AT&T Inc. said Thursday it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods.
The phone company hasn't used Woods' image extensively in advertising, but its logo appeared on his golf bag. That deal had been billed as a "multiyear" agreement when it was signed early in 2009.
Tiger Woods has also been the host of the AT&T National PGA Tour event since it started in 2007.
Tour spokesman Ty Votaw said that since Woods is on indefinite leave from professional golf, he will not serve as host for the 2010 event.
Proponents say:
Flying is a privilege, not a right. If passengers don’t want to submit to a full body scan or an intrusive pat down they can use another mode of travel.
The would-be terrorist on a US-bound flight Christmas Day would have been prevented from boarding if full body scans had been employed.
Opponents say:Naked body scans reveal everything about you and are an invasion of privacy.
According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. But don't expect it to be blue — the name has nothing to do with the color of our closest celestial neighbor.
A full moon occurs every 29.5 days, and most years have 12. On average, an extra full moon in a month — a blue moon — occurs every 2.5 years. The last time there was a lunar double take was in May 2007. New Year's Eve blue moons are rarer, occurring every 19 years.
The last time was in 1990; the next one won't come again until 2028.
Shortly after the news broke that the conservative political radio talk show host was hospitalized, Wikipedia updated his page – and pronounced him dead.
If the report is correct, Wikipedia was prepared for the worst when it came to Rush Limbaugh. Maybe a little too well prepared. 
Reportedly the Wikipedia entry showed the following entry a little after midnight:
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (pronounced /ˈlɪmbɔː/;born January 12, 1951, died December 30, 2009) is an American radio host and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States. It airs throughout the U.S. on Premiere Radio Networks.
The previous entry was reportedly posted shortly after midnight, EST.
Rush, although in a Honolulu hospital, was very much alive. About 15 minutes later Wikipedia pronounced him alive, altering their bio by removing the information that he had died.
This illustrates what can happen when it doesn’t take much more than a computer, Internet service and a word processor to post nearly anything you want on Wikipedia - the most quoted yet least accurate site on the web.
Top illustrate just how bad Wikipedia is, founder Jimmy Wales has warned students not to refer to Wikipedia as it can seriously damage their grades (see third link below).
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On paper the Holiday Bowl should have been a very close game as Number 22 Arizona met Number 20 Nebraska in San Diego Wednesday night.
In April Vice President Joe Biden, on NBC's Today show, gave his advice on dealing with the swine flu outbreak, which seemed to contradict the Administration's advice to the public."I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places right now. It's not that it's going to Mexico. It's that you are in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes everywhere through the aircraft. That's me."
The official word from the White House that week was that the swine flu outbreak was not a cause for alarm.
When Biden suggested on national TV that people avoid planes, subways and classrooms to keep from catching the bug the White House press team quickly sent out a statement telling everyone “what Biden meant to say was...”
A man walks past the giant cogs of a watch on display at the newly opened China Science and Technology Museum in Beijing.
The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki, the Muslim imam suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooting suspect.
At the time of the Fort Hood shootings, Mr. Obama did not express outrage. Instead he cautioned Americans not to rush to judgement because the shooter was a Muslim.
Now, Obama has no choice but to condemn the attempt by a Muslim to blow up the Detroit-bound airliner and demand better security. What else can he do after his Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano said, "the system worked."
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (pictured above), the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, had his suicide mission personally blessed in Yemen by Anwar al-Awlaki.
The same Anwar al-Awlaki is suspected of radicalizing the Fort Hood shooter.
Bombing suspect Abdulmutallab has boasted of his jihad training to the FBI and has said it included final exhortations by Mr. al-Awlaki.
Abdulmutallab was told, “You are going to be the tip of the spear of the Muslim nation.”
The only positive thing the researchers found is that ginkgo appears to be safe.
The popular botanical ginkgo biloba does not improve memory nor does it prevent cognitive decline in older people, according to the largest and longest scientific study ever undertaken to look at the supplement.
The study finding is "disappointing news," says Steven DeKosky, dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the study's senior author.
General Motors is paying dealers $7,000 for remaining Saturn and Pontiac models in what amounts to a sweetened incentive aimed at clearing inventories of the discontinued brands, company offices and dealers said today.
The plan, which is in effect through Jan. 4, allows dealers to sell the remaining vehicles as used cars at whatever price they want, but any sales will count toward GM’s December new vehicle sales numbers.
While dealers were notified of the program earlier this month, publicizing it now will certainly stimulate year-end sales, but not necessarily at a profit.
This program does not apply to Hummer or Saab vehicles.
One big unanswered question will be: how long will buyers be able to get mechanical parts as well as body parts for Saturn and Pontiac vehicles at GM dealerships?
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Rows of air conditioners stick out from the walls of a building in Singapore's financial district.
William, second in line to the British throne, spent a night near Blackfriars Bridge in central London last week in an event organized by homeless charity Centrepoint.
Centrepoint's CEO, Seyi Obakin also spent the night alongside the prince and said it was a difficult and dangerous experience.
"There was no shielding from the bitter cold, or the hard concrete floor, or the fear of being accosted by drug dealers, pimps or those out to give homeless people a good kicking," Obakin said.
Fond du Lac police responded to a burglary call Thursday morning at Kristmas Kringle Shoppe. The store sells ornaments and everything else Christmas.
Police said someone apparently forced open a back door and stole an undisclosed amount of money.
After hard sell in Copenhagen there will be an even harder sell in the Senate.
A Washington Post report says Obama faces a tough fight in Senate to deliver on climate change pledges made at the Copenhagen climate summit.
By brokering a climate deal in Copenhagen a week ago, President Obama has committed himself to a more daunting task: pushing for comprehensive climate legislation in the Senate next year.
According to the CIA’s analysis, “detrimental global climatic change” threatens “the stability of most nations.” And, alas, for a global phenomenon, Canada will be hardest hit. The entire Dominion from the Arctic to the 49th parallel will be under 150 feet of ice.
Oh, wait. That was the last “scientific consensus” on “climate change,” early seventies version, as reflected in a CIA report from August 1974, which the enterprising author Maurizio Morabito stumbled upon in the British Library the other day.
If only the impending ice age had struck as scheduled and Scandinavia was now under a solid block of ice.
Instead, the streets of Copenhagen were filled with “activists” protesting global warming, some of whom torched automobiles in the traditional manner of concerned idealists.
The corrupted science has paved the way for greedy opportunism by politicians who plan to get rich trading in carbon credits at the expense of industry who will pass the carbon tax on to consumers.
On the Internet, there is a telling clip of Christopher Monckton interacting with a young Norwegian from Greenpeace who has come along to protest the former’s “denialism.”
Monckton is a viscount—i.e., a lord, like his fellow denialist, the former British chancellor Lord Lawson. Now that’s what I call peer review! (House of Lords joke.)
Lord Monckton has the faintly parodic mien of many aristocrats, whereas the Greenpeace gal was a Nordic blond. If there were empty stools adjoining both parties at the Climate Conference bar, you’d head for hers before some carbon-credit travelling salesman swiped it. Big mistake.
Monckton was the soul of affability, gently suggesting places where she could check out the data. She, by contrast, seemed barely sentient, clinging to rote emotionalism and impervious to reason, data, facts, inquiry.
More of the story here.
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