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Avenger PR Man Becomes Cooperative After Holding Twitter, Email Accounts Hostage



The saga of the Avenger Controller and Paul Christoforo continues, although it appears to be finally headed toward a final resolution.
For those who may have missed this seemingly unbelievable story that has unfolded over the course of this final week of the year, an email chain between someone who purchased two Avenger Controllers and Paul Christoforo (pictured above), the product's now former marketing/sales/PR/customer service man, was published on Penny Arcade. In the emails Christoforo can be seen being rude, unprofessional, and unhelpful to the customer, listing off the many connections he allegedly has in the games industry and the press, and saying things like, "You just got told bitch." Penny Arcade's Mike Krahulik became involved and was also the target of Christoforo's typo-laden emails at one point before Krahulik revealed himself to be the real-life version of Gabe from the comic. In other words, someone influential whom Christoforo couldn't bully.

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Romney, Perry slap at Paul on Iran (AP)

MUSCATINE, Iowa ? Mitt Romney and Rick Perry on Wednesday assailed Republican presidential rival Ron Paul for saying the U.S. has no business bombing Iran to keep it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, drawing a sharp contrast with their rising rival as he returned to Iowa to campaign before the lead-off caucuses.

"One of the people running for president thinks it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon," Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, said in this eastern Iowa city in response to a question from the audience. "I don't."

It was the first time Romney has challenged Paul directly since the Texas congressman jumped in polls. Neither Romney nor Perry, the Texas governor, named Paul, but the target was clear.

"You don't have to vote for a candidate who will allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. Because America will be next," Perry said in Urbandale, reiterating a line of argument from a day earlier.

"I'm here to say: You have a choice," Perry added.

As if in rebuttal, Paul's campaign launched a new television ad describing him as "principled, incorruptible, guided by faith and principle" and the man to restore the economy. "Politicians who supported bailouts and mandates, serial hypocrites and flip floppers can't clean up the mess," it says as photos of Newt Gingrich and Romney appear on screen.

The stepped-up criticism of Paul, the libertarian-leaning Republican, comes as surveys show he's in contention to win Tuesday's caucuses.

In recent days, conservative opponents including Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann have increased their criticism of Paul on social issues, foreign affairs and inflammatory comments in his decades-old newsletter. By tearing him down, they hope voters will give their campaigns another, closer look after a season marked by candidates who have risen quickly in public standing only to fall back down.

Gingrich, whose slide in surveys over the past week has come as Paul has risen, said Tuesday he couldn't vote for Paul if he were to become the GOP nominee and called his views "totally outside the mainstream of every decent American" during an interview with CNN.

Gingrich, the former House speaker, began Wednesday, the second day of his Iowa bus tour with a speech to about 200 people in the atrium of the Southbridge Mall in Mason City. He plugged his support for supply-side economics favored by President Ronald Reagan.

Gingrich said the primary is giving voters a "choice between a populist supply side approach ... and a much more timid Washington-centered approach that will not create jobs."

Bachmann, who was on the 86th stop of her tour of Iowa's 99 counties, criticized both of her rivals from Texas. She accused Perry of spending "27 years as a political insider." He was a Texas legislator and agriculture commissioner before becoming governor in 2001.

Bachmann said Paul would be "dangerous as president" because of his hands-off views on national security.

Paul, for his part, was meeting with supporters near Des Moines, his first visit to the state since before the campaigns went dark for the Christmas holiday. He planned a series of events over the next two days as he looked to take advantage of a burst of momentum.

A conservative, Paul commands strong allegiance from his supporters but appears to have little potential to expand his appeal and emerge as a serious challenger for the nomination. Yet he could complicate other candidates' pathway to the nomination.

His opponents were spreading out across the state to woo potential caucus-goers, many of whom are still undecided amid a flood of television and radio ads.

In Independence, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum mingled with 25 people at a diner and touted his plan to give a tax break to businesses that bring their operations back to the United States.

He told diners: "Things are going great, we've got momentum." He began airing a new radio ad Wednesday that promotes his hardline opposition to abortion and describes him as a "father of seven, a home-schooler and a devoted husband for 21 years."

Romney kicked off a three-day bus tour in the eastern edge of the state, in Muscatine, and shook hands with an overflow crowd at Elly's Tea and Coffee House. The line to get in stretched into the street.

Beginning the day, Romney told Fox News Channel that he was only joking Monday when he criticized Gingrich's failure to earn a spot on the Virginia ballot as something out of the sitcom "I Love Lucy."

"I hope the speaker understands that was humor, and I'm happy to tell my humorous anecdote to him face to face," Romney said.

Gingrich on Tuesday challenged Romney to make the "I Love Lucy" comparison to Gingrich's face.

Perry, looking to recapture the enthusiasm that greeted his entry into the race in August, railed against Washington and Wall Street insiders as he met with conservatives for breakfast near Des Moines.

"Why should you settle for less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and your values without apologies?" he asked, delivering the core rationale for his candidacy.

The packed crowd of conservatives in Urbandale applauded as he pledged to champion a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget, secure the border within a year and crack down on illegal immigration. He also said he would bring his faith with him into the Oval Office, a nod to the Christian conservatives who have strong sway in the nominating process.

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Elliott reported from Urbandale. Associated Press writers Mike Glover in Independence, Brian Bakst in Creston, Shannon McCaffrey in Mason City and Charles Babington in Des Moines contributed to this report.

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Perry asks judge to order he be put on Va. ballot

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a campaign stop at the Westside Conservative Club breakfast,Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, in Urbandale, Iowa. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a campaign stop at the Westside Conservative Club breakfast,Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011, in Urbandale, Iowa. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

(AP) ? Texas Gov. Rick Perry has filed an emergency order in federal court to require Virginia's Board of Elections to place his name on the ballot for the state Republican presidential primary.

Perry failed last week to meet Virginia's requirements that each candidate receive 10,000 signatures of registered voters, with 400 from each of its 11 congressional districts. On Tuesday, he filed a lawsuit against the State Board of Elections and Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Pat Mullins.

On Wednesday, Perry filed an emergency motion in U.S. District Court in Richmond asking for an injunction to get his name on the ballot for the March 6 primary.

Perry claims Virginia's requirements violate his freedoms of speech and association.

Newt Gingrich also came short of the signatures required to be certified.

Associated Press

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Getting a cat ups allergy risk in adults (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? While having a cat as a kid may protect against future allergies, getting one in adulthood nearly doubles the chances of developing an immune reaction to it -- the first step toward wheezing, sneezing and itchy eyes.

That's according to a study that found people with other allergies were at extra high risk of reacting to a new feline in the house.

"If you are an adult with asthma and/or allergies, you should think twice about getting a cat and particularly, if you do so, letting it into your bedroom," said Dr. Andy Nish of the Allergy and Asthma Care Center in Gainesville, Georgia, who wasn't involved in the new work.

For the study, researchers surveyed more than 6,000 adult Europeans twice over nine years and took blood samples. None of participants had antibodies against cat in their blood to begin with, meaning they weren't sensitized to the animal's dander.

Sensitization can also be measured in a skin prick test. It doesn't necessarily lead to symptoms, but in many cases it is the harbinger of full-blown allergies.

About three percent of people who didn't have a cat at either survey became sensitized over the study, compared to five percent of those who acquired a cat during those nine years.

Four in 10 of the newly sensitized also said they experienced allergy symptoms around animals -- four times the rate seen among people without antibodies against cats.

The findings, by Dr. Mario Olivieri of the University Hospital of Verona in Italy and colleagues, appear in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

The team found that people who'd had a cat in childhood had a much smaller risk of becoming sensitized to it than those who were new cat owners.

"We thought that having a cat in early childhood may be protective against the development of cat allergy in childhood, but this study seems to indicate that that protection extends into adulthood," Nish told Reuters Health by email.

It also turned out that only people who let their pet into the bedroom became sensitized.

"Keeping the cat out of the bedroom is a step I have always advised," said Nish. "It is remarkable that none who did not allow the cat in the bedroom became sensitized."

For people who have a cat and have become allergic, he recommended finding a new home for the pet.

"Second best is to keep the cat outdoors always," Nish added. "If it comes in even occasionally, its dander will remain in the house for months. If the cat needs to be indoors, at least keep it out of your bedroom, consider a HEPA filter for your bedroom and consider washing the cat at least once a week."

Nish said that there are also medical treatment options for people who can't or won't avoid pet contact, including allergy shots and immunotherapy.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/vbZHAT The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, online December 12, 2011.

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Melee at nation's largest mall leads to more security

KARE 11 TV

This image taken from a YouTube video and aired on KARE 11 TV shows someone throwing a chair at people inside the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., on Monday.

By msnbc.com and news services

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- More security officers were patrolling the nation's largest mall on Tuesday after a series of fights among dozens of?young adults and juveniles?broke out Monday afternoon, the day after Christmas and one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Police arrested at least nine individuals for disorderly conduct after a fight that started in the Mall of America's?food court spread throughout the mall, said Cmdr. Mark Stehlik with the Bloomington?police department.

Mall officials briefly ordered a lockdown as shoppers fled into stores that shut their doors as those fighting rushed by.

Some witnesses said the melee had the feel of a "smash and grab" flash mob that knocked down shoppers and grabbed items from them as well as kiosks, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

"I was on the third-floor railing and saw a massive group of people" on the first floor, said Makenzie Shofner, 15, of Maple Plain, Minn. "It looked like they were trying to pull people's stuff out of their bags."

"A lot of parents (were)?on their cell phones trying to find their kids," added Jennifer Reiland of Burnsville, Minn. "This was a harrowing experience for myself, my mother and my 5-year-old daughter."

Dan Jasper, a mall spokesman, said no significant injuries were reported but called the incident "disturbing."

"As a preventive measure we will ramp up security even more this week to make sure it doesn't happen again," Jasper said.

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At one point at least 30 police officers were on the scene to respond, restoring order inside the mall after an hour.

Fights continued outside the grounds for a brief time.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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97% The Artist

All Critics (134) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (130) | Rotten (4)

The Artist is the most surprising and delightful film of 2011.

A silent movie shot in sumptuous black-and-white, no less. A silent flick made with not a jot of distancing winking, but instead born of a heady affection for a bygone, very bygone, era of filmmaking.

It's a rocket to the moon fueled by unadulterated joy and pure imagination.

Strangely, wonderfully, The Artist feels as bold and innovative a moviegoing experience as James Cameron's bells-and-whistles Avatar did a couple of years ago.

"The Artist'' is a small, exquisitely-cut jewel in a style everyone assumes is 80 years out of date.

A beguiling tale about Hollywood's silent movie days that is itself silent, this made-in-L.A. French feature will charm cinephiles with its affection for one of the movies' golden ages.

...a good film with some great moments and two excellent lead performances...

full review at Movies for the Masses

...one of the most original films of this decade.

It's a valentine to the cinema that comes from the heart.

It's easy to dismiss The Artist as a simple love letter to the silent-film era, but there is a lot more at work here than just an attention-getting gimmick.

This film says a lot, without saying nearly any words. It's one of the best of 2011. (Content Review for Parents also available)

Not only does 'The Artist' clearly demonstrate that something was lost when movies started talking, but it also proves that we haven't begun to learn what can be done with images alone.

It may be silent, but The Artist earns some very loud applause

The Artist is a slight confection, really, but it's so delicious and knowing that it may well end up on any number of cineastes' desert-island lists. It's certainly on mine.

"The Artist" may be too cute to qualify as high art, but it's highly entertaining.

The story and the silent-era conventions may not be entirely original, but the director revives this uniquely American storytelling style with such infectious joy and life-affirming enthusiasm that it's nearly impossible not to respond in equal measure.

Essentially a stunt, but an expertly executed one that's immensely enjoyable, especially for movie buffs...a nimble, exuberant lark.

'The Artist' paints a glorious picture of old Hollyood.

In the more eye-pleasing The Artist, the plot eventually comes too close to its inspiration, though its early moments were headed for mastery - and transformation - of style.

Hazanavicius crafted more than a replica of the silent era... a masterwork that likely won't be imitated. How many movies in 2011 can you say that about? Only the best one.

"The Artist" is a delightful treasure. It is a charming mixture of comedy, melodrama and romance that cinema lovers should make a point of experiencing.

This is not some clinical dissection of bygone cinematic techniques; it's a lively, appealing effort that mostly rises above mere novelty.

It's about more than the gimmick, and The Artist will be calling to you, entrancing you and making you feel the love.

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US strengthening alliances with Japan, India to creating anti-China axias: People?s Dily

Washington is strengthening its alliances with Japan and rising-power India to create an anti-China alignment in Asia, according to a commentary published in China's state-owned People's Daily.

Making a commentary on the US's security policy in Asia, the People's Daily said that Washington was trying to create Atlantic network-like model to in the Pacific region by strengthening its alliances with old allies like Japan and new partners like India to hold back China's growth.

The commentary in the People's Daily said, "In the military area, the United States .strengthening its military existences in the South East Asia and Australia and improving its alliances and partners' military powers by carrying out trainings and drills."

The commentary said that the US's strategy was driven by the fear of China's unprecedented rise, thought it didn't specifically mention India's military relationships with the US.

Japan and India have improved their military ties with the US over the recent years. Japan and India have also agreed to undertake bilateral air and naval exercises over the coming years.

In addition, India recently held the first trilateral meeting with the US and Japan to find out ways to improve economic and military relations with one another. But, India on Monday emphasized that its ties with the US and Japan were not directed against any third country.


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VFW draws former military, concerned volunteers to attend post's annual community Christmas dinner

Russ Warner from Rancho Cucamonga Kiwanis Club serves a Christmas meal for James Harner of Ontario during a Christmas meal celebration Sunday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting hall in Rancho Cucamonga. (James Carbone/Correspondent)

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Vern Aceree looked up from his Christmas dinner plate Sunday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post to impart a bit of wit.

The 82-year-old Upland man, who fought with the Marine Corps during World War II, says he might not be able to hear anything, but he still can talk.

"I could be a politician," he says.

It was a time for veterans, their families and the general public at the VFW Post 8680's annual holiday dinner. It's the third year the post has held the event.

"We're geared up to serve about 300 people," said Jim Fettig, who organized the dinner.

Rancho Cucamonga residents and the VFW donated 12 turkeys, four hams and 80 pounds of potatoes, along with a variety of trimmings

Lorene Owens of Torrance (left) and Vern Aceree of Upland enjoy a Christmas meal. (James Carbone/Correspondent)

and desserts.

Volunteers lined up to fill up plates with food for the guests, while others sat at tables to keep veterans company.

Skip and Carol Dunn of Upland had been searching for a site to volunteer on Christmas Day and were delighted when they found out the VFW was holding an event.

It turns out Skip Dunn is a veteran himself. He was drafted into the Army in 1966 and served during the Vietnam War.

"There's so many people that don't have money. They're hungry and this will help them," said Carol Dunn.

Susan Goodsell and her daughter, Kelsey Duque, of Riverside volunteered to honor Goodsell's brother, Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Blake Pospisil, a bomb technician who was killed in Iraq in 2005.

"We thought, for Christmas Day, this would be a cool thing to do," Goodsell said.

James Harner, 87, of Ontario, came to the dinner with his son, Jay. The elder Harner served during World War II for the Navy. He's not a member of the Rancho Cucamonga post, but he praised the VFW for honoring veterans.

"It's wonderful," he said.

A few civilians stopped by to visit as well.

David Lee of Upland took two dinners to go because his 83-year-old mother was at home.

"It's rough for her to get out," he said.

Regardless of people's connection to the military, Carol Dunn said the point of the dinner, and Christmas itself, is about giving to others.

"It's about love. It's not just about gifts," she said. "This is our way of showing love for our fellow man."

Reach Melissa via email or call her at 909-386-3878.

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NKorea transition clouds Asia security outlook (AP)

SEOUL, South Korea ? North Korea's newly minted leader presents the U.S. and its allies with an even more unknown character than his recently deceased father ? and the strategic challenge of dealing with an inexperienced young man who sits on a nuclear arms program, a stash of chemical weapons and the world's fourth-largest army.

At the tender age of 27, give or take a year or two, Kim Jong Un is poised to become the world's youngest commander in chief. With virtually no track record, he will be learning on the job. From a military perspective, which takes "know your enemy" as its cardinal rule, that makes him a huge wild card as he sorts out his potentially thorny inheritance.

While the transition could offer an opportunity for positive change, this week's announcement of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's death immediately set off alarms in situation rooms from Seoul to Washington.

The younger Kim is said to have graduated from Kim Il Sung Military University and was suddenly promoted to four-star general last year in the first promotion hinting that he was being groomed to succeed Kim Jong Il, his father. Otherwise, Kim has little public record of military service. Until just before the announcement of his father's death, he had never even issued an order, according to South Korean media.

In Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un is credited with orchestrating an artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island that killed four South Koreans in November 2010. However, the South Korean reports say his first directive was for troops to stop training and return to their bases.

"Worries are high," said Baek Seung-joo of the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in South Korea. "Kim Jong Un is too young, and it's possible that elite generals' loyalty to him may grow thin in the long run."

Even so, all signs from Pyongyang indicate Kim has garnered enough support from the cabal of generals his father left behind to become the public face of the regime. Whether he will lead or follow, or eventually be cast aside, is another question.

"Where the guessing really starts is in determining who the power, or powers, behind the throne will be ? who will be whispering in his ear and to whom he will be listening," said Ralph Cossa of the Pacific Forum of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a private think tank. "The military remains a power behind the throne, but just how powerful and who speaks for the military are still not clear."

Although Pentagon spokesmen said Thursday the transition appeared to be going smoothly, troops around the region are on heightened alert.

South Korea has ordered its military to step up surveillance of the Demilitarized Zone that has separated the two countries since their 1950-53 war. Japan called an emergency meeting of its Cabinet and put its coast guard on alert. President Barack Obama vowed the U.S. would stand by its allies, and Taiwan suspended regular missile and artillery tests to avoid causing "inappropriate speculations."

Such jitters are warranted.

When Kim Jong Il assumed power after the death of his father in 1994, he elevated the North Korean military with him, lavishing funds on the army, pursuing the expensive development of ballistic missiles and stubbornly refusing to abandon his dream of building nuclear weapons even as his nation slipped deeper into poverty and isolation.

The policy is called "songun" ? military first ? and Kim used it masterfully to befuddle his enemies at home and abroad. But it has also created a symbiotic relationship that may prove hard for Kim Jong Un to sustain.

By some estimates, as much as a third of North Korea's state-run economy is set aside for its military. An estimated 1.2 million troops are on active duty and 7.7 million in reserves, out of a total population of only 24 million.

Service is a lifelong process. Children are pressured to enter youth guard organizations. When troops leave active duty, they usually join paramilitary reserve forces, where some remain until they are in their 60s, according to Joseph Bermudez, a North Korea military analyst for the London-based Jane's Information Group.

"The military is everything in North Korea," said Toshimitsu Shigemura, a North Korea expert at Waseda University in Tokyo. "It has the absolute power that comes ahead of everything. Kim Jong Un will have to keep that in place to get support for his leadership."

Under Kim Jong Il, North Korea acquired enough weapons-grade plutonium to build several atomic bombs. The North's nuclear program has made it an international pariah, though experts question whether it can make nuclear bombs small enough to deploy on a warhead, a key to using them in any conflict.

But North Korea has repeatedly proven it is capable of using its conventional forces, which could be the more dangerous threat during the leadership transition.

It is suspected of using a minisubmarine to attack and sink a South Korean corvette in March last year, killing 46 sailors in the deadliest encounter between the two countries since their war. North Korea denies involvement.

Eight months later, it fired the volley of shells at Yeonpyeong Island.

The attacks underscore what is perhaps North Korea's greatest military strength: its willingness to make provocative moves, often with the diplomatic goal of gaining concessions, and gamble that its adversaries will not risk war by responding with full force.

That attitude is key because the North's military is by no means invincible. Its navy is antiquated, its air force is mostly obsolete and fuel for training is scarce.

Still, it has a 2-to-1 advantage over the South in tanks, long-range artillery and armored personnel carriers, according to the U.S. State Department. It has a huge reserve of special forces ? 200,000 commandos by South Korean estimates ? ready to slip across the border to carry out assassinations and cause havoc at air bases and ports critical to the South's defense.

North Korea also has 2,500 to 5,000 tons of chemical weapons stored across the country, according to South Korea's Defense Ministry, which believes the North is also capable of cultivating and manufacturing anthrax bacteria, smallpox viruses and cholera viruses for biological warfare.

Seoul, South Korea's capital and a city of more than 10 million, lies only 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the border, within reach of many of the North's 13,600 long-range artillery guns.

A repeat of 1950, when North Korean forces streamed across the border in a surprise attack that sparked the Korean War, is hard to imagine. South Korea's 650,000 troops are much better prepared than six decades ago, and are backed up by 28,500 American troops and another 50,000 in nearby Japan. U.S. F-16 fighters based in Japan could be over North Korea is less than an hour.

Skirmishes are a more likely scenario.

Many North Korea experts believe the two incidents in 2010 were intended to bolster the reputation of Kim Jong Un, and he could be under pressure to orchestrate another attack in the months ahead to demonstrate his credibility as a hawkish figure, like his father.

But Cossa, the analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, suggested Kim and the military leadership will be too busy working out their new pecking order to pick fights elsewhere.

"There is rampant speculation that the new leadership will have to establish its bona fides by doing something aggressive," he said. "My guess is that this would be the best time for the respective militaries to enjoy Christmas leave. The odds that the new leadership would do something provocative during the mourning period or during the transition period that follows seem particularly low."

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/nkorea/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111223/ap_on_re_as/as_kim_jong_il_the_military_card

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