Thursday, October 17, 2013

Ryan Murphy, Shawn Ryan Toast FX at Paley Center Honors


The Paley Center for Media honored FX Networks on Wednesday with a star-studded event that showcased the cable network's critically acclaimed catalog of hits including The Shield, Sons of Anarchy and American Horror Story.



The evening -- during which FX was awarded the Paley prize for Innovation & Excellence -- drew high-profile News Corp. names, such as Rupert Murdoch, Chase Carey, Peter Rice, Dana Walden and Gary Newman, among others. Joining them was an impressive collection of FX talent, with the casts of The League, Archer, American Horror Story: Coven and Justified mingling with that of The Shield, the Shawn Ryan cop drama that put FX on the map. (Louie and The Americans were both in production in New York, while much of Kurt Sutter's Sons of Anarchy talent was busy shooting.)


Aisha Tyler (Archer), Paul Scheer (The League), Kathy Bates (Coven) and Walter Goggins (Justified) took turns at the dias to honor their boss, John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks, which added FXX to the portfolio in September. Bates, who with co-star Angela Bassett flew out from the New Orleans set of Coven for the event, used the platform to highlight the quality of the actors as well as the writers lured to the network group, which has garnered 64 Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and 14 wins.


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"John Landgraf is the unique television executive who believes the creative drives the business rather than the reverse. I don't know of anyone who in his position who is more supportive of artists, who respects them, demands of them their best work and then gives them every resource they need to achieve it than John does," Ryan said in introducing the executive. "There is a trust with him because he possesses something that can occasionally be hard to find in this town: honestly. I know many people suspect John is the smartest guy in TV but I know without question he is the most honest guy in the business."


He continued: "FX, under his leadership doesn't just have a brain, it has a heart and soul and for that reason he is my nominee to be the first-ever mayor of television. I hope you get that job one day." In touting Landgraf's strengths, Ryan pointed out a mix of critical and commercial triumphs, including leading the network to new heights in viewership, creating FX Productions and more than tripling the network's original programming output. He wrapped up his time on stage by joking that a notes call with Landgraf can last as long 45 minutes, with references often laced throughout that will span from The Rockford Files to King Lear.


The evening included a two-song performance by Sons star Katey Sagal and her band, the Forest Rangers, as well as opening remarks by Coven co-creator Ryan Murphy, who recently was honored with the Paley Center's Icon Award. Murphy noted that FX Networks is donating complete scenes of many of its original programming to form a special FX Legacy Collection within the Paley Center's archive. The hour-long program featured clips from several shows currently on FX's schedule as well as in the network's library, including Terriers and Damages. The outdoor event space on 20th Century FX lot was adorned with posters from many of the series as well.


Said Landgraf of the Paley honor: "Through the power of story, we're each able to move beyond the myopic limits of our individual lives and to touch the entire breadth of the viewing experience. While most of us don't love every image that enters our homes through the medium of television, all of us love and have been profoundly touched by many things that TV has had to offer."


The honor comes as Landraf approaches his decade mark with the network group, which added comedy net FXX in September. He joined the News Corp.-owned cable network as president of entertainment in early 2004, when Shield and Murphy's Nip/Tuck were early in their collective runs. He brought with him experience as a producer (as president of Jersey Television with Danny DeVito) and, before that, as a network executive at NBC during The West Wing and Friends era. In the nine years since, Landgraf, a known risk-taker who has risen to the role of CEO, has lorded over an expansive portfolio that ranges from gritty drama Sons to raw comedy Louie.


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Don’t Call It a Shutdown: How the Crisis Could Still Come Back to Bite Democrats (Atlantic Politics Channel)

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Obama to speak on Thursday about path ahead on fiscal issues


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will deliver a statement on Thursday at 10:35 a.m. (1435 GMT) about the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on fiscal issues following the 11th hour deal in Congress that ended a 16-day government shutdown and averted a debt default.


"I'll have more to say about this tomorrow, and I've got some thoughts about how we can move forward in the remainder of the year, stay focused on the job at hand," Obama said on Wednesday, after the Senate approved the deal.


(Reporting by Roberta Rampton; editing by Jackie Frank)



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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Report: Amazon's HTC Phone Might Just Be For Prime Members

Report: Amazon's HTC Phone Might Just Be For Prime Members

Rumor has it Amazon is talking to HTC about making its smartphone, and according to a Bloomberg report, that phone might just be for Amazon Prime subscribers.

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Netflix, Disney Strike Netherlands Deal for Films in Pay TV Window




"The Avengers" is among the Disney titles Netflix will have exclusively for the Dutch pay-TV market.



COLOGNE, Germany – Netflix has signed a deal with Walt Disney Studios that gives the online VOD service exclusive pay-TV rights in the Netherlands for all animated and live action films Disney releases in the territory.



The multi-year deal, which kicks off in early 2014, includes both new and library product and features titles from all of Disney's studios.


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Highlights include Marvel's The Avengers, Pixar's Monsters University and Disney's The Lone Ranger, as well as back-catalogue titles including The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Wall-E and Ratatouille. ABC television productions, including episodes of Lost, are also part of the Dutch deal.


The deal is a boost to Netflix's nascent Dutch operations, which launched last month, and a blow to the two major Dutch pay-TV broadcasters, Chellomedia’s Film1 and HBO. It is the first time Disney has picked an online provider over an established pay-TV broadcaster in the territory.


If successful, the agreement could signal a major shift in Europe, where the rollout of VOD services, such as Netflix, has lagged behind that of the United States.


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Funds for iOS lets you get a glimpse of where your money goes, tracks what you're saving

Funds for iOS lets you get a glimpse of where your money goes, track what you're saving

Funds for iOS is a minimalist budget app that allows you to input how much you earn and how much you spend. From there, you can see a simple breakdown of what percentage of your income goes to different expenses as well as how much you're saving each month.

There isn't anything complicated or advanced about Funds but it does effectively provide an overall picture of your financial situation. Once you've told Funds how much you make and what your fixed expenses each month are, you're given an idea as to how you're doing. The color scheme will even change given how much you've got left to budget for the rest of the month.

Sliding to the right over any expense or income item will delete it from Funds. Slide to the left and you can quickly view what percentage of your overall income is being allocated to that type of expense. Tapping the menu button in the bottom right will show you a graph view of the same data.

Funds isn't over complicated by any means but what it can do is give a good overall snapshot of your current financial situation. That means you can make some educated decisions moving forward about what you should and can cut back on to save more money. If you're having issues saving money or can't quite pinpoint where your money is going, Funds can help you figure that out.


    






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Focus on Senate as default deadline nears

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders are optimistic about forging an eleventh-hour bipartisan deal preventing a possible federal default and ending the partial government shutdown after Republican divisions forced GOP leaders to drop efforts to ram their own version through the House.


Pressured by the calendar, financial markets and public opinion polls, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., were hoping to shake hands on an agreement Wednesday and, if possible, hold votes later in the day.


Driving their urgency were oft-repeated Obama administration warnings that the government would exhaust its borrowing authority Thursday and risk a federal default that could unhinge the world economy. Lawmakers feared that spooked financial markets would plunge unless a deal was at hand and that voters would take it out on incumbents in next year's congressional elections.


"People are so tired of this," President Barack Obama said Tuesday in an interview with Los Angeles TV station KMEX.


U.S. stock futures were rising early Wednesday amid strong corporate earnings and lingering hope for a deal to head off a government default. But there were also dire warnings from the financial world a day after the Fitch credit rating agency said it was reviewing its AAA rating on U.S. government debt for possible downgrade.


John Chambers, chairman of Standard & Poor's Sovereign Debt Committee, told "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday that a U.S. government default on its debts would be "much worse than Lehman Brothers," the investment firm whose 2008 collapse led to the global financial crisis.


Billionaire investor Warren Buffett told CNBC he doesn't think the federal government will fail to pay its bills, but "if it does happen, it's a pure act of idiocy."


Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, a tea party favorite, said he was not worried about the prospect of a U.S. default.


"We are going to service our debt," he told CNN. "But I am concerned about all the rhetoric around this ....I'm concerned that it will scare the markets."


Aides to Reid and McConnell said the two men had resumed talks, including a Tuesday night conversation, and were hopeful about striking an agreement that could pass both houses.


It was expected to mirror a deal the leaders had neared Monday. That agreement was described as extending the debt limit through Feb. 7, immediately reopening the government fully and keeping agencies running until Jan. 15 — leaving lawmakers clashing over the same disputes in the near future.


It also set a mid-December deadline for bipartisan budget negotiators to report on efforts to reach compromise on longer-term issues like spending cuts. And it likely would require the Obama administration to certify that it can verify the income of people who qualify for federal subsidies for medical insurance under the 2010 health care law.


But that emerging Senate pact was put on hold Tuesday, an extraordinary day that highlighted how unruly rank-and-file House Republicans can be, even when the stakes are high. Facing solid Democratic opposition, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, tried in vain to write legislation that would satisfy GOP lawmakers, especially conservatives.


Boehner crafted two versions of the bill, but neither made it to a House vote because both faced certain defeat. Working against him was word during the day from the influential group Heritage Action for America that his legislation was not conservative enough — a worrisome threat for many GOP lawmakers whose biggest electoral fears are of primary challenges from the right.


The last of Boehner's two bills had the same dates as the emerging Senate plan on the debt limit and shutdown.


But it also blocked federal payments for the president, members of Congress and other officials to help pay for their health care coverage. And it prevented the Obama administration from shifting funds among different accounts — as past Treasury secretaries have done — to let the government keep paying bills briefly after the federal debt limit has been reached.


Boehner's inability to produce a bill that could pass his own chamber likely means he will have to let the House vote on a Senate compromise, even if that means it would pass with strong Democratic and weak GOP support. House Republican leaders have tried to avoid that scenario for fear that it would threaten their leadership, and some Republicans worried openly about that.


"Of all the damage to be done politically here, one of the greatest concerns I have is that somehow John Boehner gets compromised," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a former House member and Boehner supporter.


With the default clock ticking ever louder, it was possible the House might vote first on a plan produced by Senate leaders. For procedural reasons, that could speed the measure's trip through Congress by removing some parliamentary barriers Senate opponents might erect.


The strains of the confrontation were showing among GOP lawmakers.


"It's time to reopen the government and ensure we don't default on our debt," Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., said in a written statement. "I will not vote for poison pills that have no chance of passing the Senate or being signed into law."


___


Associated Press writers David Espo, Andrew Taylor, Charles Babington, Stephen Ohlemacher, Henry C. Jackson and Donna Cassata contributed to this report.


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'Clash of Clans' maker sells stake for $1.5 bln

HELSINKI (AP) — The 'Clash of Clans' mobile game maker Supercell is selling a 51 percent stake to Japan's SoftBank and GungHo in a 1.5 billion deal.

CEO Ilkka Paananen says the partnership will speed Supercell's goal of becoming the "first truly global games company," and help it to deliver games to hundreds of millions of new consumers.

Paananen said on the company's web site Tuesday that Supercell's head office will remain in Finland.

Telecommunications and Internet company SoftBank Corp. paid 80 percent of the investment with GungHo Online Entertainment, which has worked before with Supercell, providing the rest.

Supercell, which started developing games for tablets in 2011, has produced more than 165 games on 12 different platforms. It is also known for the popular 'Hay Day' game.

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

What Happens If Congress Can't Make A Deal On The Debt?





A biker rides past the U.S. Capitol on Monday. Lawmakers are negotiating over plans to raise the federal debt ceiling amid warnings that the government soon won't be able to pay its debts in full.



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A biker rides past the U.S. Capitol on Monday. Lawmakers are negotiating over plans to raise the federal debt ceiling amid warnings that the government soon won't be able to pay its debts in full.


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If you don't pay your electric bill on time, you'll probably get charged a buck or two in interest. As long as you pay off the balance in a reasonable amount of time, your lights will stay on.


So why is it such a big deal that the Treasury Department may soon be unable to pay all of its bills on time?


U.S. Treasury securities are used as both currency and collateral for countless financial transactions around the world. Think dozens per minute.


Right now, Treasurys are almost as liquid and secure as cash. If investors are at all nervous that they might not be honored, this could have a cascading effect that will cause stock markets to tumble, the dollar to lose value and unemployment to rise.


"If Treasury bonds were no longer seen as risk-free, that would have implications for virtually all collateralized loans, which is a huge proportion," says Phillip Swagel, a University of Maryland economist who served as assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy under President George W. Bush.


"If people couldn't hold Treasurys, they would have to hold a lot of cash," he says. "We don't want people to feel like they have to hoard cash to make transactions."


Still A Big 'If'


Note that Swagel is still using the word "if." No one knows whether time will run out on the Treasury Department's authority to raise money.


Technically, it ran out in May, but the department has been able to keep juggling since then. The nominal deadline Congress and President Obama have been working with is Thursday, when the Treasury says it will be unable to borrow any more money by issuing bonds.



Treasury says it will bump up against the $16.7 trillion federal debt ceiling and have to handle payments basically on a cash basis. With that date in mind, the House and Senate keep going back and forth about how and whether to raise the debt ceiling.


There's been a lot of debate about whether breaching the debt ceiling spells real trouble. In theory, Treasury can prioritize paying bondholders over other obligations — the so-called Pay China First strategy. Treasury says it lacks the software and expertise to pull that off, even if the administration decides it wants to.


It's possible that, just using daily incoming tax receipts, Treasury won't really run out of money until Nov. 1, when, among other things, Social Security recipients will be expecting their checks.


But economists are worried that even if Treasury doesn't default on any bonds right after midnight on Thursday, financial markets will grow extremely wary. Already, it costs more for Treasury to borrow money on a short-term basis than for, say, 10 years. Normal prices are inverted because investors are nervous about being paid back over the next month or so.


The date to worry about, in other words, may have nothing to do with Treasury's own drop-dead date and everything to do with when investors start panicking because they don't believe a solution will be hammered out in time.


No one can predict exactly when that would be. It's not in red on the calendar, like how many shopping days until Christmas.


But once panic sets in, things will go bad quickly.


"Markets could go into bedlam," says Mark Zandi, chief economist with the research firm Moody's Analytics. "I don't know that we have to go to Nov. 1 before there's chaos."


2008 All Over Again


It could be like 2008, only worse. Back then, the collapse of the brokerage firm Lehman Brothers triggered financial panic and a stock market crash.


The reason was that lending became extremely tight because investors became wary of most types of collateral. Why lend money based on a firm's assets if you couldn't trust those assets still had value?


The one thing that kept lending going at all, in fact, were Treasurys. They were seen as highly liquid and perfectly safe and reliable.


That's what's being put at risk in the present situation. If Treasurys are not seen as rock-solid, panicky financial markets won't know where to turn. All manner of transactions would be put on hold.


"If Treasurys should become the point of concern, not only would you have a huge problem in terms of undermining the critical linchpin of finance, but what's worse is you couldn't solve the problem by adding Treasurys, which is what we did [in 2008]," says Jason Seligman, a former Treasury staff economist who teaches at Ohio State University.


Dollars themselves would lose value, because Treasurys have to be purchased using U.S. currency. If there's less demand for Treasurys, there will be less demand for dollars.


"The entire financial system of the U.S. and the world is anchored in the idea that the government is good at paying off debts," says Matthew Shapiro, a University of Michigan economist.


The Country That Cried Wolf


Everyone is worried about how this would all play out over the coming weeks and months. If there is a debt default, a recession seems all but guaranteed.


But even if there's not — even if there is some last-minute deal that at least punts the problem a few weeks or months into the future — the fact that Washington is again cutting things so close could have lasting repercussions anyway.


Remember, when Congress flirted with not lifting the debt ceiling back in 2011, it wasn't until after lawmakers had cut a deal that the U.S. bond rating was downgraded.


It might not take a formal downgrade from a rating agency to make investors more skeptical about Treasurys.


Back in 1979, there was an almost inadvertent bond default that had to do with Treasury's back-office functions not being able to get up to speed in time following another game of debt-ceiling chicken. Even failing to pay off a fairly small amount of bonds for a brief period of time significantly raised the amount of interest Treasury had to pay creditors for some months.


"We thought there was nothing safer than Treasurys, but we're basically inviting ourselves to be regarded by financial markets as risky, as a country that doesn't keep its promises to pay," Shapiro says.


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Tina Fey, Amy Poehler back as Golden Globes hosts

NEW YORK (AP) — The duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler proved such a success at hosting the Golden Globes in January that they've been signed up for the same job for the next two years.


NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and producers of the Golden Globes announced the unusual two-year commitment on Tuesday. Next year's Golden Globes will be held in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 12.


Allen Shapiro, CEO of Dick Clark Productions, said the former "Saturday Night Live" chums have "a truly unique chemistry making them one of the most talented and captivating pairings of all time."


They were bathed in critical love for their performance this year, with The Associated Press critic Frazier Moore calling them "the night's biggest winners." They got laughs without being polarizing, as was the case with predecessor Ricky Gervais. Poehler even poked fun during the show at the Hollywood debate over whether Gervais was too hard-edged in mocking Hollywood stars.


"We want to assure you that we have no intention of being edgy or offensive tonight," said Poehler, star of the NBC sitcom "Parks and Recreation." "Because, as Ricky learned the hard way, when you run afoul of the Hollywood Foreign Press, they make you host this show two more times!"


Fey, whose NBC comedy "30 Rock" ended this year, and Poehler were both nominated for best actress in a comedy or musical but lost to Lena Dunham, star of HBO's "Girls."


More important than critical support, Fey and Poehler were good for business. The Golden Globes had their best ratings in six years for the most recent presentation, and were up 17 percent over the 2012 show.


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Supreme Court shouldn't review NSA spying case, U.S. gov't says






A privacy group lacks legal standing to challenge a U.S. National Security Agency data collection program, and the U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t have jurisdiction to grant the group’s request for it to review the program’s legality, lawyers for President Barack Obama’s administration have argued.


The Electronic Privacy Information Center can’t challenge the legality of the NSA’s practice of collecting U.S. telephone records because the Patriot Act of 2001 only allows challenges from businesses that receive government orders to turn over business records or from the U.S. government, according to U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. and lawyers with the U.S. Department of Justice, who made the argument in a brief filed Monday.


Because the law doesn’t allow EPIC to challenge an NSA order directed at Verizon Communications, the Supreme Court “lacks jurisdiction” to act on EPIC’s request, they wrote.


Background


EPIC filed a motion in July asking the Supreme Court to vacate an order from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Court requiring Verizon to turn over all its phone records. If the court decides against that course of action, EPIC asked it to review the legality of the program.


EPIC has argued that, as a Verizon customer affected by the NSA program, it has standing to challenge the phone records collection. The intelligence court “exceeded its legal authority and could not compel a telephone company to disclose so much personal information unrelated to a foreign intelligence investigation,” EPIC said in a post on its website.


The Supreme Court shouldn’t act on either EPIC request, Verrilli and the DOJ lawyers wrote. EPIC lacks legal standing under the Patriot Act to make either request, and the privacy group hasn’t made the case that overturning the Verizon order is warranted, they wrote.


A court decision to vacate the order would be a “drastic and extraordinary remedy that is reserved for really extraordinary causes,” the lawyers wrote, quoting a Supreme Court ruling on acting on so-called writs of mandamus vacating lower court orders.


Instead of appealing to the Supreme Court, EPIC should direct its efforts toward filing a lawsuit in federal district court, the DOJ lawyers argued. The DOJ, however, has even opposed requests by tech companies to publish the number of surveillance requests they get.


The Obama administration’s response to EPIC’s request came on the same day that the Washington Post reported that the NSA is collecting email address books and instant-messaging buddy lists from millions of Internet users worldwide.


White House spokesman Jay Carney defended the NSA, saying its programs were targeted at overseas terrorism suspects.




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Steve Aoki, Pharrell And Waka Flocka On A Tour Bus? Nothing But 'Raging'


'Aokify America' brings Pharrell, Waka Flocka and Borgore across the country.


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Rivers, Novak lead Chargers to 19-9 win

San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers throws a pass against the Indianapolis Colts during the first half of an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)







San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers throws a pass against the Indianapolis Colts during the first half of an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)







San Diego Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen, left, makes a touchdown catch in the end zone as Indianapolis Colts free safety Delano Howell, right, defends during the first half of an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)







San Diego Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen, left, celebrates his touchdown against the Indianapolis Colts during the first half of an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)







Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck (12) is hit from both sides by San Diego Chargers inside linebacker Manti Te'o, right, and defensive end Corey Liuget during the second half of an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)







Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne makes a catch while playing the San Diego Chargers during the second half of an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, in San Diego. Wayne reached 1000 catches during the game, becoming the ninth player in NFL history with 1000 catches. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)







SAN DIEGO (AP) — Philip Rivers and the San Diego Chargers slowly put to rest all that talk about Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts' offense.

It was hard for Luck to pull off another comeback, or even get into the end zone, while standing on the sideline.

Rivers threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to rookie Keenan Allen and Nick Novak kicked four field goals to give the Chargers a 19-9 victory against the Colts on Monday night.

"I wasn't sure who the Colts were playing this week all the ads I saw," Rivers said, noting that all the pregame buzz surrounded the Colts (4-2), not the Bolts (3-3).

Rivers expertly guided a balanced offense on three scoring drives of at least 74 yards while rebounding from a three-interception performance in a dismal loss at Oakland.

That, and a lot of dropped passes by Colts receivers, kept Indianapolis (4-2) from taking a two-game lead over Tennessee in the AFC South.

The Colts didn't even score a touchdown. All their points came on three field goals by Adam Vinatieri.

A week earlier, Luck helped rally the Colts to a 34-28 victory against Seattle.

"We knew if we didn't turn the ball over and we sustained drives, which we did — we had some 12, 14, 16-play drives — that we'd give ourselves a chance to win," Rivers said.

"We didn't go into the game saying 'Let's play ball control,' Rivers added. "We wanted to score as many points as we could. We didn't score that many, but we did sustain drives. I thought Keenan Allen stepped up big. They were doubling Gatesy (Antonio Gates) a lot, and Danny Woodhead stepped up big. The offensive line was great. That's the way we need to be able to run the football. If we can mix the run in, we got a chance."

Luck had no real chance against the Bolts because of two long drives in the second quarter that helped contribute to the Chargers dominating the time of possession 38 minutes, 31 seconds to 21:29.

Allen got behind safety Delano Howell and cornerback Vontae Davis on a post route for the TD, completing a 12-play, 74-yard march that took 6:14 and gave San Diego a 7-3 lead. It was Allen's second TD catch of the season.

Novak's first field goal capped a drive that went 79 yards in 17 plays in 7:58. The drive was kept alive when cornerback Greg Toler was whistled for illegal contact for pushing receiver Lavelle Hawkins out of bounds on third-and-6 from the Chargers 45.

Luck then completed four straight passes to move the Colts into Chargers territory before Coby Fleener dropped a pass at the 25. Luck scrambled for 6 yards and threw an incompletion before Vinatieri kicked a 50-yard field goal as time expired.

On the Colts' only other possession of the second quarter, Darrius Heyward-Bey dropped what likely would have been a long touchdown pass down the right sideline.

"We stunk on third down today," Luck said. "A lot of credit to their defense. I think we made our fair share of mistakes, but I think it's what they did. If we can't convert third downs and drives continually stall like that, it's a short rest for our defense and no points for us, so it's a bad combination."

Novak also had field goals of 33, 34 and 50 yards, with the final one coming with 1:55 left. Vinatieri had kicks of 30, 50 and 51 yards.

Chargers cornerback Derek Cox snuffed out Indy's final chance when he intercepted a pass that was tipped by receiver Reggie Wayne with 1:07 to play.

Rivers was 22 of 33 for 237 yards and no interceptions. Luck was 18 of 30 for 202 yards.

Wayne got his 1,000th career reception in the fourth quarter on a 21-yard pass from Luck. Wayne had five catches for 88 yards, giving him 1,001 for his career. He passed Hines Ward (1,000) for eighth place on the NFL list.

"It's a great honor," Wayne said. "It's a humbling experience to be in an elite class with a bunch of guys who have helped pave the way for guys like myself. I wish it was more of a greater celebration. I would rather take the 'W' than any accolades."

The Colts opened the game with a flea-flicker, with Trent Richardson taking the handoff and tossing the ball back to Luck, who completed a 35-yard pass to Wayne. The drive bogged down at the Chargers 11, leading to Vinatieri's 30-yard field goal.

San Diego established its running game with 147 yards. Ryan Mathews ran for 102 yards on 22 carries for his first 100-yard game of the season.

There were family ties in this one: Chargers defensive coordinator John Pagano beat older brother Chuck, the Colts' coach.

"Give John Pagano the credit he deserves," Chargers coach Mike McCoy said. "He did an outstanding job of getting these players ready. It's him and the rest of the whole defensive staff."

NOTES: Chargers WR Eddie Royal left with a toe injury in the second quarter but returned later in the game. ... Chargers LG Johnnie Troutman was injured in the second half and also returned. ... Colts ILB Jerrell Freeman sustained a concussion in the first half.

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Monday, October 14, 2013

Paula Patton Talks About Robin Thicke's Anatomy: "Blurred Lines" Brag Is "Accurate"


Paula Patton has been gamely downplaying the controversy surrounding husband Robin Thicke's provocative performance at this year's MTV Video Music Awards and the suggestive nature of his "Blurred Lines" music video, but there is one thing that she has no problem talking about.


In the November issue of Glamour, the Baggage Claim actress calls Thicke's much talked-about video "cool," "funny," and "awesome." One part in particular, in which a balloon message states that "Robin Thicke has a big d--k," has caught the attention of fans.


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Asked if the statement was a true one, Patton couldn't resist divulging a bit. 


"Robin's like, 'Listen, if I'm, you know, in the Miami Heat's locker room, I don't know where I stand, but …'" she said in the interview. "But I think that the statement is fairly accurate!"


Rihanna on Glamour’s November issue
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And she should know! Originally high school sweethearts, the couple wed eight years ago and have experienced plenty of ups and downs together. In fact, Thicke revealed in an interview with BBC's Newsbeat, she was the inspiration behind his monster summer jam.


"I don't think people got it," the 36-year-old singer said. "I wrote it about my wife …she's my good girl. And I know she wants it because we've been together for 20 years."


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In fact, Patton, 37, did also jokingly mention that Thicke "ruined" her when they first began dating -- starting with their first kiss.


"He sang Jodeci's 'Forever My Lady' to me," she recalled. "He did a full-out R&B onstage performance in his dad's living room. Then he kissed me. It worked!"


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"Gosh, I hope I'm still a good girl and a bad girl at the same time," she continued. "And I think that every girl should know the bad girl inside her -- and that doesn't make her bad, you know?"


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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Al-Qaida Surges Back In Iraq, Reviving Old Fears


BAGHDAD (AP) — First came the fireball, then the screams of the victims. The suicide bombing just outside a Baghdad graveyard knocked Nasser Waleed Ali over and peppered his back with shrapnel.


Ali was one of the lucky ones. At least 51 died in the Oct. 5 attack, many of them Shiite pilgrims walking by on their way to a shrine. No one has claimed responsibility, but there is little doubt al-Qaida's local franchise is to blame. Suicide bombers and car bombs are its calling cards, Shiite civilians among its favorite targets.


Al-Qaida has come roaring back in Iraq since U.S. troops left in late 2011 and now looks stronger than it has in years. The terror group has shown it is capable of carrying out mass-casualty attacks several times a month, driving the death toll in Iraq to the highest level in half a decade. It sees each attack as a way to cultivate an atmosphere of chaos that weakens the Shiite-led government's authority.


Recent prison breaks have bolstered al-Qaida's ranks, while feelings of Sunni marginalization and the chaos caused by the civil war in neighboring Syria are fueling its comeback.


"Nobody is able to control this situation," said Ali, who watches over a Sunni graveyard that sprang up next to the hallowed Abu Hanifa mosque in 2006, when sectarian fighting threated to engulf Iraq in all-out civil war.


"We are not safe in the coffee shops or mosques, not even in soccer fields," he continued, rattling off some of the targets hit repeatedly in recent months.


The pace of the killing accelerated significantly following a deadly crackdown by security forces on a camp for Sunni protesters in the northern town of Hawija in April. United Nations figures show 712 people died violently in Iraq that month, at the time the most since 2008.


The monthly death toll hasn't been that low since. September saw 979 killed.


Al-Qaida does not have a monopoly on violence in Iraq, a country where most households have at least one assault rifle tucked away. Other Sunni militants, including the Army of the Men of the Naqshabandi Order, which has ties to members of Saddam Hussein's now-outlawed Baath party, also carry out attacks, as do Shiite militias that are remobilizing as the violence escalates.


But al-Qaida's indiscriminate waves of car bombs and suicide attacks, often in civilian areas, account for the bulk of the bloodshed.


The group earlier this year renamed itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, highlighting its cross-border ambitions. It is playing a more active military role alongside other predominantly Sunni rebels in the fight to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad, and its members have carried out attacks against Syrians near the porous border inside Iraq.


The United States believes the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is now operating from Syria.


"Given the security vacuum, it makes sense for him to do that," said Paul Floyd, a military analyst at global intelligence company Stratfor who served several U.S. Army tours in Iraq. He said the unrest in Syria could be making it even easier for al-Qaida to get its hands on explosives for use in Iraq.


"We know Syrian military stocks have fallen into the hands of rebels. There's nothing to preclude some of that stuff flowing across the border," he said.


Iraqi officials acknowledge the group is growing stronger.


Al-Qaida has begun actively recruiting more young Iraqi men to take part in suicide missions after years of relying primarily on foreign volunteers, according to two intelligence officials. They said al-Baghdadi has issued orders calling for 50 attacks per week, which if achieved would mark a significant escalation.


One of the officials estimated that al-Qaida now has at least 3,000 trained fighters in Iraq alone, including some 100 volunteers awaiting orders to carry out suicide missions. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to disclose intelligence information.


A study released this month by the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said al-Qaida in Iraq has emerged as "an extremely vigorous, resilient, and capable organization" that can operate as far south as Iraq's Persian Gulf port of Basra.


The group "has reconstituted as a professional military force capable of planning, training, resourcing and executing synchronized and complex attacks in Iraq," author Jessica Lewis added.


The study found that al-Qaida was able to carry out 24 separate attacks involving waves of six or more car bombs on a single day during a one-year period that coincided with the terror group's "Breaking the Walls" campaign, which ended in July.


It carried out eight separate prison attacks over the same period, ending with the complex, military-style assaults on two Baghdad-area prisons on July 21 that freed more than 500 inmates, many of them al-Qaida members.


"It's safe to assume a good percentage of them ... would flow back into the ranks," boosting the group's manpower, said Floyd, the military analyst.


American troops and Iraqi forces, including Sunni militiamen opposed to the group's extremist ideology, beat back al-Qaida after the U.S. launched its surge strategy in 2007. That policy shift deployed additional American troops to Iraq and shifted the focus of the war effort toward enhancing security for Iraqis and winning their trust.


By 2009, al-Qaida and other Sunni extremist groups were "reduced to a few small cells struggling to survive and unable to mount more than token attacks," Kenneth Pollack, a Clinton administration official who is now a Middle East analyst at the Brookings Institution, noted in a report earlier this year.


Now there are fears that all the hard work is coming undone.


Iraqis, both Sunni and Shiite, say they are losing faith in the government's ability to keep the country safe.


"Al-Qaida can blow up whatever number of car bombs they want whenever they choose," said Ali Nasser, a Shiite government employee from Baghdad. "It seems like al-Qaida is running the country, not the government in Baghdad."


Many Sunnis, meanwhile, are unwilling to trust a government they feel has sidelined and neglected their sect.


Iraqi officials say that lack of trust has hampered intelligence-gathering efforts, with fewer Sunnis willing to pass along tips about suspected terrorist activities in their midst.


"During the surge, we helped build up the immune system of Iraq to deter these attacks. Now that immune system has been taken away," said Emma Sky, a key civilian policy adviser for U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno when he was the top American military commander in Iraq.


"Before you had the U.S. there to protect the political space and help move the country forward," she added. "How much longer can this go on before something breaks?"


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Associated Press writers Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report.


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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Aereo's coming to Android this month






After expanding to Utah, Miami, Houston, and Dallas this summer, Aereo—the contentious streaming service that lets you stream local broadcast television over the web—is ready to invade its next big market: the Android nation. After months of promises, Aereo for Android will finally land in Google Play on Tuesday, October 22.


The new Android app will be free, the service costs $8 per month to start, and available only to users in the seven metropolitan markets where Aereo service is available. You’ll also need a fairly modern Android smartphone or tablet to use the device as Aereo for Android will only be compatible with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and up.


The first version of the app will be a beta release, so while you may finally be able to stream Fox NFL Sunday on your Galaxy Tab, you may experience some technical hiccups.


Aereo did not release any screenshots of the upcoming Android app, saying that we’d get our first look at the app on its release date. Presumably, Aereo for Android will look similar to the iOS app already available for the iPhone and iPad.


Growing in the face of adversity


AereoEach Aereo subscriber gets his own pair of dime-sized antennas in the company's data centers, to let you watch and record TV simultaneously. 

Despite mounting legal challenges from broadcasters and entertainment companies, Aereo continues to push its service forward.


Most recently, the company rolled out to Dallas, then announced plans to roll out its service to Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and San Antonio and a number of other cities before the end of 2014. Aereo originally planned to launch in 22 metropolitan markets before the end of 2013.


Chicago was supposed to see Aereo service in September, but the company opted to delay its roll out, citing technical issues during beta testing in the Windy City.


The company’s most recent legal troubles surfaced in Utah where Fox, CBS and other broadcasters are suing Aereo over copyright infringement. Aereo went live in Utah in August.








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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Another day, another Moto X leak: this time, it seems Motorola's new camera software will feature a

Another day, another Moto X leak: this time, it seems Motorola's new camera software will feature a slick swipe-based navigation system and sloooow-mooootion mode.

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

OS X Mavericks Preview: Finder Tabs save time, reduce frustration

OS X Mavericks Preview: Finder Tabs will save you time

Have you ever gotten frustrated when you click and drag files between multiple windows on your desktop? Then Finder Tabs are for you. This improvement to the Finder in Mavericks will save you time and reduce frustration.

Tabbed Web browsing has been a staple of Safari for a number of years - instead of cluttering up your desktop with more windows, hit Command-T to create a tab, instead. It's neatly consolidated inside your existing Safari window but gives you an entirely separate Web page to work from. When you're multitasking or if you need to compare information on different pages, tabbed web pages are a great time saver.

The same basic concept has been employed for Finder Tabs. Instead of creating multiple windows to clutter your desktop, everything stays in one window instead. You can create different Finder Tabs to keep track of anything you'd use a Finder window for - documents or specific folders you're using, AirDrop, the Desktop and more.

OS X Mavericks Preview: Finder Tabs gathering

This also means that you can expand a single Finder window to full screen and fill it with as many tabs as you want. And if you've spread out a bunch of Finder windows that you'd like to organize into tabs, just go to the Finder's Window menu. You'll find a new "Merge My Windows" menu item that merges all open windows into a single window separated by tabs.

To create new tabs, you click on a Plus sign that appears underneath the window's title bar, on the right hand side - the same place you'd expect if you're familiar with tabs in Safari. You can also create a new Finder Tab using Command-T, the same shortcut you'd use in Safari, to keep the user experience consistent.

OS X Mavericks Preview: Finder Tabs in action

Finder tabs have been the domain of third-party utilities for some time - apps like TotalFinder, XtraFinder and others have provided this core functionality (and more) for people who have found them and downloaded them. But that requires the user to know of their existence and trust them enough to install them, which immediately limits their use to a much smaller subset of users than the general Mac populace. To that end, Finder Tabs in Mavericks brings the feature to the masses, at no extra charge and with little chance for compatibility issues or other weirdness.

Are you happy that Finder Tabs are coming in Mavericks? Do you use a finder tab utility now? Are you upset about Apple squeezing third-party utility developers out again? Tell me your thoughts in the comments. And please visit these links for more information.

    


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