North Florida cruises past Lipscomb 82-61

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Parker Smith scored 20 points, including five 3-pointers, and North Florida defeated Lipscomb 82-61 on Wednesday night.

The win was the Ospreys seventh at home this season, the most since they moved up to Division I in 2005.

Jimmy Williams added 15 points, Charles McRoy had 12 and Travis Wallace 10 for North Florida (8-8, 2-1 Atlantic Sun Conference), which won for the third time in the past four meetings in the series.

North Florida coasted after breaking a 6-6 tie with a 23-4 run on its way to a 47-28 halftime lead. The Ospreys led by as many as 30 points in the second half and shot 59.6 percent (34 of 57) from the field.

Jordan Burgason scored 19 points, Austin Glenn added 12 and Zavion Williams added 11 for Lispcomb (7-9, 2-2), which shot only 38.7 percent (24 of 62).

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/04/2574299/north-florida-cruises-past-lipscomb.html

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NBA superstar LeBron James is engaged to marry long-time girlfriend Savannah Brinson

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NBA superstar LeBron James is engaged to marry long-time girlfriend Savannah Brinson, who accepted his proposal at a lavish New Year's Eve dinner party in Miami.

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Anti-racism group slams Liverpool's Suarez backing

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updated 12:14 p.m. ET Jan. 1, 2012

LONDON (AP) -Liverpool's global reputation is being sullied as the club maintains its backing of Luis Suarez despite his suspension for racially abusing an opponent, a campaign group against racism in football said on Sunday.

The Uruguay striker was banned for eight matches last month after being found guilty of racially insulting Manchester United's Patrice Evra during a league match at Anfield on Oct. 15.

Following the release of an independent panel's report into the incident, Liverpool is considering whether to launch an appeal but has been unwavering in its support of Suarez, with the whole squad wearing T-shirts with the player's face on them before a recent league match.

"We would call on the club to think again about their public campaign to dispute the charges and contest the principles involved in the case," said Piara Powar, executive director of Football Against Racism in Europe.

"As a club with a good international standing, the vehemence of their campaign is unquestionably causing them reputational harm."

Liverpool, which has until Jan. 13 to make an appeal, has previously questioned Evra's reliability but the 115-page judgment found the France defender was a "credible witness" and that Suarez's evidence was unreliable.

Suarez called Evra, who is a black player, "negro" seven times during the on-field confrontation, according to the report.

With racism in football a hot topic in Britain - England captain John Terry faces criminal charges over allegations of having directed a racial slur at an opponent in a separate incident - Powar believes the issue is finally being dealt with.

"It appears the FA have taken their time to initiate a process that was both fair in its implementation of football rules, and in accordance with the principles of British justice," Powar said.

"Racial abuse between players on the field of play has been an unspoken taboo for too long, an area that has been unsatisfactorily dealt with by English football despite many cases over the past 10 years."

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Congratulations to Mike Zahn and the operating engineers for teaming up with Mayor Mike Houston and the city to tear down these eyesores that haunt our city.

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Haiti leader paves way for new elections (AP)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti ? Haitian President Michel Martelly fired members of a nine-person electoral council to make way for legislative and local elections planned for next year, a government official said Friday.

Presidential adviser Damian Merlo said the leader removed the council members through a decree that will allow him to begin the process of naming new members to the provisional electoral council who will then pick a date for the vote.

"This is the first step to ensure free and fair elections," Merlo said by telephone.

According to precedent, the new body will likely be composed of allies.

The earlier provisional electoral council, whose members were appointed by former President Rene Preval, oversaw an election that was marred with fraud and irregularities and almost cost Martelly the presidency.

The former pop star was initially barred from a runoff election, a decision that sparked nearly three days of rioting that shut down the capital.

The Organization of American States determined those results were flawed, and the electoral council dropped a government-backed candidate from the runoff to make room for Martelly.

The upcoming elections will prove critical to the Martelly administration as it tries to jump start reconstruction efforts following a massive earthquake two years ago. Martelly's Farmers' Response Party holds no seats in the 30-member Senate and only three in the 99-member Chamber of Deputies.

One third of the Senate will be up for grabs in the planned elections along with mayoral posts for cities nationwide.

The decree came the same day that Martelly's press office issued a statement saying the "former" members were "invited to submit" to election officials "state assets" still in their possession.

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Verizon: Future 4G LTE Outages Won't Affect the Whole Country (Mashable)

Verizon's been having a lousy month. On top of the PR disaster of introducing a new $2 service fee for paying bills online, the wireless carrier with the reputation for having the best service suffered no less than three outages for its ultra-fast 4G LTE data network. Now the company has finally come forward and explained itself. Each of the outages was caused by an separate bug, Verizon says, though none as serious as the one that took down the entire network for an extended period in April. Now Verizon says it's taking a key step to prevent nationwide LTE outages: geo-segmentation. By partitioning the network by area, the carrier can isolate problems before they spread and take down the whole system.

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The April ?berbug was caused by a bug in the very core of the network, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Verizon vice president of network engineering Mike Haberman revealed to GigaOm. All of this month's outages also involved issues with the IMS, though none were quite as fundamental to the system's operation as the one in April.

The first outage this month happened on Dec. 7 when an IMS backup database failed. The second, on Dec. 20, was caused by a key network element not responding properly. And for the third, which occurred this past Wednesday, two network elements weren't communicating right.

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Although customers' phones should automatically switch to 3G signals when LTE isn't functioning, that didn't happen for some customers. That was because of the nature of an IMS failure -- the network is still transmitting radio signals just fine, it just can't recognize devices running on it. Verizon was eventually able to force those phones to switch to 3G, but not right away.

Although Verizon says it take outages seriously, it makes no guarantees that more of them won't occur. Verizon's 4G LTE network is the world's largest, and the carrier says these kind of outages are simply par for the course when you're pioneering a next-generation wireless network. LTE is a generational shift in data networking technology, and Verizon was the first carrier to deploy it in the United States. AT&T has since followed with its own LTE network, and Sprint plans to debut the tech in 2012.

Were you affected by Verizon's disabled LTE service? Has it changed your thoughts on the carrier in any way? Let us know in the comments.

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Forecast for 2012: Channel 4 News technology writer on Facebook's IPO, Google+ and the legacy of Steve Jobs

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg with girlfriend Priscilla Chan. Photograph: Facebook

Benjamin Cohen, the Channel 4 News technology correspondent, reflects on a pivotal year for tech firms and looks ahead to the year when Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook will grow up.

? What will 2011 be remembered for?
The death of Steve Jobs. Love Apple or loathe it, he did manage to revolutionise a number of industries through an uncanny knack of perfect timing and design, as well as a knack of locking customers into closed, propitiatory systems. The challenge for Apple now is to continue his product roadmap, properly into televisions and beyond that create new products that in that makes us pay a little bit more for things we didn't know we needed, but then suddenly can't imagine living without.

I think 2011 was also the year that Google proved it understands people, not just engineering with the launch of Google+. It remains to be seen whether it will prove to be a long term rival to Facebook. That's a hard feat to achieve but it tapped into a growing public unease about how much is being shared online and to whom. The innovations it pioneered have in a lot of ways already been taken up by Facebook.

I'll leave it to others to talk about phone hacking.

? What was your best and worst moment
On a personal basis, it was the fascinating trip to Microsoft's HQ in Redmond to see behind the scenes at their research labs, touching, waving and talking to the future. It provided a glimpse of how a company too easily written off by some in the tech press continues to be gazing at the future, working on the sort of innovations that will shape our digital lives in the years to come.

My worst tech moment was discovering that my converted new iPhone 4S and its key feature isn't up to much, in the UK at least. ITN gave me mine a few weeks after I'd been playing with my American friends' phones in the US. Location-based services don't work here and in a sense, it takes away from the clever stuff that phone could do for you.

? What's your hot tip for 2012?
Facebook going public. It will probably be the biggest flotation ever in US corporate history and the success of that stock will determine the future market for internet investments around the world. When it does float, it will complete its transformation into a proper, grown-up company. Mark Zuckerberg, already responsible for 850 million peoples' private information, will also in a funny way have to shoulder the future property of millions of Americans' pension funds. If Facebook can't continue its revenue growth, as such a large player, it will bring into question the future performance of all of the most recent generation of internet-based listed companies.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2011/dec/30/channel4news-bejamin-cohen

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