China cracks down on American Idol-style shows

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities are cracking down on how often broadcasters can air reality, dating and talent shows such as the Chinese versions of "American Idol" and "The Voice," which draw huge audiences.

Provincial broadcasters show such programs, which are cheap to produce and earn a lot of advertising revenue, on satellite channels that are broadcast around the country.

The official Xinhua News Agency reported that the "American Idol" kind of talent shows now need approval from the body that oversees broadcasting, which will license one such program per channel each quarter for prime-time viewing.

It also reported that new regulations require satellite channels to allocate no less than 30 percent of their weekly air time to topics including news, economics, culture and science from next year.

There have been repeated efforts to limit American-style reality TV and other light fare shown on satellite TV, or push them out of prime-time viewing, with stated reasons including the need to stop vulgar content and promote more efficient use of resources.

Repeated calls to the State General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, which reportedly issued the latest regulations, rang unanswered.

Liu Shanying, a political scientist at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said he suspected the new regulations were because the satellite channels were taking too much audience away from the national broadcaster China Central Television.

The administration "is helping CCTV, the TV broadcaster that has the main task of carrying forward the government's message," said Liu, who used to work for CCTV. "The local stations have more freedom to attract audiences with entertainment shows. And that takes away too many viewers from CCTV and they are afraid that no one will pay attention to the government's tune."

The restrictions are expected to drive still more viewers online — where they can watch the same types of pre-recorded shows — and away from state TV.

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Study: Netflix Execs Made $62.3 Million Off Volatile Stock

A Netflix stock chart could make one dizzy. Shares were at $300 apiece in July 2011 before tumbling to $58 in October 2012. Then on Friday, they closed at $333.50.

For investors with the stomach to ride the ups and downs, money could be made. But "Netflix's real winners," according to a study out Monday from SNL Financial, are its top three executives, who cashed in for $62.3 million since late 2011.

"Amid all the ups and downs, one thing has been consistent: Netflix's top executives have struck upon a gold mine," says the SNL report.

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SNL says CEO Reed Hastings, CFO David Wells and chief content officer Ted Sarandos have cashed out a combined 385,418 stock options since the third quarter of 2011 with an aggregate value of roughly $75.6 million, a $62.3 million premium to their combined exercise price of $13.2 million.

Hastings, unsurprisingly, scored the heftiest profit, with $38.5 million, followed by $16.9 million for Sarandos and $6.9 million for Wells.

The stop-option cash-ins were fairly well-timed, SNL says. For example, Hastings had a pile of options from Netlix's IPO days at an exercise price of $1.50 that he was selling slowly on a trading plan, though he suspended the plan when the stock plunged in October 2011.

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Hastings and Sarandos both exchanged some stock options for shares between February 2012 and January 2013, but beyond that "none of the three redeemed any stock options between October 2011 and April 2013," says SNL. "Since then, however, all three have aggressively resumed exercising stock options for a major profit."

And the stock options keep coming, naturally. Since July 2011, the three executives have been granted 446,439 options worthy roughly $48.4 million based on their exercise prices.

The volatility that ultimately may hay have worked to the advantage of the executives was caused by a price hike and a short-lived spinoff of the DVD business into something called Qwikster. Both initiatives were roundly criticized by consumers and Wall Street and caused the stock to plunge then come roaring back when Qwikster was dumped.

"Ultimately, the last two years have been good for Netflix executives and, over the long run, good for Netflix itself, despite considerable volatility with the period," the study concludes.

Netflix is set to report its quarterly earnings after the closing bell Monday.

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Rousimar Palhares: I did not want to hurt Mike Pierce

In less than two weeks, Rousimar Palhares has become a divisive figure in world of MMA. He was cut and banned by the UFC for holding a submission too long on Mike Pierce at UFC Fight Night 29 in Brazil on Oct. 9, which prompted plenty -- including the Nogueira brothers, who train with him -- to come to his defense.

Others, like UFC president Dana White, have made it clear that there is no room for repeat offenders. Palhares was suspended back in 2010 for 90 days for holding a similar lock on Tomasz Drwal at UFC 111, and has had other issues with sportsmanship in jiu-jitsu competitions.

On Monday, "Toquinho" spoke publicly for the first time since the fight on The MMA Hour, and made it clear that he didn’t think he was in violation of the rules until he watched the fight later on.

"I did not want to hurt him," Palhares said through his manager/interpreter, Alex Davis. "In the heat of the fight, I didn’t feel him tap. Afterwards, when I watched the fight, I’d realized that I’d held on too long. But I really didn’t mean to hurt him, you know? He’s a fighter like I am, and I know that he does this for a living, and I’d never want to hurt him."

Though Palhares did apologize to Pierce and Dana White later on, particularly when it was brought up that Pierce had a sprained MCL and torn ankle tendons, he also tried to explain his defiance on holding submissions beyond the threshold of what’s right. He made it clear he was sorry for the result, but as for the action itself, he segued into reasons and justifications.

"I think it has a lot to do with my style," he said. "I’m really aggressive when I go after the submissions, and there’s been times also when I’ve not held on and people have gotten out of it, and I end up losing the fight. So, it’s kind of the way I fight, but I’ve been getting better, and working a lot on this. But it’s just the way I fight, it’s my style.

White has said that Palhares wouldn’t be welcomed back to the UFC, a closed door proposition that the 33-year old Palhares hopes was also made in the heat of the moment.

"I don’t know, I think time will tell," he said about the possibility of one day returning. "I’m going to continue fighting, and I’ll do my best. I want to be the best in the world, and the UFC is where the best in the world are. And time will tell. I will keep on doing it and getting better and let’s see what happens."

Though Bellator has gone on record saying that it is not interested in bringing in "Toquinho," Davis said that there has been interest from other promotions to sign Palhares, yet that right now nothing has been signed or finalized. Palhares had an 8-4 run in the UFC and at one time was nearing contention in the middleweight division, but the asterisks piled up on his name. Not only did he have the incidents for holding submissions too long, but he was popped for elevated testosterone following his 2012 fight with Hector Lombard, which landed him a nine-month suspension.

Asked outright if he regretted how he handled the end of the Pierce fight in his welterweight debut, Palhares said, "No, I wanted to win by submission." When clarified to mean the particular infraction, not the submission itself, he changed his tune.

"Yes, that part I need to apologize to Mike Pierce and to Dana White," he said. "I was so focused on the fight, I didn’t feel it. I only saw that afterwards."

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Laser-Scanning Hundreds of Artificial Caves Beneath Nottingham

There are more than 450 artificial caves excavated from sandstone beneath the streets and buildings of Nottingham, England—including, legendarily, the old dungeon that once held Robin Hood. Not all of these caves are known even today, let alone mapped or studied.

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'Gravity' exerts its force, earns $30M in 3rd week

NEW YORK (AP) — "Gravity" continued to exert its force at the box office, the WikiLeaks drama "The Fifth Estate" flopped, and the anticipated Slavery tale "12 Years a Slave" opened strong in limited release.

Final weekend box office totals were released Monday. Warner Bros.' space adventure "Gravity" remained in first place for the third straight week, adding $30 million to its three-week haul of $169.6 million.

Disney's "The Fifth Estate," starring Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, had one of the year's worst debuts, taking in just $1.7 million in more than 1,700 theaters.

In just 19 theaters, Steve McQueen's highly acclaimed "12 Years a Slave" made nearly $1 million in its first weekend. Fox Searchlight plans to gradually expand the film in the coming weeks.

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The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Monday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Rentrak, are:

1. "Gravity," Warner Bros., $30,027,161, 3,820 locations, $7,861 average, $169,563,291, 3 weeks.

2. "Captain Phillips," Sony, $16,413,093, 3,020 locations, $5,435 average, $52,443,328, 2 weeks.

3. "Carrie," Sony, $16,101,552, 3,157 locations, $5,100 average, $16,101,552, 1 week.

4. "Escape Plan," Lionsgate, $9,885,732, 2,883 locations, $3,429 average, $9,885,732, 1 week.

5. "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2," Sony, $9,672,791, 3,602 locations, $2,685 average, $92,709,559, 4 weeks.

6. "Prisoners," Warner Bros., $2,064,235, 2,160 locations, $956 average, $57,258,393, 5 weeks.

7. "Enough Said," Fox Searchlight, $1,750,519, 757 locations, $2,312 average, $10,737,966, 5 weeks.

8. "Fifth Estate," Disney, $1,673,351, 1,769 locations, $946 average, $1,673,351, 1 week.

9. "Runner Runner," 20th Century Fox, $1,665,242, 2,011 locations, $828 average, $17,576,560, 3 weeks.

10. "Insidious Chapter 2," FilmDistrict, $1,499,842, 1,665 locations, $901 average, $80,890,083, 6 weeks.

11. "Rush," Universal, $1,261,115, 1,197 locations, $1,054 average, $24,623,294, 5 weeks.

12. "Machete Kills," Open Road, $1,203,135, 2,538 locations, $474 average, $6,402,374, 2 weeks.

13. "Don Jon," Relativity Media, $1,182,410, 1,114 locations, $1,061 average, $22,479,577, 4 weeks.

14. "Baggage Claim," Fox Searchlight, $1,100,374, 865 locations, $1,272 average, $20,001,029, 4 weeks.

15. "I'm In Love With A Church Girl," High Top Releasing, $971,826, 457 locations, $2,127 average, $971,826, 1 week.

16. "12 Years A Slave," Fox Searchlight, $923,715, 19 locations, $48,617 average, $923,715, 1 week.

17. "We're The Millers," Warner Bros., $744,255, 881 locations, $845 average, $147,710,416, 11 week.

18. "Pulling Strings," Lionsgate, $607,966, 438 locations, $1,388 average, $5,163,752, 3 weeks.

19. "Instructions Not Included," Lionsgate, $538,588, 475 locations, $1,134 average, $43,542,138, 8 weeks.

20. "Despicable Me 2," Universal, $485,850, 395 locations, $1,230 average, $363,741,080, 16 weeks.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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Singapore’s Asia TV Forum to Launch Animation Lab

ATF is held annually at Singapore's Marina Bay Sands casino, hotel and convention complex

This year’s edition of the Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) in Singapore will debut a new three-day event dubbed Animation Lab, the event's organizers announced Monday.

Intended to help promote the region’s burgeoning animation industry, the program will seek to bring together Asian animation producers, who are seeking investment and funding opportunities, with international broadcasters and financiers, who are interested in both the growing animation talent and market opportunity of the region.

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ATF organizers say the program will be open to all individuals or companies that have new animation projects in the planning or production stage, and will give them a platform to engage in closed-door pitches to various participating international commissioners.

International TV pros signed on to take part include Henrietta Hurford-Jones, director of children’s programming at the BBC Worldwide.

"The aim is always to try and grow the international CBeebies brand as well as our children’s portfolio worldwide,” Hurford-Jones said in a statement. “I would be delighted to find creative partners in Asia to potentially develop exciting new children’s content with.”

Also on hand to take pitches and meetings will be, Barbara Uecker, head of programming and acquisitions for children's TV at Australia’s ABC TV, and Nicole Keeb, head of international co-productions and acquisitions for children and youth programming at Germany’s ZDF Enterprises GmbH, along with her colleague Arne Lohmann, vice president of ZDFE.junior.

AFT says additional network execs will be added to the Animation Lab roster in the coming weeks.

AFT is Asia’s most established TV and cross-platform content market for buyers and sellers from the region and afar. This year’s event, ATF’s 12th edition, will take place Dec. 3-6 at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands casino, hotel and convention complex.  

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US regions exhibit distinct personalities, research reveals

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WASHINGTON Americans with similar temperaments are so likely to live in the same areas that a map of the country can be divided into regions with distinct personalities, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.

People in the north-central Great Plains and the South tend to be conventional and friendly, those in the Western and Eastern seaboards lean toward being mostly relaxed and creative, while New Englanders and Mid-Atlantic residents are prone to being more temperamental and uninhibited, according to a study published online by APA's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

"This analysis challenges the standard methods of dividing up the country on the basis of economic factors, voting patterns, cultural stereotypes or geography that appear to have become ingrained in the way people think about the United States," said lead author Peter J. Rentfrow, PhD, of the University of Cambridge. "At the same time, it reinforces some of the traditional beliefs that some areas of the country are friendlier than others, while some are more creative."

The researchers analyzed the personality traits of more than 1.5 million people. Through various online forums/media (e.g., Facebook and survey panels), participants answered questions about their psychological traits and demographics, including their state of residence. The researchers identified three psychological profiles based on five broad dimensions of personality openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism also known as the "Big Five" personality traits. When the researchers overlaid the findings on a national map, they found certain psychological profiles were predominant in three distinct geographic areas. The data were collected over 12 years in five samples with participants from the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia. Overall, the samples were nationally representative in terms of gender and ethnicity, with the exception of a larger proportion of young people.

"These national clusters of personalities also relate to a region's politics, economy, social attitudes and health," Rentfrow said. The study found that people in the friendly and conventional regions are typically less affluent, less educated, more politically conservative, more likely to be Protestant and less healthy compared to people in the other regions. The relaxed and creative states' residents are more culturally and ethnically diverse, more liberal, wealthier, more educated, comparatively healthy and less likely to be Protestant than those living in other regions. The temperamental and uninhibited region has a larger proportion of women and older adults who are more affluent, politically liberal and unlikely to be Protestant.

As for what might have shaped the regional personalities, theories plus research on migration and social influence offer clues, the authors said. For instance, research has shown agreeableness is a trait often found in people who stay in their hometowns, and the analysis indicated that a large proportion of residents in the friendly and conventional region lived in the same state the year before. The relaxed and creative region may have been influenced by a frontier mentality that endures with lots of young people, professionals and immigrants moving to the region for educational and employment opportunities. In the temperamental and uninhibited region, significant numbers of people have moved away, and research has shown that people who move to another part of the country are typically high in openness and conscientiousness and low in neuroticism almost entirely the opposite of the temperamental and uninhibited profile. "Considering that the temperamental and uninhibited profile is marked by high neuroticism, it's reasonable to speculate that social influence might facilitate the spread of anxiety and irritability across the region," the study said.

The researchers analyzed personality data from people who voluntarily participated in website personality tests, the "My Personality" Facebook application and from an online survey that recruited participants using a design that mimics random digit dialing. To determine regional political, economic, social and health factors, they examined data from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau, state board of elections offices and the Association of Religion Data Archives.

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Article: "Divided We Stand: Three Psychological Regions of the United States and Their Political, Economic, Social, and Health Correlates;" Peter J. Rentfrow, PhD, Michal Kosinski, MSc, and David J. Stillwell, PhD, Cambridge University; Samuel D. Gosling, PhD, University of Texas at Austin; Markus Jokela, PhD, University of Helsinski; and Jeff Potter, Atof Inc., Cambridge, Mass. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, online Oct. 14, 2013.

Contact: Peter J. Rentfrow, PhD, at pjr39@cam.ac.uk or 011-44-1223-767-805

The American Psychological Association, in Washington, D.C., is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA's membership includes more than 134,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people's lives.

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WASHINGTON Americans with similar temperaments are so likely to live in the same areas that a map of the country can be divided into regions with distinct personalities, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.

People in the north-central Great Plains and the South tend to be conventional and friendly, those in the Western and Eastern seaboards lean toward being mostly relaxed and creative, while New Englanders and Mid-Atlantic residents are prone to being more temperamental and uninhibited, according to a study published online by APA's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

"This analysis challenges the standard methods of dividing up the country on the basis of economic factors, voting patterns, cultural stereotypes or geography that appear to have become ingrained in the way people think about the United States," said lead author Peter J. Rentfrow, PhD, of the University of Cambridge. "At the same time, it reinforces some of the traditional beliefs that some areas of the country are friendlier than others, while some are more creative."

The researchers analyzed the personality traits of more than 1.5 million people. Through various online forums/media (e.g., Facebook and survey panels), participants answered questions about their psychological traits and demographics, including their state of residence. The researchers identified three psychological profiles based on five broad dimensions of personality openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism also known as the "Big Five" personality traits. When the researchers overlaid the findings on a national map, they found certain psychological profiles were predominant in three distinct geographic areas. The data were collected over 12 years in five samples with participants from the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia. Overall, the samples were nationally representative in terms of gender and ethnicity, with the exception of a larger proportion of young people.

"These national clusters of personalities also relate to a region's politics, economy, social attitudes and health," Rentfrow said. The study found that people in the friendly and conventional regions are typically less affluent, less educated, more politically conservative, more likely to be Protestant and less healthy compared to people in the other regions. The relaxed and creative states' residents are more culturally and ethnically diverse, more liberal, wealthier, more educated, comparatively healthy and less likely to be Protestant than those living in other regions. The temperamental and uninhibited region has a larger proportion of women and older adults who are more affluent, politically liberal and unlikely to be Protestant.

As for what might have shaped the regional personalities, theories plus research on migration and social influence offer clues, the authors said. For instance, research has shown agreeableness is a trait often found in people who stay in their hometowns, and the analysis indicated that a large proportion of residents in the friendly and conventional region lived in the same state the year before. The relaxed and creative region may have been influenced by a frontier mentality that endures with lots of young people, professionals and immigrants moving to the region for educational and employment opportunities. In the temperamental and uninhibited region, significant numbers of people have moved away, and research has shown that people who move to another part of the country are typically high in openness and conscientiousness and low in neuroticism almost entirely the opposite of the temperamental and uninhibited profile. "Considering that the temperamental and uninhibited profile is marked by high neuroticism, it's reasonable to speculate that social influence might facilitate the spread of anxiety and irritability across the region," the study said.

The researchers analyzed personality data from people who voluntarily participated in website personality tests, the "My Personality" Facebook application and from an online survey that recruited participants using a design that mimics random digit dialing. To determine regional political, economic, social and health factors, they examined data from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau, state board of elections offices and the Association of Religion Data Archives.

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Article: "Divided We Stand: Three Psychological Regions of the United States and Their Political, Economic, Social, and Health Correlates;" Peter J. Rentfrow, PhD, Michal Kosinski, MSc, and David J. Stillwell, PhD, Cambridge University; Samuel D. Gosling, PhD, University of Texas at Austin; Markus Jokela, PhD, University of Helsinski; and Jeff Potter, Atof Inc., Cambridge, Mass. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, online Oct. 14, 2013.

Contact: Peter J. Rentfrow, PhD, at pjr39@cam.ac.uk or 011-44-1223-767-805

The American Psychological Association, in Washington, D.C., is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA's membership includes more than 134,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people's lives.

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Killer 'clowns' murder Mexican ex-drug capo

La Paz (Mexico) (AFP) - Gunmen disguised as clowns at a children's party shot dead the eldest brother of Mexico's once powerful Arellano Felix drug cartel family, authorities said Saturday.

Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, 63, was gunned down at a family event Friday in Cabo San Lucas, a tourist resort in the Baja California peninsula, state special investigations prosecutor Isai Arias told reporters.

"He was hit by two bullets, one in the thorax and one in the head," Arias said.

Relatives identified the former Tijuana drug cartel lieutenant's body, Arias said, adding that there have been no arrests in the case.

The gunmen were dressed as clowns when they shot Arellano Felix at the party in the luxurious Casa Oceano tourist residence, agents close to the case told AFP.

The Arellano Felix brothers once dominated drug trafficking between Mexico and California through their brutal Tijuana cartel, inspiring characters in the Steven Soderbergh movie "Traffic."

Most of the Arellano Felix brothers have been either killed or arrested, leaving the cartel in tatters. Infighting also weakened the group.

Francisco Rafael's murder is likely "due to unpaid old debts, and old retributions" from the times that the Arellanos were at the height of their power between 1990 and 2000, said Raul Benitez a drug trade expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Nicknamed "El Menso" (The Dummy), Francisco Rafael was arrested in 1980 in San Diego, California, for allegedly selling drugs, but slipped back to Mexico when he was released on bail.

In 1993 he was arrested in Mexico and jailed on drug charges. In 2006 he was extradited to the United States and was sentenced to six years in jail after confessing to selling drugs to an undercover agent.

In 2008 he was released, earning time off his sentence for good behavior, according to his attorney at the time, and repatriated to Mexico.

Benitez said that it was unlikely the former drug lord was back in the trade again.

The Tijuana Cartel "has been completely dismantled, with all of its leaders in prison either in the United States or in Mexico," Benitez said.

One of the brothers, Ramon, was killed in a police shootout in 2002. Three other brothers are in US prisons, including Eduardo, who was sentenced to 15 years by a California court in August for money laundering.

Rivals, especially Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman's Sinaloa Federation which also began around 1990, have since eclipsed the Tijuana group and taken over most of its territory.

The Sinaloa group, based in the western state of Sinaloa, is Mexico's most powerful drug cartel, rivaled only by the paramilitary Zetas, who are most active in northeastern Mexico.

Security experts however believe the remnants of the cartel survive in the key border city of Tijuana.

They believe the rump cartel is now run by the brothers' sister Enedina and her son Fernando, known as "The Engineer."

Violence linked to drug trafficking and organized crime has left more than 70,000 dead in Mexico over the past seven years.

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S&P 500 reaches all-time high after US debt deal

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market hit an all-time high Thursday as investors put the government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis behind them and focused on corporate earnings.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 11.61 points, or 0.7 percent, to close at 1,733.15 — a record close.

The market rose throughout the day as investors got back to focusing on corporate earnings and economic data. American Express and Verizon rose the most in the Dow Jones industrial average after reporting earnings that beat expectations from financial analysts.

The Dow ended the day down two points, or 0.01 percent, to 15,371.65. The index of 30 big U.S. companies was held back by declines in IBM, Goldman Sachs and UnitedHealth.

IBM's third-quarter revenue fell and missed Wall Street's forecast by more than $1 billion. The stock closed down $11.90, or 6 percent, to $174.80. Earlier, it had touched its lowest level of the past year — $172.57

Goldman Sachs also weighed down the index. The investment bank's revenue fell sharply as trading in bonds and other securities slowed. Goldman fell $3.93, or 2.4 percent, to $158.32.

The focus on earnings is a change of pace for Wall Street, which had been absorbed in Washington's political drama over the last month.

Now that the U.S. has avoided the possibility of default, at least for a few months, earnings news is expected to dominate trading for the next couple weeks. So far, only 79 companies in the S&P 500 have reported third-quarter results, according to S&P Capital IQ. Analysts expect earnings at those companies to increase 3.3 percent over the same period a year ago.

"I don't think we can completely close the door on the debt ceiling chapter just yet, but we can get back to the stuff that really matters," said Jonathan Corpina, who manages trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for Meridian Equity Partners.

Other indexes also posted big gains. The Nasdaq composite closed up 23.71 points, or 0.6 percent, to 3,863.15.

The Russell 2000 index, which is made up of primarily smaller, riskier companies, also hit an all-time high. It closed up 9.85 points, or 0.9 percent, to 1,102.27 and has risen nearly 30 percent this year.

Market analysts think the 16-day partial shutdown of the government caused billions of dollars of damage to the economy. Government employees were furloughed, contracts were delayed, and tourism declined at national parks.

Analysts at Wells Fargo said the shutdown likely lowered economic growth by 0.5 percentage point.

There remain broader concerns that Democrats and Republicans won't be able to draw up a longer-term budget. The deal approved late Wednesday only permits the Treasury Department to borrow through Feb. 7 and fund the government through Jan. 15.

"The agreement represents another temporary fix that pushes fiscal uncertainty into the early months of next year," Wells Fargo analysts said.

Despite the worries, signs of normalcy returned to financial markets Thursday.

The one-month Treasury bill was back to trading at a yield of 0.01 percent, about where it was a month ago, and down sharply from 0.35 percent on Tuesday.

Usually a staid, conservative security, the one-month T-bill was subjected to a wave of selling at the beginning of the month. Investors feared the T-bill would be the first piece of government debt to be affected by a U.S. default if the debt ceiling was breached and the federal government could no longer pay its obligations.

The yield on the more closely-watched 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.60 percent from 2.67 percent Wednesday.

Among other stock moves:

— Verizon rose $1.65, or 4 percent, to $48.90. The telecommunications company earned an adjusted 77 cents per share for the recent quarter, beating expectations of financial analysts.

— UnitedHealth Group dropped $3.82, or 5 percent, to $71.37. The health insurance giant narrowed its 2013 profit forecast, instead of raising it, giving some analysts pause.

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This Next Generation Conveyor Belt Sushi Restaurant Is the Future

Conveyor belt sushi restaurants are usually only worth going to once in your life. The sushi is hardly ever amazing since it spins on the belt over and over again while the dishes you actually want might be snatched ahead of you so you never get to eat it. Not to mention plates stacking on your table, plastic covers getting in your way and the lack of personalized orders. It's a gimmick! It's okay though, Japan has figured out those problems with this next generation conveyor belt sushi restaurant.

Along with the usual conveyor belt offerings, this restaurant also has a high speed belt that'll zip out your custom orders (ordered via tablet, of course) immediately. Think of it as the fast lane on the highway. But for raw fish. The restaurant also collects your plates table side, just insert them into a receptacle and it'll calculate your tab for you. There's even a mini-game where you get a spin of the wheel for prizes after you finish five dishes.

Quality of the sushi aside (which we don't know), it's a near perfect representation of what we once imagined the future of restaurants to be: waiter-less, machine operated fun eating capsules where you can get whatever you want (as long as it's sushi in this case, I guess). [World News via The Atlantic Wire]

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Superman to Asterix: Comics tell immigrant story

PARIS (AP) — Superman and Asterix have more in common than meets the eye, according to a new exhibit at Paris' Immigration History Museum.

Comic sketches and magazines from 1913 to the present show how comic books the world over were shaped by the immigrant story, from French Asterix's "foreign" Polish and Italian authors, to American Superman's Eastern European co-creators.

Drawing on 500 sketches and documents from some 117 artists, the exhibit opening Wednesday explains how immigrants on the fringes of society were attracted to the subculture of comic books.

"The whole history of comic books is the history of immigration," said curator Helene Bouillon.

Comic characters themselves are also often masked allegories for being foreign, from Asterix, the yellow-haired Gaul who fights Romans and travels around the world, to the alien Kal-El, who tries to live on earth among humans despite his super powers, the exhibit argues.

"Superman is the super immigrant. who comes from planet Krypton with super powers but who is faced with the feeling of being in exile" Bouillon said.

The exhibit also shows how the medium became more serious in the second half of the 20th century, using the medium to express uncomfortable truths about society's tolerance.

It includes original illustrations from Iran-born cartoonist Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical novel "Persepolis," which tells the bleak story of a young girl fleeing to Europe against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. A film based on the novel won the Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival in 2007.

"This idea of pictures being maybe simpler or being caricatures allows some authors to say things that would maybe be too awful to put in a novel or in photography," Bouillon said. "You have to make people laugh to accept the very difficult stories."

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Jeb Bush on Ted Cruz: ''Have a Little Bit of Self-Restraint' (ABC News)

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What Happens If Congress Can't Make A Deal On The Debt?

A biker rides past the U.S. Capitol on Monday. Lawmakers are negotiating over plans to raise the federal debt ceiling amid warnings that the government soon won't be able to pay its debts in full.

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A biker rides past the U.S. Capitol on Monday. Lawmakers are negotiating over plans to raise the federal debt ceiling amid warnings that the government soon won't be able to pay its debts in full.

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If you don't pay your electric bill on time, you'll probably get charged a buck or two in interest. As long as you pay off the balance in a reasonable amount of time, your lights will stay on.

So why is it such a big deal that the Treasury Department may soon be unable to pay all of its bills on time?

U.S. Treasury securities are used as both currency and collateral for countless financial transactions around the world. Think dozens per minute.

Right now, Treasurys are almost as liquid and secure as cash. If investors are at all nervous that they might not be honored, this could have a cascading effect that will cause stock markets to tumble, the dollar to lose value and unemployment to rise.

"If Treasury bonds were no longer seen as risk-free, that would have implications for virtually all collateralized loans, which is a huge proportion," says Phillip Swagel, a University of Maryland economist who served as assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy under President George W. Bush.

"If people couldn't hold Treasurys, they would have to hold a lot of cash," he says. "We don't want people to feel like they have to hoard cash to make transactions."

Still A Big 'If'

Note that Swagel is still using the word "if." No one knows whether time will run out on the Treasury Department's authority to raise money.

Technically, it ran out in May, but the department has been able to keep juggling since then. The nominal deadline Congress and President Obama have been working with is Thursday, when the Treasury says it will be unable to borrow any more money by issuing bonds.

Treasury says it will bump up against the $16.7 trillion federal debt ceiling and have to handle payments basically on a cash basis. With that date in mind, the House and Senate keep going back and forth about how and whether to raise the debt ceiling.

There's been a lot of debate about whether breaching the debt ceiling spells real trouble. In theory, Treasury can prioritize paying bondholders over other obligations — the so-called Pay China First strategy. Treasury says it lacks the software and expertise to pull that off, even if the administration decides it wants to.

It's possible that, just using daily incoming tax receipts, Treasury won't really run out of money until Nov. 1, when, among other things, Social Security recipients will be expecting their checks.

But economists are worried that even if Treasury doesn't default on any bonds right after midnight on Thursday, financial markets will grow extremely wary. Already, it costs more for Treasury to borrow money on a short-term basis than for, say, 10 years. Normal prices are inverted because investors are nervous about being paid back over the next month or so.

The date to worry about, in other words, may have nothing to do with Treasury's own drop-dead date and everything to do with when investors start panicking because they don't believe a solution will be hammered out in time.

No one can predict exactly when that would be. It's not in red on the calendar, like how many shopping days until Christmas.

But once panic sets in, things will go bad quickly.

"Markets could go into bedlam," says Mark Zandi, chief economist with the research firm Moody's Analytics. "I don't know that we have to go to Nov. 1 before there's chaos."

2008 All Over Again

It could be like 2008, only worse. Back then, the collapse of the brokerage firm Lehman Brothers triggered financial panic and a stock market crash.

The reason was that lending became extremely tight because investors became wary of most types of collateral. Why lend money based on a firm's assets if you couldn't trust those assets still had value?

The one thing that kept lending going at all, in fact, were Treasurys. They were seen as highly liquid and perfectly safe and reliable.

That's what's being put at risk in the present situation. If Treasurys are not seen as rock-solid, panicky financial markets won't know where to turn. All manner of transactions would be put on hold.

"If Treasurys should become the point of concern, not only would you have a huge problem in terms of undermining the critical linchpin of finance, but what's worse is you couldn't solve the problem by adding Treasurys, which is what we did [in 2008]," says Jason Seligman, a former Treasury staff economist who teaches at Ohio State University.

Dollars themselves would lose value, because Treasurys have to be purchased using U.S. currency. If there's less demand for Treasurys, there will be less demand for dollars.

"The entire financial system of the U.S. and the world is anchored in the idea that the government is good at paying off debts," says Matthew Shapiro, a University of Michigan economist.

The Country That Cried Wolf

Everyone is worried about how this would all play out over the coming weeks and months. If there is a debt default, a recession seems all but guaranteed.

But even if there's not — even if there is some last-minute deal that at least punts the problem a few weeks or months into the future — the fact that Washington is again cutting things so close could have lasting repercussions anyway.

Remember, when Congress flirted with not lifting the debt ceiling back in 2011, it wasn't until after lawmakers had cut a deal that the U.S. bond rating was downgraded.

It might not take a formal downgrade from a rating agency to make investors more skeptical about Treasurys.

Back in 1979, there was an almost inadvertent bond default that had to do with Treasury's back-office functions not being able to get up to speed in time following another game of debt-ceiling chicken. Even failing to pay off a fairly small amount of bonds for a brief period of time significantly raised the amount of interest Treasury had to pay creditors for some months.

"We thought there was nothing safer than Treasurys, but we're basically inviting ourselves to be regarded by financial markets as risky, as a country that doesn't keep its promises to pay," Shapiro says.

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'Lion King' Is Broadway's First $1 Billion Show

This story first appeared in the Oct. 25 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

The Lion King is about to claim a big crown. The Disney musical that kicked off Broadway's obsession with movies is on pace to become this month the first show to reach $1 billion in cumulative gross. It had collected more than $997 million from its New York shows as of Oct. 6, almost exactly 16 years after its first preview performance on Oct. 15, 1997.

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Lion King's success can't solely be attributed to its longevity -- it will soon overtake Les Miserables as just the fifth-longest-running show of all time -- nor to inflated ticket prices. Even with the adoption of premium seating a decade ago, Lion King pricing remains middle-of-the-pack, averaging $130 per seat with a peak price of $199, compared with $171 and $477 for The Book of Mormon.

Instead the family-friendly musical has been rewarded by consistency, playing to packed or standing-room-only houses and dipping below 80 percent capacity fewer than a dozen times in more than 6,600 shows (typical Broadway musical production costs are $600,000 to $700,000 a week). "This humbling milestone is a testament to the vision and artistry of [director] Julie Taymor," says producer and Disney Theatrical Group president Thomas Schumacher. Taymor's Tony-winning direction and the property's worldwide recognition -- the show has grossed $5 billion across 21 global productions -- have made it very good to be King.

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Apple Employees Jokingly Referred To Gold iPhone 5s As ‘The Kardashian Phone'

Internally, the gold iPhone 5s was jokingly referred to as ‘The Kardashian Phone’ by some Apple employees. This fact was tweeted out by the NYT’s Nick Bilton today and we confirmed the nickname with our sources. Yes, we asked this question of our sources.

Apparently this was not a serious ‘code name’ or anything, just an internal joke. Kim Kardashian, of course, has a well-known connection to gold iPhones. The reality star actually had an iPhone 5 that was anodized gold long before Apple’s ‘champagne’ device hit the market, as you can see in the image below.

The thing is, it’s a joke right? I’m sure that people in Apple know Kim loves a gold iPhone just as much as the rest of us. It was a fairly unpopular stance for quite a while to say that the gold iPhone might actually be…pretty hot.

But the fact is that the gold iPhone was easily the most sought-after model at launch. Before launch, everyone laughed about the thought of a glossy, sickly gold iPhone 5s. After launch, the opinions were almost universally the opposite; even those that didn’t necessarily love the gold acknowledged that it wasn’t bad after all.

At this point, we don’t know if Kim actually has a new gold 5s, they’re still in fairly short supply. It’s possible that Kim is using a gold iPhone 5s inside a black case in the famous bathing suit image above. We’ll leave it for a site in tune with the celebrity iPhone news to decipher. BGR perhaps? BGR actually says Kim is using a black iPhone 5 now. Stay tuned as we bring you the latest in Kim Kardashian iPhone news.

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Boehner Signals He'll Cave To Stave Off Debt Default

With hours left before the U.S. Treasury could start defaulting on its obligation, House Speaker John Boehner finally appears to have relented to allow an end to the standoff using a mix of Democratic and Republican votes.

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And now comes the voting. Tonight, both the House and the Senate are expected to vote on a bipartisan deal to temporarily reopen the government and extend the debt limit. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the deal on the Senate floor a little after noon today.

SENATOR HARRY REID: The compromise we reached will provide our economy with a stability it desperately needs. It's never easy for two sides to reach consensus. It's really hard, sometimes harder than others. This time was really hard.

CORNISH: We're joined now by NPR congressional correspondent Tamara Keith, who's been following the twists and turns of this story for weeks now. And, Tamara, let's start with the deal itself. What exactly will the Senate and then the House be voting on tonight?

TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: There are a number of parts here. They will reopen the government until January 15. They will lift the debt ceiling until February 7 with extraordinary measures from Treasury allowed after that. So in theory, the debt ceiling couldn't - could not become an issue until the spring or early summer. There would be income verification for people getting subsidies for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, though this may already be required under the law. And also, they would begin budget negotiations, start up a budget conference committee with a deadline of December 15.

CORNISH: And take us back a bit. This all started with House conservatives and a handful of hardliners in the Senate, most notably Senator Ted Cruz, saying that they would use the funding of the government as leverage to defund the Affordable Care Act. Now, in the end, this resolution doesn't seem to do a whole lot on that front, right? It doesn't talk about the health care law too much. So was it worth it?

KEITH: Texas Senator Ted Cruz was asked about that, and he took umbrage with the idea that Republicans had lost in this. He says that he was just happy to have had this conversation with the American public about the health care law, and he believes that there was value in taking a stand.

SENATOR TED CRUZ: We saw the House of Representatives take a courageous stand listening to the American people that everyone in official Washington just weeks earlier said would never happen. That was a remarkable victory to see the House engage in a profile in courage. Unfortunately, the Senate chose not to follow the House.

KEITH: And the people he blames are sort of squishy Senate Republicans who others have described as defeatist. One of those is Senator Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire, who says that all along moderates have been asking what is the end game here, since she didn't feel it was winnable. The question was, how do you defund the health care law?

I never got an answer to that. I don't think there still is an answer to that. So if we learned nothing else from this whole exercise, I hope we learned that we shouldn't get behind a strategy that cannot succeed.

CORNISH: Now, House Speaker John Boehner has been the focus of this fight all along as he's tried to unify the Republican conference and faced a lot of questions about his grasp on power. Now what did he have to say about the outcome here, and what does this mean for his standing as a leader?

KEITH: He called into a local talk show in Cincinnati, and he said that we fought the good fight. We just didn't win. And he's encouraging his Republicans to vote for it. Now, it's not clear how many actually will because many simply don't support it. They feel it doesn't go far enough.

But as for his power, the fact that he drew this out as long as he did actually won him a lot of support from House Republicans, including those who haven't really been with him all along. One of them is Mick Mulvaney. He's a South Carolina Republican, and he was part of an effort earlier this year to try and overthrow Speaker Boehner. I asked him about the speaker's footing coming out of this.

REPRESENTATIVE MICK MULVANEY: One hundred percent solid.

KEITH: Why? Explain.

MULVANEY: Because no one blames him. You know my background with the speaker. I don't think he could have done this any better than he did.

CORNISH: And, Tamara, to use a Washington phrase, this deal actually kicks the can down the road. What happens in the middle of January and again in February when Congress faces similar deadlines again?

KEITH: There's some hope that perhaps this budget conference committee could reach some sort of an agreement that could get us off of the crisis treadmill. It's not clear that that will actually work. Republicans say they plan to keep fighting the fight on Obamacare, though one House conservative said - and he said he was committing candor - he admitted that Republicans have even less leverage going into the next - going into this the next time around.

CORNISH: That's NPR's Tamara Keith. Tamara, thank you.

KEITH: You're welcome.

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6 ways social media can boost your business

October 16, 2013

If your company isn't fully taking advantage of social media, it might be missing out on opportunities to connect with customers, gain market share, and bring needed talent into the organization.

Experts say virtually every type of business can benefit from using social media as a business tool.

"We really are seeing interest and the potential for business value across the board," says Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at Gartner. "No one is immune, although it will be easier for some than others."

The most likely to see value, Mann says, are knowledge-based and highly collaborative industries, such as media, education, consulting, and high technology; industries or organizations that aren't hamstrung by regulation; and organizations with younger employees who are accustomed to working with social media.

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'Shameless' Adds 'Newsroom,' 'Southland' Alums for Season 4 (Exclusive)

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Shameless has added two more recurring players.

The Newsroom alum Nick Gehlfuss and Southland vet Emily Bergl have joined the fourth season of the Showtime drama, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.

Gehlfuss will play Robbie, described as a sexy, dangerous and artistic man in his 30s who is the older brother of all-American Mike Pratt (Jake McDorman). Robbie has a chip on his shoulder toward his family, in particular Mike and his new relationship with Fiona (Emmy Rossum).

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Meanwhile, Bergl will play Sammy, who is the spitting image of Frank (William H. Macy), except more downtrodden and attracted to the wrong men -- including Frank. Married and divorced twice, she has a 6-year-old child, but her spirit isn't completely broken.

Their castings come three weeks after The Walking Dead's James Allen McCune and See Dad Run's Danika Yarosh joined season four.

When Shameless returns for the new season, Justin Chatwin -- who had played Fiona's on-again, off-again love interest Steve Wilton/Jimmy Lishman -- no longer will be a series regular. The drama was up year-over-year in its third season.

Gehlfuss, repped by MJ Management, has guest-starred on shows like Rizzoli & Isles, Person of Interest and The Good Wife. Repped by Innovative Artists and Thruline, Bergl's TV credits include Desperate Housewives, Men in Trees, Royal Pains and The Good Wife.

Shameless returns Jan. 12, 2014, on Showtime.

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Germany's Senator Reups Video Distribution Deal with Universum

COLOGNE, Germany – German distributors Senator Home Entertainment and Universum Film have extended their joint distribution deal through 2018.

Since 2006, Universum and Senator have cooperated on the DVD, Blu-Ray and VOD distribution of Senator titles, delivering such hits as French comedy The Intouchables and Oscar-winner The King's Speech.

Current titles going out under the Senator/Universum partnership include Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects and Lasse Hallstrom's romantic drama Safe Haven, apapted from the Nicholas Sparks' bestseller.

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New York Comic Con Cosplay: See The Sexiest And Most Elaborate Costumes

Our friends at Guy Code hit NYCC to find the most amazing costumes on the con floor.


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