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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Friday, December 30, 2011
Sobbing in streets as dictator Kim's funeral begins
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This screen grab taken from North Korean TV shows a portrait of Kim Jong Il on a car arriving at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang on Wednesday.
By NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services
Updated at 7:03 a.m. ET?
PYONGYANG, North Korea -- Wailing and clutching at their hearts, tens of thousands of North Koreans lined the snowy streets of Pyongyang on Wednesday as the hearse carrying late leader Kim Jong Il's wound its way through the capital for a final farewell.
Son and successor Kim Jong Un led the procession, which is part of a two-day state funeral.?Top military and party officials, including uncle Jang Song Thaek, were also part of the lead group.
Sobs and wails filled the air along the memorial route, which?state media said?was about 25 miles long.
At the end of the procession, Kim Jong Un?walked along with the limousine with his hand cocked in a salute. He stood head-bowed with top officials as rifles fired 21 times, then saluted again as goose-stepping soldiers carrying flags and rifles marched by.
The funeral procession, which began and ended at Kumsusan Memorial Palace, passed by huge crowds of mourners, most of them standing in the snow with their heads bare.?Many screamed, stamped their feet, flailed their arms and wept as soldiers struggled to keep them from spilling onto the road.
The mourners included many members of the country's?1.2 million-strong armed forces.
Kim's two other sons, Kim Jong Nam and Kim Jong Chol, were not spotted.
Kim Jong Il, who led the nation with an iron fist following his father Kim Il Sung's death in 1994, died of a heart attack Dec. 17 at age 69, according to state media.
Heavy snow was falling in Pyongyang, which state media characterized in the early days of mourning as proof that the skies were "grieving" for Kim as well.?
"How can the sky not cry?" a weeping soldier standing in the snow said to state TV. "The people ... are all crying tears of blood."
A national memorial service is due to take place at noon Thursday, state media said.
Updated at 7:03 a.m. ET: Speaking from Seoul, NBC News' Adrienne Mong?tells TODAY that as video?footage of procession was only available via state media, it is not possible to know how much of the grieving was "staged."
Updated at 6:28 a.m. ET:?An essay?in Workers' Party mouthpiece Rodong Sinmun, which was?carried in English by the Korean Central News Agency, says Kim Jong Un will take "warm care of the people left by Kim Jong Il."
Updated at 4:22 a.m. ET: Angus Walker, Beijing correspondent for Britain's?ITV, examines why North Koreans haven't chosen this moment to overthrow the Kim dynasty. "The regime knows its power relies on the power of propaganda," he writes. "In North Korea he was the only hero, the only film and TV star, the only person pictured in the papers. North Koreans were told he was the most famous person on earth, in a world without Hollywood or the Internet many believe it, he was a religion, a cult, a god and a king combined."
Updated at 4:15 a.m. ET:?Britain's former ambassador to North Korea tells the BBC the future of the country's regime is "unsustainable".
Updated at 4:02 a.m. ET: Sky News' foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall questions?how much of the emotion is real. "If the camera is on you?... you know what is expected," he says.
Updated at 3:02 a.m. ET: North Korea state TV broadcast of funeral procession ends.
Updated at 2:59 a.m. ET: Gunfire during ceremony "still doesn't mask the sound of wailing," NBC News' Adrienne Mong (@adriennemong) reports.
Updated at 2:50 a.m. ET: BNO News' Michael van Poppel (@mpoppel) cites North Korea state media as?saying mourners?shouting: "Fatherly general, don't go, please! Never, never! Come back please!"
Updated at 2:26 a.m. ET: Chico Harlan (@chicoharlan), the Washington Post's East Asia correspondent, tweets: "N. Korea?is so close to comedy but obviously a tragedy. Seeing this guy, no matter the stagecraft, made me sad." Click here to see the?photo.
Updated at 2:16 a.m. ET: BBC News' Lucy Williamson points out that?many "senior military and party officials?... may well now be jostling for influence in the new regime.
"Some say North Korea's reluctance to open up the funeral ceremony to foreign delegations may signal that those hierarchies have not yet been fully agreed," she adds.
Updated at 2:12 a.m. ET:? "After motorcade passed, some North Koreans seem to be leaving quickly," BNO News' Michael van Poppel (@mpoppel)?tweets.
Updated at 1:38 a.m. ET: "I?think a lot of that is fake crying," Los Angeles Times' Beijing bureau chief?Barbara Demick tells Britain's Sky News. "There is a lot of pressure to out do your neighbor in showing your grief." Demick is also author of "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea."
Updated at 1:22 a.m. ET: Citing U.N. data, Reuters notes that the average North Korean now dies three-and-a-half years earlier than they did when "Eternal President" Kim Il Sung died in 1994.
North Korea?is one of the most closed and poorest societies on earth, ranking 194 out of 227 countries in terms of per capita wealth, according to the CIA World Factbook.
Updated at 1:15 a.m. ET: NBC News' Adrienne Mong (@adriennemong)?tweets that?a "soundtrack of wailing" and?"emotive announcer"?feature as part of North Korean state TV's coverage.?
Updated at 1:08 a.m ET: North Korea carried out a meticulously choreographed funeral for late leader Kim Jong Il on Wednesday and affirmed that the country was now in the "warm care" of his young son, extending the Kim family's hold on power to a third generation.
Footage broadcast on North Korea's state television showed Kim's youngest son and successor Kim Jong Un walking next to his father's hearse.
Foreign dignitaries in the city had been asked to gather at a sports stadium shortly before noon to be taken to see the hearse pass at the start of the funeral procession through Pyongyang, according to a diplomat who asked that her name not be used due to the sensitivity of the details.
The Associated Press, Reuters, msnbc.com staff and NBC News contributed to this report.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
[OOC] The Gifted
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I was wondering if I couldhave twin gifteds. One in a gang and one just trying to survive.
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Even though I just joined, I can't RP tonight. I'm really tired so I'm heading to bed. I'll roleplay tomorrow. Bye. :-)
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Insanity, like floating on air
Psychopathy, a carefree life
Captivity, unable to run away.
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Oh, interesting. I started out doing gifted RPs aaages ago. Mind if I drop a character or two in?
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Website says it's cooperating in trunk-death probe (AP)
DETROIT ? A website that posts sex-related ads says it's cooperating with Detroit police in the investigation of four women found dead in car trunks, including three who promoted their services online.
Backpage.com says in a statement Tuesday that it reached out to police with "detailed information" about ads that a suspect may have posted on numerous websites. The company says that the investigation is expanding to involve at least 30 different ads on multiple websites.
Detroit police didn't immediately comment.
Since Dec. 19, the bodies of four women have been found in car trunks just blocks apart in Detroit. Police Chief Ralph Godbee is not calling them serial killings, although their online ads on Backpage are a common thread.
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Plano, Texas, tops list of America's safest cities
Plano, Texas, has some pretty ho-hum claims to fame: It?s home to junk-food headquarters Frito-Lay and the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, for starters, as well as to retail giant J.C. Penney. But it?s also America?s safest city by our determination, and that?s nothing to yawn at.
Plano, a city of 278,000 that?s just outside Dallas, boasts the lowest violent crime rate of the cities we looked at and the sixth-lowest traffic fatality rate, putting it tops on our list for the second year in a row. The Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Nev., and Honolulu come in second and third, respectively.
So what makes these metropolises oases of relative tranquility? Wealth is one key factor.
?One of the underlying things, in terms of a city?s safety, would be a very strong tax base, as there are a number of services that are reliant on it,? notes Scott B. Clark, president of the New York-based Risk and Insurance Management Society. ?That includes an effective, well-staffed police department, fire department and school system.?
Forbes.com slideshow: America?s safest cities
The median household income in Plano is $79,234, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 60 percent above the national average, and 8.1 percent of residents are below the poverty line, compared to a national rate of 15.1 percent. The city is also home to a number of Fortune 500 companies.
?Plano is a very clean, affluent suburb with no inner city per se,? says John Worrall, head of the criminology program at the University of Texas at Dallas. ?Plus it has one of the few police departments in the U.S. that require four-year degrees. I don?t know that there is research to back up its making things safer, but it makes Plano unique.?
Plano boasts strong citizen involvement in public safety: the U.S. Department of Justice honored the city last year with a National Award for Excellence in Neighborhood Watch. Plano Police Chief Greg Rushin says his department works with 194 volunteers who help with tasks from patrolling neighborhoods to manning observation towers in public places and monitoring security camera feeds.
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Henderson, Nev., takes the No. 2 spot despite its location within the Metropolitan Statistical Area of Las Vegas-Paradise, which ranked ninth this year on Forbes? list of America?s Most Dangerous Cities. That may be because Henderson has a relatively high median income of $61,861, a low poverty rate (7 percent) and higher median home prices than Las Vegas, points out Tamara Madensen, a criminology professor at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Also of help, she adds, is that ?casinos in Henderson cater mainly to local residents, which reduces traffic and the number of tourists moving about in the city.?
That?s an important point compared to Vegas: Since crime rates are calculated based on Census populations, violent crimes involving tourists inflate the numbers. ?The number of people who visit the Strip and downtown Las Vegas each year,? over 35 million, ?make it difficult to estimate the real ?risk? of crime for individuals living in Las Vegas. Tourist numbers are rarely factored into risk analyses,? Madensen says.
To find America?s 10 safest cities, we looked at metropolises with populations above 250,000. We ranked them by violent crime rates ? the number of violent crimes (murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault) per 100,000 residents in 2010, as reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Because the FBI only compiles data from municipalities that submit complete reports, we were only able to look at 72 cities; Chicago was not included in our ranking.
Forbes.com: America?s most dangerous cities
We also ranked each city on the traffic-fatality rate per 100,000 residents based on 2009 data, the most recent available, from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. We then averaged the ranking for each city to arrive at final scores. In the event of ties, the city with the lower crime rate got the higher ranking.
In third place on our list is Honolulu, which ranks fourth lowest for violent crime and seventh lowest for traffic fatalities. The city is relatively well off, with a median household income of $54,828, above the national average of $50,046, and a below average poverty rate of 10.5 percent. Hawaii has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, and that famous relaxed aloha spirit may play a role in keeping accident and violence rates low. ?Honolulu is kind of like a big small town where everyone seems connected,? says Dave Kahaulelio, president of the Honolulu chapter of the Risk and Insurance Management Society.
Kahaulelio also notes a key factor behind Honolulu?s low traffic-fatality rate ? 4.27 per 100,000 ? is gridlock. ?Our roads are often congested because we have two main arteries,? he says.
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Russ Rader, vice president of communications for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, concurs that congestion is a good thing when it comes to traffic safety. ?If traffic is often gridlocked, no one can drive fast enough to kill themselves or others,? he says. ?Cities, by their nature, tend to have low fatality rates because speeds are low and traffic is dense, while rural roads tend to be more dangerous.?
That certainly rings true in the biggest city ? and perhaps biggest surprise ? on our list: New York City at No. 10. Major arteries are frequently backed up there, which may well explain why Gotham ranked No. 3 for lowest traffic-fatality rates, with just 3.17 per 100,000. Good public transportation and a relatively low car ownership rate also help.
But how to explain New York City?s relatively low violent-crime rate of 582 per 100,000, 27th-lowest among U.S. cities over 250,000 in population? Criminal justice professor Mike Maxfield, of John Jay College in New York City, points out that it has most of the resources that are key to urban safety: ?wealth, effective policing and other guardianship, public spaces that are heavily used by a broad cross-section of people, institutions that attract people ? parks, museums, shopping, entertainment ? and effective governance, generally.?
Forbes.com: The most transformed neighborhoods in America
But the Big Apple is still a mixed bag. ?It?s also incredibly diverse with a great deal of inequality. That means that though New York is statistically safe as a city, safety, like wealth, is unevenly distributed,? Maxfield adds. ?All of New York is better governed and better policed than 20 years ago and violence is lower everywhere. But it?s much lower in some places than in others.?
Forbes.com: The best cities for young professionals
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
2011 in Review: Betty Ford
Long after Jerry and Betty Ford settled into a comfortable retirement out West, the former First Lady was asked why her husband kept smacking his head on helicopter doors and tripping down stairs during their White House years.
A motor-skill problem, perhaps? It was odd, after all, because he was a gifted athlete and a superb skier.
?Oh, no,? she replied with an impish laugh, ?Jerry?s just clumsy.?
That was classic Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Ford ? funny, quick and unflinchingly honest, even at the expense of a husband she adored for 58 years.
But she was more than just the ballast of the Ford family, the classic politician?s wife, who raised four children while her congressman-husband spent hundreds of days a year campaigning for fellow GOPers to further his desire to become Speaker of the House.
When he instead became President in 1974, Betty took advantage of the spotlight she?d always shunned. In an era when the personal lives of First Ladies were mostly off-limits, she forthrightly went public with her medical and emotional demons, sharing her struggles with breast cancer, alcohol and painkillers.
In the process, she encouraged countless Americans to believe they could conquer or at least cope with their own afflictions. She changed lives, and no doubt saved many.
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Salvation Army to open 110,000-square-foot community center in South Bend next month
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. ? The Salvation Army plans to open a new community center next month in South Bend that will include a pool, a fitness center, a learning lab and a banquet and conference center.
The 110,000-square-foot center was built in part with $27.5 million donated from the estate of the late McDonald's Corp. heiress Joan Kroc. Salvation Army Maj. Bob Webster tells the South Bend Tribune (http://bit.ly/uOO4F5) the rest of $5.2 million construction costs are being financed through the sale of federal tax credits.
People who want to use community center need to buy memberships or day passes.
The facility in South Bend will be among 27 Kroc centers across the United States, 10 of which are opening in the next year from Chicago to Puerto Rico.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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A series of storms from the Pacific Ocean will run quickly along the United States/Canada border for the next week or more.
Just about every other day, precipitation will streak eastward from the Northwest U.S. to the northern Plains, Great Lakes, Northeast and neighboring Canada.
The fast motion of the storms will prevent cold air from driving southward for very long into the U.S.
Up until recently, cold air was entrenched in the West and non-existent in the East. Storms traveled southward along the Pacific coast, but were then flung northward toward the Great Lakes.
The pattern is now more typical of what we would see during mid-November or late March.
At the same time, the bulk of the storms will not be able to tap into Gulf of Mexico or Atlantic moisture, rendering most of them as minor precipitation events.
According to Expert Senior Meteorologist Henry Margusity, very little or no snow will fall south of the storm track.
This is not to say the storms will not have some vigor.
A narrow zone along and just north of the storm track can receive several inches of snow. Each can also generate a few hours of gusty winds along with the precipitation.
The (north/south) track of each storm will not be the same and can vary by up to a few hundred miles.
It is possible the path of one or more storms in the pattern could deliver a blanket of snow to cities such as Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Detroit, Toronto, Buffalo, and Montreal.
In recent days, there has been some indication of a more southern storm developing in the Eastern U.S. during early next week.
Such development would be uncharacteristic of the west to east pattern now becoming established.
While dramatic shifts in the weather pattern have occurred in the past, a great deal would have to change very quickly early next week for such a storm to unfold. AccuWeather.com meteorologists will continue to monitor the situation and keep you advised.
Margusity believes the weak La Nina pattern will continue to keep storms toned down over much of the U.S. for the next several weeks.
"It's possible that as the weak La Nina withers away late in the winter that storms and opportunities for heavy snow may ramp up come February," Margusity said recently.
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Peter Callahan: Mini American Comfort Foods Transform The Ordinary Wedding Menu Into An Extraordinary Party
When you're dressed in black tie it may seem horrifying to serve hot dogs and French fries, but while their normal size is decidedly inappropriate for such occasions, their miniaturized versions are fabulously stylish and infinitely delicious.
Serving your favorite iconic American foods at your wedding reception is like having the orchestra only play America's Greatest Pop Songs of All Time: everyone recognizes them and is immediately put at ease. And when your wedding guest list ranges from toddlers to grandparents with palettes that run from simpler tastes to gourmet foodie; offering mini comfort foods like mini grilled cheese sandwiches and spaghetti and meatballs makes everyone happy. But let's not forget the power of reinvention and imagination. Fancy favorites like Pheasant Under Glass and Potted Shrimp don't escape the shrinking ray gun!
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Sweden tops Canada in rough contest
Dec 24, 2011 ? 12:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Dec 24, 2011 12:01 AM ET
By Joanne Ireland
EDMONTON ? It wasn?t going to be an easy rehearsal, that much head coach Don Hay had predicted before his Canadian squad faced off against Sweden.
But surely he didn?t expect that his team would be staring at a 4-1 deficit early in the second period.
The plucky Canadians did erase some of the damage but came up two goals short Friday at Rexall Place. Canada closed out its 2012 IIHF world junior championship pre-tournament schedule with a humbling 5-3 loss to the Swedes.
?We?re going to get a good test tonight,? Hay had said before the puck dropped, ?and it will be important to see how we react to that.?
It took Sweden all of two minutes to react in the game?s early going. The Tre Kroner banked three late first-period goals to put Canada firmly on their heels.
Rickard Rakell, with a one-timer, Victor Rask, and Mika Zibanejad, with a pass from William Karlsson, each beat Mark Vistentin, the Waterdown, Ont. native who will man Canada?s net when the tournament officially opens.
Between then and now, Canada will need to shore up their defensive zone coverage. Canada has just three players back from the 2011 team and not one is a defenceman. It?s an all-rookie blue-line that will need more help from the forwards when the tournament?s top teams are across the ice.
?We can?t afford to have any lapses in our game because of the opponent we?re playing,? Hay continued in his pre-game preamble.
Vistentin turned the game over to Scott Wedgewood midway through the second, after the physical, opportunistic Swedes, padded their lead with an early second-period power-play goal that ricocheted in off Johan Larsson?s shin pad.
Six minutes before the Swedes stepped on the accelerator in their final road test, Canada had opened the scoring with a goal from Mark Stone of the Brandon Wheat Kings. The Winnipeg native, shadowed by Sebastian Collberg, beat goaltender Johan Gustafsson at 11:14.
Canada did outshoot Sweden 10-7 in the middle period and got a goal back when Brendan Gallagher redirected a power-play puck that Stone had batted toward the net.
Captain Jaden Schwartz, the Wilcox, Sask./Colorado College player worth keeping an eye on in the tournament, then pulled his team within a goal and the fans out of their seats when he charged up ice on a short-handed breakaway and snapped the puck stick side early in the third.
Zibanejad tapped in an empty-netter to close out the proceedings. Sweden had thumped Denmark 8-0 in its only other pre-tournament test.
Canada beat Switzerland 7-1 and scored a 3-1 victory over Finland in their previous exhibition games. This was Hay?s last chance to settle on his line combinations for Monday?s opening game against Finland and the players? first chance to experience what?s to come.
Edmonton Journal
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Several US states weigh in on cigarette label suit
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ? Several states and U.S. territories are weighing in on a lawsuit over proposed graphic cigarette warning labels that include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the federal government should be allowed to require the labels for the "lethal and addictive" products.
The 24 attorneys general filed a friend of the court brief on Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington in support of the Food and Drug Administration's challenge of a lower court ruling in the case.
Last month, a U.S. District Court judge granted a request by some of the nation's largest tobacco companies, including R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Lorillard Tobacco Co., to block the labels while deciding whether the labels violate their free speech rights. The judge ruled it is likely the cigarette makers would succeed in a lawsuit to block the requirement that the labels be placed on cigarette packs next year.
Representatives for R.J. Reynolds declined to comment. Officials with Lorillard did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Saturday.
The tobacco companies have questioned the constitutionality of the labels, saying the warnings don't simply convey facts to inform people's decision whether to smoke but instead force the cigarette makers to display government anti-smoking advocacy more prominently than their own branding. They also say that changing cigarette packaging will cost millions of dollars.
Meanwhile, the FDA has said that the public interest in conveying the dangers of smoking outweighs the companies' free speech rights.
In the filing Friday, the attorneys general said that the First Amendment does not prevent the government from requiring that "lethal and addictive products carry warning labels that effectively inform consumers of the risks those products entail."
"Over forty years' experience with small, obscurely placed text-only warning labels on cigarette packs has demonstrated that they simply do not work," they wrote. "The warning labels reflect the unique magnitude of the problem they address, the deadly and addictive nature of the product, and the unparalleled threat this product and its marketing pose to America's youth."
The brief was filed by attorneys general from Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, the Virgin Islands, Washington and West Virginia.
In June, the FDA approved nine new warning labels that companies are to print on the entire top half of cigarette packs, front and back. The new warnings, each of which includes a number for a stop-smoking hotline, must constitute 20 percent of cigarette advertising, and marketers are to rotate use of the images.
One label depicts a corpse with its chest sewn up and the words "Smoking can kill you." Another shows a healthy pair of lungs beside a yellow and black pair with a warning that smoking causes fatal lung disease.
Joining North Carolina-based R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard in the lawsuit are Commonwealth Brands Inc., Liggett Group LLC and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Inc.
Richmond-based Altria Group Inc., parent company of the nation's largest cigarette maker, Philip Morris USA, which makes top-selling Marlboros, is not a part of the lawsuit.
The free speech lawsuit is separate from a lawsuit by several of the same companies over the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. That law, which took effect two years ago, cleared the way for the more graphic warning labels. But it also allowed the FDA to limit nicotine and banned tobacco companies from sponsoring athletic or social events or giving away free samples or branded merchandise.
A federal judge upheld many parts of the law, but the case is now pending before the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
While the tobacco industry's latest legal challenge may not hold up, it could delay the new warning labels for years. And that is likely to save cigarette makers millions of dollars in lost sales and increased packaging costs.
Tobacco companies are increasingly relying on their packaging to build brand loyalty and grab consumers. It's one of few advertising levers left to them after the government curbed their presence in magazines, billboards and TV.
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Michael Felberbaum can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/MLFelberbaum .
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Steve Jobs' legacy and the tech lessons of 2011
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| THURSDAY BLOWOUT: Every NEW or RENEWING paid subscriber receives 2 YEARS FREE.... Do you feel Apple is worried about innovation now that Jobs is gone? Cast your vote in "Today's Poll..." in the left column below or go straight to the results here. Thursday Highlights: In yet another blow to Apple, German court rules Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 revision is good-to-go; a new prototype Apple Store set to begin construction in Palo Alto, said to be highly visible, unique; Wired's Rachel Swaby investigates the battle between iCloud and Dropbox; Wetpixel reviews ToneGrade FCPX plug-in; Jim Kerstetter looks back at Steve Jobs' legacy along with tech lessons learned in 2011; iPhone a tough sell in Europe now-a-days; iPad becoming big in the kitchen as a cookbook replacement; China iPad users love iPads almost as much as US users as per App Store downloads; apparently Gannet Company is purchasing thousands of iDevices for reporters to better their newsroom tech; Apple offering big iTunes deals for Boxing Week in Canada; iPhone sales predictions for current quarter number 30.3 million, and 111.4 million for "fiscal 2012"; Apple applies for next-gen fuel-cell devices, Magic Trackpad, and more; Scott Hanselman shows how he lives "a Microsoft lifestyle using Apple iOS products"; Skitch is a new app for iPad, worth a look says VentureBeat; does Apple stand to gain with Microsoft's pull-out at CES?; Jonny Evans says "television is ripe for an Apple moment"; and is it time to retire the "reality distortion field label"? Today's MacUpdate Promo offers 55% off Art Text 2.4.1. "Art Text is a Mac OS X application for creating high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web site elements and buttons. Thanks to multi layer support creating complex graphics is no sweat." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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