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MAG’s gone gold, Zipper just confirmed on the US PS Blog, and Americans will be able to openly play the beta as of tomorrow. “Beta 5” will go global on January 4. The online shooter launches on January 26 in North America and Asia, January 28 in Japan, and January 29 in Korea. Hit the […]

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    EA may have pink-slipped 200 Pandemic staffers last week, but true to its word, The Saboteur escaped from the carnage relatively unscathed. And now, according to a post on Pandemic’s community site, the game has gone gold – just in time for its launch next month. “I am very proud to communicate today that The […]

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    Live GM Christina DeRosa has told Joystiq that the service’s Silver members may be granted limited access to for free. “Silver users will be able access what we’re considering a trial period of three hours a month, which comes with video advertising,” she said. “Gold users will have unlimited ad-supported access, so they can […]

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    Wheelman’s gold, Ubi an Midway said this morning, and will release on March 27. Watch us playing the driving action thing here. We were great. Press release after the break.

  • Halo Wars gold, demo confirmed for February 5

    Halo Wars is now gold, Microsoft’s announced, describing the RTS as “genre-defining”. The Live demo will release on February 5 prior to launch on February 27. Halo Wars is Ensemble’s last game: the studio will now close. A series of vidocs is to be released in the run up to the game’s release, the first […]

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    Killzone 2’s off to manufacturing, SCEA’s confirmed on the PSBlog. The game’s confirmed for a February 27 launch in both the US and Europe, and is looking like the definite epicentre of hotness for next month. A good reason to finally invest in an HD cable for your PS3, anyway.

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    Amazon is currently offering 13 month’s worth of Xbox Live Gold membership for a stupefying $30. See here. The price is a reduction from the normal $50, meaning you should probably get on it if you’ve been refusing to upgrade from Silver for the last few years. Seriously. Sort it out. Do you want it […]

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    Considering it’s out next week, you’d bloody hope so. EA’s confirmed that Mirror’s Edge is gold and has been sent to manufacturing. As you can see in the press release after the break. Don’t forget, UK people, that you can get yourself a limited edition t-shirt by pre-ordering from Game.

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    Ubi’s confirmed that Tom Clancy’s EndWar has gone gold. The voice-controlled RTS will release for 360 and PS3 on November 7. And that, pretty much, is that.

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    EA’s confirmed that horror title Dead Space is gold. The firm’s also announced that console gamers that buy within the first two weeks of launch will get a free, platform-specific suit as DLC. Code is now in the hands of journalists, and from what we’ve been told this morning, the game’s level of violence is […]

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    The US PS Blog‘s confirmed that LittleBigPlanet will release on October 21, with the European version shipping in the “same week.” Further, Sony’s going to make a Sackboy spacesuit freely available for download for the first week of the game’s existence. You can’t say fairer than that. In addition, there’s also going to be a […]

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    God knows how many years in the making, Spore finally went gold today ahead of its September 5 release. We could talk, but we won’t: there’s nothing you don’t already know. “We are so excited to finally get Spore into the hands of fans and players,” said executive producer Lucy Bradshaw. “The Maxis studio has […]

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    Microsoft’s announced that Xbox 360 action RPG Too Human has gone gold and will make its announced August release dates in both the US and Europe. America will see the game on August 19, with Europe finally getting to see what all the fuss is about on August 29. The Silicon Knights game’s demo has […]

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Even well into my second trimester, the fatigue is not going away like I thought it would. It’s definitely not as extreme as the first trimester when I felt as if I were constantly under the influence of Benadryl, but it still makes me pretty much a couch potato. So the fact that I spent several hours sewing today is a victory. I made some good headway on a custom quilt and a throw quilt for our sofa. I’m making it my goal to sew for at least half an hour every day. I really have missed it so much.

Last week was the Earth Day challenge reveal for the Dallas MQG. My original plan of making quilt blocks from old cotton men’s shirts didn’t pan out. My mitered corners were a mess so I didn’t get past the first block. (Anyone know of a good tutorial for mitered corners?) I was saved by the fact that I’d ordered a vintage sheet kit from Jeni at In Color Order last week and it fit the reuse/recycle theme perfectly. I made a sweet little wreath that will probably hang in my sewing room, and will definitely come out at Easter.

I won’t call this wreath project a total success, though, since making it involved a near disaster. I made it Thursday afternoon. Today I came into my sewing room and discovered that I’d left my glue gun plugged in (and ON) since Thursday. There was still power to it and it was warm but thankfully its cheap electrical insides burned out at some point and it was not hot enough to burn down our house. That is definitely a crafting fail.

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    I hear you on the first trimester fatigue! I tried sewing the first week I knew I was pregnant and could not focus. All I wanted to do was sleep. Couple that w/ the fact that my sewing room is becoming the nursery, and my sewing machine was packed away. I’m 18 weeks pregnant and just got my sewing machine back out a week and a half ago.

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    Oh – hoping you feel a little more energetic soon. And yikes on the near-disaster! Glad nothing serious happened but I’m sure it gave you quite a shock!

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After years of planning, work begins this week on a key apartment project along the Canal Walk in downtown Richmond.  The action comes following last week’s closing by WVS Cos. and Fountainhead Properties on a $35 million deal to acquire five former aluminum manufacuturing buildings on seven acres along the Haxall Canal. The joint partners bought the land, known as the Reynolds North Packaging Plant, from Reynolds Group Holdings. It paid about $7.3 million for the land, with the rest of the money earmarked for construction.

“This is just the first phase,” Tom Papa, a principal with Fountainhead Properties, said of the demolition work that begins this week on what will be 175 apartments and 8,000 square feet of retail space. “Things like windows will need to be dismantled and preserved and then put back in later,” Papa told Virginia Business.
Eventually, he said, total build out of the mixed-use project would run into the hundreds of millions of dollars if plans for a 20-plus office tower, a hotel and retail uses along the Canal materialize.

Built from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, the five buildings between South 10th and 12th Streets that will be converted into apartments were formerly used to package aluminum foil.  This property is the last piece of undeveloped land along Richmond’s Canal Walk.

In what is known as the Italianate building, Papa says the developers are holding 6,000 square feet of space on the ground level for a restaurant tenant. “We’d like something that fits the San Antonio mode — tables, chairs and music on the canal,” he said. “We have talked to quite a few, mostly local restaurant owners. What we’re trying to do is give the better local restaurants a first shot.”

The apartments, which should be ready by the end of the year, would be within blocks of Shockoe Bottom restaurants, major law firms and other downtown businesses.
The project was announced in 2010, but the developers had difficulty getting financing. The money for the first phase is coming from the Virginia Housing Development Authority and Union First Market Bank, said Papa.  Because of the delays, though, he said, “It was the first project where I had a building permit on the day that I closed.”

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. The Virginia volleyball team, under the direction of first-year head coach Lee Maes, held its preseason scrimmage Saturday at Memorial Gymnasium. The Orange team defeated the Blue team 3-2. Game scores were 24-26, 25-22, 16-25, 25-17 and 15-12.

“Our biggest objective was to have a practical application of our training,” Maes said. “We did a lot of good things. The biggest thing we were trying to be conscious of was getting organized with all the lineup changes.

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Iraqi Shi'ite Leader Targeted, Sunni Party Withdraws from Vote

A suicide bomber tried to kill the leader of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite political group Monday while the main Sunni party withdrew from the country's January 30th election. Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, whose United Iraqi Alliance is expected to dominate the vote, survived the Baghdad attack. But at least 13 people were killed.

Earlier in the day, the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party pulled out of the vote because of concerns over violence. The party says more time is needed to ensure that all Shi'ites and Sunnis participate in the election. In other election news, a new audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden calls for Iraqis to boycott the vote, saying those who take part will be infidels. The speaker also endorses Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as his deputy in Iraq. The tape has not been authenticated.


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Japan's Foreign Minister Visits China Amid Anti-Japanese Protests

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Japan's Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura is in China, as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of several cities on Sunday for the latest in a weeklong series of anti-Japanese protests.

Police stood by as demonstrators marched in cities including Shenyang, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. They are angry at Japan's approval of textbooks that they say downplay its aggression against China in the early 20th century.

Police have been deployed in force in Beijing to prevent violent protests. Analysts interpret the absence of protests in the capital as a sign the government has full control of where and when the demonstrations occur. Joseph Cheng is a politics professor at the City University of Hong Kong.

"The Chinese authorities understand that nationalism can be a double-edged sword," said Professor Cheng. " If you allow people to march against the Japanese Embassy, then they may well march against the central government the next day for other issues."

Chinese officials deny they are fueling the demonstrations. The Japanese foreign minister planned to protest to Chinese officials during his visit.


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UN Investigating Possible Police Violence to Afghan Refugees

The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, is working with Pakistani officials to investigate complaints about police harassment of Afghan refugees in Pakistan. The U.N. agency has said most of the alleged incidents have occurred in two cities.

Refugee agency officials said that police in the cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad have recently arrested more than 400 Afghans and forced other Afghans to stay in their homes, warning them they would be jailed if they were seen on the streets.

The refugees said police in the two cities have carried out raids in slum areas inhabited by Afghans and have tried to extort money, threatening the refugees with jail if they fail to pay.

UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond said the refugee agency officials met on Thursday with a task force set up by Pakistan's interior ministry that is investigating the charges made by the refugees.

"UNHCR expressed deep concern that, at a time when over 650,000 refugees have already repatriated from Pakistan in less than three months, coercive measures were counterproductive, and could impact negatively on the voluntary repatriation from Pakistan," Mr. Redmond said.

Mr. Redmond has said that Afghan refugees in other parts of Pakistan have also reported incidents of police harassment. "In Muree, a town in the hills to the north of Islamabad, a group of around 100 Afghan Tajiks were apparently forced out of their homes by plainclothes police. Some were arrested. The rest could see no other alternative but to hire trucks and go back to Afghanistan," he said.

Refugee agency officials do not believe the incidents are part of any government policy but appear to be carried out by individual police officers acting on their own. The officials speculate that the harassment may be related to the killing earlier this month, May 8, of two policemen in Rawalpindi. The police suspect Afghan robbers are responsible for the murders.


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ASEAN: No Breakthrough on South China Sea Issue

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, 5th from left, joins hands with the ASEAN leaders for a group photo before the 16th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) - China Summit in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, Oct. 9, 2013.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, 5th from left, joins hands with the ASEAN leaders for a group photo before the 16th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) - China Summit in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, Oct. 9, 2013.

With U.S. President Barack Obama absent, Chinese leaders have been able to bask in the spotlight at summits this week in Asia. That allowed them to highlight their stances on contentious issues, especially the territorial dispute involving the South China Sea.

Obama had been expected at the summits in Brunei to push for a regional maritime code of conduct that could help avert armed clashes in the disputed waters.

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China lays claim to 80 percent of the South China Sea, overlapping those made by several neighboring countries. And its officials this week have expressed no enthusiasm for outsiders applying pressure regarding the disputes.

At the 18-nation East Asia Summit China's premier, Li Keqiang met with other regional heads of government and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and called for the talks to focus on areas of cooperation such as economic development and improving people's livelihoods.

Premier Li said East Asia's significant progress in past years has been achieved because the region has been spared military conflicts “which has allowed the countries in this region to keep their focus on development.”

The premier asserted that “freedom of navigation in the South China Sea has never been an issue and will never be one.” He also said China will continue to work for progress in consultations with ASEAN members on a code of conduct in the disputed waters “on the basis of consensus building.”

In other words, China wants to settle the issue country-to-country, not collectively as Washington, Tokyo and some ASEAN members prefer.

An ASEAN-China joint statement issued Thursday revealed no breakthrough. It merely contains a pledge by the regional body and Beijing to “work towards the conclusion of a Code of Conduct in the South China Sea on the basis of consensus.”

Kerry at the East Asia Summit said “a Code of Conduct is a necessity for the long term, but nations can also reduce the risk of miscommunication and miscalculation by taking steps today.” He added that “the rights of all nations, large and small, must be respected.”

Brunei, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam also have claims in the sea conflicting with China's.

The summit's host, the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, told reporters at the event's conclusion, there have been “positive developments” recently towards a code of conduct. “ASEAN and China instructed ministers and senior officials to intensify discussions on the proposed CoC [Code of Conduct],” he said.

Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan, which has a separate territorial dispute with China in the East China Sea, told the summit tensions over the South China Sea directly affect regional peace and stability.

The Japanese leader told reporters he would like to see a code of conduct on the South China Sea between ASEAN and China implemented “soon.”

The Philippines government is expressing a similar sentiment.

At the East Asian Summit, U.S. Secretary of State Kerry and Vietnam's foreign minister, Pham Binh Minh, signed a so-called 123 accord. If signed by President Obama and subsequently not blocked by the U.S. Congress, the agreement would allow American atomic energy firms into Vietnam in exchange for Hanoi's pledge not to enrich its own uranium.

A senior U.S. State Department official, speaking on background noted Vietnam "has taken steps towards the development of a robust domestic infrastructure to support its nuclear-power generation program." And that with this agreement "Vietnam has signed on to the strongest global standards of non-proliferation."

Secretary Kerry, minutes after signing the agreement, told Vietnam's prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, “it would create numerous opportunities for our businesses between our two countries. And obviously our nuclear cooperation is quite significant.”

Kerry also told the Vietnamese leader that he looked forward to visiting his country “somewhere in the next few months.”

The U.S. Secretary of State made the remark before heading to Malaysia. However, his Friday visit to Manila has been canceled due to the threat posed by a tropical storm approaching the Philippines.

Kerry was dispatched to Asia to stand in for President Obama.

The president pulled out of his trip to the back-to-back regional summits in Indonesia and Brunei, as well as planned visits to Malaysia and Philippines last week because of the U.S. government shutdown.


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Thousands Welcome Back Turkish PM, Protests Continue

Thousands of Turks packed Istanbul's airport to welcome back Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan while thousands of others continue their anti-government protests.

Mr. Erdogan, who has been visiting North Africa all week, again dismissed the demonstrators as "walking hand-in-hand with terrorists." He blames the violence that broke out during the demonstrations as being fueled by extremists and foreign agitators.

Protesters marched again Thursday in Istanbul and Ankara, demanding Mr. Erdogan resign. They accuse him of imposing his conservative Islamic views on a secular nation.

The protests were sparked last week by government plans to tear down a public park in Istanbul for new construction. The prime minister has so far refused to scrap those plans.

Police have used tear gas and water cannons on the marchers. At least two people have been killed, thousands hurt, and thousands of others arrested.

The government earlier apologized for the use of force. The protesters are demanding freedom for all those who have been jailed.


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practical, wearable, and possessing an appeal that ranges from masculine to feminine. That is how the collection signed Mantù is presented, through uniform or slightly oversized coats that alternate with little patchwork dresses, full-circle skirts, blouses with high collars that have scarves attached, and light sweaters. Pieces that are really made for winter temperatures, including long dresses that are, in fact, worn underneath soft jackets. The main colour, grey, is exploited in all of its nuances: as a solid, in a spectrum, or combined with more vivid colours

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Inspiration for your home | New Ay Illuminate by Couleur Locale

Those who read my blog for some time now, will know my favourite lamps are those by Ay Illuminate. Beautiful lights with a bamboo frame and cotton covers that bring a natural touch to your home, I have two different models myself.

After being in love with the large version the Z1 for years, great if you have high ceilings or want to make a real statement! I was really happy with the smaller Z5 version. This lamp has been in my kitchen all summer and this autumn I will add it to my bedroom and dress up the metal rod above the kitchen table with some small concrete lamps.

Ay Illuminate, recently added two new lamps
to their collection, above (Z22 in bamboo and silk-cashmere) and below (Z22 with hemp cover), both available at Couleur Locale.

At couleur locale they love to travel and during one of their trips through Kenia and Senegal they made some pictures of Bird nests, one of the reasons why they loved to add another new lamp by Nelson Sepulveda, called the 'Birds Nest' to the webshop. The origin of this Birds Nest lamp is the same nest of the little Weaver Bird they saw during their travels. Both real pieces of art.

first two pictures by Renee Frinking, styling AnoukB | bird nests in tree by Couleur locale | last picture by Paulina Arcklin via Couleur locale

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Ask a Community College Dean: How Accurate Is Community?

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For a certain set of TV viewers, the phrase “community college dean” immediately evokes an image of Community’s Jim Rash, probably dressed as Scarlett O’Hara, a giant bumblebee, or something equally ridiculous, given the many wardrobe larks the actor’s enthusiastic but wildly incompetent administrative character, Craig Pelton, has taken over the years. But outside of the fictional Greendale, Matt Reed may be the best-known community college dean. In 2004, Reed began channeling his professional frustrations into the anonymous blog Confessions of a Community College Dean, which became a popular destination for higher-education types. A little over a year ago, he outed himself as the vice-president for academic affairs at Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts and has now published his first book. Reed was also a “very faithful” Community watcher until “the gas-leak year,” a.k.a. the sitcom’s Dan Harmon–less fourth season. Although the real-life administrator does not “i-dean-tify” at all with Pelton, he agreed to speak with Vulture about Community, and discuss the parallels between Greendale and the modern community college experience.

What were your first impressions of Community, as someone who's in that world?
It has very little to do with my daily reality. Dean Pelton is not a role model, to put it delicately. What the show gets right is that the students really are diverse, and mostly older. It's not all 18-year-olds.

Is Community something that deans now make reference to? Does it ever come up in conversations with students or other administrators?
Almost never. It did for about the first month it was on, and since then, I would really have to work hard to come up with an instance of it coming up. As of the paintball episode, it became so far removed from community college life. [Laughs.] I mean, it was brilliant, but it had nothing to do with what we do.

The value of a community college education is the butt of a lot of jokes, on and off the show. What are the people who make the jokes not getting?
I think they're not getting the whole transfer function. People understand it as remedial and they understand it as workforce development, and those are both very real things. But there's also a real strong transfer function. Every single year we send graduates to Cornell and Amherst and Mount Holyoke and Smith — it's at the core of what we do. I think that often gets missed, because people think, Well, if it's easy to get into, it must be easy to get out of. It is easy to get into; that part's true. [Laughs.] I'm not even gonna pretend on that part. But, we send transfer students on to highfalutin places, and they do very well there.

Of the characters on Community, who's the one who most resembles your student body?
Most of them do, except for Pierce. They took some liberties with Pierce. [Laughs.] We don't get a lot of millionaires. It would be lovely if we did, but we don't. We do get the 40-year-old mom who decides to do a career shift [like Shirley].

One thing that we see often on Community is Dean Pelton's extreme cost-cutting methods, like serving army-surplus rations at a school event. What is the most extreme thing you've seen a dean do to cut corners?
I think I'd better plead the fifth on that one. Might be dangerous for me to answer that. I will say that most colleges now privatize their food service. So the whole idea of army rations for food? No, we have Subway. And that was a revenue decision made years ago, but also, the food got better. I guess the really obvious cost-cutting measure is so many adjunct [part-time] professors. That's largely about cost, and that's a real problem. [Note: Greendale had its own Subway franchise in season three.]

Have you ever worn costumes for school events?
I personally have not, unless you count graduation. On Halloween, some deans do. But it tends to be things like, they'll dress up as a Red Sox player.

If a dean started coming to their job dressed in Dean Pelton–style costumes, would there be administrative action?
No, I think the first thing would be to pull them aside and say, "What are you doing?" I don't think they'd go immediately to some sort of sanction. I think it would more be like concern. "Wow, Kim is dressed like a Dr. Seuss character — that's not like Kim. What's up with Kim?" And then someone would pull Kim aside and say, "What's going on? Did you lose a bet? Is this a cry for help?" But I have not seen anything like that.

Is there any joke or reference from Community that resonated with your actual life?
The one that made me laugh out loud in recognition was early on. It was, I think, a biology class, and Jeff's phone was set to vibrate, but it vibrated really, really loudly. Like, first it rang and he apologized and he set it to vibrate, and the vibrate was really loud, so he had to apologize again. That was about right. But none of the more silly stuff. It's a fun show but it's got nothing to do with what we do. It's like in that 8-bit episode: We're not 8-bit.

* Thanks to ever-vigilant commenters, we've removed the erroneous question about Greendale's rival school.


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How To Change CSC for Samsung Galaxy S3

The CSC code contains the info about software packages specific to a particular region, carrier branding and also APN settings for data connection. In this way, unless the PDA, PHONE and CSC codes do not match correctly, you will not be able to update your device over Samsung Kies or via OTA"

That's why you see "Your device does not support software upgrading via kies" message every time you open Kies software
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Instructions :
Backup your data first because changing CSC will wipe all your data
1 -Download "Samsung Galaxy S / S2 / S3 CSC" app (Link below)
2 -Open the app
If your device on "XXELLA" or later ,Select "Try with ROOT mode"
3 -Press "Change CSC"
4 -Select the CSC that you want ...
5 -Press "INSTALL"
-Your device will automatically reboot by itself
Notes :
~ This app work only on official Samsung FW for the galaxy S/Note/Tab Phones/Tablets devices! Custom ROM not supported
~ You can change CSC if your current FW is Multi CSC packages
~ If your device has been updated to "XXELLA" or later
your device must be rooted first (void the warranty) for you become able to change the "CSC"

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Flu outbreak reflects need to fight germs

I've always considered myself to be somewhat of a germaphobe. A few times a day, I make sure to wash my hands just to put my mind at ease.

When you think about all the places you visit in a day - stores, other peoples' offices and desks as well as multiple public areas - it's easy to cringe at the thought of all the germs you've picked up. But in our busy lives, some of us don't always think to wash our hands multiple times a day.

Because of the flu outbreak that has hit our world, I feel that washing your hands is more important than ever. Exchanging handshakes or touching the counter at your local convenience store is often all it takes to pick up germs that can make you sick.

When I went grocery shopping the other night, I was relieved when I walked through the entrance and saw that there were cleaning wipes that customers could use to wipe down their hands and shopping cart handles. As this flu outbreak moves around our area, perhaps it's necessary to have these types of hand wipes nearby. I use them to clean off my cell phone at the end of the day. It's been said that cell phones are among the objects that attract the most germs these days.

Again, it's not always easy to remember to wash our hands or cover our mouths when we cough. But, for the sake of those around us, such practices are extremely important right now.

Even while attending church recently, I've noticed clergy members recommending that people refrain from shaking hands during church services because of the flu outbreak. As a Catholic, I'll admit that it's tough for me to not shake the hand of the person next to me in church and say "peace be with you," but it's something that might have to hold off for a while.

I've also dreaded visiting the gas pump during the last week. The flu outbreak has forced me to think about how many people have touched the same gas handle to fill their vehicles up. So when I finished filling up my Malibu this week, I immediately went inside the gas station to wash my hands.

There have been reports of people dying from the flu outbreak, and I feel it's our duty to do everything we can to prevent the spreading of germs. Washing our hands, being careful of what we touch in public areas and covering our mouths when we cough are just a few ways we can help fight this outbreak.

Let's play our part by preventing the spread of germs.


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Indian Man Single-Handedly Plants a 1,360 Acre Forest

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A little over 30 years ago, a teenager named Jadav “Molai” Payeng began burying seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in northern India’s Assam region to grow a refuge for wildlife. Not long after, he decided to dedicate his life to this endeavor, so he moved to the site where he could work full-time creating a lush new forest ecosystem. Incredibly, the spot today hosts a sprawling 1,360 acre of jungle that Payeng planted single-handedly.

The Times of India recently caught up with Payeng in his remote forest lodge to learn more about how he came to leave such an indelible mark on the landscape:

It all started way back in 1979 when floods washed a large number of snakes ashore on the sandbar. One day, after the waters had receded, Payeng , only 16 then, found the place dotted with the dead reptiles. That was the turning point of his life.

“The snakes died in the heat, without any tree cover. I sat down and wept over their lifeless forms. It was carnage . I alerted the forest department and asked them if they could grow trees there. They said nothing would grow there. Instead, they asked me to try growing bamboo. It was painful, but I did it. There was nobody to help me. Nobody was interested,” says Payeng, now 47.

While it’s taken years for Payeng’s remarkable dedication to planting to receive some well-deserved recognition internationally, it didn’t take long for wildlife in the region to benefit from the manufactured forest. Demonstrating a keen understanding of ecological balance, Payeng even transplanted ants to his burgeoning ecosystem to bolster its natural harmony. Soon the shadeless sandbar was transformed into a self-functioning environment where a menagerie of creatures could dwell. The forest, called the Molai woods, now serves as a safe haven for numerous birds, deers, rhinos, tigers, and elephants — species increasingly at risk from habitat loss elsewhere.

Despite the conspicuousness of Payeng’s project, Forestry officials in the region first learned of this new forest in 2008 — and since then they’ve come to recognize his efforts as truly remarkable, but perhaps not enough.

“We’re amazed at Payeng,” says Assistant Conservator of Forests, Gunin Saikia. “He has been at it for 30 years. Had he been in any other country, he would have been made a hero.”

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    Proof of the power of a single person plus an idea and the wisdom to carry it out.
    The only other thing shown here was the amazing advantage that the “Authorities” stood back and Let him do it!
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Defeat Monsanto — Vote YES on Prop 37

Jack Adam Weber, Wakeup-World
Waking Times

On November 6th this year all of us that despise GMOs and Monsanto will be waiting with bated breath for the outcome of one single proposition that, if passed, could topple the GMO empire in the United States and trickle down to other countries around the world.

Proposition 37, the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act,

is a citizen generated ballot initiative for mandatory labeling of GMO products in California. If Proposition 37 is voted in, it will:

a) Require labeling on raw or processed food offered for sale to consumers if the food is made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways.

b) Prohibit labeling or advertising such food as “natural.”

c) Exempt from this requirement foods that are “certified organic; unintentionally produced with genetically engineered material; made from animals fed or injected with genetically engineered material but not genetically engineered themselves; processed with or containing only small amounts of genetically engineered ingredients; administered for treatment of medical conditions; sold for immediate consumption such as in a restaurant; or alcoholic beverages.”

Friends, this is the moment we have been waiting for. This is our most promising opportunity to achieve what we have all been working so hard for, for so long. If we don’t win this, we may never have the chance again.

According to the Organic Consumers Association, we are currently ahead 3 to 1 in California on this vote (passing Prop 37). But we can’t rest easy. Monsanto and other biotech companies know how big this is. Recent statistics show they have already contributed some 37 million dollars to television ads full of misinformation and lies as a last-ditch effort to defeat Proposition 37. They have succeeded with these tactics in the past in other states.

We cannot let them win this time.

Many states have tried to adopt GMO labeling legislation in the past and failed because the legislation was not citizen generated and government officials cowered under threats of a lawsuit by Monsanto. The most recent was Vermont. California is the eighth largest economy in the world, if it were considered a country. Passing this legislation will set a precedent for GMO labeling in other states. Many experts say that if Prop 37 passes in California, GMO labeling might as well be a national law. This is what we want.

Believe it or not, many Americans still don’t even know what a GMO is.

When foods are labeled as GMO, even Monsanto admits it is equivalent to putting a skull and crossbones on it. Sales will plummet; the good word on bad GMOs will spread like wildfire. This is what we want, and now is our chance to deliver the fatal blow to the GMO horror machine.

90% of Americans want GMO labeling. Why don’t we have it? You know the answer—power, greed, money, lies, and corruption at the expense of our health. Let’s all do our part now to make sure the majority of Californians know what’s up. We don’t want Monsanto and friends to have any chance at winning. Here is what you can do; please do this today so that we have as much time as possible for the word to spread:

1. Send an email to everyone you know in California and tell them to vote YES ON PROP 37.

2. Post this on your FB page, along with this link to this article:

  • California friends, please vote YES on Prop 37 this November for the mandatory labeling of GMOs in our food.
  • Please tell all your California email and Facebook contacts to vote “YES on Prop 37.

3) Please join GEM (GMO Eradication Movement).

It is safe to say that the future of food, our own health, and the health of our planet hinges on this vote, now less than one month away. If we don’t win this, we will have lost a crucial chance, and perhaps our last good chance for a while. If we do win this, we will have the biggest party ever!

Please do your part, today. WE need YOU.

Video: Right to Know: Vote Yes on Prop 37… Funny Short Ad!!!

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    and i will vote to defeat monsanto and all my friends and family that never vote, I will persuade them and thay are many many manyyyy!!

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    monsanto no tiene nada de santo su idolo es el; billete y el billete es la raiz de toda maldad ami me la pelaaaaan monsanto

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Frenchman Regis Laconi claimed his first-ever victory in the World Superbike Championship as he won the thrilling final leg of the 2001 season at Imola in Italy.

Laconi took the Axo Aprilia to the second race win at round 13 as he edged out the Infostrada Ducati of Spaniard Ruben Xaus and Japanese rider Tady Okada's Castrol Honda.

But Laconi became the ninth different rider to win a race this season after horrific crashes in both legs at Imola took three champions out of the action.

New champion Troy Bayliss crashed out of race one when he lost control of his Infostrada Ducati, which also took Laconi out of the action as they disputed second place.

Bayliss suffered a fractured collarbone in the crash but had already secured the title in the previous round.

Another spectacular crash in race two saw 1996 champion Troy Corser thrown from his Axo Aprilia. And as the Australian slid down the track, 2000 champion Colin Edwards was forced off line as he took evasive action on the Castrol Honda.

Corser and the American were both unhurt in the crash, which left Laconi clear in his battle with Xaus, later to be joined by Edwards' team-mate Okada.

Xaus took a dramatic race one win as Infostrada Ducati team-mate Troy Bayliss crashed out on the penultimate lap and broke his collarbone.

Bayliss and Xaus were involved in a race-long battle with Laconi. The Frenchman, Bayliss and Xaus all led the race but after seeing Xaus take over at the front in the closing stages Bayliss paid the price for one overtaking move too many on Laconi.

With Xaus, who had helped Bayliss secure the title by curbing his own efforts in earlier rounds, in front Bayliss drifted his bike onto the curb and it bucked wildly, pitching him off.

Laconi, who was having his best-ever ride in superbikes having failed so far to land a deal for next season, could not avoid Bayliss' fallen machine and was also thrown from his bike.

Xaus was left on his own in first, with Corser in second on the other Axo Aprilia. The 1996 champion had begun the race from pole position but a poor start had left him well down until he benefited from the Bayliss crash on the penultimate lap.

Edwards also made up places following the crash to take third on the Castrol Honda.

Britain's Neil Hodgson had seen his bid to take fourth from Corser in the standings wrecked early on when he missed his braking point and over-shot a corner, but the GSE Ducati rider recovered from last place to finish 10th.

Hodgson's team-mate James Toseland retired from the race suffering from flu and was too ill to take his place on the grid for race two.

But there was plenty to celebrate for Xaus as he took his second world superbike win and then dedicated his victory to a four-times champion who was at home with a broken leg after crashing in training for a one-off ride.


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TARIN KOT, Afghanistan -- Lt. Col. Wilfred Rietdijk, a 6-foot-7 blond Dutchman, took command of his military's reconstruction team in the southern Afghan district of Deh Rawood in September. Tranquil and welcoming, it seemed like the perfect place for the Netherlands' mission to help rebuild this country.

Intelligence reports indicated that the district was free of the Taliban, allowing the soldiers greater freedom of movement than elsewhere in Uruzgan province.

"We could go out on foot," Rietdijk said.

Reconstruction teams, escorted by a platoon of soldiers, fanned across the fertile countryside, building bridges over streams and canals, repairing irrigation systems, and distributing books and pens to local schools.

But the day after Rietdijk arrived in Afghanistan, his field officers reported hundreds of villagers suddenly fleeing parts of Deh Rawood. "Within a few weeks, everybody was gone," Rietdijk said. "We didn't understand why."

Now the Dutch say they realize what happened. Even as the soldiers believed they had won the support of the local population, the Taliban had secretly returned to reclaim Deh Rawood, home district of the group's revered leader, Mohammad Omar. It took only a few months for the Taliban to undermine nearly six years of intelligence work by U.S. forces and almost two years of goodwill efforts by Dutch soldiers.

In the year and a half since NATO took over southern Afghanistan from U.S. forces, its mission has changed dramatically. Dispatched to the region to maintain newly restored order and help local Afghans reconstruct their shattered communities, Dutch and other troops from the alliance now find themselves on the front lines of a renewed fight with a more cunning and aggressive Taliban.

More foreign soldiers and Afghan civilians died in Taliban-related fighting last year than in any year since U.S. and coalition forces ousted the extremist Islamic militia, which ruled most of the country, in 2001. Military officials here expect the coming year to be just as deadly, if not more so, as the Taliban becomes more adept militarily and more formidable in its deployment of suicide bombers and roadside explosives.

The Taliban's growing strength, which surprised Dutch forces here, helps explain why NATO members are reluctant to send more troops to an increasingly dangerous battlefield and have instead adopted a strategy based less on military force.

In his recent criticism of NATO's refusal to deploy more forces, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates accused the alliance of being ill-prepared for counterinsurgency operations. NATO countries, however, while not opposed to the war effort in Afghanistan, have always viewed the key to success as one that relied on giving Afghans new schools, health clinics and other elements of a sturdy civil society.

Taliban fighters began arriving in the heart of Deh Rawood -- a triangle-shaped district about seven miles long and seven miles wide -- late last summer. They came one by one, or in groups of twos and threes. They rented mud houses, befriended neighbors with gifts of cellphones and motorcycles and appealed to villagers on the grounds that the Taliban was fighting for the cause of Islam.

By autumn, for reasons even some villagers didn't understand, the Taliban turned on them, driving them out of their houses and ripping up the new NATO-built bridges. The Dutch have since pushed Taliban fighters out of the district, but have decided not to push them beyond the surrounding territory.

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- Associated Press - Monday, July 19, 2010

CARACAS, Venezuela | It’s President Hugo Chavez’s biggest economic battle cry, and it’s getting louder as Venezuela suffers a recession: “We’re going to bury Venezuelan capitalism.”

Yet creating a socialist economy is one of Mr. Chavez’s most elusive goals - a stark example of the disconnect between the president’s rhetoric and the reality on the ground.

In fact, the private sector still controls two-thirds of Venezuela’s economy - the same as when Mr. Chavez was elected in 1998, according to estimates by the Central Bank.

The reasons are political and practical: Mr. Chavez knows most Venezuelans recoil from the idea of Cuban-style state control, and his government is far from being capable of taking over and running the majority of the economy.

“Basically, he recognizes that in this day and age in a global economy … complete state control would just doom the country,” said Michael Shifter, an analyst at the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue.

So his strategy has been to selectively nationalize companies, set up state-run supermarkets and promote worker-managed businesses while trying to persuade Venezuelans to accept his vaguely defined brand of “21st Century Socialism.”

It is a hard sell for a country hooked on consumerism.

Shopping malls are filled with middle- and upper-class Venezuelans browsing through Lacoste shirts, Guess jeans and Montblanc pens. Sales have declined in the recession, but just about everyone who can afford it seems to own a BlackBerry, and Scotch whisky flows liberally in upscale restaurants at the equivalent of $110 a bottle.

Just as Mr. Chavez has ramped up his anti-capitalism tirades, he finds himself facing one of the biggest scandals of his tenure, involving a state-run food distributor. The company, PDVAL, left more than 2,700 shipping containers of rice, flour, milk, chicken, beef and other foods in a port rotting or beyond their expiration dates.

Its former chief and two others have been arrested, and some Venezuelans have begun to mockingly call the state company “Pudre-val,” using the Spanish word for rotting. One newspaper cartoon depicted Karl Marx wearing a gas mask to ward off the stench.

It’s a glaring example of the problems and delays that regularly plague Venezuela's government-run operations.

In a review of 15 state-run companies, economist Richard Obuchi found that all “were producing well below goals or production capacity.”

The vast majority - some of which were nationalized by Mr. Chavez - now rely on government subsidies, said Mr. Obuchi, a professor at the Institute of Higher Administration Studies, or IESA, in Caracas.

One of the expropriated companies, industrial valve maker Industria Venezolana Endogena de Valvulas SA, or Inveval, has been limited to refurbishing old oil-industry and water valves for years - instead of producing them as it once did.

Port workers in Puerto Cabello, where much of the rotten food was found, say six of the port’s eight cranes are out of order and the pace of importing cargo has slowed since the government took over management last year.

The country’s food imports have grown as the government has seized farmland, and periodic shortages of foods such as milk, beef and sugar have emerged in recent years.

People at a state-supported farming commune on the outskirts of Caracas say they have been waiting for a new well to water crops for more than a year since the first one went dry.

While production has declined, the public sector has swelled from about 1.4 million workers in 1999 to about 2.4 million in 2010, according to government figures.

“They don’t have the capacity to manage any company,” said Rafael Davila Guaricuco, a 34-year-old port crane operator. “They’re destroying everything.”

That is precisely the perception Mr. Chavez tries to fight in his speeches.

“The bourgeoisie is trying to convince Venezuelans that the path to socialism isn’t viable, that all businesses in socialism go bust. It’s the opposite,” Mr. Chavez said.

He pitches cut-rate prices at subsidized state-run supermarkets like a salesman and touts a successful state-run dairy factory, cooking-oil plant and the nationalized telephone company.

State-run markets are part of Mr. Chavez’s attempts to counter 31 percent inflation that has been battering the country alongside a recession that shrank the economy 5.8 percent in the first quarter. Venezuela is the only South American country with a shrinking economy, according to the latest figures available.

Tensions are growing between Mr. Chavez and business leaders, who blame his policies for prompting a sharp drop in investment.

Mr. Chavez’s finance and communication ministers didn’t respond to e-mails seeking comment about his efforts toward socialism.

Since 2007, Mr. Chavez has nationalized and expropriated companies in sectors he deems strategic, including the oil industry, cement, telecommunications, electricity, steel and food. But economists note that those businesses make up a relatively modest share of the economy.

And the balance between public and private sectors remains nearly identical to when Mr. Chavez took office, in part because the private sector grew faster than the government between 2003 and 2006, when the economy was booming.

Last year, the private sector accounted for 70 percent of gross domestic product, including 11 percent in taxes paid on products, according to Central Bank estimates. The public sector was 30 percent, a slightly smaller share than when Mr. Chavez was elected in 2008.

By international standards, Venezuela has long had a large public sector because it includes the oil industry. By comparison, the public sector in Sweden accounts for 25 percent of GDP and in United States less than 14 percent.

Mr. Chavez could have moved more quickly toward bigger state control while the economy was growing, but he had other priorities, including consolidating his political power after a 2002 coup that ousted him for two days.

He now has a favorable Congress and judges, but just as he turned to his socialist economic agenda, lower oil prices and the global economic crisis cut into the money he had to take over and run companies.

Polls repeatedly have shown Venezuelans oppose expropriations. Mr. Chavez is focused on maintaining his majority in September congressional elections and on his own re-election in 2012.

He repeatedly has said he would not use Cuba or the collapsed Soviet Union as an economic model, noting that even his mentor Fidel Castro has advised him: “Chavez, remember this isn’t 1960.”

Victor Alvarez, an economist and former mining minister for Mr. Chavez, said the aim is to build a new sort of “social economy” sector made up of worker-managed companies, farming cooperatives and other community-run businesses.

“The objective isn’t for the state to have the greatest weight in the economy, because that would be simply repeating the experience of 20th-century socialism,” said Mr. Alvarez, who has been studying the transition to socialism at a government-sponsored research institution.

A plan prepared in 2007 by the government projected that such “social economy” businesses and the public sector would together become larger than the private sector by 2013.

Mr. Chavez knows he is still very far from that goal.

But he says he won’t give up, using one of his favorite mantras: “We invent or we fail.”

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LONDON (AP) - Does “The Bodyguard” have the muscle to be a hit?

A stage musical based on the 1992 movie starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner has opened at London’s Adelphi Theatre to a mixed critical reception _ but universal praise for its big-voiced star.

Reviewers raved Thursday about Heather Headley’s performance as Rachel Marron, a superstar singer who falls for the former secret service agent (Lloyd Owen) assigned to protect her from a stalker.

Critic Mark Shenton in The Stage newspaper found Headley _ an American actor and singer who has won both a Tony and a Grammy Award _ “an utterly compelling star” who combines “an authentic glamour and blazingly soulful vocals.”

Evening Standard newspaper critic Henry Hitchings called her “mesmerizing,” while the Daily Telegraph’s Charles Spencer praised Headley’s “sassy stage presence” and declared her renditions of songs such as “I Will Always Love You” even better than those by Houston, who died in February aged 48.

As for the rest of the show, some critics found campy fun where others saw just another uninspired jukebox musical.

The Guardian’s Michael Billington damned “The Bodyguard” as “one more example of the necrophiliac musical morbidly attracted to a cinematic corpse.”

He said that although staged with “enormous technical efficiency” it was “a sterile attempt to recapture the feel of a not very good romantic thriller and turn the West End into a distant suburb of Hollywood.”

In contrast, Times of London reviewer Libby Purves found it “absurd and hugely enjoyable,” with terrible dialogue but “brilliantly clever” design and powerful performances.

She added that “the heart swells with British pride that this terrific all-American schlock is not a Broadway import,” but the work of a London team including director Thea Sharrock and designer Tim Hatley.

The Telegraph’s Spencer predicted it would be a hit.

“`The Bodyguard’ is dross with a gloss, and proof that if you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, you can sometimes come surprisingly close,” he wrote.

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Thursday, November 15, 2012
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As a hearing is underway in Washington into the widening scandal that led to the resignation of the CIA's top official, Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, minority leader of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, says that he is not troubled by any reported delay in formal notice to the White House and Congress by the FBI.

Ruppersberger said the FBI first started to investigate the alleged cyber harassment as a criminal investigation, and the agency normally does not report that to the White House or Congress.

Only when it became apparent that there were possible national security issues or the CIA did officials in the executive or legislative branches need to know, he said.

Ruppersberger heard from top FBI and CIA officials behind closed doors yesterday, nearly a week since the resignation of Gen. David Petraeus.

Hearings continue today.

Ruppersberger said he does not believe Gen. Petraeus covered up about the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Libya.

The Baltimore County Democrat called comments from the directors of the FBI and CIA yesterday "forthcoming."

He declined to comment on claims that Petraeus resigned over the Benghazi attack.

Ruppersberger also said he could not comment on reports that Paula Broadwell might have had access to classified information in her relationship with Petraeus.

Cong. Ruppersberger also will hear from Petraeus when he testifies tomorrow on Capital Hill.


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NEW YORK - Not all Americans tucked into turkey with their families on Thanksgiving. Some were out shopping, hitting sales ahead of the crowds expected Friday.

After a year of cautious spending and worry over an uncertain economy and high unemployment, more stores this year extended hours into Thanksgiving Day, a day when stores are traditionally closed.

Many grumble about the relentless march of commercialism creeping into the holiday. But at least some shoppers took the bait.

While crowds appeared relatively light compared with the weekend ahead, the extended hours drew in overseas visitors, those who have to work Friday and some who couldn't resist a good deal.

Sears, Kmart and some Sports Authority, Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic stores were among those open Thursday.

At an Old Navy in Lutherville, Md., Brenda Tarver, 65, a retired postal employee from Baltimore, was dragged out of the house by her daughters, but was finding good deals on clothing.

"They've got good prices and a variety of items. A lot of things are 50 percent off," she said.

Willy Gerelbest, 45, a counselor from Brooklyn, was shopping at Kmart in New York for sneakers on sale for $9.99.

"I saw the advertising and just wanted to check it out," he said. "Tomorrow I have to work."

David Friedman, president of marketing for Sears Holdings Corp. said the decision to open 7 a.m.-noon on Thanksgiving Day stemmed from positive response to a similar "early Black Friday" sale in November, as well as success with Kmart, which Sears also owns and has been open on Thanksgiving for 19 years.

Workers will earn holiday pay and still be home in time for a Thanksgiving meal, Friedman said.

At the Sears store at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., the largest U.S. shopping and entertainment complex, sales were fueled by a charity walk at the mall.

The walk - and a good sale - drew Helen Schultz, of White Bear Lake, Minn. She bought a 19-inch RCA LCD HDTV for $129.99, saving $70. But she said wouldn't have bought it Thursday if she hadn't been there for the charity walk.

"I don't think shopping should be done on Thanksgiving," Schultz said. "But they need to make money."

Toys R Us CEO Jerry Storch said the company decided to open at 10 p.m. Thanksgiving Day because reaction was so positive to the stores' midnight opening last year. Before that, stores opened at 5 a.m. on Friday. He expects brisk sales of hot toys like Santa-ma-jig, a green and red singing doll.

"Customers lined up at 8 p.m. on last year. They wanted us to open earlier," he said.

A similar promotional blitz greeted online shoppers Thursday, though the holiday isn't a bonanza there, either.

Last year, consumers spent about $300 million online on Thanksgiving, compared with $887 million on Cyber Monday, according to comScore.

According to Akamai Technologies, which tracks traffic to 270 retail sites, traffic peaked at 11 a.m. and was up about 14 percent from Wednesday.

Early data from Coremetrics, an IBM company, from early afternoon showed that online Thanksgiving Day sales were up about 10 percent over Thanksgiving a year ago. The average order size was down 18 percent from a year ago to $130.50, but that figures was getting bigger as the day went on.

John Thompson, senior vice president and general manager of Best Buy Inc.'s website, said this year the company reached out to its frequent online shoppers and gave them early access to deals.

"Thanksgiving Day is a day when we are seeing more and more consumers choose online as a place to begin their research and actually transact," he said.

With nearly 15 million unemployed in the U.S., some store workers were grateful for the holiday pay or extra time off that comes with working on a holiday.

Bryce Humerick, 21, of Towson, Md., a sales associate at the Old Navy store in Lutherville, said he was happy to be making time-and-a-half.

"I don't mind," he said. "My Thanksgiving dinner isn't until later."

Not everyone was so pleased.

In the hardware department of the Mall of America's Sears, John McDonough had volunteered to work, but he bemoaned the increasing commercialization of the holiday season in general.

"It's a crying shame," he said. "What has corporate America done to us?"

Sarah Brumfield in Lutherville, Md., and Steve Karnowski in Bloomington, Minn., contributed to this report.


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The federal Environmental Protection Agency's split decision on new water pollution rules gives both sides in the contentious debate something to cheer and jeer about.

The EPA late Friday said it was approving rules drafted by the state for about 15 percent of Florida's 100,000 miles of waterways while adopting its own rules for the rest.

Environmental groups that sued the agency favor the EPA rules and contend the state's alternative proposal is too weak to halt pollution that's causing toxic algae blooms that are choking the state's waters.

Agriculture, business and utility interests as well as Florida officials favor the state's proposal, arguing the EPA rules would be too expensive to implement.

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