Deschanel, Gordon-Levitt post New Year's Eve duet (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are curious about your New Year's Eve plans.

The two actors perform a duet in a video posted this week on YouTube, musically asking, "What are you doing New Year's Eve?"

She plays ukulele and he plays guitar in the two-minute video of the 1947 jazz song.

Deschanel calls her "(500) Days of Summer" co-star "simply the best" in a note accompanying the video.

The two actors don't reveal their New Year's Eve plans in the clip, but they will be celebrating together in 2012. Both are nominated for Golden Globe Awards: she for actress in a TV comedy for "New Girl," and he for his lead role in the film "50/50."

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U.S. Treasury Declines to Name China a Currency Manipulator

December 30, 2011, 1:17 PM EST By Ian Katz and Cheyenne Hopkins Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration declined to brand China a currency manipulator while saying appreciation of the yuan is insufficient and pledging to push for more ?flexibility? in the currency. ?Over the past decade, China has resisted very strong market pressures? for appreciation of the yuan, the Treasury Department said today in a report to Congress on foreign- exchange markets. ?China?s real effective exchange...

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Mobilewalla: The Highest Rated Mobile Apps Of 2011

Mobile analytics firm Mobilewalla has ranked the top apps across all four mobile platforms for 2011, using its own ranking system known at the "Mobilewalla Score." Instead of looking at raw user ratings, this scoring system is an algorithm that analyzes a variety of factors in addition to ratings, including an app's position within its own category, volume, social media sentiment and more.

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Credit Card Spending Increased Over Holidays

In a turnaround from last year, shoppers were not afraid to pull out the plastic this holiday season. Spending on credit cards jumped 7 percent in November and was up in the first half of December, according to First Data, a company that tracks consumer payment data.

The move back to credit is part of a strategy this year by credit card companies to get people spending on high-interest plastic, and also reflects buoyed consumer confidence. While the increased spending boosts a hurting economy, it also poses risks for shoppers.

And it's not just plastic that got a seasonal boost. Self-reported spending overall was up 4.1 percent for the period between Nov. 21 and Dec. 25 over last year, according to a recent data from Gallup.com. Americans spent an average of $78 per day over the five-week period. The data is based on weekly surveys of more than 3,000 adults in the United States.

Robust spending in the weeks before Christmas led the National Retail Federation to revise its original holiday forecast for November and December. The organization said it expected sales to rise 3.8 percent over the last year's expenditures for a record $469.1 billion.

Even without the holiday bump in credit card spending, aggressive credit card promotions over the past year have nudged consumer credit card balances higher. At the end of November, American Express, Capital One and Discover Financial Services all reported higher balances by their card holders. U.S. card loans from all three issuers were up over 3 percent compared to November 2010, Dow Jones reported.

The boost in spending helps the American economy overall, as consumption makes up nearly three-quarters of GDP. Credit card companies also get a boost, as they make money both in swipe fees from cards -- typically 2 percent to 4 percent of the purchase -- along with interest on carried balances.

For consumers, however, spending on credit cards is a slippery slope. Even while balances may be relatively low, compared to their pre-recession heights, the high interest rate can make it difficult to completely pay down cards quickly. For example, it takes 10 months to eliminate an $1,800 balance with an APR of 15.19 percent, the current average rate, with a $200 monthly payment.

Already, one credit counseling organization says it is getting post-holiday interest from consumers concerned about debt. Consolidated Credit Counseling Services, a national nonprofit credit counseling organization, reported a healthy spike in incoming phone calls seeking debt advice on the Monday after Christmas.

"Traditionally we have seen bumps [in business] in mid-January until about March," said Howard Dvorkin, founder of the Florida-based counseling agency. "Last year there was no bump because spending was so far off."

However, just because card spending is up, one credit card expert cautions it's too early to say whether consumers will go into additional debt from holiday purchases. Bill Hardekopf, who runs the card comparison site LowCards.com, says many of the offers this year were targeted at customers who have a track record of responsible credit usage.

"They are great if you are using them right and paying off entire balance on time and they can make money for you," Hardekopf said. "But if you are not disciplined and don't pay it off -- or you charge more than you can afford -- then credit cards are horrible way to pay for things."

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Debt collector's alleged tactics lead to lawsuit

There is an unprecedented lawsuit against Bank of America and a debt collector it hired. A Cape Coral woman wants them to pay up after she says they harassed her about her late husband's debts.

The plaintiff's attorney is already calling this a landmark victory for everyone who gets harassing phone calls from debt collectors.

While the case hasn't gone to trial yet, a Lee County judge ruled Linda Long can seek punitive damages against the bank and the debt collectors, West Asset Management.

Part of the lawsuit's goal to stop the debt collector's tactics.

In the lawsuit, the plaintiff's attorney, Billy Howard of Morgan and Morgan, accuses the debt collectors of using "psychological warfare" on grief-stricken family members in the hopes of collecting the unpaid debts of deceased family members - debts the family members do not personally owe.

Long claims Bank of America's debt collectors harassed her, trying to collect on a $16,000 credit card debt left when her husband suddenly died of colon cancer.

We obtained this audio clip from one of the collection calls.

It begins right after the widow tells the debt collector she only has $2,000 left to her name.

Debt Collector: You don't think the family's in a position to help you out with that, and get this taken off your plate?
Long: I doubt it, but I could try to give you $2,000 just out of his life insurance, but then I won't have much left. But that's fine I can do that, anything to just get this off my head.

The defendants refused to comment on the pending litigation.

A jury will hear the matter at trial next August.

It's important to remember that debt doesn't go away when a person dies. It's their estate that is responsible for those debts.

If there isn't any money in the estate, typically it goes unpaid.

But - with few exceptions - family members are not personally responsible and do not owe the "deceased debt" collectors.

An official with West Asset Management sent us the following statement Wednesday evening:

"West continues to deny any wrongdoing and stands by it's stated court position that West did not violate any laws."

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'Anonymous' hackers target US security think tank (AP)

LONDON ? The loose-knit hacking movement "Anonymous" claimed Sunday to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor. One hacker said the goal was to pilfer funds from individuals' accounts to give away as Christmas donations, and some victims confirmed unauthorized transactions linked to their credit cards.

Anonymous boasted of stealing Stratfor's confidential client list, which includes entities ranging from Apple Inc. to the U.S. Air Force to the Miami Police Department, and mining it for more than 4,000 credit card numbers, passwords and home addresses.

Austin, Texas-based Stratfor provides political, economic and military analysis to help clients reduce risk, according to a description on its YouTube page. It charges subscribers for its reports and analysis, delivered through the web, emails and videos. The company's main website was down, with a banner saying the "site is currently undergoing maintenance."

Proprietary information about the companies and government agencies that subscribe to Stratfor's newsletters did not appear to be at any significant risk, however, with the main threat posed to individual employees who had subscribed.

"Not so private and secret anymore?" Anonymous taunted in a message on Twitter, promising that the attack on Stratfor was just the beginning of a Christmas-inspired assault on a long list of targets.

Anonymous said the client list it had already posted was a small slice of the 200 gigabytes worth of plunder it stole from Stratfor and promised more leaks. It said it was able to get the credit card details in part because Stratfor didn't bother encrypting them ? an easy-to-avoid blunder which, if true, would be a major embarrassment for any security-related company.

Fred Burton, Stratfor's vice president of intelligence, said the company had reported the intrusion to law enforcement and was working with them on the investigation.

Stratfor has protections in place meant to prevent such attacks, he said.

"But I think the hackers live in this kind of world where once they fixate on you or try to attack you it's extraordinarily difficult to defend against," Burton said.

Hours after publishing what it claimed was Stratfor's client list, Anonymous tweeted a link to encrypted files online with names, phone numbers, emails, addresses and credit card account details.

"Not as many as you expected? Worry not, fellow pirates and robin hoods. These are just the `A's," read a message posted online that encouraged readers to download a file of the hacked information.

The attack is "just another in a massive string of breaches we've seen this year and in years past," said Josh Shaul, chief technology officer of Application Security Inc., a New York-based provider of database security software.

Still, companies that shared secret information with Stratfor in order to obtain threat assessments might worry that the information is among the 200 gigabytes of data that Anonymous claims to have stolen, he said.

"If an attacker is walking away with that much email, there might be some very juicy bits of information that they have," Shaul said.

Lt. Col. John Dorrian, public affairs officer for the Air Force, said that "for obvious reasons" the Air Force doesn't discuss specific vulnerabilities, threats or responses to them.

"The Air Force will continue to monitor the situation and, as always, take appropriate action as necessary to protect Air Force networks and information," he said in an email.

Miami Police Department spokesman Sgt. Freddie Cruz Jr. said that he could not confirm that the agency was a client of Stratfor, and he said he had not received any information about a security breach involving the police department.

Anonymous also linked to images online that it suggested were receipts for charitable donations made by the group manipulating the credit card data it stole.

"Thank you! Defense Intelligence Agency," read the text above one image that appeared to show a transaction summary indicating that an agency employee's information was used to donate $250 to a non-profit.

One receipt ? to the American Red Cross ? had Allen Barr's name on it.

Barr, of Austin, Texas, recently retired from the Texas Department of Banking and said he discovered last Friday that a total of $700 had been spent from his account. Barr, who has spent more than a decade dealing with cybercrime at banks, said five transactions were made in total.

"It was all charities, the Red Cross, CARE, Save the Children. So when the credit card company called my wife she wasn't sure whether I was just donating," said Barr, who wasn't aware until a reporter with the AP called that his information had been compromised when Stratfor's computers were hacked.

"It made me feel terrible. It made my wife feel terrible. We had to close the account."

Wishing everyone a "Merry LulzXMas" ? a nod to its spinoff hacking group Lulz Security ? Anonymous also posted a link on Twitter to a site containing the email, phone number and credit number of a U.S. Homeland Security employee.

The employee, Cody Sultenfuss, said he had no warning before his details were posted.

"They took money I did not have," he told The Associated Press in a series of emails, which did not specify the amount taken. "I think `Why me?' I am not rich."

But the breach doesn't necessarily pose a risk to owners of the credit cards. A card user who suspects fraudulent activity on his or her card can contact the credit card company to dispute the charge.

Stratfor said in an email to members that it had suspended its servers and email after learning that its website had been hacked.

"We have reason to believe that the names of our corporate subscribers have been posted on other web sites," said the email, signed by Stratfor Chief Executive George Friedman and passed on to AP by subscribers. "We are diligently investigating the extent to which subscriber information may have been obtained."

"Stratfor's relationship with its members and, in particular, the confidentiality of their subscriber information, are very important to Stratfor and me," Friedman wrote.

One member of the hacking group, who uses the handle AnonymousAbu on Twitter, claimed that more than 90,000 credit cards from law enforcement, the intelligence community and journalists ? "corporate/exec accounts of people like Fox" News ? had been hacked and used to "steal a million dollars" and make donations.

It was impossible to verify where credit card details were used. Fox News was not on the excerpted list of Stratfor members posted online, but other media organizations including MSNBC and Al-Jazeera English appeared in the file.

Anonymous warned it has "enough targets lined up to extend the fun fun fun of LulzXmas through the entire next week."

The group has previously claimed responsibility for attacks on credit card companies Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., eBay Inc.'s PayPal, as well as other groups in the music industry and the Church of Scientology.

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Plushnick-Masti reported from Houston. Associated Press writers Jennifer Kay in Miami and Daniel Wagner in Washington, D.C. also contributed to this report.

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What's It Like Working Inside a Spaceship? [Architecture]

The SuperGroup, a marketing firm in Georgia, might not sound like the most exciting place on the face of it—despite their name!—but the sure have one hell of an office. Stanley Kubrick would be proud. More »

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Indonesia girl back with family after 2004 tsunami (AP)

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia ? A girl who was swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami seven years ago has been reunited with her parents.

Fifteen-year-old Wati showed up at a cafe in Meulaboh, a city in Aceh province, earlier this week, saying she'd been forced to work as a beggar and had finally broken free.

She said she was looking for her family.

Wati was led to a man named Ibrahim, her grandfather, who summoned her parents, Yusniar and Yusuf.

The parents said they lost three daughters when the tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen nations slammed into their tiny village of Ujong Baroh.

The mother, Yusniar, said she recognized Wati by the small scar over her eyebrow and a mole on her hip.

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Yahoo to weigh deals for Asian assets: sources (Reuters)

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) ? Yahoo Inc is considering a plan to unload most of its prized Asian assets in a complex deal valued at roughly $17 billion, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, winning nods of approval from Wall Street and driving its shares higher.

The offer - the latest among proposals put forth in recent months to resuscitate the once high-flying Internet company - is expected to be considered by Yahoo's board on Thursday, sources said.

The board was uninterested in entertaining offers for the entire company at this point, said one of the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Yahoo's increasing difficulty in competing with Internet heavyweights such as Google Inc and Facebook have forced it to explore proposals to revamp its business.

The former Internet powerhouse, which fired its Chief Executive Carol Bartz in September, has a market value of around $18.5 billion.

The Asian split-off plan to be considered by the board follows previous proposals by private equity firms to buy a minority stake in Yahoo. Those proposals were fiercely opposed by some of Yahoo's largest shareholders, including activist hedge fund manager Dan Loeb, of Third Point LLC.

"It's clear that Dan Loeb at Third Point is exerting some influence," said Adam Seessel, director of research at Martin Capital Management, which added to its position in Yahoo a few weeks ago. He "is doing all Yahoo shareholders a favor by looking over the board and making sure they do the right thing."

Yahoo shares, which languished in the red along with much of the technology sector on Wednesday, reversed course and ended the session almost 6 percent higher at $15.99. It inched further upward in after-hours trading to $16.09.

At a $17 billion valuation, which includes the value of the Alibaba stake that Yahoo would retain under the latest proposal, a deal would mean the Asian assets are worth $14 per Yahoo share, one of the sources said.

The deal would essentially mean that Yahoo's core U.S.-based Internet business is valued at only $2 a share, according to Lawrence Haverty, a fund manager with GAMCO investors, which owns Yahoo shares.

Given that Yahoo has roughly $2 a share in cash on its balance sheet, Haverty said the deal left plenty of room for upside in the core business.

"This is the right thing to do. This is how you maximize shareholder value," he said, noting that he believed the tax-free structure of the plan seemed feasible.

TAX-FREE DEAL

Alibaba chief Jack Ma has said several times he would like to buy back Yahoo's stake in his company, one of Asia's largest Internet corporations. Investors have long said Yahoo's investment in Alibaba, along with its 35 percent slice of Yahoo Japan, are far and away the U.S. company's most prized assets.

In the deal under contemplation, Yahoo would effectively transfer most of its 40 percent slice of Alibaba back to the Chinese company and all of its stake in Yahoo Japan to Softbank Corp, sources said.

Alibaba and Yahoo Japan would each create separate legal entities where they would put cash and operating assets, and then trade those with Yahoo, making the deal tax-free, the sources said.

At the end of the contemplated transaction Yahoo would retain a 15 percent stake in Alibaba, the sources said.

The final deal size will depend on how the assets are valued, another source said.

"It's definitely a step in the right direction. It shows that the board is thinking about shareholders as opposed to their own interests," Martin Capital's Seessel said.

Yahoo declined to comment. The possible deals were first reported in The New York Times.

Last week, sources told Reuters a consortium consisting of private equity group Silver Lake, Microsoft Corp and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz were reworking a bid for a minority stake in Yahoo.

(Reporting by Paritosh Bansal and Peter Lauria in New York, Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco; editing by Matthew Lewis, Andre Grenon and Richard Chang.)

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?The X Factor?: Florida?s Melanie Amaro outshines rivals

The "X Factor" finalists, from left, Chris Rene, Melanie Amaro and Josh Krajcik. Photo credit: Ray Mickshaw/Fox

Melanie Amaro had a huge advantage after the first round tonight on ?The X Factor.? Her?rival finalists, Josh Krajcik on ?Uninvited? and Chris Rene on ?Complicated,? sounded off-key as they began their songs. Of course, the judges used other words to explain the problem.

Nicole Scherzinger said Rene was ?a little shaky at the start,? and Simon Cowell said Krajcik seemed ?a bit intimidated at the beginning.? Whatever.

They were later joined by stars ? Krajcik by Alanis Morissette, Rene by Avril Lavigne ? and the songs improved vastly.

But Amaro, who is from Sunrise, was in superb voice on ?I Believe I Can Fly? before R. Kelly joined her. Amaro won the first round easily.

The second round was much closer. Krajcik forcefully delivered ?At Last? and played only his guitar. Going the unplugged route was a refreshing change of pace on the overproduced ?X Factor.?

Rene was at his?best on ?Young Homie? and confidently presided over a splashy production number.

Yet I?d give the edge again to Amaro, who plowed through an overproduced ?Listen? with startling intensity. She wasn?t going to let Cowell?s excesses drag her down.

The three are competing for a $5 million recording contract. The greatest praise was reserved for Amaro. Judge L.A. Reid said Amaro had delivered a $50 million performance, and Cowell predicted she would win based on the ?Listen? performance.

The results will be revealed in a two-hour finale that starts at 8 p.m. Thursday on Fox.

To fill up the time, ?The X Factor? in bringing in Justin ?I?m Everywhere? Bieber, Leona Lewis, Pitbull, Ne-Yo and ?others,? according to Fox. I hope the ?others? provide some surprises, because the singing competition won?t. Amaro won it. Easily.

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Dutch magazine calls Rihanna the n-word

Some insults are too terrible to ignore.

In a recent issue of the Dutch magazine Jackie, Rihanna was referred to as "the ultimate n**** b****" (as excerpted by ParlourMagazine.com). After readers expressed their outrage at the mag's racism and factual inaccuracies (it claimed Rihanna was Jamaican, she she is actually from Barbados), Jackie apologized on their Facebook page.

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But that wasn't enough for the "Man Down" songstress, 23. On Monday, she tweeted at Jackie's editor in chief, Eva Hoeke. "I hope you can read English, because your magazine is a poor representation of the evolution of human rights," she fumed. "I find you disrespectful, and rather desperate. You ran out of legit, civilized information to print!"

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"There are [thousands] of Dutch girls who would love to be recognized for their contributions to your country. You could have given them an article," she added. "Instead, you paid to print one degrading an entire race. That's your contribution to this world: to encourage segregation, to mislead the future leaders and to act in the past."?

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"On behalf of my race," the outspoken star wrote. "Here are my two words for you: F**K YOU!"

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J.R. Martinez and His Girlfriend Are Expecting (omg!)

Dancing with the Stars winner J.R. Martinez and his girlfriend Diana Gonzalez-Jones are expecting a baby next spring, People reports.

"We found out just last week it's a girl and we are over the moon," Martinez told the magazine. "Diana has a little baby bump now and it's the cutest thing ever. With the holidays coming up, this is the biggest and best gift we could get."

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Martinez, 28, met Gonzalez-Jones in 2008 on the set of his soap All My Children. The two began dating last year.?

"2011 has been full of a lot of surprises and opportunities and ultimately, a lot of blessings," Martinez added. "Diana and I were just asking ourselves, 'How is 2012 going to top 2011?' Well, we have our answer!"

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Comet defies death, brushes up to sun and lives

This handout image provided by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, taken, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, shows the Comet Lovejoy leaving the sun's corona which is several million degrees. A small comet survived what astronomers figured would be a sure death when it danced uncomfortably close to the broiling sun Thursday night. Comet Lovejoy, which was only discovered a couple of weeks ago, was supposed to melt as it came so close to the sun that the temperatures around it would hit several million degrees. Astronomers had tracked 2,000 other sun-grazing comets make the same suicidal trip. None had ever survived. (AP Photo/NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory)

This handout image provided by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, taken, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, shows the Comet Lovejoy leaving the sun's corona which is several million degrees. A small comet survived what astronomers figured would be a sure death when it danced uncomfortably close to the broiling sun Thursday night. Comet Lovejoy, which was only discovered a couple of weeks ago, was supposed to melt as it came so close to the sun that the temperatures around it would hit several million degrees. Astronomers had tracked 2,000 other sun-grazing comets make the same suicidal trip. None had ever survived. (AP Photo/NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory)

This handout image provided by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, taken, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, shows the Comet Lovejoy approaching the sun and interacting the with the sun's corona which is several million degrees. A small comet survived what astronomers figured would be a sure death when it danced uncomfortably close to the broiling sun Thursday night. Comet Lovejoy, which was only discovered a couple of weeks ago, was supposed to melt as it came so close to the sun that the temperatures around it would hit several million degrees. Astronomers had tracked 2,000 other sun-grazing comets make the same suicidal trip. None had ever survived. (AP Photo/NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A small comet survived what astronomers figured would be a sure death when it danced uncomfortably close to the broiling sun.

Comet Lovejoy, which was only discovered a couple of weeks ago, was supposed to melt Thursday night when it came close to where temperatures hit several million degrees. Astronomers had tracked 2,000 other sun-grazing comets make the same suicidal trip. None had ever survived.

But astronomers watching live with NASA telescopes first saw the sun's corona wiggle as Lovejoy went close to the sun. They were then shocked when a bright spot emerged on the sun's other side. Lovejoy lived.

"I was delighted when I saw it go into the sun and I was astounded when I saw something re-emerge," said U.S. Navy solar researcher Karl Battams.

Lovejoy didn't exactly come out of its hellish adventure unscathed. Only 10 percent of the comet ? which was probably millions of tons ? survived the encounter, said W. Dean Pesnell, project scientist for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which tracked Lovejoy's death-defying plunge.

And the comet lost something pretty important: its tail.

"It looks like the tail broke off and is stuck" in the sun's magnetic field, Pesnell said.

Comets circle the sun and sometimes get too close. Lovejoy came within 75,000 miles (121,000 kilometers) of the sun's surface, Battams said. For a small object often described as a dirty snowball comprised of ice and dust, that brush with the sun should have been fatal.

Astronomers say it probably didn't melt completely because the comet was larger than they thought.

The frozen comet was evaporating as it made the trip toward the sun, "just like you're sweating on a hot day," Pesnell said.

"It's like an ice cube going by a barbecue grill," he said.

Pesnell said the comet, although only discovered at the end of November by an Australian observer, probably is related to a comet that came by Earth on the way to the sun in 1106.

As Comet Lovejoy makes its big circle through the solar system, it will be another 800 or 900 years before it nears the sun again, astronomers say.

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Cornell enjoying the solo life with new live CD (AP)

NEW YORK ? Chris Cornell is just a man and his guitar, and for the time being, he absolutely loves it.

The former Audioslave and Soundgarden frontman has been wowing audiences on tour with his high octane, acoustic show. Last month, Cornell released "Songbook," a live collection of his solo performances that represents a wide swath of his own work, as well as some of his favorite cover tunes. They include Led Zeppelin's "Thank You" and John Lennon's "Imagine." Another popular track, Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," was not included on the album, but is performed regularly.

Although Cornell is relishing life as a solo artist, it won't last long: Cornell and the rest of Soundgarden are finishing up their new album, due out in the spring.

Cornell spoke to The Associated Press about his Soundgarden reunion, his "Songbook" album, and his contribution to grunge.

AP: Tell me about the solo tour and the live album.

Cornell: I did an acoustic tour called the "Songbook Tour" which started me doing a world tour of acoustic shows. Somewhere in the middle of it, it felt like a special thing. It has mostly to do with the room and the audience. I just had some really amazing experiences live and decided it would be great to pick some of those songs and put them out.

AP: And Soundgarden is getting back together?

Cornell: Being able to have Soundgarden back together again at this point in my life is a hugely fulfilling thing, particularly with the things that I started to end up doing in a solo career, with moving more toward kind of fulfilling that promise of doing acoustic music ... just the contrast of doing my solo career that way and at the same time being in Soundgarden and all of what Soundgarden is is a pretty fulfilling feeling.

AP: Why did the band break up?

Cornell: I don't think we were really very good at the big version of band business. We were really good at the small one. We were very self-sufficient in the beginning and as an indie band, we were very capable that way of everything. As it became big business, we, I think, we really had kind of a disdain for dealing with the day-to-day nuts and bolts of keeping that all together and being in charge of it. As we became less in charge of it as a group, I think it became less fun for us as well. ... It wasn't us at the helm necessarily anymore. That was the defining factor that caused us to be a part.

AP: Soundgarden and other Seattle bands were labeled as grunge, was that offensive?

Cornell: At the time it was. Not because of the actual name. It came from an organic place. But I didn't feel that Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and Nirvana never sounded much like each other. I feel we were all indie rock bands that were part of an evolution. Soundgarden was influential in bringing indie rock into a more commercially prominent environment. ... These days, I don't mind because it makes it easier to communicate in soundbites.

AP: In the Pearl Jam documentary ("Pearl Jam 20"), you made it seem as though there wasn't any competition among the Seattle bands. Was there?

Cornell: It was. I think it was competitive there, but maybe like a grown up version. You wanted to one up your buddies but they were still your buddies and if they came up with something that was great, you recognized it and you would use that as kind of a motivator. ... Sometimes was tension and sometimes like talking behind each other's backs, but that also was you were talking about a bunch of young guys that play rock music.

AP: What is it about growing up in Seattle that leads to such a vital music scene?

Cornell: Being a child growing up in Seattle, no one would ever guess that being from Seattle would mean that you had a good rock pedigree (laughs.) No one ever would have had that cross their mind.

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WATCH: Jessica Biel?s Brother Bashes Justin Timberlake

Is Jessica Biel's brother feuding with her on-again boyfriend Justin Timberlake? It sure looks that way in a bizarre new video posted to Justin Biel's Facebook page. Watch below to see Justin, a former employee of Timberlake's 901 Tequila company, blast his boss for not promoting the brand. (Warning: strong language.)

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We've Updated Our Android Rooting Guide with New Phones, Gingerbread-Friendly Rooting Methods [Updates]

If you've been itching to root your Android phone but have had trouble finding a reliable method, we've updated our guide to include new phones, notes for phones that have been updated to Gingerbread, and a completely new method for rooting stubborn Motorola devices.

We try to keep our rooting guide as current as possible, but unlike our other always up-to-date guides, it's very difficult to keep updated. There are a ton of Android phones out there, many of which have their own special rooting methods or notes, and since updates are pushed out on an individual basis, we can't possibly keep up with it all. We recently combed through the guide and fixed everything we could find that was out of date, much of which due to lots of new phones getting Gingerbread. We also added a new method for rooting Motorola phones like the Droid 3 and the Droid X, which no longer work with our trust SuperOneClick. Hit the link below to check out the updated guide.

As always, remember that this guide is a very community-driven project, since I am but one man and cannot research and test every phone out there. So, if you see a method that's still out of date or a phone that isn't on the list, please let me know by emailing me at whitson+rootingguide@lifehacker.com. If you can provide the current working root method, too, that would be extra awesome.

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Madonna inks Interscope deal, new album in January (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Madonna inked a deal with Interscope Records that will allow the label run by Jimmy Iovine to release the albums that were originally contracted to Live Nation Entertainment under an ambitious deal that appears to be shrinking in scope.

She plans to release her first album for Interscope next month, first studio album in five years.

A source familiar with the deal's terms said it could be worth between $20 million and $40 million for Madonna and Live Nation combined.

Madonna walked away from a 24-year relationship with Warner Music Group to sign a broad $120 million 10-year deal with Live Nation Entertainment that encompassed touring, ticketing, merchandise, digital assets and three albums.

At the time Live Nation executives had privately predicted its Madonna deal was a sign of a change in the struggling recorded music business that would eventually make traditional music labels irrelevant. It also signed hip-hop artist Jay-Z and rockers Nickelback to similar multi-year so-called '360 degree deals'.

But Live Nation's concert and ticketing business has been hit by the wider economic downturn and sources said the company needs major labels after all to get the marketing and distribution heft required to promote major artists like Madonna and Jay-Z.

Since Live Nation did the deal with Madonna in October 2007 its shares have fallen more than 60 percent. In Feb 2010 it closed its deal to merge with the world's large ticketing company Ticketmaster after a year-long regulatory inquiry.

Madonna is kicking off her Interscope relationship with an album set for release in the last week in January ahead of her upcoming halftime appearance at the Super Bowl on Feb 5. The 53-year old singer also plans to release her new movie 'W.E' on Feb 3.

(Reporting by Yinka Adegoke; Editing by Derek Caney)

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Katz, Bommarito et al., Legal Language Explorer ? Legal Informatics ...

Professor Dr. Daniel Martin Katz of Michigan State University College of Law, Michael J. Bommarito II of Computational Legal Studies, and colleagues, have launched Legal Language Explorer, a new, free, Web-based software application that performs Google N-gram word counts on U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

One of the notable features of Legal Language Explorer is that it analyzes full-text court decisions published free on the Web by Public.Resource.Org, as part of the Law.gov legal open government data movement. Katz and Bommarito have previously argued that making more full-text legal resources available free on the Web would enable researchers to build new software tools for processing those resources, and to generate new knowledge through innovative analysis of those resources. Legal Language Explorer exemplifies this kind of software innovation fostered by open legal data, while the authors? new paper, entitled Legal N-Grams? A Simple Approach to Track the ?Evolution? of Legal Language, illustrates the kinds of original research that may arise from analysis of such data.

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Soul singer Howard Tate dies in NJ apartment at 72 (AP)

TRENTON, N.J. ? Soul singer Howard Tate has died in his New Jersey apartment a decade after a career resurrection that followed years of tragedy and obscurity.

A spokesman for the Burlington County medical examiner says Tate was 72 when he died of natural causes Friday in Burlington City.

Tate was born in Macon, Ga., and grew up in Philadelphia.

In the late 1960s and early '70s he had three top 20 R&B hits, including "Get It While You Can," written by his longtime producer Jerry Ragovoy and made more famous by Janis Joplin.

But Tate fell into drug addiction and ended up homeless. Ragovoy believed he had died.

Tate made a comeback a decade ago ? again with Ragovoy producing. His 2003 release "Rediscovered" was nominated for a Grammy for best contemporary blues album.

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CMU Researchers One-Up Google Image Search And Photosynth With Visual Similarity Engine

To search these days is really an incredibly service-intensive process. Whereas before, to search something meant you had to through its drawers or folders by hand and inspect things by eye, now it means simply to produce a query and allow the vast computational engines of cloud services to exert themselves in parallel, sifting through petabytes of data and instantly presenting you with your results, ordered and arranged like snacks on a platter. We're spoiled, to say the least. It's not enough, however, to have computers blindly compare 1s and 0s; when humans search, they search intelligently. We've seen incredible leaps in the ability to do this, and in the area of visual search, we've seen some interesting and practical technologies in (respectively) Photosynth and Google's search by image function. And now some researchers at CMU have taken another step in the education of our tools. Their work, being presented at SIGGRAPH Asia, cleaves even closer to human visual cognition, though there's still a long way to go on that front.

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Croatia opposition set to win vote on economy ticket (Reuters)

ZAGREB (Reuters) ? Croatia's center-left opposition looks set to win Sunday's parliamentary election as voters bet the bloc can overhaul the country's floundering economy before it joins the European Union in 2013.

Led by the Social Democrats' (SDP) Zoran Milanovic, the opposition bloc known as Kukuriku ('cock-a-doodle-doo'), has pledged to boost growth in the former Yugoslav republic, create jobs, attract investment and maintain its credit rating.

According to an Ipsos Puls poll Wednesday, the bloc is forecast to win a majority of the 151 parliamentary seats, as voters show their frustration with growing poverty and unemployment under conservative Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor.

His HDZ party, which has dominated Croatian politics since its 1991 independence, is a distant second place in the polls.

"The two things we expect from the new government are to draft a budget that shows fiscal consolidation, otherwise we are threatened with a credit rating cut, and to make a resolute start of the necessary reforms," said Davor Majetic of the national employers' association.

Croatia, a popular tourist destination of 4.3 million people on the Adriatic, has seen its economy boom over the past decade on the back of foreign borrowing, but its growth ground to a halt when the global crisis hit in 2009.

"The real job only begins after the election. Please stay with us when the going gets tough in the next few months. I promise we will not let you down," Milanovic, 45, told supporters at the last rally in Zagreb Friday.

TURNAROUND PROMISED

The former diplomat told Reuters this week the state budget for 2012 would be in place by the end of March and should reflect "how serious we are" about turning the economy around and averting a credit downgrade.

"The rating agencies will give us a grace period of three months at most," he said. "But I believe we can do it."

Unemployment stood at 17.4 percent in October and thousands of employees work without pay. Lack of liquidity has paralyzed many local businesses and overall foreign debt has surpassed 100 percent of gross domestic product.

In power for the past eight years, HDZ has been mired in corruption scandals since its former leader and prime minister, Ivo Sanader, stepped down in 2009. A number of other senior HDZ officials have been arrested or questioned over alleged slush funds in the past year.

Polling stations open at 7 a.m. (01:00 a.m. EST) and close at 7 p.m., when exit polls will follow. An official, preliminary count is expected by midnight.

(Editing by Sophie Hares)

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