Iraqi killing cases at a glance (AP)

A look at the resolution of charges filed against Marines after the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, in Haditha in 2005, and in other cases in Hamdania and Fallujah.

Haditha:

_Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich of Meriden, Conn. Squad leader, Pleaded guilty Monday to dereliction of duty in a deal that will mean a maximum of three months confinement. Initially charged with unpremeditated murder and other offenses.

_Sgt. Sanick P. Dela Cruz of Chicago. Rifleman. Charge of unpremeditated murder was dismissed after he was given immunity to testify.

_Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt of Canonsburg, Pa. Rifleman. Charge of unpremeditated murder was dismissed.

_Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum of Edmond, Okla. Rifleman. Charges including unpremeditated murder were dropped.

_Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani of Rangely, Colo. Battalion commander. Charges of failing to obey regulations, encompassing counts of failing to report and investigate alleged war crimes, were dismissed after a judge found unlawful command influence occurred while a general was considering a court-martial.

_1st Lt. Andrew A. Grayson of Springboro, Ohio. Intelligence officer. Acquitted of making false official statements, trying to fraudulently separate from service and attempt to deceive by making false statements.

_Capt. Randy W. Stone of Dunkirk, Md. Military attorney. Charges of failure to obey orders or regulations, encompassing counts of failing to ensure that a thorough investigation was conducted and reported to headquarters, were dismissed.

_Capt. Lucas M. McConnell of Napa, Calif. Company commander. Charges of failure to obey orders, encompassing two counts of failing to ensure that alleged violations of laws of war were investigated, were dropped.

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Seven Marines and a Navy corpsman from the Camp Pendleton-based 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment were accused of kidnapping and murdering a man in Hamdania, Iraq, in April 2006.

_Sgt. Lawrence G Hutchins III of Plymouth, Mass., convicted of murder and other offenses, sentenced to 11 years in prison.

_Navy corpsman Petty Officer 3rd Class Melson J. Bacos of Franklin, Wis., pleaded guilty to kidnapping, conspiracy to kidnap and making false official statements.

_Marine Lance Cpl. John J. Jodka III of Encinitas, Calif., pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

_Marine Lance Cpl. Tyler A. Jackson of Tracy, Calif., pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

_Marine Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr. of Matlock, Wash., pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

_Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington of Mukilteo, Wash., pleaded guilty to kidnapping and conspiracy.

_Cpl. Marshall L. Magincalda of Manteca, Calif., convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, larceny and housebreaking.

_Cpl. Trent D. Thomas of Madison, Ill., convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder.

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Three Marines from the Camp Pendleton-based Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division were charged in connection with killing an unarmed Iraqi detainee in November 2004 in Fallujah, Iraq.

_Sgt. Ryan Weemer of Hindsboro, Ill., was acquitted of murder and dereliction of duty.

_Sgt. Jermaine Nelson of New York, pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty after the government dropped a murder charge.

_Sgt. Jose Luis Nazario was acquitted in federal court in Riverside, Calif., on counts that included voluntary manslaughter. The squad leader was beyond the reach of a court-martial because he had completed his military obligations.

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10 disaster survival tips for pets - Holy Kaw!

After Hurricane Katrina, more than 250,000 pets, including cats, dogs and fish, were left stranded by this storm and the subsequent flooding by owners who thought they would have returned in a few days but were unable to do so.

It's a staggering number, and one that should motivate pet parents to think ahead. Let's look at some of the precautions that can be taken in advance, as well as what to do when time is truly nonexistent and spur-of-the-moment decisions must be made, including:

• Identity Prep: Tags are a great place to start. Also consider implanting a microchip, one of the most reliable methods for recovering a lost or stray pet.
• Home Bunker: Don't wait until the tornado drops down in your backyard; heed the advice of FEMA and bring pets inside as soon as any watches or warnings hit the airwaves.
• S-O-S: Most emergency and rescue organizations strongly urge against ever leaving pets behind during a disaster.

Full list at HowStuffWorks.com.

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iPhone 4, iPad 2 jailbreak by the numbers

The iPhone Dev Team has shared some numbers on the Absinthe jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad. These are the downloads over the last 3 days.

491,325 new iPhone

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The Nightly Turbo: Tony G Wins Business Award, Zynga Eyes Real ...

January 20 2012, Brett Collson

The race for a real-money online gaming space in the U.S. heated up Friday as Zynga stated it is talking with potential partners about a future venture into Internet gambling. Why the sudden flip-flop, you ask? We'll bring you that story and more in this edition of the Nightly Turbo.

In Case You Missed It

How was the high-stakes action at the PokerStars tables this week? Read the Online Railbird Report to find out the week's biggest winners and losers.

Sen. Harry Reid has been one of the leaders tied to the push for federal online poker in the U.S. But where has he been lately? Matthew Kredell takes a look.

British poker pro Tom Middleton captured a title at the Aussie Millions Poker Championship on Friday. For all the details from Day 9, check out our daily recap from Melbourne.

The weekend is almost here and that means football. Check out our picks for the NFL's Championship Weekend in the latest Pigskin Diaries.

Miss anything this week? We've got you covered. Nicki Pickering and Lynn Gilmartin get you caught up on the latest news, views and gossip in the PokerNews Weekly.

Tony G: International Man of Business

Our very own Tony G crushed the competition this month by winning the Lithuanian Business Lighthouse Award, presented by ekonomika.lt. Tony was one of 44 successful entrepreneurs and businessmen from Lithuania qualified for the award, which was voted on by 8,442 readers.

"I have been involved in a lot of different projects in Lithuania to help create jobs, including TonyResort.lt and TonyBet.com," Tony told PokerNews. "I am humbled and honored to have won the Lithuanian Business Lighthouse Award and I am hoping to be even more involved in my home country in the coming years."

He earned 24 percent of the vote; his closest competitor, Kaunas University of Technology Gymnasium Director Bronislava Burg, received 19 percent of the vote.

Read the full story at ekonomika.lt.

Zynga's Flip-Flop

Is Zynga reversing its position on real-money online gambling? Yes, one company spokesperson told All Things D on Friday.

It appears Zynga has a sudden interest in the real-money space and is speaking with several potential partners about a shift into the market if legislation is passed in the U.S.

?We build games and experiences that our players want and love. Zynga Poker is the world?s largest online poker game with more than 7 million people playing every day and over 30 million each month," the spokesperson said.

"We know from listening to our players that there?s an interest in the real money gambling market. We?re in active conversations with potential partners to better understand and explore this new opportunity.?

Read more at PokerNews.com.

PartyGaming Named in MegaUpload Indictment

The fight to protect intellectual property continued Thursday when online file-sharing site MegaUpload.com and sister site MegaVideo.com were shut down by federal authorities.

The federal indictment showed that the site's owner, Kim Dotcom (yes, that's his name), made $42 million last year by hosting illegal copies of popular films and television shows. The indictment also shows that some of that money came from PartyGaming, the parent company of online poker site PartyPoker.

Financial Times reports that PartyGaming was a major advertiser for the site, paying more than $3 million for online ads which users had to view before watching a video. MegaUpload also had ad contracts with companies such as Google AdSense and adBrite.

The indictment can be found at sribd.com.

PokerStars TCOOP Under Way

The inaugural PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) kicked off Thursday with four events on Day 1. The site shattered each of its guarantees, handing out more than $2 million across the four fast-paced tournaments. Here's a quick look at the results:

Event #1: No Limit Hold'em Six-Max ($200K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$20+2	44,787	$895,740

The first event on the schedule attracted an astounding 44,787 players, generating a prize pool of nearly $900,000. Brandon "oncommand" Meyers headlined the final table, but the poker pro fell short of the title in fifth place. The remaining four players agreed on a deal, and Canada's "88Xin88" went on to become the first champion in TCOOP history, collecting $67,903.

Event #2: No Limit Omaha Hi/Lo ($50K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$30+3	4,337	$130,110

The first non-hold'em event on the slate drew 4,337 players, more than doubling the guaranteed prize pool. Larry "BBOY3110" Sharp made a deep run, finishing in seventh, and Russia's "gazon7" claimed the title for $15,618 after a three-way chop.

Event #3: No Limit Hold'em Knockout ($250K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$100+25+9	5,561	$556,100+$139,025

Uraguay's Fabrizio "SixthSense19" Gonzalez claimed victory in the richest tournament of Day 1. The $134 knockout event attracted a field of 5,561 players, creating a prize pool of $556,100 and a bounty pool of $139,025. Andrew "RunThisTable" Lichtenberger was ousted from the final table in ninth place, and Gonzalez went on to win the tournament for $86,994.

Event #4: No Limit Hold'em ($100K Guaranteed)

Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool
$30+3	9,877	$ $296,310

The last tourney on Thursday was the $33 no-limit hold'em freezeout. It took only five hours to crown the U.K.'s "Mongy" as the champion. He collected $23,134 after a six-way deal at the final table.

For more details on each event, check out the PokerStars Blog.

The SportMoose Round-up

On Thursday, the sports world was sad to learn that action sports star Sarah Burke passed away from injuries incurred during a skiing accident on Jan. 10, 2012. Burke was a pioneer in the sport and won gold medals at the Winter X-Games in four of the past five years.

SportMoose.com reports that Burke, 29, crashed during a training run in Park City, Utah. Tests revealed she suffered ?irreversible damage to her brain due to lack of oxygen and blood after cardiac arrest.?

For more on Burke and other big news stories in the sports world, check out SportMoose.com. The site also has the latest odds on up to 20 sports and reviews for a number of online sports books.

Randy Couture's Charity Poker Tournament

Mixed martial arts legend Randy Couture hosted the fourth annual Operation All In charity poker tournament last Saturday. The event drew several of the top MMA fighters in the world and raised money for the Xtreme Couture G.I. Foundation for injured troops.

MMA30 was at the Golden Nugget to speak with Couture and others in attendance:

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Official: At least 143 killed in Nigeria attacks (AP)

KANO, Nigeria ? Coordinated attacks claimed by a radical Islamist sect killed at least 143 people in north Nigeria's largest city, a hospital official said Saturday, as gunfire still echoed around some areas of the sprawling city.

Soldiers and police officers swarmed over streets Saturday in Kano, a city of more than 9 million people that remains an important political and religious hub in Nigeria's Muslim north. But their effectiveness remains in question, as the uniformed bodies of many of their colleagues lay in the overflowing mortuary of Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital, Kano's largest hospital.

A hospital official there said at least 143 people died in the attacks Friday. The count included some bodies already claimed by families for immediate burial per Islamic law, the official said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to disclose the figure to journalists.

Other bodies could be lying at other clinics and hospitals in the city.

In a statement issued late Friday, federal police spokesman Olusola Amore said attackers targeted five police buildings, two immigration offices and the local headquarters of the State Security Service, Nigeria's secret police.

Nwakpa O. Nwakpa, a spokesman for the Nigerian Red Cross, said volunteers offered first aid to the wounded, and evacuated those seriously injured to local hospitals. He said officials continued to collect corpses scattered around sites of the attacks. A survey of two hospitals by the Red Cross showed at least 50 people were injured in Friday's attack, he said.

State authorities declared a 24-hour curfew late Friday as residents hid inside their homes amid the fighting.

A Boko Haram spokesman using the nom de guerre Abul-Qaqa claimed responsibility for the attacks in a message to journalists. He said the attack came as the state government refused to release Boko Haram members held by the police.

Boko Haram has carried out increasingly sophisticated and bloody attacks in its campaign to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria, a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people.

Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language, is responsible for at least 510 killings last year alone, according to an AP count. So far this year, the group has been blamed for at least 219 killings, according to an AP count.

The sect's targets have included both Muslims and Christians. However, the group has begun specifically targeting Christians after promising it will kill any Christians living in Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north. That has further inflamed religious and ethnic tensions in Nigeria, which has seen ethnic violence kill thousands in recent years along the divide between the north and the largely Christian south.

Friday's attacks also could cause more unrest, as violence in Kano has set off attacks throughout the north in the past, including postelection violence in April that saw 800 people killed. Kano, an ancient city, remains important in the history of Islam in Nigeria and has important religious figures there today.

Amid the recent unrest and attacks, at least two journalists have been killed in Nigeria. Journalist Enenche Akogwu, who worked as a correspondent in Kano for private news station Channels Television, was shot and killed Friday while reporting on the attacks, colleagues said. In central Nigeria's city of Jos, Nansok Sallah, a news editor for a government-owned radio station called Highland FM, was found dead in a shallow stream Thursday, the victim of an apparent murder, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

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Associated Press writer Salisu Rabiu in Kano, Nigeria contributed to this report.

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Jon Gambrell reported from Lagos, Nigeria and can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP.

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Study: Algebra iPad app garners higher math scores over traditional textbooks (Digital Trends)

Technology and mobile computing, while not necessarily a panacea, may be a valuable asset to the future of education. At least, that seems to be the conclusion of a yearlong Algebra pilot program conducted by educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in partnership with California?s Riverside, San Francisco, Long Beach, and Fresno Unified School Districts

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt?s new app, Holt McDougal Algebra 1, is the focus of the study which is designed to track how well the app users do when compared to students using the traditional Holt McDougal Algebra 1 textbook. The study involves 1,000 students: 400 receiving instruction using iPads, and 600 sticking with traditional textbooks. Third-party research firm Empirical Education was put in charge of evaluating the results of the pilot program, and will be delivering the complete data by the summer.

The data so far seems promising for the Algebra 1 iPad app, when looking at the students at the Amelia Earhart Middle School in Riverside, California. Two teachers from the school, Jackie Davis and Dan Sbur, randomly had one of their Algebra sections selected to study with the app, while the other classes used the textbook. During the second trimester of the 2010-2011 school year, the app-wielding students typically scored 10 points higher than their peers. Results then jumped once the California Standards Test came around in spring 2011. More than 78 percent of those using the Algebra 1 app scored Proficient or Advanced on the test, while the traditional textbook users at the school scored 59 percent.

Those chosen for the program were allowed to take the tablets home with them, and personalize the apps with their own music and apps; they were even allowed to use the WiFi during and after school for personal as well as educational use. Dan Sbur, one of the two math teachers chosen, said, ???The app was great! Students were motived and more in charge of their own learning.??

The study?s announcement comes at the heels of Apple?s iBooks 2 announcement this week in New York, with most books priced at $15 or less. HMH says they currently make apps exclusively for the iPad, but would of course need to rethink that plan if school districts decided to adopt Android-powered tablets.

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ScienceOnline2012 Art Show!

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