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Former President George W. Bush drives his Ford F-150, which will soon be auctioned off for charity, at his Crawford ranch. (Freddy Ford/Special Contributor)
A pickup used by former President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch will be auctioned off next month to raise money for The Fisher House Foundation, an organization that helps service members and military families.
The truck ? to be sold by Barret-Jackson Auction Company on Jan. 19 in Scottsdale, Ariz. ? is a white 2009 Ford F-150 King Ranch 4 X 4 SuperCrew. Bush has used the truck, which has a 5.4-liter V8 engine with 310 horsepower and 11,200-pound towing capacity, since shortly after he left the White House in 2009.
Former President George W. Bush autographed the right airbag panel of his pickup. The truck is being auctioned off for charity. (Freddy Ford/Special Contributor)
The former president purchased the truck, replete with a King Ranch premium leather interior, new from Jim Click Ford in Tuscon, Ariz., according to a news release. And if there?s any doubt about whether the truck actually belonged to Bush, the former commander in chief autographed the right airbag panel.
?I haven?t driven on a street in many, many years, but I have been able to drive this truck on my ranch,? Bush said in a statement. ?I want to thank all those who are supporting the Fisher House. In supporting the Fisher House, you?re supporting our veterans. And in supporting our veterans, you?re helping America.?
The Fisher House, based in Maryland, provides ?free or low cost lodging to veterans and military families receiving treatment at military medical centers,? according to the foundation?s website. And all the proceeds from the auction of Bush?s truck will go toward the charity.
Bush ? who?s also helped launch a military service initiative at the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas ? teamed with Barrett-Jackson once already this year to raise money for the Fisher House. The former president autographed a Jay Leno-owned tractor that was auctioned off for $535,000.
Officials are hopeful that Bush?s pickup will bring in even more money for the foundation..
?Driven by a President and now benefiting veterans, this truck is an exceptional piece of Americana that would make any collector proud,? Steve Davis, president of Barrett-Jackson, said in a statement.
For more information about next month?s auction, check out barrett-jackson.com.
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The Green Party is proposing a future government invest $100 million as a way of kick-starting a second internet cable system to New Zealand.
In August, the Pacific Fibre board ended its operations, citing an inability to raise the $400 million required to fund the laying of the cable. Pacific Fibre launched in March 2010 and planned to build a 13,000km high-speed fibre-optic cable connecting New Zealand and Australia to California.
Its board included David Kirk, Michael Boustridge, Rod Drury, Sir Stephen Tindall, Sam Morgan and Mark Rushworth (chief executive). Green co-leader Russel Norman said yesterday Government investment in a second internet cable system, supported by smarter government procurement policies, would lead a step-change in the ICT economy, stimulating exports and creating green jobs.
''Our reliance on a single provider for our internet means higher prices, data caps and less innovation. This stifles the full economic potential of the ICT sector.''
In September 2011, the Australian telecommunication research company, Market Clarity, reported the cost of bandwidth to the United States from New Zealand was 5.8 times greater than the price paid by Australians.
Dr Norman said the for-profit joint venture would be subject to a competitive tender and require no new government spending. It would be achieved by giving new priorities to poor quality spending.
New government procurement guidelines were also suggested in the package.
Dr Norman said Government agencies would need to consider the wider economic benefits to New Zealand of supporting the local ICT industry when making purchasing decisions.
''The ICT sector is a key component of our vision for a smart green economy. The potential of the sector is huge, the jobs are well paid and continued growth of the sector won't come at the cost of our environment.''
The Green Party consulted widely with the ICT sector in the development of the discussion paper and was seeking public feedback which would be incorporated into the final policy due before the 2014 election.
Source: http://www.odt.co.nz/news/business/239566/greens-urge-100m-ict-spend
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In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., mass shooting that claimed 26 lives Friday, former Education Secretary Bill Bennett said Sunday that schools should possibly consider arming certain employees to prevent attacks.
"Let's remember the good things here: the heroism of those teachers and that principal," Bennett said on "Meet the Press." "And I'm not so sure -- and I'm sure I'll get mail for this -- I'm not so sure I wouldn't want one person in a school armed, ready for this kind of thing."
"The principal lunged at this guy," Bennett, who served as education secretary under Ronald Reagan, went on. "The school psychologist lunged at the guy. It has to be someone who's trained, responsible. But, my god, if you can prevent this kind of thing, I think you ought to."
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers union, advised against arming school employees.
"Schools have to be safe sanctuaries," she said. "We need to actually stop this routine view that just having more guns will actually make people safer. We are opposed to having someone who has access to guns."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) also said more guns weren't the answer.
"Is this the way we want America to go?" Feinstein said. "In other words, the rights of the few overcome the safety of the majority? I don't think so."
Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook School has launched a national debate on gun control, with Feinstein announcing Sunday that she will introduce a bill to ban assault weapons on the first day of the new Congress. The massacre has also renewed a discussion on school security, with Newtown now the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, behind Virginia Tech.
Feinstein laid out details of her bill on Sunday, saying, "it will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession, not retroactively, but prospectively," and also ban the sale of clips of more than ten bullets. "The purpose of this bill is to get ... weapons of war off the streets," she said.
A previous assault weapons ban was signed into law in 1994 but expired ten years later.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombs planted inside a car killed two Kurdish Peshmerga military recruits on Sunday in a disputed region of northern Iraq where Baghdad and autonomous Kurdistan are caught up in a military stand-off.
Baghdad's Arab-led central government and the Kurdistan region are embroiled in a long-running dispute over oil and land and both dispatched troops last month to the so-called "Disputed Territories" over which both claim jurisdiction.
No one claimed responsibility for Sunday's bombing in the ethnically mixed town of Jalawla, 115 km (70 miles), northeast of Baghdad, near a Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (PUK) office when Kurds were being recruited into Peshmerga forces.
"We were waiting to be recruited in the Peshmerga and then there was a big sound of an explosion and a shock wave," said Cerwan Mohammed Ameen, 26, one of 12 wounded by the blast.
"I woke up later to find myself in the hospital and I saw my friends near me," said Ameen, who had burn wounds on his legs.
The military build-up, the second major troop escalation inside Iraq since U.S. troops left a year ago, threatens to ignite tensions in the disputed areas and risks fracturing the country's fragile federal unity.
Kurdistan has run its own government and armed forces since 1991 and is generally more secure and stable than other parts of Iraq. The Kurdish region has clashed with Baghdad by signing oil agreements with companies like Exxon Mobil that the central government dismisses as illegal.
Violence in Iraq has ebbed since the sectarian violence a few years ago but bombings and shootings still occur daily.
(Reporting by Baghdad newsroom; Writing by Aseel Kami; Editing by Patrick Markey and Sonya Hepinstall)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blasts-kill-two-kurdish-army-recruits-iraqs-disputed-145152982.html
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12:55 PM: CBS Sports? Jon Heyman reports that the Mets rejected a package of Gose and Arencibia. The two sides have since agreed on d?Arnaud as the center piece in a deal for Dickey, but they are currently trying to finalize the last piece. Assuming they can agree on the other players in the deal, it?s now thought that Dickey is willing to talk about an extension.
11:42 AM: Hold the phone. Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports that Anthony Gose is NOT part of the trade talks for R.A. Dickey. However, Travis d?Arnaud is.
11:19 AM: Richard Griffin of the Toronto Star reports that if the Blue Jays are to include d?Arnaud and Gose, they need to have Dickey signed to a two-year extension and receive a top prospect from the Mets.
9:30 AM: Andy Martino of the New York Daily News confirms that the Blue Jays are willing to offer d?Arnaud and Gose in a trade for Dickey. We?re still awaiting word on the other players involved.
8:15 PM: CBS Sports? Jon Heyman hears that the Mets and Blue Jays have reached agreement on the players involved. No word yet on the full scope of the trade.
Meanwhile, Andy Martino of the New York Daily News reports that the Blue Jays have been looking at the medicals on Dickey since at least yesterday afternoon. It?s yet another indication that a deal is close to being finalized.
1:27 AM: Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports is reporting that the Mets and Blue Jays are ?on the verge? of a trade that would send Dickey to Toronto and d?Arnaud to New York. The teams are currently looking at medicals, so it sounds pretty close.
As Rosenthal mentioned earlier, Passan hears that more players are involved in the deal.
11:55 PM, Friday: Rosenthal and his colleague, Jon Paul Morosi, are reporting on FOXSports.com that Gose is likely to be included in the deal while the Mets are also expected to receive either d?Arnaud or Arencibia. As Rosenthal noted earlier, if d?Arnaud is included, the deal is likely to be expanded.
11:36 PM: Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com confirms that d?Arnaud is ?very much in play? in trade talks for Dickey. However, he notes that the deal would be bigger, with multiple pieces going both ways.
You may recall that the trade talks between the Marlins and Blue Jays began with Josh Johnson and morphed into something much larger. While it?s unlikely 12 players will be involved this time, it probably won?t be a simple swap.
10:30 PM: Andy Martino of the New York Daily News was told by ?a person with direct knowledge of the discussions? that during the Winter Meetings, d?Arnaud was a ?must have? for the Mets to do a trade with the Blue Jays. Toronto resisted at the time, but a person involved in the potential trade has expressed a ?gut feeling? that d?Arnaud may be involved. Again, nothing confirmed.
Contrary to earlier reports, Martino hears that Dickey is willing to sign a contract extension if he?s traded to the Blue Jays. This could have a major impact on the return package.
8:00 PM: Jon Heyman of CBS Sports hears that the Mets may be getting prospect catcher Travis d?Arnaud back from the Blue Jays, though he cautions that the information is unconfirmed. However, he was discussed ?heavily? in trade talks along with fellow catcher J.P. Arencibia.
6:07 PM: Anthony DiComo of MLB.com was told by ?two people involved? to not expect resolution with Dickey tonight. Things could always change, but it appears he?ll remain with the Mets for at least one more day.
5:45 PM: FOX Sports? Jon Paul Morosi reports that the Mets and Blue Jays have made progress on a possible trade involving Dickey. However, it?s not a done deal yet.
Also, updating a previous story by Joel Sherman, Andy Martino of the New York Daily News writes that reports suggesting Dickey wouldn?t sign a contract extension with the Jays are false.
4:29 PM: Jon Heyman is hearing that the players coming back from Toronto ? assuming a deal can get done ? are?J.P. Arencibia and Anthony Gose, though that may just be speculation, as those two have been talked about in trades involving the Blue Jays for some time. And let?s keep in mind that this is all fluid and depend on Dickey being willing to sign an extension. We think. As we learned with the Shin-Soo Choo trade earlier this week, early reports may only be capturing part of the story.
Rosenthal says the Rangers are OUT on Dickey.
4:05 PM: Joel Sherman reports that the Mets and Blue Jays are far along in trade talks for Dickey ? and a deal could be close ? but that things are being held up by Dickey?s refusal to agree to sign a contract extension with Toronto. Now, he needn?t sign off on the trade ? he has no no-trade protection ? but obviously the Jays would be far more willing to give up real value to the Mets if they can lock up Dickey for what will, presumably, be three years instead of just 2013.
Updates, obviously, as warranted.
3:30 PM: In case you didn?t think that the Mets were serious about trading R.A. Dickey:
The Rangers have been talked about as a possible trade partner with the Mets for a couple of days. The Jays and Orioles, not so much.
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Puget Sound Energy residential customers in need of a contractor for energy efficiency and home improvement projects can now generate their own contractor referrals online at?PSE.com/CAN through the energy company?s Contractor Alliance Network.
The online self-referral tool matches customers with local contractors who specialize in the following services: heating and cooling, solar, water heating, natural gas conversion, weatherization, windows, home performance evaluation, roofing and generators.
Once a customer submits project information, PSE automatically links independent pre-qualified Contractor Alliance Network (formerly the Contractor Referral Service) members who specialize in the requested service. Member contractors then contact customers directly to expedite scheduling an appointment to provide the customer with an estimate for their project.
PSE developed the free online service to take the time and hassle out of finding the right contractor. Each member contractor must adhere to a comprehensive pre-screening and application process, and once accepted, each contractor is continuously evaluated by PSE to ensure the highest quality of work and customer service are provided to our valued customers.
Currently, there are more than 100 member contractors covering PSE?s service area. All Contractor Alliance Network members are: licensed, bonded and insured; knowledgeable about current energy codes, high efficiency equipment and product applications; and continually trained and educated to keep up with the latest technology.
PSE?s Contractor Alliance Network is available to residential customers living in a single-family property or attached housing with four or less individually metered units. Visit?PSE.com/CAN to create a self-referral.
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By STEVEN WINE
AP Sports Writer
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updated 4:02 p.m. ET Dec. 16, 2012
MIAMI (AP) - Ryan Tannehill took some hits when he came to the sideline following the Miami Dolphins' final score.
The rookie weaved along the bench playfully jostled by a nudge to the ribs, slaps on the helmet and whacks on the back. It was standard stuff as NFL celebrations go, but unusual for Tannehill and Miami's offense.
The Dolphins snapped their scoring slump with a ball-control attack, while the defense made three stops on fourth down and benefited from an odd penalty to help beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-3.
"It feels good to go out and execute the game plan, have some fun, have some long sustained drives and convert third downs," Tannehill said. "It was a lot of fun."
While Tannehill had a season-high passer rating of 123.2, counterpart Chad Henne failed to reach the end zone playing in Miami for the first time since he departed as a Dolphins bust last offseason.
Tannehill went 22 for 28 for 220 yards and two scores with no interceptions, and he ran eight times for 52 yards. Reggie Bush ran for 104 yards, including a 53-yarder, while Dan Carpenter kicked field goals of 53, 30 and 31 yards.
Miami (6-8), ranked near the bottom of the league in points and yards, had 26 first downs and won for only the second time in the past seven games.
"These are the types of games we need to have more of," Bush said. "We dominated a team we were supposed to beat."
The Jaguars (2-12) only helped their chances of getting the No. 1 draft pick next April.
"We were not as disciplined as we have been - or we will be," coach Mike Mularkey said. "Every time we take a step forward, we take two steps back. I take total blame for that."
Henne threw for 221 yards with no turnovers, but Jacksonville had the ball for just 14 minutes in the final three periods. The Dolphins' first four possessions of the second half resulted in clock-eating drives of 76, 60, 64 and 85 yards.
With the score tied, an illegal-substitution penalty cost Jacksonville a touchdown in the second quarter. Henne threw a 20-yard scoring pass to Justin Blackmon, but the play was negated because Guy Whimper had entered the game as a third tackle - as he had done five times earlier - without reporting as an eligible receiver.
Whimper said he did report, but the official apparently didn't understand him.
"He reported to the offense a hundred times this year, and 400 times in practice," Mularkey said. "Today, for some reason, I was told he didn't report. He said he reported, but the official has to confirm it."
Instead of the score, the Jaguars retreated to their 25 and eventually lost possession when Henne was stopped for no gain on a fourth-and-1 sneak.
Jacksonville had another touchdown taken off the board in the final two minutes. Cecil Shorts' 4-yard scoring reception was instead ruled incomplete when a replay review determined he failed to come down in bounds.
On the next play, Henne threw incomplete on fourth down.
The stadium was only half full, a reflection of the matchup between two teams out of the playoff race, and just a few thousand fans remained to applaud the home team as the clock ran out.
The Dolphins' first touchdown came when they converted three third downs in a 14-play, 89-yard drive that ended with Tannehill's 4-yard scoring pass to fullback Jorvorski Lane. Tannehill went 6 for 6 on the drive.
Leading 10-3, the Dolphins tried a fake field goal at the Jacksonville 5, but holder Brandon Fields' pass fell incomplete. Miami quickly forced a punt, and Bush's long run set up another field-goal situation. This time, Carpenter kicked a 30-yarder.
Karlos Dansby stopped Henne on fourth down at the Miami 11, and Jason Trusnik tackled Montell Owens for no gain on fourth and 1 at the 15 early in the fourth quarter.
The Dolphins sewed up the victory with an 85-yard drive that took nine minutes of the fourth quarter and ended with Tannehill's 2-yard touchdown pass to Anthony Fasano.
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More newsGetty Images??The Green Bay Packers clinched their second straight NFC North title with a 21-13 victory over the archrival Chicago Bears on Sunday.
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The most important documentary of the year.
"Chasing Ice" is a grand adventure, a visual amazement and a powerful warning.
If you're looking for eye-popping evidence that the world's glaciers are melting, don't miss the small-scale but spectacular documentary, Chasing Ice.
The rapid disappearance of ice mountains, filmed over a period of years, is compressed through time-lapse technology into minutes and seconds. The speeded-up effect is harrowing and also, disturbingly, eerily beautiful.
The movie might have given us a bit less of Balog and a bit more of the startling sequences he produced.
Though the filmmaker's point of view on the matter seems quite clear, Orlowski does smartly acknowledge counterarguments against climate change without dwelling on them.
A few scientists pop their heads in here, a few charts are deployed, but Chasing Ice is powered primarily by the imagery, stark, irrefutable evidence that the planet is warming, not in one or two isolated places but everywhere.
"Chasing Ice" is a beautiful film to watch, especially on the big screen. But the documentary's visual pleasures come with a heavy dose of guilt.
It's sobering stuff but the film's impact is somewhat diminished by Orlowski's reverential profile of Balog, who continues to crusade despite the toll his endeavours have taken on his body.
The documentary feels a little slight but the images speak for themselves ...
Is this about the hazards of global warming or the awesomeness of James Balog? Not entirely sure...
If any film can convert the climate-change sceptics, Chasing Ice would be it: here, seeing really is believing.
While more detailed scientific analysis and greater discussion of impacts would have been welcome, the film's visual rhetoric is solid.
National Geographic photographer James Balog illustrates climate change with time-lapsed records of glacial retreat.
A project of heroic, Herzogian endeavour. Mad, you might say. But probably not as mad as what the rest of us are doing about climate change: namely almost nothing.
Utterly engaging in its demonstration of the planet's shocking climate change and is thoroughly absorbing to watch.
Chasing Ice is a uniquely visual adventure with a chilling message warmed by Balog's humanity.
Still an eco-sceptic? Clap your eyes on this lot. Awe-inspiring, terrifying, transcendently beautiful, and absolutely weighted with significance for the future of the planet.
This is a well made Documentary that becomes very involving because it's just as much about Balog's journey as it is about global warming.
Makes a convincing case that the story of climate change is best told by pictures, not words.
Despite its dire message about rising carbon dioxide levels polluting the Earth, Chasing Ice is a beautiful film, with stunning visits to snowy realms with deep blue water.
Pictures, of course, say more than a thousand flowcharts or Al Gore's PowerPoint presentations. The images here are as glorious as those in any nature documentary ever made.
"Chasing Ice" is that movie that every environmentally conscious person has been waiting for, if only to show their right-wing relatives who parrot the standard oil-industry-funded line that "the science is still uncertain."
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Pablo Larrain?s No, Chile?s Foreign Oscar hopeful starring Gael Garcia Bernal, continues to win praise throughout the world?
The 36-year-old Chilean filmmaker?s latest film, which won the Art Cinema Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, has claimed the 1st Choral Award for Fiction Films at the Havana New Latin American Film Festival.
Based on a true story, No?stars Bernalas a brash young Chilean advertising executive who spearheads a campaign that helps topple Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet?s regime
Also from Chile, Andres Wood?s Violeta Went to Heaven?came in second in the same competition, and also won Best Art Direction, while the 3rd Choral Award went to Claudio Assis? Rat Fever from Brazil.
The Jury granted a Special Prize for Carlos Sorin?s Fishing Days (Argentina) and a Special Mention for Brazil/France co-production Once Upon a Time Was I, Ver?nica, directed by Marcelo Gomes
The fest?s First Film competition was topped by William Vega?s La Sirga (Colombia), followed by Alejandro Fadel?s The Wild Ones (Argentina) which also picked the Choral Award for Best Artistic Contribution. The 3rd Choral prize went to Fernando Guzzoni?s Dog Flesh (Chile)
Local documentary El evangelio?seg?n Ramiro by Juan Carlos Calahorra picked the 1st Choral in the Documentary competition, while Maria Veronica Ramirez?s Anima Buenos Aires topped the Animation category.
The FIPRESCI Award went to Nicolas Pereda?s Greatest Hits (Mexico)
Here?s the complete list of awards:
FICTION
Short Films
Jury Mention: Detras?del espejo ? Julio O. Ramos (Peru)
Choral Award to Best Short Film: Los anfitriones?- Miguel Angel Moulet (Cuba)
Feature Length Films
First Choral Award: No ? Pablo Larrain (Chile, USA, Mexico)
Second Choral Award: Violeta Went to Heaven ? Andres Wood (Chile, Argentina, Brazil)
Third Choral Award: Rat Fever ? Claudio Assis (Brazil)
Special Jury Prize: Fishing Days ? Carlos Sorin (Argentina)
Jury Mention: Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica ? Marcelo Gomes (Brazil, France)
Best Direction: Michel Franco ? After Lucia (Mexico)
Best Script: Eduardo del Llano and Daniel D?az?Torres ? La pel?cula de Ana (Cuba)
Best Actor: Andres Crespo ? Pescador (Ecuador, Colombia)
Best Actress: Laura de la Uz?- La pel?cula de Ana (Cuba)
Best Editing: Pablo Trapero?and Nacho Ruiz Capillas ? White Elephant (Argentina, Spain, France)
Best Original Score: Jacobo Lieberman, Leonardo Heiblum ? The Delay (Uruguay, Mexico)
Best Soundtrack: Gilles Laurent ? Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico, France, Germany, The Netherlands)
Best Cinematography: Alexis Zabe?- Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico, France, Germany, The Netherlands)
Best Art Direction: Rodrigo Bazaes ? Violeta Went to Heaven (Chile, Argentina, Brazil)
Best Film about Latin America by a non-Latin American filmmaker: Here and There ? Antonio Mendez Esparza (USA, Spain, Mexico)
FIRST FILMS
First Choral Award: La Sirga ? William Vega (Colombia, France, Mexico)
Second Choral Award: The Wild Ones ? Alejandro Fadel (Argentina)
Third Choral Award: Dog Flesh ? Fernando Guzzoni (Chile)
Mention: El limpiador ? Adrian Saba (Peru)
Choral Award to the Best Artistic Contribution: The Wild Ones ? Alejandro Fadel (Argentina)
ANIMATED FILMS
First Choral Award: Anima Buenos Aires ? Maria Veronica Ramirez (Argentina)
Second Choral Award: Luminaris?- Juan Pablo Zaramella (Argentina)
Third Choral Award: Fat Bald Short Man ? Carlos Osuna (Colombia, France)
Special Jury Prize: Selkirk, el verdadero?Robinson Crusoe ? Walter Tournier (Uruguay, Argentina, Chile)
Mention: La luna en el jardin?- Adanoe?Lima and Yemel? Cruz (Cuba)
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
First Choral Award: El evangelio?segun?Ramiro ? Juan Carlos Calahorra (Cuba)
Second Choral Award: Con mi corazon?en Yambo?- Fernanda Restrepo (Ecuador)
Third Choral Award: Cuentos?sobre?el futuro?- Patricia Bustos (Chile)
Best Film about Latin America by a non-Latin American filmmaker: Escenas?previas?- Aleksandra?Maciuszek (Cuba, Poland)
Special Prize: De agua dulce ? Damian Sainz (Cuba)
Tags: Alejandro Fadel, Andr?s Wood, Anima Buenos Aires, Art Cinema Award, Cannes Film Festival, Carlos Sorin, Claudio Assis, Dog Flesh, El evangelio seg?n Ramiro, Fernando Guzzoni, Fishing Days, Gael Garc?a Bernal, Greatest Hits, Havana New Latin American Film Festival, Juan Carlos Calahorra, La Sirga, Marcelo Gomes, Maria Veronica Ramirez, Nicolas Pereda, No, Once Upon a Time Was I Ver?nica, Pablo Larra?n, Rat Fever, The Wild Ones, Violeta Went To Heaven, William Vega
Verizon seems to be late to the update party, but Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will be pushed out to its version of the Samsung Galaxy S III "in phases" as an OTA update beginning December 14th. We knew it was coming in the very near future, but it's nice to have a specific date to look forward to. Don't be alarmed if the update doesn't show up right away; as we've seen with plenty of other OTA rollouts, it may take a while for it to reach every GS3 user on the network. Along with Jelly Bean, you can also expect to see support for global data roaming, mobile payments through Isis, some extra preloaded applications and miscellaneous enhancements across the board. Here's the interesting tidbit: Verizon's support page claims that the new upgrade is only 62MB in total size. This seems to be quite hard to believe, given the fact that Jelly Bean on other Galaxy S III variants has ranged in size from 275MB (Sprint) to 740MB (AT&T), but perhaps Big Red cooked up a little extra magic to make the long wait even more worthwhile.
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Source: Verizon
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/13/verizon-samsung-galaxy-s3-jelly-bean/
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NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) ? A gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school Friday in a shooting that left 27 people dead, including 18 children, an official said.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way.
The shooting appeared to be the nation's second-deadliest school shooting, exceeded only by the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007.
Parents flooded to Sandy Hook Elementary School, about 60 miles northeast of New York City, looking for their children in the wake of the shooting. Students were told to close their eyes by police as they were led from the building.
A photo taken by The Newtown Bee newspaper showed a group of young students ? some crying, others looking visibly frightened ? being escorted by adults through a parking lot in a line, hands on each other's shoulders.
Students and staff were among the victims, state police Lt. Paul Vance said a brief news conference. He also said the gunman was dead inside the school, but he refused to say how people were killed.
Another official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way, said the gunman apparently had two guns.
A law enforcement official in Washington said the attacker was a 20-year-old man with ties to the school and that one of the guns was a .223-caliber rifle. The official also said that police were searching a location in New Jersey in connection with the shootings. That official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the source was not authorized to speak on the record about the developing criminal investigation.
Stephen Delgiadice said his 8-year-old daughter heard two big bangs and teachers told her to get in a corner. His daughter was fine.
"It's alarming, especially in Newtown, Connecticut, which we always thought was the safest place in America," he said.
A dispatcher at the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps said a teacher had been shot in the foot and taken to Danbury Hospital. Andrea Rynn, a spokeswoman at the hospital, said it had three patients from the school but she did not have information on the extent or nature of their injuries.
Mergim Bajraliu, 17, heard the gunshots echo from his home and raced to check on his 9-year-old sister at the school. He said his sister, who was fine, heard a scream come over the intercom at one point. He said teachers were shaking and crying as they came out of the building.
"Everyone was just traumatized," he said.
Richard Wilford's 7-year-old son, Richie, is in the second grade at the school. His son told him that he heard a noise that "sounded like what he described as cans falling."
The boy told him a teacher went out to check on the noise, came back in, locked the door and had the kids huddle up in the corner until police arrived.
"There's no words," Wilford said. "It's sheer terror, a sense of imminent danger, to get to your child and be there to protect him."
The White House said Barack Obama was notified of the shooting and his spokesman Jay Carney said the president had "enormous sympathy for families that are affected."
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Associated Press writers Jim Fitzgerald in Newtown, Pete Yost in Washington, D.C., and Michael Melia in Hartford contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/official-27-dead-conn-school-shooting-175512619.html
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Hugh Jackman is on a roll! The hunky Australian star was nominated for a Golden Globe and he just received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! Jackman recently premiered his latest film, “Les Miserables”, and there is buzz he may be getting an Oscar for his portrayal of Jean Valjean. Hugh Jackman ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 ended its six-day winning streak on Thursday, retreating as worries intensified that Washington's "fiscal cliff" negotiations were dragging on with little progress.
Anxiety about the drawn-out talks between Democrats and Republicans was enough to offset encouraging data on retail sales and jobless claims on Thursday.
There is concern that tax hikes and spending cuts, set to begin in 2013 if a deal is not reached in Washington, will hurt growth. The stock market has taken the heated rhetoric in stride of late, but downbeat remarks from Republican House Speaker John Boehner prompted some selling on Thursday.
Boehner accused President Barack Obama of "slow walking" the economy off the fiscal cliff. He is scheduled to meet with Obama later on Thursday.
"There is no conviction here and Boehner's comments - as harsh as they were - were realistic," said Jason Weisberg, managing director at Seaport Securities Corp., in New York.
"The fiscal cliff is already built in. That being said, people don't like to be told the apocalypse is coming over and over and over again. The real players in this market have already closed their books."
After coming close to a 1 percent decline for the day, the S&P 500 pared losses late in the session. The index had posted six straight sessions of gains through Wednesday's close, and at one point on Wednesday, the S&P touched its highest intraday level since October 22.
While the Federal Reserve's announcement on Wednesday of a new round of economic stimulus bolstered stocks, Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments that monetary policy would not be sufficient to offset the impact of the fiscal cliff weighed on sentiment.
Apple's stock , down 1.7 percent at $529.69, was among the biggest drags on the Nasdaq in Thursday's session, while International Business Machines
Among the day's biggest gainers, Best Buy Co
The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 74.73 points, or 0.56 percent, to 13,170.72 at the close. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 9.03 points, or 0.63 percent, to 1,419.45. The Nasdaq Composite Index slid 21.65 points, or 0.72 percent, to end at 2,992.16.
Energy and information technology sectors were the S&P 500's weakest performers, with the S&P energy index down 0.9 percent.
In the energy sector, shares of Nabors Industries Ltd
The day's economic data sent some positive signals on the economy, with weekly claims for jobless benefits dropping to nearly the lowest level since February 2008, and retail sales rising in November after an October decline, improving the picture for consumer spending.
In Europe, European Union finance ministers reached agreement to make the European Central Bank the bloc's top banking supervisor, which could boost confidence in EU leaders' ability to confront the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis.
After the bell, shares of Adobe Systems Inc rose 5.8 percent to $37.60 after the maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software posted a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit. The stock ended the regular session at $35.53, down 1.2 percent.
Volume was roughly 6.16 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYSE MKT, compared with the year-to-date average daily closing volume of 6.52 billion.
Decliners outnumbered advancers on the NYSE by a ratio of about 7 to 3, and on the Nasdaq, more than five stocks fell for every three that rose.
(Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch; Additional reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Kenneth Barry and Jan Paschal)
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Wounded veterans and their spouses who want to have children could get the government to pay for treatments such as in vitro fertilization under legislation beginning to move through Congress in the waning days of the session.
By voice vote, the Senate passed a bill Thursday to update the Veterans Affairs Department's medical coverage for one of the signature wounds of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: trauma to a soldier's reproductive organs.
Nearly 2,000 service members suffered such wounds between 2003 and 2011. But when wounded veterans went to the VA for medical help in starting a family, they were told the VA doesn't provide that kind of care.
A similar bill is pending in the House. Supporters said the Senate's action increases its chances of becoming law before Congress adjourns.
The chief sponsor, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said she has heard from veterans whose marriages have dissolved because of the stress of infertility, in combination with the stresses of readjusting to civilian life after severe injury.
"Any service member who sustains this type of serious injury deserves so much more," she said.
With both chambers deadlocked on budget issues, even Murray was surprised the bill didn't raise a single objection in the Senate. Any objection would have quashed it for the year.
As Murray spoke, Tracy Keil of Parker, Colo., watched from the gallery. Her husband, Staff Sgt. Matt Keil, was paralyzed from the chest down after he was shot in the neck in Iraq. The Keils were able to afford the nearly $32,000 it cost for in vitro fertilization and now have 2-year-old twins, Matthew and Faith. But knowing that many families cannot afford that on their own, the Keils have been lobbying Congress to expand the VA's coverage.
"It made us feel like we were back on track, that our marriage was where we wanted it to be and that our family was where we wanted it to be," she said of having children. "Even though we had the injury disrupt the timeline of our expectations, it's everything we've always dreamed of and it makes Matt feel whole again."
"We wake up to the joys of our kids every day and I can't picture my life without them now," Matt Keil added in a telephone interview.
The legislation is estimated to cost $568 million over five years, to be covered through savings from scaling down military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Rep. Jeff Miller, the Republican chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, said he's anxious to pass the bill this Congress, but he has concerns that the legislation would take money away from troops still fighting in Afghanistan to pay for the new benefit, .
Matt McAlvanah, a spokesman for Murray, said any notion that the funding for fertility treatments would impact troops in the field is false.
Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., is spearheading efforts in the House to get the legislation passed.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/senate-moves-bill-covering-fertility-care-vets-235245890.html
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Los Angeles Lakers center Jordan Hill,right, gets his hand on the ball as New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony, left, goes up for a layup in the first half of their NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Los Angeles Lakers center Jordan Hill,right, gets his hand on the ball as New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony, left, goes up for a layup in the first half of their NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony (7) protects the ball as he drives past Los Angeles Lakers forward Devin Ebanks (3) in the first half of their NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Los Angeles Lakers forward Metta World Peace (15) embraces Los Angeles Lakers head coach Mike D'Antoni in the first half of their NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. It was D'Antoni's first time back in Madison Square Garden since he resigned. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
New York Knicks guard Jason Kidd (5) defends Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant (24) in the first half of their NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Sensing a fellow shooter had become gun shy, Kobe Bryant had a message for Carmelo Anthony last summer.
Ignore the critics, he said. Stop worrying about fitting in and get back to a scorer's mentality.
"You have to do what you do best," Bryant told him.
That's what Anthony did in a spectacular first quarter Thursday night, and by the time he was done Bryant and the struggling Los Angeles Lakers had no hope of ending their slump.
Anthony scored 22 of his 30 points in the period, and the New York Knicks held on after he departed with a sprained left ankle to beat the Lakers 116-107 in coach Mike D'Antoni's return to Madison Square Garden.
"I was zoned in. I was locked in," Anthony said. "Tonight was one of those games where I had that feeling. I wanted to get it going and I had that feeling going early in the game. My teammates were feeding off of that."
Firing in 3-pointers and moving the ball to open shooters, things they often struggled to do under D'Antoni, the Knicks won for the eighth time in nine games and improved to 9-0 at home for the first time since the 1992-93 season.
"I wanted to beat them. I wanted to beat the Lakers, especially protecting our home court," Anthony said. "It had nothing to do with Mike. I wanted to protect our home court and win the basketball game."
Meanwhile, things are starting as poorly for D'Antoni in Los Angeles as they ended in New York. The Lakers, still without Steve Nash and Pau Gasol, were never really in the game while losing their fourth straight and falling to 9-14.
Nash has started running and the Lakers know things will get better once he's back, but that doesn't help right now.
"At this point I wish we had the Washington Generals on our schedule," Bryant said.
They're playing Washington on Friday, but it's the Wizards.
Raymond Felton scored 19 points, and Tyson Chandler and J.R. Smith added 18 apiece for the Knicks.
Bryant had 31 points and 10 rebounds for the Lakers. Metta World Peace finished with 23 points and Dwight Howard had 20.
The Lakers did cut what was a 26-point deficit to 113-107 when World Peace converted a three-point play with 1:27 remaining, but the Knicks took more than a minute off the clock while twice grabbing offensive rebounds on the next possession before Chandler made a free throw with 18 seconds to play.
Anthony, playing at an MVP level after he struggled last season under D'Antoni, made his first three 3-pointers, nearly reaching his NBA-leading average of 9.7 points per first quarter before 2 ? minutes were even gone. Bryant tried to keep pace but the Knicks couldn't be stopped, making 17 of 23 shots (74 percent) and building a 41-27 advantage.
"He's fun to watch when he's playing like that," Chandler said. "He's pretty much unstoppable when he's playing that way."
Anthony finished two shy of the franchise record for points in a quarter, held by Willis Reed and Allan Houston. And he was easily on pace to pass Bryant's building record of 61 points, though he didn't even get halfway there after playing just 5 minutes in the second half.
Anthony said his ankle felt sore and he didn't know if he would be available Saturday against Cleveland.
When it was over, D'Antoni shook hands with Mike Woodson, who replaced him on the New York bench, and a couple of Knicks players before walking off after another rocky night with the Lakers.
He's often been considered an offensive genius whose teams are poor defensively, but right now the Lakers don't really look good on either end.
The Knicks made 22 of their first 30 shots overall and started 8 of 10 behind the arc. Even when the Lakers tried to defend, it didn't work. Howard batted the ball away from Rasheed Wallace in the post, so Wallace simply retrieved it in the corner, buried a 3-pointer, and the lead ballooned to 58-32.
"We are having a re-occurring theme that the first quarter is just not good, and then the first half is not great and in the second half we seem to turn it on, and we need to solve that problem real quick," D'Antoni said.
It was 68-49 at the break, but the Knicks lost some of their flow when Anthony went to the locker room with 6:41 left in the third quarter and a 17-point lead. He had landed awkwardly after being fouled by Howard on a drive to the basket, and though he was able to stay in to shoot the free throws, Anthony was removed at the next whistle.
D'Antoni was booed loudly during pregame introductions, Knicks fans who appreciated the rugged defensive teams of the 1990s never truly embracing his offense-first style. D'Antoni said he enjoyed his time in New York and said earlier Thursday the Knicks, who lead the NBA in 3-pointers per game and fewest turnovers, were playing the way he'd like his team to play.
Sure enough, they made 12 3-pointers, right at their average, and turned it over just six times.
D'Antoni couldn't get the Knicks' offense going last season and tensions between he and Anthony seemed strained, though both denied it, when he resigned in March with the team threatening to fall out of the playoff race. The Knicks went 18-6 down the stretch under Woodson, who said he has kept aspects of D'Antoni's system while adding in some wrinkles of his own.
The result is a team that has shot to the top of the Eastern Conference with a 17-5 record.
NOTES: The Knicks opened a six-game homestand. They don't play on the road again until they visit the Lakers on Christmas. ... New York has won the last two meetings after dropping nine in a row. ... D'Antoni said he spent his off day in town visiting with his wife and son, who remained in New York after he took the Lakers job last month.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Buddhist monks took to the streets of several cities and towns in Myanmar on Wednesday to protest against police violence during a crackdown on demonstrators at a copper mine last month.
At least 50 people were injured on November 29, including more than 20 monks who suffered serious burns, when riot police raided camps set up round the Monywa copper mine by villagers protesting against their eviction to make way for a $1 billion expansion of the project.
On Wednesday, about 100 monks marched peacefully in the commercial capital, Yangon, from the city's main landmark, the Shwedagon Pagoda, towards the city centre amidst heavy police security.
Hundreds also demonstrated in the second city, Mandalay, and in Pakokku, a town 370 miles northwest of Yangon, which was a focal point of monk-led pro-democracy protests in 2007 under the country's former military regime.
Monks and activists have called for an apology from the authorities and for legal action against those responsible for the crackdown.
Activists have said the burns suffered by protesters were caused by incendiary devices. A government spokesman said at the time devices that produce smoke, as well as water cannon and teargas, had been used to disperse the protesters.
Rights groups have called for a speedy, impartial investigation and those demands have already been met, to some extent.
An official inquiry into the violence and the copper mine expansion is under way, led by Nobel Peace laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has said a compromise would be needed between villagers and the operators of the mine.
Myanmar's religious affairs minister, Myint Maung, made a formal apology to 29 senior monks last Friday for injuries suffered by monks and others.
The authorities say people detained during the protests have been freed on bail.
The Monywa copper mine in Myanmar's rugged northwest Sagaing region has been the scene of protests since late August, testing the limits of political liberalization under reformist President Thein Sein.
(Reporting by Aung Hla Tun; Writing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Alan Raybould and Robert Birsel)
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - After weeks of anticipation bordering on media frenzy, Pope Benedict solemnly put his finger to a computer tablet device on Wednesday and tried to send his first tweet - but something went wrong.
Images on Vatican television appeared to show the first try didn't work. The pope, who still writes his speeches by hand, seems to have pressed too hard and the tweet was not sent right away. So, he needed a little help from his friends.
Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli of the Vatican's communications department showed the pontiff how to do it, but the pope hesitated. Celli touched the screen lightly himself and off went the papal tweet.
"Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart," he said in his introduction to the brave new world of Twitter.
The tweet was sent at the end of weekly general audience in the Vatican before thousands of people.
The pope actually has eight linked Twitter accounts. @Pontifex, the main account, is in English. The other seven have a suffix at the end for the different language versions. For example, the German version is @Pontifex_de, and the Arabic version is @Pontifex_ar.
The tweets will be going out in Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese, German, Polish, Arabic and French. Other languages will be added in the future.
The pope already had just over a million followers in all of the languages combined minutes before he sent his first tweet and the number was growing.
PAPAL Q AND A
Later on Wednesday after the audience was over and the television cameras turned off, the pontiff answered the first of three questions sent to him at #askpontifex.
The first question answered by the pope was: "How can we celebrate the Year of Faith better in our daily lives?"
His answer: "By speaking with Jesus in prayer, listening to what he tells you in the Gospel and looking for him in those in need."
The pope, who, as leader of the Roman Catholic Church already has 1.2 billion followers in the standard sense of the word, won't be following anyone else, the Vatican has said.
After his first splash into the brave new world of Twitter on Wednesday, the contents of future tweets will come primarily from the contents of his weekly general audience, Sunday blessings and homilies on major Church holidays.
They are also expected to include reaction to major world events, such as natural disasters.
The Vatican says papal tweets will be little "pearls of wisdom", which is understandable since his thoughts will have to be condensed to 140 characters, while papal documents often top 140 pages.
The Vatican said precautions had been taken to make sure the pope's certified account is not hacked. Only one computer in the Vatican's secretariat of state will be used for the tweets.
After Wednesday, Benedict won't be pushing the button on his tweets himself. They will be sent by aides but he will sign off on them.
The pope's Twitter page is designed in yellow and white - the colors of the Vatican, with a backdrop of the Vatican and his picture. It may change during different liturgical seasons of the year and when the pope is away from the Vatican on trips.
The pope has given a qualified welcome to social media.
In a document issued last year, he said the possibilities of new media and social networks offered "a great opportunity", but warned of the risks of depersonalization, alienation, self-indulgence, and the dangers of having more virtual friends than real ones.
In 2009, a new Vatican website, www.pope2you.net, went live, offering an application called "The pope meets you on Facebook", and another allowing the faithful to see the pontiff's speeches and messages on their iPhones or iPods.
The Vatican famously got egg on its face in 2009 when it was forced to admit that, if it had surfed the web more, it might have known that a traditionalist bishop whose excommunication was lifted had for years been a Holocaust denier.
(Reporting By Philip Pullella, editing by Paul Casciato)
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Antique art is popular in many homes because of its value and decorative appeal. Many people enjoy the prestige of a classic piece adorning their walls, while others may dedicate a room to curated material. From paintings to sculptures to textile designs, antique art can be a stately addition to any home with an appreciation for history.
Others choose to incorporate antique furniture into their homes. It can be fascinating to think about the people who used the furniture previously, whether it?s a simple dining table passed down through a family or a couch that served in a receiving parlor of a wealthy estate. Antique furniture carries great character and can easily become the centerpiece of a room. However, it?s important to ensure that each piece receives proper care, as overuse can cause the item to deteriorate quickly.
Finally, antique engagement rings are a popular choice for many couples today because of the vintage look and sentimental value. Many brides are honored to wear the ring of a great matriarch or beloved family member, whether the ring is from her family or the groom?s family. Additionally, antique engagement rings posses a unique look and a classic design that will always endure in style.
The revival of possessing an antiques collection in the home is an important movement in preserving some of these artifacts. With the proper care and attention, the history of antique art, furniture, and engagement rings can be passed on through their continued use by future generations. An antiques collection is a wonderful tribute to history.
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Actor Alan Alda has a question for scientists around the world. He wants to know what time is.
Oh, and he wants the explanation in words an 11-year-old would understand.
Alda, known for his roles on the television show "M*A*S*H" and "The West Wing," has turned his interest toward science communication as a founding member of the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York. Last year, he challenged scientists to answer the question "What is flame?"
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The Cambridge Digital Library has just made available thousands of pages from fragile religious manuscripts for Internet users' perusal, including a 2,000-year-old copy of the Ten Commandments, known as the "Nash Papyrus."
That query was inspired by a question Alda himself asked a teacher as an 11-year-old boy. The answer he received at the time ? "oxidation" ? meant nothing to him, so he launched the Flame Challenge last year to get a better answer. The winner of the contest, University of Innsbruck physics doctoral student Ben Ames, made a song and video to explain the concept.
This year, Alda and the Center for Communicating Science crowdsourced questions from today's 11-year-olds. When they got a number of queries about time, time travel and the beginning of time, they decided to distill the question into a deceptively simply one: What is time ?
"They're asking a very deep question this year (What is Time?!)," Alda wrote on the Center's website. "It's going to be fun to see how scientists around the world answer that one in everyday language."
Scientists are welcomed to send in their responses by March 1, 2013, using video, song, animation or any other tool that might help make sense of the question. The only criteria: The answer must interest and inform 11-year-olds, who will judge the answers and choose the final winner.
In a video on the site, Alda encourages fourth- through sixth-graders to become judges: "The wonderful thing about this contest is the entries are going to be judged by real 11-year-olds. So this is one time when people your age get a chance to tell people their age 'No, good try, but you didn't quite do it,' or 'Great try, and you win the contest.'"
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Somber confidants of President Hugo Chavez say he is going through a difficult recovery after cancer surgery in Cuba, and one close ally is warning Venezuelans that their leader may not make it back for his swearing-in next month.
Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said Wednesday night that Chavez was in "stable condition" and was with close relatives in Havana. Reading a statement, he said the government invites people to "accompany President Chavez in this new test with their prayers."
Villegas expressed hope about the president returning home for his Jan. 10 swearing-in for a new six-year term, but said in a written message on a government website that if Chavez doesn't make it, "our people should be prepared to understand it."
Villegas said it would be irresponsible to hide news about the "delicateness of the current moment and the days to come." He asked Venezuelans to see Chavez's condition as "when we have a sick father, in a delicate situation after four surgeries in a year and a half."
Moving to prepare the public for the possibility of more bad news, Vice-President Nicolas Maduro looked grim when he acknowledged that Chavez faced a "complex and hard" process after his latest surgery.
At the same time, officials sought to show a united front amid the growing worries about Chavez's health and Venezuela's future. Key leaders of Chavez's party and military officers appeared together on television as Maduro gave updates on Chavez's condition.
"We're more united than ever," said Maduro, who was flanked by National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez, both key members of Chavez's inner circle. "We're united in loyalty to Chavez."
Analysts say Maduro could eventually face challenges in trying to hold together the president's diverse "Chavismo" movement, which includes groups from radical leftists to moderates, as well as military factions.
Tapped by the 58-year-old president over the weekend as his chosen political heir, Maduro is considered to be a member of radical left wing of Chavez's movement that is closely aligned with Cuba's communist government.
Cabello, a former military officer who also wields power within Chavez's movement, shared the spotlight with Maduro by speaking at a Mass for Chavez's health at a military base.
Just returned from being with Chavez for the operation, Cabello called the president "invincible" but said "that man who is in Havana ... is fighting a battle for his life."
After Chavez's six-hour operation Tuesday, Venezuelan television broadcast religious services where people prayed for Chavez, interspersed with campaign rallies for upcoming gubernatorial elections.
On the streets of Caracas, people on both sides of the country's deep political divide voiced concerns about Chavez's condition and what might happen if he died.
At campaign rallies ahead of Sunday's gubernatorial elections, Chavez's candidates urged Venezuelans to vote for pro-government candidates while they also called for the president to get well.
"Onward, Commander!" gubernatorial candidate Elias Jaua shouted to a crowd of supporters at a rally Wednesday. Many observers said it was likely Chavez's candidates could get a boost from their supporters' outpouring of sympathy for Chavez.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who lost to Chavez in the October presidential election and is running against Jaua, complained Wednesday that Chavez's allies are taking advantage of the president's health problems to try to rally support. He took issue with Jaua's statement to supporters that "we have to vote so that the president recovers."
Maduro looked sad as he spoke on television, his voice hoarse and cracked at times after meeting in the pre-dawn hours with Cabello and Ramirez. The pair returned to Venezuela about 3 a.m. after accompanying Chavez to Cuba for his surgery.
"It was a complex, difficult, delicate operation," Maduro said. "The post-operative process is also going to be a complex and hard process."
Without giving details, Maduro reiterated Chavez's recent remarks that the surgery presented risks and that people should be prepared for any "difficult scenarios."
The constitution says presidents should be sworn in before the National Assembly, and if that's not possible then before the Supreme Court.
Former Supreme Court magistrate Roman Duque Corredor said a president cannot delegate the swearing-in to anyone else and cannot take the oath of office outside Venezuela. A president could still be sworn in even if temporarily incapacitated, but would need to be conscious and in Venezuela, Duque told The Associated Press.
If a president-elect is declared incapacitated by lawmakers and is unable to be sworn in, the National Assembly president would temporarily take charge of the government and a new presidential vote must be held within 30 days, Duque said.
Chavez said Saturday that if an election had to be held, Maduro should be elected president.
The dramatic events of this week, with Chavez suddenly taking a turn for the worse, had some Venezuelans wondering whether they were being told the truth because just a few months ago the president was running for his fourth presidential term and had said he was free of cancer.
Lawyer Maria Alicia Altuve, who was out in bustling crowds in a shopping district of downtown Caracas, said it seemed odd how Maduro wept at a political rally while talking about Chavez.
"He cries on television to set up a drama, so that people go vote for poor Chavez," Altuve said. "So we don't know if this illness is for that, or if it's that this man is truly sick."
Some Chavez supporters said they found it hard to think about losing the president and worried about the future. His admirers held prayer vigils in Caracas and other cities this week, holding pictures and singing hymns.
Chavez has undergone four cancer-related surgeries since June 2011. He has also undergone months of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Throughout his treatments, Chavez has kept secret some details of his illness, including the exact location and type of the tumors.
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa wished his close ally the best, while also acknowledging the possibility that cancer might end his presidency. "Chavez is very important for Latin America, but if he can't continue at the head of Venezuela, the processes of change have to continue," Correa said at a news conference in Quito.
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Associated Press writer Christopher Toothaker contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-says-chavez-tough-fight-surgery-warns-may-073016339.html
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Fish will sometimes make a tornado like this to avoid getting eaten?you know, safety in numbers. When a shark sees this tornado, they can?t tell if it is a large animal or a bunch of small animals (lunch), so they usually just leave and the fish don?t get eaten.
?which is the opposite of what some marine mammals do, when they deliberately corral fish into a dense school and take turns taking a bite of the ?[delicious] tornado.?
I don?t think we?re in Kansas anymore.