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FILE - This May 14, 2012 file photo shows "Love In The Wild" host Jenny McCarthy arrives for the NBC network upfront presentation at Radio City Music Hall in New York. McCarthy, who is from suburban Chicago, released a statement Friday, Aug. 17, 2012, saying that she is no longer romantically involved with Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
FILE - This May 14, 2012 file photo shows "Love In The Wild" host Jenny McCarthy arrives for the NBC network upfront presentation at Radio City Music Hall in New York. McCarthy, who is from suburban Chicago, released a statement Friday, Aug. 17, 2012, saying that she is no longer romantically involved with Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
FILE - In this May 30, 2012 file photo, Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher watches teammates practice during an NFL football practice in Lake Forest, Ill. The Bears say Urlacher underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012 and still hopes to be ready for the season opener Sept. 9. Urlacher was ready for the start of training camp but has not practiced since July 31. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
CHICAGO (AP) ? Former Playboy Playmate and actress Jenny McCarthy says she is no longer romantically involved with Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher.
McCarthy, who is from suburban Chicago, released a statement Friday that said: "Brian and I have decided to turn our romance into an amazing friendship. I will continue to be the biggest cheerleader for him."
The 34-year-old Urlacher is recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery. He says he expects to be ready for the Sept. 9 opener against Indianapolis.
The 39-year-old McCarthy has also been outspoken about autism treatments and written a book detailing her search for a cure for her son. She was previously romantically involved with actor Jim Carrey.
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If you're hot and bothered by the Galaxy S III on Verizon and have a burning desire to get your grubby little mitts on some custom ROMs and kernels, then rejoice, because you'll no longer have to plunk down $600 on the Developer Edition to partake in the fun. That's right, the encrypted bootloader of Big Red's Galaxy S III has now been unlocked. If you're wanting to partake in the fun, you'll find the requisite utility and a complete list of instructions over at xda-developers. As is, you'll need either Linux or OS X to carry out the dirty work, though workarounds for Windows users are possible. Be sure to do a bit of soul-searching before pulling the trigger, however, as any future updates pose the risk of bricking your device. That said, if you dive straight into the world of custom ROMs, it'll be much less of an issue.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Update: Hit the break for a video that shows the process of unlocking the bootloader on Verizon's Galaxy S III.
[Special thanks to Adam Outler and François Simond]
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Pets of the week: Salt Lake County
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LuvBug ? The 10-year-old gray and white cat is cross-eyed and is playful and loves having her face rubbed.
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By Nanette Byrnes , Reuters
Citigroup, Abbott Laboratories, and AT&T are among the 26 companies that paid more to their CEOs in 2011 than they did in federal taxes, according to a study released on Thursday.
Tax breaks on research and development, past losses, and foreign-held earnings were among those lightening the tax load for many companies on the list, said the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C.
Citi, Abbott and AT&T all took issue with the institute's methodology. All three said they paid all taxes owed in 2011.
During a presidential election cycle in which wealth and taxes are often debated, the study's authors said the U.S. tax code has become an enabler of large CEO pay, while also offering companies ways to reduce their tax bills.
Four pay-related tax breaks combined to cost taxpayers $14 billion in uncollected federal taxes, the report said.
The four included breaks dealing with performance-based chief executive pay and stock options, as well as the preferential 15 percent tax rate on carried interest enjoyed by private equity partners and other financiers, it said.
Compensation for the 26 CEOs whose pay surpassed their companies' corporate tax bills averaged $20.4 million, according to the study. That average was up 23 percent over last year.
The average was also significantly higher than pay tracked by separate studies of broader groups. For instance, $10.3 million was the average 2011 direct compensation for 300 large-company CEOs tracked by pay consultants Hay Group.
Current U.S. taxes paid eyed
To get its list, the institute compared CEO pay to current U.S. taxes paid, excluding foreign and state and local taxes that may also have been paid, as well as deferred taxes that can often be far larger than current taxes paid.
The group's rationale was that U.S. taxes paid are the closest approximation available in public documents to what companies may have actually written in their checks for last year to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Among companies topping the institute's list:
Abott takes issue
"This is a blatant misrepresentation of the facts," Abbott spokesman Scott Stoffel said.
He said Abbott did not get a rebate, but paid the U.S. government $700 million in federal income taxes in 2011, and that the report's numbers reflect a non-cash accounting adjustment caused by the resolution of various tax matters.
A Citigroup spokeswoman said that, while the company did not pay federal income tax in 2011, that was due to substantial losses it recorded in 2008 and 2009, a break available to all businesses in similar straits.
She also noted that Citi paid on average $3.7 billion a year in federal income taxes from 2000 to 2006, and paid other taxes last year, including more than $3 billion in payroll taxes, and that Pandit voluntarily took a salary of just $1 in 2010.
AT&T said in a statement its CEO's pay was closely tied to performance and was fair, and that the accelerated deductions that lowered its federal taxes stemmed in part from $20 billion spent in support of the U.S. economy and jobs. The company reported paying $3.8 billion in other taxes last year, and hundreds of millions in federal income taxes in 2010.
All the tax breaks identified in the study are legal and shareholders generally expect companies to take advantage of any reasonable tax breaks they can, said David Wise, a senior principal with Hay Group.
If the tax code changed to eliminate pay-related deductions, like the stock option deduction, he said, "individual companies could navigate that fairly easily. But collectively, those dollars would add up and increase the tax base."
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