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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Are these NBA players All-Stars?

The ballot for the 2012 NBA All-Star Game was announced this week and most of the players listed are worthy of the nomination. But there are others whose appearance on the ballot raises eyebrows or leave others SMH.

Of course, only a handful of games have been played in the lockout-shortened season and there is time for these players to boost their numbers and play. But since the voting already has begun, let's look at which NBA players ? based on current numbers -- shouldn't be on considered an All-Star right now.

Which of these Lakers shouldn't be on the 2012 All-Star ballot? Should we give World Peace -- or any of these other players -- a chance?

PHOTO BY JOSHUA SUDOCK, TEXT BY JANIS CARR/OC REGISTER

Click on the photos to see 10 players who are questionable All-Star candidates.

Source: http://www.ocregister.com/sports/players-334320-star-nba.html

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Euro zone inflation eases, boosts rate cut expectations (Reuters)

BRUSSELS (Reuters) ? Euro zone inflation eased from last year's peaks of 3.0 percent in December, the first sign of a fall in price growth this year that analysts expect will create room for more interest rate cuts to help the weakening economy.

The European Union's Statistics Office (Eurostat) estimated that consumer prices in the 17 countries sharing the euro rose 2.8 percent year-on-year in December, down from 3.0 percent year-on-year rises in November, October and September.

No detailed break-down of the numbers is available with the Eurostat estimate, but economists said the slower price growth was likely a result of lower energy prices.

"Looking ahead, further falls in inflation are likely," said Ben May, economist at Capital Economics.

"Assuming that the oil price does not rise again, we see this component knocking about 1 percent off the headline rate in 2012. Food inflation should also slow as the effects of past rises in agricultural commodity prices fade," he said.

"We expect the headline inflation rate to plunge well below the ECB's 2 percent price stability ceiling by the middle of the year," he said.

The European Central Bank cut its main interest rate back to a record low of 1 percent on December 8 to try to boost the economy as inflation pressures subside. Economists believe that with inflation falling, more interest rate cuts were likely soon.

"The favorable medium-term inflation outlook is a green light for further ECB rate cuts over the coming months. We expect the refinancing rate to reach a low of 0.5 percent," said Nick Kounis, economists at ABN Amro bank.

Cheaper credit could help boost growth in the euro zone, where the economy expanded just 0.2 percent in the third quarter and economists expect that it contracted in the fourth.

They also think it might contract in the first three months of 2012, which would send the bloc back into recession after a two-year recovery from the worst global financial crisis since the 1930s.

"Consequently, we expect the ECB to respond to likely euro zone GDP contraction in the fourth quarter of 2011 and the early months of 2012 by cutting interest rates further," said Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight.

"Specifically, we forecast the ECB to trim interest rates by a further 25 basis points from 1.00 percent to 0.75 percent in the first quarter although we do not expect another cut as soon as the 12 January policy meeting," he said.

(Reporting By Jan Strupczewski. Editing by Sebastian Moffett.)

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Paul looks for payoff from Iowa support network

Republican presidential candidate Texas Rep. Ron Paul pauses during a campaign stop on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, jokes with a father and son during a campaign stop on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas is greeted by supporters as he leaves a campaign rally at the Steeple Gate Inn in Davenport, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? Ron Paul is hopeful that the more structured organization of Iowa supporters he has built in his second bid for the Republican nomination will turn out big in the state's leadoff presidential caucuses.

"We, the people, are growing and I'm optimistic," Paul told an audience in Davenport on the last full day of campaigning before Tuesday's caucuses, the first vote of the 2012 presidential campaign.

Paul wound up his 2012 bid as a contender to win in Iowa, where polls show him narrowly trailing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and appeared well organized for next week's New Hampshire primary.

While he was encouraged by the crowds that turned out for him Monday, Paul noted in interviews that he was unsure whether he would be able to compete deep into the nominating campaign.

Likewise, Paul said he considered his campaign as much a movement to rid the government of fiscal waste and excessive overseas commitments as it was an effort to seek the presidency. And he was just as ambivalent about whether he envisioned himself being president.

"Who knows where I'll be or what I'll do or what contribution I'll be making?" Paul told ABC News after finishing a five-city tour of central and eastern Iowa by charter jet.

While Paul does not plan to travel to the first-in-the-nation primary state until Friday, he said he has high hopes of competing well in New Hampshire. He is airing advertisements in South Carolina, the first Southern primary state, which holds its nominating contest Jan. 21.

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MSI launches Big Bang-XPower II motherboard for militant overclockers

Motherboards sporting Intel's X79 chipset are finally starting to make a decent dent in the marketplace and, after showing off a pair of options at IDF, MSI is back with a model for the serious builders out there. The Big Bang-XPower II comes packing the features you'd expect of any gamer-friendly MoBo, including four-way SLI and CrossFire support, PCIe 3.0, eight DDR3 slots and plenty of extra power connectors for hooking up your high-powered parts. And the company is taking care of overclockers too with military grade components and features like Direct OC, which lets you tweak your CPU's frequency with the push of a button. Check out the PR after the break and hit up the source for a few more pics.

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