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For next year, June Thomas is excited to watch Lost Girl, a new series on the SyFy Network about a woman who discovers she?s a succubus. She?s also anticipating Alison Bechdel?s new graphic memoir, Are You My Mother? For the last week of 2011, June is recommending the play Stick Fly, which is about an African-American family on Martha?s Vineyard, and Bernard Callebaut brandied cherries, which are only available seasonally.

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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina's Cristina Fernandez joined the list of presidents diagnosed with the disease.

It was a typically controversial statement by Venezuela's socialist leader, who underwent surgery in June to remove a tumor from his pelvis. But he stressed that he was not making any accusations, just thinking aloud.

"It would not be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer and nobody knew about it until now ... I don't know. I'm just reflecting," he said in a televised speech to troops at a military base.
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Egypt's Mubarak trial resumes after delay (Reuters)

CAIRO (Reuters) ? The trial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, charged with the killing of protesters and abuse of power, resumed on Wednesday following a delay of almost two months while lawyers demanded a new judge.

Mubarak, his two sons, the former interior minister and senior police officers face a range of charges including involvement in the deaths of hundreds of protesters and corruption during his three decades in office.

Mubarak, who is being held under arrest in a hospital where doctors say he has a heart condition, was wheeled into the court on a hospital trolley covering his eyes with his arm and surrounded by police.

Previous sessions were marred by clashes outside the Cairo court building between Mubarak supporters and Egyptians demanding the death penalty for their former leader, but there were no scuffles as Mubarak arrived on Wednesday.

Around 850 people were killed in the 18-day uprising that overthrew Mubarak in February.

The trial has gripped the Arab world, ruled ostly by autocrats who seemed unassailable until this year when Mubarak and the leaders of Tunisia and Libya were toppled in popular revolts.

Lawyers representing families of those killed had filed a suit calling for presiding judge Ahmed Refaat and the two other judges to be replaced. The request was rejected.

They had complained that the judges had failed to give them adequate time to question Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who heads the army council now ruling Egypt, during his court appearance.

Former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli and six senior police officers are also standing trial. Businessman Hussein Salem, a close associate of Mubarak, is being tried in absentia.

The judge was expected on Wednesday to take requests from lawyers and set dates for more testimony.

(Reporting by Tamim Elyan and Marwa Awad; Editing by Tom Pfeiffer and Maria Golovnina)

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Dolphins' Taylor to retire after Sunday's game (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Miami Dolphins linebacker Jason Taylor is to bring the curtain down on his 15-year NFL career after Sunday's season finale against the New York Jets.

The 37-year-old is the active leader in sacks with 139.5, which places him sixth on the all-time list, and also holds an NFL record six fumble returns for touchdowns.

Drafted by the Dolphins in 1997, Taylor spent 13 of his 15 seasons with the franchise.

"It's been a great run," Taylor told a news conference following Dolphins' practice on Wednesday.

"It's been a tough year, unfortunately. We've had some good times. This is the right time for me to go ahead and allow this organization to grow and improve."

Taylor, who spent most of his career at defensive end before switching to linebacker, rejoined the Dolphins in the off-season for the third stint of his career.

Miami have a disappointing 5-10 record this year despite seven sacks from Taylor.

Much of Taylor's career has been spent on underperforming Dolphins teams and his last playoff game with the franchise came in 2001. He did help the New York Jets get to the AFC Championship game last season but never reached a Super Bowl.

Taylor is a six-times Pro Bowler and was named the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2006.

(Writing by Jahmal Corner in Los Angeles; Editing by Peter Rutherford)

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Detroit police say 3 deaths tied to dating services site (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Three women discovered dead in Detroit over the past week, including two found burned beyond recognition early on Christmas, were linked to a website called Packages that advertises adult escort services, police said on Monday.

In two incidents over the last week, four women -- all African-Americans in their 20s -- have been found dead in the trunks of abandoned vehicles on Detroit's east side.

The latest incident occurred about 1 a.m. on Sunday, when the Detroit Fire Department responded to reports of a car fire.

After putting out the flames, firefighters discovered two dead women in the trunk of the 1997 Buick LaSabre.

Three of the four women, the police said in a statement, were linked with "prearranged adult dating services" advertised on Packages, police said.

In a statement posted on the department's Facebook page, Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. said "deciding to meet unknown persons via the Internet can be extremely dangerous."

The city's medical examiner has not determined how the four women died. But Godbee said that given "the way the females were found and the attempt to hide their bodies," homicide detectives were treating the cases as suspicious deaths.

(Reporting by James B. Kelleher, editing by Ian Simpson)

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Windsor Castle to use green energy

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Demi Lovato Goes Off on Disney for Eating Disorder Joke

The folks at Disney forced Demi Lovato out of the Christmas spirit last night.

The former star of Sonny With a Chance - who left that series earlier this year to battle personal problems that included an eating disorder - took MAJOR exception to a joke on the Disney Channel show Shake It Up this week, as a character quipped:

"I could just eat you up, well if I ate."

The line promoted the following Tweets from Lovato:

I find it really funny how a company can lose one of their actress' from the pressures of an EATING DISORDER and yet still make joke about that very disease...

And is it just me or are the actress' [on Disney Channel] getting THINNER AND THINNER.... I miss the days of RAVEN, and LIZZIE MCGUIRE...

Dear Disney Channel, EATING DISORDERS ARE NOT SOMETHING TO JOKE ABOUT.

The network, meanwhile, has actually responded and agreed with Lovato, releasing the following statement:

"We hear you & are pulling both episodes as quickly as possible & reevaluating them ... It’s NEVER our intention to make light of eating disorders!"

Way to go, Demi! And happy holidays! Go stuff your face. You've earned it.

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Corporate foreign tax holiday would create jobs

As Congress takes a break from its highly partisan debate on an extension of the payroll tax bill, there should be one other job stimulus item on the table: temporary repatriation of foreign earnings at a lower tax rate for U.S. companies.

As CEOs of two Silicon Valley companies, each with more than 3,000 local employees, we want to ring a warning bell. Washington is about to walk away from a $1.4 trillion private sector stimulus that would result in billions in revenue to the Treasury and create jobs.

The New Democrat Coalition, Blue Dog Democrats and the Freshmen Republican Caucus all agree that repatriating foreign earnings at a lower tax rate is one of the few bipartisan solutions left to jump-start our struggling economy. The reduced tax rate has had considerable debate and it's up to Congress to make a decision. It was 5.25 percent in 2005.

Unfortunately, U.S. businesses - including many of the 345 member companies of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group - are hindered by an outdated tax system that ends up taxing foreign earnings by up to 35 percent. This is the combination of taxes paid in the countries where goods are sold and an additional tax by the United States when companies bring the money home. This double tax causes companies like ours to be uncompetitive against our foreign competitors, and it often discourages the reinvestment of earnings back into U.S. jobs and innovation. When additional state taxes are added, the average U.S. corporate tax rate rises to as high as 39.2 percent, the second-highest in the developed world, only slightly behind Japan's.

Congress can act now to bring this revenue home. Laura D'Andrea Tyson, former Clinton administration chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, found that a tax reduction on foreign earnings to approximately 5.25 percent would lead to an increase in capital spending by companies and an increase in consumption spending by individual and institutional shareholders. As a result, GDP would increase by $178 billion to $336 billion, 1.3 million to 2.5 million jobs would be added, and corporate tax revenues would rise by $36 billion.

Contrary to the rhetoric, there were great successes following the temporary reduction of the repatriation tax seven years ago.

Brocade Communications Systems repatriated approximately $75 million. The money was used to support workers' wages and compensation, growing our businesses and strategic investments. Since 2005, Brocade has increased its U.S. head count from nearly 1,000 employees to more than 3,500 at the end of 2010.

Varian Medical Systems repatriated approximately $128 million, using the funds for acquisitions, R&D initiatives that improved cancer care and expansion of manufacturing capabilities in Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. Our workforce has grown from 3,900 people to 5,300 at the end of 2010.

But these are just two small proof points that repatriation has been successful in the past. If Congress acts now to pass a temporary repatriation at a competitive tax rate, it will stimulate our nation's economy and create jobs. That's a proposal worthy of bipartisan support.

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Brady leads comeback, Patriots top Dolphins 27-24 (AP)

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. ? The New England Patriots emphasize playing well for 60 minutes every game. On Saturday, 30 was enough ? barely.

Rallying from their worst half of the season, the Patriots scored on their next five possessions and clinched a playoff bye with a 27-24 win over the Miami Dolphins on Saturday.

"You don't want to, certainly, make a habit of this," said Tom Brady, who scored on two 1-yard sneaks and threw for a 1-yard touchdown. "We showed some resiliency."

New England (12-3) won its seventh straight game. After the Houston Texans lost to the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday night, the Patriots needed a win or a tie to lock up one of the top two spots in the AFC.

"It's good to clinch," said Deion Branch, who caught the touchdown pass from Brady, "but not by the way we played. It's not the way you want to do it."

Miami (5-10) lost for the third time in eight games after opening at 0-7 and is 1-1 under Todd Bowles, who took over when Tony Sparano was fired.

"First half we came out and played our tempo and our ballgame," Bowles said. "The second half they made us play theirs."

The AFC East champions trailed 17-0 at halftime but made the necessary adjustments and went to their no-huddle offense more, keeping the Dolphins from making defensive substitutions. And Brady was on target after a first half in which heavy defensive pressure against a makeshift offensive line affected his accuracy. He completed just 7 of 19 passes for 87 yards and was sacked three times in the half.

But in the second half, he completed 20 of 27 passes for 217 yards, finishing at 27 for 46 for 304 yards and leading one scoring drive after another ? a 45-yard field goal by Stephen Gostkowski, the scoring pass to Branch, his own sneak that tied the game, Gostkowski's 42-yard go-ahead kick after Devin McCourty's first interception of the year, and the other sneak with 2:56 to go, making it 27-17.

The Dolphins made it closer on Matt Moore's 15-yard scoring pass to Davone Bess with 1:48 to play. They had three timeouts left, but their hopes faded when Brady hit Wes Welker for a 6-yard gain and a first down.

"We had (Brady's) number in the first half, but in the second half he came out and made a lot of plays," Miami linebacker Karlos Dansby said. "He is a coach on the field."

The Dolphins seemed headed for a victory and got a break even before the game started when Patriots left tackle Matt Light hurt his ankle in warmups and didn't play. Left guard Logan Mankins took his spot, but he left with a knee injury suffered on New England's second series.

"There's always things that are going to go wrong in a football game and things aren't going to work out the way you want them to all the time," said Welker, who finished with 12 catches for 138 yards after managing just two for 20 in the first half. "The main thing is just playing a full 60 minutes and never giving in and understanding that one drive and one score (can) get things going."

The Patriots punted on their first six series of the first half then missed a field goal on the other. The Dolphins struggled in the second half when Moore fumbled the snap at his 38-yard line and Vince Wilfork recovered, starting the drive capped by Branch's touchdown.

"They committed penalties in the first half," Dolphins guard Richie Incognito said. "We turned the ball over and committed penalties in the second half. That is never a good recipe."

Reggie Bush had another outstanding game for Miami with his fourth straight rushing day of at least 100 yards. He finished with 113 on 22 carries one week after gaining a career-high 203 yards.

His latest performance gave him 1,086 yards rushing for the season, the first time in his six years, the first five with the New Orleans Saints, that he passed 1,000.

"It really doesn't mean anything right now," he said. "This one's pretty tough."

The Dolphins had taken a 3-0 lead on Dan Carpenter's 47-yard field goal 4:01 into the game and made it 10-0 with 1:15 gone in the second quarter on Moore's 19-yard pass to Brandon Marshall.

They stretched that to 17-0, the Patriots biggest deficit of the season, on a 1-yard touchdown pass from Moore to Charles Clay. The 89-yard drive was helped by two defensive pass interference penalties on third down.

But the Patriots remained calm in the locker room at intermission.

"There wasn't a bunch of yelling," Wilfork said. "We just came in and said we've got to play better, we've got to make more plays."

They did. The Dolphins didn't.

"Our guys fought," Bowles said, "but we didn't finish."

Notes: Welker set a franchise record for one season with 1,518 yards receiving. He broke the mark of 1,493 set by Randy Moss in 2007. ... Bush was checked my medical personnel on the sideline late in the game "Something in my leg just didn't feel right," he said. "I'm walking. If it was serious, I wouldn't be walking." ... Moore completed 17 of 33 passes for 294 yards, his highest total as a Dolphin. He threw for more than that with the Carolina Panthers once in 2009 and once in 2010. ... The victory was the largest comeback by the Patriots from a second-half deficit since Nov. 10, 2002 when they beat the Chicago Bears 33-30 after trailing 27-6 in the third quarter.

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GSP overhyped? A Canadian website says so after tough 2011

It's been a lousy year for Georges St-Pierre and he can't even turn to his boys in Canada for a little moral support. Well, it's only one writer's opinion, but Aaron Lefko of Sportsnet.ca included GSP on his "Most Overhyped Athletes of 2011" list.

And even before his injury, St-Pierre was taking verbal shots from the public, the media and fighters for his inability to put away opponents.

He grabbed the international spotlight in April for headlining the first UFC card in Toronto, producing GSP mania. A record UFC crowd of more than 55,000 packed the Rogers Centre to finally see the conquering Canadian hero and he went the full five rounds with Jake Shields in what was more of a clinic on how not to lose a fight than actually win it.

Keep in mind, St-Pierre won the fight against Jake Shields back in April. Since then he's battled injuries all year with the worst coming a few weeks back when he suffered a torn ACL. The fight at UFC 129 is really stuck in the writer's craw.

It was boring at best and continued a pattern of St-Pierre going the full distance without delivering the knockout blow or submission. Heck, the fight before it on the card was way more entertaining than the main event.

We're not exactly sure why it's a bad thing for the undercard to outperform the main event. Plus it seems tough to overhype a guy who's been inactive for eight months.

Check out the rest of the list. Is there anyone on there who's been a champion? Seems a little harsh to put GSP, a legitimate champion, on the list just because he doesn't win the right way.

Is GSP overhyped? Maybe this guy and Nick Diaz are onto something.

Frank Trigg, Kevin Iole and myself discussed the St-Pierre topic on the latest "The MMA Insiders" on ESPN1100/98.9 FM.

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'Bel Ami' Trailer: Five Key Scenes

Robert Pattinson breaks away from Edward Cullen in the story of one man's rise to the top of Parisian society.
By Terri Schwartz

Christina Ricci and Robert Pattinson in "Bel Ami"
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Ladies, say goodbye to Edward Cullen and hello to George Duroy.

The newest "Bel Ami" trailer has hit the Web, showcasing a Robert Pattinson who is very different from the one fans have come to know and love in "The Twilight Saga."

The sex-filled drama follows penniless soldier Duroy on his rise to the top of the Parisian social ladder thanks to his manipulation and seduction of the wives of the French elite. Needless to say, fans who want a lot of nudity and friskiness to go along with their daily dose of Pattinson should not be disappointed by this latest preview, which follows an earlier "Bel Ami" trailer released in July.

While the film doesn't have a release date yet in the U.S., viewers in the U.K. will be able to see it starting March 2. For now, here are five key scenes from the brand-new trailer!

Meet the Ladies
There's a reason directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod enlisted Pattinson: He's one of the biggest sex symbols around, and Duroy is a playboy in every sense of the word. As important a character as he is, the ladies Duroy seduces are also integral to the story. About a fourth of the way through the trailer, Pattinson is seen sitting across from the three women who will act as his love interests: Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott Thomas. These ladies likely have no idea what emotional roller coaster is in store for them.

Sex, Sex and More Sex
Pattinson has been pretty upfront about the fact that "Bel Ami" includes plenty of sex and — in his words — "a lot of my crack in it." This trailer teases those aspects of the movie, as Pattinson can be spotted frequently getting frisky with Thurman, Ricci and Thomas. But it's his slow seduction methods that have really captured our interest. Whether he's drawing a finger down Ricci's neck or flirting with Thomas in a church, Pattinson seems to have come a long way from the brooding Edward Cullen.

"I've Been Such a Fool"
You've got to love a man who can admit when he's wrong. The crux of the movie pivots on Duroy's bad behavior, so it should come as no surprise that he eventually gets in trouble for it — at least that's what it looks like when he admits to Ricci's character, "I've been such a fool." Whether that means he will learn from his actions is yet to be seen, but we doubt it based on all of the other dramatic occurrences in the trailer.

"Get Out of My House!"
Between "Bel Ami" and Pattinson's other project, "Cosmopolis," the man best known as a sparkly vampire is getting the chance to show he can be more than just a heartthrob. And he gives us a preview in the trailer when he yells, "Get out of my house!" breaking down his character's usually composed façade.

A Man's Reflection
The trailer is scattered with shots of Duroy staring at his own reflection, but two pivotal instances bookend the video. In the first, Duroy gazes at his face in a small, broken mirror, looking unsatisfied with what he sees. But toward the end of the trailer, there is a (shirtless!) full-body shot of Duroy staring at himself yet again. In the voice-over, he emphatically states, "There is no next life, and I am going to live." It's clear Duroy has undergone significant changes since the beginning of the film, but we have a gut feeling those changes aren't going to end well for him.

Check out everything we've got on "Bel Ami."

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Cat travels 200 miles under car hood in Ohio

MEDINA, Ohio (AP) ? A cat has survived a four-hour, 200-mile ride under the hood of a car traveling through Ohio.

WJW-TV reports (http://bit.ly/vqGcUr ) a man who'd left Xenia (ZEEN'-yuh) in southwest Ohio on a drive to Cleveland Sunday afternoon stopped at a rest area south of his destination when he smelled something. A patrolling state trooper found the motorist with his hood up and a large black and white cat that wasn't his stuck in the engine compartment. The animal had burns on the right side.

The cat was taken to an animal hospital in nearby Lodi (LOH'-dy) where Dr. Linda Randall said he was going to be fine.

Randall is calling him "Eclipse" because that was the model of the car. The SPCA is trying to find the feline's owner.

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ITC sides with Apple in patent dispute with HTC

By Associated Press Published: Dec 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM PST

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? A federal agency is siding with Apple and ordering an import ban on HTC phones that infringe on a patent belonging to the iPhone maker.

The U.S. International Trade Commission said Monday that the ban will take effect April 19 so that wireless carriers will have time to adjust their plans. The ITC said in a final ruling that HTC Corp. may import some refurbished phones to offer customers as replacements under warranties and insurance plans. HTC, which is based in Taiwan, is a major maker of phones that use Google Inc.'s Android operating software.

Apple Inc. had initially complained about HTC violating several of its patents in April 2010, though the commission narrowed its decision down to just one patent. The patent in question deals with data detection, enabling smartphone functions such as the ability to tap on a phone number or address contained in an email to immediately call the number or find the address on a map.

It's not immediately known which phones are covered by the ban. In an e-mailed statement, HTC general counsel Grace Lei said the patent in question affects a small part of the user experience and it will soon remove it from any affected phones.

Apple spokeswoman Kristen Huguet reiterated an earlier statement, saying competitors should create their own technology.

The case is part of a broader dispute involving Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple, HTC and other phone makers. In federal courts and before the ITC, companies have been accusing one another of stealing ideas for popular phone features. While the courts can award damages, the commission has the power to block imports of products and parts made with contested technology.

The U.S. International Trade Commission issued an initial ruling in October that Apple's iPhone does not violate four patents owned by HTC, a blow to the company.

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The Koreas: Could Kim Jong Il's Death Lead to Reunification? (Time.com)

More than any other nation, South Korea feels most threatened by the North. Indeed, the two neighbors are still technically at war. So Pyongyang's announcement yesterday of Kim Jong Il's death sent Seoul scrambling. Frazzled lawmakers packed up their things and rushed out of party meetings. The KOSPI tumbled. According to the Korean press, the nation's defense minister heard the news from North Korean television like millions of others. President Lee Myung Bak cleared his desk for the day and put his nation's military on the highest alert.

Since he came to power in 2008, Lee, a former CEO, has taken a no-nonsense approach to the unpredictable North. He reversed the South's nearly decade-long "sunshine policy" of engagement with Pyongyang which was forged to persuadethe North to behave better. Instead, Lee, 70, played hardball. Referring to the previous years as the "lost decade," Lee put into place a revised strategy that made South Korean aid contingent on the North's dismantling its arm program. (See photos of Pyongyang residents mourning the dear leader.)

It wasn't cold-hearted as much as an attempt to rein in the North. "Lee took a very tough line toward North Korea," says Gi-Wook Shin, director of the Seoul-based Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Shin likens the administrations' differing policies to parents who take opposing disciplinary roles for the good of their child. "He has been playing the 'bad cop' role. That doesn't mean it's necessarily bad." Nevertheless, Lee's approach has drawn its share of criticism. It was under his watch that Pyongyang's worst provocations in recent North-South relations have taken place: the sinking of the South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors in March 2010, and, less than a year later, the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island that killed two soldiers and two civilians.

Now that Kim is gone, Lee could seize the moment to smooth things over. A similar opportunity presented itself toSeoul in 1994, after the death of Kim's father, longtime North Korean leader Kim Il Sung. The then South Korean president, Kim Young-sam, was scheduled to meet Kim Il Sung for a much-anticipated summit, but Kim Il Sung died of a sudden heart attack before the set date. Kim Young Sam "didn't show any goodwill toward North Korea" after his death, says Shin, and that angered Pyongyang. On Tuesday Seoul sent condolences to Pyongyang and said some representatives, but not an official delegation, might go next week's funeral. "This could be an opportunity for Lee to improve relations with North Korea," says Shin, "if he wants to."

Should he want to? A conciliatory gesture would not go down well with Lee's conservative base, and as South Korea enters an election year, it might be a political risk he and his party are unwilling to take. But there is also the larger question of whether closer ties necessarily guarantee any more stability, especially in a post-Kim era. Since his inauguration, Lee has emphasized that South Korea's foreign policy should not be defined by its relations with the North, and has focused on strengthening ties with the U.S., China, Japan and Russia. (See photos of Koreas exchanging fire at disputed border.)

After the Korean War, South Korea's de facto foreign policy was anti-communist -- ergo anti-North -- for more than 20 years. There were moments when relations thawed, such as the planned summit in 1994, but things didn't really change until the election of Kim Dae Jung in 1997 and the introduction of the sunshine policy. Wayne Patterson, a history professor at St. Norbert College in the U.S., sums up the thinking behind Kim Dae Jung's rapprochement like this: "'Maybe if we're nice to North Korea, they'll be nice back.'"

They weren't. Kim Dae Jung met with Kim Jong-il in 2000, a landmark summit that helped earn him a Nobel Peace Prize and for which, it later came out, Seoulgave about $500 million to Pyongyang. After the South and the U.S. started delivering food aid to the North, where a catastrophic famine had killed up to two million people in the 1990s, evidence began piling up that the North Korean military was skimming off a significant portion of the aid. Pyongyang would not allow international monitors in to verify that the food was going to the children and elderly citizens who needed it most. Meanwhile, the North continued to build up its nuclear arms program, testing its first nuclear weapon in 2006. (The second and last was in 2009.) "To cut to the bottom line, it didn't work," says Patterson. Kim Dae Jung's successor Roh Moo Hyun continued the policy, but, notes Patterson, "North Korea did not modify its behavior."

Many analysts question whether Kim Jong Un, Jong Il's son and named successor, is ready to take the reins of his family dynasty after only a little over a year in the spotlight at his father's side. "Nobody will really challenge him," says Shin. "But that doesn't mean that he'll succeed." If the young Kim and his advisers can't keep their frail economy afloat, the nation could face an economic collapse -- or even a revolt. "A popular uprising is very unlikely, but it's not out of the question," says Charles Armstrong, director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University "Nobody predicted the Arab Spring a year ago."

Given a crisis of that magnitude, Lee's administration may not be able to resist gunning for a unified Korean peninsula. "Seoul is looking very carefully to see any signs of instability or change in North Korea following the death of Kim," says Armstrong. The idea has loomed large in South Korea's national psyche ever since the countries were split at the end of World War II, though today thenotion's popular support stems more from political correctness than real conviction that life would be better under unification. There are, after all, some clues as to what might await the South. When West Germany integrated East Germany, the cost of absorbing the poorer nation was enormous, says Patterson, and the wealth gap between South and North Korea is much larger than it was between East and West Germany. (See photos of the former President Kim Dae Jung.)

Still, the South Korean government is doing its best to keep unification relevant. Last year, it proposed a special tax that would set aside money to help pay for the cost of one day integrating the North into the domestic economy. Recently it launched an online television channel aimed at getting South Korea's younger generation, for whom the war is distant history, thinking about reuniting with the North.But even those who publicly support the nostalgic concept of a unified Korean peninsula may privately question whether South Korea can handle it. "What would happen if 15 million starving, poor North Koreans flood into the border looking for jobs and homes?" Patterson says. "Can [they] actually do it?"

Also, when it comes to erratic nuclear states, there is no such thing as a bilateral decision. Since 2003, South Korea has been joined by the U.S., Russia, China and Japan in the so-called Six Party talks on North Korea's nuclear program. Though the talks have been stalled since 2008, just days before Kim's death, news emerged that a major announcement over U.S. food aid and Pyongyang's cessation of uranium enrichment would soon be made. That's now on ice -- as is probably any chance of change between the Koreas.

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Iraqi admits trying to send weapons to al-Qaida (AP)

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. ? An Iraqi man who had claimed he was innocent of terrorism-related charges did an abrupt about-face Friday, pleading guilty to trying to funnel weapons and cash to al-Qaida operatives in his home country.

Waad Ramadan Alwan, 30, appeared in federal court in this south-central Kentucky college town and pleaded guilty to conspiring to attack American soldiers in Iraq and to use a weapon of mass destruction and to attempting to provide material support to terrorists.

Alwan was arrested in May in Bowling Green and had previously pleaded not guilty to charges in a 23-count indictment that also named fellow Iraqi Mohanad Shareef Hammadi.

Alwan's attorney declined comment after the hearing.

"Today in open court, Waad Alwan admitted to engaging in terrorist activities both here in the United States and in Iraq," U.S. Attorney David J. Hale said in a statement. "He acknowledged he had built and placed numerous improvised explosive devices (IEDs) aimed at killing and injuring American soldiers in Iraq, and he admitted that he tried to send numerous weapons from Kentucky to Iraq to be used against American soldiers."

Hale said the joint efforts of federal and local law enforcement had thwarted "the ongoing intentions of an experienced terrorist."

"The guilty plea today sends a strong message to anyone who would attempt similar crimes that they will face the same determined law enforcement and prosecution efforts," he said.

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A New Path: Path Grows Daily Users 30x Since Relaunch

There is something about waking up day after day to write about people who take risks; You end up rooting for some of them. This is the case with photo-sharing underdog?Path. Almost every investor I've talked to loves founder Dave Morin and wants him and his talented team to succeed. Morin has managed to hold on to top talent like Nathan Folkman and Danny Trinh despite stiff competition and poaching attempts from some of the hottest startups in the Valley.

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Exclusive: Made in Texas: Apple's A5 iPhone chip (Reuters)

SAN FRANCISCO ? Apple Inc is famous for relying on low-cost Asian manufacturers to both source and assemble its popular gadgets, but the consumer device giant recently started receiving a critical component in its iPad and iPhones from closer to home - Texas.

The A5 processor - the brain in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 - is now made in a sprawling 1.6 million square feet factory in Austin owned by Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics, according to people familiar with the operation.

One of the few major components to be sourced from within the United States, the A5 processor is built by Samsung in a newly constructed $3.6 billion non-memory chip production line that reached full production in early December.

Nearly all of the output of the non-memory chip production from the factory - which is the size of about nine football fields - is dedicated to producing Apple chips, one of the people said. Samsung also produces NAND flash memory chips in Austin.

The South Korean giant began supplying the A5 processors to Apple this year from the Austin plant, the people said.

Apple declined to comment, saying it does not detail supplier relationships. A Samsung spokeswoman declined to comment on its customers and the specification of the chips made in its Austin plant.

But she said the company expanded the Austin factory to include a production line to make logic chips. The A5 is one such chip.

The powerful A5 processor, which uses technology licensed from Britain's ARM Holdings, is designed by Apple in California.

The A5 chip debuted in Apple's iPad 2 in March and now also powers the new iPhone 4S. The 120 square millimeter chip is twice as fast as its predecessor, the A4, which is also made by Samsung, according to reports from teardown firms that have taken Apple's devices apart.

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Apart from Austin, Samsung has only one other non-memory logic chip factory, in South Korea.

Apple relies on its main contract manufacturer for gadgets, Foxconn, to assemble them, mainly in its factories in China and Taiwan.

The roaring success of both the iPad and iPhone has helped the city of Austin, where Freescale Semiconductor is based and other chip companies, like ARM, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, also have operations.

Semiconductor companies are attracted to Austin because of a steady supply of educated employees from the University of Texas' engineering school.

Samsung has added about 1,100 jobs to support the new non-memory chip production in the factory, which produces 40,000 silicon wafers every month, a Samsung spokeswoman said.

The rest of Samsung's total 2,400 employees in Austin work in its NAND flash memory factory by the logic chip factory, she added.

The Korean company, which began the U.S. plant in 1996 to make its NAND flash memory chips, continues to produce them there in addition to the A5.

Samsung's factory is the largest foreign investment in Texas with a total investment of about $9 billion, according to Austin Chamber of Commerce.

Austin is also home to an Apple customer call center that deals with customer complaints in North America, Apple's biggest market. The Cupertino company employs thousands in that facility, who deal with calls ranging from complaints to support.

While Apple is one of Samsung's largest customers, both are arch-rivals in the smartphone and tablet marketplace. The two companies are also locked in an acrimonious patent infringement battle that spans multiple countries and products.

(Additional reporting by Noel Randewich in San Francisco and Miyoung Kim in Seoul; Editing by Gary Hill)

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Scientists may be able to double efficacy of radiation therapy

ScienceDaily (Dec. 16, 2011) ? Scientists may have a way to double the efficacy and reduce the side effects of radiation therapy.

Georgia Health Sciences University scientists have devised a way to reduce lung cancer cells' ability to repair the lethal double-strand DNA breaks caused by radiation therapy.

"Radiation is a great therapy -- the problem is the side effects," said Dr. William S. Dynan, biochemist and Associate Director of Research and Chief, Nanomedicine and Gene Regulation at the GHSU Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics. "We think this is a way to get the same amount of cancer cell death with less radiation or use the same amount and maybe cure a patient that could not be cured before."

Radiation therapy capitalizes on radiation's ability to kill cells by causing double-strand breaks in DNA. But the fact that varying levels of radiation are essentially everywhere -- food, air, the ground, etc. -- means all cells, including cancer cells, have internal mechanisms to prevent the lethal breakage.

GHSU scientists are targeting the natural defense mechanisms by packaging a piece of an antibody against one of them with folate, which has easy access to most cells, particularly cancer cells. Many cancers, including the lung cancer cells they studied, have large numbers of folate receptors so that cancer cells get a disproportionate share of the package.

Previous efforts to destroy cancer cells' ability to avoid radiation damage have focused on receptors on their surface, said Dr. Shuyi Li, molecular biologist, pediatrician and corresponding author on the study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology.

To get a more direct hit, the scientists took advantage of folate receptors as a point of entry by chemically binding folate with the small piece of their antibody, ScFv 18-2. The package heads straight for the cell nucleus where a different chemical environment breaks the bond, freeing ScFv 18-2 to attack the regulatory region of DNA-dependent protein kinase, an enzyme essential to DNA repair.

"We are joining a targeting molecule with a cargo," said Dynan. "This strategy targets one of the key enzymes so it's harder to repair," Li said. This makes cancer cells more vulnerable to radiation.

Dynan and Li say the approach could be used to deliver any number of drugs directly inside cancer cells. Future studies include looking at other cell entry points as well as other targets to ensure they have the most effective package. Studies to date have been in human lung cancer cells in culture, so next steps also need to include animal studies.

Their approach mimics a natural process called endocytosis in which cells engulf proteins and other substances they want to let inside but can't fit through normal doorways.

Folate receptors already are being used as direct entry points for chemotherapeutic drugs, including clinical studies of a new strategy for ovarian cancer. GHSU is participating in clinical trials of a therapy that pairs an agent too toxic to be delivered through the bloodstream with folate to better target one of the most deadly cancers.

Dynan is the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Molecular Biology. Dynan and Li are both faculty members in GHSU's Medical College of Georgia. Dynan also is a faculty member in the College of Graduate Studies.

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Amundsen Becomes First to Reach South Pole, December 14, 1911

Map of Amundsens journey, from Scientific American, Vol. CVI, No. 12, March 23, 1912. Image: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

One hundred years ago today the South Pole was reached by a party of Norwegian explorers under the command of Roald Amundsen. The existence of the pole had been known, but the inhospitable landscape presented a barrier until Amundsen?s party made the dangerous trek across ice and snow to stand at the geographical South Pole on this day a century ago.

One of Amundsen?s competitors, Robert Falcon Scott and his party, achieved a different kind of fame: they arrived on January 17, 1912 to find they were second in the race to fame, and they perished on their way back north.

News of Amundsen?s achievement was telegraphed to the world on March 7, 1912, on his return to Hobart, Australia.

From Scientific American, Vol. CV1, No. 11, March 16, 1911
The Discovery of the South Pole

It is much too early to give any critical account of Capt. Roald Amundsen's achievement. Many weeks must elapse before we are in complete possession of all his data. Yet even the laconic account, which he has cabled to the press, throws a flood of light on the mystery of Antarctic geography. Amundsen seems to have collected enough evidence to substantiate the theory that the great chain of mountains which extends almost uninterruptedly from Alaska to Patagonia finds its continuation in a ridge connecting Victoria Land and King Edward VII Land, and which, in honor of his queen, he has named "Queen Maude's Range."

The ice barrier, which had proved for a century and a half a formidable obstacle to Antarctic exploration, is found to terminate in a bay, lying between the southeast mountain range running from South Victoria Land and a range which is probably a continuation of King Edward the VII Land and which extends in a southwesterly direction. Contrary to his original plan, Amundsen despatched one of his officers, Lieut. Prestud, to survey the Bay of Whales and the great ice barrier and to explore King Edward VII Land, of which practically nothing is known. No doubt the spur of competition played its part in unfolding the secrets of the last unexplored frigid region of the earth.

Amundsen and his party at the geographic South Pole, December 14, 1911.
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No less than four other expeditions were in the Antarctic regions at the time while Amundsen was forcing his way south. Besides Amundsen's, there was the Japanese expedition under Lieut. Shirase, which had to retreat to Australia last spring in order to replenish its supply of dogs, and which Amundsen says landed on January 16th at the Bay of Whales, two weeks before he sailed for home; Dr. Mawson's Australian expedition, for which $215,000 had been raised up to November 1st last, and which was to land three parties between Cape Adare and Gaussberg; the German expedition under Lieut. Filchner in the "Deutschland," elaborately equipped with wireless, magnetic, and meteorological apparatus, full of the hope of establishing a base southwest of Coats Land in as high a latitude as possible; and lastly, Capt. Scott's English expedition in the "Terra Nova," which left New Zealand in November, 1910, badly damaged by stormy weather; so badly, indeed, that the necessary repairs and the cost of making good the stores that had been lost seriously depleted the resources of the party.

Amundsen seems to have been helped by exceptionally favorable weather conditions. To be sure, there were storms, but not those frightful hurricanes which thwarted Shackleton. It was cold, so cold that the dogs suffered visibly; yet the average temperature was no lower than that in many an inhabited part of Canada. Amundsen himself states that part of his journey was much like a pleasure trip--"excellent ground, fine sledging, and an even temperature." The glaciers and crevasses make detours necessary, yet, despite them, progress was remarkably rapid. The party climbed up 2,000 to 5,000 feet in a day. Throughout much of his journey Amundsen covered entirely new ground. Therefore he will bring back absolutely new information of Antarctic geography. He made up his mind that he would reach the plateau on which the Pole is situated by another route than that of Beardmore Glacier. Luck, instinct, experience, call it what you will, the new route proved easier than that which either Shackleton or Scott took on their expeditions. To that comparatively easy route, coupled with exceptionally favorable weather, may be attributed Amundsen's success.

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Findings on biochar, greenhouse gas emissions and ethylene

ScienceDaily (Dec. 13, 2011) ? Adding a charred biomass material called biochar to glacial soils can help reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.

Studies by scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are providing valuable information about how biochar-the charred biomass created from wood, plant material, and manure-interacts with soil and crops. As part of this effort, ARS scientists in St. Paul, Minn., are studying biochar activity in soils formed from glacial deposits.

ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency, and this work supports the USDA priorities of responding to global climate change and ensuring international food security.

Soil scientists Kurt Spokas and John Baker, who both work at the ARS Soil and Water Management Research Unit in St. Paul, found that amending glacial soils with biochar made from macadamia nut shells reduced a range of greenhouse gas emissions.

After the researchers amended the soils with biochar at levels ranging from 2 to 60 percent, emission levels for the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide were suppressed at all amendment levels. But the suppression in nitrous oxide emission was notable only in soils amended with 20, 40 or 60 percent biochar.

The amended soils also had lower microbial production of carbon dioxide and lower volatilization rates for the pesticides atrazine and acetochlor. The scientists plan to follow these findings with new investigations on how volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in biochar affect soil microbe activity. As part of this work, they have already identified 200 different VOCs on some biochars.

Spokas and Baker also conducted the first study that documented the formation of ethylene, a key plant hormone that helps regulate growth, from biochar and soils amended with biochar. They found that ethylene production in biochar-amended, non-sterile soil was twice as high as ethylene production observed in sterile, biochar-amended soil.

This strongly suggests that soil microbes are active in this biochar-induced ethylene production. The scientists also believe ethylene might be involved in plants' reaction to biochar additions, since even low ethylene concentrations produce various plant responses.

Results from this work have been published in Chemosphere, Plant and Soil Journal, and Annals of Environmental Science.

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Toxic Montana Lake's Extremophiles Might Be a Medical Treasure Trove

I find it so hard to even have an opinion about global warming because the questions and subject is so loaded.

First of all the global temperature doesn't stay the same, it's constantly rising and falling. Earth has ice ages which are defined as ice sheet existing on planet as is the case currently at our poles and we have glacial periods and interglacial periods which are defined as more extensive ice sheets and the times between them.

The earth naturally undergoes periods without any ice caps all at the poles. Volcanoes erupt all the time (in the geological sense) and put out way way more gases that change the atmosphere more profoundly than man. A bunch of small volcanoes can cause global warming in a few thousands of years and a large super volcano explosion can send us into an ice age and or glacial period overnight.

Earth weather does indeed change and that is the norm.

Human beings are unquestionably contributing to climate change. But how bad is it really vs the climate shifts that would occur anyways if we didn't exist? Where no one makes the distinction is calculating where the climate would be without humans. Global temperatures and been consistently rising since modern man appeared at the beginning of the decline of the last glacial period approximately 12,000 years ago. We probably didn't significantly effect climate until at the earliest 2000 years ago although I suspect is more like after 1200AD. But the earth was warming anyways...

Second they don't comment on possible benefits climate change can have in some areas vs the bad in others. No one seems to even notice that without ice caps we get a new continent to inhabit.

Further it seems to me we are overly focused on greenhouse gases and the atmosphere and temperature. I think a bigger issue of consequence is deforestation of unoccupied land and the over farming of the oceans. The more variety of life the quicker the adaptation rate.

And while we may be totally fuck up this planets current ecology I doubt we could destroy it completely even intentionally. Given our best shot to turn the earth into a desert I bet the earth would be teaming with life again 100 million years later.

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This Is the Smallest Race In the World [Video]

A group of crazy and wonderful scientists have organized the World Cell Race. 50 lab teams from all over the world sent their microscopic pilots to race against each other. The winner: a bone marrow stem cell line from Singapore. More »

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Has Herman Cain's Campaign Reached the End of the Line? (Time.com)

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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain addresses the media Nov. 8, 2011, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Herman Cain took days to ?reassess? his presidential candidacy before suspending it on Saturday, but it shouldn?t have taken long for him to realize that his campaign was finished. Allegations that Cain conducted a 13-year extramarital affair only hastened the dimming of his star. The campaign had already faded, beset by earlier reports of sexual harassment and startling knowledge gaps revealed under the scrutiny of national attention. His support had been shriveling for weeks; the conservative pundits who saw a liberal witch-hunt in the first round of accusations gave up trying to salvage his candidacy. It was hard to know if Cain would do the same. No 2012 hopeful has been as inscrutable or unpredictable as the former pizza company CEO, and few appeared to relish running for President quite as much.

There is a script for presidential candidates, but Cain never had an interest in following it. In the space of a few months, he rocketed from obscure Tea Party darling to Republican frontrunner without much money or organization in key primary states. Instead he was boosted by free media, memorable performances during the glut of national debates and a snappy tax plan that would have thinned the wallets of most of his supporters. At a moment when the U.S. is gripped by complex problems, Cain put an emphasis on simplicity: 9-9-9 had a catchy ring, even if the numbers didn?t add up.

(PHOTOS: Herman Cain Through the Years)

Cain?s campaign was fun and freewheeling; at times it seemed constructed entirely on the fly. He had a penchant for spouting outre ideas ? barring Muslims from his administration, building an electric fence to keep out illegal immigrants, swapping hypothetical U.S. hostages for al-Qaeda detainees ? and then walking them back, chiding the media for twisting his words or failing to recognize a joke. Lingering concerns about his grasp of foreign policy were exacerbated by a badly flubbed answer to a simple question about Libya. His ads went viral for their strangeness; the image of his mustachioed aide Mark Block blowing a plume of smoke at the camera will remain among the most indelible of the campaign. When he was teetering on the ropes amid the first batch of harassment claims, he walked into the National Press Club and dropped the jaws of gathered reporters by crooning a rendition of the gospel number ?He Looked Beyond My Faults.? He was not, as he liked to remind everyone, a typical politician.

And this was the core of his appeal. At a moment of extreme frustration with the political status quo, he used his powerful personal story to sell change, promising strong, uncluttered leadership in Washington. Cain is an amalgam of a few fetishized Republican types: the businessman capable of restoring fiscal rectitude, the outsider pledging to reform the capital, the anti-government conservative capable of draining the swamp with sheer will.

The first signs of the Cain surge came when he captured a Florida straw poll in late September. He peaked the following month, as primary voters fleeing Rick Perry?s flagging campaign began to view Cain as a pure conservative foil to Mitt Romney. Even embroiled in controversy, he retains strong Tea Party support. And for many of supporters, the color of his skin is a bonus: he is a one-man rebuttal to persistent accusations that their rejection of Barack Obama was a function of race. Steve Deace, an influential conservative radio-show host in Iowa, summed up Cain?s appeal succinctly. ?Number one, we would love to have an outsider. Number two, there are a lot of white conservatives tired of being called racist,? Deace told TIME earlier this month. ?People are giving him the benefit of the doubt because he?s an outsider and because he?s not white.?

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But none of that would have helped were it not for Cain?s magnetic personality. Even Republicans who sneered at his lack of seasoning confessed to being charmed. Cain?s Republican rivals praised him effusively, though this may be because they didn?t perceive his rise as a long-term threat.

They weren?t the only ones. Since the beginning of his campaign, skeptics in the media and party establishment have been suspicious that Cain was running only to burnish his brand, sell books and inflate speaking fees. He tried to chart an unconventional path to the nomination, drawing adoring crowds in states without much tactical import and skipping retail spadework in key primary battlegrounds like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. (On Wednesday, as he mulls his fate, Cain is crisscrossing Ohio ? ?a general-election bellwether, but not a state worth his limited resources early on in the primary.) At the height of his rise, Cain slipped off the campaign trail altogether to hawk his latest book, This is Herman Cain! My Journey to the White House. At times, the campaign seemed like one big book tour ? the logical extension of a self-help empire run by a former radio talk show host given to speaking in the third person ? that morphed for a month into the hottest show in politics.

In his absence, the race will lose its only genuine political outsider (though he was once a Washington lobbyist and a member of the Kansas City Fed) as well as a vessel for Tea Party frustrations. But his ideas still hold considerable sway: the appeal of his 9-9-9 plan lingers in flat tax put forth by Rick Perry, whose campaign seems a potential landing spot for Cain?s supporters. Over the past month, some of those voters have been flocking to Newt Gingrich, but Cain still polled in the mid-teens in two polls conducted nationally in November. If those voters flee as a bloc, it could be enough to cement Gingrich?s place atop the field or propel Perry back to relevance?and pose a threat to Mitt Romney in the process. As we?ve seen, Republican primary voters are a fickle bunch; more than half in both Iowa and New Hampshire regularly report that their minds aren?t yet made up. The candidate who can best bottle Cain?s brand of business savvy and homespun conservatism is the likeliest to rope in the passel of passionate voters who flocked to Cain in the first place.

A shrewd businessman knows when an investment has gone bad, and Cain ? a former math major who crunched numbers for the Navy ? could surely read a poll. Some of his rivals were? trying to nudge him toward the door; last Tuesday, both Michele Bachmann and Jon Huntsman suggested the allegations Cain faces had done irrevocable damage to his candidacy.

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He clearly had, and effectively folded his campaign on Saturday. But even if he had chosen to proceed, he was unlikely to retain enough support to notch a strong showing when the voting begins in January, or amass enough money to keep him afloat beyond that. The Cain Train had wrecked, whether he chose to end his campaign or not.

Updated Saturday, Dec. 3 at 4:21 p.m.

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