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Here at Macworld 2012, Western Digital demoed a preview of their essentially finished, yet not final, MyBook Thunderbolt Duo. Scheduled to ship in Q1 for an “aggressive price,” the unit plays host to two 3.5-inch drives, which’ll come stuffed from the factory in either 4TB (2x 2TB) or 6TB (3x 2TB) configurations. On the outside, you’re looking at the MyBook aesthetic you either love or loathe, but around back you’ll find all connectivity has been gutted, save for power and two Thunderbolt ports. The latter means that up to six can be daisy-chained off one interconnect, which when setup in RAID 0 equate rather speedy transfers, like 700MB/sec reads and 500MB/sec writes in the four-unit demonstration configuration we toyed with. And it’s future proof too, as there’s a door up-top which enables plebes to swap drives should the need arise. We’ll keep an ear out for pricing, but until that day arrives, peep them in the gallery below, or in video form after the break.

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Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) looks for an open receiver during NFC football practice at Kapolei High School, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Kapolei, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) looks for an open receiver during NFC football practice at Kapolei High School, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Kapolei, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald takes part in NFC practice for NFL football’s Pro Bowl, at Kapolei High School on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Kapolei, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

San Diego Chargers wide receiver Vincent Jackson smiles during the AFC practice at Kapolei High School, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Kapolei, Hawaii, for the NFL football Pro Bowl. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton (14) throws in a drill during AFC Pro Bowl NFL football practice at Kapolei High School, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Kapolei, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith (89) runs a drill during NFC Pro Bowl NFL football practice at Kapolei High School, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Kapolei, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

HONOLULU (AP) ? Many NFL stars are hoping that when it comes to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, aloha doesn’t mean goodbye.

The NFL all-star game doesn’t have a home beyond Sunday’s game. League and Hawaii officials are negotiating a deal to keep the game in the islands, which is hosting it for the second straight year after it was played in Miami in 2010, breaking a 30-year run in Hawaii.

“It takes away from the game when it’s somewhere else,” said Miami Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall, who also selected to the Miami game two years ago. “It’s always a privilege. It’s always an honor to be selected to a Pro Bowl. But this is what the Pro Bowl is about ? paradise. So it would (stink) definitely if we no longer come out here.”

Some players went as far as saying they wouldn’t participate if the Pro Bowl was moved.

“That’s a lot of the players’ attitude, I think. If it’s in an NFL city, you’re in those cities quite often,” Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jared Allen said.

Allen and other players said the game belongs in Hawaii, where it’s more family oriented, relaxed and considered a reward for the hard work they put it during the season.

Jacksonville running back Maurice Jones-Drew’s first Pro Bowl was in Miami, which he said was a great experience.

“But it’s nothing like coming over to Hawaii. This is my first time here for the Pro Bowl, and it’s great,” he said.

In Hawaii, the players are treated to a beachside hotel to themselves. They sip on colorful, tropical drinks and lounge around the pool, golf or wade in one of the white-sand lagoons at Ko Olina Resort.

“In Miami, we didn’t have the whole hotel. You’re signing autographs 99 percent of the time at the hotel. It was just chaotic,” Allen said. “Guys weren’t showing up. You had a lot of alternates in and out. Over here, it’s kind of what everybody looks forward to. … I like it here. I’m a big fan of tradition. It started here. We should keep it here.”

But the Pro Bowl wasn’t born here. It was hosted for years in Los Angeles before jumping around the country in the 1970s, going everywhere from the Kingdome in Seattle to the Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.

The game was first played at Aloha Stadium in 1980 with New Orleans Saints running back Chuck Muncie leading the NFC to a 37-27 victory. The winners earned $5,000. On Sunday, the winners earn nearly 10 times that amount.

The state is paying the NFL $4 million per game for the rights to hold this year’s game. About seven months ago, Gov. Neil Abercrombie opposed the cash-strapped state paying millions to host the Pro Bowl when the money could be used for education.

“You can’t do things like give 4 million bucks to a $9 billion football industry and not give any money to children,” Abercrombie said then. “You’ve got this spectacle of these multimillionaires and billionaires out there arguing about how they’re going to divide it up, and then they come and ask us to bribe them with $4 million to have a scrimmage out here in paradise.

“We’ve got to get our values straight and our priorities straight.”

On Tuesday, however, Abercrombie changed his tune when he crashed the NFL’s press conference and spoke in favor of keeping the game here. The governor said the state would like to continue hosting the game, “and we’re going to do everything we can to make sure that comes about in a fashion that will make everybody very, very happy.”

A House economic development committee on Thursday will discuss establishing a Hawaii Sports Task Force to coordinate efforts to keep the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, as well attract other pro sporting events.

Last year’s Pro Bowl attracted 17,000 visitors to the state, generated $28.2 million in visitor spending and created $3.1 million in state taxes from people who traveled to attend the game.

Hawaii Tourism Authority President and CEO Mike McCartney said the agency is still in discussion with the NFL for the future of the Pro Bowl beyond 2012.

“We have enjoyed a wonderful partnership with the NFL and we look forward to continuing this relationship as well welcoming the NFL players, their families and all the fans for an exciting game on Sunday,” he said in a statement.

Denver Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey is no stranger to the islands. Bailey is making his 11th trip to the Pro Bowl.

“A lot of people wouldn’t come to Hawaii if not for the Pro Bowl,” Bailey said. “It would be disappointing if they moved it, but I have no say in it. If I did, I would say keep it here because I love it here.”

Perhaps no one is enjoying it more this week than Oakland kicker Sebastian Janikowski, who is making his first trip to the Pro Bowl in a dozen seasons in the league.

“Twelve years,” he said. “I’ve been waiting a long time for this. Hopefully many more to come. Every time somebody asks me how many times I’ve been here and I say it’s my first, they seem to be surprised and shocked. I’m just happy I got here, finally.”

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. ? On a day that combined two campaigns into one, President Barack Obama on Wednesday challenged Republicans to raise taxes on the rich as Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich swiped at him on the economy and criticized each other over immigration.

With a week to go before the Jan. 31 Florida Republican presidential primary, the polls suggested a tight race, although Romney and his allies seized a staggering advantage in the television ad wars. They have reported spending $14 million combined on commercials, many of them critical of Gingrich, and a total at least seven times bigger that the investment made by the former House speaker and an organization supporting him.

Obama’s political timeline was a different one, Election Day on Nov. 6. In a campaign-style appearance in Iowa, he demanded Congress approve a tax increase for anyone like Romney whose income exceeds $1 million a year.

“If you make more than a million dollars a year, you should pay a tax rate of at least 30 percent. If, on the other hand, you make less than $250,000, which includes 98 percent of you, your taxes shouldn’t go up,” he said after touring a manufacturing plant in Cedar Rapids and in a state that he won in 2008 that was expected to be a battleground in the fall.

“This is not class warfare,” he said. “That’s common sense.”

As Obama surely knew, it was an offer Gingrich, Romney and the anti-tax Republicans in Congress are likely to find easy to refuse.

In general remarks that his aides billed as a rebuttal to the State of the Union speech, Romney said Obama “seemed so extraordinarily detached from reality, so detached from what’s going on in Florida,” where unemployment is 9.9 percent and the mortgage foreclosure crisis has hit particularly hard.

“He said last night how well things are going,” Romney said. “If you really think that things are going well, that we’re on the right track, and that his policies are working, then you ought to vote for him.”

Gingrich was far harsher at an appearance in Miami.

“If he actually meant what he said it would be a disaster of the first order,” Gingrich said of the president’s call for higher taxes on millionaires.

The former House speaker said the president’s proposal would double the capital gains tax and “lead to a dramatic decline in the stock market, which would affect every pension fund in the United States.”

“It would affect every person who has a 401(k). It would attack the creation of jobs and drive capital outside of the United States. It would force people to invest overseas. It would be the most anti-jobs single step he could take,” he said.

Under current law, investment income is taxed as the rate of 15 percent, a fact that has come to the fore of the campaign in recent days with the release of Romney’s income tax return.

Wages, by contrast, are taxed at rates that can exceed 30 percent.

Electablity is the top concern for GOP primary voters, according to polls taken in the primary and caucus states, so both Republicans were eager to paint a contrast with the president.

But Romney and Gingrich also focused on the Florida primary now seven days distant.

Romney has long led in the state’s polls, but Gingrich’s upset victory last Saturday in the first-in-the-South primary in South Carolina revitalized his candidacy and raised questions about the former Massachusetts governor’s staying power.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is also on the ballot, as is Texas Rep. Ron Paul.

But Santorum has been sinking in the polls as Gingrich rises, and Paul has indicated he intends to bypass the state to concentrate on caucuses to be held elsewhere.

That gives Florida the feel of a two-man race, and Romney and Gingrich are treating it that way. The two men sparred heatedly Monday night in a debate that virtually relegated Santorum and Paul to supporting roles.

A second debate is set for Thursday in Jacksonville. And if their separate appearances during the day on the Spanish-language television network Univision is a guide, it will be as feisty as the first.

Gingrich referred acidly to Romney describing a policy of “self-deportation” as a way of having illegal immigrants leave the country without a massive roundup.

“You have to live in a world of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatically $20 million income for no work to have some fantasy this far from reality,” he said, referring to some of the details disclosed this week when the former Massachusetts governor released his tax returns.

“For Romney to believe that somebody’s grandmother is going to be so cut off that she is going to self-deport, I mean, this is an Obama-level fantasy.”

Romney’s campaign swiftly produced evidence that aides to Gingrich had used the term “self-deport” approvingly, and the former governor attacked.

“I recognize that it’s very tempting to come out to an audience like this and pander to the audience,” Romney said. “I think that was a mistake on his (Gingrich’s) part.”

Gingrich also ran into trouble over a radio ad his campaign was airing that called Romney “anti-immigrant.” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who is neutral in the presidential race, criticized the commercial, and Romney said the term “anti-immigrant” was an epithet.

For Obama, Iowa was the first of five stops in three days following a State of the Union speech in which he stressed the theme of income equality that is expected to be one of the cornerstones of his re-election campaign. He also wove in proposals to help restore the U.S. manufacturing base that has withered in the course of the recession that began in 2008.

“Our economy is getting stronger, and we’ve come too far to turn back now,” he told workers and guests at a conveyor manufacturing plant in Cedar Rapids. Speaking of Republicans, he said, “Their philosophy is simple: We’re better off when everyone is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules.”

It’s a message that may be received differently depending on the local economy.

Iowa’s unemployment was most recently measured at 5.6 percent, well below the national average. In Arizona, which has its primary in four weeks, joblessness is 8.7 percent, while Nevada’s at 12.6, the highest in the country. Its caucuses are Feb. 4.

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Associated Press writers Brian Bakst and Kasie Hunt in Florida contributed to this report.

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Judge Judy reportedly makes $45 million a year. What kind of legal power comes with it?

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While Judith?Sheindlin was a real, live judge ? New York City Mayor?Ed Koch?appointed her to criminal court in 1982 and then made her Manhattan?s supervising family court judge in 1986 ? she?s not acting as one on her show. Neither are any of the other daytime TV judges (whether they passed the bar and served as actual judges or not).

TV court show sets are designed to look like courtrooms and the judges wear robes, sit on benches, and use gavels. But they?re not court rooms and they?re not real trials presided over by real judges (though they are real cases ? the producers?often?contact parties who have pending litigation in small claims court and offer them the opportunity to appear on TV instead).??What you?re seeing on these TV court shows may look like small claims court and quack like?small claims court, but it?s really just arbitration playing dress up in small claims court?s clothes.

Arbitration?is a legal method for resolving disputes outside the court. The disputing parties present their cases to a neutral, third-party arbitrator or?arbitrators?who hear the case, examine the evidence, and make a (usually binding) decision. Like a court-based case, arbitration is adversarial, but generally less formal in its rules and procedures.

The power that Judge Judy and the rest of the TV arbitrators have over the disputing parties?is granted by a contract, specific to their case, that they sign before appearing on the show. These contracts make the arbitrators? decision final and binding, prevent the disputing parties from?negotiating the terms of the arbitration, and allow the ?judges? wide discretion on procedural and evidentiary rules during the arbitration.

From one of Judge Judy?s old contracts: ?The Arbitrator?s Decision and her interpretation and application of laws and principles she uses in arriving at the Decision, shall be final and binding upon the parties hereto.?

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With jurisdiction over the dispute signed away to them, the TV judges make their decision on the case and either decide for the plaintiff, in which case the show?s producers award them a?judgment fee, or with the defendant, in which case the producers award both parties with an appearance fee. This system seems to skew things in favor of the defendants, and gives them an incentive to take their case from court to TV. If they have a weak case, appearing on the show absolves them of any financial liability, and if they have a strong case, they stand to earn an appearance fee along with their victory.

If one party or the other doesn?t like the arbitrator?s decision, that?s too bad. They already signed the agreement. The decision can really only be successfully appealed if it addresses a matter outside the scope of the contract. In 2000, Judge Judy had one of her decisions overturned for that reason by the Family Court of Kings County. In the case?B.M. v. D.L., the parties appeared in front of?Sheindlin?to solve a personal property dispute.?Sheindlin ruled on that dispute, but also?made a decision on the parties? child custody and visitation rights. One of the parties appealed in court, and the family court overturned the custody and visitation part of the decision because they weren?t covered by the agreement to arbitrate.

While these court shows can be entertaining, social scientists and legal scholars worry about their effect on viewers? perception of how courts work and apply justice. In a survey of litigants in small claims court in 1988, the height of popularity of?The People?s Court, researchers were shocked by how often the show was mentioned when talking about?expectations of the justice system, and suspected that the show may have had a major influence on some people?s decision to even go to court and on the way they prepared their case.

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Steven Tyler’s version of the national anthem might not have qualified him for his own show, “American Idol.”

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

“American Idol” judge Steven Tyler found his own musical talents being judged Sunday after the Aerosmith frontman?sang the national anthem at Sunday’s AFC Championship football game in Foxborough, Mass.

Aerosmith is a Boston-based band, so choosing Tyler to sing at the New England Patriots-Baltimore Ravens?contest seemed like a perfect choice. Tyler even showed his hometown team pride,?clad in a sequined Patriots scarf. But some are still complaining about his rendition, which featured his trademark raspy scream.

Sports blog Deadspin.com was blunt about its verdict, headlning a post “Steven Tyler’s ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ was terrible, but was it the worst ever?”

The?Huffington Post complained that?Tyler “had trouble hitting the signature high note.”

ESPN commentator Skip Bayless had even more criticism for Tyler, saying in a tweet: “How could Patriots be inspired by that awful anthem sung by Steven Tyler? At least give him some screaming guitars to camouflage voice.”

FOX News panelist Greg Gutfeld wasn’t a fan, either, tweeting: “I went outside to put a raccoon out of its misery – then?I realized my neighbor was watching Steven Tyler sing the Star-Spangled Banner.”

Some complained that Tyler tweaked the lyrics in several places, including singing “as bomb bursting in air” instead of “the bombs bursting in air” and appearing to sing “oh the land of the free” instead of “o’er the land of the free.”

But others appreciated Tyler’s rendition. Country singer Jason Michael Carroll tweeted?that he felt Tyler rocked the anthem, adding “I knew ‘the scream’ was coming! (Tyler) is always amazing!”

What did you think? Watch Tyler’s rendition for yourself, and tell us on Facebook.

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SEOUL, South Korea ? South Korea says it is allowing a group of civilians to visit North Korea with a shipment of aid.

The Unification Ministry said Friday the group will take 180 tons of flour to North Korea next week. Seoul allowed a shipment of aid earlier this month but no civilians accompanied it.

South Koreans are not allowed to visit the North without government permission.

The latest shipment comes as North Korea makes a push to unite around new leader Kim Jong Un.

The North has said since Kim Jong Il’s death last month that it will not deal with South Korea’s current government.

South Korea has cut off large-scale food aid to North Korea since conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office in 2008. Lee says North Korea should first take steps toward nuclear disarmament.

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