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October 30: Plouffe, roundtable

Nearly a year away from the 2012 election, we?ll talk to the president?s 2008 campaign manager, now White House Senior Adviser, David Plouffe. Then author of the definitive new biography on the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson; Author of the new book ?The Time of Our Lives,? NBC News Special Correspondent, Tom Brokaw; Former Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm; and Republican strategist, Mike Murphy.

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Police clear out downtown Occupy Oakland camp (AP)

OAKLAND, Calif. ? Riot-clad law enforcement officers cleared out Oakland's weeks-old anti-Wall Street encampment just before dawn Monday, arresting Occupy demonstrators and removing tents from a downtown plaza after issuing several warnings over the weekend.

Protesters appeared to put up little resistance and officers could be seen calmly leading some demonstrators away in plastic handcuffs. Warnings from authorities had been similar to those issued before officers used tear gas and bean bag projectiles to clear the encampment on Oct. 25.

Police made more than 20 arrests during Monday's raid, Mayor Jean Quan said.

After officers blocked off the streets surrounding Frank Ogawa Plaza, some demonstrators gathered near the barricades and vowed to return.

"I don't see how they're going to disperse us," 30-year-old Ohad Meyer said. "There are thousands of people who are going to come back."

The action came a day after police drove hundreds of anti-Wall Street demonstrators from weeks-old encampments in Portland, arresting more than 50 people.

Oakland officials stepped up calls for an end to their city's encampment after a man was shot and killed Thursday near the plaza. Police issued a fourth cease and desist order Sunday night telling demonstrators they couldn't camp there.

Quan had allowed protesters to reclaim the disbanded site after facing criticism following the Oct. 25 raid. The camp grew substantially afterward, although city officials said on Sunday the number of tents has dropped by about 30 to 150 since Nov. 8.

"We really tried to make this a safe and peaceful day," Quan told The Associated Press after the tents were taken down Monday. "Even though there are those who disagree with my decision, we hope it is peaceful. We need them to honor and respect our city and keep it safe."

Protesters would be allowed to return to the plaza after the tents were cleared out, but they wouldn't be allowed to spend the night, the mayor said.

"We've been consistent that they can use it as a free speech location," she said. "They can gather tonight, but no camping is allowed."

On Sunday, friends confirmed that an Iraq War veteran who was injured in the Oct. 25 raid, Scott Olsen, has been released from the hospital. Olsen, who suffered a skull fracture, became a rallying point for protesters nationwide.

Dottie Guy of Iraq Veterans Against the War said Sunday Olsen was released last week. He can now read and write, but still has trouble talking, she added.

Officials across the country have been urging an end to similar gatherings in the wake of three deaths in different cities, including two deaths by gunfire.

Demands for Oakland protesters to pack up increased after a man was shot and killed Thursday near the encampment site.

Protesters had said that there was no connection between the shooting and the camp. But police Sunday night identified the slain man as 25-year-old Kayode Ola Foster of Oakland, saying his family confirmed he had been staying at the plaza.

Police officer Johnna Watson said witnesses have told police that one of two suspects in the shooting had also been a frequent resident at the plaza. The suspects' names haven't been released.

Investigators suspect that the shooting resulted from a fight between two groups of men.

In the hours after the midnight Saturday eviction deadline in Portland, the anti-Wall Street protesters and their supporters had flooded the park area. At one point, the crowd swelled to thousands. As dawn arrived, riot police had retreated and most of the crowds had gone home, but protesters who have been at the two parks since Oct. 6 were still there, prompting one organizer to declare the night a victory for the movement.

"We stood up to state power," Jim Oliver told The Associated Press.

It didn't last. Police moved in later. An officer on a loudspeaker warned that anyone who resisted risked arrest and "may also be subject to chemical agents and impact weapons." Demonstrators chanted "we are a peaceful protest."

"We were talking about what we were going to do and then they just started hitting people. Seems like a waste of resources to me," protester Mike Swain, 27, told the AP.

One man was taken away on a stretcher; he was alert and talking to paramedics, and raised a peace sign to fellow protesters, who responded with cheers.

City officials erected temporary chain-link fences with barbed wire at the top around three adjacent downtown parks, choking off access for demonstrators as parks officials cleaned up.

Portland Mayor Sam Adams Sunday defended his order to clear the park, saying it is his job to enforce the law and keep the peace. "This is not a game," Adams said.

Officials said that one officer suffered minor injuries. Police had prepared for a possible clash, warning that dozens of anarchists may be planning a confrontation with authorities.

In other cities over the weekend:

? In Salt Lake City, police arrested 19 people Saturday when protesters refused to leave a park a day after a man as found dead inside his tent at the encampment.

? In Albany, N.Y., police arrested 24 Occupy Albany protesters after they defied an 11 p.m. curfew in a state-owned park.

? In Denver, authorities arrested four people as they forced protesters to leave a downtown encampment.

? In San Francisco, police said two demonstrators attacked two police officers in separate incidents during a march, leaving them with minor injuries. The assailants couldn't be located.

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Associated Press writers Terrence Petty and Jonathan J. Cooper in Portland, Ore., Josh Loftin in Salt Lake City, Jim Anderson in Denver and Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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Mexico rules out engine failure in copter crash (AP)

MEXICO CITY ? Mexican officials ruled out engine failure in the helicopter crash that killed the government's No. 2 official, saying Sunday that all evidence in the investigation so far points to an accident.

Civil aviation director Gilberto Lopez Meyer said at a news conference that a study of radar images led investigators to conclude that up to the last seconds of the helicopter's flight, its path did not change and conditions were normal.

Lopez said there were no signs the pilot lost control of the helicopter before it smashed into a mountainside south of the capital Friday morning.

Officials have blamed sudden foggy conditions, which they speculate forced the pilot to seek an alternate low route through the Ajusco mountain range.

Sixteen aviation experts are investigating the crash that killed Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora and seven others, Transportation Secretary Dionisio Perez Jacome said at the news conference.

Three of them belong to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and two come from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. The agents arrived Saturday at the request of Mexico's government.

President Felipe Calderon appointed Mexico's transportation secretary to carry out a thorough investigation into the causes of the helicopter crash.

Mexico's Transportation and Communications Department will remain the lead investigative agency.

Federal prosecutors said they questioned a man Sunday about why he used Twitter to send a message before the helicopter crash warning Mexican officials who were flying to be cautious.

The Attorney General's Office said Mareo Flores, 26, was let go after questioning because prosecutors did not find any connection between his tweet and the interior secretary's death.

Flores had tweeted after the crash that his warning was just a coincidence. He said he was referring to the death of a former interior secretary, Juan Camilo Mourino, who died in a plane crash three years ago.

His warning had said: "I hadn't gone out so early since Mourino's small plane fell, be cautious flying officials."

Flores' brief detention sparked a number of comments on Twitter, most expressing surprise that his tweet was taken so seriously.

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11-11-11 brings lucky babies, bets and brides

Mary Discenzo holds her baby, Celine Dianne , at Cleveland Clinic's Fairview Hospital Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in Cleveland. Discenzo said she realized Thursday night that the baby might be born on 11-11-11 and said it was ?just so weird? and a ?wonderful thing? that the delivery occurred at 11:11 a.m. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Mary Discenzo holds her baby, Celine Dianne , at Cleveland Clinic's Fairview Hospital Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in Cleveland. Discenzo said she realized Thursday night that the baby might be born on 11-11-11 and said it was ?just so weird? and a ?wonderful thing? that the delivery occurred at 11:11 a.m. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Newlywed couples swear in during a mass wedding ceremony at the Hokkien Association building in Klang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. Over 300 brides and grooms attended the ceremony to mark the unique date of 11-11-11. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Newlywed couples swear in during a mass wedding ceremony at the Hokkien Association building in Klang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. Over 300 brides and grooms attended the ceremony to mark the unique date of 11-11-11. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Ng Woon Teng, left, 20, puts a wedding ring on Lim Chee Soon, 25, during a mass wedding ceremony at the Hokkien Association building in Klang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. Over 300 brides and grooms attended the ceremony to mark the unique date of 11-11-11. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Newlywed couples pose at a photo session during a mass wedding ceremony at the Thean Hou temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. Over 200 brides and grooms attended the ceremony at the temple, to mark the unique date of 11-11-11. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

In years to come, babies born Friday should have no trouble remembering the date ? and in some cases, the exact minute ? of their birth.

The day marked the 11th day of the 11th month of 2011. From China to New York, people celebrated the convergence of 11s with a splash by placing bets, tying the knot or making a wish.

Some babies were born right at 11:11 a.m., giving them 1's across the board for their time of birth. In Mount Holly, N.J., Jacob Anthony Saydeh made Veterans Day even more memorable for his parents, who are a veteran and current member of the Air Force.

Newborn Alexander David Hockaday Ruiz took things a step further in Los Angeles when he was born at 11: 11 a.m. in room 1111 of a hospital's maternity ward. Providence Holy Cross Medical Center says the birth was natural and the room assignment was a coincidence.

But in Colorado, Cayson Childers' birthday wasn't left to chance. His parents ensured his arrival by scheduling a Caesarean section for Friday, and then doctors were able to make the operation work right at 11:11 a.m.

In Las Vegas, the Clark County Marriage Bureau says roughly 1,700 licenses were issued by midday for 11-11-11 weddings, second only to the roughly 2,600 licenses issued for weddings on July 7, 2007. That date more than two years ago consisted of three lucky sevens.

Fred Botero went to great lengths to ensure he could get married at precisely 11 a.m. on Friday.

The Macon, Ga., man and his bride put down a deposit of $1,111.11 to reserve the slot nearly a year in advance.

"We knew it was a big day and a tough day to get. We didn't want to take a chance and booked the wedding early," the 53-year-old purchasing manager said moments before their ceremony began at the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel.

Across Malaysia, some 1,000 ethnic Chinese couples exchanged vows on a date viewed as auspicious and romantic. In China, a special "1111" train started at 11:11 a.m. on the No. 11 line in Shanghai.

"The numbers rhyme with one husband, one wife and one soul in Chinese and signifies a marriage that would last a lifetime," said nurse Pua Kim Giok, 25, who tied the knot with engineer Lee Chin Siong, 27. They were among 460 couples who got married at the popular Thean Hou Temple in Kuala Lumpur.

Not everyone was smiling, however.

Egypt's antiquities authority closed the largest of the Great Pyramid of Giza following rumors that groups would try to hold spiritual ceremonies on the site at 11:11.

The authority's head Mustafa Amin said in a statement Friday that the pyramid of Khufu, also known as Cheops, would be closed until Saturday morning for "necessary maintenance." The rest of the complex, which includes two other large pyramids, numerous tombs and the Sphinx, and is one of Egypt's biggest tourist attractions, remained open Friday, though security appeared to be heavier than usual.

The Chinese have always had a fascination with number sequences.

And in a country where ages of first marriages are creeping upward, the 11/11/11 date represents six "bare sticks," a term for bachelors in Chinese.

And there are now more of them, with housing prices, focus on jobs and growing independence of young women meaning people are getting married later.

"It's just difficult for men to afford the housing prices nowadays, and traditionally in China that is the responsibility of the man his family. I feel a lot of pressure from this," said Zheng An, a 26-year-old employee at a solar company in Shanghai.

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Associated Press writers Martin Griffith in Reno, Nev.; Thomas J. Sheeran in Cleveland; Michael Crumb in Des Moines, Iowa; Tim Talley in Oklahoma City; Geoff Mulvihill in Haddonfield, N.J.; Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Fu Ting in Shanghai and Ben Hubbard in Cairo contributed to this report.

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Penn State fundraising could feel sting of scandal (Reuters)

BOSTON (Reuters) ? It could be years before a sense of normalcy returns to Penn State after the child sex abuse scandal that has rocked the campus this week, with fund-raising and sports recruiting among the activities that could feel the sting.

"From now, when you mention Penn State, the first thing people will think about is the scandal. The legacy can not help but be tainted," said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Sport in Society program at Northeastern University.

The tumult began when Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach, was charged with sexually abusing boys for 15 years, including incidents on team premises. Two former university officials were charged with not reporting at least one known assault to the police.

On Wednesday, Joe Paterno, who coached Penn State's football team for 46 years, and university president Graham Spanier were removed by Penn State's board of trustees as it sought to start the healing process.

Both had been criticized by state investigative officials for not doing more to intervene after learning that Sandusky was seen sexually abusing a boy in the locker room showers in 2002 by then graduate assistant, and now assistant coach, Mike McQueary.

Penn State University, a diverse, multi-campus state-funded college, is well into its biggest ever fund-raising drive. The "For the Future" campaign had raised $1.3 billion by April 30, toward a goal of $2 billion by 2014.

The university this week canceled or postponed several events related to fund-raising campaign, including the "President's Tailgate" before Saturday's home football game against Nebraska,

On Wednesday, campaign chair Peter Tombros appealed to the university's supporters not to turn their backs on Penn State because of the scandal.

"This is not a moment to reconsider our commitment to the University. I urge you to continue to support the campaign and the students whose lives will be transformed by your philanthropy," Tombros said.

The letter included a disclaimer that all fund-raisers surely dread to write: "I also want to assure you that no private funds or philanthropic resources will be directed toward legal expenses for the university employees who have been charged in the case."

At least one major donor is standing firm.

Terry Pegula, a billionaire natural gas tycoon and owner of the Buffalo Sabres NHL team, has donated $88 million to construct a new ice hockey arena and create men's and women's varsity hockey programs at the school.

"Our own support for Penn State and its hockey program is well known and will continue," Pegula said in a statement.

Penn State has more than half a million alumni. Many are prominent members of the business community, including Kenneth Frazier, chief executive of Merck & Co., John Surma, chief executive of U.S. Steel Corp., and Patricia Woertz, CEO of agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland Co.

Surma and Frazier are among the university's trustees. Frazier will chair the special investigative committee into the Sandusky scandal, announced on Friday.

Philanthropy specialists said worries about fund-raising when an institution gets into trouble are sometimes exaggerated -- but acknowledge that Penn State is facing a situation of unprecedented severity.

"In this case, it is difficult to predict how future donations will be affected," said Nancy Albilal, vice president for development at The Foundation Center.

Typically, she said, when a public scandal hits a large institution, unrestricted donations fall while program-specific donations rise, resulting in no significant change overall.

One thing that keeps alumni engaged in university life and ready to open their checkbooks is a winning football team. But prospects for the Penn State's Nittany Lions are uncertain with the 46-year Paterno era now over.

"I think the fallout on recruiting and the team will be extremely long-lived. Joe Paterno IS Penn State football," said Josh Helmholdt, a football recruiting analyst at rivals.com.

One top recruit for 2012, offensive lineman Joey O'Connor from Colorado, has already backed out of a verbal pledge to join Penn State, saying he wanted to consider offers from other universities, according to a newspaper report.

(Reporting by Ros Krasny; Editing by Philip Barbara)

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Obama pipeline punt spurs 2012 talk (Politico)

President Barack Obama was caught between a green and a blue place on the Keystone XL oil pipeline ? the environmentalists who insisted he reject the proposal in order to earn their support in 2012 and labor unions excited at the prospect of jobs.

On Thursday, Obama?s State Department punted a verdict on Keystone until 2013, and while his administration is busy claiming the decision has nothing to do with politics, try telling that to everyone in Washington.

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?This decision is based on the process that we have been going through,? Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Kerri-Ann Jones pushed back. ?This is not a political decision.?

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton informed Obama earlier this week, Jones said, but the White House ?did not direct us to make this decision. ? And there was no effort to sort of influence the decision.?

The delay may placate environmental groups sore about Obama?s decision to delay a new smog rule until at least 2013.

Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune had recently told reporters Obama?s decision on Keystone would ?have a very big impact? on whether the nation?s largest environmental group funnels resources more toward congressional races rather than the race for the White House.

Bill McKibben, the organizing force behind the envrionmentalists? protests against the pipeline said he was encouraged.

?The people spoke, loudly, and thankfully the president heard,? McKibben said. ?A done deal has come spectacularly undone, and TransCanada now has 1,700 miles of pipe rusting on the prairie. Since we get few even partial victories on climate, this is a big day.?

Obama?s other constituency in the fight ? labor unions ? weren?t celebrating, even though Obama?s decision to delay until 2013 means the project remains on life support for him or a Republican president to resurrect.

?Environmentalists formed a circle around the White House and within days the Obama administration chose to inflict a potentially fatal delay to a project that is not just a pipeline, but is a lifeline for thousands of desperate working men and women,? Terry O?Sullivan, general president of the Laborers?s International Union of North America, said in a statement. ?The administration chose to support environmentalists over jobs ? job-killers win, American workers lose.?

And Republicans blasted the decision, linking it to 2012 at every turn.

?More than 20,000 new American jobs have just been sacrificed in the name of political expediency,? House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement. ?The current project has already been deemed environmentally sound, and calling for a new route is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt to avoid upsetting the president?s political base before the election.?

For months, the conventional wisdom had been that a presidential permit for Keystone XL was inevitable; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in October 2010 that she was ?inclined? to approve it because it was better to get oil from Canada than from less-friendly nations. The State Department then said in August stating that TransCanada?s proposed route is the preferred option.

Thursday, Jones said the new review is needed because the department has not yet examined a route contained within Nebraska that would minimize or avoid the Sand Hills area. ?What we?ve heard is from many in the public in Nebraska as well as comments across the nation about the route going through these fragile landscapes in the Sand Hills,? she said.

The department had already examined routes further west and northeast of Nebraska that would have avoided the Sand Hills area and had released a final supplemental environmental review in August that said TransCanada?s proposed route was the preferred option and would have minimal effect on the environment.

But Nebraska officials in both parties had opposed that route, raising the issue in public hearings and a special session recently convened by the state Legislature.

"They're looking at this and saying if we can find a better route some of this controversy will go away. And it will," said Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.).

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I-mode powers up on alcator C-mod tokamak

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News from the 53rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

A key challenge in producing fusion energy is confining the plasma long enough for the ionized hydrogen to fuse and produce net power. Suppressing plasma turbulence is one approach to this, but the resulting increase in energy confinement is usually accompanied by undesirable increases in particle and impurity confinement, which can lead to plasma contamination and ash accumulationand reduced power. At MIT's Alcator C-Mod tokamak reactor, scientists are investigating I-mode, an improved confinement regime, which may solve this problem.

Tokamak reactors operate by using powerful magnetic fields to confine hot plasma in a doughnut-shaped ring. I-mode describes a set of tokamak operating parameters that create a strong energy barrier near the plasma edge, while still allowing substantial particle and impurity transport across the barrier to reduce plasma contamination.

Until recently, I-mode could only be maintained within a small operational power window to avoid the more conventional H-modes (high containment modes), which have either unacceptable impurity accumulation or edge relaxation oscillations that can result in high power loading on reactor vessel walls.

But through careful plasma shaping, and taking advantage of C-Mod's closed divertor configuration, this operational window has recently been very substantially widened. In the best cases, the plasma remains in a steady-state I-mode operational regime over a span of input power twice as great.

This is particularly important when considering the prospects of applying I-mode operation to the larger ITER project, currently under construction in France, and to future fusion reactors. Initial calculations indicate that ITER could have sufficient heating power to enter into I-mode, and even stay in I-mode following the expected increase in alpha particle heating that would result from the increased plasma pressure. As illustrated in Figure 1, the plasma pressure achieved in I-mode on C-Mod is within a factor of two of that required in ITER to meet its burning plasma mission.

The recent C-Mod experimental results, along with detailed modeling and simulations, including extrapolations to ITER scenarios, will be reported at the 2011 APS-DPP meeting.

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YI2.00003 Pedestal and Transport Properties of Steady-state I-mode Plasmas over Expanded Operational Space in Alcator C-Mod
Session YI2: Tokamak Advanced Scenarios,
Ballroom BD, Friday, November 18, 2011, 10:30AM-11:00AM


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American Physical Society

News from the 53rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

A key challenge in producing fusion energy is confining the plasma long enough for the ionized hydrogen to fuse and produce net power. Suppressing plasma turbulence is one approach to this, but the resulting increase in energy confinement is usually accompanied by undesirable increases in particle and impurity confinement, which can lead to plasma contamination and ash accumulationand reduced power. At MIT's Alcator C-Mod tokamak reactor, scientists are investigating I-mode, an improved confinement regime, which may solve this problem.

Tokamak reactors operate by using powerful magnetic fields to confine hot plasma in a doughnut-shaped ring. I-mode describes a set of tokamak operating parameters that create a strong energy barrier near the plasma edge, while still allowing substantial particle and impurity transport across the barrier to reduce plasma contamination.

Until recently, I-mode could only be maintained within a small operational power window to avoid the more conventional H-modes (high containment modes), which have either unacceptable impurity accumulation or edge relaxation oscillations that can result in high power loading on reactor vessel walls.

But through careful plasma shaping, and taking advantage of C-Mod's closed divertor configuration, this operational window has recently been very substantially widened. In the best cases, the plasma remains in a steady-state I-mode operational regime over a span of input power twice as great.

This is particularly important when considering the prospects of applying I-mode operation to the larger ITER project, currently under construction in France, and to future fusion reactors. Initial calculations indicate that ITER could have sufficient heating power to enter into I-mode, and even stay in I-mode following the expected increase in alpha particle heating that would result from the increased plasma pressure. As illustrated in Figure 1, the plasma pressure achieved in I-mode on C-Mod is within a factor of two of that required in ITER to meet its burning plasma mission.

The recent C-Mod experimental results, along with detailed modeling and simulations, including extrapolations to ITER scenarios, will be reported at the 2011 APS-DPP meeting.

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Abstract:

YI2.00003 Pedestal and Transport Properties of Steady-state I-mode Plasmas over Expanded Operational Space in Alcator C-Mod
Session YI2: Tokamak Advanced Scenarios,
Ballroom BD, Friday, November 18, 2011, 10:30AM-11:00AM


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Deaths bring pressure for Occupy shutdown

City leaders across the U.S. felt increasing pressure Friday to shut down Occupy protest encampments after two men died in shootings and two others were found dead inside their tents this week.

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One was found dead Friday inside a tent at the Occupy Salt Lake City encampment, from what police said was a combination of drug use and carbon monoxide from a propane heater.

On Thursday, a man was shot and killed at the Occupy Oakland camp in California, and a military veteran apparently shot himself to death in a tent at an encampment in Burlington, Vermont.

The deaths come after a 53-year-old man was found dead inside a tent at the Occupy New Orleans encampment on Tuesday. The Times-Picayune newspaper reported that he appeared to have been dead for two days.

Some officials have responded with both pleas and orders for protesters to leave.

Citing a strain on crime-fighting resources, police asked Occupy Oakland protesters to leave their encampment at the City Hall plaza where the man was shot and killed late Thursday.

The Oakland Police Officer's Association issued an open letter saying the camp is pulling officers away from crime-plagued neighborhoods.

"With last night's homicide, in broad daylight, in the middle of rush hour, Frank Ogawa Plaza is no longer safe," the letter said. "Please leave peacefully, with your heads held high, so we can get police officers back to work fighting crime in Oakland neighborhoods."

Mayor Jean Quan said the city would issue another official notice to protesters to leave the camp, but she did not give a deadline.

Since the shooting, anonymous fliers have been posted around the encampment urging protesters to leave.

"Occupiers, turn on your brains and see the harm you are causing to our town," it says. "You have devolved into mob rule. You have lost sight of the goal."

City Council President Larry Reid said outside City Hall that the shooting was further proof the tents must come down. He was confronted by a protester who said he wouldn't be in office much longer.

"You didn't elect me," Reid snapped back. "You probably ain't even registered to vote!"

Reid said the encampment has been a major setback for the area while attracting sex offenders, mentally ill and homeless people, and anarchists.

"This is no longer about Occupy Wall Street," he said. "This is about occupying Oakland and extracting whatever you can get out of Oakland by holding our city hostage."

A preliminary investigation into the shooting suggested it resulted from a fight between two groups of men at or near the encampment, police Chief Howard Jordan said. Investigators do not know if the men in the fight were associated with the protesters, he said.

Protesters said there was no connection.

The Oakland shooting occurred the same day the 35-year-old military veteran apparently fatally shot himself in the head in a tent at the Vermont encampment.

The shooting raised questions about whether the protest would be allowed to continue, said Burlington police Deputy Chief Andi Higbee.

"Our responsibility is to keep the public safe. When there is a discharge of a firearm in a public place like this, it's good cause to be concerned, greatly concerned," Higbee said.

In the Salt Lake City protest camp, the discovery of the dead man, believed to be in his 40s, led police to order all protesters to leave the park where they have camped for weeks.

Group organizers said many of the roughly 150 protesters plan to go to jail rather than leave.

"We don't even know if this is a tragedy or just natural," protest organizer Jesse Fruhwirth said. "They're scapegoating Occupy."

Tensions were also high at the 300-tent encampment in Portland, Oregon, which has become a hub for the city's homeless people and addicts.

Mayor Sam Adams ordered the camp shut down by midnight Saturday, pointing to two non-fatal drug overdoses at the camp.

"I cannot wait for someone to die," he said. "I cannot wait for someone to use the camp as camouflage to inflict bodily harm on others."

Many at the camp said they would resist any effort to remove them.

"There will be a variety of tactics used," said organizer Adriane DeJerk, 26. "No social movement has ever been successful while being completely peaceful."

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45258539/ns/us_news-life/

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Gingerbread update coming to O2-branded Xperia X10s in the next week

Android Central

Owners of SIM-free Sony Ericsson Xperia X10s have been enjoying Android 2.3 Gingerbread for the past few months, but so far the upgrade has been absent from some branded handsets, including those bought through O2 UK.

In a recent blog posting, O2's Head of Device-Customer Experience, Stuart Hibberd, let the network's customers know what's been holding things up. Specifically, it seems there were a few problems with getting the new camera app to function properly on O2 X10s, making it "virtually unusable". Hibberd says the issues have now been taken care of, though, and the update should be available from Sony Ericsson's website within the next week. Eagle eyed readers may notice that the post incorrectly refers to the upgrade from Froyo to Gingerbread -- in fact, the X10 never received Froyo, and the last official update is based on Android 2.1 Eclair.

Like the unbranded X10 Gingerbread patch, the O2 version is an optional (and irreversible) upgrade, and O2 warns that it may make your phone "work slower than you're used to".  For more information on exactly what you'll be getting if you choose to update, check out our original report from back in July.

Source: O2 Blog

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Why "Twilight" saga will end with a whimper (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? The "Twilight Saga" might not make it to sunup.

With an aging fan base, sexier and naughtier vampires and werewolves clawing it up on TV and a full year to go before the franchise ends, the four-film version of Stephenie Meyer's pre-teen fave will have a hard time crossing the finish line at the level of, say, the "Harry Potter" or "Star Wars" franchises.

Sure, "Breaking Dawn -- Part 1," which hits theaters November 18, is the movie "Twilight" devotees have been waiting for: Edward and Bella finally get married and finally, you know, like, do it.

Even those of us above the age of 13 are curious to see if real-life couple Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have chemistry in the big-screen boudoir, especially after director Bill Condon revealed their sex scenes had to be edited due to Pattinson's excessive "thrusting."

Last week, fans lined up as Pattinson, Stewart and Taylor Lautner stuck their hands and feet in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater.

And tracking for the next "Twilight" film is good, with "Breaking Dawn" the bestselling movie ticket at Fandango as of late last week, according to the site's Harry Medved.

But nothing R. Patz and K. Stew do in theaters will surpass what the randy vampires on "True Blood" do weekly on the small screen. And as HBO's "Blood" has stolen some of "Twilight's" sex thunder with the older crowd, the CW's "Vampire Diaries" has given the teen set (oh OK, and some more mature viewers, too) a chance to get their fill of soapy vamp drama on a weekly basis.

Plus, the demographic that created that frenzy has grown up. Except for the Twihards, the initial pre-teen-girl fan base -- we all know this is a largely female phenomenon -- has moved on to other things. It's hard to see them still wearing those Team Edward or Team Jacob tees.

In fact, it's hard to see anyone still wearing those tees.

On the other hand, it wasn't uncommon to hear not just kids but twentysomethings, thirtysomethings -- and older -- of both sexes wax on about the "Potter" books and movies.

Publisher Hachette Book Group estimated that 1.3 million "Breaking Dawn" books were sold in the first 24 hours of its release in August 2008, a franchise record.

But even that lofty figure can't compete with the 8.3 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" that were moved on its first day of release back in July 2007.

Then there are the "Twilight" stars themselves.

There's no question that those same fans will be lining up to see "Breaking Dawn -- Part 1."

But there's also little question their heat outside the narrow fan base has cooled.

An attempt to launch Lautner as an action hero in September's "Abduction" hasn't exactly taken the global box office by storm, with the $35 million movie grossing $76.4 million worldwide. It is probably a break-even proposition at best, once global prints and advertising costs are factored in.

Pattinson's April drama "Water for Elephants" grossed just over $117 million on a budget of $38 million and was a modest success. But the Fox movie featured two Oscar winners, Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz, as Pattinson's co-stars.

His earlier non-"Twilight" projects included youth drama "Remember Me" -- also a modest performer, grossing $56 million on $16 million -- and the lightly regarded "Little Ashes," in which he played Salvador Dali.

Stewart's between-"Twilight" projects -- indie films "The Runaways" and "Welcome to the Rileys" -- also failed to draw any real buzz or box-office bucks.

And it was cute, sorta, at first, when Pattinson and Stewart tried to be coy about whether or not their on-camera affair had gone off-screen. But as it became more and more obvious that it had, and they still refused to confirm it, it, and they, became kind of annoying.

Ditto the romantic saga of the Taylors -- Lautner and Swift -- which was irksome pretty much from the beginning.

But even if "Breaking Dawn -- Part 1" lives up to Summit Entertainment's earning projections ($611 million, according to a studio report issued earlier this year, down from the $698.5 million grossed by "Twilight: Eclipse"), what about that last movie, which is still a year away?

After the Edward/Bella wedding and Bella's pregnancy, the level of drama in the storyline takes a nosedive (even by overwrought teen novel standards).

If you've read the books and know how the whole thing turns out, well, you know the rest of the lackluster plot may have viewers wishing they had an "Abduction" DVD handy.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111109/film_nm/us_twilight

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