Paul to skip Florida, look for delegates in Nevada, Minnesota (Daily Caller)

COLUMBIA, S.C. ? Ron Paul will not compete in Florida?s Republican primary, instead focusing on the caucus states of Nevada and Minnesota.

In his victory speech Saturday night after finishing fourth in the South Carolina primary, Paul told supporters he would promote his message as cheaply as possible.

?We will certainly be promoting this in the most frugal way,? he said. ?We will be going to the caucus states, and we will be promoting the whole idea of getting more delegates, because that?s the name of the game.?

The campaign has made substantial ad buys in Nevada and Minnesota, both states with February?caucuses. Florida is the largest of the early primary states and?arguably the most grueling early state in which to campaign. It also has some of the most expensive media markets in America.

The cash-flush Mitt Romney is already running ads there. And Newt Gingrich, though he won the South Carolina primary decisively, is expected to face serious challenges in organizing a strong Florida campaign.

Twenty-eight Republican delegates are up for grabs in Nevada, 40 in Minnesota.

Paul, with his message of auditing and then ending the Federal Reserve, using the gold standard for U.S. currency and bringing the troops home from abroad, insisted in his Saturday night speech that he is trying to win, despite pundits? general agreement that he is merely a ?message candidate.?

?I?ve been in this process of promoting the cause of liberty in the electoral process for a long time. At the beginning, I thought it was going to be a promotion of a cause,? Paul said. ?Then it dawned on me that if you win elections and win delegates, that?s the way you promote a cause.?

Paul was largely absent from South Carolina during the week leading up to Saturday?s primary, traveling to Washington, D.C. to vote against the latest proposal to raise the federal debt ceiling. He participated in a pro-life forum Wednesday via satellite, participated in Thursday?s debate and held a half-dozen public events Friday.

Paul?s supporters showed their appreciation Saturday night for his decision to leave the campaign trail to cast a vote in Congress.

?Looking ahead, we see a lengthy, 50-state national campaign,? said Paul?s national campaign chairman Jesse Benton in a statement. ?Dr. Paul is fully prepared to win.?

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US military chief begins talks in Israel on Iran (AP)

JERUSALEM ? The top general of the U.S. army has begun a round of closed talks with Israeli leaders, amid disagreements between the two countries over how to handle Iran's nuclear program.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, met Israel's military chief Benny Gantz on Friday. He is also scheduled to meet Israel's prime minister, president, and defense minister.

The U.S. general's visit highlights Washington's concern about a possible Israeli military strike against Iran. He is expected to urge Israel not to rush to attack Iran at a time when the U.S. is trying to rally additional global support to pressure Tehran through sanctions.

Israel believes Iran is close to developing the technology to building an atomic weapon. Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

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US moves up 1 spot to 33rd in FIFA rankings

updated 12:20 p.m. ET Jan. 18, 2012

ZURICH - World and European champion Spain retained the top spot in the FIFA rankings for the fifth straight month, and the United States moved up one place to 33rd.

The Americans' ranking is its highest since it was 31st in September. The U.S. had been 11th in September-October 2009 and reached a high of fourth in April 2006.

The top 10 places were unchanged from December after just 11 international matches were played last month. The Netherlands is second, followed by Germany, South American champion Uruguay, England. Brazil, Portugal, Croatia, Italy and Argentina.

Mexico, at 21st, has the top ranking in North and Central America and the Caribbean.

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Prodigy iPhone Case Projects Functional Virtual Keyboard onto Any Surface

Recently Celluon, a Korean company,?presented a device that any gadget lover will be enthusiastic about;?the Prodigy is an iPhone 4/4S case that can project a full-size virtual keyboard onto any surface, that also allows you to type on it.

The new addition to an increasingly large amount of intriguing, cool accessories dedicated to Apple's smartphones, was introduced at this year's edition of CES,?Pocket-Lint?reports.

Prodigy works by tracking the users' fingers typing on the projected keyboard. Every time the laser beams that are firing the keyboard are interrupted, the movement is translated into a letter and the device is able to process the information and share it with the iPhone via a Bluetooth connection.

However, in order to work properly, the device needs the user to type "cleanly", without hesitant fingers or unnecessary movements on its surface, otherwise the device can have a hard time recognising the intended keystrokes and the results are unexpected.

Also, users could find it a bit odd at first typing on strange surfaces. To make Prodigy even more appealing to users, the company has included the option of an additional battery to allow iPhone users more time on their smartphone.

The device should go on sale for around ?150.

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Startup niche focused legal news site viable as stand alone ...

Well-known TechCrunch columnist and Silicon Valley journalist Sarah Lacy (@sarahcuda) debuts today her new tech news site called PandoDaily.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal's Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Lacy has the backing of $2 million in venture capital and will feature three of TechCrunch?s most high-profile former bloggers: Michael Arrington, M.G. Siegler and Paul Carr.

Lacy's debut makes me wonder if we're ready for a startup legal news site. Not one that would be an offshoot of the large legal publishers (Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, ALM -Law.com, Wolters Kluwer) and not a small time effort started on a shoe string. But a legal news site that would compete with ALM's legal periodicals that would be driven by innovative people willing to work their ass off to get it off the ground.

Michael Arrington was a Stanford Law grad and corporate lawyer at Wilson Sonsini from 1997 to 1999, before getting into Internet startups. In 2005, Arrington started TechCrunch to cover internet startups and related news. When I asked him a few years later how he got TechCrunch to such prominence, he said blogging 16 hours a day for a year.

As TechCrunch grew, Arrington added writers and senior leadership in the form of CEO, Heather Harde, former vice president of mergers and acquisitions for Fox Interactive Media. In 2010 AOL bought TechCrunch for north of $25 million.

Unfortunately TechCrunch is a shadow of itself now that Arrington, Harde, and others have left. That's not to say AOL is not making money from the acquisition in ad revenue and growing out its ancillary blog and news site network.

Is a 'TechCrunch in the law' viable? I don't know. We have Above the Law (ATL) which has been labeled a aw gossip blog which circulates rumors primarily about big law. ATL appears to be financially viable and could be an attractive buy for a larger publisher.

My gut tells me a niche focused legal news & commentary site driven by people who know what they are doing with web publishing - from the writing and corporate leadership standpoint is viable. I also believe it would be something of value to larger legal publishers for a later acquisition.

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Olympus sues executives for damages in cover-up (AP)

TOKYO ? Financially battered Olympus Corp. is suing 19 former and current executives for damages that the Japanese camera and medical equipment maker says it has suffered over a massive cover-up of investment losses.

The lawsuit, filed Sunday by auditors on behalf of the company in Tokyo District Court, targets former CEO Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, current President Shuichi Takayama and 17 other executives that the company says participated in or knew about the fraudulent activity.

The scheme ? which first came to light after former President Michael Woodford blew the whistle ? has raised serious questions about corporate governance in Japan, and whether major companies are complying adequately with global standards.

Olympus said Tuesday the lawsuit follows a report from an investigation by an independent panel that the Tokyo-based company had set up. Then-President Masatoshi Kishimoto, as well as subsequent executives ? including Kikukawa ? knew about the scheme, it said. A small circle of employees was also involved.

Six board members implicated in the report, including Takayama, will resign at the next shareholder meeting, scheduled for March or April, Olympus said.

Kikukawa is being sued for 3.6 billion yen ($47 million). The company is seeking smaller amounts from other defendants, including 1 billion yen ($13 million) from Kishimoto.

Olympus said losses related to the cover-up scandal totaled 85.9 billion yen ($1.1 billion), according to its latest investigation.

But it will demand no more than 3.6 billion yen ($47 million) in damages, which will likely be spread among the plaintiffs because of their inability to pay such exorbitant amounts, according to the company.

The scheme came to light late last year after Woodford raised questions about huge payments for financial advice and expensive acquisitions of companies unrelated to its mainstay businesses. The transactions, Olympus later acknowledged, were used to hide 117.7 billion yen ($1.5 billion) in investment losses stemming from the 1990s.

Tuesday's report also identified 25 executives who were not responsible, including Woodford.

Woodford was fired in October after raising his concerns. Last week, he said he gave up his fight for a comeback to the top after failing to win backing from major investors and megabanks.

Woodford, a British national, had demanded the resignation of the entire board, including Takayama, who had replaced him and initially denied any wrongdoing in the spending.

Under Japanese law, auditors represent the company when executives on the board are targeted in damage lawsuits. In the Olympus lawsuit, three auditors, two of them outsiders, are representing the company. None of them were implicated in the scandal.

Olympus claims in the lawsuit that it suffered direct losses to its finances, in terms of fees and interest paid to run the scheme ? as well as losses stemming from the improper handling of the scandal after it surfaced, including how Woodford was dealt with.

"The credibility of Olympus' corporate governance and the public's trust of Olympus were seriously damaged," it said.

Japanese prosecutors have begun a separate investigation and raided company headquarters and Kikukawa's home last month.

Olympus barely met its mid-December deadline to avoid being removed from the Tokyo Stock Exchange by filing corrected earnings for the April-September first half and for the past five fiscal years.

Olympus' stock has plunged amid the scandal. It surged nearly 20 percent Tuesday, following a report Monday in The Nikkei financial daily that Olympus was likely to avoid delisting, but it is still trading at about half its value prior to the scandal. Tokyo markets were closed Monday for a national holiday.

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Lawsuit seeks release of Guantanamo detainee video (AP)

NEW YORK ? A lawsuit filed Monday seeks to force the U.S. government to make public the videotapes of harsh interrogation carried out on a Saudi citizen who authorities once said was supposed to have been the 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Lawyers for the Center for Constitutional Rights said the videos have been seen by attorneys for Mohammed al-Qahtani but cannot be shown to the public because they are classified. He remains at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

They noted that al-Qahtani's treatment since he was seized in December 2001 and later transferred to Guantanamo has drawn the attention of the public, Congress and internal agency investigations.

"The American public should now be permitted to see what occurred for itself," the lawsuit said. "Releasing the videotapes and photographs of Mr. al-Qahtani's interrogations will serve the public interest, by providing the American public with unique documentation of the systematic abuses at Guantanamo."

The lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan said al-Qahtani from 2002 through 2003 was "the victim of a deliberate and calculated interrogation strategy involving the repeated use of torture and other profoundly cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment." It cited an FBI account that said the treatment was causing him to talk to non-existent people in his cell, report that he was hearing voices, and crouch in a corner covered with a sheet for hours on end.

It seeks to force the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA to release the videotapes to the public based on a 2010 Freedom of Information Act request by the center, a nonprofit legal organization that boasts that it has matched hundreds of lawyers nationwide to represent Guantanamo detainees.

Jerika Richardson, a spokeswoman for federal government attorneys in New York, said the government had no comment on the lawsuit.

In October, 2006, al-Qahtani recanted a confession he said he made after he was tortured and humiliated at Guantanamo. In a written statement, he said he had been beaten, restrained for long periods in uncomfortable positions, threatened with dogs, exposed to loud music and freezing temperatures and stripped nude in front of female personnel. The lawsuit said al-Qahtani was subjected to religious, sexual and moral humiliation and that female interrogators sometimes straddled him or molested him while other military guards pinned his body to the floor.

The U.S. originally had charged six men in the Sept. 11 case, including al-Qahtani. Authorities said he had hoped to become the 20th hijacker but narrowly missed taking part because a U.S. immigration agent denied him entry when he arrived at the airport in Orlando, Fla. The charges against him were dropped. Susan Crawford, a U.S. government official who formerly oversaw the tribunal system, told the Washington Post in an interview published in January 2009 that she refused to refer charges against him because she believed he was tortured.

During a media conference call Monday, attorney Lawrence S. Lustberg said the lawsuit was necessary because some interrogation techniques used on al-Qahtani may still be used and are listed in Army manuals.

"Here on the 10-year anniversary of Guantanamo, we're concerned that the public has been desensitized to the plight of those who are detained there," he said.

Alicia L. Bannon, a lawyer working on the lawsuit, said a Freedom of Information Act request filed with seven different agencies resulted in scant information, with the Department of Justice saying that the requested information was classified and other agencies alleging disclosures would result in an invasion of personal privacy.

She said the lawsuit wants a judge to require the government to provide at least portions of the tapes because the government should not be able to use exemptions to requests for public information to hide activity that is illegal or embarrassing to the government.

Another lawyer, Sandra L. Babcock from the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern Law School, said the government will not let lawyers working on the case describe the content of the tapes or say how many exist. But she added that tapes she has seen are "extremely disturbing, sickening even."

"I think they would have the power to change the tenor of the debate on the government detention policies and the war on terror," Babcock said.

Babcock said the interrogation techniques had ravaged al-Qhatani, causing his weight to drop from 160 pounds to 100 pounds and his health to decline even before the most severe interrogation began.

Now, she said, he is a broken man, unlikely to ever recover from the physical and psychological effects of torture.

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