Newt leads Iowa; Bachmann, Perry fall (Politico)

Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in Iowa, despite a minimal organization in the state, according to a new Des Moines Register poll out Saturday.

Gingrich is at 25 percent, with Ron Paul at 18 percent and Mitt Romney dropping to 16 percent.

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And showing the growth potential for the former House speaker, 43 percent of those polled said Gingrich was their second choice.

The 8 percent who backed Herman Cain ? who suspended his campaign Saturday ? in the poll are up for grabs. And there?s also 11 percent undecided, with just a month to go before the caucus as the former House speaker?s late surge continues.

Meanwhile, the candidates who have focused their campaigns on Iowa ? and will need strong showings there ? are languishing: Michele Bachmann is at 8 percent, with Rick Perry and Rick Santorum both at 6 percent.

Gingrich has had a rapid rise in popularity and received just 7 percent in the Register?s late October poll. That?s a contrast to Romney, who was leading in Iowa despite not focusing his campaign there until recently. The former Massachusetts governor has been bulking up his organization in the state in recent weeks and said Saturday morning that he may travel to the state again next week.

The steepest drop, though, may be that of Bachmann. After winning the Ames Straw Poll in August and once seeming like she could take the caucuses, the Iowa native has sunk. She?s just barely ahead of Perry, who was expected to be her main competition in the state when he first jumped into the race in August. Their efforts continue: Bachmann was in the state last week, and the Texas governor has been buying television ads on the local stations.

And in a measure of how little retail politicking seems to be registering this year, Santorum?s tied for last with Perry, despite visiting all 99 counties in Iowa ? a feat no other candidate has matched.

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who?s not competing in Iowa, was at 2 percent.

The poll, conducted for more than 50 years, is considered on the leading indicators of voter preference leading up to the Iowa caucus. It was conducted Nov. 27-30, and has 4.9 percent margin of error.

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US report: Arctic much worse since 2006

WASHINGTON (AP) ? U.S. officials say the Arctic region has changed dramatically for the worse in the past five years.

It is melting at a near record pace, and it is darkening and absorbing too much of the sun's heat.

A new report card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration rates the polar region with blazing red stop lights on three of five categories and yellow cautions for the other two. Overall, these are not good grades, but it doesn't mean the Arctic is doomed and it still will freeze in the winter, said report co-editor Jackie Richter-Menge.

The Arctic acts as Earth's refrigerator, cooling the planet. What's happening, scientists said, is like someone pushing the fridge's thermostat much too high.

"It's not cooling as well as it used to," Richter-Menge said.

The dramatic changes are from both man-made global warming and recent localized weather shifts, which were on top of the longer term warming trend, scientists said.

The report, written by 121 scientists from around the world, said statistics point to a shift in the Arctic health in 2006. That was right before 2007, when a mix of weather conditions and changing climate led to a record loss of sea ice, from which the region has never recovered. This summer's sea ice melt was the second worst on record, a tad behind 2007.

"We've got a new normal," said co-author Don Perovich, a geophysicist at the Army Corps of Engineers Cold Research and Engineering Lab. "Whether it's a tipping point and we'll never recover, who's to say?"

The report highlighted statistics to show an Arctic undergoing change:

?A NASA satellite found that 430 billion metric tons of ice melted in Greenland from 2010 to 2011, and the melting is accelerating. Since 2000, Greenland's 39 widest glaciers shrunk by nearly 530 square miles (1,375 sq. kilometers), about the equivalent of 22 Manhattans.

?The past five years have had the five lowest summer sea ice levels on record. For two straight years, all three major passages through the Arctic have been open in the summer, which is unusual.

?Seven of 19 polar bear sub-populations are shrinking.

?This year's temperature is roughly 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit (1.4 C) higher than what had been normal since 1980.

What's even more troubling to scientists is that there's been a record darkening of the normally white Arctic land and sea. White snow and ice reflects solar energy, but a melting darker Arctic in the summer absorbs that heat.

Marco Tedesco of the City College of New York, a co-author, said the darkening is like a speeding train going downhill, adding to the acceleration of warming.

Richter-Menge said the darkening of the Arctic from melting ice and snow "causes more heating, which causes more melting, and on the cycle goes."

But there are some winners in the warming. The phytoplankton in the Arctic Ocean, at the base of the marine food chain, has increased 20 percent compared with the past decade, and some plants are doing better, scientists said.

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Online

Government's Arctic report card: www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/

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Maine breast cancer license plate in works for motorcycles ? Maine ...

PORTLAND, Maine ? State Rep. Meredith Strang Burgess led the successful push for breast cancer specialty license plates for cars and trucks in Maine.

Now she?s hoping to do the same thing for motorcycles.

The proposal for pink ribbon motorcycle license plates calls for proceeds to be split between the Maine Cancer Foundation?s Women?s Cancer Fund, Maine Breast Cancer Coalition?s Support Service Fund, and the Maine Breast and Cervical Health Program?s mammogram fund.

More than $400,000 for breast cancer research and support has been raised through the sale of more than 15,000 specialty plates for cars and trucks since 2008.

Burgess hopes to have the motorcycle plate process completed by this spring, assuming at least 500 riders pay $25 to reserve one of the plates.

Source: http://bangordailynews.com/2011/12/04/news/state/maine-breast-cancer-license-plate-in-works-for-motorcycles/

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AT&T Fires Back at the FCC Over T-Mobile Merger Bashing (Updated) [At&t]

AT&T has issued an official response to the FCC's report on their attempted merger with T-Mobile. And boy do they get feisty! More »

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S.Africa: Funds raised to fight rhino poaching (AP)

JOHANNESBURG ? A fundraising campaign aimed at putting rhino poachers in jail was welcomed Friday by a South African conservationist.

Michael Knight, head of park planning and development for South Africa's national parks department, said money raised by the Florida-based International Rhino Federation would be used to support such efforts as teaching park employees how to safeguard evidence at crime scenes.

More South African rhinos were poached ? 341 ? in the first 10 months of 2011 than in all of 2010, which was a record poaching year with 333 animals lost. The International Rhino Federation project is for parks in South Africa and neighboring Zimbabwe, which also has seen increased poaching.

An Asian economic boom in recent years is believed to be behind the spike in poaching, with a growing middle class in countries like China and Vietnam able to afford exotic purported remedies like powdered rhino horn.

"We're losing animals like crazy," Knight, who also chairs the rhino specialist group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, said in an interview. "But the prosecutions are falling way behind."

Knight said police in isolated areas of South Africa are not always experienced in investigating environmental crime. He said rangers and others would be trained to support police and prosecutors.

In court, he said, "You need to have the most up-to-date information, you need to have the most convincing arguments."

The federation launched its fundraising this week. Donations will fund training in collecting evidence and information. The federation also plans to distribute basic crime scene kits containing cameras, fingerprinting materials and evidence bags.

In an interview, federation director Susie Ellis said that an anonymous donor kicked off the fund with $25,000. She said she spoke with South African security officials in March about how best to use the money.

"It's a small project that we hope will have a big impact," she said, adding tthat he first training session is set for early February in South Africa.

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Donna Bryson can be reached on http://twitter.com/dbrysonAP

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Palin Mum On GOP Endorsement (ABC News)

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Android version numbers as of Dec. 1 are out, Gingerbread sees a big boost

It's the beginning of the month, so that means that the new numbers for just how many phones are running each version of Android have come out.  Following the past trends, Gingerbread has seen even more growth, running over 50 percent of all Android devices that visit the Android Market.  The legacy versions keep dropping as well, with Cupcake and Donut (Android 1.5 and 1.6 respectively) dropping to 2.1 percent of the total.  We still don't see a very big uptick in Honeycomb, which has historically been a slower grower.  With Ice Cream Sandwich now among us, this chart will be interesting to watch as we see which carriers and OEM's send out those timely updates.

Source: Android Developers

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