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December 31, 2011 08:10 GMT

Today is Saturday, Dec. 31, the 365th and final day of 2011.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Dec. 31, 1951, the Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid.

On this date:

In 1759, Arthur Guinness founded his famous brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin.

In 1775, during the Revolutionary War, the British repulsed an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec; Montgomery was killed.

In 1879, Thomas Edison first publicly demonstrated his electric incandescent light in Menlo Park, N.J.

In 1909, the Manhattan Bridge, spanning the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, was officially opened to vehicular traffic.

In 1946, President Harry S. Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.

In 1961, the Green Bay Packers shut out the New York Giants 37-0 to win the National Football League Championship.

In 1969, Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, was shot to death with his wife and daughter in their Clarksville, Pa., home by hitmen acting at the orders of UMWA president Tony Boyle.

In 1985, singer Rick Nelson, 45, and six other people were killed when fire broke out aboard a DC-3 that was taking the group to a New Year's Eve performance in Dallas.

In 1986, 97 people were killed when fire broke out in the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Three hotel workers later pleaded guilty in connection with the blaze.)

In 1991, representatives of the government of El Salvador and rebels reached agreement at the United Nations on a peace accord to end 12 years of civil war.

Ten years ago: New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani spent his final day in office praising police, firefighters, and other city employees in the wake of 9/11, and said he had no regrets about returning to private life. Notre Dame tapped Tyrone Willingham to be its football coach, replacing George O'Leary, who'd resigned because of misstatements about his academic and athletic achievements on his resume; Willingham became the first black head coach in any sport for the Irish. Actress Eileen Heckart died in Norwalk, Conn., at age 82.

Five years ago: The death toll for Americans killed in the Iraq war reached 3,000. Hundreds of Iraqis flocked to the village of Ouja (OO'-juh) where Saddam Hussein was born to see the deposed leader buried in a religious compound 24 hours after his execution. Ordinary Americans paid their respects to former President Gerald R. Ford, walking slowly by his flag-covered casket in the U.S. Capitol.

One year ago: Tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air pummeled the South and Midwest, killing a total of eight people in Arkansas and Missouri. The body of federal defense consultant John Wheeler III, 66, was found in a Wilmington, Del., landfill; his death, ruled a homicide, remains under investigation.

Today's Birthdays: TV producer George Schlatter is 82. Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins is 74. Actor Tim Considine ("My Three Sons") is 71. Actress Sarah Miles is 70. Rock musician Andy Summers is 69. Actor Sir Ben Kingsley is 68. Producer-director Taylor Hackford is 67. Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg is 65. Actor Tim Matheson is 64. Pop singer Burton Cummings (The Guess Who) is 64. Singer Donna Summer is 63. Actor Joe Dallesandro is 63. Rock musician Tom Hamilton (Aerosmith) is 60. Actor James Remar is 58. Actress Bebe Neuwirth is 53. Actor Val Kilmer is 52. Singer Paul Westerberg is 52. Actor Don Diamont is 49. Rock musician Ric Ivanisevich (Oleander) is 49. Rock musician Scott Ian (Anthrax) is 48. Actress Gong Li is 46. Author Nicholas Sparks is 46. Actor Lance Reddick is 42. Pop singer Joe McIntyre is 39. Rock musician Mikko Siren (Apocalyptica) is 36. Rock musician Bob Bryar is 32.

Thought for Today: "Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to!" -- William E. Vaughan, American newspaper columnist (1915-1977).

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Britney Spears Wedding Plans

30-year old, Britney Spears got engaged to her former manager, Jason Trawick after dating for two years, earlier this month. The engagement party was held at?the Chocolate Lounge and Sugar Factory in the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. Britney, who has two sons, Sean Preston, six, and Jayden James, five, with ex-husband Kevin Federline is eager to plan her 2012 wedding and is opting for a ?traditional Southern-style? wedding with friends and family, rather than?a lavish Hollywood bash.

In Touch Weekly has more: ?She wants a traditional Southern-style wedding with comfort food, surrounded by her family, her two sons and all of her childhood friends, as opposed to a Hollywood wedding.?

Three times a charm for Britney, Trawick is number three, her ex Kevin Federline was the second and her childhood friend, Jason Alexander came in first.

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Once again, Debra Messing has linked up with a guy named Will! The former Will & Grace star, who only recently announced that she was separated from husband Daniel Zelman, is reportedly dating actor Will Chase, her costar on the upcoming NBC musical drama Smash.

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(Reuters) ? The U.S. Department of Defense said on Tuesday that there was a rise in reports of sexual assault at the nation's military academies in the most recent school year and announced new policies to help victims.

The "Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at Military Service Academies" found that during the 2010-11 year there were 65 reports of sexual assaults involving cadets and midshipmen, up from 41 in the prior year.

To help address the jump, the academies are implementing two new policies.

Service members who have been victims of sexual assault will now be able to request an expedited transfer from their units. The military will now also retain records of sexual assaults longer -- in some cases as long as 50 years.

"We know that the military academies are similar to college campuses around the country in that sexual harassment and assault are challenges that all faculty, staff and students need to work to prevent," said Major General Mary Kay Hertog, director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office.

"However, when it does occur, we owe it to those who have been victimized, and to every cadet and midshipman, to do everything possible to provide needed support and to hold those who commit sexual assault appropriately accountable."

As part of the review process, Department of Defense officials visited the U.S. Military Academy, Naval Academy and Air Force Academy and reviewed academy policies and procedures. They also held focus groups.

Officials found most academy programs fulfilled or in some cases surpassed existing policies and directives, but Hertog said they have also identified areas for improvement.

(Reporting by Karin Matz; Editing by James B. Kelleher and Jerry Norton)

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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. ? Harry Kullijian, a former Northern California city councilman who married Broadway star Carol Channing some 70 years after the childhood sweethearts lost contact, has died on the eve of his 92nd birthday.

Kullijian collapsed at the couple's Rancho Mirage home after suffering an aneurysm, according to family spokesman Harlan Boll. He died Monday at a nearby hospital, Boll said.

Kullijian met Channing while attending middle school in San Francisco, where they dated for a few years before going off to college. The pair lost touch for decades ? as Channing became a musical theater hit with her Tony-winning role in "Hello, Dolly," while Kullijian went to war and then local politics. But they never forgot about each other.

In her 2000 memoir, "Just Lucky, I Guess," Channing reflected on her first love, saying the years spent with him were the happiest of her life.

"The leader of the school band was Harry Kullijian. I was so in love with Harry I couldn't stop hugging him," she wrote.

A mutual friend who read the book urged the recently-widowed Kullijian to call Channing. They got engaged two weeks after their reunion and married three months later, when Channing was 82 and Kullijian 83.

"We went on talking from the last conversation when we were 15 years old," Channing said of their first meeting in seven decades, in a 2003 interview on CNN's "Larry King Live." "We just picked up from that. The years between disappeared, just disappeared."

Born in Turlock, Kullijian settled in nearby Modesto after fighting in World War II and the Korean War and went into walnut farming and real estate. He served two terms on the Modesto City Council, and then spearheaded a local campaign against pornography.

After he married Channing, the couple formed the Channing-Kullijian Foundation to support arts education in schools, and he took over as her manager. The couple split their time between homes in Modesto and Rancho Mirage.

"We go to these celebrity events and, of course, everyone knows and loves Carol and wants to talk to her," Kullijian told The Modesto Bee in October. "Then they point to me and ask, `Who's he?' So I've adopted a new name: Who's he? It doesn't matter who I am; it only matters that I'm helping someone else."

Kullijian is survived by Channing; his two children with late wife Gerry Amos, John and Leslee; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

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?Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, who only has about a week left in office, may be forced to release security-detail logs that track two years' worth of his movements.

The Arizona Court of Appeals reversed a ruling by a Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Rea that protected those logs from being made public on the basis they contained confidential and security-related information.

The city has been in and out of court since May 2010 fighting to keep private the logs maintained by Gordon's security detail, a team of four Phoenix police officers.

The documents, created by the security detail, note how Gordon spent his days -- and who he spent them with -- while he was being shadowed by his taxpayer-funded bodyguards.

The latest legal opinion stems from a court battle Judicial Watch, a conservative think-tank based in Washington, D.C., initiated on May 2010 when it filed a complaint asking the Maricopa County Superior Court to compel Phoenix officials to produce the logs from December 30, 2007 to December 11, 2009 for inspection.

The lower court ruled that Phoenix didn't have to release the security-detail logs.

In reversing that decision, the appellate court said the judge erred in his ruling, in part, and directed city officials to redact confidential and security-related information from the logs and release the remaining information.

In another adverse ruling for Phoenix, the Court of Appeals judges upheld Judge Rea's ruling that the city "failed to demonstrate that the Mayor's privacy interest outweighs the public's interest" when it comes to inspecting the logs his security detail maintained for several years.
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Phoenix city attorneys are still reviewing court documents and have not made any decisions on what steps they will next take, a city spokesman tells New Times.

A legal representative for the city was not available today to discuss how much money the city has spent in legal fees protecting Gordon's security-detail logs, or whether the city will continue defending him and the more than two-year old documents after he leaves office on January 3.

Read the Court of Appeals' entire opinion.

Source: http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/12/phoenix_officials_must_release.php

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Tick-tock, tick-tock.

The cat's eyes beat back and forth and its tail keeps time, but it is the wide smile that might be the most recognizable part of the Kit-Cat clock.

And that's just the way its creators intended it.

Their mission to evoke a smile has built an icon that has endured 80 years. For about 50 of those years, Kit-Cat Clocks have made their home in Orange County.

The clocks were introduced during the Great Depression but became popular in the 1950s. Technology changes in the 1980s created a problem for the company, but it found a way to modernize the clocks and remain a U.S. mainstay. According to company officials, a Kit-Cat clock has been purchased every three minutes for the last 70 years.

To celebrate that history, the company will debut its first Rose Parade float, "Timeless Fun for Everyone," on Jan. 2. A black and white Kit-Cat will serve as the centerpiece for the float, which is made with all locally grown flowers.

The float will also feature a group of skateboarders from Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and Newport Beach riding FIZZ boards, modeled after the classic 1970s banana boards. "Rock Around the Clock" will be playing as the skaters ride a ramp on the float and young swing dancers perform.

"It's all things retro," said Woody Young, president of California Clock Co. and also an investor in Street Surfing, the company that invented the FIZZ board. "It doesn't matter what decade it is, (Kit-Cat clocks) are in."

About two decades after they were introduced, the Kit-Cat Clocks became a must-have piece in 1950s households, Young said.

Today, the Kit-Cat drums up images of chocolate malts, saddle shoes, and jukeboxes. It is not uncommon to find someone who had an aunt or a grandmother who proudly displayed a Kit-Cat in her kitchen.

Young said the company's solid history can be attributed to keeping the Kit-Cat's mission intact.

"We're selling smiles," he said. "That's what it's all about."

A simple black and white version of the Kit-Cat was the first introduced in 1932 in Portland, Ore. by the California Clock Co.

After World War II, Young said the mission of the Kit-Cat resonated in American pop culture and the clocks became an icon.

"People were tired of war," he said. "It became the most popular in the 1950s."

Hollywood even gravitated to the classic cat clock.

Celebrity owners include Lucille Ball and Whoopi Goldberg and the clock has also been featured in films such as "Back to the Future" and "Honey I Shrunk the Kids".

In the late '80s, the survival of Kit-Cats as an American-made novelty was threatened.

The clock was powered by the electric motors found in many stoves during the '50s and '60s. As stove manufacturers abandoned the technology, California Clock Co. became the only company to still use the motor, Young said.

"The technology changed," he said. "We were either going to have to go out of business or take the business overseas."

Instead, the company came up with its own engineering ideas. Young said their clocks are the only timepieces in the nation to use a United States-made battery movement to make the clock tick.

"We literally transformed these clocks and kept it alive in the States," he said.

The Kit-Cat has evolved to include a spectrum of colors and other characters including Kitty-Cat, the female version of the clock that has big eyelashes and a pearl necklace.

Young said Kit-Cat also releases a limited-edition clock every year for those who collect the pieces.

For 2012, the limited-edition Kit-Cat will be "Rose Float" and it will be the color of the Rose Parade roses in honor of the company's parade debut.

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After a 7-year partnership with S-LCD, Samsung have acquired all of Sony's shares in the joint-venture for close to $939 million. S-LCD will now become a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung. Up until now, Sony owned 50-percent of S-LCD.

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On top of this, both companies have entered into a new strategic agreement for the supply and purchase of LCD panels, with the end goal of increasing the competitiveness of both Sony and Samsung. The agreement also allows Sony and Samsung to continue cooperative engineering efforts focused on LCD panel technology.

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The deal allows Sony to monetize its shares in S-LCD, giving them a nice injection of nearly $1 billion in cash, as well as the new strategic agreement.With the LCD panel and TV market conditions having changed, in order to continue to strengthen their respective market competitiveness, Sony and Samsung have agreed to shift to a new LCD panel business alliance.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his teammates had a full-blown nets session at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. (AFP Photo)

MELBOURNE: The world celebrated Christmas in style but it was business as usual on Sunday for Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his teammates, who geared up for the Boxing Day Test against Australia with a full-blown nets session at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on a cloudy and windswept morning.

Indian players, who rang in Christmas by watching Don-2 with their families at a private screening on Saturday night, appeared to be on song as they batted, bowled and fielded with vigour to demonstrate that they would be primed for the action when the umpires call 'play' on Monday morning.

With the two rivals having already identified their playing XIs on Saturday, the drop-in pitch and wet weather conditions were the talking points on the eve of the first Test. As morning showers are predicted on Monday, the opening day, opening show could well be scripted by pace bowlers and rain gods. In fact, light showers have been forecast on the first three days of the match, indicating that there could be minor hold-ups in play.

Skipper Dhoni and his Australian counterpart Michael Clarke will thus have one eye on the sky and the other on the 22-yard strip when they go out for the toss. India may look the better-prepared side for this big contest, but no one knows the MCG conditions better than the Australian players, who spent Christmas Day in R&R (Rest and Recreation) mode with their families.

Cricket pitches are known to be notoriously unpredictable, the drop-in variety more so. MCG curator Cameron Hodgkins has warned both teams to expect a livelier-than-usual track this time, particularly in the opening session. This could well prompt Dhoni and Clarke to bowl first if they win the toss.

It will be interesting to see Clarke's decision if he wins the toss, especially after Australia's harrowing experience at the MCG last year against England when they were shot out for 98 in their first innings after Andrew Strauss had sent them in.

If Hodgkins is to be believed, the pitch, where the ball will come on to the bat, is likely to ease out gradually and will be at its best for batting on Day 2 and 3. India, who have never beaten Australia at the MCG in a Boxing Day Test match, must therefore look to make a statement, irrespective of whether they bat or bowl first. Australia and India have been involved in five Boxing Day Tests at the MCG with the hosts winning four and one ending in a draw.

If this represents India's best chance to humble the Aussies in their own backyard, Dhoni's boys must be ready not only to seize the chances that come their way but also create opportunities for themselves.

The good news from the Indian camp is that everyone is fit and available for selection. All their top-order batsmen, including the skipper himself, each had 3-4 extensive sessions in the nets over the last few days. On Sunday, even their bowlers had a knock after having strutted their stuff in the nets.

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SANAA (Reuters) ? Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he would leave for the United States and give way to a successor, hours after his forces killed nine people demanding he be tried for killings over nearly a year of protests aimed at his ouster.

But Saleh, who agreed to step down last month under a deal cut by his wealthier neighbors who fear civil war in Yemen will affect them, did not say when he would depart and vowed to play a political role again, this time opposed to a new government.

The bloodshed and political uncertainty hinted at the chaos which oil giant Saudi Arabia and Saleh's former backers in Washington fear Yemen could slip into, giving the country's al Qaeda wing a foothold overlooking oil shipping routes.

Troops from units led by Saleh's son and nephew opened fire with guns, tear gas and water cannon against demonstrators who approached his compound in the capital Sanaa after marching for days from the southern city of Taiz, chanting "No to immunity!"

Mohammed al-Qubati, a doctor at a field hospital that has treated protesters during 11 months of mass demonstrations against Saleh, said some 90 people suffered gunshot wounds in addition to the nine killed. About 150 other people were wounded by tear gas canisters or incapacitated by gas, he said.

The marchers denounced the deal Saleh agreed last month giving him immunity from prosecution in exchange for handing power to his deputy, who is to work with an interim government including opposition parties before a February presidential election.

That plan, crafted by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and mirrored in the terms of a U.N. Security Council resolution, has been bitterly denounced by youth protesters who demand Saleh face trial and his inner circle be banned from holding power.

"The blood of the martyrs has been sold for dollars," shouted protesters, before forces from the Republican Guard and Central Security Forces attacked on roads leading to Saleh's compound, which was surrounded by tanks and armored vehicles.

ACTIVISTS ROUNDED UP

Saleh, who repeatedly backed out of the Gulf plan to nudge him from power before a June assassination attempt forced him into hospital in Saudi Arabia, said he would both let Yemen's new government work, and oppose it.

"I will go to the United States. Not for treatment, because I'm fine, but to get away from attention, cameras, and allow the unity government to prepare properly for elections," he said, adding he would undergo some medical tests.

"I'll be there for several days, but I'll return because I won't leave my people and comrades who have been steadfast for 11 months," he said. "I'll withdraw from political work and go into the street as part of the opposition."

Alluding to the relationship of his poor, populous country to its resource-blessed neighbors, he said: "An unstable Yemen means an unstable region. So, protect the security, unity and stability of Yemen, neighbor states; its security is yours."

A Yemeni online publication quoted the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa, Gerald Feierstein, describing the march as a provocative act, during a meeting with Yemeni journalists. The ambassador could not immediately be released for comment.

As Saleh spoke, a member of the bloc of opposition parties that share the cabinet with members of Saleh's party said security forces had rounded up dozens of people including Samia al-Aghbari, an activist in the anti-Saleh protest movement.

Aghbari sent a text message saying: "The Republican Guard is taking me and (another activist); they are dragging us by our clothes and shooting in the air."

Saleh's General People's Congress party said on Thursday that the protest violated the terms of the transition pact, under which the government is to oversee disengagement of his forces from rebel army units and tribal militias with whom they have fought in Sanaa and elsewhere.

Their battles, which the youth protesters regard as an internecine conflict among a criminal elite, have left parts of the capital and Taiz, 200 km (125 miles) to the south, in ruins and deepened a humanitarian crisis in a country with multiple, overlapping regional conflicts.

U.S. DRONE STRIKE IN SOUTH

Those include fighting with militant Islamists in the south, where Islamists have seized much of the territory in one province and have significant influence in another.

Saleh's opponents have accused him of ceding ground to Islamists to bolster his claim that he alone can check the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda, which has planned abortive attacks abroad from Yemen.

A Yemeni security source said on Friday that a U.S. drone had killed a relative of the al Qaeda wing's leader in Abyan, the Islamist militant-held province where battles with government troops have cost at least 50 lives this week.

A CIA drone strike killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen linked to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, earlier this year.

Fighting in Abyan has forced tens of thousands of people to flee the province, compounding the humanitarian crisis in a country where about half a million people are displaced and oil exports that fund imports of staple foodstuff have mostly ceased during the struggle over Saleh's fate.

Elsewhere in southern Yemen, gunmen killed a Briton of Yemeni origin and wounded a soldier accompanying him in an attack on an oil company vehicle that a local official blamed on highway robbers.

In the southern port city of Aden, a grenade blast, apparently the work of feuding gangs, killed one person and wounded five at a market late on Friday, a local official said.

Separatist sentiment is running high in the south, formerly a socialist republic that fought a civil war with Saleh's north in 1994 after four turbulent years of formal union.

(Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Additional reporting by Mohammed Mukhashaf in Aden; Writing by Joseph Logan and Firouz Sedarat; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

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RAY SUAREZ: Finally tonight, the true tale of a Christmas Eve attack and rescue during World War II, retold by a Minnesota congregation.

Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has our story.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: At the annual holiday dinner at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, people are encouraged to share personal Christmas stories.

This year, Pastor Tim Hart-Andersen delivered an epic.

REV. TIM HART-ANDERSEN, Westminster Presbyterian Church: So you are a radio studio audience tonight for WPCB, Westminster Presbyterian Church Broadcast Company.

(LAUGHTER)

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Dozens of volunteers came together to build a set simulating a 1940s-style radio drama, arranged by "Prairie Home Companion" veteran and church member Vern Sutton.

It's based on a true story the pastor heard from his father when he was growing up.

MAN: The night before Christmas, 1944.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: On Dec. 24, 1944, as the decisive Battle of the Bulge raged, some 2,200 American G.I.s boarded the ship Leopoldville in England headed for the battle's Belgian frontier.

MAN: It just don't feel like Christmas Eve.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Hart-Andersen's father, Hank Andersen, was crammed in the ship's hold.

REV. HENRY "HANK" ANDERSEN, Leopoldville survivor: It was just a miserable situation. So I said, let's go up on deck and sing Christmas carols. I would say there were 15 to 20 of us were there.

And we were singing Christmas carols. And I was leading them. And all of a sudden, this is becoming a rather tender story. And we can see the lights of Cherbourg in the distance.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: The drama used sound effects to convey the disaster that was about to strike as the ship was just off the French coast. Some 800 lives were lost in the deadliest incident of the war for the U.S. Army.

WOMAN: Emergency stations. Emergency stations. All hands to emergency stations. The Leopold's been hit.

WOMAN: The U-boat torpedo hits the Leopoldville below the waterline on the starboard side. Scores of those lovely Yankee boys are killed instantly by the explosion. Others drown as water rushes into the ship. Most of the survivors stand on the deck and watch as other ships come alongside to begin rescue operations.

MAN: Hey, Sarge, Sarge, Sarge, what do we do? That British destroyer, it's pulled up alongside us. Shall we make a jump for it?

REV. HENRY "HANK" ANDERSEN: These guys were paralyzed. They just would not jump. And -- and they had seen some jump and not made it. So, it was quite a jump across.

And I remember getting over there and sliding across what little deck there was, slammed into the bulwark that was there, staggered back up to the rail. And the sight that I had made it enabled them then to start jumping.

MAN: Gee, Rosenblum, are you going to jump?

MAN: Is there another choice?

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: The character Rosenblum was written into the drama when Gail Rosenblum, a local columnist, came across Andersen's story. Her late father, Sidney, was on the ship, and she's convinced he was in the singing group. And that, she'd like to think, influenced her love of this music.

GAIL ROSENBLUM, Minneapolis Star Tribune: My friends joke. They tease me because I'm a Jewish girl who loves Christmas carols. I always loved them as a girl.

And so, when I heard the story of Hank and put that all together, I felt like now I understand why I love them. They saved my father's life, because all the men who came up on deck to sing, thanks to Hank leading them up there, they survived. And all the men who didn't come up were the victims of that, you know, that torpedo.

REV. TIM HART-ANDERSEN: Her father had this love of music before he went into the service. My father did. And the more we talked, the more we began to sense a kind of narrative that really wound together in some pretty remarkable ways.

MAN: Hey, Archer, can't a Jew enjoy the lights and sing a few tunes?

MAN: You sing Christmas music?

MAN: So, who do you think does the best Christmas music? Ever wonder about that? Irving Berlin? Mel Torme? Johnny Marks? All Jews. "Winter Wonderland," "White Christmas" all invented by my people. Who else would name a red-nosed reindeer Rudolph?

(LAUGHTER)

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: His family says Sid Rosenblum talked very little about his war experience. He went on to become a psychologist. Sid Rosenblum died in 1988 at 63.

Hank Andersen was headed to a law career before the war, but became a minister instead. He was an active civil rights campaigner in the '60s, influenced during the war by an all-black unit in the then-segregated Army which fed and comforted the ship's survivors when they reached land.

REV. HENRY "HANK" ANDERSEN: They surrounded us and sang Christmas carols. And I -- I was so stunned.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: At 87, Hank Andersen lives in retirement with Mary Andersen, his wife of 64 years.

MAN: The Yanks who survived found a whole new meaning to that Christmas day.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Tim Hart-Andersen says he's glad his father is still alive to see an important story preserved by and for the next generation, one that, in some ways, has morphed into a sermon.

REV. TIM HART-ANDERSEN: I would hope that the kind of universal theme here is that hope cannot be cut off and light cannot be turned off. The human spirit can sing its way through anything.

RAY SUAREZ: Fred's reporting is a partnership with the Under-Told Stories Project at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) ? An oil spill near the coast of Nigeria is likely the worst to hit those waters in a decade, a government official said Thursday, as slicks from the Royal Dutch Shell PLC spill approached the country?s southern shoreline.

The slick from Shell?s Bonga field has affected 115 miles (185 kilometers) of ocean near Nigeria?s coast, Peter Idabor, who leads the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, told The Associated Press. Idabor said the slick continued to move toward the shore Thursday night, putting at risk birds, fish and other wildlife in the area.

Shell, the major oil producer in Nigeria, said Wednesday the spill likely occurred as workers tried to offload oil onto a waiting tanker. The company published photographs of the spill, showing a telltale rainbow sheen in the ocean, but said it believes that about 50 percent of the leaked oil has already evaporated.

The source of the leak has been plugged and experts from Britain were coming to help with the cleanup, Idabor said. Nigerian Navy ships also had been sent into the area to help control the spill, he said.

Shell estimates the Bonga spill likely was less than 40,000 barrels, or 1.68 million gallons. That?s about the same amount of oil spilled offshore in 1998 at a Mobil field. The 1998 spill saw oil slicks extended for more than 100 miles (some 160 kilometers) to Lagos, the country?s commercial capital.

?Since the Mobil spill, this is just about the most major one,? Idabor said.

Nigerian authorities hope to use oil booms and chemicals to disperse or collect the spilled oil, Idabor said. In a statement, Shell said its Nigerian subsidiary already had sent ships out to the slick to use dispersant on the oil sheen. The company also said it would use infrared equipment to trace places where the sheen is the thickest.

However, the size of the spill may be even larger. SkyTruth, a nonprofit group based in West Virginia that uses satellite imagery to detect environmental problems, estimated the oil spill might stretch across roughly 350 square miles (920 square kilometers) of ocean ? three times what Nigerian authorities believe.

?The spill could be near the upper limit of what Shell has stated,? John Amos, SkyTruth?s founder and president, told the AP on Thursday. However, he said he needed more information to determine the spill?s true scope.

Bonga sits about 75 miles (120 kilometers) off Nigeria?s coast. It can produce about 200,000 barrels of oil and 150 million cubic feet of gas a day, according to Shell?s Nigerian subsidiary. Production at the field, which Shell operates in partnership with Italy?s Eni SpA, Exxon Mobil Corp., France?s Total SA and the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., has been halted since the discovery of the spill.

Environmentalists blame Shell and other foreign oil firms for polluting the country?s oil-rich Niger Delta. Some environmentalists say as much as 550 million gallons of oil poured into the delta during Shell?s roughly 50 years of production in Nigeria ? a rate roughly comparable to one Exxon Valdez disaster per year. An estimated 11 million gallons was released during the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska.

Shell in recent years has said most of the spills in the delta are caused by militant attacks or thieves tapping into pipelines to steal crude oil, which ends up sold into the black market or cooked into a crude diesel or kerosene. Company statistics kept by Shell show spills have dropped as militant attacks in the region subsided, though this single spill at Bonga roughly doubles the amount of oil spilled by Shell this year.

Apparently predicting interest in the spill would grow, Shell already had taken out Internet advertising Thursday on search engines, directing those searching for the spill to their website. Jonathan French, a Shell spokesman in London, said the advertising came in the ?interests of full transparency? so people can read the company?s updates on the spill.

Nigeria, an OPEC member nation producing about 2.4 million barrels of crude oil a day, is a top supplier to the U.S.

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Online:

Royal Dutch Shell PLC: http://www.shell.com

Shell?s Nigeria spill website: http://bit.ly/rqfnxi

SkyTruth: http://skytruth.org/

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Crimson Exploration Inc. announced Wednesday the successful completion and initial production on the Littlepage McBride #5H (53% WI) and #6H (53% WI) wells in Karnes County, TX and provided an Eagle Ford drilling update.

In Karnes County, the Littlepage McBride #5H, targeting the Eagle Ford Shale formation, commenced production at a gross 24-hhour test rate of 1,096 Boepd (989 Bopd and 658 Mcfpd) on a 16/64th choke and 2,435 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The well was drilled to a total measured depth of 16,200 feet, including a 5,460 foot lateral, with 18 stages of frac.

The Littlepage McBride #6H, also targeting the Eagle Ford Shale formation, commenced production at a gross 24-hour test rate of 1,109 Boepd (997 Bopd and 673 Mcfpd) on a 16/64th choke and 2,449 psi of flowing tubing pressure. The well was drilled to a total measured depth of 16,059 feet, including a 5,290 foot lateral, with 18 stages of frac.

This latest success puts Crimson?s gross IP average rate at 1,067 Boepd for the first six wells drilled on the Littlepage McBride leasehold.

Allan Keel, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "The continued positive results in Karnes County further validate Crimson?s ability to capitalize on our unconventional oil assets as well as continue to develop new opportunities organically. We are currently in the process of finalizing our capital program for 2012, which will be focused on further developing our oil/liquid weighted assets in the Eagle Ford and Woodbine formations, while staying within cash flow."

The Littlepage McBride #7H (53% WI) has reached a total measured depth of 16,435 feet, including a 5,950 foot lateral. Completion operations are expected to begin the first week of January with 19 stages of frac expected to be conducted. The rig is currently in the process of being moved one mile north to the Glasscock #1H (100% WI) location, also targeting the Eagle Ford Shale formation, with an expected spud date in early January. Crimson intends to have an active program in this area through at least the first quarter of 2012.

In Dimmit County, Texas, Crimson spud the Beeler #1H (50% WI), also targeting the oil window of the Eagle Ford Shale formation. The well is currently being drilled at 7,200 feet toward an expected total measured depth of 14,140 feet, including a 7,500 foot lateral, with 15-20 stages of frac expected. Once drilling operations conclude, the rig will move back to Zavala County to drill the KM Ranch #2H (50% WI).

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It's the Galaxy Nexus. It has LTE. It's the phone we've been waiting (and waiting) for. Sure, some of our more globe-trotting members of the staff were suitably sated by the HSPA+ version that shipped a few weeks ago, but the rest of us domestic types simply need more bandwidth. Or, at least, we like to think that we do, and this $300 (on-contract) Verizon release certainly has that in spades.

However, there's something missing: Google Wallet. That company's attempt at reinventing commerce isn't here and, while nobody's saying for sure, it surely has something to do with Verizon not wanting to kneecap the Isis payment service it has invested in. That leaves us wondering: with restrictions on what apps can be installed, and some rather prominent carrier branding on the back, is this really a Nexus device at all? And, more importantly, is it a good phone? Those answers and more wait for you below.

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FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software secretly installed on 141 million cell phones told The Associated Press on Thursday that the FBI approached his company about using its technology but was rebuffed, one day after FBI Director Robert Mueller assured Congress that agents ?neither sought nor obtained any information? from the company. The disclosure will likely inflame suspicion about the monitoring tool and its usefulness to the U.S. government. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software secretly installed on 141 million cellphones said Thursday that the FBI approached the company about using its technology but was rebuffed. The disclosure came one day after FBI Director Robert Mueller assured Congress that agents "neither sought nor obtained any information" from the company, Carrier IQ.

The company's statement will likely inflame suspicion about the monitoring tool and its usefulness to the U.S. government.

Andrew Coward, vice president of marketing for Carrier IQ of Mountain View, Calif., told The Associated Press that the FBI is the only law enforcement agency that has contacted the company. Coward would not say when, why or how often the FBI has reached out to Carrier IQ, but he said the company is not working with the bureau. "There is no relationship between us and the FBI," Coward said.

During an oversight hearing Wednesday, Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI "neither sought nor obtained any information from Carrier IQ in any one of our investigations." Mueller was responding to a question by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., chairman of the committee's privacy and technology panel, who has said collecting personal information from people's cellphones could violate federal law.

FBI spokesman Michael Kortan said in an emailed statement that the bureau's technical staff "communicates routinely with many technology companies, including Carrier IQ, relative to new and emerging technologies and capabilities."

The company's technology is designed as a diagnostic tool that gives mobile telephone companies the ability to gather and analyze information that helps them improve the performance of devices that operate on their networks, Carrier IQ said. The software is typically installed by the phone company or the manufacturer of the handset.

Most cellphone users were unaware the company or its software existed until last month when a security researcher, Trevor Eckhart, posted online a video he made showing how keystrokes and messages from his smartphone were logged by the Carrier IQ software.

Eckhart said the software is hard to detect and difficult to turn off. Other researchers who subsequently studied Carrier IQ's software said it does not appear to transmit the contents of emails or text messages but captures detailed information about recipients or destinations of messages, the physical location from where messages were sent or received and details such as the phone's battery level.

Even before Thursday's disclosure by Carrier IQ about the FBI contacting the company, the FBI had fueled questions about whether it sought to use the monitoring software in federal investigations or even whether it was investigating Carrier IQ. The FBI denied a request the AP made on Dec. 2 for internal documents about its interactions with Carrier IQ, citing a provision in the Freedom of Information Act that excludes from disclosure any documents relevant to a "pending or prospective law enforcement proceeding." The FBI also told the AP that releasing the records that it sought could "reasonably be expected to interfere with the enforcement proceedings."

The AP had asked for copies of correspondence from FBI officials requesting access to information stored on Carrier IQ's servers or asking questions about such information. The AP also requested copies of records indicating visits by FBI officials to Carrier IQ's offices and the results of any testing performed by the FBI on Carrier IQ's technology.

Eckhart's online video sparked concerns among privacy advocates about which information Carrier IQ's software is recording and who can view it. In late November, Franken wrote to Carrier IQ's president and asked him to answer a series of questions by Dec. 14 about the kind of data that the software can collect, how long the data is stored and whether any of this information is shared with third parties.

"These actions may violate federal privacy laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act," Franken wrote. "This is potentially a very serious matter."

A few days later, Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, co-chairman of the Congressional Bipartisan Privacy Caucus, asked the Federal Trade Commission whether it was investigating "the installation of software that secretly tracks and reports back the activities of cellphone users."

Earlier this week, Carrier IQ sought to contain the damage by organizing meetings with officials at the FTC, the Federal Communications Commission and several Senate offices, including Franken's, to explain what the software is intended to do. The company said it is not aware of an official investigation into its products or practices.

"Our data is not designed for law enforcement agencies and to our knowledge has never been used by law enforcement agencies," the company said in a statement. "Carrier IQ have no rights to the data gathered and have not passed data to third parties. Should a law enforcement agency request data from us, we would refer them to the network operators. To date and to our knowledge we have received no such requests."

The company posted a 19-page statement on its website that explains what its software does. It said the only data collected is to help solve common problems, such as batteries that drain too quickly or calls that fail to connect.

The software, called IQ Agent, typically transmits 200 kilobytes of diagnostic data ? the equivalent of 50 typed pages ? once each day when the phone is not being used, the company said, but decisions about what information to collect and how it is analyzed is determined by the phone companies and the agreements they have with their customers.

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Carrier IQ: http://www.carrieriq.com/

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FILE - People stand at the entrance to the Lucky Friday Mine in Mullan, Idaho, in this April 16, 2011 file photo. An Idaho sheriff's officer says an underground rescue team has been sent to a mine after authorities received a report that miners have either been trapped or buried. Shoshone County sheriff's Capt. Holly Lindsey says Wednesday night Dec. 14, 2011 that it's unknown how many miners are involved or whether there are any injuries at the Lucky Friday Mine in northern Idaho. (AP Photo/KHQ-TV)

FILE - The Lucky Friday Mine in Idaho's Silver Valley near Mullan, is shown in this May 9, 2007 file photo. An Idaho sheriff's officer says an underground rescue team has been sent to a mine after authorities received a report that miners have either been trapped or buried. Shoshone County sheriff's Capt. Holly Lindsey says Wednesday night Dec. 14, 2011 that it's unknown how many miners are involved or whether there are any injuries at the Lucky Friday Mine in northern Idaho. (AP Photo/Nick Geranios, File)

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MULLAN, Idaho (AP) ? Seven miners were safely removed from an underground mine in northern Idaho after they were injured by a rock burst while working more than a mile deep, a mine company official said late Wednesday.

One of the miners was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while the other six were treated at the scene, Hecla Mining Co. spokeswoman Melanie Hennessey said.

The miners were working about 5,900 feet underground when they were injured about 7:40 p.m. by a rock burst, which is an explosion of rock caused by excessive pressure from the weight of the ground above. They were working in the Lucky Friday, one of the nation's deepest underground mines.

Initial reports indicated that the miners could be trapped, but that wasn't the case, Hennessey said.

"Everyone in the mine has been accounted for and the mine is currently closed," she said.

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration will investigate the incident, which comes after two Lucky Friday miners died in separate instances at the mine this year.

A roof collapse in a tunnel more than a mile underground trapped a 53-year-old silver miner in April. Crews recovered Larry Marek's body nine days later.

Last month, miner Brandon Gray was buried in rubble after trying to dislodge a jammed rock bin. He died from his injuries two days later.

Shortly after Gray's death, Mine Safety and Health Administration regulators criticized Hecla for safety failures that led to Marek's death. The mine received four citations and faces nearly $1 million in penalties, the Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash., reported.

The investigation report cited Lucky Friday management for failing to install adequate ground support systems and neglecting to test the stability of the area where the collapse that killed Marek occurred.

The mine is currently undergoing a $200 million project to deepen it to nearly 9,000 feet to increase access to deeper silver deposits. Hecla officials expect the project to be completed by 2014.

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