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Mozilla has set loose Firefox 10, the latest version of its open-source Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. New features in the release are largely limited to technologies aimed at Web developers, but there?s one important new feature that ought to appeal to anyone who has augmented their browser?s functionality: by default, most add-ons will be compatible with new versions of Firefox by default, and users will have an easier time managing and (if necessary) updating their add-ons to new versions of the browser.

In previous versions of Firefox, Mozilla assumed add-ons weren?t compatible with new versions of the browser unless they had specifically been re-released for a new browser version; the result was that many users put off upgrades until new versions of their add-ons were available. However, Mozilla realized roughly three-quarters of all Firefox add-ons generally don?t have any compatibility issues with new releases?the biggest exceptions are binary add-ons that contain their own compiled code. So, beginning with Firefox 10, Mozilla assumes that extensions are compatible with new versions of Firefox so long as they don?t contain compiled code and were compatible with Firefox 4, the last time a major shift in architecture required add-on changes. Firefox 10 also polls for new versions of add-ons once a day, and installs them if an update is found.

Most of the other new features in Firefox 10 are under-the-hood changes and features only Web developers can love. Notable for Web authors, Firefox 10 includes a Page Inspector that enables Web authors to peer into the structure of a Web page, and there?s also a style sheet inspector to look at how styling information is handled: Web developers have previously used tools like the much-loved Firebug for similar tasks, but it?s nice to see the support included. The browser also includes a ScratchPad based on the Eclipse Orion code editor, and adds a new full-screen mode site creators can use for immersive apps like games. (Game developers will also appreciate new 3D graphics capabilities and antialiasing for WebGL content.)

Firefox 10 is the latest version in Firefox?s rapid-release program that?s intended to bring new features to the browser (and its users) more quickly, rather than waiting many months (or over a year) to bring out monolithic new versions. The goal of the rapid release program is to get new technologies out into the real Web more quickly; however, it has also drawn ire from both individual users and organizations. Some end users are frustrated by constant updates that don?t seem to bring much in the way of new features (for most users, Firefox 10 is almost indistinguishable from Firefox 4), while organizational users find Firefox too much of a moving target: they can?t certify a new version get it out to their user base before another one comes along and the process starts all over again.

The new technology for handling add-ons should make the process of upgrading to new versions smoother for end-users, and to satisfy organizations, Firefox 10 is the first Extended Support Release (ESR) of the browser: instead of fading away after a few weeks, Mozilla will maintain Firefox 10 with security updates for a full year, even as they move on to Firefox 11, 12, 13, and more. Making Firefox 10 an ESR release means the browser is a stable target for companies and organizations.

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Demographics

Over the 25th and 26th of November 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.4% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, 14.7% in their twenties, 26.9% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 10.7% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Note I?ve used ?they?, ?them?, and ?their? rather than ?he/she?, ?him/her? and ?his/her? to make the text more readable, I hope.

Ranking result

Q: What painful experiences have you had confessing your love? (Sample size=1,074)

Rank ? Score
1 I was sure the feelings were mutual but my advance was snubbed 100
2 Before I could confess, a rumour spread that I fancied them 97.8
3 I thought they were free, but they were already in a relationship 83.3
4 When I went to declare my love, I was so vague I didn?t get my feelings across 72.2
5 Against my sober judgement, blurted out my love in a drunken fevour 55.6
6 The day after confessing my love everyone knew all about it 51.1
7= I was nervous and just couldn?t get my words out correctly 42.2
7= I was nervous and just couldn?t get any words out at all 42.2
9 They said they?d reply another day but never replied 40.0
10 I thought they were single, but they were already married 25.6
11 I confessed my love, but was embarrassed and ended with ?By the way, it?s all lies!? 22.2
12 Someone else spotted me as I was declaring my love 18.9
13 When I called out to them, they gave me a dirty look so I couldn?t confess 17.8
14 I sent an ?I love you!? email to the wrong person 13.3
15 I chose a love song at karaoke and stuck their name into it, but they missed it 6.7
16= I came out in a fever so I couldn?t make it to the place I?d asked them to meet me at 4.4
16= I sang a love song I wrote myself, but it put the willies up them 4.4
18 I was so nervous when confessing my love that my clothes were dripping with sweat 2.2
19= I was seen practising my confession speech 1.1
19= I phoned the wrong person but continued to declare my love for them 1.1

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Thrun told the story of his?Introduction to Artificial Intelligence?class, which ran from October to December last year. It started as a way of putting his Stanford course online ? he was going to teach the whole thing, for free, to anybody in the world who wanted it. With quizzes and grades and a final certificate, in parallel with the in-person course he was giving his Stanford undergrad students. He sent out one email to announce the class, and from that one email there was ultimately an enrollment of 160,000 students. Thrun scrambled to put together a website which could scale and support that enrollment, and succeeded spectacularly well.
Just a couple of datapoints from Thrun?s talk: there were more students in his course from Lithuania alone than there are students at Stanford altogether. There were students in Afghanistan, exfiltrating war zones to grab an hour of connectivity to finish the homework assignments. There were single mothers keeping the faith and staying with the course even as their families were being hit by tragedy. And when it finished, thousands of students around the world were educated and inspired. Some 248 of them, in total, got a perfect score: they never got a single question wrong, over the entire course of the class. All 248 took the course online; not one was enrolled at Stanford.
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And I loved as well his story of the physical class at Stanford, which dwindled from 200 students to 30 students because the online course was more intimate and better at teaching than the real-world course on which it was based.

?Inspired by that experience, Thrun has now founded Udacity, a private online university. As Nick DeSantis of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports:

One of Udacity?s first offerings will be a seven-week course called ?Building a Search Engine.? It will be taught by David Evans, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Virginia and a Udacity partner. Mr. Thrun said it is designed to teach students with no prior programming experience how to build a search engine like Google. He hopes 500,000 students will enroll.
Teaching the course at Stanford, Mr. Thrun said, showed him the potential of digital education, which turned out to be a drug that he could not ignore.
?I feel like there?s a red pill and a blue pill,? he said. ?And you can take the blue pill and go back to your classroom and lecture your 20 students. But I?ve taken the red pill, and I?ve seen Wonderland.?

That Wonderland will be a serious challenge to traditional chalk-and-talk universities ? and a wonderful opportunity to democratize knowledge around the globe.

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Participants in a parade to honor Iraq War veterans make their way along a downtown street Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, in St. Louis. Thousands turned out to watch the first big welcome home parade in the U.S. since the last troops left Iraq in December. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Stephanie King holds a picture of her uncle, Col. Stephen Scott who was killed in Iraq in 2008, as she prepares to participate in a parade to honor Iraq War veterans Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, in St. Louis. Thousands turned out to watch the first big welcome home parade in the U.S. since the last troops left Iraq in December. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Marine Sgt. Alex Renner, 22, right, from Red Bud, Ill. shakes hands with well wishers during a parade to welcome home Iraq war veterans along Market Street Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 in St. Louis.(AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Carson) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT

George Fernau, left, from Florissant, Mo., gives a hug to Iraq war vet Bobby Lisek, from Clever, Mo., as he marches along Market Street Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 in St. Louis. Lisek, a former sergeant in the Army, was wounded in a IED attack in Baghdad on September 11, 2004. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Carson) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT

A parade to honor Iraq war veterans makes its way west on Market Street Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012 in St. Louis.(AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Carson) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT

ST. LOUIS (AP) ? Looking around at the tens of thousands of people waving American flags and cheering, Army Maj. Rich Radford was moved that so many braved a cold January wind Saturday in St. Louis to honor people like him: Iraq War veterans.

The parade, borne out of a simple conversation between two St. Louis friends a month ago, was the nation's first big welcome-home for veterans of the war since the last troops were withdrawn from Iraq in December.

"It's not necessarily overdue, it's just the right thing," said Radford, a 23-year Army veteran who walked in the parade alongside his 8-year-old daughter, Aimee, and 12-year-old son, Warren.

Radford was among about 600 veterans, many dressed in camouflage, who walked along downtown streets lined with rows of people clapping and holding signs with messages including "Welcome Home" and "Thanks to our Service Men and Women." Some of the war-tested troops wiped away tears as they acknowledged the support from a crowd that organizers estimated reached 100,000 people.

Fire trucks with aerial ladders hoisted huge American flags in three different places along the route, with politicians, marching bands ? even the Budweiser Clydesdales ? joining in. But the large crowd was clearly there to salute men and women in the military, and people cheered wildly as groups of veterans walked by.

That was the hope of organizers Craig Schneider and Tom Appelbaum. Neither man has served in the military but came up with the idea after noticing there had been little fanfare for returning Iraq War veterans aside from gatherings at airports and military bases. No ticker-tape parades or large public celebrations.

Appelbaum, an attorney, and Schneider, a school district technical coordinator, decided something needed to be done. So they sought donations, launched a Facebook page, met with the mayor and mapped a route. The grassroots effort resulted in a huge turnout despite raising only about $35,000 and limited marketing.

That marketing included using a photo of Radford being welcomed home from his second tour in Iraq by his then-6-year-old daughter. The girl had reached up, grabbed his hand and said, "I missed you, daddy." Radford's sister caught the moment with her cellphone camera, and the image graced T-shirts and posters for the parade.

Veterans came from around the country, and more than 100 entries ? including marching bands, motorcycle groups and military units ? signed up ahead of the event, Appelbaum said.

Schneider said he was amazed how everyone, from city officials to military organizations to the media, embraced the parade.

"It was an idea that nobody said no to," he said. "America was ready for this."

All that effort by her hometown was especially touching for Gayla Gibson, a 38-year-old Air Force master sergeant who said she spent four months in Iraq ? seeing "amputations, broken bones, severe burns from IEDs" ? as a medical technician in 2003.

"I think it's great when people come out to support those who gave their lives and put their lives on the line for this country," Gibson said.

With 91,000 troops still fighting in Afghanistan, many Iraq veterans could be redeployed ? suggesting to some that it's premature to celebrate their homecoming. In New York, for example, Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently said there would be no city parade for Iraq War veterans in the foreseeable future because of objections voiced by military officials.

But in St. Louis, there was clearly a mood to thank the troops with something big, even among those opposed to the war.

"Most of us were not in favor of the war in Iraq, but the soldiers who fought did the right thing and we support them," said 72-year-old Susan Cunningham, who attended the parade with the Missouri Progressive Action Group. "I'm glad the war is over and I'm glad they're home."

Don Lange, 60, of nearby Sullivan, held his granddaughter along the parade route. His daughter was a military interrogator in Iraq.

"This is something everyplace should do," Lange said as he watched the parade.

Several veterans of the Vietnam War turned out to show support for the younger troops. Among them was Don Jackson, 63, of Edwardsville, Ill., who said he was thrilled to see the parade honoring Iraq War veterans like his son, Kevin, who joined him at the parade. The 33-year-old Air Force staff sergeant said he'd lost track of how many times he had been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as a flying mechanic.

"I hope this snowballs," he said of the parade. "I hope it goes all across the country. I only wish my friends who I served with were here to see this."

Looking at all the people around him in camouflage, 29-year-old veteran Matt Wood said he felt honored. He served a year in Iraq with the Illinois National Guard.

"It's extremely humbling, it's amazing, to be part of something like this with all of these people who served their country with such honor," he said.

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Judges Steven Tyler, J.Lo and Randy Jackson weren't on the same page for the first time this season on Thursday, and Lopez wasn't shy about hiding her frustration.

By Craig Berman

RECAP

?American Idol? took its show on the road to Texas for Thursday?s episode, by way of the International Space Station.

Sadly, the astronaut in charge of kicking off the show gave a conventional introduction and didn?t go with a riff on ?Star Trek.? After all, he could have said: ?Space: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the 'Idol' auditions. ?Its four-week mission: to explore strange new cities, to seek out new talent and folks who got cut in previous years, to boldly go where every ?Idol? season has gone before.?

That would have been fitting for an episode that was in turns both nostalgic and wacky. It was as filled with clich?s as any ?Star Trek? episode, complete with the egotistical folks on the bridge.

Yes, it?s true. The bickering judges were back! Finally!

After two weeks of constant 3-0 votes, we finally had an incredulous J.Lo find herself on the wrong end of a series of 2-1 decisions. She was the only supporter of Rachael Turner, Reagan Wilson and Cheyenne James, but somehow resisted the urge that all viewers felt to reach through the screen and whack Randy Jackson in the head for mocking her. But she was able to get in a dig after James sang. "If I had two people who were hearing correctly right now, they would have said yes and then we would be putting you through to Hollywood and you might make it very very far," J.Lo told the hopeful.

Then she was the only no vote for Linda Williams, a contestant notable mostly because she said she was going to pee on herself.??

?They?re sending the good singers home and they?re letting the bad singers through,??Lopez griped (accurately).

After everyone?s hair and makeup were refreshed, J.Lo said, ?I don?t wanna fight.?

Steven Tyler answered, ?Then say you?re sorry."

Here?s a tip: That never works to end an argument with a beautiful woman, as my wife could tell you because I've tried that line on her many, many times with no success.

We also got some old-school, really terrible singers. Phong Vu, for example, is a worthy heir to season three?s William Hung. He didn?t make it to Hollywood, but should contact Hung?s agent and see if he can get the same record deal that Hung got. Isn?t it about time for a new cover of ?She Bangs??

And Alejandro Cazares, who implored the judges to ?grant me the power to bring revolution to the world.? Please. They don?t have the authority to drink anything that?s not in a Coke cup. Do?you think they have the power to create a revolution?

Even the successful auditioners looked familiar. In the case of Baylie Brown, it?s because she was one of the early stars of season six as a 16-year old and made it to the group round, where one of her teammates was Antonella Barba. It doesn?t sound like she had fond memories of that, but five years later she?s back for another shot and Barba?s remembered as the girl who had risqu? pictures show up on the Internet. So maybe that was a blessing in disguise for Brown.

Skylar Laine could be this year?s Kellie Pickler. She?s the country girl who offroads and hunts deer and would be equally wacky if asked to eat sushi with Wolfgang Puck for a sketch during the finale like Pickler did. She was charming enough in her introduction to the ?Idol? voters, and could last a long time.

Then there were the traditional hard-luck cases. Kristine Osorio was the mom who bought a plane ticket to the auditions instead of paying her divorce lawyer -- good luck with that court case now. Cortez Shaw was homeless for a couple of years but sang really well and made Adele?s ?Someone Like You? into something that didn?t cause the judges to cringe.

And like every other episode, ?Idol? ended with a tearjerker. Ramiro Garcia, a worship leader whose parents were told he?d never be able to hear or speak when he was a baby, sang ?Amazing Grace? and earned a place in the next round.

Let?s just say that was a showstopper that any astronaut could have seen coming from outer space.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The National Park Service will bar Occupy DC protesters from camping in the two parks where have been living since October, in a blow to one of the highest-profile chapters of the movement denouncing economic inequality.

The Occupy DC protesters must stop camping in McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza, both a few blocks from the White House, starting at about noon on Monday, the Park Service said on Friday.

The Park Service will start to enforce regulations that "prohibit camping and the use of temporary structures for camping in McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza," the agency said in a flyer distributed at the sites.

"Although 24/7 demonstration vigils and the use of symbolic temporary structures, including empty tents used as symbols of the demonstration, may be permitted in the park areas, camping and the use of temporary structures for camping is not."

The protesters have been in the two sites since around the start of October. They have spearheaded numerous protests in Washington, including a demonstration that drew hundreds of people to the Capitol this month.

The McPherson Square site has drawn increasing criticism from Congress and the District of Columbia administration.

The park bordering K Street, a symbol of Washington lobbyists, has been criticized because of squalor and rats, and the protesters' numbers have been swelled by homeless people.

Sara Shaw, a McPherson Square protester handling contacts with the media, said the group would discuss its response at an evening meeting. She said 50 to 100 people were living in the square.

Bob Vogel, superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said in a statement: "The National Park Service takes very seriously its tradition of providing opportunities for First Amendment activities.

"We have a long history spanning several decades of 24-hour First Amendment vigils."

(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Paul Thomasch)

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JIn this Jan. 6, 2012 photo, John Deere farm tractors are displayed at Sloan's Implement John Deere Dealership, in Virden, Ill. Orders to U.S. factories for long-lasting manufactured goods increased in December after business stepped up spending on machinery and other capital goods. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Eva Sikora, left, an administrator at the Real Estate Education Center, discusses job opportunities with attendees at JobEXPO's job fair on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 in New York. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose last week, after falling to a nearly four-year low the previous week. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

This Jan. 18, 2012 photo shows a new home in a development in Pleasant Hills, Pa. Fewer people bought new homes in December, making 2011 the worst sales year on record. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Graphic shows durable goods, new home sales and weekly jobless claims

Jason Weinstein, an account manager for Workforce1 Healthcare, discusses job opportunities with attendees at JobEXPO's job fair on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 in New York. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose last week, after falling to a nearly four-year low the previous week. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Businesses are growing more confident in the economy, investing in more equipment and laying off fewer workers.

Government figures on manufacturing and unemployment claims released Thursday raised hopes on the eve of a report on how much the economy grew in the October-December quarter.

Still, 2011 ended up as the worst year on record for new-home sales, a reminder that the economy has a long way to go.

"Business optimism seems to be picking up, which is critical to the growth and competitiveness of the U.S. economy over the long haul," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial.

Orders for manufactured goods expected to last at least three years rose 3 percent last month, the Commerce Department said. And demand for goods that indicate business investment plans hit an all-time high.

A tax break that expired in December for large equipment purchases may have helped boost orders. Still, many economists said most companies are likely buying equipment simply because business is improving.

Manufacturers "have a real need to ramp up their spending on capital improvements ... because the economy is growing and industrial capacity has not kept up," said Carl Riccadonna, an economist at Deutsche Bank.

That growth was evident after Caterpillar said its fourth-quarter profit jumped 60 percent. The world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment also issued 2012 guidance above Wall Street predictions.

And 3M Co., which makes everything from Post-It Notes to Scotch tape, said sales in its industrial and transportation unit rose 14 percent in the fourth-quarter. The increase was driven by parts for cars and planes.

Factories are busier in large part because businesses are ordering more communication equipment, industrial machinery and autos. Economists pay close attention to demand for such core capital goods, which are considered a good proxy for business investment plans.

In December, orders for core capital goods rose to a record $68.9 billion. That's more than 45 percent higher than the recession low hit in April 2009.

The increase offered some reassurance about the status of the recovery, especially after core capital goods fell in October and November. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve cited the decline while warning that the economy remains vulnerable.

After seeing the government's report, some economists said those concerns may have been premature.

"With big-ticket spending rising and the labor market firming, the economy is a lot better than some central bankers think," said Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors.

Companies are also laying off fewer workers, which has some economists optimistic about job growth in January.

Weekly applications rose last week to a seasonally adjusted 377,000. But that followed a week in which they fell to near a four-year low. And the longer-term trend is pointing to a healthier job market.

The four-week average has declined to 377,500. When applications fall consistently below 375,000, it tends to signal that hiring is strong enough to lower the unemployment rate.

The nation has added at least 100,000 jobs for six straight months. And the unemployment rate has declined to 8.5 percent ? the lowest rate in almost three years.

Some economists worry that businesses are investing in heavy equipment so they don't need to hire as many workers. But Riccadonna said that recent data show otherwise. Companies spent more in the first half of the year, and hiring picked up several months later.

"You need workers to produce the equipment and you need workers to operate it once it's put it in place," he said.

Growth likely accelerated in the final three months of the year to a 3 percent annual pace, according to a survey of economists by Factset. That would be an improvement over the 1.8 percent pace in July-September quarter, and a relief after seeing 0.9 percent growth in the first half of last year.

The Commerce Department will report the actual figure Friday.

Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said the decline in business investment during October and November will be reflected in fourth-quarter growth. He predicts just 2.4 percent growth, even though business investment probably was stagnant during that period.

"The good news is that the growth rate of business investment should accelerate again in the first quarter," Ashworth said. That will help to offset a projected slowdown in consumer spending. He estimates growth in the current quarter at around 2 percent.

In another sign the economy is gaining strength, the Conference Board said its index of leading economic indicators rose in December for the fourth straight month.

Housing remains the weakest part of the economy. New-home sales fell last month, and total sales for 2011 were the lowest on records dating back to 1963.

Still, sales of new homes rose in the final quarter of 2011, supporting other signs of a slow turnaround that began at the end of the year.

Sales of previously occupied homes rose in December for a third straight month. Mortgage rates have never been lower. Homebuilders are slightly more hopeful because more people are saying they might consider buying this year. And home construction picked up in the final quarter of last year.

"A sustained rise in new-home sales is imminent," Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at High Frequency Economics. "Homebuilders say so too, and they should know."

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AP Real Estate Writer Derek Kravitz contributed to this report.

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ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2012) ? Researchers involved in the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging report that more than 6 percent of Americans age 70 to 89 develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI) every year. Also, the condition appears to affect men and those who only have a high school education more than women and those who have completed some higher education. People with MCI are at the stage between suffering the normal forgetfulness associated with aging and developing dementia, such as that caused by Alzheimer's disease.

The study -- published in the Jan. 25, 2012, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology -- reports that 296 of the 1,450 study participants developed MCI, an incidence rate of 6.4 percent per year overall. Among men, the incidence rate was 7.2 percent, compared with 5.7 percent per year for women.

"While incidence rates for MCI have been reported previously, ours is one of the few studies designed specifically to measure the incidence of MCI and its subtypes using published criteria," says lead author Rosebud O. Roberts, M.B., Ch.B., of the Mayo Clinic Division of Epidemiology. "The statistically significant difference between incidence rates among men and women represents an important finding for those evaluating patients for MCI."

The study also looked in more detail at patients with MCI, dividing them according to whether they developed amnestic MCI (aMCI) -- in which the condition affects the memory domain -- or non-amnestic MCI (naMCI).

Similar to the overall results, the incidence rates for aMCI and naMCI were higher in men than in women. In addition, the study found that individuals with only a high school education developed either aMCI or naMCI at a higher rate than those with some higher education.

"Understanding the distribution of incident MCI by age, sex and other demographic variables is critical to helping us understand the cause of the condition, as well as how to prevent MCI and its progression to full-blown, irreversible dementia," Dr. Roberts says. "This study advances our understanding of MCI and will help clinicians provide even better care for their patients, especially during initial evaluations."

About Mild Cognitive Impairment

People with MCI have mild problems with thinking and memory that do not interfere with everyday activities, although their forgetfulness is often apparent to them and their friends and family. While not everyone with MCI develops dementia, an estimated 5 to 10 percent do.

Symptoms of MCI include:

Difficulty learning and remembering new information
Difficulty solving problems or making decisions
Forgetting recent events or conversations
Taking longer to perform complex or difficult mental activities.

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Buy a hamburger and get rewarded with Facebook Credits to spend on a virtual cow. That's the mouth-watering promise of startup Plink, which is launching a virtual currency loyalty rewards system for restaurants. You register a credit card with Plink, and then when you make purchases at Taco Bell, 7-Eleven, Dunkin Donuts, or one of Plink's other clients you'll get Facebook Credits automatically deposited into your account.?As demand for Facebook Credits to spend on social games and media increases, expect more virtual currency incentive companies like Plink to pop up.

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TOKYO ? Japan's prime minister has pledged to push ahead with tax and social security reform and called on opposition politicians to cooperate to achieve "decisive politics."

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's speech kicks off what is expected to be a contentious parliamentary session dominated by debate over Noda's goal to raise the sales tax and reduce the country's fiscal deficit.

Noda has promised to submit a bill by end of March to double the 5 percent sales tax by 2015.

The plan has divided parliament and the ruling Democratic party.

Noda also pledged Tuesday to step up efforts to decontaminate the region around the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant from radioactive fallout, ensure health checks and compensation for those affected by the crisis.

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HOUSTON (AP) ? Oil and gas producer Apache Corp. is buying privately held Cordillera Energy Partners III LLC in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $2.85 billion.

Apache Chairman and CEO G. Steven Farris said the deal is "a unique bolt-on opportunity" that more than doubles Apache's acreage in the Anadarko Basin.

The acquisition gives Apache access to Cordillera's approximately 254,000 net acres in the Granite Wash, Tonkawa, Cleveland and Marmaton areas in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.

Estimated proved reserves are 71.5 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, with current net production at 18,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

The Granite Wash is said to have reservoir properties that are better than typical shale resource plays and responds well to horizontal drilling with multi-stage fracturing completions.

Apache has shifted to horizontal drilling. Its horizontal wells drilled in the last three years now make up about half of Apache's Central Region production, which totaled approximately 40,000 net barrels of oil equivalent per day at 2011's end.

Apache said that Cordillera also has significant resource potential, including 14,000 potential drilling locations in the Anadarko Basin. Cordillera will continue to buy acreage on Apache's behalf through closing.

Cordillera's owners, including EnCap Investments, other institutional investors and Cordillera management, will receive about $600 million in Apache stock. It says the rest of the acquisition will be paid in cash.

Apache said Monday that the deal is expected to add to its earnings and cash flow starting this year.

The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter.

Apache, which is based in Houston, has operations in the U.S., Canada, Egypt, the North Sea, Australia and Argentina.

Its shares finished at $96.80 on Friday. They are up 32 percent from their 52-week low of $73.04 in early October. They traded as high as $134.13 in late April.

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BEIRUT?? Even as the Arab League extended an observers' mission to Syria by a month , Saudi Arabia said Sunday it was withdrawing Saudi observers because the mission had failed to end 10 months of bloodshed.

"My country will withdraw its monitors because the Syrian government did not execute any of the elements of the Arab resolution plan," Prince Saud al-Faisal told fellow Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo.

"We are calling on the international community to bear its responsibility, and that includes our brothers in Islamic states and our friends in Russia, China, Europe and the United States," Saud said, calling for "all possible pressure" to push Syria to adhere to the Arab peace plan.

Saudi Arabia has been one of the harshest Arab critics of the crackdown, It recalled its ambassador from Damascus last year in protest.

Also Sunday, Syrian forces and army defectors clashed in a suburb of the tightly held capital of Damascus ? a sign that citizen protests against President Bashar Assad might turn into civil war.

Arab League foreign ministers extended the much-criticized mission and decided to add more observers and provide them with additional resources, officials said.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak to reporters, said the U.N. would train the observers.

The observer mission is supposed to be the first step toward implementing an Arab League plan to end the Syria crisis. Other points are pulling heavy Syrian weapons out of cities, stopping attacks on protesters, opening talks with the opposition and allowing foreign human rights workers and journalists in.

"There is partial progress in the implementation of the promises," Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby said in Cairo about Syria's implementation of the plan. Syria "did not carry out all its promises, although there are some implementation of pledges."

He added that the use of "extreme force" by Syrian forces have led to a reaction by the opposition "in what could lead to civil war."

So far the observer mission has not gone well. Though some credit it with tamping down violence in some places, the Local Coordination Committees activist group said Sunday that 976 people, including 54 children and 28 women, have been killed since the observers began their mission last month.

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The U.N. estimates some 5,400 have been killed since it began in March.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch called on the Arab League to "maximize" the effectiveness of the mission of the observers in Syria "to stop the killings."

"The deployment of the observers, has been disappointing ... Assad played games with observers," by moving around forces instead of removing them from cities, while the killing continues, Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

The Arab League faced three options Sunday: ending the mission and giving up its initiative, extending it, or turning the crisis over to the U.N. Security Council, as some opposition groups have urged. There, however, it would face a possible stalemate because of disagreements among permanent members over how far to go in forcing Assad's hand.

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The mission's one-month mandate technically expired on Thursday.

The pullout of Assad's security forces from the Damascus suburb of Douma marked the second time in a week that troops have redeployed from an area near the tightly-controlled Syrian capital, an indication that Assad might be losing some control.

Diplomacy has taken on urgency as opponents of Assad's regime and soldiers who switched sides increasingly take up arms and fight back against government forces.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' head Rami Abdul-Rahman said government troops had pulled back early Sunday to a provincial headquarters and a security agency building in the Damascus suburb of Douma after hours of clashes, although they still controlled the entrances. The clashes broke out after Syrian troops opened fire at a funeral on Saturday.

On Sunday afternoon, the battles resumed between the defectors and troops loyal to Assad, according to the Observatory and the Local Coordination Committees, another activist group. The LCC said that heavy machine gun fire was used in the clashes, and five people were killed.

Abdul-Rahman had no information on casualties from the clashes but said security forces at an entrance checkpoint shot dead one man who was passing by on Sunday. He added that one person was shot dead in a nearby town of Rankous as well as another person in the northwestern province of Idlib.

The LCC said 12 people were killed in Syria Sunday. The LCC and the Observatory reported intense gunfire in the central city of Homs that left at least one person dead.

State-run news agency SANA said gunmen opened fire at the car of an army brigadier general, killing him and another army officers who was in the vehicle.

Syria-based activist Mustafa Osso confirmed that security forces had abandoned Douma.

A video posted by activists on social media showed five masked gunmen, one of them in uniform, who read a statement saying, "the city of Douma has been liberated from Assad's gangs." He warned Syrian troops not to try enter Douma or defectors would "fire rockets at the presidential palace" in Damascus and execute five prisoners they are holding.

The Associated Press could not verify the authenticity of the video.

Also Sunday, state-run SANA, said an estimated 5,255 Syrian prisoners have been released over the past week under an amnesty, raising the total freed since November to more than 9,000. Opposition groups say thousands are still being held.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Syria as the bloodshed escalates. The U.S. has long called for Assad to step down, and officials say his regime's demise is inevitable.

Two U.S. Senators plan to introduce a bill to stiffen the sanctions.

The bill, sponsored by Democratic Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York would require President Barack Obama to identify violators of human rights in Syria, call for reform and offer protection to pro-democracy demonstrators. It would also block financial aid and property transactions in the United States involving Syrian leaders involved in the crackdown.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46091558/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/

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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2011 file photo, packages of Huggies and Pull-Ups, both Kimberly-Clark brands, are displayed at a store in San Francisco. Kimberly-Clark Corp., which makes Kleenex, Huggies and other household goods, said Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, its fourth-quarter net income declined 19 percent as rising costs continued to dampen its performance. It also gave a 2012 adjusted earnings forecast below Wall Street?s expectations. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

DALLAS (AP) ? Kimberly-Clark Corp., the maker of Kleenex tissues, Huggies diapers and other household goods, is still waging a battle against rising costs that pushed its fourth-quarter profit down 19 percent.

The company also offered a 2012 adjusted earnings forecast below Wall Street's expectations. Its shares fell $1.62, or 2.2 percent, to $71.90 in premarket trading on Tuesday.

Like many companies, Kimberly-Clark is struggling with higher costs for oil, wood, pulp and other materials that it needs to make and transport its products. It raised prices on certain products to help offset some of the expense, but must tread cautiously with price hikes to avoid turning off budget-minded shoppers.

The Dallas-based company continues to face soft demand in North America, as high unemployment and uncertain economic conditions keep many consumers focused on buying basic products on an as-needed basis.

Kimberly-Clark said Tuesday that it earned $401 million, or $1.01 per share, in the fourth quarter. That compares with profit of $492 million, or $1.20 per share, a year ago.

Excluding restructuring costs in its pulp and tissues segment, adjusted earnings were $1.28 per share, which fell short of the $1.30 per share that analysts surveyed by FactSet expected.

Revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 31 climbed 2 percent to $5.18 billion from $5.08 billion on higher prices and sales volumes, but missed Wall Street's $5.21 billion estimate.

Sales of personal care items fell approximately 5 percent in North America in the quarter. While Kimberly-Clark raised prices on infant and child care goods, it was not enough to overcome increased promotions.

Total sales for the personal care division edged up 2 percent to $2.2 billion. Consumer tissue segment sales were essentially flat at $1.7 billion, while the health care unit's sales rose 10 percent to about $420 million, partly on sales of exam gloves and surgical products.

Kimberly-Clark said its quarterly tax rate was 29.6 percent compared with 26.7 percent in the prior-year period. Excluding the pulp and tissue restructuring actions, the tax rate was 29.2 percent.

Full-year earnings declined 14 percent to $1.59 billion, or $3.99 per share, compared with earnings of $1.84 billion, or $4.45 per share, in the previous year.

Adjusted earnings were $4.80 per share.

"Reflecting on the full year, bottom-line results were somewhat below our original goal for the year, mostly due to higher-than-expected cost inflation and soft demand in portions of the developed markets," Chairman and CEO Thomas Falk said in a statement.

Revenue for 2011 increased 6 percent to $20.85 billion from $19.75 billion.

Looking ahead, Kimberly-Clark anticipates 2012 adjusted earnings between $5 and $5.15 per share, below the analysts' average forecast earnings of $5.23 per share for the year.

Annual revenue is expected to be flat to up 1 percent, which would imply revenue of about $20.85 billion to $21.26 billion. Wall Street forecast revenue of $21.22 billion.

Falk cautioned that economic conditions will likely remain challenging this year in the near term, specifically in developed markets. While commodity costs are expected to be a lesser concern, Kimberly-Clark anticipates foreign currency exchange rates will continue to be volatile.

The company also said it expects to raise its dividend at a mid-single digit rate, effective in April.

Associated Press

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The ruling upholds a broad right to be free from unreasonable searches. But it also highlights a struggle within the Supreme Court to balance law enforcement objectives with privacy concerns.

Law enforcement officials must obtain a court-authorized warrant before using a GPS device to track the movements of a criminal suspect?s vehicle, the US Supreme Court ruled on Monday, eliciting praise from privacy advocates.

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In a unanimous decision, the high court said Fourth Amendment guarantees against unreasonable searches prohibit police or federal agents from affixing a Global-Positioning-System (GPS) tracking device to a private vehicle and then recording the vehicle?s every movement 24 hours a day for weeks or months without prior court approval.

The decision is a setback for the Obama Justice Department, which had argued that the Constitution did not hinder its use of tracking technology to monitor vehicles traveling on public streets.

The opinion in US v. Jones (10-1259) is important because it upholds a broad right to be free from unreasonable searches. But it also highlights an emerging struggle within the high court to establish a consistent method of analysis that properly balances law enforcement objectives with privacy concerns.

As the government deploys an increasingly sophisticated and intrusive repertoire of surveillance technologies, privacy advocates warn that zones of privacy are fast shrinking in America.

?We have entered a new and frightening age when advancing technology is erasing the Fourth Amendment,? said John Whitehead, president of the Virginia-based non-profit Rutherford Institute, in a statement.

?Thankfully,? he said, ?the US Supreme Court has sent a resounding message to government officials ? especially law enforcement officials ? that there are limits to their powers.?

Although all nine justices agreed that the government?s use of a GPS tracking device amounted to a search, the justices split 5 to 4 on how to properly analyze the issue.

Writing for the court, Justice Antonin Scalia tied the question to Fourth Amendment protections of the sanctity of private property against government trespass. He said the government needed a warrant not just to attach the GPS device to a piece of private property, but to attach the device with the intent of obtaining information.

?We have no doubt that such a physical intrusion would have been considered a ?search? within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when it was adopted,? Justice Scalia wrote in an opinion joined in full by four other justices.

Joining Scalia?s decision were Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Sonia Sotomayor.

Justice Samuel Alito agreed with the general outcome of the case, but wrote separately to suggest the court should have based its decision on an examination of whether the owner of the monitored vehicle had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the long-term movements of his car.

Scalia?s property-based approach is ?unwise,? Justice Alito wrote. ?It strains the language of the Fourth Amendment; it has little if any support in current Fourth Amendment case law; and it is highly artificial.?

He questioned how it would apply in cases in which the government tied its surveillance to factory-installed GPS devices in vehicles or to smart phones equipped with GPS.

Three justices joined Alito?s concurrence. They were Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan.

In past decisions in recent years, the court has examined whether a subject had a ?reasonable expectation of privacy? at the time of the particular government intrusion. Scalia?s private-property approach had fallen out of favor through disuse by the court, but according to Scalia, had never been overruled.

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SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) ? The Texas Congressman whose proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) prompted dozens of websites to go dark or run protest messages this week said Friday he is pulling the measure from consideration "until there is wider agreement on a solution."

"I have heard from the critics and I take seriously their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online piracy," U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas and the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

"It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products," Smith said.

(Reporting by Jim Forsyth; Editing by Daniel Trotta)

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No complaining about these championship matchups: prolific offense vs. stingy defense, or old foes renewing a storied rivalry.

Whichever suits your preference, the NFL has it this weekend.

When the New England Patriots host the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday for the AFC title, four players who have come to represent the highest levels of achievement will be on each side of the ball. Tom Brady, seeking a fifth start in a Super Bowl, and Wes Welker on New England's offense, Ray Lewis and Ed Reed on Baltimore's defense.

How juicy.

"They've got a lot of guys over there that are very explosive," said Reed, the Ravens' star safety. "Obviously, they score a lot of points, and we've all seen that. It's going to be an all-day affair for our defense."

The other championship affair Sunday is at Candlestick Park, where the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers have played some memorable games, regular season and postseason. Despite the geographic separation, these franchises have quite a history with each other.

"You know there are a lot of memories," former Giants quarterback Phil Simms said of the rivalry. "They went from maybe the greatest to the worst in lots of ways. The games were awesome."

It could shape up as an awesome weekend. Certainly an intriguing one.

New England (14-3) hasn't won the AFC crown since 2007, when it was unbeaten until the Giants pulled off a shocker in the Super Bowl. The Patriots' last NFL title came in January 2005.

To get their fourth league championship under coach Bill Belichick and with Brady at quarterback, they'll need to have their offense in high gear, which it has been nearly all season. The Patriots scored at least 27 points in all but three games and averaged 32.8, including last week's 45-10 rout of Denver, their ninth straight victory.

But New England didn't beat an opponent that finished with a winning record, and lost to its two most difficult foes, Pittsburgh and the Giants.

Baltimore (13-4) most assuredly presents a difficult challenge, with a defense that yielded 266 points, more than only two teams.

"I think we have a lot of confidence, we are a confident type team, have a lot of good players and they feed off each other," All-Pro receiver Welker said. "We feel someone will step up and make a play ... and it makes it tough on defenses.

"I understand we are playing a great football team this week and have to be on top of everything. No mental errors, no bad mistakes, knowing your job and taking care of your business."

Brady usually does that, although before the romp past Denver, he and the Patriots had lost three straight postseason games. He is 4-0 in regular-season meetings with the Ravens, but lost their only playoff matchup.

If he isn't at his best, it will be because of Lewis, Reed and that staunch Baltimore D. The Ravens are as physical as anyone, and one thing that historically has slowed Brady has been when a defense gets in his face, disrupts his rhythm ? and hits him. Many times.

"It's more important that we stop their whole offense," said Reed, whom Belichick called the greatest safety he has faced during his coaching career. "We can't focus on one particular player, because Brady doesn't. Brady throws it to everybody. I've been saying that all week. He'll throw it to an offensive lineman. We're looking at everybody that's eligible that's going out on a route and not going out on a route. We're paying attention to everybody. Everybody has a responsibility. They have 11 guys on the field. We have 11 guys on the field. Everybody has to do their responsibility."

The 11 guys on each side of the ball at Candlestick Park for the NFC championship game will carry on a tradition of notable meetings that dates back to when the 49ers (14-3) and Giants (11-7) were dominating the conference in the 1980s. Their only faceoff in the title game was in January 1991, when New York kicked five field goals for a 15-13 victory, preventing San Francisco from going after a third straight Super Bowl trophy.

While it's fun to conjure up memories of Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Ronnie Lott, Lawrence Taylor and Matt Bahr, this year's participants are more concerned with adding to a winning legacy. This is the 49ers' first playoff appearance since the 2002 season, when they won a wild 39-38 wild-card game against the Giants. New York, of course, won it all four years ago.

"Winning is what it's all about and it definitely makes coming to work a lot better than hearing, Who's going to be your new head coach or defensive coordinator?' All-Pro defensive tackle Justin Smith said. "I'll take this over the other for sure."

No worries on the coaching front after Jim Harbaugh made his first year in charge one of the most successful for any rookie coach. Harbaugh doesn't have much of a feel for Giants-49ers, though; he didn't play for either team.

Giants coach Tom Coughlin, who was on the 1990 championship staff, knows all about it.

"I have thought about that and we will talk about some of the things that occurred there," Coughlin said, "but only from the standpoint of the history and the tradition and what a great event that was at that particular time. That was a long time ago and I think some of our players, because they are historians, will know a little about that game and the great players that played in that game."

More appropriate, perhaps, is the 27-20 win by the 49ers in November, a game decided only when Smith blocked Eli Manning's last-minute pass deep in San Francisco territory. It was the latest installment of a grand rivalry.

Until Sunday.

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Ongoing construction has made parts of Lead and Coal Avenues inaccessible since November 2010, forcing some businesses in the affected area to close their doors and leaving others struggling to stay afloat.

Nan Morningstar, owner of Free Radicals located on the corner of Yale Boulevard and Lead Avenue, said her business has dropped significantly since construction began, while a clothing store across the street, Steppn-2-Style, was forced to close permanently.

?We talk to some of the neighbors and you?ll note that half of the businesses are gone,? she said. ?It sucks.?

The construction is part of the $26 million Lead and Coal Improvement Project, which aims to update storm drain infrastructure, landscaping and lighting along Lead and Coal Avenues and reduce both avenues from three lanes to two lanes each.

The work is projected to be finished this spring, but local business owners said customers still can?t drive up to many of the businesses located on Lead Avenue, bringing in-store traffic nearly to a halt.

Ramzi Hijazi, owner and manager of Tri-H Convenience Store and gas station across Yale Boulevard, said the construction has been hurting his business since it began. While Tri-H is still accessible by car, surrounding road closures make the convenience store difficult to get to.

He said business has dropped between 50 and 60 percent, and he has been forced to fire employees.

?I?ve recently had to work in the store myself in order to compensate because I can?t bring in any new employees,? he said.
Luis Rodriguez, an employee at Casa De Pi?atas, located on Lead Avenue near Yale Boulevard, said he?s never seen such a decline in business since the store opened 16 years ago.

?Business is down 60 to 70 percent from last year,? he said. ?It?s been really frustrating dealing with the construction; we?ve already been broken into and robbed because the city took down all the lights in front of the store.?

An anti-donation clause in the New Mexico state constitution prevents the city from compensating businesses affected by the construction.

?Neither the state nor any county, school district or municipality ? shall directly or indirectly lend or pledge its credit or make any donation to or in aid of any person, association of public or private corporation,? the clause states.

Mark Motsko, spokesman for the city?s Department of Municipal Development, said the city has made an effort to work with the affected businesses by sending notices in advance concerning road closures.

?We?ve been doing outreach even before the construction started to let the business owners know that during construction we would work with them,? he said. ?It hasn?t been for a lack of effort that we?ve maintained access to all the businesses in the corridor.?

Motsko said the city initiated the project in response to complaints concerning the high volume of traffic on Lead and Coal Avenues from those living in the surrounding neighborhoods. He said that before construction began, both Lead and Coal Avenues had three lanes, which carried up to 27,000 vehicles per day through highly populated residential areas.

He said the city sought input from a task force of neighborhood representatives before construction began.

?What we?re doing is following up with the neighbors? requests to make it feel like a neighborhood-friendly atmosphere,? Motsko said.

Source: http://www.dailylobo.com/index.php/article/2012/01/construction_project_harms_local_business

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Rank	?	Score
1	I was sure the feelings were mutual but my advance was snubbed	100
2	Before I could confess, a rumour spread that I fancied them	97.8
3	I thought they were free, but they were already in a relationship	83.3
4	When I went to declare my love, I was so vague I didn?t get my feelings across	72.2
5	Against my sober judgement, blurted out my love in a drunken fevour	55.6
6	The day after confessing my love everyone knew all about it	51.1
7=	I was nervous and just couldn?t get my words out correctly	42.2
7=	I was nervous and just couldn?t get any words out at all	42.2
9	They said they?d reply another day but never replied	40.0
10	I thought they were single, but they were already married	25.6
11	I confessed my love, but was embarrassed and ended with ?By the way, it?s all lies!?	22.2
12	Someone else spotted me as I was declaring my love	18.9
13	When I called out to them, they gave me a dirty look so I couldn?t confess	17.8
14	I sent an ?I love you!? email to the wrong person	13.3
15	I chose a love song at karaoke and stuck their name into it, but they missed it	6.7
16=	I came out in a fever so I couldn?t make it to the place I?d asked them to meet me at	4.4
16=	I sang a love song I wrote myself, but it put the willies up them	4.4
18	I was so nervous when confessing my love that my clothes were dripping with sweat	2.2
19=	I was seen practising my confession speech	1.1
19=	I phoned the wrong person but continued to declare my love for them	1.1