FOXBOROUGH, Mass. ? One of Bill O'Brien's first acts as the new Penn State football coach was to mourn the loss of the old one.
O'Brien said former Nittany Lions coach Joe Paterno, who died Sunday, was "an icon in the coaching profession." But he was also more than just a coach, O'Brien said in offering condolences to the Paterno family, current and former Penn State players and the rest of the university community.
"Today they lost a great man, coach, mentor and, in many cases, a father figure, and we extend our deepest sympathies," O'Brien, the New England Patriots offensive coordinator, said in a statement before the AFC championship game against the Baltimore Ravens.
"The Penn State football program is one of college football's iconic programs because it was led by an icon in the coaching profession in Joe Paterno. There are no words to express my respect for him as a man and as a coach."
Paterno died at the age of 85 from complications of lung cancer, two months after he was fired in the wake of sexual abuse allegations against one of his assistant coaches. O'Brien was hired to replace him, but he is finishing out the year with the Patriots as they reached the AFC title game for the second time in his five years with the team.
In his 46 years at Penn State, Paterno won two national championships and 409 games in all ? the most in the history of major college football.
"To be following in his footsteps at Penn State is an honor," O'Brien said "Our families, our football program, our university and all of college football have suffered a great loss, and we will be eternally grateful for coach Paterno's immeasurable contributions."
The Patriots said O'Brien did not address Paterno's death with the team on Sunday, when New England won 23-20 to advance to the Super Bowl. That means Penn State will have to wait another two weeks before O'Brien takes over the job full-time.
"I think Penn State has hired a great young man to be their head coach, someone I'm very fond of," Patriots owner Robert Kraft said in the locker room after the game. "Hopefully if we collect enough draft picks we'll be able to pick his best players."
Receiver Matthew Slater was among the players in Sunday's game offering their condolences to Paterno's family. Several of them did not know Paterno had died.
"The man was a legend and always will be," Slater said. "It's tough to fill the shoes of a legend, but I think that they picked a great coach who's a leader, who's (going to) try to build men with those kids there at Penn State. He's going to do everything he can to help that program on and off the football field, and I think he was a great hire."
But, for now, O'Brien is focused on winning the Super Bowl.
"Billy, right now, the job he's doing under the pressure that he has on his own has been phenomenal," offensive lineman Brian Waters said. "He definitely hasn't slipped one bit; it's been no distraction. You wouldn't even know that he was going to be going to a big-time job somewhere else. He's done a great job, and I expect he's going to be at an even higher level in the next two weeks."
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The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.
TOP 20 CONCERT TOURS
1. (2) Kanye West / Jay-Z; $2,093,467; $118.23.
2. (1) Cirque du Soleil ? "Michael Jackson: The Immortal"; $2,039,167; $110.54.
3. (3) Taylor Swift; $1,120,727; $68.98.
4. (5) Foo Fighters; $713,947; $51.07.
5. (6) Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band; $697,857; $70.11.
6. (7) Trans-Siberian Orchestra; $571,979; $51.82.
7. (8) Zac Brown Band; $513,132; $43.48.
8. (9) Sting; $475,037; $92.43.
9. (10) Selena Gomez & The Scene; $464,699; $45.59.
10. (12) Guns N' Roses; $415,202; $52.44.
11. (13) Deadmau5; $360,479; $48.85.
12. (14) Andre Rieu; $302,452; $77.92.
13. (19) Jeff Dunham; $300,429; $47.33.
14. (18) Paul Simon; $255,730; $77.51.
15. (20) Lady Antebellum; $244,691; $45.25.
16. (21) Judas Priest; $207,393; $52.61.
17. (22) "So You Think You Can Dance"; $203,315; $54.14.
18. (24) John Mellencamp; $169,771; $90.14.
19. (27) "Scream Tour" / Mindless Behavior / Diggy Simmons; $131,650; $40.91.
20. (28) Mannheim Steamroller; $125,841; $56.44.
For free upcoming tour information, go to http://www.pollstar.com
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BEIJING (Reuters) ? Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao defended his country's extensive oil trade with Iran against Western sanctions pressure in comments published on Thursday, and yet also warned Tehran against any effort to acquire nuclear weapons.
Wen spoke on Wednesday at the end of a six-day visit to the Middle East, against a backdrop of tensions over possible U.S. sanctions on nations that do energy trade with Iran, which Western powers say is focused on developing nuclear weapons.
Iran has insisted its nuclear goals are peaceful, and in late December threatened to punish the latest Western sanctions by choking off oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for much of the Middle East's oil exports.
"China adamantly opposes Iran developing and possessing nuclear weapons," said Wen, and he warned against potential confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz. Beijing is usually much more coy in public about saying Iran could want nuclear arms.
Speaking at a news conference in Doha, Wen also took aim at both potential threats to China's oil imports: the U.S. sanctions pressure and the Hormuz tensions.
"I also want to clearly point out that China's oil trade with Iran is normal trade activity," he said in response to a question about U.S. and European efforts to curtail Iranian oil exports and revenues, according to a transcript on the Chinese Foreign Ministry's website (www.mfa.gov.cn).
"Legitimate trade should be protected, otherwise the world economic order would fall into turmoil," he added.
But Wen shrugged off worry about China's oil needs.
"I don't have this or that worry about China's oil supplies, and this time I didn't discuss this issue with the leaders of each country," he told the news conference.
Wen visited Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
TRICKY PATH
The Chinese leader's comments laid bare the tricky path Beijing is trying to steer between pressure from Washington and its allies and rival expectations from Iran, which looks to China as a sympathetic Third World power and a big oil customer.
Wen's warning was not the first time China has openly stated its opposition to Iran possibly developing nuclear weapons; in 2010, the foreign ministry made the point at least twice.
"There have been similar statements (from China) before, and of course China has repeatedly voted in favour of resolutions over this issue in the U.N. Security Council," said Yin Gang, an expert on the Middle East at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
"This time, Premier Wen made that point a bit more clearly than usual," Yin told Reuters.
"The core of the Iran nuclear issue is whether or not it develops nuclear weapons. It's not only the United States that worries about this. The Arab countries are even more worried."
The tensions are a particular worry for China, the biggest buyer of Iranian oil, followed by India and Japan. Only Saudi Arabia and Angola sell more crude than Iran to China.
"We believe that, no matter what the circumstances, the security of the Gulf of Hormuz and normal shipping passage through it must be guaranteed, because this is in the interests of the whole world," said Wen.
"Any extreme measures on this issue would violate the wishes of all countries in the world and their people."
The Obama administration last week invoked U.S. law to sanction China's state-run Zhuhai Zhenrong Corp, which it said was Iran's largest supplier of refined petroleum products.
The United States is also working out how to enforce a law enacted on December 31 that targets foreign financial institutions doing business with Iran's central bank, notably to buy crude.
China has backed U.N. Security Council resolutions calling on Iran to halt uranium enrichment activities, while working to ensure its energy ties are not threatened.
In the first 11 months of 2011, Chinese crude imports from Iran were at about 553,000 barrels per day, a gain of nearly 30 percent on the same period a year before, according to Chinese customs data.
"There's no doubt that China and Iran maintain normal trade relations, but we certainly won't abandon principles for the sake of doing deals," said Wen.
(Reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
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>>> to go before the south carolina pry mairks mitt yomny is firing back against attacks from his gop rivals, accused of being a corporate raider who cost people their jobs. peter alexander is in south carolina . good morning.
>> reporter: good morning to you from the city of charleston. there's going be a forum for a lot of people to make up their minds in the state of south carolina . mike huckabee , the former candidate in this state is going to be hosting this event. they're going to try to whoo christians here o who represent nearly 60% of the state's voters. campaigning across south carolina friday, mitt romney tried to present himself as a sympathetic conservatives.
>> i want to get jobs for america. and by the way, i'm concerned about our poor in this country.
>> reporter: at the same time romney launched a new ad responding to his opponents' accusations that he callously killed jobs while running the private equity firm bain capital .
>> this is the business mitt romney helped start and this one and this one.
>> reporter: he's accused of mischaracterizing the claim.
>> he claims. "the washington post " two days ago reported in their fact check column that he gets three pinocchios. now, pinocchios, when you get to the post if you're not telling the truth.
>> reporter: but that same fact check analysis by "the washington post " found gingrich's own supporters guilty too. rewarding them four pinocchios for their facts.
>> i'm calling on them to either edit out every single mistake or to pull the entire one.
>> reporter: he wrote, romney and his partners made hundreds of millions of dollars while taking companies to bankruptcy. romney 's supporters are also targeting rick santorum whose message could target the evangelical christians .
>> voting for the bridge to no wrr, a teapot museum, even an indoor rain forest .
>> reporter: and rick perry friday took his struggling campaign to target practice , but he was off the mark again during an interview, concerning which three agencies he vows to shut down. mitt romney very nearly missed his campaign last night in hilton head . he was stuck in paralyzing traffic so bad he needed a police escort. he called in with an event filled with veterans. that was met by a groan when he said he was running late and ultimately cheers when he arrived.
>> peter alexander , in charleston, south
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BUFFALO, N.Y. ? Many Americans' first real taste of winter this season blew through the Midwest and Northeast on Friday, leaving ski resort operators giddy, delaying commuters and air passengers, and forcing pedestrians along the East Coast to button up against biting winds.
The storm blanketed the Upper Midwest before slowly swirling to points east. Snowplow drivers were out in force overnight in Chicago, where temperatures plummeted. It could drop as much of a foot of snow on parts of Ohio along Lake Erie before plodding on.
In a typical year, such a storm would hardly register in the region. But atmospheric patterns, including the Pacific phenomenon known as La Nina, have conspired to make this an unusually icy winter in Alaska and have kept it abnormally warm in parts of the lower 48 states accustomed to more snow.
In Buffalo, worse than the accumulation of 5 inches ? moderate by regional standards ? were 25- to 35-mph winds that blew the snow in blinding sheets.
"We go from no snow to a blizzard," said Courtney Taylor of Lewiston, north of Buffalo, holding on to keep her fur-lined hood up.
For Steve Longo, a 47-year-old chiropractor from Wauwatosa, Wis., the wait to try out the cross-country skis he got for Christmas was excruciating. He and a friend wasted no time hitting the trails at Lapham Peak, about 25 miles west of Milwaukee.
"I wasn't worried," Longo said. "I was just anxious."
The storm annoyed commuters, and authorities said it caused hundreds of traffic accidents and at least three road deaths ? two in Iowa and one in Missouri. And while some lucky grade-schoolers cheered an unexpected day of sledding, hundreds of would-be air travelers had to scramble to come up with a Plan B.
High winds delayed flights Friday, as the long Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend began, heading to large East Coast airports including Philadelphia; Newark, N.J.; New York's LaGuardia; and Boston.
Officials said the strong winds also were a factor in bringing down a huge billboard onto the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn, tying up traffic for hours.
The National Weather Service said up to 36 mph winds were blowing through Central Park, and forecasters expect Saturday to be windy as well.
Blowing snow appeared to factor into a mishap at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, where the nose gear of a plane on a flight arriving from Atlanta rolled from the runway onto grass and got stuck. No one was injured.
While the dry weather has been an unexpected boon to many cash-strapped communities, which have saved big by not having to pay for plowing, salting and sanding their streets, it has hurt seasonable businesses that bank on the snow.
The arrival of blustery weather had Vermont's ski industry celebrating. The King Day weekend is one of the most important moneymaking weekends of the season.
The snow finally enabled the state's snowmobile organization, the Vermont Association of Snow Travelers, to start opening some trails.
"We are absolutely giddy, stoked, and the phones are ringing off the hook," said Jen Butson, a spokeswoman for the Vermont Ski Areas Association. "It's what we've been hoping for. Our snow dances have paid off."
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Carla K. Johnson in Chicago, Carrie Antlfinger in Milwaukee and Wilson Ring in Montpelier, Vt.
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Online: Associated Press winter storm interactive http://apne.ws/xKAREC
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WASHINGTON?? The International Space Station is preparing to dodge a softball-sized piece of space junk.
Mission Control told astronauts to fire the station's engines briefly Friday morning to avoid a piece of an old communications satellite.
It will be only the 12th time since 1998 that the station has moved because of debris. Debris travels at such high speed in orbit that it could cause a deadly puncture to the space station.
The last time the station moved was in April last year. In June, astronauts had to take shelter in the Soyuz escape capsule as debris flew by.
NASA said the debris from the private U.S. satellite Iridium was on a path that would have brought it close to the station Friday afternoon, possibly less than a mile.
Online: NASA site
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WASHINGTON ? The Justice Department is publicly rebutting Republican criticism of the legality of President Barack Obama's recent recess appointments of a national consumer watchdog and other officials.
The department released a 23-page legal opinion Thursday summarizing the advice it gave the White House before the Jan. 4 appointments. GOP leaders have argued the Senate was not technically in recess when Obama acted so the regular Senate confirmation process should have been followed.
Assistant Attorney General Virginia Seitz wrote that the president has authority to make such appointments because the Senate is on a 20-day recess, even though it has held periodic pro forma sessions in which no business is conducted. Seitz argued the pro forma sessions ? some with as few as one member present ? have not been sufficient for the chamber to exercise its constitutional authority to advise and consent to normal presidential nominations.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has said Obama has endangered the nation's systems of checks and balances, and Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch says the appointments are a very grave decision by an autocratic White House.
Senate Republicans have been using their ability to block or stall Senate confirmation of some regular nominees as a way to curb agencies they believe have taken or are poised to take actions they disagree with.
On Jan. 4, Obama appointed Richard Cordray, a former attorney general of Ohio, to be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Obama also appointed two Democrats and a Republican to the National Labor Relations Board that day. There was stiff Republican opposition to creating the new consumer agency, which was authorized in the financial regulation law, and Republicans have argued that the labor board has tilted toward unions under Obama's Democratic administration.
The Justice official who wrote the opinion, Seitz, heads the department's Office of Legal Counsel, which is empowered to provide binding legal opinions to the executive branch.
Her new memo cites a Justice Department legal opinion from President George W. Bush's Republican administration in justifying Obama's recent appointments. The Bush administration opinion from 2004 says that a recess during a session of the Senate can meet constitutional requirements for permitting the president to make recess appointments as long as the recess is of sufficient length. Seitz noted that the last five presidents have made recess appointments during recesses of 14 days or less.
In December, the Senate agreed to adjourn until Jan. 23 but to convene pro forma sessions in which no business was to be conducted every Tuesday and Friday.
The Senate pro forma sessions in which no business was conducted, do not "in our opinion" interrupt the recess "in a manner that would preclude the president" from acting, Seitz wrote in her Jan. 6 opinion.
Beginning in late 2007, the Senate has frequently conducted pro forma sessions that typically last only a few seconds and that "apparently require the presence of only one senator," Seitz wrote. Under a legal framework dating back nearly a century, recess appointments have been permitted when the Senate cannot receive communications from the president or participate as a body in confirming nominees.
In an op-ed article in the Washington Post, Edwin Meese, who served as attorney general under Republican President Ronald Reagan, and Todd Gaziano, a former Office of Legal Counsel attorney who is now a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, called Obama's actions "a breathtaking violation of the separation of powers."
The GOP's unsuccessful opposition to creating the consumer watchdog agency has turned into opposition to potential nominees to lead the office. Stiff Republican opposition headed Obama off from even nominating Elizabeth Warren, the interim official who helped set up the office, to be its permanent chief.
There is GOP resistance as well to filling slots on the National Labor Relations Board that Republicans feel has become pro-labor under Obama. If Republicans keep enough slots vacant on the labor board, they can prevent it from acting at all.
The pro forma sessions have been used by both Democratic and Republican senators in an effort to stave off recess appointments.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in 2008 that the pro forma sessions were designed to prevent the president ? at that time Bush ? from exercising his constitutional power to make recess appointments.
Last year with Obama in the White House, some Republican senators urged House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, not to pass any resolution that would allow the Senate to recess or adjourn for more than three days. The Constitution provides that neither the House nor the Senate shall adjourn for more than three days without the consent of the other. No concurrent resolution of adjournment has been introduced in either chamber since May of last year.
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Who handles a diagnosis of cancer better??
I know in this household, Leroy and I were very different when it came to understanding and dealing with his disease.? This wasn't a care giver vs. patient issue.? This was the way we approached the cancer.
I couldn't learn enough about it.? My questions to his doctors weren't just about procedures and what they would do to the cancer, but I needed details.? He didn't go there at all.?? When he found out he had colon cancer, that was all he needed to know about that.? He had a name for it, he pretty much knew there was a genetic connection and the next step was to fight like hell to beat it.
When a particular treatment was suggested, he certainly thought long and hard about it, weighing the pros and cons, but he did it in his head.? Just like he did if he was going into a war zone.? He would think it through..the entire trip...it was his way of controlling the outcome.
But we were just one couple facing this hard journey.? One boy and one girl who managed it together, but separately.
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The long-simmering debate on Scottish independence has boiled over in Edinburgh, with one politician accusing colleagues of being 'anti-Scottish' for not supporting independence.?
Fierce debate surrounding an upcoming referendum on Scottish independence took an ugly turn when a Scottish nationalist politician labeled the parliamentary members who oppose independence "anti-Scottish," claiming they had formed a political alliance to "defy the will of the Scottish people."
Skip to next paragraphJoan McAlpine's remarks sparked an angry response in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, which passed a motion 67-56 stating that the Scottish legislature is responsible for making arrangements for the controversial referendum on the country's independence from the United Kingdom.?(For a full explanation of the independence referendum issue, see our earlier story.)
"I absolutely make no apology for saying that the Liberals, the Labour Party and the Tories are anti-Scottish in coming together to defy the will of the Scottish people, the democratic mandate the Scottish people gave us to hold the referendum at a time of our choosing, which the first minister said would be the latter half of the parliament," Ms. McAlpine told the Scottish Parliament.
Their opposition to independence is the only policy that the three main unionist parties ? the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrats parties ? can be sure to be in more or less total agreement. Though the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats share power in the UK coalition government in London, it is an alliance of political convenience and their politics diverge greatly.
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond derided the parties' decision to join forces on the independence issue as an unholy alliance between Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron and opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband (who are otherwise political foes), formed merely to dismiss calls for independence. A Labour member of the Scottish parliament, Neil Findlay, led the unionist retort, calling McAlpine's outburst an "utter disgrace."
"I think the member should seriously consider what she is saying. Given the views that opinion polls suggest of the vast majority of the Scottish people, is she suggesting that they're not patriotic and do not love their country?" he said.
As the Monitor reported earlier this week, the most recent polls indicate that only 38 percent of Scots support outright independence.?Another released Thursday suggested support was as low as 33 percent.
Conservative Scottish parliament member Jackson Carlaw, calling himself "a proud Scot and an elected member of the chamber," accused Ms. McAlpine of "political racism."
Salmond, who appeared to be trying to distance himself from the argument, reiterated the Scottish government's stance that the referendum should be "organized in Scotland, built in Scotland for the Scottish people, discussed with civic Scotland, and brought to the people in 2014 for a historic decision on the future of this nation."
On Friday, he invited Mr. Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg to Edinburgh for "constructive dialogue" about the the issue. Cameron's UK government prefers a vote "sooner rather than later," possibly within the next 18 months, and disputes Edinburgh's constitutional right to hold a legally-binding referendum without new powers being devolved by London. The British government's perceived interference in what Scots consider a domestic issue is what touched off this week's spat.
Although Ms. McAlpine later tried to tone down her comments by saying they were directed only at the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Dem leaderships, her clarification came with a stinging addendum. The unionist parties, she said, "should not be ganging up" in what would seem to be an alliance "against Scotland's democratic right to decide our own future."
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Industry affiliates make photos of the new LG 55-inch OLED television during the 2012 International CES Tradeshow, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Industry affiliates make photos of the new LG 55-inch OLED television during the 2012 International CES Tradeshow, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Tim Baxter, president of consumer electronics for Samsung America, introduces the Samsung 55-inch OLED TV during a news conference, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, in Las Vegas. The TV uses uses organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, instead of plasma or liquid crystals. The 2012 International CES tradeshow, the world's largest consumer electronics exhibition starts Tuesday. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Joe Stinziano, senior vice president for Samsung Electronics America, introduces the Samsung 55-inch Super Oled TV during a news conference, Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, in Las Vegas. The TV uses uses organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, instead of plasma or liquid crystals. The 2012 International CES tradeshow, the world's largest consumer electronics exhibition starts Tuesday. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
LAS VEGAS (AP) ? Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. are showing off 55-inch TV sets that use organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, instead of plasma or liquid crystals.
The TVs were unveiled this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show, an annual showcase in Las Vegas for the latest smartphones, tablet computers and other consumer-electronic devices.
WHY IT'S HOT: It's the first time in years we're seeing a new screen technology for TVs. OLED screens can be extremely thin. LG's set is just 4 millimeters thick. That's one-sixth of an inch. The picture quality is stunning too, because OLED TVs can present highly saturated colors and a nearly perfect black.
THE UPSHOT: The screen technology is in use in high-end smartphones, but it has been very difficult to make larger screens with consistent results. In 2007, Sony Corp. started selling an 11-inch OLED TV for about $2,500, but it never followed it up with a bigger model. Since then, LG and Samsung have shown prototype OLED TVs at the annual CES show, but hadn't revealed any marketing plans until this week.
THE DOWNSIDE: Samsung and LG haven't announced a price, but expect the sets to cost more than $5,000 each. It'll take at least a few years for prices to come down enough for most people.
AVAILABILITY: LG said fourth quarter of this year, tentatively. Samsung only said "this year."
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On October 19 of last year I wrote a post entitled: If You Sold Your Apple Stock Today, You're An Idiot. Because their Q4 numbers missed Wall Street expectations, Apple's stock dropped over 5 percent on that day, to close below $400-a-share after hitting an all-time high just days before. My argument was that it was the Wall Street expectations that were horribly flawed, not Apple's actual performance. And the stock would recover quickly as a result leading up to their Q1 earnings, which even Apple was predicting would be a blow out. Reading the comments on that post ? which I love to do ? you'd think I was saying something insane. When the stock fell to $363 right after Thanksgiving, a few remembered the post and once again pointed out the irrational insanity of this fanboy. ?But then a funny thing happened yesterday. Apple's stock closed at a new all-time high.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/qepah7BXISY/
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Additionally, for my players, there's going to be a tl;dr for reference at the bottom, in case they need to hastily review.
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Drakus stood, mouth hanging open, parched, eyes dull lidded as he stared at the burning wreckage crashing down before him. It had been his home his entire life, the manor. It had been through some rough times. Dragon attacks. Hostage takings. Zealous knights. Many things. And through all of it the manor had always remained strong. An old family building that he could rely on. And now he watched it burn. In the space of a bare few minutes one man had burnt it all down.Truthfully, Drakus couldn't hold a grudge. That man's soul was now locked into a crystal, and the body he shared with another was being tended to for being shot in the eye with an arrow.
Truth be told, Kenji looked like shit. Blood was smeared all over his kimono and while his eye had been bandaged he looked woozy. He had lost a lot of blood and didn't seem to know what had happened. In fact most of those who had moments before been living in the manor seemed stunned to some degree. It had stood as a bastion for them, unification of people from so many different races and histories, spanning from the underdark to outer space. But the origin of the attack had been clear. Someone had ordered this house burnt down.
Drakus just couldn't raise the spirit to care.
Walking slowly over to him with two swords was his brother, who knelt down to the sitting Drakus and quietly asked, "Are you alright?" Drakus' only response was a weak shake of his head. One of the swords was offered out, handle first. A familiar tool, it had been used to control the dragons Drakus owned for breeding and selling. "I need you to take this sword,"Alrion said simply.
"Why...?"
Alrion cast a look over his shoulder then back to Drakus. "He destroyed our home, Drakus. Not just our home, but many of theirs too. Somewhere they could feel welcome."
"And what..." Drakus said slowly, "You want me to take up my sword, call my dragons and lead our friends to kill my son?"
"Drakus, tonight your son ordered dead, what, three people at the bare minimum from what we know? And that was without the casualties that could have been caused by a house fire. He's gone too far this time Drakus. It's not other people he's hurting any more." He let out a sigh. "This isn't me asking if you will lead, but if you will join. I'm going with or without you. Eva will come, possibly Avia. If Avia does I can expect the support of Daniel, maybe a couple others. Lumierre will stay with you and that might convince Avia to stay."
"Just how many more lives do you want to risk before you do something?"
Drakus turned his head away, guilt flushing his chest. False gods be damned. Without another word he took the sword and carefully hoisted himself to his feet. "Make sure everyone knows what we're doing..."
"Most of us will go in the Trekker. Daniel has his hoverbike, Kenji his uh... scooter..."
"You want Kenji to join us, after what just happened?"
"He's shaken Drakus. Angry. Have you ever seen the man angry before in your life? He's ready to take action."
"Fine. Make it so. I'll just... stand here and wait for everyone to be ready."
And thus, Alrion was off to make the preparations. They were heading to town to find and confront Ezrael.
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Welcome to this morning?s edition of ?First To Know,? a series in which we keep you in the know on what?s happening in the digital world. Today, we?re looking at three particularly interesting stories.
Apple Patent Paves Way for Thunderbolt on iOS Devices
New patent applications from Apple show how Intel and Apple?s joint technology for wired fast data transfer, Thunderbolt, could be applied to iOS devices such as the iPhone and the iPad. One patent application, for example, mentions a connection ?between a portable media player and a display, a computer and a portable media player, or between other types of devices.?
If Thunderbolt ever comes to iOS devices, it would mean much faster data transfer as well as faster recharging.
Ford to Open Research and Development Lab in Silicon Valley in 2012
Ford plans to open an R&D lab in Silicon Valley in ?early 2012,? which would be the first such facility the company has ever opened on the West Coast. The exact location of the lab hasn?t been revealed, except that it will be somewhere in the San Francisco Bay area.
The lab will help Ford develop partnerships with tech firms, startups and universities in the area.
Samsung Reports Record Profit on Smartphone Sales
Samsung has reported a record quarterly profit, thanks to surging sales of Galaxy phones and a one-time deal in which Samsung sold its mechanical-drive business to Seagate for $1.38 billion. Operating profit in Q4 was $4.5 billion, a 73% increase compared to 2010 when Samsung?s operating profit was $2.58 billion.
In early December 2011 Samsung said it sold 300 million mobile phones that year, and it plans to sell 374 million mobile phones in 2012.
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Source: http://mashable.com/2012/01/06/thunderbolt-ios-ford-lab-samsung-profits/
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