Saturday, December 31, 2011

Recommended Resource ? Finance Without Fear | StrategyDriven

29 Dec 2011

Finance Without Fear: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business
by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger

About the Reference

Finance Without Fear: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Business by William S. Hettinger and John Dolan-Heitlinger unveals the mysteries of financial statements in this easy-to-understand, example filled book. William and John arm leaders with the knowledge of what is in each financial statement, how statements relate to each other, and, more importantly, how business operations impact reported financial outcomes.

Benefits of Using this Reference

StrategyDriven Contributors like Finance Without Fear because it imparts the appropriate level of financial report understanding needed to be a successful executive or manager while not requiring the reader to be a CPA. Additionally, the illustrative examples relating business operations to financial statements clearly conveys the relationships and importance of strategic and day-to-day decisions to the financial well-being of the organization.

StrategyDriven Contributors believe it is vitally important for all executives and managers to understand how operational decisions impact financial performance and its conveyance in financial statements. Likewise, it is critical that these leaders be able to draw conclusions about business operations from their financial statements. While newly ascending managers may not have this knowledge, they should seek and be provided this information early in their management careers. Finance Without Fear can be used to impart such knowledge; making it a StrategyDriven recommended read.

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The Best Giz Explanations of the Year [Video]

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Friday, December 30, 2011

Theme parks look to keep the magic alive

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Daniel Radcliffe, center, and members of the cast of "Harry Potter" wave their wands during the grand opening celebration for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studio Resort in Orlando in 2010. The attraction has been a huge success, and is changing the way theme parks operate.

By Rob Lovitt, msnbc.com contributor

Cue the foreboding movie music: Da-dum, daa-dum, daa-dum da-dum da dum ...

This time, though, it?s not a swimmer that?s about to go under but rather the great white shark itself. On Jan. 2, Jaws, one of the original and most iconic rides at Universal Studios Florida, will kick the proverbial chum bucket.

In the end, the cause of death wasn?t a rocket-propelled grenade ? as in the ride?s original incarnation ? or electrocution ? as in subsequent years ? but rather a combination of low-tech effects, changing tastes and a drift toward irrelevance.

Ah, Bruce, as the mechanical shark was affectionately known, they hardly knew ye.

?The ride has sentimental value, but beyond that it?s time had come,? said John Gerner, managing director of Leisure Business Advisors LLC. ?The movie was huge in the ?70s but there a lot of people now who weren?t even born when it came out.?

While Universal executives are not revealing what will take the place of Jaws, it doesn?t take a boy wizard to figure out that theme parks are increasingly changing their focus from their own brands to other creative properties that come with their own built-in audiences.

?In the past, parks would make a ride of the movie they owned simply to help the movie,? said Gerner. ?Now it?s more important to link to a strong brand than to promote their own.?

For proof, one need only look a half-mile south to Universal?s Islands of Adventure park where The Wizarding World of Harry Potter has reinvigorated attendance and revenues. Wildly popular, the attraction has boosted admissions to the park 40 to 50 percent since opening 18 months ago, reports the Associated Press.

Tourists overwhelmed Disney World, Legoland and other top Florida theme parks this week, forcing them to temporarily deny entry to incoming visitors. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.

That success also explains NBC Universal's announcement in early December that it would build a second Wizarding World at Universal Studios Hollywood and expand the attraction in Orlando.

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

Park officials have offered no details on either development, but the latter already has Potter fans fantasizing about a Hogwarts Express train running between Islands of Adventure and the erstwhile Jaws site, presumably reconfigured as a bit of London or Little Whinging.

Slideshow: Inside the Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Whether the Jaws site will, indeed, boast a Diagon Alley or the Dursleys? hometown is unknown, but whatever takes the big fish?s place will no doubt adhere to the new rules of theme-park development: Boosting admission is a good thing, but boosting the sale of food, beverage and merchandise is where the real magic happens.

?The real success story with Harry Potter is not necessarily the increase in admissions but rather the increase in merchandise sales for Universal,? said Chad Emerson, the author of several books on theme parks. ?The wands and butterbeer are driving the popularity of that attraction.

?If they replace Jaws with an attraction that can sell widgets that people want to buy, that?ll go a long way toward the balance sheet of investing in it,? he told msnbc.com.

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Rapper C-Murder's conviction, sentence upheld

FILE - This Aug. 16 file photo shows Rapper Corey Miller, who once went by the stage name of C-Murder, in New Orleans. A Louisiana appeals court has upheld the murder conviction and life imprisonment sentence of rapper Corey "C-Murder" Miller for a teenager's 2002 shooting death. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

FILE - This Aug. 16 file photo shows Rapper Corey Miller, who once went by the stage name of C-Murder, in New Orleans. A Louisiana appeals court has upheld the murder conviction and life imprisonment sentence of rapper Corey "C-Murder" Miller for a teenager's 2002 shooting death. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

(AP) ? A Louisiana appeals court has upheld the murder conviction and life sentence for rapper C-Murder.

C-Murder, whose real name is Corey Miller, was convicted of shooting a teenager to death in 2002.

A three-judge panel from the state's 5th Circuit Court of Appeal on Wednesday rejected Miller's argument that he didn't get a fair trial.

In 2009, a jury convicted Miller of second-degree murder for shooting 16-year-old Steve Thomas during a confrontation at a nightclub.

Miller claims the judge who presided over his trial allowed jurors to hear prejudicial and unsubstantiated testimony that he threatened witnesses to the shooting. He also accused prosecutors of systematically eliminating black people from the jury.

But the 5th Circuit rejected those arguments.

One of Miller's attorneys didn't immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday.

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University of Utah professor allegedly admitted to trading porn

Authorities Thursday released more information about the search of a University of Utah professor?s Cottonwood Heights home following his child-pornography arrest last month in Boston.

Investigators said 47-year-old Grant Douglas Smith confessed to trading pornographic images of ?teens? online. They wrote that it was imperative that they search his home because Massachusetts investigators feared he planned to ask his girlfriend to destroy some evidence, according to a search warrant made public in 3rd District Court on Thursday. Smith, considered one of the top professors in the world in the field of molecular engineering, was working at the U. at the time of his arrest, the warrant states.

The information comes as the Utah Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force continues to probe Smith?s life. Task force members obtained the warrant so they could legally search his Country Wood Circle apartment on Nov. 28. They seized a computer, two hard drives, a cellphone, undeveloped film, an iPod, a video recorder, a camera and a telephone bill, according to the warrant.

Smith was arrested in late November after a Delta airline passenger alleged he saw Smith, who was sitting in first class, viewing child pornography on his laptop computer while travelling from Salt Lake City to Boston.

At the time of the arrest, Smith was divorcing his wife ?? the divorce was expected to be final by Nov. 28 ? and he had moved into the Cottonwood Heights condo during their divorce proceedings. Smith?s wife told authorities their marriage had unraveled more than a year earlier because Smith had cheated, the warrant states. Investigators allege Smith was living with his girlfriend at the residence.

According to the search warrant, Utah investigators became aware of the child-pornography allegations Nov. 26 after a Massachusetts state trooper called to tell them about Smith. The trooper told Utah investigators that Smith had given him permission to search his MacBook computer and iPhone, and authorities found evidence of child pornography on his laptop, the search warrant states. The pornographic images allegedly from a paid site showed naked girls, ages 5 to 10, engaging in sexual activity with adult males, according to the warrant. Smith also told investigators he started deleting pornographic images on his computer during the flight because he was ?bored,? the warrant states.

Massachusetts authorities said they also found ?many images? of fully clothed children on Smith?s iPhone that appeared to have been taken at parks and airports, the warrant states. They also claimed they found an image of child pornography in a folder titled ?Korea? and determined that Smith had just returned from Seoul, Korea, on Nov. 22 after attending a retreat for a retiring professor. Authorities say Smith usually traveled one out of every three weeks and was on his way to a conference when he was allegedly caught with the pornography.

Task force authorities said the University of Utah police already had initiated an investigation into Smith after learning of his arrest and immediately disconnected his office Internet access. The warrant claims the university police were looking for any items that might contain evidence but that were owned by the university. The warrant did not state if any such items were found and if they were turned over to investigators.

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Video: Elaborate farewell for Kim Jong Il



>>> we begin with this morning's funeral ceremonies for north korean leader kim jong -il. adrian mong is watching the event from seoul , south korea .

>> reporter: good morning. at the last minute the north koreans kept everyone in the dark for the funeral. in the end pyongyang made sure the whole world could watch the proceedings which by the way fateeured some classic american cars . under heavy snowfall the funeral procession for the man the north koreans called their dear leader made its way through the capital, pyongyang. leading the way, kim jong -un, working beside the hers. thousands of men and women in military uniform or civilian clothing lined the streets to pay their last respects. the sound of their wailing clearly broadcast along with music. a stark contrast to the mood among north koreas living south of the border . "the only thing he did was starve 3 million people to death." she now works in seoul with eight other defectors running an independent radio station that broadcasts daily supports back into their homeland. "at first i thought wow, we can go home" says the radio station 's founder. he escaped north korea 11 years ago but he said there's no hope of change. no hope, because of this man, kim jong -un, not much is known about him or his ability to rule, but one thing is clear. "he's inherited his father's dictatorship" says the radio station manager. now we just want to remind everyone that those images of the funeral procession today were only available direct from north korean state television so it hasn't been possible to verify how much of that, if possibly all of it was staged, including the mourning.

>> adrienne mongn seoul , south korea , thank you.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Once stranded off Europe, turtle released in Fla. (AP)

SARASOTA, Fla. ? Johnny the sea turtle has traveled more than many people do. But the journey that took him from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe and back isn't over yet.

The 68-pound, rare Kemp's ridley turtle was released into the Gulf on Tuesday morning near Sarasota. About 300 people stood on the beach to bid Johnny farewell as he swam off into the surf off Lido Key.

The endangered creature was found stranded on a beach in The Netherlands in 2008, thousands of miles from its usual sea habitat. Marine experts think the turtle ? which normally swims, feeds and breeds in and around the Gulf of Mexico ? got swept up in the powerful Gulf Stream and carried off to Europe.

"It just had the misfortune to get in the current and go with the flow," said Tony Tucker, the manager of Mote Marine Laboratory's Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program in Sarasota.

But experts didn't give up on the turtle, which was found cold and disoriented in 2008.

Rescuers in The Netherlands named the creature Johnny ? though it's sex is unclear ? and made sure the turtle received good care at the Rotterdam Zoo. Then Johnny was sent to an aquarium in Portugal, Oceanario de Lisboa, and afterward for rehabilitation at Zoomarine, another site in Portugal.

The turtle traveled so much that the Portuguese experts named it "Johnny Vasco da Gama," after the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who opened a sea route from Europe to India centuries ago.

About three years later, Johnny was flown to Miami and then trucked to Sarasota by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. There, Johnny was outfitted with a satellite tracking system that will allow scientists to monitor its travels to come.

Kemp's ridley sea turtles are among the smallest sea turtles, only reaching 100 pounds. They nest on the beaches in Mexico and spend most of their lives along the Gulf coasts of Mexico and the United States, although they can also be found on the Atlantic coast of the U.S.

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, it is the most endangered sea turtle.

On Tuesday, Mote staffers pulled up to the beach in a truck and lifted the turtle, with its greyish blue head, out of the pickup bed. The turtle was gently, and briefly, placed on a platform so onlookers and the media could take photos. Then, two workers carried the turtle across the sand and to the water's edge.

They rested the turtle on the sand and it waved its flippers. Mote experts carried it into the surf and it swam away quickly to the applause of onlookers.

"Every time you return an animal to where it belongs, that's a good thing," said Tucker, who was helped carry the turtle to the water.

The sea turtle conservation program at Mote has treated more than 294 sick and injured turtles since 1995.

He said that turtles use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate, so Johnny will probably know exactly what to do and where to go once he orients himself.

Tucker said that Johnny could face some obstacles, including a patch of red tide algae along Florida's southwest coast about two hours from where it was released. Marine biologists also are concerned that Johnny could swim off the coast of Louisiana near the site of a massive offshore oil spill in 2010.

Regardless of where Johnny swims, experts will track the location because of the antenna attached to its shell that will send a signal to a satellite each time the turtle surfaces for air. Tucker said the public can also track Johnny on a map or get daily emails of his whereabouts. Tucker said tracking Johnny will provide experts a rare look at how rehabilitated turtles reorient to the wild.

"Turtles are swimming at about half a mile an hour, so I don't expect it to get very far today," said Tucker. "The whole process of reorienting to the Gulf of Mexico will be part of the feeling it out as it goes, so I don't expect that we're going to see it hightail it for Mexico immediately. I imagine that we'll probably find that it meanders around a little bit."

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Google, Microsoft Each Seek Search 'Game Changer' - CIO

Computerworld ? While Google and Microsoft waged "trench warfare" in the search business this year, both are hoping to come up with a market game changer for 2012.

Analysts are split over which firm got the better of 2011, but most agree that the search business is critical to the future of both Microsoft and Google .

The growing competition between the tech giants in 2012 is good news for users, analysts said, noting that it will likely result in more innovation and the development of strong new search features .

"Neither of them were able to make game-changing moves in 2011, so the battle settled down into trench warfare," said Dan Olds, an analyst at Gabriel Consulting Group. "Competition between the two isn't going to get any easier. Both are going to try to get to high ground in this battlefield. That should be interesting."

Analysts generally agree that Microsoft's big win this year came via its partnerships market leading social partners -- namely Facebook and Twitter.

Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, said the agreements gave Bing a slight advantage over Google's 2011.

"I believe Microsoft won the overall rivalry this year in terms of overall growth and strategic moves," Moorhead. He cited Bing's "improved integration of social media, the Bing iOS app, and Bing for Xbox and Kinect. But on the flip side, Microsoft has made little traction on the international side related to search metrics."

Rob Enderle, an analyst at the Enderle Group, agreed that Microsoft's marketing investment in Bing is paying off so far. "They increasingly appeared as the nicer, more interesting, alternative to Google search," he said.

The work has resulted in some momentum for Bing.

For instance, the Microsoft search engine picked up some market share after a partnership deal with Yahoo that was signed in July, 2009. And the company got some more hope in July, 2011, when Google's search market share dipped below 65% for the first time in two years. Over that same two-year period, Bing's share of the search market had almost doubled.

But Google's share did rise past 65% again this fall and the battle of two strong contendors continued.

"Google seems to be capitalizing on their brand and isn't having a problem holding onto its market share," said Olds. "At the start of 2011, Google had 66% of U.S. searches while Bing had about 30%. In October, we see pretty much the same thing -- Google with two-thirds of the searches and Bing with 30%."

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Stolen iPad helps locate Christmas Day burglary suspect

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Video: A mentor and a mother rolled into one

We'll focus on?efforts to help veterans find?jobs and deal with health and family problems. "One of the great blessings in my life has been the exposure I've received to the military?active duty, in the field and veterans,"?says Brian Williams. "They are America?s genuine heroes, and it's a privilege to use our platforms at NBC News to honor all that they have done."

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

LateRooms.com - Catch Ford Madox Brown Exhibition in Manchester

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Taking place at the Manchester Art Gallery, the show represents the first major exhibition of the English painter's work since 1964 and features approximately 140 pieces.
 
It is due to run until Sunday January 29th, with admission to the Mosley Street gallery priced at GBP8. Concessions are available for GBP6 and under-18s can go in for free.
 
Divided into 11 key themes, the exhibition explores different stages of Brown's life in an attempt to support a better understanding of his work and influence on the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
 
Visitors can also learn about the years the artist spent in the north-west city working on the Manchester Murals - a series of 12 historical paintings he completed at the Town Hall.
 
Curated by Victorian art expert Julian Treuherz, the exhibition is due to move to a gallery in Ghent, Belgium after it closes in Manchester.
 
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The Need For Speed: A Timeline of Notable Land Speed Records

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Kim Jong-un takes charge of the military and Workers' Party

PYONGYANG // Kim Jong-il's son was identified yesterday as the head of a top decision-making body of the ruling Workers' Party, a post that now gives him authority over political as well as military matters in North Korea.

A week after state media reported Kim's December 17 death, the campaign to install successor Kim Jong-un was gaining momentum.

On Saturday, state media referred to him as "supreme leader" of North Korea's 1.2 million-strong armed forces and said the military's top leaders had pledged their loyalty to him.

Yesterday, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper described him as head of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party - a post that appears to make him the top official in the Workers' Party.

Kim Jong-il ruled North Korea as head of three main state organs: the Workers' Party, the Korean People's Army and the National Defence Commission.

His father, the North Korea founder Kim Il-sung, meanwhile, remains the nation's "eternal president" long after his 1994 death.

Kim Jong-un, who is in his late 20s and was revealed last year as his father's choice among three sons for successor, is the third generation Kim to rule the country.

He was named a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party, but was expected to ascend to new military and political posts while being groomed to become the next leader.

People continued lining up yesterday in central Kim Il-sung Square, where a massive portrait that usually features Kim Il-sung has been replaced by one of Kim Jong-il, to bow before his smiling image and to lay funereal flowers.

Heated buses stood by to give mourners a respite from the cold, and hot tea and water were distributed from kiosks.

South Koreans were among the mourners. The widow of former President Kim Dae-jung, who held a landmark summit with Kim Jong-il in 2000, and the Hyundai Group chairwoman, Hyun Jeong-eun, whose late husband had ties to the North, each led delegations that drove across the heavily fortified border to Pyongyang.

Source: http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/asia-pacific/kim-jong-un-takes-charge-of-the-military-and-workers-party

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Arab monitors head to Syria, opposition skeptical

A Syrian Kurdish boy carries a banner during a protest outside the Arab League office in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. The protesters said the Arab League was not serious in attempts to stop the Syrian regime crackdown. A man behind the boy was carrying a poster of President Bashar Assad of Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

A Syrian Kurdish boy carries a banner during a protest outside the Arab League office in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. The protesters said the Arab League was not serious in attempts to stop the Syrian regime crackdown. A man behind the boy was carrying a poster of President Bashar Assad of Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

(AP) ? The Arab League sent monitors to Syria Monday even though President Bashar Assad's regime has only intensified its crackdown on dissent in the week since agreeing to the Arab plan to stop the bloodshed.

Activists say government forces have killed several hundred civilians in the past week. At least 23 more deaths were reported Monday from intense shelling in the center of the country, just hours before the first 60 monitors were to arrive. The opposition says thousands of government troops have been besieging the Baba Amr district of in the central city of Homs for days and the government is preparing a massive assault on the area.

France expressed strong concerns about the continued deterioration of the situation in Homs. Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero demanded Syrian authorities allow the Arab League observers immediate access to the city.

"The repression and unprecedented violence committed by the Damascus regime must cease and everything must be done to stop the drama going on behind closed doors in the city of Homs," the French statement said.

In Cairo, an Arab League official said this monitoring mission was the Syrian regime's "last chance" to reverse course.

"Will they facilitate the mission's work or try and curb its movements? Let's wait and see," the official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.

The Arab League plan agreed to by Assad last Monday requires the government to remove its security forces and heavy weapons from city streets, start talks with opposition leaders and allow human rights workers and journalists into the country. The monitors are supposed to ensure compliance, but so far there is no sign that Assad is implementing any of the terms, much less letting up on his brutal crackdown.

Although Syria shows no sign of altering its course, the Arab League was sticking to its plan. The team, including Iraqis, Tunisians and Algerians, left Cairo Monday evening and arrived in Damascus, said Arab League official Ali al-Garoush.

Opposition members say the regime's agreement to the Arab plan is a farce.

"I very much doubt the Syrian regime will allow the observers to do their work," said prominent opposition figure Waleed al-Bunni from Cairo. "I expect them to try and hinder their movements by claiming that some areas are not safe, intimidating them or sending them to places other than the ones they should go to."

Some anti-government protesters have even criticized the League's stance to the point of accusing it of complicity in the killings.

Activists said Syrian forces shelled the Baba Amr district of Homs with mortars and sprayed heavy machine gun fire in the most intense assault since the siege began Friday.

Baba Amr has been a center for anti-government protests and army defections and has seen repeated crackdowns by the Syrian regime in recent months. The Syrian conflict is becoming increasingly militarized with growing clashes between army defectors and troops.

Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, described the attacks in Homs as a kind of "hysteria" as government forces desperately try to get the situation there under control ahead of the monitors' arrival.

"The observers are sitting in their hotel in Damascus while people are dying in Homs," he said.

The Observatory called on the monitors "to head immediately to Baba Amr to be witnesses to the crimes against humanity that are being perpetrated by the Syrian regime."

In Cairo, Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby told reporters after meeting with the monitors that the mission will begin work on Tuesday. Up to 500 monitors are to be eventually deployed and Syria has only agreed for them to stay one month.

Anwar Malek, a member of the monitoring mission, insisted they will have absolute freedom of movement in Syria, adding that the team will travel to flashpoint cities including Homs, Daraa, Idlib and Hama. He and other observers refused to disclose the exact travel itinerary, saying they preferred to maintain some secrecy to ensure the mission's success.

The Arab League has suspended Syria's membership and imposed sanctions on Damascus but is deeply divided on how to respond to the crisis. Gulf countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia have taken a tougher line and are more inclined toward Security Council action on Syria. But other countries, wary of Syria's influence in the region, prefer an Arab solution to the crisis.

Activists say the regime has only stepped up its crackdown on anti-government protesters in the week since it agreed to the Arab plan. At least 275 civilians have been killed by government forces since then, and another 150 people died in clashes between army defectors and regime troops ? most of them defectors.

The stepped up crackdown, including what activists said was a "massacre" in one town where 110 people were mowed down in several hours last week, brought a new round of international condemnation of Syria. Neighboring Turkey said the violence flew in the face of the Arab League deal that Syria signed and raises doubts about the regime's true intentions.

Syria's top opposition leader Burhan Ghalioun, doubtful that the Arab League alone can budge Assad, called Sunday for the League to bring the U.N. Security Council into the effort. The U.N. says more than 5,000 people have been killed since March in the political violence.

Assad stalled for weeks on agreeing to the plan and signed only after the Arab League threatened to turn to the U.N. Security Council to help stop the violence. The opposition believes the authoritarian leader is only trying to buy time and forestall more international sanctions and condemnation.

The U.N.'s most powerful body remains deeply divided over Syria, which has led to its failure to adopt a resolution on and heightened tensions especially among major powers. Western nations and the U.S. are demanding a resolution threatening sanctions if the violence doesn't stop and condemning Assad's crackdown. But Russia and China, which have closer ties to Assad's regime, believe extremist opponents of the government are equally responsible for the bloodshed and oppose any mention of sanctions.

After months of largely peaceful protests that were met with brute force and bullets, some opposition figures have started calling for international military intervention, but that is all but out of the question in Syria, in part because of fears that the move could spread chaos across the Middle East. Syria is a close ally of Iran, borders Israel, and holds sway over the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which now dominates Lebanon's government.

Amateur videos of the violence in Homs were posted by activists on the Internet Monday. The showed gruesome footage of at least four corpses lying in pools of blood in front of a house in Baba Amr, where they reportedly died from mortar shells that struck the neighborhood.

Men could be heard crying for help and women wailing in the video, which also showed several destroyed homes and cars. Other footage showed at least six bodies wrapped in white plastic bags in a home, relatives crying besides them.

A resident of a neighborhood next to Baba Amr said he heard "loud explosions" throughout the night and Monday morning.

"It doesn't stop," he told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, for fear of reprisals.

The Local Coordination Committees activist network reported at least 23 deaths in intense shelling "targeting homes and anyone who moves" in Baba Amr.

Syrian officials did not comment on the violence in Baba Amr but said armed terrorist groups attacked civilians and security forces in villages in southern Syria. State-run news agency SANA said troops retaliated and killed a number of the gunmen.

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Additional reporting by Sarah El Deeb in Cairo.

Associated Press

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Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed (AP)

DANBURY, Conn. ? For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.

They wore protective white jumpsuits, and had to walk through air-shower chambers before entering the sanitized "cleanroom" where the equipment was stored.

They spoke in code.

Few knew the true identity of "the customer" they met in a smoke-filled, wood-paneled conference room where the phone lines were scrambled. When they traveled, they sometimes used false names.

At one point in the 1970s there were more than 1,000 people in the Danbury area working on The Secret. And though they worked long hours under intense deadlines, sometimes missing family holidays and anniversaries, they could tell no one ? not even their wives and children ? what they did.

They were engineers, scientists, draftsmen and inventors ? "real cloak-and-dagger guys," says Fred Marra, 78, with a hearty laugh.

He is sitting in the food court at the Danbury Fair mall, where a group of retired co-workers from the former Perkin-Elmer Corp. gather for a weekly coffee. Gray-haired now and hard of hearing, they have been meeting here for 18 years. They while away a few hours nattering about golf and politics, ailments and grandchildren. But until recently, they were forbidden to speak about the greatest achievement of their professional lives.

"Ah, Hexagon," Ed Newton says, gleefully exhaling the word that stills feels almost treasonous to utter in public.

It was dubbed "Big Bird" and it was considered the most successful space spy satellite program of the Cold War era. From 1971 to 1986 a total of 20 satellites were launched, each containing 60 miles of film and sophisticated cameras that orbited the earth snapping vast, panoramic photographs of the Soviet Union, China and other potential foes. The film was shot back through the earth's atmosphere in buckets that parachuted over the Pacific Ocean, where C-130 Air Force planes snagged them with grappling hooks.

The scale, ambition and sheer ingenuity of Hexagon KH-9 was breathtaking. The fact that 19 out of 20 launches were successful (the final mission blew up because the booster rockets failed) is astonishing.

So too is the human tale of the 45-year-old secret that many took to their graves.

Hexagon was declassified in September. Finally Marra, Newton and others can tell the world what they worked on all those years at "the office."

"My name is Al Gayhart and I built spy satellites for a living," announced the 64-year-old retired engineer to the stunned bartender in his local tavern as soon as he learned of the declassification. He proudly repeats the line any chance he gets.

"It was intensely demanding, thrilling and the greatest experience of my life," says Gayhart, who was hired straight from college and was one of the youngest members of the Hexagon "brotherhood".

He describes the white-hot excitement as teams pored over hand-drawings and worked on endless technical problems, using "slide-rules and advanced degrees" (there were no computers), knowing they were part of such a complicated space project. The intensity would increase as launch deadlines loomed and on the days when "the customer" ? the CIA and later the Air Force ? came for briefings. On at least one occasion, former President George H.W. Bush, who was then CIA director, flew into Danbury for a tour of the plant.

Though other companies were part of the project ? Eastman Kodak made the film and Lockheed Corp. built the satellite ? the cameras and optics systems were all made at Perkin-Elmer, then the biggest employer in Danbury.

"There were many days we arrived in the dark and left in the dark," says retired engineer Paul Brickmeier, 70.

He recalls the very first briefing on Hexagon after Perkin-Elmer was awarded the top secret contract in 1966. Looking around the room at his 30 or so colleagues, Brickmeier thought, "How on Earth is this going to be possible?"

One thing that made it possible was a hiring frenzy that attracted the attention of top engineers from around the Northeast. Perkin-Elmer also commissioned a new 270,000-square-foot building for Hexagon ? the boxy one on the hill.

Waiting for clearance was a surreal experience as family members, neighbors and former employers were grilled by the FBI, and potential hires were questioned about everything from their gambling habits to their sexuality.

"They wanted to make sure we couldn't be bribed," Marra says.

Clearance could take up to a year. During that time, employees worked on relatively minor tasks in a building dubbed "the mushroom tank" ? so named because everyone was in the dark about what they had actually been hired for.

Joseph Prusak, 76, spent six months in the tank. When he was finally briefed on Hexagon, Prusak, who had worked as an engineer on earlier civil space projects, wondered if he had made the biggest mistake of his life.

"I thought they were crazy," he says. "They envisaged a satellite that was 60-foot long and 30,000 pounds and supplying film at speeds of 200 inches per second. The precision and complexity blew my mind."

Several years later, after numerous successful launches, he was shown what Hexagon was capable of ? an image of his own house in suburban Fairfield.

"This was light years before Google Earth," Prusak said. "And we could clearly see the pool in my backyard."

There had been earlier space spy satellites ? Corona and Gambit. But neither had the resolution or sophistication of Hexagon, which took close-range pictures of Soviet missiles, submarine pens and air bases, even entire battalions on war exercises.

According to the National Reconnaissance Office, a single Hexagon frame covered a ground distance of 370 nautical miles, about the distance from Washington to Cincinnati. Early Hexagons averaged 124 days in space, but as the satellites became more sophisticated, later missions lasted twice as long.

"At the height of the Cold War, our ability to receive this kind of technical intelligence was incredible," says space historian Dwayne Day. "We needed to know what they were doing and where they were doing it, and in particular if they were preparing to invade Western Europe. Hexagon created a tremendous amount of stability because it meant American decision makers were not operating in the dark."

Among other successes, Hexagon is credited with providing crucial information for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

From the outset, secrecy was a huge concern, especially in Danbury, where the intense activity of a relatively small company that had just been awarded a massive contract (the amount was not declassified) made it obvious that something big was going on. Inside the plant, it was impossible to disguise the gigantic vacuum thermal chamber where cameras were tested in extreme conditions that simulated space. There was also a "shake, rattle and roll room" to simulate conditions during launch.

"The question became, how do you hide an elephant?" a National Reconnaissance Office report stated at the time. It decided on a simple response: "What elephant?" Employees were told to ignore any questions from the media, and never confirm the slightest detail about what they worked on.

But it was impossible to conceal the launches at Vandenberg Air Force base in California, and aviation magazines made several references to "Big Bird." In 1975, a "60 Minutes" television piece on space reconnaissance described an "Alice in Wonderland" world, where American and Soviet intelligence officials knew of each other's "eyes in the sky" ? and other nations did, too ? but no one confirmed the programs or spoke about them publicly.

For employees at Perkin-Elmer, the vow of secrecy was considered a mark of honor.

"We were like the guys who worked on the first atom bomb," said Oscar Berendsohn, 87, who helped design the optics system. "It was more than a sworn oath. We had been entrusted with the security of the country. What greater trust is there?"

Even wives ? who couldn't contact their husbands or know of their whereabouts when they were traveling ? for the most part accepted the secrecy. They knew the jobs were highly classified. They knew not to ask questions.

"We were born into the World War II generation," says Linda Bronico, whose husband, Al, told her only that he was building test consoles and cables. "We all knew the slogan `loose lips sink ships.'"

And Perkin-Elmer was considered a prized place to work, with good salaries and benefits, golf and softball leagues, lavish summer picnics (the company would hire an entire amusement park for employees and their families) and dazzling children's Christmas parties.

"We loved it," Marra says. "It was our life."

For Marra and his former co-workers, sharing that life and their long-held secret has unleashed a jumble of emotions, from pride to nostalgia to relief ? and in some cases, grief.

The city's mayor, Mark Boughton, only discovered that his father had worked on Hexagon when he was invited to speak at an October reunion ceremony on the grounds of the former plant. His father, Donald Boughton, also a former mayor, was too ill to attend and died a few days later.

Boughton said for years he and his siblings would pester his father ? a draftsman ? about what he did. Eventually they realized that the topic was off limits.

"Learning about Hexagon makes me view him completely differently," Boughton says. "He was more than just my Dad with the hair-trigger temper and passionate opinions about everything. He was a Cold War warrior doing something incredibly important for our nation."

For Betty Osterweis the ceremony was bittersweet, too. Not only did she learn about the mystery of her late husband's professional life. She also learned about his final moments.

"All these years," she said, "I had wondered what exactly had happened" on that terrible day in 1987 when she received a phone call saying her 53-year-old husband, Henry Osterweis, a contract negotiator, had suffered a heart attack on the job. At the reunion she met former co-workers who could offer some comfort that the end had been quick.

Standing in the grounds of her late husband's workplace, listening to the tributes, her son and daughter and grandchildren by her side, Osterweis was overwhelmed by the enormity of it all ? the sacrifice, the secrecy, the pride.

"To know that this was more than just a company selling widgets ... that he was negotiating contracts for our country's freedom and security," she said.

"What a secret. And what a legacy."

___

Helen O'Neill is a New York-based national writer for The Associated Press. She can be reached at features(at)ap.org.

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Aretha's Christmas: 'Silent Night' with Four Tops (omg!)

DETROIT (AP) ? Detroit's Queen of Soul knows how to throw a Christmas party, and she welcomed in the holiday with glitter, a jazzy musical backdrop and a finale of "Silent Night" with the Four Tops.

Aretha Franklin held her annual Christmas party on Friday at the Detroit Athletic Club, greeting guests in a teal blue gown accented with a silver sequined bodice.

The Detroit News reports (http://bit.ly/tPkXO9 ) that Franklin exchanged gifts with family and friends as Ursula Walker, Buddy Budson, Marian Hayden and Gayelynn McKinney played jazz in the background.

During a meal of filet mignon and salmon, guests were entertained by performances by Gwen & Charles Scales and Franklin's son Eddie Franklin, who sang "Some Enchanted Evening."

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

AP: House GOP Reaches Possible Payroll Tax Break Deal

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Congressional aides tell the Associated Press that House GOP members are ready to vote in favor of a short-term agreement that would extend the payroll tax cut extension for millions of Americans.

President Barack Obama said not extending the measure will cost Americans heating oil for their homes, gas money to visit family, and pizza nights with their children.

Speaking from the White House, Obama used the examples to push Congress to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance set to expire on December 31.

The president was flanked by people who responded to a question from the White House via social networking sites asking what they do with the $40 per week that the tax break offers.

However, Republican House Speaker John Boehner was calling for a one-year extension of the tax cut as opposed to the White House backed and Senate passed two-month version.

"Democrats and even some Republicans in the House voted for that compromise. I am ready to sign that compromise into law the second it lands on my desk," said Obama.

"A one-year bill, like the President requested and like the House produced, is simply better for jobs and better for our economy," said Boehner. "A one-year bill provides on average about a thousand dollars for American workers, as opposed to the Senate bill which would provide a measly $166."

If a deal is not reached, average American workers will pay about $1,000 a year more in taxes.

However, here in New York, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says residents could pay some $7 billion in extra taxes collectively if Congress doesn't reach an agreement to extend the cuts.

DiNapoli's office released figures Friday showing tax increases by annual wage.

According to DiNapoli, New Yorkers making $20,000 a year would have to pay $400 extra.

New Yorkers making more than about $110,000 would pay more than $2,000 on top of their current tax rate.

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