Nexus 7 with North American 3G passes through the FCC, might spoil the surprise

Nexus 7 with North American 3G passes through the FCC, might spoil the surprise

At this rate, there might not be much new to show in Google's playground. ASUS has passed a ME370TG tablet through the FCC's approval process -- which sounds ordinary, until you remember that the current Nexus 7 is the ME370T. The G, from all appearances, refers to 3G: there's an Intel XMM 6260 chipset inside supplying HSPA that would work for all North American GSM carriers, and most likely beyond. We don't know whether any of the rumored capacity changes will carry over, or even if this tablet will necessarily surface at Google's October 29th event, but the filing and recent out-of-stock notices suggest more than ever that the reference Android tablet is near a significant makeover.

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Samsung Galaxy Note II to arrive at US Cellular on Friday, pre-orders ship tomorrow

Samsung Galaxy Note II to arrive at US Cellular on Friday, preorders ship tomorrow

US Cellular has been offering the Samsung Galaxy Note II on pre-order for over a month now, but it just sent out an email clarifying that the device will be stocked on retail and virtual shelves beginning this Friday, October 26th. This falls in line with the "late October" timeframe we were promised; pre-orders, by the way, will also begin shipping tomorrow. As a recap, the Note II will be available for $300 with a two-year commitment and $800 without one -- a huge difference, no doubt, given T-Mobile's $650 full retail cost.

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4 Ways to Protect Yourself if Your Travel Provider ... - Peter Greenberg

Featured Posts, Travel Detective Blog, Travel Insurance, Travel News ? on October 24, 2012 10:46 am
4 Ways to Protect Yourself if Your Travel Provider Goes Under

This month, Club ABC Tours went out of business without any notice and with little support for customers ?even the ones out on the road. Peter reviews what has happened and what travelers can do to protect themselves.

For the past couple of weeks, I have been reading your questions about Club ABC Tours. After 45 years in operation, the New Jersey-based company, owned by Crown Travel Service of Bloomfield,?shut down abruptly on October 1. When it shut down a lot of people were out a lot of money. There were even travelers overseas who, ?midway during their trip, ?found their hotel and flight reservations canceled. The upset is so huge that the New Jersey attorney general has been asked to investigate ABC Tours. So far, 166 travelers filed complaints with the Division of Consumer Affairs

Go to Club ABC Tours? website and you?ll see only this notice:

After almost 45 years of business, it is with deep regret that we must announce that our company has ceased operations.?If you booked a tour and purchased travel insurance, you may contact your insurer to determine claim eligibility. If you paid by credit card, you may contact your credit card company to determine refund eligibility.?On the event that you have booked a cruise, we suggest that you contact your cruise line directly and inquire as to the status of your trip.

Not very comforting, is it? What happens if your travel provider suddenly goes under, without any warning? ?It all goes back to how you book your travel.

1. Always pay for your travel with a credit card.

I do not say this for the best interest of the credit card companies, but for your best interest. You might not realize that Federal Credit Law that gives you rights. As a consumer, you are protected when you pay for goods or a service with your credit card, especially when it comes to high-ticket items and travel.

Remember, there is one caveat about paying with a credit card. A lot of tour operators and travel providers, will try to insist you make a huge and substantial deposit on your trip more than 60 days out, but the law doesn?t protect you outside of 60 days.

Here?s how The Federal Credit Law works: if you buy anything, whether it?s a television set or a trip to Bermuda, and you don?t get the TV set, or it never gets delivered, or the TV set breaks, or the cruise never happens, then the law kicks in only within 60 days of intended use. Your credit card company becomes the creditor against the travel provider, and issues you a credit on your account.

2. Consider travel insurance, wisely

Right now there are a lot of angry, angry travelers out there, but something could have been done. In addition to paying with a credit card, when you have a relatively large investment in a travel product?whether it is a hotel, a resort, an airline ticket, or a cruise?you want to insure that investment with a bare minimum of trip cancellation or interruption insurance. The insurance premium might be 11 or 12 percent, but when it?s a high-ticket item you need some protection of your out-of-pocket costs. More comprehensive coverage will also include lost or delayed baggage coverage (save those receipts for any out-of-pocket expenses), 24/7 support and other protections, but the basic trip cancellation or interruption is

3. Do not purchase that insurance directly through your travel provider

Trip Mate, the travel insurance provider for ABC, has more than 200 travelers who claim to have paid for policies through Club ABC that were never purchased.??Contact providers directly, whether it?s Trip Mate,?Travel Guard and Allianz Travel Insurance (formerly Access America for independent insurance. Talk to an agent about all potential scenarios and get a side-by-side comparison of what the policies do?and don?t?include. Online brokers such as ?Insuremytrip and Squaremouth have good comparison charts.

4. Protect your payment

Many travel providers will want the entire payment 6 months in advance. It a recipe for disaster unless, a company can prove to you that they are putting that money into an independent, third-party, escrow account that cannot be released until the day the trip starts. And those accounts do exist because travel providers want their credibility protected just as much as you want your money protected. If they can?t promise that and prove it in writing, don?t you do it.

Club ABC Tours is a textbook case, reminding travelers what you need to do before you ever take a trip. You want to pay with a credit card within 60 days of your intended departure, purchase travel insurance from a third party, or make sure that your travel provider puts your money into a third-party, protected escrow account that can?t be touched until you actually leave the harbor, or get on the plane, or check into the hotel.

For more advice on how to protect yourself, check out:

By Peter Greenberg for Peter Greenberg Worldwide

Source: http://www.petergreenberg.com/2012/10/24/4-ways-to-protect-yourself-if-your-travel-provider-goes-unde/

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A new survey of realtors was released today (see below).? Here are?my answers:

1. Is?Now a Good Time to Buy or Sell in Your Area?

A.? It is a great time to sell, as long as you can live with today?s prices.? Sure, potential sellers can believe that it?s better to wait until prices go significantly higher, but that may not happen when you want it or need it, and it may never happen.

B. It is a terrible time to be a casual buyer.? Only those who buckle down and commit to seeing every new listing within the first day or two, and are willing to pay all the money for the quality buys will succeed.? Another big challenge is finding an agent who can win bidding wars.

2.? Do You Expect Prices to Generally Rise or Fall in the Next Year?

A.? I expect that general pricing will rise 5% statistically, and be hampered by inventory shortages, arrogant listing agents, and short-sale fraud.? All three are contributing to a pricing limitations, and only the first has a chance of changing.? If a?surge of well-priced quality homes were to hit the open market, they would be gobbled up quickly ? and the resulting momentum could take prices significantly higher if the flow of new listings continued.

3.? What are the Most Common Challenges for Buyers in Your Market?

A.? Having a clean shot to purchase?a property.? The time is ripe to convert to an open auction-type format to sell properties, so buyers can at least see with their own eyes what is happening.? The games being?played by listing agents are impeding open bidding and market-value pricing.

4.? What are the Most Common Challenges for Sellers in Your Market?

A.? Shopping for listing agents based on who will quote you the highest price, and ignoring how educated the buyers are about market values.

5.??Are Buyers and Sellers are Getting More Confident and Aggressive?

A. Absolutely, and they are more aggressive than the agents, who, as a result, are being left behind.

6.? The Real Estate ?Profession? Over the Next Five Years?

A.? The agent population should decline significantly, but there will always be licensees sitting around with business cards and a facebook account hoping that something will fall in their lap.? We are way overdue for a significant game-changer to shake up the industry (public-MLS), and it should set off a commission war.

Wrap-up:??Those who play nice will undoubtly feel better next year, as long as rates stay ultra-low, but nicey-nice agents only get the leftovers.? For those who are on the streets battling it out every day, the fight will be more competitive than ever.

Here is the general survey:

http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2012/10/cautious_optimism_for_real_estate_from_ag...

Real estate agents surveyed by Redfin:

  • See now as a good time to buy a home more often than a good time to sell one: 75% of agents surveyed described now as ?a good time to buy,? while only 54% described it as ?a good time to sell.?
  • Mostly expect price gains to be modest: Only 11% of agents expect home prices to ?rise a lot? in the next year.? The vast majority?76%?expect prices to ?rise a little.?
  • Are feeling the pinch of low inventory and multiple offers: 90% of agents indicated that low inventory was one of the most common challenges facing buyers, and 91% pointed to multiple offers.
  • Are seeing both buyers and sellers gaining confidence in the market: 85% of agents agreed that buyers are becoming more confident about the market, and 84% agreed that sellers are becoming more confident.
  • Have hope for future of the real estate profession: 59% of agents believe that the real estate profession will grow in size in the next five years, 30% believe it will remain the same, and just 11% see more declines in the future.

The picture painted by the agents is one of cautious optimism.? Most agents we surveyed expect modest price gains, improvements for buyers as well as sellers, and moderate growth in the real estate industry.? The results line up nicely with recent gains in overall consumer confidence, which has been rising steadily through the year.? No V-shaped recovery appears imminent, but rather a slow and steady trend back toward something resembling a normal market.

?That agents believe both buyers and sellers are becoming increasingly confident bodes well for sales volume in 2013,? said Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman. ?Over the past five years, eager sellers have been unable to find a buyer, or more commonly in 2012, eager buyers have been unable to find a seller. But going into 2013, we expect that a jittery market will settle down, and buyers and sellers will more easily come to terms. After years of irrational exuberance, crashes, foreclosure fire-sales, inventory shocks and saw-toothed trends, the cautious, broad-based optimism we?re seeing now is the best kind of recovery we could hope for.?

Source: http://www.bubbleinfo.com/2012/10/23/realtor-survey-2/

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Los Angeles Theater Review: A BRIGHT NEW BOISE (Rogue ...

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We?re in Boise, Idaho, in the break room of an arts and craft chain store called Hobby Lobby. Two men appear on closed circuit television doing a sort of home shopping channel patter about their wares. (They also break the fourth wall and do the announcement about turning off cell phones and refraining from flash photography?a droll choice.) As a manager interviews a potential new employee, we learn of the chain?s deeply anti-union, Big Brother ethos. The Hobby Lobby channel is sent via satellite to all of their stores across the country; though it sometimes gets its signals crossed with a channel airing painfully graphic footage of surgical procedures.

Pain, conformity, creativity, and unfairness permeate the lives of the people who work for Hobby Lobby, just as they permeate the larger story at the heart of this play. It?s the story of a man trying to reconnect with the son he gave up for adoption. We learn that this man has a tangled story of religious fundamentalism and belief in a coming rapture, and that the leader of his church is under indictment for his involvement in the death of a young man.

Samuel Bernstein?s Stage and Cinema review of A BRIGHT NEW BOISE at Rogue Machine in Los Angeles

A Bright New Boise by Samuel D. Hunter is stunning?in its form, its approach, its language, and in its nuanced exploration of subject matter, that if treated differently, would be juicy fodder for a Lifetime movie. The rapture is both literal and metaphorical antidote to poverty, loneliness, and the unbearable loss of hope that lurks at the edges of the characters? lives.

Matthew Elkins plays Will, the tortured man in the eye of this storm, with transcendent simplicity. His yearning for connection?with his long lost son, with God, with anyone?is achingly human; and so moving that we forget about the consequences of his faith. We forget that Will thinks we?re all going to hell for not believing precisely as he believes.

We forget that Will is out of his mind. He sees the world as intolerably ugly?dreaming of the bright new beauty that will come when God?s fiery wrath cleanses us all.

Elkins? great achievement here is in normalizing a person we might not imagine we can like or understand. Elkins is utterly convincing?as is the whole cast. Every performance is genuine. Every moment is calibrated to a rhythm dictated by the play itself, rather than by the individual need for attention. There myriad opportunities in the show to steal focus, but seemingly no desire to do so amongst the actors.

Samuel Bernstein?s Stage and Cinema review of A BRIGHT NEW BOISE at Rogue Machine in Los Angeles

As the store?s manager, Pauline, Betsy Zajko gets plenty of laughs, but she gets them by embodying the comically desperate seriousness of the character. She isn?t commenting on Pauline?s obsessive need for control, she?s just living it. She has a great running gag about ?Fucking Mandy,? an employee we never meet who is a constant irritant.

Erik Odom is Alex, the young man meeting a father he never knew. Odom doesn?t rush for the Sturm und Drang of Alex?s severe anxiety attacks, his enraged sense of abandonment and isolation, nor the character?s startlingly bad attempts at angry performance art. Odom just lets the words transport him to the places he must inhabit. He trusts the material, himself, and the other actors. ?What do you want from me?? he asks Will, not waiting for an answer before declaring with no extra emphasis, ?You better not need a kidney or anything.?

As Leroy, Boise?s answer to the lone wolf artist, who turns out to be Alex?s foster brother, Trevor Peterson is all angles, angst, tight pants, and vulgar t-shirts?that Leroy designs himself. He is proudest of the one that declares: ?You will eat your children.? Leroy deliberately makes the other characters uncomfortable and then tells them exactly what he?s doing and why. He ham-fistedly tries to protect Alex from Will, believing rightly or wrongly that all Will wants is to drag Alex into a cult of death-infatuated freaks.

Samuel Bernstein?s Stage and Cinema review of A BRIGHT NEW BOISE at Rogue Machine in Los Angeles

Rounding out the cast is Heather L. Tyler as Anna, an almost pathologically nervous young woman who sneaks back into the store at night to read books?hoping for some moments of peace from her overbearing father and brothers at home. Anna is truly a failure at everything she tries?and she becomes the unwitting catalyst to Will?s total unraveling. When he comes at her full of righteous indignation, it?s terrifying. Tyler is quite moving as she conveys Anna?s tender inability to understand the world in which she lives?let alone the people in it?most of whom she finds mystifying and threatening.

David Mauer?s scenic design and technical direction is grubby and haunting by turns?remarkably expansive in a small space. The naturalistic employee break room set feels claustrophobically authentic as it bears down on those unlucky enough to work at Hobby Lobby; but when Will is meant to be outside, in spiritual torment, the theater feels gigantic. Mauer?s work is deftly complimented by Leigh Allen?s marvelous lighting.

John Perrin Flynn directs the production with an eye for revelatory behavior and emotional honesty. His passion for his actors is viscerally evident; he loves them and it shows. Hunter won an Obie for this play, now making its west coast premiere. One word: Bravo.

Samuel Bernstein?s Stage and Cinema review of A BRIGHT NEW BOISE at Rogue Machine in Los Angeles

photos by John Flynn

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Rogue Machine Theatre
scheduled to end on?December 9, 2012
for tickets, call?(855) 585-5185 or visit http://www.roguemachinetheatre,com

Source: http://www.stageandcinema.com/2012/10/23/a-bright-new-boise/

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Man with knife stopped from approaching Finnish PM

HELSINKI (AP) ? Security guards stopped a knife-wielding man on Monday from approaching Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen while he was campaigning for municipal elections, government officials said. Police said he did not attempt to attack the Conservative leader, who was unhurt.

"The man was stopped before he reached the prime minister. He didn't have time to stab him," Kari Mokko, a government spokesman told The Associated Press. "Katainen will continue his duties as normal."

The afternoon incident occurred in the southwestern city of Turku, where Katainen was campaigning ahead of Sunday's municipal elections.

Turku police said the man, in his 30s, was in a crowd of people in the city center when he "suddenly wielded a knife."

"The man did not behave aggressively or directly threaten the prime minister or others nearby," a police statement said. "He was quickly apprehended by police and is being held in custody."

Mokko and other officials could not give any details on the suspect.

Robert Seger, a Finnish newspaper photographer who witnessed the incident, said the man dropped to his knees in front of Katainen, holding a knife, but didn't attack him.

"He was trying to get Katainen's attention," Seger told AP.

Shortly before the incident, the man had shaken hands with Katainen and introduced himself to the prime minister, Seger said.

"I didn't hear his name. But the man said he was in lots of trouble," Seger said. "Then he just dropped down on his knees and suddenly I saw a knife in his hand ... but he lowered it on the ground."

He said security guards quickly grabbed the man and pulled him away from Katainen, who leads a coalition government after winning national elections last year.

The government's security chief Timo Harkonen told Finnish broadcaster YLE that the prime minister's security contingent had closely monitored the incident and "prevented it from becoming a dangerous situation."

Politicians in the Nordic countries often mingle with voters without stringent security measures, despite a couple of high-profile attacks against government officials and political parties in recent decades.

In Sweden, Prime Minister Olof Palme was gunned down on a Stockholm street in 1986 and Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was fatally stabbed in a shopping center nine years ago. Both were without security guards.

Last year, a right-wing extremist set off a car bomb just outside the Norwegian government's headquarters in Oslo, killing eight and injuring hundreds. He then massacred 69 people ? most of them teenagers ? in a shooting rampage at the summer camp of a left-wing youth group.

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Associated Press writer Jari Tanner contributed to this report from Tallinn, Estonia.

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Hulu Plus app heads to Windows 8 PCs and tablets, tailored for new UI (video)

Hulu Plus app heads to Windows 8 tablets and tablets, tailored for new UI

Windows 8 users, what with their "Modern" UI and pinned applications, won't have to stoop to using Hulu Plus in an antiquated internet browser any longer. Hulu today announced its brand new Windows 8 and Windows 8 tablet application, which is designed specifically for use with the tiled UI that Micrsoft's new multiplatform OS is based around. The new app aims to take advantage of that UI in a variety of ways -- pinning an episode or show to your start screen, for instance, or multitasking with other apps while Hulu continues playing in a smaller window, cropped to the left. We've dropped a video walkthrough of the app just below the break.

Those with early access to Windows 8 can grab the app right now in the Windows Store through this link (at least, when it goes live again -- it seems to be down right now); the app will be available to the rest of us at launch on October 26th, and on Windows 8 tablets the same day.

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