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The Tennessee Conservative Union is debating whether to ask Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.) to resign his U.S. congressional seat after The Huffington Post reported that the “family-values” representative and doctor had a relationship with a patient in 2000, then encouraged her to get an abortion.

“We’re very upset that he’s broken his medical creed and the trust of the citizens of his district,” TCU Chairman Lloyd Daugherty told the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

The group generally backs Republicans, but in 2010, Daugherty endorsed DesJarlais’ competitor, the Democratic incumbent. TCU describes itself as the “non-partisan voice for the conservative viewpoint in Tennessee.”

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Conceptual artist Rune Guneriussen transforms the most ordinary of objects into large-scale installations that pepper the dreamlike landscape of his native Norway. Unlike Andy Goldsworthy, who creates installations using elements of the natural world, Guneriussen integrates man-made items into his work. Using books, chairs, electric lamps and other miscellaneous objects, Guneriussen assembles temporary, site-specific sculptures and installations that he photographs. Once the image is taken, he quickly dismantles the work, leaving no trace of it behind. Scroll down for more images.

The Norwegian artist creates the most enchanting of worlds, inviting his viewers to weave their own fairy tale to accompany his whimsical creations. “As an artist he believes strongly that art itself should be questioning and bewildering as opposed to patronising and restricting…he does not want to dictate a way to the understanding of his art, but rather indicate a path to understanding a story,” Guneriussen states in the third person on his website.

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City officials Monday morning announced two plans aimed at supporting increased arts programming — one for the city as a whole and one for Chicago Public Schools.

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It’s taken nearly half a year for Lenovo’s transforming IdeaTab S2110 to go from CES reveal to retail shelves and it’s arrived barely unchanged. But despite the initial fanfare, the company chose to slip this slate into the marketplace quietly, ahead even of its official launch at IFA. In that time, ASUS managed to announce and ship a new hybrid tablet of its own, the Transformer Pad TF300 — a keyboard-optional rival offering the same 10-inch, 1,280 x 800 IPS display and Android 4.0 experience, along with a quad-core Tegra 3.

While Lenovo’s offering may not come with four cores or an unskinned version of Ice Cream Sandwich, there is a very contemporary dual-core S4 inside, clocked at 1.5GHz and buffered by 1GB of RAM. Alongside that, the tab’s also outfitted with a 1.3-megapixel front-facing shooter and 5-megapixel rear camera capable of 1080p video capture. Other specs include radios for WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0, a battery rated for up to 10 hours of browsing (augmented to 20 hours when connected to the dock) and either 16GB or 32GB of built-in storage. At $430 for the base model alone, it’s already positioned as a higher-priced alternative to the TF300. Add the dock and full storage, and you’re looking at a cool $580. So, will this be a case of “too little, too late” for Lenovo? Can the S2110 lure undecided customers away from cheaper similarly specced offerings? Read on as we attempt to answer all that and more.

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For years after his crimes were committed, the details of serial killer Clifford Olson’s cold, calculating massacres were unknown.

The Canadian was sentenced to 11 life sentences for murdering 11 young people in 1980 and 1981. He pleaded guilty to the crimes so there was no trial and the public never got to hear Olson’s motives or other aspects of the crimes.

Now, journalist Peter Worthington’s new book, “Predator: The Life and Crimes of Serial Killer Clifford Olson” reveals the intricate details of Olson’s murders as told by the killer himself in 50 pages of manuscripts describing how he killed and raped each of his victims.

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