Wen’s remarks, reported by the official Xinhua news agency, built on comments he made during German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent visit to China, when he said Beijing was considering increasing its participation in rescue funds to address the European debt crisis.

This time, Wen urged skeptical Chinese citizens to understand that supporting Europe was in their own benefit

“Now Europe is facing a debt crisis and we must consider relations with Europe strategically to protect our national interests,” Wen said while visiting the export-dependent southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Saturday, said Xinhua.

China, with its $3.2 trillion worth foreign exchange reserves, is often seen as a potential source for funds needed to bail out some European governments.

The Chinese premier’s latest comments on the euro crisis again did not include any specific commitments to European economies. But he stressed the stake that China holds in defusing the euro crisis.

“On the one hand, our biggest export market is Europe,” said Wen. “On the other hand, Europe is our biggest source for importing technology. From this perspective, helping to stabilize European markets in fact amounts to helping ourselves. We must make all quarters of society understand this point.”

At a joint media briefing in Beijing with Merkel on Thursday, Wen said China was studying how it might lend Europe further support.

“China is also considering increasing its participation in the solution of the European debt crisis through the channels of the EFSF and ESM,” Wen said at that briefing.

The ESM, a 500-billion-euro ($650 billion) permanent bailout fund due to become operational in July, is expected to replace the EFSF, a temporary fund that has been used to bail out Ireland and Portugal and will help in the second Greek package.

China has repeatedly said it supports a stable euro, and according to most estimates, China has about a quarter of its foreign exchange reserves in euro assets.

But Beijing has consistently been reluctant to make specific promises about any contributions to the rescue funds.

China’s exports to advanced economies, including Europe, have been hit by their continued woes, and Wen said his country’s manufacturers would have to adapt and open up new markets. He also hinted that more support might come.

“Import and export policy must maintain overall stability,” said Wen in a discussion with Guangdong manufacturers, according to Xinhua.

“If there must be adjustments, it should be more in the form of encouragement than restrictions,wholesale paco chicano,” said Wen.

(Reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Nick Macfie)

Haggard, 74, was hospitalized on January 17 for treatment of double-pneumonia. While in the hospital in Macon, Georgia, doctors discovered a number of other conditions for which Haggard needed treatment.

Redburn said Haggard flew home Thursday and she had no update on his condition Friday.

Haggard went to the hospital after his illness forced him to cancel a show in Macon just moments before taking the stage.

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Early this week Haggard credited the Macon medical team for “probably saving my life,” Redburn said.

Haggard had to cancel the remainder of his January tour. Haggard is planning to resume his tour February 28 in Tucson, Arizona, Redburn said. Missed dates are being rescheduled in April, she said.

Haggard is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. With influences ranging from Lefty Frizzell to Bob Wills to Jimmie Rodgers, Haggard is an architect of country music’s so-called “Bakersfield Sound.”

He is best known for songs such as “Mama Tried,” “Okie from Muskogee” and “The Fightin’ Side of Me.”

(Editing by Greg McCune)

Areas throughout China suffer frequent conflicts over government land seizures for redevelopment and demolition of unauthorized building to house migrant workers. But most confrontations are peaceful.

The official Xinhua News Agency says the court in Lanzhou convicted the 17 of beating and throwing bricks at police who were tearing down makeshift housing. The sentences ranged from three to six months in prison.

Xinhua said in Saturday’s report that the violence in Lanzhou was “a scenario which has become all too familiar in China in recent years.”

Variety first reported the news.

Next, the studio has to find Solo’s crime-fighting partner in the United Network Command for Law Enforcement. David McCallum originated that role.

The movie, like the television show, will be set in the 1960s.

Cooper is in talks to play Napolean Solo, the role that Robert Vaughn played on TV.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) Warner Bros. and Bradley Cooper are in talks for the actor to star in the studio’s big screen version of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” TheWrap has confirmed.

Steven Soderbergh is directing the movie, based on the 1960s television series

The web-based encyclopedia is part of a loose coalition of dot-coms and large technology companies that fear Congress is prepared to side with Hollywood and enact extreme measures possibly including the blocking of entire websites_ to stop the online sharing and unauthorized use of Hollywood productions.

The fight will test which California-based industry has the most sway in Washington.

For now, Silicon Valley appears to have the upper hand. Supporters of the legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect Intellectual Property Act in the Senate say the bills are aimed at protecting jobs in the movie and music industries. But a campaign including tech heavyweights such as Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. has successfully portrayed the bills as an attack on a free and open Internet.

“It has nothing to do with stolen songs or movies,” said Justin Ruben, executive director of MoveOn.org, which is participating in the blackout. Ruben says tougher legislation even directed overseas could make domestic cultural commentators more prone to legal attack.

Rather than showing encyclopedia articles, Wikipedia displayed a blacked-out page describing the protest and offering more information on the bills. Many articles were still viewable on cached pages.

Reddit.com shut down its social news service for 12 hours. Other sites made their views clear without cutting off services. Google blacked out the logo on its home page, directing people to a page where they could add their names to a petition.

The one-day outage was timed to coincide with key House and Senate committee hearings as they prepare to send the bills to the full floor for debate.

However, sponsor Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, sought last week to remove a controversial provision from the House bill that could force Internet service providers to interfere with the way Web addresses work for foreign sites deemed dedicated to piracy. He postponed work on the measure until February.

Critics believe such tinkering with core Internet technology treads into dangerous territory that could lead to online censorship. It might also give hackers a new way to wreak havoc.

The White House raised concerns that the bills could stifle innovation. Over the weekend, the Obama administration reacted to two online petitions, saying it “will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.”

At the same time, the administration called on all sides to “pass sound legislation this year that provides prosecutors and rights holders new legal tools to combat online piracy originating beyond U.S. borders.”

That nuanced stance is President Barack Obama’s attempt at “threading the needle” between two important constituencies as he seeks re-election in November, said Jeffrey Silva, a technology policy analyst at Medley Global Advisors in Washington.

On the one hand, his administration has defended a free, open Internet as it watched repressive regimes fall in the Middle East with help from social media such as Twitter. It has also been a proponent of the concept of “net neutrality,” which prevents Internet service providers from slowing online traffic that comes from file-sharing sites known to trade in pirated content.

On the other hand, Obama and other Democrats have gone to Hollywood dozens of times to raise campaign funds over the years.

“The administration is trying to fight to protect the Internet space,” Silva said. “But at the same time, it doesn’t want to disenfranchise Hollywood and the business community.”

Indeed, behind the protests and public posturing, both Hollywood and Silicon Valley spend generously to lobby causes in Washington. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the movie, television and music industries spent a combined $91.7 million on lobbying efforts in 2011, compared with the computer and Internet industry’s $93 million.

In the 2012 election cycle, the movie, television and music industry offered up $7.7 million in direct campaign contributions to congressional candidates. The computer and Internet industry contributed $6.6 million.

Despite the uproar on websites and blogs, PIPA remains firmly in play. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said Tuesday that he intends to push the bill toward a floor vote on Jan. 24. He said much of the criticism of the bill is “flatly wrong.”

But amid the high-tech campaign against the bills, several lawmakers came out in opposition. At least three Senate Republicans who had previously cosponsored the Senate bill Orrin Hatch of Utah, Roy Blunt of Missouri and John Boozman of Arkansas issued statements Wednesday saying they were withdrawing their support.

It remains to be seen whether the two industries can come to the table and negotiate a compromise.

“There are good companies, and then there are companies simply out to preserve the Wild West, free-to-steal business model,” said Recording Industry Association of America CEO Cary Sherman. He expects to know “within the next few weeks” whether the legislation can survive.

Lawmakers may have a personal incentive to keep online piracy on the nation’s political radar, said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a non-partisan government-accountability watchdog. If the issue stays alive through the current election cycle, it may help bring in campaign contributions from high-tech donors and Hollywood later this year.

The issue “becomes an opportunity for raising more money from these groups,” Wertheimer said. “If you’re into an important issue and money is flowing in on both sides, then both sides can up the ante.”

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Congressional reporter Jim Abrams contributed to this report from Washington.

Walgreen, the largest U.S. drugstore chain, has been battling with Express Scripts since June 21, when Walgreen said the companies could not agree on terms for a new contract.

Even before their old contract expires, Walgreen’s decision to part ways with Express Scripts cost it a penny per share in pharmacy sales in the first quarter, and another penny per share in expenses, the company said on Wednesday.

Those costs, along with lower reimbursement rates and margins, led to an unexpected drop in quarterly profit.

Now, Walgreen is “moving on” after it made what Chief Executive Greg Wasson called “another serious attempt” to reach a deal last week, days before the contract expires on December 31.

Its shares fell as much as 8 percent, then recovered a bit and were down about 1 percent at $33.31 in afternoon trading.

Walgreen, armed with fresh survey data, said that many Express Scripts clients want to keep filling prescriptions at its stores.

Walgreen and Express Scripts appear unlikely to reach a deal by the end of the year. Even if they make amends in early 2012, as some expect, patients will already be taking their prescriptions elsewhere, dragging potentially billions of dollars in revenue away from Walgreen and putting it in the hands of its competitors, such as Caremark Corp (CVS.N).

“We remain concerned that patients could develop new buying habits as they are forced to move away from (Walgreens) to other retailers if no deal is reached,” said Lazard Capital Markets analyst Tom Gallucci, who noted that once they take their prescriptions elsewhere, not all patients will come back to Walgreen even if they get the opportunity to do so.

Walgreen said it remains open to any fair and competitive offer from Express Scripts, which contends that it would only keep Walgreen in its network at rates and terms that it believes are right for its clients.

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It said that more than 100 health plans, employers and various Express Scripts clients told it they either had changed PBMs or made sure patients would still have access to Walgreens pharmacies in 2012.

However, as health-care costs rise, employers and other contract managers are doing whatever they can to control spending.

“The market is moving in a direction that at this point is away from Walgreen’s core strengths,” said Scott Mushkin, an analyst at Jefferies & Co.

Meanwhile, CVS is showing that its decision to combine its thousands of drugstores with a pharmacy benefits management business in 2007 was expected to turn into a profitable success next year, as more companies choose its services.

While Walgreen has some partnerships, it cannot go out and negotiate prescription contracts like others such as CVS can, Mushkin said.

“Their strategic positioning appears to be a little bit off,” he said. “One solution would be to beef up their retail market share.”

Walgreen has used acquisitions to add to its store count before, most notably buying the Duane Reade chain in 2010.

LSSU’s most-wanted list

At a New Year’s Eve party in 1975, faculty at LSSU generated a list of top ten most annoying phrases that they wished to see stricken from common parlance. Each year since then, people have nominated words that they would like to obliterate. The most irritating phrases of the year are added to a list which has become known somewhat fatuously as the “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness.” The LSSU group dubbed itself “Unicorn Hunters” and a Facebook page sprang up around the annual word-burning event. Some words and phrases, such as 2012′s “amazing” have even earned their own Facebook flagging page. There is a form to nominate pet word peeves for next year as well.

List of Past Offenders

A perusal of LSSU’s complete word list is like a stroll down verbal memory lane. There are words from every sector of life. The list includes redundant phrases (“adults over 21,” 1988), computer-generated text-speak like “<3″ from 2009, kitschy phrases (“git-er-done,” 2006), occupational jargon (“bi-partisanship,” 2002), buzzwords such as “detente” (1976),Replica Bulzeye, malapropisms including “deproliferation” (1992) and circumvented curses like “friggin” from 2002. Phrases may be metaphorical, hyperbolic, trite or just plain inane.

2012 Banished Words

This year, voters said they would see these phrases nixed from speech:

* “amazing”

* “baby bump”

* “shared sacrifice”

* “occupy”

* “blowback”

* “man cave”

* “the new normal”

* “win the future”

* “pet parent”

* “trickeration”

* “ginormous”
* “Thank you in advance.”
WSU’s list of words to resuscitate
Instead of removing phrases, WSU’s “Word Warriors of the Week” are in the business of bringing disused and dormant expressions back into favor. Voters may submit words for consideration on this website, as well. Here are WSU’s “remarkably useful and expressive words that deserve more chances to enrich our language” for the new year.
* antediluvian (“before the flood,” antiquated)
* erstwhile (former)
* execrable (atrocious, abominable)
* frisson (sudden, involuntary prickling of the flesh during extreme emotion)
* parlous (arduous, fraught with danger)
* penultimate (next to the last)
* sisyphean (complete waste of time and energy)
* supercilious (haughty, imperious)
* transmogrify (to totally change into a horrifying new shape)
* truckle (sycophantic, bowing and scraping)
Marilisa Kinney Sachteleben writes about people, places, events and issues in her native “Pure Michigan.”

The argument pits painter David Hockney,wholesale Ed hardy jeans, just awarded Britain’s prestigious Order of Merit, against conceptual artist Damien Hirst.

Hockney uses the poster for his upcoming Royal Academy show to state that all the works on exhibit were “made by the artist himself.”

Radio Times magazine reported Tuesday that Hockney said in an interview that the comment was directed at Hirst, who has used assistants to help create some of his most famous pieces.

Hirst has said his assistants do a better painting job than he could and that he becomes easily bored. He is best known for suspending a shark in formaldehyde and covering a human skull with more than 8,000 diamonds.

Dr. Carole Lieberman, M.D.

She has written a number of books including Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them and When to Leave Them and her latest one, Coping with Terrorism: Dreams Interrupted. Leiberman attended the Universite de Louvian in Belgium for her M.D. degree. This was followed by her residency training in psychiatry at New York University’s Bellevue where she was the Chief Resident. Carol Lieberman also studied at the Anna Freud’s Hampstead Clinic in London.

Her name is oftentimes associated and quoted in various newspapers and magazines. One of her titles is that of internationally renowned “Media Psychiatrist” by appearing on numerous talk shows, prime time news programs, and early morning weekdays shows. You can hear her weekly internet radio show “Dr. Carole’s Couch” where she analyzes among other things, celebrity news and scandals.

The Book Bad Girls: Why Men Love Them & How Good Girls Can Learn Their Secrets

Based on her book Kate was the quintessential model of working magic by trapping her Prince before realizing he’s under her spell. This of course was the infamous see-through dress. They went from a platonic friendship to potential hot lover in one fell swoop. In the book “Bad Girls” there are the 12 types of women she defines as the Dozen Dangerous Damsels.

Some were clearly personified in the HBO TV Series “Sex and the City” with Samantha as the Sex Siren, Charlotte as the Husband Hunter and Trapper, Miranda as the Ball-Buster and Carrie as a Commitment-Phobe. When she interviewed over 100 men for the book she then culminated her “Six Secret Spells of Seduction.” Kate Middleton fit under the “Dress” category of spells. Fashion certainly has a way of catching a guy’s eye, even if he’s a Prince.

How Kate Snagged Her Prince Using Dr. Lieberman’s Technique’s

In one of Dr. Lieberman’s media interviews she informed RadarOnline.com about her “Bad Girls” book and what Kate did to snag her the catch of the century. She certainly did not try to reinvent the wheel, but instead used the tried and true ways of “bad girl techniques.” Besides wearing a revealing outfit in a university fashion show to get Prince William’s initial attention she went through a complete makeover, worked out rigorously and flirted with other guys to make William seething with jealousy.

However, when she was first with William the other men rated Kate a two out of 10, so she lost a lot of weight and completely reinvented herself physically. When they were dating they were noncommittal, yet she spent a lot of time in clubs with other guys where she was constantly photographed with them. William would then want to go out with Kate again and again. According to Dr. Lieberman Kate followed every rule as if she had read her book. Some things never go out of style.