to be associated with Eddie Robinson," Paterno said. "Something like this means a lot to me, an awful lot."
The victory improved Penn State to 8-1 and bumped the Lions up to No. 16 in the AP poll. As the lone unbeaten left in Big Ten play, with a two-game lead in the loss column in its division, Penn State had the inside track to the conference championship game.
Get there and win, and Paterno and Penn State would be headed to the Rose Bowl.
And then came the concussive blow that only a very few saw coming.
Sandusky, the architect of Penn State's ferocious defenses, was arrested Nov. 5 on charges of sexually abusing a total of 10 boys over 15 years. The details in the grand jury report were graphic and lurid, a shocking rebuttal of Sandusky's reputation as someone devoted to helping at-risk kids. Worse, some of the alleged assaults were placed at the Penn State football complex.
Then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary testified he saw one of those assaults in 2002 and reported it to Paterno, who in turn told his superiors, Curley and university vice president Gary Schultz, who was head of campus security. Paterno insisted McQueary did not use the same graphic descriptions he has in court, where McQueary has said he saw what he believed was Sandusky raping a boy of about 10 or 12 in the Penn State showers. And Paterno swore he had no idea until then that Sandusky was a danger, despite a 1998 incident that was investigated by campus police.
Paterno's failure to call State College police, or even follow up with Curley and Schultz, initially sparked outrage outside Happy Valley.
With the university engulfed in turmoil, Paterno announced on Nov. 9 that he would retire at the end of the season.
"This is a tragedy," Paterno said. "It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more."
The trustees would have none of it. Following a two-hour meeting that same night, vice chair John Surma instructed an assistant athletic director relay a message to Paterno's home to call him.
According to The Washington Post, Surma told Paterno, "In the best interests of the university, you are terminated." Paterno hung up and repeated the words to his wife, who redialed the number.
"After 61 years he deserved better," Sue Paterno said into the phone. "He deserved better." Then she hung up.
"Obviously Joe Paterno is a worldwide icon and has done a tremendous amount for the university," trustee Joel Myers said this week, explaining the board's decision to fire the coach. "We have sorrow and all kinds of emotions, empathy, sympathy for what has occurred. That's universal.
"But the university, this institution is greater than one person."
Enraged students flooded State College streets in protest of Paterno's firing, some throwing rocks and bottles and tipping over a TV news van. But tempers had calmed by Saturday, when Penn State hosted Nebraska in the Nittany Lions' first game in 46 years without Paterno in charge.
Though tailgates parties went on as usual under sunny skies, a sense of surreal surrounded the stadium, as if fans weren't quite sure how to react to Paterno's absence and the events that caused it. Beaver Stadium was awash in blue ? the color associated with child-abuse prevention ? and public-service announcements flashed on the scoreboard throughout the game. Fans wore shirts and carried signs in support of Paterno, and several students came dressed as JoePa in rolled-up khakis, white socks and thick, dark glasses.
Finally, when Paterno's image was shown in a video montage before the second-half kick-off, the student section let loose with chants of "Joe Paterno! Joe Paterno!"
The joy would be short-lived. The following Friday, Paterno's son Scott announced that his father was being treated for lung cancer, diagnosed the previous weekend. The cancer was treatable, Scott Paterno said, and doctors were optimistic his father would make a full recovery.
But it was apparent Paterno's decline was accelerating. A fall at his home Dec. 10 left him with a fractured pelvis, and he was hospitalized for a week to make it easier to receive his chemotherapy and radiation treatments while he recovered.
The cancer had clearly taken a toll. A picture of a frail Paterno showed him wearing a wig, his thick, dark hair gone. Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins, who landed Paterno's only interview after the firing, wrote that his gravelly voice was now a soft rasp, "like wind blowing across a field of winter stalks, rattling the husks." The second part of the interview was done at his bedside; later that day, Jan. 13, he was re-admitted to the hospital, where he died nine days later.
"You know, I'm not as concerned about me," Paterno told Jenkins. "What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen great grandchildren. I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State. I don't want to walk away from this thing bitter."
Walking away at all was hard for Paterno to imagine. Football, along with family, was his life, and he saw what happened to his friend and rival, Paul "Bear" Bryant.
"Quit coaching?" Bryant once said. "I'd croak in a week."
He died less than a month after he retired at Alabama.
Bobby Bowden, the longtime Florida State coach and a contemporary of both Paterno and Bryant, said it was more than coincidence.
"I thought the same thing about Coach Bryant," Bowden told the Tallahassee Democrat on Sunday. "He stopped coaching and Coach Bryant died a month later. Here with Joe, he stops coaching and he dies a few weeks later."
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PHOENIX ? In part, the short video has the feel of a campaign ad: the strains of soft music, the iconic snapshots of rugged Arizona desert, the candidate earnestly engaged with her constituents.
Interspersed with the slick montage of photos and sound, though, is a video close-up of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gazing directly at the camera, offering not a campaign promise but a goodbye, a thank-you message to her supporters in a voice that is both firm and halting.
"I have more work to do on my recovery," the congresswoman says at the end of the two-minute-long "A Message from Gabby," appearing to strain with all of her will to communicate. "So to do what's best for Arizona, I will step down this week."
Arizonans had to know in their hearts that this day was coming.
A bullet to the brain, from point-blank range, is a nearly impossible obstacle to overcome, even for a congresswoman known for pluckiness and fight. Giffords seemed to accept that reality in the video announcing her resignation from Congress, which also included a promise to return one day to her mission to help Arizonans.
The clip, posted to YouTube and on her Facebook page, pastes together 13 sentences into a fluid announcement. Giffords wears a bright red jacket eerily similar to the one she was wearing a year ago when she was nearly assassinated. She looks straight into the camera, almost begging the viewer to listen.
But the video also includes images of the 41-year-old struggling at rehab and walking along a leafy street with husband Mark Kelly with an obvious limp. And Giffords acknowledges that at least for now she isn't up to taking on a re-election challenge.
The announcement comes just over a year after a gunman opened fire at Jan. 8, 2011 meeting with constituents in front of a Tucson grocery store. Six people were killed, and Giffords and 12 others wounded.
At the time, the Democrat had just eked out a razor-thin victory against a tea party candidate in her conservative-leaning district. She won a third term with less than 1 percent margin.
Many in Arizona believed she would be handed an easy victory if she chose to seek another term this year. Giffords elected not to try.
"A lot has happened over the past year. We cannot change that," she said.
For days after the shooting, it was touch and go. A huge memorial grew in front of the Tucson hospital where she was fighting for her life.
Then, almost miraculously, just two weeks after she was shot, she was whisked off in a jet to a rehabilitation hospital in her astronaut husband's hometown of Houston.
Months of rehab began, with Giffords struggling to learn how to walk and talk again. Just over four months after she was shot, she flew to Florida to watch Kelly pilot the nation's next-to-last space shuttle mission.
But she remained out of view.
Slowly, in carefully choreographed bits, she began to emerge. The first photos in June. Her surprise August appearance in Congress to vote to raise the federal debt limit. The first halting TV shots, just a few words at a time, then a more complex recording released in November.
Sunday's recording was slightly more elaborate, but it was not a campaign Q&A or an appearance before a tough interviewer.
She's clearly not yet ready for another run for Congress. But she said in Sunday's video that she's not done yet.
"I'm getting better. Every day my spirit is high. I will return and we will work together for Arizona and this great country," she said.
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After increasing pressure in recent days from his fellow candidates and the media, and in the wake of a stunning, last-minute collapse in the South Carolina primary last Saturday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced that he would release his tax return information for 2010 and 2011 on Tuesday.
Tax issues can sometimes provide headaches for candidates running for high office. Let's take a look back at some tax-related issues from past candidates:
Geraldine Ferraro (vice presidential candidate, election of 1984) -- Ferraro, a relatively inexperienced representative from New York, was chosen as the first woman on a major-party presidential ticket by Democrat Walter Mondale right before the convention in the summer of 1984. The media swarmed around the ground-breaking candidate and, soon, the New York Times launched an investigation into the financial situation of both Ferraro and her husband, a real estate investor. Eventually Ferraro released several years of tax returns that led to a series of embarrassing revelations of underpaid taxes and illegal campaign loans among other things.
Dick Cheney (vice president candidate, election of 2000) -- By his own admission during his campaign on the ticket with George W. Bush in the 2000 election, Cheney made more than $20 million during the 1990s. His charitable contributions, on the other hand, amounted to only about one percent of his total income during that period. The media zeroed in on this fact and went on the attack. Cheney weathered the storm well, however, and made up for his previous lack generosity. In 2005, for example, Cheney and his wife Lynne donated over $6.8 million on total earnings of $8.8 million.
Sarah Palin (vice presidential candidate, election of 2008) -- The little-known governor from Alaska was chosen by Republican John McCain as his running-mate for the 2008 campaign. But when Palin released her tax information from 2006 and 2007 it was revealed that she had not reported income from per diem payments made to her by the State of Alaska while she was staying in her own home as governor. The state eventually ruled that she had to pay taxes on that income.
Joe Biden (vice presidential candidate, election of 2008) -- Soon after Biden was chosen to be Barack Obama's running-mate during the 2008 campaign he released several years of tax returns. As a career politician Biden is not ultra-rich, but embarrassment ensued when his 1999 return revealed that he and his wife Jill had given a paltry $120 in charitable donations on an income of over $210,000.
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Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki (41), of Germany, puts a jump shot over Utah Jazz forward Paul Millsap (24) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Salt Lake City, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson)
Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki (41), of Germany, puts a jump shot over Utah Jazz forward Paul Millsap (24) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Salt Lake City, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson)
Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki, of Germany, reacts after hitting a 3-point shot during the first half of the Mavericks' NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Clippers, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle says Dirk Nowitzki will sit out for at least the next four games, starting with Saturday night's contest in New Orleans, so the star forward can get in better game shape.
Carlisle says Nowitzki needs "an uninterrupted eight days of work to resolve some physical issues and conditioning issues."
The Mavs coach says Nowitzki would prefer to keep playing but coaches and training staff decided it would be better for the team if he is restricted from game activity for the next week. Carlisle stresses that "this is not a rest situation" but "quite the opposite."
Nowitzki has been playing with a protective sleeve on his right knee. His 17.5 points per game is a little more than four points below his career average.
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Fausto Carmona, whose real name is reportedly Roberto Hernandez Heredia, was arrested in the Dominican Republic on Thursday?for allegedly falsifying his identity. We?re slowly learning more details about how he was exposed.
ESPN?s Pedro Gomez reported on ?Outside the Lines? yesterday that Carmona was outed several weeks ago on a popular radio show in Santo Domingo by the mother of the real Fausto Carmona.
You can watch video of Gomez?s report?here.
The belief is that Carmona has been paying the family of the real Carmona for the use of his identification and refused to increase hush money payments after the Indians picked up his $7 million club option for 2012 in October. Carmona made $6.1 million with the Indians last season. The U.S. government began an investigation after Carmona was outed on the radio show and he was arrested when he went to apply for his work visa earlier this week.
Carmona was released from jail yesterday on $13,000 bond. He?s actually 31 years old, three years older than previously believed, so many have wondered whether the Indians have just cause to void his contract. According to the Associated Press, Indians general manager Chris?Antonetti refused to comment on the situation yesterday, only saying that they are ?still gathering information.?
At the very least, it appears the Indians are preparing for the possibility that Carmona will not be granted entry into the United States in time for the start of the season. The club acquired right-hander Kevin Slowey from the Rockies yesterday as some insurance for their starting rotation.
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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 1997 photo, House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia and his wife Marianne leave their home for Capitol Hill. Dredging up a past that Newt Gingrich has worked hard to bury, the GOP presidential candidate's ex-wife says Gingrich asked for an "open marriage" in which he could have both a wife and a mistress. In an interview with ABC News' "Nightline" scheduled to air Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, Marianne Gingrich said she refused to go along with the proposal that she share her husband with Callista Bisek, who would later become his third wife. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson)
FILE - In this Jan. 7, 1997 photo, House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia and his wife Marianne leave their home for Capitol Hill. Dredging up a past that Newt Gingrich has worked hard to bury, the GOP presidential candidate's ex-wife says Gingrich asked for an "open marriage" in which he could have both a wife and a mistress. In an interview with ABC News' "Nightline" scheduled to air Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, Marianne Gingrich said she refused to go along with the proposal that she share her husband with Callista Bisek, who would later become his third wife. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson)
Republican presidential candidates, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich share a laugh during a commercial break at the Republican presidential candidate debate at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, reacts to the audience as he participates in the Republican presidential candidate debate at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, participates in a Republican presidential candidate debate at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) ? Mitt Romney entered the final full day of campaigning in South Carolina's GOP primary contest Friday scrambling to fend off challenges from more conservative rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum and insisting he's the one that Republicans can trust to "post up well" against President Barack Obama
A year out from Inauguration Day, Republicans are capturing the most attention with their riveting contest, with Obama seemingly spoiling for a fight .
With South Carolina's critical primary only a day away, Gingrich was gaining on Romney, and South Carolina's Sen. Jim DeMint declared it a "two-man race." But Santorum insisted he's still part of the equation and that he's finally drawing enough campaign contributions to compete aggressively in next-up Florida and beyond.
Rick Perry's departure from the race, a raucous Charleston debate and fresh reminders of Gingrich's tumultuous personal life promised to make the dash to Saturday's voting frenetic and the intra-party attacks increasingly sharp. Republican Party Chairman Reince Preibus, in a morning appearance on CNN, insisted the tone wasn't all that negative and said "a little bit of drama" was good for the GOP as it sorts out the strongest challenger to Obama.
Romney, appearing on Fox News Channel, called Gingrich "a feisty competitor" but argued the former House speaker was not the best man to put up against Obama. Santorum, who turned up on C-SPAN, said the GOP presidential race "has just transformed itself in the last 24 hours" and that's he's still very much part of the mix.
At Thursday night's debate, he offered himself as a more reliable conservative than either Romney or Gingrich.
"I've been fighting for health reform, private sector, bottom-up ... for 20 years, while these two guys were playing footsies with the left," Santorum said.
Romney, whose lead has shrunk in the race's closing days, opened the day by waving the endorsement of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and planned stops along the coast, in the state's midlands and conservative north. Gingrich, gaining fast and buoyed by Perry's endorsement, concentrated on the south, especially the heavily pro-military Charleston area.
Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, was rallying supporters in four stops statewide, including the conservative upstate, the home of his evangelical base. The libertarian-leaning Ron Paul, whose support has slipped with his light campaign effort here, hoped to whip up his supporters with a six-city fly-around.
Saturday's victor "is likely to be the next president of the United States," DeMint, a tea party leader, predicted on "CBS This Morning." He hasn't endorsed a candidate in the race.
The GOP race spun wildly Thursday, beginning with news that Santorum had edged Romney in Iowa, a reversal of the first nominating contest more than two weeks past.
Perry, having struggled in vain to build support in his native South, quit and endorsed Gingrich. Gingrich, meanwhile, faced stunning new allegations from an ex-wife that he had sought an open marriage before their divorce. An aggressive debate punctuated the day.
Santorum played aggressor during the faceoff, trying to inject himself into what seemed increasingly like a Romney-Gingrich race after Perry's endorsement of his onetime rival.
"Newt's not perfect, but who among us is," Perry said in backing Gingrich. "The fact is, there is forgiveness for those who seek God and I believe in the power of redemption, for it is a central tenet of my own Christian faith."
Gingrich angrily denounced the news media for putting his ex-wife front and center in the final days of the race and spreading her accusations. "Let me be clear, the story is false," he said when asked at the opening of the debate about her interview.
Santorum, Romney and Paul steered clear of the controversy.
"Let's get onto the real issues, that's all I've got to say," said Romney, although he pointed out that he and his wife, Ann, have been married for 42 years.
Gingrich and Santorum challenged Romney over his opposition to abortion, a well-documented shift but a potent one in evangelical-heavy South Carolina.
Recent polls, coupled with Perry's endorsement, suggested Gingrich was the candidate with the momentum and Romney the one struggling to validate his standing as front-runner.
Gingrich released his income tax records during the course of the debate, paving the way to discussing Romney's. The wealthy former venture capitalist has said he will release them in April, prompting Gingrich to suggest that would be too late for voters to decide if they presented evidence Obama could exploit.
"If there's anything that's in there that's going to help us lose the election, we should know before the election. If there's not, why not release it?" Gingrich said. His effective tax rate, roughly 31.6 percent of his adjusted income, was about double what Romney told reporters earlier this week he had paid.
Romney, asked about the issue Friday on Foxl, said he didn't want to give Obama and the Democrats a "nice little present of having multiple releases." He said that past GOP nominees John McCain in 2008 and George W. Bush before him released their taxes at tax deadline time, and said he'd do likewise. He didn't say how many years of returns he would release.
Gingrich grappled with problems of a different, possibly even more crippling sort in a state where more than half the Republican electorate is evangelical.
Marianne Gingrich told ABC's "Nightline" that her ex-husband had wanted an "open marriage" so he could have both a wife and a mistress. She said Gingrich conducted an affair with Callista Bistek, now his wife, "in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington" while she was elsewhere.
"He was asking to have an open marriage and I refused. That is not a marriage," she said in excerpts released by the network well ahead of the debate.
Santorum, asked about the issue Friday on C-SPAN, said it would up to voters to decide "whether these are issues of character" that matter in the race. But he said that when such actions occur when someone is serving in public office, "that has an additional level of relevance."
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