Locklear, Wagner fight could bring charges

To say Heather Locklear has had a rough start to 2012 would be something of an understatement.

Though the O.G. "Melrose Place" actress was finally released from the hospital last week, she's once again down on her luck, as it emerged today that she and her ex-fiance Jack Wagner could face misdemeanor battery charges over a physical altercation that went down between them late last month.

MORE: Heather hospitalized in "stable condition"

Los Angeles City Attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan confirmed that the former duo was due to attend a hearing at an unspecified (though soon) date to determine what, if any, charges will be filed. One, both or neither could wind up facing misdemeanor battery charges.

Though the spokesman was quick to point out that as it stands now, both actors' records are clean. Well, at least in terms of this particular incident.

MORE: Heather and Jack call off their engagement

"No criminal charges have been filed relating to this matter," Mateljan told E! News. "A City Attorney Office hearing for the two individuals involved will be scheduled in the next couple of weeks. No further action is scheduled after that."

As for the actual hearing date, that has yet to be set.

The incident took place in late December at Wagner's home. According to reports, an argument between the duo turned physical and cops were called to the scene. At the time, neither opted to press charges against the other, but the case was nevertheless forwarded to the City Attorney for review.

Hmmm ... maybe February will be Locklear's month?

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Ask and Answer Questions About Your Favorite Backup Methods [Help Yourself]

Every day we're on the lookout for ways to make your work easier and your life better, but Lifehacker readers are smart, insightful folks with all kinds of expertise to share, and we want to give everyone regular access to that exceptional hive mind. Help Yourself is a daily thread where readers can ask and answer questions about tech, productivity, life hacks, and whatever else you need help with.

Regularly backing up your computer is crucial to keeping your data safe. In a moment's notice, your computer's hard drive can go from living to dead, and the important data you have accrued over the life of the hard drive will likely be lost forever. In the past, we've told you about one of our favorite backup methods, and have provided you with a few choices for backing up via the cloud, but we realize everyone has their own personal techniques and services for backing up important files.

So how do you backup your all-important data? Do you use an external hard drive, a cloud storage service such as Dropbox, or do you use a combination of offline and cloud storage to get the job done? Ask and answer questions about your favorite backup methods in the comments.

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An Initial Party Offering? China's communists go for an IPO of their news site.

China's Communist Party plans to sell stocks in the online version of its official mouthpiece the People?s Daily to raise money.

The ruling Chinese Communist party is using a classic capitalist scheme to raise money: An IPO.

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Not that the party (slogan: ?Serve the People?) is offering the public shares in itself. But it plans to sell stocks in the online version of its official mouthpiece the People?s Daily.

The website?is having a hard time keeping up with the commercial competition, according to its owner People?s Daily Online Co. Ltd. in a preliminary prospectus filed with the China Securities Regulatory Commission. It gets one tenth the visitors than the most popular Chinese Web portal Sina.com, for example.?

To rectify this, the company wants to raise $83.5 million through an IPO in Shanghai to ?strengthen our marketing and expand our services and products,? the prospectus says. That way it hopes to catch up with Sina, which has tapped international capital markets by listing on the NASDAQ.

The company makes no reference to the fact that the party-owned website may owe its low profile to the stultifying nature of its content. Indeed, it mentions the ?People?s Daily journalism tradition? as one of its competitive advantages, which sounds a little dubious.

Another?selling point?it boasts, though,?is the ?preferential policy? the website enjoys; this means that the party which owns it also owns the government that makes the rules deciding who else is allowed to disseminate online news in China. Now that is a competitive advantage.?

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Jon Huntsman Quits Presidential Race, Endorses Mitt Romney

And then there were five. Jon Huntsman has become the latest casualty of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, dropping out this morning after a decent, but not overwhelming showing in the New Hampshire primary last week.

In announcing his withdrawal today, he derided the negativity permeating the GOP primary race and immediately threw his support behind Mitt Romney.

"Today, I am suspending my campaign for the presidency," the ex-Utah governor and U.S. ambassador to China said at a news conference in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Jon Huntsman Drops Out of Presidential Race

"I believe it is now time for our party to unite around a candidate best equipped to defeat Barack Obama. Despite our differences and the space between us on some of the issues, I believe that candidate is Governor Mitt Romney."

Huntsman's support for the one-time Massachusetts governor is not unexpected given Romney's frontrunner status (he won both Iowa and New Hampshire).

There are also issues on which the two men agree, and both are open about their strong Mormon faith, though relations between the two have been frosty of late.

Huntsman, who was polling behind Stephen Colbert in South Carolina, had no path forward and exited not by criticizing Romney, but the "toxic" tone of the race.

"This race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks not worthy of the American people and not worthy of this critical time," Huntsman said.

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Sift Out Bad Habits By Thinking of Your Daily Routine as ?Life Practice? [Mind Hacks]

We frequently mention services and techniques to help you develop good habits and break bad ones at Lifehacker, but if you're having difficulty really sorting out the things you could or should change about your life, the blog Zen Habits has a solid suggestion: Think of your daily activities as things you "practice." Now consider which of those activities you dislike, and why you keep doing them.

Some of the examples that blogger Leo Babauta offers as bad habits that we often unknowingly practice are things like getting up in the morning with barely enough time to get to the office when we should instead practice getting up earlier and embracing a relaxing morning, and checking your inbox as soon as you wake or turn on your computer when we should try to do something productive to start our day. He argues that our lives are really a series of things we practice, and if we consciously practice better habits, we'll not only identify and break our bad habits, but we'll organically grow good ones, and live as more proactive life?where you're aware of the habits you're developing and choose to embrace them as opposed to just falling into them because they're just "what you do."

This method of identifying and correcting bad habits may sound a little whimsical, but Babauta likens it to the way we practice any activity we want to get batter at, like a sport, driving a car, or a new language. Big bad habits are easy to identify, but how do you sort out the smaller ones that could be making a big impact on your life? Share your tips in the comments below.

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Sprint remains tepid on Windows Phone at CES, confirms no new WiMAX phones are planned

This may have been a fairly big CES for Windows Phone, but it looks like Microsoft still has a fair bit of convincing to do in order to bring all the carriers fully on board. That includes Sprint, which does currently have a Windows Phone in its lineup (and is apparently considering more in the "August-September time period"), but remains decidedly unenthusiastic about the platform as a whole. As PCMag reports, Sprint's David Owens said that the carrier is willing to train its reps on Windows Phone, but that Microsoft has to "build the enthusiasm for the product," adding that the "number-one reason the product was returned was the user experience." Sprint's director of product development, Lois Fagan, further added that the carrier remains "cautiously optimistic," but that Windows Phone "just hasn't taken off." In other news, Owens also confirmed that Sprint would expectedly now be focusing all of its intention on its new LTE network, and not produce any more WiMAX-based phones -- although, as it's noted previously Sprint will continue to support the network itself through 2015.

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Chris Oldroyd?s most-used accessories of 2011

When I was asked to put together a list of my most-used accessories of 2011, it got me thinking that I actually don’t use very many accessories at all. In

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