Microsoft Celebrates The Demise Of IE6 In The US

usaie6-1Internet Explorer 6 ? long a thorn in the side of many web developers because of its quirks, limited feature support, and cockroach-like resistance to extinction ?is finally on its last legs in the United States. And Microsoft is celebrating. In a post on the Windows Team blog, Roger Capriotti, Director of Internet Explorer Marketing, writes that Internet Explorer 6 is now down to less than 1% market share in the United States according to the most recent data from Net Applications. It's far from the first country to reach that milestone ??Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway have done it already ??but it also had far more Internet users to convert. Alongside the US, Microsoft also notes that the Czech Republic, Mexico, Ukraine, Portugal and the Philippines have all dipped below the 1% mark as well. And while it might sound a bit odd to hear about Microsoft celebrating the demise of software it built long ago, this isn't a change of heart for the tech giant ??the company has been doing its part to help IE6 die for quite a while.

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Occupy protest follows 123rd annual Rose Parade

Occupy protesters march along Colorado Boulevard during the 123rd Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. Several thousand Occupy protesters marched at the end of the Rose Parade in a pre-arranged demonstration. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Occupy protesters march along Colorado Boulevard during the 123rd Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. Several thousand Occupy protesters marched at the end of the Rose Parade in a pre-arranged demonstration. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Members of Wells Fargo theme float "Just Imagine..." moves along Orange Grove Boulevard during the 123rd Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

An Occupy protester with a sign marches along Colorado Boulevard during the 123rd Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. Several thousand Occupy protesters marched at the end of the Rose Parade in a pre-arranged demonstration. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Roy Rogers Jr., right, and his son Dustin Rogers wave as they sing "Happy Trails" aboard the RFD-TV float, in honor of the centenary of the cowboy star's birth, in the 123rd Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. The float won the Tournament Special trophy. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Wells Fargo theme float "Just Imagine..." moves along Orange Grove Boulevard during the 123rd Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

(AP) ? The 2012 Tournament of Roses brought its flowery floats and strutting bands to a worldwide audience Monday under clear blue skies, and in its wake came a scruffier parade ? hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters.

The 123rd annual New Year's Day event, with the theme "Just Imagine," flowed along downtown Pasadena to the cheers of hundreds of thousands of sidewalk spectators.

An estimated 40 million people viewed this year's procession of 44 floats, 16 marching bands and 22 equestrian troupes on U.S. television.

There were 10 arrests overnight, including four felonies, as thousands of spectators staked out viewing places along the route but that figure was down from the previous year, police said.

"Everything went very, very well. We're very pleased," police Lt. Phlunte Riddle said.

On the heels of the two-hour parade came anti-Wall Street protesters in a pre-arranged demonstration.

The thunder of the retreating marching bands mingled in the air with chants of "Banks got bailed out, we got sold out" as the Occupy the Rose Parade demonstrators retraced about 1.5 miles of the 5.5-mile parade route before veering off for a rally near City Hall.

They carried a 250-foot-long banner that said "We the People" to represent the U.S. Constitution. Some also held a 70-foot-long octopus made from recycled plastic bags that represented the tentacles of perceived corporate greed.

"This is about getting money out of politics," said Greg Stevens, a 38-year-old public health lecturer at the University of Southern California. "I support everything this movement is about."

As the protesters marched by, some Rose Parade spectators yelled "get a job" while others snapped photos and cheered.

"It's kind of crazy but kind of exciting," said Alana Olvick, 26, of Valencia, Calif.

The ragtag group of protesters made an interesting comparison to the slick, glittering Rose Parade offerings.

"It's contradicting the parade," Olvick said.

Behind the protesters came three truckloads of Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies in riot gear but no arrests were immediately made and the protest was noisy but peaceful.

Occupy the Rose Parade organizer Pete Thottam estimated the crowd of protesters at 5,000, although police said it was around 400.

Police, parade and city officials held numerous meetings with the protest organizers to ensure that they did not disrupt the parade.

Heightened security is nothing new to the parade, which took place on Jan. 2 this year because New Year's Day falls on a Sunday.

Police also stepped up measures after 9/11 and the Y2K threat, and have regularly dealt with protests through the years ranging from anti-Vietnam war demonstrators to Native Americans incensed at the choice of a descendant of Christopher Columbus as grand marshal.

This year's parade featured Iraq war veteran J.R. Martinez as grand marshal, the children and grandchildren of Roy Rogers on a float commemorating cowboys, and the parents of Christina-Taylor Green, the 9-year-old girl killed in the mass shooting that injured U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords last year, on the Donate Life float honoring organ donors. The Greens donated their daughter's corneas.

The 2012 parade was the first in 58 years without the famed Anheuser-Busch Clydesdale horses after the company withdrew in a change of marketing strategy.

Associated Press

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DoJ's Internet Gaming Green Light to States is 'No Big Deal for ...

Cash-strapped states grappling with big budget deficits may welcome a Justice Department opinion that they can offer online lotteries and gaming, but tribes greeted the news with a virtual shrug of the shoulders, according to Indian gaming experts.

The Justice Department released a legal opinion stating that the 1961 Wire Act prohibits online betting only for sporting events and contests, not lotteries. The opinion has caused a flurry of interest in states looking to bolster revenues in the face of a projected collective budget gap of $31.1 billion in 2012, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. In Connecticut, for example, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy welcomed the Justice Department news. Malloy has talked about the need to increase state gaming revenue especially with shrinking revenues from the state?s two signature Indian casinos ? the Mashantucket Pequots? Foxwoods Resort Casino and the Mohegan Tribe?s Mohegan Sun ? and the prospect of competition from increased gaming in nearby Massachusetts and Rhode Island. ?Obviously, gaming is an important part of our economy. It appears that [online] interstate and intrastate gaming is going to be allowed,? Malloy told the Hartford Courant. ?It appears that the only thing the Justice Department has ruled is off the table is sports betting, with the exception of horse betting. So with that one exclusion, everything is up for consideration by the states.?

Last year, Internet gaming reportedly generated more than $25 billion worldwide with $7 billion in wagers from U.S. bets on Internet sports, poker, and casino games with 10 million U.S. citizens playing poker online.

Melissa Riahei, general counsel of the online gaming firm U.S. Digital Gaming, told The Hill that the Justice Department ?has finally confirmed what we believed in Illinois to be true all along?that intrastate gambling is an issue that is within the sole discretion of a state to regulate, as it deems appropriate.? She said states can now ?comfortably? begin to implement Internet gaming programs to generate revenue to fund ?essential government services.?

That won?t be as easy or quick as Riahei implies, according to Indian gaming expert Joe Valandra. Before moving ahead, states have to pass legislation to allow Internet gaming and that may present some barriers, Valandra said.? ?I don?t think (the Justice Department opinion) is a big deal for the tribes because there?s only one state that has enabling legislation and that?s Nevada. Other states have talked about it, but haven?t passed anything. It has to go through a whole legislative cycle before any state besides Nevada will be able to offer intra-state online poker.?Valandra said. A citizen of the Sicangu Lakota, Valandra is principal owner and president of VAdvisors, LLC, chairman and CEO of Tehan Woglake, Inc., and former chief of staff of the National Indian Gaming Commission. ?It?s something I?m sure the tribes in general are looking at but I don?t think it has any particularly negative implication in and of itself.?

The IGRA allows for tribes to conduct whatever level of gaming a state conducts so if a state legislature approves online lottery sales and/or gaming then all tribes in that state will be able to offer Internet gaming as well. It?s not clear at this point what impact online gaming would have on brick-and-mortar casinos.

Another Indian gaming expert who spoke on condition of anonymity agreed with Riahei?s assessment that states already have the authority to conduct lotteries and gaming within their borders.?So the Justice Department opinion means nothing to the nations,? he said.?Congress already passed the law saying that states can have intra-state gaming ? the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act.? The law, known by its unwieldy acronym UIGEA, was passed in 2006 as part of the SAFE Port Act and essentially prohibits using wire transfers or credit cards for online gaming. But a paragraph of UIGEA confirms that neither states nor tribes are constricted by the act. ?No provision of this subchapter shall be construed as altering, limiting, or extending any Federal or State law or Tribal-State compact prohibiting, permitting, or regulating gambling within the United States.?

So why have the states waited so long to jump into online lottery ticket sales and other gaming? ?Because they?re afraid, especially after the poker prosecutions,? the source said, referring to the shut down of three of the largest illegal online poker sites last spring. ?And beyond that they have a lot of potential opposition within their own states. Even California and Illinois can?t get anything passed.?

Nevertheless, some tribes are preparing for the day when states will legalize online gaming by offering free gaming online now. The California Online Poker Association, a coalition of card rooms in the sunshine state led by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, recently launched CalShark.Com, an online free-play poker room to promote legalizing Internet gaming. And the Barona Band of Mission Indians started its own Barona Online Poker, reported The Sacramento Bee. The trend is catching on among tribes, according to a lobbyist for the California Tribal Business Alliance, which opposes the current gambling legislation in the state. ?It?s branding, creating customer loyalty, getting a database,? lobbyist David Quintana told The Sacramento Bee. ?Then when something happens to make it legal they can flip the switch from a free site to a paid site.?

The 13-page Justice Department opinion was dated September 20, but released on December 23 without explanation for the delay. The opinion responded to requests New York and Illinois in 2009, wanting to know if their proposals to sell lottery tickets online would violate the Wire Act. Enacted in 1961, long before the Internet existed, the Wire Act was part of a series of anti-racketeering laws aimed at stopping organized gambling. The Wire Act criminalizes anyone ?engaged in the business of betting or wagering (who) knowingly uses a wire communication facility for the transmission in interstate or foreign commerce of bets or wagers or information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers on any sporting event or contest, or for the transmission of a wire communication which entitles the recipient to receive money or credit as a result of bets or wagers, or for information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.?

The Justice Department?s Criminal Division also sought clarification of the statute. The department?s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), which issued the opinion, disagreed with the Criminal Division?s view that the Wire Act prohibited in-state lottery sales over the Internet. ?Having considered the Criminal Division?s views, as well as letters from New York and Illinois to the Criminal Division . . .? we conclude that interstate transmissions of wire communications that do not relate to a ?sporting event or contest? . . . fall outside of the reach of the Wire Act,? Justice Department?s Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole said in a Dec. 23 letter to William J. Murray Deputy Director and General Counsel New York State Division of the Lottery.

The opinion may have disappointed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and Senator Jon Kyl (R-Arizona), who also received copies on Friday, December 23, according to The Hill. Reid and Kyl wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder on July 14 with their concerns about ?the spread of efforts? to legalize intra-state Internet gambling and offer state-sponsored lotteries on the Internet. They said they believed that Justice?s ?longstanding position? was that ?all forms of Internet gambling are illegal ? including intra-state Internet gambling? and asked the department to reiterate that position or ?consult with Congress before finalizing a new position that would open the floodgates to internet gambling.?? Neither senator could be reached for comment.

Although Kyl is not noted for supporting Internet gaming, Reid is. At the National Indian Gaming Association?s (NIGA) mid-year meeting in October, panel moderator John Harte )San Felipe Pueblo)?of the Mapetsi Policy Group?said there?s a strong push to legalize Internet gaming at the federal level coming primarily from the Poker Players Alliance, the American Gaming Association,?from the gaming states of Nevada and New Jersey and from Reid, whose home state of Nevada would benefit from being the first to offer online gaming. ?Sen. Reid made a very hard push to include Internet legislation at the end of last year and he?s continued this year. He hasn?t been very up front about it. He hasn?t introduced legislation. Even last year when he was trying to attach legislation to the Omnibus bill he never came out with a formal bill. All he had was draft legislation? Harte said, calling it a ?shadow bill.?

So, although Reid may not be happy at the Justice Department?s opinion, it may play into his hand, Valandra said, because his goal is to pass federal legislation to legalize and regulate online gaming. ?There is one potential political implication and that is that with this (opinion) in hand Sen. Reid can say, ?Look, this is just like the Cabazon case. We?re going to have a bunch of different states and entities providing different kinds of services with different levels of regulations and that?s just unacceptable so we need to pass this federal legislation now.?? And I think that?s why he asked the question (in his July 14 letter) in the first place, ? ,?? Valandra said, referring to California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1987 that the states has no jurisdiction over Indian gaming on reservations. The next year, Congress passed the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in order to maintain some level of control over Indian gaming.

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FULTON COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES PROMOTE CERVICAL CANCER PREVENTION

According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, an estimated 410 Georgia women were newly diagnosed with cervical cancer in Georgia in 2011. ?January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month and Fulton County Health Services encourages all women to take control of their health by having annual cervical cancer screenings known as Pap tests and to make healthier lifestyle choices.??

If detected and treated early, cervical cancer is 90% curable.? In Georgia, it is estimated that 134 women die of cervical cancer each year. Symptoms of early stage cervical cancer or pre-cancer are not easily identified and often have no signs or symptoms. ?Women 21 and older need to have regular Pap tests to monitor cervical health.?

All women who have not had a hysterectomy are at risk of developing cervical cancer.? Many cervical cancer risk factors are linked to lifestyle behaviors.? Risks include: having multiple sexual partners; smoking or a history of smoking; early age of first sexual encounters, being overweight; not using barrier methods of birth control such as condoms; and not getting regular Pap tests.

Cervical cancer is the 12th most common cancer diagnosed in Georgia women.? Early detection through routine screening has reduced cervical cancer to less than one percent of cancer deaths in the United States.? All women under the age of 26 are encouraged to get the HPV vaccine for added protection against cervical cancer and other diseases such as genital warts.? Pelvic examinations, Pap tests and the HPV vaccine are available at health centers for eligible low-income and uninsured women through the BreasTEST & MORE prevention program.

Exams and Pap tests are available at the following Women?s Health Clinics:

Adamsville Health Center, 3699 Bakers Ferry Road, SW, Atlanta, GA 30330 (404) 699-4215

Center Hill Health Center, 3201 Atlanta Industrial Pkwy., SW, Atlanta, GA 30318 (404) 699-6370

Center for Health and Rehabilitation, 265 Boulevard, NE, 3rd Floor, Atlanta, GA 30312 (404) 730-5835

College Park Regional Health Center, 1920 John Wesley Ave., Atlanta, GA 30337 (404) 765-4155

Lakewood Health Center, 1853 Jonesboro Rd., SE, Atlanta, GA 30315 (404) 624-0626

North Fulton Regional Health Center, 3155 Royal Drive, Alpharetta, GA 30022 (404) 332-1876

For more information about health screenings and vaccinations, contact one of the Fulton County Women?s Health Clinics at the telephone numbers listed or log-on to www.fultoncountygahealth.org.

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Al-Qaida, Taliban seek Pakistani militants' help (AP)

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan ? Prominent al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban fighters asked Pakistani militants in a pair of rare meetings to set aside their differences and step up support for the battle against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, militant commanders said Monday.

The meetings were held in Pakistan's tribal region in November and December at the request of the Afghan Taliban's leadership council. They could indicate the militants are struggling in Afghanistan, or conversely, that they want to make sure they hit U.S. forces hard as the Americans accelerate their withdrawal this year. That could give the Taliban additional leverage in any peace negotiations.

"For God's sake, forget all your differences and give us fighters to boost the battle against America in Afghanistan," senior al-Qaida commander Abu Yahya al-Libi told Pakistani fighters at a meeting on Dec. 11, according to a militant who attended.

Pakistani militants have long been split over where they should focus their fighting. The Pakistani Taliban have concentrated on toppling their own government, although they have sent some fighters to Afghanistan. Other Pakistani groups based in the tribal region have almost exclusively directed their attacks against foreign forces in Afghanistan.

The Pakistani Taliban, an umbrella organization set up in 2007 to represent roughly 40 insurgent groups, has also been split by infighting over turf and leadership positions after commanders were killed by the Pakistani military and U.S. drone strikes.

The group has fractured into more than 100 smaller factions, a process that some analysts have suggested would take a toll on militants fighting in Afghanistan by making it increasingly difficult for them to find recruits, as well as restricting territory in Pakistan available to them.

Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud attended the two meetings on Nov. 27 in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan, and Dec. 11 in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told The Associated Press.

Other prominent Pakistani militant leaders who attended included Mehsud's deputy, Waliur Rehman, and two commanders who have focused on fighting in Afghanistan, Maulvi Nazir and Gul Bahadur, Ehsan said. Also there was Sirajuddin Haqqani, an Afghan militant based in North Waziristan who leads one of the most feared groups fighting in Afghanistan.

The Afghan Taliban fighters at the meetings included Zabiullah Mujahid, a well-known spokesman, and Maulvi Sangin, who claims to have custody of U.S. Army Pvt. Bowe R. Bergdahl, captured in Afghanistan in 2009.

The four Pakistani commanders and Haqqani agreed to form a council to resolve differences, said two Pakistani Taliban commanders who attended the meetings. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

A pamphlet handed out in North Waziristan over the past two days announced the formation of the five-member committee, saying it was established in consultation with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the name given to the country by the Taliban. It called on Pakistani militants to coordinate with each other and "avoid unwarranted killings and kidnappings for ransom."

"If any holy warrior is found involved in an unjustified murder or crime, he will be answerable to the committee and could face Islamic punishment," said the pamphlet, a copy of which was obtained by the AP.

Al-Libi, the al-Qaida commander, asked the Pakistani militants to provide additional fighters to the Afghan Taliban in March, when the snow melts from the passes connecting Pakistan and Afghanistan and the spring fighting season begins.

Ehsan, the Pakistani Taliban spokesman, said the militants agreed, but that did not mean the group would end its fight against the Pakistani government.

"We will continue our jihad against Pakistani security forces," Ehsan pledged.

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Abbot reported from Islamabad. Associated Press writers Asif Shahzad in Islamabad and Rasool Dawar in Peshawar, Pakistan, contributed to this report.

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One Year of Backpacking All Around the World In Just Five Minutes [Video]

Gizmodo reader Kien Lam just sent me this beautiful video that has made me extremely jealous: a time lapse video of his year backpacking all around the world. 343 days, 17 countries over five continents reduced to just five minutes. More »


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PressHerald: Portland mayor 'shocked' by cancer diagnosis, but heartened that it's not an aggressive form of the disease. http://t.co/uAJdLmVg

Loader Portland mayor 'shocked' by cancer diagnosis, but heartened that it's not an aggressive form of the disease.

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Gingrich Would Consider Palin for VP, Energy Secy

Newt Gingrich says he would consider Sarah Palin as a running mate if he wins the Republican nomination.

The former House speaker made the comment in response to a caller?s question during a teleconference that Ralph Reed?s Faith & Freedom Coalition hosted last week.

?If you?re fortunate enough to be nominated, would you consider having Sarah Palin as your running mate?? the caller said.

Gingrich responded, ?She is certainly one of the people you would look at. I am a great admirer of hers and she was a remarkable reform governor of Alaska, she?s somebody who I think brings a great deal to the possibility of helping in government and that would be one of the possibilities.?

Gingrich also noted that the Republican vice-presidential candidate from 2008 could be a candidate for a Cabinet slot. ?There are also some very important Cabinet positions that she could fill very, very well. I can?t imagine anybody who would do a better job of driving us to an energy solution than Gov. Palin, for example. Tell her that she would certainly be on the list of one of the people we would consider.?

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Immaculata pastor: No evidence coach molested boys, shared naked pictures

Immaculata pastor: No evidence coach molested boys, shared naked pictures

About 100 parishioners gathered at 9 a.m. at the Church of the Immaculate Conception to celebrate the first Mass on the first Sunday of the new year. Halfway into the ceremony murmurs spread

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Fans angry Cee Lo changed 'Imagine' lyrics

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Cee Lo Green performing "Imagine."

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

The?lyrics of John Lennon's "Imagine" are well-known to generations of fans, and when Cee Lo Green changed them while performing in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve, not everyone took it well.

Instead of singing?"Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too," Green instead sang,?"Nothing to kill or die for, and all religion's true."

The Huffington Post reported that Green then tweeted an explanation, saying ""Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that's all." That tweet has since been deleted from the singer's Twitter feed.

Comic Colin Quinn tweeted of the change, "Cee Lo covered Imagine but at least he 'cleaned it up a little.' I did the same thing when I changed NWA to 'N-word' WA."

Actor Michael McKean was even more succinct, using a play on the title of the cleaned-up version of Green's own hit. "Dear Cee Lo: Forget you," McKean tweeted.

Some Twitter users noted that they felt Green's version of the famed song was poorly sung. He was also criticized by some for singing the song, which?includes the lyrics "imagine no posessions" and "no need for greed or hunger" while?dressed in a full-length fur coat and jewels.

Others defended Green, with Twitter member J.W.J. posting "Nothing could be sillier than defending the sanctity of a pop song -- especially one as dull and schmaltzy as 'Imagine.'"

"Imagine" has been criticized before for the "no religion" line, but it holds a vaunted place in musical history. In 2004, Rolling Stone named it No.3 on the list of?the magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, calling it "an enduring hymn of solace and promise that has carried us through extreme grief, from the shock of Lennon's own death in 1980 to the unspeakable horror of Sept. 11."

Green wasn't the only modern star singing a?familiar tune as 2011 turned into 2012. Justin Bieber sang The Beatles' "Let It Be"?(with aid from Carlos Santana)?but appeared to keep to the actual lyrics.

Take a listen to Green's version of "Imagine"?(Green begins singing around the 4 minute mark) and tell us what you think on Facebook.

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