Lawmakers restore $12.5M in meth cleanup funds (AP)

ST. LOUIS ? The war on methamphetamine has gotten some support from Congress ? millions of dollars to clean up the toxic waste generated by clandestine meth labs.

President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging appropriations bill Friday that included the restoration of $12.5 million for meth lab cleanup.

"It's an awesome thing," said Tommy Farmer, state meth task force coordinator for Tennessee, the state that led the nation in the number of meth labs in 2010. "It keeps us in the fight so we can combat these things."

The measure restores funding lost in February, when federal meth lab cleanup money through the Community Oriented Policing Services program ran out, and was not renewed. The program provided $19.2 million for meth lab cleanup in 2010.

That was devastating for some areas of the country hit hard by meth. An Associated Press investigation in August found that without federal cleanup money, many local police and sheriff's departments were far less likely to seek out meth labs they couldn't afford to clean up.

The AP investigation found that the number of labs seized dropped sharply in states that relied heavily on federal funding for cleanup: Down 32 percent through mid-year in Tennessee, 33 percent in Arkansas, 35 percent in Michigan and 62 percent in Alabama.

Experts in those states said it wasn't because meth use was on the decline. Without federal money, the burden for cleanup fell to the city or county where the meth lab was found, and in an era of dwindling local revenues, agencies simply couldn't afford the cleanup.

Police weren't turning a blind eye to meth, but stopped sending agents undercover, conducting door-to-door investigations and setting up stakeouts aimed at catching meth-makers, experts said.

"The words I used were they were less proactive," Farmer said.

Lawmakers from both parties lauded the restoration of the cleanup money.

U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, a St. Louis Democrat, said meth abuse "destroys communities, tearing families apart and devastating our environment-with every pound of meth producing five to six pounds of toxic waste."

He said he advocates a response to meth abuse that "leverages federal, state, and local resources to tackle all aspects of the problem, from research, education, and prevention to law enforcement, treatment and remediation."

A spokesman for U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn., said restoration of the meth cleanup money was a "positive" from the appropriations bill, even as DesJarlais opposed the spending measure overall.

"The congressman understands how serious of an issue meth production is in the state of Tennessee and remains committed to ensuring that law enforcement is provided with the necessary resources to safely and efficiently dispose of meth labs," said Robert Jameson, a spokesman for DesJarlais.

Cleaning up meth labs is expensive, even the small "shake-and-bake" labs that are little more than a 2-liter soda bottle filled with the toxic ingredients. Because meth is made using a volatile mix of ingredients such as battery acid, drain cleaner and ammonia, only crews with specialized training are allowed to handle the materials found in labs. The waste and debris cannot be dumped in a regular landfill, only in specially approved waste sites.

As a result, typical cost of remediating a single lab is $2,500 to $5,000.

Some states, like Missouri and Kentucky, have developed their own lab cleanup programs, making them far less dependent upon federal money. Those states have placed containers in various locations and train local police on cleanup.

But many other states rely on the COPS money, which requires a federally approved crew to come in for the cleanup, usually from out of state, with the travel time driving up the cost.

Many states that previously relied on COPS funding are developing their own container systems, including Michigan and Tennessee, which began its program this summer. Arkansas also is looking at a container program.

Farmer said that while the $12.5 million falls short of the $19.2 million for last year, the improved efficiencies of container programs should allow for local police to again get aggressive with meth enforcement.

"We're going to be able to stretch that $12.5 million a lot further," he said.

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Professor: Troop care packages are 'shameful'

A Massachusetts law professor criticized as "shameful" plans by colleagues to collect care packages for U.S. troops, saying current support for the military was "not particularly rational."

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Professor Michael Avery, a specialist in constitutional law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, also questioned why the institution had an "oversized flag" in its lobby, according to an internal email whose contents were disclosed by a city radio station on Thursday.

"I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings," he wrote in the email, which was republished in full on the website of 96.9FM Boston Talks radio host Michael Graham.

?The United States may well be the most war prone country in the history of civilization," he added.

His comments were dismissed by Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., who told the Boston Herald on Monday: ?I returned from Afghanistan recently. I know how much our troops value hearing from friends, neighbors, loved ones and even anonymous well-wishers who appreciate the job they are doing.

"It?s sad there are still some people who fail to appreciate the selfless sacrifice of our military, but it makes me angry when they openly campaign to deprive our troops of the love and support they deserve."

He continued: ?I wish Professor Avery could witness for himself the joy that a small gift can bring to a soldier, especially around the holidays."

Calls to Prof. Avery were being automatically routed to the public affairs office of the law school on Wednesday, and that the department did not immediately respond to inquiries from msnbc.com.

However, a statement from Acting President and university Provost Barry Brown said the law school had a history of defending "freedom of expression."

The message, published on the institution's website, said: "We respect the right of our faculty members to exercise academic freedom and support all members of our community in speaking freely and expressing their opinions."

It added: "Along with our support of freedom of expression, Suffolk University has a long and proud history of supporting our men and women who have served their country in the armed forces through many programs and community outreach."

Prof. Avery's email, which came in response to a campus-wide message asking for care packages, added: "Why do we continue to have this oversized flag in our lobby?? Why are we sending support to the military instead of Americans who are losing their homes, malnourished, unable to get necessary medical care, and suffering from other consequences of poverty?"

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Obama seeks deals, meets allies on world stage

President Barack Obama speaks at a luau after the leaders dinner at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

President Barack Obama speaks at a luau after the leaders dinner at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle greet Chinese President Hu Jintao and his wife Liu Yongqing, left, before their dinner at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, Pool)

U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle greet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev before their dinner at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, Pool)

U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda before the APEC leaders dinner in Honolulu, on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle walk under the big tree to meet their counterparts before their dinner at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, Pool)

HONOLULU (AP) ? President Barack Obama prodded the skeptical leaders of Russia and China for support in reining back Iran's nuclear ambitious, but without winning public endorsement from either man.

Neither Russian President Dmitry Medvedev nor Chinese President Hu Jintao publicly echoed Obama's push for solidarity over renewed concerns on Iran as Obama met separately on Saturday with each leader on the sidelines of a Pacific Rim economic summit here. Presiding over the gathering in his home state of Hawaii, Obama also sought to position the United States as a Pacific power determined to get more American jobs by tapping the potential of the Asia-Pacific.

For Obama, the first full day of a nine-day trip far from Washington mixed high-stakes foreign affairs diplomacy with a focus on U.S. jobs, the top domestic concern of voters who will decide next year whether to re-elect him. The president was to continue his economic advocacy Sunday at a series of meetings with leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a diverse group of 21 nations representing growing markets and ever-more-important alliances for the U.S.

Obama announced the broad outlines of an agreement to create a transpacific trade zone encompassing the United States and eight other nations before going into meetings with Hu and Medvedev where he raised a new report from the U.N. atomic agency. The report asserted in the strongest terms to date that Iran is conducting secret work to develop nuclear arms.

Russia and China remain a roadblock to the United States in its push to tighten international sanctions on Iran. Both are veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council and have shown no sign the new report will change their stand.

Alongside Medvedev, Obama said the two "reaffirmed our intention to work to shape a common response" on Iran.

Shortly after, Obama joined Hu, in a run of back-to-back diplomacy with the heads of two allies that hold complicated and at times divisive relations with the United States. Obama said that he and the Chinese leader want to ensure that Iran abides by "international rules and norms."

Obama's comments were broad enough to portray a united front without yielding any clear indication of progress. Medvedev, for his part, was largely silent on Iran during his remarks, merely acknowledging that the subject was discussed. Hu did not mention Iran at all.

White House aides insisted later that Russia and China remain unified with the United States and other allies in preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and that Obama, Hu and Medvedev had agreed to work on the next steps. Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said the new allegations about Iran's programs demand an international response.

"I think the Russians and the Chinese understand that," he said. "We're going to be working with them to formulate that response."

As the president held forth on the world stage, Republicans vying to compete against Obama for the presidency unleashed withering criticism in a debate in South Carolina. It was a rare moment in which foreign policy garnered attention in a campaign dominated by the flagging U.S. economy.

"If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. And if you elect Mitt Romney, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon," said Romney, a former Massachusetts governor.

Iran has insisted its nuclear work is in the peaceful pursuit of energy and research, not weaponry.

More broadly, Obama is seeking while in Hawaii to position the United States as a key player among economies that already account for 44 percent of world trade, a figure the administration believes will grow.

For businesses, Obama said, "this is where the action's going to be."

On the Pacific trade pact, Obama said details must still be worked out, but said the goal was to complete the deal by next year.

The eight countries joining the U.S. in the zone would be Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Obama also spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda about Japan's interest in joining the trade bloc.

Obama will be in Honolulu through Tuesday, when he leaves for Australia before ending his trip in Indonesia.

___

AP White House Correspondent Ben Feller contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Lady Gaga Unveils First Look At 'Marry The Night' Video

Singer tweets screen shot from clip showing her on a hospital gurney.
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Lady Gaga unveiled a Bollywood version of her "Marry the Night" video in India last month, took it to the moon in Belfast last week, and now Lady Gaga is giving fans their first glimpse of the "Marry the Night" video. From the looks of things, she's not going anywhere ... except maybe into surgery.

Gaga posted a screen shot from the "Night" clip on her Twitter account Friday (November 11) that shows her — at least we think it's her, though it might also be her male alter ego Jo Calderone — laid out on a hospital gurney, IV drip in her arm. She's being wheeled down an ornate hallway by a pair of dour-faced nurses, making the scene reminiscent of both Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" and Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

Gaga also included a rather cryptic message with the photo: "It's not that I've been dishonest, it's just that I loathe reality."

Last month, Gaga was spotted all around New York City filming scenes for the "Marry the Night" video, including an elaborate dance sequence shot in Harlem and a set-up at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island.

Of course, despite all the on-set photos snapped by the paparazzi, very little is actually known about the "Marry the Night" clip. For her part, Gaga is keeping things mysterious, telling her little monsters in a separate tweet, "This will be the longest video I've released to date ... the beginning of the story I never told you."

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Penn State president: Mike McQueary placed on administrative leave

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Google Chrome 15

As it increases in popularity, Google Chrome is becoming more and more a conduit for Google services. With this release, Chrome 15, the Internet search leader has changed just one user-facing feature?the new tab page, which has been tweaked to give more prominence to the Chrome Web app store. Though this isn't a huge improvement, Chrome remains your best Web browser, thanks to blazing speed, and ground-breaking features. ?It boasts unique features like Chrome Instant, built-in Flash and PDF display, leading Web standards support, and a minimalist application window that lets Web pages shine unimpeded.

Despite the lack of exciting new eye candy or super-duper capabilities in Chrome 15, the competition?Firefox 7 (Free, 4 stars), Internet Explorer (Free, 4 stars), Safari 5.1 (Free, 4 stars), and Opera 11.50 (Free, 4 stars)?still struggles to equal Chrome's sparse user interface and speedy operation. For this, Google Chrome remains our Editors' Choice. Its recent expansion of graphics hardware acceleration, which previously trailed that in Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox, renders Chrome's performance unrivaled on all scores.

Previous releases have brought major new features, such as bookmark syncing, a bookmark manager, a built-in PDF reader, and extensions, though others have just added speed, stability, and new standards support. The remarkable Chrome Instant loads pages before you even finish typing their addresses or titles. And in an homage to IE9, Chrome now includes graphics hardware acceleration. Its fine design, compatibility, and especially the speed have impressed the Web community enough to make Chrome the fastest growing browser in terms of market share. On this measure, it's nearing 25 percent, and poised to overtake Firefox as the number two browser. Let's take a look at what makes this browser so special.

Swift Setup
Even the setup process shows Chrome's commitment to speed: Just click the Install button on the Chrome Web page, and you'll have the browser up and running in less than a minute, with no wizard to go through and no system restart. The browser's available for Mac OS X and Linux, as well as Windows. In each platform the browser's up and running before you realize it, and it updates itself automatically in the background.

Chrome Instant Pages
Not to be confused with Chrome Instant (see below) or Google Instant (which works on all browser to load Google search results as you type), Chrome Instant Pages requires both Chrome and a site that supports the feature. Of the latter, there is now just one important one: Google Search. The idea is that when you perform a search in Google, the browser will pre-load the page for the result link you're most likely to click on.

In several tests on a slower Wi-Fi connection, however, I only noticed an occasional improvement for simple pages. It seemed only to work for the first result link. Heavy multimedia sites still took their time to load. On a very fast wired connection, some page result were extremely fast, but in that case, you don't really benefit from pre-loading. I saw a definitely faster load for grainger.com than in Opera on the same connection. The idea makes a lot of sense though, particularly for multipage articles, where it's most likely that the next link you'll hit is the one labeled "Next."

The only drawback: If the site guesses your next click wrong, page load could be slower than without Instant Pages, and you'll have wasted bandwidth loading a page you never visited. But this is a technique that's been done using JavaScript or HTML and CSS for years, so I'm not sure why we need a browser-specific solution to preloading pages, but Instant Pages does have the ability to load outside sites, rather than just pages of your own. If you don't like the idea of your browser loading pages before you click on a link, you can turn off the feature in the Under the Hood section of Options (accessible from the wrench icon), and uncheck "Predict network actions to improve page load performance."

Built-in Flash and PDF Support
Chrome is the only browser to come with Adobe Flash built in, rather than requiring a separate (and annoying) installation. And not having to perform the frequent required updates of the Flash plugin separately is another boon?it updates automatically with the browser. With version 10, many of the security issues with Flash (famously bemoaned by Apple's Steve Jobs) went away, thanks to running the plugin in an isolated sandbox so that it doesn't have access to critical system areas. But note that this sandboxing only applies to the Windows 7 and Vista versions of Chrome at this point.

Chrome boasts a PDF reader as well, so you don't have to worry about installing any Adobe plugins for viewing specialized Web content. When you load a PDF, an intuitive toolbar shows when your mouse cursor is in the southeast vicinity of the browser window. From this, you can have the document fill the width of the window, show a full page, or zoom in and out. By default, you can select text for cutting and pasting, but I couldn't copy and paste images. You can print the PDF as you would any Web page.

Chrome's PDF viewer not only does what its name implies, but also serves as a print preview feature. Unlike IE's print preview, Chrome's shows up in a tab rather than its own window. But you have to go through it to print: In IE, I can just click the printer icon to send a page to the printer if I don't want to fuss with settings. I could choose between color and B&W, portrait and landscape, and choose the target printer, or print to PDF.

An Advanced button got me into the printer's own settings dialog, but this dismissed the print preview, making me have to choose Print from the menu again. But Chrome didn't let me choose a zoom percentage for the printout as Firefox and IE did, nor did it let me turn page headers on and off or choose margin sizes in a Page Setup dialog as those two did. So Chrome's print preview is a decent start, but it's still a bit behind the competition.

Interface
Minimalism has been a hallmark of Chrome since its first beta release. Tabs are above everything, and the only row below them holds the combined search/address bar, or "Omnibox." Here you can type any part of an address or page title, and the most likely site candidates will be presented in a dropdown. Optionally you can display bookmark links in a row below this. And the control buttons on the top-right of the browser window have been reduced to the absolute minimum?just one.

Google has removed the Page icon and placed some of its functions under the Wrench choice. Some Page options have been combined into buttons on one line in the menu, such as Cut, Copy, and Paste. I like what Google's done with the Zoom choice on the menu, adding plus and minus buttons that save you from having to fly out another submenu.

Another theme in the Chrome interface is that everything looks like a Web page, displaying in the main browser window, rather than in separate dialog boxes. This includes the interfaces for History, Extensions, and Bookmarks. With version 10 the Settings page got this same treatment.

Mac users haven't been overlooked in the interface department, either. The browser now supports OS X Lion's full screen view, along with overlay scrollbars that only appear when you're scrolling. Other more minor characteristics of the OS X "Aqua" style give Chrome on the Mac a more Mac-y appearance.

Chrome Instant
This is one of the niftiest things added to Chrome in a while. Start typing a Web address in the Omnibox, and before you're even done, a page from your history or a search result page is displayed below in the main browser window. I just type "PC," and PCMag.com is already loaded. The idea was first implemented in Google search's Instant feature, but I think it's even more useful in the browser than in search, where I usually ignore it and finish typing my query anyway: Most sites we visit, we've visited before, so having them ready to go before you even finish typing is a big speeder-upper.

Chrome can also boast a less visible and less touted way of speeding up browser: it supports SPDY, an HTTP replacement that compresses header data and allows persistent connections between server and browsers. It turns out that some Google sites are already using SPDY when you browse with Chrome. As with Instant Pages, the technology is available to other Web publishers to implement, but again, Google itself is the most important player to support it.

Tabtastic
Chrome also still sports excellent tab implementation. Tabs are prominent at the top of the browser window, and you can drag them out to the desktop to create independent windows (and drag them back in later) or split them side by side ? la Windows 7 Aero Snap.

Google has put considerable thought into Chrome's new tab page, which shows links to your most-visited pages, Web apps, and recently closed tabs. In Chrome 15, the new-tab page gets a redesign, emphasizing Google's Chrome Web Store of browser-based applications?really customized Web sites that have more access to your system, such as more local storage. The new look offers two thin bars at the bottom that let you switch between Apps (showing large icons) and Most visited (showing eight thumbnails of the pages).

You can also switch between Apps and Most Visited by clicking large arrows at either side of the page. The new look may confuse some, who may wonder where there favorite sites have gone?you can no longer pin sites to the page, as you can in Opera or Internet Explorer. But you can pin a site up in the tab bar, and a corner X lets you remove a thumbnail from the Most visited view. To the right of these is a Recently Closed "dropdown" arrow, which actually pops up a clear list of closed tabs.?

If you've synced Chrome on different computers (see below), the Apps section with be the same on all. Any apps you've added on a Chrome OS machine will also appear in the browser on any other computer you log into Chrome on, and vice versa. To remove an app, you drag it to the lower right of the window, where you can imagine a trash can icon.

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Behold This Treasure Trove of Mistaken Text Messages [Texting]

There's a strange quirk in Verizon's text messaging system. When entering a recipient, if their phone number doesn't pop up with their name and you send it anyway, it may go to someone else. That someone else is often Leila. More »

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RIM: BBX smartphones will have same resolution, aspect ratio as PlayBook, BES support, too

Wondering what RIM's got up its sleeves for its forthcoming lineup of BBX-based handsets? According to the company, it's derived at least some of its inspiration from its very own BlackBerry PlayBook. Speaking to PC Mag, VP of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development Alec Saunders confirmed that the manufacturer's next generation smartphones will boast the same 1024 x 600 display resolution and 16:9 aspect ratio that you'll find on the PlayBook, all squeezed into a smaller frame. He also reassured developers that apps designed for the tablet will be compatible with BBX handsets. "Look, if you build [an app] for the PlayBook, then it will run on BBX," Saunders explained. "We have maintained aspect ratios, BBX also has the ability to upload multiple dimension graphics... [and the standard resolutions] are the same as PlayBook." Oh, and as for those rumors that RIM's first BBX phone (Colt?) would lack BES support? Pure hogwash, according to Saunders, who said the phones will also feature a native e-mail client, and that users shouldn't expect BBX "to be behind the PlayBook."

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Kelly Osbourne ?Cracks Her Head Open? & Rushed To Hospital

Kelly Osbourne “Cracks Her Head Open” & Rushed To Hospital

Kelly Osbourne was hospitalized on Saturday night after falling and suffering a head injury. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s daughter had been working in Miami, Florida [...]

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A Tale of Terror

You sit down at the Bar, next to a crusty looking old man who seems to be well past his golden years. His white mustache is long and curved, and the messy clumps of gray hair stick loosely to his head. He takes on another Vodka and you notice that his teeth are yellowed and rotten. His eyes are unnaturally blue, so blue even, that they look like they could bore through your soul. He quickly downs the alcohol and turns to face you, breathing heavily. You, in turn, face him fully, and you notice that his right eye is completely black, with no traces of any other color. You also notice the massive scar lining his right cheek, and the glint of shiny white cheekbone poking through his wrinkled flesh. You are about to turn away when the old man mutters something. You didn't quite hear it, but you turn back and face him. "Excuse me, did you say something to me?" Your voice carries a monotone pitch, but a slight amount of hostility would be detected by anyone who heard it. The Man looks you dead in the eye and apologizes for his actions. You turn back to the bar and ignore him.

It's been a few hours, your friends have left after they had become so intoxicated that they could barely function, so they called a taxi to take them back to the apartment. For some odd reason, you don't feel the usual drunkenness, but it is replaced with a curiosity about the man sitting beside you. You remember that he has been sitting there staring into space for the whole time you have, but he would occasionally glance in your direction. You turn to him, and as soon as you open your mouth, the man speaks. "Would you like to hear a Story? It happened a long time ago, maybe ten years or so. It all happened in a remote town called.. erm... let me see...." The Man pauses, a look of confusion crosses his face. A few moments pass, and the man continues. "Ah yes, this story takes place in the town of Pine Acres, or as it is now known, Crimson Acres. So, do you want to listen?"

OVERVIEW: So basically I haven't figured it all out yet but the basis is that there's a being going around Pine Acres called the 'Slender Man'' and it is stalking/ scaring and killing people or making people go insane. There's a group of people that are all being stalked by this being and they may eventually die. That's basically it for now, but there will be more than just the group in the Roleplay, there will be other things too. The people I currently need should at least moderately good at roleplaying, and I will list the actual roles that I need later.

If you're interested, would you please reply? I'll try to update this as much as possible, and when it's finished I'll make the Roleplay.

- Zody

"You think you know hate, misery, sorrow, loneliness and anger? Take all of these emotions you'd feel in your lifetime and times them by 100, then you know me." - Me

"People will hurt you in life, but when they do, just shrug it off, tell em to get f**ked and keep your head high, soldier" - My Grandad

"You know me? Do you really? I'm like a poisoned lolly, nice out the outside, but on the inside I could kill you easily." - Me

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Kodak posts wider loss, warns on prospects (AP)

ROCHESTER, N.Y. ? Eastman Kodak Co. warned Thursday that its survival over the next year hinges on its ability to sell its potentially lucrative digital-imaging patents or raise extra funds by selling debt.

Its cautionary statement in a securities filing came as the embattled photography pioneer posted a wider $222 million loss for the third quarter. Its cash reserves fell almost 10 percent in the quarter.

Revenue tumbled 17 percent in the July-September period, with surging sales of inkjet printers more than offset by slumping digital camera and film revenue.

Kodak trimmed its full-year outlook, warning that revenue could be 1.5 percent to 4 percent lower than expected and losses might drop to the low end of its previous forecast.

Its shares fell 10 cents, or 8.8 percent, to $1.10 in midday trading after sinking as low as $1.07 earlier in the day. It traded as low as 54 cents a share on Sept. 30.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Kodak said it is seeking to raise an additional $500 million in financing that could be used to support "ongoing operational needs."

Kodak said its ability to continue operations within the next 12 months "is dependent upon the ability to monetize its digital imaging patent portfolio through a sale or licensing" or by issuing additional debt.

Shrinking cash reserves, which fell to $862 million in the quarter from $957 million in June, have intensified investor fears of a looming bankruptcy. The company set a year-end cash target of $1.3 billion to $1.4 billion that excludes any intellectual-property licensing deals, down from a previous forecast of $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion.

"The reports of Kodak's death, where everybody was expecting Kodak to go bankrupt, are premature," Ulysses Yannas, a broker with Buckman, Buckman & Reid in New York, had said before the regulatory filing. "They continue to lose a lot of money but they have the wherewithal to become profitable again."

"You've got a challenge here," countered Shannon Cross of Cross Research in Livingston, N.J. "Kodak's at a point where one of two things have to happen ? either they have to raise more money or they have to complete the sale (of digital-imaging patents). Otherwise, they're not going to be able to continue."

Kodak typically generates the bulk of its cash during the run-up to the holiday season. But worries that it's burning through cash escalated in late September when it drew $160 million from a revolving credit line and enlisted the help of restructuring firms. Kodak insisted it had no intention of filing for bankruptcy protection.

Its third quarterly loss in a row ? its ninth such loss in the last three years ? amounted to 83 cents per share in the quarter. That compares with a loss of $43 million, or 16 cents per share, a year earlier.

Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected a smaller loss of 42 cents a share for the latest quarter.

Revenue dipped to $1.46 billion from $1.76 billion a year ago, with shrinking film group sales falling 10 percent to $389 million. Consumer digital-imaging sales tumbled 38 percent to $408 million as Kodak shifts to pricier camera models to try to offset intense competition from smartphones and video cameras.

The company said it posted modest patent royalties in the quarter but didn't specify how much. Its year-ago results were lifted by a $210 million licensing deal with an undisclosed digital-camera competitor.

Since 2005, Kodak has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into new lines of inkjet printers that are finally on the verge of turning a profit. Home photo printers, high-speed commercial inkjet presses, workflow software and packaging are viewed as Kodak's new core.

Revenue from those businesses rose by a combined 13 percent in the quarter, fueled by 89 percent growth in packaging solutions and 44 percent growth in home printers and ink. Kodak said it expects the consumer printer to become profitable in the current quarter.

The four businesses remain a bright spot in the 131-year-old company's long and painful drive to recast itself into a reliably profitable player in the turbulent digital-imaging arena. Kodak is hoping they will more than double in size by 2013, accounting for 25 percent ? or nearly $2 billion ? of all sales.

In the meantime, mining its inventions for revenue has become indispensable. Since July, Kodak has been hawking a portfolio of 1,100 digital-imaging patents that many analysts think could fetch $2 billion to $3 billion.

A sale represents a sharp tactical shift. Kodak picked up just $27 million in patent-licensing fees in the first half of 2011 after amassing nearly $2 billion in the previous three years.

Based in Rochester, N.Y., Kodak turned picture-taking into a hobby for the masses over a century ago. It developed the world's first digital camera in 1975 but failed to capitalize quickly on its new-wave know-how in digital photography.

Its workforce has plunged to 18,800 from 70,000 in 2002.

Kodak now expects segment losses in 2011 to be closer to $300 million, which is within its previous forecast range of $100 million to $300 million in losses. It expects revenue to be $6.3 billion to $6.4 billion, down from a previous forecast of $6.4 billion to $6.7 billion

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PFT: Redskins gave up another sack

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With tensions continuously rising between the Bears and running back Matt Forte, some have pondered the possibility of Forte taking a stand by standing up and walking out in the middle of the season.? It?s a possibility that was raised earlier today, during my weekly visit with Dan McNeil and Matt Speigel of 670 the Score in Chicago.

It would be a bold move by Forte, who has yet to even hint at the possibility of leaving the team until he gets a new contract.? If he does, the Bears would have several options for squeezing him into returning.

Although the new CBA provides for a daily fine of $30,000 for each day of a holdout, those fines apply only during training camp and the preseason.? Once the season begins, a player may be fined up to $9,440 for each missed practice, meeting, curfew, scheduled appointment with a team trainer or physician, workout, weigh-in, meal, scheduled promotional activity, or material failure to follow injury rehab directions.? Since multiple such activities can occur in a single day, multiple fines of up to $9,440 may be imposed ? to a daily maximum of $27,000.

The Bears also could choose to suspend Forte up to four games without pay for conduct detrimental to the team.? Of course, the Bears would be depriving them of Forte?s services by pursuing that option.

The team?s potential nuclear option would be launched by sending a so-called ?five-day letter,? advising Forte that if he doesn?t return in five days he could be placed on the reserve/left squad list.? Once given that designation, Forte would be unable to play again in 2011.

Forte obviously would also forfeit any game checks during his absence.? At a base salary of $600,000, that?s $35,294 per week.

Finally, the Bears would have the ability to recover 25 percent of Forte?s signing bonus allocation for 2011.? Given a $1.533 million signing bonus paid in 2008 and an annual allocation of $383,250, the Bears could collect $95,812 the minute Forte walks out the door.

As a result, it?s highly unlikely that Forte will walk.? If he does, he?ll risk losing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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94% Weekend

All Critics (51) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (3)

It's a definitive example of naturalistic moviemaking -- you feel you're breathing the air that the characters are breathing.

Its final moments offer a vision of what a contemporary romance can achieve: an appreciative gasp of truth, a wet-eyed hope for more.

One of the truest, most beautiful movies ever made about two strangers.

If you've ever met someone who changed your life in the space of days, you'll relate to something in this movie.

The organ that "Weekend" is most concerned with isn't the one you might think, but the human heart.

In just a short period of time, a weekend hookup tests the boundaries each man has set for himself.

Sexy, provocative, engrossing and occasionally ornery, it should appeal to anyone whose curiosity about someone new has provoked them to question their own identity.

Terrific low-key turns from the two leads inject their growing bond with genuine emotion, making this a love story that will get under the skin of romantics everywhere.

Cullen and New are British stage actors with little background in film. Haigh's only previous film was a documentary. Perhaps because they don't feel bound by a set of rules, they've created one of the year's most enjoyable surprises.

Weekend is the year's wittiest hymn to romance.

Weekend might be a small film recounting an intimate relationship, but it speaks to the grandest of ideas.

By the end of their weekend together, it feels like you know these guys and, even better, like you're rooting for them.

A heartfelt romantic comedy, a touching rumination on sexual identity and a striking look at what it is to be gay in 21st Century Britain.

Like Before Sunrise, the real joy of writer/director Andrew Haigh's film is in watching two people make bedrooms, overpasses, kitchenettes, and couches feel alive with potent conversation and pregnant silences.

While you might appreciate its goal, the writing and execution aren't strong enough to reach it.

It's a thrill to watch, just as it's thrilling to be in the hands of such a gifted new filmmaking talent.

This appealing gay-themed drama, written and directed with intelligence by Andrew Haigh, is a British cousin to the American mumblecore movement...

The story is simply told with a lot of talking, some loving and much philosophizing over the meaning of life. The good thing is that [writer-director-editor] Andrew Haigh wears all his hats well and shows a deft hand at all his chores.

The results are gently sincere but maybe a little misguided, a far cry from the note-perfect, transcendently adorable 1999 gay love story "Trick," which this one reminds of?and pales in comparison to.

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Unabridged 1995 Steve Jobs interview

Computerworld has posted a 75 minute interview with Steve Jobs, shot in 1995 before he returned to Apple.

Jobs talked about everything from his childhood in California — the area that later came to be known as Silicon Valley “was really paradise” — to his early days

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Herman Cain's Accuser Wants to Tell Her Story (Little green footballs)

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Herman Cain's sexual harassment scandal: His 'awful' damage control (The Week)

New York ? The surprise GOP frontrunner says he never harassed anyone. But his conflicting denials are only worsening the fallout

Herman Cain has been trying all week to deflect Politico's potentially devastating story about sexual harassment complaints that the GOP presidential hopeful faced more than a decade ago, but he seems to be making matters worse. After the story first broke late Sunday night, the GOP frontrunner's spokesman said Cain was only "vaguely familiar" with the entire episode. Then Cain said early Monday that he was aware of the allegations, but unaware of a financial settlement with one of the women. Then he contradicted himself hours later by estimating that his accuser received a settlement worth "two or three months'" salary. (Watch a video mashup of Cain's conflicting statements.) The candidate's confused response has commentators lining up to point out his errors. Here, five ways Cain blew it:

1. Cain's campaign squandered its advance warning
It's not like Cain's organization was broadsided by this story, say Michael Brendan Dougherty and Zeke Miller at Business Insider. Before publishing its expose,?Politico gave the campaign 10 days' advance notice that it had uncovered the complaints from Cain's '90s tenure as head of the National Restaurant Association. But the campaign still did nothing to "quash the scandal." That only confirms that Cain's organization is "slow and disorganized," which is not going to impress conservatives looking for a candidate capable of beating President Obama in 2012.

2. His spokesman's initial response was horrible
Politico's story was a "thinly sourced hit piece," says Ed Driscoll at Pajamas Media. A good campaign spokesman would get in journalists' faces and "and punch back twice as hard," the way Bill Clinton did in 1992 to counter his "myriad bimbo eruptions." But Cain's campaign spokesman could only offer "pure dissembling that did nothing to stop his employer's potential hemorrhaging." His non-denial denial on Fox News on Sunday was "flat-out awful."

3. Cain didn't deny the charges quickly enough
There was enough meat to the Politico report to demand a serious response from Cain, says Steve Benen at Washington Monthly. Yet when the candidate first addressed the charges himself, he didn't deny them outright. Nor did his campaign's official statement. Nor did his spokesman who appeared on Fox News. "The Associated Press eventually got a denial, but it wasn't an especially strong one," and it came way too late to prevent the matter from blowing up.

4. He sang
By the time Cain appeared at the National Press Club on Monday, he had to know he had a "full-fledged" scandal on his hands, says Evan McMorris-Santoro at Talking Points Memo. So it's odd that he chose that moment to sing for the crowd. And he sang "Amazing Grace" ? "a hymn where he asked for forgiveness for his faults." Not a good choice.

5. Cain called his accusers liars
Once Cain finally got his story straight late Monday, says Ruth Marcus at The Washington Post, he insisted that he had been "falsely accused," and that an investigation proved the charges "to be baseless." That was an unnecessarily "dangerous tactic. It risks inflaming the women involved, who signed confidentiality agreements and have so far stayed silent." Why would he do anything that urges them to speak out?

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'Cheap'?

updated 11:14 p.m. ET Oct. 30, 2011

U.S. international Landon Donovan said the New York Red Bulls were the most unsporting team he had played against in Major League Soccer after a post-match melee on the field Sunday.

The Galaxy won the Western Conference semi-final, first leg tie 1-0 and at the final whistle Galaxy's Mexican defender Rafa Marquez lobbed the ball at Donovan, hitting the winger on the leg.

The incident prompted Galaxy's Adam Cristman to confront Marquez, who lunged with his head at the American and in the fracas that followed Galaxy's Brazilian midfielder Juninho appeared to elbow a Red Bulls' player.

After the game MLS said that both Marquez and Juninho had been given red cards and would miss the return leg at Galaxy's Home Depot Center Thursday.

But Donovan ensured the dispute continued, in verbal form at least, with his post-game comments to reporters.

"There were a few plays where they took some cheap shots at us," he said, "In all my years in this league, I've not played against a cheaper team, and they've been doing it all year," he added.

"We saw it a few weeks ago with (Thierry) Henry kneeing someone in the back. We've seen that stuff all year. You just deal with it, and at the end of it, the cream rose to the top, and the better team won," he said.

Not all of Donovan's team mates agreed.

"They are a good soccer team," said goalscorer Mike Magee, a former Red Bulls player. "We lost our heads too, so we can't point the finger at them."

The incident is not the first indication of bad blood between Donovan and the New York team.

After a game between the teams in May, his behavior toward Henry was criticised by Red Bulls' English forward Luke Rodgers.

Donovan responded on his Twitter page, saying: "I am confused; who is Luke Rogers?"

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Hat trick lifts Messi past 200 goals

??Lionel Messi broke the 200-goal barrier for his career with his second straight hat trick, and Barcelona won 4-0 at Viktoria Plzen on Tuesday night with its ninth straight shutout to advance to the European Champions League knockout stage.

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'Cheap'?

Landon Donovan said the New York Red Bulls were the most unsporting team he had played against in Major League Soccer after a post-match melee on the field Sunday.

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Barclays profit up, investment bank pain continues (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? Barclays Plc's (BARC.L) underlying quarterly profit rose 5 percent as gains in retail banking and credit cards took up the slack from its investment bank, which suffered a third straight sharp fall in quarterly income.

Barclays said on Monday capital markets had remained difficult in October as the euro zone's financial problems deepened, and were likely to remain tough despite improvement since last week's announcement of plans to solve the crisis.

"There's no question market conditions this year have been challenging and we'd expect that to continue in some way into next year, given the weaker economic growth we're seeing," said Chief Executive Bob Diamond.

Barclays has axed about 3,500 jobs this year, more than the 3,000 cuts that had been earmarked for the year in August, and Diamond said the trend could continue as he fights to revive profitability and slash costs.

Pretax profit in the third quarter through September reached 2.4 billion pounds ($3.9 billion). Stripping out a 2.9 billion pound gain on the value of its own debt and other one-off items, profit was 1.34 billion pounds, up 5 percent on the 2010 period.

Analysts said the weakness in the Barclays Capital (BarCap)investment bank had been taken up by improvement in other areas, notably UK retail banking and the Barclaycard credit card arm.

"It does look as if all their businesses are making a contribution, which is always a decent sign," said Cavendish Asset Management fund manager Paul Mumford, whose firm owns around 1 million Barclays shares.

By 0950 GMT Barclays shares were down 2.1 percent at 197 pence, slightly firmer than a 2.9 percent drop in the European bank index (.SX7P).

Barclays and its domestic rivals face having to separate their UK retail banking operations under planned reforms to safeguard taxpayers, but the bank declined to say how much extra this could cost.

It cut its holdings of troubled eurozone sovereign debt -- from Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland -- by 31 percent to 8 billion pounds. Half of that is Italian government bonds, and 2.7 billion more is Spanish sovereign debt.

"NOT THE SCENARIO FOR NEXT 3-5 YEARS..."

Top-line income at BarCap, which is expected to provide more than half of this year's group profit, fell to 2.25 billion pounds, down 22 percent from the second quarter to be in line with the consensus forecast as capital markets activity was

hit hard across the industry.

Analysts said that was a more resilient performance than U.S. and European peers, who have shown an average fall of about a third. BarCap typically outperforms during difficult markets and can lag growth when markets boom.

Revenue in its fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) dropped 16 percent from the second quarter -- better than expected -- but equities income slumped 40 percent and advisory income was down by a quarter.

BarCap's operating expenses were 1.8 billion pounds in the latest quarter, down 7 percent on the year but not as steep a fall as analysts had expected. Compensation accounted for 46 percent of income at BarCap, up from 43 percent a year ago.

Barclays' investment in U.S. money manager BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) was marked down by 1.8 billion pounds, which it said had already been recognized in equity and regulatory capital.

Barclays said its underlying profit for the first nine months of this year was a shade over 5 billion pounds, up 18 percent from a year earlier.

This showed the benefit of diversity and underpinned "rock solid" capital, funding and liquidity, Diamond said, adding the bank did not intend to raise new equity capital.

Diamond said he also remained "absolutely committed" to his goal of improving return on equity to 13 percent by 2013. RoE was 8.1 percent in the third quarter, from 6.5 percent.

He had in June outlined bullish targets for income at BarCap, which analysts said may need to be scaled back.

"We do expect tough conditions to remain, certainly for a while, but we would not factor in this being the scenario for the next three to five years," said Diamond, the American who took over as CEO at the start of this year after 14 years building up BarCap.

Losses on bad debts were 1 billion pounds in the third quarter, down 16 percent from a year ago, and have tumbled by a third this year.

($1 = 0.619 pound)

(Additional reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Sarah White; Editing by Dan Lalor and David Holmes)

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