Sunday, December 30, 2012

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This Crazy Map Has One Dot for Every Person in the United States

The amount of people in the whole world is pretty wildly unfathomable. For that matter, even a subset like just the 300,000,000 or so that live in the United States can be hard to wrap your head around. This interactive map by Brandon M-Anderson helps by showing one dot for each of them. It's pretty wild. More »


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Black boxes examined in fatal Russian plane crash

MOSCOW (AP) ? Investigators on Sunday examined flight recorders and other evidence to try to determine the cause of the airliner crash in Moscow that killed five people, an official said.

The Tu-204 belonging to Russian airline Red Wings was carrying eight people, all of them crew members, when it careered off the runway Saturday while landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. It went partly into an adjacent highway, broke into pieces and caught fire.

Four people were pronounced dead soon after the crash and the airline said on its Twitter account that a fifth, a flight attendant, died Sunday. Those who died Saturday were the pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer and another attendant, Red Wings said.

The survivors were reported in critical or serious condition in Moscow hospitals.

Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for Russia's main investigative agency, was quoted by Russian news agencies saying the data recorders were being examined, along with fuel samples. In addition, he said flight documents for the plane have been taken from the airline for examination.

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Travel and Trains and Other Things: Business Travelers Are Finally ...

Yes, it's true: trains really can effectively compete with the airlines ... even for business travel.?That?s already happened on the east coast where Amtrak is now carrying some 75% of the traffic between New York and Washington.?



And it makes perfect sense. You get on an Acela in mid-town Manhattan and get off literally within sight of the Capitol three hours later. That simply cannot be done by plane ? not with airports so far from those city-centers, not with the security hassle, and not with flight delays. What?s more, the cost is comparable when you add in those expensive cab rides to and from the airports. But now business people are also discovering that the train makes sense when traveling intercity for meetings and sales appointments. If you?re in Washington and have a meeting to attend in Atlanta, how about taking Amtrak?s Crescent instead of flying? You?ll leave Washington at 6:30 in the evening, have a nice meal in the dining car, review your notes in your private roomette, get a good night?s sleep in a comfortable berth, and arrive refreshed in Atlanta at 8:15 the next morning. Total cost, including dinner and breakfast, from $250 to $400, depending on when you travel. Oh ? you say the meeting is in Chicago? No problem. Hop on the Capitol Limited this afternoon at 4:05 and you?ll be in Chicago at?? 8:45 tomorrow morning. Same deal: dinner, breakfast and a comfortable bed included ? all for about $350. And the train-instead-of-plane concept isn?t limited to the east coast. Here?s a story from the New York Times about a businessman who needed to travel from Tucson to Houston and discovered that cut-backs in airline schedules turned a two-hour flight into a full day of wasted time, plus the additional expense of a night in a hotel. Later, he realized that same amount of time could have been spent on Amtrak?s Sunset Limited. Here?s the point: More and more, all across the country, train travel is becoming a practical alternative to the airlines and to the automobile. So just imagine if the travel times now offered by Amtrak were cut in half! That would indeed be the case if these and other major cities across the country were linked by high-speed rail. Everywhere else in the world, they understand that. The Europeans have had it figured out for almost 40 years. The Chinese have just inaugurated the longest ever high-speed rail line. Spain has linked all their major cities with high-speed rail. And ? Oh, yes ? they?re building a new high-speed rail line in Uzbekistan! Meanwhile, here in the U.S., we?re still being subjected to people blathering that high-speed rail is ?just another government boondoggle?. Well dadgummit ... it?s time we started ignoring the yahoos. It?s time to get moving!

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Bipartisan senators propose curbing filibusters

(AP) ? A bipartisan group of senators proposed Friday to clamp modest limits on filibusters, hoping to head off a bitter partisan fight over the issue when the new Congress convenes next week and approves its rules.

Led by Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John McCain, R-Ariz., the group proposed limiting the use of filibusters, the procedural delays minority parties often use to grind the Senate's work to a halt. The proposal would also thwart majority parties from using a counter-tactic ? blocking the minority from offering amendments.

Senate Democrats and Republicans, meeting separately Friday, were each given details of the proposal. Senators and aides said no final decisions were made about what rules the Senate would consider next week, a choice that largely rests in the hands of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Complaining that Republicans filibuster too frequently, Reid has threatened to impose even stricter filibuster limits with a simple majority vote ? in effect ramming them through over GOP objections. That could well precipitate retaliatory procedural delays and other steps from Republicans, and poison already frayed partisan relations, even as the two parties face months of complex disputes over taxes, spending, the economy and other issues.

Republicans say they filibuster because Reid often blocks them from offering amendments.

Filibusters require the votes of 60 of the 100 senators to halt. Democrats will have a 55-45 majority in the Senate next year.

The proposal by Levin and McCain would let the majority leader prevent filibusters when the Senate starts debating legislation. It would also reduce the number of filibusters when the Senate is ready to start trying to write compromise legislation with the House.

The group's proposal would also ensure that each party is allowed two amendments to each bill. And it would reduce the number of federal judgeships subject to filibusters, although not for top judges.

"All of us are totally frustrated with this gridlock," McCain told reporters.

Another group of mostly newer Democratic senators, led by Sens. Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Tom Udall of New Mexico, said the proposal by Levin and McCain is too weak. Besides limiting the number of filibusters, they want to require that senators who filibuster a bill actually do so by debating on the Senate floor, in hopes of making such delays less frequent and more difficult.

That type of filibuster ? displayed in the 1939 film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" ? seldom happens. Instead, senators opposing a bill merely inform Senate leaders that they will force the measure to win 60 votes to prevail.

"The heart of the paralysis in the United States Senate is the silent, secret filibuster," Merkley told reporters.

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Friday, December 28, 2012

Approaching comet may outshine the moon

Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:29pm EST

(Reuters) - A comet blazing toward Earth could outshine the full moon when it passes by at the end of next year - if it survives its close encounter with the sun.

The recently discovered object, known as comet ISON, is due to fly within 1.2 million miles (1.9 million km) from the center of the sun on November 28, 2013 said astronomer Donald Yeomans, head of NASA's Near Earth Object Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

As the comet approaches, heat from the sun will vaporize ices in its body, creating what could be a spectacular tail that is visible in Earth's night sky without telescopes or even binoculars from about October 2013 through January 2014.

If the comet survives, that is.

Comet ISON could break apart as it nears the sun, or it could fail to produce a tail of ice particles visible from Earth.

Celestial visitors like Comet ISON hail from the Oort Cloud, a cluster of frozen rocks and ices that circle the sun about 50,000 times farther away than Earth's orbit. Every so often, one will be gravitationally bumped out from the cloud and begin a long solo orbit around the sun.

On September 21, two amateur astronomers from Russia spotted what appeared to be a comet in images taken by a 16-inch (0.4-meter) telescope that is part of the worldwide International Scientific Optical Network, or ISON, from which the object draws its name.

"The object was slow and had a unique movement. But we could not be certain that it was a comet because the scale of our images are quite small and the object was very compact," astronomer Artyom Novichonok, one of the discoverers, wrote in a comets email list hosted by Yahoo.

Novichonok and co-discoverer Vitali Nevski followed up the next night with a bigger telescope at the Maidanak Observatory in Uzbekistan. Other astronomers did likewise, confirming the object, located beyond Jupiter's orbit in the constellation Cancer, was indeed a comet.

"It's really rare, exciting," Novichonok wrote.

Comet ISON's path is very similar to a comet that passed by Earth in 1680, one which was so bright its tail reportedly could be seen in daylight.

The projected orbit of comet ISON is so similar to the 1680 comet that some scientists are wondering if they are fragments from a common parent body.

"Comet ISON?could be the brightest comet seen in many generations - brighter even than the full moon," wrote British astronomer David Whitehouse in The Independent.

In 2013, Earth has two shots at a comet show. Comet Pan-STARRS is due to pass by the planet in March, eight months before ISON's arrival.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover may be able to provide a preview.

Comet ISON is due to pass by the red planet in September and could be a target for the rover from its vantage point inside Gale Crater.

The last comet to dazzle Earth's night-time skies was Comet Hale-Bopp, which visited in 1997. Comet 17P/Holmes made a brief appearance in 2007.

(Editing by Kevin Gray and Leslie Gevirtz)

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Video: Winter storm strands travelers

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Tesoro in Newport Coast | Homes for Sale in Newport Coast

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Tesoro in Newport Coast

Tesoro is a gated community located in Newport Coast. There are some homes in Tesoro which do have ocean and Catalina Island views. Tesoro is a community of approximately 96 homes, which were built between 1998 and 2000 by Standard Pacific Homes. The homes are very open and spacious. There are five floor plans ranging in size from approximately 2400 square feet to almost 2800 square feet.

There is also a community pool and barbecue area for the exclusive use of the residents of?Tesoro in Newport Coast. There is a stunning fireplace to enjoy the Newport Coast climate as well as a community pool, spa for the use of the residents.

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

China tightening controls on Internet

FILE - In this July 14, 2010 file photo, a Chinese man uses a computer at an Internet cafe in Beijing. China's new communist leaders are increasing already tight controls on Internet use and electronic publishing following a spate of embarrassing online reports about official abuses. The measures suggest China's new leader, Xi Jinping, and others who took power in November 2012 share their predecessors' anxiety about the Internet's potential to spread opposition to one-party rule and their insistence on controlling information despite promises of more economic reforms. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

FILE - In this July 14, 2010 file photo, a Chinese man uses a computer at an Internet cafe in Beijing. China's new communist leaders are increasing already tight controls on Internet use and electronic publishing following a spate of embarrassing online reports about official abuses. The measures suggest China's new leader, Xi Jinping, and others who took power in November 2012 share their predecessors' anxiety about the Internet's potential to spread opposition to one-party rule and their insistence on controlling information despite promises of more economic reforms. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

(AP) ? China's new communist leaders are increasing already tight controls on Internet use and electronic publishing following a spate of embarrassing online reports about official abuses.

The measures suggest China's new leader, Xi Jinping, and others who took power in November share their predecessors' anxiety about the Internet's potential to spread opposition to one-party rule and their insistence on controlling information despite promises of more economic reforms.

"They are still very paranoid about the potentially destabilizing effect of the Internet," said Willy Lam, a politics specialist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "They are on the point of losing a monopoly on information, but they still are very eager to control the dissemination of views."

This week, China's legislature took up a measure to require Internet users to register their real names, a move that would curtail the Web's status as a freewheeling forum to complain, often anonymously, about corruption and official abuses. The legislature scheduled a news conference Friday to discuss the measure, suggesting it was expected to be approved.

That comes amid reports Beijing might be disrupting use of software that allows Web surfers to see sites abroad that are blocked by its extensive Internet filters. At the same time, regulators have proposed rules that would bar foreign companies from distributing books, news, music and other material online in China.

Beijing promotes Internet use for business and education but bans material deemed subversive or obscene and blocks access to foreign websites run by human rights and Tibet activists and some news outlets. Controls were tightened after social media played a role in protests that brought down governments in Egypt and Tunisia.

In a reminder of the Web's role as a political forum, a group of 70 prominent Chinese scholars and lawyers circulated an online petition this week appealing for free speech, independent courts and for the ruling party to encourage private enterprise.

Xi and others on the party's ruling seven-member Standing Committee have tried to promote an image of themselves as men of the people who care about China's poor majority. They have promised to press ahead with market-oriented reforms and to support entrepreneurs but have given no sign of support for political reform.

Communist leaders who see the Internet as a source of economic growth and better-paid jobs were slow to enforce the same level of control they impose on movies, books and other media, apparently for fear of hurting fledgling entertainment, shopping and other online businesses.

Until recently, Web surfers could post comments online or on microblog services without leaving their names.

That gave ordinary Chinese a unique opportunity to express themselves to a public audience in a society where newspapers, television and other media are state-controlled. The most popular microblog services say they have more than 300 million users and some users have millions of followers reading their comments.

The Internet also has given the public an unusual opportunity to publicize accusations of official misconduct.

A local party official in China's southwest was fired in November after scenes from a videotape of him having sex with a young woman spread quickly on the Internet. Screenshots were uploaded by a former journalist in Beijing, Zhu Ruifeng, to his Hong Kong website, an online clearing house for corruption allegations.

Some industry analysts suggest allowing Web surfers in a controlled setting to vent helps communist leaders stay abreast of public sentiment in their fast-changing society. Still, microblog services and online bulletin boards are required to employ censors to enforce content restrictions. Researchers say they delete millions of postings a day.

The government says the latest Internet regulation before the National People's Congress is aimed at protecting Web surfers' personal information and cracking down on abuses such as junk e-mail. It would require users to report their real names to Internet service and telecom providers.

The main ruling party newspaper, People's Daily, has called in recent weeks for tighter Internet controls, saying rumors spread online have harmed the public. In one case, it said stories about a chemical plant explosion resulted in the deaths of four people in a car accident as they fled the area.

Proposed rules released this month by the General Administration of Press and Publications would bar Chinese-foreign joint ventures from publishing books, music, movies and other material online in China. Publishers would be required to locate their servers in China and have a Chinese citizen as their local legal representative.

That is in line with rules that already bar most foreign access to China's media market, but the decision to group the restrictions together and publicize them might indicate official attitudes are hardening.

That comes after the party was rattled by foreign news reports about official wealth and misconduct.

In June, Bloomberg News reported that Xi's extended family has amassed assets totaling $376 million, though it said none was traced to Xi. The government has blocked access to Bloomberg's website since then.

In October, The New York Times reported that Premier Wen Jiabao's relatives had amassed $2.7 billion since he rose to national office in 2002. Access to the Times' Chinese-language site has been blocked since then.

Previous efforts to tighten controls have struggled with technical challenges in a country with more than 500 million Internet users.

Microblog operators such as Sina Corp. and Tencent Ltd. were ordered in late 2011 to confirm users' names but have yet to finish the daunting task.

Web surfers can circumvent government filters by using virtual private networks ? software that encrypts Web traffic and is used by companies to transfer financial data and other sensitive information. But VPN users say disruptions that began in 2011 are increasing, suggesting Chinese regulators are trying to block encrypted traffic.

Curbs on access to foreign sites have prompted complaints by companies and Chinese scientists and other researchers.

In July, the American Chamber of Commerce in China said 74 percent of companies that responded to a survey said unstable Internet access "impedes their ability to do business."

Chinese leaders "realize there are detrimental impacts on business, especially foreign business, but they have counted the cost and think it is still worthwhile," said Lam. "There is no compromise about the political imperative of controlling the Internet."

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Graphene research gets ?21.5m fund

The Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced extra funding to develop the UK's research of the so-called "super-material" graphene.

It is one of the lightest yet strongest and most conductive materials known to man - and was originally discovered by scientists at Manchester University.

Now other universities will be asked to develop its commercial uses.

Mr Osborne said the ?21.5m investment fund would aim to take the technology from the lab to the factory floor.

He has previously pledged money for such research, including ?50m in 2011.

Graphene is made of sheets of carbon just one atom thick, and has outstanding mechanical strength and electronic properties.

Manchester University academics Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating its properties.

Industrial partners

It is hoped that the material will be used in a wide array of industrial and everyday applications.

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has identified the most promising graphene-related research projects in British universities to benefit from state funding.

The University of Cambridge has been awarded more than ?12m for research into graphene flexible electronics and opto-electronics, which could include things like touch-screens and other display devices.

London's Imperial College will receive over ?4.5m to investigate aerospace applications of graphene.

The other successful projects are based at Durham University, the University of Manchester, the University of Exeter and Royal Holloway.

The universities will be working with industrial partners including Nokia, BAE Systems, Procter & Gamble, Qinetiq, Rolls-Royce, Dyson, Sharp and Philips Research, which will together bring a further ?12m in investment.

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Biggest Media Departures And Arrivals Of 2012

The past year in media saw on-air talent switch networks, new shows launch, publications fold, hosts leave, leadership shake-ups and more.

The most notable departures and arrivals occurred on morning television programs across the broadcast networks. The arguably worst-handled departure was "Today" co-host Ann Curry's teary exit from the NBC morning news program. Her departure sent the cash cow into troubled waters filled with declining ratings, gossip-fueled press reports, and what some considered an image problem.

Over at ABC, co-host Robin Roberts took medical leave after being diagnosed with a rare blood and bone marrow disorder, MDS. And ABC's mid-morning show "Live! With Kelly" found its new co-host in Michael Strahan. While at CBS, former "CBS This Morning" host Erica Hill was replaced with the network's chief White House correspondent Norah O'Donnell. Hill landed at NBC's "Today" show to host the program's weekend edition.

But multiple changes occurred behind the scenes in the cable news industry as well?notably Jeff Zucker's appointment as CNN's new president. However arrivals and departures were not just limited to TV. The Newspaper, magazine, and online industries saw shake-ups as well?most notable being Newsweek publishing its final print edition just before the company moved to an all-digital format.

Take a look at the slideshow below to see the year in media arrivals, departures and shake-ups. These slides are in no particular order.

  • Ann Curry Leaves "Today"

    In a messy morning TV shake-up, Ann Curry was ousted from "Today" one year she took over as co-host. She spent more than a decade on the show. The program has not yet fully recovered from the departure as many viewers site the network's treatment of Curry as the reason why they tuned away.

  • Savannah Guthrie Replaces Ann Curry At "Today"

    Shortly after Curry left "Today," Savannah Guthrie was named as co-host. Guthrie joined the "Today" show's 9:00 a.m. hour one year earlier, when Curry was promoted to co-host.

  • Matt Lauer's Popularity Fades

    The beloved NBC morning host's popularity dwindled after Ann Curry left "Today" as some viewers blamed Lauer for her departure. Rumors swirled in tabloids that Lauer was involved in the decision. NBC News chief Steve Capus and "Today's" then-executive producer Jim Bell repeatedly defended Lauer in the press, stressing that the he was not involved with the network's decision to replace Curry with Savannah Guthrie.

  • Willie Geist Joins "Today"

    "Morning Joe" co-host and frequent "Today" guest host officially joined the NBC News morning show. He still appears on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" from 6-7:00 a.m., then crosses the plaza to host the 9:00 a.m. hour of "Today."

  • Norah O'Donnell Joins "CBS This Morning"

    CBS' chief White House correspondent Norah O'Donnell joined the network's morning show over the summer.

  • Erica Hill Leaves "CBS This Morning" For "Today"

    Erica Hill previously co-hosted "CBS This Morning" with Charlie Rose and Gayle King, but was replaced earlier this year. She recently joined the "Today" show's weekend edition and co-hosts the program alongside Lester Holt on Saturdays and Sundays.

  • Ryan Seacrest Joins NBC News As Olympics Correspondent For "Today"

    Ryan Seacrest joined NBC News just before the Olympics as a correspondent. He traveled to London with the "Today" show and appeared on the program a number of times. Seacrest, a large presence on the E! that, like NBC Universal, is owned by Comcast, was widely rumored to eventually replace Matt Lauer when he leaves "Today."

  • Executive Producer Jim Bell Leaves "Today"

    After seven years as the "Today" show's executive producer, Jim Bell left the morning show for a role with NBC Sports. Bill executive produced the network's coverage of the 2012 London Olympics, which brought in record ratings and revenue, despite complaints from viewers. The departure seemed almost inevitable after "Today" experienced a year filled with declining ratings and a nasty anchor shake-up.

  • "Live! With Kelly And Michael" Launches

    After Regis Philbin left "Live!" at the end of 2011, the ABC morning show announced the addition of Michael Strahan as co-host in September.

  • Robin Roberts Takes Medical Leave

    "GMA" co-host Robin Roberts went on medical leave from the ABC morning show in September, after being diagnosed with the rare blood and bone marrow disorder, MDS. "GMA" has kept viewers abreast of her recovery journey.

  • George Stephanopoulos Returns To "This Week"

    George Stephanopoulos returned to ABC News' Sunday public affairs show "This Week" after Christiane Amanpour left the show in December 2011. He previously anchored the morning show for eight years before Amanpour, who anchored the show for a little more than one year.

  • "Face The Nation" Extends To 1 Hour

    Bob Schieffer's dream finally came true when CBS' Sunday public affairs program "Face The Nation" extended the show's length from 30 minutes to a full hour.

  • MSNBC Launches Melissa Harris-Perry's Weekend Show

    Melissa Harris-Perry's new show launched shortly into 2012. Previously, Harris-Perry frequently filled-in for hosts Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell.

  • Newsweek Ends Its Print Publication

    Newsweek/The Daily Beast chief Tina Brown announced that the company will be transitioning to an all-digital format in 2013 and ending its print edition in 2012.

  • Kate White Leaves Cosmopolitan

    White left Cosmopolitan after 14 years.

  • Marcus Brachli Steps Down As Washington Post Editor

    Brauchli stepped down as editor of the Washington Post amidst rumors that he clashed with Post publisher Katharine Weymouth. He was replaced by Boston Globe editor Marty Baron.

  • New Orleans' Time-Picayune Cuts Back Print Edition

    The daily New Orleans newspaper cut back to printing only three days per week, making New Orleans the biggest city in the United States without a daily newspaper.

  • Mark Thompson Joins The New York Times

    Mark Thompson began his tenure as New York Times CEO amidst scandal. News broke that the BBC program "Newsnight" scratched an investigative report outing famed British broadcaster Jimmy Savile as a serial child sex offender. Thompson was director general of the BBC when the decision was made.

  • George Entwistle Resigns From BBC

    George Entwistle resigned as director general of the BBC after the Jimmy Savile scandal struck the iconic broadcasting company.

  • The Daily Folds

    News Corp.'s daily iPad news publication folded almost two years after it launched. The application was hailed as a wave of the future when it debuted, but failed to resonate with a large enough audience to sustain it.

  • HuffPost Live Launches

    The Huffington Post debuted its video streaming network in April 2012.

  • Jeff Zucker Joins CNN

    CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton stepped down from his post at the end of 2012. Former NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker, famous for his nasty late night feud with Conan O'Brien, was named CNN's new chief.

  • CNN Launches "Early Start" And "Starting Point"

    CNN's Soledad O'Brien returned to the mornings after the network debuted two new shows in 2012: "Early Start" from 5-7:00 a.m.; and "Starting Point" from 7-9:00 a.m. O'Brien hosts later show.

  • "Fox & Friends First" Launches

    To compete with MSNBC's "Way Too Early" and CNN's "Early Start," Fox News debuted its early morning show, "Fox & Friends First."

  • Keith Olbermann Fired From Current TV

    Keith Olbermann was fired from Current TV earlier this year. He sued the network, which then led Current TV to countersue. A nasty legal battle ensued. Olbermann was replaced by former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, who formerly co-hosted a program on CNN.

  • Dylan Ratigan Leaves MSNBC

    Dylan Ratigan abruptly left MSNBC in June.

  • MSNBC Launches "The Cycle"

    Dylan Ratigan's departure led MSNBC to launch "The Cycle," a news commentary show with four co-hosts.

  • "Katie" Debuts

    Katie Couric's daytime television show "Katie" debuted in September to strong ratings. The newly appointed CNN chief, Jeff Zucker, served as the show's executive producer. He will step down from his post in mid-January.

  • "Anderson Live" Debuts And Gets Canceled

    Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show went through a revamp after its first season, but was ultimately canceled.

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Kazakh military plane crashes, all 27 on board killed

ALMATY (Reuters) - A military transport plane crashed in southern Kazakhstan on Tuesday, killing all 27 people on board, including the commander of the Central Asian nation's border guards, local media and the KNB security service said.

The twin-engine Antonov An-72 jet disappeared from radar screens at about 1900 local time (1300 GMT) as it was making a descent near the city of Shymkent, the capital of the South Kazakhstan Region.

Kazakhstan's Channel 7 television showed early footage of charred and mangled fragments of the airplane scattered around a cordoned off area in a raging blizzard.

Kazakhstan's KNB security service said the plane, bound for Shymkent from the capital Astana, belonged to its border troops.

The commander of the country's border guards, Turganbek Stambekov, was among those on board, it said on its site (www.knb.kz). The plane was carrying a crew of seven as well as 20 servicemen.

The passengers also included senior border guard officers from southern Kazakhstan. The border guards had been due to make a stopover in Shymkent and then fly to the Uzbek capital Tashkent for talks with Uzbek colleagues, local media said.

The plane plunged to the ground in bad weather from an altitude of about 800 meters as it was making a fourth circle, trying to land, Kazakh television channels said.

KTK channel broadcast footage of an eyewitness saying he had heard a loud explosion and had seen flames at the crash site.

Quoting Kazakh air traffic controllers, Channel 7 said the plane had crashed into an open-cast mine some 21 km (13 miles) from Shymkent, and rescue teams could not immediately reach the crash site.

(Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov; Additional reporting by Mariya Gordeyeva; Editing by Myra MacDonald)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kazakh-military-plane-crashes-27-board-killed-003708209.html

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BDO ends non-life insurance joint venture with Generali - InterAksyon

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MANILA - BDO Unibank Inc has dropped its non-life insurance business with Generali Philippines.

In a statement, BDO said it would give up its three-year joint venture starting January 1, 2013, as the lender would focus instead on life insurance.

"After three years, our board is fully convinced that any further effort to operate our non-life business has become far less attractive due to an overly competitive market and to the significant increase in catastrophe reinsurance costs, a consequence of a series of natural events that recently occurred in Asia. The above reasons, all of which are not expected to improve in the near future, led the board to this unanimous decision." Generali president Vergel de Dios said.

The decision to ditch the non-life business comes on the heels of improved performance.

?New individual insurance sales, arising solely from regular premium products, were up 30 percent for the same period, while individual renewal premiums grew at a hefty rate of 59 percent. Group life and health premiums on the other hand were up 25 percent,? BDO said.

"A key driver to this growth is the company's sustained efforts to beef up its primary bancassurance distribution channel. Generali Philippines now employs a bancassurance sales force numbering over 500 who operate in more than 750 BDO branches nationwide,? the bank said.

According to the lender, the sales performance represented a three-fold increase from a year ago and ?the result of the company's investment in sales training and supervision, improved field management systems, and concentration on its broad-based target markets.?

"Our efforts in developing a professional bancassurance sales force by building strong fundamentals have started to bear fruit," De Dios said.

"This move has brought us closer to our ultimate objective of helping bank clients buy the right insurance products for their expressed needs. In the process, we enable our financial advisers to achieve their own financial aspirations via a rewarding sales career in Generali," he said.

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Source: http://www.interaksyon.com/article/51311/bdo-ends-non-life-insurance-joint-venture-with-generali

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

'Parental Guidance' Review: Bette Midler & Billy Crystal Film Is ...

LOS ANGELES -- The schmaltz is piled on thick, and if the comedy were any broader it would require an Imax screen, but still there's something touching about how hard Billy Crystal and Bette Midler hustle to peddle the threadbare material that makes "Parental Guidance" a perfectly tolerable, if uninspired, moviegoing experience.

As "the other grandparents" who are given a golden opportunity to bond with their seldom-seen grandchildren, Billy and Bette work double-time, well aware that it's not just the juvenile characters they have to entertain, but also the paying audiences who could count on both of them for a good laugh back in the day.

That they manage to pull their weight even when the achingly formulaic plotting threatens to drag them under is a testament to their "let's-put-on-a-show" spirit. The end result should appeal to audiences, including bonding grandparents and grandkids, looking for a little undemanding holiday cheer.

Crystal is Artie Decker, who has just lost his longtime gig as "De Voice of the Fresno Grizzlies" when the minor-league baseball team decided to upgrade the outfit with the sort of talent that knows its way around a Facebook page or a Twitter account.

Already despondent, he's not exactly jumping up and down over the news that he and his wife Diane (Midler) have been recruited to babysit their daughter Alice's (Marisa Tomei) three kids when she and her tech-geek husband Phil (Tom Everett Scott) get a last-minute opportunity to have some out-of-town alone time.

As expected, uptight Alice's no-sugar-allowed helicopter parenting clashes mightily with Artie and Diane's old-school approach to child-rearing, not to mention the fact that Phil has programmed his smart home to be intuitive within an inch of its inhabitants' lives.

Also as expected are the resulting gags built around technologically challenged Artie. Fortunately, old pro Crystal comes armed with an arsenal of rim-shot-ready rejoinders that hit the mark more than they miss.

While his character has been given more of an emotional arc than Midler's (unsurprising, since the genesis of "Parental Guidance" came from a newly minted grandparenting experience in producer Crystal's life), it's still nice to see Midler strutting her stuff in her first onscreen comedy role in years.

And Tomei is always a welcome presence, even when she's saddled with what's essentially a one-note character for most of the film.

It would have been nice if director Andy Fickman ("Race to Witch Mountain") and husband-and-wife screenwriters Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse ("Surf's Up") could have mined some fresher stuff from this frequently played ballgame, but at least when you've got Crystal calling the shots, you can still count on the occasional change-up.

"Parental Guidance," a 20th Century Fox release, is rated PG for some rude humor. 104 minutes.

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Motion Picture Association of America rating definition for PG: Parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

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MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice | To Give or Not to ...

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Like any good frugal type, I?m plenty conflicted about holiday gift giving on all sorts of levels.

To begin with, I?m Jewish, but as you read this, I?m pulling presents out from under the Christmas tree. (Actually, I?m fine with that part.)

The more I think about the practice of exchanging gifts in modern society, the more it looks like the physical manifestation of a social media stream: highly calculated but usually misguided attempts to demonstrate one?s own cleverness and importance.

Even gifts given in a highly altruistic spirit usually fall short. I?m no exception: I give plenty of dumb gifts.

I?d assumed this was a caveman way of looking at things, but every December, my wife rereads a small book called?Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn?t Buy Presents for the Holidays.

The book, by an economics professor named Joel Waldfogel, makes a simple argument:

1. Most gifts are (at best) not quite what the recipient wanted.

2. In other words, the recipient would be happier to have the cash value of the gift rather than the gift itself.

3. On average, therefore, giving gifts is a waste of time and money compared to just giving cash or charitable donations. Gift-giving actually destroys economic value by turning money into unwanted stuff.

4. This is not just academic thumb-twiddling: huge numbers of people go into credit card debt every year in order to fund their holiday shopping.

Here?s an example. I enjoy buying clothes and am picky about how they fit. Legend has it my parents are buying me a pair of pants for Christmas. (Hi, Mom! It?s me, your ungrateful wretch.)

Unless they?ve discovered some top secret pants breakthrough (parachute pants with actual built-in parachute? MC Hammer pants with actual built-in?never mind), giving me pants is silly compared to giving me cash to pick out my own pants.

Hmm, ?pants breakthrough? doesn?t sound good at all, does it?

There is a perfect type of purchased gift, as rare as a unicorn. It?s the gift that the recipient absolutely loves and would have bought for herself but?had no idea it existed.?

How often have you given or received a gift like this? Not often, I?d wager, and it?s getting harder to pull off, because every cool thing on earth gets linked up on Twitter or Pinterest long before the holidays.

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What?s wrong with cash, anyway?

I understand that, like social media updates, gift-giving is all about what economists call?signaling.?The gift itself isn?t the point; the point is to demonstrate how much we value someone by sacrificing our time and money, and demonstrate how well we know them by selecting an appropriate gift.

That sounds like an argument against Waldfogel?s thesis, but it?s not. Wanting to show our friends and family that we care about them is a nice impulse. No one short of the Grinch is opposed to that.

But showing our love by giving people stuff they don?t need or want, just because that?s what we?ve always done, is ridiculous.

What?s wrong with cash, anyway? We?ve created a massive and wasteful gift card industry just so people don?t have to shamefully hand each other envelopes full of twenties (or submit electronic bank transfers), even though any sane person would prefer cash to a gift card.

The stigma against giving cash is strongest when it comes to gifts from younger generations to older ones. This makes perfect sense: if I gave my parents cash for Christmas, I?d be implying that they needed a handout.

My parents don?t need a handout. They are comfortably retired and don?t need me to give them $50. But that means they don?t need anything I could buy them for $50, either. (Why do I keep picking on my parents? Apparently I have issues.)

My brother likes beer. We were going to give him a special bottle of beer and a $20 gift certificate to a beer shop. But we reconsidered: we?re giving him the bottle and a $20 bill. Somehow I doubt he?ll be disappointed.

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The greatest gift of all is a smile in the heart of?nah, I?m kidding. Sort of.

The ultimate gift would be something the recipient wants but can?t buy for himself, and which costs very little money to provide. I feel like a sentimental idiot even saying something so obvious, but the thing that best fits the bill is a child?s drawing.

One of the best gifts we ever gave my dad for his birthday was a cartoon about him that my daughter and I drew. It?s displayed prominently on my parents? wall.

For adult-to-adult gifts, however, I?m really not sure what to do. There?s no way to explain why you?re not giving someone a gift without being a jerk, unless you?re an economics professor and everybody already thinks you?re a jerk.

This year, I stumbled on services like?Giftly?and?GiftRocket,?which let you give thinly-veiled cash. The recipient gets what looks like an electronic gift card for a particular restaurant or store, but it?s immediately redeemable for cash.

You could give this to an older relative without shame, I think, but should you? It still means demonstrating your love by giving cash to someone who probably needs the cash less than you do.

My wife writes letters by hand, which is a great gift for a certain type of person, but anyone receiving a handwritten letter from me would assume the Internet was broken.

My goal isn?t to be the dark cloud over your holiday celebration. This is a mea culpa: my family spent 25% less on the holidays this year than last year, but we still spend too much, and I?m a big part of the problem: I make sure those stockings are?stuffed.

Diverting most of our gift budget to charity would make a lot of sense. Getting there without being sanctimonious?or downright Scroogey?is the tricky part.

Matthew Amster-Burton is a?personal finance?columnist at Mint.com. Find him on Twitter?@Mint_Mamster.

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Source: http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/to-give-or-not-to-give-a-personal-finance-expert-weighs-in-on-the-holiday-madness1212/

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December 24, 2012 by Doug

Since 1964,??Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer has been the foundation of the annual Christmas television specials on CBS.? In the show, Rudolph meets many interesting characters, however, no one, in my opinion, tops the enduring faith of a loud prospector by the name of Yukon Cornelius.??His faith-filled dreams of striking silver and gold should be the prototype to the life we all dream to achieve.??

Just like each of us, Cornelius faced countless roadblocks.? (Although most of us have not had to deal with the Abominable Snow Monster, The Island of Misfit Toys, or ?the storm of the century.?)? But Yukon, filled with never-ending self confidence and a rock solid belief that he would indeed, one day, ?be rich with the biggest silver strike this side of Hudson Bay,? never stopped focusing on his goal.? The distractions were numerous, time consuming, and frustrating, but nothing?prevented the bearded one from pressing on.

Rudolph and his friends should be inspirations to all of us, as each and everyone of us will face our own version of a foggy Christmas eve, or a temporary stop at the island of misfit toys.??But, if we keep the faith of Yukon Cornelius, we will persevere, and succeed!

As our 45th year of business in Hutchinson slowly comes to a close, we are humbled by the continual faith that families of central Minnesota place in us.? That trust is the cornerstone to our success and is something that no one at Richard Larson Builders takes for granted.?

Happy Holidays!

Source: http://www.larsonbuilders.com/everyone-needs-a-little-yukon-cornelius/

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