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Buddha Paris New York, the United States, South Korea · Seoul's 3 city half time photography self-confidence works.The New York police took together like "ordinary cutting is I want to see.Pajamas have ah".Clothing is the atmosphere on the streets together, all with their own.

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Animation "robot technology · in group OP tune their" debut "the mystery of the new" HARUKI is worthy of attention
"chaos head" "shutainzu· after the door] science adventure series third bullets, robot technology · Fuji TV's" noitamina "in the file broadcast", for their ".In January 10th second at night, in the WEB also have a lot of feelings to fly, have also caused great repercussions.

this attract sb.'s attention, the robot technology · this "; in a sport" second Kool, but look at the story, this is not only the first play the theme song "Pao Kuang (: the media, the E)," the song, first appeared in "the mysterious new" HARUKI.

HARUKI, age · gender and nationality are not made public, is now open information, Chinese and Japanese fluently, influence was animation and games of Japanese culture."COOL JAPAN" said, the Japanese culture to receive attention in the world scope, may finally debut "reverse imported COOL JAPAN" artists.

this piece "Pao Kuang of media, and", "robot technology · various works, for their" led to the project, the original and music production, hands-on Shikura Chiyomaru write · production.Before the March 13th sales of CD, first broadcast on the same day in January 10th began to wear it (R) prior distribution.

foreign Japanese cultural contact, for Japan, the debut of HARUKI.The presence of the song to sing from the lock narrative vocal music, a new generation of singers in Asia on behalf of the expansion in the future, what activities?.We must pay attention to me.

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14 Fantasy Impromptu

To Pia - no - jaC ←, 53 curved disclosure outdoor music hall of one-man image
- Pia - no - jaC ← 2 group LIVE DVD "- Pia - no - jaC ← fifth Anniversary EAT A outdoor concert hall to the whole song Jack ~ 2012.9.1 Hibiya outdoors music hall" sales activities.

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it was in September last year, and Pia - no - jaC ← debut 5 anniversary was held one-man live recordings collected works.This day they debut concert on the same day issued all music, the disclosure of the audience sensation.DVD LIVE has played the song is all 53 there is no missing.Also now works started in January 18th National Tour "- Pia - no - jaC ← Anniversary fifth bonus tour 2013" of the venue and the Amason plan JP limited sales.

and - Pia - no - jaC ← piano score fourth bomb "Piano · the score to Pia - no - jaC ← Vol 4" released on January 17th.The score album "dawn" of the latest work "EAT A CLASSIC 4" piano part published.Editor is HAYATO (Piano) as.

- Pia - no - jaC ← "- Pia - no - jaC ← fifth Anniversary EAT A outdoor concert hall to the whole song Jack ~ 2012.9.1 Hibiya outdoors music hall" included.

1 suite ""
1 major literature, Graduate School, Department of Na group
3 typhoon
4 Fantasista
5 Bolero
6 opera "Carmen" from the division RA.
7 opera "Carmen" from the first act of the prelude
8 Jack to once Pande background suite fourth curved exercise park works 71 A / small opera "hell Orphee" than hell as group
9 Fairy Dolce
10 Symphony No. fifth in C minor works "destiny".
6711 BUMBLEBEE FLIGHT
12 Time Limit
13 brave struggle
14 Fantasy Impromptu
15 Violin Concerto "the four seasons" than the "spring" of the first movement
16 symphony in E minor Op. 95 ninth "from the new world" of the Fourth Movement
17.
18 Main Street · story three Carle Parade [Disneyland] (R)
19 goodbye memory messenger beloved
20 majestic-looking
21 William · Telecom Overture
22 Drain You
23 Nocturne No. second in OP major 9 - 2 reduction.
24 horsemen riding
25 blue moon
26 Friends
27 Chaos in Em " ";
28 small FUGA short tone BWV 578
29 inhibition
30 More SQ: the wheel of time wind vision
31 explosives
32 Canon Kanon ~ ~
33 ballet music act second "Scene"
34 night cherry ~ yozakura ~
35 Waltz ~ Rondo ~
36 Paradiso
37 "Love SQ: laboratory Deathmatch to MS flurry to the angel wings" than "Love SQ: laboratory Deathmatch to MS flurry."
38 moon
39 CROSSBEAT (s)
40 The Last Wii Sports: Leisure Resort
41 rabbit DASH
42 even though the cat chased
43 Mickey Mouse, March [Mickey Mouse Club] wish upon a star [Pinocchio]
44 Spin Doll
45 Symphony No. ninth in D minor Op. 125 "Choral" - Fourth Movement
46 Wedding March 47
fireworks ~ HANABI ~
48 beautiful green or The Danube
49
50 PEACE
51 snow flower
52
53 HAPPY

"piano piano score of · the score to Pia - no - jaC ← Vol. 4" included.

1 Paradiso
1 Fairy Dolce
3 Fantasista
4 snow flower
5 brave struggle
6 PEACE
7 symphonic poem bald mountain night / Moussorgski
8 suite "planet" from Jupiter / Khost
9 Hungarian Dance No. fifth / Brahms
10.2 Arabia No. first / Debussy
11 Elysee and / Beethoven
12 literature and data of at No. first / Eric · he [Association reported] → Pia - no - jaC ← by fans to vote for the top 30 popular songs live published to Pia - no - jaC ←, tomorrow "sakusaku" for the first time as a guest star in - Pia - no - jaC ←, dimensional Noyes there tap tap, a project manager fans ←→ × DE DE× pixel drawing carpenter forum untied the rope "FF" history, Pia - no - jaC ← × the division the laboratory should piano competition performance video also publicly
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Theatre printing plate "full-time" public today, second bombs have production decision
Fu Kiyoshihiro "full-time" for the original animated movie "theatre printing plate full crimson phantom (Phantom· Rouge)", in January 12th began openly to start today.After the release of theatre printing plate second bullets in making decisions issued.And today, Shinjuku baruto9 on the first day of the stage banter, held.

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stage greetings Gon Freecss role of Ban Ki-moon Hui, Ko Ise Mari role, playing cool pull pickup Ze City Miyuki, my roles and cameo Namikawa Daisuke, excellent management role of Umika Kawashima, role Naohito Fujiki ascended the pulpit.Small time, first bought the comic "full-time".Ban Ki-moon, the theatrical release be filled with a thousand regrets.First greetings when excited tears scenes were seen.

the other actors, this year to challenge things and aspirations "hundred Hunter" in the form of published links.Cool La pickup role of the city, the original brigade of cool pull pickup end 10 years did not debut reason is because "don't battle Hunter" declaration."Must Greeed island and ants, have different roles......"And comment on the city, Ban Ki-moon is "so palm how?"The specific name that appeared.

"theatre printing plate full crimson phantom (Phantom· Rouge)", the brigade of revenge, the hunter has become cool pull pickup at the center of the story.Admission to the first 1000000, read "cool pull back of pickup" and rich Jian movie related questions answered a question and answer, included the "Hunter" volume 0 was sent.[] [December 31st - January 6th Association reported] week sales ranking in December 24th ～ December 30th [monograph] week [] December 28th offprint sales rankings published today [December 17th - December 23rd] party list weeks offprint sales theater version "H× H ranking" arena, Umika Kawashima, the boy character really throat challenge
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auspicious Temple public collection

Mr. habits ~ 80's idol wind cover open
23 from Ponycanyon debut female Idol 9, Mr. habits ~ debut song "lip United paramount network" of the cover photo was disclosed.

Seiko Matsuda (50 years old) and other popular idol in most artists firm, music of the sun kisses automatic hand to the same group predecessor singer, the late Mr. Yukiko Okada's popular song.The cover photo, predecessors of active 1980's idol white dress body consciousness.

the end of last year, and members of the common life begins is the captain of the West Park beautiful bell (17) said: "many people like ah, see habit ~ work."The shining eyes.

the 26 Tokyo Ikebukuro sunshine in the fountain, Plaza debut activities.[] Association reported Mr. habits ~ "sing first"!AKB cane River kimono figure Mr. habits ~, (beta) removal efforts to "move."Mr. habits - (β) auspicious Temple public collection, Mr. LIVE watching habits - (β) crying!Mr. Yukiko Okada 'debut next year used to LIVE success.
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中国の繁栄でドイツの自動車メーカーは利益を得られる構図に―独メディア

中国の繁栄でドイツの自動車メーカーは利益を得られる構図に―独メディア
2013年1月3日、ドイツ誌デア・シュピーゲルは、中国市場が成長することによって、ドイツ自動車メーカーが利益を得られるという南ドイツ新聞の分析を報道した。環球時報が伝えた。

【その他の写真】

欧州での売上高が落ち込む中、中国市場の成長はドイツ自動車メーカーにとってますます重要になりつつある。ドイツ自動車工業連合会のデータによると、12年の欧州での自動車販売台数が1250万台に下がった一方、中国での自動車販売台数は1320万台に達した。

フォルクスワーゲン、BMW、ダイムラー等の主要メーカーは、全て中国に自社工場を所有している。中国における自動車生産台数は増加し続けると予測されており、今年初めて欧州を抜くとみられている。専門家の予測によると、13年には中国の自動車生産台数は1960万台に上り、対する欧州の生産台数は1830万台にとどまるとみられている。

欧州における自動車販売の低迷の主因として欧州債務危機による需要低下が挙げられる。欧州各国政府は今年自動車メーカーに更なる支援をすると専門家は予測。13―14年にかけて、南ヨーロッパの自動車産業は政府の支援を受けられるものの、高価な設備投資をおさえ、値下げ競争や燃料問題などを克服する必要がある。

昨年10月末、仏PSA・プジョーシトロエンの金融子会社は70億ユーロ（約8000億円）の政府担保を受け、再融資が承認された。多くの業界評論家は、国家の関与は市場の萎縮を遅らせ、阻止するために非常に重要だとする。ある報告によると、現在欧州の15工場が閉鎖の危機に瀕しているという。（翻訳・編集/中原）【関連記事】 日本、ミャンマーと関係強化へ、東南アジアシフトの予兆か―中国メディア もうアメリカには頼らない！中国独自の衛星測位システム「北斗」が運用開始へ―独メディア 今年の中国自動車生産量、初の欧州超えか―英紙 フォルクスワーゲンが販売首位に向け始動、日本車が「猛追」―中国 7000万円分のベンツを教習車に採用、教習所のやり方に市民は賛否両論―遼寧省瀋陽市
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ベッテル、評価でアロンソより劣っても「気にしない」

ベッテル、評価でアロンソより劣っても「気にしない」
2012年シーズンのF1ドライバー選手権を制したのはセバスチャン・ベッテル（レッドブル）であるが、F1関係者のあいだでは圧倒的にフェルナンド・アロンソ（フェラーリ）の方が優れたドライバーであると認識されている。このことについて聞かれた王者ベッテルは、「気にしていない」と主張した。

先日、12チームの代表全員を対象としたシーズン後のアンケートが行われ、今シーズンのベストドライバーにはドライバー選手権3連覇を達成したベッテルを差し置いて、アロンソが圧倒的支持を受けて選出された。

これについてベッテルはドイツの『Auto Motor und Sport（アウト・モートア・ウント・シュポルト）』に次のように語った。

「アロンソの勝利はドライバーの腕によるもので、僕の勝利は速いクルマのおかげだってみんなが考えているとしたら、それはフェルナンド（アロンソ）の責任でもある。でも、僕は気にしていないよ」

また、「彼（アロンソ）は非常に素晴らしいし、ドライバーとして尊敬している」と加えた。

さらに、今シーズンのアロンソとの戦いを振り返り、次のように話した。

「最初からタイトル争いをする相手はアロンソになるだろうって僕にはわかっていた」

「オフシーズンテスト後、フェラーリは僕たちの予想を上回る速さで競争力を発揮し始めた。確かにマレーシア（第2戦F1マレーシアGP）がドライコンディションだったらアロンソは勝てていなかったかもしれないけど、バルセロナ（第5戦F1スペインGP）ではすでにドライバーの中で一番調子がよかった」

「アロンソの強さは、決して最速でないのに、常に速いこと」とベッテルは指摘する。

アロンソの方が優れたドライバーであるとの意見に対しては次のように述べた。

「いまここで僕のパフォーマンスをとやかく実証する気はない。でも、優勝は無理だと思っていたレースを勝ったこともある」

「例えば去年のF1モナコGP。誰もが無謀だと思った1ストップ作戦を決行し、優勝した。それに去年のF1スペインGP。ハミルトン（ルイス・ハミルトン／マクラーレン）の方が速かったけど、僕を追い越せなかったんだからね」と話し、クルマの速さだけで勝ってきたのではないと強調した。【関連記事】 レッドブル代表の引き抜きを検討していたメルセデスAMG（12.12.19） アロンソ、打倒レッドブルのために必要なこととは（12.12.14） レッドブル、ベッテルはフェラーリの仕打ちを忘れないだろう（12.12.14） チーム代表が選んだベストドライバーは誰？（12.12.15） アロンソ、フェラーリがFIAに問い合わせたのは「正しいこと」（12.12.05）
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仏パリのアップルストア、大みそかに強盗被害

仏パリのアップルストア、大みそかに強盗被害
【AFP＝時事】フランス・パリ（Paris）で12月31日午後9時（日本時間1日午前5時）ごろ、武器を持った4人組の男が米アップル（Apple）の直営店に押し入り、約100万ユーロ（約1億2000万円）相当の商品を盗んだ。警察が発表した。

パリのアップルストアの内部

　被害を受けた店舗はオペラ座（Palais Garnier）の裏にあり、事件の3時間ほど前にその日の営業を終えていた。男らは店員1人を圧倒して軽傷を負わせ、奪った商品を店の近くに止めていたトラックに積み込んで逃走した。

　事件当時パリでは大勢の警察官が街頭に出ていたが、大みそか恒例のイベントが開かれていたシャンゼリゼ（Champs Elysees）通りの警備に集中していたという。【翻訳編集】 AFPBB News【関連記事】 米アップルCEOの2012年報酬、昨年から大幅減の3.6億円 アップルのサムスン製品販売差し止め請求、米裁判所が棄却 iPhone地図アプリ「命に関わるから使わないで」、豪警察が警告 【特集】通信費は安くなるか?～スマホ2台持ちで自腹レポート～ 【特集】iPhone5に変えてみました～スマホ自腹レポート第2弾～
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PS3/Xbox 360/WIN「トゥームレイダー」最新情報を公開

PS3/Xbox 360/WIN「トゥームレイダー」最新情報を公開
スクウェア・エニックスは、2013年発売予定のプレイステーション 3/Xbox 360/Windows用サバイバルアクション「トゥームレイダー」の最新情報を公開した。

【拡大画像や他の画像】

　本作はアクションゲームシリーズ「トゥームレイダー」の最新作となる。主人公はこれまで同様ララ・クロフトだが、2丁拳銃を武器にどんなピンチにも動じないタフな冒険家、というこれまでの作品のイメージとは異なり、今作のララはピンチに悲鳴を上げ、弱音を吐き、悪態をつくといった“弱々しさ”が強調されている。なぜならば、本作はララ・クロフトの“最初の冒険”であり、冒険者となる最初の一歩だからだ。

　今回の冒険で、ララ・クロフトはタフな冒険家としての本能を目ざめさせていくこととなる。これまで弊誌では「トゥームレイダー」の情報を何度か取り上げているが、今回改めて「トゥームレイダー」の序盤の展開を最新スクリーンショットと共に紹介していきたい。

謎と危険に満ちた島での生き抜くための戦い。冒険家ララ・クロフトの誕生秘話

　今作でのララ・クロフトは21歳。最近大学を卒業したばかりの優秀な考古学者だ。彼女はある遺跡の調査に向かうため、ララの父親と古くからの友人であった「コンラッド・ロス」が船長を務める「エンデュランス号」で、人生初の冒険に出発する。親友の「サム」など仲間との航海は順調かと思えたのだが、ある日、船はすさまじい嵐に巻き込まれる。船はメリメリと音を立て裂け、海に投げ出されたララは、謎の島の海岸に流れ着く。

　ララが流れ着いた島には鳥居や仏像、高くそびえる塔など、どこかオリエンタルな雰囲気をもった建造物がある。ララは同じように仲間が漂着していないか探索を開始する。最初ララはこの島が、歴史の狭間で朽ち果てた無人島かと思っていたが、様々な罠がはりめぐらされている事を知る。そして以前漂着していた人々が凶暴な先住者「スカベンジャー」となって住みついていることを発見するのだ。

　また、この島には多くの野生生物も生息しており、本能のままにララに襲いかかってくる。ララはこれらの生物と戦い、さらには生きるための狩りも行なっていく。野生生物や木の実、野草などは狩猟、採集することで食糧にもなる。島にあるあらゆるものを活用しなければ生き抜くことはできない。ララはサバイバルの術を学んでいく。そしてララは他の人間との戦いまでも経験する。相手を殺さなければ自分が殺されてしまうという極限状態に、ララの中で眠っていた“本能”が目覚め始める……。

　ゲームスタート時、ララは粗末な弓だけを持っている。島に残された様々なアイテムを駆使し、さらに武器をアップグレードすることで使用用途を広げることができる。武器は戦闘だけでなく、罠の解除などに利用できる。ララは、はりめぐらされた罠を避け、襲いくる野生生物やスカベンジャーと戦い、この島から脱出する手掛かりを探していく。

　島はいくつかのエリアに分かれており、それぞれのエリアには「ベースキャンプ」と呼ばれる拠点が存在する。「ベースキャンプ」ではララ自身のスキルをアップさせたり、武器や道具をアップグレードしたりすることができる。1度訪れた拠点は自由に行き来することができる。新たな道具を手に入れたり、武器や道具をアップグレードすることで、新たなルートがひらけることもある。

　冒険を重ねるうちに、ララはスカベンジャーという先住者は実は人種も年齢もバラバラな集団であることを知る。しかし彼等は集団として組織的な動きをしている。彼等の正体と目的も冒険の大きな謎となる。そしてエンデュランス号に乗っていた仲間達の安否も気になるところだ。謎だらけの島で、ララはどんなドラマを繰り広げ、どう成長していくのだろうか。

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グアルディオラとモウリーニョを称えるビラス＝ボアス

グアルディオラとモウリーニョを称えるビラス＝ボアス
トッテナムのアンドレ・ビラス＝ボアス監督は、元バルセロナのジョゼップ・グアルディオラ氏へ賛辞を送っている。

グアルディオラ氏は、バルセロナの指揮官を務めた４年間で１４のトロフィーをクラブにもたらした。結果と内容を見事なまでに両立したスペイン人指揮官に対し、ビラス＝ボアス監督は革新的だったと称えている。

ポルトガル『Expresso』とのインタビューでビラス＝ボアス監督は、「グアルディオラは、基準を設定した。彼のつくったプレースタイル、フィロソフィー、価値を誰もがリスペクトしている。スペインのフットボールに、とてつもなく大きな遺産を残した」と絶賛した。

「バルセロナはスピーディーにプレーするが、同時にゆっくりと攻めることもできる。ボールを持った選手たちは、常に正しい判断を下している」

ビラス＝ボアス監督はまた、レアル・マドリーのジョゼ・モウリーニョ監督について、次のように語った。

「モウリーニョと仕事ができたことは、最高の経験だった。非常に助けられているよ」



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Ag secretary sees common ground on gun control

Ag secretary sees common ground on gun control

WASHINGTON (AP) — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the Newtown school shootings have changed the gun control debate and that rural America is ready to be part of a national conversation that he believes could bring people together.

Vilsack says the debate has to start with respect for the Second Amendment right to bear arms and a recognition that hunting is a way of life for millions of Americans.

But Vilsack said that the nation has reached "a different circumstance" in the gun control debate. It will take time, but it's now "potentially a unifying conversation," he said. President Barack Obama recognizes that changes to gun laws can't just be decreed from Washington but must come from the "grassroots up."

Vilsack was interviewed Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."

Starbucks to use cups for "fiscal cliff" message to lawmakers

Starbucks to use cups for "fiscal cliff" message to lawmakers

(Reuters) - Starbucks Corp will use its ubiquitous coffee cups to tell U.S. lawmakers to come up with a deal to avoid going over the "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax hikes and government spending cuts.

Chief Executive Howard Schultz is urging workers in Starbucks' roughly 120 Washington-area shops to write "come together" on customers' cups on Thursday and Friday, as President Barack Obama and lawmakers return to work and attempt to revive fiscal cliff negotiations that collapsed before the Christmas holiday.

Whether members of Congress actually drink in the message is another matter. While the concentration of Starbucks cafes is high in the vicinity of the White House, it's relatively low near the U.S. Capitol. Members of the House and Senate enjoy private dining facilities and many of their offices have coffee machines.

Starbucks' cup campaign aims to send a message to sharply divided politicians and serve as a rallying cry for the public in the days leading up to the January 1 deadline to avert harsh across-the-board government spending reductions and tax increases that could send the United States back into recession.

"We're paying attention, we're greatly disappointed in what's going on and we deserve better," Schultz told Reuters in a telephone interview.

The CEO said he has joined a growing list of high-powered business leaders, politicians and financial experts in endorsing the Campaign to Fix the Debt, (www.fixthedebt.org) a well-funded non-partisan group that is leaning on lawmakers to put the United States' financial house in order.

Starbucks plans to amplify its "come together" message via new and old media, including Twitter and Facebook posts, coverage on AOL's local news websites and advertisements in The Washington Post and The New York Times.

"If (the talks) do not progress, we will make this much bigger," Schultz said of the messaging campaign, which he said is voluntary for cafe employees.

Given the number of Starbucks cafes in the Washington area and the number of workers on Capitol Hill, "I wouldn't be surprised if a cup of 'come together' finds its way into the White House and into the speaker's house," Schultz said in reference to Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner, who are at the center of the fiscal cliff talks.

'LACK OF LEADERSHIP'

"Our political system is not functioning in a way that is representative of what the country needs," he said. "This is the one time where politics should be put aside and what we're witness to is the exact opposite."

Schultz recently led the world's biggest coffee chain through a painful but successful restructuring that returned it to growth. He is no stranger to using Starbucks as a platform to advocate for an end to the political stalemate in Washington.

During the debt ceiling debate in August 2011, he made a splash by calling for a boycott of political contributions to U.S. lawmakers until they struck a fair and bipartisan deal on the country's debt, revenue and spending.

"We are facing such dysfunction, irresponsibility and lack of leadership" less than two years after the debt ceiling crisis, Schultz said.

Washington narrowly avoided a U.S. government default, but not before down-to-the-wire wrangling prompted the country's first-ever debt rating downgrade.

"There is something so wrong that we can be here again and not have the ability to put party aside for the betterment of the country," said Schultz. "We have the same language and rhetoric. Unfortunately we aren't learning much."

(Reporting by Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles and Fred Barbash in Washington; Editing by Martin Howell and Eric Beech)

Queen delivers 1st Christmas message in 3D

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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has hailed the holidays in a new dimension, delivering her Christmas message for the first time in 3D.

In the annual, prerecorded broadcast, the monarch paid tribute to the armed forces, "whose sense of duty takes them away from family and friends" over the holidays, and expressed gratitude for the outpouring of enthusiasm for her Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

The queen said she was struck by the "strength of fellowship and friendship" shown by well-wishers to mark her 60 years on the throne.

"It was humbling that so many chose to mark the anniversary of a duty which passed to me 60 years ago," she said as footage showed crowds lining the Thames River in the rain earlier this year for a boat pageant. "People of all ages took the trouble to take part in various ways and in many nations."

The queen also reflected on Britain's hosting of the Olympic games in 2012, praising the "skill, dedication, training and teamwork of our athletes" and singling out the volunteers who devoted themselves "to keeping others safe, supported and comforted."

Elizabeth's message aired shortly after she attended a traditional church service at St. Mary Magdelene Church on her sprawling Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

Wearing a turquoise coat and matching hat, the monarch rode to church in a Bentley, accompanied by granddaughters Beatrice and Eugenie. Her husband, Prince Philip, walked from the house to the church with other members of the royal family.

Three familiar faces were missing from the family outing. Prince William is spending the holiday with his pregnant wife Kate and his in-laws in the southern England village of Bucklebury. Prince Harry is serving with British troops in Afghanistan.

After the church service, the royals usually gather to watch the queen's prerecorded television broadcast, a tradition that began with a radio address by King George V in 1932.

The queen has made a prerecorded Christmas broadcast on radio since 1952 and on television since 1957. She writes the speeches herself and the broadcasts mark the rare occasion on which the queen voices her own opinion without government consultation.

Her switch to 3D was not the only technological leap for prominent British figures this Christmas.

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York chose to tweet their sermons for the first time, in order to bring Christmas to a new digital audience.

In his speech, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said he has been inspired by meeting victims of suffering over the past decade while leading the world's 80 million-strong Anglican Communion.

Delivering his final Christmas Day sermon from Canterbury Cathedral, Williams also acknowledged how a vote against allowing women to become bishops has damaged the credibility of the church.

Still, he said, it was "startling" to see after the vote how many people "turned out to have a sort of investment in the church, a desire to see the church looking credible and a real sense of loss when — as they saw it — the church failed to sort its business out."

Hawaii lieutenant gov. picked to fill Senate seat

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HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii's lieutenant governor and former head of President Barack Obama's 2008 election effort there has been named the state's newest U.S. senator, a choice that went against the dying wish of revered longtime Sen. Daniel Inouye.

Gov. Neil Abercrombie appointed Brian Schatz to the post Wednesday, instead of Inouye choice U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa.

The 40-year-old Schatz, a former state representative and onetime chairman of the state Democratic Party, said his top priorities would be addressing global climate change, preserving federal funds used in Hawaii for things like defense spending and transportation, and getting federal recognition for Native Hawaiians for forming their own government, similar to many Indian tribes.

Schatz, who ran with Abercrombie for the state's top two offices in 2010, beat out Hanabusa and Esther Kiaaina, a deputy director in the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.

The three candidates were selected by state Democrats Wednesday morning from a field of 14. The candidates briefly made their cases before the state party's central committee.

"No one can fill Sen. Daniel K. Inouye's shoes, but what we want to do today is find the right person to walk in his footsteps," Schatz told the committee.

"I want to be your senator because I believe Hawaii needs seniority, and we need someone who can build it up over decades and decades. And I pledge to you, if I'm given this opportunity and obligation to serve, I will try to make this my life's work and rebuild the tenure that Hawaii so desperately needs," he said.

Schatz flew to Washington Wednesday night with Obama aboard Air Force One, who was returning from his Hawaii Christmas vacation early as Congress considers what to do about the so-called fiscal cliff.

Schatz was expected to be sworn in on Thursday, becoming Hawaii's senior senator. The state's other senator, Daniel Akaka, is retiring at the end of this Congress after 22 years.

Even before winning the 2010 general election, Abercrombie expressed faith in Schatz, saying he would put him in charge of attracting more private and federal investment in Hawaii. Other responsibilities included leading the state's clean energy efforts and Asia-Pacific relations.

"To the people of Hawaii, I can assure you this: I will give every fiber of my being to doing a good job for the state of Hawaii," Schatz told a news conference in Honolulu. "We have a long and perhaps difficult road ahead of us, but we can succeed if we work together. I understand the magnitude of this obligation and this honor, and I won't let you down."

Inouye, by far Hawaii's most influential politician and one of the most respected lawmakers in Washington after serving five decades in the Senate, died last week of respiratory complications at the age of 88. He sent Abercrombie a hand-signed letter dated the day he died, saying he would like Hanabusa to succeed him, calling it his "last wish."

Four days after eulogizing Inouye in the courtyard of the Hawaii Capitol, Abercrombie said he had to consider more than just Inouye's wishes in filling his seat.

"Of course Sen. Inouye's views and his wishes were taken into account fully, but the charge of the central committee, and by extension then myself as governor, was to act in the best interests of the party ... the state and the nation," Abercrombie said.

"The law makes explicitly clear, as do the rules of the Democratic Party, that while everyone's voice is heard and everyone's view is taken into account, nonetheless, no one and nothing is preordained."

Under state law, the successor had to come from the same party as the prior incumbent. An Abercrombie spokeswoman said the governor did not feel any political pressure from within his party to make the choice he made.

"While we are very disappointed that it was not honored, it was the governor's decision to make," Jennifer Sabas, Inouye's chief of staff, said in a statement. "We wish Brian Schatz the best of luck."

Selecting Hanabusa, 61, would have required a special election in Hawaii's 1st Congressional District. Last time that happened, Hanabusa lost to Republican Charles Djou because of a winner-take-all format that split votes between Democrats.

Abercrombie said the possibility of a special election was a factor, as well as Hanabusa's "key position" on the House Armed Services Committee. The governor said she was on her way toward establishing a senior position on that panel, and it's important for Hawaii — with its four-member delegation — to establish seniority in both chambers.

Schatz will serve until an election is held in 2014. He said he will run for re-election to try to keep the Senate seat until 2016 — the end of Inouye's original term — and would run again for Senate in 2016 if given the chance.

Hanabusa congratulated Schatz in a statement.

"Having served as chair of the Hawaii Senate Judiciary Committee when the succession law was passed, I fully respect the process and the governor's right to appoint a successor," she said.

Last week, when Abercrombie announced he would not seek the seat himself, his spokeswoman Louise Kim McCoy said Abercrombie intends to make his current post as Hawaii governor the last office of his political career.

Inouye would be "very happy" with the choice, Hawaii Democratic Party chairman Dante Carpenter said. Schatz has less experience than some older politicians in the Senate but he will be building seniority, which is "critical" to the state of Hawaii, he said.

"In the words of Sen. Dan Inouye — invoked more than once — seniority in the United States Congress is everything," Carpenter said.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had urged Abercrombie to name Inouye's successor before the end of the year. The next Congress begins Jan. 3.

Democratic Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, was elected in November to succeed Akaka.

First in line to replace Schatz as lieutenant governor is Senate President Shan Tsutsui, who said he planned to discuss the prospect with his family before deciding.

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Becky Bohrer can be reached on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bbohrerap.

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Associated Press writer Audrey McAvoy contributed to this report.

Choctaw family devastated in Miss. SUV wreck

Choctaw family devastated in Miss. SUV wreck

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) — Funerals will be held this week for five young siblings and an adult who died when a sport utility vehicle driven by the children's father careened off an eastern Mississippi road and into a creek.

All of the victims of Saturday's crash near Philadelphia were members of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and lived in the Pearl River community.

Tribe spokeswoman Misty Dreifuss said a funeral for the children, who ranged in age from 18 months to 9 years old, will be held Wednesday at a tribal building in Choctaw. A wake for the siblings was planned for Monday, she said.

A funeral for Dianne Chickaway, a 38-year-old friend of the children's family, will be held Thursday at Hopewell Baptist Church in Leake County, according to Dreifuss.

"It has hit the community very hard," Dreifuss said of the 10,000-member tribe.

A statement from Chickaway's family described her as a "very loving and caring person" with many friends.

"We are struggling to understand this tragedy. We will miss her and also grieve for the other lives that were lost. She now joins a son she had lost many years ago," the statement says.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation, and no charges were immediately filed. A crash reconstruction team from the Mississippi Highway Patrol was to visit the scene Sunday.

Neshoba County Sheriff Tommy Waddell said the victims apparently drowned after their Dodge Durango left a country road and plunged into a rain-swollen creek 20 miles southeast of Philadelphia.

Waddell said the children's father, Duane John, remained hospitalized Sunday. Their mother, Deanna Jim, and Chickaway's husband, Dale Chickaway, also survived.

The children who died were identified as 9-year-old Daisyanna John; 8-year-old Duane John; 7-year-old Bobby John; 4-year-old Quinton John; and 18-month-old Kekambas John.

Waddell said it appeared that none of the children was in a child restraint, and that none of the adults was wearing a seat belt.

Dreifuss said four of the five children attended Pearl River Elementary School.

Charles Durning, Oscar-nominated king of the character actors, dies at 89 i

Charles Durning, Oscar-nominated king of the character actors, dies at 89 i

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Charles Durning, the two-time Oscar nominee who was dubbed the king of the character actors for his skill in playing everything from a Nazi colonel to the pope, died Monday at his home in New York City. He was 89.

Durning's longtime agent and friend Judith Moss told The Associated Press that he died Monday of natural causes in his home in the borough of Manhattan.

Although he portrayed everyone from blustery public officials to comic foils to put-upon everymen, Durning may be best remembered by movie audiences for his Oscar-nominated, over-the-top role as a comically corrupt governor in 1982's "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."

Many critics marveled that such a heavyset man could be so nimble in the film's show-stopping song-and-dance number, not realizing Durning had been a dance instructor early in his career. Indeed, he had met his first wife, Carol, when both worked at a dance studio.

The year after "Best Little Whorehouse," Durning received another Oscar nomination, for his portrayal of a bumbling Nazi officer in Mel Brooks' "To Be or Not to Be." He was also nominated for a Golden Globe as the harried police lieutenant in 1975's "Dog Day Afternoon."

He won a Golden Globe as best supporting TV actor in 1991 for his portrayal of John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald in the TV film "The Kennedys of Massachusetts" and a Tony in 1990 as Big Daddy in the Broadway revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

Durning had begun his career on stage, getting his first big break when theatrical producer Joseph Papp hired him for the New York Shakespeare Festival.

He went on to work regularly, if fairly anonymously, through the 1960s until his breakout role as a small town mayor in the Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning play "That Championship Season" in 1972.

He quickly made an impression on movie audiences the following year as the crooked cop stalking con men Paul Newman and Robert Redford in the Oscar-winning comedy "The Sting."

Dozens of notable portrayals followed. He was the would-be suitor of Dustin Hoffman, posing as a female soap opera star in "Tootsie;" the infamous seller of frog legs in "The Muppet Movie;" and Chief Brandon in Warren Beatty's "Dick Tracy." He played Santa Claus in four different movies made for television and was the pope in the TV film "I Would be Called John: Pope John XXIII."

"I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director," Durning told The Associated Press in 2008, when he was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Other films included "The Front Page," ''The Hindenburg," ''Breakheart Pass," ''North Dallas Forty," ''Starting Over," ''Tough Guys," ''Home for the Holidays," ''Spy Hard" and 'O Brother Where Art Thou?"

Durning also did well in television as a featured performer as well as a guest star. He appeared in the short-lived series "The Cop and the Kid" (1975), "Eye to Eye" (1985) and "First Monday" (2002) as well as the four-season "Evening Shade" in the 1990s.

"If I'm not in a part, I drive my wife crazy," he acknowledged during a 1997 interview. "I'll go downstairs to get the mail, and when I come back I'll say, 'Any calls for me?'"

Durning's rugged early life provided ample material on which to base his later portrayals. He was born into an Irish family of 10 children in 1923, in Highland Falls, N.Y., a town near West Point. His father was unable to work, having lost a leg and been gassed during World War I, so his mother supported the family by washing the uniforms of West Point cadets.

The younger Durning himself would barely survive World War II.

He was among the first wave of U.S. soldiers to land at Normandy during the D-Day invasion and the only member of his Army unit to survive. He killed several Germans and was wounded in the leg. Later he was bayoneted by a young German soldier whom he killed with a rock. He was captured in the Battle of the Bulge and survived a massacre of prisoners.

In later years, he refused to discuss the military service for which he was awarded the Silver Star and three Purple Hearts.

"Too many bad memories," he told an interviewer in 1997. "I don't want you to see me crying."

Tragedy also stalked other members of his family. Durning was 12 when his father died, and five of his sisters lost their lives to smallpox and scarlet fever.

A high school counsellor told him he had no talent for art, languages or math and should learn office skills. But after seeing "King Kong" and some of James Cagney's films, Durning knew what he wanted to do.

Leaving home at 16, he worked in a munitions factory, on a slag heap and in a barbed-wire factory. When he finally found work as a burlesque theatre usher in Buffalo, N.Y., he studied the comedians' routines, and when one of them showed up too drunk to go on one night, he took his place.

He would recall years later that he was hooked as soon as heard the audience laughing. He told the AP in 2008 that he had no plans to stop working.

"They're going to carry me out, if I go," he said.

Durning and his first wife had three children before divorcing in 1972. In 1974, he married his high school sweetheart, Mary Ann Amelio.

He is survived by his children, Michele, Douglas and Jeannine. The family planned to have a private family service and burial at Arlington National Cemetery.

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AP reporter Andrew Dalton contributed to this story.

Los Angeles police offer gift cards to take guns off streets

Los Angeles police offer gift cards to take guns off streets

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police traded gift cards for guns in Los Angeles on Wednesday, in a buyback program Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced as a crime-fighting response to the deadly shooting rampage in Newtown, Connecticut.

Police officers handed out $200 grocery store gift cards to people who turned in an automatic weapon, and $100 gift cards to those who provided a handgun, rifle or shotgun.

Los Angeles has held an annual gun buyback since 2009, and similar events have been organized in years past in several other cities, including Detroit and Boston. Police in San Diego had a buyback earlier this month.

Some experts say the buybacks have little effect in reducing gun violence, but Villaraigosa touted the buyback program as one step that can be taken in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14 that claimed the lives of 20 children and six adult staff members.

The shooter, Adam Lanza, killed himself and also shot to death his mother at the home he shared with her, police said.

Los Angeles normally has its gun buyback in May, but Villaraigosa announced last week that the city would have this special buyback in response to the Newtown tragedy.

"There are a number of things we can do. This is just one of them," Villaraigosa said on CNN. "We've got to also address the culture of violence that we've got in this country."

At last count, the Los Angeles gun buyback had collected 1,366 firearms, including 477 handguns and 49 assault weapons, said Vicki Curry, a spokeswoman for the mayor.

The buyback ended at 4 p.m. local time, but a final tally of guns collected was not expected to be released before Thursday. In May, the city's annual gun buyback program collected 1,673 firearms at six locations, compared to two locations used for the program on Wednesday, Curry said.

At each of the locations where the buyback was held, a line of cars stretched around the block, Curry said. People dropping off their guns were asked to leave them in the trunks of their cars, where officers retrieved the weapons. Those surrendering their guns were allowed to remain anonymous.

While officials in Los Angeles and elsewhere have said the gun buybacks help keep streets safe, a 2004 report by the National Research Council of the National Academies questioned that conclusion.

Among the report's findings were that guns surrendered in buybacks tend to be old or inherited from previous owners, and not likely to be used in crime. Also, gun owners find it easy to replace their firearms, according to the report, which was titled "Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review."

(Reporting By Alex Dobuzinskis; editing by Todd Eastham)

Dermatitis can lead to fingerprint ID failures

Dermatitis can lead to fingerprint ID failures

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults with excessively dry hands were four times more likely than healthy counterparts to fail computerized fingerprint verification tests in a small new study from Malaysia.

"Because of the emerging use of biometrics in daily living, I think hand dermatitis is an upcoming problem," said lead author Dr. Lee Chew Kek, a dermatologist at UCSI University in Kuala Lumpur. "This can have effects on the economy, jobs and security."

Fingerprints are still the most common unique personal trait used to identify an individual. Other measurable unique biological features include the iris of the eye and even keyboard typing patterns. Analysts have projected that the global biometrics market will be worth $16 billion in four years.

Cracked or swollen skin can disrupt the unique crevice pattern found within individuals' thumbprints, which are increasingly used for security checks at banks or to access buildings.

According to an earlier study from Denmark, an estimated 15 percent of people worldwide will suffer from hand dermatitis - skin inflammation usually caused by an allergic reaction.

Lee told Reuters Health she provides hospital verification for patients who cannot have biometric data encoded into a computer chip on their Malaysian national identity card, called MyKad, because of unreadable fingerprints.

To the authors' knowledge, no previous study has investigated how often dermatitis patients fail fingerprint tests.

The research team recruited 100 patients with dermatitis affecting either thumb and 100 participants with healthy fingers as a comparison group. All participants possessed readable MyKad cards.

Each patient had three attempts with each thumb to get an accurate match with a fingerprint scanner that processed the images and linked them to MyKad data.

Twenty-seven of the 100 dermatitis patients failed fingerprint verification tests compared to only two participants in the comparison group.

Eighty-four in the patient group had areas on their thumbs where prints were missing or skin appeared mottled due to rough skin. The larger the area of so-called dystrophy, the more likely a patient was to fail the test.

Abnormal white lines in the prints caused by wrinkles or cuts were found in both groups. However, when white lines appeared in prints, dermatitis patients had a greater number of them. Researchers guessed that the cuts may ruin the pattern of tiny ridges within thumbprints.

Despite the limited size of the study, published in the Archives of Dermatology, the subject is important for dermatologists to be aware of, said Dr. Pieter-Jan Coenraads of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

"Human biology is a lot more variable than security authorities would like to believe, I think," said Coenraads, who was not involved with the study.

"Dermatitis is one of the many factors which can certainly affect fingerprint image quality," Steve Fischer, spokesman of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services division told Reuters Health in an email.

Disruptions in fingerprint images do happen in the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, which maintains more than 70 million print records, he said.

The FBI processes an average of 160,000 fingerprints each day with approximately three percent rejected due to poor image quality, Fischer wrote.

The division doesn't have a record of how many disruptions are attributable to dermatitis.

Since hand dermatitis is not a rare problem, "there may be a significant number of individuals who will be handicapped by fingerprint technology," explained Dr. Bruce Brod of the University of Pennsylvania, who was not involved with the study.

Though most hand dermatitis can be resolved with topical creams, people who have allergic contact dermatitis - like the majority of patients in this study - may struggle with constant exposure to irritants in the workplace, according to researchers.

Health care workers who constantly wash their hands, a mechanic who must finger greasy bolts and nuts inside an engine or a chef who slices lots of garlic and onions between the thumb and index finger may develop hand dermatitis, for example.

"In terms of treatment for hand dermatitis, we're still lagging behind. It tends to be a very chronic problem," Brod told Reuters Health.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/WGwnAI Archives of Dermatology, online December 17, 2012.