Oscars Academy honors Vanessa Redgrave in London (omg!)

FILE - In this Monday, March 3, 2003 file photo UNICEF goodwill ambassador and British actress Vanessa Redgrave listens to questions at a UNICEF press conference in Berlin. Hollywood's film academy is honoring acting icon Vanessa Redgrave at a star-studded ceremony in London. Meryl Streep, Ralph Fiennes and James Earl Jones are scheduled to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tribute to Redgrave's 50-year career on Sunday Nov. 13, 2011. A member of a famous British acting dynasty, Redgrave is also known for her left-wing political activism. The 74-year-old actress has been nominated for six Oscars and won for her supporting role as an anti-Nazi activist in 1977's "Julia." (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)

LONDON (AP) ? Hollywood's film academy is honoring acting icon Vanessa Redgrave at a star-studded ceremony in London.

Meryl Streep, Ralph Fiennes and James Earl Jones are scheduled to join Sunday's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tribute to Redgrave's 50-year career.

A member of a famous British acting dynasty, Redgrave is also known for her left-wing political activism.

The 74-year-old actress has been nominated for six Oscars and won for her supporting role as an anti-Nazi activist in 1977's "Julia."

In her acceptance speech, she praised the academy for not bowing to "Zionist hoodlums" who had objected to the nomination because of her support for the Palestinian cause.

She is currently starring in London's West End alongside Jones in "Driving Miss Daisy."

FILE -- In this Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008 file photo actress Vanessa Redgrave acknowledges the applause for her Hall of Fame prize during the distribution of the DIVA Entertainment Awards 2008 in Munich, southern Germany. Hollywood's film academy is honoring acting icon Vanessa Redgrave at a star-studded ceremony in London. Meryl Streep, Ralph Fiennes and James Earl Jones are scheduled to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tribute to Redgrave's 50-year career on Sunday Nov. 13, 2011. A member of a famous British acting dynasty, Redgrave is also known for her left-wing political activism. The 74-year-old actress has been nominated for six Oscars and won for her supporting role as an anti-Nazi activist in 1977's "Julia." (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)

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Death toll rises to 34 in China mine accident (AP)

BEIJING ? Thirty-four miners are now confirmed dead in a gas leak at a coal mine in southwestern China. Another nine miners are still trapped.

A powerful gas leak hit one underground platform of the Sizhuang Coal Mine in Yunnan province on Thursday and spread to another platform, trapping 43 miners.

It was China's second deadly mining accident in less than a week. China's coal mines are the deadliest in the world.

The duty official at the Yunnan Provincial Work Safety Administration said Sunday that 34 miners were confirmed dead and that the search for the missing nine continues. He refused to give his name, as is common with Chinese officials.

The official Xinhua News Agency says the mine was operating illegally and that the mine's bosses have been detained.

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Korean and Chinese online gaming giants join in an alliance ...

Two major Asian online game companies are forming an alliance. South Korea?s Nexon (recently relocated to Japan) and China?s Perfect World are teaming up with a joint venture to manage and operate online games in Korea.

The deal comes just a day after Nexon made a big move. Nexon reportedly may raise nearly $1.3 billion in an initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, according to Reuters and the Nikkei?business daily.

Nexon is one of Asia?s mighty biggest online game publishers, with games including MapleStory, Mabinogi, Vindictus, Combat Arms, Dragon Nest and Dungeon Fighter Online. More recently, the company has been expanding in the U.S., launching a Facebook version of MapleStory and?investing in mobile social games. It also invested in social game maker 6waves Lolapps.

Perfect World, based in Beijing, is a major online game publisher that operates games such as Perfect World, Legend of Martial Arts,? Zhu Xian, Chi Bi, Battle of the Immortals, Fantasy Zhu Xian, Forsaken World, Dragon Excalibur, Empire of the Immortals and Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. These may not be well-known in the West, but they?re free-to-play titles that are earning considerable sums; users play the games for free, but pay real money for virtual goods. Now the joint venture will take those games into South Korea, where online games are extremely popular.

?This strategic alliance will help us further expand our user base and provide the highest quality services to local players in the Korean market,? said Michael Chi, chief executive of Perfect World. ?The introduction of more of Perfect World?s online games into the Korean market will help further strengthen our international reputation as a comprehensive online game developer and operator.?

Min Seo, CEO of Nexon Korea, recognized Perfect World?s rich content and renowned development talent.

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Companies: Nexon, Perfect World

People: Michael Chi, Min Seo

Source: http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/09/korean-and-chinese-online-gaming-giants-for-an-alliance/

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Consumer sentiment improves; still lower than last year

Consumer sentiment improved in November, increasing to a reading of 64.2 but falling 10.34 percent below the level seen last year

Today's final release of the?Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Consumers?for November indicated improvement in consumer sentiment with a reading of 64.2 but falling 10.34% below the level seen last year while one year inflation expectations went flat at 3.2%.

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The Index of Consumer Expectations (a component of the Conference Board's Index of Leading Economic Indicators) rose to 56.2, and the Current Economic Conditions Index climbed to 76.6.

It's important to recognize that consumer sentiment has seriously eroded over the past few months with the current results remaining near levels not seen since 1980, a major indication that consumers are in the process of tightening even further on spending.

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Just Show Me: How to use your Game Center profile on your iPhone or iPad (Yahoo! News)

Welcome to?Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the?gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to update your Game Center profile on your iPhone or iPad once you've upgraded to?iOS 5.

Apple's Game Center allows you to connect with your friends and family to play games or compare scores in games. For instance, if you want to see if you're beating your husband's all time Angry Birds score, you can easily check it out. It's easy to get started with Game Center, and we'll show you how.

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Stern: 'Rational thing' for union is to take deal (AP)

NEW YORK ? NBA players are facing a Wednesday afternoon deadline to accept the league's current proposal or face a harsher one that calls for rolling back their salaries, and Commissioner David Stern said Monday "the only rational thing to do is for us to make that deal."

"We think that there's a great offer on the table and what we told the players is it's getting late, the only rational thing to do is for us to make that deal because given what's going on in our business and our industry, it'll get worse from there," Stern said during an interview on ESPN.

That proposal calls for players to receive anywhere between 49 and 51 percent of basketball-related income, though players argue it would be nearly impossible for them to get anywhere above 50.2. Stern said the next one will call for a 53-47 split in the owners' favor, along with essentially a hard salary cap.

The second proposal also calls for "existing contracts rolled back in proportion to system changes in order to ensure sufficient market for free agents," a person who has been briefed on its contents told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the contents were supposed to remain private.

The rollbacks were previously reported by CBSSports.com and The New York Times, which obtained a copy of the letter Stern sent to union executive director Billy Hunter on Sunday along with both documents.

The league had sought to roll back existing contracts to conform to a new collective bargaining agreement during an earlier proposal, but had since taken it off the table.

Stern set the deadline early Sunday morning after owners and players met for more than eight hours with federal mediator George Cohen. Owners have been insistent on not going beyond a 50-50 split of revenues, though some would prefer the league had already demanded the 53-47 split.

League officials said they lost $300 million last season, when players were guaranteed 57 percent of BRI. Stern said the league believes it can profit at 50-50 with expanded revenue sharing among its teams, though owners believe some teams would still lose money with a 50-50 split.

The sides are also still divided over some issues related to the salary cap system, mostly related to spending rules for teams that are over the luxury tax level. Players want those big-market teams to remain free agency options.

No bargaining session has been set before the deadline, though player representatives will be in New York on Tuesday for a union planning meeting. Players' association president Derek Fisher said Sunday it was still too early to give members anything to vote on.

Stern downplayed the threat of decertification of the union, an option that could be more strongly considered if the backup proposal gets put on the table. A lengthy court fight would almost certainly wipe out the entire 2011-12 season.

A month of games has already been canceled.

"We're all really concerned. This is our livelihood. This is our job," Charlotte point guard D.J. Augustin said Monday after playing a pickup game with other NBA players in Houston. "For ourselves, we want to get back playing. But we're also not going to take just any deal. We're going to stay united, stay strong and just be ready whenever they call us back."

Though frustrations are high and nasty rhetoric remains ? the league and union briefly argued about their proposals through Twitter feeds Monday ? the reality is they've grown closer on paper. Players offered Saturday to reduce their BRI take to 51 percent, with 1 percent going to a fund for retired players' benefits, after previously saying they wouldn't go below 52.5.

The question is whether they can erase the remaining issues before Wednesday's deadline ? and what happens if they don't.

"We just want a fair deal, and I believe the players' union is just trying to get the fairest deal possible," Washington forward Rashard Lewis said. "They gave us a deadline on Wednesday, but our side is meeting today or tomorrow. So let's just see what happens."

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AP Sports Writer Chris Duncan in Houston contributed to this report.

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Buffalo Communications set to manage PR for CHAMP golf products ...

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Mississippi 'Personhood' Law Could Cause Legal Mayhem, Experts ...

If Mississippians vote to pass an unprecedented initiative on Tuesday that would declare a fertilized egg a legal person under the state Constitution, nobody -- including the authors of the initiative -- knows exactly how that law would be interpreted and enforced. But legal and medical experts are concerned that the "personhood" amendment could spur a litany of expensive court battles, bogus lawsuits and moral and political conundrums beyond the scope of women's choice.

The somewhat vague question facing Mississippi voters at the ballots is: Should an undeveloped embryo have the same legal rights as a person? If the people answer yes, then state lawmakers will be faced with the challenge of figuring out what Proposition 26 means for practical purposes and how to implement it.

The process of interpreting and implementing the amendment is likely to be complicated and fraught with legal challenges, considering the word "person" appears more than 9,000 times in the Mississippi constitution. The law would unequivocally ban abortion, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or life of the mother, but advocates on both sides argue about the legal implications beyond abortion. The initiative could be interpreted to ban emergency contraception as well as the regular birth control pill, which can both affect a fertilized egg's ability to attach to the uterus. It could also complicate the legality of in vitro fertilization, which can result in a number of unused embryos, and stem cell research.

The "personhood" amendment raises other, murkier questions: If every fetus is considered a person, does this affect voter districting? Would a woman who is three weeks pregnant be able to claim her fetus as a dependent on federal tax forms, or in claims for government assistance? If a woman who doesn't know she's pregnant engages in some negligent activity that leads to a miscarriage, could someone prosecute her on behalf of the embryo?

"This law can go to the silliest and most radical extreme if you take it literally," said Michele Alexandre, a civil rights law professor at the University of Mississippi. "If this passes, all heads will turn to the legislature to figure out how to implement it, but the law gives no guidance as to how to do that. It can reach into so many spheres -- the combinations are endless."

"To try to figure out what it would mean to impose this standard definition that always includes an egg, embryo and fetus could have consequences we couldn't even speculate about, because we haven't thought of them," said Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union.

Some supporters of the initiative are trusting Mississippi lawmakers to figure out what "personhood" will look like on the books.

"There will be some things that'll have to be worked out at a later date," Greg Sanders, a spokesperson for the "Yes on 26" campaign, told HuffPost. "As you well know, there will be more than likely a stay of who knows how many months to come up with common sense legislation, but plain and simple this seeks to establish human life in the womb."

A number of doctors are expressing their fear of potential lawsuits.

"I assume some poor patient or doctor or both will have to be brought to court and made an example of so this case can rise through the courts to our nation's Supreme Court," said Dr. Wayne Slocum, head of the Mississippi section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "The fear of litigation is real, and I can tell you that the physicians feel that, and it's our fear that this passes."

The amendment could subject both women and doctors to an array of criminal and civil suits. For instance, a doctor could be prosecuted for trying to save a woman with ectopic pregnancy, an abnormal pregnancy which occurs outside the uterus and is the leading cause of pregnancy-related deaths. It could require coroners to investigate miscarriages, which are reported to occur in at least a quarter of pregnancies, and it could make it possible for someone to sue on behalf of the egg that didn't implant because the woman used birth control.

Slocum said he considers himself pro-life, but he can't support the amendment when he considers all of its possible legal consequences and the difficult situations that could arise.

"Imagine, for a moment, an estranged husband of a pregnant woman that suffers from some kind of illness that necessitates the delivery of a preterm child, be it breast cancer or elevated blood pressure," he said. "Certainly, the rights of the preterm child need to be considered, and I assure you I consider these and my fellow physicians consider these now, without this amendment. But I would argue that this amendment would give this estranged husband even more of a legal argument to halt any treatment aimed at saving life of the mom at the expense of unborn. I see no good to come from that."

The personhood initiative is so legally problematic that there are already people across the nation who are "lined up to challenge it," because it violates a number of Supreme Court precedents, said Alexandre. It would also make Mississippi the first state to directly challenge Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that prevents states from banning abortion before the fetus is viable outside the womb. The initiative could additionally challenge Griswold v. Connecticut, which declared a state law banning contraceptives unconstitutional, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which prevents states from passing abortion restrictions that cast "undue burden" on a woman's ability to obtain an abortion.

Les Riley, the leader of Mississippi's personhood movement, said he is hoping challengers will take this law all the way up to the Supreme Court. The Roe v. Wade decision, he argued, was handed down at a time when scientists were less clear about the moment when life begins, and now it is due for an update.

"We think that God has already told us when life begins, and science has confirmed it, and the court has just not dealt with it," Riley told HuffPost. "We hope the Mississippi voters will force them to take another look at that decision."

Opponents of the initiative say it is a waste of state money and resources, because it has no chance of being allowed to stand.

"Time and time again, the Supreme Court has struck down laws that are too vague, laws that go overboard, laws that have consequences outside of what the reach of that law should be," Alexandre said. "It's hard to imagine the Supreme Court would find this particular language legal."

While a number of Mississippi lawmakers have expressed concerns about the vagueness and potential consequences of the personhood amendment, the vast majority of them are publicly supporting it. The state's Republican governor, Haley Barbour, told Chuck Todd on MSNBC last week that he had concerns about the initiative's ambiguity and its ramifications for women's health.

"I believe life begins at conception," Barbour said. "Unfortunately, this personhood amendment doesn't say that. It says life begins at fertilization, or cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof. That ambiguity is striking a lot of pro-life people here as concerning. And I'm talking about people that are very outspokenly pro-life."

"I am concerned about some of the ramifications on in vitro fertilization and [ectopic] pregnancies where pregnancies [occur] outside the uterus and [in] the fallopian tubes," he continued. "That concerns me, I have to just say it."

The following day, Barbour voted for the initiative using an absentee ballot.

Mississippi Democrats have been echoing Barbour's sentiment. A spokesperson for Johnny Dupree, the Democratic candidate for governor of Mississippi, said in a statement that "while [Dupree] has concerns about some of the ramifications, such as on in-vitro fertilization and birth control, he ultimately supports the amendment because he believes life begins at conception."

Democratic state Sen. Bob Dearing told HuffPost he would likely vote for the initiative as well, despite the fact that he knows it's legally problematic. "It's going to be met with a court challenge," he said. "You know that, and I know that."

Mississippi voters, so far, are almost perfectly divided on the issue. According to a new Public Policy Polling survey, 45 percent of voters support the initiative and 44 percent oppose it.

The one thing many agree on is that if the initiative passes, Mississippi should brace for legal mayhem.

"It would definitely take a while to work out all the lawsuits," Alexandre said, "but in the meantime, how many women would be hurt?"

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Christelyn Karazin: Modern-Day Marriage: Would You Do It If You Had To Do It All?

I recently read a piece written by William J. Bennett, who was lamenting about men being in trouble. Apparently the increase of women of all races out-educating, and more commonly, out-earning men has left our male counterparts feeling some kinda way. While we're kicking arse and taking names, an increasing number of men have devolved into children who whine and play video games all day.

When the time comes, who in Hades would want to marry that?

It is true that women have made great strides in academia and in the workplace, but instead of rising to the occasion and competing head-to-head, why are some men falling back to let the woman carry home, work, and family?

Tanisha Moorley, 35, is married with four kids, but feels like she's raising a fifth: Her husband. In addition to working a full-time job, she puts in the second shift at home, doing the cooking, cleaning, and homework and sport activities for this children. She asks her husband for help, but he can't seem to manage wrangling the kids for doctor's appointments and other chores. All this extra work has left Tanisha mentally and physically exhausted, and wondering why the heck she got married in the first place. And to add insult to injury, her underemployed husband awakes her in the middle of the night for sex. "I feel like, oh my God, he takes everything and now he takes this too?"

So... why this imbalance of responsibilities? Is it that men feel unneeded in this new shift of gender power? Is this an unintended consequence of feminism? After all, the bargaining power of women is greatly improved--we have more education and more money than ever before in history, married or not. But with all that responsibility comes a lot more work... for us. And we're not happy about it, according to a 2009 study published in American Economic Journal. The great hope was that both men and women would climb the ladder to Utopia together, but like Bennett alluded, there's been more man-babies born in the U.S. right about the time we got our big-girl panties.

"How is it that our ascension has caused men to feel they can get away with not doing anything? Our having the right to be fully functioning adults should not take away masculinity. They are abdicating responsibly," says Janine Latus, best-selling author of If I Am Missing Or Dead, feminist, and domestic abuse advocate.

But some men feel like the blurry roles have left them feeling an inertia. "American was born in revolution, the men here have always been it's protectors. That resistance had to be broken down for us to be placed in the position that we are in now. There has been a direct psychological assault on men going on for decades now in America. Men ARE being feminized, and so many men just shut up and say nothing about it because it might rock the boat with the opposite sex," says "Lycan Thrope," a frequent commenter on my blog fan page.

I was born in the 1970s, so I observed the newfound empowerment of women, men who were disgruntled by it, then, apathetic to it. Remember that perfume commercial where the woman is shifting from work dress to sexy and alluring, all the while there's someone singing "I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never let you forget that you're a man?" Let's examine the words of that song for a minute. It's basically saying that a woman can be bread winner, domestic goddess, and sexpot, perfectly every day, all day.

Man. That's sounds exhausting. And if the wife or partner does all that, what the heck does the guy do?

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