'A Home For The Holidays With Martina McBride': Justin Bieber Sings 'Mistletoe' (VIDEO)

The 13th annual edition of "A Home for the Holidays with Martina McBride" (Wed., 8 p.m. ET on CBS) continued its ongoing commitment to adoption and helping children in foster care find the titular home for the holiday season. McBride was joined by several guests throughout the night, along with celebrities who've adopted children or been adopted themselves.

Musical performances sprinkled throughout the night featured McBride, OneRepublic, Christna Perri, Mary J. Blige and the young man McBride introduced as "the next best thing" to Santa Claus. Justin Bieber was on hand among the children at St. Ann's to sing his single from his Christmas album.

Several of the kids sang along with Bieber on "Mistletoe," clearly enjoying this exciting opportunity to be in such an intimate setting with the tween icon.

It was a night of double-duty for Bieber, who also featured in his own special on TLC. Fans could simply flip over from CBS when "A Home for the Holidays" ended and catch "This Is Justin Bieber" in it's entirety.

TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.

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Alarm over Manning defense team strategy

Joshua Roberts / Reuters

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning leaves U.S. Magistrate Court at Fort Meade, Md., on Tuesday.

By Mike Brunkermsnbc.com

Raising the hackles of some attorneys who work on transgender legal issues, defense attorneys for Bradley Manning apparently intend to make an almost novel legal argument -- that the Army private was suffering from gender identity disorder when his alleged crimes were committed -- if his case proceeds to court martial as expected.

In the first five days of Manning?s preliminary hearing at Fort Meade, Md., prosecutors and defense attorneys have both presented evidence that Manning, accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret government documents to the WikiLeaks website, was wrestling with gender issues in the period leading up to the publication of the documents.

The defense stated Saturday that Manning, 24, had written to one of his supervisors when he was stationed in Iraq before his arrest and said he had concluded he was suffering from gender identity disorder, which is classified as a medical disorder in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. He included a photo of himself dressed as a woman in the letter and said the issue was affecting his ability to do his job or think clearly.

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A defense attorney and a witness also stated that Manning had created a Facebook profile and opened at least one email account using the name ?Breanna Manning,? which the attorney described as an ?alter-ego.?

As the hearing continued Tuesday, prosecutors presented testimony indicating that Manning had used another soldier?s laptop to order a book on female facial reconstructive surgery from Amazon.com that he had shipped to his Potomac address.

A search of Amazon.com for the term ?female facial reconstructive surgery? returns just one title, ?Facial Feminization Surgery: A Guide for the Transgendered Woman.?

Also Tuesday, Manning?s attorneys did little to challenge testimony by prosecution witnesses tying Manning to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and other electronic evidence collected in the case.

Manning is charged with aiding the enemy and violating the Espionage Act. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to life in prison.

If Manning?s case does go to court martial, his attorneys will apparently be just the second defense team to attempt to use a gender identity disorder as at least a partial defense in a military case, according to Jack King, a staff attorney with the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys specializing in mental health issues.

The only other case on record, he said, involved Karen Davis, a Navy electrician's mate, second class, formerly known as Charles Marx, who was prosecuted in the mid-1980s ?for wearing women's clothing (a skirt, nylons, a women's blouse, a bra, women's fashion jeans, nail polish, a purse, and a wig) on numerous occasions while at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.?

In appealing her court martial in 1988, Davis' attorneys argued that such conduct was not illegal. They also stated that, while living as Marx, she had been diagnosed by several Navy psychiatrists as having gender identity disorder and that cross-dressing was therapeutic.

The military appeals court allowed her dishonorable discharge to stand for the reason that?cross-dressing was??prejudicial to good order and discipline and discrediting of the Armed Forces."

King said such a case would be unlikely today, given the greater understanding of gender identity disorder.

?Now, if a person could show that because he or she believed themselves to be a member of the opposite sex they had an irresistible impulse to cross-dress, they would in all likelihood qualify for a medical discharge,? he said.

Several attorneys who work with transgender legal issues said they were not aware of a gender identity disorder defense being raised in a civilian court, and King said it?s easy to see why not, noting that such a diagnosis ?doesn?t prevent you from knowing right from wrong.? The disorder is most often raised in criminal proceedings as part of an overall insanity defense, or by expert witnesses arguing that a defendant is so mentally damaged that he or she should be committed, he said.

And several lawyers who work with transgender clients indicated they were not happy with the direction that the Manning proceedings have taken.

?We don?t think that being transgender, if he in fact is, has anything to do with him breaking the law,? said Kylar Broadus, an attorney with the Transgender Law and Policy Institute. ?Obviously the charges are serious and we don?t want the trial to be sensationalized or detracted from by him being transgender.?

?Our opinion is there is no correlation between anything he has done and gender identity disorder,? agreed Dru Levasseur, a transgender rights attorney with Lambda Legal.

?This plays into stereotypes that are not true,? he continued. ?There are a lot of people with gender identity disorder?fighting for their lives to be respected and understood as human beings who need equal access to the law. This type of scenario just confuses the situation.?

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Five Best Android Tablets [Hive Five]

Android tablets come in all shapes and sizes. They often run different versions of Android, some can be easily attached to keyboards, others are designed to be slates, and some are ebook readers. Regardless of what you need a new Android tablet for, here are five of the best ones for the job, based on your nominations.

Earlier in the week, we asked you which Android tablet you think is the best. Over 200 responses later, we're back to highlight the top five - or rather, the top five model lines, because the top five nominees were several of the same product line.

Photo by Sham Hardy.

Samsung Galaxy Tab Series

Available in 7 inch, 8.9 inch, and 10.1 inch models on all four major US carriers and as a Wi-Fi only model, Samsung's Galaxy Tab series is one of the most recognizable and iconic Android tablets on the market. Most of the models run Android Honeycomb, and can pull duty as a media tablet, productivity tool, or ereader. All models come with and run Adobe Flash, have access to the Android Market, and models with 3G data plans offer 3G or 4G wireless access on your tablet while you're on the go. Pricing varies depending on the size, wireless carrier (if any), and amount of storage you're looking for, but the Galaxy Tab starts at $199, and can get as expensive as $629.

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer/Transformer Prime

With the Eee Pad Transformer and the new quad-core Eee Pad Transformer Prime, Asus has proven there's a place in the tablet market for tablets that function just as well as stand-alone slates as they do when connected to a docking station with a full keyboard. Both Transformer models allow you to use the device as an Android tablet when not connected to the Eee Station dock, and then dock the tablets to work on them like super-thin and super-light Android-based laptops. Both models support Flash, have front and rear-facing cameras for HD video, and have NVidia Tegra graphics inside for mobile gaming. Again, pricing varies based on the storage in each model, but expect to pay between $399 and $599 depending on the model you order (or pre-order, since the Transformer Prime makes its North American debut this week.

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HP Touchpad

Even though the HP Touchpad is a discontinued product, and never really sold well when it was available on store shelves, HP's $99 fire sale to get rid of their excess stock of Touchpads when they discontinued them made them one of the most popular tablets on the market. The Touchpad runs WebOS, and while it doesn't have the same quantity of apps as the Android Market or the iTunes App Store, it does have a good enough number that you can use the Touchpad to check your email, listen to local or streaming music, surf the web, stay in touch with friends on your favorite social networks, and stay productive. The 9.7-inch screen is perfect for video, the front-facing camera is useful for video conferencing over Wi-Fi (there is no 3G). Good luck getting your hands on a Touchpad now at any price, although we're sure you might find some drastically overpriced models available on eBay. Yes, we know the Touchpad doesn't run Android - but it can when unlocked, and you guys voted for it, so we're including it.

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Barnes and Noble Nook Series

While the new Nook tablet is really the only model that Barnes and Noble is marketing as a proper tablet, the Nook Color is a great option as well, especially once you've rooted it and installed a new ROM. Barnes and Noble has all but condoned the process, and even if you don't root your Nook Color, you get some access to the some apps in the Android Market (through Barnes and Noble), tons of games, streaming video through Netflix and Hulu Plus, and of course access to Barnes and Noble's catalog of millions of books. All models are Wi-Fi only, and the Nook Color will set you back $199 and the Nook Tablet $249. Both models feature 7-inch displays, tons of pre-loaded apps, and are a great bang for your buck if you're looking for affordable Android tablets to hack and play with.

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Acer Iconia Tab Series

Most of you who voted for the Iconia Tab series specifically liked the A500, a dual-core Wi-Fi Android tablet with Nvidia graphics under the hood for multimedia and gaming. Front and rear-facing cameras are perfect for shooting quick photos and video as well as web conferencing. The A500 is a 10-inch tablet. The W500 is a 10-inch slate, and the A100 is a 7-inch model that's slim and portable. All models run Honeycomb, have access to the Android Market, sports USB ports, and tons of internal storage. If you're shopping for an Iconia Tab, expect to spend anywhere from $299 to $549, with the A500s running from $349 to $399 depending on how much storage you need.

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Now that you've seen the top five, it's time to put them to an all-out vote.

Honorable mentions this week go out to a pair of tablets that barely missed the cut for the top five, the port-packed Toshiba Thrive and the newly released and media-rich Kindle Fire from Amazon.

Have something to say about one of the contenders, or a feature of your favorite we forgot to mention? Did your favorite tablet not get enough nominations to get into the top five? Let's hear it in the comments below.

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Film reveals Paris crackdown of 1961 Algeria protest (Reuters)

DUBAI (Reuters) ? When Yasmina Adi got access to archives documenting the 1961 repression of Algerian protesters in Paris, she was shocked to uncover a trove of material relating to gaps in the story of one of the most contested events in recent French history.

As Algeria's battle for independence spilled into France, Paris police chief Maurice Papon ordered police to crack down on thousands of Algerian protesters who defied a curfew on October 17 1961. Dozens of bodies were later pulled from the River Seine.

Papon, who died in 2007, was the only French Nazi official to be convicted for his role in the deportation of Jews during World War Two. France has acknowledged the deaths of 40 people in the 1961 incident, but Adi says her research suggests it was much worse.

"This period remains a blank page. France doesn't recognize October 17 in school history books, it is not mentioned. Nothing you saw is in textbooks," Adi, who is of Algerian origin, said after "Here We Drown Algerians - October 17, 1961" aired at the Dubai International Film Festival this week.

"The people you saw are getting old, so this is an attempt to maintain the historical memory."

The documentary is narrated through the testimony of Algerians dragged off the streets by police and uses archive footage showing haunting images of thousands held in detention centers, transported in buses and sitting in planes during deportation.

A media campaign branded the protesters as Muslim terrorists, Adi's film says.

Some, such as Hadda Khalfi, one of the main interviewees who explains how her husband disappeared never to return, have never received an apology or compensation from the state.

"I managed to (access) the archives of the police department and state archives, which even some historians have not got permission to see. Then I asked myself what security bodies were there, and I found they all had their own archives," Adi said.

"It was the same for the filmed material... sometimes I noticed there were two people taking photos, so I said I have to go find them," she added.

"So I pieced together each part, when they put the Algerians on buses, when they detained them at the police department, the unseen photos from the Palais du Sport, the expulsions, the women's protest. At a certain point I said to myself 'wow'."

The true number of those who died may never be known.

"It's difficult to establish a figure. Some say 100, some say 200, some say 400, it's complicated. The police prefecture has a list of dead but these lists are not trustworthy," Adi said. "We could say around more than 1,500 were expelled."

GRAFFITI

Adi took the title for the film from graffiti daubed on a bridge over the Seine on October 28 1961 and caught on camera before the authorities could remove it. The words and the image she says dropped out of France's collective consciousness for decades.

She says France's unwillingness to offer more public recognition of what happened in those days contrasts with France's championing of Arab Spring causes such as Libya, which was taken up by President Nicolas Sarkozy and Bernard Henri-Levy, a prominent public intellectual in France.

"Sarkozy has said a few weeks ago why should Turkey be in Europe? If you Turks want to be in Europe you have to recognize the Armenian genocide. Before giving lessons to others, France ought to look at itself in history," she said.

"As citizens we should not allow ourselves to be manipulated by methods, images, language, because they cross time and governments take up the same methods and language."

France has had a complex relationship with Algeria since it was forced to give up a colony it ruled for 132 years in 1962 after a bitter war. Sarkozy has refused to apologize for Algerian dead.

France considered Algeria an integral part of the French state and more than 1 million French fled the country in the months before Algeria finally became independent.

Adi said she was surprised to see large audiences of young French people attending the screenings of her film in France when it was released in October.

"There were few Algerians but many French at the screenings, because many young people in particular are rediscovering the past and realizing it's not an Algerian problem but a Franco-Algerian problem," she said.

(Writing by Andrew Hammond, editing by Paul Casciato)

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'The Three Amigos' Ride Again! (omg!)

It's been 25 years since The Three Amigos! rode into theaters and cracked up audiences with their outrageously ornate uniforms and charmingly dense sensibilities. Now, the Amigos are back -- on Blu-ray, at least -- and director John Landis tells ET, "It was a very relaxed and fun shoot because [Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short] kept each other in place."

Released in 1986, The Three Amigos! starred Martin, Chase and Short as a trio of out-of-work silent movie actors who are recruited to perform their signature roles in a poor Mexican village, unaware that they have been roped into a real, life-or-death situation. The pitch is basically a comedic take on The Magnificent Seven with clueless, singing cowboys.

"It's clearly a parody of westerns, but it's also an homage. I'm a big western fan, and we were trying to make it look like a Technicolor Hollywood western," explains the director, who as a young man worked as a stuntman on spaghetti westerns, including Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West: "I got very good at falling off horses."

As for the riding skills of the Amigos, Landis laughs, "They were hopeless, and that's an accomplishment of mine; in the movie you think, 'Boy, they can ride!' They weren't big fans of the horses." On the upside, he offers, "Marty and Steve both became pretty good with those six-guns."

The Three Amigos! Blu-ray contains an all-new transfer overseen by Landis, featuring over 20 minutes of never-before-seen footage. The filmmaker recalls that the late comedian Sam Kinison had a role in the movie as a wild cannibal mountain man, but his scene was dropped from the final cut -- and the footage has sadly been lost.

"The movie was too long, and so unfortunately Sam Kinison's [scene was lifted]. It was terribly funny," says the director, who explains that the negative trims were lost when the Amigos! print was bought from the bankrupt Orion Pictures. "There's about another 15 minutes that's just gone."

From Animal House and The Blues Brothers to Trading Places and Coming to America, Landis' remarkable career has been associated primarily with comedies, but he tells ET that lately he's been called a "master of horror."

"I'm doing a little monster movie in Paris next year," says the helmer of An American Werewolf in London, Innocent Blood and, of course, Michael Jackson's legendary Thriller video. Prodded to reveal a little more about the project, Landis replies gamely, "I don't agree with the conventional wisdom about marketing. I think it's better when people know nothing, and then suddenly there's the movie."

Just to drive the point home, Landis also has a book out now called Monsters in the Movies, chronicling 100 years of cinematic nightmares, from B-movie bogeymen to outer space oddities and big-budget terrors. "It would make a perfect Christmas present," he jokes.

And as to where The Three Amigos! ranks in the annals of comedy history, Landis says philosophically, "When people talk about their favorite movies, so much of it is how old they were and where they were when they saw it; [it's about] who you are when you see the picture."

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F. nucleatum enables breaking bond on blood vessels to allow invaders in

F. nucleatum enables breaking bond on blood vessels to allow invaders in

Thursday, December 15, 2011

A common oral bacteria, Fusobacterium nucleatum, acts like a key to open a door in human blood vessels and leads the way for it and other bacteria like Escherichia coli to invade the body through the blood and make people sick, according to dental researchers at Case Western Reserve University.

Yiping Han, professor of periodontics at the Case Western Reserve School of Dental Medicine, made the discovery in her continued work with the Fusobacterium nucleatum bacterium, one of the most prevalent of the more than 700 bacteria in the mouth.

She found the gram-negative anaerobe has a novel adhesin or bonding agent she's named FadA that triggers a cascade of signals that break the junctures in an interlocking sheath of endothelial cells on blood vessel's surface just enough to allow F. nucleatum and other bacteria into the blood.

A description of bond-breaking process was described in the Molecular Microbiology article, "Fusobacterium nucleatum adhesin FadA binds vascular endothelial cadherin and alters endothelial integrity."

The microbiologist at the dental school has studied the oral bacteria over the past decade and was the first to find direct evidence that linked it to preterm labor and fetal death. But its presence is found in other infections and abscesses in the brain, lungs, liver, spleen and joints.

After finding and genetically matching the oral bacteria in the fetal death, she began to unravel the mystery of how an oral bacterium can be found throughout the body and jumps the blood-brain and placental barriers that usually block disease-causing agents.

Through years of lab work, her research led to the vascular endothelial (VE)-cadherin, cell-cell junctures that link the endothelial vascular cells together on the blood vessels.

These junctures are like a hook and loop connection, but for some unknown reason when F. nucleatum invades the body through breaks in the mucous membranes of the mouth, due to injuries or periodontal disease, this particular bacterium triggers a cascade of signals that causes the hook to recede back into the endothelial cell. The oral bacterium leads the way with any other harmful invaders following along.

This "deceding" was observed by confocal microscopy when Han used cells from human umbilical cord. The researchers introduced F. nucleatum and demonstrated the VE-cadherins break on bonds on the endothelial cells and creating enough space in the endothelium for the invaders to move in.

Lab tests included introducing F. nucleatum with and without other bacteria. When E. coli alone was introduced, the bond did not break. But when F. nucleatum was introduced first, the bond broke, and the E. coli bacteria were able to move through the otherwise intact cell layers.

"This cascade knocks out the guard on duty and allows the bacteria to enter the blood and travel like a bus loaded with riders throughout the system. Whenever the F. nucleatum wants to get off the bus at the liver, brain, spleen, or another place, it does," Han said.

When it disembarks from its ride through the blood, it begins to colonize. The colony of bacteria induces an inflammatory reaction that has a range of consequences from necrosis of tissue to fetal death.

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Case Western Reserve University: http://www.case.edu

Thanks to Case Western Reserve University for this article.

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Who Is the Bigger Coffee Nerd? [Nerdoff]

Mat Honan and matt buchanan speak a completely different language when talking about coffee. They banter about extraction and PH and C02 levels. They brew coffee with specially calibrated Japanese doodads, weighing both beans and water with coke-dealer accuracy. More »

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