Occupy protest follows 123rd annual Rose Parade

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

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

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

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

The University of Wisconsin float and spirit squad is seen in the 123rd Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. Wisconsin and Oregon are to face each other in the Rose Bowl football game later Monday. ((AP Photo/Reed Saxon))

said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The University of Wisconsin Badger mascot hugs a red-clad Wisconsin fan in the 123rd Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. Wisconsin and Oregon are to face each other in the Rose Bowl football game later Monday. ((AP Photo/Reed Saxon))

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Police cars lead members of the Occupy movement as they march along Colorado Boulevard during the 123rd Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. ((AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu))


The University of Oregon Duck mascot joins paradegoers on the street in the 123rd Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. Oregon and Wisconsin are to face each other in the Rose Bowl football game later Monday. ((AP Photo/Reed Saxon))


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Wolverines capture fourth straight 3A state title | 2011 Best of Bellevue Sports

By JOSH SUMAN
Bellevue Reporter Staff Writer
December 30, 2011 ? Updated 11:01 AM?

With 2011 nearing its close, the Reporter is taking a look back at the best that was in the world of Bellevue area sports and recreation. From now until the end of the year, we will recap the best moments, stories and athletes of our area.

Team of the Year - Bellevue football

The Wolverines captured a fourth straight Class 3A state title to make it nine since 2001 and second four-peat in the same span.

Bellevue's run is unprecedented in WIAA history and it is the only school to win three or more consecutive state championships in football in any classification. While the historical significance was not lost on players or coaches, the merits of this season alone are what give the Wolverines the edge for Team of the Year.

Consider the following.

Bellevue faced three teams that were ranked in at least one national poll in Oaks Christian (Calif.), Skyline and Lakes and defeated each, none by fewer than 10 points.

Skyline quarterback Max Browne was intercepted only five times all year in leading his team to the 4A state title and earning Gatorade Player of the Year for Washington. Against Bellevue, he tossed two of those five picks, one that was returned for a score. For the season, Browne tossed a ridiculous 43 touchdowns, but he managed only a single scoring pass against the Wolverines.

Lakes averaged 53 points in 11 games leading up to the state quarterfinal matchup with Bellevue and scored 60-plus five times. The Lancers managed only 14 in the only loss of the year to the Wolverines.

Also considered: Interlake girls soccer; Interlake boys golf; Bellevue boys basketball; Newport girls water polo; Bellevue softball; Bellevue East girls lacrosse; Sammamish cross country; Sammamish boys soccer; Bellevue College baseball

The rest of the Best: Humanitarian?Recognition; Biggest Surprise; Comeback Story; Person of the Year; Most?Inspirational; Contest of the Year

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Dancing with the Stars Reruns Coming to GSN


To promote Game Show Network’s acquisition of Dancing with the Stars reruns, the cable channel recruited some past faves along with reigning champ J.R. Martinez.

Pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Derek Hough and Lacey Schwimmer joined Ralph Macchio, Mel B, Rick Fox, Gilles Marini, Audrina Patridge and Chaz Bono for a shoot.

You can begin catching reruns of DWTS on January 21 at 6 p.m. ET. First up: Season 4 (won by Apolo Ohno). GSN bought repeats through the coming Season 14.

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Obesity, Diabetes Pose 1-2 Threat to Young Americans (HealthDay)

FRIDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors have long been concerned that increasing rates of childhood obesity could fuel a diabetes epidemic.

Study results have now underscored that fear.

Researchers have found that the length of time a person carries excess weight directly contributes to an increased risk for type 2 diabetes.

In other words, because today's children are expected to receive a larger lifetime "dose" of obesity, their chances of developing diabetes at some point in their lives will be greater.

Dr. John E. Anderson, vice president of medicine and science for the American Diabetes Association, said that the findings reflect what is already happening in society, with more young children and teenagers diagnosed with type 2 diabetes than ever before.

"A disease that used to be confined to older people is creeping into high schools," Anderson said. "At best, this is alarming. This obesity epidemic we have is fueling an epidemic of diabetes in young people."

Obesity among children and adolescents has almost tripled since 1980, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today, nearly one in five American kids ages 2 to 19 -- or about 12.5 million -- are obese.

Obesity has long been linked with the development of type 2 diabetes, which occurs when the body gradually loses its ability to properly use insulin to convert blood sugar into fuel, a condition known as insulin resistance.

"Extra weight gets in the way of the ability of tissues to absorb insulin and use it to convert glucose," Anderson said. "The more obese you are, the more insulin resistant you can become."

But researchers now are finding that the time spent carrying extra weight matters as much as the amount of extra weight itself.

A research team at the University of Michigan that studied the health records of about 8,000 teens and young adults found that those with a body mass index (BMI) indicating overweight or obesity for a greater length of time had a higher risk for diabetes.

For example, the researchers found that a person who carried a BMI of 35 for 10 years -- a BMI of 30 or above is considered obese -- could be considered to have the equivalent of 100 years of excess BMI.

The findings, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, jibe with projections that show diabetes rates exploding as more people spend more of their lives either overweight or obese.

"If you're born in the year 2000 and the current trends continue unchecked, you will have a one in three chance of developing type 2 diabetes," Anderson said. That risk increases for certain ethnic minorities, including African Americans, Native Americans and Hispanics.

Diabetes is a systemic disease, and by its nature can affect almost every part of a person's body. Someone with diabetes has a shorter life expectancy, and on any given day has twice the risk for dying as a person of similar age without diabetes, according to the CDC.

"We worry this will be the first generation of Americans who don't live as long as their parents did," Anderson said.

What can be done to alter the potentially grim outlook? To start losing weight, kids need to adopt a set of healthy living skills that become part of their daily routine, said Sheri Colberg-Ochs, an exercise science professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., who works with the American Diabetes Association.

"It's not just the weight, per se," Colberg-Ochs said. "It's the lifestyle they've developed that caused them to gain the extra weight."

First, kids need to be taught to eat healthy foods and to avoid foods that are fatty, sugar-packed or heavily processed, she said.

"When food is a lot more refined, it's lacking in a lot of vitamins and minerals that are essential to your effective metabolic function," she said. "Kids eat empty calories, and those calories go straight to weight gain."

But they also need to become more physically active, she said. Exercise has been shown to both battle obesity and help better control blood glucose levels in the body.

"Those two things alone would probably solve the problem of childhood obesity, were society to pursue them vigorously," Colberg-Ochs said.

More information

The American Diabetes Association has more on living with diabetes.

For more on learning to live with diabetes from a young age, check out a companion article that details one woman's story.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20111230/hl_hsn/obesitydiabetespose12threattoyoungamericans

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Meizu MX launches today, lines dotted all over China as usual

This time last year we witnessed the Meizu M9 madness in Shenzhen, so we decided to pay our favorite gadget city another visit for the MX launch today (still the 1.4GHz dual-core model, of course). Surprisingly, the lines in Huaqiangbei this time were significantly shorter, but we were told that this was due to tighter security measures as requested by the local authorities -- if you've seen last year's photos you'll know why. Instead, this year the customers are told to line up only when they get a phone call; but a few keen beans still arrived last night, and the first guy in Shenzhen even turned down hotel accommodation offered by Meizu. Yep, that's how you do a "first" properly, folks. Other big cities in China also saw a similar phenomenon, including Beijing, Guangzhou and even Hong Kong -- it's hard to miss the long line formed along the south end of Sai Yeung Choi Street outside the new Mongkok store.

Meizu also informed us that the MX's final hardware benefits from an improved camera (tweaked white balance and the lens now benefits from an oleophobic coating), while the software's been giving many enhancements since our review -- these are mostly the weird default settings we mentioned previously, such as the max clock speed out of the box (now at 1.4GHz instead of 1GHz) and the default video recording resolution (now 1080p instead of the weird 1,080 x 720 setting). Oh, and if you're still rocking the older M9, Meizu has confirmed that it'll also get the Ice Cream Sandwich update later this year, so stay tuned. More in the press release after the break.


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Gingrich allies airing 30-minute show (AP)

DES MOINES, Iowa ? Newt Gingrich is getting a little help from his friends.

The Republican presidential candidate's allies plan to run a half-hour television special on local Iowa stations this weekend, a last-ditch attempt to help Gingrich rebound from a slide in polls ahead of Tuesday's Iowa caucuses. An independent outside organization made up of Gingrich backers, called a super PAC, also is running ads on his behalf as others are doing for his rivals.

It's the first time in this race where an organization has reserved 30 minutes of airtime to promote a candidate.

The conservative media company Newsmax hired Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, to host the special. It focuses on Gingrich's political career and successes as a conservative leader, and Michael Reagan calls Gingrich "a person who we believe will help continue my father's legacy."

It couldn't come at a better time for Gingrich. He doesn't have the money to counter the millions of dollars that his rivals have spent to blanket the state's airwaves with attack ads ? many from a super PAC aligned with rival Mitt Romney ? that have damaged his campaign.

Reagan told The Associated Press he agreed to host the program in part because he's concerned that the many conservative alternatives to Romney will splinter the conservative vote in Iowa and allow the former Massachusetts governor ? he is considered more moderate ? to win. Reagan has not endorsed a candidate for the 2012 election.

"Newt Gingrich and I have been friends for a long time and so when Newsmax asked me I was happy to say yes," Reagan said.

In the midst of a 22-stop bus tour across the state, Gingrich will continue campaigning through Iowa on Saturday, a day after he choked up and wiped away tears while recalling his late mother's struggle with depression and mental illness.

Speaking at an event with mothers in Des Moines, the former House speaker said his focus on brain science comes directly from "dealing with the real problems of real people in my family."

"And so it's not a theory. It's, in fact, my mother," he said as he wiped away tears.

"I do policy much easier than I do personal," Gingrich said. The tears flowed as the former speaker responded to questions about his mother from a pollster and longtime political ally.

Kit Gingrich died in 2003 at the age of 77. Gingrich said Friday she spent her final years in a long-term care facility where she suffered from depression, bipolar disease and gradually acquired physical ailments.

The moment was reminiscent of Hillary Rodham Clinton's teary-eyed response to a question just before the 2008 Democratic primary in New Hampshire. The former first lady's rare emotional response was credited with humanizing her in the eyes of voters and she went to pull off a win in the state.

His two daughters and his wife, Callista, were in the audience.

"Callista will tell you I get teary-eyed every time we sing Christmas carols," he said.

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Feds chasing fast-moving Hollywood arsonists

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has joined California fire investigators searching for arsonists torching cars at the height of arson season: New Year's. More cars burned Saturday morning.

New Year's is high time for serial arsonists, research shows, and Hollywood firefighters are seeing that phenomenon first hand as they chase potential copy-catters who continued to set cars ablaze Saturday morning.

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Since Thursday, suspected arsonists have set at least 30 car fires in a compact area of densely-developed Hollywood and West Hollywood, including around the famed Laurel Canyon area, where a car parked in front of a home once occupied by the late Doors' frontman Jim Morrison burned Friday morning, setting part of the home aflame.

Police say they have two people in custody, but the fire-setting continued Saturday morning.

Fire officials said the fires could be the work of a serial arsonist or a copycat culprit traveling between scenes on a motorcycle or even a bicycle. Saturday's fires came even as the fire department urged locals to keep their eyes open and stay vigilant.

So far, investigators have scant evidence to go on, as the perpetrators have for the most part appeared to have avoided video surveillance cameras. A $35,000 reward has been posted to entice residents with information about the fires to come forward.

While no one has been hurt, several homes and carports have sustained serious damage, raising the alarm at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which has sent agents to Hollywood.

Arson studies show that the majority of arson fires are set by thrill-seeking youths, even as the number of arson cases in larger US cities declined by 13 percent from 2010 through the first half of 2011, according to the newest FBI crime statistics. The numbers of arson fires historically goes up as a new year beckons, according to the US Fire Administration.

Given its long history of destructive wildfires, California is well-positioned to track arsonists. It has spearheaded the implementation of a national arson registry, similar to the sex offender registry, to track people convicted on arson charges after they're released.

Amid news that the car-burning rampage continued Saturday morning, Angelenos fervently debated what kind of perpetrators could be setting the fires. Some have speculated it's the work of homeless street people, while others have suggested eco-terrorism.

?I'm not even sure how it would be possible for a single individual to cover the area with a car ? it has to be two or more people working together,? suggested Los Angeles Times reader Adrianna Belle on the newspaper's website. ?These fires also seem too low-rent for the environmental terrorists, who, like most terrorists, want the most bang for their buck. If they ever blow [stuff] up, it's usually something big, like an entire dealer's lot filled with cars. Really, though, it's most likely one deranged individual with?a jones for setting fires. Even if they wanted help to stop a compulsion, where would they go??

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Russian challenger urges joint currency with EU (AP)

MOSCOW ? The Russian billionaire challenging Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in March's presidential election said Thursday that he will push for a common currency with the European Union and liberalize the nation's political scene if elected.

Mikhail Prokhorov, who owns 80 percent of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, didn't detail his proposal for a "common global currency based on the euro and the ruble" in the outline of an election platform that he released on his Live Journal blog. But he pledged to push for Russia's integration into a "Big Europe."

The 46-year-old, who made his fortune in metals, banking and media and is estimated to be worth $18 billion, also promised to disband the parliament elected in a fraud-tainted vote earlier this month, and call for a repeat election next December.

That echoed the demand of participants in recent protests in Russia spurred by allegations of ballot-stuffing and other violations in the Dec. 4 election. Prokhorov attended the latest rally over the weekend, which drew up to 100,000 people ? the biggest protest in Russia's post-Soviet history.

His presidential bid follows his botched performance before the parliamentary election, when he formed a liberal political party with the Kremlin's tacit support but abandoned it under what he called Kremlin pressure.

Some observers have speculated that Prokhorov may have had the Kremlin's blessing to join the presidential race in order to cater to voters angry at the government while creating a semblance of genuine competition. Prokhorov has admitted that the Kremlin would like to use him, but insists he will play his own game and try to foster positive change.

Prokhorov also promised to ease controls on Russia's political scene, which has been tightly controlled by Putin, reform a justice system permeated by corruption and abolish the highly unpopular conscription of soldiers into the military, turning it into a fully professional force instead.

He said in his platform that Putin's so-called "sovereign democracy" masks "a contempt for the people, a readiness to sacrifice them for the sake of geopolitical fantasies."

"It's time to understand that the basis for the nation's successful development isn't in tons of coal, barrels of oil and cubic meters of timber, but in a system of human values shared by the society and protected by law," he said.

"I will build my policy based on a Russian humanitarian tradition that for a long time has been present only in Russian literature. It's time to make it part of the political sphere and the public life."

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Nataliya Vasilyeva contributed to this report.

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