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Ohio court hearing for teen Craigslist ad suspect (Providence Journal)

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AP Newsbreak: US to pay $2.5M in anthrax death

(AP) ? The U.S. government has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the widow and family of a Florida tabloid photo editor killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

A document obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press shows that Maureen Stevens will drop all other claims stemming from the death of Robert Stevens. The document also says the U.S. is not admitting fault.

Stevens' lawsuit, filed in 2003, claimed the government was negligent because it failed to stop someone at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., from creating weapons-grade anthrax used in letters that killed her husband and four other people. Seventeen more people were sickened.

Maureen Stevens' attorney did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. The settlement names her and her three grown children, and notes that attorneys' fees of no more than 25 percent will be paid out of that amount.

Robert Stevens worked in Boca Raton for American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, Sun and Globe tabloids when he was exposed to anthrax. He died Oct. 5, 2001. Other anthrax-laced letters were mailed to television networks in New York and a U.S. Senate office building in Washington.

After a lengthy and unprecedented investigation, the FBI concluded that a government scientist, Dr. Bruce Ivins, was solely responsible for the attacks. Ivins, however, committed suicide in 2008 and some who worked with him at Fort Detrick have expressed doubt that he did it or had the means to create the anthrax used in the letters.

For years the FBI investigation focused on another scientist, Steven Hatfill, who was identified as a "person of interest" in 2001 by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. Hatfill was eventually cleared and sued the government for invasion of privacy, resulting in a $5.8 million settlement.

Lawsuits filed by other victims have been dismissed, although at least one is on appeal.

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Obama tells EU to take decisive action on debt (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? President Barack Obama pressed European Union officials on Monday to act quickly and decisively to resolve their sovereign debt crisis, which the White House said was weighing on the U.S. economy.

After meeting European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Obama said he was keen to see the euro zone crisis end.

"I communicated to them that the United States stands ready to do our part to help them resolve this issue. This is of huge importance to our economy," Obama, seated next to the EU leaders, told reporters.

A possible step would be for Washington to support more aid to Europe from the International Monetary Fund, where the United States is the biggest shareholder.

But William Kennard, the U.S. envoy in Brussels, said there was no discussion of the United States making any financial obligations to help Europe or increasing its payments to the IMF - moves bound to face stiff political opposition given fiscal pressures gripping the U.S. Congress.

Rather, the Obama administration has focused on offering advice on rescue programs and how to make tough political decisions drawn from its experience during the U.S. financial crisis of 2008.

The U.S.-EU summit furthered those discussions, Kennard said, refusing to discuss any specifics.

"Ultimately, we believe that this is a problem that Europe has to solve and has the capacity and the resources to solve it," he said at a news conference.

Europe conveyed that the situation is difficult and leaders are not complacent, the EU Ambassador to the United States Joao Vale de Almeida said.

"Europe is committed. Europe is determined," he said, adding that the December 9 EU summit would be a "milestone."

EU leaders are expected to agree on steps toward fiscal union, considered critical for a longer term solution to Europe's debt crisis.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the IMF already has substantial resources and has a role to play in helping Europe but also underscored the U.S. view that Europe has the capacity to handle its own problems.

"The issue here is a European issue and Europe needs to act," he said.

Obama has been in regular telephone contact with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other European leaders as debt woes have piled up in Greece, Italy and Spain, hurting stock markets and raising doubts about U.S. exports and growth.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and top White House advisers took part in Monday's closed-door talks, the latest in a series of annual summits between American and EU leaders.

The meeting did not include Merkel, Sarkozy and other European heads of state who will ultimately need to make tough decisions to salvage the euro zone.

But Van Rompuy and Barroso wield influence as heads of key EU institutions at the heart of efforts to address the crisis, which has thrown the future of the 17-nation currency bloc into doubt at a moment of weakness for the global economy.

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Avoiding contagion from Europe is critical for Obama, a Democrat whose re-election prospects next November hinge on his ability to shield the U.S. economy from another downturn and bring down the unemployment rate of 9 percent.

"If Europe is contracting or if Europe is having difficulties, then it is much more difficult for us to create good jobs at home," Obama said.

So far, U.S. exports have remained strong in spite of the turmoil in Europe, rising in the first nine months of 2011 by about 15 percent from the same period last year.

Exports to the EU account for about 2 percent of total U.S. output, so a mild EU recession is expected to shave only about one- or two-tenths of a percentage point from U.S. growth in the first half of 2012, Wells Fargo estimates.

Van Rompuy said it was wrong to suggest Europe was the only drag on the global economy and said it was important for other economies to pitch in to boost growth.

In a joint statement after the meeting, the United States and European Union said they agreed on the need to work together with emerging economies to rebalance global growth and for the United States to address its fiscal issues in the medium term.

They also said they were determined to see Iran comply with its international obligations related to its nuclear program. Van Rompuy said the European Union was preparing new restrictive measures to further isolate Tehran.

The joint statement, issued hours after Brussels announced new financial sanctions on Syria, also urged Damascus "to end violence immediately" and permit a peaceful and democratic transition of government.

Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also took part in the talks which lasted just over two hours.

(Additional reporting by David Lawder, Stella Dawson, Doug Palmer, Steve Holland, Caren Bohan, Lesley Wroughton and Glenn Somerville in Washington and Luke Baker in Brussels; Editing by Paul Simao and John O'Callaghan)

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Airlines cancel flights to UK over strike

Airlines said Monday they are canceling some flights in and out of London's Heathrow Airport ahead of a nationwide public sector strike this week that will include employees who check passports.

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As many as 2 million public workers in Britain are expected to join a one-day walkout on Wednesday ? from immigration officials to teachers to garbage collectors ? in an escalating row over planned changes to public-sector pensions.

Civil service staff and contractors will be brought in to cover for striking immigration officials at Britain's borders, though most airlines have advised passengers to reschedule any journeys planned for Wednesday into the U.K..

Heathrow's owner, BAA, warned last week of possible 12-hour delays at immigration halls at Europe's busiest airport as U.K. Border Agency staff join in the action, and asked airlines to fly half-full planes into Heathrow during the strike.

Gatwick Airport has warned passengers to be prepared for "significant disruption" at immigration. The strike also could affect flights in and out of the London area's other three airports ? Stansted, Luton and City ? which handle many flights to and from continental Europe.

Middle East carrier Etihad Airways said Monday it has canceled two flights from Abu Dhabi into Heathrow and one flight from Heathrow to Abu Dhabi "to spare the airline's guests the expected disruption at Heathrow airport and the long delays in waiting to clear immigration."

Etihad said it is operating another flight with reduced passenger capacity.

Greece's Aegean Airlines said it canceled one Heathrow to Athens flight and one from Athens to Heathrow because airport authorities warned of "potentially huge problems with delays."

Aegean said there were possible delays to two of its other flights departing from Heathrow to Athens on Wednesday, plus a flight to Cyprus.

British Airways said it had not canceled any flights on Wednesday and hoped to run a full service, while Virgin Atlantic said it had cut its passenger numbers for the day of the strike by more than 1,000.

British Airways and Virgin both agreed last week to waive the normal charges for passengers looking to rebook their flights for Wednesday.

The walkout is expected to top the scale of Britain's 1979 strikes ? when tens of thousands of people halted work over pay disputes. Some labor unions claim the action could even eclipse Britain's 1926 general strike, when about 1.75 million people joined walkouts.

In the latest dispute, workers oppose government demands that they work longer before receiving a pension, contribute more money each month and accept a pension calculated using their average career salary, rather than their final salary.

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Consumer confidence, Europe talks send stocks up

In this Nov. 28, 2011 photo, trader Stephen Perciballi, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Asian stock markets climbed Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, amid hopes that radical steps are being considered to choke off a debt crisis threatening to rip apart the euro currency union, but European shares opened lower as the euphoria began to fade.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

In this Nov. 28, 2011 photo, trader Stephen Perciballi, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Asian stock markets climbed Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, amid hopes that radical steps are being considered to choke off a debt crisis threatening to rip apart the euro currency union, but European shares opened lower as the euphoria began to fade.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

(AP) ? A jump in U.S. consumer confidence sent stocks mostly higher Tuesday. Investors were also encouraged by new efforts from European leaders to find more aggressive cures for the region's debt crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 index rose 0.5 percent in afternoon trading. Technology stocks lagged.

Stocks started slightly higher and gained momentum after 10 a.m., when the Conference Board, a private research group, reported that its Consumer Confidence Index jumped in November to its highest level since July. That news and strong retail sales over the Thanksgiving weekend reassured investors that the U.S. economy might be sputtering back to life, said Quincy Krosby, market strategist for Prudential Financial.

"For the market, the fact that Americans are spending is a positive force."

Europe's proposals for wriggling out of a potential financial catastrophe have become more radical as borrowing costs for the region's large economies, including Spain and Italy, spike. President Barack Obama said in a meeting with top EU officials Monday that if Europe failed to solve its crisis, the U.S. economy would suffer.

Acting with new urgency, Europe's finance ministers were considering wide-ranging plans for protecting the region's financial system and shared currency from collapse. Many of those ideas would have been off-limits only recently, including having countries cede some control over their finances to a central European authority.

In the latest sign of trouble, Italy was forced to pay an excruciatingly high interest rate on an auction of three-year debt Tuesday. Demand was strong, but the 7.89 percent rate was nearly three percentage points higher than last month, an enormous increase.

The ease with which the auction was able to raise 7.49 billion euros ($10 billion) was a good sign, said Krosby. "But it's still worrisome that those yields are past the point which a week ago would have terrified global markets."

Bank stocks lagged the market as investors saw the latest jump in Italy's borrowing costs as a troubling sign for the global financial system. Banks could suffer huge losses in the event of a financial panic in Europe and a freeze-up in global lending markets. Morgan Stanley fell 3.2 percent and Bank of America fell 2.6 percent.

AMR Corp. plunged 80 percent after the parent company of American Airlines said it would file for Chapter 11 because it could no longer shoulder rising fuel costs and its heavy debt load. Competitor United Continental Holdings Inc. jumped 6.4 percent, and Delta Air Lines Inc. rose 3 percent. AMR Corp. has continued to lose money while other U.S. airlines returned to profitability in the last two years.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 60 points, or 0.5 percent, to 11,583 at 3:45 p.m. Eastern.

The Dow jumped 291 Monday on expectations that European leaders were moving more aggressively to prevent the region's debt crisis from causing a catastrophic breakup of their currency union. European finance ministers gathered Tuesday to hash out the latest ideas for squelching the crisis. At their regular monthly meeting, the ministers also released the latest installment of emergency loans for Greece.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 5, or 0.4 percent, to 1,197. The S&P broke a seven-day losing streak Monday. The Nasdaq composite, comprising mostly technology stocks, slipped 6 points, or 0.3 percent, to 2,520.

Many tech stocks fell, led by Corning, which lost 11.3 percent. The maker of glass for products like LCD televisions cut its outlook for the fourth quarter, saying a major South Korean customer would no longer do business with the company. Netflix fell 3.4 percent after Standard & Poor's lowered its rating on the company's debt, saying it expected losses.

Seagate Technology PLC jumped 4.3 percent after the hard drive maker forecast revenue for the current quarter that was higher than analysts were expecting. Citi analyst Joe Yoo said higher hard disk drive prices were driving the gain.

Tiffany & Co. plunged 8.9 percent after the luxury retailer forecast fourth-quarter earnings that were below Wall Street's expectations. The fourth quarter includes the holiday shopping season.

Dillard's Inc. slumped 6.6 percent after a Sterne Agee analysts cut his rating on the stock, saying the department store operator's profits could be pressured by an increased in markdowns and sluggish economic conditions.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

HBT: Ortiz getting interest from another team

David Ortiz is one of those dudes who you just really can?t imagine switching teams. But he is a free agent, and the Boston Herald says this:

David Ortiz?has choices now.?The free agent designated hitter is receiving ?serious interest? from more than one team, an industry source said today, indicating that Ortiz has more than offer already. ?He has lots of options,? said the source.

That?s nice. I put really high odds on that ?industry source? being Ortiz?s agent, but that?s nice.

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Dow, S&P up for 2nd day but financials a drag (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? The Dow and S&P 500 advanced for a second day on Tuesday as consumer confidence data was stronger than expected and investors eyed further progress on a solution to Europe's fiscal mess.

But weak financial shares limited the advance, with the S&P financial index (.GSPF) down 0.4 percent. Shares of Bank of America (BAC.N) dropped 2.7 percent to $5.11, on track for their worst close since March 2009. The Nasdaq also was lower.

"There seems to be some movement on the European front, but things certainly haven't been resolved. Financials are taking a step back, and are kind of keeping a cap on the market as a whole," said Thomas Villalta, portfolio manager for Jones Villalta Asset Management in Austin, Texas.

In a positive sign for the euro zone, Italian bond yields fell from session highs, though they were still at record high rates. In the auction, Italy's government sold 7.5 billion euros of three- and 10-year bonds, close to the upper end of its target range.

In addition, investors also eyed a meeting of European officials in hopes they will make a step forward in resolving the region's debt crisis.

In the United States, the Conference Board, an industry group, said its index of consumer confidence jumped to its highest level since July, handily topping economists' forecasts.

The news followed record Black Friday sales, giving investors hope that the holiday shopping season will be a solid one for retailers.

The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) was up 55.29 points, or 0.48 percent, at 11,578.30. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) was up 4.14 points, or 0.35 percent, at 1,196.69. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) was down 8.01 points, or 0.32 percent, at 2,519.33.

On Monday, U.S. stocks rebounded sharply from seven days of losses, with the S&P closing up nearly 3 percent.

Weakness in some large-cap Internet stocks weighed on the Nasdaq after strong gains in those stocks on Monday. Amazon.com (AMZN.O) dropped 2.3 percent to $189.62.

AMR Corp (AMR.N) plunged 78.4 percent to about 35 cents a share after the parent of American Airlines filed for bankruptcy protection and named a new chairman and chief executive. The stock was halted more than a dozen times throughout the day.

(Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch; Additional reporting by Ryan Vlastelica; Editing by Jan Paschal)

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Video: Obama meets with European leaders (cbsnews)

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Bill Waxes Lyrical (TIME)

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Monday, November 28, 2011

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Hope Solo: I Was Too Muscular for Dancing With the Stars (omg!)

Hope Solo: I Was Too Muscular for Dancing With the Stars

When Hope Solo and Maksim Chmerkovskiy were voted off Dancing With the Stars on November 15, the 30-year-old soccer player was so distraught she refused to speak to reporters backstage.

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The athlete broke her silence during a Tuesday appearance on Anderson, where Solo told host Anderson Cooper she felt "very naive" during her time on the ABC show.

"It is very much reality television. From day one, they casted our characters," she said.

Though she frequently sparred with Chmerkovskiy, 31, Solo insisted "Maks and I were great friends and we had an endearing relationship."

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Solo felt that the three judges -- Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli -- were wary of her from the beginning.

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"I was told I had too much muscle and I was too intense and wasn't very dainty. Well, hello -- you cast a female professional athlete! Help me get better as a dancer," she said. "There's no hard feelings at all. I understand that it's television."

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Strong winds leave 7 dead in southern Sri Lanka (AP)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ? Strong winds have killed seven people along Sri Lanka's southern coast.

Pradeep Kodippili, the spokesman for the government's disaster management center, says three people were killed by fallen trees Friday in the southern coastal town of Matara.

Also on Friday, the bodies of four fishermen who had ventured out to sea from Matara were recovered. Kodippili says it was possible that their boats had been damaged by the bad weather.

He says the winds damaged about 1,000 homes in the area.

The strong winds subsided by Friday evening.

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

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With sifting of GOP field, do voters want safe Romney or risky Gingrich? (Seattle Times)

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Palestinians talk unity, no sign of progress (Reuters)

CAIRO (Reuters) ? Leaders of Fatah and Hamas met for the first time in six months and hailed progress toward ending a rift that has led to separate governments in the West Bank and Gaza, but there was no sign of a breakthrough.

The last meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Cairo in May yielded an agreement aimed at reuniting the Palestinian territories under a single government that would oversee new elections set for May 2012. There has been no progress toward implementation since then.

Hamas defeated Fatah in a 2006 parliamentary election and has run the Gaza Strip since 2007, when it seized control of the territory from the Abbas administration.

Since then, the Iran- and Syria-backed group has built its own government and security forces, complicating any attempt to reunite Gaza with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority.

Abbas, in comments carried by the Palestinian news agency WAFA, said after the Thursday talks there were "no differences between us now." Meshaal, who lives in exile in Damascus, said: "We have opened in a new page of partnership."

Azzam al-Ahmed, a senior Fatah official, said the leaders would hold another meeting to continue discussions.

Abbas wants the head of his Ramallah administration, the independent former World Bank economist Salam Fayyad, to stay on as prime minister. That choice is rejected by Hamas and there has been recent speculation Abbas is now willing to give way.

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Fatah and Hamas representatives said there was agreement that elections should happen in May as agreed in the deal. But analysts doubt whether the vote will happen if the sides have not formed a government by then.

In a sign of some tangible progress, the sides announced that an all-encompassing Palestinian leadership body tasked with reforming the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) would hold its first meeting on December 22. The body was first envisioned by a 2005 agreement among Palestinian factions.

The PLO, led by Abbas, was founded in 1964 and is recognized internationally as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.

Hamas is not currently part of the PLO, which is dominated by the Fatah movement. Hamas, which is shunned by the West for its hostility to Israel, believes that joining the PLO would bolster its international standing.

"It's been a long wait but God willing it will finally happen," said Izzat al-Rishq, a Hamas official, referring to the December 22 meeting.

"This is the start of the participation of Hamas in the PLO," said Hany al-Masri, a Palestinian political commentator based in Ramallah who has been involved in efforts to foster reconciliation. "It's not the end of the road, but it's a step."

A spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Palestinian unity moves were reducing the prospects for peace.

"The closer Abu Mazen gets to Hamas, the further he moves away from peace," Netanyahu spokesman Mark Regev said.

Israel briefly withheld tax revenues collected on behalf of Abbas's Palestinian Authority earlier this year in response to the unity agreement.

It took a similar step this month following the Palestinians' successful bid to join the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO. Fayyad said on Thursday that the Palestinian Authority was "fast approaching the point of being completely incapacitated" by Israel's freeze on tax revenues.

(Writing and additional reporting by Tom Perry; additional reporting by Ori Lewis in Jerusalem; editing by Andrew Roche)

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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Laura Osnes is a shooting star in 'Bonnie & Clyde' (AP)

NEW YORK ? Laura Osnes is still in that pinch-me-I-must-be-dreaming phase.

The 25-year-old actress is now starring in her third Broadway show, and originating a role for the first time, only four years after landing in New York by way of an unlikely vehicle: a reality TV show.

"I think if I had written it out myself, I wouldn't have planned it as good as this. In my wildest dreams, I never would have imagined all of the amazing opportunities that I've had," Osnes says during a break in rehearsals for "Bonnie & Clyde," which has music by Frank Wildhorn.

Thanks to talent and some good luck, Osnes has speedily gone from performing "Grease" in dinner theater in Minneapolis to doing the same musical on Broadway after winning NBC's "Grease: You're the One That I Want" in 2007.

After that, she replaced Kelli O'Hara in "South Pacific" and got the chance to sing and dance alongside her hero Sutton Foster in "Anything Goes." Now her two-and-a-half-year investment in bank robber Bonnie is about to pay off.

"This is my first originating role so it's just been so exciting to be part of this process pretty much from the ground up," she says. "It was kind of magical how the whole thing happened."

Osnes initially auditioned for an earlier Wildhorn musical ? "Wonderland," an updated telling of "Alice in Wonderland." She lost the lead role of Alice to Janet Dacal but Wildhorn, the composer of such Broadway shows as "Jekyll & Hyde" and "The Scarlet Pimpernel," was impressed.

"He said, `I think you're too young for Alice, but I'm working on this other musical that I think you might actually be really great for. It's a new musical about Bonnie and Clyde.'"

It turned out that even in defeat, Osnes had dodged a bullet: "Wonderland" was savaged by critics by the time it arrived on Broadway, and Osnes realizes that some people will be leery of Wildhorn's new work.

"If people come in skeptical, fine by us. Because we'll blow you away," she says. "It's Frank's best work ever. I'm a big fan of his and I love singing every song. I never get sick of them. I've been singing the songs for three years and it's still magic."

Osnes has been with "Bonnie & Clyde" from the very beginning, playing Bonnie as it matured during monthlong stints at the La Jolla Playhouse in southern California in the fall of 2009 and then at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Fla., a year later.

In between those two stretches, she was tempted by another offer. She was in the final running for a spot in "Bring It On: The Musical," a show loosely based on the popular 2000 movie about competing high school cheerleading teams that starred Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union and Eliza Dushku, and produced a couple of sequels.

Osnes had to choose ? gun-toting Bonnie or a pom-pom wielding cheerleader? A proven brand name or an original musical? Which was worthier of her investment in time? And which had the best shot of being a success or making it to Broadway?

"I just have learned in this business that you really have to follow your heart. That's what I did," she says, pointing to the "Bonnie & Clyde" script. "My heart was attached already to the people and the project."

Christopher Ashley, the artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse and who directed the Broadway shows "Memphis" and "Xanadu," is glad Osnes stuck with Bonnie. She even worked with the creative team to deepen the character.

"This is the first role I think that really stretches what she can do as a dramatic actress and really explores the darker parts of the human soul. She's really extraordinary in it," says Ashley. "I'm really proud of her because I think it's a true bravura acting role."

The musical, which co-stars Jeremy Jordan as Clyde, explores both the intense love the two lead characters share, as well as their obsession with fame. The song titles reveal as much ? "Made in America," "This World Will Remember Us" and "Dyin' Ain't So Bad."

It wasn't so long ago that Osnes, from the Minneapolis suburb of Eagan, was playing Sandy Dumbrowski in "Grease" in a Minnesota dinner theater. When she found out a Broadway role was the prize of a national TV talent search, she signed up.

After winning and making her New York debut as Sandy, Osnes says she faced some resistance. "There was a stigma," she says. But while rival actresses may have resented her, casting directors knew who she was. "I'm still very thankful that I did the reality show because it put me on the map and it opened a lot of doors for me," she says.

Osnes moved to New York as a newlywed with her husband, Nathan Johnson, an actor-turned-photographer whom she met while the two were understudying Aladdin and Jasmine in production of "Aladdin" at The Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis. One night, the leads collided during the performance ? Osnes recalls lots of blood and a chipped tooth ? and she and Johnson went on together as replacements. On stage, they shared their first kiss.

After "Grease," Osnes replaced O'Hara in "South Pacific," which she says helped legitimize her after her unorthodox Broadway arrival. And then she won the role of Hope Harcourt opposite Foster's Reno Sweeney in "Anything Goes." That was pure bliss: Long before "Grease," Osnes had come to New York and seen Foster in "Little Women" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie."

She says it was surreal listening to Foster sing during the first day of rehearsal for "Anything Goes."

"I'm thinking, `That's the voice! That's the voice that I've listened to and idolized for the last 10 years of my life!'" she says. "She was always my Broadway hero. Those are the type of roles I want to play. That's the type of voice I want to have."

Now she's living her own Broadway dream. Osnes is having so much fun that she and her co-star are cooking up a sequel to their current show.

"Jeremy and I have joked about doing `Bonnie and Clyde 2: On the High Seas,'" she says with a smile. "Then we could be pirates instead of cowboys."

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Next Stop Mars! Huge NASA Rover Launches toward Red Planet

AND WE'RE OFF! NASA's Curiosity rover launched successfully this morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Image: NASA TV

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ? NASA has launched its next Mars rover, kicking off a long-awaited mission to investigate whether the Red Planet could ever have hosted microbial life.

The car-size Curiosity rover blasted off atop its Atlas 5 rocket today (Nov. 26) at 10:02 a.m. EST (1502 GMT), streaking into a cloudy sky above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station here. The huge robot's next stop is Mars, though the 354-million-mile (570-million-kilometer) journey will take 8 1/2 months.

Joy Crisp, a deputy project scientist for the rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., called the liftoff "spectacular."

"This feels great," she said as she watched the rocket lift off from Cape Canaveral. [Photos: Curiosity Rover Launches to Mars]

Pamela Conrad, deputy principal investigator for Curiosity's mission at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., said, "Every milestone feels like such a relief."

NASA expected around 13,500 people to watch the liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, with many more viewing from surrounding areas, setting a record for the number of spectators watching an unmanned launch.

"It's a beautiful day," Conrad added. "The sun's out, and all these people came out to watch."

The work Curiosity does when it finally arrives should revolutionize our understanding of the Red Planet and pave the way for future efforts to hunt for potential Martian life, researchers said.

"It is absolutely a feat of engineering, and it will bring science like nobody's ever expected," Doug McCuistion, head of NASA's Mars exploration program, said of Curiosity. "I can't even imagine the discoveries that we're going to come up with."

A long road to launch

Curiosity's cruise to Mars may be less challenging than its long and bumpy trek to the launch pad, which took nearly a decade.

NASA began planning Curiosity's mission ? which is officially known as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) ? back in 2003. The rover was originally scheduled to blast off in 2009, but it wasn't ready in time.

Launch windows for Mars-bound spacecraft are based on favorable alignments between Earth and the Red Planet, and they open up just once every two years. So the MSL team had to wait until 2011.

That two-year slip helped boost the mission's overall cost by 56 percent, to its current $2.5 billion. But today's successful launch likely chased away a lot of the bad feelings still lingering after the delay and cost overruns.

"I think you could visibly see the team morale improve ? the team grinned more, the team smiled more ? as the rover and the vehicle came closer, and more and more together here when we were at Kennedy [Space Center]" preparing for liftoff, MSL project manager Pete Theisinger of JPL said a few days before launch.

A rover behemoth

Curiosity is a beast of a rover. At 1 ton, it weighs five times more than each of the last two rovers NASA sent to Mars, the golf-cart-size twins Spirit and Opportunity, which landed in January 2004 to search for signs of past water activity.

While Spirit and Opportunity each carried five science instruments, Curiosity sports 10, including a rock-zapping laser and equipment designed to identify organic compounds ? carbon-based molecules that are the building blocks of life as we know it.

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Morocco votes in test of king's reform drive (Reuters)

RABAT (Reuters) ? Moroccans voted in a parliamentary election on Friday that could yield their most representative government ever after King Mohammed ceded some powers to prevent any tumultuous spillover of Arab Spring uprisings.

The election will be a litmus test of the ability of Arab monarchies to craft gradual reforms that would placate popular yearning for greater democracy without violence-ridden revolts of the sort seen in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Syria this year.

Some 13.6 million Moroccans registered to vote in Friday's election, the North African country's ninth since it gained independence from France in 1956.

"I will vote, maybe later before the polling station closes," said shoe shiner Mohamed as he crouched waiting for customers on a busy Rabat boulevard.

"Last night a friend explained to me what elections are all about with all the troubles in Arab countries: I have to vote so that we can end the misery we live in. That's all we have for now: Patience and vote," he said.

In contrast to previous elections when the result was evident in advance, the latest vote was a closely-run contest between a moderate Islamist opposition party and a new coalition of liberals with close ties to the royal palace.

Under constitutional reforms backed by King Mohammed earlier this year, the new government that will emerge from the election will have unprecedented powers, though the king retains the final say on matters of defense, security and religion.

CONCERN ABOUT VIABILITY OF NEXT GOV'T

Whichever bloc emerges with the most seats in parliament, they are unlikely to be able to form a government on their own. That will force them to seek an alliance, and possibly even a "grand coalition" between the Islamists and the liberal bloc.

That worries economists, who want to see a cohesive government able to narrow the budget deficit, reduce the 30-percent-plus youth unemployment rate and address the needs of the 8.5 million Moroccans below the poverty line.

The king will choose the next prime minister from the party that wins the biggest share of the vote. It is already clear Abbas Al Fassi, who holds the job now, will be replaced because his Istiqlal party is widely unpopular.

The shift toward greater democracy could falter if polling day is marred by the kind of vote-buying common in the past, and if signs crop up afterwards that palace officials are trying to meddle in the new government.

The Moroccan monarch has said he wants elections that are "free, fair and competitive." But there are already signs the murky electoral practices of the past are still in play.

Since succeeding his father to the throne in 1999, King Mohammed has won international praise for improving human rights, although the reform drive of his earlier years in power has lost momentum in the last few years.

When demonstrations, inspired by the Arab Spring, flared earlier this year, King Mohammed responded by reinvigorating the reform process and offering constitutional amendments that took much of the momentum out of the protest movement.

But there remains a vocal minority who say his reforms are not enough. Thousands of people joined protests in several cities last weekend to back calls for a boycott of the election.

The bigger concern for the palace is not the boycott but that apathy among ordinary Moroccans will produce a low turnout, taking the shine off what is being portrayed as a showcase for budding democracy.

(Additional reporting by Zakia Abdennebi; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Japan's emperor released from hospital (AP)

TOKYO ? Japan's Emperor Akihito has been released from the hospital after being treated for a high fever and mild bronchial pneumonia.

Akihito, 77, was admitted into the University of Tokyo Hospital on Nov. 6.

His eldest son, Crown Prince Naruhito, took over his official duties while he was ill. Palace officials said Akihito would resume his duties as soon as his health permits.

Akihito ascended the throne after his father, Hirohito, died in 1989. Since the end of World War II in 1945, Japan's emperor has a largely ceremonial function as the "symbol of the nation."

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Friday, November 25, 2011

The Reapers' Game: First Week

The Reapers' Game: First Week.
(Based on The World Ends With You world.)

You have 7 days to live.
You have just died, accepted the challenge to survive seven days to get a second chance in life and paid the entry fee... Something that you hold most dear have been taken away from you, be it memories, objects, looks or anything else. If you win you will get it back.
This is Shibuya's UnderGround(UG) nobody except other Players (Identified by their Player Pin.), Reapers (Identified by black wings.) can see you, except in shops with skull symbols.
One more thing, at the start of each day, you wake up at some random location set by the GM of the week (Usually Scramble Crossing is the location for the first day.), there are certain routes that are locked to keep you on the mission too, some walls can be unlocked by Reapers after completing their side-missions.
The only way to survive the game is by finding a partner and co-operating with them, or you will be erased in a second.

Technical stuff.
In every week there is a Game Master(GM) who sends players their missions for each day. These missions are usually in the form of "Reach X' or 'Clear the X of the Noise'. You have 60 minutes to complete or face erasure - The Reapers." and are send to the players' phones. After receiving the mission mail, a timer shows up on each player's hand.
How does defeating the Noise work? You first scan the area for noise with your Player Pin. Using pins' abilities and fight in teams of two. But, if either partner gets erased, your chances of survival are zero.

What are Noise?
They look like some animals, from frogs to rhinos to mythological creatures, with special traits. They come from negative emotions from the people of Shibuya, there are sometimes a chance for players having to erase noise possessing people.

Now, to the pins.
Pins work like magic abilities in games. From normal fire balls to cutting enemies without weapons to causing earthquakes (They only affect Noise.) The catch is, you are going to have set limit of pins, but the less you have the stronger your pins are. (This is RP only element.)
What powers the Pins is the user's imagination. More imagination means wider array of pins to use.
I'll let you Players either come up with couple pins to use in battle or adapt some of the game's Pins to this RP.

Player Pin: Image It's designed by a famous street artist named CAT, nobody knows who he is but everybody in Shibuya agrees that his art is great. You can see his graffiti art at the Udagawa Backstreet wall.

Ok now for the spots in the game...
Reapers
Conductor: Nocte
Game Master1: NotAFlyingToy
Reaper 1:
Reaper 2:

Players
1. Nocte.
2. Dragon.
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So anyone other interested? I'll send the Reapers some useful links to know what your responsibilities are.

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Newt's Immigration Stance Worries King (TIME)

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Move Over Kinect ? Displair From Russia Is A Gesture Interface In Thin Air

DisplairPlease look at this video and tell me it is not magic. Displair, a Russian company from Astrakhan has come up with a technology to project images into the thin air, and use gestures to move them.

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Futures rise, Hewlett-Packard puts techs in focus (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Tuesday as persistent concerns over Europe kept investors on edge after four days of market losses.

The ongoing debt crisis in the euro zone along with worries over how the United States will tackle its ballooning debt have sparked steep equity losses. The S&P 500 fell almost 2 percent on Monday while the Dow turned negative for the year. Last week, the S&P recorded its worst week in two months.

The FTSEurofirst 300 (.FTEU3) rose as much as 0.7 percent but later pared gains in a volatile session after yields in a Spanish government debt auction rose to their highest in 14 years.

"We're getting to a point where there's been so much selling, bargain hunters are taking advantage of an oversold market," said Art Hogan, managing director of Lazard Capital Markets in New York.

Crude oil rebounded more than 1 percent after dropping on Monday on concerns about how the debt issues would impact economic growth and commodity demand.

"After the uniform selloff we saw across pretty much all asset classes yesterday, we're seeing a nudge up, although we're still very concerned about what's going on in Europe, especially the yields on Spanish debt," Hogan said.

Technology shares will be in focus a day after Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N) projected fiscal 2012 earnings of at least $4 per share versus estimates of $4.54. The Dow component also reported a steep drop in quarterly profit. The stock fell 2.1 percent to $26.30 in light premarket trading.

S&P 500 futures rose 1.4 points and were slightly above fair value, a formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration on the contract. Dow Jones industrial average futures added 3 points, and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 5.75 points.

The S&P has fallen through a key support level at 1,200. The next technical support was seen at 1,187, representing the 61.8 percent retracement of the 2011 high to low.

"We're in a range between about 1,180 and 1,250 on the S&P, and we're unlikely to break out of that until we see real policy changes get implemented in Europe," Hogan said. "However, we do have a higher floor for markets than a month ago, and that's positive."

Late Monday, the co-chairs of a special U.S. congressional committee said it had failed to reach a deal on reducing government deficits. There are concerns the stalemate will make it more difficult to pass extensions of stimulative measures like payroll tax cuts, which could hurt the U.S. economy.

While the news was expected, it could further limit market upside. Trading volume is likely to be low this week as global uncertainties and the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday prompt investors to sit on the sidelines.

Economic data due later in the day includes the second estimate of U.S. third-quarter gross domestic product, with economists in a Reuters survey forecasting a 2.5 percent annualized rate of growth, same as the first estimate. The report is due at 8:30 a.m. EST <1330 GMT>

Campbell Soup Co (CPB.N) reported first-quarter earnings that beat expectations while sales were slightly below consensus. Medtronic Inc (MDT.N) also reported profit above estimates.

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90% The Descendants

All Critics (124) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (112) | Rotten (12)

With so many balls in the air the temptation is to rush from one plot strand to another, but Payne takes the opposite approach. He also captures the complexity of emotional reactions that grief stirs.

It's a lovely, heartfelt character study of common, everyday people trapped on the horns of an uncommon but not unheard-of dilemma.

The latest exhibit in Payne's careful dissection of the beached male, which runs from Matthew Broderick's character in "Election" to Jack Nicholson's in "About Schmidt" and Paul Giamatti's in "Sideways."

This mature, well-acted dramatic comedy is deeply satisfying, maybe even cathartic.

A tough, tender, observant, exquisitely nuanced portrait of mixed emotions at their most confounding and profound -- all at play within a deliciously damp, un-touristy Hawaii that's at once lush and lovely to look at.

A splendid comedy-drama about a father coping with his comatose wife and difficult daughters represents high points for George Clooney and Alexander Payne.

It's good, but far less than you'd expect from the guy who started his career with the gleefully provocative Citizen Ruth and Election.

In the hands of writer-director Alexander Payne, Clooney has rarely seemed so much at home.

There are ample opportunities for the film to soak in pathos, righteousness, farce, or pictorialism, and Payne manages to nod at those pitfalls without falling into them.

An emotionally ennobling film that wears its compassion on the sleeve of its ugly Hawaiian print shirts.

Payne displays a knack for both perfect casting and using his lead actor in sometimes unconventional, unexpected ways

Director Alexander Payne prefers to start a movie with one strike against him. He always picks a dislikable protagonist... Then, as he slowly gives characters self-awareness, he gives us reasons to watch and care about them.

In playing an everyman stranded between anger and duty, Clooney earns an emotional payoff that a lesser actor would simply demand.

An introspective and heartwarming film, unafraid to convey its story with pleasing simplicity.

It's Clooney and Woodley's movie, as they become a team before our eyes.

I kept expecting it to get better, but it just sort of did its thing and called it a day.

A family drama whose distinction comes primarily from its nuances and subtleties.

Director and co-writer Alexander Payne again shows the most acute and perceptive understanding of the American psyche of any current director.

Flawless in the still manner it approaches crippling encounters with grief and disgust, dryly expressing the necessary unraveling of a distracted man. The Descendents is simply terrific, profound yet understated.

Payne has a particular skill for making movie stars seem like normal people, and the resolute normalcy of the cast helps to show Hawaii not as a resort paradise, but as a place like any other where people live, work, love, and die.

Payne continues to live up to his name as a wry observer of modern American crises.

Even as Payne's weakest film, The Descendants is still worth seeing

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