Asia stocks higher on hopes for US budget deal

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2012, file photo, traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. World stock markets meandered Tuesday, Dec. 4, as traders weighed a surprise drop in U.S. factory production against hopes that the U.S. will avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2012, file photo, traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. World stock markets meandered Tuesday, Dec. 4, as traders weighed a surprise drop in U.S. factory production against hopes that the U.S. will avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

(AP) ? Asian stock markets rose Wednesday as investors became increasingly convinced that U.S. political leaders will reach a budget deal that avoids a major hit to the world's No. 1 economy. Chinese shares soared on hopes for more stimulus measures.

Negotiations between the White House and the U.S. Congress have been revving up in recent days in order to reach a deal aimed at averting the so-called fiscal cliff, which is a series of sharp government spending cuts and tax increases that begin to kick in Jan. 1 and could cause a recession.

Despite political posturing and a deep divide on critical issues, most analysts think a deal acceptable to both President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans will be cobbled together before the end of the year.

Analysts at DBS Bank Ltd. said that "the US fiscal cliff is viewed as political theatre and not as an imminent threat to the US economy."

"Unlike 2010, both the White House and the Republicans have been careful in communicating that, despite the differences in opinions over how to rein in the fiscal deficit, the door is open for a compromise solution by the end of the year."

Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.1 percent to 9,443.65. Hong Kong's Hang Seng jumped 1.6 percent to 22,143.19. South Korea's Kospi added 0.5 percent to 1,943.85. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.4 percent to 4,520.40.

Mainland Chinese shares soared a day after the government pledged to maintain policies intended to strengthen the economy and also expressed a willingness to "fine tune" them and make them more effective.

The Shanghai Composite Index jumped 3.1 percent to 2,036.14 while the smaller Shenzhen Composite Index soared 4.3 percent to 775.58. Infrastructure-related shares posted strong gains. Fujian Cement surged 7.7 percent. Xinjiang Bayi Iron & Steel jumped 4.5 percent.

Chinese leaders have cut interest rates twice since early June and are pumping money into the economy through higher spending by state companies and on building airports and other public works.

"Investors expect the economic outlook to be improving based on recent economic data," said Zhang Yang, an analyst at Sinolink Securities in Shanghai.

Wall Street fell Tuesday as investors waited for developments in the budget talks. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.1 percent to close at 12,951.78. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 0.2 percent to close at 1,407.05. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.2 percent to 2,996.69.

Investors are also focused on U.S. economic data due for release later in the week. On Friday, U.S. nonfarm payrolls, which are a key gauge of employment, will be released for November. The figures could be distorted by the impact of Superstorm Sandy, which battered much of the eastern seaboard.

There's already evidence the storm had an impact on the U.S. economy. Monday's monthly manufacturing survey from the Institute for Supply Management was far weaker than anticipated.

Benchmark oil for January delivery was up 16 cents to $88.66 per barrel in electronic trading in the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 59 cents to close at $88.50 per barrel on the Nymex on Tuesday.

In currencies, the euro rose to $1.3103 from $1.3101 late Tuesday in New York. The dollar rose to 82.18 yen from 81.84 yen.

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AP researcher Fu Ting contributed from Shanghai.

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Diet helps prevent repeat heart attacks | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Too often, people with cardiovascular disease assume the medications they take to lower their cholesterol and blood pressure are enough to prevent another heart attack or stroke. But a new study underscores the fact that eating healthfully also counts ? a lot. Healthful eating may not only reduce a person's risk for a new heart attack or stroke, but also lower the risk of dying.

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Canadian researchers interviewed nearly 32,000 people from 40 countries with an average age of 66.5 years about their eating habits. All the people in the study, who were already enrolled in two randomized clinical trials, had either established cardiovascular disease or diabetes mellitus with end-organ damage. The participants' food intake was recorded using a food frequency questionnaire that contained 20 food items. Volunteers were asked how often they ate food from various categories during the previous 12 months and were followed for nearly five years.

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During the follow-up period, a total of 5,190 cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks or strokes, occurred. But people who had the healthiest diets fared the best. Those who ate a heart-healthy diet had a 35 percent reduction in their risk of death from cardiovascular disease; a 14 percent decrease in their risk for a new heart attack; a 28 percent decrease in their risk for congestive heart failure; and a 19 percent reduction in their risk for stroke.?

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A diet was considered heart-healthy if people followed dietary recommendations and consumed more fruits, vegetables, whole grains and nuts and had a higher intake of fish relative to meat, poultry and eggs, according to the researchers. For example, Americans in the study who fared best ate four servings per day of fruits; five servings of vegetables; one serving of nuts or soy protein; and three or more servings of whole grains, amounts that are consistent with current American dietary guidelines.

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People who had the healthiest diets were more likely to be older (an average of 66.7 years of age) and more active and were less likely to smoke. They also tended to have a lower body mass index and drink more alcohol. (Men drank an average of 1.5 to 2.5 glasses per day and women drank from 0.5 to 1.5 glasses daily.) Older people with cardiovascular disease are "more concerned about their health, so they try harder," said nutritionist and study researcher Mahshid Dehghan of the Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada.

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The study findings don't negate the important role medication plays in helping people manage cardiovascular disease. Rather, the findings drive home the fact that overhauling one's diet is equally crucial. "A healthy diet offers a consistent benefit over and above the benefits of taking medication," Dehghan said. "The two go hand in hand."

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The study appears today (Dec. 3) in the journal Circulation.

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Pass it on: Medication plus a healthy diet can help prevent recurrent heart attacks and strokes.

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From Mammon to God: Ex-oil man must unite troubled church

LONDON (Reuters) - He has met murderous warlords, survived death threats and brokered multi-million pound deals on the financial markets. Now the next Archbishop of Canterbury faces what many see as the near impossible task of uniting an Anglican church that risks tearing itself apart over gay marriage and women bishops.

Justin Welby, a self-deprecating figure who called himself "one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England", inherits a bitterly divided institution struggling to find a role in an increasingly secular society.

Seen as a more conservative figure than the outgoing Rowan Williams, Welby was educated at the same elite school as British Prime Minister David Cameron and Prince William, second in line to the throne.

The 56-year-old said on Friday his appointment to a 1,400-year-old post was "astonishing", reflecting a view that he lacks experience after he first became a bishop just a year ago.

Williams, who steps down as spiritual leader of the world's 80 million Anglicans at the end of the year, says his successor needs "the constitution of an ox and the skin of a rhinoceros".

Supporters say Welby's background in the oil industry and in conflict resolution will help an often introspective body divided between more liberal forces in parts of the United States and Britain and conservatives in places like Africa.

Although he comes from the church's evangelical side, a conservative group which emphasizes the Bible's authority, people close to Welby say he has a broad range of views.

METEORIC RISE

Welby's rise up the church hierarchy has been swift - he only became Bishop of Durham, the fourth most senior cleric in England, in October 2011.

While supporting plans to allow women to become bishops, Welby agrees with the church's opposition to gay marriage. However, his public stance on civil partnerships is less clear.

Welby is in no doubt about the size of his task in a church at a crossroads, saying in a sermon in April: "We are divided, often savagely. We are battered. We are weak."

A cartoon in the Daily Telegraph newspaper showed Welby sitting next to U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Hu Jintao in an office with baying crowds outside. Welby says in the caption: "And you think YOU'VE got a hard job."

Friends say that beneath his English modesty lies a sharp intellect, strong diplomatic skills and a knack for communication that some felt the outgoing Archbishop lacked.

Despite his background in finance, Welby is unafraid to criticize his former industry. He has called the financial markets "anarchic" and has been a probing member of a British parliamentary panel investigating banking standards.

Born in London in 1956, he was educated at top fee-paying Eton College, west of London, and went on to study history and law at Cambridge.

His father's family were German-Jewish immigrants who fled persecution to live in England in the late 19th century.

A "mysterious character", Gavin Welby travelled to the United States and sold whisky during the period of Prohibition, in force from 1920 to 1933, when the sale of alcohol was banned.

There are family links to Britain's Conservative Party, currently in power in a coalition government. Welby is related to Rab Butler, a towering figure in the party's history who held several top ministerial posts.

He worked in finance for French oil company Elf Aquitane and as group treasurer for Britain's Enterprise Oil. Unable to escape "a sense of God calling", he left finance after 11 years to become a priest in the late 1980s.

The death of his first child, Johanna, in a car crash in 1983 brought Welby and his wife Caroline "closer to God", he said in an interview. They went on to have five more children.

Ordained in 1992, he worked as a vicar for seven years before taking the role of a conflict resolution negotiator at Coventry Cathedral, in central England. He travelled to conflict zones including Nigeria and Iraq.

"On three occasions it looked like I was going to get killed. One plan was to shoot me," he said in an interview in July. "I have sat down with murderers. I even liked the bloke, though I knew he had killed tens of thousands of people. And you go away horrified that you like them."

($1 = 0.6222 British pounds)

(Editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Giles Elgood)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mammon-god-ex-oil-man-must-unite-troubled-131335643.html

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Surviving Sandy: Foodie Style ? We Love DC

We all know what happens when the imminent threat of a natural disaster is on its way. First we panic, turn on every weather channel known to cable, open multiple tabs on our browsers to follow copious storm trackers, have flashbacks of all those natural disaster movies (I?m looking at you Helen Hunt in Twister), and then? well, we hit the grocery store. If you are anything like me, my over-preparedness resulted in two glorious days of browsing recipes, cooking, and baking. I am a cynic by nature (no pun intended) but somehow found myself following the crowd and stalking up on so much food I could have had a neighborhood block party (or four). I felt a need to make- and eat ? everything, as if the world actually was going to end tomorrow?

But alas, Sandy spared us some monumental destruction (thank you), except for the few pounds we may have added to the scale (white girl problems), but the forced hibernation was a welcome moment of peace amidst the madness. Something about the sound of heavy wind and rain inspired unplugging and putting hands, and minds, to use elsewhere.

I for one am a huge breakfast person. So staying indoors meant staying in pajamas a little longer, making more breakfast than usual, and planning that night?s lunch or dinner before I even finished my last sip of coffee. One of my favorite comfort foods, which brings me back home to Colombia, is the arepa. For those of you who have never had one, it is a corn-flour tortilla of sorts, similar to a Salvadorean pupusa, which is a vehicle for anything and everything you wish. From avocado and cheese (I go for mozarella or queso fresco), to bacon and other forms of cooked pork (shredded always best), an arepa is a versatile, delicious, comforting staple of Colombian cuisine. Using just cornmeal flour and water, the dough becomes dense and easy to mold, rounded out and grilled on a stovetop. My favorite toppings include butter, melted mozzarella, avocado, and a generous pinch of salt and pepper.

At the request of my other hibernating companions, I made a very simple pasta, but one that is packed with flavor and goes best with a full-bodied vin rouge. All you need: good white truffle oil. Bowtie pasta cooked al dente, drizzled with white truffle oil, a little butter, and plenty of salt, pepper and parmesan cheese. A first-class meal right at home. I toasted some pine nuts, and chopped some porcini mushrooms, then covered the whole mixture with more parmesan and some slices of proscuitto ham. Bam, Sandy. For late night snacks, a cheese plate accompanied by marcona almonds, fresh rasberries, fig biscotti and olives, accompanied the merlot to perfection. Every rainstorm needs some solid companions.

The We Love DC crew never seizes to impress me, making, baking, writing away through the storm. Below are some of the recipes, and food porn worthy pictures, of what they made, as well as other hibernation fare provided by our readers. Here?s to surviving Sandy, Foodie Style.

Chicken Pot Pie by Marissa

Marissa: Cold and rainy weather with gusty winds meant that I was craving something hot and in the realm of comfort food. I whipped up a chicken pot pie from America?s Test Kitchen and roasted up some beets for a salad with goat cheese. There was roasted eggplant for another salad, but frankly, most of that was consumed within moments of coming out of the oven. Whoops.

Katie: I made white wine and parsley shrimp over grains with smoked salt broccoli, and also healthy vegetarian nachos with greek yogurt instead of sour cream. White wine shrimp is one of the easiest things ever to make. Here?s the ?recipe?, and it?s generally made from things you probably keep around the house:

You need:
- As many raw, thawed, tail-on shrimp as you want.
- A bottle of white wine, any kind
- garlic
- parsley, fresh or dry
- butter, salted
- salt and pepper
- rice or whole grains mix to put this whole shrimp concoction on top of

Directions:
Pour yourself a glass of wine. Get frying pan. Start with a glug of white wine in the bottom of the pan. Liquid should cover the bottom of the pan but not be too deep. (This is not going to be a very scientific endeavor, folks.) Add a teaspoon of garlic. Add a slab of salted butter. Drink more wine! Add fresh or dried parsley. Add salt and pepper. Reduce a bit, add in raw, shell-off shrimp. I buy mine in bulk at Whole Foods. If shrimp aren?t plump and pink by the time the wine is gone, add more wine. Flip shrimp to other side. Drink more wine. Remove shrimp and mixture from heat when shrimp are cooked. Slide shrimp and herbs out of pan over rice or grain mix. Drink more wine! Great job. You are good at cooking, you little chef you.

Katie?s parsley shrimp over grains

Tom and Tiffany Bridge: Bacon Maple Biscuits from the Smitten Kitchen Cookbook?are pretty much the bees? knees. Bacon, Langdon Wood Bourbon Maple Syrup, a little creamery butter, and some biscuit makings, and you?ve got yourself an awesome breakfast. The hearty beef & barley soup that is a winter favorite is a perfect post-hurricane favorite. An onion, some carrots & celery, softened in a little olive oil, garlic and herbs, to which you add a package of sliced mushrooms and cook until soft, then a bay leaf, a can of tomatoes, and two quarts of beef stock. ?Cut up some stew beef or a sirloin and put it in the pot once the stock heats a bit. ?Let boil, then add half a cup of pearl barley and let simmer for at least 20 minutes or until the barley is soft. Want to add a super twist? A handful of fresh chopped dill to finish it.

And to accompany the food? Copious bottles of red red wine, but also a little recipe from Don.

Don made a Poebelack punch, using @booklessbev?s recipe
- 1 bottle of 750 ml makers
- 20 oz fresh lemon juice
- 20 oz simple syrup
- 20 oz apple cider
- 25 dashes apple bitters
- a few dashes absinthe

Though we didn?t have fresh lemon juice and just used lemonade for it and the syrup. Also did not have absinthe or apple bitters. But apparently this is like horseshoes and hand grenades and close enough does pretty good. If you?re not making it in punch format 750ml is 25oz. So it?s basically 1.25 parts bourbon, 1 part lemon juice, 1 part simple syrup, 1 part apple cider, one dash apple bitters.

And some pictures from our readers, who obviously know a thing or two about comfort cooking:

Slow cooker Korean style pork spare ribs with homemade cucumber slaw, cilantro and a dash of Sriracha on small corn tortillas: Food Porn courtesy of Alex Reed

Eggplant Parmesan by Federika Burelli

Roasted pear chocolate chip scones by Christina Stockamore

Have any Sandy pics you want to share with us? Tweet @WeLoveDC or @FORKITDC using #makingsandy

Source: http://www.welovedc.com/2012/10/30/surviving-sandy-foodie-style/

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Judge dismisses 'Bachelor' discrimination case

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? A federal judge on Monday dismissed a case filed by two black men who claimed ABC's "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" discriminated against casting participants of color.

U.S. District Court Judge Aleta Trauger's ruling states that casting decisions by the network and the series' producers are protected by the First Amendment and the case should not continue.

Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson sued the network in April, claiming their bids to appear on "The Bachelor" were never given serious consideration. They claimed the show and its spinoff "The Bachelorette" discriminated against nonwhite participants.

Trauger's ruling calls the plaintiffs' efforts "laudable" but says the lawsuit is aimed at regulating the show's content, which is forbidden under the First Amendment.

"Ultimately, whatever messages 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette' communicate or are intended to communicate ? whether explicitly, implicitly, intentionally, or otherwise ? the First Amendment protects the right of the producers of these shows to craft and control those messages, based on whatever considerations the producers wish to take into account," Trauger wrote.

ABC lauded the ruling, saying, "We felt from the onset this case was completely without merit and we are pleased the Court has found in our favor."

An email sent to attorney Byron Perkins, who represented Claybrooks and Johnson, was not immediately returned.

At the time of the lawsuit's filing, all of the men given star billing in the first 16 seasons of "The Bachelor" were white. Through seven seasons of "The Bachelorette," two Hispanic contestants were selected winners and the rest were white.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/judge-dismisses-bachelor-discrimination-case-012647318.html

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Taipei Assassins take out video game Goliath, win $1M

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The world's most-played video?game has a brand new world champion.

The Taipei Assassins, a team from Taiwan, has won the "League of Legends" World Championship Finals and the $1 million in prize money that goes with it.

On Saturday, the?Taipei Assassins took on South?Korean team Azubu Frost at Galen Center in Los Angeles. The finals set the two five-man teams against each other in a best-of-five competition that ended when the Taipei Assassins -- the underdogs -- beat Azubu Frost three games to one.?

?These guys --?against all the odds!" said a thrilled?Brandon Beck, CEO and?co-founder of Riot Games, as he awarded?the enormous?Summoner's Cup to the winning team. "They just showed up tonight!"

Launched three years ago, the online?multiplayer PC?game "League of Legends" -- created by Riot Games -- has emerged as an immensely popular game around the world. And it has?shot to popularity especially over the course of the last year.

Back in November 2011,?Riot reported?that the game was pulling in?4.2 million daily active?players and 11.5 million monthly players. But last week, "League of Legends" claimed?the title of "most played video?game in the world" with Riot revealing that it now?pulls in 12 million daily active players and?32 million monthly active players for a total of?1 billion hours of?play time per month.

For comparison, "World of Warcraft"?currently?has 10?million subscribers ?and "FarmVille 2" -- the most popular game on Facebook at the moment -- has?8.5 million daily active users.?

"League of Legends" -- which?is a strategy-heavy game that drops players into a fantasy-themed battle arena?-- is also a highly competitive game that has become immensely popular as an electronic sport (aka eSport).

Tickets to the?Season Two World Finals at the University of Southern California's 10?thousand-seat Galen Center?sold out in just?three days. And on Saturday evening, the USC basketball?arena was packed with cheering fans.?Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of viewers worldwide watched the games play out online where they?were being broadcast via Twitch.tv ?and Own3D.tv?in 13 different languages.

Jon Stein,?eSports Coordinator at Riot Games,?tweeted?during the finals that they had surpassed 900,000 concurrent?viewers ...?and that wasn't counting broadcasts in?Korea and China.??For more on that, see InGame editor Todd Kenreck's video report from Los Angeles?below.

David takes on Goliath
Azubu Frost and the?Taipei Assassins emerged as the two very best teams in the world after a series of playoff games took place in Los Angeles last week pitting?12 teams?from around the world against each other. Teams arrived in L.A. from?China, Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan, North America, and Europe.

Azubu Frost and the Taipei Assassins?had never faced off before Saturday's event, but Azubu Frost went into the finals heavily favorited to win with announcers?calling it "a David and Goliath match-up."

Azubu Frost hails from Korea, where eSports are immensely popular and teams are known for their dedication and extremely high level of?skill. And Azubu Frost?had?dominated?throughout?the playoffs. They triumphed over North America's?Team SoloMid, winning 2 ?games?to 0. And in the semi-finals, they took down?European?team?Counter Logic Gaming EU 2 games to 1.

The Taipei Assassins found themselves going up against the powerful Korean?team after?surprising?everyone with two upset victories during the playoffs. They beat Korean team?Najin Sword with a 2 to 0 victory. They then took down the?Moscow Five -- a team many had predicted would win the finals -- in a?2 to 1 match-up.?

On Saturday evening with many betting on an Azubu Frost triumph, the Taipei Assassins came out strong and seemed to be ahead early on in the first game. But Azubu Frost came back to win the match, which saw a surprising number of kills -- 54 total. The Taipei Assassins then won the second game and followed that with an?even stronger third game,?forcing Azubu Frost to surrender after?22 minutes.

With momentum on their side and the crowds cheering them on, the?Taipei Assassins sealed their Summoner's Cup win and the million dollar prize?with an aggressive fourth game.

The rise of eSports
"League of Legends,' at its core, is a?competitive team game. It?s a sport. And?like any sport, fans don?t just enjoy playing it, they want to watch the game at the highest level of competition," Beck?told me during an interview before Saturday's finals.

When I asked why he thought?"LoL" had become such a popular eSport, he said, "There are a lot of skills to master and there?s a ton of depth to the experience.?It's also fun to watch for the same reason that any traditional sport might be,?which is you can be in awe of the super human feats at the highest level of play."?

Saturday's World Championship Games brought to a close what has been an exciting season of "League of Legends"?gaming?-- a season in which Riot was far more ambitious with its eSports plans for the game than ever before ...?and things were sometimes?far more complicated than ever before.

"We?re seeing tremendous growth in eSports all over the world," ?Beck said,?though he acknowledged electronic sports have not yet reached the kind of mainstream popularity?in North America that they have in?countries like South Korea.

Beck said that,?with Season 2,?Riot has tried to significantly advance the "League of Legends"?eSports experience for both competitors?and?fans.?For example, last year's?Season 1 "League of Legends" World Championship Finals were held at a far smaller gaming venue?in Sweden and the winners walked away with a?$50,000 prize. This year, Riot decided to bring?the finals?to a major sports arena and blew the winning?prize up to a cool?$1 million.?

Meanwhile, Beck said they are trying to create?broadcast and live spectating experiences?that are approaching the kind of quality and production values?found in?traditional?professional sports. With that in mind, not only were the "League of Legends" finals held before thousands of people in a sports arena, they were broadcast with the kind of well-organized, live play-by-play commentary and analysis one might see during?a pro?football game.

"We hit an inflection point at ?some point between last season and this season where the demand and interest in eSports picked up dramatically," Beck said. "And that,?in our minds, gave us a green light to go really big on realizing this?phenomenal?experience."

And Saturday's event did?seem to go off as smoothly as any event?organizer could have hoped ... though?only after Riot hit a few bumps getting there.

During the playoffs the previous week, Riot ran into technical issues that forced the company to postpone some of the?matches. The earlier games also?drew?accusations that competitors were able to cheat by stealing?glimpses of each other's maps -- all because of the way the competition stage had been laid out.

Riot ended up fining?Azubu Frost $30,000 for its screen watching behavior during the playoffs?and then?carefully redesigned the stage layout to ensure players wouldn't be tempted to peek?during the finals.

"We had a really ambitious set design that we thought would really improve the live spectator experience, but unfortunately it made it a little easier for players to get information they?shouldn't?have access to in the game," Beck said. "We take?responsibility?for creating that temptation and that possibility."

And he added, "I do think that as we sort of break new ground and try to realize our ambitious vision we are going to make some mistakes along the way. But hopefully, overall, we are providing a fantastic experience."

Certainly the enthusiastic crowds at Galen Center?Saturday night seemed thrilled with the World Finals, which offered some truly epic "League of Legends" gaming.

As for the folks at Riot, when I asked Beck what he hoped would ultimately come out?of Saturday's event, he said,?"We want to come away with proof that the notion of?eSports being broadcast to millions and played in front of thousands in a sports arena is not a dream off in the distant future but is today?s reality."

Welcome to your new reality, Riot.

Winda Benedetti?writes?about video?games for NBC?News. You can follow her tweets about games and?other things on Twitter here?@WindaBenedetti,?and you can?follow her?on?Google+.?Meanwhile, be sure to check?out the?IN-GAME?FACEBOOK PAGE?to discuss the day's?gaming news and reviews.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/ingame/taipei-assassins-triumph-league-legends-world-finals-1C6448579

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Federal Register | Radio Broadcasting Services; AM or FM ...

The following applicants filed AM or FM proposals to change the community of license: ADVANCE MINISTRIES, INC. D/B/A/NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, Station NEW, Facility ID 177220, BMPED-20120906AAG, From COLORADO CITY, AZ, To GLENDALE, UT; BETTER PUBLIC BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION, Station KLXM, Facility ID 184961, BMPED-20120823AAP, From WEATHERFORD, OK, To ARAPAHO, OK; COMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT, Station KZET, Facility ID 173810, BPED-20120914AEF, From CORTEZ, CO, To TOWAOC, CO; ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA TRUST, DENNIS J. WATKINS, TRUSTEE, Station KQQZ, Facility ID 5281, BMP-20120628AAL, From DESOTO, MO, To FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL; EPISCOPO, JOSEPH A, Station NEW, Facility ID 189518, BNPH-20110629BVH, From ROTAN, TX, To ROSCOE, TX; HI-LINE RADIO FELLOWSHIP, INC., Station KZNP, Facility ID 175929, BPED-20120924AAY, From PLAINS, MT, To MULLAN, ID; JEFF ANDRULONIS, Station WEAF, Facility ID 24146, BP-20120921AET, From ST. STEPHEN, SC, To SAINT STEPHEN, SC; OHANA BROADCAST COMPANY LLC, Station KSHK, Facility ID 62228, BPH-20120822AAH, From KEKAHA, HI, To HANAMAULU, HI; OHANA BROADCAST COMPANY LLC, Station KUAI, Facility ID 1752, BP-20120822AAO, From ELEELE, HI, To KEKAHA, HI; OHANA BROADCAST COMPANY LLC, Station KQNG, Facility ID 58938, BP-20120822AAP, From LIHUE, HI, To ELEELE, HI; ROY E. HENDERSON, Station KLTR, Facility ID 40775, PH-20120824AAB, From BRENHAM, TX, To HEMPSTEAD, TX; SMILE FM, Station WKKM, Facility ID 93344, BMPED-20120913ACB, From SPEAKER TWP., MI, To BURTCHVILLE TWP., MI; TRI-COUNTY RADIO, INCORPORATED, Station WEMP, Facility ID 85300, BMPH-20120828AFM, From TWO RIVERS, WI, To HOWARDS GROVE, WI.

Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/10/15/2012-25193/radio-broadcasting-services-am-or-fm-proposals-to-change-the-community-of-license

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Taping of NBC's 'Fashion Star' halted by picketers

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Union picketing has brought a temporary halt to second-season production of the NBC reality show "Fashion Star."

About 70 members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees picketed the show Saturday at Hollywood Center Studios, prompting producers to cancel a taping and dismiss a studio audience.

IATSE official Vanessa Holtgrew told the Hollywood Reporter the union was striking against the show until a contract is reached.

The union allows members to work on the non-union "Fashion Star," but they get no pension and health benefits without a union contract.

IATSE is fighting to keep a foothold as union-heavy productions like feature films in Los Angeles increasingly give way to productions that tend to be non-union like reality shows.

NBC and the show's three production companies had no immediate comment.

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Information from: The Hollywood Reporter, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com

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