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LOS ANGELES ? The Los Angeles Auto Show, running from Nov. 30-Dec. 9, has an entire hall dedicated to the automotive aftermarket and specialty vehicle industries such as mobile electronics.

Located in the lower level of South Hall, Kentia Hall includes various automotive companies, specialty vehicles, customized rides and enhancements for any vehicle.

Kentia Hall features an over-the-top array of products ranging from custom muscle cars boasting sizzling 600-plus hp powertrains to customized exotics and the latest in mobile electronics and accessories.

No other car show in North America features specialty vehicle and accessory exhibitors like the Los Angeles Show, making it the place to see and experience what?s around the curve in custom design, accessories and performance.

Some of this year?s highlights include:
Customization: Galpin Auto Sports (GAS) demonstrates the outer limits of customization with an awe-inspiring array of recent projects. This year, 12 vehicles will be featured at the Show, ranging from high-octane power statements to reviving 60?s-era classics with everything from custom wheels to Cobra seats. Many of the GAS customs slated for display have never been seen by the public, including the 2012 Ford F-150 Raptor boasting a 600 hp powerplant and 18? matte black wheels; 2012 Custom Shelby GT500 with a heart-stopping 750 hp Ford Racing/Shelby Supercharger; and 2013 Ford Focus ST equipped with Brembo performance brakes and custom leather seats.

Madness Autoworks (formerly Smart Madness), masters of the micro-car, return this year featuring the largest inventory of Smart and Fiat parts and accessories. Its creative approach to personalization and customized installations transforms stock vehicles into one-of-a-kind masterpieces.

For over 30 years Bespoke Coachworks has been customizing some of the world?s top marques, including nameplates such as Bentley, Ferrari and Mercedes. Its expertise extends from integrating advanced audio and video solutions to designing everything from custom in-vehicle doggie beds to full vehicle conversions, such as their Mercedes-Benz Sprinter conversion.

Electronics and Technology: The experts from Al & Ed?s Autosound will showcase the latest trends in mobile technology ? from hands free communication and iPad integration, to the most advanced platforms ranging from signal processors to navigation systems.

Tuners and Performance: High-end tuners and performance experts such as Specialty Car Craft and RTW Motoring will be showcasing high-end modifications on luxury cars such as Porsche and Maserati. These companies represent the ultimate in vehicle personalization with
services ranging from custom matte paint jobs to installing aftermarket body kits.

Street legal and track worthy, the low center of gravity, sinuous handling and predatory design of Compagno Motors three-wheeled side-by-side vehicles promise the ?Same Road. Different Journey.? The tuned trikes count celebrities and aficionados such as Jay Leno as fans.

Radio Controlled: Traxxas designs a popular, feel-of-real range of radio controlled cars and boats powered by both nitro and electricity. The model range is broad and designed for everyone from the novice to hard-core enthusiast and includes everything from race trucks and monster trucks to a 1/8 scale NHRA Funny Car.

The LA Auto Show runs Friday, Nov. 30 through Dec. 9. Ticket prices are $12 for adults, with $2-off tickets available at LAautoshow.com. Children 12 and under are free when accompanied by an adult. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit LAAutoshow.com and connect with other show enthusiasts on Twitter @LAAutoShow and become a fan at facebook.com/LosAngelesAutoShow.

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White House blasts GOP ?obsession? with Rice and Benghazi

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee?flanked by fellow committee??The White House sharply escalated its attacks Tuesday on Republicans trying to stop Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice from succeeding Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state. Press secretary Jay Carney described GOP lawmakers as being gripped by a politically fueled "obsession" with a series of television appearances Rice made shortly after the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in which she wrongly suggested the attack had stemmed from a demonstration over an anti-Muslim video rather than a terrorist assault.

Carney's comments came after Rice met privately on Capitol Hill with Republican senators who have said they intend to block her nomination if President Barack Obama chooses her to replace Clinton as the nation's top diplomat.?Rice also acknowledged for the first time, in a written statement issued by her office, that her initial public comments on the Benghazi assault were wrong because there had been no protest outside the compound.

Carney said the U.S. still does not know who carried out the assault, which claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. But he said GOP focus on Rice's early statements was a politically motivated distraction from efforts to identify those responsible for the killings.

"The questions that remain to be answered have to do with what happened in Benghazi, who was responsible for the deaths of four Americans, including our ambassador, and what steps we need to take to ensure that something like that doesn't happen again." Carney said.

In appearance after appearance, Rice said that American intelligence had pinned the blame on the assault on extremists who took advantage of a demonstration outside the facility.

Tuesday, Rice acknowledged the information initially provided by the intelligence community was wrong.

"Neither I nor anyone else in the administration intended to mislead the American people at any stage in this process, and the administration updated Congress and the American people as our assessments evolved," Rice said.

Rice, accompanied by Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, met with Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, who have accused Rice (and the Obama administration in general) of misleading the public by tying the assault to the video. Republicans have suggested the administration hoped to blunt the potential political impact of the attack?the first to claim the life of an American ambassador in 30 years?shortly before the presidential election.

"Bottom line: I'm more disturbed now than I was before," Graham told reporters after the meeting. "We are significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got and some that we didn't get," McCain said.

Carney shot back, saying there were "no unanswered questions" about Rice's early televised statements.

"The focus on?some might say obsession on?comments made on Sunday shows seems to me and to many to be misplaced," Carney said. "I know that Sunday shows have vaunted status in Washington, but they have almost nothing to do?in fact zero to do?with what happened in Benghazi."

And neither, to hear Carney tell it, did Rice.

"Ambassador Rice has no responsibility for collecting, analyzing and providing intelligence, nor does she have responsibility as the United States ambassador to the United Nations for diplomatic security around the globe," he said.

So why, then, did the White House anoint Rice the administration point person to answer questions about a possible intelligence failure and consular security? Why not Secretary of State Clinton? Director of National Intelligence James Clapper? Defense Secretary Leon Panetta? National Security Adviser Tom Donilon?

"She is a principal on the president's foreign policy team," Carney said.

He added, "To this day it is the assessment of this administration and of our intelligence community ? that they acted at least in part in response to what they saw happening in Cairo and took advantage of that situation."

In other words, according to one well-placed source, the perpetrators of the attack may have concluded that anger at the video gave them the maximum opportunity to get sympathy or support across the Muslim world, and might even inspire copycat attacks.?Rice's much-dissected Sept. 16 comments broadly follow those lines.

Obama has fiercely defended Rice, while carefully declining to say whether he has chosen her to succeed Clinton. Another leading contender is the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry.

McCain and Graham have pledged to try to filibuster her confirmation, but they are well short of the votes needed to do so.

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The hungry caterpillar: Beware your enemy's enemy's enemy

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When herbivores such as caterpillars feed, plants may "call for help" by emitting volatiles, which can indirectly help defend the plants. The volatiles recruit parasitoids that infect, consume and kill the herbivores, to the benefit of the plant. However, such induced plant odours can also be detected by other organisms. A new study published November 27 in the open access journal PLOS Biology shows how secondary parasitoids ('hyperparasitoids') can take advantage of these plant signals to identify parasitoid-infected caterpillars, and duly infect the primary parasitoid, to the detriment of the original plant.

Plant volatiles have long been considered to mediate this mutualistic relationship between plants and herbivores' natural enemies such as parasitoids. When a caterpillar feeds, the parasitoids are able to use the emitted volatiles to locate the otherwise inconspicuous caterpillar, releasing the plant from its attacker. This principle has made its way into sustainable agriculture by using natural enemies such as parasitoids to control herbivorous pests on agricultural crops. However, the largest group of enemies of parasitoids, hyperparasitoids, have so far been left out of studies in this area. This is because very little is known about the cues that hyperparasitoids use to locate their parasitoid hosts.

The new study, by a team of Dutch researchers led by Erik Poelman, shows that hyperparasitoids exploit the different plant odours that are released when a plant is fed upon by a parasitoid-infected caterpillar.

"In controlled laboratory assays as well as under field conditions, hyperparasitoids were offered plant odours coming from two types of plant: ones damaged by healthy caterpillars, and ones damaged by parasitoid-infected caterpillars. We found that they preferentially detected odours of plants damaged by infected caterpillars," explained Dr Poelman. "We were excited by these results as they indicate that hyperparasitoids rely on a network of interactions among plant, herbivore and parasitoids to locate their host".

To show how this complex network of interactions can reliably provide hyperparasitoids with information on the presence of their parasitoid host, the researchers collected saliva of the caterpillars, as they noticed the colour of saliva in healthy, non-host caterpillars was different to that of caterpillars hosting a parasitoid. Factors in caterpillar saliva play an important role in provoking the release of odours from plants, and a change in saliva composition may then alter the cocktail of odours emitted by the plant.

Indeed, Dr Poelman's team found that plant odours induced by the saliva of parasitized caterpillars was more attractive to hyperparasitoids than plant odours induced by the saliva of healthy caterpillars. Consequently, plant odours may actually reduce the benefit of attracting parasitoids to a plant.

"Our results demonstrate that the effects of herbivore-induced plant volatiles should be placed in a community-wide perspective that includes species at the fourth trophic level, to improve our understanding of the ecological functions of volatile release by plants," said Dr Poelman. In addition to the ecological aspects of their work, the authors also stress that their findings are important for developing Integrated Pest Management strategies, in which crops are manipulated to control insect pests by using parasitoids.

Although parasitoids are effective biological control agents, this study suggests that using plant odours to optimize biological control of pests may have side effects that could actually reduce the benefit of pest control, said Dr Poelman.

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Poelman EH, Bruinsma M, Zhu F, Weldegergis BT, Boursault AE, et al. (2012) Hyperparasitoids Use Herbivore-Induced Plant Volatiles to Locate Their Parasitoid Host. PLoS Biol 10(11): e1001435. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001435

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Fay Gillman with her adult daughter Leanne who has an intellectually disability and was living at the Mary Moodie trust house in Woolston.

Intellectually disabled people at a Christchurch care facility are likely to be moved to new homes, the Health Ministry says.

The ministry has put two temporary managers in charge of the Mary Moodie Family Trust home in Ferry Rd after at least 16 complaints from family members within six months.

A group of parents and welfare guardians, representing 10 residents, told The Press two homes had been lined up for the residents to move into last Friday before the families were told the trust's board had asked for more time to work with the ministry.

The families then sent a letter to the ministry on Sunday, requesting their children be "immediately relocated" until the trust's board and management were replaced.

Health Ministry disability support services group manager Toni Atkinson confirmed the ministry was considering moving the residents to alternative accommodation and would support families who wanted to relocate their family member.

"While we remain open to continued discussions with the trust board and management, we are not confident a resolution can be found in the short term.

"Should a resolution not be found and the ministry decides to terminate the contract with the trust, all the remaining residents will need to be relocated."

Owen Pimm, whose daughter had lived at the trust home since it opened, said he no longer had any confidence in the board.

"We've never had a problem up until two years ago. We built the homes, we fundraised for them. In two years, the whole thing's been destroyed by personalities."

A court-appointed guardian said the families had "absolutely no confidence" in the board.

"Even though the temporary managers are involved . . . [the board] are still denying even to the Ministry of Health that there are any problems."

Fay Gillman, whose daughter Leanne had lived at the home for about 18 years, said she wanted the residents moved until the board and management were replaced.

The Health and Disability Commissioner also confirmed yesterday it was investigating two complaints against the trust's board.

Trust chairwoman Rosemary Sladen declined to comment on the situation yesterday but said the board would issue a statement this week.

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Congo's government won't negotiate unless rebels leave Goma

The Congolese President met with the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels for the first time since they seized the city of Goma, about a week ago. The rebels have shown no sign of leaving the city, and plan to march on others.

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Congolese M23 rebel soldiers are seen on the road to Rushuru near Buhumba some 16 miles north of Goma, Thursday. Rebel spokesman Lt. Col. Vianney Kazarama vowed Thursday that the fighters would press forward toward seizing the strategic eastern town of Bukavu, which would mark the biggest gain in rebel territory in nearly a decade if it were to fall.

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Congo?said on Sunday it would not negotiate with M23 rebels in the east until they pulled out of the city of?Goma, but a rebel spokesman said?Kinshasa?was in no position to set conditions on peace talks.

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Congolese President?Joseph Kabila?met with M23 for the first time on Saturday after an urgent summit in?Uganda?where regional leaders gave M23 two days to leave?Goma, which the rebels seized six days ago after U.N.-backed government troops melted away.

Eight months into a rebellion that U.N. experts say is backed by neighbouring?Rwanda, the rebels have so far shown no sign of quitting the lakeside city of one million people.

The rebels say they plan to march on other cities in the east, and then strike out across the country to the capital?Kinshasa, across 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of dense jungle with few roads, a daunting feat achieved 15 years ago by Kabila's father.

Amani Kabasha, a spokesman for M23's political arm, welcomed the meeting with Kabila but questioned the government's resolve to end a crisis that risks engulfing the region.

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LAUREL, Md. (WJZ)?A Laurel family is safe after a dangerous turkey related fire that ignited overnight.

Christie Ileto has more on the dangers that come with preparing your Thanksgiving turkey.

The back of Clyde Austin?s home is charred this Thanksgiving?rather than just the turkey he says his daughter was attempting to smoke on their deck Wednesday night.

?Between her watching television and coming out every 10 minutes to check, all of a sudden I heard this ?kaboom,?? Austin said.

Prince George?s and Anne Arundel fire crews say they responded to the home around 11 p.m. Wednesday on the 500- block of Prince George?s Street.

?I saw my whole back deck was on fire,? Austin said.

Neighbors say the flames were so massive they could be seen from blocks away.

?It was unbelievable. I was really, really shaken up,? said Cathy Sansosti, neighbor.

One neighbor captured the fire billowing from the home.

Austin says the flames quickly spread throughout the rear of the home. The family of three escaped out their front door.

Officials say there are several dangers associated with cooking turkeys this holiday, especially when it comes to deep frying a turkey.

Fire crews warn dropping a frozen bird into a hot vat of oil is recipe for disaster.

?If you?re going to choose to cook your turkey this way instead of the traditional way, take all the precautions you can,? a firefighter said.

In the meantime, Austin and his family are picking up the pieces of what?s left of their home.

?Right now we?re meeting with an adjuster, and trying to see what they have to offer,? he said.

While the Austins can?t celebrate Thanksgiving in their home, they are giving thanks they survived the fire unharmed.

The family says the home has major smoke and water damage, and that it may be months until they can move back.

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DETROIT (AP) ? Houston's Justin Forsett scored on an 81-yard run in the third quarter Thursday against the Detroit Lions, even though replays clearly showed his knee touching the ground around his own 25-yard-line.

Detroit coach Jim Schwartz probably helped the touchdown stand by throwing his challenge flag.

The TD counted and Detroit was called for unsportsmanlike conduct. A Lions spokesman said a coach is not allowed to challenge scoring plays, which are automatically reviewed. If a coach does throw a challenge flag, the automatic review is negated.

Schwartz was seen tapping his chest on the sideline, saying "it's on me."

The irate crowd at Detroit's Ford Field kept booing the call for several minutes, even as the game continued.

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Ohio State coach Urban Meyer directs his team from the sidelines during the first half of a college football game against Wisconsin Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, in Madison, Wis. Ohio State won 21-14 in overtime. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

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Michigan head coach Brady Hoke,right, greets quarterback Denard Robinson during a pre-game ceremony for seniors before an NCAA college football game against Iowa at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? One game, 60 minutes, four quarters are all that separate Ohio State from a season for the ages.

Just five teams in the program's 122 previous years have gone through a campaign unbeaten and untied. The Buckeyes (11-0, 7-0 Big Ten) can become the sixth on Saturday when they take on their rival Michigan.

Since the two officially saved the best for last and moved their biggest game to the end of the schedule in 1935, Ohio State has carried a perfect record into the Michigan game 12 times, going 8-3-1.

Is there added pressure defending a spotless season? Is there added incentive for your chief adversary to ruin one?

These and more questions will be answered in the 109th meeting at a packed Ohio Stadium.

Associated Press

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42 Things Entrepreneurs Should Be Grateful For

Editor?s note:?Derek?Andersen?is the founder of?Startup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs.?He founded Commonred (Acquired by Income.com) and is?ex-Electronic Arts. Today is Thanksgiving, a holiday where Americans and a few other countries celebrate and remember everything we have to be grateful for. In the daily grind it?d?hard to step back and appreciate how lucky we are to be entrepreneurs. Today seemed like an appropriate time so here are the 50 things I am most grateful for as an entrepreneur in 2012. 1. Still being excited to work past 1am. 2. My spouse continues to support the dream despite all the risk and uncertainty. 3. Knowing that Silicon Valley can?t be captured in a cable TV show. 4. We finally won?t have to talk about Color anymore. 5. Founder resources like Steve Blank, Naval Ravikant, Mark Suster, Fred Wilson, Paul Graham, and Brad Feld. 6. Products like Basecamp, Stripe, Github, SendGrid, Google Apps, MailChimp, Square, Eventbrite, MacBook, MSFT Office, and Gmail that keep our businesses running. 7.?Not having a 9 to 5. 8. Checks to cash. 9.?Friends who throw your startup a bone when you desperately need it. 10. I can operate a global company from my laptop. 11. MC Hammer and PSY hooked up. 12. Parents that are proud of their kid?s startup. 13. TechCrunch?s triumphant return earlier this year has stuck. 14. Cofounders who push you to your best with their example. 15. APIs. 16. The freedom to operate and create a business of your choosing. 17.?Arrington and MG are back on TechCrunch. 18. Thoughtful design. 19. Entrepreneurial books like Startup Communities, The Startup Owner’s Manual, Founders at Work, and Steve Jobs. 20. Founders around the world working tirelessly to build their local community. 21. No new incubators have launched in the past few months. 22. Startups measured not by the amount they?ve raised but by the traction they?ve received. 23. Engineers who aren?t jerks. 24. Business guys who act like engineers. 25. Investors and share holders who understand no one is always right. 26. Max Woolf?s comments. 27. People that give without expectations or strings. 28. Thank you emails from customers. 29. Never being accused of growth hacking. 30. Over delivering. 31. Customers that pay for products. 32. Resources like Kauffman Foundation, AngelList, Stanford, Startup School, SFciti, and Startup Weekend that help entrepreneurs. 33. Kids who hug and kiss you regardless

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India v England - live!

137th over: England 356-5 (lead by 26 runs; Cook 175, Prior 91): Khan does find some good reverse swing, throwing in a yorker that Cook deals with. His next ball, however, is a pearl. Cook, I think, was leaving it but it cut back in and missed the stumps by the proverbial paint lick. Two byes, and clip off his pads for four follows.

So that's 16 runs in the first half hour, plus a ludicrous lbw appeal. This is going to be a long, grinding, battle. Or at least it is as long as these two are in. I'm not sure how much stomach Broad or Swann, for example, have for the long, grinding battle.

136th over: England 350-5 (lead by 20 runs; Cook 171, Prior 91): Here's Ojha, rattling through his overs again. Cook seems happy to get off strike and leave Prior to deal with his looping, tossed-up left-arm spinners and nurdles a single first ball. He's bowling a good length to Prior, who is playing him both back and forwards without looking entirely comfortable with either.

135th over: England 349-5 (lead by 19 runs; Cook 170, Prior 91): Khan is working hard on the ball, trying to get something out of it. He's finding a little reverse. I said it yesterday, but this is one of the greenest outfield I've ever seen in India - a Fletcher plan, perhaps, to nullify England's seamers. However, it's not helping Khan much at this point either. He sets Cook up with three outside off, then brings in a sharp inswinger. The England captain nudges it to leg to bring up the 150 partnership.

"This is Roy in Brighton," emails Roy from Brighton. "Talking of hope - an entire US presidential election was decided on who could read that word off a TelePrompter in a convincing manner. Hope works - unless it's a Test match. Oh wait ... I think England will lose the match, but not before giving us lots of hope. At least till Lunch. Then India will win by tea. I am told they have a plane to catch. Which will be just around the time BCCI will announce truce with the camera bearers."

134th over: England 348-5 (lead by 18 runs; Cook 169, Prior 91): Ojha continues, and Prior slaps the ball through silly point. But Tendulkar is there in the covers to prevent a run. Prior then goes back to a ball that was a touch quicker than he expected, causing him momentary alarm. Another maiden.

133rd over: England 348-5 (lead by 18 runs; Cook 169, Prior 91): Cook runs a quick single to cover to get off the mark for the morning, before Prior works Khan to gully for another. Khan is keeping the ball very tight, hoping to get Cook lbw before his feet are moving properly. He does rap him on the front shin with his last of the over, but the ball was going down.

"Good morning Tom," emails Chris Bourne. "Glad to hear you're not encumbered with women when the only thing on any true Englishman's mind should be a forward defensive prod. If we are going to riff on the great philosophers today, then I think Albert Camus had something important to say about Cook's innings: 'Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai d?couvert en moi un invincible ?t?.' If ever a batmsan carried an invincible summer in him, it must be Alistair." Tell you what, let's not riff on philosophers. I need little enough temptation to question my existence at this time of the morning.

132nd over: England 346-5 (lead by 16 runs; Cook 168, Prior 90): Ojha has an ambitious lbw shout, pitching the ball outside leg stump and not turning it enough to hit them. Two balls later, though, he bowls a stunner: the ball turns sharply, keeping very low, and just avoids Prior's edge. Yikes. A maiden, and blimey, India are cracking through the overs.

131st over: England 346-5 (lead by 16 runs; Cook 168, Prior 90): That eases the pressure. Khan bowls shortish and wide to Prior and, batting out of his crease, he flays the ball to the point boundary. He feels for a better, wide one later in the over, the one slip in to Prior momentarily twitching. A drive then brings him both a single and into the 90s.

"Apparently if you don't sweat it's very dangerous," emails Dr Ian Forth. "There must be a chance that at some point Cook will overheat, then spontaneously combust, like Mr Krook in Bleak House. I'm guessing he would be the first visiting captain to India to do so (though I haven't checked statsguru). How many more records will he break?"

130th over: England 341-5 (lead by 11 runs; Cook 168, Prior 85): Ojha, two wickets in this innings, starts at the other end. He bowls to Prior who has no maker's name on his bat - the theory being that he's gone out and bought a local piece of timber rather than use his more usual one. These are the tense overs as they try to get their eyes back in. Prior works a single to the deep

"The most concerning aspect of this test from an England point of view is not necessarily many of the players' inability to play spin, but the fact that our supposed strength in fast bowling has been proven totally illusory," emails Peter Hook from a cool and cloudy Sydney. "Our trio have barely reached 80mph on the speed-gun, where as Yudav has been managing close to 90mph and both he and Zaheer have extracted swing, where as Bresnan, Broad and Anderson were barely able to move the ball in the air or off the wicket. There is a point where blind loyalty just becomes blind, and Bresnan and Broad need to replaced by Finn and Monty. Samit may have got a couple of dubious LBWs but he needs to be replaced by a specialist who can score a century (ie Morgan). While I'd love Captain Cook and Sgt Major Prior to bat England to safety it will tend to cover over the very obvious selection mistakes England have made. But can we have both a draw and selection overhaul, pleeease?" I think both Broad and Bresnan need to have a bit of a think.

129th over: England 340-5 (lead by 10 runs; Cook 168, Prior 84): Zaheer Khan opens the bowling on the fifth day with no slips and a split field. Cook prods forward at his first ball and misses it by a margin. He's better with the erst of the over, which is largely full and straight. A maiden, England are basically 10 for five.

Good lord, it's early for this from Liam Drew. "Nietzsche's take on hope: Zeus intended that man, notwithstanding the evils oppressing him, should continue to live and not rid himself of life, but keep on making himself miserable. For this purpose he bestowed hope upon man: it is, in truth, the greatest of evils for it lengthens the ordeal of man."

3.57am: Oh, well there's the tin lid on it. Ian Botham says he has no reason not to believe England will save this. Go back to bed everyone. Night, night. Never going to happen now.

"Morning Tom," emails Harry Tuttle, he of the startling revelations yesterday. "Fifth day, absolutely knackered but feeling better after managing to sleep in a socially acceptable fashion all through Sunday. As a final, decisive act of derision towards the BCCI, I present my artist's portrayal of yesterday's events. Can your readers do better? I think not ... Oh, and here's Matt Prior." Oh dear.

"Wake up!" hollers Zaph Mann. "The game starts again in 12 minutes!!! That woman you're holding is just a dream, wake up Tom! Wake up..." Have no fear Zaph. As if any woman, imaginary or otherwise, could be better than a grindingly defensive, rearguard Test innings.

Hope: it's a cruel mistress. Yesterday at this time of the morning, this felt like a wander into the masochist's parlour. England fans knew this was a doomed cause, they knew this would end in tragedy and farce. Yet still they watched, enjoying the curious pain and addiction unique to watching a Test cricket side being gently crushed.

But now? Now, it's even worse. Because after Cook and Prior's heroics, there's that glimmer of maybe. Just maybe. You suspect that, at the current rate of scoring, they'll probably need to bat to around tea in order to post a target they can defend. That's a mighty big ask. Mighty big. But can they?

But then there is a precedent of a solid, reliable England captain and opener batting with his wicketkeeper to save a Test. Vic Marks wrote a great piece on Mike Atherton and Jack Russell's 1995 innings against South Africa here, so there's no need to rehash it. It is worth pointing out, though, that India don't have an Allan Donald in their ranks, while Prior is a better (and less helter skelter) batsman than the tea, biscuit and baked-bean obsessed Russell. There's that hope again...

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/nov/19/cricket-india-england-first-test

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Relationship Breakdown between the Electorate and the Elected ...

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No comments - Hunter Business Development ? Consulting and ...

Over the years of helping firms establish filters for identifying their best new clients to target, one criteria inevitably surfaces ? ?we want to work with clients who see us as a partner and not a vendor?.

While I personally think this is a great filter, especially in an area like professional services, many times firms don?t always walk the walk themselves. And that?s ultimately troubling because when it comes to fostering any true partner relationship, it takes two to tango.

If you want to learn if your firm is a good partner, start by looking at these 6 characteristics of any good partnership (business or personal). They will help you determine how strong your partnering profile is and also assess a client?s or prospective client?s profile:

1. Willingness to listen first
2. Willingness to change
3. Willing to admit mistakes
4. Sees the relationship as an opportunity to give
5. Keeps promises
6. Considers what?s in the best interest of their partner

While all are important, I believe that partnering starts with listening. So, to what degree is your team really listening and open and willing to change? By the way, I believe that if the former is true the latter will be much more likely to happen. For example, when your client tells the team what they want, do they typically come back with

1. What the client asked for even if it?s not an approach that the team might recommend
2. Something different because they don?t believe what the client requested is the right approach
3. What the client asked for in addition to an option(s) that the team feels is the right approach:

I sure hope you answered either ?1? or ?3? and hopefully ?3? ? that is of course if you?re interested in fostering partner-like relationships with clients.

I frequently conduct Client Research on behalf of firms. One characteristic that consistently has high value according to clients happens to be a willingness to truly listen. And something that really aggravates clients is when you ignore what they?ve asked for. Even if you don?t like their idea, you?re much better off bringing them what they requested along with your recommendation as an option.

I realize that saying ?we listen? probably sounds trite. I suppose that?s because it seems so easy to do and most firms think they do. However most clients that I?ve talked to over time tell a very different story ? that agencies actually do a very poor job of it and that it affects the relationship. Maybe that?s why it is expressed with such exuberance when a client talks about a firm that really does listen.

If you want to find and foster more partner-like client relationships, remember that you first need to walk the walk because ultimately it does take two to tango.

Thanks for your time and as always, good hunting (and partnering)!

Larry Melnick

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Source: http://hunterbizdev.com/2012/11/when-it-comes-to-partner-relationships-it-takes-two-to-tango/

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Facebook's New Ad Products - Business Insider

Lucy Jacobs / Spruce Media Spruce Media's Lucy Jacobs ?

Facebook is continuing to roll out more new ad products, keeping up a dizzying pace of new features, tweaks and opportunities for the thousands of clients who spend about $1 billion per quarter in paid media on the site.

Facebook has been under fire recently from advertisers who are unhappy that the reach of their organic page posts has been restricted -- meaning that they're required to pay to promote posts to ensure that all their fans see them. To solve that, Facebook created a new "Pages Feed" which aggregates posts only from Brand Pages users have liked.

We talked to Spruce Media COO Lucy Jacobs recently, as she celebrated raising another $15 million in funding for her Facebook ad buying platform (and a $150 million client-spend run rate in Q3). She told us that Facebook just isn't quitting when it comes to creating new ways to advertise on the social network.

Here are the three areas clients should expect to see Facebook launch new products in soon, she said:

• Mobile: Facebook has seen much more effectiveness in its mobile ad products than its desktop ones, and is therefore "iterating some more around mobile adoption," Spruce says.
• Direct response: Advertisers on Facebook generally want consumers to click and then buy products. It's a social shopping engine for many of them, rather than a corporate image booster. So look for products that boost direct-response oriented advertisers.
• Analytics: Obviously, advertisers want as much performance data as possible. And Facebook's vast trove of data on consumers is unmatched among social media properties. So the company will be rolling out new ways for clients to slice and dice their data. UPDATE: Right on schedule, Facebook at 10.50 a.m. just announced an enhancement of its Ads Manager for measuring coversion rates. With?Optimized CPM, marketers can now create a unique snippet of code to add to any page on their website which they want to measure conversions (checkout pages, registration pages, donation pages, etc.), a spokesperson tells us.

Jacobs declined to be more specific about exactly what's getting launched next, but she did surprise us when we asked about the new Facebook Want button -- which seems a natural partner for Facebook Gifts. Were her clients -- who include Procter & Gamble, Samsung and University of Phoenix -- interested in working with the Want button? "Not that much, no," she says.

Disclosure: The author owns Facebook stock.

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The US path to energy independence in three charts

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Preserve water flow to precious Florida rivers

By TBO.COM | Staff
Published: November 17, 2012 Updated: November 17, 2012 - 12:00 AM

With the Chassahowitzka River being degraded by rising salinity levels, the Southwest Florida Water Management District governing board decided the other day to allow even more fresh water withdrawals.

Given the original staff proposal to allow withdrawals of as much as 9 percent of the Chassahowitzka's flow, the board's decision to limit any flow level reductions to only 3 percent can be viewed as something of a victory.

But this should hardly be the final word on the protection of the beautiful spring-fed river, which flows through nine miles of wilderness to the Gulf of Mexico.

The river, about 50 miles north of Tampa, has been designated an Outstanding Florida Water. So has the nearby Homosassa River, which also is experiencing increased salinity levels that are hurting flora and fauna.

The district's governing board also set a limit of a 3 percent flow reduction for the Homosassa.

The 3 percent may sound reasonable, but existing withdrawal levels are estimated to be at 1 percent at both the Chassahowitzka and the Homosassa, and both are suffering.

Longtime Chassahowitzka River users such as Mickey Newberger of Lutz report at least a quarter-mile of the river swamp is dying, likely because of an insufficient flow of fresh water.

Many who frequent the Homosassa River report similar deterioration.

Terri Auner, a member of the Homosassa River Alliance, told the Citrus County Chronicle, "If anything, they should be adding water. The Homosassa River is dead. The plant life is gone, and you hardly find fish in there."

During the district board meeting, a member of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service warned that increased withdrawals would threaten manatees, fish and other wildlife in the Homosassa and Chassahowitzka.

The district staff believes the problems are likely the result of rising sea levels, lack of rainfall and nutrient pollution.

Even so, why risk further damage with flow levels that allow additional withdrawals?

The "compromise" is superior to the original proposal, and to its credit, the agency plans to develop "water use cautionary area" rules for Hernando and Citrus County, toughening the requirements for water withdrawal permits. The proposed rules will be presented to the board next year.

The governing board also voted to review the minimum flow levels for the Chassahowitzka and Homosassa every six years.

These steps are positive.

But to save the Chassahowitzka and Homosassa ? irreplaceable resources that profoundly enrich life in Central Florida ? the district is going to have to get far tougher on groundwater withdrawals and force communities to develop alternative water sources.

Source: http://www2.tbo.com/news/opinion/2012/nov/17/naopino1-preserve-water-flow-to-precious-florida-r-ar-567155/

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Hostess moves to liquidate after crippling strike

The Wonder Hostess Bakery Thriftshop is shown at the Utah Hostess plant in Ogden, Utah, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Hostess Brands Inc. is warning striking employees that it will move to liquidate the company if plant operations don't return to normal levels by Thursday evening. The maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread said Thursday it will file a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to shutter operations if enough workers don't return by 5 p.m. EST. That would result in the loss of about 18,000 jobs, including hundreds in Ogden. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

The Wonder Hostess Bakery Thriftshop is shown at the Utah Hostess plant in Ogden, Utah, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Hostess Brands Inc. is warning striking employees that it will move to liquidate the company if plant operations don't return to normal levels by Thursday evening. The maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread said Thursday it will file a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to shutter operations if enough workers don't return by 5 p.m. EST. That would result in the loss of about 18,000 jobs, including hundreds in Ogden. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

A Wonder Bread truck pulls out of the Utah Hostess plant in Ogden, Utah, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Hostess Brands Inc. said it likely won't make an announcement until Friday morning on whether it will move to liquidate its business, after the company had set a Thursday deadline for striking employees to return to work. The maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread said Thursday it will file a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to shutter operations if enough workers don't return by 5 p.m. EST. That would result in the loss of about 18,000 jobs, including hundreds in Ogden. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

FILE - This Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, file photo, shows, Hostess Twinkies in a studio in New York. Hostess Brands Inc. announced Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, that it is warning striking employees that it will move to liquidate the company if plant operations don't return to normal levels by Thursday evening. The maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread said Thursday it will file a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to shutter operations if enough workers don't return by 5 p.m. EST. That would result in the loss of about 18,000 jobs.( AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Un anuncio de los pastelillos Twinkies, del fabricante Hostess Brands, en la f?brica de la empresa en Ogden, Utah, en esta fotograf?a del jueves 15 de noviembre de 2012. Hostess, fabricante de los Twinkies, el pan Wonder y otras marcas, anunci? el viernes 16 de noviembre de 2012 que est? por cerrar sus operaciones, despedir a miles de trabajadores y vender sus activos, entre ellos sus marcas. (Foto AP/Rick Bowmer)

Hostess Brands Inc. says it's going out of business after striking workers across the country crippled its ability to make its Twinkies, Ding Dongs and other snacks.

The company had warned employees that it would file a motion with U.S. Bankruptcy Court Friday seeking permission to shutter its operations and sell its brands if plants hadn't resumed normal operations by a Thursday evening deadline. The deadline passed without a deal.

The closing would mean the loss of about 18,500 jobs.

"I don't know if they thought that was a bluff," CEO Gregory Rayburn said on CNBC Friday. He said the financial impact of the strike makes it "too late" to save the company even if workers have a change of heart. That's because the clients such as retailers decide to stop carrying products when supplies aren't adequate.

Rayburn said he's hopeful that the company will find buyers for its roster of about 30 brands, which include Ho Hos, Dolly Madison, Drake's and Nature's Pride snacks. The company books about $2.5 billion in sales a year.

Hostess, based in Irving, Texas, said its stores will remain open for several days to sell remaining products. Operations at its 33 factories were suspended Friday. The privately held company filed for Chapter 11 protection in January, its second trip through bankruptcy court in less than a decade.

The move comes after thousands of members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike last week after rejecting a contract offer that slashed wages and benefits in September. The bakers union represents about 30 percent of the company's workforce.

Rayburn said the union's leadership had misled members into believing there was a buyer in the wings who would rescue the company. He said the union hadn't returned the company's calls for the past month.

A union representative did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Hostess had said earlier this week that production at about a dozen of its plants were seriously affected by the strike. Although many workers decided to cross picket lines, the company said it wasn't enough to keep operations at normal levels. Three plants were closed earlier this week.

Hostess had already reached a contract agreement with its largest union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The Teamsters had urged the bakery union this week to hold a secret ballot on whether to continue striking.

Hostess said the company is unprofitable under its current cost structure, in large part because of union wages and pension costs. Rayburn said in a statement on the company website that all employees will eventually lose their jobs, "some sooner than others."

"Unfortunately, because we are in bankruptcy, there are severe limits on the assistance the (company) can offer you at this time," Rayburn wrote.

Hostess, founded in 1930, was fighting battles beyond labor costs. Competition is increasing in the snack space and Americans are increasingly conscious about healthy eating.

Associated Press

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