After Epic Debate Gaffe, Perry Backers Begin to Question Their Investment (Time.com)

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China's recalled bullet trains to resume service (AP)

BEIJING ? Bullet trains on China's showcase Beijing-to-Shanghai line that were recalled over safety concerns following a deadly crash on another line will gradually resume service from this week, Chinese state media reported Monday.

China's state-owned train maker, China CNR Corp., recalled 54 trains on the route on Aug. 12 following repeated delays blamed on equipment failures.

The recall came after a train crash killed 40 people on a high-speed line near the eastern city of Wenzhou in July.

The crash was a heavy blow for the country's high-speed railway program ? which once enjoyed political status on a level with its manned space program ? and drew public criticism over the costs and haste with which it had been rolled out.

"After a three-month process of modifications and repeated tests, previously reported problems with the CRH 380BL trains have all been fixed. Operations will gradually resume starting from Wednesday," the official Xinhua News Agency quoted an unnamed Ministry of Railways official as saying.

Six of the recalled 54 Beijing-to-Shanghai bullet trains will resume service Wednesday, with all 54 trains running by Dec. 6, the official was quoted as saying.

Xinhua said that even before the recall, Beijing-based CNR had decided to suspend delivery of the CRH 380BL trains, citing flaws in their automatic braking systems which it blamed on quality defects with outsourced parts and components.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/china/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111114/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_bullet_trains

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Kelly Clarkson Announces 2012 Tour Dates


Kelly Clarkson is about to hit the road. And the air. And perhaps even the water once or twice, as well.

The original American Idol has announced a major tour to kick off 2012, as she'll be accompanied by Matt Nathanson and get the act started on January 13. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. local venue time.

What might Kelly be performing near your hometown? We've listed the dates and locales below.

Jan 13: 2012 Mashantucket, CT – MGM Grand Theater
Jan 15: 2012 Atlantic City, NJ – Trump Taj Mahal – Mark G. Etess Arena
Jan 17: 2012 Albany, NY – Times Union Center
Jan 19: 2012 Verona, NY – Turning Stone Resort Casino
Jan 21: New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall
Jan 24: Manchester, NH – Verizon Wireless Arena
Jan 26: Boston, MA – Wang Center
Jan 28: Johnstown, PA – Cambria County War Memorial
Feb 2: Jacksonville, FL – Times Union Center Performing Arts – Moran Theater
Feb 4: Shreveport, LA – Horseshoe Bossier City – Riverdome
Feb 10: Dallas, TX - Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
Feb 14: Biloxi, MS – Hard Rock Live
Feb 16: Miami, FL – Seminole Hard Rock
Feb 18: Orlando, FL – Universal Studios Florida
Feb 21: Tampa, FL – Ruth Eckerd Hall
Feb 23: Atlanta, GA – Fox Theatre
Mar 2: Niagara Falls, ON Canada – Fallsview Casino Resort
Mar 3: Niagara Falls, ON Canada – Fallsview Casino Resort
Mar 6: London, ON Canada – John Labatt Centre
Mar 8: Windsor, ON Canada – The Colosseum at Caesars
Mar 10: Hammond, IN – The Venue at Horseshoe Casino
Mar 14: Springfield, MO – O’Reilly Events Center
Mar 16: St. Louis, MO – Fox Theater
Mar 18: Denver, CO – 1ST BANK Center
Mar 20: Salt Lake City, UT – Maverik Center
Mar 22: Seattle, WA – ShoWare Center
Mar 27: San Jose, CA – Event Center at San Jose
Mar 29: Bakersfield, CA – Rabobank Pavilion
Mar 31: Reno, NV – Reno Event Center
Apr 3:  Los Angeles, CA – Nokia Theatre
Apr 5: Las Vegas, NV – The Pearl Concert Theater
Apr 7: Indio, CA – Fantasy Springs Resort Center
Apr 10: San Diego, CA – Valley View Casino Center

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/11/kelly-clarkson-announces-2012-tour-dates/

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Casillas set to match Spain appearance record

By ROB HARRIS

AP Sports Writer

Associated Press Sports

updated 2:03 p.m. ET Nov. 11, 2011

LONDON (AP) -As one of football's most formidable goalkeepers, Iker Casillas can anticipate most things heading in his direction. But a team tribute on the eve of a record-equaling international appearance against England left the captain momentarily stunned on Friday.

Casillas was flanked by coach Vicente del Bosque and midfielder Xavi Hernandez as a showreel of the saves that have helped turn Spain from football's biggest underachievers into world and European champions was played in a London hotel ballroom.

"It was a lovely thought, a really nice touch," Casillas said over the applause from his colleagues and the media. "I'm a bit speechless ... actions speak better than words."

It is Casillas' consistency and agility that will enable him to match retired goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta's record 126 Spain appearances on Saturday.

Apart from Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, there are few venues more fitting for the 30-year-old Casillas to reach the milestone in than Wembley.

It was at the north London stadium 15 years ago that Casillas appeared in a Spain jersey for the first time for the under-15 side.

"I had only being playing in local youth leagues as a 14-year-old, to step out on hallowed turf was a great achievement," the lifelong Real Madrid goalkeeper recalled through a translator Friday.

Much like Wembley Stadium itself, Spanish football has been completely transformed since that match against England - with Casillas at the vanguard during 11 years in the senior side.

Pinpointing his most important save is not hard for Casillas: denying Arjen Robben with an outstretched leg when the Netherlands winger came one-on-one with the goalkeeper during the 2010 World Cup final, which Spain won 1-0.

"It was such a decisive time in the game, but it turned the game in our favor," Casillas said. "It was not a pretty save, it was standard regulation save, but I'm very proud, of it. It is the one that sticks in my mind because it was such an important occasion."

Spain is getting used to those kinds of occasions by now. That was not the case when Casillas was embarking on his international career.

"I have had some great moments with national side," he said. "But it is easy to turn a blind eye to what happens before the four years when we won two tournaments. You learn in adversity."

Now the mission is avoiding complacency, having lost to Italy in an August friendly despite a perfect record in qualifying for the 2012 European Championship.

"We don't like to be over-presumptuous about ourselves but we are playing at a high level and that is a fact ... it is not ourselves saying that but experts and media," Casillas said. "A lot of the success is down to people behind the scenes at various levels, who have had faith in youth and kept the team together at various levels. But we mustn't drop our guard or be over confident."

It was a message echoed by Del Bosque ahead of the first friendly since qualifying for next year's tournament in Poland and Ukraine.

"We are in a more difficult position than in 2008 - back then we were contenders," said Del Bosque, who replaced Luis Aragones after Euro 2008. "Now we go as holders. We go there with an even bigger responsibility."

Del Bosque believes Spain's recent success owes a lot to players like Xabi Alonso, Cesc Fabregas and Fernando Torres gaining match experience outside of Spain in the English Premier League.

"It's been absolutely vital to have had such players (here)," Del Bosque said. "It is one of the main factors that have helped us ... to shed that complex we used to have about playing at international level."

The English national team's fortunes, though, haven't improved since its domestic league was enhanced by the arrival of top international talent.

Spain's success at Euro 2008 and the 2010 World Cup has left England as one of world football's biggest underachievers, having not won a major trophy since the 1966 World Cup on home soil.

And England coach Fabio Capello will be without many of his key players on Saturday. Midfielders Steven Gerrard and Jack Wilshere are out injured and Wayne Rooney has been dropped while Capello assesses other strikers who can fill in when the Manchester United forward is banned for the three Euro 2012 group stage matches.

Captain John Terry is also dropped to the bench - a decision Capello insists is not due to the police investigation into alleged racist abuse by the Chelsea defender.

"It is a risk, but not a lot," Capello said. "We respect all the teams but Spain's style is different. Their ball possession is really good and when they lose it they press very quickly to win it back. This is why you need to play a good game and play with confidence.

"We have prepared well but we know it will be difficult."

? 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Cyberbullying, sexting, downloading music illegally.? What is a teen to do when they find themselves in legal trouble or maybe even a victim of a possible crime? On this edition of Lawyer2Lawyer, co-host and attorney, Bob Ambrogi chats with Judge Thomas A. Jacobs, founder of AsktheJudge.info, about this interactive legal forum for teens. Judge Jacobs explains how technology has changed the face of law in the teen community, what teens everywhere need to know about their personal rights and how they can educate themselves through laws and recent court decisions.

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Scott Wilson dies at 89; horticulturist founded North East Trees

Scott Wilson, an ardent horticulturist known for his pledge to plant five trees a day for the rest of his life and his commitment to helping at-risk teenagers find employment in environmental restoration programs, has died. He was 89.

Wilson was clipping red blossoms from a firewheel tree in the rose garden of his Eagle Rock home to decorate his church when he lost consciousness and fell Nov. 5, said Mark B. Kenyon, executive director of North East Trees, a nonprofit environmental organization Wilson founded in 1989.

Paramedics took Wilson to Glendale Adventist Medical Center, where he died Monday, Kenyon said. The cause of death has not been determined.

"I believe this is how Scott might have chosen his final act to be: in service to his community ? and in a tree," Kenyon said in a statement.

Wilson, a retired teacher and landscape architect, launched North East Trees by planting 700 oaks at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Since then the organization's staff of foresters, designers and educators has helped plant 70,000 trees, including native oaks and sycamores, throughout the Los Angeles area.

"It's not about how many trees you plant," Wilson said in a recent interview. "It's about the right tree in the right place and about how many of those trees live."

North East Trees specializes in bringing together grants and small armies of volunteers to help low-income communities create parks, plant trees along neighborhood streets and partner with city and county agencies on water-harvesting projects. In step with Wilson's vision, the organization helped create 35 mini-parks, many of them linking communities along the Los Angeles River's concrete channel with hiking trails and bike paths.

"Scott was not one to blow his own horn," Kenyon said. "But his legacy will go on for hundreds of years because of the trees he planted and the lives of the people he touched."

Born in Salem, Ore., in 1922, Wilson had two sisters and a brother in a family that managed a pear orchard and a cemetery. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, earning a degree in horticulture in 1950.

"My first memories of Dad include helping him water potted plants," recalled his son, Ron Wilson.

Scott Wilson had been a passionate advocate of the benefits of trees since he started teaching high school in the early 1950s, said his daughter, Christine Richards.

"Dad was touting hydroponics, ecological balance and using the environment to make the world a better place long before it was cool to do so," she recalled with a laugh. "His real talent was instilling a love of nature in young men and women. Hundreds of kids have grown up under his mentorship."

Wilson, who held master's degrees in agricultural education and landscape architecture, taught horticulture and mathematics for three decades at Eagle Rock, Crenshaw and North Hollywood high schools before retiring in 1982.

But his environmental work was far from over. Seven years later, Wilson launched North East Trees with dreams of planting an urban forest. In the group's first outing, Wilson led a band of volunteers bearing buckets, shovels and hundreds of saplings up a barren hill known as Mt. Fiji among students at Occidental College.

North East Trees quickly mushroomed into an organization that serves as a catalyst for tree plantings, environmental education and revitalization projects throughout the Los Angeles area.

Wilson's proposed projects included a massive tree planting at Ascot Park, a nature preserve of steep slopes, oak forests and tall brush northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

"He was 89, but raring to go with our proposal to plant thousands of seedlings from native seed stock in Ascot Park," Kenyon said. "The plan includes building a small nursery in the parking lot near its entrance and engaging local high school students in helping to plant and grow those trees by preparing the ground and designing and installing irrigation systems."

North East Trees helped guide Omar Delgado to a career in horticulture after he heard about the program in 2006 from his biology teacher at Wilson High School.

"I worked at North East Trees the next summer, and it was wonderful: planting trees, putting in irrigation systems, building parks along the Los Angeles River and speaking to communities about improving the environment," said Delgado, who works as a horticulturist at North East Trees and as a part-time firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service.

"Scott was a gentle, generous and powerful teacher," he said.

Besides his son and daughter, Wilson is survived by his wife, Clarli.

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TCU upsets No. 5 Boise St 36-35 (AP)

BOISE, Idaho ? Casey Pachall threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Carter with 1:05 left, then connected with Josh Boyce on the go-ahead 2-point conversion, and Boise State's Dan Goodale booted a 39-yard field-goal attempt wide right as time expired to give TCU a 36-35 victory against the fifth-ranked Broncos on Saturday.

Pachall threw for 473 yards and tossed long scores of 75, 74 and 69 yards in the first half. But his most important throws came in the final minutes when he rallied the Horned Frogs (8-2, 5-0 Mountain West) to a stunning victory that spoiled any Boise State hopes of playing for a national title.

The loss also snapped Boise State's 35-game home winning streak, which had been the nation's longest.

The Broncos were in control in the final minutes and driving into field goal range when backup running back Drew Wright fumbled at the TCU 27-yard line with 2:26 remaining.

Pachall took over, calmly marching TCU down the field before connecting with Carter, who leaped over a defender to make the grab in the end zone and pull TCU within 36-35 with 1:05 remaining.

TCU coach Gary Patterson made a gutsy call, opting to put the game in Pachall's hands and go for the lead instead of the tie. It worked. Pachall tossed a short pass to Josh Boyce, who fought his way into the end zone, putting TCU up 36-35 and quieting a raucous Bronco Stadium crowd.

Boise State (8-1, 3-1) and Kellen Moore made a final run.

With the help of a pass interference penalty on fourth down, Moore drove the Broncos down the field in the final minute and put the Broncos in position to win with a field goal. But Goodale's kick was way wide.

For the second year in a row, Boise State's run at a perfect season has been done in by a missed field goal. Last year, Broncos' kicker Kyle Brotzman missed twice from short range ? once at the end of regulation and again in overtime ? in a loss at Nevada.

After Goodale's kick sailed right, TCU players stormed the field to celebrate a win that clears the path for the Horned Frogs to win the Mountain West Conference title in their final year with the league.

TCU has now won a league record 22 straight games against conference foes and set an MWC record with 12 straight conference road wins.

The game ? the first and last conference matchup between these two perennial BCS busters ? was a back-and-forth battle from the start, with Boise State jumping out in front early and TCU storming back to take a 20-14 lead at the half.

Moore was 28-of-38 passing for 320 yards and two touchdowns. He led a Boise State offense that rolled up 446 total yards, including 125 rushing yards from D.J. Harper.

The Horned Frogs amassed 506 total yards.

Pachall hit Josh Boyce on a 74-yard touchdown on their second possession to tie the game 7-7.

Two possessions later, Pachall fired a 75-yard touchdown to Carter to go up 14-7. The next time TCU got the ball, Pachall struck again, this time tossing a 69-yard strike to Boyce, who had three touchdown catches on the day.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111113/ap_on_sp_co_ne/fbc_t25_tcu_boise_st

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Russian court rejects $13 billion lawsuit against BP (Reuters)

MOSCOW (Reuters) ? A Russian court on Friday rejected a $13 billion lawsuit, filed by TNK-BP minority shareholders against BP, a BP lawyer told Reuters.

Earlier on Friday, the court also rejected a $2.8 billion lawsuit against BP's nominees on TNK-BP Holding's board.

The plaintiff, Andrey Prokhorov, claimed that TNK-BP suffered losses due to BP's attempt to form a strategic alliance with state-controlled Rosneft.

(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/russia/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111111/bs_nm/us_bp_russia

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