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This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The Coast Guard rescued 14 of the 16 crew members by helicopter. Hours later, rescuers found one of the missing crew members, but she was unresponsive. They are still searching for the captain. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Tim Kuklewski)

This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The Coast Guard rescued 14 of the 16 crew members by helicopter. Hours later, rescuers found one of the missing crew members, but she was unresponsive. They are still searching for the captain. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Tim Kuklewski)

President Barack Obama steps off Air Force One upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The president flew back from Florida after canceling a morning campaign rally in Orlando to return to Washington to monitor the preparation for early response to Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Employees deal with passengers at the counter at Sendai Airport in Sendai, northern Japan after flights in and out of the airport were canceled Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. The airport has been closed after an unexploded bomb believed to be from World War II was found during construction near a runway. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday:

1. SANDY SHORTS OUT MUCH OF NYC

Across the Eastern U.S., millions are without power as a wall of water crashes ashore.

2. THE STORM'S SMALLEST EVACUEES

Twenty babies from a neonatal intensive care unit are among 200 patients moved from a Manhattan hospital when a backup generator fails.

3. NATURE'S OCTOBER SURPRISE HANDCUFFS CANDIDATES

Obama can't afford to be caught taking his eye off the crisis. And Romney can't risk appearing callous about threats to lives and homes.

4. ONE HMS BOUNTY CREW MEMBER DIES

Claudene Christian, rescued in the Atlantic after abandoning ship in rough seas churned up by Sandy, is pronounced dead as the Coast Guard searches for the ship's captain.

5. A VERY REAL REMINDER OF WORLD WAR II

Sendai airport in northern Japan is closed when an unexploded 550-pound American-made bomb is uncovered during construction.

6. A GRIM MILESTONE FOR CHICAGO

With two months left in 2012, the city marks its 436th homicide, surpassing the total for all of last year.

7. THE ECONOMIC THREATS FACING THE NEXT PRESIDENT

An AP survey of 31 economists says a weaker Europe and the looming congressional tax disputes are among biggest challenges.

8. A BAN ON PROTESTS FOR U.S. ALLY

Bahrain will block demonstrations amid escalating clashes in the strategic Gulf kingdom that hosts the Navy's 5th Fleet.

9. MICROSOFT TAKES A BITE AT APPLE

New version of the Windows Phone is meant to compete with the more-popular iPhone, as well as Android devices.

10. RECORD LOW WORLD SERIES VIEWERSHIP, BUT A SOCIAL MEDIA LANDMARK

Giants' sweep of Tigers averages just a 7.6 rating but the finale's 1,202,706 comments are a new high.

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CFTC Chairman Says Transparency in Derivatives Will Be Good for Jobs

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By Fred Yager, 23 Oct 2012

The Chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler says the government has finally gotten around to dealing with one of the key contributors of the financial crisis, the behind the scenes machinations of certain derivatives known as swaps.

Speaking today in New York at the annual meeting of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, better known as Sifma, Gensler said that by the end of this year there will be real-time reporting for the $650 trillion global derivatives market and that this transparency will ultimately be good for jobs.

Beginning on October 12, traders in certain derivatives need to report their transactions to so-called swaps-data repositories as part of the Dodd-Frank Act. ?It only took four years,? said Gensler, ?but it?s finally becoming law.?

?When the financial crisis hit millions of Americans lost their jobs and the swaps market was the largest dark pool in our financial markets,? said Gensler. ?Think about the great reforms of the 1930s, such as public reporting of transactions and central exchange trading. We had none of this with swaps, so I believe these new rules for transparency can only be good for jobs.?

On a separate matter, Gensler, who had been criticized according to Bloomberg for poor oversight of MF Global and Peregrine Financial, said new rules have been proposed by the CFTC to improve segregation and protection of customer funds.

?This proposal is about ensuring customers have confidence that the funds they post as margin or collateral are fully segregated and protected,? said Gensler. ?There are always going to be bad actors such as what happened in the Peregrine situation. It?s a lot about accounting and having direct access to accounts and auditing of internal controls.?

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Search is on for lost cat at JFK's Terminal 4

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Harriet Baskas , NBC News contributor

Remember Jack the Cat?

The former stray made headlines and more than 24,000 Facebook friends?last year after escaping from a pet carrier in Terminal 4 at New York?s John F.?Kennedy International?Airport that was bound for an American Airlines flight to California. Two months later, Jack fell through a ceiling panel in a customs area in JFK?s Terminal 8. But by then he was so ill that, despite extensive veterinary care, he was euthanized 12 days later.

Now another cat has escaped at JFK, and the cat lovers at Where is Jack, Inc. --?the non-profit formed to honor?Jack?s legacy -- are concerned that neither the airline involved,?China Airlines,?nor officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey?are actively searching for the pet or giving her owners adequate information.?

On Thursday, four-year old Xiaohwa (the cat?s name means "little flower" in Chinese) was being checked in for China Airlines Flight 19 to Taiwan by a friend bringing the cat to its owner. But Xiaohwa bolted when the traveler removed her so security officers could inspect the pet carrier.

"We called Terminal 4 to ask people to look around," a China Airlines employee told NBC News after the passenger reported the cat had escaped. "That's all we could do," the spokesperson said, as the passenger didn't have a picture of the animal.

Xiaohwa has been missing since Thursday. Her owner, Iris Yu, says she?s having a hard time finding out what is being done to find her pet.

?I am so worried and wondering where she is,? Yu told NBC News from her home in Taiwan. ?I have been calling the Port?Authority?and the airline every day trying to ask for details about the search, but they just tell me to wait.? Yu moved to Taiwan 10 months ago and paid $120 for a ticket for the cat to travel with her friend as excess baggage. She spent hundreds of?dollars more for documents, health exams and other travel preparations for the cat.

Yu?s boyfriend, Jerry Cheung, lives in Brooklyn and has also been trying to get information about the cat?s whereabouts.??After the incident we were told it?s the airline?s responsibility but the airline?s phone just kept on ringing with no answer for several days,? he said.

The Port Authority told Cheung it would put out some small animal traps with food and "wait it out."

?This is what they did with Jack and it didn?t work,? said Mary Beth Melchior, founder of Where is Jack, Inc., which has offered the airport help for active searches of lost pets. ?Passive searches for lost cats rarely, if ever, result in finding the animal in a timely manner that allows the animal to remain healthy,? she told NBC News.

Although Xiaohwa has a microchip and has a history of being street savvy, she may have already used several of her nine lives. Yu and Chueng adopted the cat after seeing and feeding her for two years on the streets in their neighborhood. They took her in when she was sick and pregnant and nursed her back to health despite a veterinarian?s suggestion that the animal be euthanized.

In September, the Port Authority approved plans for construction of a $32 million?animal handling facility at JFK that will handle up to 70,000 domestic and wild animals annually and ?set new national airport standards for comprehensive veterinary, kenneling and quarantine services.?

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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/search-lost-cat-jfks-terminal-4-1C6632134

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RIM preps enterprise roadshow, chafes at iPad Gartner prediction

ORLANDO---Research in Motion is moving to protect its base with a tour of enterprises to sell corporations on BlackBerry 10 as well as its mobile device management chops.

Given that a tour is underway---RIM has a few sessions at Gartner Symposium here to court CIOs---the company didn't need to be kicked around. But RIM did take a few shots on Monday. First, Gartner research chief Peter Sondergaard said that in two years there will be more Apple iPad devices than BlackBerries in corporations. Then, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said in a solicitation document that it is choosing the iPhone over RIM's BlackBerry.

I caught up with Jeff Holleran, senior director, enterprise product management, and Vivek Bharwaj, head of RIM's software portfolio, to talk shop and the company's prospects.

First, Bharwaj said that Sondergaard's take on the iPad overtaking the BlackBerry needs to consider a bit more nuance. First, Bharwaj didn't see Gartner's assumptions, but the larger point is RIM isn't just a hardware vendor. It has multiple points of presence in corporations. In other words, devices don't tell the tale.

That non-answer has some truth to it. RIM's booth at the Gartner CIO powwow garnered interest even though the company had nothing to show. The crowd wasn't on the same level as the CIOs flooding Windows 8 demos or Splunk, but considering RIM is in a holding pattern the interest was solid.?

My talk with Holleran and Bharwaj was pretty wide ranging. Here are the highlights.

• Neither executive was going to talk about when BlackBerry 10 devices were going to land in the first quarter exactly, but both were pleased with the early reaction from telecom providers, developers and customers.
• Given that Google recently killed Motorola's Webtop approach---a concept I liked but thought was too early---I asked Bharwaj whether RIM would try something similar. After all, BlackBerry 10 is supposed to be a computing platform and in the enterprise a smartphone as PC processor could work. He said:

The model itself is a viable one, but the hardware (laptop shell) wasn't affordable. There also needs to be an understanding of what people need in a mobile office. It's not the same thing as what's on the smartphone. QNX has that maturity to be on par with a desktop. From QNX we could build out a mobile office.

• Bharwaj painted a scenario where a BlackBerry could work in an hoteling arrangement in corporate offices and would plug into a dock and keyboard. Note that Bharwaj was thinking aloud. First, RIM needs the BlackBerry 10 rollout to be a success.
• On mobile device management (MDM) software, Holleran said RIM is converting pilots into production systems. BlackBerry Enterprise Server has 200,000 touch points. The majority of MDM has been BlackBerry devices, but RIM is now managing iOS and Android units too. Holleran added that BlackBerry 10's ability to use work and personal personas should satisfy workers and IT. Holleran, however, noted that there was some mixed emotions about having to manage other devices. He said:

The last thing we wanted to do was manage other devices, but customers asked for it. We know it's a heterogeneous world in the enterprise.

• Competing in MDM. Holleran said that there's a lot of fear uncertainty and doubt campaigns in the MDM space. For instance, customers are asking whether RIM will survive largely because an MDM startup has raised funding and is talking smack.
• The UI learning curve. BlackBerry 10's features are promising, but I asked Bharwaj about the learning curve. There are gestures that will be new and people are used to clicking icons all the time. "There's a lot of fatigue around clicking buttons," said Bharwaj. He added that the ability to do things with one hand on the BlackBerry will be a selling point. However, RIM, like Microsoft and Windows Phone, will have to retrain consumers. "For the existing base the learning curve won't be steep," said Bharwaj.
• Does hardware matter? I asked Bharwaj whether RIM had to do anything special with the hardware design to manufacture some kind of cool factor. He said he was confident that RIM's distinctive designs will continue to impress.
• RIM's churn factors. Bharwaj said RIM customers have left because of the supply of applications, the browser and touch interface. "We would not launch BlackBerry 10 if we didn't have those three boxes checked off," he said.

Source: http://www.zdnet.com/rim-preps-enterprise-roadshow-chafes-at-ipad-gartner-prediction-7000006179/

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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement drop Blackberry for iPhone, employees get early Christmas bonus

RIM may be banking on the release of BB10 and new devices to rejuvenate the flagging brand, but the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) isn't waiting around, opting to end their contract after eight years together. ICE stated that RIM "can no longer meet the mobile technology needs of the agency," and that it intends to purchase over 17,000 iPhones for its personnel at a cost of $2.1 million. Android was also interviewed for the role, but the agency decided that currently, Apple's closed ecosystem was the best choice, offering "reliable, mobile technology on a secure and manageable platform." While this isn't the first group (or likely, the last) to drop the Blackberry, we're wondering if the remaining million government customers in North America will stay loyal after this official stamp of disapproval. We imagine employees from other agencies might also care to make a case for switching -- nothing to do with free iPhones, of course.

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Canon's upcoming 5D Mark III firmware update brings uncompressed HDMI output support, enhanced AF functionality

Proud owners of that sleek and relatively powerful Mark III will be happy to know Canon has just announced a firmware update for its flagship 5D model. The Japanese camera maker is touting this upcoming release as one that will bring clean HDMI-out support to the EOS shooter, which should be great for folks who would like to monitor their recordings in real time. Additionally, Canon's improved the Mark III's AF functionalities yet again; this time out by enabling the unit's auto focus system to adequately adjust to the type of lens that it is paired with. Unfortunately, it looks like users will have to wait a little while to install the new firmware, as the company won't be making it available until April of next year -- at which point it can be grabbed from the soon-to-be bookmarked source link below.

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Taylor Swift Calls Red A 'Patchwork Quilt' Of Emotions

'This album is interesting because each song stands on its own,' Swift tells MTV News of Red's variety.
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Travel + Leisure Names Robert Redford's Sundance Resort One of the

Travel + Leisure Names Robert Redford?s Sundance Resort One of the

Travel + Leisure Names Robert Redford?s Sundance Resort One of the World?s Best Hotels for Families

Family Adventure Package Now Available

SUNDANCE, Utah, Oct. 22, 2012 - The Sundance Resort, located in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, ranked No. 37 on the Travel + Leisure World?s Best Hotels for Families in the magazine?s September 2012 issue. Sundance provides an intimate setting that encompasses the adventure of skiing, snowboarding, hiking, biking and fly fishing, as well as artistic experiences such as creating a piece of pottery or jewelry.?

?It means a great deal to be recognized by the readers of Travel + Leisure as a resort favored by families,? commented Chad Linebaugh, General Manager, Sundance Resort.? ?Sundance is committed to being a haven for discovery and inspiration and creating a dynamic environment for families to experience a wide range of activities from the arts to mountain recreation.?

This winter Sundance is introducing a special Family Adventure Package, which offers two nights lodging, lift tickets, half day group ski or snowboard lesson per person, art lesson per person and breakfast per person daily.? Rates are as low as $699 based on a 2 night stay, double occupancy. Visit http://www.sundanceresort.com to book your stay today.

ABOUT SUNDANCE

Nestled at the base of 12,000-foot Mt. Timpanogos, the Sundance Resort is a 5,000-acre destination resort, committed to maintaining the balance of art, nature and recreation.? Sundance offers diverse mountain recreation experiences and encourages the cultivation of art and self-expression, as well as the preservation of the land.? Created by Robert Redford, Sundance is a haven for discovery and inspiration, featuring 100 well-appointed cottages and homes consistent with the Sundance brand. The Sundance family of companies includes the Sundance Resort, Sundance Preserve, Sundance Institute, Sundance Channel, Sundance Cinemas and Sundance Catalog.? For more information on Sundance, call 801-225-4107 or visit our website, http://www.sundanceresort.com.?

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Apple's Oct. 23 'iPad Mini' event: What to expect

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Rosa Golijan , NBC News

The rumors surrounding Apple's press event, scheduled for Oct. 23, are deafening. Will the Cupertino-based company announce a smaller iPad? (It had better.) Will the company offer up a 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina display? (Very likely!)?How about an?Apple-branded coffee maker? (No.)

We'll find out for certain which rumors are true?at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET on Tuesday,?when NBC News' tech/sci editor?Wilson Rothman will be inside the event, covering it live here (and tweeting at @wjrothman).?For now, let's?sort?through the latest gossip and making our best guesses. Here's what Apple might announce:

iPad Mini (or is that "iPad Air"?)
We suspect that the smaller iPad will be a 7.85-inch device. This particular size has been floating around for over half a year, since a report in the Wall Street Journal suggested that Apple is testing a device about eight inches in size. Since that time, we've heard various other outlets cite their own anonymous sources in order to back up these measurements and narrow them down to the?7.85-inch point.

Odds are high that the smaller iPad will not have a high-resolution Retina display like the iPhone 5 or the third-generation iPad. A Bloomberg?report suggests?it will use a slightly lower resolution display and be priced to compete with Google's Nexus 7 tablet (and other lower-cost tablets such as those made by Amazon or Barnes & Noble).

According to Apple watcher John Gruber, the smaller iPad may look a lot like a large iPod Touch, rather than any other current Apple device, and have a somewhat smaller bezel. Simple logic suggests that the device will have a Lightning connector, just like the iPhone 5 and the latest iPod touch devices. Rumors regarding the guts of the so-called "iPad Mini"???or "iPad Air,"?as some rumors suggest it will be called???have been scattered and leave us hesitant to hazard many guesses about that aspect of the device.?(Most of the noise is around an A5 processor and 512MB of RAM, for what it's worth ? about the same specs as an iPad 2.)

As far as the price goes though, it's all about educated guesswork.?As our own Wilson Rothman pointed out, $249 would be the magic price tag for this tablet.?"I think that $249 is the 'all other tablets are dead' price, and $299 is the 'Apple keeps its market share?while making a comfortable profit' price. Anywhere over $300 is a "not good" price," Rothman concludes. "Not in today's market, not with a full-sized iPad 2 selling for $400 and a Retina-display iPad selling for $500."

That pricing logic may not win out, however. As 9to5Mac reported, Apple's smaller iPad may be priced at $329, in order to sit somewhere between the $299 iPod Touch and the $399 iPad 2.

13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display
According to multiple reports, both from?purportedly?"reliable sources" cited by 9to5 Mac's Mark Gurman and analysts cited by CNET's Brooke Crothers,?Apple will show off a 13-inch version of the MacBook Pro with Retina display.?This laptop will supposedly be "sold in two configurations, with differing processors and storage, and will be available for purchase soon after introduction," Gurman explains.

A report by the 9to5 Mac staff additionally suggests that the new laptops will start at around $1699. This price tag would belong to the base-model, according to the report, and a higher end version of the laptop would cost about $200 or $300 more.

This new laptop is expected to co-exist with its larger siblings, so don't worry that the current MacBook Pro with Retina display models will disappear from shelves.

A new?new?iPad
The folks at 9to5 Mac call attention to a photo allegedly showing a device which appears identical to the third-generation iPad, except for one small change: It has a Lightning connector instead of a 30-pin connector. One could speculate that the device will see a minor refresh, though it's questionable what sort of other changes might be made, beyond the connector.

Would Apple be crazy enough to refresh the third-generation iPad after just seven months? It would be unprecedented, but not totally outside the realm of possibility.

The other little things
It wouldn't be surprising if Apple were to announce some minor refreshes to its iMac and Mac Mini lines.?According to MacRumor's handy-dandy buyer's guide, both of the product lines are certainly due for some changes.?While the New York Times' David Pogue, citing an Apple exec, did peg a Mac Pro refresh for 2013, there seems to be wiggle room on the?arrival date of a new iMac.

As a French Apple blogger discovered, there's also?a chance that we'll also see some news related to ibooks, Apple's ebook software. After all, there appear to be apps referencing iBooks 3.0 already.

Oh, and let's not forget about the obligatory iTunes update. What would an Apple event be without one of those?

Want more?tech news or interesting?links? You'll get plenty of both if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts,?or circling her?on?Google+.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/apples-oct-23-ipad-mini-event-what-expect-1C6577381

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How to kill time without staring at your phone

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Harry Sawyers , Gizmodo

Once upon a time, standing around and waiting involved exactly that: Standing around, waiting, and not doing much else. Today, any free moment is spent facedown in a phone. Stop reading this on your own phone. Right now. Look around. At this moment, you should be the only person, anywhere in sight, not looking at a phone.

But staring at that phone isn't the only way to wait. You can do other stuff. In fact, there are exactly six things you can do instead.

Make eye contact
People used to do this all the time. You could recognize a neighbor or share a moment with an attractive stranger. It can still happen???but you have to be careful. You don't want to be caught staring right at the moment that person looks up from his (or especially her) phone. Wait until the fleeting few seconds when this person looks away from the phone for some reason, then casually lock eyes. Smile! It will seem a lot less weird that way. When you get back online, this kind of encounter is a great thing to put on Craigslist as a Missed Connection.

Talk about the weather
This is a classic. If you're new at it, try some established introductory phrases.

• "This is some rain!"
• "Hot enough for ya?"
• "They say it's gonna turn cold tomorrow!"

For this to work, you'll need a little luck, because you have to find someone else who is also not looking at a phone. Otherwise, there's a data-filled weather app just a tap away. Not to mention that look:?Why are you talking to me, can't you see I'm looking at my phone?

Observe your surroundings
If you look up from your phone for long enough, you can notice amazing things happening all around you. A pigeon pecking at a pizza crust. A man pushing a shopping cart piled higher than his head. A grown woman weeping hysterically. That's real life! And it is stunning. Once you get back on your phone, all of these observations will make excellent tweets.

Find unusual patterns
This one is a bit of a brain teaser. Look over at that odd brick wall, or the hexagonal tile on the floor, or that way the ice cubes collect at the bottom of your glass. Gaze into these shapes. Watch them form new shapes. See the shapes begin to arrange themselves, rotating, and falling into position. So chaotic, yet so organized. You know what? This calls for a quick game of "Tetris."

See what other people are looking at on their phones
This is an endlessly fascinating sociological exercise, and it can also give you fresh ideas about what you could be doing on your own phone. A scouting report from a recent bus ride:

• Shiny gold case. Hot pink case. iPhone 5, no case.
• Cracked white iPhone 4 with an incoming call from "Daddy."
• Bedazzled lady playing "Bedazzled."
• Woman urgently speaking Spanish into a white Nokia with gold trim.
• Girl on an HTC, reading Gawker, followed by "A Farmer's Market, Deep in China."

You could also just read a book
But then you're not even thinking about looking at your phone. You're looking at your Kindle.

This is what I do, anyway???how do you kill time phone-free?

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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/how-kill-time-without-staring-your-phone-1C6583331

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