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'Kate Plus 8' editor arrested for child porn

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56-year-old William Blankinship, a TV editor who worked on TLC's 'Jon and Kate Plus 8' and other family-oriented reality shows, was arrested Oct. 21 on child porn-related charges, documents obtained by RadarOnline confirm.

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Blankinship has been charged with 10 counts of sex exploit of a minor, meaning he possessed photos and/or video of a minor engaged in sexual activity. A subcontractor for Figure 8 Films, Blankenship edited such TLC shows as the Gosselin-family smash "Jon and Kate Plus 8," its spinoff "Kate Plus 8," "17 Kids and Counting" and "Table for 12."

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No bond has been set for the accused man; he is likely "under the authority of the U.S. Marshals" until trial, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons told Radar.

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"Bill Blankinship was employed by Serious Robots, with whom Figure 8 Films subcontract for editing services. Upon learning of the shocking allegations his employment was terminated," Figure 8 films said in a statement.

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He was never in contact with the famous eight Gosselin kids or any other of TLC's stars, the statement added. "At no time was this man ever in the field or in direct contact with any of the talent for any of our productions."

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Jigar Shah: Governor Rick Perry Please Lobby the Super Committee to End Permanent Energy Subsidies

In August, environmentalists Friends of the Earth and Public Citizen partnered with climate deniers at the Heritage Foundation to produce the non-partisan Green Scissors report which outlines wasteful government subsidies totaling $380 billion over the next five years.

Separately, in August, the twelve members of the Congressional "super committee" were announced. The super committee is charged with finding at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction measures over 10 years.

The super committee deadline: November 23rd.

Cutting $380 billion in permanent subsidies immediately for mature industries like coal, natural gas, oil, and ethanol -- immediately gets the super committee to 25 percent of its goal.

This past June, the Senate sent a strong signal to end the main corn ethanol tax credit, known as the VEETC, and the ethanol import tariff.

Subsidies are necessary in the incubation phase, but oil is a "mature" industry; and ethanol and solar are "proven and established" industries. As industries prove and establish themselves, and then mature, subsidies should be retired. So, now it is time to end permanent federal subsidies for oil drilling and phased out for solar and wind technologies.

Luckily Governor Rick Perry, and Congressman Ron Paul have stepped up to put the end of subsidies in the national conversation. Perry announced his energy plan on October 14, entitled: "Energizing American Jobs and Security." It called for an end to subsidies.

Perry's energy plan website states: "As part of a broader tax reform strategy, I will also ask Congress to eliminate direct subsidies and tax credits that distort the energy marketplace. My plan levels the playing field."

And, according to Ron Paul, "We should start by ending subsidies for oil companies. And we should never, ever go to war to protect our perceived oil interests. If oil were allowed to rise to its natural price, there would be tremendous market incentives to find alternate sources of energy. At the same time, I can't support government 'investment' in alternative sources either, for this is not investment at all."

And Mitt Romney agreed in the October 18 Republican debate that subsidies should be pulled back.

Newt Gingrich piled on in Iowa on October 24 saying, "I don't want to pick a fight with any of my good friends who are running, but I get a little weary of people who represent oil, which has consistently had tax subsidies for its entire history, explaining that they're really not sure about these subsidies. Notice it's always these subsidies. It's never the ones down there. I notice that when Senator [Tom] Coburn [R-OK] introduced a bill that was anti-ethanol, he didn't include subsidies for gas and oil, because as an Oklahoman, that would be suicidal. So I just think we ought to have a fair playing field."

Now, getting back to the Super Committee, I have taken a random sampling of votes over recent years of each committee member to see if each supports subsidies.

My scorecard revealed a random sampling of 34 votes, with 19 for subsidies. It means that much of the time, some interest group is pushing our government officials to underwrite an energy cost whether it is a fossil fuel, or renewable energy source.

But, the other point is that our legislators are spending thousands of hours debating whether to spend money to give an unfair advantage to one energy source over another. And the fight seems to be over renewable fuels versus fossil fuels.

Shouldn't scientists figure out which fuels are safest and then turn them over to the free marketplace to determine which ones are liked by consumers?

Now that Governor Perry has insisted on the end of energy subsidies, can he take the lead over the next few weeks to get the Super Committee to immediately extract $380 billion in wasteful permanent subsidies out of the budget? I hope so - and I am with him on that.

This is no longer a left wing, right wing argument. We don't need votes on issues that are on one side of the aisle or the other. We need votes like we had on ethanol subsidies in June. We want to ask -- "is this how we want to spend our tax dollars?"

The example is in fact, the Green Scissors report. It had groups that are polar opposites like Friends of The Earth, and the Heritage Foundation to come together to agree on the end of permanent subsidies.

Their interest is not in protecting interest groups -- rather it is protecting America's budget and environmental future. If you are a Tea Party fan, you should love the level playing field and reduced budget deficit. If you are an OccupyWallStreet person then you should be happy that the permanent subsidies set up for the 1 percent are going away so that the 99 percent can participate.

Plus, as Governor Perry and Newt Gingrich have said, we need to level the playing field. The right technologies and solutions to fuel our electricity and transportation needs will win a free market society.

So, it is my hope that Governor Perry, Governor Romney, Ron Paul and others who are pushing the debate to "end permanent subsidies" push it to the super committee now. It is $380 billion that can be put to better use.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jigar-shah/super-committee-energy-subsidies_b_1064648.html

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Former rebel wins in Bogota mayor's election (AP)

BOGOTA, Colombia ? Voters on Sunday elected former leftist rebel and anti-corruption crusader Gustavo Petro as mayor of Bogota, the first time an ex-guerrilla has won Colombia's second most important elected office.

Petro, 51, has been a key player in Colombia's recent history and ran a "zero corruption" campaign in the nation's capital, whose last elected mayor is jailed in a bid-rigging scandal.

Five years ago, his denunciations as a senator of close ties between national and regional politicians and right-wing death squads spurred the so-called "parapolitics" scandal that has landed dozens of lawmakers in prison.

Short, slim and bespectacled, Petro is deliberate in speech and favors tweed and Nehru jackets. Like many prominent Colombians unafraid to speak their minds, he has periodically been targeted by death threats and has long been assigned a phalanx of bodyguards.

He told The Associated Press in 2007 that he had learned of two organized attempts by the extreme right to kill him, one of which forced him into temporary exile.

Petro, who finished fourth in last year's presidential election, won the mayor's race with 32 percent of the vote against 25 percent for his nearest challenger, Enrique Penalosa, with nearly all ballots counted in the city 8 million people.

Penalosa defeated Petro in 1997 for the same job, which has often been a springboard to Colombia's presidency.

Urban planners widely admire Penalosa for making Bogota more pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly during his term, and for launching a bus rapid transit system that has been a model in Latin America and beyond.

But analysts say Penalosa, 57, was hurt by his endorsement by conservative former President Alvaro Uribe in a city more friendly to the left.

"Bogota continues to be a fortress of electoral freedom," said analyst Alfredo Molano. "Gustavo Petro is a step forward in defeating machine politics."

Bogota is Colombia's biggest city, its urban area Latin America's sixth most populous. Its gritty southern districts teem with tens of thousands of refugees from the country's long-running conflict.

The voting in the capital was part of nationwide regional and municipal elections, with 32 governorships and more than 1,100 mayoral and municipal council post being contested. Electoral watchdog groups reported some vote-buying in rural areas but relatively few voting irregularities.

Less than two weeks before the vote, 20 soldiers were killed in two separate attacks blamed on FARC rebels, which have commonly made election-day attacks. But there were no reports of rebel violence Sunday, and President Juan Manuel Santos declared it among Colombia's most peaceful election days .

Regional and municipal elections tend to be a better barometer than presidential votes in Colombia of the relative health of the country's democracy. This year, illegal armed groups including the FARC and right-wing bands, both fortified by drug trafficking profits, intimidated candidates throughout rural Colombia.

Violence has been on the uptick since Santos was elected in mid-2010, and at least 42 candidates in local races were killed in the weeks leading up to Sunday's vote.

Petro, who begins his four-year term as mayor Jan. 1, has been harshly critical of the FARC, saying it is tainted by its involvement in drug trafficking and ransom kidnappng.

It is nothing, he says, like the M-19 movement that he told the AP he joined at age 17 while a civic organizer. Six years later, he would graduate from Bogota's prestigious Externado University with an economics degree.

Petro and his former comrades and relatives say he was never involved in violence, working instead to clandestinely recruit and organize for M-19.

"He was a small, fragile, skinny person with myopia," his sister, Adriana, said in 2007.

M-19 was named for April 19, the date of the 1970 presidential election that many Colombians believe was stolen in favor of the Conservative Party candidate, Misael Pastrana.

Friends say the outrage expressed by Petro's mother over that outcome led him into leftist politics.

While the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, is a mostly peasant guerrilla force formed in 1964, M-19 was a more classic Latin American rebel group formed largely by urban, middle-class intellectuals.

It became renowned for publicity-seeking actions including the theft of the sword of Latin American independence leader Simon Bolivar and the 1980 two-month takeover of the embassy of the Dominican Republic.

Petro was not personally involved in M-19's greatest fiasco: the 1985 takeover of the Palace of Justice in which more than 100 people, including 11 Supreme Court justices, were killed.

M-19's detractors contend the late drug lord Pablo Escobar financed the takeover. Petro vehemently denies this, and blames an unprovoked storming by the military for the deaths.

Captured 20 days before the raid, Petro still has scars from a week of torture in which he says he was shocked and beaten, denied food and almost drowned. He was jailed for a year and a half for rebellion.

He made the mistake the previous year of publicly announcing his M-19 affiliation after the government and rebels forged a truce that would later fall apart. It forced him to go underground.

After M-19 signed a peace pact with the government in 1990 and helped rewrite Colombia's constitution the following year, Petro was elected to Congress.

He spent most of the last two decades there and, after being elected senator in 2006 began revealing details of close collaboration between lawmakers and far-right militias known as "paramilitaries" that wound end up sending more than 60 politicians to prison from crimes ranging from criminal conspiracy to murder.

Last year, Petro helped uncover a bid-rigging scandal in Bogota that has landed its latest elected mayor, Samuel Moreno, in jail facing corruption charges.

The state found that some $1.2 billion in government funds had been diverted in the awarding of contracts including for the avenue that links Bogota's center with its international airport.

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Associated Press writers Vivian Sequera in Bogota and Frank Bajak in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111031/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_colombia_election

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Oil prices lower a day after big gains (AP)

Oil prices dropped Friday as investors acknowledged that Europe needs to tighten its belt for years to work through a credit crisis.

Here's a breakdown of how energy contracts traded.

On the New York Mercantile Exchange:

Crude fell 64 cents to end the day at $93.32 per barrel.

Gasoline lost 6 cents to finish at $2.6822 per gallon.

Heating oil lost 4 cents to end at $3.0592 per gallon.

Natural gas rose 16 cents to finish at $3.923 per 1,000 cubic feet.

On the ICE Futures exchange in London:

Brent crude lost $2.17 to end at $109.91 per barrel.

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Defense witness: Michael Jackson caused own death

Dr. Paul White, an anesthesiologist and Propofol expert, holds a bottle of Propofol during Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)

Dr. Paul White, an anesthesiologist and Propofol expert, holds a bottle of Propofol during Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)

Dr. Conrad Murray listens as defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan (not pictured) questions witness Dr. Paul White, during Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)

Dr. Conrad Murray listens as defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan (not pictured) questions witness Dr. Paul White, during Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)

Dr. Paul White, an anesthesiologist and Propofol expert, holds up an IV drip during Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)

Dr. Paul White, right, an anesthesiologist and Propofol expert, demonstrates an IV drip with the assistance of defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan during Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical licenses if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. (AP Photo/Paul Buck, Pool)

(AP) ? With dramatic courtroom testimony, attorneys for Michael Jackson's doctor have dropped the bombshell they've been hinting at for months ? an expert opinion accusing the singer of causing his own death.

Dr. Paul White said Jackson injected himself with a dose of propofol after an initial dose by Dr. Conrad Murray wore off. He also calculated that Jackson gave himself another sedative, lorazepam, by taking pills after an infusion of that drug and others by Murray failed to put him to sleep.

That combination of drugs could have had "lethal consequences," the defense team's star scientific witness said Friday.

Murray has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

White showed jurors a series of charts and simulations he created in the past two days to support the defense theory. He also did a courtroom demonstration of how the milky white anesthetic propofol could have entered Jackson's veins in the small dose that Murray claimed he gave the insomniac star.

White said he accepted Murray's statement to police that he administered only 25 milligrams of propofol after a night-long struggle to get Jackson to sleep with infusions of other sedatives.

"How long would that (propofol) have had an effect on Mr. Jackson?" asked defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan.

"If you're talking effect on the central nervous system, 10 to 15 minutes max," White said.

He then said Jackson could have injected himself with another 25 milligrams during the time Murray has said he left the singer's room.

"So you think it was self-injected propofol between 11:30 and 12?" asked Flanagan.

"In my opinion, yes," White said.

The witness, one of the early researchers of the anesthetic, contradicted testimony by Dr. Steven Shafer, his longtime colleague and collaborator. Shafer earlier testified Jackson would have been groggy from all the medications he was administered during the night and could not have given himself the drug in the two minutes Murray said he was gone.

"He can't give himself an injection if he's asleep," Shafer told jurors last week. He called the defense theory of self-administration "crazy."

White's testimony belied no animosity between the two experts, who have worked together for 30 years. Although White was called out by the judge one day for making derogatory comments to a TV reporter about the prosecution case, White was respectful and soft spoken on the witness stand.

When Flanagan made a mistake and called him "Dr. Shafer" a few times, White said, "I'm honored."

The prosecution asked for more time to study the computer program White used before cross-examining him. Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor granted the request, saying he too was baffled by the complicated simulations of Jackson's fatal dose. He recessed court early and gave prosecutors the weekend to catch up before questioning White on Monday.

The surprise disclosure of White's new theory caused a disruption of the court schedule, and the judge had worried aloud that jurors, who expected the trial to be over this week, were being inconvenienced. But the seven men and five women appeared engaged in the testimony and offered no complaints when the judge apologized for the delay.

Prosecutors could call Shafer back during their rebuttal case to answer White's assertions.

Among the key issues is how White calculated that a large residue of propofol in Jackson's body could have come from the small dose that Murray says he administered. Shafer assumed Murray had lied, and he estimated Jackson actually was given 1,000 milligrams of the drug by Murray, who he said left the bottle running into an IV tube under the pull of gravity. White disputed that, saying an extra 25 milligrams self-administered by Jackson would be enough to reach the levels found in his blood and urine.

White also said a minuscule residue of the sedative lorazepam in Jackson's stomach convinced him the singer took some pills from a prescription bottle found in his room. He suggested the combination of lorazepam, another sedative, midazolam, plus the propofol could have killed Jackson.

"It potentially could have lethal consequences," said White. "... I think the combination effect would be very, very profound."

White's testimony was expected to end Murray's defense case after 16 witnesses. It likely will be vigorously challenged by prosecutors, who spent four weeks laying out their case that Murray is a greedy, inept and reckless doctor who was giving Jackson propofol as a sleep aid in the singer's bedroom. Experts including Shafer have said propofol is not intended to treat insomnia and should not be given in a home.

White's theory was based on urine and blood levels in Jackson's autopsy, evidence found in Jackson's bedroom and Murray's long interview with police detectives two days after Jackson died while in his care.

While accepting Murray's account of drugs he gave Jackson, the expert's calculations hinged on the invisible quotient: Jackson's possible movements while his doctor was out of the room. With no witnesses and contradictory physical evidence, that has become the key question hanging over the case.

Those who knew the entertainer in his final days offered a portrait of a man gripped by fear that he would not live up to big plans for his comeback concert and worried about his ability to perform if he didn't get sleep. He was plagued by insomnia, and other medical professionals told of his quest for the one drug he believed could help him. He called it his "milk," and it was propofol.

Jurors have now seen it up close as both Shafer and White demonstrated its potential use as an IV infusion.

With White's testimony, the defense sought to answer strong scientific evidence by the prosecution. But they did not address other questions such as allegations that Murray was negligent and acting below the standard of care for a physician.

Flanagan, the defense attorney, produced a certificate from Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas showing Murray was certified to administer moderate anesthesia, referred to as "conscious sedation." However, the document showed several requirements including that the physician "monitor the patient carefully" and "provide adequate oxygenation and ventilation for a patient that stops breathing."

Medical witnesses noted that Murray left his patient alone under anesthesia and did not have adequate equipment to revive him when he found him not breathing.

The coroner attributed Jackson's June 25, 2009, death to "acute propofol intoxication" complicated by other sedatives.

Associated Press

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Icon Derelict '52 Chevy Business Coupe is unassuming masterpiece

 ICON Derelict 1952 Chevrolet Business Coupe

Ladies and gentleman, this is what SEMA should be about. Behold the latest from Icon, the Derelict ? a 1952 Chevrolet Deluxe Business Coupe hiding a full arsenal of modern engineering beneath over half a century of patina.

The vehicle uses a complete powder-coated Art Morrison chassis with a front independent suspension and a four-link rear. An all-aluminum, fuel-injected 6.2-liter General Motors LS3 V8 sits between the frame rails and cranks out 430 horsepower. The engine is mated to a 4L65E automatic transmission and a full set of six-piston brakes with anti-lock control ensures that the whole party can come to a stop in a timely fashion. Despite looking like junkyard relics, the wheels are actually custom CNC-machined pieces shod in ZR-rated BF Goodrich rubber.

If the Coupe's mechanicals and exterior aren't enough to flip your switches, take a peek indoors. Both seats have been recovered in a combination of wild-caught alligator and buffalo hides(!) that have been dyed to the same Hermes hue as John F. Kennedy's briefcase. The carpet is Rolls-Royce Wilton wool bound in buffalo as well, and an Aston Martin vintage mohair headliner finishes out the indoors. An array of tech is also tastefully hidden away as well, including Focal and Parrot audio components with Bluetooth capability.

This sort of execution is so far above and beyond the typical restomod and tuner fodder we typically see from the SEMA crowd that it serves as a breath of fresh air. If you like what you see, Icon says that the company can do the same for nearly any vehicle from the '30s to the '70s.

Gentlemen, start your imaginations. The Icon Derelict 1952 Chevrolet Business Coupe will be on display at this year's SEMA show.

Source: http://www.autoblog.com/2011/10/28/icon-derelict-52-chevy-business-coupe-is-unassuming-masterpiece/

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Jets earn wild 9-8 win over Flyers (AP)

PHILADELPHIA ? Winnipeg and the Philadelphia Flyers combined for 17 goals in a game that was so unusual that even the victorious Jets were left shaking their heads.

Andrew Ladd scored the game-winner with 1:06 remaining on a one-timer from close range to lift Winnipeg to a wild 9-8 victory over the Flyers on Thursday night.

"It's the strangest game I've been a part of, it was like an NFL game," Jets coach Claude Noel said. "We can't make a lot of logic out of what we did there."

"I thought to myself, 'Self, you're a sick man trying to make logic of this,'" Noel added. "I had the rosary out, I had everything going tonight."

Fifteen players scored in the wide-open game in which both clubs set season highs for goals scored and goals allowed, and the Jets tied a franchise record for goals in a game.

Asked if he learned anything about his team, Noel joked, "You learn you might need a sports psychologist just to manage the brain of the coach."

Philadelphia's Danny Briere and James van Riemsdyk were the only multiple goal scorers with two apiece. Kimmo Timonen had four assists and Scott Hartnell added a goal and assist. Claude Giroux and Max Talbot also scored for Flyers.

Nik Antropov and Tanner Glass each had a goal and two assists for the Jets. Evander Kane and Alex Burmistrov each added a goal and an assist and Blake Wheeler had three assists for Winnipeg.

"I have never been part of that and hopefully I never am again," Jets defenseman Zach Bogosian said. "It's good that we battled hard and then won, but there were probably a lot more negatives in that game than positives."

Ladd compared the result to a video game.

"It was like Blades of Steel out there," he said.

Of his game-winning tally, Ladd said, "We kind of got a good cycle down low. (Wheeler) was able to find me in front."

It was a rough night for the goaltenders, as both starters were pulled and the backups didn't fare much better.

Winnipeg starter Ondrej Pavelec allowed seven goals on 43 shots and was forced to re-enter the game after his backup, Chris Mason, left with an apparent groin injury with 8:20 left in the third period. Mason gave up one goal on five shots.

Flyers backup goalie Sergei Bobrovsky started the game, but was pulled early in the second period after surrendering five goals on 15 shots. Ilya Bryzgalov, Philadelphia's usual starter, relieved Bobrovsky and gave up four goals on 10 shots.

Bryzgalov blamed himself for the defeat, calling it the low point of his career.

"I have zero confidence in myself right now," he said. "I am terrible. (The offense) scores eight goals and we are still losing. It's obviously a terrible goalie and that's me.

"I am the reason we lost the game tonight. I am lost in the woods right now."

Briere, however, said the loss couldn't be pinned on the goalies.

"I don't think it's right to blame one guy," he said. "There were breakdowns left and right. We were all responsible for goals here and there."

Philadelphia coach Peter Laviolette agreed.

"You go goal by goal and you talk about it, but there's different reasons," he said. "The bottom line is it isn't good enough. You'll never win any games (allowing nine goals). Well, the majority of the time you won't win many games when you have to score 10. We'll go back and we'll work on everything."

The Flyers came within striking distance of the club mark for goals, and both teams were close to marks for goals allowed.

The 17 goals matched a Philadelphia record for combined goals in a game. And the Flyers hadn't allowed nine in a game since Oct. 23, 1993, when the former Winnipeg Jets did it.

Incredibly, the teams combined for five goals in the first 4:31 of the third period.

The most goals the Flyers ever have allowed in a game was 12 on Jan. 30, 1969, against Chicago. Philadelphia's franchise record for goals in a game is 13.

The Jets tied their mark for goals in a game set Nov. 12, 2005, at Carolina when they scored nine as the Atlanta Thrashers. The club mark for goals allowed in a game is 10, set Jan. 18, 2008 at Buffalo.

The Flyers entered the final period trailing 6-4, but got within a goal, 1:09 into the third period when Briere scored on a rebound of Van Riemsdyk's shot.

A little more than a minute later, the Flyers tied the game when Matt Read scored on a rebound of Andreas Lilja's shot from the point.

The Jets then pulled Pavelec and replaced him with Mason, but it didn't matter as Philadelphia went ahead 7-6 on Van Riemsdyk's goal from the edge of the goal mouth after a pretty assist by Briere with 16:58 left in the game.

But the Jets tied it at 7-7 only 28 seconds later on Burmistrov's tally, and went in front 1:01 after that on Mark Stuart's wrister from close range.

Pavelec re-entered the game with 8:20 remaining as Mason left with an apparent injury, but he couldn't hold the lead as Van Riemsdyk tied the game at 8 with 3:39 left on a one-timer from close range.

"We have some things to feel good about," Noel said. "The nine goals and the win, but you can't play this way."

Notes: Flyers captain Chris Pronger, who suffered a right eye injury Monday night, will start light exercise this weekend, according to general manager Paul Holmgren. Pronger is expected to miss 2 to 3 weeks. ... Flyers rookie Brayden Schenn will be out 4-6 weeks after suffering a broken left foot in Wednesday's game against Montreal. ... The Flyers recalled forward Zac Rinaldo and defenseman Erik Gustafsson from Adirondack of the AHL. ... The Winnipeg franchise has won eight of its past nine against the Flyers.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/sports/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111028/ap_on_sp_ho_ga_su/hkn_jets_flyers

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Perry to attend at least 5 more debates

(AP) ? Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to participate in at least five more presidential primary debates.

Perry struggled through parts of his first five debate performances. But Perry spokesman Ray Sullivan told The Associated Press on Saturday that the Republican candidate will attend all of the debates currently scheduled in November as well as a Dec. 1 debate in Arizona.

Sullivan said the campaign will make decisions about other debates on a case-by-case basis.

Perry had already committed to a Nov. 9 debate in Michigan. Also added to the calendar are debates in South Carolina on Nov. 12 and Washington, D.C., on Nov. 15. He'll also attend an Iowa forum hosted by The Family Leader, a socially conservative group, on Nov. 19.

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Passing The Political Football (Balloon Juice)

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Video: Is it Newt?s turn to be flavor of the week?

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David Freese MVP: Cardinals 3B Wins World Series Most Valuable Player

ST. LOUIS ? David Freese, the hometown boy made good, is the MVP of the World Series.

Down to their final strike in Game 6, the Cardinals' reluctant hero delivered a tying two-run triple in the ninth inning Thursday night. Freese then did one better: a leadoff homer in the 11th that gave St. Louis a dramatic win over the Rangers and forced the first Game 7 since 2002.

Freese, the NL championship series MVP, capped his memorable October with another strong performance Friday night, hitting a two-run double in the first inning to tie it 2-all.

Playing solid defense at third base and also drawing a pair of walks that helped lead to runs, Freese was again front and center in a 6-2 win that wrapped up the Cardinals' 11th championship.

"This means everything," Freese said.

When the final out was made, Freese threw his arms in the air and dashed for the mound, where he joined a happy scrum as confetti floated down from the upper reaches of Busch Stadium.

Freese batted .348 in the World Series, with seven RBIs, three doubles and one big homer. He's the fourth Cardinals player to win the MVP award, joining Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson in 1964 and '67, catcher Darrell Porter in 1982 and David Eckstein in their 2006 victory over Detroit.

"You learn from all these veterans about how to go about this game and I wouldn't be here without them," Freese said.

Freese could just as well be the MVP of the entire postseason.

The kid who grew up in a St. Louis suburb hit a three-run homer in Game 6 of the NLCS against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Then came his stirring performance against the Texas Rangers in the Fall Classic.

Often lost in a high-scoring lineup that includes Albert Pujols, Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman, Freese left his impression on baseball's grandest stage out of necessity.

Holliday struggled most of the series before spraining his right wrist during Game 6, keeping him off the roster Friday. Pujols was intentionally walked whenever he was a threat.

That left the offense to Freese, who had given up on baseball after high school, spurning a scholarship offer from Missouri to simply be a college student. He even rebuffed the Tigers' coaches when they called midway through his first semester to find out whether he'd changed his mind.

It wasn't until about a year out of high school that the itch to play finally returned.

Freese gave in and enrolled at St. Louis Community College-Meremec, and his play there caught the attention of the coaching staff at South Alabama. Freese blossomed into the Padres' ninth-round draft pick in 2006, and a trade to the Cardinals eventually brought him home.

"If you wrote a story like that ? a guy gets traded, comes back to his hometown, he's a hero ? if you sent that in the script, it would get thrown back in your face," Commissioner Bud Selig opined before the start of Game 7.

This wasn't a perfect fairy tale, though. That would be too easy.

Freese needed season-ending surgery to repair a torn tendon in his right ankle last year, and he broke his left hand when he was hit by a pitch earlier this season. He was hit by another pitch in August and sustained a concussion.

Each time, he came back better than before.

He was at his best against Texas.

In the World Series opener, with the game tied in the sixth inning, Freese delivered a timely double. He alertly moved to third base on a wild pitch, allowing him to score easily for the eventual winning run on Allen Craig's single to right field.

Freese scored the Cardinals' only run in a 2-1 loss in Game 2, and then drove in a pair of runs in a 16-7 victory in Game 3 ? a performance that will be forever overshadowed by Pujols' three homers.

Nobody could overshadow Freese in Game 6.

After committing a critical error when an easy popup bounced out of his glove, Freese more than made up for it with his bat. Down to his final strike, his two-run triple in the ninth forced extra innings, and he joined Bill Mazeroski, Carlton Fisk, Kirby Puckett and Joe Carter as the only players to hit a game-winning homer in Game 6 or later of a Fall Classic.

That's pretty select company.

Much like the company he'll enjoy as MVP of the World Series.

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Writer Isaacson on Steve Jobs: 'I just listened'

This undated photo made available by his publicist on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 shows author Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs told Isaacson he wanted him to write his biography because he's good at getting people to talk. Jobs, it turns out, didn't need much prodding, secretive as he was about both his private life and the company he founded. "I just listened," said Isaacson, whose book, "Steve Jobs" went on sale Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Jobs, who died Oct. 5 at the age of 56 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer, was a man full of deep contradictions, a product of 1960s counterculture who went on to found what is now the world's most valuable technology company, Apple Inc. (AP Photo/Patrice Gilbert)

This undated photo made available by his publicist on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 shows author Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs told Isaacson he wanted him to write his biography because he's good at getting people to talk. Jobs, it turns out, didn't need much prodding, secretive as he was about both his private life and the company he founded. "I just listened," said Isaacson, whose book, "Steve Jobs" went on sale Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Jobs, who died Oct. 5 at the age of 56 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer, was a man full of deep contradictions, a product of 1960s counterculture who went on to found what is now the world's most valuable technology company, Apple Inc. (AP Photo/Patrice Gilbert)

A customer looks at the book "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson at a Costco store in Mountain View, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011. Jobs told Isaacson he wanted him to write his biography because he's good at getting people to talk. Jobs, it turns out, didn't need much prodding, secretive as he was about both his private life and the company he founded. "I just listened," said Isaacson, whose book, "Steve Jobs" went on sale Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Jobs, who died Oct. 5 at the age of 56 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer, was a man full of deep contradictions, a product of 1960s counterculture who went on to found what is now the world's most valuable technology company, Apple Inc. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

The book "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson is on display at a book shop in Menlo Park, Calif., Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. The depths of Jobs' antipathy toward Google leaps out of Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Apple's co-founder. The book goes on sale Monday, less than three weeks after Jobs' long battle with pancreatic cancer culminated in his Oct. 5 death. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Copies of the book "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson are piled high at a book shop in Menlo Park, Calif., Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. The depths of Jobs' antipathy toward Google leaps out of Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Apple's co-founder. The book goes on sale Monday, less than three weeks after Jobs' long battle with pancreatic cancer culminated in his Oct. 5 death. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Copies of the book "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson are piled high a book shop in Menlo Park, Calif., Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. The depths of Jobs' antipathy toward Google leaps out of Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Apple's co-founder. The book goes on sale Monday, less than three weeks after Jobs' long battle with pancreatic cancer culminated in his Oct. 5 death. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson he wanted him to write his biography because he's good at getting people to talk. Jobs, it turns out, didn't need much prodding, secretive as he was about both his private life and the company he founded.

"I just listened," said Isaacson, whose book, "Steve Jobs" (Simon & Schuster) went on sale Monday. Jobs, who died Oct. 5 at 56 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer, was a man full of deep contradictions, a product of 1960s counterculture who went on to found what is now the world's most valuable technology company, Apple Inc.

In an interview with The Associated Press Wednesday, Isaacson said Jobs was a compelling storyteller with "fascinating stories." Sometimes, the author would hear him tell those tales two or three times, often with slight variations. But through more than 40 conversations with Jobs, as well as interviews with his family, close friends, co-workers and rivals, Isaacson painted a rich portrait of a complex, sometimes conflicting figure.

Isaacson began work on the book in 2009 after Jobs' wife, Laurene Powell, told him that if he was "ever going to do a book on Steve, you'd better do it now." It was just after Jobs had taken his second medical leave as CEO of Apple, in January of that year. His third leave, which began in January 2011, would be his final one.

"He was not sick through much of this process," Isaacson said, when asked about what it was like to be working on the book and speaking with Jobs' family while he was ill.

"We took long walks," he said. "Every evening, he would have dinner around the kitchen table with his wife and kids. He didn't go out socializing or to black-tie dinners. He didn't travel much. Even though he was focused on his work, he was always home for dinner."

Those who see Jobs as the iconic CEO first might be surprised to read about his devotion to his family. It wasn't always evident. As a young man, Jobs denied paternity of his first daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, for years after Lisa was born in 1978. The two later reconciled.

Isaacson said he was most surprised by the intensity of Jobs' emotions.

"Sometimes I'd look up and there would be tears running down his cheek," Isaacson said.

Jobs told him he was always moved by "artistic purity." Sometimes, it was the design of a product, or even the creation of an advertisement that would move him to tears. Other times, it happened as he talked about a person who meant a lot to him. For his 20th wedding anniversary with Powell, Jobs wrote her a letter that he read to Isaacson from his iPhone. By the end, Isaacson said, he was crying uncontrollably.

"Years passed, kids came, good times, hard times, but never bad times," Jobs wrote in the note. "Our love and respect has endured and grown."

Those around Jobs referred to his ability to influence the perception of those around him as his "reality distortion field." Though on the surface it sounds similar, this was far more complex than someone who is lying or deluding himself. As Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak puts it in the book: "You realize that it can't be true, but he somehow makes it true."

The "reality distortion field" was Jobs' way of getting people to do what they thought was impossible, Isaacson said. An example was how he'd tell an engineer working on the Macintosh that he could save 10 seconds on the time the computer needed to boot up if he just wrote better code.

"And the guy would say 'no you can't,'" Isaacson said.

Jobs then asked the engineer if he could do it if it would save a life. And so the engineer did; he wrote better code and he shaved not 10 but 28 seconds off the Macintosh's boot-up time.

While writing the book, Isaacson said he came to understand the connection between Jobs' temperamental behavior and his artistic passion.

"I have a strong emotional respect for Steve," he said. "And it helped me put in perspective ... the tales of him being hard on people. Because I knew it was all in the context of getting people to do the impossible. Which he did."

Isaacson didn't spend time shadowing Jobs, though he did spend an afternoon at the design studio of Jony Ive, the chief designer at Apple who worked on the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. It was Ive who came up with the idea of making the first iPod, including its headphones, pure white. In the afternoons, Isaacson said Jobs would walk around Ive's studio and touch all the new prototypes that were laid out there.

"He was a very tactile person," Isaacson said. "He loved to fondle the prototypes."

Isaacson spent a long afternoon in that studio and doing so "realized what a serene experience it was. Quiet, with new-age jazz playing softly. The leaves from the trees outside casting dancing silhouette shadows on the tinted windows. And even small products like power adapters being lined up for inspections."

Can Apple continue to thrive without Jobs?

"Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering," Isaacson said. "And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there."

Associated Press

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Gene sequencing X Prize to focus on centenarians (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? A $10 million contest to see which laboratory can accurately and economically sequence 100 human genomes has been tweaked to focus on the genetics of people over the age of 100.

The competition, now sponsored by drug benefit manager Medco Health Solutions Inc, is aimed at achieving a "medical grade" standard for gene sequencing that could ultimately be used to personalize medical treatment based on a person's genetic makeup.

"All the technology that people are buying now gives slightly different answers," said pioneer geneticist Craig Venter. "That means by definition they are not good enough for diagnostics."

While quality, speed and accuracy of the testing is improving, the companies involved, including Applied Biosystems, Illumina and Complete Genomics, all have their own standards, he said.

"We are trying to help the field get to where it wants to be," said Venter, who became the first individual to have their genome sequenced in 2007. "We are working with the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) to use this as an agreed upon definition to take genomics to the next grade."

The process of selecting the 100 centenarians is now underway.

The revised competition will measure laboratory teams on accuracy, cost, speed and completeness of genome sequencing.

Teams will get the 100 genomes on January 3, 2013, and the competition will conclude on February 3 of that year.

A $10 million prize purse will be given to the first team that accurately sequences the whole genome of 100 subjects within 30 days for $1,000 or less per genome, at an error rate no greater than one per million base pairs.

"We believe this competition will be the impetus to truly usher in the era of personalized medicine," said Venter.

(Reporting by Deena Beasley; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

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Can You Give Your Pet The Flu?

Snuggling up to your pet when you're sick can be as comforting as a bowl of chicken noodle soup -- but is there a chance you can get your pet sick, too?

It could happen, says Michael Schmidt, Ph.D., a specialist in microbiology and immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina, in this interview with TV360.

For the virus to jump from human to animal, though, it has to be wearing a certain type of "coat" -- watch Dr. Schmidt's explanation above.

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Marie Osmond suffers vocal scare in Las Vegas (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Singer Marie Osmond was rushed to a hospital in Las Vegas with concerns about her voice following a show with her brother Donny, but was later diagnosed with bronchitis, her spokesman said on Thursday.

Marie Osmond finished her portion of the performance at the Flamingo Las Vegas hotel on Wednesday night before going to the hospital for as much as two hours for tests, the singer's representative said.

Osmond is expected to return to the stage on Thursday night, and no shows have been canceled. The 52 year-old singer is currently headlining a variety performance live show alongside her brother Donny at the Flamingo.

The Osmond Brothers singing group rose to fame in the 1970s and were soon joined onstage by sister Marie, who went on to host a TV variety show with brother Donny, called "Donny & Marie." More recently, Marie Osmond appeared on the popular TV show "Dancing With the Stars."

(Reporting and Writing by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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Apple releases 80-minute Steve Jobs tribute video (Yahoo! News)

The company that he founded holds a special event in honor of Steve Jobs

The web has been awash with Steve Jobs tributes and remembrances since the Apple CEO passed away from cancer earlier this month, and much was made about the company's official memorial event on October 19. Apple produced a video of the gathering and it is now available online for all to enjoy.

All Apple retail outlets were closed for the event, and hundreds of well wishers took over Apple's headquarters to watch speeches, stories, and musical tributes to the man who revolutionized technology time and time again. Those on hand to salute Jobs included new Apple boss Tim Cook, musician Norah Jones, and even former Vice President Al Gore.

You can watch the lengthy 1 hour and 20 minute video?on Apple's website. In order to watch the tribute, you must either be using Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion, with Safari 4 or 5, or have a Windows computer with QuickTime 7 installed.

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iPad 3 Connections, Biker Bots, and Other Stories We Didn't Post [Video]

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. More »


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Jack the cat found alive at JFK

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Jack the cat, lost at JFK airport for two months, has been found alive and healthy.

By Harriet Baskas, msnbc.com contributor

Jack the cat, at large at John F. Kennedy International Airport since escaping from his cage in the American Airlines baggage claim area two months ago, has been found.

The cat got loose in the airline baggage center at?JFK on Aug. 25, after Karen Pasco checked Jack and another cat in as cargo. A day later, parts of the airport were shut down in preparation for Tropical Storm Irene.

Since then, more than 16,000 Facebook fans of Jack the Cat is Lost in AA Baggage at JFK have been following search efforts that have included at least two Jack the Cat Awareness days, a pet Amber Alert and the hiring of a pet detective.

"I'm relieved and happy that Jack has been found," Pasco said. "He needs some time to get back in health after the ordeal, but is in good hands with the vets who are taking care of him."

On Tuesday night, American Airlines announced the good news on Facebook:

?American Airlines is happy to announce that Jack the Cat has been found safe and well at JFK airport. American's team of airport employees have been focused on the search effort since Jack escaped on August 25, 2011. Jack was found in the customs room and was immediately taken by team members to a local veterinarian. The vet has advised that Jack is doing well at present.?

Bonnie Folz,?a New York-based search coordinator, saw Jack last night. "It was great to know it?s him and to know he?s safe," she told msnbc.com. "He looked fabulous to me. His eyes are big and beautiful and bright, although he?s lost some weight and he needs some grooming. He?s on IV and is having some tests to make sure he?s OK.?

American Airlines said once Jack is ready to travel, the airline will fly?him to California to be reunited with his owner.

In a report of the incident filed with the Department of Transportation and included in the Air Travel Consumer Report issued this month, American Airlines reported that, ?The clerk responsible for transporting the kennels to the FIS area loaded one kennel on top of another, and while the kennels were stationary and waiting to be loaded on the aircraft, the kennel positioned on the top fell to the ground.?The impact of the fall caused the kennel to separate and the cat escaped.?

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Deal of the Day: 2750mAh Extended Battery w/ Door for HTC ThunderBolt

HTC 2750mAh Extended Battery w/ Door for ThunderboltThe Oct. 26 Deal of the Day is a hot one for you HTC ThunderBolt owners: It's the HTC 2750 mAh extended battery with extended battery door. It gives you almost double the juice of the stock battery, and it's an official HTC accessory, so it's got the name and might of the manufacturer behind it. And it's on sale today only for $34.95 -- that's 56 percent off. Get yours while supplies last!


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Former 'Bachelorette' DeAnna Pappas weds

DeAnna Pappas can finally shake off her ?Bachelorette? status!

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After a slew of whirlwind romances ? including rejecting Brad Womack and ending her engagement to Jesse Csincsak in 2008 ? the 29-year-old walked down the aisle with Stephen Stagliano over the weekend.

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According to People, DeAnna?s wedding style was country meets fairytale ? the bride wore cowboy boots under a strapless wedding gown from the Disney Bridal collection and a birdcage veil.

?They were giddy with excitement,? an observer told the mag. ?She looked incredibly happy.?

VIEW THE PHOTOS: Access Top 10: Most Shocking ?Bachelor? & ?Bachelorette? Moments!

The couple was originally set up by Stephen?s twin brother, Michael, who appeared on Jillian Harris? season of ?The Bachelorette,? and his then-girlfriend, Holly Durst, who fans will remember from Matt Grant?s season of ?The Bachelor.?

The former couple, who since split, went on to win last season?s ?Bachelor Pad.?

Stephen, a high school teacher, proposed to DeAnna in August 2010.

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Nintendo to report struggling first-half earnings (AP)

TOKYO ? Nintendo Co. reports fiscal first half earnings Thursday that will likely highlight the Japanese game maker's recent struggles against popular mobile devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR: Nintendo, which scored success by courting casual gamers, may now be seeing them wooed away by mobile phones and other devices that offer simple games.

Nintendo's Wii home console is losing sales momentum, and its 3DS handheld, which offers 3D gaming without special glasses, has been a relative disappointment since it went on sale in February in Japan and in March overseas.

The surging yen works as a minus for the Kyoto-based manufacturer behind Pokemon and Super Mario games by eroding the value of overseas earnings of Japanese exporters.

WHY IT MATTERS: Nintendo hasn't given up the fight to win back consumers ahead of the key year-end shopping season.

It has slashed the price of the 3DS and is coming out with more games, including 3D versions of its trademark Super Mario games.

It announced recently a software upgrade set for global release at the end of November that will allow users to take 10 minutes of 3D video.

In the U.S., Nintendo is also offering an on-demand service of TV shows and movies for the 3DS and Wii. A similar service has not yet been announced for Japan.

Competition in portable gaming is heating up with the arrival of Japanese rival Sony Corp.'s latest portable offering, PlayStation Vita. Vita goes on sale in Japan on Dec. 17, and early next year in the U.S. and Europe.

Both 3DS and PlayStation Vita face the threat from smartphones and tablet devices that also offer on-the-go games and other entertainment, including social networking.

Times are changing for Nintendo, once the king of portable gaming ? selling nearly 150 million DS handheld machines since they went on sale in 2004, outpacing the Sony PlayStation Portable, whose cumulative global sales total 71 million.

So far, Nintendo has sold just 4.32 million 3DS machines around the world.

WHAT'S EXPECTED: A FactSet survey of analysts forecasts Nintendo to report a 14.7 billion yen ($193 million) loss for the June-September quarter.

LAST YEAR: Nintendo, which does not break down quarterly numbers, sank to a loss for the April-September period last year, its first in seven years, racking up 2.01 billion yen ($26 million) in red ink for the six months.

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Colombia: 10 more soldiers killed in rebel attack (AP)

BOGOTA, Colombia ? Colombia's army reported 10 soldiers killed Saturday in an attack blamed on leftist rebels, the second such loss in less than three days.

Ten deaths in a single battle is the heaviest loss by security forces in more than a year, since 14 police officers died in September 2010 when their convoy was attacked in the southern state of Caqueta.

The military blamed both of this week's attacks on the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

The army command said Saturday's latest attack happened in a rural area of Tame municipality in Colombia's northeast, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) northeast of Bogota.

The army's announcement gave no details of the fighting. Gen. Jaime Reyes, commander in the region, was reported flying over the area of the attack and did not return calls to his cellphone.

Ten soldiers also died when an army patrol was attacked with mortar fire around midnight Thursday in a rural area near the Pacific port of Tumaco in Colombia's southwest.

The military chief, Gen. Alejandro Nevas, said Friday that "tactical errors" caused those deaths, but the army has not specified what the mistakes were or given details of the fight.

That area is rife with cocaine-smuggling routes to the rugged jungle coast, where traffickers load the drug in semi-submersible vessels for shipment north to Central America and Mexico.

Despite major security gains against rebels over the past decade, they retain the ability to mount hit-and-run attacks, in large part due to Colombia's rugged mountains and thick jungles. Several hundred soldiers and police are killed annually.

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