Miami’s oldest bar with a gloriously checkered past celebrates its 100th birthday

The oldest bar in the city, a two-story dive, is still standing, surviving 10 decades of change, rambunctious turns as a prohibition speakeasy, a gambling hall, jazz club and a burlesque.

But in its most enduring chapter, Tobacco Road is a remarkably ordinary, beloved neighborhood spot good for a drink, a meal, conversation and live music, blues and other stuff too.

A century’s worth of history calls for an outsized 100th birthday celebration — a two-day fete this weekend that was scheduled to end before sunrise Sunday morning. The bar hosted a string of Tobacco Road disciples, old bartenders and cooks, music lovers, neighbors, and the people who kept the seats warm over the ages. The birthday bash included drinks, food trucks and, of course, live music from Heavy Pets, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Iko-Iko, Spam Allstars, DJ LA Spam, Locos Por Juana, Artofficial and DJ Smooth, among others.

So what is this dear centenarian’s secret to longevity, health and a steady stream of customers?

A formula that works: “Over the years, I think people have loved Tobacco Road because it crosses over, it appeals to young people, old people, lawyers and construction workers, good guys, bad guys,’’ says owner Patrick Gleber, who purchased the place in three decades ago. “It’s not meant for one group. It’s for everybody.’’

A little bit of luck: “I was managing a wine bar in The Falls. It was St. Patrick’s Day, 1982. When I went to look at the bar, I was outside and looked down and saw the name Dee in the concrete. That was my mother’s name,’’ Gleber recalls. “When I went back with a friend, I found a rabbit’s foot in the gutter and when I was in my car leaving, Johnny Winter’s Tobacco Road was playing on the radio. I got hit in the head with all the signs.’’

A great back story: “It’s historic nature attracts a lot of interest. People want to know more about this place with this incredible history,’’ says Rich Ulloa, owner of Y&T Music, who has booked acts at the bar since the early 1990s. “The place is iconic, a great gathering place for music and socializing.’’

Music, music, music: “There would be no live music scene without Tobacco Road,’’ says Woody Graber, a publicist who specializes in live music and concerts. “They brought in great blues music and provided a quality atmosphere for performances and, without them, a lot of other clubs simply would not exist.’’

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Wii U Will Launch With 24 Games This Sunday

Assassin’s Creed III

A version of the latest chapter in the Assassin’s Creed saga, a week after it was released on other console.

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Nintendo’s newest console is out this Sunday, and there are already people lining up outside retailers to get one.

There are 24 games available for the Wii U at launch. Some are highly anticipated Nintendo staples, like New Super Mario Brothers U, and some are interesting and creative titles from third-party developers, like Scribblenauts Unlimited and ZombiU. Many games already out on other systems are being released for the Wii U as well, including Assassin’s Creed III and NBA 2K13; some of these games even have extra functionality that’s been added to take advantage of the Wii U GamePad.

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If you don’t see a game in the gallery above that you thought was coming to the Wii U, it’s because many announced games will be available in the “launch window”, a broad period from now until March. That’s when games like Pikmin 3 and LEGO City Undercover will come out.

If you haven’t preordered a Wii U from a large retailer, many places will still have them available at launch day. Expect long lines at larger retailers though.

Are you planning on purchasing a Wii U this weekend, and what games do you most want to buy? Let us know in the comments.

This story originally published on Mashable here.

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Oil change

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of China and the Arab Spring, American energy independence looks likely to trigger the next great geopolitical shift in the modern world.

US reliance on the Persian Gulf for its oil — and its consequent need to maintain a dominant presence in the Middle East to keep the oil flowing — has been one of the constants of the post-1945 status quo. That could be turned on its head.

It’s been dubbed “the homecoming.” After decades in which the hollowing out of American manufacturing has been chronicled in Bruce Springsteen’s blue-collar laments, cheap energy is being seen as the dawn of a new golden age for the world’s biggest economy.

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Oil workers in North Dakota are part of a boom that will make the US the biggest supplier of oil and gas.

The reason is simple. The US is the home to vast shale-oil and gas deposits made commercially viable by improvements to a 200-year-old technique called fracking and by the relentlessly high cost of crude.

Exploitation of fields in states such as West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and further west in North Dakota, have transformed the US’s energy outlook pretty much overnight. Professor Dieter Helm, an energy expert at Oxford University in the UK, said: “In the US, shale gas didn’t exist in 2004. Now it represents 30% of the market.”

If all the known shale gas resources were developed to their commercial potential in North America and other new fields, production could more than quadruple over the next two decades, according to recent study by the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center. Pennsylvania — where the first oil well was drilled in 1859 — produced about 1 billion cubic feet of natural gas in 2008. By 2010, the state was producing 11 billion cubic meters, helping to put the US on course to be the world’s biggest supplier of oil and gas within a decade.

President Obama noted in this year’s State of the Union speech that fracking was likely to support 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade and that the US now had enough gas to keep it supplied for the next 100 years if current consumption patterns were maintained.

REGIME STRESS

Long-term consequences for the rest of the world are hard to predict, but it is probably safe to say that many of the regimes whose global role rests on hydrocarbons alone are likely to be significantly weakened, if not swept away.

That includes the monarchies that have thus far withstood the Arab Spring. Their persistence has depended on a historically high oil price and western backing. Both those conditions are now in question.

Shashank Joshi, a fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, said: “The Gulf Arab political order for almost the entire postwar period has depended on US interest in the region.

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Panama Canal’s $5 billion makeover could be boon for South Florida

PANAMA CITY, Panama --
Huge yellow dump trucks resemble Tonka toys in a sand pile as they haul tons of rust-colored dirt and basalt rock from a 56-foot gash in the earth that will become a new access channel in the $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Canal.

The trucks keep rumbling up muddy terraced slopes as a quick-moving storm blurs the horizon. The rain chases away workers pouring concrete for a mammoth set of locks that will lift super-size ships for their transit across the narrow Isthmus of Panama, but the crews are back in the pit as soon as the sun returns.

By April 2015, it will all be under water — ready for the ever-bigger vessels revolutionizing international trade. The expansion is expected to double the canal’s capacity.

The 2015 target is about six months behind schedule, but U.S. ports are still scrambling to ready their channels for so-called post-Panamax ships and some say they welcome the reprieve. At this point, Baltimore and Norfolk, Va. are the only ports along the Eastern Seaboard with channels deep enough to handle the vessels when they’re fully loaded.

Call it the race for deep water as ports up and down the East Coast, including PortMiami and Port Everglades, and along the Gulf of Mexico make plans to dredge their channels, shore up their docks or rustle up funding for renovations to receive the big ships. Many won’t be ready by the time water floods the new locks.

PortMiami in position to cash in

PortMiami is further along than most and is hoping that early advantage and its position as the first major U.S. port north of Panama will make it a preferred port of call for post-Panamax ships.

Latin American and Caribbean ports also are trying to figure out how to capitalize on the expansion.

As this new phase of canal construction nears completion with 13,000 people working around the clock, there is renewed interest in preserving the history of the old Panama Canal Zone as well as the legacy of those who worked and died building the canal.

While the 50-mile-long Panama Canal has provided a maritime shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific for the past 98 years, it’s just about maxed out.

This year vessels from the four corners of the globe — car carriers from Japan, bulk carriers loaded with soybeans and wheat from the U.S. heartland, oil tankers, towering container ships carrying the output of Chinese factories to U.S. retailers — are expected to move a record 332 million tons of cargo through the waterway, said Jorge L. Quijano, chief executive of the Panama Canal Authority.

That’s only about 20 million tons short of the canal’s capacity, he said. The canal is also popular with cruise lines and dozens of cruise ships are being built that exceed the size limits of the current canal.

But the more immediate problem is that the huge cargo ships increasingly favored for trade with Asia are too wide, too long and too heavy for the current canal.

With a growing number of ships in the post-Panamax category — exceeding the specifications for the largest ship that can fit through the existing locks — the Panama Canal must expand or risk losing market share.

And post-Panamax vessels aren’t even the biggest on the high seas. Post-Panamax Plus ships, such as most U.S. tankers that carry liquefied natural gas bound for Asia, are five times too big for the Panama Canal.

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Miami’s book fair ‘Evening With…’ series ends on easy note

A bit of fiction and a bit of philosophy, both seasoned with a touch of the historical, rounded out the final night of Miami Book Fair International’s “Evenings With…” programs Friday.

Emma Donoghue read from her Astray, new book of short stories inspired by old newspaper accounts, and historian Alan Ryan talked about his weighty new two-volume work On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present (told you it was weighty).

“I feel like I should say, ‘Hello, Miami!’ ” joked Donoghue when she took the stage. Earlier, the Canadian author expressed wonder at the fact she was swimming in the Biltmore poolon a November afternoon before her appearance. “I don’t usually stay in places like that,” she said, laughing.

But Donoghue, author of the novel Room, is no stranger to new experiences: She’s a two-time emigrant from Dublin, once from Ireland to England, then on to Ontario.

“The Irish are obsessed with immigration,” she told the audience. Even when the economy’s good there, she said, the Irish look to other countries. “It’s still a small island,” she joked. “A lot of us have felt the need to fly that particular coop.”

Fitting then, that Astray features characters on the verge of moving on or struggling in their new surroundings. Donoghue read the amusing story The Widow’s Cruse and fielded questions about Room, a harrowing novel about a little boy being raised in a tiny shed by his kidnapped mother. Disturbing to be sure. But in case you wonder, Donoghue has no pressing childhood traumas of her own to inspire her to such a dark premise.

“I grew up in Dublin in a bookish household,” she said. “I was allowed to read all the time. . . There’s something to be said for a happy childhood that leaves you feeling confident.”

Ryan, who was in conversation with Robert Weil, editor-in-chief of W.W. Norton’s Liveright & Co., talked about his comprehensive study of political philosophy. Or, as his daughter (a biology professor) describes his profession: “He does dead philosophers.”

Ryan did mention a few of those worthy gentleman — Plato, St. Augustine and John Stuart Mill, for example — but still managed to elicit a laugh when discussing Americans’ adoration of a Constitution they’ve never read and continually confuse with the Declaration of Independence.

“The Constitution is revered, and it is at least worth knowing,” he said.

The fair continues this weekend with a full schedule of authors Saturday and Sunday.

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News Summary: UK court overturns Facebook demotion

PUNISHED: Britain‘s High Court ruled Friday that a man had been unfairly stripped of a management position and demoted for saying in a Facebook post that he was opposed to gay marriage.

COURT RULING: The court said the Trafford Housing Trust breached Adrian Smith‘s contract and a judge added that Smith had not done anything wrong. Smith had written on Facebook that gay weddings in churches would be “an equality too far.”

EVOLVING LAW: In Britain, same-sex couples can form civil partnerships that carry the same legal rights marriages do. The government plans to introduce legislation allowing civil marriages as well.

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BoNY wants out of Elliott’s battle with Argentina

Leave us out of it!

Caught in a legal crossfire, Bank of New York Mellon is arguing that it should not be forced to help Paul Singer’s Elliott Management collect as much as $1.3 billion from Argentina.

An appeals court recently upheld a ruling requiring Argentina to pay the New York hedge fund each time it pays other bondholders, which, unlike Elliott, agreed to a debt restructuring several years ago.

Judge Thomas Griesa ruled that all agents of Argentina are also bound by the order, and Elliott named Bank of New York as one of them.

As trustee, BoNY is responsible for making Argentina’s payments to investors who agreed to the restructuring. But the bank will argue that it is not an agent of Argentina and has an “arms-length” relationship with the country in a brief it plans to file later today, sources told The Post.

BoNY will argue that its sole responsibility is to the vast majority of bondholders who agreed to take a haircut after Argentina defaulted on $100 billion of debt in 2002. The bank receives payments from Argentina and holds that money in trust for those investors.

Argentina has rejected the court order and insists it will not pay Elliott, which is demanding to be repaid in full. At the same time, the country said it will continue to pay the other bondholders.

Nonetheless, those bonds have tanked since the appeals court ruled in Elliott’s favor on fears that the court would tie BoNY’s hands. If BoNY were unable to pay those bondholders without violating a court order, Argentina could be forced into a second default.

More than $3 billion in payments to those bondholders is due in December, unless Argentina’s stay is extended beyond then.

To pay Elliott, Griesa suggested BoNY take money out of funds slated for the exchange bondholders to pay Elliott.

“Some money is due to the plaintiffs out of those December payments,” Griesa said during a court hearing last week.

As a result, those bond investors are also lining up to oppose the order. Brevan Howard, the powerful UK hedge fund, and MFS Investment Management, a big Massachusetts money manager, have joined with hedge fund Gramercy in opposing the order, The Post has learned.

“Exchange bondholders not only are not getting adequate time, but their property is being taken unlawfully,” said Sean O’Shea, the attorney for these investors, who collectively own more than $1 billion worth of Argentinan bonds.

The prominent law firm of David Boies has teamed with O’Shea to represent these bondholders, and more institutions are expect to file briefs with the court next week to oppose the order.

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Jolly holiday shopping season already underway

Lilian Stoppa and Renata Rosa stepped out of Target in Midtown Miami with a cart piled high with holiday gifts.

Landing in Miami on Thursday morning for a five-day shopping spree, they already had spent $800 by mid-afternoon on presents for family members: toys for Rosa’s daughter, beauty items for Stoppa’s mother, plus lots of other stuff.

“This is just the start,” giggled Stoppa, 30, who works with Rosa, also 30, at a Sao Paulo telecom company. Their next stops: Sawgrass Mills, Aventura Mall and Bal Harbour Shops, if their money holds out. “We came to Miami to shop because it’s very much cheaper than in Brazil.”

Tourists like Stoppa and Rosa are exactly the reason retail experts predict Florida’s holiday shopping season will see its highest increase since the recession.

Across South Florida, stores are getting a head start on the holidays in hopes of cashing in. Sales are already underway everywhere from Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, to Macy’s, Toys“R”Us and Anthropologie.

The Florida Retail Federation forecasts that Florida will see a 5.2 percent jump in holiday spending from $55 billion in 2011 to $58 billion this year, marking the highest percentage growth predicted since the economic slump began. Pre-recession, retail sales peaked at $54.3 billion in 2006.

“All of the indicators point to what we believe will be a very robust holiday shopping season,” said Florida Retail Federation President and Chief Executive Rick McAllister.

That also translates into more than 42,000 new retail jobs, he said.

Buoyed in large part by tourists and snowbirds, Florida is expected to outpace the nation in spending for the holiday season, as it did before the recession.

This year, the National Retail Federation is predicting holiday spending nationwide to rise 4.1 percent. On average, consumers are expected to spend about $750 each.

Economists point to strong consumer confidence as a major factor contributing to a stronger shopping season.

“By and large the consumer is very confident right now, and that usually leads to spending,” McAllister said.

Other indicators also point to a healthy season. ICSC, a trade association for the shopping center industry, this week released its ICSC-Goldman Sachs 2012 Holiday Spending Intentions Survey, which found that 19 percent of consumers plan to spend more, and 5 percent substantially more, on holiday gifts this year versus last year. It was the highest percentage of consumers reporting they intend to increase spending over the previous holiday season since ICSC began asking the question in 2004.

Retailers like West Elm are ready, beckoning gift givers. Stores are decked out with sparkly, eye-catching displays of items like candlesticks, ornaments and crystal paperweights.

“We’ve had lots of people shopping early, for several weeks,” said Ana Meza, an assistant manager at West Elm in Midtown Miami.

Without question, the holiday season is critical for retailers, a period when they typically generate 20 percent to 40 percent of the full year’s revenue.

This year brings an added bonus. With Thanksgiving falling early, the shopping season is stretched to 32 days, giving retailers more valuable time to rack up sales.

Shoppers like Jose Hernandez aren’t waiting for the last minute. Hernandez, who works as a civilian supervisor at the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport, Miss., and spends every other three months home in Miami, started his holiday shopping this week. He figures he spent $2,000 at Carter’s, GUESS, Marshalls and Target in Midtown, and plans to spend a total of $5,000 — up 40 percent from last year — before Christmas Day.

“The economy is going up,” said Hernandez, 44.

Yet experts say that many holiday revelers will avoid the stores all together, opting instead for online purchases.

Retail experts expect e-commerce to continue to post a dramatic increase this holiday season, up 15 percent. Though it still represents only about 5 percent of all shopping, online buying is the fastest-growing segment of the retail industry, McAllister said.

Many online sites are offering percentage discounts starting this weekend. Disney Store will offer a selection of “Magical Friday” deals on sale beginning Monday, at DisneyStore.com. Kohl’s is letting customers shop more than 500 “Early Bird specials” on Kohls.com starting Wednesday.

While apparel is expected to be the top category for purchases, gift cards are again projected to outsell any single article of merchandise. The National Retail Federation’s 2012 holiday consumer spending survey showed that 81.1 percent of shoppers will purchase at least one gift card, spending an average of $156.86 on them.

“Gift cards are the best invention ever,” said Jennifer Mayer, 44, a drug representative who has three daughters and lives in Miami Beach. “It’s not for everyone, but it’s great for those you don’t intimately know.”

This year, Mayer plans to buy gift cards at places like Starbucks, H&M, Forever 21 and Barnes & Noble.

“They’re great for bosses. They’re great for teenagers,” she said. “They’re a lifesaver.”

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Former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz pens book about reinventing the city

Former Miami mayors don’t usually write books anyone would want to publish, much less read.

Then there’s Manny Diaz. Whether you admire him like many in Miami and across the country do, or excoriate him as some at home did, Diaz was hardly shy about embracing big plans and notions. And few would disagree that the city was a far different place when he exited City Hall in 2009 after two terms in office.

So it should come as no surprise that Diaz has written a book for a national audience, recapping his greatest hits as mayor. Recall police reform and Irish-cop Chief John Timoney, Midtown Miami, the downtown condo boom, the “mega-plan’’ and the innovative Miami 21 zoning plan. It’s been published by the über-serious University of Pennsylvania Press. No vanity press project, this.

But Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time, is no policy wonk-fest, either. A breezy read at just over 200 pages — index and foreword by New York mayor and Diaz buddy Michael Bloomberg included — the book is meant as a concise case-study of how a poor, crime-ridden and economically stagnant medium-sized city can be swiftly transformed into a flourishing, swaggering metropolis with a hurtling skyline and its own Tom Wolfe novel.

“I wanted to keep the book short and easy to read,’’ said Diaz, who will appear at the Freedom Tower for the Miami Book Fair International on Friday evening. “You can lose someone with a 750-page book really fast. So it’s sort of conversational, talking about how we got to where we are.’’

If features, of course, an ambitious Cuban-refugee protagonist who arrived as a 6-year-old child, grew up happy in Little Havana despite poverty, studied hard and became a successful lawyer and behind-the-scenes political fundraiser and operative. Then he was thrust into the spotlight by the curious case of another young Cuban refuge-seeker: the rafter-child Elián González, whose Miami relatives Diaz famously represented.

Diaz was in the family home in Little Havana, working on last-minute negotiations, when the Border Patrol broke down the door at gunpoint to take Elián, and says he still feels betrayed by then-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, a former Miami-Dade state attorney who ordered the raid.

There is little inside baseball and only a few reveals: For instance, Diaz earned $1.10 an hour working as a janitor at Belen Jesuit Prep, where he was a student, under a federal jobs program.

All this and more is quickly recounted before Diaz, who wrote the book with longtime collaborator Ignacio Ortiz-Petit, gets into the heart of the matter: The eight years he served as mayor, which coincided with a dramatic real-estate boom and helped usher Miami into the rank of world cities with a changed downtown, regenerated neighborhoods, a growing, young population and the kind of buzz even the best promotional hype can’t buy.

The overriding goal of his administration, Diaz writes, was to bring the middle-class back to Miami from the suburbs by improving substandard city services, fostering both private development and affordable housing, and rebuilding crumbling streets. He also focused on creating alluring amenities, including parks, museums, and arts and cultural institutions, which he says are proven economic generators.

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Lily Collins Battles Creatures of the Underworld in 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones'

Mirror Mirror star Lily Collins faces a variety of decidedly nasty demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures in the upcoming thriller The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and we have a look at the action-packed trailer!

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Based on Cassandra Clare's best-selling book series, City of Bones casts Collins as Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager who discovers that she is part of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret force of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother (Lena Headey), she must embrace her fate and battle supernatural forces in a dangerous alternate New York City called Downworld.

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In theaters August 23, 2013, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones also stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jared Harris, CCH Pounder, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, Kevin Durand, Aidan Turner, Jemima West and Godfrey Gao.

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Pure self-defense

Benny Avni

After launching Israel’s first major military campaign of the Arab Spring era, Jerusalem is watching closely for reactions around the region — and in Washington.

President Obama, who has so far admirably backed Israel’s right to defend its citizens, will play a major role in this unfolding drama. How long will his support last?

To be sure, Operation Pillar of Defense (it’s actually “Pillar of Cloud” in Hebrew, a Biblical reference) wasn’t conceived as a test of Israel’s neighbors or the world. It was launched Wednesday to end weeks of rocket attacks from Gaza and a growing strategic threat.

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Innocents at risk: Israelis taking shelter this week against Hamas rockets in a large concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter in Kiryat Malachi.

Until Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s image was that of a tough-talker who’s actually extremely cautious about using the military.

Indeed, Netanyahu’s first term as prime minister, last decade, was the only premiership in Israeli history unmarred by war — and he could’ve easily sailed to victory in the Jan. 22 national election with the same record in this term.

Hamas’ leaders certainly saw Bibi as war-shy; they’ve been attacking southern Israel for weeks, apparently believing they could do so with impunity. They escalated the shooting, then started crowing about it — abandoning their past pretenses that small factions they couldn’t control were responsible.

The group’s military leaders no longer even sought shelter as the rockets rained down on Israel.

Oops: On Wednesday, an Israeli drone obliterated a car carrying one of those leaders, Ahmad Jaabari.

The pinpoint hit was not only based on impeccable intelligence, but also instantly documented on video for anyone with a Twitter account to see.

Over several years, Jaabari had transformed Hamas from a ragtag collection of disparate Islamist groups into a well-organized army. As its military commander, he masterminded numerous attacks against Israel, including the 2006 kidnapping of Sgt. Gilad Shalit.

Crucially, Jaabari used Iranian support to build an impressive arsenal, including dozens of long-range Fajr-5 missiles that can reach Tel Aviv — a strategic threat that Israel couldn’t ignore.

And didn’t: Before Hamas had time to catch its breath after the Jaabari execution, IDF air and naval assets launched a quick second phase, eliminating most of Gaza’s Fajr launchers and depriving Hamas of its “doomsday” weapon.

With that one-two punch, the IDF got its mojo back. It’s now continuing mop-up operations, trying to inflict maximum harm on Hamas’ military infrastructure.

As Hamas armed these last few years, Israel was creating (with US help) the Iron Dome anti-missile system, which proved to be a game-changer this week, intercepting over 80 percent of the hundreds of missiles launched from Gaza since Wednesday.

A couple of Fajr missiles did manage to survive the first-day attack, reaching the Tel Aviv area yesterday and landing in vacant lots. Three Israelis were also killed in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi.

Meanwhile, the IDF has managed to keep the Gaza noncombatant casualty count relatively low so far — considering that Hamas placed its missiles in densely-populated areas.

Yet Arabs across the region are understandably irate. Rulers like Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi must play a delicate game. Cairo recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv and got the UN Security Council to convene a symbolic “emergency” session Wednesday night.

Then again, Morsi has so far managed to rebuff the Islamist advisers who want him to nullify the peace treaty with Israel. And Egyptian intelligence officers are starting to mediate a cease-fire, using their established ties with Israel and Hamas.

But today Egypt’s prime minister, Hisham Qandil, plans to visit a Gaza mosque for Friday prayers. How long canMorsi ride the tiger of rising street anger?

Obama can help. He was likely informed of Israel’s intended action on Monday, when Netanyahu’s national security adviser, Yaakov Amidror, quietly visited the White House. On Wednesday, Obama spoke with Morsi on the phone, seeking to influence his next moves.

Publicly, the president expressed nearly unqualified support for Israel. But he’s under pressure from US allies in the region, including key Hamas supporters Turkey and Qatar, to reverse course. And some in his inner circles may see this as an opportunity to finally “put some distance” between America and Israel.

Tehran is watching. The mullahs may see the Gaza fight, and its effect on a region in turmoil, as a dress rehearsal for the much-discussed military confrontation over Iran’s nukes.

But even if Obama remains adamantly opposed to such confrontation, he’d be ill-advised to qualify America’s support for Israel’s current war against terrorists.

After all, it’s small-scale, intel-based, drone-fueled, assassination-rich warfare — the approach we’re now using in our wars.

beavni@gmail.com

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Watchdog groups question tourism agency’s CEO pick

TALLAHASSEE --
The day after the CEO of the state’s top tourism agency announced he was stepping down, board members quickly handpicked his replacement.

There was only one problem. Picking Visit Florida’s chief marketing officer Will Seccombe to head the agency without doing a national search could upset the agency’s main funders — state legislators and Gov. Rick Scott.

Visit Florida’ solution: give a recruiting firm a no-bid, $45,000, two-month contract to conduct a nationwide CEO search. The firm, Minnesota-based Searchwide, just happened to be the same one that brought in Seccombe five years earlier.

Now, a state watchdog group is slamming the agency's recruiting process, saying it suggests either favoritism, government waste, or both.

The developments highlight the awkward relationship between Visit Florida's board and elected state officials who control so much of the agency's budget. While the board appears set to hire Seccombe, its handling of the transition process could lead to more scrutiny from the very lawmakers who control the agency's purse strings

“Visit Florida claims to be an equal opportunity employer, but it appears they have rigged their hiring process to unfairly benefit the acting president,” said Dan Krassner, executive director for Integrity Florida, which advocates for tougher ethics laws, and is now questioning whether the swift recruiting process is completely open and fair.

Searchwide, which signed the contract on Oct. 5, did not respond to requests for comments. The agency is expected to complete its nationwide search by early December.

Experts in the field of executive talent recruitment say that such a short period is abnormal for a national CEO search.

“That’s a really aggressive timetable,” said Theresa Rohr, senior associate at Stanton Chase International, a global executive search firm with offices in San Francisco. “For a CEO, very aggressive.”

While Searchwide is a top name in the hospitality industry, Visit Florida has used it only once before: to recruit Seccombe in 2007.

Visit Florida’s former CEO, Chris Thompson, who left in October to head up a national tourism agency, defended the decision to give the contract to Searchwide. While Seccombe may have an advantage as an “incumbent,” all candidates will be considered, he said.

He pointed out that Searchwide also had been retained by Visit Orlando for an executive search this year.

“It is absolutely in no way, shape or form going through the motions,” Thompson said. “It is a legitimate search.”

But Visit Orlando offers a useful comparison. The Central Florida tourism agency hired Searchwide to do a national search for a CEO back in May. A spokesman said the organization doesn’t expect the process to be completed until January. Several other companies that have contracted with Searchwide have given the company more than six months to complete a national search.

When Thompson announced he was leaving, some board members, in an emergency meeting, quickly decided to promote Seccombe to the $225,000-a-year CEO position.

Doing so would allow the state-funded agency to have a permanent CEO in place before Scott and the Legislature began making crucial decisions about how much taxpayer money the organization should get next year.

“I don’t think we need to put the time, money and effort into a nationwide search,” said John Perez, a hotel executive who sits on Visit Florida’s board. “I think we have a very competent replacement for Chris, in Will, already in place.”

But some board members were concerned about the perception of appointing a new CEO without consulting the Legislature or conducting an official search — something they believed Scott, Florida’s businessman-turned-governor, would expect.

Visit Florida relies on the Florida Legislature for a large chunk of its operating revenue. The public-private organization bolsters its budget with free advertising from private partners, but its cash revenue is overwhelmingly taxpayer-funded. That means the Legislature and governor hold sway over the future finances of the organization.

Visit Florida has been a darling of Scott and the Legislature in recent years. As most state agencies weathered drastic budget cuts in the last two years, Visit Florida saw its taxpayer funding more than double to $54 million.

At least one Visit Florida board member said the Legislature feels it should have a say in how the agency conducts because of lawmakers’ generosity.

“I think if we’ve all learned anything from our past, it is that there is a certain entitlement from the Legislature because there’s so much funding that they now allow us to have,” said Carol Dover, president of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association.

The organization should “dot all our I’s and cross all our T’s” before appointing Seccombe as CEO, she warned.

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More I-595 ramp changes coming to Hiatus, Flamingo exits

A major ramp change beginning Friday morning will affect how drivers get off westbound Interstate 595 at Hiatus and Flamingo roads. At 5 a.m. Friday, the combined off-ramp will open, and the current ramps will permanently close.

Drivers trying to enter westbound I-595 from Nob Hill or Hiatus roads will find those on-ramps closed. Instead, they’ll travel west on State Road 84 and merge onto I-595 just east of Flamingo.

The changes are designed to improve traffic flow and eliminate weaving caused by traffic entering I-595 in the same spot as traffic trying to get to the next exit.

Read the full story at Sun-Sentinel.com.

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Verizon says 1.4 million customers back on its fiber optic network

(Reuters) – Verizon Communications said fiber optic services have been restored to more than 1.4 million customers hurt by Hurricane Sandy.

The provider of telephone, Internet and television services said on November 1 that it may take another two weeks to restore telecommunication services for its customers after flooding and power outages knocked out services.

The company said it completed 364,000 repairs across the mid-Atlantic and northeast regions.

Verizon said it will provide credits for landline customers and fix equipment damaged due to the hurricane.

Verizon shares were up at $ 42.39 after the bell on Wednesday. They closed at $ 42.24 on the New York Stock Exchange.

(Reporting By Pallavi Ail in Bangalore; Editing by Maju Samuel)

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Soros Ex-tra

Jennifer Gould Keil

Susan Weber Soros (pictured), ex-wife of billionaire George Soros, can easily afford to buy a new trophy home even though she’s still trying to find a deep-pocketed buyer for her current residence.

She just purchased an East 70th Street townhouse near Park Avenue for its full $22.5 million asking price. The five-floor mansion, which was listed by Brown Harris Stevens broker Paula Del Nunzio, was built in 1869 and offers 6,660 square feet with five bedrooms, four-plus bathrooms, an elevator, two terraces and a chef’s kitchen and breakfast room in a glass gazebo that leads to the 26-foot-deep garden.

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Soros still has her 6,000-square-foot, five-bedroom unit at the Majestic on Central Park West listed for a show-stopping $50 million. Fully furnished, it comes with a separate, one-bedroom “staff” apartment.

Supermodel takes a peek

Dutch damsel/Victoria’s Secret angel Doutzen Kroes (pictured) is on the hunt for a townhouse to share with DJ husband Sunnery James and their 1-year-old son, Phyllon Joy Gorre,

Our spies spotted her traipsing through Chelsea, where she looked at one $4.5 million listing. Kroes was No. 5 on Forbes’ 2012 list of highest-paid models, with $6.9 million in yearly earnings.

Fifth dimensions

A four-bedroom, 3 1/2-bathroom, 3,335-square-foot condo at 1049 Fifth Ave., the building that’s been home to Mariah Carey and Rush Limbaugh, is on the market for $13.5 million. The apartment features stunning Central Park Reservoir views, with a living room, formal dining room, library and breakfast room that all face the park.

Broker Carol Staab of Prudential Douglas Elliman has the listing.

Majestic indeed

Famed collage artist Barbara Kruger, known for her layered black-and-white photos overlaid with bold red captions, is in contract to buy a penthouse loft at the Majestic on Central Park West.

The apartment, which had a $2.25 million asking price and is billed as “an art lover’s dream,” was designed by architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. The one-bedroom, one-bathroom co-op offers “breathtaking, panoramic views” of Central Park and Fifth Avenue. Customized features include museum-quality lighting and motorized shades.

Broker Michael Graves of Core had the listing.

Better Laight

Michael Rennie, a director at consulting firm McKinsey’s Sydney office, has just sold his TriBeCa penthouse at 48 Laight St. for $4.52 million.

The buyer, businessman Anthony Imperapo, who bid significantly above the $4.25 million asking price, will get three bedrooms and three bathrooms in its 2,566 square feet.

The sprawling residence is a full-floor loft with 12-foot-ceilings, a “state-of-the-art chef’s kitchen” and floor-to-ceiling casement windows with downtown views. The apartment also has a 900-square-foot private terrace.

The buyer was represented by Corcoran Group brokers Victoria
Terri-Cote and Cristina Cote. The seller was represented by Tim Cass, also of the Corcoran Group.

Checking in

Some downtown celebrities displaced by Hurricane Sandy are now staying at the Mercer Hotel. Among the temporary residents at the SoHo mainstay are Courtney Love and Colin Farrell, both of whom have been spotted at the hotel by our spies. The 75-room boutique property is the sister hotel of Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont.

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Steve Wozniak, Chris Hughes share tales with Coconut Grove audience

Co-founders from two of Silicon Valley’s most innovative companies gave a South Florida audience a glimpse into the early days of developing the technology that would reshape the world.

Steve Wozniak, formerly of Apple, and Chris Hughes, of Facebook, were back-to-back speakers of the three-day Americas Business Council’s Continuity Forum that wrapped up Wednesday at the Ritz-Carlton in Coconut Grove.

The conference brought together innovators, activists, and thought leaders in entrepreneurship and philanthropy and also showcased 32 emerging social entrepreneurial ventures from around the Americas.

On Wednesday afternoon, both men relayed plenty of stories.

As a teenager, Wozniak used to hole up in his bedroom on the weekends, designing a computer on paper.

And he made a game of it — every weekend he would try to make a machine that would work just as well or better but cost a little less than the last design.

That engineering mentality to build things more efficiently as well as the desire to learn never left him, he told the audience. “I would buy my college books on a Friday and be halfway through before the first class on Monday.”

Then he met Steve Jobs, and began working with him on a variety of projects. “Steve Jobs was a hippie with no money. I was an engineer with no money. We had to think creatively. I designed projects for fun, and he would figure out how to make money,” Wozniak recalled as he told how he invented the Apple I and Apple II that started it all and the company’s ups and downs through the years. He called the iPhone the greatest product ever.

As one of the Facebook co-founders that lived in the famous Harvard dorm room, Chris Hughes said the movie The Social Network got a lot of things wrong.

“Our dorm wasn’t like a luxury condo, there was no sex in the bathroom, as far as I know. An alcohol-fueled hackathon, while it looked like a lot of fun, didn’t happen.”

Hughes told the story of Facebook and described his roommate Mark Zuckerberg as “highly analytical and very skeptical of conventional wisdom.” What the movie did get right, Hughes told the crowd: “Facebook is the defining example of American ingenuity and entrepreneurship of the 21st century.” And at the core: “There’s a new universal respect for the entrepreneur.”

Hughes, now owner and publisher of The New Republic, also talked about his current passion: How to use mobile and social technologies to support serious long-form journalism into the 21st century.

“Conventional wisdom says this kind of journalism isn’t sustainable. Cynics say the golden age of journalism has past,” said Hughes.

Yet, over the past six months Hughes said it is the long, in-depth New Republic stories that have gone viral.

“Folks are reading just as much news today, if not more. ... We have an opportunity to deliver it across a limitless number of devices. [These trends] all come together to suggest … we are entering a true golden age of journalism.”

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Parkland pot grower guilty of murder

WEST PALM BEACH --
For five years, Edwin Febonio has been waiting for his son’s murderer to be brought to justice.

When a jury Tuesday convicted former Parkland pot-grower Jose Alfaro of second-degree murder for shooting Stephen Febonio in the back of the head, stuffing his body in a freezer and burying it in a Delray Beach yard, the dead man’s 78-year-old father wiped tears from his eyes and hugged one of his son’s lifelong friends.

“I’m real happy,” the elder Febonio, a retired Peabody, Mass., police officer, said outside the courtroom.

Alfaro, who bragged about his lucrative marijuana grow-house business but insisted he wasn’t a murderer when he testified in his defense, showed no emotion as Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies slapped on the handcuffs to take him back to jail. Attorney Michael Cohen said he was glad his 31-year-old client avoided a first-degree murder conviction.

“You’re never satisfied with a guilty verdict,” he said. But the jury’s decision may mean Alfaro could one day walk free, he said.

Prosecutors Aleathea McRoberts and Cheryl Caracuzzo said they are hoping he doesn’t. They said they will ask Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Richard Oftedal to send Alfaro to prison for life when he is sentenced Jan. 2.

Further, they said, because the jury found Alfaro guilty of using a firearm to kill Febonio, he will spend at least 25 years in prison with no ability to earn gain time. If he gets a life sentence, he will die in prison because Florida abolished parole more than 20 years ago.

“We’re satisfied we did the right thing,” McRoberts said.

The 2007 murder confounded sheriff’s detectives for two years. A note Febonio, 45, left with his parents before his disappearance provided clues but no proof of his murder. If he disappeared, he told them to contact federal agents.

He stumbled onto Alfaro’s marijuana operation when he did construction work for him. Febonio threatened to tell police about the enterprise if Alfaro didn’t pay him the $10,000 he was owed.

Eventually, some of those involved in the operation began cooperating with sheriff’s Detective Sean Oliver. The detective found Febonio’s body in a freezer buried in the backyard of a house Alfaro rented in Delray Beach. Alfaro fled to New York, where he was arrested.

During his testimony last week, Alfaro turned the tables on his accusers. He claimed an “associate” who helped Oliver build the case against him was the trigger man. He claimed the associate, Doc Morrow, shot Febonio in Alfaro’s Parkland home. At the time, he said he was at a friend’s house smoking pot.

Prosecutors challenged Alfaro’s claims, pointing out that he had never denied his involvement, much less fingered Morrow. Why, they asked, didn’t he tell investigators if he was innocent?

Alfaro responded: “If I’m going to tell anybody it’s going to be a jury. I’m not going to cooperate with law enforcement.”

Cohen claimed the prosecutors violated Alfaro’s constitutional rights by putting his client in the position of having to prove his innocence.

Alfaro also faces federal charges for stealing a man’s identity, which he used to get a passport. He tried to use it to flee to Costa Rica, but authorities there denied him entry.

In the meantime, Edwin Febonio said he was anxious to tell his wife that their son’s killer had been convicted. While he attended every day of the weeklong trial, he said he purposely didn’t look at some of the more grisly evidence of his son’s murder.

“I want to remember him the way he was,” he said.

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Now LIPA’s chief has something in common with thousands of Long Island residents — they’re out of power.
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Brooklyn bus riders on an extremely busy - but super pokey - route will soon be getting dedicated transit lanes and faster service courtesy of Uncle Sam.
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ucJlfbpN1pD2XbkxBRx5OJBy LAURA ITALIANOManhattanA grand jury has voted a throw-away-the-key indictment -- charging first degree murder -- against Yoselyn Ortega, the nanny accused in the bathtub slashing deaths of two young Upper West Side children under her care.
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Forcing utilities to bury overhead lines is one of the more eye-catching – and expensive – suggestions City Council Speaker Christine Quinn put forth in a half policy, half campaign speech this morning.
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A Queens thug's charges were upgraded by a grand jury today for allegedly killing a man who testified against him in an earlier robbery case.
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The young woman seen in this recently released surveillance video swiped a beloved pooch from a Manhattan real estate investor on Sept. 11.
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The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel -- which was flooded with millions of gallons of water during superstorm Sandy — will be reopened soon, according to a government source.
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She just got out of jail for pocketing $2 million in donations from her bogus "Hope for Disabled Kids" car-donation charity -- and now scammer Tirnawati Shoba Bakhsh is back behind bars, accused of collecting Medicaid and food stamps while running the scam.
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Superstorm Sandy has caused damage to thousands of cars in the Port of New York and New Jersey that were heading to vehicle sales lots around the region.
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Wanted for murder and on the run from the police in Belize, tech pioneer John McAfee says that he didn’t kill his neighbor and that whoever did might have been gunning for him.
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Raul Barrera in court today. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.




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A New York attorney has filed a lawsuit claiming negligence by two Long Island power companies after Superstorm Sandy and the nor'easter.
Kenneth Mollins said the lawsuit filed Tuesday in state Supreme Court seeks unspecified damages.
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A utility worker from Lakeland, Fla., was punched in the face while walking outside a restaurant on New York's Long Island.
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On last night's episode of "The Daily Show," host Jon Stewart mocked his own lack of journalistic instinct when it came to the interview he did with David Petraeus' mistress Paula Broadwell earlier this year.
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mI1zpJ6Qils04m144HmSGIBy GEOFF EARLE and DAN MANGANNationalBoth Gen. David Petraeus and Gen. John Allen intervened in the same nasty child custody battle involving Natalie Khawam, the “psychologically unstable” twin sister of Jill Kelley, whose bombshell claims of being threatened by Petraeus' lover led to the top spy’s resignation last week, the Post has learned.
Allen...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:55:55 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/battle_john_allen_also_helped_jill_YjkEYUNY2INC4smBMEYqUI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/battle_john_allen_also_helped_jill_YjkEYUNY2INC4smBMEYqUI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
YjkEYUNY2INC4smBMEYqUIBy MICHAEL BLAUSTEIN
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Even though disgraced former CIA director David Petraeus' real career is over, his virtual career continues apace seeing as he is the Secretary of Defense in the new 'Call of Duty' video game which is expected to be the highest grossing game of all time.
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kp2VKLDYcp7ZWU1xQND1bOBy MICHAEL SHAIN, KATE SHEEHY and DAVID K. LILocalThe man who accused Elmo’s real-life persona, Kevin Clash of an underaged hookup has recanted his story, his legal representatives said today in an email, calling the relationship 'consensual.'
This office represented the 23-year-old man who was the subject of many media reports regarding Kevin Clash,” according to the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:08:00 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/elmo_voice_sorry_for_sex_talk_report_KKzUUtI0gpWh5dRfX2NmlK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/elmo_voice_sorry_for_sex_talk_report_KKzUUtI0gpWh5dRfX2NmlK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
KKzUUtI0gpWh5dRfX2NmlKBy DOUG AUER
Staten Island
The husband of a city schoolteacher mysteriously found dead inside their Staten Island home this summer was arrested this morning for murder, The Post has learned.
Jonathan Crupi was collared at his mother’s home where he had been staying since the July 5 slaying of Simeonette Mapes-Crupi, law enforcement...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:05:48 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/staten_island/hubby_busted_in_si_teacher_wife_QNdHj5TsooUdfwoMoJ3byO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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New York City says it's launching "one-stop restoration centers" that will provide recovery services and disaster relief.
The offices will be located in Far Rockaway and Breezy Point, Queens; Coney Island, Red Hook and Gravesend, Brooklyn; and on Staten Island.
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MOUNT OLIVE, NJ — The Christmas tree that will dominate New York's Rockefeller Center survived the winds of Superstorm Sandy that left a path of destruction in a New Jersey town and even its donor without electricity for weeks.
Joe Balku, 76, learned that the 80-foot Norway spruce had been...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:29:41 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/rockefeller_center_christmas_tree_wX0kNadkF0hY3BlPx1KZHM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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A 4-year-old girl from Kansas City has been delivering toys to New York City children affected by Superstorm Sandy.
Katherine Schell tells WCBS-TV that she was worried about other kids who "lost their animals."
Her mom, Katie Schell, says it was Katherine's idea to bring the toys to New...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:28:37 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/missouri_girl_brings_toys_to_ny_UZYqtyYNArKTgMY2xgev7N?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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UZYqtyYNArKTgMY2xgev7NNationalCLEVELAND — In a highly public sentence, a woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to avoid a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children stood in the cold at an intersection holding a sign warning people about idiots.
A Cleveland Municipal Court judge ordered 32-year-old Shena Hardin to serve...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:22:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/judge_shames_woman_public_drove_yCxEVHQNzaPBOwjSwG5I0H?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/judge_shames_woman_public_drove_yCxEVHQNzaPBOwjSwG5I0H?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
yCxEVHQNzaPBOwjSwG5I0HBy ERIK KRISS and JOSH MARGOLINLocalGov. Cuomo has launched investigations into every state-licensed power utility in the region to determine how they performed after Hurricane Sandy.
“I’m going to do a thorough review/investigation, and they will be held accountable for past performance, and we have to make sure we are prepared for when...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:25:51 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/gov_we_ll_probe_lipa_and_others_GwPqryDNzdEhQyCbKtz6JP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/gov_we_ll_probe_lipa_and_others_GwPqryDNzdEhQyCbKtz6JP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
GwPqryDNzdEhQyCbKtz6JPBy ANDY SOLTISInternational









Take them down and box them up, Lance.
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong tweeted a brazen photo of himself on Saturday lying next to his seven ill-gained Tour de France victory jerseys — tokens of titles that were ultimately stripped from him due to doping allegations.
“Back in Austin and just layin...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:21:09 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/lance_is_livingwrong_UFQJSLBg7LTJz00PURwHDK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Internationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/lance_is_livingwrong_UFQJSLBg7LTJz00PURwHDK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=International
UFQJSLBg7LTJz00PURwHDKBy LORENA MONGELLI and JESSICA SIMEONE
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An elderly churchgoing woman was killed yesterday by a fire that swept through her Brooklyn apartment building, authorities said.Olga Bates, 91, a widow who relatives said was “very religious,” was found unconscious on the second floor of the Prospect Heights building and later died, cops said.“She was super...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:24:04 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/apt_fire_kills_woman_MPr5HITDOrfa70gCuynMqN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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MPr5HITDOrfa70gCuynMqNBy JENNIFER FERMINO, KENNETH GARGER and LEONARD GREENELocal



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GIVING IT A WHIRL: The Marine chopper scheduled to shuttle President Obama around the city Thursday takes off during a test run yesterday in Miller Field on Staten Island, where he'll meet Mayor Bloomberg.




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8Z2yJTgvJw4cllnhSgr5sOBy GEOFF EARLE, JEANE MACINTOSH and DAN MANGANNationalGen. David Petraeus sure loved helping his lady friends.
While he was director of the CIA, Petraeus wrote a letter supporting the child-custody fight of the “psychologically unstable” twin sister of his close friend Jill Kelley — whose bombshell claims of being threatened by his lover led to the top spy...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:41:56 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/twisted_sister_wPCTY0kcH9xu9DPh8RN7yL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/twisted_sister_wPCTY0kcH9xu9DPh8RN7yL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
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One Direction member Louis Tomlinson, left, performs on NBC's "Today" show.




The boys of One Direction are banking that their remarkable journey to fame has at least one more year of glory.
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Now all they have to do is kiss.
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson looked as if they had made up last night for the premiere of “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II.”
It was the former — and possibly current — couple’s first red-carpet appearance together since they split...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:22:42 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/you_cheat_heart_yUwHbs2aMTVFIR6fON1usI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/you_cheat_heart_yUwHbs2aMTVFIR6fON1usI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
yUwHbs2aMTVFIR6fON1usIBy DAVID SEIFMANLocalIt’s victims helping victims.
Families that lost loved ones when Flight 587 crashed in the Rockaways in 2001 are taking up a collection for residents of the battered shorefront community still struggling to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.
The poignant gesture will raise thousands, not millions. Most...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:44:44 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/friends_in_grief_mQNtNL8c4I8DviPiTjNVZP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/friends_in_grief_mQNtNL8c4I8DviPiTjNVZP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
mQNtNL8c4I8DviPiTjNVZPBy YOAV GONEN and LIZ SADLERQueens



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Debris from damaged homes lies piled up across the street from the shuttered PS 114 in Belle Harbor.





Hurricane Sandy scattered hundreds of students from one Queens school — to locales as far away as Nashville.
At least 230 students from Belle Harbor’s PS 114 have enrolled in public...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:34:45 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/queens_school_student_exodus_aSJ7CNcOEKjtHNuMK34jdN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Queenshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/queens_school_student_exodus_aSJ7CNcOEKjtHNuMK34jdN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Queens
aSJ7CNcOEKjtHNuMK34jdNBy TIM PERONE
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In a shocking twist, the top US military commander in Afghanistan been caught up in the Petraeus sex scandal.
Marine Gen. John Allen is being investigated for “inappropriate communications” with Jill Kelley — the woman harassed by e-mails allegedly sent by David Petraeus’ mistress.
Allen, 58, who succeeded Petraeus as top...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:12:50 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/scandal_scorches_gen_allen_AZHta5ka2gdzNJoiTRBonL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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AZHta5ka2gdzNJoiTRBonLBy GERRY SHIELDS in DC and ERIK KRISS in AlbanyNational



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BIG HIT: Gov. Chris Christie’s political aspirations are taking a hit over his warm embrace of President Obama after Hurricane Sandy ravaged New Jersey.





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NICK OF TIME: Rescuers aid Evelyn Ross yesterday after she was saved from her burning Long Island home by John Curley.





A Long Island firefighter who’s also one of the FDNY’s Bravest smashed a window of a burning Bellmore home with his bare hands and dragged...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:12:50 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hero_blaze_of_glory_amTN98lpBniq27eyuKSBvJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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amTN98lpBniq27eyuKSBvJBy DAREH GREGORIANLocal



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DON'T TICKLE ME! Kevin Clash, with Muppet, Elmo, insists that his young accuser was of legal age when their “relationship” began.




Say it ain’t so, Elmo!
Kevin Clash — the puppeteer who transformed a furry red Muppet named Elmo into an international sensation — has...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:12:50 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/red_devil_A7am2HfVcojV0taES8KkoL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/red_devil_A7am2HfVcojV0taES8KkoL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
A7am2HfVcojV0taES8KkoLBy BETSY McCAUGHEYOped ColumnistsPresident Obama’s re-election and Democratic gains in the US Senate end any possibility of repealing the Obama health law. It will roll out as written, imposing major changes soon on you and your family. If you are uninsured because you can’t afford it, help may be on the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:44:05 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/beware_obamacare_now_reality_YT42eCrsbtZC3KbDONGm4O?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnistshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/beware_obamacare_now_reality_YT42eCrsbtZC3KbDONGm4O?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnists
YT42eCrsbtZC3KbDONGm4OBy MITCHEL MADDUX
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They say he’s too dumb to die for his heinous crimes.
A federal judge has scheduled a series of hearings later this month for testimony about whether a man convicted of the execution-style murder of two undercover NYPD officers is mentally competent to face the death penalty — again.
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WSogpvSy1UnYg77JlpaXfKBy ANDY SOLTISLocalIt’s official: The Rolling Stones are coming to Brooklyn.
The band added a show on Dec. 8, a Saturday, at Barclays Center, to their new tour.
Tickets will go on sale Monday at 10 a.m.
The show will be the first US date of their “The Stones — 50...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:42:18 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/stones_start_up_in_yn_4dhEExM5GcJR2YdALH6iIP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/stones_start_up_in_yn_4dhEExM5GcJR2YdALH6iIP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
4dhEExM5GcJR2YdALH6iIPBy ANDY SOLTISLocalThe perfect single New York City woman is a brown-eyed, nonsmoking, social-drinking brunette — with a master’s degree.And Gotham guys would be willing to spend $266.25 on a first date with their dream girl, according to a new survey by a sugar-daddy dating Web site.Some 5,000...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:42:16 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/meet_the_perfect_nyc_gal_S6fL2vGSXseb87CkvlC5ZK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/meet_the_perfect_nyc_gal_S6fL2vGSXseb87CkvlC5ZK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
S6fL2vGSXseb87CkvlC5ZKBy GERRY SHIELDS and JOSH MARGOLIN
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Whatever you do, don’t tell the boss.
White House aides appear to have gone out of their way to avoid informing President Obama about the Petraeus affair, and people in Washington want to know why.
“It’s way too convenient,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), a member of the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:14:13 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/critics_rankled_by_dicey_timing_maChd2L4XxBsZpsdfMZCnK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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maChd2L4XxBsZpsdfMZCnKBy JOSH MARGOLINNationalPresident Obama is holding on to Eric Holder as the nation’s top law-enforcement official, The Post has learned.
The newly re-elected president asked his controversial attorney general to stay for the second term, and Holder has agreed despite enduring a firestorm of criticism from Republican lawmakers.
“I don’t...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:04:09 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/keeps_holder_as_ag_KiFdPvjU8lAh00dkcJNTZN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/keeps_holder_as_ag_KiFdPvjU8lAh00dkcJNTZN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
KiFdPvjU8lAh00dkcJNTZNBy JOSEF FEDERMANInternationalJERUSALEM — An Israeli tank scored “direct hits” yesterday on a Syrian army vehicle after a mortar shell landed on Israeli-held territory, the military said, in the first direct confrontation between the countries since the Syrian uprising broke out.
Israel has tried to avoid getting sucked into the bloody Syrian conflict...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:03:16 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/in_syria_crossfire_YruhvtNFOtjXmjEQ834W6O?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Internationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/in_syria_crossfire_YruhvtNFOtjXmjEQ834W6O?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=International
YruhvtNFOtjXmjEQ834W6OBy RITA DELFINER
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John McAfee, founder of the anti-virus software company, that bears his name, is being sought for questioning in the murder of a neighbor in Belize, local police said yesterday.
Cops want to talk to McAfee, 67 — who sold the company to Intel in 2010 for $7.7 billion — in connection...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:03:16 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/tech_mogul_slay_suspect_iAGbIjPQXeABPtkuRKVEMP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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iAGbIjPQXeABPtkuRKVEMPBy SALLY GOLDENBERG
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When it comes to new development projects, the Bloomberg administration is closed for business.
That’s because the mayor’s people — with an eye toward his legacy — have carefully crafted a special list of high-profile priority projects to fast-track before Bloomberg’s third term ends in 14 months, putting all...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:53:50 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mike_legacy_list_is_priority_for_AXU2H9VADBBMOVQMOV7MtJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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AXU2H9VADBBMOVQMOV7MtJBy BRUCE GOLDINGManhattanSeptember 11 changed everything for this hardhat — including his sex life.
A construction worker who breathed “toxic smoke and fumes” while working five weeks at Ground Zero said he was left with a litany of ailments, including erectile dysfunction.
Steven O’Hara of upstate Wingdale clocked 12-hour days monitoring the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:53:50 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/hardhat_downer_Gm4Du1U2iB5HZka7RYcVmO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Manhattanhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/hardhat_downer_Gm4Du1U2iB5HZka7RYcVmO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Manhattan
Gm4Du1U2iB5HZka7RYcVmOBy GERRY SHIELDS, Post CorrespondentNationalWASHINGTON — President Obama will have to give to get.
Opponents of Obama’s signature health-care law are pushing for costs of the plan to be part of the negotiations over preventing the so-called fiscal cliff, while supporters are trying to keep cuts off the table.
Obama will begin a series...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:53:50 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/surgical_trike_Mnxmnw34jnZXTlJTOKSUnL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/surgical_trike_Mnxmnw34jnZXTlJTOKSUnL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
Mnxmnw34jnZXTlJTOKSUnLBy DOUG AUER, KIRSTAN CONLEY, JESSICA SIMONENYPD BlotterManhattan

A serial bank robber was done in when a detective recognized his mug from a prior arrest, law-enforcement sources said.
Robert Connolly, 54, allegedly scored $3,495 from the Valley National Bank on Fourth Avenue near East 12th Street on Oct. 10 by handing a teller a demand note...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:10:54 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nypd_blotter/nypd_daily_blotter_Qd7KReLrQOOYBsktG8wwyN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=NYPD Blotterhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nypd_blotter/nypd_daily_blotter_Qd7KReLrQOOYBsktG8wwyN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=NYPD Blotter
Qd7KReLrQOOYBsktG8wwyNBy SALLY GOLDENBERG
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This parking rule must be from the age of horse and buggy.
A city councilman is looking to revamp a law that allows cars to park 15 feet from hydrants in a no-standing zone while dropping off or picking up a passenger, as long as the driver is in the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:05:29 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hydrant_rule_is_all_wet_pol_yqzV0eB6scl7xZ8aRayl7N?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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ALDEN, NY — Mourners overflowed a church in western New York on Veterans Day to pay tribute to a US Army reservist killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.The funeral for Sgt. Brett Gornewicz, 27, of Alden, 20 miles east of Buffalo, was standing room only at St. John’s...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:05:29 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sad_last_salute_for_upstate_gi_CivnYogagaWX1drAnFdpaP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — A man stole a car used to deliver Chinese food — then continued dropping off orders so he could keep the customers’ money, police said.Keith Hinds, 45, was charged Friday with larceny and other charges.West Hartford police received a call from a Chinese-food delivery driver reporting...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:58:37 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/wanton_thief_wonton_thief_MLLQG0w6ZKfABUZ2r1DLEI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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MLLQG0w6ZKfABUZ2r1DLEIBy LEONARD GREENELocalFill ’er up!New Jersey will end its gas-rationing policy today now that pressure at the pump has been eased. Gov. Chris Christie says that gas supplies are plentiful throughout the Garden State and that there are no more lines of cars waiting for fuel.Christie imposed the odd-even restrictions...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:54:36 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nj_has_had_fill_of_rationing_4vOcrLiDuB4zPGPTdp7ArM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nj_has_had_fill_of_rationing_4vOcrLiDuB4zPGPTdp7ArM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
4vOcrLiDuB4zPGPTdp7ArMBy ANTHONY MCCARTNEYNationalLOS ANGELES — A judge has cut by more than half the $40 million jury verdict that casino mogul Steve Wynn was recently awarded against “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis.
The ruling by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joanne O’Donnell on Friday eliminates $20 million in punitive damages the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:53:55 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/wy_er_is_now_lo_er_4pZLlwFHlm3dJSa8ZHO5qN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/wy_er_is_now_lo_er_4pZLlwFHlm3dJSa8ZHO5qN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
4pZLlwFHlm3dJSa8ZHO5qNBy JOSH SAULLocalThis “long shot” fell way short.
Embattled city Comptroller John Liu suffered another setback yesterday when two of his key fund-raisers charged with fraud saw their motions to suppress certain evidence and dismiss the case slapped down by a federal judge.
Liu campaign treasurer Jia “Jenny” Hou moved to suppress...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:53:46 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/comptroller_cronies_liu_sers_in_ADg5pOQydLF6q7lmBuihuM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/comptroller_cronies_liu_sers_in_ADg5pOQydLF6q7lmBuihuM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
ADg5pOQydLF6q7lmBuihuMBy DAVID SEIFMANLocalFormer Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión (pictured) is planning to enter the 2013 mayoral race — but as a Republican, not a Democrat, according to political sources.
Carrión, 51, who served briefly in the Obama administration, has quietly changed his voter registration from Democrat to independent and hopes to run on...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:53:43 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/carrion_to_run_for_mayor_as_goper_m2sLp5ZAhE6OUPfZ9slrbN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/carrion_to_run_for_mayor_as_goper_m2sLp5ZAhE6OUPfZ9slrbN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
m2sLp5ZAhE6OUPfZ9slrbNEditorialsDavid Petraeus served the United States of America with honor and distinction for nearly four decades.
Then he stumbled. That much is clear.
But everything else about L’affaire Petraeus is a jumbled mess, and the best advice for anyone trying to make sense of it is really quite simple...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:20:44 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/time_to_tell_the_truth_4ZXE6ZPjLyGSwZTudiwPON?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Editorialshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/time_to_tell_the_truth_4ZXE6ZPjLyGSwZTudiwPON?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Editorials
4ZXE6ZPjLyGSwZTudiwPONEditorials“The power restoration and fuel-delivery efforts of the past two weeks have allowed lines to subside, lessening the need for this type of rationing system. Now is an appropriate time to end it.” — Kevin Roberts, spokesman forGov. Chris Christie, announcing that post-Sandy
gas rationing would end in New Jersey at...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:20:44 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/good_gas_news_in_jersey_igaBAYc0cD2rE2eC1VtUgJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Editorialshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/good_gas_news_in_jersey_igaBAYc0cD2rE2eC1VtUgJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Editorials
igaBAYc0cD2rE2eC1VtUgJEditorialsFormer state Comptroller Alan Hevesi comes up for his initial parole hearing this week, perhaps today, having served 18 months of a one-to-four-year sentence for a “pay-to-play” scheme involving state pension-fund investments.
Hevesi’s corruption conviction ended his three-decade service on the public payroll, including membership in the state Assembly...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:20:44 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/keep_alan_on_ice_0zvvJjrxh8bgkYC8EtuEpL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Editorialshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/keep_alan_on_ice_0zvvJjrxh8bgkYC8EtuEpL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Editorials
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Manhattan
The man charged with fatally stabbing his mother and slashing and trying to incinerate his brother in their East Harlem apartment was held without bail at his arraignment yesterday. David Elias, 31, was led from Manhattan Criminal Court to jail yesterday, staggering and swaying in his handcuffs and leg chains...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:18:25 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/no_bail_for_son_in_mom_slay_horror_CG5djb2vLZivpXDfriPyaN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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Local
The most touchdowns at the first Super Bowl hosted at the Meadowlands will be scored by rich fans flying in via private jet.An $11 million private air terminal is quietly being constructed at Newark Airport to lure the jet set that is sure to converge for the 2014 Super...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:16:40 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/super_bowl_vip_air_game_SAahfvJHkTT6AQScwrXzgL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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SAahfvJHkTT6AQScwrXzgLBy DAREH GREGORIANNationalBeyoncé might be summoned to a command performance — singing under oath.A state appeals court has given a $100 million lawsuit against the “Single Ladies” singer the green light, paving the way for the superstar to testify at a deposition.In a unanimous decision, the Appellate Division denied a bid...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:16:04 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/suit_vs_beyonce_ok_sLXAJWL9NJGcBAUlSFRD2K?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/suit_vs_beyonce_ok_sLXAJWL9NJGcBAUlSFRD2K?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
sLXAJWL9NJGcBAUlSFRD2KBy KAJA WHITEHOUSEBusinessThe Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday suffered yet another defeat in its efforts to hold Wall Street accountable for losses stemming from the financial meltdown after a Manhattan jury cleared a father-son team of misleading investors to avoid a run on the bank in 2008.
After more than two days...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/mary_fails_again_KgoxA14IEAPz1lLE2HDHMK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/mary_fails_again_KgoxA14IEAPz1lLE2HDHMK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
KgoxA14IEAPz1lLE2HDHMKBy MARK DECAMBREBusinessWall Street’s damsels are turning to white knights.
In the latest move, Jefferies Group yesterday agreed to be scooped up by investing conglomerate Leucadia National Corp. for nearly $4 billion.
The acquisition will place Jefferies CEO Rich Handler, 51, in the unique position at the helm of his firm...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/mon_re_cue_me_6wM9WMvVTepefDY8lJwRYJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/mon_re_cue_me_6wM9WMvVTepefDY8lJwRYJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
6wM9WMvVTepefDY8lJwRYJBy JOSH KOSMANBusinessThe Philadelphia Hostess plant that supplies New York City is running again after a strike by the bakers’ union temporarily halted production.
Hostess pulled in management from other areas to restart the plant, which came to a halt when workers refused to cross a picket line, according to a source...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/hostess_reprieve_in_philly_kFwx3WiDEDiisTHM4BoXqI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/hostess_reprieve_in_philly_kFwx3WiDEDiisTHM4BoXqI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
kFwx3WiDEDiisTHM4BoXqIBusinessMicrosoft said that Steven Sinofsky, president of its Windows and Windows Live operations, is leaving the company.
Company veteran Julie Larson-Green has been promoted to lead all Windows software and hardware engineering.
The company did not say why Sinofsky is leaving...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/windows_boss_exits_maSZXz375PEVYZgwS6Ew7M?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/windows_boss_exits_maSZXz375PEVYZgwS6Ew7M?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
maSZXz375PEVYZgwS6Ew7MBusiness Nyse Euronext yesterday suspended trading in more than 200 stocks on the New York Stock Exchange due to a technical problem with a server, though the stocks in question were still trading actively on other markets. There will be no closing auctions in the affected stocks, and a list of...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/glitch_kos_nyse_stox_OC2YgVD59Vn5NWlwPETvWM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/glitch_kos_nyse_stox_OC2YgVD59Vn5NWlwPETvWM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
OC2YgVD59Vn5NWlwPETvWMBy JAMES COVERTBusinessThere’s a sale at JCPenney — on its stock, that is.Shares of the struggling department-store chain plunged 13 percent to their lowest levels since 2009, as Wall Street grew increasingly anxious about CEO Ron Johnson’s controversial turnaround strategy.Analysts cut their ratings on Penney shares and slashed profit...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/jcpenney_shares_pummeled_O2WHoiBpD42vaH714T88IJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/jcpenney_shares_pummeled_O2WHoiBpD42vaH714T88IJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
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A US House of Representatives panel will release a long-awaited report that will dissect the collapse of failed commodities brokerage MF Global. The House Financial Services Committee said its Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will post the report online Thursday...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/mf_report_coming_ANHcEBtjU2dT4U78XqNbZI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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ANHcEBtjU2dT4U78XqNbZIBy CLAIRE ATKINSONBusinessWarner Music Group has joined the bidders for a Sony/ATV music publishing catalog with the rights to some 30,000 songs, The Post has learned. The Rosetta catalog, which is heavy on ’80s hits from artists like Bryan Ferry, Devo and Tears for Fears, has already attracted attention from...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/warner_makes_sony_atv_move_eofTPxpJrrddMlsREtTjCI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/warner_makes_sony_atv_move_eofTPxpJrrddMlsREtTjCI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
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Weird But True
When people say it’s a pain to figure out a budget or decide how big a tip to leave in a restaurant, they may be telling the truth.
Researchers at the University of Chicago have found that doing math can cause physical pain.
Solving a tough math problem activates...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:13 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/weird_but_true/weird_but_true_oDgGnfQJmvjJjiZzJv1D2I?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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oDgGnfQJmvjJjiZzJv1D2IBy KEITH J. KELLYBusinessThere was no warm welcome for New York Times CEO Mark Thompson.
The former BBC director general and editor-in-chief spent his first day on the job dealing with the fallout from a deepening crisis at his former employer and turmoil within the Times.
Thompson, who declined to be interviewed by...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:12:25 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/rough_landing_AtDov5VVAuHq8qOxO6gynO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/rough_landing_AtDov5VVAuHq8qOxO6gynO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
AtDov5VVAuHq8qOxO6gynOLettersThe Issue: Gov. Cuomo’s responsibility for LIPA’s efficiency after Hurricanes Irene and Sandy.
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The Post documents Gov. Cuomo’s failure to fix the Long Island Power Authority after Hurricane Irene very well (“Cuomo’s LIPA Fail,” Editorial, Nov. 10).
The governor has been publicly critical of LIPA, which...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:09:16 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/letters/long_island_short_temper_and_cuomo_6Qumsn1RZx92gkezY0Ti0I?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Lettershttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/letters/long_island_short_temper_and_cuomo_6Qumsn1RZx92gkezY0Ti0I?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Letters
6Qumsn1RZx92gkezY0Ti0IBy RICH LOWRYOped ColumnistsNo sooner had the electoral thundercloud arrived last Tuesday than some Republicans began searching it for a silver lining. It is an understandable impulse after a defeat to want to minimize its magnitude and rationalize away its causes.
But there are no comforting augurs for Republicans in President Obama’s...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:08:43 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/gop_self_delusion_eq6wROHRDLJz1TITCnPnsM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnistshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/gop_self_delusion_eq6wROHRDLJz1TITCnPnsM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnists
eq6wROHRDLJz1TITCnPnsMBy JOHN PODHORETZOped ColumnistsDavid Petraeus, who might have been the most respected man in America, has resigned due to a personal scandal that threatens to turn into a national-security scandal.
Kevin Clash, who took a piece of red cloth and with mysterious alchemy turned it into the most popular character for small children...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:08:43 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/when_our_role_models_let_us_down_Kq1rDnpcercJIfoUNZxsVL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnistshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/when_our_role_models_let_us_down_Kq1rDnpcercJIfoUNZxsVL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnists
Kq1rDnpcercJIfoUNZxsVLBy ARTHUR HERMANOped ColumnistsEven Brad Thor couldn’t come up with a juicier storyline.FBI agents discover secret e-mails proving that the CIA director, a revered war hero and possible future presidential candidate, is having an affair with his biographer-turned- femme fatale. He then resigns just days before he’s supposed to give...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:08:43 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/king_david_big_fall_wPoodkvEhZ2FezjP0sJwhK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnistshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/king_david_big_fall_wPoodkvEhZ2FezjP0sJwhK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnists
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The United States yesterday joined Germany and Ireland in winning re-election to the UN Human Rights Council.There were three seats available to represent the council’s Western Group. The other two contestants, Greece and Sweden, failed to garner sufficient votes from the General Assembly’s 193 members.US Ambassador...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:57:47 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_holds_on_to_un_panel_seat_07BsIBdLr4c6kpmbl0ShVO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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07BsIBdLr4c6kpmbl0ShVOBy LARRY CELONA and NATASHA VELEZ
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A deranged man yesterday attacked a Manhattan psychiatrist with a sledgehammer and knife in his home office, police said.Michael Weiss, 38, was meeting with Jacob Nolan in his 12th-floor office on West 57th Street at about 10.25 a.m. when Nolan apparently snapped and bashed him with the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:54:01 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hammer_attack_on_shrink_gXQKMf5fqqCz3pM9GUsSPK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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gXQKMf5fqqCz3pM9GUsSPKBusinessBUENOS AIRES — Argentina will ask a UN court to order the release of a navy sailing ship seized in Ghana unless the African country releases today, officials announced.The ARA Libertad training ship was seized on Oct. 2 in the port of Tema as collateral for unpaid bonds dating from...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:27:57 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/un_asked_to_free_bond_boat_iQcg18IyPj1GXHDp0vBUPL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/un_asked_to_free_bond_boat_iQcg18IyPj1GXHDp0vBUPL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
iQcg18IyPj1GXHDp0vBUPLBusiness Greece’s lenders agreed to give the debt-ridden country two more years to make the cuts demanded of it, but the euro zone and IMF clashed over a longer-term target date to shrink debt. Euro zone finance ministers did not disburse more aid and by granting a request for more...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:27:55 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/greece_gets_reprieve_WSgm4SzzLWMAvhwc0qRMxJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/greece_gets_reprieve_WSgm4SzzLWMAvhwc0qRMxJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
WSgm4SzzLWMAvhwc0qRMxJBusiness Google is being pressed by Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jonathan Leibowitz to offer to resolve the agency’s antitrust investigation in the next few days or face a lawsuit, two people familiar with the matter said.
Google has been in discussions with the agency for about two weeks and hasn...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:27:53 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/google_facing_ftc_ultimatum_6yZRnNFKmKWTvokbzVwxRK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/google_facing_ftc_ultimatum_6yZRnNFKmKWTvokbzVwxRK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
6yZRnNFKmKWTvokbzVwxRKBy CLAIRE ATKINSONBusinessComcast’s NBCUniversal is laying off hundreds of staff in another round of belt-tightening.
The pink slips will take place across the board and will affect about 450 employees, or 1.5 percent of the total staff, according to insiders.
Earlier this year, NBC cut about two dozen staffers on...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:27:05 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/nbcu_lays_off_shakes_up_today_wxJULsc78DowCQReG59MfK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/nbcu_lays_off_shakes_up_today_wxJULsc78DowCQReG59MfK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
wxJULsc78DowCQReG59MfKBy STEVE CUOZZOCommercialSavanna is adding two loft-style Chelsea office buildings to its growing collection — 245 and 249 W. 17th St.
The aggressive real estate private-equity and asset management firm just bought the properties from the Pressman family for a price not yet disclosed. The buildings have a combined 284,000 square feet...Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:54:12 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/realestate/commercial/savanna_th_st_sojourn_i08BYDET6bPnLtVduGlO4M?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Commercialhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/realestate/commercial/savanna_th_st_sojourn_i08BYDET6bPnLtVduGlO4M?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Commercial
i08BYDET6bPnLtVduGlO4MBy JOHN CRUDELEBusinessIn my column last Thursday I wrote you an upbeat, patriotic song to make you feel better. Today, I’m going to make you feel lousy again.And I’m going to bore you as well. (Hey, no need to thank me.)This column is about the stock market and...Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:32:53 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/traders_limber_up_for_their_race_ALiKcXCkrRkcqFvXsmJGbP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/traders_limber_up_for_their_race_ALiKcXCkrRkcqFvXsmJGbP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
ALiKcXCkrRkcqFvXsmJGbPBusinessDown on oilHedge funds trimmed bullish bets on crude to the lowest in more than two years as demand fell in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, production increased to the highest since 1994 and President Barack Obama won re-election.BB10 dateResearch in Motion plans to introduce its new BlackBerry 10...Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:28:02 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/business_briefs_U7VcZrzblc0F7nAITqBuJK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/business_briefs_U7VcZrzblc0F7nAITqBuJK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
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