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Tripoli - Hundreds of former Libyan rebels who helped topple Muammar Gaddafi this year have started filling out applications for jobs with the new government.

Interior Minister Fawzy Abdul-Ali says it is the first step towards disarming the former rebels. They will be asked to turn in their weapons after training and working with the government.

He says former rebels will have until the end of January 2012 to apply for governments posts through local military councils distributing the applications.

On Wednesday, hundreds of former rebels in various cities began filling out the applications. They ask applicants what brigade they belong to, what their rank was during the uprising and the serial numbers of the weapons they possess.

Disarming former rebel forces is a major challenge facing Libya's new rulers. - Sapa-AP

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MEXICO CITY ? Medical officials say five recovering drug addicts died and dozens of others were sickened by soy sausage served for Christmas dinner at a rehabilitation center in western Mexico.

Authorities were investigating whether the poisoning at the center in the city of Guadalajara was accidental or intentional. Drug cartels have taken over rehabilitation centers in parts of Mexico, forcibly recruiting addicts as hit men and smugglers. The invasions have led to mass shootings at the centers that have left dozens dead.

Alhy Daniel Nunez is a spokesman for the Red Cross in the western state of Jalisco, where Guadalajara is located. He said Monday that 37 people remained hospitalized, three of them in serious condition.

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SALT LAKE CITY ? When winter comes to Utah and atmospheric conditions trap a soup of pollutants close to the ground, doctors say it turns every resident in the Salt Lake basin into the equivalent of a cigarette smoker.

For days or weeks at a time, an inversion layer in which high pressure systems can trap a roughly 1,300-foot-thick layer of cold air ? and the pollutants that build up inside it ? settles over the basin, leaving some people coughing and wheezing.

"There's no safe level of particulate matter you can breathe," said Salt Lake City anesthesiologist Cris Cowley, who is among a number of Utah doctors raising the alarm over some of the nation's worst wintertime air.

The doctors and a lobby group of Utah mothers are blaming a company that mines nearly a mile deep in the largest open pit in the world for contributing one-third of Salt Lake County's pollution. The rest is from tailpipe and other emissions.

They have filed a lawsuit against Kennecott Utah Copper, accusing it of violating the U.S. Clean Air Act. The company operates with the consent of state regulators who enforce the federal law.

The company is the No. 1 industrial air polluter along Utah's heavily populated 120-mile Wasatch Front and operates heavy trucks and power and smelter plants. It says the claims are "without merit."

Kennecott cites the blessing of Utah regulators for expanded operations and new controls that hold emissions steady.

Utah's chief air regulator, however, acknowledged Kennecott is technically violating a 1994 plan adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that limited the company to hauling 150 million tons of ore a year out of the Bingham Canyon Mine.

Utah has twice allowed the company to exceed that limit, most recently to 260 million tons, as the company moves to expand a mine in the mountains west of Salt Lake City. In each case, Utah sought EPA's consent, but the EPA didn't take any action.

The lawsuit could force EPA's hand, said Bryce Bird, director of the Utah Division of Air Quality.

Bird said the old limit would defeat changes Kennecott made to curb dust and emissions since 1994.

The EPA rules that set production instead of emissions limits puts many companies in a similarly "awkward position" and undermines confidence in Utah's air pollution permits, Bird said.

Kennecott disputes the doctors' figure and says it contributes about 16 percent of Salt Lake County's overall emissions.

An examination by The Associated Press of emissions figures provided by Kennecott to state regulators shows the company's share of pollutants ranges from 65 percent of Salt Lake County's sulfur dioxide emissions to 18 percent of its particulates.

Particulates are tiny flecks of dust that doctors say can attract heavy metals. The particulates are ingested through the nose and lungs and can become lodged in brain tissue. They are especially damaging to the development of children.

Medical research has found that the first few minutes of exposure to air pollution does the most damage, with many people's bodies able to react and fight off longer bouts of exposure, the doctors said.

Yet exposure to dust, soot and gaseous chemicals constricts vessels and send blood pressure soaring, making some people's hearts flutter and spiking emergency hospital visits while putting fetuses in the womb at risk, the doctors say.

"Rio Tinto is making our blood vessels act as if they were seven years older," said Dr. Claron Alldredge, an opthamologist at LDS Hospital. "One year after returning to Utah after practicing elsewhere, I began to have high blood pressure myself."

Kennecott is a subsidiary of the international mining conglomerate Rio Tinto, which posts billions of dollars of profit a year and can afford to clean up its act, said Cherise Udell, founder of Utah Moms for Clean Air.

"This is not an attempt to shut down their mine," she said.

Kennecott said its takes improving air quality seriously, and Bird noted that while Kennecott is Salt Lake County's largest industrial source of air pollution, it has accomplished the largest reductions through better emissions controls.

"Kennecott has and continues to operate within the parameters of its air permits and is consistently in compliance with U.S. EPA and Utah Division of Air Quality regulations, which are based on strict standards for protecting human health," the company said.

The doctors are members of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, which joined Udell's group in the lawsuit filed at Salt Lake City's federal court last week by lawyers for WildEarth Guardians of Santa Fe, N.M.

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FRANKFURT, Germany ? The European Central Bank held its bond purchases to a bare euro19 million ($24.8 million) this week.

The scant amount indicates that the bank has for now almost ceased the controversial program which has helped keep borrowing costs down for Italy and Spain.

It bought a minimal euro3.36 million last week. That makes two weeks of near-negligible purchases, following euro635 million the week ending Dec. 9 and euro3.66 billion the week ending Dec. 2.

The program has helped keep Italy and Spain from financial disaster from high borrowing costs. But the ECB says it is of limited amount and duration and that it is up to governments to cut their deficits and not wait for a central bank bailout.

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This gives new meaning to the phrase "Picture to Burn" ... or something.

Procter & Gamble recently pulled a CoverGirl print ad featuring singer Taylor Swift in the UK because it was among a group of ads cited by a watchdog for excessive Photoshop use. Yes, there is seriously a consumer watchdog group for that.

Take a look at the yanked Taylor Swift image below:

The National Advertising Division (NAD), the ad industry's self-regulatory body created to review factual claims in national advertisements, issued a statement saying:

"It has determined that [P&G] acted properly in discontinuing superior performance claims made in print advertising for its CoverGirl NatureLuxe Mousse Mascara."

Specifically, the NAD asked P&G to verify that the mascara has two times more volume vs. bare lashes and is 20 percent lighter than the most expensive mascara.

The watchdog also criticized "implied messages" - that consumers "would get lashes like those depicted in the advertisement and that the lashes depicted in the photograph were achieved solely by using [the mascara] ... without post-production enhancement."

While this is a bit silly, so is retouching Taylor Swift in the first place.

She's kind of almost perfect as is, are we wrong? Love you girl.

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Dutch Cabinet says it will tighten rules on Muslim, Jewish animal slaughter, won't impose ban

AMSTERDAM (AP) ? The Dutch government said Wednesday it will study new standards for ritual slaughter to satisfy animal rights activists without infringing on ancient Jewish and Muslim traditions, and will not ban the practice outright.

The announcement followed a political deadlock in the Dutch parliament. By a wide margin, the lower house approved a ban earlier this year on the traditional method of cutting the animal's throat without stunning it first. After an outcry that it would violate religious freedoms, support evaporated when the bill was sent to the upper house this month for approval.

Undersecretary for Agriculture Henk Bleker's office said a commission will draw up standards on how long animals can remain conscious and on educating slaughterers. It will include registration and quality requirements for slaughterhouses.

A small animal rights party proposed the ban and it won backing from a large anti-Islam political party and a solid majority of Dutch voters, leading to easy passage in Parliament's Second Chamber.

But Christian political parties opposed it from the start out of concern for religious minorities. After protests from Jewish and Muslim groups, both local and international, centrist parties on the left and right reversed their position in the Senate. They said reforms to slaughtering practices are a higher priority than the relatively small number of religious slaughters.

Muslims, mostly immigrants from Turkey and Morocco, represent about 1 million of the 16 million Dutch population. The once-strong Jewish community numbers around 50,000 after most were deported and killed by the Nazis during World War II.

In both religions, dietary law prescribes that animals' throats be cut swiftly with a razor-sharp knife while they are still conscious, so that they bleed to death quickly.

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NC parent unhappy that students were able to take Bibles home from school

WEAVERVILLE, N.C. (AP) ? A Buncombe County mother was unhappy when her son came home from his fifth-grade class at North Windy Ridge intermediate school with a Bible. The state's largest civil liberties group says the school overstepped its bounds.

Ginger Strivelli says her son came home from North Windy Ridge school in Weaverville on Monday with a Bible he got from a box left by the Gideons International group. Strivelli, a pagan, doesn't think the school should offer any religious material to students.

"It's totally inappropriate they think they can get away with this," she said. "It's absolutely unbelievable and their attitude is ridiculous."

School officials contend they did nothing wrong. Principal Jackie Byerly said she got approval from the superintendent after the Gideons asked to leave Bibles at the school.

Students weren't required to take Bibles, county schools spokeswoman Jan Blunt said. They were told by teachers that the books were available in a box in the main office.

"They don't talk with students," Blunt said, referring to the Gideons. "They're not allowed to make a presentation. They quite literally drop off a box and leave them there. They are not handed out at all."

That would be fine at a high school, according to Katy Parker, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation.

Parker said Tuesday that a 1998 federal court decision in a West Virginia case called Peck vs. Upshur County Board of Education determined that religious literature can be left for high school students, but not at elementary schools.

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Board says Boston Archdiocese must pay property taxes on closed church in Scituate

SCITUATE, Mass. (AP) ? The state appellate tax board says the town of Scituate doesn't have to refund $140,000 in property taxes the Boston Archdiocese has paid on a closed Roman Catholic church.

The archdiocese closed St. Frances X. Cabrini church in 2004, but it's been occupied since by parishioners protesting the closing, who also hold regular church services.

The archdiocese argued the property should retain the tax-exempt status it had as part of the diocese, as long as it's not being used for nonreligious purposes.

But the board last week said the protesters' main purpose "to occupy and guard" the church wasn't a charitable purpose, and the property didn't qualify for tax-exempt status.

A spokesman for the archdiocese said it's reviewing the ruling and it was premature to comment on its next steps.

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Travis Air Force Base says Nativity scene, menorah don't violate troops' religious freedom

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) ? Lawyers for Travis Air Force Base in Northern California have determined that including a Nativity scene and a menorah in the base's holiday display does not violate the troops' religious freedom.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation wrote to base authorities last week, on behalf of 121 troops at the base, saying the two displays amounted to a military endorsement of religions. It asked that the menorah and Nativity scene be moved to a nearby chapel.

The Air Force judge advocate general decided Saturday that the displays at the Solano County base were part of a broader, secular holiday display.

A base spokesman said there are 24 holiday displays at Travis sponsored by squadrons, including images of Santa Claus, Christmas trees and airplanes.

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In this July 27, 2011 photo, the sun shines over a Range Resources well site in Washington, Pa. The company is one of many drilling into the Marcellus Shale layer deep underground and "fracking" the area to release natural gas. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

In this July 27, 2011 photo, Range Resources workers stand near the rig that drills into the shale at a well site in Washington, Pa. The company is one of many drilling and "fracking" in the area to release natural gas. The three different diameters of pipe at bottom are the casing tubings that each go inside the other to line the well. Experts say Marcellus Shale natural gas production is expected to keep rising in 2012, yet landowners may find that signing lease deals isn't as easy as in years past. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

In this July 27, 2011 photo, Range Resources site manager Don Robinson stands near the well head by the drill that goes into the shale at a well site in Washington, Pa. The company is one of many drilling and "fracking" in the area to release natural gas. Experts say Marcellus Shale natural gas production is expected to keep rising in 2012, yet landowners may find that signing lease deals isn't as easy as in years past. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

In this July 27, 2011 photo, Range Resources site manager Don Robinson stands with the rods that connect to drill into the shale at a well site in Washington, Pa. The company is one of many drilling and "fracking" in the area to release natural gas. Experts say Marcellus Shale natural gas production is expected to keep rising in 2012, yet landowners may find that signing lease deals isn't as easy as in years past. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Marcellus Shale natural gas production is expected to keep rising in 2012, yet landowners may find that signing lease deals isn't as easy as in years past.

Though still in its early stages, industry experts say that the business of Marcellus Shale gas drilling is starting to change, as new forces emerge.

Among them: lawmakers putting regulations in place that will create more drilling opportunities in shale states other than Pennsylvania; Shell's coming decision on where to build a massive processing plant; and the great unknown, the market prices for natural gas.

Drillers have swarmed in recent years to the lucrative Marcellus Shale region primarily beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio. Pennsylvania is the center of activity, with more than 3,000 wells drilled in the past three years and thousands more planned. Critics say a drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, could poison water supplies, while the natural-gas industry says it's been used safely for decades.

2012 could lessen the spotlight on Pennsylvania. Other states are moving toward updating laws to regulate drilling, and the industry is starting to explore a new gas resource ? the Utica shale, which lies under the Marcellus formation.

"New York will see a regulatory package; I think West Virginia will probably be in a situation where there's more certainty," said Kathryn Klaber, president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, an industry group based in Pennsylvania.

There's one variable that impacts the industry everywhere it operates, Klaber said.

The biggest unpredictable for 2012 is wholesale natural gas prices, she said. They've stayed low for a few years, and that's helped boost demand from some areas, such as gas-fired electric power plants. But with more and more gas entering the market, no one knows just where the balance of supply and demand will lead.

If prices drop further, drilling could slow. But if they rise, the boom could speed up even more.

Klaber said it will become clearer next year just how economically viable the Utica Shale is. Some companies have reported promising results from wells in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.

"The wells drilled to date have made a lot of folks optimistic. But I think it's still too early to tell how the Utica will play out," she said.

Officials from three of the shale states ? Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia ? are all competing to land the a huge new multibillion-dollar Shell Oil Co. petrochemical processing plant. Known as cracker plants in the industry, such plants take a liquid form of natural gas and turn it into other commercial compounds, such as plastics.

Shell expects to choose a location for the plant soon and announce the decision early in January, spokeswoman Kelly op de Weegh told The Associated Press.

Another coming change will be in leases for land to drill on, experts said.

The past few years saw what seemed at times to be a mad rush by the industry to persuade property owners to sign deals. But now many of the big drilling companies have tens of thousands of acres under lease, said Brian Pitell, a representative for the National Association of Royalty Owners in northwestern Pennsylvania.

"The land grab, like the gold rush, is kind of over. You don't have two, three or four different companies" all competing to offer leases in the same region, he said.

That means landowners have fewer options, and less power to demand certain lease terms.

"There's a muting, to some degree, of competition," Pitell said. Sometimes it's the fine print that changes, he said, noting that one recent lease from a big company removed the landowner's right to audit royalty statement payments.

And if a landowner doesn't like that?

"If you think you're just going to hold out, that may not work out all that well for you," Pitell said.

That's because when many surrounding landowners have already signed leases with one company, others will have little use for the remaining isolated parcels.

But Pennsylvania still has some significant advantages in the marketplace, Pitell added. While it's true that companies could move some drilling operations to New York, West Virginia or Ohio, they'd have to build up infrastructure there to do so.

Pennsylvania has significant infrastructure in place now, in terms of well pads and a growing network of pipelines and processing stations.

"Once they have that infrastructure in place, they want to feed that infrastructure," Pitell said of drilling companies, noting that to justify moving a drilling rig "the geology is going to have to prove that it makes sense for them to potentially abandon development in a given area, and move to New York" or some other state.

Klaber agreed that the growth of pipeline networks and mergers in that industry will create more ways to deliver gas to customers. But she noted that some widely discussed possibilities, such as the Shell plant, will take years to permit and build.

But there's no question the quantity of gas produced from the Marcellus is increasing rapidly. In 2010, the industry estimated Marcellus production to be the equivalent of 1.3 billion cubic feet per day. By the end of 2012 it is projected to be more than 6 billion cubic feet per day.

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Influential -- yet controversial -- writer, journalist and atheist Christopher Hitchens passed away from pneumonia on Dec. 15, according to news reports. The pneumonia was a complication of esophageal cancer, which he was diagnosed with last June.

BBC News reported that Hitchens, 62, had documented his experience with his diagnosis and health in a column in Vanity Fair magazine in the time following his diagnosis.

"I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient," BBC News reported that he wrote in an August 2010 Vanity Fair essay.

Esophageal cancer occurs in the esophagus, the tube that carries food to the stomach. According to Everyday Health, pneumonia can be a complication of esophageal cancer "because a tumor is blocking the esophagus and forcing food and liquid down the windpipe," thereby leading to aspiration pneumonia, which is lung infection due to breathing in of a foreign substance.

Esophageal cancer is more common in men than in women, and is less prevalent in the United States than in other parts of the world, like in some Asian and African countries, according to the Mayo Clinic.

While rare, esophageal cancer is also dedly. So far this year, there have been 16,980 new cases of esophageal cancer in the united States, and 14,710 deaths from the cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute. The cancer is often not curable, the A.D.A.M. medical encyclopedia reported.

There are two main types of esophageal cancer: squamous cell carcinoma, which is cancer that starts in the flat cells that line the esophagus and is linked with smoking and alcohol; and adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, which starts in cells that create and release mucus and other bodily fluid, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus is the most common kind of esophageal cancer in the U.S., and most often affects white men, according to the Mayo Clinic. Squamous cell carcinoma, on the other hand, is the most prevalent esophageal cancer around the world.

Risk of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus can be increased by Barrett's esophagus, which is a complication of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Being a man, being obese and smoking can also increase the risk for this form of esophageal cancer, according to the A.D.A.M. medical encyclopedia.

Certain factors and behaviors can increase the risk of esophageal cancer, including drinking alcohol, chewing tobacco, having bile reflux, drinking extremely hot liquids, having gastroesophageal reflux disease, being obese, having Barrett's esophagus, smoking, and having radiation treatments to the area, the Mayo Clinic reported. Blisstree reported that Hitchens smoked and drank alcohol in his lifetime (he quit smoking in 2007).

Symptoms of esophageal cancer include problems swallowing, fatigue, chest pain, weight loss, heartburn or indigestion and coughing.

Aside from pneumonia, other complications from esophageal cancer include bleeding, weight loss, coughing and blocking of the esophagus, the Mayo Clinic reported.

Imaging tests, including MRI, CT and PET scans, are often used to diagnose esophageal cancer. The treatment of choice is surgery if the cancer has not yet spread, though chemotherapy and radiation are also options in lieu of or in addition to surgery, according to the A.D.A.M. medical encyclopedia.

Earlier this year, baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew died of esophageal cancer at age 74. The former Minnesota Twins baseball player died six months after announcing his cancer diagnosis, ESPN reported.

And Bruce Dal Canton, a former baseball player with the Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates, died at age 66 in 2008 from esophageal cancer, ESPN reported.

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the major record labels have reached a tentative agreement on a new, three-year sound recording contract, the union said Thursday.

The new contract includes base rate wage increases of 2 percent each year of the contract. It also increases the amount employers contribute to health and retirement funds on royalty income by 1 percent over the life of the agreement, expands performers' participation in revenue from the sale of digital downloads and establishes a new payment structure for new areas of low-budget licenses.

The current contract expires December 31.

AFTRA negotiators and representatives from UMG, Sony, Warner, EMI and Disney began talks August 15. Negotiations became testy: In August, AFTRA's national board gave negotiators authorization to strike.

After Wednesday's all-day meeting, the two sides came to an agreement that AFTRA will now send its members for ratification. If approved, the new contract will run through December 31, 2014.

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In this film publicity image released by The Weinstein Company, Jean Dujardin portrays George Valentin in "The Artist." Dujardin was nominated Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 for a Golden Globe award for best actor in a comedy or musical film. The Golden Globes will be presented Jan. 15 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, televised live by NBC and hosted by Ricky Gervais. (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company)

In this film publicity image released by The Weinstein Company, Jean Dujardin portrays George Valentin, left, and Berenice Bejo portrays Peppy Miller in a scene from "The Artist." (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company)

Presenter Woody Harrelson gives his new movie "Rampart" a plug onstage during nominations for the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Golden Globe Awards will be held on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? Silent film is taking over Hollywood's awards scene. The silent-era tale "The Artist" heads the Golden Globes with six nominations, among them best comedy or musical, and acting honors for its French stars, Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo.

Tied for second-place with five nominations Thursday are the 1960s racial tale "The Help" and George Clooney's Hawaiian family story "The Descendants." Both films are up for best drama, while Clooney was nominated for best dramatic actor and "The Help" earned acting slots for Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain.

Also competing for best drama: Martin Scorsese's Paris adventure "Hugo"; Clooney's political thriller "The Ides of March"; Brad Pitt's baseball chronicle "Moneyball"; and Steven Spielberg's World War I epic "War Horse."

Joining "The Artist" in the best musical or comedy category are: the cancer story "50/50"; Kristen Wiig's wedding romp "Bridesmaids"; Woody Allen's romantic fantasy "Midnight in Paris"; and Michelle Williams' Marilyn Monroe tale "My Week With Marilyn."

Dujardin, who won the best-actor prize for "The Artist" in its premiere at last May's Cannes Film Festival, was nominated for best actor in a musical or comedy. He plays a silent-film star whose career nosedives as talking pictures take over in the late 1920s in "The Artist," which has virtually no spoken dialogue and is shot in the boxy, black-and-white format of the silent era.

The actor called his nomination an "incredible gift."

"To be recognized alongside such brilliant actors is an honor," Dujardin said. "The Golden Globe nomination for 'The Artist' has left me speechless!"

"The Artist" also picked up a supporting actress honor for Bejo as a rising star of the sound era. Filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius earned directing and screenplay nominations, which also is up for best musical score.

Clooney has three nominations. Besides best dramatic actor as a neglectful dad tending his daughters in "The Descendants," he's up for directing and screenplay for "The Ides of March." For the acting prize, Clooney will compete against his "Ides" star Ryan Gosling, who plays a presidential candidate's aide. Gosling had a second nomination for best musical or comedy actor as a ladies man in the romance "Crazy, Stupid, Love."

Glenn Close is also a dual contender, as best dramatic actress as a woman masquerading as a male butler in the Irish drama "Albert Nobbs" and for best song for writing the lyrics to "Lay Your Head Down," the film's theme tune.

Also nominated for dramatic actress: Davis as a black maid going public with stories about her white employer in "The Help"; Rooney Mara as a traumatized victim-turned-avenger in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"; Meryl Streep as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady"; and Tilda Swinton as a grieving woman coping with her son's terrible deeds in "We Need to Talk About Kevin."

Clooney has another pal in the dramatic actor race, his "Ocean's Eleven" franchise co-star Pitt, who's nominated for his "Moneyball" role as Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane. And Clooney also is competing for best director against his boss in "The Descendants," filmmaker Alexander Payne.

Gosling, Clooney and Pitt are up against Leonardo DiCaprio as FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover in "J. Edgar" and Michael Fassbender as a sex addict in "Shame."

Pitt's romantic partner, Angelina Jolie, picked up a nomination for foreign-language film for her directing debut, the Bosnian war drama "In the Land of Blood and Honey."

Scorsese for "Hugo" and Allen for "Midnight in Paris" join Clooney, Hazanavicius and Payne in the directing category. Though "War Horse" made it in for best drama, Spielberg missed out on a directing nomination.

Spielberg has a consolation prize with a nomination for his first animated film, "The Adventures of Tintin." Other animation nominees are: James McAvoy's "Arthur Christmas," Owen Wilson's "Cars 2," Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek's "Puss in Boots" and Johnny Depp's "Rango."

Along with Gosling and Dujardin, Wilson was nominated for musical or comedy actor as a writer nostalgic for the 1920s France of Hemingway and Fitzgerald in "Midnight in Paris." Also nominated are Brendan Gleeson as a bawdy, rule-breaking Irish cop on a drug investigation in "The Guard" and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a cancer patient aided by an assortment of oddballs in "50/50."

Roman Polanski's domestic showdown "Carnage" earned musical or comedy actress slots for both Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet as mothers squabbling over their sons' schoolyard fight. The other nominees are: Charlize Theron as a delusional woman plotting to win back her high school boyfriend from his wife in "Young Adult"; Wiig as a maid of honor whose life is unraveling in "Bridesmaids"; and Williams as Marilyn Monroe during a chaotic film shoot in "My Week with Marilyn."

Along with the Screen Actors Guild Award nominations a day earlier, the Globes field helps narrow down prospects for the Academy Awards, whose nominations come out Jan. 24.

With drinks and dinner, the Globes are a laid-back affair for Hollywood's elite compared to the Oscars. The show turned a bit touchy last year as host Ricky Gervais repeatedly made sharp wisecracks about stars and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of about 85 entertainment reporters for overseas outlets that presents the Globes.

But Gervais helped give the show a TV ratings boost, and he's been invited back as host for a third-straight year.

Before the nominations announcement, the press group's president, Aida Takla-O'Reilly, joked that Gervais is a "naughty, naughty schoolboy."

Five-time Academy Award and Globe nominee Morgan Freeman ? who won the supporting-actor Oscar for "Million Dollar Baby" and a best-actor Globe for "Driving Miss Daisy" ? will receive the group's Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Jan. 15 ceremony.

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Fantasia Barrino has a new bundle of joy!

The ?American Idol? Season 3 winner gave birth to her second child on Tuesday in North Carolina, her rep told People. The singer welcomed baby boy Dallas, who weighed in at 7 lbs., 9 oz. and measured 21 inches long.

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?I feel so blessed that my son Dallas Xavier was born healthy, and is a wonderful new addition to our family,? the 27-year-old told the mag.

Adding, ?I thank all my fans for their well wishes and continued support.?

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Baby Dallas joins big sister Zion, 10, who Fantasia has from a previous relationship.

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In July, the singer announced she was expecting during a concert in in Jacksonville, Fla.

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?You are the first persons that I share this news with,? she told the crowd at the time. ?And I share this with you because I can relate to you. And for a while I walked around, figuring out what will they say and what will they think about me. But now, I tell you, I don?t live my life for folk? So this child that I carry, God has given me this child and I don?t have to hide it from none of y?all.?

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Fantasia has remained mum on who the father of Dallas is, but she has been romantically linked to Antwaun Cook since summer 2010. Antwaun is reportedly in the midst of a divorce from his estranged wife, Paula.

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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -FIFA president Sepp Blatter has reportedly said that goal line technology could be implemented as early as next season.

Blatter told Bild newspaper in an interview that there are systems that are "accurate, fast and uncomplicated."

He says the International Football Association Board, which determines the rules of the sport, will discuss the technology in March 2012 and could be used in the 2012-13 season if approved.

The interview was published in Bild's online edition late Monday.

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Barcelona teammates Lionel Messi and Xavi Hernandez will be up against Real Madrid winger Cristiano Ronaldo for the FIFA world player of the year award.

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COMMENTARY | The U.S. Labor Department's November jobs report is the latest in a string of conflicting economic data in the past year. While the unemployment rate dropped from 9 percent to 8.6 percent, only 120,000 nonfarm jobs were created compared to the 150,000 to 200,000 needed to support population growth. This comes on the heels of the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, which showed home prices continuing to decline despite mortgage rates at near historical lows.

In many ways, the conflicting state of the U.S. economy could be attributed to the Federal Reserve's activist monetary policy. The structure of the free-market economy assumes the government does not actively intervene in the market. The Federal Reserve, with its quantitative easing program and zero-interest policy, may have fundamentally deformed the structure of the free market. This could help to explain why the U.S. economy has yet to fully recover, three years after the 2008 financial crisis.

The changed structure may have also been the reason why economists, who are trained in free-market thinking, have had such a hard time in the last couple of years forecasting the U.S. economy. The so-called leading economic indicators are definitely not as reliable as they were in the past.

To be fair, we would have had to endure a much more painful recession if not for timely interventions by the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury. Without bailouts and super low interest rates, many long-standing American companies would have become relics of the past. Also, unemployment could have rivaled that of the Great Depression.

Yet, it is conceivable that the cost of a milder recession is a substantially longer recovery. The Federal Reserve recently revised significantly downward its growth and employment forecast for the next two years. The unemployment rate is now expected to be at least 7.8 percent through 2013. Additionally, there is a distinct possibility of another round of quantitative easing.

All of these factors indicate the U.S. economic recovery will continue to move at a snail's pace, in the same style of Japan's lost decade.

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ZAGREB (Reuters) ? Croatia voted on Sunday in an election likely to hand power to the centre-left opposition on a mandate to overhaul the country's flagging economy before it joins the European Union in 2013.

Voters will almost certainly punish the ruling conservative HDZ -- Croatia's dominant party since independence in 1991 -- for a string of corruption scandals and rising unemployment.

Polls suggest power will pass to an opposition bloc known as Kukuriku ('cock-a-doodle-doo') and led by 45-year-old former diplomat Zoran Milanovic of the Social Democrats (SDS).

The next government will have to act fast to trim state spending, create jobs and avert a potential credit rating downgrade.

Milanovic has told Croats they will have to work "more, harder, longer" to turn the economy around before the country of 4.3 million people becomes the second ex-Yugoslav republic to join the EU in July 2013.

"I have a decent pension but I look around me and I see poverty everywhere," 74-year-old pensioner Milan Grgurek said after voting in the capital, Zagreb. "Whoever comes to power ... will have to carry out reforms."

Croatia broke away from socialist Yugoslavia in a 1991-95 war, and has seen its economy boom over the past decade on the back of foreign borrowing and waves of tourism to its stunning Adriatic coastline.

But growth ground to a halt when the global financial crisis hit in 2009.

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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.

"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 to the necessary reforms," said Davor Majetic of the national employers' association.

Milanovic told Reuters this week that 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.

He said he expects the credit rating agencies to give Croatia a "grace period of three months at most."

After voting, Milanovic told reporters: "We expect victory, like anybody competing for the trust of the citizens."

In power for the past eight years, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor's HDZ has been mired in corruption scandals since its former leader and prime minister, Ivo Sanader, stepped down in 2009. Sanader is now standing trial for alleged graft.

A number of other senior HDZ officials have been arrested or questioned over alleged slush funds in the past year, hurting the party's standing with voters.

Kosor said she hoped voters would "choose those who led an uncompromising fight against corruption and will be at the head of the government when we join the EU, because we have done a lot, and achieved that historic goal."

Voting ends at 7 p.m. (1800 GMT), when exit polls will follow. An official, preliminary count is expected by midnight.

(Editing by Matt Robinson and Maria Golovnina)

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Bills receiver Stevie Johnson had a big day on Sunday against Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis.? But Johnson?s performance always will be remembered for a post-touchdown celebration that cost his team 15 yards of field position.? After a botched kickoff gave the Jets a short field, Johnson?s touchdown quickly was matched.

The incident has prompted plenty of discussion this week, with much of it centering on the question of whether Johnson crossed a line by pretending to shoot himself in the leg.? The bigger problem came when Johnson capped his celebration by falling and rolling on the turf, since two things can draw a penalty after a touchdown:? (1) going to the ground; and (2) using a prop.

That?s the point NBC?s Bob Costas made during halftime of the Sunday night game between the Steelers and Chiefs.? Celebrating is one thing; celebrating in a manner that harms the team?s interest is quite another.

Redskins receiver Santana Moss, whose touchdown celebrations routinely remain within the bounds of the rules, agrees.

?Some guys, that?s a part of their game,? Moss said of Johnson on Thursday?s PFT Live.? ?They look forward to those moments where they can really shine after they make a big play or score a big touchdown.? You can?t really knock them for it.? The only thing you can knock them for is losing those yards for your team.? You?ve got to be smart at all given times when it comes to trying to win a game.? You can?t hurt your team in that situation, and I think that?s something that he?ll look back on and wish he hadn?t done.?

It?s not unreasonable to expect a player to understand and respect the rules that apply to touchdowns.? First, don?t go to the ground.? Second, don?t use a prop.

In Johnson?s case, it possibly cost his team a victory, which in turn may have extended the team?s streak of non-playoff appearances to 12 years and counting.? If players don?t heed these two simple rules, it could eventually cost a team a championship.

Indeed, that nearly happened in Super Bowl XLIII.? After his game-winning touchdown reception for the ages, former Steelers receiver Santonio Holmes (the players whose ?soar like a Jet? routine Johnson was mocking when falling to the ground) used the ball as a prop for a celebration that paid homage to LeBron James? pregame talcum powder shower.? Former NFL V.P. of officiating Mike Pereira acknowledged that a penalty should have been called, which would have pushed the kickoff from the 30 to the 15, putting Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner and receiver Larry Fitzgerald 15 yards closer to the end zone when they regained possession with 35 seconds to play.

When a penalty is called for a celebration that goes too far, the primary blame falls on the man who commits the violation of the rules.? But it?s ultimately a failure of coaching.? Of all the complex concepts and play calls and other information given to players, it?s critical to make certain that those who will be scoring touchdowns always remember two things.

First, don?t go to the ground.? Second, don?t use a prop.

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Drafthouse Films has acquired U.S. rights to a documentary about Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, the Israeli-born cousins who founded Cannon Films, the indie studio announced Thursday.

Drafthouse plans a theatrical release in late 2012 for "Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films," coinciding with a traveling retrospective of Cannon's movies.

The film is currently in pre-production in Australia.

"Cannon Films was an enterprise that in many ways defined exploitation cinema of the 1980s," Alamo Drafthouse founder and CEO Tim League said in a written statement. "We are thrilled to share their untold legacy with movie fans around the country."

Between 1979 and 1989, Cannon Films produced more than 120 movies, including colorfully titled sequels "Missing in Action 2: The Beginning," "Ninja 3: The Domination" and "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo."

The studio also produced "Masters of the Universe," the martial arts films "American Ninja" and arthouse films such as "Barfly."

The documentary was directed by Mark Hartley ("Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!").

Drafthouse is the distribution arm of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

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Forest City Commercial Management, operator of shopping malls in Richmond, Va., and Temecula, Calif., planned to spy on its mall customers this holiday season, Consumer Affairs reported. Using Path Intelligence's Footpath Technology, the company planned to map the movements of shopper with dots by using its cellphone identifiers. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., took up the cause of consumers, and the company announced it will not go forward.

Data Collected

Forest City Commercial Management already tested the system on Black Friday on nonconsenting mall visitors and is analyzing the data. The only notice customers got was small signs, according to CNN Money, and the only opt-out option was turning off their cellphones. While it has temporarily agreed not to spy further, its long-term intentions are not to scrap the customer surveillance plan. According to CNET, the company has promised to work on system enhancements with the technology developer.

The mall management company says its temporary suspension is being done in deference to concern raised by Schumer. The Richmond Times Dispatch says the company hopes to find a way for shoppers to "opt-out" of being tracked, short of turning off their cellphones. To opt out, a mall customer would need effective advance warning that movements would be tracked and instructions for opting out.

Behind the Objections

The system doesn't collect or analyze personal information such as contacts lists from cellphones. But it does provide identifiable information on the shopping habits of specific customers.

"A shopper's personal cellphone should not be used by a third party as a tracking device by retailers who are seeking to determine holiday shopping patterns," Schumer said . "Personal cellphones are just that -- personal. If retailers want to tap into your phone to see what your shopping patterns are, they can ask you for your permission to do so."

As for requiring customers to opt out, privacy regulations may require the opposite, that the mall obtain affirmative consent before tracking customer movements via cellphones. Schumer asked the Federal Trade Commission to examine the privacy issues and also wrote to Path Intelligence CEO Sharon Biggar suggesting development of an opt-in rather than opt-out system.

A system hack could compromise shoppers' privacy, Schumer noted.

Since the information the malls are seeking has commercial value, arguably they should pay customers who agree to provide it.

How Footpath Technology Works

The technology consists of monitoring units placed throughout the mall that recognize unique cellphone signals. As explained in Wired, the monitoring units transmit the signal data to Path Intelligence's secure servers where it can be used to assess hot spots. Biggar told CNN Money the technology is akin to cookies that online retailers use.

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FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2011 file photo, U.S. billionaire investor Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks during a news conference at the headquarters of cemented carbide tool supplier Tungaloy Corporation after inaugurating its new factory in Iwaki city, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. Buffett said Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, Berkshire Hathaway is buying the Omaha World-Herald Co. and expanding the firm's newspaper holdings despite Buffett's misgivings about the industry. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ? Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said Wednesday that it is buying the Omaha World-Herald Co. and expanding the firm's newspaper holdings despite Buffett's misgivings about the industry.

Berkshire said that it had agreed to buy Buffett's hometown newspaper. Terms of the deal, which must be approved by the Omaha World-Herald's employee owners and other shareholders, weren't disclosed.

The deal also includes daily newspapers the Omaha World-Herald owns in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Grand Island, York, Kearney, North Platte and Scottsbluff in Nebraska.

Buffett did not immediately respond to an interview request on Wednesday. Previously Berkshire's chairman and chief executive has said that he would be unlikely to add to Berkshire's newspaper investments because of the industry's dwindling returns. Berkshire owns the Buffalo News and it has a sizable investment in the Washington Post Co.

Buffett told Berkshire shareholders two years ago that most newspapers face the possibility of unending losses because the industry has lost its essential nature.

"They were only essential to advertisers as long as they were essential to the reader, and that is changing," Buffett said.

In a statement Wednesday, Buffett suggested that the World-Herald Co. is in better shape than most newspapers.

"The World-Herald delivers solid profits and is one of the best-run newspapers in America, and we are pleased to have Terry Kroeger and his team join Berkshire Hathaway," Buffett said

Kroeger, who is the World-Herald's CEO, said this deal will help the newspaper raise needed capital. He said the company's employee-ownership structure was restrictive and forced the World-Herald to repurchase stock from departing employees.

"We have repurchased the Company about seven times since the employee ownership plan was put in place," Kroeger said.

Berkshire owns more than 80 subsidiaries, including clothing, insurance, furniture, utility, jewelry and corporate jet companies. Berkshire also has big investments in companies including Coca-Cola Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.

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