Oakland Shooting: Gunfire Sends 8 People, Including Child, To The Hospital

OAKLAND, Calif. ? A hail of gunfire along an Oakland street has left eight people wounded, including a 1-year-old boy who authorities say was taken to the city's Children's Hospital in critical condition.

The gunfire broke out Monday evening in a liquor store parking lot after a crowd had gathered, police said. The victims were transported to local hospitals by others at the scene before officers arrived to find dozens of bullet casings.

The 1-year-old's father, who also was shot, drove his son to the hospital, where surgeons were trying to relieve swelling on his brain, relatives told KTVU-TV.

"We are aware of a 1-year-old boy who was shot ? possibly in the head ? in critical condition right now," Oakland Police Lt. Robert Chan told the station. The hospital declined to release any details about the victim.

The shootings just after 6 p.m. happened near Interstate 880 in the city's West Oakland neighborhood, Oakland police spokeswoman Ofc. Johnna Watson said.

The other victims' conditions were unclear, though police said their injuries did not appear life-threatening.

Investigators were seeking multiple shooters, but further details on suspects or a motive were not immediately available.

Television footage showed a van belonging to an Oakland rapper that was riddled with bullet holes and had apparently taken some of the victims to the hospital.

The rapper, who goes by the name Kafani, posted to Twitter on Monday that he had not been shot but to pray for his little cousin. He said news reports that he had been shooting a music video when the shooting took place were incorrect.

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Utah-to-Boston passenger denies child porn charge (AP)

BOSTON ? A University of Utah professor has pleaded not guilty to viewing child pornography on his laptop during a flight from Salt Lake City to Boston.

Grant Smith, of Cottonwood Heights, Utah, was ordered held on $75,000 bail Monday and told to have no unsupervised contact with children.

Massachusetts State Police say the 47-year-old Smith was sitting in first class Saturday afternoon when another passenger saw pornographic images, alerted a flight attendant and emailed a relative who contacted law enforcement.

Smith was arrested after landing on a charge of possession of child pornography. His lawyer says he has no criminal record.

Smith is a professor in the materials science and engineering department at Utah. He has been placed on administrative leave.

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Ellen Sterling: Tiger Martina: Using Dance as a Vehicle for Understanding

2011-11-26-tigerdancing.jpg For so many of us, Thanksgiving is a special day. But, for Tiger Martina (left, executing a complicated dance move), Thanksgiving 2011 was a most special day, and an estimated 45 million people shared it with him both in person and via television. For, this Thanksgiving, Martina created the choreography for a float in the 85th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The Buffalo-born dancer/choreographer created the dance that was performed on the Office Max Elf Yourself float.

Martina began dancing as a small child in Cheektowaga, a suburb of Buffalo, New York. "My mother and two older sisters danced and they taught me," he says. He put on shows in the family garage. "I'd go to the gas station," he recalls, "buy penny candy to give out and get people to come to my shows."

He continued his dance education while in school and, in 1982, won the prestigious title of Mr. Dance of America, awarded annually by Dance Masters of America the leading organization of dance artists and educators.

After he graduated high school with high honors and was in Who's Who In American Students, Martina took off for New York City. When he went to his first class he was offered a job in a show called Outrageous at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City. That show moved to Las Vegas, playing the Copa Room at the Sands Hotel, where it was retitled Sizzle. Next, it was on to Reno and a show called Rage. It was there he met Paula Abdul and, at her request, moved to Los Angeles. Once there, he worked often with Abdul (he's at the left in the photo with her below) and continued to meet people in the dance community.

"I had to go with what came my way," Martina says, "and that move was the exact opposite of all my training in modern and Broadway dance. I was just floating from one thing, one job, to another. I didn't know then that I could do what I love -- be in a show and have a life. But, I was lucky. Everything just kept connecting and connecting."

2011-11-26-AbdulPaula.jpgThose connections led to him meeting the great choreographer Michael Kidd, winner of five Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and an honorary Oscar for his film work that included the choreography for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. He was a dancer in the 1989 Academy Awards that Kidd choreographed. He worked as dancer and assistant choreographer in Paula Abdul music videos, commercials and did choreography and toured with her at the height of her popularity as a singer.

Martina appeared on TV in, among others, Colombo, Cop Rock and It's A Living. In Las Vegas, Martina began to choreograph shows at the major hotels -- the fabled Sands and Stardust, among them, and worked extensively in Lake Tahoe and Reno.

Tiger Martina's list of credits encompasses work with Liza Minnelli, Ellen DeGeneres, with Cheyenne Jackson at New York's 92nd Street Y in a celebration of the music of Burt Bacharach.

2011-11-26-LizasAtThePalacer.jpgHe moved to New York in 2003 and, there, has continued to dance (Billy Joel's Movin' Out for Twyla Tharp on Broadway), toured with Liza Minnelli and was in Liza's at the Palace on Broadway (photo at right).

Martina recalls that, "My first night as a professional choreographer was the night my mom passed away. It was awful" but he notes he could always take refuge in dance.

"People downplay the importance of dance," he says. "Dance is a huge part of spirituality. People's feelings and instincts come out through dance. It's very telling. Who we are is expressed in how we move. We see so much in body language. It's a beautiful way for people to become enlightened and know something about another person."

Passionately interested in history, Martina finds one of his latest completed projects, as well as one work-in-progress, stoke that passion. The first is Vegas! The Show now at the Saxe Theater at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.

Vegas! The Show, one of the very best in the city, is a trip through the entertainment history of Las Vegas. It encompasses the work of Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Sonny and Cher, Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Elvis, Wayne Newton, Tom Jones, Lena Horne and the showgirls who are a signature part of the entertainment scene there.

Martina says he particularly likes Vegas! The Show because "there's a point of view, a theatricality behind it, but there's a lot of respect for what came before that set today's things in motion."

The show stars Eric Jordan Young, an actor-singer with an impressive background. The latter includes a one-man show called Sammy and Me that Martina choreographed.

The commercial for Vegas! The Show gives an excellent sense of Martina's work. You can see it here:

The work-in-progress is a Broadway-bound piece he's writing with his partner, the very gifted composer-lyricist-performer Lance Horne. The show is called The Strip, and it is in keeping with Martina's fervent wish to "do theater that has something to say, that will open up people's minds. In this fluffy business, people think responsible theater is easily dismissed, but that's the direction I'd like to take."

It was through Lance Horne that Martina began to work for Macy's four years ago. "He wrote a song and they asked him if he knew a choreographer. He brought me in and they asked me if I had a group of kids I wanted to work with. The story he was assigned to tell through dance, and to the music of Mannheim Steamroller, was of the work the elves have to do preparing for Christmas.

Martina brought in the David DeMarie Dance Studio from Clarence, New York, another Buffalo suburb where he'd studied as a child. He created the choreography but until the morning of the parade, never actually saw the float.

Two days before the event, the dancers gathered for rehearsal. "They actually withstood two hours of torrential rain outside in front of Macy's," Martina says, "and then danced their butts off. We have a short rehearsal period tomorrow and one hour before the parade starts Thursday when they finally saw the float for the first time."

"I only hope," he says, "that this Thanksgiving Day experience pales in comparison to what is to come in life for each and every one of them and that each of these students looks back at this experience as a time when they learned that they can achieve any goal with the same hard work and dedication they had working on this project.

"I am already amazingly proud."

The day after Thanksgiving, Martina again reflects, "The parade was amazing and the kids were great! Even up to the last-minute -- like on any television show -- I had to make changes based on the float when I finally saw it. The kids handled it like pros.

"You know," he continues, "I had really underestimated the power of what, through using those students, I would give to them and to the alumni of the David DeMarie Dance Studio.

"When I got home from the parade I had so many messages from students past and present. They thanked me for giving the opportunity to the students but, more so, for the national recognition to the school and -- even more important -- the recognition to our beloved founder David. He was a trailblazer and a man who was as much a community leader as he was a father figure to all he taught."

He adds, "You know, there was no grand scheme to get glory and congratulations. I just hoped we'd succeed and be blessed with a solid performance. We did and we were. It's funny how a simple gesture can give so much joy to so many people. For me, I am just grateful the dancers were willing to trust and follow me. "

You can see the parade float and the dance number here:

Photos: Courtesy of Tiger Martina

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Surging Gingrich nabs key NH paper's endorsement

By Jo Ling Kent, NBC News

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- In a significant?development in the Republican presidential contest, the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper endorsed former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich as his campaign surges in polls both nationally and locally. Despite his tumultuous political past, Gingrich was cited by the paper to have conservative credentials they believe to be critical to win the GOP nomination.

"A lot of candidates say they're going to improve Washington," wrote publisher Joe McQuaid. "Newt Gingrich has actually done that, and in this race he offers the best shot of doing it again."

The paper called Gingrich's strategy "innovative, forward looking" and his leadership "positive." However, McQuaid was quick to conceded Gingrich is far from the ideal candidate.


"Newt Gingrich is by no means the perfect candidate," McQuaid wrote. "But Republican primary voters too often make the mistake of preferring an unattainable ideal to the best candidate who is actually running ... he has the experience, the leadership qualities and the vision to lead this country in trying times."

Gingrich: 'Enormous boost'
The paper's support is considered the state's most influential media nod ahead of the first-in-the-nation Republican primary and will certainly help Gingrich's prospects here. The?Union Leader is the state's largest and only state-wide daily publication. It prides itself on being independent and conservative.

"We are honored to have the endorsement of the Union Leader," Gingrich's New Hampshire state campaign director Andrew Hemingway told NBC News Sunday morning. "This is an enormous boost to our campaign and further proof the the people of N.H. are wanting substance and solutions over soundbites and pandering." Gingrich was not immediately available for comment.

The Union Leader's Gingrich endorsement comes after significant courting by Mitt Romney, who has been campaigning in the state for several years. This is the second time that the Union Leader has chosen not to endorse Romney. In 2008, it notably backed John McCain who eventually went on to win the New Hampshire primary following a major comeback from a near-dead campaign the summer and fall before the primary. The paper's editorial team also took several significant swipes at Romney in the process, undoubtedly hurting his chances in New Hampshire.

Looking back, the Union Leader has only supported two Republican candidates who went on to actually cement the GOP nomination: Reagan in 1980 and McCain in 2008. The Granite State publication endorsed Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980, Pete du Pont in 1988, Pat Buchanan in 1992 and 1996, Steve Forbes in 2000 and John McCain 2008.

GOP candidate Newt Gingrich was front and center in Tuesday's debate, reflecting his recent surge to the top of the polls. On immigration, Gingrich disagreed with the other candidates by calling for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are longtime residents and have paid taxes. NBC's Andrea Mitchell has more.

As for this election cycle, McQuaid recently told the Concord Monitor that "the future of the free world" is at stake. McQuaid said that the paper decided on its endorsement earlier this week and wrote the opinion ahead of Thanksgiving.

"I'm not kidding," McQuaid said of the upcoming 2012 contest. "I think this is a very important election in America."

In the latest New Hampshire polls, Gingrich is tied with Rep. Ron Paul for second place at 14 percent, behind former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney who garnered 41 percent,?according to Suffolk University and 7 News. In another state-wide survey by WMUR and University of New Hampshire, Gingrich has 15 percent?of support, behind Romney at 45 percent?and ahead of Paul at 12 percent.

In the last month, Gingrich has retooled his New Hampshire strategy by building out a virtually non-existent structure, citing new funds as his impetus to expand. He has visited more frequently, brought in Hemingway and rapidly hired New Hampshire-based staff, most recently snagging Rep. Michele Bachmann's former New Hampshire director Jeff Chidester.

His campaign has also started rolling out "Newt Hampshire", a Granite State-focused web platform to attract supporters and get out the vote in the final weeks until the primary.

New Hampshire voters go to the polls on Tuesday, January 10.

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Climate talks open over dying Kyoto Protocol

Countries will make a last-ditch effort to save a dying Kyoto Protocol at global climate talks starting on Monday aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions blamed by scientists for rising sea levels, intense storms and crop failures.

Kyoto, which was adopted in 1997 and entered into force in 2005, commits most developed states to binding emissions targets. The talks are the last chance to set another round of targets before the first commitment period ends in 2012.

Major parties have been at loggerheads for years, warnings of climate disaster are becoming more dire and diplomats worry whether host South Africa is up to the challenge of brokering the tough discussions among nearly 200 countries that run from Monday to December 9 in the coastal city of Durban.

There is hope for a deal to help developing countries most hurt by global warming and a stop-gap measure to save the protocol. There is also a chance advanced economies responsible for most emissions will pledge deeper cuts at the talks known as the Conference of the Parties, or COP 17.

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But the debt crisis hitting the euro zone and the United States makes it unlikely those areas will provide more aid or impose new measures that could hurt their growth prospects.

Video: Extreme weather events becoming more frequent (on this page)

"The South Africans are desperate to ensure that the COP does not fail, but they will not be able to deliver much," said Ian Fry, lead negotiator for the tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, which could be erased by rising sea levels.

Fry blamed the United States, which has not ratified Kyoto, for blocking progress and said: "The EU seems to be going weak at the knees and will opt for a soft continuation of the Kyoto Protocol with a possible review process in 2015 to think about new legal options."

'Revolution'
Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. climate secretariat, told The Associated Press on Sunday that the stakes for the negotiations are high, underscored by new scientific studies.

Under discussion was "nothing short of the most compelling energy, industrial, behavioral revolution that humanity has ever seen," she said.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu led a rally at a soccer stadium late Sunday urging negotiators to be more ambitious during what were expected to be difficult talks. Unseasonably cold, windy weather kept the crowd to a few hundred spectators.

Envoys said there may be a political deal struck with a new set of binding targets, but only the European Union, New Zealand, Australia, Norway and Switzerland are likely to sign up at best. Any accord depends on China and the United States, the world's top emitters, agreeing binding action under a wider deal by 2015, something both have resisted for years.

Story: In climate talks West would redefine rich and poor

China is unwilling to make any commitments until Washington does while Russia, Japan and Canada say they will not sign up to a second commitment period unless the biggest emitters do too.

Emerging countries insist Kyoto must be extended and that rich nations, which have historically emitted most greenhouse gas pollution, should take on tougher targets to ensure they do their fair share in the fight against climate change.

Robin Hood tax?
Developing nations say carbon caps could hurt their growth and programs to lift millions out of poverty.

Ideas on the table include a carbon surcharge on international shipping and on air tickets, and a levy on international financial transactions ? sometimes called a Robin Hood tax.

A committee of 40 countries worked for the past year on drawing up a plan to administer the Green Climate Fund, but agreement on the final paper was blocked by the United States and Saudi Arabia, and the final contentious issues will have to be thrashed out in Durban.

Todd Stern, the chief U.S. delegate, said the negotiations had been too rushed.

"I am pretty confident that we're going to be able to work these things out," he told reporters last week, without naming the problematic issues.

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But Figueres said the future of the Kyoto accord, which calls on 37 wealthy nations to reduce carbon emissions 5 percent below 1990 levels by the end of next year, is the most difficult political issue that nations face.

"If it were easy we would have done it years ago," she said.

The stakes are high, with many experts urging immediate action. This month, two separate U.N. reports said greenhouse gases had reached record levels in the atmosphere while a warming climate is expected to lead to heavier rainfall, more floods, stronger cyclones and more intense droughts.

Despite individual emissions-cut pledges from countries and the terms of the Kyoto pact, the United Nations, International Energy Agency and others say this is not enough to prevent the planet heating up beyond 2 degrees Celsius.

Global average temperatures could rise by 3-6 degrees by the end of the century if governments fail to contain greenhouse gas emissions, bringing unprecedented destruction as glaciers melt and sea levels rise, the OECD said last week.

Story: After new leak, climatologist takes case to public

The warning from the OECD, whose main paymasters are the United States and other developed economies, underscored fears that the commitment to curb climate-heating gases could falter at a time when much of the world is deep in debt.

"The COP is being held on the African continent which bears the greatest social injustices due to the impacts of climate change," environmental group Greenpeace said.

South Africa has said it wants to advance an African agenda at the conference but is seen by many diplomats as not having the diplomatic muscle or prestige to broker complex talks.

As the world's poorest continent, Africa is also the most vulnerable to the extreme weather conditions and rising sea levels brought by climate change. In the Horn of Africa, some 13 million people are going hungry due to prolonged drought. In Somalia, the crisis is compounded by conflict.

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Egypt's elections are a dangerous crossroads, warns military junta

Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi Egypt

Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, left, the head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), talks to journalists on the eve of Egypt's elections. Photograph: Reuters

The head of Egypt's military junta has said the country is at a crossroads between order and chaos, as polls open for nationwide elections on Monday amid continuing violence on the streets and splits among the political elite.

Millions of Egyptians are expected to participate in the largest democratic exercise undertaken in the Arab world, with Monday's ballot in the urban centres of Cairo and Alexandria marking the beginning of a 12-round, four-month voting process that will elect Egypt's first parliament since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak in February.

Elections are beginning even as city centres remain under occupation by protesters opposed to military rule, and come after nine days of almost uninterrupted clashes between revolutionaries and security forces which have left 42 dead and thousands injured.

Demonstrators claim the new parliament will have no genuine power and will serve as little more than a democratic fig leaf for the supreme council of the armed forces (Scaf), which has refused to stand down despite escalating bloodshed and calls from Washington for the generals to return to their barracks and give way to a civilian government.

"We will not allow troublemakers to meddle in these elections," said Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of Scaf, hours before voting was due to start. "We are at a crossroads. There are only two routes: the success of elections, leading Egypt towards safety, or facing dangerous hurdles that we in the armed forces, as part of the Egyptian people, will not allow."

Tantawi has been the central target of protesters in Tahrir Square and other rallies around the country, who accuse him of being an extension to the Mubarak regime and even more brutal and repressive than the dictator who preceded him. But the 76-year-old said he would not permit outside pressure to be applied to the junta, warning that foreign hands were behind the mounting turbulence and claiming the failure of Egypt to pull through it would lead to "extremely grave consequences".

Thousands of protesters rallied once again in Tahrir Square on Sunday, as former UN nuclear weapons chief Mohamed ElBaradei and moderate Islamist Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh both said they were willing to end their campaigns for the presidency in order to form a transitional government of national salvation that would displace power from the military.

An 11th-hour bid by the supreme elections commission, the body tasked with running the poll, for a partial delay ? prompted by the withdrawal of several judges from the vote-monitoring process as a result of the turmoil ? proved unsuccessful, meaning that Egyptians will flock to polling stations guarded by army soldiers and riot police, the very forces held by many to be responsible for the nationwide violence.

On Sunday the logistics of the election already appeared to be under strain, with many potential voters still unaware of where they were supposed to cast their ballot and some candidates trying desperately to withdraw their names from contention in an act of protest against Scaf and Tantawi.

Photographs of what appeared to be pre-marked ballot papers from Alexandria also circulated online, raising fears that the Mubarak-era practice of ballot-stuffing was not yet over.

"I filled in the online form which is supposed to tell you where your polling station is, but the website wasn't working and no official would get back to me so I'm still waiting to find out," said Mohamed Gaber, a 28-year-old frozen meat importer. He spoke to the Guardian on a rooftop overlooking Mohamed Mahmoud street, a central thoroughfare in the capital which has been the site of the fiercest fighting in recent days and is now almost completely sealed off by barbed wire, army soldiers and a 10ft concrete barricade separating demonstrators from police.

Gaber said he would be casting his ballot for the Freedom and Justice party, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood which is widely expected to emerge as the biggest single party in the new parliament. Several secular liberal and leftist forces have already withdrawn from the race.

Outside the nearby cabinet office, protesters opposed to the recent appointment of 78-year-old Kaamal el-Ganzouri as prime minister continue to block access to the building, demanding instead that Scaf cede power and a revolutionary government is formed from within Tahrir Square. "The ruling generals have fought us with guns, now they are fighting us with propaganda like these 'elections'," argued Marwan Ahmed, a 20-year-old medical student who has joined the occupation.

"How can we vote when there's no security? Apart from the big three or four parties, none of which offer anything new or revolutionary, I don't know anything about the candidates and I have no idea who to vote for. They're all part of the old system, and we're fighting for something completely new."

Voting in the parliamentary poll is technically compulsory, with those who fail to cast a ballot theoretically facing a fine of 500 Egyptian pounds (?54) though experts predict this will be almost impossible to enforce. But many young protesters told the Guardian they were planning to get around the regulation by turning up at polling stations and scrawling "down with military rule" across their ballot paper.

Monday's and Tuesday's vote will be followed by a runoff election on 5 and 6 December, part of an intricately complex electoral system in which every Egyptian is covered by two different-sized constituencies and will elect MPs in two different ways. Further votes in other areas of the country will take place throughout December and January, with results for the lower house of parliament expected on 13 January and the upper house on 14 March.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/27/egypt-elections-military-ruler-tantawi

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Beyonce "Dance for You" Music Video: Noir & Naughty!


Beyonce is at it again.

The mega star has released yet another music video off the album "4," this one in honor of "Dance for You," one of three bonus tracks featured on the deluxe version of the CD. Watch below, as Mrs. Jay Z slinks around on a desk and goes all noir for her fans. It's sexy stuff...


Beyonce "Dance for You" Video

Among other videos Beyonce has unveiled over the past few weeks. There has been:

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