Norway Offshore Oil Focus Best for Kvaerner, Aker Says

23 Feb 2013

Kvaerner ASA (KVAER), a builder of oil platforms, should focus on regaining lost market share in Norway rather than bidding for higher-risk international projects, according to Aker ASA (AKER) Chief Executive Officer Oeyvind Eriksen.

?The question is how does Kvaerner respond to the pretty brutal eye-opener that they lost all seven? engineering, procurement and construction contracts that have been awarded for projects off the coast of Norway in recent months, he told investors in Oslo today. The company should focus on Norway and re-establishing itself in ?pole position in the whole market rather than take higher risks? internationally, he said. Aker owns 41 percent of Kvaerner, making it the biggest shareholder.

Kvaerner lost out to Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. on the $1.1 billion topside contract for the Aasta Hansteen natural gas project, while Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. won the 6.1 billion kroner ($1.1 billion) Dagny topside deal. Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA awarded the topside deal for the Ivar Aasen project, worth about 4 billion kroner, to a unit of SembCorp Marine Ltd. in Singapore, it said on Feb. 7.

?The turn of the year has been a challenging one for Kvaerner,? Eriksen said. The company now needs to consider how it can restructure its business model to cut costs and enhance competitiveness, he said. ?That also entails working towards regaining its position with key clients, first and foremost with Statoil ASA (STL),? Norway?s largest oil and gas producer, he said.

Competition Intensifies

Kvaerner, based at Fornebu near Oslo, was spun off from Aker Solutions ASA (AKSO) in July 2011.

The company had an order backlog of 21.3 billion kroner as of Dec. 31, 50 percent of which is due for execution in 2013, 30 percent in 2014 and the remainder in 2015 and later, it said on Feb. 13. That compares with 10 billion kroner a year earlier.

Kvaerner is bidding for work at Woodside Petroleum Ltd.?s (WPL) Browse LNG project in the Kimberley wilderness region of Western Australia, with a final investment decision expected in the first half of this year, Kvaerner said.

?Other than Browse my personal view is that Kvaerner should really focus on the Norwegian continental shelf,? Eriksen said.

Kvaerner will adapt its ?delivery models to an increasingly competitive market,? Chief Executive Officer Jan Arve Haugan said at the company?s fourth-quarter results presentation on Feb. 13, without providing further detail.

Kvaerner posted net income of 56 million kroner, down from 81 million kroner a year earlier and beating the 35.6 million kroner average of seven analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

Shares in Kvaerner rose as much as 3.8 percent and traded 3.4 percent higher as of 3:30 p.m. in Oslo, curbing its decline during the last 12 months to 15 percent and giving the company a market value of 3.6 billion kroner.

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Canada ambassador says he feels slighted by 'Argo'

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Posted on February 22, 2013 at 7:36 PM

TORONTO (AP) -- Canada?s former ambassador in Iran, who protected Americans at great personal risk during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979, says if ?Argo? wins the Oscar for best picture on Sunday there would be something wrong with director Ben Affleck if he didn?t mention Canada.

Ken Taylor said Friday he continues to feel slighted by a movie that he says makes Canada look like a meek observer to CIA heroics in the rescue of six U.S. citizens caught in the crisis. He says there would be no movie if the Canadian embassy didn?t take in the Americans.

Taylor says if Affleck doesn?t say something in his acceptance speech ?then it?s a further reflection? on him.

Affleck?s CIA thriller ?Argo? is widely expected to take home the best-picture trophy on Sunday.

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NKorea to allow mobile Internet for foreigners

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ? North Korea will soon allow foreigners to tweet, Skype and surf the Internet from their cellphones, iPads and other mobile devices in its second relaxation of controls on communications in recent weeks. However, North Korean citizens will not have access to the mobile Internet service to be offered by provider Koryolink within the next week.

Koryolink, a joint venture between Korea Post & Telecommunications Corporation and Egypt's Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding SAE, informed foreign residents in Pyongyang on Friday that it will launch a third generation, or 3G, mobile Internet service no later than March 1.

The announcement comes just weeks after North Korea began allowing foreigners to bring their own cellphones into the country to use with Koryolink SIM cards, reversing a longstanding rule requiring most visitors to relinquish their phones at customs and leaving many without easy means of communication with the outside world.

The two changes in policy mean foreigners in North Korea will have unprecedented connectivity while living, working or traveling in a country long regarded as one of the most isolated nations in the world.

However, wireless Internet will not yet be offered to North Koreans, who are governed by a separate set of telecommunication rules from foreigners. North Koreans will be allowed to access certain 3G services, including SMS and MMS messaging, video calls and subscriptions to the state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper ? but not the global Internet.

The lack of Internet access in North Korea has put the country at the bottom of Internet freedom surveys. Though North Korea is equipped for broadband Internet, only a small, approved segment of the population has access to the World Wide Web.

During a visit to Pyongyang early last month, Google's executive chairman pressed the North Koreans to expand access to the Internet. Eric Schmidt noted that it would be "very easy" for North Korea to offer Internet on Koryolink's fast-expanding 3G cellphone network.

"As the world becomes increasingly connected, the North Korean decision to be virtually isolated is very much going to affect their physical world and their economic growth," he wrote in a Jan. 20 blog post after returning to the United States. "It will make it harder for them to catch up economically. It is their choice now, and in my view, it's time for them to start, or they will remain behind."

Soon after Schmidt's visit, Google unveiled maps of North Korea with more details based on contributions from foreigners using satellite images and publicly available information to map the country. Before, North Korea was left mostly blank in Google Maps but with the update, Pyongyang and major North Korean cities are shown with street names, parks, roads, train stops and monuments.

Cellphone use has multiplied in North Korea since Orascom built a 3G network more than four years ago. More than a million people are now using mobile phones in North Korea, where the network now covers most major cities, according to Orascom.

Chinese-made Huawei cellphones sold by Koryolink are not cheap, with the most basic model costing about $150, and the governments restricts North Koreans from phoning abroad or foreigners from their cellphones. Still, mobile phones have become a must-have accessory among not only the elite in Pyongyang but also the middle class in cities such as Kaesong and Wonsan.

Foreigners, meanwhile, can now purchase SIM cards at the airport or at Koryolink shops for 50 euros ($70). Calls abroad range from 0.38 euros a minute to Switzerland and France and more than 5 euros a minute to the U.S. Calls to South Korea remain prohibited.

Starting next week, foreigners will be allowed to purchase monthly mobile Internet data plans for use with a USB modem or on mobile devices using their SIM cards. Prices for the service haven't been announced yet.

The expansion of cellphone and Internet services ? at least for foreigners ? comes as North Korea promotes the development of science and technology as a means of improving its moribund economy.

Late leader Kim Jong Il was revealed to have been a Mac user. His Macbook Pro, or a replica, is enshrined at the Kumsusan mausoleum where his body lies in state.

Current leader Kim Jong Un, meanwhile, was shown in a recent photo with a more mobile computing accessory: a smartphone.

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Man sues parents for not loving him enough

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Bernard Bey, 32, of Brooklyn

By Checkey Beckford, NBCNewYork.com

A 32-year-old Brooklyn man is suing his parents, claiming he wasn't loved enough by them and that their neglect has caused him to be homeless and jobless.

Bernard Bey filed a self-written lawsuit in Brooklyn court earlier this month, accusing his parents of causing him mental anguish and for making him feel "unloved and beaten by the world."

"If you have kids, you're expected to love your children," Bey told NBC 4 New York. "You want the best for your children."

Bey claimed he was physically and emotionally abused and ran away from home when he was 12, and then was in and out of the shelter system after turning 16.

He's spent time in jail and is now homeless, and he believes his parents are at the root of his problems.

Bey is asking the court for more than $200,000 in damages. He wants his parents to mortgage their family home and purchase two franchises like Domino's Pizza.

"I feel like my parents should want the best for their children and grandchildren so we have something to pass down for generations so we don't have to live like this," he said.

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Bey's parents, who live in public housing, said they're not in a position to give up any money. His stepfather named in the suit, Bernard Manley, had some choice unprintable words and maintained Bey is not his biological son.

Bey said he is willing to drop the lawsuit if his family will simply sit down at the dinner table with him.

"Let's work together, and definitely, I'll drop the suit," he said.

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Slidell-based contractor Alliance Laser supplied defective parts for military vehicles, lawsuits claim

Slidell-based machining company Alliance Laser Inc. supplied defective parts to military contractor Textron Marine & Land Systems for construction of armored security vehicles, according to lawsuits filed this week by two former Alliance employees.?Robert Vargas and Floyd Alan Williams are seeking damages under whistleblower laws, arguing they were fired for providing tips to federal investigators and speaking out against fraudulent practices.

Textron Marine & Land Systems, part of the heavy manufacturing company Textron Inc., supplies armored troop carriers to the U.S. military as a defense contractor.

A spokesman for Textron said Friday that the company can't comment on the lawsuit because "it does not directly involve Textron."

"Regarding our vehicles, we have thoroughly reviewed the parts and have found that they meet our standards," said Stephen Greene, Textron's vice president for communications. "These parts do not pose a safety risk to soldiers relying on our vehicles. The U.S. government recently verified their quality and our manufacturing process, and has since closed the matter."

The lawsuits were filed in U.S. District Court in New Orleans on Tuesday and Wednesday. Alliance has not yet filed a formal response in court. A woman who answered the phone at Alliance's office on Friday said the company had no comment.

In his lawsuit, Williams said he welded several parts later installed in Textron's M1117 trooper carrier vehicles -- blast windows, battery boxes, and grenade launchers, among other components. He claims no employee at Alliance Laser, including himself, was certified to weld those parts, as required by law.

Williams claims he told his supervisor, Jeremy Noller, that the techniques being used by the uncertified welders made all of Allianice's parts defective.

Alliance's quality control inspectors placed red tags on many defective parts, but company supervisors later removed those tags, allowing defective parts to be shipped to Textron, the lawsuit claims. Company officials then presented false records and made false statements to Textron that the parts had been approved by inspectors, the lawsuit claims.

"Upon information belief, U.S. soldiers have been injured due to Alliance's provision and concealment of defective M1117 parts," the lawsuit says.

According to the lawsuit, Noller told Williams that "if Williams' house was blown up, Williams' body would not be found, and Williams could not testify against Noller or Alliance." Williams was fired on Sept. 8, 2012.

Williams offered information to the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's Office, the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Attorney General "to assist their investigation into Alliance's violations of Louisiana and federal laws," the lawsuit says.

Vargas, a former quality control inspector, claims in his lawsuit that he was fired on April 18, 2012, for reporting defective welding work and refusing to approve parts that were ultimately sold to Textron. He claims that Alliance officials removed his red tags marking defects and covered up faulty cracks with filler, sandblasting and paint. Vargas also says he gave information to federal investigators.

Both men are seeking lost wages and damages for humiliation and mental anguish from receiving death threats.

Source: http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/02/slidell-based_contractor_allia.html

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Science writer is quite the specimen himself: He's 94

SAN FRANCISCO ? David Perlman had two deadlines on his mind as he elbowed his way through the Exploratorium, cane in one hand, notebook in the other.

As the San Francisco Chronicle's veteran science writer, Perlman has been covering the granddaddy of hands-on science museums since it was just a glimmer of an idea in the fertile mind of physicist Frank Oppenheimer, the "uncle of the atom bomb."

Now, after 43 years in the elegant but drafty Palace of Fine Arts, the museum was getting ready to close before moving to new digs on the Embarcadero, and it was Perlman's job to chronicle the last day in its original home.

So the first deadline was his own ? 6 p.m. to make the next day's paper with a front-page story. The second belonged to the woman tagging along behind him.

She's "doing a story about the oldest living reporter ? me," Perlman told the amused museum staff. "She has to be done before I die."

Science and journalism have come a long way since Perlman picked up a fountain pen and began to write.

He was born in 1918, a decade before the discovery of penicillin. Pluto had yet to be discovered, let alone demoted. The ballpoint pen was invented the year he got his first real newspaper gig, a 1938 summer job covering cops in upstate New York.

Perlman can't remember the name of the now-defunct publication, but he sure can recall his first story, a jailhouse interview with a prostitute that began something like this: Pretty Kitty Kelly sobbed in her cell at Schenectady County Jail last night.

"It was atrocious, but it was the kind of thing you did," said Perlman, who learned his craft in the glory days of the New York tabloids. "That kind of journalism no longer exists."

Some might quibble with Perlman's premise (think coverage of Lindsay Lohan, Casey Anthony, Kim Kardashian), but one thing cannot be denied: It is the rare journalist who has cranked out stories as long and as skillfully as the dapper dean of science writers.

Perlman turned 94 in December, closing out a year in which he wrote 111 stories. Although only 0.2% of America's full-time workers are 80 or older, he has no plans to slow down.

He has shrunk a bit in recent years, but the cane is more for his three children's peace of mind than his own safety or mobility. He's about to turn in his outdated flip phone for a newer, smarter model. A Twitter lesson is in the offing. His driver's license is up to date.

After all, he said over a burger at a South of Market dive near Chronicle headquarters, "I'm doing exactly what I wanted to do all my life, be a reporter."

Perlman credits his mother for a journalism career that has spanned nearly eight decades and included stints at the Bismarck Capital and the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune and 63 years at the Chronicle.

Sara Perlman took her son to see "The Front Page" ? probably the Broadway version, which premiered in 1928, but possibly the 1931 movie. Perlman the nonagenarian can't remember which; Perlman the boy was smitten either way.

The motley crew of Chicago reporters portrayed in the comedy were waiting to view a public hanging. Perlman remembers them as "seedy, catatonic Paul Reveres, full of strange oaths and a touch of childhood. I thought, 'What a romantic characterization.' I wanted to be that."

Shortly thereafter, he started his first newspaper. At summer camp.

He now bears the title of "Chronicle science editor." Prizes for science and medical writing named in his honor are awarded each year. But writing about the physical world did not come naturally to the Columbia University graduate.

After six years covering everything from a shoe store opening to the obscenity trial over Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," Perlman broke his leg skiing at Squaw Valley in 1957, an injury that laid him up for months. A good friend gave him a copy of "The Nature of the Universe" by British cosmologist Fred Hoyle.

A detective story would have been more welcome, Perlman recalled thinking, but by the time he had finished the pioneering science tome and was back on his feet, he was itching to find out what astronomers did all night. So he headed up to Mt. Hamilton just east of San Jose, home to the University of California's Lick Observatory and workplace of astronomer George Herbig.

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For Colorectal Cancer Prevention, Resistant Starch Should Be On The Menu

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As the name suggests, you can't digest resistant starch so it ends up in the bowel in pretty much the same form it entered your mouth. As unlovely as that seems, once in the bowel this resistant starch does some important things, including decreasing bowel pH and transit time, and increasing the production of short-chain fatty acids. These effects promote the growth of good bugs while keeping bad bugs at bay. A University of Colorado Cancer Center review published in this month's issue of the journal Current Opinion in Gastroenterology* shows that resistant starch also helps the body resist colorectal cancer through mechanisms including killing pre-cancerous cells and reducing inflammation that can otherwise promote cancer.

"Resistant starch is found in peas, beans and other legumes, green bananas, and also in cooked and cooled starchy products like sushi rice and pasta salad. You have to consume it at room temperate or below - as soon as you heat it, the resistant starch is gone. But consumed correctly, it appears to kill pre-cancerous cells in the bowel," says Janine Higgins, PhD, CU Cancer Center investigator and associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Higgins describes studies showing that rats fed resistant starch show decreased numbers and sizes of lesions due to colorectal cancer, and an increased number of cells that express the protein IL-10, which acts to regulate the body's inflammatory response.

"Resistant starch may also have implications for the prevention of breast cancer," Higgins says. "For example, if you let rats get obese, get them to lose the weight, and then feed half of the rats a diet high in resistant starch - these rats don't gain back the weight as fast as rats fed a regular, digestible starch diet. This effect on obesity may help to reduce breast cancer risk as well as having implications for the treatment of colorectal cancer."

"There are a lot of things that feed into the same model of resistant starch as a cancer-protective agent," Higgins says. "Much of this information currently comes from rodent models and small clinical trials but the evidence is encouraging." On the table now is a menu of benefits and while it's just now being studied which benefits, exactly, will pan out as mechanisms of cancer prevention, one thing is clear: resistant starch should be on the menu.

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Russia meteor blast produced 2.7 magnitude earthquake equivalent

The meteor blast in the skies over Russia that injured hundreds and also triggered shaking that appeared on seismograph readings.

By Becky Oskin,?OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer / February 15, 2013

Shaking caused by Friday's meteor blast over Russia, recorded by earthquake monitoring instruments.

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A meteor explosion in the skies above Russia this morning also walloped the Earth, triggering shaking as strong as an earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports.

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Today's early morning blast,?centered on the Chelyabinsk region, sent massive tremors through the ground, which were recorded on seismic monitoring instruments around the world.

Initial reports pegged the explosion as similar to a magnitude 2.7 shaker, according a seismograph released by the USGS. For comparison, the 1908 Tunguska meteor blast's shock waves, which flattened 80 million trees in Siberia, produced the equivalent of an estimated 5.0 temblor.

"When you have an explosion in the air, it shakes the ground, and we see it on the seismographs," explained Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at the USGS National Earthquake Information Center in Denver, Colo., which reported the meteor-related tremors. "It's not an earthquake, and it looks very different from the usual earthquake seismogram," he told OurAmazingPlanet.

Few?meteor explosions?have actually been recorded on seismographs, though, Caruso said. "We've been looking at it all morning," he added.

The meteor reportedly injured hundreds of people and damaged hundreds of buildings when it exploded in a massive blast Friday morning (Feb. 15).

Most of the injured were reportedly hurt by falling glass caused by the blast, and many have been hospitalized. In addition, an estimated 297 buildings suffered damage, including six hospitals and 12 schools, according to translations of updates by the Russian Emergency Ministry.

Scientists think a meteoroid entered the atmosphere above Russia's southern Chelyabinsk region, where it exploded and broke up into fragments scattered across three regions of Russia and Kazakhstan, according to news reports. [Photos of Russia's Meteor Fireball Blast]

The Russian meteor probably?had nothing to do with the upcoming close Earth approach of asteroid 2013 DA14, which is due to make its closest approach to the Earth at 2:24 p.m. ET, Don Yeomans, head of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program, told SPACE.com. The Russian meteor's trail did not travel south to north as the asteroid will.

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91 percent of smartphones use Android, Apple OS

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Android and Apple's mobile operating systems were on 91 percent of the smartphones shipped globally in the last quarter of 2012, according to a report from IDC on Thursday, meaning that the fight for third place will be a mighty one between BlackBerry and Windows.

Google's Android operating system was on 70.1 percent of phones shipped, with Apple's iOS on 21 percent.

"The dominance of Android and Apple reached a new watermark in the fourth quarter," said Ramon Llamas, research manager with IDC's Mobile Phone team, in a statement.

"Android boasted a broad selection of smartphones, and an equally deep list of smartphone vendor partners. Finding an Android smartphone for nearly any budget, taste, size and price was all but guaranteed during 2012. As a result, Android was rewarded with market-beating growth."

Apple makes one iPhone, the current model being the iPhone 5, although previous models such as the 4S and 4 are still sold.

"Demand for Apple's iPhone 5 kept iOS out in front and in the hands of many smartphone users," Llamas said. "At the same time, lower prices on the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S brought iOS within reach of more users and sustained volume success of older models."

Android and Apple operating systems have been on more than 50 percent of smartphone shipments for the past two years, IDC said, But with the the new BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone 8 coming this year, "we expect some ground to be made by the new entrants over the coming years," said Ryan Reith, program manager with IDC's Mobile Device Trackers.

BlackBerry had 3.2 percent of shipments in the fourth quarter, and Windows phones, 2.6 percent.

"There is no question the road ahead is uphill for both Microsoft and BlackBerry, but history shows us consumers are open to change. Platform diversity is something not only the consumers have asked for, but also the operators."

Indeed, Windows phones increased market share in the fourth quarter 2012 over the same period in 2011, going from 1.5 to 6 percent. BlackBerry, meanwhile, had a decline from 8.1 to 3.2 percent, a precipitous drop it's hoping to turn around with its new BlackBerry 10 phones.

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(Rebooted and Recruiting)The game of chess has never been seen this way. Which side will come victorious in this century's soulchess.

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--Gardenia City--
A modern society who really doesn't know the magic behind their own city. It is very mysterious. During the day time, everything seems nearly normal and most destruction caused at night is blamed on natural disaster... at night it's nearly the same thing except destruction occurs by those taking part in this chess game. Those who witness the battles may remember until they fall asleep... thus is the magic that occurs in this city... Any fighting that happens during the day time is often remembered until the night as well.. Normal Gardenians may be curious of the castle but awkwardly avoid it or if they become brave they walk onto the territory only to find themselves walking back out without knowing what they were doing before.

--Seramel Castle--
The base in which members of Seramel sometimes retreat to. (Plenoran cannot enter the area unless through Roleplay and know No one starts here. Your character must physically go into the area)

The outside of this castle is a garden with a marble walkway towards the entrance. The inside the castle has rooms for all of its members. As you walk through this hall your character will see the dining hall, Quarters for all the characters. Lounge, and Inner castle gardens. The King and Queen's hall and rooms are upon the highest quarters as the rest are below them. There are maids and normal knights who are to serve and defend the castle but will remain for no other task.

--Plenoran Castle--
The base in which members of Plenoran sometimes retreat to. (Seramel cannot enter the area unless through Roleplay and know, No one starts here. Your character must physically go into the area)

Expect the dark feeling of this castle. Unlike the opposite side, this castle indeed does give a short road, with a dark lake nearby. Although do not take the black side of being evil but it could attract those with a darker side. It doesn't look so bad during the day. Inside the black castle Is nearly the same layout as the Seramels. Inside there rooms for all of its members. As you walk through the halls your character will see the dining hall, Quarters for all the characters. Lounge, and Inner castle gardens even if outside may be foggy. The King and Queen's hall and rooms are upon the highest quarters as the rest are below them. There are maids and normal knights who are to serve and defend the castle but will remain for no other

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Guys as i said before try to post every day or two. If you can't post for a while, be sure to at least tell us or PM me, and make sure your character is not going to stall others. (Making them wait for the remaining time you're away).

Try to type three good/decent paragraphs with detail. (Dialogue has its exceptions)

By exception for dialogue, I know it gets frustrating trying to reply to someone through dialogue and asking yourself how to work up three paragraphs for a easy question. Don't worry i understand that but at least be descriptive in your answers. Thats the least i can ask for when it comes to such answers but there are ways to length out your paragraph and thats by giving good visuals and inside thoughts.

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At the beginning of the post, then continue your post as normal. When stating area you can be general or place a sub area to be more specific in case people wont automatically assume they're close to you which shouldn't happen.

When describing someone your character may not know and you want to just describe the person as your character may see them to be. Please put the character your describing in paranthesis.

Ex. Medusa notices a small boy who held a lollipop in his mouth across the street (Kon). (Kon is someone i made up).

Another example is if your character is in thought. Just follow the same process. You should know if your character is thinking it, there should be " ".

When your in battle and say your beginning a ability. Be sure to describe how your character is doing the ability, the sounds one may hear if near, the environment effect it may have, etc.

Ex. Goku, begins screaming while crinching his fist. The pressure of wind increases around him as his aura intensifies. The earth begins to partially rise as his energy grow. Suddenly, his hair begins to brighten changing into a blonde color and his eyes go green. Suddenly his a explosions occurs and goku stands in anger looking towards Frieza (Super Saiyan).

(Wow... idk i feel like i explained that ok -- Goku's Supa Saiyan xD)

OK last thing I want to explain is changing areas. Know your character can't be in 2-3 different areas at once. Your character can only be in one area at a time. If through RP your character enters the Plenoran Castle. State it please.

So say you got done with your full text. At the end put (Has left to Plenoran)

this way people will know that your character no longer on this field.

Remember guys, if you have question do ask and i'll try to clear it up.

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NBA: San Antonio 96, Cleveland 95

Published: Feb. 13, 2013 at 10:06 PM

CLEVELAND, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Kawhi Leonard's 3-pointer with 2.9 seconds left in the game Wednesday lifted the San Antonio Spurs to a 96-95 decision over Cleveland.

Leonard's clutch trey gave him 13 points for the game to go with 10 rebounds as the Spurs pulled out a third straight win heading into the NBA All-Star Game break.

Tony Parker contributed 24 points, seven assists and six rebounds in his return from a one-game absence with a sore knee.

Tim Duncan made his first appearance in four games and responded with 13 points and six rebounds for San Antonio, which won for the 14th time in 15 contests overall.

The Cavaliers got 20 points and six rebounds from Dion Waiters but still dropped their third straight.

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Man 'Sets Himself On Fire' At Rome Airport

Passengers have spoken of their shock after a man set himself alight at Rome's main airport.

The 19-year-old man, from the Ivory Coast, doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire in front of dozens of travellers and workers at Fiumicino airport, 10 miles west of the Italian capital.

Police said he arrived at the departures area of the airport's terminal three with a deportation order, and had been due to leave Italy.

But as he spoke to police he suddenly pulled out a plastic bottle of petrol, tipped it over himself and ran off through the terminal.

Officers gave chase, but he then used a lighter to ignite the fuel in front of stunned passengers.

Pasquale Pierri, 43, who was due to catch a flight to London, told Sky News: "I was heading to check in when all of a sudden I heard screaming and shouting.

"The next thing I saw was the police surrounding someone and there was a horrible smell of smoke in the air.

"People were screaming because no one knew what had happened and I think the first suggestion was that it might have been a terror attack."

Fellow traveller Silvana Urso said: "There was a lot of shouting and police running after someone, that was all I saw.

"There was a smell of smoke and then police were telling us to evacuate the terminal because there had been an incident.

"It was only when I was outside that I heard a man had set himself on fire."

One policeman grabbed a fire extinguisher to douse the flames and was slightly injured.

Paramedics wrapped the man in specialist blankets before taking him away in an ambulance.

A spokesman at the Sant'Eugenio hospital where he was being treated said he was in a "serious condition with extensive burns".

The officer who tackled him was said to have a slight burn to his right arm but was otherwise uninjured.

Officials said the airport remained open and only a small section of the terminal was closed before it reopened after an hour. There were no significant delays for passengers.

A Rome police spokesman said: "We are investigating the circumstances of the incident which involved a 19-year-old man from the Ivory Coast.

"He was due to leave the country after being served an expulsion order but set himself alight. One of our officers was slightly hurt as he tackled him.

"Scientific teams are at the airport examining the scene and officers will also speak to the man when possible."

A spokesman for the Italian Refugee Council confirmed that the man had arrived in Italy from Holland earlier this week and had tried to claim asylum but had been denied and was ordered out of the country.

He had been due to board a flight to Amsterdam when he set fire to himself. The spokesman added: "One can only imagine the desperation and frustration he must have faced to carry out such an act."

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Source: http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/man_sets_himself_on_fire_at_rome_airport

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Horsemeat scandal set to spur tougher food tests

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European countries are expected to step up testing of food products in response to a scandal involving horsemeat falsely sold as beef, as authorities scramble to identify the source of the suspected fraud.

All companies that have handled falsely-labeled horsemeat are under suspicion, the European Union's health chief said on Wednesday, adding that the European Commission was considering strengthening EU rules on product labeling.

Ministers from the worst-affected nations will meet in Brussels later on Wednesday to discuss their response to the scandal, which erupted after tests showed products labeled as beef contained up to 100 percent horsemeat.

Authorities have said there is no risk to public health from the tainted foods. But the incident has caused revulsion in Britain, where many view the idea of eating horsemeat with distaste, and raised concerns over the safety of Europe's intricate food supply chains.

"It is evident that somewhere down the line, someone ... has fraudulently or perhaps negligently labeled a product in a deceptive way," EU health commissioner Tonio Borg told reporters.

"All those countries through which this meat product has passed of course are under suspicion. By the countries, I mean the companies in those countries which dealt with this meat product," he said, adding it would be unfair at this stage to point the finger at any organization in particular.

Wednesday's meeting would focus on strengthening existing EU rules, particularly on product testing and enforcement by national authorities, Borg said.

Britain's finance minister George Osborne said tougher product testing was needed to restore public confidence.

"What we want to make sure is that we have got the right checks in place so that all families know exactly what they are eating," he told Sky TV.

The Commission said it was also studying the option of introducing country-of-origin labels on processed meat products, although officials have said privately that the complexity of supply chains would make this next to impossible to implement.

NOT JUST HORSE?

On January 15 routine tests by Ireland's Food Safety Authority found horsemeat in frozen beef burgers produced by firms in Ireland and Britain and sold in supermarket chains including Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer.

Concerns grew last week when the British unit of frozen foods group Findus began recalling packets of beef lasagna on advice from its French supplier Comigel, after tests showed up to 100 percent of the meat in them was horse.

The affair has since implicated operators and middlemen in a host of EU countries, from abattoirs in Romania and factories in Luxembourg to traders in Cyprus and food companies in France.

Germany said it was investigating a consignment of beef lasagna sent from Luxembourg to an unnamed retailer in North Rhine-Westphalia on suspicion it might contain horsemeat.

The first evidence that the labeling scandal could go beyond horsemeat also emerged, as up market British grocer Waitrose said its testing found that some of its frozen British beef meatballs might contain pork.

The firm, part of the John Lewis Partnership, has withdrawn the product from sale.

(Additional reporting by Barbara Lewis, Adrian Croft and Justyna Pawlak in Brussels, Maria Golovnina in London and Alexandra Hudson in Berlin; editing by Andrew Roche)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/meat-products-fraudulently-labelled-eu-health-chief-110654176.html

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Bank of England sees inflation staying higher for longer

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's central bank said on Wednesday that inflation would stay higher for longer and its governor cautioned that further bond-buying to boost the weak recovery might have limited impact.

The economy was set for a "slow but sustained recovery" over the next three years, and economic output was unlikely to surpass its pre-financial crisis peak until 2015, the Bank of England said in its quarterly inflation report.

"The UK economy is ... set for a recovery. That is not to say that the road ahead will be smooth," the bank's governor, Mervyn King, told reporters. "This hasn't been a normal recession, and it won't be a normal recovery."

The bank forecast that inflation in two years' time was likely to be around 2.3 percent, up sharply from the 1.8 percent forecast in November.

It also extended the time frame for inflation returning to target to early 2016, 18 months later than what it predicted in November. The bank's forecasts also suggest inflation will peak at about 3.2 percent in the third quarter of 2013.

In a news conference following the release of the report, King - who is due to retire in June - said the bank would not risk undermining the slow recovery of the British economy by turning the screws on policy to bring inflation back into line.

"Attempting to bring inflation back to target sooner would risk derailing the recovery and undershooting the target in the medium term," he said.

The Bank of England has spent 375 billion pounds ($587 billion) on buying government bonds but more recently has held off from increasing the program.

King said, however, that more purchases, or quantitative easing (QE), were no panacea.

"We must recognize ... that there are limits to what can be achieved via general monetary stimulus - in any form - on its own," King said, adding that incentives to spend now reduced spending plans of households and businesses in the future.

GILT PRICES FALL

British government debt prices extended losses after that comment by King. Earlier, sterling fell to a 6-month low against the dollar after King reiterated the position of the bank's policy-making committee that it was ready to provide more stimulus if needed.

In its report, the bank said much of the higher inflation was due to sterling's weakness and rises in prices partly set by the government, and that "it was appropriate to look through the temporary, albeit protracted, period of above-target inflation."

That comment suggested to some that the bank would be less likely to try to rein in inflation.

"Market confidence in the pound was already thin. The governor's admission that the inflation target is to be quietly ignored while the economy remains in intensive care has stretched it even further," said Jason Conibear, trading director at Cambridge Mercantile.

Howard Archer, chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight, suggested the bank was explicitly adopting a flexible inflation target "clearly favored" by incoming Bank of England governor Mark Carney.

Carney last week suggested he would seek a swift review of the UK central bank's remit to focus on inflation with an emphasis on more flexibility in bringing price growth back to its target level.

British inflation has exceeded the central bank's 2 percent target since December 2009, and its persistent failure to return to target is one reason why the bank has not increased bond purchases past the 375 billion pounds reached in October.

The Bank of England generally sets monetary policy with the aim of ensuring that inflation has returned to its 2 percent target within two years.

Economists had expected the bank to revise up its inflation forecast, after a more than 3 percent fall in sterling over the previous three months and the MPC's statement last Thursday that inflation might exceed 2 percent for the next two years.

The growth outlook in the report was fractionally weaker than that given in November, with growth seen rising relatively steadily to average an annual rate of around 1.9 percent by the first quarter of 2015.

Economists polled by Reuters last month expected growth of 1.0 percent this year and 1.4 percent in 2014, while inflation is expected to peak at 2.8 percent in the second quarter of 2013 before falling to average 2.0 percent over 2014 as a whole.

King is not alone on the bank's policy committtee MPC in doubting whether bond purchases still have the ability to significantly boost growth, and think alternatives such as the BoE's Funding for Lending Scheme may work better.

The bank said that there was growing evidence that the FLS was helping private sector credit conditions, though it was too early to see an increase in net lending.

(This story was corrected to add dropped word to headline)

(Writing by William Schomberg and Jeremy Gaunt; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bank-england-sees-uk-inflation-above-target-until-110039928--business.html

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Birth order linked to increased risk of diabetes, metabolic disorders

Feb. 12, 2013 ? Long a source of sibling rivalry, birth order may raise the risk of first-born children developing diabetes or high blood pressure, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

First-born children have greater difficulty absorbing sugars into the body and have higher daytime blood pressure than children who have older siblings, according to the study conducted at the University of Auckland's Liggins Institute in New Zealand. The study was the first to document a 21 percent drop in insulin sensitivity among first-born children.

"Although birth order alone is not a predictor of metabolic or cardiovascular disease, being the first-born child in a family can contribute to a person's overall risk," said Wayne Cutfield, MBChB, DCH, FRACP, of the University of Auckland.

With family size shrinking in many countries, a larger proportion of the population is made up of first-born children who could develop conditions like type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, stroke and hypertension. The research findings may have significant public health implications for nations like China, where the one-child policy has led to a greater segment of the population being composed of first-born children.

The study measured fasting lipid and hormonal profiles, height, weight and body composition in 85 healthy children between the ages of 4 and 11. The 32 first-born children who participated in the study had a 21 percent reduction in insulin sensitivity and a 4 mmHg increase in blood pressure.

The good news for oldest and only children? The study found they tended to be taller and slimmer than their later-born counterparts, even after the height and body mass index of their parents was taken into account.

The metabolic differences in younger siblings might be caused by physical changes in the mother's uterus during her first pregnancy. As a result of the changes, nutrient flow to the fetus tends to increase during subsequent pregnancies.

For this study, researchers focused on children because puberty and adult lifestyle can affect insulin sensitivity.

"Our results indicate first-born children have these risk factors, but more research is needed to determine how that translates into adult cases of diabetes, hypertension and other conditions," Cutfield said.

Other researchers working on the study include: A. Ayyavoo, T. Savage, J. Derraik and P. Hofman of the University of Auckland.

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Catholic Hospital: We Didn&#39;t Know About Legal Argument ...

Remember the Catholic hospital in Colorado that filed a brief in a malpractice lawsuit arguing that they can?t be held responsible for the death of a pregnant woman?s fetus because fetuses aren?t legally people? They?ve now admitted that was ?morally wrong,? but say they didn?t know about the argument.

Miguel De La Torre, a professor at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, noted that the church often argues for laws recognizing a fetus as a human being.

?If that legislation was to come up again, how could the Catholic Church argue we should protect the rights of a fetus?? he said.

Indeed, last week Colorado?s bishops met with executives at Catholic Healthcare Initiatives, a branch of the church that operates the hospital at the center of the case, to review how the lawsuit was handled. The two released separate statements Monday saying CHI executives had been unaware of the legal arguments and pledging to ?work for comprehensive change in Colorado?s law, so that the unborn may enjoy the same legal protections as other persons.?

But here?s the thing: They won on that argument.

Jeremy Stodghill sued the hospital, some doctors and Catholic Healthcare Initiatives, which owns the company that operates Thomas More. Attorneys for CHI in 2010 filed court papers asking a judge to dismiss the case because the plaintiffs couldn?t prove negligent care killed Lori Stodghill and her fetuses. They also argued that ?under Colorado law, a fetus is not a `person,? and Plaintiff?s claims for wrongful death must therefore be dismissed.?

The trial judge agreed, finding that previous state cases required a fetus to be ?born alive? to have a legal claim. An appellate court upheld the dismissal on other grounds. Stodghill?s attorneys are now asking the state Supreme Court to hear the case.

They now say they?ll stop using the argument, but what exactly does that mean? If the state supreme court takes the case, will the hospital concede the argument and agree to whatever damages? Will they ask that the case be remanded back to the first court to be considered without the conclusion they reached? I don?t know that they can do that. Colorado law is pretty clear on this. Even if the hospital disavows the argument, the law doesn?t change. Their argument was legally correct even if it was hypocritical.

And did they really not know about it? Initially, perhaps. Lawyers make the best argument they can for their clients and this argument was both correct and effective. And clients don?t always read legal briefs. But by the time two courts had ruled on the matter and agreed with that argument, the hospital damn sure knew about it and did nothing to withdraw it or prevent it from being used on appeal.

Source: http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/02/11/catholic-hospital-we-didnt-know-about-legal-argument/

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Boy held captive in Alabama bunker to appear on talk show

(Reuters) - The mother of a boy held captive in an underground bunker in Alabama for nearly a week said her son saw his abductor get shot and killed by the law enforcement team who rescued him, according to an online clip of an interview set to air on "The Dr. Phil Show" on Wednesday.

"He says the Army came in and shot the bad man," said the boy's mother, identified by the talk show as Jennifer Kirkland.

The television interview marks the woman's first public appearance since a gunman killed her son's school bus driver on January 29 and fled with the boy to a shelter equipped with explosive devices on the man's rural property near Midland City in southeast Alabama.

Authorities rescued then-5-year-old Ethan Gilman unharmed after a six-day standoff with the kidnapper, 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes.

FBI agents stormed the homemade bunker and shot and killed Dykes on February 4 after surveillance equipment showed him wielding a gun and looking agitated, law enforcement sources said.

The interview with host Phil McGraw airing on Wednesday will feature both the child, now 6, and his mother. In excerpts posted online, Kirkland said she asked to speak with Dykes during the standoff and wished she could have taken her son's place in the bunker.

She expressed worry about how he would cope with the ordeal.

"I'm scared of how he's going to take getting on a bus," she said.

(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins; editing by Andrew Hay)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/boy-held-captive-alabama-bunker-appear-talk-show-221538353.html

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Apple India sales jump 400% in the last 3 months

Apple India sales jump 400% in the last 3 months, thanks to new strategy

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It looks like Apple has finally struck gold with the way they are selling their products in India as the last three months show a gargantuan jump in sales numbers for the fruity company.

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How Obama is wielding power in 2nd term

WASHINGTON (AP) ? This is what "Forward" looks like. Fast forward, even.

President Barack Obama's campaign slogan is springing to life in a surge of executive directives and agency rule-making that touch many of the affairs of government. They are shaping the cost and quality of health plans, the contents of the school cafeteria, the front lines of future combat, the price of coal. They are the leading edge of Obama's ambition to take on climate change in ways that may be unachievable in legislation.

Altogether, it's a kinetic switch from what could have been the watchword of the Obama administration in the closing, politically hypersensitive months of his first term: pause.

Whatever the merits of any particular commandment from the president or his agencies, the perception of a government expanding its reach and hitting business with job-killing mandates was sure to set off fireworks before November.

Since Obama's re-election, regulations giving force and detail to his health care law have gushed out by the hundreds of pages. To some extent this was inevitable: The law is far-reaching and its most consequential deadlines are fast approaching.

The rules are much more than fine print, however, and they would have thickened the storm over the health care overhaul if placed on the radar in last year's presidential campaign. That, after all, was the season when some Republicans put the over-the-top label "death panel" on a board that could force cuts to service providers if Medicare spending ballooned.

The new health law rules provide leeway for insurers to charge smokers thousands of dollars more for coverage. They impose a $63 per-head fee on insurance plans ? a charge that probably will be passed on to policyholders ? to cushion the cost of covering people with medical problems. There's a new fee for insurance companies for participating in markets that start signing customers in the fall.

In short, sticker shock.

It's clear from the varied inventory of previously bottled-up directives that Obama cares about more than "Obamacare."

"I'm hearing we're going to see a lot of things moving now," Hilda Solis told employees in her last day as labor secretary. At the Labor Department, this could include regulations requiring that the nation's 1.8 million in-home care workers receive minimum-wage and overtime pay.

Tougher limits on soot from smokestacks, diesel trucks and other sources were announced just over a month after the Nov. 6 election. These were foreseen: The administration had tried to stall until the campaign ended but released the proposed rules in June when a judge ordered more haste.

Regulations give teeth and specificity to laws are essential to their functioning even as they create bureaucratic bloat. Congress-skirting executive orders and similar presidential directives are less numerous and generally have less reach than laws. But every president uses them and often tests how far they can go, especially in times of war and other crises.

President Harry Truman signed an executive order in 1952 directing the Commerce Department to take over the steel industry to ensure U.S. troops fighting in Korea were kept supplied with weapons and ammunition. The Supreme Court struck it down.

Other significant actions have stood.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an order in February 1942 to relocate more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast to internment camps after Japan's attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base. Decades later, Congress passed legislation apologizing and providing $20,000 to each person who was interned.

After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush approved a series of executive orders that created an office of homeland security, froze the assets in U.S. banks linked to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups, and authorized the military services to call reserve forces to active duty for as long as two years.

Bush's most contentious move came in the form of a military order approving the use of the military tribunals to put accused terrorists on trial faster and in greater secrecy than a regular criminal court.

Obama also has wielded considerable power in secret, upsetting the more liberal wing of his own party. He has carried forward Bush's key anti-terrorism policies and expanded the use of unmanned drone strikes against terrorist targets in Pakistan and Yemen.

When a promised immigration overhaul failed in legislation, Obama went part way there simply by ordering that immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children be exempted from deportation and granted work permits if they apply. So, too, the ban on gays serving openly in the military was repealed before the election, followed now by the order lifting the ban on women serving in combat.

Those measures did not prove especially contentious. Indeed, the step on immigration is thought to have helped Obama in the election. It may be a different story as the administration moves more forcefully across a range of policy fronts that sat quiet in much of his first term.

William Howell, a political science professor at the University of Chicago and the author of "Power Without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action," isn't surprised to see commandments coming at a rapid clip.

"In an era of polarized parties and a fragmented Congress, the opportunities to legislate are few and far between," Howell said. "So presidents have powerful incentive to go it alone. And they do."

And the political opposition howls.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, said that on the gun-control front in particular, Obama is "abusing his power by imposing his policies via executive fiat instead of allowing them to be debated in Congress."

The Republican reaction is to be expected, said John Woolley, co-director of the American Presidency Project at the University of California in Santa Barbara.

"For years there has been a growing concern about unchecked executive power," Woolley said. "It tends to have a partisan content, with contemporary complaints coming from the incumbent president's opponents."

The power isn't limitless, as was demonstrated when Obama issued one of his first executive orders, calling for closing the military prison at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba and trying suspected terrorists housed there in federal courts instead of by special military tribunals. Congress stepped in to prohibit moving any Guantanamo prisoners to the U.S., effectively blocking Obama's plan to shutter the jail.

Among recent actions:

?Obama issued presidential memoranda on guns in tandem with his legislative effort to expand background checks and ban assault-type weapons and large capacity magazines. The steps include renewing federal gun research despite a law that has been interpreted as barring such research since 1996. Gun control was off the table in the campaign, as it had been for a decade, but the shooting at a Connecticut elementary school in December changed that overnight.

?The Labor Department approved new rules in January that could help save lives at dangerous mines with a pattern of safety violations. The rules were proposed shortly after an explosion killed 29 men at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch mine in 2010, deadliest mining accident in 40 years. The rules had been in limbo ever since because of objections from mine operators.

?The government proposed fat, calorie, sugar and sodium limits in almost all food sold in schools, extending federal nutritional controls beyond subsidized lunches to include food sold in school vending machines and a la carte cafeteria lines. The new proposals flow from a 2010 law and are among several sidelined during the campaign.

The law provoked an outcry from conservatives who said the government was empowering itself to squash school bake sales and should not be telling kids what to eat. Updated regulations last year on subsidized school lunches produced a backlash, too, altogether making the government shy of further food regulation until the election passed. The new rules leave school fundraisers clear of federal regulation, alleviating fears of cupcake-crushing edicts at bake sales and the like.

?The Justice Department released an opinion that people with food allergies can be considered to have the rights of disabled people. The finding exposes schools, restaurants and other food-service places to more legal risk if they don't accommodate patrons with food allergies.

?The White House said Obama intends to move forward on rules controlling carbon emissions from power plants as a central part of the effort to restrain climate change, which the president rarely talked about after global-warming legislation failed in his first term. With a major climate bill unlikely to get though a divided Congress, Obama is expected to rely on his executive authority to achieve whatever progress he makes on climate change.

The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to complete the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from new coal-fired power plants. The agency also probably will press ahead on rules for existing power plants, despite protests from industry and Republicans that such rules would raise electricity prices and kill off coal, the dominant U.S. energy source. Older coal-fired power plants have been shutting across the country because of low natural gas prices and weaker demand for electricity.

?In December, the government proposed long-delayed rules requiring automakers to install event data recorders, or "black boxes," in all new cars and light trucks beginning Sept. 1, 2014. Most new cars are already getting them.

?The EPA proposed rules to update water quality guidelines for beaches and control runoff from logging roads.

As well, a new ozone rule probably will be completed this year, which would mean finally moving forward on a smog-control standard sidelined in 2011.

A regulation directing federal contractors to hire more disabled workers is somewhere in the offing at the Labor Department, as are ones to protect workers from lung-damaging silica and reduce the risk of deadly factory explosions from dust produced in the making of chemicals, plastics and metals.

Rules also are overdue on genetically modified salmon, catfish inspection, the definition of gluten-free in labeling and food import inspection. In one of the most closely watched cases, Obama could decide early this year whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.

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Associated Press writers Matthew Daly, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Mary Clare Jalonick and Sam Hananel contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-wielding-executive-power-2nd-term-125939108--politics.html

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