Rand Paul's gay marriage remarks rebuked during Sunday shows (Los Angeles Times)

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Hilary Duff's "Not Stressed" About Losing Baby Weight!

Unlike most Hollywood moms who start dieting the second their baby pops out, Hilary Duff is taking a more realistic approach. "I try to eat organic, but I?m not a total freak about it," the new mom to 2-month-old Luca told In Touch at a recent Johnson & Johnson event in LA. "I eat a lot of protein and a lot of fruits and vegetables."

However, Hilary and her husband, Mike Comrie, aren't willing to give up indulging entirely, either. "When we go out to restaurants, we want to order naughty food and enjoy it," Hilary, 24, revealed.

But as far as exercise, she is seriously working up a sweat doing a mix of SoulCycle, Pilates and circuit training with her fitness guru, Harley Pasternak. "I?m not stressing about it. I?m working out hard, but I know I?m not going to see results until I?m eating really good," she explains.

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Fry's stocks unlocked Nokia N9, is slightly misinformed about its specs

Sure, Nokia's Lumia 900 and 808 PureView may have garnered much of the spotlight lately, but lest we forgot about its flagship MeeGo handset, the N9. If you've been anxiously hoping to somehow score this slab of polycarbonate unlocked in the US sans gray-market importers, apparently Fry's Electronics has you covered. Phone News spotted a listing for the phone in the store's latest weekly ad -- although upon closer inspection, it appears that the retailer isn't too sure about its actual specs. Aside from describing the 3.9-inch slab of polycarbonate as a 4.3-inch device, it's also flubbed on the OS, calling it "Mego." Perhaps the most interesting error, however, is that the handset's ClearBlack AMOLED display is listed as Super AMOLED -- Samsung's competing technology. Assuming these are merely errors, you'll be able to pick one up for a spendy $600. Hit up the source link below to view the full ad.

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PayPal Gets Its Own Share Of The Yahoo Diaspora, Hires JavaScript Icon Douglas Crockford

The reorganizing and downsizing at Yahoo -- and possibly the executive scandal at the very top of the pyramid -- are leading to a wave of talent departures at the company: the latest in that story is that Douglas Crockford, a trailblazing Java guru most recently at Yahoo, is joining eBay's payment giant PayPal. The news was announced by Bill Scott, PayPal's senior director of?UI engineering, on his own blog, yesterday. Scott himself had also worked at Yahoo years ago.

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HP Officejet 6100 ePrinter

If the HP Officejet 6100 ePrinter ($99.99 direct) succeeds at nothing else, it significantly redefines the features you should demand in an inexpensive inkjet printer. Suitable for both home and office use, it's a good fit in the dual role of home and home office printer, as a shared printer in a micro office, or as a personal printer in any size office. It's also the hands-down winner as budget priced Editors' Choice for any of these roles.

In addition to fast printing with reasonably good output quality across the board, the Officejet 6100 offers both Ethernet and WiFi, along with USB of course. And as with the more expensive Editors' Choice HP Officejet Pro 8100 ePrinter ($149.99 direct, 4.5 stars), the ePrinter in the name indicates more exotic connection options as well, namely: support for printing from iOS devices over WiFi with Apple AirPrint and for printing through the cloud with the free HP ePrint service. The HP ePrint Web site assigns the printer an email address, which lets you print documents by sending them to the printer as email attachments.

The Officejet 6100 also earns points for its 250-sheet input capacity, instead of the more typical 100 or 150 sheets at this price. Not surprisingly, however, you don't get a duplexer (for printing on both sides of the page) and there's only one paper tray. If you want to print an envelope, say, you'll have to swap out the paper in the tray first.

Basics, Setup, and Speed
At 7.1 by 18.4 by 15.3 inches (HWD), and only 10.6 pounds, the Officejet 6100 is both light enough for one person to move easily, and small enough to share a desk with. Setup is typical for the breed, with an extra, mostly automated, step for registering the printer with ePrint.

For my tests, I connected to a wired network and installed the drivers on a Windows Vista system. On our business applications suite (timed with QualityLogic's hardware and software) it came in at an effective 3.6 pages per minute (ppm). That counts as a more than respectable speed for the price. The somewhat more expensive Editors' Choice Epson WorkForce 60 ($129.99 direct, 4 stars), for example, was only a little faster, at 4.1 ppm.

The Officejet 6100 also scored well on photo speed, averaging 1 minute 8 seconds for a 4 by 6 photo. That's not much slower than the OfficeJet Pro 8100, at 52 seconds, and almost twice as fast as the WorkForce 60, at 2:12.

Output Quality and Other Issues
Output quality for the Officejet 6100 is at the low end of par for an inkjet overall, but still good enough for most business and personal needs. Text lacks the crispness that you'd get from a laser printer, and I wouldn't even consider using it for, say, a resume. For day to day business use, however, you shouldn't have any complaints unless you have an unusual need for small fonts.

Graphics quality is easily good enough for most home use or for any internal business need, including PowerPoint handouts for example. I saw banding in some full-page graphics, but it was relatively subtle with most color fills, and didn't show at all with some. I also saw a loss of some thin lines, but that's a common issue, and the Officejet 6100 does better on this score than many printers. Colors in photos were a little oversaturated, but roughly a match overall for the low end of what you'd expect from drug store prints.

Ultimately, the Officejet 6100 offers a lot to like. It?s fast for both business applications and photos, it delivers reasonably good quality across the board, and it offers a higher paper capacity than most printers at this price. It also lets you share the printer over a network, print from iOS devices with AirPrint, and print from anywhere and any device by sending documents as email attachments. All this adds up to making the HP Officejet 6100 ePrinter a strong contender as either a personal printer or shared printer at home or in a micro office, and also makes it Editors' Choice.

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SA seizes $7m from 'rhino gang'

9 May 2012 Last updated at 07:32 ET

Police in South Africa have confiscated assets worth nearly $7m (?4m) from three suspected rhino poachers.

The men, two of whom are vets, are already facing 1,872 charges of racketeering.

Large syndicates are often involved in the multi-billion dollar illegal rhino horn trade, exporting the horns to parts of Asia and the Middle East.

Despite the recent deployment of extra troops to South Africa's borders, 210 rhinos have been killed this year.

The Kruger National Park - one of the world's largest game parks - has been worst affected losing a total of 127 rhinos since January, government figures released on Tuesday showed.

'Crime does not pay'

Police spokesman Col Vishnu Naidoo said the seized assets are believed "to have been acquired through criminal activities".

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The security forces had decided to seize the assets to "preserve" them until the case - one of the biggest wildlife cases in South Africa - is finalised, he said in a statement.

If the three suspects are convicted the proceeds will be used "to continue with the combating of crime", Col Naidoo said.

"We call for assets of every person arrested to be scrutinised and where possible, seized," he said.

"Generally, those that commit such crimes will serve their sentences but still come back to a life of luxury. By seizing assets, criminals have no worldly possessions to enjoy and this certainly helps send out a clear message that crime does not pay."

Since January, 99 people have been arrested for rhino-related matters country wide, the police spokesman said.

Last year, a record 450 rhinos were killed in South Africa.

The numbers have soared in recent years to meet the demand for their horns in Asian traditional medicine, especially in China and Vietnam, where they are thought to have powerful healing properties.

But scientists say rhino horns are made from the same material as fingernails and have no proven medicinal properties.

The black market price of rhino horn is now in the region of $55,000 per kilo.

South Africa has become the focal point of the rhino trade because it has between 70% and 80% of the global population - about 20,000 animals.

The country's government has commissioned a study into whether legalising the trade in rhino horn could help reduce poaching.

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Vince Vaughn in Talks for Starbuck Remake

Vince Vaughn is reportedly in negotiations for a role almost too perfectly suited for the comedian?s talents. Variety reports (via ComingSoon) that the actor is looking to sign on for DreamWorks? remake of Starbuck. The 2011 Canadian hit centers on a schlubby, middle-aged loser named David whose life is up-ended by the news that he?s fathered over 500 children. By sperm donation, of course! Thanks to a twist of fate (and, let?s be honest here, some sub-par work by the sperm bank?s staff), the bank doled out only David?s sperm, meaning that the manchild now has 533 children. That news is bad enough, but it?s compounded by the fact that 143 of those kids have filed a class action lawsuit to have the name of their father revealed to them. Made aware of this news, David wrestles with whether or not he should fess up, a decision made still more complicated by his choice to begin acting as a guardian angel to his unknowing kids.

The film was released in Canada in July, with a smaller release in other international territories following that. It also won audience awards at some American festivals, including Palm Springs, Santa Barbara, and Sonoma. The original film was directed by Ken Scott from a script he wrote with Ken Petit. Scott will write and direct this new remake, which should start filming later this year.

The original film?s IMDb page goes much more in-depth on Starbuck?s plot summary, so check it out after the break if you?re not potential spoiler-averse.

Middle aged David Wozniak has been a screw-up all his life. He works as a delivery man (self-admittedly not a very good one) for his family?s butcher business, he is $80,000 in debt which he owes to less than sympathetic crime lords, he is trying unsuccessfully to grow pot plants to pay off that debt, and his girlfriend, a police officer named Val?rie, despite being pregnant with his child, wants to break up with him for not being there for her in any respect. She doesn?t want him involved with the child after it?s born since she believes the child is better off without him in its life. He vows to change his life around for her and the baby?s sakes.

Concurrently, he is informed by a lawyer representing a fertility clinic that between 1990 and 1992, when he made multiple sperm donations under the pseudonym ?Starbuck? in order to earn some money (as the clinic paid $35 a donation), the clinic, in an error, used only his sperm, which has resulted in 533 children who are biologically his offspring. One hundred forty-two of them have filed a class action lawsuit demanding that his name be revealed to them. That lawyer and David?s best friend, a not so adept lawyer wannabe who advises David on the matter, are the only people who know of David?s unusual situation. With a file folder in hand with the names and profiles of those 142, David, as that symbolic act to prove to himself that he is indeed turning his life around, decides to be their guardian angel in an individual by individual basis without telling them who he is.

As David inadvertently gets more involved in their collective lives than he was planning, he is torn between wanting to do right by his biological offspring, doing right by Val?rie and yet unborn offspring number 534, and doing right by his family, all without divulging his previous identity as Starbuck, the story of which has taken on a life of its own as it hits the media.

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