How Linden Lab Hopes To Find Second Life In Mobile Creative Play

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Can You Fly By Firing Guns at the Ground?

It might be the preserve of fantastical action movies, but we've probably all wondered at some point or other if it's actually possible to fly through the air by firing bullets down at the ground. More »

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New Marketing Opportunities with Pinterest Business Accounts

pinterest screenshot New Marketing Opportunities with Pinterest Business AccountsPinterest just became more business-friendly by allowing businesses to create their own accounts. Until now, this online pinboard of pictures has been for individual accounts only. The social media service now include business tools like Follow and Pin It buttons, and Pinterest widgets. This makes Pinterest an increasingly viable social media marketing tool for businesses of many different types.

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Just how far Pinterest will go for business remains to be seen, but here is one indicator: The company was valued at $1.5 billion in 2012.

About Lee

Lee is a computer expert and writer with a background in technical writing, Internet marketing, blogging and website design.

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The Santaland Diaries: Texas Monthly Sound Off :: Events

Friday, November 23rd through Sunday, December 23rd in Austin

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Merrily subversive entertainment to delight adult audiences! Martin Burke - Austin?s favorite irreverent elf - returns in the 15th Edition and Farewell Performances of David Sedaris? hysterical tale elfin? woe. Enjoy this the real-life story of Sedaris? tour of duty as the elf Crumpet, and what it takes to juggle tots and tottering Santas during a painfully festive time of the year. A laugh ?til you cry evening of merrily subversive entertainment to delight adult audiences! Performances run Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2:30 pm ? with added performances on Dec. 18th at 8 pm and Dec. 23rd at 7 pm - on ZACH Theatre?s intimate Whisenhunt stage at 1510 Toomey Road (Toomey intersects S. Lamar Blvd. between W. Cesar Chavez and Barton Springs Rd.). Tickets range from $35-$65. Student Rush Tickets: $18 one hour before showtime (with valid ID). For tickets, call (512) 476-0541, x1, or visit www.zachtheatre.org.

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Unemployment may increase chances of heart attacks

CHICAGO (AP) ? Unemployment hurts more than your wallet ? it may damage your heart. That's according to a study linking joblessness with heart attacks in older workers.

The increased odds weren't huge, although multiple job losses posed as big a threat as smoking, high blood pressure and other conditions that are bad for the heart.

The researchers analyzed data on more than 13,000 men and women aged 51 to 75 taking part in an ongoing health and retirement survey partly sponsored by the National Institute on Aging. Since 1992, participants have been interviewed every two years about their employment and health.

The new analysis has several limitations. The data show periods of unemployment but don't indicate whether people were fired, laid off, out of work while switching jobs, or had voluntarily left a job. The researchers considered all of these situations "job losses," but it's likely the greatest risks for heart attacks were from being fired or laid off, said researcher Matthew Dupre, an assistant professor at Duke University and the lead author. Retirement was not considered unemployment

Sarah Burgard, a University of Michigan researcher who has studied the relationship between job loss and health, called the research solid but said it would be important to know the reason for the unemployment.

"There probably are differences in consequences of job loss when it's voluntary or more or less expected" and when it comes as a sudden shock, said Burgard, who was not involved in the study.

The analysis appears in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine. An editorial in the journal says the study adds to decades of research linking job loss with health effects and that research should now turn to examining how and why that happens.

Theories include that the stress of losing a job may trigger a heart attack in people with clogged arteries or heart disease; and that the unemployed lose health insurance and access to medical care that can help keep them healthy, Burgard said.

The analysis covers 1992-2010. Participants were mostly in their 50s at the study's beginning and were asked about their job history, and about employment status and recent heart attacks at subsequent interviews. People who'd had heart attacks before the study began were excluded.

Nearly 70 percent had at least one job loss, or period of unemployment after working at a job, and at least 10 percent had four or more before and/or during the study period.

There were 1,061 heart attacks during the study. Those with at least one job loss were 22 percent more likely to have a heart attack than those who never lost a job. Those with at least four job losses had a 60 percent higher risk than those with none. Men and women faced equal risks.

Even though the odds linked with job loss weren't huge, many participants already faced increased other risks for a heart attack because of obesity, high blood pressure or lack of exercise.

"Any significant additional risk is important," Dupre said.

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AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/LindseyTanner

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Readers: $300 cellphone bills hit family budgets

Dessa Jarmon

Dessa Jarmon pays nearly $4,000 annually for cell phone service.

"It's the biggest bill in the house, outside of the mortgage payment."

T.J. Pinales of Austin, Texas, holds his nose and writes a check to Verizon Wireless every month for about $325, astonished that telephone service now occupies the No. 2 slot in the family budget. But NBC News heard that lament again recently as readers responded to a story about a wireless trade industry report claiming average cellphone bills are going down.

?At one point, we were against cellphones, then we got them, and had conservative plans, and then the bill grows and grows,? said Pinales, a construction worker. Pinales has five phones for his family and pays for a WiFi hotspot, which he uses while on-site at large commercial projects. ?When he downloads a large architectural drawing, though, he worries about his bill going up.

In response to a Red Tape Chronicles invitation, nearly 1,400 readers wrote in to share details about their phone bills. They told of cutting back on other purchases to pay for smartphone service, struggling to pay bills and avoid service cutoffs and shopping around to save money only to find that all service providers ultimately charge similar prices.

"It's modern-day crack," said Dessa Jarmon, of Tacoma, Wash., who pays nearly $4,000 annually for cellphone service for her family ? ?three smartphones, one flip phone. Jarmon was laid off from her bookkeeping job six months ago, but doesn?t see many options for lowering her $330-a-month bill that wouldn?t involve major early termination fees or loss of service. ?She already gets a 17 percent discount, thanks to her husband?s job.? Does she feel like she?s getting good value for her money?

"Every time a call drops, I certainly don't," she said.


CTIA, the cell phone trade group, said in a report last month that the average cellphone bill is $47, though in a follow-up interview, the agency clarified that the figure represents an average per handset. In other words, a family of four with a bill of $188 would be considered average.

But reader e-mails seem to suggest that's a little low. Of the 1,400 readers who responded, 80 noted their bill was between $190 and $210. On average, that group had 3.1 phones, meaning the cost is about $65 per phone. People with bills near $250 paid $67 per phone.?

The median bill -- representing the midpoint of all bills sent to us -- was $124.

It?s important to note that the survey was not scientific ?or statistically representative, and many of those wrote in were already angry about the size of their bills. ?Still, the high price of staying connected comes through loud and clear in the data.

The most common refrain among consumers who agreed to follow-up interviews was this: How did the bill climb so far, so fast?

?At the store, you get what seems like a good plan until you get your first bill, and then you say, ?What the hell? This isn't what I signed up for,?" said Sarah Herring, 37, who lives outside Milwaukee. "Everything isn?t clear, and then suddenly you are spending money you don?t really have."

Sarah Herring

David and Sarah Herring pay a lot for wireless Internet access so he can study on long bus rides to law school.

Herring?s $240 monthly bill for four phones was lower than many others with the same number of phones, but it is still a bitter pill to swallow. She moved to Wisconsin from Flagstaff, Ariz., earlier this year, so her husband, who recently completed 10 years of military service, could attend law school. The couple and their three kids live in a suburb, and he needs broadband wireless Internet access so he can study on the bus.? "There's a very specific reason we have the phones we have," she said.

Two smartphones with data plans can't be had for much less than $200. Throw in a couple of "dumb" phones, even at discount prices, and the cost climbs to near $250 for the Herrings.

Like many consumers, she complained about the cell industry's move to charge more for data plans.

"As far as I'm concerned, it seems like a huge rip-off, but what do you do?" she said.? The family never eats out, she said, and social life consists of a case of beer every few weeks. "There's a lot of stuff we don?t do because we have the bills we have."

Shannon Rodriguez, a school guidance counselor in Houston, Texas, was struggling last week to find $805 to get her phone service restored.?

"There's just something else that won't get paid this month," said Rodriguez, whose husband also works at the school. The couple?s biggest problem: His family lives in Mexico, and while they pay extra for cheaper international calling and texting rates, those discounts are limited. During the past two months, calling home turned a $200 bill into a $400 bill. ?And unlike land lines, where service interruptions were heavily regulated and basic service disconnection could be delayed, wireless firms are unforgiving for unpaid bills.

"This is our family phone. We don't have a house phone," Rodriguez said. "In this day and age, not having a phone is like not having a leg."

Rodriguez said she understands that cellphone companies have to be strict in their collections, and said she takes responsibility for the bill, which will get paid -- somehow.

"My head is still spinning. Can I sell an organ?" she joked. "It's bad. We're fully aware of how it works, but it's very easy to slip up and when you realize it, it's too late. You know what? It's our fault. We'll just have to suck it up, but it definitely makes things extremely unpleasant."

Do you have a nagging feeling that you are spending too much on monthly bills, or getting ripped off? Tell me ? you might get a Gotchanalysis and be a featured in a new series. Write to BobSullivan@feedback.msnbc.com to nominate yourself or a friend.

Another clear theme in the data: families are hit hard because they often have three, four, even five phones. And it?s getting harder and harder to beat back teenagers? demands for smartphones. It?s even harder to stop them from gobbling up precious data allotments with video downloads. Rodriguez, Jarmon and Pinellas all gave smartphones to their kids, but share minutes with them and try to cap their usage.

That, said Jarmon, a former AirTouch cellular customer service agent, can be a losing battle.

"I had to raise our allotment once already. We did go over last month -- we were at 6 (gigabytes per month) but had to go to 8,? she said. ? When I looked at what was using the data, I was that my stepson was sending video texts. But what am I supposed to do, sit down every night and look at everybody's phone and look at their usage? I'm not going do that. I have other things to do."

Cellphone providers have always encouraged users to overpay by charging severe penalties for overuse ? 25-cents-per- minute voice overage charges or 20-cent fees for excess texts, for example. That?s true with data plans, too. Verizon let consumers buy 2 extra gigabytes of downloads in advance for $10 monthly; those same two gigabytes would cost $30 after the fact. So it makes sense for consumers to overbuy, as a form of insurance.

Lina Fetter, of northwestern Pennsylvania, said she has tried to shop around and cut her bill, but she has priced plans for her family with all the major providers and come to this dismal conclusion:

"They all just market their plans a little differently, but when you put all the pieces together they come out almost the same," Fetter said, adding that she pays $268 monthly for four phones. "I look at it constantly. I'm constantly trying to figure out how to get rid of stuff... (but) I can't figure out how to make it cheaper."?

And now her cellphone bill is more expensive than one her car payments, she noted.

"My cellphone bill used to be $60,? she said. ?The next thing you know, it was $100, then $120, then $200, and they you are sitting there saying "Holy cow, how did it get to $260.? What can I take off?"

The answer might lie in the data sent in by NBC News readers.? Not everyone who wrote in said their bill was above the average cost listed in the CTIA industry report.? In fact, 230 of the 1,400 said their bills were lower than $50 every month. Next week, we?ll talk to them and find out what their secrets are.

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Football: CU Buffs fall at home to Washington Huskies

Forget about winning a home game. The Colorado football team has enough trouble just trying to score points in Folsom Field these days.

The Buffaloes' stuck in the mud offense flopped once again and this time it came in a very winnable game against a Washington team that seemed to struggle almost as badly at times. The Huskies handed the Buffs their seventh consecutive loss 38-3 in front of perhaps the smallest crowd to see a game in Boulder in three decades.

CU announced it had sold approximately 45,000 tickets before the game but there appeared to be no more than 30,000 fans in the stadium, and that might be generous.

"That's something we need to get right," tight end Nick Kasa said. "If you don't win games, people

CU QB Jordan Webb is sacked by Travis Feeney of Washington in the second half. ( CLIFF GRASSMICK )

don't want to come see you. We have to win some games."

Who could blame CU fans for not showing up when the offense has scored three points at home in the past 10 quarters played here and the defense has been one of the worst in the nation most of the season?

The loss was the 10th of the season for CU. It is just the fifth time in the program's history the Buffs have suffered double-digit losses in a single season.

The fourth time was last year when CU was 3-10.

"Losing hurts," defensive lineman Chidera Uzo-Diribe said. "I don't think there is a guy in the locker room who isn't hurting. We just have to work hard to try to send our seniors out the right way."

The Buffs must beat Utah at home next week in the season finale to avoid becoming the first CU team in history to go winless during an entire season at Folsom Field.

CU definitely hasn't had the look of a team with any belief in itself for weeks now and it doesn't go unnoticed by opponents.

"They looked dead," Washington safety Justin Glenn said of the Buffs. "Cody (Bruns) and I were talking about that because we've been there. I think back to our freshman year (0-12), and you just don't have hope. Coming into the game, it's just not the same. It feels great to be on the opposite end of that."

CU coach Jon Embree said he believes his team has showed a sense of urgency all season.

"You can't say that this team has not played with urgency," Embree said. "We just have not executed or played both sides of the football."

Colorado's defense played considerably better than it had last week when it was run over at Arizona. It kept the team in the game but couldn't overcome turnovers by the offense and special teams that gave Washington prime field position on multiple occasions.

The Buffs held an opponent scoreless in the first quarter for the first time since last season's finale at Utah and nearly shut out the Huskies through the first half. But Washington quarterback Keith Price was able to lead a late first-half scoring drive culminating in Bruns' first career touchdown catch that gave the Huskies a 7-0 lead at the intermission.

Price completed 22 of 29 passes for 248 yards and five touchdowns. Price tied the school record for touchdown passes.

Sophomore Connor Wood started at quarterback for the first time in his career but made two poor decisions that led to interceptions and he was replaced by junior Jordan Webb before halftime. Webb couldn't do much better.

The Buffs produced 141 yards of total offense. They have now generated 217 yards of total offense in the past two home games combined.

Colorado's running game was unable to take advantage of a Washington defense ranked 90th in the nation against the run.

The Buffs were so bad offensively, they didn't seem to know the correct down and distance at one point. Midway through the second quarter, Webb ran a quarterback sneak on first-and-10 as if it was fourth-and-1.

Webb and Embree explained later that the officials initially failed to rule the Buffs had made a first down on the preceding play, but the chains had been moved by the time the Buffs came to the line of scrimmage.

The game got away from the Buffs again in the third quarter, keeping alive a streak of anticlimactic fourth quarters played with fans streaming up the aisles at Folsom and the sound of bands echoing through the empty seats.

The Buffs handed the Huskies points early in the third quarter. CU wide receiver Nelson Spruce was hit by a bouncing punt that Washington's Kevin Smith grabbed as he was going out of bounds and flipped up in the air. Washington safety Will Shamburger recovered.

The Huskies scored three plays later when Price hit Kasen Williams with a 17-yard touchdown pass.

CU left tackle David Bakhtiari was beaten by Washington's Josh Shirley on third down on the Buffs next possession. Shirley sacked Webb and forced a fumble in the process. Washington recovered and the Huskies scored two plays later when Price hit Kendyl Taylor with a 23-yard screen pass.

Colorado finally scored with 6 minutes, 15 seconds left in the third quarter when a drive stalled after a holding penalty and Will Oliver kicked a 37-yard field goal. Oliver's kick broke the Buffs' scoreless streak of more than eight quarters at home. CU hadn't scored at Folsom Field since the second quarter of the Arizona State game on Oct. 11.

But the Buffs couldn't muster any more than that and like numerous previous opponents the Huskies poured it on late with two more touchdowns and a field goal.

Eleven down, one to go.

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Washington 38, Colorado 3

Washington 0 7 17 14--38

Colorado 0 0 3 0-- 3

Second Quarter

Wash -- Bruns 3 pass from Price (Coons kick), 1:02.

Third Quarter

Wash -- Williams 17 pass from Price (Coons kick), 12:01.

Wash -- Taylor 23 pass from Price (Coons kick), 9:22.

Col -- FG Oliver 37, 6:15.

Wash -- FG Coons 25, 1:07.

Fourth Quarter

Wash -- Seferian-Jenkins 3 pass from Price (Coons kick), 9:24.

Wash -- Mickens 18 pass from Price (Coons kick), 5:01.

A -- 43,148.

Wash Col

First downs 22 10

Rushes-yards 38-228 31-90

Passing 248 51

Comp-Att-Int 22-29-0 10-23-2

Return Yards 16 2

Punts-Avg. 3-40.7 6-41.5

Fumbles-Lost 2-1 3-3

Penalties-Yards 8-89 5-60

Time of Possession 34:34 25:26

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING -- Washington, Sankey 23-139, Taylor 9-78, Mickens 1-20, Glenn 3-5, Price 2-(minus 14). Colorado, Powell 17-66, T.Jones 3-36, Abron 2-5, Creer 1-1, C.Wood 2-1, Goodson 1-0, J.Webb 5-(minus 19).

PASSING -- Washington, Price 22-29-0-248. Colorado, J.Webb 6-16-0-33, C.Wood 3-6-2-11, Schrock 1-1-0-7.

RECEIVING -- Washington, Williams 7-80, Sankey 4-48, Bruns 3-33, Seferian-Jenkins 3-22, Campbell 2-20, Taylor 1-23, Mickens 1-18, E.Hudson 1-4. Colorado, Abron 4-20, G.Thomas 2-16, McCulloch 2-14, Hobbs 2-1.

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Golf-Home hero Scott wins Australian Masters in Melbourne

MELBOURNE | Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:41am IST

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Nov 18 (Reuters) - Local favourite Adam Scott won the $1 million Australian Masters on Sunday, beating Briton Adam Poulter by four strokes at Melbourne's Kingston Heath Golf Club.

The world number five shot a five-under 67 on a windy day to finish with an 17-under total of 271 and clinch his first tournament win for the year after a frustrating season of near-misses.

With daylight separating Poulter and Scott from the rest of the field, the final round was reduced to a match-play battle, with the Australian raising the pressure with a pair of birdies in his opening holes to snatch the lead.

Englishman Poulter took it back briefly but made a hash of the par-fives on the back nine to allow his playing partner to break clear and cruise to victory.

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