Steve Jobs [Audiobook] [Unabridged] (Audio CD) - (ASIN 1442346272)

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Lakers are not even fit for Kings in falling to 0-2 for first time since 2002-03 NBA season

Lakers forward Josh McRoberts, right, goes to the basket against Sacramento center DeMarcus Cousins during the first quarter of Monday's game. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

SACRAMENTO - One game into the shortest season of many of their professional lives, and the Lakers were already hurting when they took the court Monday night at the Power Balance Pavilion to face the Sacramento Kings.

By now you probably know all about the torn ligament in Kobe Bryant's right wrist. Then came word an hour or so before the game that Pau Gasol suffered a sprained right shoulder and Josh McRoberts had a sprained left thumb.

It was double trouble since the Lakers were already without Andrew Bynum, who served the second game of his four-game suspension Monday.

It was just the sort of thing the Kings could exploit en route to a 100-91 victory, dropping the Lakers to 0-2 for the first time since the 2002-03 season.

Gasol and McRoberts were injured during the Lakers' come-from-ahead loss Sunday afternoon to the Chicago Bulls at Staples Center, the first of three games in as many days to start the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season.

The Lakers complete their only stretch of back-to-back-to- back games when they play host to the Utah Jazz tonight at Staples Center. It's only part of a grueling period in which they play six times in eight days, however.

Gasol, who shifted to center from power forward to replace Bynum, was ineffective early but found a better rhythm to start the third quarter. He wore a black neoprene sleeve to protect his shoulder.

McRoberts, who moved from a backup role to the starting

power forward job, couldn't remember how he hurt his thumb. He didn't believe it would trouble him and he contributed some energetic play from the opening tip.

The Lakers looked like a tired and injured team against the Kings, falling behind in the first half and staying behind in the second. Some inspired bench play kept them close in the first half, before Bryant and Gasol fueled a fourth-quarter comeback.

Sacramento led by as many as 15 points in the fourth, then put the game away in the closing minutes.

Bryant scored 29 points on 10-for-24 shooting, including two on a thunderous dunk off a lob pass from Devin Ebanks on a third-quarter fastbreak. Gasol scored all but two of his 15 points in the second half. He also grabbed nine rebounds.

McRoberts had two points, five rebounds and three assists.

Marcus Thornton scored 27 points for the Kings, who were playing their season opener. Rookie Jimmer Fredette had six points in his NBA debut, leaving little doubt that he can be an effective player in the pros after a stellar college career at BYU.

Meanwhile, Devin Ebanks made his second consecutive start at small forward for the Lakers, keeping veterans Matt Barnes, Luke Walton and Metta World Peace on the bench. World Peace (the former Ron Artest) will remain with the second unit.

"It's a job interview," coach Mike Brown said of starting Ebanks, a second-year player. "I have the right to terminate that interview at any time, especially when I have some pretty good veterans sitting and waiting and pushing the guys in front of them."

World Peace then went out and scored 10 points on 5-for-7 shooting in 12 minutes, 25 seconds in the first half, helping to keep the Lakers close to Sacramento before a late collapse enabled the Kings to take a 49-40 lead by halftime.

World Peace finished with 19 points on 8-for-14 shooting.

By game's end, Barnes and Walton also would play.

The Lakers went into the game with five consecutive victories over the Kings in Sacramento, including what many assumed would be their final visit to the place Phil Jackson rather famously called a cow town.

The Kings were close to swapping the state capital for the suburbs of Orange County, but a last-gasp effort by mayor Kevin Johnson and other city officials kept the team from leaving the outdated and renamed Power Balance Pavilion for Anaheim.

"You have to give credit to Kevin Johnson and the city of the Sacramento for doing what they needed to know to give this thing another go," Brown said when asked about the possibility the Lakers might have played Monday at the Honda Center.

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Unborn son's struggle inspires Christian singer (AP)

PERRYSBURG, Ohio ? Told that his unborn son had only half a heart and little chance to survive, the lead singer of the Christian rock band Sanctus Real began pouring his fears and doubts into music.

The songs were meant to comfort his family while they searched for answers and sought to understand God's role during the months before and after the baby's birth that were filled with surgeries and life-threatening complications.

It didn't take long for him to realize that his words needed to be shared so that others struggling with life would know they're not alone.

What came out of the heartache was "Every Falling Tear," a solo album that's meant to touch and console during the hardest of times.

"People want to know that their pain has a purpose," said Matt Hammitt, one of the founding members of Sanctus Real, a band with two Grammy-nominated albums since 2008.

"That's the biggest part of sharing our story," he said. "That there is a purpose."

Hammitt and his wife, Sarah, knew something was wrong minutes after finding out during an ultrasound in April 2010 that their third child would be a boy, following two girls. They saw the sorrow on their doctor's face even before she spoke.

Doctors later confirmed the baby had a rare congenital heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which causes the left side of the heart to be severely underdeveloped. For five months, the couple contemplated all of the possible procedures and treatments while weighing the odds of what could go wrong.

Their baby would face multiple surgeries and an uncertain future at best.

They also didn't know how to deal with a flood of emotions ? the anger, the doubt, the feeling of being alone. Hammitt, 32, decided he needed to tell God how he was feeling, so he started writing songs about their journey.

"I began writing about all that I was learning about struggle and faith," he said.

Each song tells of a moment or a series of events leading to the baby's birth ? there's a father's fear of holding back his love for a son he may never know and a mother's hope of finding peace in the midst of despair.

"I wanted to write songs that would speak him someday about how much his father loved him no matter how long or short his life would be," Hammitt said, his voice trailing off.

The album released in September was his first solo work. On tour during the fall with the band, he included the song "All of Me" in their sets. It starts: "Afraid to love, something that could break. Could I move on if you were torn away?"

Hammitt was a high school sophomore when he and guitarist Chris Rohman and drummer Mark Graalman started the band 15 years ago. They've stayed together, playing in coffee shops, churches and now arenas.

Sanctus Real will be one of nearly a dozen Christian artists taking part in the Winter Jam tour that starts in January, with stops in 47 cities.

The song from "Every Falling Tear" that means the most to Hammitt is "Trust," a worship song that reminds people not to lose faith "even in the darkness, even in the questions, even when the hardest times of life are at hand."

The lyrics were born out of a time when Hammitt was feeling isolated and alone.

"Sometimes we need to be reminded of the truth," he said. "And for me, the truth is that I trust God."

Bowen Matthew Hammitt was born on Sept. 9, 2010. His first open heart surgery came four days later and the next night he went into cardiac arrest. A team of doctors and nurses spent an hour performing CPR until they were able to revive him and get him on life support.

Complications and a stroke kept him in the hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., for just over two months.

While there, the couple played demos of the songs Hammitt had written "so Bowen could hear his dad's voice," his wife said. Night-shift nurses often turned up the music when most families would leave for the evening.

"They felt it was good for all the babies to be soothed," Sarah said. "We'd come back in the morning and it'd be really loud."

Hammitt recorded the songs for the album soon after the family brought Bowen home to suburban Toledo. His only unease was that they might be critiqued like any other work.

"Originally I just wanted them recorded for us at the hospital," he said. "I realized they're meant to comfort other people too."

So far, the response has been what he hoped for. They've even received notes from parents who've played the songs at their children's funerals.

Now, the Hammitts want to take their work a step further by starting the Whole Hearts Foundation, a source of financial, emotional and spiritual help for families with children suffering from congenital heart defects. They see the foundation becoming their life's work.

"It's amazing to see even beyond the album what's come out of this," Hammitt said. "We had a vision in the hospital, how can we help other families, let them know they're not alone."

Bowen, who turned 1 in September, faces one more surgery now slated for 2013 to repair his heart. Eventually, he'll likely need a new heart before he reaches middle age.

He's growing, but not as fast as doctors would like. Sarah watches him closely for any signs of heart failure. He only has a single ventricle pumping oxygen to his body and lungs so she looks to see if he sweats when he eats or if his skin turns blue or red.

When Matt brought him downstairs after a nap, a look of worry crossed her face when she saw that his hair was matted with sweat. But it turned out there was no cause for concern.

"We know at any moment things could change even though he's stable now," Sarah said. "It's ultimately God's will."

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Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111225/ap_en_mu/us_songwriter_son_s_heart

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Mason Inman: The Climate Post: Surprise Deal Emerges at United Nations Climate Talks

In a surprise turnaround, the United Nations climate talks managed to produce a new deal to eventually curb global emissions moving forward. In a press release announcing the agreement, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) called it a "breakthrough."

The new agreement marks a break from the Kyoto Protocol, which divided the world into two categories -- the developed and the developing world. Instead, said the European Union's Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, the new agreement reflects "today's mutually interdependent world," and moves toward an agreement that partners all countries in combating climate change.

The new agreement -- dubbed the "Durban Platform" -- created a group with an unwieldy name, the Ad Hoc Working Group on a Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, which has the mandate to develop "a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force." In essence, it is an agreement to finalize an accord no later than 2015, which would go into effect in 2020.

The agreement would also extend the Kyoto Protocol, set to expire at the end of 2012, for an additional five years, allowing the system's carbon trading to continue. This won't have much impact on carbon markets or renewable investment in the next few years, analysts told Reuters, but could have an effect over the longer term.

How the Deal Was Done

To forge the deal at the thirteenth hour, the talks were extended nearly two days.

The push for the new agreement reportedly came from developing nations and those likely to be most affected by climate change, which put pressure on the European Union to work for an extension of the Kyoto Protocol.

The bloc of emerging countries known as BASIC -- Brazil, South Africa, India and China -- was divided, with India the strongest holdout against binding emissions cuts for these countries -- at least until richer countries met the targets they'd already committed to.

India was persuaded by an addition in the Durban text of an option of an "outcome with legal force" -- although the difference in meaning between that and a protocol or "legal instrument" is not yet clear. The United States' Special Envoy for Climate Change, Todd Stern, said overall it is "pretty clear that we're talking about something probably in the nature of a protocol."

Just after the talks wrapped up, Canada pulled out of Kyoto Protocol, saying it won't meet the goals it had agreed to for cutting its emissions, bringing condemnation at home and abroad. Nonetheless, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said Canada still has a "legal obligation" to cut its emissions.

Landmark or Disaster?

Opinions were divided over the new pact's significance.

Some called it a "landmark deal," although many seem to think it is unlikely to keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius, the line the U.N. had drawn for "dangerous climate change."

A Nature editorial called the outcome "an unqualified disaster" for the climate, and argued politicians can no longer talk "with a straight face" of meeting the 2-degrees-Celsius goal. With India's agriculture under major threat from further warming, the country's reluctance to sign a binding climate treaty was "suicidal," argued Gwynne Dyer.

Persian Gulf Tensions

Meanwhile another deal was being hashed out, among the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). They agreed to raise officially allowed production to 30 million barrels a day -- but since production is already at that level, the agreement will likely have little effect on oil prices. The compromise came out in Saudi Arabia's favor, since the country defied other OPEC members earlier this year and unilaterally raised its own production.

Oil markets are "cooling" as the Eurozone crisis has slowed global growth, said the International Energy Agency; nonetheless, the agency warned oil prices are high enough to threaten growth.

Tensions between Iran and the West continued, with some saying a covert war has already begun. An escalation would likely drive oil prices much higher, and the U.S. and European Union are reportedly trying to find ways to apply pressure to Iran that would neither raise oil prices nor hand Iran windfall profits.

The Climate Post offers a rundown of the week in climate and energy news. It is produced each Thursday by Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-inman/the-climate-post-surprise_b_1152063.html

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How Can I Mass Delete Friends on Facebook? [Facebook]

How Can I Mass Delete Friends on Facebook?With Timeline rolling out, I want to take the chance to clean up my Facebook account. I could delete unwanted friends I added willy-nilly one by one, but that would take forever. Is there an easy way to do it?

Yes, there is, but you have to do it before you start using Timeline. FacebookDeletes is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that will let you delete multiple Facebook friends with a simple checkbox. With the script installed, you need to head over to your friends page where you'll see a "Facebook Delete Friends" button. Now, you just need to check the boxes of the friends you DON'T want to delete.

If you already have Timeline installed, there doesn't seem to be a clear way to delete a large group of friends at once, so if you want to do some housekeeping, you should do it now.

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Paul Allen plans to replace space shuttle program

Paul Allen is planning on building the world's largest plane intended to offer space travel to paying customers and possibly to the international space station.

Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen is planning to build a spaceship that could replace the Space Shuttle and put paying passengers into orbit this decade.

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Lifelong space enthusiast Allen is hoping to launch unmanned rockets from a massive flying carrier plane to put government and commercial satellites into space and eventually evolve to human space missions.

The initiative comes only months after the United States retired the Space Shuttle program after 30 years, opening the door to private enterprise to supply space vehicles.

Allen's rocket will be launched from what will be the world's biggest plane, a massive carrier aircraft powered by six jumbo jet engines, to be constructed by Scaled Composites, a unit of defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp.

Its wingspan will be about 385 feet, bigger than a football field and 70 percent longer than the wings of a Boeing 747.

The rocket itself will be made by private space company SpaceX, created by Elon Musk, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal. The rocket and carrier will be integrated by aviation and missile specialists Dynetics.

The first test flight is targeted for 2015 with the first commercial flight the year after.

"I have long dreamed about taking the next big step in private space flight," said Allen. "To offer a flexible, orbital space delivery system."

The new company to manage the project, called Stratolaunch Systems, has the slogan "Any orbit. Any time."

Allen, the sole funding source for development, did not say how much he would spend on the project, but indicated it would be $200 million or more, an "order of magnitude" greater than the $20 million he spent backing the first privately funded, manned space flight in 2004.

SPACE FAN

Fifty-eight-year-old Allen - listed by Forbes magazine as the world's 57th-richest person, with a fortune of $13.2 billion - is the latest in a line of tech billionaires with interests in the privatization of space travel.

His space ambitions put him alongside Musk and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, whose Blue Origin aims to put people into space at an affordable price, rather than the millions of dollars it has cost up to now.

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Chrome 15 Takes Top Spot for Browsers (NewsFactor)

There's a new top dog among browser versions. Recent statistics show Google's latest Chrome browser has taken the No. 1 spot, bumping out the most popular version of Internet Explorer from Microsoft.

According to StatCounter.com data released Thursday, Chrome 15 now captures 24.55 percent of the world market, edging out IE8's 22.9 percent. Mozilla's Firefox 9.0 is at 14 percent, and IE9 is in fourth at 10.4 percent. Those rankings, covering the last half of November and the first week in December, are of particular release versions. \

When taken as a brand, with all versions combined, IE is still tops with 39.5 percent market share, Chrome is second at 26.5 percent, and Firefox takes a close third at 25.3 percent. As newer versions cycle in and older ones drop out, the brand rankings could begin to reflect the latest version rankings.

The Updating Mechanism

This is the first time since IE8 was released in early 2010 that it has not been in the top spot, and this is the first time any browser not developed by Microsoft has had the lead. In the U.S., IE8 still leads, at 27 percent for the week of December 5, compared with Chrome 15's 18.1 percent.

A key factor in the browser horse race appears to be the updating mechanism. Google released Chrome 16 Wednesday, which will automatically replace most users' Chrome 15 via the update mechanism. The auto-updating has been a feature of the browser since Chrome's introduction three years ago.

Mozilla has gotten some flak over its frequent update plan for Firefox, which involves user consent every six weeks to receive the latest incarnation. Firefox had previously had "silent updating," but that was dropped a year ago in favor of user notification and consent. Now, it will move back to automatic updating, expected to roll out in mid-2012.

"One of the negative side effects," wrote Mozilla developer Brian Bondy in October on his blog, "is that minor annoyances with software updates suddenly become much more noticeable. Most users don't want to think about software updates nor version numbers and now they are being forced to do so every six weeks."

'Update Fatigue'

On his blog, Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker wrote earlier this fall that users were alerted to Firefox updates "to make sure people are aware and in control of what's happening in their environment." But, he said, users are complaining of "update fatigue," because the "notifications are irritating."

The frequent updating has reportedly led to users of various browsers having to update browser-based apps on some cycle as well. But auto-upgrades are feeding the browser race, and Microsoft said Thursday it will start auto-upgrading IE in January, for users who have opted for auto-updates. Enterprises will still be able to control updates.

Previously, Microsoft had requested permission before updating, but now users will automatically receive the latest version available for that operating system version. The auto-updating for IE will start in Australia and Brazil first, and then roll out to other markets on a schedule to be announced.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20111215/tc_nf/81401

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