PSU AD hopes to give next coach time for recruits

DALLAS ? Penn State's search to replace fired coach Joe Paterno could be wrapped up in the next few weeks.

Acting athletic director David Joyner said Thursday he'd like the next coach to have time to interact with recruits before high school seniors can announce their college choices starting February 1.

A four-day contact period for coaches begins Wednesday - two days after the 24th-ranked Nittany Lions face No. 20 Houston in the TicketCity Bowl in Dallas. Another 16-day contact window starts Jan. 13.

"I'd like to get this finished so that whoever the head coach is, be it (interim coach Tom) Bradley or somebody else, has enough time to really interact with recruits and to do the best they can do," Joyner said before a team dinner in Dallas.

"There's a three-week open period (before national signing day). That would be nice. I'm not going to let that dictate if there are a couple days one way or the other. But I think it would be very good for recruits."

Bradley took over Nov. 9 after Paterno was fired in the aftermath of child sex abuse charges against retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.

Paterno, who testified before a grand jury investigating Sandusky, is not a target of the probe, the state attorney general's office has said. Sandusky is awaiting trial after pleading not guilty.

Joyner said the search is down to a "handful of people" though interviews were not over. He also said the school was still being contacted by potential applicants.

Joyner didn't name potential candidates, nor did he reveal how many people have interviewed.

"No, I have not made a final decision yet. I haven't chosen to do that because we're evaluating them and I'm still looking at candidates right now," Joyner said.

Bradley and defensive line coach Larry Johnson are among those who have had interviews.

Among other rumored names, Tennessee Titans coach Mike Munchak on Wednesday denied he was interested in the job at his alma mater for the third time since his former coach Paterno was fired.

"They have not contacted me in any way or talked to me about the possibility of working there," the first-year Titans coach said. "I have not reached out to them. I have a job that I enjoy quite a bit."

Also, Green Bay quarterbacks coach Tom Clements declined comment last week on whether he was interested in the job and would not confirm a report that he had interviewed.

Joyner and school president Rodney Erickson had initially indicated they had hoped to have Paterno's replacement selected by the bowl game.

Paterno won a Division I record 409 victories in a head coaching career that began in 1966 - 16 seasons after starting at Penn State as an assistant. He is recovering from a broken pelvis while also being treated for lung cancer.

"We're being purposeful and deliberate," Joyner said. "This is the first coaching search with football that maybe we've ever done. I'm not sure how things worked in 1950 and 1966, but I imagine it was a lot different than we're doing now."

Also Thursday, backup quarterback Rob Bolden worked with the starters again with first-stringer Matt McGloin still being held out of practice. He hasn't taken the field since suffering a concussion and seizure Dec. 17 following a locker room altercation with receiver Curtis Drake.

Bolden began the season sharing time with McGloin, but hasn't started since Oct. 15.

"There's no doubt in my mind that I can go out there and do what I need to do," Bolden said.

The Associated Press

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Egypt's Tahrir clashes rage on, army unrepentant (Reuters)

CAIRO (Reuters) ? Egyptian police and soldiers using batons and teargas have fought opponents of army rule in Cairo for a fourth day, taking the death toll since Friday to 13, according to medical sources.

Hundreds more have been wounded and scores detained in attempts to disperse protests in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square, hub of the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the use of "excessive" force against the protests, which have widened a rift among Egyptians over the role of the army and cast a shadow over the country's first free election in decades.

An army general told a news conference that "evil forces" wanted to sow chaos and said soldiers had shown "self-restraint" despite provocation by those trying to burn down buildings and create discord between the army and the people.

The human rights watchdog Amnesty International called on arms suppliers to stop sending small arms and ammunition to Egypt's military and security forces in the wake of the violent crackdown on protesters.

Reporters Without Borders said the army's "systematic use of violence against media personnel," was blocking access to information in and around the square.

Soldiers have been filmed using batons to beat protesters, many of whom have been hurling stones, even after they have fallen to the ground.

"HITLER'S INCINERATORS"

In one incident, a government building housing historic books has been set on fire.

"What is your feeling when you see Egypt and its history burn in front of you?" retired general Abdel Moneim Kato, an adviser to the military, told a local paper, Al-Shorouk.

"Yet you worry about a vagrant who should be burnt in Hitler's incinerators."

The latest round of violence broke out just after the second stage of a six-week election for Egypt's new parliament that starts a slow countdown to the army's return to barracks. The military has pledged to hand power to an elected president by July.

An army source said 164 people had been detained. A security source said a 26-year-old man had died in custody, although the cause of death was not immediately clear.

The state news agency MENA said the public prosecutor had detained 123 people accused of resisting the authorities, throwing rocks at the army and police, and setting fire to government buildings. The prosecutor had released 53 others.

"From the start of the revolution, the evil forces have wanted to drag Egypt into chaos, putting the army into confrontation with the people," General Adel Emara said.

"What is happening does not belong with the revolution and its pure youth, who never wanted to bring down this nation."

He said troops had faced people wielding knives, petrol bombs and other weapons, and that those guarding state buildings had a right to self-defense.

Many Egyptians want to focus on building democratic institutions, not street activism, but have nevertheless been shocked by the tactics of security forces in and around Tahrir.

Video footage showed two soldiers dragging a woman lying on the ground by her shirt, exposing her underwear, then clubbing and kicking her.

General Emara described it as an isolated incident that was being investigated. He also said the army had not given orders to clear Tahrir Square by force.

ELECTION OVERSHADOWED

Ban Ki-moon's office said he was "highly alarmed by the excessive use of force employed by the security forces against protesters, and calls for the transitional authorities to act with restraint and uphold human rights, including the right to peaceful protest."

The violence has overshadowed the election, which is set to give Islamists the biggest bloc in parliament.

Western powers, long friendly with Mubarak and other Arab strongmen who kept a lid on Islamists, have watched warily as Islamist parties have swept elections in Morocco, Tunisia and now Egypt following this year's Arab uprisings.

Hard-core activists have camped in Tahrir since a protest against army rule on November 18, which was sparked by the army-backed cabinet's proposals to permanently shield the military from civilian oversight in the new constitution.

Tough security tactics against angry youths also sparked a flare-up last month in which 42 people were killed.

Some activists asked protesters to stop hurling stones on Sunday, but they refused. Other activists handed over to the army people they said were making petrol bombs.

The violence has deepened the frustration of many Egyptians tired of months of unrest that has left the economy in tatters.

"There are people who wait for any problem and seek to amplify it ... The clashes won't stop. There are street children who found shelter in Tahrir," said Ali el-Nubi, a postal worker.

(Additional reporting by JoAnne Allen in Washington, John O'Callaghan, Tamim Elyan, Shaimaa Fayed and Dina Zayed; Writing by Kevin Liffey; Editing by Michael Roddy)

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The Biggest Loser- Kim Lyons Launches An Energy Bar

Biggest Loser trainer and nutrition coach,?Kim Lyons, celebrated the launch of her nutrition bar,??Your Body, Your Life?, last night at the beautiful Confidential in Beverly Hills, Calif. Celebrity guests including?Taryn Manning?mingled throughout the night, eating some healthy superfoods and enjoying music by DJ Mister Mike.   Voli Light Vodka and Refine Cocktail Mixers provided low-calorie [...]

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Pa. deputy attorney general cites PSU 'inaction'

Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary, right, arrives at Dauphin County Court surrounded by heavy security Friday, Dec 16, 2011, in Harrisburg, Pa. McQueary declined to speak to reporters Friday as he entered the courthouse in Harrisburg for the hearing for Gary Schultz and Tim Curley, who are set to appear for a preliminary hearing related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)

Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary, right, arrives at Dauphin County Court surrounded by heavy security Friday, Dec 16, 2011, in Harrisburg, Pa. McQueary declined to speak to reporters Friday as he entered the courthouse in Harrisburg for the hearing for Gary Schultz and Tim Curley, who are set to appear for a preliminary hearing related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)

Former Penn State Vice President Gary Schultz, right, arrives for a preliminary hearing at Dauphin County Court, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, in Harrisburg, Pa. A judge is to determine after the hearing if there's enough evidence to send Schultz and former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley to trial on charges of failure to report abuse to authorities and lying to a grand jury related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)

Former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley, right, arrives for a hearing at Dauphin County Court, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, in Harrisburg, Pa. A judge is to determine after the hearing if there's enough evidence to send Curley and former university Vice President Gary Schultz to trial on charges of failure to report abuse to authorities and lying to a grand jury related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)

FILE -- In a Nov. 7, 2011 file photo former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley, left, and former Penn State Vice President Gary Schultz, right, enter a district judge's office for an arraignment in Harrisburg, Pa. Curley and Schultz have been charged with perjury and failure to report under Pennsylvania?s child protective services law in connection with the investigation into allegations involving former football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, the state attorney general?s office. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower/file)

Penn State Assistant Football Coach Mike McQueary, left, departs the Dauphin County Court Friday, Dec 16, 2011 in Harrisburg, PA. McQueary, speaking for the first time in public about the 2002 encounter in a Penn State locker room, said he believes that Jerry Sandusky was attacking a child with his hands around the boy's waist but said he wasn't 100 percent sure it was intercourse. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ? A graduate student waited a day after allegedly seeing a child being sexually assaulted on Penn State's campus before telling his supervisor, football coach Joe Paterno.

Paterno waited another day before calling the university's athletic director, who looped in a school vice president.

"It was a Saturday morning and I didn't want to interfere with their weekends," Paterno told a grand jury this year, recalling the unusual visit from graduate assistant Mike McQueary.

McQueary said he had seen former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky doing something "extremely sexual" with a young boy in a locker room shower.

On Friday, McQueary testified at a preliminary hearing for two Penn State officials ? athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz ? accused of covering up the story. He offered the most detailed public account yet of the child sex abuse allegations that have upended the university's football program and the entire central Pennsylvania campus.

Curley and Schultz are headed to trial on perjury charges after Friday's preliminary hearing, accused of lying to a grand jury about what McQueary told them.

Curly and Schultz waited another 10 days before meeting with McQueary to get more facts. Instead of calling police, they talked to two people: Sandusky and the executive director of his children's charity.

"I think it's a sad, sad, sad day, when you think about all of these victims, and you saw the inaction by a number of supposedly important, responsible adults. And there's a lot of inaction in this case," Marc Costanzo, a senior deputy attorney general, said after the preliminary hearing.

Besides the perjury charges, and the dozens of sex assault charges pending against Sandusky, Paterno and university president Graham Spanier have lost their jobs over the scandal.

Defense lawyers argued that McQueary "minimized" the alleged sexual assault when he talked to Paterno, ultimately leading their clients to believe that Sandusky's behavior was "inappropriate," but not criminal.

They say McQueary never relayed the seriousness of what he saw, leading them to think Sandusky was merely "horsing around."

"I didn't see any reason because I didn't think at the time it was a crime," Curley told the grand jury, according to testimony read into the record on Friday.

Curley, Schultz and Paterno have been criticized for not telling law enforcement about the 2002 charges. Prosecutors say Sandusky continued to abuse boys for six more years.

In about two hours on the witness stand, McQueary said again and again that what he saw was a sexual act, although he stopped short of saying he was sure that Sandusky, now 67, had raped the boy.

"I believe Jerry was sexually molesting him and having some type of sexual intercourse with him," McQueary said on Friday. He said later he "can't say 100 percent" that Sandusky and the boy were having intercourse because he was seeing Sandusky from behind.

He said after talking to his father, he went over to Paterno's home the next morning and said that what he had seen "was way over the lines, it was extremely sexual in nature." He said he would not have used words like sodomy or intercourse with Paterno, out of respect for the coach.

Paterno told the grand jury that McQueary said he saw Sandusky doing something of a "sexual nature" with the youngster but that he didn't press for details.

"I didn't push Mike ... because he was very upset," Paterno said. "I knew Mike was upset, and I knew some kind of inappropriate action was being taken by Jerry Sandusky with a youngster."

Paterno told McQueary he would talk to others about what he'd reported.

McQueary said he met about 10 days later with Curley and Schultz and told them he'd seen Sandusky and a boy, both naked, in the shower after hearing skin-on-skin slapping sounds.

"I would have described that it was extremely sexual and I thought that some kind of intercourse was going on," said McQueary.

McQueary said he was left with the impression both men took his report seriously. When asked why he didn't go to police, he referenced Schultz's position as a vice president at the university who had overseen the campus police

"I thought I was talking to the head of the police, to be frank with you," he said. "In my mind it was like speaking to a (district attorney). It was someone who police reported to and would know what to do with it."

The square-jawed, red-haired assistant coach spoke in a steady voice in his first public account of the alleged abuse, sometimes turning his seat and leaning in toward defense lawyers to answer questions. His voice rose a few times and he blushed once when describing the sexual encounter in the shower.

Defense lawyers for Curley and Schultz argued that a perjury charge in Pennsylvania cannot be based solely on one person's oath versus another's. The defense said uncorroborated testimony from McQueary is not enough, and sought to pick apart the ways he described the shower scene differently to different people.

The defense noted that McQueary admitted changing his description of the shower encounter when speaking with Paterno.

McQueary said he had stopped by a campus football locker room to drop off a pair of sneakers the Friday night before spring break, a quiet night on campus, when he saw Sandusky with a boy who looked to be 10 or 12 years old.

McQueary, 37, said he has never described what he saw as anal rape or anal intercourse and couldn't see Sandusky's genitals, but that "it was very clear that it looked like there was intercourse going on."

In its report last month, the grand jury summarized McQueary's testimony as saying he "saw a naked boy ... with his hands up against the wall, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky."

McQueary said he peeked into the shower three times ? the first via a mirror, the other two times directly. The last time he looked in, Sandusky and the boy had separated, he said. He said he didn't say anything, but "I know they saw me. They looked directly in my eye, both of them."

McQueary said the entire encounter ? from when he first entered the locker room to when he retreated to his office ? lasted about 45 seconds.

Curley told the grand jury that he couldn't recall his specific conversation with McQueary, but said McQueary never reported seeing anal intercourse or other sexual conduct. He said he spoke to Sandusky about it, who first denied having been in the shower with a boy, but later changed his story.

Schultz said he remembered McQueary and Paterno describing what the younger coach saw only in a very general way.

"I had the impression it was inappropriate," Schultz told the grand jury. "I had the feeling it was some king of wrestling activity and maybe Jerry might have grabbed a young boy's genitals."

Under cross-examination, McQueary said he considered what he saw a crime but didn't call police because "it was delicate in nature."

"I tried to use my best judgment," he said. "I was sure the act was over." He said he never tried to find the boy.

Paterno, Schultz and Curley didn't testify, but their entire grand jury testimony from January was read at the Dauphin County hearing.

Curley's attorney, Caroline Roberto, said prosecutors "will never be able to reach their burden of proof at a trial," in part because McQueary "minimized" the alleged assault to Paterno.

Schultz's attorney, Tom Farrell, predicted his client would be acquitted.

He also took a shot at Paterno, saying, "I'm an Italian from Brooklyn, and he may not have called the police but he may have done what I would have done, which is get the boys in the car with a few baseball bats and crowbars and take it to the fellow."

Sandusky says he is innocent of 52 criminal charges stemming from what authorities say were sexual assaults over 12 years on 10 boys in his home, on Penn State property and elsewhere.

Curley, 57, was placed on leave by the university after his arrest. Schultz, 62, returned to retirement after spending about four decades at the school, most recently as senior vice president for business and finance, and treasurer.

Associated Press

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Best iPad Apps of 2011 (Appolicious)

The iPad has really grown in this last year, both as a gaming platform and as a tool that does just about everything. Many useful apps use ?the extra space on an iPad's screen to make beautiful flowing interfaces, and some of these apps are downright art. From professional media tools to productivity apps, there is something for everyone on the platform. Here are the best new apps of 2011.

Google Currents (Free)

A fairly late arrival in the year was the latest big thing from good ol' Google. A new app set to be the new top dog of news apps like Pulse, bringing you everything from published editions to your favorite news blogs. It turns these blogs into something of a digital magazine or newspaper that you can flip through at your leisure. It's an interesting aesthetic choice and I like how clean it looks compared to a regular browser. You need to log-in to a Google account to sync things, but it's well done and definitely an app to watch in the near future.

Snapseed ($4.99)

Snapseed turns your iPad into the ultimate photo editor. Take any regular photo and transform it into something extraordinary with dozens of applicable effects and edits. You can play with focus, add a myriad of fun textures and filters, tweak it to perfection and even frame it with an image border. Once your gorgeous creation is complete, easily save and share the photo with friends and family with the touch of a button. This is definitely a great app for any picture-lover.

Aweditorium (Free)

This app takes the idea of music discovery and turns it into a beautiful adventure. Explore a massive board of tiles, each representing a different song and artist, not knowing what the next tile will bring. As you listen to a song, various bits of trivia or lyrics pop up on the screen, and photographs, videos, and interviews are all a button-tap away. You'll pretty much only find indie music here, but even if your music taste doesn't line up with the app's, it's still a unique and fun iPad experience to have.

A Charlie Brown Christmas ($6.99)

By combining warm holiday nostalgia with the unique interactivity of an iPad, this app is perfectly set up to be enjoyed by everyone and anyone. The classic story is transformed into an interactive story book, narrated by the original voice of Charlie Brown himself. Relive the story and become a part of it through all the interactive features and mini-games. Your kids will love it because it's a storybook, and you'll love it because the wonderful soundtrack and memorable characters will force you to against your will.

GarageBand ($4.99)

This year saw the ultimate music-making application get released on the iPad, cheaper and more portable than ever. Even if you aren't a musician yourself, this app has always been fun to mess around with, whether you mix and match various drum beats or just mash away experimentally on the piano or guitar. Compose your own personal masterpiece using a wide variety of instruments, pre-set loops, and various settings. This is a great app for any music fan.

iMuscle - (NOVA Series) - iPad edition ($4.99)

iMuscle is the ultimate workout companion app, whether you're a serious body builder or an average joe trying to stay in shape. The app is totally comprehensive with exercises targeting every muscle, video demonstrations of exercises, detailed instructions and even random helpful comments. On top of all that, there's a highly detailed routine builder and progress tracker to help maximize the efficiency of each gym visit. This app is very well put together and easy to use.

Penultimate ($0.99)

Penultimate has always been a great handwriting app, but the release of iOS 5 saw some massive upgrades in the latest major update. With pens of various size and color along with a handful of paper options, this is the ultimate app for nonsense scribbling or doodling. It's quite useful for quickly illustrating a concept or idea without wasting any actual paper, and the writing itself feels very well done and accurate. It's not a serious art app by any means, but it's useful in its own way. You can pass virtual notes in class between real note taking, for example!

Flipboard (Free)

Yeah, this is another app that technically was released in 2010, but this year saw some big updates that brought tons of third party publishers into the fold, and it still reigns supreme over most of the competition. This customizable news app turns blogs and magazines into a beautifully laid out flip book. With a great variety of news sources to choose from, this app even learns what kinds of stories you respond to, and adjusts itself over time. Share interesting news stories with Twitter and Facebook, and even read your Facebook news feed like a real magazine or newspaper.

djay ($9.99)

Technically released at the very end of last year, this is a very cool app. It's a professional grade DJ song mixing app, and like GarageBand, it's fun to play around with even if you aren't a professional. You can mix any tracks from your iTunes library, or maybe even your own GarageBand compositions, record your creation, and show it off to your friends. There are plenty of tricks and features to enjoy, and there's even support for iCloud and AirPlay. I definitely recommend it to music enthusiasts, even if it is on the pricey side.

HowStuffWorks for iPad (Free)

HowStuffWorks has always been a fun and intelligent place to spend your time. Over the years it has grown to encompass all sorts of media, and now it's on your iPad. Featuring podcasts and blogs, special videos, random trivia, and even interactive quizzes, there's always something fun to do and something interesting to learn with this app. The interface is streamlined and everything is laid out well. This is definitely the best way to experience HowStuffWorks, and it's only going to get better over time.

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Attacks kill 7 Shiite pilgrims south of Baghdad (AP)

BAGHDAD ? Two attacks targeting Shiite pilgrims south of Baghdad killed seven people and wounded 33 others on Monday during an important religious ritual for the Muslim sect, Iraqi officials said.

In the first attack, a bomb exploded among Shiite pilgrims in Latifiyah, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of the Iraqi capital, killing two of them and wounding three others, police said. A medical official confirmed the casualty toll.

Hours later, a car bomb exploded near a group of Shiite pilgrims in the town of Mahaweel as they were heading to the holy Shiite city of Karbala, killing five people and wounding about 30 other pilgrims, said police officials in Babil province.

Mahaweel is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) south of Baghdad

All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the are not authorized to talk to the media.

The ritual, known as Ashoura, marks the anniversary of the seventh-century death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. His death in a battle outside of Karbala sealed Islam's historical Sunni-Shiite split. To commemorate his death, hundreds of thousands of Shiites walk from around the country to Karbala.

Security is usually very tight in and around the city, so insurgents have taken to attacking the pilgrims during their long walk to and from Karbala when its much harder for the Iraqi security forces to protect them.

The pilgrims are often targeted by Sunni extremists who claim that Shiites are not true Muslims.

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Four Contenders Vying to be the Navy's Top Warplane

In the contest to become the Navy's greatest strike airplane, it's man versus machine. Unmanned aircraft like the X-47B compete against piloted planes like the F-35C Lightning II to see which will dominate the future of naval aviation. These are the four top contenders for the crown. By Joe Pappalardo

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Phantom Ray

Manufacturer: Boeing

Selling Point: The company completed its first experimental stealth UAV, the X-45A, in 2000 and sporadically improved the prototype.

Status: In 2011 Boeing paid for Phantom Ray test flights, positioning itself for a pending Navy strike-aircraft competition.

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Some smartphone models more vulnerable to attack

ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2011) ? New research from North Carolina State University shows that some smartphones specifically designed to support the Android mobile platform have incorporated additional features that can be used by hackers to bypass Android's security features, making them more vulnerable to attack. Android has the largest share of the smartphone market in the U.S.

"Some of these pre-loaded applications, or features, are designed to make the smartphones more user-friendly, such as features that notify you of missed calls or text messages," says Dr. Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the research. "The problem is that these pre-loaded apps are built on top of the existing Android architecture in such a way as to create potential 'backdoors' that can be used to give third-parties direct access to personal information or other phone features."

In essence, these pre-loaded apps can be easily tricked by hackers. For example, these "backdoors" can be used to record your phone calls, send text messages to premium numbers that will charge your account or even completely wipe out all of your settings.

The researchers have tested eight different smartphone models, including two "reference implementations" that were loaded only with Google's baseline Android software. "Google's reference implementations and the Motorola Droid were basically clean," Jiang says. "No real problems there."

However, five other models did not fare as well. HTC's Legend, EVO 4G and Wildfire S, Motorola's Droid X and Samsung's Epic 4G all had significant vulnerabilities -- with the EVO 4G displaying the most vulnerabilities.

The researchers notified manufacturers of the vulnerabilities as soon as they were discovered, earlier this year.

"If you have one of these phones, your best bet to protect yourself moving forward is to make sure you accept security updates from your vendor," Jiang says. "And avoid installing any apps that you don't trust completely."

Researchers now plan to test these vulnerabilities in other smartphone models and determine whether third-party firmware has similar vulnerabilities.

The paper, "Systematic Detection of Capability Leaks in Stock Android Smartphones," will be presented Feb. 7, 2012, at the 19th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego, Calif. The paper was co-authored by Jiang and NC State Ph.D. students Michael Grace, Yajin Zhou and Zhi Wang. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Army Research Office.

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Congo vote begins despite delay fears, violence (Reuters)

KINSHASA (Reuters) ? Voting began slowly on Monday in Congo's second-post war elections, held in the vast and volatile Central African nation despite fears logistical problems would delay them and irregularities undermine the results.

Thousands queued outside polling stations across the country, which saw sporadic outbreaks of violence as the elections approached, including in the capital at the weekend.

Some then cast their ballots while others complained polls were late opening or that they did not know where to vote.

After a last-minute scramble to prepare for the presidential and parliamentary votes, final rallies were canceled in Kinshasa due to clashes between rival supporters, security forces opened fire on crowds and the main presidential challenger was prevented from campaigning.

The polls - which pit President Joseph Kabila against 10 rivals while more than 18,500 candidates compete for 500 seats in parliament - will test progress toward stability after decades of misrule and two wars in the last 15 years.

Around 5.4 million people were killed by the last war, largely through hunger and disease.

It ended formally in 2003, but localized violence in the mineral-rich state has continued, especially in the east, where a plethora of local and foreign rebel groups vie for control.

Addressing the nation on Sunday evening, Kabila, seen by many as the favorite due to the advantages of incumbency, warned against a return to widespread violence.

"Our country has come a long way, from war and conflict of every type. We must take care not to go back to that," he said.

In the eastern lakeside town of Goma, security was heavy and polls opened slightly late but voters were enthusiastic.

"I am happy to have voted. I want change so I hope those who lose accept the results. We don't want trouble," Joel Mweso, a student, told Reuters.

A Reuters witness also saw residents in the capital, Kinshasa, voting after initial delays. International observers said they had received reports of some delays elsewhere across the nation, but it was too early to give details.

Underscoring security fears, two election commission trucks were ambushed and torched overnight by gunmen just outside Lubumbashi, the usually quiet capital of the mining province of Katanga, the provincial interior minister told Reuters.

Election commission chief Daniel Ngoy Mulunda said Congo would prove critics wrong with credible and peaceful polls.

"Everyone's going to vote tomorrow, it's going to be a celebration of democracy. The Congolese people are going to take the second step in the consolidation of their democracy. We have kept our promise," he said on the eve of the vote.

The first post-war election in 2006 was seen as broadly free and fair but gunbattles erupted after the voting.

United Nations troops and helicopters from Angola and South Africa have been called on to ferry election material to 60,000 polling stations across a nation the size of Western Europe with little infrastructure so some 32 million people can vote.

Provisional results are due on December 6.

Even in the capital voters complained of last-minute confusion over where they were meant to be voting due to polling stations being moved and errors with voter lists.

"We thought voting would be easy, but now we've been told we have to go somewhere else, we don't know where," said voter Bibi Mbao. "We're happy to vote but we're a bit confused, because we're being sent left and right."

The opposition has also protested that election lists were not properly vetted, leading to potential fraud. After outbursts of violence during the campaign, there are also fears of a contested result.

"COME A LONG WAY"

Andre Kimbuta, the governor of Kinshasa province, said some areas of the city were difficult to access and polling stations would only receive ballot papers in the morning. Torrential rain began to fall in parts of the capital by mid-morning.

With more than 1,400 legislative candidates in one Kinshasa constituency, some voters struggled to fit newspaper-sized ballot papers into the clear plastic ballot boxes provided.

A European Union observer mission on Sunday condemned moves by the police on Saturday to prevent Kabila's rival, veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, from campaigning.

Kabila came to power when his father Laurent was assassinated in 2001 and then won the 2006 poll.

The failure of the opposition to unite behind a single candidate - after Kabila's camp pushed through a law scrapping the need for a run-off if no candidate secures a majority in the first round of voting - has bolstered his chances.

But Tshisekedi, who has spent decades in opposition and boycotted the last poll due to complaints of fraud, has drawn increasingly large crowds as his campaign, which started late, picked up momentum.

Peter Pham, director of the U.S.-based Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, said it appeared that Tshisekedi had cemented himself as the anti-Kabila vote amid frustrations at the slow pace of progress, even if no formal alliance was in place.

"Ironically, the government's ham-fisted attempts to obstruct his campaign have only served to enhance his stature," he said.

(Additional reporting by Kenny Katombe in Goma; writing by David Lewis; editing by Philippa Fletcher)

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Analysis: Attack hands Pakistan a chance to squeeze U.S. (Reuters)

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) ? Pakistan's military has been handed a rare opportunity to press its strategic ambitions in neighboring Afghanistan after a cross-border NATO attack that killed 24 of its soldiers over the weekend.

Fury over the incident at home, where anti-American sentiment runs high, makes it likely that both the army chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, and the civilian government will play hardball with their ostensible ally, the United States.

"The Pakistan military is clearly very angry at the turn of events and the army's top leadership is under tremendous pressure from middle-ranking offices and junior officers to react," said Hasan Abbas at the U.S. National Defense University's College of International Security Affairs.

That pressure will spur the military to flex its muscles in diplomatic maneuvering with Washington in the run-up to the exit of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan in 2014.

Indeed, on Monday, the military's spokesman threatened to drastically reduce cooperation on peace efforts in Afghanistan, which could complicate U.S. President Barack Obama's plans to bring the war there to an end.

Analysts said Pakistan will seek concessions from the United States as its price for Saturday's attack, in which NATO helicopters and fighter jets strafed two military outposts in northwest Pakistan, close to the Afghan border.

The Pakistani military said 24 soldiers were killed and 13 wounded. NATO called it a tragic, unintended incident.

The concessions are likely to include giving Pakistan a greater say in the political settlement to end the war that would cement a role for Islamabad's allies in a future Kabul government.

A YEAR OF BUST-UPS

"From the military's point of view, here is a perfect opportunity to try to go on the offensive for a change," said Kamran Bokhari, vice president for Middle Eastern and South Asian affairs at STRATFOR, a U.S.-based intelligence consultancy.

"The Pakistanis are going to lay their terms out," Bokhari said. "They're going to say ... whatever you're doing on that side of the border, we need more input into that and you need us to get you out of there and provide a safe exit."

The border incident is the latest in a year of bust-ups between Islamabad and Washington -- uneasily allied in the war on militancy since the September 11 attacks on the United States a decade ago.

First there was the jailing of a CIA contractor for shooting dead two Pakistanis in the city of Lahore. Then there was the secret U.S. commando raid inside Pakistan that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and then came U.S. accusations that Pakistan was involved in attacks on American targets in Afghanistan.

Pakistan's room for maneuver is usually limited by its mutually dependent relationship with Washington, on which it depends for financial and military support.

"Pakistan is in no position to do something that might lead to open hostilities, to war with the U.S.," said Shaukat Qadir, a retired brigadier general and analyst.

But this time Islamabad feels justly aggrieved and has several options to pressure the United States.

INFLUENCE WITH MILITANTS

Already since Saturday's incident it has announced that it will review all military and diplomatic ties as well as intelligence sharing, and it has demanded the vacation of Shamsi air base in Baluchistan, where some CIA drones used against militants in the tribal areas of Pakistan are reportedly based.

It has also shut down supply routes through Pakistan that account for almost half of the provisions shipped overland to U.S. allied troops fighting in Afghanistan.

Following a similar incident in September 2010 that killed two Pakistani troops, the routes were shut for 10 days.

However, NATO has since pushed to expand a northern route into Afghanistan through Russia and the central Asian countries, which reduces the impact of a blockade through Pakistan.

Pakistan's ultimate leverage lies in its influence over militant groups, especially the Taliban-linked Haqqani network, which pioneered suicide bombing in Afghanistan and has become one of the most serious threats to NATO troops there.

Pakistan has long-standing ties with the Haqqanis stretching back to the war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s, and - despite official denials - it is widely suspected that it still supports them.

After an attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul in September, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, called the Haqqani network a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's intelligence service.

Despite that, in October, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly called on Pakistan to help include the Haqqanis in peace talks with the Afghan Taliban.

Emboldened by the latest events, Pakistan might actually start leaning more heavily on the network as a proxy guerilla force to further its own interests in a post-U.S. Afghanistan. It almost certainly won't be trying to bring them to the negotiating table.

"I think the message has been conveyed loud and clear," Qadir said. "We're not going to do anything to facilitate anything until this problem is solved."

But there's only so far Pakistan can lean on the Haqqanis. Any attack in the near term by the group against targets in Afghanistan will be seen as retaliation, even if Pakistan didn't have anything to do with it.

Pakistan's been here before. In the 1990s, it was almost labeled by the United States as a state-sponsor of terrorism for its support of militant groups. Such a declaration today would immediately trigger sanctions Pakistan can't afford.

"Right now, the Pakistanis are playing victims," Bokhari said. "Do they want to go from being victims to being accused of sponsoring a terrorist attack on U.S. forces?"

(Additional reporting by William MacLean in London and Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul; Editing by John Chalmers and Raju Gopalakrishnan)

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Wedding tragedy: Bomb kills 3 in Philippines

MANILA, Philippines?? Suspected Islamic militants detonated a powerful bomb that killed at least three people and wounded 27 others in a budget hotel packed with wedding guests in the southern Philippines, officials said Monday.

Investigators believe the blast and ensuing fire that gutted the two-story Atilano Pension House in downtown Zamboanga City late Sunday was a terrorist strike and that it was not linked to the wedding, city police director Edwin de Ocampo said.

Still, many of the victims were from a group of more than 20 people who occupied six of the hotel's 35 rooms for a planned ceremony Monday.

Citing witnesses, the BBC reported that the explosion destroyed the upper levels of the hotel.

"We should not show that we're panicking because that is what these troublemakers relish to see," Zamboanga Mayor Celso Lobregat told The Associated Press by telephone. "We have good leads. We will get all of them."

TNT powder
The blast was believed to be one of two simultaneous bombings planned by al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaff militants. The other would have been on nearby Basilan island, where two explosives were separately found and safely defused by authorities in Isabela city on Sunday, de Ocampo said.

The hotel blast, caused by about 22 pounds of TNT powder, was one of the most high-profile bombings this year blamed on the Abu Sayyaf.

The blast was so powerful it caused much of the second floor to collapse, blew off the hotel's roof and shattered glass panes and windows from nearby buildings, Lobregat added.

Two of the wounded were in serious condition and more than a dozen others remained confined in a hospital, he said.

Volatile region
Zamboanga City, a predominantly Christian trading hub 540 miles south of Manila, is located in a volatile region long troubled by a decades-long Muslim insurgency, extortion gangs and kidnap for ransom syndicates.

The blast occurred in room 226 on the second floor of the hotel, instantly killing two people staying in two adjacent rooms, which were devastated by the blast. A third body was found Monday on the ground floor, pinned by the cement slabs that collapsed from above, Lobregat said.

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De Ocampo said investigators were trying to determine how the TNT bomb was detonated, adding its design resembled those used by the Abu Sayyaf in past attacks on Basilan island, the group's birthplace.

Police Senior Inspector Cesar Memoracion said his local bomb squad recently informed the hotel owner to be on guard for a possible bomb attack, citing intelligence, which did not identify the source of the threat.

In January 2000, the hotel was rocked by a blast that killed three suspected Muslim militants assembling a bomb in a room, officials said.

The Abu Sayyaf was founded on Basilan in the early 1990s as an offshoot of a violent Muslim insurgency that has been raging for decades. U.S.-backed offensives have weakened the group, which is blacklisted by Washington as a terrorist organization, but it remains a key security threat.

It has about 380 armed fighters and survives mostly on extortion and kidnappings for ransom. Abu Sayyaf militants are believed to be holding an American, an Indian, a Malaysian and a Japanese convert to Islam, along with a number of Filipino hostages in Basilan and nearby Jolo island.

The Associated Press and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.

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Obama, Clinton gamble on Myanmar

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration is taking a foreign policy gamble by sending Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the isolated Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar this week.

The historic visit will be the first by a secretary of state to the country also known as Burma in more than half a century and aims to test the once military-run government's baby steps toward democratic reform. The administration is betting that rewarding Myanmar's apparent desire to open up will pay dividends, including loosening Chinese influence in a region where U.S. allies are wary of China's rise.

Clinton leaves Washington on Monday and will spend two days in Myanmar after a stop in South Korea. She will meet Friday with opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Thirty-three-year-old Michelle Parker of Orlando was last seen Nov. 17. It was the day the previously taped episode aired of the case between her and 40-year-old Dale Smith. The abandoned SUV of the mother of three was found the next day.

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Skiing: Canada's Jan Hudec places fourth in super-G

Canada's Jan Hudec finished a solid Sunday for Canadians at the Lake Louise Winterstart World Cup super-G, placing fourth, just off the podium, in a time of 1:24.21.

Erik Guay of Mount-Tremblant, Que., was sixth in 1:24.29.

"What can I say?'' said Hudec, 12th in Saturday's downhill. "I was pretty confident after yesterday. And my back's been feeling better and better. I wasn't expecting anything crazy because it was supposed to snow so much and starting 44th.

"It was really rough out there but the track got better at the bottom for the gliding section of the course and that really helped me out today.''

Norway's Aksel Svindal won the super-G in 1:23.47. Didier Cuche, the downill winner, placed second and France's Adrien Theaux rounded out the podium placings.

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