The Macedonia Church were injured battling the blaze.

The great Macedonia Church of God in Christ in Springfield, Mass., burns on Nov. 5, 2008. Some firefighters were injured battling the blaze. The last of three Massachusetts men charged in the burning of a predominantly black church to protest President Barack Obama's election was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in federal prison on Wednesday.

The Prosecutors said Gleason and two friends burned down the Macedonia Church of God in Christ in Springfield on Nov. 5, 2008, hours after Obama was elected as the nation's first black president. The church was under construction at the time and no one was inside. However, some firefighters were injured battling the blaze. Michael Jacques was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison. Benjamin Haskell received a nine-year sentence. All three men are white.

Sports News: The Pau Gasol's first three-point basket of the season gives the Lakers the lead in overtime and they earn their first road win of the season

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The Lakers The Lead In Overtime Victory

The Pau Gasol's first three-point basket of the season gives the Lakers the lead in overtime and they earn their first road win of the season. The great Kobe Bryant scores 40 points and has 88 in his last two games. The Lakers guard Steve Blake, far left, Kobe Bryant, left, and forward Luke Walton, center, put pressure on Utah center Derrick Favors during the first half of the Lakers' overtime victory Wednesday. (Jim Urquhart / Associated Press / January 11, 2012).

The Player Bryant was plenty vivacious on the second night of a back-to-back situation, scoring 40 points Wednesday night at Energy Solutions Arena, but it was two plays by his teammates that led to a series of quick hugs, high-fives and pats on the head after the final buzzer. The player Gasol had missed his first three three-point attempts this season, but he spotted up beyond the arc and didn't hesitate after taking a pass from Bryant.




Science New: Anobit uses consumer-grade NAND flash memory technology to make storage products for data centers.



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The NAND Flash Memory Technology Generations 2012

Now a day the Apple would have to acknowledge the acquisition in its quarterly financial results to be released later this month. Reuters reported Wednesday that an Apple spokesperson did confirm the purchase but would not disclose its plans for Anobit.

Anobit uses consumer-grade NAND flash memory technology to make storage products for data centers.Apple is the industry's largest consumer of NAND flash technology, so acquiring Anobit would give it a means of addressing reliability problems that arise as solid-state memory shrinks in size.

Anobit has produced two generations of Genesis SSD technology. The intellectual property that sets it apart from other SSD manufacturers is a controller that uses firmware it calls Memory Signal Processing (MSP), a type of ECC. The MSP technology increases the signal-to-noise ratio, making it possible to continue reading data even as electrical interference rises.

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The Smart TV Vendors To Use Android

Welcome to CES 2012 Galaxy Note Review wonderful Apple Galaxy Nexus Review Samsung Hub iPad 3.Google reportedly paying smart TV vendors to use Android Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012.

The Google is reportedly paying manufacturers to use Android in their TVs, with models such as Lenovo’s new K91 ICS-based smart TV supposedly earning vendors a kick-back.

The deals, so Neowin‘s sources say, are part of the Google’s plan to extend Android through the living room, and are likely what chairman Eric Schmidt was referring to when he suggested that the majority of new TVs would support Google TV by this summer.




That great decision on Lenovo’s part could be down to the K91′s launch schedule: the smart TV will hit in China first, before spreading to other territories, and currently Google TV is only officially supported within the US. It could indicate that, when the K91 does get its US launch, Lenovo might modify it to support to Google TV, or that by the time the release takes place it could coincide with Google’s own international smart TV plans.

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The Great Einstein's brain will be in good company at the museum, which also boasts displays of a tumor from President Glover Cleveland and neck tissue from John Wilkes Booth.


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The brain slices have had a strange journey

If you've ever wondered what the brain of a genius looks like, make your way to Philadelphia. There, the public can view for the first time 46 slivers of the brain of Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist who developed the Theory of General Relativity.

The brain slices have had a strange journey since Einstein's death in 1955 at age 76 from an abdominal aneurism. The pathologist who completed Einstein's autopsy, a man named Thomas Harvey, removed Einstein's brain as part of standard autopsy procedure -- and then failed to put it back. Harvey later said that Einstein's son had given him permission to take the scientist's brain, but the Einstein family disputed that claim.

Einstein's brain will be in good company at the museum, which also boasts displays of a tumor from President Glover Cleveland and neck tissue from John Wilkes Booth. The goal, Dhody said, is to let visitors see what the brain of a genius looks like, while emphasizing that no one really knows if anything about Einstein's brain structure made him great.

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The lightning strike of flash News of shine bulbs, Martin O’Neill sat in stationary solitude at the front of the Stadium of Light

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Faced With A lightning Strike Of Flash Bulbs

FACED with a lightning strike of flash bulbs, Martin O’Neill sat in stationary solitude at the front of the Stadium of Light’s Riverview Suite. In the room where predecessor and fellow A List name Roy Keane was presented as Black Cats boss, the newly-unveiled O’Neill showed little of the animation which will become part of his routine in the Sunderland dug-out.

The assembled hacks chuckled at the display of dark humour from a manager renowned for his charm and O’Neill continued to captivate through the remaining two hours in which he addressed television, radio and print media. O’Neill conceded the evident flaws in Sunderland’s game at present, both a lack of goals and lack of confidence, and realized they needed to be eradicated sooner rather than later.

Neither did O’Neill delude himself into thinking he would receive special favours on the terraces for his boyhood allegiance to Sunderland.

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Mr.Gingrich cruised into the Union League Club for a fund-raiser and political news conference


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Newt Gingrich On Monday At A Meeting Of Conservative

The Republican primary season begins, Newt Gingrich spent his Monday not on the hustings of Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina, but in Midtown Manhattan, prospecting for what his newly resurgent campaign needs most desperately money. Bolstered by strong debate performances and top billing in some recent Republican polls, Mr. Gingrich cruised into the Union League Club for a fund-raiser and news conference, followed by private meetings with potential high-dollar donors around Manhattan.

When most of the Republican candidates are hustling for votes, Mr. Gingrich must, in matter of weeks, build a fund-raising infrastructure that can finance last-minute campaign trips, advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts in the early states and give him staying power to compete beyond them.The challenge is especially stark for Mr. Gingrich, who until now has been among the weakest fund-raisers in the field.

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Let today prompted a flood of headlines like “‘Sexting Not a Common Practice for Young Teens”

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