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'Breaking Dawn' Director Talks Sex Scene 'Adjustment'

'It was more about romance than hot-and-heavy action,' Bill Condon tells MTV News about shooting sex scene for PG-13 rating.
By Amy Wilkinson

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Was the first cut of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" racy enough to be slapped with an R rating?

In the December issue of Glamour UK, star Kristen Stewart revealed that Bella and Edward's feather-strewn sex scene was so saucy that it had to be recut.

"It was so weird, it didn't even feel like we were doing a 'Twilight' film," she recalled to the British mag. "I was like, 'Bella! What are you doing? Wow! What is happening here?!' It was very surreal. We [originally] got rated R. They recut it."

Though director Bill Condon couldn't confirm the R rating when MTV News recently spoke with him on the phone, he did reveal the approach necessary to earn a more teen-friendly PG-13 for the November 18 release.

"It's almost clinical the kind of strict guidelines [the MPAA] have about anything that appears to be — how do I put it delicately?

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That appears to be, let's call it thrusting. In fact, you know, it was so much more about romance than it was about hot-and-heavy action, so it was a very kind of simple adjustment to make."

If filming the infamous sex scene was one of the simplest items on Condon's honeymoon to-do list, one of the most difficult was scouting the location: the secluded Isle Esme owned by Carlisle Cullen.

"We went to Brazil where it was at, that felt important to us," he said. "There are very few houses built on the water because it's against the law. So they're mostly built up, so it was hard to find a house that was like that. It took us — wow — we were five hours outside of Rio and then a boat trip of 40 minutes to get to this one island that had the house that we wanted."

It was a good thing Condon was satisfied with the locale seeing as he and the crew spent several unexpected extra hours there.

"We spent four days there and one night, when we had this incredible hurricane and couldn't get off the island," he said. "Eighty of us slept in the house on the floor and in bathtubs. It was incredible."

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Courtney Stodden: First Pumpkin Patch Now Brain Patch (PHOTO)

Oh me brains. Courtney Stodden already get in major trouble at pumpkin patch. Now she doing crazy things in zombie factory farm! Where she going to next? Vampire blood tree field?

For zombies who not knowing, Courtney very young, very tender-brained child wife of old man human actor. She ALWAYS doing crazy and very sexy thing. Zombie know how brain make you feel? That how Courtney Stodden make human man feel! Now yesterday she go to special brain patch and pick up two brain. If zombie feel dirty looking at young girl holding brain, DON'T LOOK! Very simple, many other sites on internet.

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Boeing to build spacecrafts at shuttle hangar (AP)

ORLANDO, Fla. ? Boeing will announce an agreement with Space Florida on Monday to lease the hanger that housed the space shuttles to build similar crafts that will bring people and cargo to space.

The deal with the state's space agency will create 140 jobs in the next 18 months and 550 jobs by 2015 in an area that's lost jobs as the space shuttle program was retired earlier this year, according to Gov. Rick Scott's office and President Barack Obama's administration.

"Florida has five decades of leadership in the space industry, which makes our state the logical place for the next phase of space travel and exploration," Scott said in prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press. "Boeing's choice of Florida for its Commercial Crew program headquarters is evidence Florida has the world-class facilities and workforce expertise needed for aerospace companies to succeed."

Likewise, the Obama administration praised the agreement between the Chicago-based Boeing and Space Florida.

"The next era of space exploration won't wait, and so we can't wait for Congress to do its job and give our space program the funding it needs. That's why my administration will be pressing forward, in partnership with Space Florida and the private sector, to create jobs and make sure America continues to lead the world in exploration and discovery," Obama said in prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press.

The reusable space capsules will be able to bring up to seven people into space. Right now, the United States doesn't have a way to transport people or cargo to the International Space Station.

Since phasing out the space shuttle program earlier this year, NASA is relying entirely on Russia to get American and other astronauts to the space station.

Obama's administration is criticizing Congress for not approving his request for $40 million in economic assistance for the region and $850 million for the Commercial Crew project.

"Neither NASA nor the Space Coast can afford to stand still. We must be aggressive in pursuing this next generation of space exploration ? and the jobs and innovation that will accompany it," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in prepared remarks.

Scott, however, is criticizing the Obama administration for letting NASA's manned space program lapse.

"Our country is now completely dependent on Russia for travel to and from space. A private business would never let any part of its operations be dependent on someone else. Fortunately, the space transportation systems being developed by private companies like Boeing will rocket the United States back to forefront of the space industry and help reignite job growth," Scott said in his remarks.

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Sorting Through Home Insurance Quotes

If you?re a smart consumer, you know that you should never make a major buy without first getting quotes from several suppliers. This goes for cars, hot tubs, and even your home insurance, for which you?ll end up paying thousands of dollars over the course of your home or condo ownership. So, you should certainly be shopping around for your home insurance, but how do you start to find the best home insurance quotes?Home Insurance

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Obviously, your goal with shopping around for home insurance quotes is to find the best possible price you can, but you don?t want to sacrifice quality for a rock-bottom price. This, of course, doesn?t mean that the more expensive your insurance is, the better service you?ll get, but it does mean that the cheapest company out there may be cutting some corners to provide those prices.

So what we suggest is that you start by searching through prices. Look online or search through the phone books to get excellent, accurate home insurance quotes, and then sort through those quotes. Instead of automatically choosing the lowest priced home insurance, choose three or four of the lowest quotes you find, and then start looking at them more closely.

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T.O. didn't attempt suicide, publicist says

By The Associated Press

updated 9:06 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2011

A publicist for Terrell Owens says he "absolutely" did not attempt suicide or overdose on pills earlier this month.

In a statement, publicist Diana Bianchini says an assistant arrived at Owens' home on Oct. 6 after he had taken a sleeping aid to fall asleep.

The assistant did not realize that, became concerned and called 911. Bianchini says that when police arrived, Owens was responsive.

Bianchini says "reports released with the 911 call (Thursday) are misleading and not factual."

In 2006, Owens made headlines for what police initially considered a suicide attempt but later was classified as an "accidental overdose" on prescription medicine.

The 37-year-old free-agent wide receiver has been rehabilitating a left knee injury that required surgery. He played 14 games for Cincinnati last season, making 72 receptions with nine touchdowns.

He held a workout Tuesday that was watched by two TV networks but no NFL teams.

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World stocks up on European rescue deal for Greece

A man walks in front of the electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo indicating the benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average rose 121.81 points, to end morning session at 9048.35, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. Asian stock markets rose Friday, continuing to be buoyed by a European deal aimed at slashing Greece's massive debt and preventing the crisis from engulfing too big to bailout countries such as Italy. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

BANGKOK (AP) ? World stock markets climbed again Friday, continuing to be buoyed by a European deal aimed at slashing Greece's massive debt and preventing the crisis from engulfing "too big to bailout" countries such as Italy.

Oil prices lingered above $93 per barrel and the dollar gained against the euro but slipped against the yen.

European shares were higher in early trading. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.1 percent to 5,720.79. Germany's DAX gained 0.9 percent to 6,394.05 and France's CAC-40 added 0.6 percent at 3,390.09.

But the euphoria began to wear off on Wall Street, which appeared headed for a lower opening. Dow Jones industrial futures fell 0.4 percent to 12,123 and S&P 500 futures were 0.4 percent lower at 1,278.10.

Asian stocks posted a second day of gains on the European news.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to close at 9,050.47, its highest close since Sept. 1. Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 1.7 percent to 20,01924 and South Korea's Kospi rose 0.4 percent to 1,929.48.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.1 percent to 4,353.30 and the Shanghai Composite Index added 1.6 percent to 2,473.41. Benchmarks in Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia and Thailand were also higher.

After two years of unsuccessful attempts to address the continent's debt problems, European leaders unveiled a deal Thursday aimed at preventing the Greek government's inability to pay its debt from escalating into another financial crisis like the one that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

Banks are being asked to take 50 percent losses on the Greek bonds they hold. Europe will also strengthen a financial rescue fund to protect the region's banks that will also be used to insure some potential losses on the debt of weak eurozone economies like Italy, which is considered too big to bail out.

But some analysts cautioned that Europe was still at risk, since mapping out the rescue plan was simple, compared to the complex and costly task of implementing it.

"I think there is euphoria of Europe finally solving its problems. But the question is, how do you finance the financial stability fund? Who is supposed to pay for it? That is left blank," said Francis Lun, a Hong Kong-based analyst.

"For the moment, Greece will not go under. That is all we know. But the commercial banks will take a big hit," Lun said. "That will really kill them."

But renewed confidence in Europe helped fuel a surge on Wall Street that also boosted stocks in Asia, as did signs of stronger U.S. economic growth and corporate earnings.

Japanese steel makers Nippon Steel Corp. rose 3.4 percent and Kobe Steel Ltd. gained 4.7 percent. Heavy equipment maker Komatsu Ltd. jumped 5.6 percent.

South Korean industrial shares also rose. Steel giant POSCO gained 1.6 percent while Hyundai Heavy Industries, the country's leading shipbuilder, gained 0.7 percent.

Chinese property shares continued to climb on speculation that China might relax its inflation-fighting measures that have drained liquidity out of the financial markets. Hong Kong-listed Poly Real Estate Group added 4.4 percent and China Vanke Co. Ltd. jumped 7.3 percent.

The U.S. government reported that the American economy grew at a 2.5 percent annual rate from July through September on stronger consumer spending and business investment. That was nearly double the 1.3 percent growth in the previous quarter.

The Dow Jones industrial average soared 2.9 percent to 12,208.55 ? its largest jump since Aug. 11. The S&P 500 rose 3.7 percent to 1,284.59. The Nasdaq composite leaped up 3.3 percent to 2,738.63.

Benchmark crude for December delivery was down 79 cents at $93.20 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $3.76, or 4.2 percent, to settle at $93.96 in New York on Thursday.

Brent crude was down 33 cents at $111.75 a barrel on the ICE Futures Exchange in London.

In currencies, the euro softened to $1.4178 from $1.4216 late Thursday in New York. The dollar slipped to 75.82 yen from 75.94 yen. The greenback hit a new record low against the yen the previous day, sinking to 75.63 yen at one point.

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PlayStation Vita First Edition Bundle offers early access... for a price (Digital Trends)

For those who think an extra $50 is a small price to pay for the right to own a PlayStation Vita a week ahead of the common people, Sony has a deal for you.

Announced this week on the official PlayStation Blog, the PlayStation Vita First Edition Bundle puts the handheld system in gamers? hands February 15 ? a full seven days before everyone else. (Everyone who didn?t also pre-order it, that is.)

However, the ability to show off the Vita?s array of bells, whistles, and fancy sensors comes with a price, folks.

For consumers here in North America, the First Edition Bundle will cost $350 for the 3G + Wi-Fi model, a case, a 4GB memory card, and a copy of Little Deviants (a mini-game that shows off the Vita?s abilities) ? which amounts to $50 more than the same package will cost on February 22. The non-3G Vita will also get a First Edition Bundle, but it will only be available in Canada and will cost $300 ? a price tag that also adds $50 to the standard retail price.

The PlayStation Vita First Edition Bundle goes on sale today at ?select? retailers.

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Towns see crime, carousing surge amid gas boom (AP)

TOWANDA, Pa. ? In a modern-day echo of the raucous Old West, small towns enjoying a boom in oil and gas drilling are seeing a sharp increase in drunken driving, bar fights and other hell-raising, blamed largely on an influx of young men who find themselves with lots of money in their pockets and nothing to do after they get off work.

Authorities in Pennsylvania and other states are quick to point out that the vast majority of workers streaming in are law-abiding. But they also say the drilling industry has brought with it a hard-working, hard-drinking, rough-and-tumble element that, in some places, threatens to overwhelm law enforcement.

Some police departments are trying to hire more officers but are hard-pressed to compete with the industry for applicants.

"On one hand, we need to count our blessings," said Sheriff Scott Busching of Williams County, N.D. "On the other hand, we need to see if we can control this so it isn't chickens one day and feathers the next. ... We have come to the point here where we're almost overwhelmed. It's very close."

In Bradford County, Pennsylvania's most heavily drilled county in the 3-year-old rush to tap the Marcellus Shale, the nation's largest-known natural gas reservoir, the stream of men from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and elsewhere has been accompanied by increases in arrests, traffic violations, protection-from-abuse orders and warrants issued for people who don't show up in court, law enforcement officials said.

In the heart of western North Dakota's oil patch, driving under the influence and assaults have spiked after thousands of workers descended on the area and settled in apartments and trailer villages known as "man camps." Southwestern Wyoming's booming gas fields also have seen a rise in rowdy behavior.

"We definitely do drink a lot. I ain't going to lie," said Jordon Bourque, a 23-year-old pipe inspector from Lafayette, La., who was drinking beer at a bar in the Williamsport, Pa., area one recent night.

But he said that many in the industry obey the law and that authorities in Pennsylvania have less tolerance for troublemakers than police in small-town Texas, where rig workers are used to raising hell and getting a pass from law enforcement.

"You can do that (stuff) and get away with it," Bourque said. In Pennsylvania, "they look at it totally different."

Leaving a diner in Towanda in northern Pennsylvania, Jason Phillips, a 30-year-old drilling-equipment supervisor from Coldspring, Texas, said the problem is not really the drilling industry ? "it's young people making a lot of money." As for himself, he said, "I'm not too much of wild person."

The boom in drilling has been made possible by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that cracks open rock layers to free natural gas. Large numbers of workers are needed to operate drilling equipment, drive trucks, handle chemicals, lay pipeline and perform other tasks.

The hours are long. Some employees put in two weeks on, two weeks off. But entry-level laborers or truck drivers can make $40,000 or more, while workers on the drilling rigs can easily pull down twice that. Their employers often pick up the tab for hotels, meals and practically everything else.

In Sweetwater County, Wyo., where natural gas exploration boomed about a decade ago, the population increased from 37,600 in 2000 to 43,800 in 2010, and arrests for drunkenness, drugs and DUI more than doubled from 603 in 2000 to a peak of 1,535 in 2008, according to state figures.

Since then, the numbers have eased to 1,128 in 2010, a decline that sheriff's spokesman Detective Dick Blust Jr. credited to the sluggish national economy.

In Pennsylvania's Bradford County, DUI arrests by state troopers are on track to rise 40 percent this year after climbing 60 percent last year, District Attorney Dan Barrett said. The number of sentences handed out for criminal offenses was up 35 percent in 2010, he said.

Sheriff Clinton Walters said his officers are handling about a 25 percent increase from last year in everything from warrants for people who fail to appear in court to protection-from-abuse orders. The flood of arrests is such that his office's van is no longer big enough to transport all the inmates at once from jail to court, Walters said.

Stories abound about friction between locals and out-of-towners, whether road rage incidents or fights over women.

Renee Daly, 27, of Montrose, Pa., said she knows of at least three marriages that ended when local women abandoned their husbands for gas-field workers.

It's "because of these Southern gentlemen, with their Southern accents, and the girls move in with these guys to take care of them," she said. "You get to spend their money, and they're gone two weeks at a time."

Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned "My Indian name is crawling drunk," Jeanette Pratt, a title searcher from Monroe, La., who travels the country for the gas industry and was on assignment recently in Montrose, said the difference is that the out-of-town rig workers "have a lot more money to party with" than the locals.

In the North Dakota boomtown of Williston, some bars have become rough, and the number of domestic-disturbance calls and arrests for such crimes as DUI, assault and theft in just the first half of 2011 was twice the total for all of 2010, said Busching, the sheriff.

Busching and Williston police are scrambling to hire but say they can't pay enough for their new officers to afford the high rents, and many would-be local applicants have opted for a higher paycheck in the drilling industry.

"I have increased staff, and I'm going to increase again, but I can't until I find a place for them to live," Busching said. Williston Police Capt. Tom Ladwig said he has been hiring from police academies in Minnesota and has officers staying on couches in colleagues' apartments until they can find their own places.

Doctors are treating more patients for chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease, in some of the biggest oil-producing counties in western North Dakota ? 237 cases in 2010 compared with 145 in 2008 ? although the state's disease-control chief, Kirby Kruger, said that it is difficult to call three years of data a real trend.

There are also rumors of prostitution.

In rural southern Texas, where exploration for oil and gas in the Eagle Ford Shale is just getting under way, Robert Garza, police chief in the town of Dilley, said he has heard talk about plans to build a club "down in the boonies" that would supply prostitutes to drilling industry workers.

Police departments in the area have reported unusual activity in recent months: early morning traffic stops with "very young, attractive girls in BMWs" from the Houston area, at least a five-hour drive from Dilley, Garza said.

Back in Pennsylvania, a Bradford County commissioner, Doug McLinko, said the crime spike doesn't change his mind about the importance of the drilling boom to the local economy. Other states, he said, would "cut an arm off" to have such a surge.

"I'm always a little apprehensive about painting this as a big problem around the county, because it just isn't," McLinko said. "A lot of these people are really well-behaved. ... To a large degree, is it out control or a major issue? Absolutely not."

___

Associated Press writers Michael Rubinkam in Montrose, Pa., James MacPherson in Bismarck, N.D., and Ramit Plushnick-Masti in Houston contributed to this report.

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Poland reopens investigation into Auschwitz crimes (AP)

WARSAW, Poland ? Polish authorities have reopened an investigation into World War II crimes committed at Auschwitz and its satellite camps that was closed in the 1980s because of the country's isolation behind the Iron Curtain.

One aim of the new probe is to track down any living Nazi perpetrators, according to an announcement Thursday by the Institute of National Remembrance, a state body that investigates Nazi and communist-era crimes.

Nazi Germany opened Auschwitz in 1940, months after it invaded and occupied Poland. Over the next five years of war, German and Austrian Nazis murdered up to 1.5 million people there at the expanded Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex, most of them Jews from across Europe, but also Poles, Roma, gays and others.

The investigation was opened by a branch of the remembrance institute in Krakow, which is located near Auschwitz. Germany also operated other death camps across Poland ? like Chelmno, Treblinka and Belzec ? and it was not immediately clear if new investigations into them are also planned.

A leading international Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, praised Poland's reopening of the investigation. He said it "could have tremendous implications" in paving the way for new prosecutions thanks to the precedent set by the conviction of Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk in Germany earlier this year.

Demjanjuk was convicted of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder. It was the first time Germany convicted someone as a Nazi camp guard based on the theory that if he worked there, he was part of the extermination process, even without direct proof of any specific killings.

That has opened the door to many more possible prosecutions, and German authorities have since reopened hundreds of dormant investigations of Nazi death camp guards ? men who are now so old that time is running out for prosecutors.

Zuroff said that should the Polish investigation track down any German perpetrators, he would expect them ? like Demjanjuk ? to be tried in a German court since Berlin requests extradition in such cases.

"I welcome any investigation that could lead to convictions," Zuroff, the main Nazi hunter for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Associated Press.

However, he also noted that Poland is the country with the most ongoing investigations into Nazi crimes, but that these almost never result in prosecutions.

Poland's Institute of National Remembrance "excels in opening up investigations. They don't excel in prosecuting Nazi war criminals," Zuroff said.

Poland originally launched investigations into crimes at Auschwitz in the 1960s and 1970s, but closed them in the 1980s without any indictments being made. Poland had difficulty questioning witnesses and perpetrators living abroad because it was cut off behind the Iron Curtain.

The Institute for National Remembrance said it has already begun questioning witnesses as part of the revived investigation. It said the probe is aimed in part at "finding and, if needed, detaining the perpetrators."

The last time Poland prosecuted anyone for Nazi crimes was in 2001, when a Pole, Henryk Mania, was sentenced to eight years in prison for taking parts in acts of genocide at the death camp of Chelmno.

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Police investigating rape report at Occupy Glasgow (AP)

LONDON ? Scottish police say they are investigating reports a woman was raped while participating in anti-capitalist protests in Glasgow.

Strathclyde Police said Wednesday that shortly after midnight the force received a report that a serious sexual assault against a 28-year-old woman took place in a tent in the city's George Square.

No arrests have been made.

Protesters inspired by New York's Occupy Wall Street movement have been camping in George Square since Oct. 16.

Occupy Glasgow organizers said in a statement posted online that they were "deeply shocked and saddened by the tragic allegation" of an assault in their camp. The statement said protesters are cooperating with police and working to ensure that everyone at the camp is safe.

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This reminds me of Fairy Tail~ I'd like to have a hunter up, but I'll probably only be able to get it by tomorrow. Sorry!

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You walk through the mahogany door. The little girl inside stares at you with her iridescent violet eyes, emphasized by her rich indigo dress. Her caretaker hovers by your side, obviously flustered at your sudden appearance. You ignore her, as the girl's eyes bores into outer facade, and searches your heart, mind and soul. She reaches out a hand, probably realising you are not a threat.
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Video: Teacher pleads insanity in student sex scandal

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Northern lights take unusual trip down south (AP)

WASHINGTON ? A baffling solar storm pulled colorful northern lights unusually far south, surprising space weather experts and treating skywatchers to a rare and spectacular treat.

A storm-chasing photographer captured the strange sky show in Arkansas Monday night. People in Kentucky and Georgia reported their sightings to local television stations. A special automated NASA camera that takes a picture of the sky every minute in Huntsville, Ala., captured 20 minutes of the vibrant red and green aurora borealis.

In Arkansas, Brian Emfinger called the view "extremely vivid, the most vivid I have ever seen. There was just 15 to 20 minutes where it really went crazy."

Emfinger, a storm chaser, captured the vibrant nighttime images on camera in Ozark, Ark.

He called it "a much bigger deal" than a tornado" because he sees dozens of those every year. This is only the second northern lights in a decade that he has seen this far south.

"They are very rare events," said NASA scientist Bill Cooke, who found the aurora photos in the Alabama camera's archive and posted them on the Marshall Space Flight Center's blog. "We don't see them this far south that often."

Officials at the federal Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colo., said they were surprised at the southern reach. The center monitors solar storms, which trigger auroras.

Space weather forecast chief Bob Rutledge said given the size of the solar storm, the lights probably shouldn't have been visible south of Iowa. The storm was only considered "moderate" sized, he said.

He called the storm unusual, its effects reaching Earth eight hours faster than forecast. But that timing made it just about perfect for U.S. viewing, he said.

"The peak of the intensity happened when it was dark or becoming dark over the U.S., coupled with the clear skies. We did have significant aurora sightings," Rutledge said. "The timing was good on this."

In Huntsville, the aurora lasted from 8:25 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. CDT, Cooke said. In Arkansas, Emfinger went out shortly after sunset after getting a space weather alert. He saw auroras that lasted until after 11 p.m.

An aurora begins with a storm shooting a magnetic solar wind from the sun. The wind slams into Earth's magnetic field, compressing it. That excites electrons of oxygen and nitrogen. When those excited electrons calm down, they emit red and green colors, Rutledge said.

Often solar storms can cause damage satellites and power grids. This one didn't, Rutledge said.

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Today on New Scientist: 24 October 2011

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UK's carbon-capture failure is part of a global trend

There has been a global push to capture and bury carbon dioxide emissions from power plants - but an abandoned British plan confirms that it is faltering

Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners

From oil-covered birds to death-defying mountain goats: our favourites from the winners of the 2011 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Unbearable itch may no longer be a pain in anaesthesia

Uncoupling the link between itch and pain suggests that they use different nerve pathways, giving hope for powerful pain relief with no scratching required

Graduate Special: Choose your own adventure

Map out your future with New Scientist's Graduate Careers Special

One-Minute Physics: Why light slows down in glass

Watch an animation that explains why the speed of light changes in different mediums

Climate change: What we do - and don't - know

We know that we are warming the planet. But how much? And how will it affect us? Michael Le Page lays out the latest knowledge - and what remains unknown

Deorbited space telescope crash lands - but where?

The derelict X-ray telescope ROSAT is probably beneath the Indian Ocean - but we won't know until the military releases its tracking data

Libyan plan to trace mass graves and missing people

The transitional government of Libya has set up a commission to identify and investigate mass graves from the Gaddafi era and civil war

A revolution of universally average art

Copernicus taught us that humanity is not the centre of the universe, says Jonathan Keats, so art should shoot for the mean, not the moon

Snake stores sperm for five years before giving birth

A captive rattlesnake has given birth after five years alone and her offspring carry a male snake's genes, suggesting she stored sperm before she was caught

Wind turbine blades reach out to catch the breeze

Turbine designers generally trade off efficiency and durability, but turbines could soon sport blades that extend and retract to suit wind conditions

Anti-fatigue drug helps tired doctors - good idea?

A study shows a fatigue-fighting drug helps tired doctors think better, raising a debate on whether that would be a good idea in the real world

Photos from inside California's star chamber

Pictures from inside the world's largest and most energetic laser facility - the National Ignition Facility

Turkey earthquake reveals a new active fault zone

Recent earthquakes in Turkey have occurred along one or other of the country's two main faults. Yesterday's quake struck near their meeting point

Action-packed video games help solve lazy eye

Mixing traditional treatments for lazy eye with video games can help patients overcome their affliction

World's first fat tax: what will it achieve?

Enviably healthy Denmark is leading the way in taxing unhealthy food. Why are they doing it, and will it work, asks Marion Nestle

Electronic navigation charts could save ships

The global commercial shipping fleet is set to get a much-needed update in its navigation instruments. But why hasn't it happened sooner?

Guns kept at home are hurting US kids

Loaded guns left where kids can reach them may be contributing to the high level of firearms injuries to children in the US

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Former UN inspector due in court in sex case

STROUDSBURG, Pa.?? A former U.N. weapons inspector convicted in an online sex sting is scheduled to appear in a northeastern Pennsylvania courtroom on Wednesday and may learn his sentence.

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Scott Ritter, 50, of Delmar, N.Y., exchanged explicit messages with a detective posing as a 15-year-old girl, then performed a sex act on himself in front of a webcam. He testified in his own defense at his April trial that he believed the person he met in a Yahoo chat room in 2009 was an adult acting out her own fantasy.

A Monroe County jury convicted Ritter on six counts, including unlawful contact with a minor.

Ritter is expected to ask for a new trial Wednesday, basing his request on an appeals court ruling in New York that records from previous incidents in that state should not have been unsealed and given to prosecutors in Pennsylvania to be used at his trial.

The Monroe County district attorney's office said the New York ruling has no bearing on Ritter's conviction and wants him sentenced immediately.

Ritter was one of the U.N.'s chief weapons inspectors in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. He resigned after accusing the United States and the U.N. of failing to get tough with Saddam Hussein. Later, he said that Iraq had destroyed its weapons of mass destruction, and he became a vocal critic of the U.S. invasion.

Ritter was charged in New York a decade ago with trying to lure an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl to a restaurant. The charges were later dropped, and he said in 2003 that the case was designed to silence his war criticism.

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Little-Known Federal Housing Finance Agency Becomes Political Pawn (ContributorNetwork)

ABC News reports President Barack Obama will announce executive orders to help struggling homeowners refinance their mortgages in an effort to help Americans save money. Obama will use the Federal Housing Finance Agency to bypass Congress in terms of trying to stimulate the economy. His motto to the American people is "We Can't Wait."

What is the Federal Housing Finance Agency ? Here is some background information.

Establishment

Congress authorized the establishment of the Federal Housing Finance Agency in July 2008 as part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. The impetus for its creation was the housing market and foreclosure crisis. Even though companies like Lehman Brothers didn't go bankrupt until September, CNN reported in February 2008 that foreclosures had risen 57 percent the previous month.

The FHFA is an independent agency of the U.S. government. As such, the director of the agency is appointed by the president and has a five-year term. The only authority Congress has is to defund the agency or disband it altogether. The Senate can also suggest candidates for the directorship to the president.

Authority

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has authority over federal mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It also oversees the 12 Federal Home Loan Banks and their Office of Finance. Several agencies which were once the purview of the Department of Housing and Urban Development are now under the auspices of the FHFA.

The relatively new agency has regulatory authority over federal mortgage programs. It can support the housing market, increase liquidity and help make housing more affordable for Americans.

The current acting director is Edward DeMarco, appointed Aug. 25, 2009. He has been with the agency in some capacity since it was created. He has a five-year term. DeMarco has been a public servant for decades with the General Accounting Office and the Social Security Administration.

Statistics

As of September 2010, the FHFA regulates $6.7 trillion of debt. That figure includes a purchase or guarantee of 65 percent of new mortgages since the agency was created.

The agency submits annual reports to Congress every June. Federal Home Loan Banks ended the 2010 fiscal year with assets of $878.3 billion, down from $1.02 trillion at the end of 2009. The loan-to-value ratio of mortgages bought by FHFA in 2010 was below 70 percent as the agency attempted to make sure homeowners keep the value of their home after loans are paid in full.

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Fresh Android Apps for Oct. 24: Haunted House HD, Postcard on the Run, Trulia - For Rent, Ragdoll Blaster (Appolicious)

Start this spooky week off right. Haunted House HD will set the mood for the upcoming candy filled night out.

The rest of today?s fresh list gets rounded out by mix of old and new mail (Postcard on the Run), an apartment-hunting tool (Trulia ? For Rent), and an unusual game (Ragdoll Blaster).

I don?t usually feature Live Wallpaper in Freshies but this one stands out as both cool and very timely, so it?s rule-breaking time.

Immerse your Android in a beautifully rendered 3D haunted house landscape. You?ll find flying bats, glowing jack-o-lanterns, scary ghouls, and much more. Customize the wallpaper through the settings page to show your own text on the creepy mailbox, a different face on the pumpkin, and many other personalizations.

Need more? Go inside the house to view the spooky fireplace, paintings, a mysterious piano and floating ghosts.

Apple recently announced the new Cards app that let?s you turn photos taken with an iPhone into real postcards that get sent through the mail. This app performs that same function for your Android device.

Capture a new photo or choose one from the gallery, add your own special message, enter the recipient?s details, sign it with your finger, and ? boom ? your personal postcard will be printed and sent through the mail with correct postage. ?Using a mobile-only feature you can add a map of your current GPS location to your card.

Prices start at 99 cents per card and you can pay with credit card or PayPal.

Lots of apps cover house hunting but this one focuses on the renter. Quickly customize a search that delivers results for a specified area that fits your profile. It?s easy to save or ?nix? apartments you visit from your list and write in notes to help you remember the highlights. Capture photos and add them to a listing and share your finds with others via social networks.

Sign up for email alerts for when new listings or open houses appear in your target area, let the colors provide a visual on the ones you?ve already seen and the ones you haven?t, and search by voice.

Like to fire cannons, launch ragdolls, and solve puzzles? Then you won?t find a better fit anywhere in an Android game.

You must fire a ragdoll into a bull?s-eye target. Sounds easy except that ramps, mazes, fulcrums, and a bunch of other stuff stands in your way. Shoot, shoot, shoot, the dolls until you can maneuver the puzzle and strike the target.

Don?t expect glitzy. The hand drawn (think kindergartener) graphics give it a quirky homemade feel that suits the offbeat challenge.

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NASA wants to save moon poop...for science

Has bacteria in astronaut poop left on the moon been genetically altered? Did solar wind and ultraviolet radiation destroy the flag at Tranquility Base, landing site for the first Apollo moon mission? Are the lunar rovers dented with micrometeoroid impacts?

These are among the science questions raised by a NASA team tasked to come up with guidelines to preserve lunar artifacts before contenders in a $30-million competition sponsored by Google arrive on the moon beginning in about two years.

About 28 teams are competing to send privately funded robotic spacecraft to photograph and explore the lunar surface. Winners can get bonuses if they visit lunar historic sites, a prospect that got NASA thinking about its property on the moon.

PHOTOS: Myths of the Moon Missions

Six crews landed on lunar surface between 1969 and 1972, leaving behind descent modules, communications antennas, rovers and yes, even bags with feces. The Apollo artifacts are part of a larger collection of relics that also include Soviet-era spacecraft and crashed NASA probes.

"The flag, footprints, the lunar rover ... all is there, and we really don't know exactly what's happened," said Rob Kelso, director of NASA's lunar commercial services program at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

"In a real sense, the hardware that still sits on the moon are ongoing experiments in scientific witness plates, of looking at environmental impacts over time, which can provide significant engineering data about how systems and structures survive," Kelso said during a presentation last week at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight in Las Cruces, N.M.

SCIENCE CHANNEL: Bathroom in Space

Astrobiologists, for example, are interested in studying how bacteria in the astronauts' feces have fared after 40 years and if they have undergone gene mutation. Microbes also existed in clothes, food containers and other gear left behind on the moon.

"The crews put their feces bags, urine bags, food containers, their clothes, in a bag and would jettison that out of the hatch prior to liftoff as they tried to shed as much weight for ascent performance," Kelso said.

THE DISCOVERNATOR: Amazing Facts Served Up Hot

Scientists also are interested in studying the metals in the lunar rover and other gear, which has been subjected to temperatures that regularly and repeatedly cycle between minus-370 degrees and 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

To preserve the artifacts and prevent accidental damages, NASA wants visiting vehicles to keep their distance. The buffer zones vary depending on the particular relic and its historic significance, with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 equipment and sites ? the first and last human expeditions to the moon ? garnering the most restricted access.

The buffers vary between 1 to 3 kilometers (0.62 to 1.2 miles) for each artifact, be it a hammer a drill or a lunar rover. Visiting spacecraft also are advised to descend and land at least 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) away from historic sites to avoid pelting hardware with lunar dust.

The Lunar Heritage Sites recommendations have been provided to the X-Prize Foundation and the Google Lunar X Prize teams, NASA spokesman J.D. Harrington told Discovery News.

With no way to enforce the rules, compliance is voluntary.

"Any future lunar landing vehicle teams can select the level of compliance within their mission design and adopt according to their team plans," Harrington wrote in an email.

? 2011 Discovery Channel

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Louisiana Gov. Jindal wins re-election easily (cbsnews)

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Holland tops Pujols, Cards; Texas ties Series at 2 (AP)

ARLINGTON, Texas ? Inning by inning, this World Series is getting more intriguing.

Derek Holland provided the latest twist, boosted by a pregame pep talk from his manager. The Texas lefty shut down the St. Louis Cardinals on two hits into the ninth inning, and the Rangers won 4-0 Sunday to even things at 2-all.

A day after the Cardinals, powered by Albert Pujols, scored a team record 16 runs in a postseason game, they never got close against Holland.

"When I came off the field, arm hairs are sticking up. It's not like I have much, but man, it was tingly," Holland said.

Rangers manager Ron Washington came to the mound after 8 1-3 innings following Holland's second walk of the game. So close to a shutout, and with the crowd chanting his name, Holland pleaded his case, trying to talk his way into staying in.

"He was begging," Washington said. Or, as Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler described it: "A lot of profanity, we sounded like sailors out there."

Washington listened, then signaled for closer Neftali Feliz. Holland had done his job in Game 4, and then some. He had kept Pujols in the ballpark and the Rangers in this Series.

"Now it's a best out of three," Pujols said. "See who can win two games. At the end, that's who is going to be raising the trophy."

Holland struck out seven and came within two outs of pitching the first complete-game shutout in the World Series since Josh Beckett's gem for Florida to clinch the 2003 title at Yankee Stadium.

"I was very focused. I knew this was a big game for us," said Holland, who was 16-5 with 3.95 ERA and four shutouts in the regular season. "I had to step up and make sure I was prepared."

Hobbled Josh Hamilton put Texas ahead with an RBI double in the first inning. Then Mike Napoli broke it open with a three-run homer in the sixth that set off a hearty high-five in the front row between team president Nolan Ryan and former President George W. Bush.

And just like that, for the first time since 2003, the World Series stood at two games apiece.

Game 5 is Monday night at Rangers Ballpark. It's a rematch of the opener, when Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter topped C.J. Wilson. After that, it's back to Busch Stadium to crown a champion.

Pujols produced arguably the greatest hitting show in postseason history in Game 3, tying Series records with three home runs, six RBIs and five hits during the Cardinals' romp. However, Holland has now emerged as the unlikely star.

Pujols finished 0 for 4 and hit the ball out of the infield only once.

"I wanted him to see my 'A' game," Holland said.

Feliz took over and closed. He walked Allen Craig, then retired Pujols on a fly ball and struck out Matt Holliday to end it.

Holland was in tune all evening with Napoli, his pal and catcher. Much better than the battery for the pregame ceremony ? Bush tossed a wild pitch that glanced off the catcher's mitt Ryan wore.

"I should've gone with the regular glove," Ryan said with a chuckle.

The bounce-back Rangers managed to avoid consecutive losses for the first time since Aug. 23-25, a streak that's kept them out of trouble in the postseason.

The Rangers also completed a Sunday sweep in the matchup of teams from St. Louis and the Dallas area. Earlier in the afternoon, the Cowboys beat the Rams 34-7 right across the parking lots. Hamilton and Lance Berkman served as honorary captains for the pregame coin toss, wearing their baseball uniforms.

Many fans might remember Holland from last year's World Series. He's the reliever who came in against San Francisco, walked his first three batters and promptly got pulled.

Maybe that guy was an impostor. Because this 25-year-old lefty with the sorry little mustache was completely poised, with pinpoint control. Perhaps it was the talk he got from Washington near the dugout shortly before taking the mound.

Washington put both hands on Holland's shoulders and talked to him tenderly, like a dad about to send his teenage son off to college. Holland kept nodding, and Washington finished up with a playful pat to Holland's cheek.

"It was just a general message that he's capable of going out there and keeping us in the ballgame. That's all it was," Washington said. "I talk with Derek like that all the time, it just happened to catch me on TV."

Added Holland: "He shows that he cares about all his players, and he definitely showed that when he talked to me."

After that, Holland was in total command in his first Series start, and improved to 3-0 lifetime in the postseason. The only hits he allowed were by Berkman: a double in the second and a single in the fifth. Holland got even later, getting Berkman to look at a strike three that left the St. Louis star discussing the call with plate umpire Ron Kulpa.

Cardinals starter Edwin Jackson kept his team close despite a wild night in which he walked seven in 5 1-3 innings. Jackson left after a pair of walks in the sixth and Napoli homered on the first pitch from reliever Mitchell Boggs.

"It's just a matter of time before they catch up with you," Jackson said.

NOTES: Napoli became the first catcher to hit two homers in a Series since Mike Piazza of the Mets in 2000. ... Kinsler and St. Louis C Yadier Molina played a little game of back-and-forth in the second. Kinsler robbed Molina of an RBI single with a nice stop up the middle to end the top half. In the bottom half, Molina made a snap throw that trapped Kinsler off first base for the last out.

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