NMMU committed to an equal, socially just society

THE issues raised by Bantwini Matika in his open letter regarding the state of sports and more specifically, rugby transformation at NMMU are challenging, but certainly worthy of further debate.

It is a great pity that the writer has not sought to meet with NMMU colleagues to discuss these issues, and I cannot see any plausible reason why he is "forced" to write an "open letter" as our doors have never been closed for discussion.

I would like to distinguish between matters of policy and principle about sports transformation, as opposed to specific allegations made against NMMU rugby administrators.

I clearly cannot speak on their behalf.

And, as his charges are quite serious and damaging, it is only fair that NMMU rugby has a right of reply. I have to say though, that calling someone racist, while in some cases justifiable, may in other instances, have the opposite effect of closing down the ground for making a balanced assessment of underlying and often unknown facts, and blocking a pathway to discovering areas of mutual agreement.

It also has the risk of tarnishing everyone with the same brush, even if unintended. At any rate, labelling cannot be a substitute for making a balanced assessment of the facts, motives and impact of strategies of rugby administrators to live up to the policy commitments of the university.

Matika's allegations will be taken up by the dean of students, Khaya Matiso, who has committed himself to ensuring transformation is consistently, firmly and fairly driven both on the field and in the administration of sports on our campuses. He will make a balanced assessment of its merits and work with our deputy vice-chancellor, Dr Sibongile Muthwa who has overall oversight of all student affairs.

I am glad Matika agrees that NMMU has made a clear and firm commitment to the constitutional ideals of fostering a more equal, socially just and fair society. This, as he rightly notes, is expressed in our Vision 2020, and since 2008, we have been hard at work attempting to drive these goals in student recruitment, living and learning, teaching and research, creating a vibrant student democracy, and taking the university into our various communities to work towards a more equal and socially-just society. None of this is easy, quick or without challenges, and there are still vast areas still requiring major transformation. But we certainly have not been sitting still. I invite Matika to meet with NMMU colleagues involved with rugby to explore positive ways of working towards true change.

Prof Derrick Swartz

Vice-Chancellor, NMMU

Both letters edited due to space constraints

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Rescuers: Antarctica plane crash 'not survivable'

By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News

A plane that went missing in Antarctica slammed into a mountain and there are not believed to be any survivors, rescuers said Saturday.

Three Canadians were on board the Twin Otter aircraft when it went missing Wednesday about halfway between the South Pole and the McMurdo Station research center.

?The aircraft wreckage is on a very steep slope, close to the summit of Mt Elizabeth. It appears to have made a direct impact that was not survivable.? No details are available on the cause of the crash,? Maritime New Zealand, which has been coordinating the search operation, said in a statement. ?The next of kin have been informed.?

It said the site of the crash was at the northern end of the Queen Alexandra mountain range at an altitude of about 13,000 feet.

Two helicopters reached the site at around 7.15 p.m. New Zealand time (1.15 a.m. ET), but were not able to land.

Rescuer Tracy Brickles said in the statement that it was very sad end to the operation.

?It has been difficult operation in challenging conditions but we remained hopeful of a positive result. Our thoughts are now with the families of the crewmen,? she said.

The Calgary Sun newspaper previously identified one of those aboard the plane as Bob Heath of the Northwest Territories, calling him a ?star pilot? for Canadian firm Kenn Borek Air, which owns the plane.

In an emailed statement, Kenn Borek Air said one of its aircraft and a New York Air National Guard plane had also made ?visual contact? with the crash site.

?No signs of activity are evident in the area surrounding the site, and it appears that the impact was not survivable,? the statement said.

It added that helicopter crews and mountain rescue teams would attempt to get to the site.

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Murray outlasts Federer in Australian Open semis

The reigning US Open champion gets two-time defending Australian Open champ Novak Djokovic in the Grand Slam final.

By John Pye,?Associated Press / January 25, 2013

Britain's Andy Murray reacts after winning his men's semifinal against Switzerland's Roger Federer at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013.

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Andy Murray was sucking in deep breaths, trying to recover from his exhausting win over Roger Federer. Pain was very much on his mind.

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The US. Open champion defeated Federer 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-2 in a four-hour Australian Open semifinal Friday night. It was Murray's first victory against the 17-time major winner at a Grand Slam event.

But with the clock about to strike midnight, Murray was already thinking about Sunday's final against two-time defending champion Novak Djokovic, who is on a 20-match winning streak at Melbourne Park. This will be a rematch of their US Open final.

"Every time we play each other it's normally a very physical match," Murray said. "I'll need to be ready for the pain. I hope it's a painful match ? that'll mean it's a good one."

Murray had a 10-9 record against Federer, but had lost his three previous Grand Slam matches to the Swiss star. One of those defeats came at Wimbledon last year. Murray says the disappointment of that loss triggered his run to the gold medal at the London Olympics, and then his drought-breaking triumph at the US Open.

"You know, I've obviously lost some tough matches against him in Slams," Murray said. "So to win one, especially the way that it went tonight, yeah, was obviously nice."

Murray ended a 76-year drought for British men at the majors when he beat Djokovic in five sets in the final at Flushing Meadows.

He's hoping the step-by-step manner in which he has crossed career milestones off his to-do list will continue Sunday. He lost four major finals, including two in Australia, before winning a Grand Slam title. He lost three times to Federer in a major before beating him. Even then, he wasted a chance to serve out in the fourth set Friday night as Federer rallied.

"Those matches ... have helped obviously mentally," he said. "I think going through a lot of the losses that I've had will have helped me as well. Obviously having won against Novak before in a Slam final will help mentally."

Djokovic will not be the only defending champion this weekend playing for another title. Victoria Azarenka will face China's Li Na on Saturday night for the women's crown.

Azarenka hasn't added a major title since her breakthrough in Australia last year. She's coming off a semifinal victory over American teenager Sloane Stephens in which she had to answer a torrent of questions over her nine-minute medical timeout after wasting five match points and then dropping serve in the next-to-last game.

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Brian Paccione: How Guns Affect the Daily Lives of Teenagers in NYC

Here is an opportunity to understand how guns are affecting our society -- not through regulation, speculation or political discourse, but through a much more intimate declaration: teens coping with the effects of guns in their everyday lives.

The students at Metropolitan High School, led by their dedicated teacher Aimee Cavazzi, were given a simple assignment: make a short documentary about your neighborhood and explore the social and economic issues you face in this community. Their videos are a unique and candid perspective on some of the most overlooked neighborhoods in the city. Through their videos, these students are effectively becoming citizen journalists of their communities, humanizing and heightening our understanding of their neighborhoods. They are reporting on issues and events passed over by the media. They are taking the time to reflect and consider their options -- accept the way things are or work to change them.

The last time MyBlockNYC visited Metropolitan High School there had been a drive-by shooting on an adjacent block a few nights prior. Victims of gun violence in these neighborhoods are often unintended targets. A Family Remembers Their Daughter explores one family's tragic loss and their hopeful yet chilling response to a local gang shooting.

Students in every school MyBlockNYC works with express fear and apprehension about their neighborhoods. The student that produced Reflections on 149th Street and Southern Blvd filmed the entire video from her window. Invariably, in almost every school MyBlockNYC works with, students ask if they can film from their window; it's just too dangerous on the street.

MyBlockNYC is not promoting a solution or an agenda on local issues, but merely trying to empower the youth of NYC to be able to use video to share personal stories on this topic and others, and, with these videos, allow the public a better understanding of how guns directly impact communities in NYC. We believe there is a difference between reading an article about a shooting in a newspaper and seeing a high-school student point to the bullet holes in the front door of her apartment (My Neighborhood Is Not Safe).

We want these three videos below to speak for themselves. We hope this blog can be a way to exhibit not our opinions, but to enable students from the five boroughs to share their powerful and intimate perspectives through video.

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Russian tycoons concerned as Magnitsky fallout spreads

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - It began with the death of an anti-corruption lawyer in a Moscow jail and grew into a row between Russia and the United States. Now Russia's business elite are worried their interests could be harmed by fallout from the Magnitsky affair.

With international concern spreading after the 2009 death of Sergei Magnitsky, some Russian tycoons are worried their legitimate cross-border money transfers involving anything from industrial investments to luxury properties will get hit by red tape.

And they complain that the Kremlin's hard-line stance on Magnitsky is not doing them any favors.

"The Russian business (community) is absolutely united. The situation is more than bad and things may well spread to the EU and UK and God knows who could be sucked in," said a Russian billionaire, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The billionaire asked not to be named as he said the Russian business establishment was still afraid of bringing up the matter with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian business has tried to stay out of politics since the country's then richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky was jailed for tax evasion in the last decade, a move Putin's critics say was revenge for Khodorkovsky's political ambitions.

Magnitsky died in a Moscow prison while in pre-trial custody on tax evasion changes.

Authorities said the 37-year-old died of a heart attack, but his former employer, investment fund Hermitage Capital, says he was killed because he was investigating a $230 million theft by mid-ranking interior and tax officials.

The Russian business elite was at first broadly indifferent to the case, but that changed last year when the United States introduced its "Magnitsky Act", imposing sanctions on dozens of Russians, whom Hermitage and its owner Bill Browder accused of being involved in money laundering and the lawyer's death.

Russia responded by banning the adoption of Russian children by Americans. And subsequently the fallout from the affair has increased.

EXTENSIVE PROBE

Investigations have taken place in three European countries which are important conduits for fund transfers by Russian business.

In Lithuania the prosecutor's office said an investigation into suspected money laundering, based in information from Hermitage, is continuing having already resulted in the freezing of several bank accounts, while Estonia's public prosecutor said local police had investigated the matter though they decided not to open a criminal case.

And Swiss prosecutors have said they are conducting an extensive inquiry into money transfers alleged to have been made by Russian tax officials and others allegedly involved in Magnitsky's death.

Although Russian businessmen say they have nothing to fear from such investigations, they worry it will become increasingly difficult to manage global portfolios which have grown in the past two decades to take in interests ranging from soccer clubs to French castles.

The biggest concern is that Magnitsky Act-type measures will spread.

"Many more countries will join. We believe the EU will impose the Magnitsky sanctions before the end of the year," Browder said.

Clearly he has an axe to grind, but he says he has heard more and more complaints from Russian executives that the Kremlin needed to investigate the case properly to stop tensions with the United States from spreading and damaging business.

Economist Sergei Guriev said: "Russian business is very upset. The last development they want is to see the EU or UK joining those sanctions. Quite simply it is where the Russian business has huge assets and where their kids are studying."

Russian officials and bankers say the impact on commerce is becoming far too negative.

"Of course I have concerns about a worsening in (Russian-U.S.) relations. It creates unease for business. And it is a question for both sides - what's the point of continuing all this? I think it is very important to move on," said German Gref, head of top Russian bank Sberbank.

BROADER CONCERNS

For many business executives, the Magnitsky affair is symbolic of broader concerns about operating in Russia.

The case has repeatedly soured Russia's presence at the Davos economic forum and this year delegation head and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev faced more tough questions focusing on the lack of reforms in his country.

Before Medvedev gave his opening speech, some 78 percent of respondents voting in an audience packed with hundreds of Western executives and politicians agreed that Russia's biggest problem was weak government and corporate governance.

"The level of trust between Russian and foreign business is again very low. And it is a very bad sign at a time when Russia wants to speed up growth. And that is impossible without foreign investment," said a senior Russian oil executive.

Economists like Guriev note the Russian stock market has been one of the worst performers among emerging nations over the past year, despite a stable macroeconomic environment.

The richest BRIC nation has also seen a continuing high level of "capital flight", or money fleeing the country because of domestic uncertainties, some analysts say. A report by accountants Ernst & Young last month estimated capital flight out of Russia at $32.3 billion in 2011, while a Reuters poll showed net capital outflows of $71 billion in 2012.

Kenneth Hersh, CEO at NGP Energy Capital, a U.S.-based energy fund which has $13 billion under management, says he is not investing in Russia due to a general perception of a lack of rule of law and weak regulation.

And he shares concerns that the Magnitsky case is adding to the general perception of Russia as an unattractive place to do business.

"I need higher returns to compensate for that risk," Hersh said.

(Additional reporting by Martin de Sa'Pinto in Zurich and David Mardiste in Tallinn; Editing by David Holmes)

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John Kerry: Global climate change is threat to US

John Kerry said the US should pursue policies to boost clean energy and slow the effects of climate change in his confirmation hearing Thursday. Climate change has been a focus of John Kerry's career in the Senate.

By Matthew Daly,?Associated Press / January 24, 2013

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday. John Kerry told fellow senators he would be a "passionate advocate" on slowing climate change if confirmed as secretary of state.

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Calling global climate change a "life-threatening issue," Secretary of State nominee John?Kerry?said Thursday that the United States must play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.

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Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said at his confirmation hearing that the U.S. should pursue policies to boost clean energy and energy efficiency. In his state and others, such as California, "the fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy,"?Kerry?said. "It's a job creator."

Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has made climate change a central focus of his Senate career and led a failed effort in the Senate for a climate change bill in 2010.

Kerry?told fellow senators he would be a "passionate advocate" on the issue if confirmed as secretary of state, "not based on ideology but based on facts, based on science. And I hope to sit with all of you and convince you that this $6 trillion (energy) market is worth millions of American jobs and leadership, and we better go after it."

Failing to deal with climate change was more of a risk than addressing it head-on,?Kerry?said, citing damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, drought and wildfires. Congress is expected to approve more $50 billion in disaster relief for Sandy victims alone. The storm pounded Northeastern states in late October and has been blamed for 140 deaths.

"If we can't see the downside of spending that money" as a short-term fix after a disaster "and risking lives for all the changes that are taking place ? to agriculture, to our communities, the ocean and so forth, we're ignoring what science is telling us,"?Kerry?said.

On a related issue,?Kerry?said he has made no decision about the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. Environmental groups have been pressuring the Obama administration to reject the pipeline, saying it would carry "dirty oil" that contributes to global warming.

Kerry?said a review process is well underway at the State Department. The department has jurisdiction over the pipeline because it crosses an international border.

"It will not be long before that comes across my desk,"?Kerry?said. "And at that time, I'll make the appropriate judgments about it."

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UK court identifies Barclays staff named in rate probe

LONDON (Reuters) - A number of Barclays current and past executives are on a shortlist of individuals named in regulatory documents referring to the bank's attempted rigging of global benchmark interest rates, court documents released on Friday showed.

The list includes the head of Barclays' investment bank, Rich Ricci, who has led a reputation-based review of all of Barclays' investment banking activities following the scandal, which saw the bank fined $453 million by United States and British authorities.

The list also includes finance director Chris Lucas, former Chief Executive Bob Diamond, former chief operating officer Jerry del Missier, and former compliance head Stephen Morse.

A British judge ordered the bank to reveal their identities during a preliminary hearing for a test case on the mis-selling of interest rate swaps brought by a residential care home operator.

A longer list of 104 individuals who were named in court papers was released on Thursday after the judge denied their request for anonymity. The shorter list of 25, released on Friday, names those specifically referred to in regulatory documents referring to Libor manipulation.

Twenty-four of the 25 had requested anonymity - the exception being former Barclays trader Jay Merchant, who went on to become head of swaps trading at UBS before leaving his position last August amid federal scrutiny of his activities while at Barclays.

None of those named is necessarily implicated in any wrongdoing.

Guardian Care Homes alleges Barclays mis-sold interest rate hedging products based on Libor (London interbank offered rate) in a case that is shining a light on those involved in the bank's interest rate-setting process.

(Editing by David Cowell)

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Depression-era drainage ditches emerge as sleeping threat to Cape Cod salt marshes

Jan. 24, 2013 ? Cape Cod, Massachusetts has a problem. The iconic salt marshes of the famous summer retreat are melting away at the edges, dying back from the most popular recreational areas. The erosion is a consequence of an unexpected synergy between recreational over-fishing and Great Depression-era ditches constructed by Works Progress Administration (WPA) in an effort to control mosquitoes.

The cascade of ecological cause and effect is described by Tyler Coverdale and colleagues at Brown University in a paper published online this month in ESA's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

"People who live near the marshes complain about the die-off because it's not nice to look at," said Coverdale. "Without cordgrass protection you also get really significant erosion, retreating at sometimes over a meter a year." The die-back is ugly, but it is also a substantial loss of a valuable ecological resource.

When fishermen hook too many predatory fishes out of the marsh's ecosystem, the fishes' prey go on fruitfully multiplying, unchecked. The reverberations down the food chain can result in uncomfortable environmental changes for human residents. The problem for Cape Cod is the native purple marsh crab (Sesarma reticulatum), which burrows in the mud along the inner shorelines of the marshes, and dines almost exclusively on the tall and fast-growing low marsh cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) that lines the marsh edges.

The tall and sturdy cordgrass is an essential buffer against the friction of tides and storms. Without it, soft banks erode out from under the other plants and the water line retreats farther and farther back into the marsh. The unchecked multitudes of purple marsh crabs have taken a visible toll on the developed areas of the Cape. By 2008, 50 percent of the creek banks in the marsh had worn back. Old drainage ditches have expanded from nearly invisible threads to open channels -- some nearly 30-40 meters wide -- with muddy, exposed edges.

The purple marsh crabs need tidal creek edge habitat to thrive, and do not venture into the inner heart of the marsh, where a shorter cordgrass species (the closely related, but squattier Spartina patens) and other high marsh plants dominate. The old WPA mosquito ditches also fulfill the crabs' habitat requirements. Once benign, the ditches nucleated dramatic reconstruction of the landscape with the loss of blue crab, striped bass, and smooth dogfish, and the subsequent boom of purple marsh crabs.

One of the remarkable features of the cordgrass die-off is its tight locality. Some areas of undeveloped marsh as close as a kilometer to the denuded banks around private residences and public docks appear healthy and unaffected. Mosquito ditches that can only be reached by a hard slog through undeveloped marshland do not display the striking die-off and bank erosion. The pattern cued the researchers to the possibility that recreational fishing was the trigger, Coverdale says. Few people wade into the swamp to fish.

Marshes are excellent model systems for observing the intersection of human impacts that can trigger environmental degradation, the authors say, because they have been exploited by humans for centuries, if not thousands of years, and are easily studied from aerial and satellite images.

"Marshes are one of the most heavily utilized resources worldwide," said Coverdale. "They are easily accessible, and provide shellfish, fuel, baitfish and opportunities for recreational anglers. A lot of those harvests are probably sustainable."But he is interested in the tipping points at which use of the marsh becomes unsustainable. The revelation of the slumbering menace of the mosquito ditches raises the prospect of other submerged impacts that may surface under the influence of new, contemporary pressures.

In the early twentieth century, Cape Cod was a very different place from the summer vacation destination it is today. As land use shifted from agriculture toward tourism, the local chamber of commerce funded an effort to draw off standing water through drainage ditches to suppress the mosquito population. The program was probably not very effective at controlling mosquito-borne disease, Coverdale says, but it did put a lot of people to work, and they were industrious. Over 2400 kilometers of old ditches stripe the marshes of the long, low-lying peninsula. The Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project continues ditch-dredging under the Barnstable County Department of Health and the Environment.

The ditching program had a relatively minor impact on the marshes compared to other forms of development, however. Following the Second World War, Cape Cod developed rapidly, nearly tripling in permanent human population between 1940 and 1976, when a new awareness of the ecological and economic benefits of the marsh brought strict limitations on further development. Ditches claimed only 2 percent of the marsh, compared with the 70 percent affected by roads, houses, restaurants, marinas, and other hallmarks of a modern coastal community. Alone, the ditches did not fundamentally alter the marsh ecosystem. The species that colonized the ditches were already present in the marsh; the WPA's remodeling project just moved them around. The additional pressure of recreational fishing changed that equilibrium.

How do Cape Cod residents and local fishing enthusiasts feel about this news? Coverdale says the area has a strong conservation ethic. People remember what the Cape looked like when their parents lived there, and are unhappy with the changes. As a fishing enthusiast himself, Coverdale does not see ecologists and fishermen as opposing forces.

"People enjoy catching fish today, but they come back year after year. They want to see the fish there tomorrow," Coverdale said. He has faith that the tendency of residents and long-time visitors to take the long view will make a solution possible. A system of catch and release could make fishing the Cape sustainable and allow the local community to retain its fishing heritage.

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Ed Sheeran To Perform With Elton John At The Grammys

Nominee joins the Lumineers, Jack White, Rihanna and more at the February 10 awards show.
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Court Says You Can't Ban Sex Offenders From Social Networks

The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an Indiana law, which bans sex offenders from using social networking sites just because children are on them, is unconstitutional. More »

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GoDaddy Super Bowl 2013 Ad Teaser Video Released - Super ...

For the third year in a row, Go Daddy is teaming up with the .CO domain to create a 2013 Super Bowl commercial aimed at anyone who has ever thought about starting their own business.

The 30-second Go Daddy Super Bowl 2013 ad featuring Go Daddy Girl Danica Patrick, but that's about all either company has revealed about the commercial at this point.

Now though a new teaser video for the GoDaddy Super Bowl 2013 .co ad has been released. Danica Patrick is taking off as sexy flight captain. Watch the teaser video below.

.CO is one of the fastest-growing domain name extensions on the Internet and is a commonly referenced abbreviation for 'company.'
Like Go Daddy, .CO is intently focused on helping small businesses, innovators and entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams online.

"It's a fun story to tell, the trick is to do it in thirty seconds," said Juan Diego Calle, CEO and Founder of .CO Internet S.A.S., the company behind the .CO domain. "The Super Bowl is unlike any other broadcast event in the world. We get to share our message with more than a hundred million people during a program where many tune in especially for the commercials. So what will we do? We're going to inspire people to seize the moment -- to actually launch their big ideas online!"

Go Daddy, the world's leading Web hosting and domain name provider, has certainly delivered historically when it comes to Super Bowl campaigns. Go Daddy's Super Bowl resume includes records for Share of Voice, highly sought-after in the PR battles, and Internet traffic spikes, a bonanza for any business.

"Partnering with the dot-CO domain is a great fit for Go Daddy, especially considering we share the same goal of helping small businesses leverage the power of the Internet," said Go Daddy CMO Barb Rechterman. ?"Domain names and websites are part of the mainstream vernacular now and there's no better place to tell a story than in a Super Bowl commercial."
The story-telling for the 2013 .CO ad will revolve around how easy it is to create your own business online and use the Internet to grow it quickly. The commercial is being shot in Los Angeles in early January and was developed by the Deutsch NY team.

The Go Daddy, .CO partnership has proven successful in two previous years. Last year's "Body Paint" Super Bowl ad drove significant traffic to the GoDaddy.co website. In 2011, .CO garnered massive attention as iconic comedienne Joan Rivers was revealed as the "surprise" new Go Daddy .CO Girl. That commercial triggered a record-breaking 466 percent increase in domain name registrations within 15 minutes of airing.

The Super Bowl 2013 will take place on Sunday, February 3, 2013 in New Orleans. Super Bowl Ads for Geeks will again offer full coverage about the Super Bowl Ads ahead and during the Super Bowl XLVII. The first big news is that Kate Upton will star in the Mercedes Super Bowl 2013 Ad.

See all confirmed Super Bowl 2013 Advertisers.

Until Game day, which will bring the new 2013 Super Bowl Ads you can check out the Super Bowl 2012 Ads.

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PFT: Brady hoping 'heart and soul' Welker returns

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The man known for his ?hello, friends? greeting has a very different message for the enemies of new Browns V.P. of player personnel Mike Lombardi.

Jim Nantz of CBS has launched an assault against those in the Cleveland media who are criticizing the team?s decision to hire Lombardi ? and against those within the league who have been, in Nantz?s view, backstabbing Lombardi.

Nantz made a spirited call on Friday to the local CBS Radio affiliate, and he followed it with a 17-minute interview by Marla Ridenour of the Akron Beacon Journal, during which Nantz admitted to possibly sounding ?over the top? because he was walking briskly in the cold.? Nantz called the media opponents of Lombardi ?smarmy? and accused them of ?personal vendettas,? apparently pinning most of the blame on Tony Grossi of ESPNCleveland.com.

?Maybe I was speaking in broader terms, really, about just the overall climate in Cleveland. I?m not into attacking anybody in the media, ever, because I live in the same world,? Nantz said. ?But I do think it has gone beyond the overall coverage . . . who are all these people who think they know more about football than Mike Lombardi??

To his credit, Nantz at all times acknowledged a friendship with Lombardi.? Still, the zeal with which Nantz defended Lombardi more than counters the potency of the attacks.? At one point during the radio interview, for example, Nantz declared that Lombardi and Patriots coach Bill Belichick are the two smartest football people in the business.

We agree wholeheartedly with Nantz on one point.? Backstabbing is as common in the NFL as run-blocking.? Plenty of folks in the business will smile to your face, and then badmouth you as soon as you?re out of earshot.? While that?s a dynamic that infects plenty of industries, it?s an accepted practice among folks who are trying to get or to keep a finite number of jobs in an industry with no current inclination to expand? beyond 32 shops.

And Lombardi has been a victim of it.? We know that because, over the years, we?ve heard it.

Has it unfairly kept Lombardi out of the league for an extended period of the time?? Possibly, and if so that?s a shame.

But consider this undeniable fact:? Lombardi didn?t get an interview for any of the other six G.M. vacancies.? Not even the Jets, who conducted a scorched-earth campaign to find someone who would take the job, brought him in for an interview.If that?s a product of Lombardi being a victim of backstabbers and politics, it?s a damn shame.

Regardless of how it got to this point, Lombardi now has a chance to prove Nantz right, and to prove the naysayers wrong.? If the Browns thrive, he?ll be viewed as succeeding.? If the Browns continue to struggle, he?ll be viewed as failing.

Like everyone else in those positions, Lombardi has earned a chance to push the needle one way or the other.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/21/brady-hoping-heart-and-soul-welker-returns/related/

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See Benedict Cumberbatch As Julian Assange

Either this is a picture of Benedict Cumberbatch playing infamous WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange or there's something very wrong with Julian Assange's face. Also, find out how "Django Unchained" is connected to the rest of the Tarantino universe in today's Dailies! » Clip from "Escape From Tomorrow" [Badass Digest] » First photo of Benedict Cumberbatch [...]

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/01/22/benedict-cumberbatch-julian-assange/

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Home Improvement Tips For The Average Person

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Ida

TIP! If there are several projects that need to be completed in one room, carefully determine what order they need to be finished in. If both the cabinets and the floors need to be replaced, doing the cabinets first is a good plan.

There is more to home improvement than a new floor or a paint job. If you really want to improve the look and value of your home, you have to carefully plan your home improvement projects. The tips in this article will help you to develop exceptional home improvement abilities. You will be able to save lots of money, and you will also be able to create the house of your dreams.

TIP! Don?t forget to improve your outdoor living space. Your backyard can make a wonderful extension to your indoor living area.

Lights make a room complete. Having a room that?s well-lit with plenty of light can give a warm and inviting feeling. Putting in an additional light fixture can really brighten up a room. Adding light to a previously dark space can improve the entire house.

TIP! Before you commit to bringing a particular contractor in to help with your home improvement work, take the time to call up their insurer and confirm that their liability coverage is still current. Unscrupulous contractors may go so far as to carry an expired insurance card, so it is best to verify everything beforehand.

Prior to starting home improvements, it?s helpful to write down everything that needs to be done, from beginning to end. Get another opinion from a contractor to find out if there are things you might have missed. Also, be sure to set aside enough time, as some projects can go longer than you may have thought.

TIP! Want an elegant touch for your home that doesn?t cost very much? An easy way to revitalize that boring old entryway is to install a new doorbell. This is an improvement anyone who comes to your home will notice.

Lampshades are not typically very interesting. With stencils, you can brighten them up. Use paint or an ink pad to add designs that be taken from a template, then add them to your boring lampshades. This livens up the room without having to buy new lamp shades.

TIP! Ask family and friends for help with your home improvement project. By waiting until the project is started, you may have difficulty finding the extra help you need.

If the face of your home lacks style and character, think about putting in a pergola. Pergolas are becoming popular and will add a wonderfully shady place to spend some time. You and a few friends can install a pergola in one weekend.

TIP! When considering residing your house, you should look for different varieties of insulation. There are many different insulation systems available, from a simple vapor barrier to rigid foam to blown-in cellulose.

The art of home improvement is one that can be enjoyed by everyone. Take your time with it if you are inexperienced; eventually you?ll understand more, and you?ll become more skilled. By paying attention to detail, you?ll accomplish your task swiftly and you will be proud of your work at the same time.

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Editorial: Kim Dotcom, noisy rogue with a commonplace startup idea

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing has traditionally operated on a narrow ledge between perceptions of legality and illegality. The legitimacy of underlying file-transfer technology is never in dispute, though media companies might hate the unleashing of content that it represents. The narrow ledge is balanced between two activities: directly infringing copyright (what some users do), and indirectly facilitating infringement by providing a platform that makes it easy (what P2P platforms do). One purpose of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is to protect the technology of file sharing, and companies that use it, by inventing a theoretical "safe harbor" that shelters all sorts of user-powered platforms from the consequences of illegal actions by the users.

If media companies hate digitization generally, they particularly loathe Kim Dotcom and his entrepreneurial file-transfer platforms. Their revulsion was fulfilled exactly a year ago when the US Justice Department shut down Megaupload.com, a network of shareable cloud lockers focused on music, movies and images. Like a recurring nightmare, and in apparent commemoration of the anniversary, Megaupload's bumptious founder is launching Mega, an evolved version of the same idea. Mega further narrows the P2P ledge and fleshes out its founder's complex ambition.

When the hot spotlight of scrutiny is turned toward file-sharing companies, their official statements typically contain a coded acknowledgment of where their bread is buttered. During Megaupload's heyday, when the site was classified in an industry report as a major "digital piracy" destination, the site's PR statement was predictably DMCA-sheltered: "Activity that violates our terms of service or our acceptable use policy is not tolerated, and we go to great lengths to swiftly process legitimate DMCA takedown notices." In other words: "It's not us; we just provide the space. Talk to the users."

The music industry learned how to talk to the users of P2P watering holes like Napster, LimeWire and BitTorrent, taking their lawsuits to the streets through the 2000s. The recording industry has sued more than 30,000 individuals for (intentional or inadvertent) file sharing of songs, sometimes litigating for outrageous and indemonstrable damages. (The RIAA has enlisted major ISPs in the policing effort.)

It is perhaps worth noting a legal technicality: Infringement occurs in the uploading part of a file-sharing transaction, not the downloading. When somebody takes a single music track in a P2P setting, the sources are liable. But when the downloader remains logged into the platform, that person's computer immediately becomes a potential source of many more instances of copyright violation. Modern file sharing resembles a closed loop in which giving and taking form an unbroken and continuously revolving circle.

If file-sharing entrepreneurs like Kim Dotcom maximize the DMCA's shielding with winking references to terms of service, media companies and their lobbyists approach the narrow ledge with a reverse image of the same "C'mon, we all know what's going on here" subtext. Getting government action on their takedown aspirations depends on the extent to which they can convince judges that the offending platforms either encourage infringing activity beyond the inherent potential for it, or fail to adequately remedy copyright breakage.

Demonizing platforms upon which piracy can flourish is a lot harder when media stars endorse those platforms. That's what happened in December 2011 when Megaupload distributed a promotional video called "The Mega Song," featuring singing, rapping and spoken endorsements by a power lineup of performers and producers including Kanye West, Alicia Keys and Snoop Dogg. The Megaupload service was clearly pitched as a collaboration tool that expedited global transfers of music production files. There was no coy blurring of legal lines in the video's narrative, but it was easy to view "The Mega Song" as a defensive viral strike against intensifying perceptions of illegality.

Whatever the video's purpose, beloved music celebs were acting as spokespeople in direct opposition to legal actions of their corporate overlords. A riotous tug of war ensued in which the video disappeared from YouTube, reappeared, was whisked off again and was finally reinstated with something close to a rebuke by YouTube aimed at the Universal Music Group, which had initiated the DMCA takedown request.

The video victory was doubtless a tasty triumph for Kim Dotcom (who had a cameo in the vid), but a mere pebble against tectonic industry forces grinding away at his business. The eventual DOJ smackdown a year later was based on several indictments of criminal intent, and culminated in a flashy raid of Kim Dotcom's New Zealand mansion. New Zealand authorities did not extradite Dotcom to face US justice, frustrating American agencies.

Now to the present. The new Mega site is branded as The Privacy Company, a puzzlingly broad imprimatur whose claim rests on browser-level encryption of files as they are uploaded. Other than that, in broad strokes Mega is set up as cloud storage, comparable to Dropbox but with an implicit focus on large entertainment files. (Users get 50GB free of charge, torching the storage limitations of Dropbox and other competitors.) The business modeling features tiered pricing above that free service level. It seems clear that the laser focus on encryption and privacy aims to excite demand for a safer sharing environment -- both for the user and the host.

A glance at the new site's privacy policy might drive a splinter of apprehension in the hopeful P2P addict's heart: Mega categorically states that it collects and keeps unencrypted personal information and IP addresses of logged-in computers. It is only the file that is garbled, making it impossible for Mega to discern its contents and copyright compliance. (It's presumably quite difficult for stalking RIAA and MPAA bots as well.) In the DMCA-informed balance of criminal intent, Mega shifts the scale in favor of the host by making hosted files inscrutable. At the same time, the encryption system makes broad, anonymous file sharing difficult by requiring a decryption key to be shared along with the file.

Philosophically, the "Privacy Company" branding is a call to digital arms that probably won't resonate with average users. To the mainstream internet citizenry, threats to personal privacy involve identity theft resulting from any number of inherent systemic vulnerabilities, or Facebook mishaps in which drunken happy hour photos end up on the screens of mothers and bosses. Dotcom speaks of a human need for "refuge from the community," but I can't see most people affiliating that sentiment with cloud storage. His declamations are more coded rhetoric for the file-sharing ledge.

More interesting than the encryption scheme is a projected service product called Megakey, a revenue engine for free content. At least ingenious, Megakey is described as user-installed software (labeled malware by some) that generates advertising revenue for the site by hijacking ad slots on other sites. If launched, Megakey would take ad blocking in a new direction by removing the original ads from a portion of the sites visited by a Mega user, and replacing them with Mega advertisers.

Put aside ethics for a moment. This contrivance refutes the essential internet advertising model, which sells "inventory" computed as pageviews multiplied by ad units on the page. If there is a revolutionary aspect to Megakey, it is the substitution of one pair of eyeballs across many sites for thousands of eyeballs on one site. If the product materializes, I can imagine Mega developing an understanding of each user based on the unencrypted personal information it harvests, then selling each person's eyeballs at premium rates.

If only kidnapping other websites weren't questionably legal. Or is it? Simple ad blocking is not currently challenged, despite accomplishing the same chief disruptions as Megakey -- altering the display of another owner's website, and deflecting revenue from that owner.

At the core, Kim Dotcom seems to embody a hacker's hybrid value of mayhem and idealism. An established rogue, his public statements refer to meeting with movie producers, and he is explicitly intent on legitimately changing the industry's analog distribution heritage. The entire "Private Company" discourse, and the sketchy revenue model of Megakey, might be fanciful elaborations on the eternal quest to monetize free content -- which has actually become rather a pedestrian startup model. Spotify. Hulu. It is advertising plus subscription, powered by provision deals with content owners. Boom.

Following a beaten path is clearly not the avenue for this drama-loving personality who is trying to make several points at once. If he can find a way to align the movie distribution industry with digital reality, he might play a part in decreasing piracy and de-stigmatizing P2P. Assuming he can stay out of jail.

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Brad Hill is a former Vice President at AOL, and the former Director and General Manager of Weblogs, Inc.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/21/editorial-kim-dotcom-noisy-rogue-with-a-commonplace-startup-id/

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Twitter Is Having Connectivity Issues Again, But Why?

With a lot of people in the United States off for the national holiday, Twitter appears to be buckling under the pressure. Right now, the service is experiencing issues, including the inability to connect to any of its official apps. As is usually the case, the problems are intermittent and don’t affect all users. Sadly, when the service goes down like this, there isn’t an explanation like there used to be. Remember the fail whale? We haven’t seen that guy in quite some time. Now when the site is down, we end up getting a white screen in our browsers. The company added this message to its status site: Some users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue. Currently, the site is up and down, and you also get error messages when clicking a tweet button on a website: This is the second “site issue” that Twitter has had in the past four days, and the company doesn’t go into any detail on what the problem was or is. As a communication platform, it’s key for Twitter to be up as much as possible. While it’s understandable that every service has downtime issues, it seems to be a dirty little issue that has followed Twitter since it launched in 2006. Why can’t the service stay up and what are the problems that they’re experiencing? These are questions that are hard to answer, even when we ask. What I do know is that when a site goes down and there is little or no communication to its users about it, hours are spent asking one another “Is Twitter down or is it just me?” In a word, it’s annoying for everyone involved. Complex issues face every company at this type of scale, including Facebook and Google. The issue with Twitter is that it’s the leader in real-time communication, therefore its users experience all of these problems in real-time as well. This is similar to something happening with AT&T and you not being able to fire off a text message and not knowing why. While Twitter is free, it does have an obligation to communicate with its users, since its intent is to be the “pulse of the planet.” It’s kind of hard to be that when you tend to flatline at random moments. If we’re supposed to trust Twitter when we’re trying to

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How to setup Google Gmail on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

As of January 30, 2013, Google will no longer allow new iPhones, iPod touches, iPads, or other devices to be setup using Google Sync (their implementation of Microsoft's excellent ActiveSync protocol). While existing Google Sync setups will keep working, the next time you want to add Gmail to a device, you'll have to use something else -- namely Google's eccentric IMAP service, which works with Apple's Mail app and allows for a unifed inbox with other, non-Gmail accounts, and the Gmail app, which is excellent but is a silo unto itself.

How to set up Gmail in Google's Gmail app

Google's Gmail app is outstanding, supporting both push email, multiple accounts, and all the unique Gmail features like stars and labels, of course. You even get easy access to vacation responders and other options. If you only use Gmail for your email, it's absolutely the best way to go. If you use multiple email providers, but don't mind accessing them via separate apps, it's also a great choice. Sadly, you can't set third party apps as default in iOS, so you'll probably need to set up your account in Apple's iOS Mail app as well, for convenience sake. (See below.)

1. Download the Gmail app from the App Store.
2. Tap Open once Gmail finishes downloading, or if you've left the App Store, tap the Gmail icon on your Home screen.
3. Enter your Gmail or Google Apps email address and password.
4. Tap sign in.

How to setup Gmail in Apple's Mail app

Gmail is one of the main email setup options in Apple's built-in iOS Mail app. It uses IMAP to receive email, but due to Google's non-standard configuration, and Apple's lack of specific support for that non-standard configuration, you won't get push email, and you won't have access to stars, labels, and other Gmail-specific conventions. Sadly, it also doesn't automagically include contact sync, so you'll have to set that up separately.

You will, however, have your Gmail included in the unified inbox, which is incredibly convenient if you also have other, non-Google email accounts (like iCloud, Exchange, Hotmail, etc.)

1. Launch Settings from your Home screen.
2. Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Tap Add Account...
4. Tap Gmail.
5. Enter your name, Gmail email address, password, and a descriptive name (like Gmail, or Personal, so you can identify it later).
6. Select which services you want to leave on for sync, Mail, Calendars, and Notes. (You probably want all of them on.)
7. Tap Save.

How to setup Gmail Contact Sync with CardDAV

To set up contacts sync, repeat the same procedure, with a slight change in settings.

1. Tap Add Account... again.
2. Tap Other at the bottom.
3. Tap Add CardDAV Account
4. Enter google.com as the server.
5. Enter your Gmail/Google address as the user name.
6. Enter your Gmail/Google password as the password.
7. Enter a description. For example, Gmail Contacts or Google Contacts.
8. Tap Next at the top right.

That's it, your contacts will now sync along with everything else.

How to set up Gmail's 2-step verification

If you're a high value target and worried about your Gmail security, you can also setup and use Gmail 2-step verification on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. For most people, it's probably more trouble than it's worth, but it's there for those who really need it.

• How to set up Gmail's 2-step verification with Mail on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac

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IRS Announces Simplified Option for Claiming Home Office ...

WASHINGTON ? The Internal Revenue Service today announced a simplified option that many owners of home-based businesses and some home-based workers may use to figure their deductions for the business use of their homes.

In tax year 2010, the most recent year for which figures are available, nearly 3.4 million taxpayers claimed deductions for business use of a home (commonly referred to as the home office deduction).

The new optional deduction, capped at $1,500 per year based on $5 a square foot for up to 300 square feet, will reduce the paperwork and recordkeeping burden on small businesses by an estimated 1.6 million hours annually.

?This is a common-sense rule to provide taxpayers an easier way to calculate and claim the home office deduction,? said Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller. ?The IRS continues to look for similar ways to combat complexity and encourages people to look at this option as they consider tax planning in 2013.?

The new option provides eligible taxpayers an easier path to claiming the home office deduction. Currently, they are generally required to fill out a 43-line form (Form 8829) often with complex calculations of allocated expenses, depreciation and carryovers of unused deductions.? Taxpayers claiming the optional deduction will complete a significantly simplified form.

Though homeowners using the new option cannot depreciate the portion of their home used in a trade or business, they can claim allowable mortgage interest, real estate taxes and casualty losses on the home as itemized deductions on Schedule A. These deductions need not be allocated between personal and business use, as is required under the regular method.

Business expenses unrelated to the home, such as advertising, supplies and wages paid to employees are still fully deductible.

Current restrictions on the home office deduction, such as the requirement that a home office must be used regularly and exclusively for business and the limit tied to the income derived from the particular business, still apply under the new option.

The new simplified option is available starting with the 2013 return most taxpayers file early in 2014.

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Brian Gay wins Humana Challenge

Brian Gay waves after winning the Humana Challenge golf tournament on the Palmer Private Course at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Brian Gay waves after winning the Humana Challenge golf tournament on the Palmer Private Course at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Brian Gay tips his cap after winning the Humana Challenge PGA golf tournament on the Palmer Private Course at PGA West, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, in La Quinta, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Brian Gay hits from the tee on the 14th hole during the final round of the Humana Challenge golf tournament on the Palmer Private course at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. Gay defeated Charles Howell III on the second playoff hole to win the tournament. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Brian Gay putts on the 18th green during the final round of the Humana Challenge PGA golf tournament on the Palmer Private Course at PGA West, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, in La Quinta, Calif. Gay won the tournament on the second hole of a playoff. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Brian Gay, left, gestures as he approaches the 18th green during the final round of the Humana Challenge PGA golf tournament on the Arnold Palmer Private Course at PGA West, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, in La Quinta, Calif. Gay won on the second hole of a playoff. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) ? Brian Gay found the extra distance he was looking for without sacrificing control.

That was clear late Sunday afternoon in the Humana Challenge when Gay cracked a 300-yard drive down the center of the fairway to set up a birdie on the first playoff hole.

A few minutes later, he split the fairway with a 297-yarder and made another birdie to hold off Charles Howell III for his fourth PGA Tour title.

"I'm still in a little bit of shock," Gay said. "It kind of happened so fast there at the end the way things went down. Last year was a struggle. It was a long year, a lot of work. I just wanted to come out this year kind of refocused, recharged, and believing in myself."

Gay won on the par-4 10th, putting his 9-iron second shot 5 1/2 feet below the hole. Howell drove into the right rough, hit into the back bunker, blasted out to 15 feet and two-putted for bogey.

The 41-year-old Gay, hardly an imposing figure at 5-foot-10 and 165 pounds, worked hard last year with Grant Waite and Joe Mayo to increase his driving distance.

"My whole game's been about accuracy and short game," Gay said. "I've always been a short hitter on the tour and I felt like as I was getting older I'm only going to get shorter and shorter. ... It was tough last year trying to play making those changes."

Gay closed with a 9-under 63 on PGA West's Arnold Palmer Private Course to match Howell and Swedish rookie David Lingmerth at 25-under 263. Howell shot a 64, and Lingmerth had a 62.

Lingmerth dropped out with a bogey on the first extra hole ? the par-5 18th ? after hitting his approach into the left-side water.

Scott Stallings, five strokes ahead entering the round, bogeyed the final hole for a 70 to miss the playoff by a stroke. Gay began the round six strokes behind Stallings.

"The thoughts were, 'Just be aggressive, shoot as low as you can,'" Gay said.

Howell tied for second a week after opening the season with a third-place tie in Hawaii in the Sony Open. He won the last of his two tour titles in 2007.

"Anybody that says that that golf is fun or whatever, has really not done it for a living," Howell said. "I would never characterize this as fun. It's different than that. It's awfully challenging mentally."

After birdieing nine of the first 13 holes, Gay finished regulation with five straight pars. On the 18th, he hit into the right greenside rough, chipped past the hole and missed an 8-foot birdie try.

"I felt like I gave one back with a par on 18," Gay said. "I was happy to be in the playoff."

Given a second chance, he outlasted Howell for his first victory since the 2009 St. Jude Classic. He also won the 2008 Mayakoba Golf Classic and 2009 Verizon Heritage.

Playing in the second-to-last group, Howell had a chance to pull ahead on the final hole of regulation, but left his approach about 85 feet short and three-putted for par. His 5-foot birdie try made a sharp left turn inches from hole.

"Quite honestly, going into the day, I didn't really think that anybody had a chance apart from Scott," Howell said. "He's won before, he hits it long enough to take advantage of the par 5s. At 22 under, I figured if he shoots 6, 7 under, he's really not catchable. So, then to have a chance there in regulation, that's where I really would like that one back, that three-putt there."

Needing a birdie to win and a par to get into a playoff, Stallings hit a 315-yard drive on the 18th to set up a 6-iron approach from 220 yards. His ball landed in the left rough, bounced into the rocks and trickled into the water. He took a penalty drop, chipped to 10 feet and missed his par try.

"I felt great. There wasn't any nerves or anything like that going into it," Stallings said. "Just hit a bad shot. Same thing that happened on 14. .. Coming down the stretch on the 72nd hole, you can't make mistakes like that. It stinks, but it's something that I'll definitely learn from."

The two-time tour winner saved par on the par-5 14th after driving into the All-American Canal on the right side, but dropped a stroke on the par-4 16th after his 4-iron tee shot went farther than he expected and ended up in the lip of a fairway bunker.

"You're going to have your good days and your bad days, but if you live and die with every shot out there, your career is not going to last very long out there," Stallings said.

Making his second career PGA Tour start, Lingmerth hit his 4-iron approach way left into the water in the playoff. He had an awkward stance with the ball above his feet.

"I didn't feel that comfortable over it, obviously," Lingmerth said. "I just hit a bad shot."

Phil Mickelson had a 66 to tie for 37th at 17 under in his season debut.

"I was rusty starting the year," Mickelson said. "I had a great four days here where I can work on my game with perfect weather and wonderful golf courses, where I could build some momentum. Heading into San Diego, I feel a lot more confident."

DIVOTS: James Hahn eagled the 18th for a 62 to tie for fourth with Stallings. ... Russell Henley, the Sony Open winner last week in his first start as a PGA Tour member, tied for 56th at 15 under after a 69. ... FedEx Cup champion Brandt Snedeker shot a 67 to tie for 23rd at 19 under. He was the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 8.

Associated Press

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