Conservative evangelical leaders back Santorum (Reuters)

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) ? A group of 150 influential Christian conservative leaders on Saturday backed former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum as their choice for Republican U.S. presidential nominee.

The conservatives agreed to support Santorum on the third ballot in a meeting at a ranch outside Houston, Texas.

"What I did not think was possible appears to be possible," said Tony Perkins, leader of the Family Research Council and spokesman for the group.

The group had not been expected to reach agreement on one candidate since evangelical support was divided between Santorum, former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Governor Rick Perry.

The backing gives Santorum a boost against Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, particularly in South Carolina which holds the next primary on January 21.

In the 2008 election, about 60 percent of the voters in South Carolina described themselves as evangelical Christians.

"There emerged a strong consensus around Rick Santorum," Perkins said in a telephone news conference after the meeting. "While there was not a lot of hope that we could reach consensus around one candidate, that was achieved."

(Reporting by Deborah Charles; Editing by Vicki Allen)

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Man Shot Inside Fort Worth Business ? CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

CBSDFW Photo by Chuck Schechner

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) ? A man is dead and another man believed to be his father is on the run following a shooting in Fort Worth Thursday afternoon.

The shooting happened at a business in the 4600 block of White Settlement Road around 3:15.

Witnesses told police a man in his early 60s walked out of Rivers Tree Service and told an employee that he shot the victim. Police would not comment or confirm the relationship, but only said the victim was a white male between the ages of 30-40.? Witnesses tell CBS 11 the victim is believed to be the shooter?s son.

Witnesses say following the shooting the suspect drove away in a silver Lincoln Navigator. Around 6:00 p.m. Fort Worth police found the vehicle in the 4900 block of West Vickery Blvd.? The driver, identified as the shooter, had committed suicide.

Police are still investigating the shooting.

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$10M Tricorder X PRIZE Kicks off

Back in May, we heard about Qualcomm's plans to hammer out details for an X PRIZE competition to invent a Star Trek-style tricorder. Now, reader Sven-Erik sends word that the requirements have been finalized and the competition has launched.
"As envisioned for this competition, the device will be a tool capable of capturing key health metrics and diagnosing a set of 15 diseases. Metrics for health could include such elements as blood pressure, respiratory rate, and temperature. Ultimately, this tool will collect large volumes of data from ongoing measurement of health states through a combination of wireless sensors, imaging technologies, and portable, non-invasive laboratory replacements. Given that each team will take its own approach to design and functionality, the device's physical appearance and functionality may vary immensely from team to team. Indeed, the only stated limit on form is that the mass of its components together must be no greater than five pounds."

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Tech News Can Be So Dramatic

So I tend to think of news in this industry as falling into two basic categories 1) Boring as fuck 2) So hyper-dramatic I feel like I need to take a ton of anti-anxiety medication just to read Techmeme. While tons of crap posts this week have fallen into the former category, a few have fallen into the latter, mostly MG Siegler's work surrounding Google's failed efforts at, well, anything.??All of MG's posts have been, to borrow a phrase, "very well done" -- Mostly because they lean into the drama.

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After New Hampshire primary win, Romney to bring jobs focus to South Carolina (Washington Post)

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VIDEO: For those who enjoy ?Mario Kart?, iPhones, and shameless Chinese copycats

Games that blatantly rip off Nintendo?s IP in the Apple App Store are somewhat dime a dozen, but Mole Kart is in a class of its own.

The following has been making the rounds like crazy, for perhaps obvious reasons. Not only is it a brazen Chinese clone of Mario Kart, but it looks like a really damn good one as well (at least for its kind, imho)?

Everyone is up in arms, but you know how Nintendo fans tend to be. Again, I?m grading on a curve here; whereas most Super Mario rip offs are functionally retarded, this one looks pretty competent. Sure the handling looks super loose, but name me an iOS racer that doesn?t have the same problem. I actually tried purchasing a copy, but couldn?t find it in the App Store, so either it?s already been yanked or is simply only available in China.

Moving on, another notable clone that I didn?t get the chance to pass along the first time, and which I had totally forgotten about, until Kotaku brought it up again, is China?s take on Team Fortress 2?

Again, looks really good! Well, the cinematics at least. Though both of those efforts pale in comparison to the eeDoo iSec, which resembles the PS3, but mostly apes the Xbox 360?s Kinect and its games. Like the following, which is damn near indistinguishable from the official offerings from MS. Any diehard Kinect fans that would like to refute are more than welcome to?

Still, nothing beats the king of Chinese game consoles, the Super Megason?

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Patriots prepare for red-hot Tebow and Broncos (AP)

Even Tom Brady and the New England Patriots have a little bit of Tebowmania.

"I'm excited," the Patriots quarterback said Monday as New England began to prepare for their second-round playoff game against Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos. "And I'm sure there's not a lot of guys on our team that slept great last night."

Tebow led the Broncos into the second round of the NFL playoffs when he connected with Demaryius Thomas for an 80-yard score on the first play of overtime to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 29-23 on Sunday. Now the Broncos will have to face New England, which already beat them Dec. 18.

Denver came into that game at the peak of Tebow hype, riding a six-game winning streak since he was installed as the starting quarterback. Now the Broncos are riding another high, thanks to the quickest overtime score in NFL playoff history.

"That was a great win for them yesterday, a really impressive game," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Monday. "It didn't take long ? one play. He made a great throw, Thomas made a good catch. ... Well-executed play by the Broncos, and it was decisive."

Tebow completed 10 of 21 passes for a season-high 316 yards for a passer rating of 125.6 that is the highest in Broncos postseason history. He 4-0 in his career in overtime and 1-0 as a starter in the playoffs.

That's one more postseason win than the Patriots have had since the 2007 season. In each of the last two playoffs, the Patriots have lost at home.

"It was a very different team last year," Brady said on WEEI. "The strengths of this team are different than they were last year. How it all plays out? It depends on how we play. There's nothing that happened last week or last year or five years ago or 10 years ago that can play into this game."

The Patriots had a bye last week, but that doesn't mean things were quiet in Foxborough, Mass. Offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien took the head coaching job at Penn State, inheriting the aftermath of the sexual abuse scandal that cost Joe Paterno his job.

O'Brien will remain with the Patriots through the end of their season and then be replaced by Josh McDaniels, who was the Patriots offensive coordinator before leaving to be the Broncos head coach in 2009.

Although he won't have the title, McDaniels will join the Patriots staff immediately ? in time to help them prepare for the team that fired him in 2010.

"He obviously has some inside information on that team and those players, as he coached them," Brady said. "I think coach Belichick has a pretty good idea of what he's going to want Josh to do. ... He's a great coach and we're lucky to have him. I'm excited to get back to work with him. How that plays into this week, we'll see. We'll try to figure that out here in the next five or six days."

Belichick would not say how McDaniels would assist.

"He's ready to help us in any way that he can. I'm sure that he'll be an asset to our coaching staff and our team," Belichick said. "I'm not sure exactly how that will pan out. ... Right now, it's just a one-game season, so whatever we can do to help ourselves this week we'll do and then we'll worry about next week and next year later."

The Broncos weren't concerned.

"When you do this for a living, you've got a pretty good idea of most of the players. You may have coached them before. Guys just move cities," Broncos coach John Fox said, noting that Denver plays his former team, Carolina, next year. "I just stay in my lane. Other people make those rules."

McDaniels, 35, worked for New England from 2001-2008, including three seasons as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He left to coach the Broncos but was fired with three games left in his second season.

He spent this year as the offensive coordinator with St. Louis Rams, who went 2-14. Coach Steve Spagnuolo was fired last week, and McDaniels was allowed to leave for New England.

"I don't really think too many guys are going to be thinking about that," receiver Eddie Royal said. "We've got to worry about stopping Tom Brady and scoring points on this defense. I don't think you can worry about who's coaching them."

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AP Sports Writer Pat Graham contributed to this story from Denver.

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