9 charged after Richmond police end Va. occupation (AP)

RICHMOND, Va. ? Police cleared out a downtown plaza early Monday that had been home to Occupy Wall Street protesters, ordering out dozens of people who had encamped there since Oct. 17 and charging nine with trespassing or obstructing justice.

Officers began clearing the park around 1 a.m. and most of the protesters left peacefully, said police spokesman Gene Lepley. He said the nine were either arrested or cited when they refused to move. The arrests followed other police crackdowns around the country in places including Oregon, California, Texas, Tennessee, Atlanta and Denver.

The occupation, inspired by the anti-Wall Street protests in lower Manhattan, had blossomed into a tent city, with dozens scattered around Kanawha Plaza in the city's financial district. The site also included a library, a volleyball net and a large blue tarp strung up on three magnolia trees.

One of the protesters, Ira Birch, said the park was surrounded by a "huge line of cops" and police cruisers with their blue lights flashing. An officer read ordinances that the protesters were violating and told people to gather up their possessions and leave. She described the scene as "pretty peaceful."

Birch grabbed her laptop, a modem and other belongings. But a pile of tents, sleeping bags and other possessions was left outside the plaza as police cruisers with flashing lights remained on the streets surrounding it. Several cruisers were parked on the plaza at noon, and yellow police tape kept visitors out until public works crews could clean up the space.

A bulldozer was called into to clear the plaza of trash, furniture and other items that piled up over two weeks.

Mayor Dwight C. Jones visited the Occupy encampment last week and told the protesters he would have city officials meet with protest representatives to discuss the continued occupation of the grass-and-concrete park in front of the Federal Reserve Bank high-rise.

Lepley declined to say who ordered the police in two weeks after the occupation began, calling it a "tactical issue." State police also provided support.

Birch said the Occupy protest was surprised and disappointed by the city's actions.

"The mayor said they wanted to talk and we thought that was a positive sign," said Birch, a Virginia Commonwealth University student from Timberville. "I think everybody's pretty sad."

A spokesman for the mayor did not return a message left by The Associated Press.

The mayor has also angered tea party members, who said the city had issued a list of demands and fees when they held rallies on the plaza. They submitted a bill for $8,500 to City Hall on Friday.

Birch said the police action had only strengthened the resolve of protesters, who have cited a litany of complaints but generally have targeted what they call corporate greed and income inequality. Activist filmmaker Michael Moore had tweeted the Richmond police action, which Birch said pleased protesters.

About 30 protesters returned to the sidewalk at the edge of the plaza before noon. They planned to rally at the VCU campus about one mile away and return to the plaza, they said.

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Clock this: UK may consider time zone switch (AP)

LONDON ? Britain's government may reconsider long-touted proposals for the U.K. to switch to Central European Time, a move which advocates insisted Saturday would bring lighter evenings and possibly offer the country's sluggish economy a boost.

Campaigners claim a lawmaker's proposal made earlier this year to permanently switch Britain's clocks 60 minutes ahead of current settings would extend the tourism season, cut road deaths and help promote outdoor activities.

Debate over the change, which would see British clocks synchronized with those in continental Europe, has rumbled for years and seen repeated attempts by legislators to press forward the case for reform.

However, opponents insist that northern regions would be badly affected, with darker mornings across northern England and Scotland. Some critics claim that the sunrise in Scotland could come as late as 10 a.m. during some winter months.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking during a visit to Australia, said he continued to be interested in the idea of changing the country's time zone ? but stressed that semiautonomous authorities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would need to agree.

"Discussions are under way across Whitehall and with the devolved authorities but that's the key, you can only do this if there is real national consensus and pressure between all the nations of our United Kingdom," Cameron said.

Clocks in Britain go forward by one hour in the spring when daylight savings time takes effect and are turned back in the fall, a regime adopted in 1916 and known as British summer time.

During World War II, summer time was set two hours ahead, and the country has previously experimented with year-round summer time from Feb. 18, 1968, to Oct. 31, 1971, drawing protests in Scotland.

Scottish Nation Party lawmaker Angus MacNeil said that northern parts of Britain would likely oppose any changes. Any reform "would have massive implications for the safety and well-being of everyone living north of Manchester," MacNeil said, referring to the city in northwestern England.

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The Pulse: Where there's ad smoke, there's ... what? (Philadelphia Inquirer)

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Round two of candidate finance reports | EdNewsColorado

Wide gaps in dollars raised by school board candidates in Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties appear little changed in a second round of campaign finance reports filed with the Secretary of State?s Office on Friday.

In Denver, at-large candidate Happy Haynes is edging closer to a new fundraising record, reporting a total of $230,037 raised as of Oct. 23 in her quest to fill the citywide seat being vacated by Theresa Pe?a, who is term-limited.

Haynes, a former Denver City Council president and school district administrator, still has one more reporting period for the current election, covering Oct. 24 through Nov. 26. That third and final report, due Dec. 1, could show Haynes surpassing the $240,605 record set by at-large candidate Mary Seawell in 2009.

Friday?s filings cover the past three weeks, from Oct. 7 to Oct. 23, and show the nine candidates for three Denver school board seats raised a combined total of $133,982 during that time. Altogether, the candidates have raised nearly $790,000 so far in their campaigns to govern the city school district.

More than half of that money is coming in for just three candidates ? Haynes, Anne Rowe and Jennifer Draper Carson. Each has raised more than twice the total of her nearest competitor.

For example, among Haynes? four opponents for the at-large seat, the closest in dollars on hand is high school teacher Frank Deserino, with $17,290. Most of that he donated to himself.

Three Denver ?reform? candidates share more big donors

The top fundraiser for the recent three-week reporting cycle was Draper Carson, who is seeking to unseat incumbent Arturo Jimenez to represent District 5 northwest Denver on the board. Draper Carson raised $52,680, bringing her total to $177,440.

Jimenez reported raising an additional $8,595 in the second reporting cycle, for a total of $68,073.

Emily Sirota, a candidate for the District 1 seat representing southeast Denver, raised the second-highest amount in the recent reporting period, with $29,331. That brings her total to $87,293.26.

Her opponent, Rowe, reported raising $20,525 for a cumulative total of $196,845.

Haynes, Draper Carson and Rowe, who have been endorsed by Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and other groups supportive of the reforms of Denver Schools Superintendent Tom Boasberg, share big donors.

In the first filing period, five men combined to give each candidate $82,000. Those contributors are Daniel Ritchie, CEO of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Henry Gordon, president of Strata Capital; Kent Thiry, CEO of DaVita Inc.; CU President Bruce Benson; and Scott Reiman of Hexagon Investments.

In the second reporting period, Richard Sapkin of Edgemark Development gave Draper Carson $10,000. He previously had given that amount to Haynes and to Rowe. So six donors have now combined to give each of the three candidates $92,000.

In addition, Michael Fries of Liberty Media gave $20,000 to Draper Carson during the second reporting cycle. He previously had given that amount to Rowe.

Teachers? union still biggest contributor to two DPS candidates

Sirota and Jimenez share the endorsement of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association, and the union?s small donor committee is also their biggest donor.

• Learn more about candidates for Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties by clicking on the EdNews Election Center

Sirota received additional DCTA contributions of $14,000 in the second reporting period, bringing her DCTA total to $46,580 ? or more than half of her total financial take. That doesn?t include the $24,860 in non-monetary contributions she?s received from the union, in members canvassing on her behalf.

Other contributors in the second reporting cycle included Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, Sirota?s former boss, who donated $250 and headlined a fundraiser for her, and friends and family from outside the state such as Adam McKay, an actor and writer in LA, who?s given $6,000.

Jimenez, who previously received $24,000 from the DCTA and $6,000 from the statewide teachers union, the Colorado Education Association, reported no more financial contributions from teachers? unions in the second reporting period.

He did list $7,400 in non-monetary contributions from the DCTA, in members canvassing for his re-election. That brings his total non-monetary contributions from the DCTA to $15,720.

Jimenez also has received $1,000 from the AFL-CIO and $250 from the Fraternal Order of Police, bringing his total monetary contributions from unions to $31,250. His biggest contributor in the second reporting cycle was Rob Alvarado, CEO of Palo Alto Inc., who gave $3,000.

DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS AT-LARGE RACE

Daniel

John Daniel

• Daniel did not file a second campaign finance report so all numbers are for the first reporting period.
• Total money raised: $244
• Total spent: $237
• Remaining balance: $7
• Non-monetary contributions: 0
• Largest donation to date: $244
• Donors of note: Donor figures add up to more than $244; expenditures add up to $237, which Daniel lists as paying himself for advertising
• Link to finance report

Candidates listed in alphabetical order

Deserino

Frank Deserino

• Total money raised: $17,290 ? $16,790 first filing period, $500 second filing period
• Total spent: $17,793.43 ? $13,057.14 first filing period, $4,736.29 second filing period
• Remaining balance: (-$503.43)
• Non-monetary contributions: 0
• Largest donation to date: $15,500
• Donors of note: Deserino donated $15,500 to his campaign; Denver school board member Jeannie Kaplan, $200; Retired CU professor William Juraschek, $200
• Key expenditures: $3,545 to Robin Van Ausdall for consulting services
• Link to finance report

Candidates listed in alphabetical order

Haynes

Allegra ?Happy? Haynes

• Total money raised: $230,037 ? $213,789 first filing period, $16,248 second filing period
• Total spent: $194,654.03 ? $119,855.40 first filing period, $74,798.63 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $35,382.97
• Non-monetary contributions: $36,326.38, including $31,191.04 Stand for Children in Denver, canvassing and staff support, and $4,062.60 Great Schools for Great Kids, staff support
• Largest donation to date: $26,000
• Donors of note: Dan Ritchie, CEO of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, $26,000; Henry Gordon, president of Strata Capital in Englewood, $25,000; Kent Thiry, CEO of DaVita Inc., $11,000; former Denver Public Schools Superintendent Evie Dennis, $150; former state Sen. Regis Groff, $100
• Key expenditures: $50,500 to Terra Strategies of Des Moines for consulting services, $49,516.35 to Ridder/Braden Inc. for printed materials and design, $19,754.73 to C&D Printing for printing and postage
• Link to finance report

Candidates listed in alphabetical order

Kilgore

Roger Kilgore

• Total money raised: $9,841 ? $8,464 first filing period, $1,377 second filing period
• Total spent: $9,632.90 ? $7,507.15 first filing period, $2,125.75 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $208.10
• Non-monetary contributions: 0
• Largest donation to date: $3,000
• Donors of note: Kilgore donated $3,000 to his campaign; Realtor Candidate Political Action Committee, $300
• Key expenditures: $2,727.66 to Campaign Products of the Rockies for advertising
• Link to finance report

Candidates listed in alphabetical order

Shumway

Jacqui Shumway

• Total money raised: $2,523.97 ? $2,033.97 first filing period, $490 second filing period
• Total spent: $1,852.47 ? $1,852.47 first filing period, 0 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $671.50
• Non-monetary contributions: $880, use of personal cell phone for campaign and website maintenance
• Largest donation to date: $1,500
• Donors of note: Shumway donated $1,500 to her campaign and transferred $493.97 from her 2009 school board campaign committee
• Key expenditures: $1,631 for signage
• Link to finance report

DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS ? DISTRICT 1 SOUTHEAST DENVER

Rowe

Anne Rowe

• Total money raised: $196,845 ? $176,320 first filing period, $20,525 second filing period
• Total spent: $149,108.04 ? $100,607.65 first filing period, $48,500.39 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $47,736.96
• Non-monetary contributions: $18,236.51, including $15,663.21 Stand for Children in Denver, canvassing and staff support, and $2,031.30 Great Schools for Great Kids, staff support
• Largest donation to date: $26,000
• Donors of note: Dan Ritchie, CEO of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, $26,000; Henry Gordon, president of Strata Capital in Englewood, $25,000; Kent Thiry, CEO of DaVita Inc., $25,000; Michael T. Fries, CEO of Liberty Media, $20,000; CU President Bruce Benson, founder of Benson Mineral Group, $10,000; former state lawmaker Pat Pascoe, $100; political consultant Eric Sondermann, $50
• Key expenditures: $36,650 to Colorado Voter Contract for campaign field services, $12,338.16 to BC Printing for mailers and cards, $10,000 to Tyson Organization for phone calls
• Link to finance report

Candidates listed in alphabetical order

Sirota

Emily Sirota

• Total money raised: $87,293.26 ? $57,962.26 first filing period, $29,331 second filing period
• Total spent: $62,109.93 ? $27,716.15 first filing period, $34,393.78 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $25,183.33
• Non-monetary contributions: $25,162.64 ? $11,676.48, including $11,200 to Denver Classroom Teachers Association for canvassing, first filing period; $13,846.16, including $13,660 to Denver Classroom Teachers Association for canvassing, second filing period
• Largest donation to date: $46,580
• Donors of note: Denver Classroom Teachers Association, small donor committee, $46,580 (doesn?t include non-monetary gifts); Adam McKay, actor/writer, Los Angeles, $6,000; Leo Hindery, managing partner of InterMedia, New York, $5,000; Denver school board member Jeannie Kaplan, $2,352; Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, $250; State Sen. Morgan Carroll, $75
• Key expenditures: $19,772.07 to Campaign Products of the Rockies for yard signs, printing, postage; $12,500 to Amanda Snipes, consulting services; $10,000 to Rocky Mountain Voter Outreach for canvassing
• Link to finance report

DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS ? DISTRICT 5 NORTHWEST DENVER

Draper Carson

Jennifer Draper Carson

• Total money raised: $177,440 ? $124,760 first filing period, $52,680 second filing period
• Total spent: $152,347.67 ? $103,712.14 first filing period, $48,635.53 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $25,092.33
• Non-monetary contributions: $21,839.43, including $16,657.18 from Stand for Children in Denver, canvassing and staff support, and $4,062.60 from Great Schools for Great Kids, staff support
• Largest donation to date: $26,000
• Donors of note: Dan Ritchie, CEO of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, $26,000; Henry Gordon, president of Strata Capital in Englewood, $25,000; Michael Fries, Liberty Media in Englewood, $20,000; Kent Thiry, CEO of DaVita Inc., $11,000; Richard Sapkin, Edgemark Development, $10,000; Denver Scholarship Fund founding donor Timothy Marquez, Veneco, $2,000; Blueflower Fund, small donor committee supporting female Democratic candidates, $250
• Key expenditures: $50,237.50 to Terra Strategies of Des Moines for consulting services, $18,716.36 to Ridder/Braden for consulting and mail services
• Link to finance report

Candidates listed in alphabetical order

Jimenez

Arturo Jimenez

• Total money raised: $68,073 ? $59,478 first filing period, $8,595 second filing period
• Total spent: $57,614.16 ? $40,210.45 first filing period, $17,403.71 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $13,398.07 (includes $2,939.23 from prior school board campaign fund)
• Non-monetary contributions: $16,232.90, including $15,720 from Denver Classroom Teachers Association, canvassing
• Largest donation to date: $24,000
• Donors of note: Denver Classroom Teachers Association, small donor committee, $24,000 (does not include non-monetary donations); Colorado Education Association, small donor committee, $6,000; Rob Alvarado, CEO of Palo Alto Inc., $3,000; AFL-CIO, small donor committee, $1,000; Denver school board member Jeannie Kaplan, $1,440.94; Colorado Fraternal Order of Police, small donor committee, $250
• Key expenditures: $28,642.18 to C&D Printing for campaign materials, $12,166.66 to Dave Sabados for campaign management
• Link to finance report

DOUGLAS COUNTY ? DISTRICT A

Meek

Susan Meek

• Total money raised: $3,732.96 ? $3,062.97 first filing period, $669.99 second filing period
• Total spent: $2,679.63 ? $402.78 first filing period, $2,276.85 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $1,053.33
• Non-monetary contributions: 0
• Largest donation to date: $1,000
• Donors of note: Jim Christensen, former Douglas County schools superintendent, $1,000
• Key expenditures: $1,073.92 for campaign postcards
• Link to finance report

Candidates listed in alphabetical order

Reilly

Kevin Reilly

• Total money raised: $2,823.46 ? $2,725.68 first filing period, $97.78 second filing period
• Total spent: $1,300.92 ? $1,276.39 first filing period, $24.53 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $1,522.54
• Non-monetary contributions: $63.85, campaign kickoff party
• Largest donation to date: $350
• Donors of note: Sarah Mann, chair of the Douglas County Democratic Party, $350; Reilly loaned himself $858.19
• Key expenditures: $507.43 for business cards and brochures
• Link to finance report

Candidates listed in alphabetical order

Richardson

Craig Richardson

• Total money raised: $20,900 ? $20,700 first filing period, $200 second filing period
• Total spent: $16,936.36 ? $1,725.75 first filing period, $15,210.61 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $3,963.64
• Non-monetary contributions: $1,045.79, including $1,016.24 from Douglas County Republican Central Committee for mailer
• Largest donation to date: Two donations of $10,000 each
• Donors of note: Ed McVaney, founder and former CEO of J.D. Edwards software corp., $10,000; Ralph Nagel, president of Top Rock investments, $10,000; Richardson donated his campaign $500; Marge Knutson, retired, Franktown, $100
• Key expenditures: $15,080.41 to Wiz Bang Solutions for mailers
• Link to finance report

DOUGLAS COUNTY ? DISTRICT C

Frances

Gail Frances

• Total money raised: $3,739.34 ? $2974.34 first filing period, $765 second filing period
• Total spent: $2,607.65 ? $1,425.32 first filing period, $1,182.33 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $1,131.69
• Non-monetary contributions: $123.84, including $63.85, campaign kickoff party
• Largest donation to date: Two donors gave $250
• Donors of note: Daniel Galloway, attorney in Lone Tree, $250; Sarah Mann, chair of the Douglas County Democratic Party, $250; Frances has loaned her campaign $556.80
• Key expenditures: $423 for yard signs
• Link to finance report

Candidates listed in alphabetical order

Larsen

Kevin Larsen

• Total money raised: $20,820.23 ? $20,105 first filing period, $715.23 second filing period
• Total spent: $16,993.76 ? $1,796.90 first filing period, $15,196.86 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $3,826.47
• Non-monetary contributions:$1,045.79, including $1,016.24 from Douglas County Republican Central Committee for mailer
• Largest donation to date: Two donations of $10,000 each
• Donors of note: Ed McVaney, founder and former CEO of J.D. Edwards software corp., $10,000; Ralph Nagel, president of Top Rock investments, $10,000; current Douglas County School Board President John Carson, $100; Gerald Stueven, Platte River Academy principal, $100
• Key expenditures: $15,080.41 to Wiz Bang Solutions for mailers
• Link to finance report

DOUGLAS COUNTY ? DISTRICT F

McMahon

Susan McMahon

• Total money raised: $11,029.30 ? $8,444 first filing period, $2,585.30 second filing period
• Total spent: $8,670.88 ? $7,957.78 first filing period, $713.10 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $2,358.42
• Non-monetary contributions: $6,530.36, including $3,125 each from John and Ronda Funchess for video
• Largest donation to date: $1,000
• Donors of note: Deborah Hill of Castle Rock, not currently employed, $1,000; Jerri Hill, attorney, Parker, $435; Sarah Mann, chair of the Douglas County Democratic Party, $275; Blueflower Fund, small donor committee supporting female Democratic candidates, $200; State Sen. Evie Hudak, $25
• Key expenditures: $4,991.13 to C&D Printing for mailers
• Link to finance report

Candidates listed in alphabetical order

Williams

Justin Williams

• Total money raised: $21,785 ? $20,820 first filing period, $965 second filing period
• Total spent: $17,208.49 ? $2,535.63 first filing period, $14,672.86 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $4,576.51
• Non-monetary contributions: $1,245.79, including $1,016.24 from Douglas County Republican Central Committee for mailer
• Largest donation to date: Two donations of $10,000 each
• Donors of note: Ed McVaney, founder and former CEO of J.D. Edwards software corp., $10,000; Ralph Nagel, president of Top Rock investments, $10,000; current Douglas County School Board President John Carson, $100
• Key expenditures: $15,080.41 to Wiz Bang Solutions for mailers
• Link to finance report

JEFFERSON COUNTY ? DISTRICT 3

Branaugh

Preston Branaugh

• Total money raised: $8,855 ? $7,795 first filing period, $1,060 second filing period
• Total spent: $1,132.10 ? $308.15 first filing period, $823.95 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $7,722.90
• Non-monetary contributions: 0
• Largest donation to date: Two donors gave $1,000 each
• Donors of note: John Coors of Evergreen, CEO of CoorsTek and part of the Coors brewery family, $1,000; Andy Hoover of Littleton, retired, $1,000; Ron Ellis, Englewood, $300; Mountain Republican Women, $250; U.S. Congressman Mike Coffman, $100; Colorado State Board of Education member Debora Scheffel, $50
• Key expenditures: $570 to Tactical Data Solutions for fundraising expenses
• Link to finance report

Candidates listed in alphabetical order

Fellman

Jill Fellman

• Total money raised: $43,581 ? $31,096 first filing period, $12,485 second filing period
• Total spent: $40,343.66 ? $11,632.73 first filing period, $28,710.93 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $3,237.34
• Non-monetary contributions: $55.97, most in the form of pencils
• Largest donation to date: Three donors gave $1,000 each
• Donors of note: Jonathan Abramson, attorney, $1,000; Kelly Johnson of Golden, no occupation, $1,000; John Sands, attorney, $1000; Realtor Candidate political action committee, $500; U.S. Congressman Ed Perlmutter, $250; Jane Goff, former Jeffco board member and current State Board of Education member, $200; Hereford Percy, former Jeffco board member and current chair of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, $200; Jefferson County Democratic Party, $50
• Key expenditures: $19,723.64 to C&D Printing for postage
• Link to finance report

JEFFERSON COUNTY ? DISTRICT 4

Dahlkemper

Lesley Dahlkemper

• Total money raised: $54,592 ? $42,422 first filing period, $12,170 second filing period
• Total spent: $33,673.40 ? $19,788.43 first filing period, $13,884.97 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $20,918.60
• Non-monetary contributions: 0
• Largest donation to date: $2,500
• Donors of note: Greg Stevinson, Denver West Properties, $2,500; John Sands, attorney, $2,450; Robert Benson, AMBP, $2,000; Blueflower Fund, a small donor committee supporting female Democratic candidates, $350; U.S. Congressman Jared Polis, $250; U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, $200
• Key expenditures: $13,433.34 to Colorado Data Mail for fliers, postcards and thank you cards
• Link to finance report

Candidates listed in alphabetical order

Powers

Jim Powers

• Total money raised: $8,595 ? $8,370 first filing period, $225 second filing period
• Total spent: $1,619.76 ? $795.81 first filing period, $823.95 second filing period
• Remaining balance: $6,975.24
• Non-monetary contributions: 0
• Largest donation to date: $1,000
• Donors of note: Andy Hoover of Littleton, retired, $1,000; Mountain Republican Women, $250; Tim Cuthriell, retired, Morrison, $200
• Key expenditures: $570 to Tactical Data Solutions for fundraising expenses
• Link to finance report

Source: http://www.ednewscolorado.org/2011/10/29/27464-round-two-of-candidate-finance-reports

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Mealor's music may be royal, but mum takes the cake (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? Welsh composer Paul Mealor had the thrill of a lifetime when one of his choral works was played at the April wedding of Britain's Prince William to Catherine Middleton, but he gave his piece of royal wedding cake, which came in a special box, to his mum.

How could he not? She'd even bought a new hat to watch the royal wedding, including her son's choral piece "Ubi Caritas" played for a worldwide television and online audience estimated at 2.4 billion people, at the family home.

"I quite fancied eating it, but I gave it to my mum," Mealor, 35, told Reuters in an interview to mark the release this week of the first commercial CD of his choral music, "A Tender Light" (Decca 2781149), performed by the Tenebrae Choir under Nigel Short.

It is all a bit of a breathless rush to fame -- at least in classical music terms -- for a relatively unknown composer who by his own admission is a big fan of the royals, especially the younger generation, and a bit of a "young fogey" to boot.

"I get some stick for it," said Mealor, affable, bespectacled and a bit bemused by the lunches, news conferences and chauffeured limousines attendant on an album launch.

Everyday life for him, he says, consists of living alone in a house on the northern Welsh Anglesey coast, without electricity -- but with running water, he hastens to add -- and eating his meals off a grand piano that doubles as a table.

"I feel at home by the sea, with the sound of it," said the son of a fisherman, whose aforesaid mom used to play Mahler symphonies on the phonograph to calm down her hyperactive child.

"The movement kind of finds its way into my music," he added.

Here's what else he had to say about his musical influences, how his work links up with that of others in what he sees as a new choral tradition of singable music, and the magic of having his piece included in the royal wedding.

Q: How did you wind up with a career in music, given your love of the sea and your father being a fisherman would suggest an alternate occupation?

A: "My grandmother was musical and also my uncles played in brass bands, I played in one myself and sang in church choirs. But it was at the age of nine, I suddenly realized I was going to die, that my life wasn't infinite, it wasn't going to go on forever. I was in a field in Anglesey and I had a huge grip of fear and that's when I started my lifelong journey to discover what happens afterwards. I turned to faith -- Anglican -- I started attending church and singing in the choir. And that's also when I started composing."

Q: You studied with the noted fellow Welsh composer William Mathias, from an early age, but who else are your musical influences and how would you describe your style?

A: "It's almost become a cliche to mention (16th century Tudor composers) like Thomas Tallis, Thomas Tomkins and Orlando Gibbons but all that music which is what I liked as a child finds its way into my own music and I try to do my own settings. As a young student I experimented with (avant garde) music like Stockhausen, I got into all those composers, but then I went right back to my early music, Tallis, Gibbons, and I try to create music that is very much of our time but could have been sung anytime."

Q: This type of clear, airy but modern choral sound, you're not alone doing it.

A: "I've come across any number of other composers doing this, Gabriel Jackson, Tarik O'Regan, Sir John Tavener, in the U.S. Morten Lauridsen. And perhaps this is a bit of a big statement to make, but just like the Tudor period there is a zeitgeist of (musical) language, they are individual but they are part of a school and it seems to me to be what is happening now in choral music -- all of these composers engaged in this one type of school but with individual voices."

Q: So what's it like to be a young composer whose piece is plucked almost out of the air by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as a new work they would like performed at their wedding in Westminster Abbey, for a world audience of billions?

A: "Magic."

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Summary Box: JetBlue profit falls on higher costs (AP)

SLIDING PROFIT: JetBlue Airways Corp. said Wednesday that its third-quarter net income fell 41 percent as higher costs for fuel and maintenance offset higher revenue from fares and fees.

BY THE NUMBERS: The New York airline earned $35 million, or 11 cents per share, compared with $59 million, or 18 cents per share, a year ago. Revenue rose 16 percent to about $1.2 billion.

GOOD AND BAD: JetBlue's average fare rose about 9 percent. But its fuel costs jumped 56 percent and maintenance costs rose 35 percent. Overall expenses rose 22 percent.

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Woman sentenced to prison for celebrity break-in (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? A woman who pleaded no contest to breaking into reality television starlet Audrina Patridge's home was sentenced to four years in state prison Tuesday.

Rachel Lee is the second member of the so-called "Bling Ring" to be sentenced for their roles in a rash of break-ins at celebrities' homes that netted more than $3 million in high-end goods.

The group targeted the homes of stars such as Orlando Bloom, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and others before members of the ring were arrested in late 2009.

Lee, 21, was arrested in January 2010 and later pleaded no contest to the February 2009 burglary at the Hollywood Hills home of Patridge, who starred in MTV's "The Hills."

More than $25,000 in designer luggage, jewelry, clothing and shoes were taken from Patridge's home, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. A hearing will be held at a later date to determine how much Lee has to re-pay.

Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler dismissed a conspiracy to commit burglary charge and two counts of receiving stolen property that had been filed against Lee. The judge had previously dismissed a charge against Lee related to the Lohan burglary.

Four other alleged members of the crew, including accused ringleader Nicholas Prugo, are awaiting trial.

Alexis Neiers, an aspiring model and star of the E! Entertainment Television show "Pretty Wild," pleaded no contest in May 2010 to burglarizing Orlando Bloom's home and was sentenced to six months in jail and three years of probation.

Patridge testified before a grand jury about returning to her home on Oscar night 2009 and finding it had been looted.

"So I locked myself in the closet," Patridge told the grand jury, according to transcripts. "And I was still on the phone with my sister and I was afraid to hang up, because I didn't know if someone was still in my house, or, you know. I just wanted to be safe."

The starlet never appeared in court on Lee's case.

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College costs outpace inflation: College Board (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? The cost of college in the United States rose sharply for the 2011-2012 school year, continuing a multiyear pattern in which public school increases outpaced private school hikes and both eclipsed the average rate of inflation by significant amounts, the College Board reported on Wednesday.

At public 4-year schools, average tuition and fees rose 8.3 percent to $8,244 for in-state students and 5.7 percent to $20,770 for out-of-state students, not including room, board, or extra expenses like travel, laptops and midnight pizzas.

Private nonprofit four-year schools raised their tuition and fees by 4.5 percent, to an average of $28,500, according to the study, Trends in College Pricing 2011, released by the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center. The Consumer Price Index increased 3.6 percent between July 2010 and July 2011, the study noted.

In-state tuition and fees for public two-year colleges averaged $2,963, an 8.7 percent increase from the previous year.

So-called net prices -- the amount that families pay after receiving grant aid and taking advantage of tax credits -- have increased by an average of about 1.4 percent a year for the last 5 years at public four-year schools, the College Board said. Those increases made college less affordable, as average family inflation-adjusted incomes have fallen in the decade between 2000 and 2010, the College Board said.

"While the importance of a college degree has never been greater, its rapidly rising price is an overwhelming obstacle to many students and families," said College Board President Gaston Caperton.

Financial aid rose as well, the College Board said in a companion report, but not enough to cover increases in tuition and fees at four-year public schools. In the 2010-2011 year, undergraduate students received an average of $12,455 per full-time equivalent student in financial aid, including $6,539 in grant aid, $4,907 in federal loans, and $1,009 in a combination of tax credits and deductions and federal work-study jobs.

Many students supplement that with private loans, a figure that the College Board estimated at about $6 billion in total volume. In a separate development, President Obama unveiled a program on Tuesday that he said would help some 1.6 million student borrowers lower their student loan payments.

"College costs are still outpacing family incomes and available aid," said Lauren Asher, president of the Institute for College Access & Success, an advocacy group.

"The maximum Pell Grant covers barely a third of the full cost of four years of college and we have more people with student loans than ever before, and they are borrowing more than ever."

Asher has emphasized the bottom line cost of college, including all of those extra expenses such as travel and supplies, and noted that they make college even less affordable than the tuition, room, board and fees figures upon which the College Board focuses.

Beginning on October 29, U.S. colleges are required to post net price calculators on their web sites. These calculators are supposed to go beyond sticker prices to include estimates of total cost of attendance, including the extras, as well as estimates of typical aid paid to students at the school.

Advocates do advise applicants to look for those calculators and use them in weighing how much it would cost to attend individual schools.

But Asher says there are already some problems with them. Some colleges have buried the calculators so they are difficult to find, she said. Others have made the calculators extremely complex and may ask dozens of questions of students. She suggests that students using the calculators focus on net prices and not other figures, such as after-loan out of pocket costs, that some schools are posting.

Caperton suggested that the board's efforts to analyze college affordability and price changes were complicated by the variability of prices from one state to another.

The large and well publicized increases in the California state system had a big impact on the averages; that state enrolls about 10 percent of the nation's full-time public four year college students and raised in-state fees 21 percent and 37 percent for full-time public two-year college students. Without the California figures included in its data, that 8.3 percent public four-year in-state school increase would have been 7 percent, and the 8.7 percent increase logged for two-year public schools would have been 7.4 percent.

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Death row inmate asks court to keep lawsuit alive (AP)

AMARILLO, Texas ? A Texas death row inmate just weeks from execution asked a federal court Monday to keep his civil rights lawsuit alive while his attorneys try to get knives and other evidence turned over for new DNA tests they claim will show he didn't kill his girlfriend and her sons nearly two decades ago.

But prosecutors who say Henry Watkins Skinner is just trying to delay his death with a merit-less request asked the court to rule in their favor and dismiss the lawsuit.

Skinner, 49, came within an hour of lethal injection last year before the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in and now has a Nov. 9 execution date. His lawsuit claims the state violated his civil rights by withholding access to the evidence he wants tested. Monday's hearing came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March that Skinner could ask for the untested evidence, but left unresolved whether the district attorney had to surrender those items. A state court will make that decision.

Skinner's attorneys asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Clinton E. Averitte to recommend the civil rights suit not be dismissed until the state court acts. A final ruling on the lawsuit will be issued by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson in Amarillo.

The request for DNA testing is the third from Skinner but the first since a state law about evidence testing took effect Sept. 1. The new law allows DNA testing of evidence even if the offender chose not to seek testing before trial.

Rob Owen, one of Skinner's attorneys, said in an emailed statement that lawmakers intended the new law "to reach" Skinner.

"The state should stop wasting taxpayer money fighting the DNA testing in Mr. Skinner's case," Owen wrote. "At a minimum they should drop their insistence on executing Mr. Skinner on November 9 so that the courts have adequate time to settle this issue."

Prosecutors maintain the new law doesn't apply to Skinner, his claims about the evidence aren't new and other courts have already decided the issue. Skinner "still has not demonstrated" how additional DNA testing will prove his innocence, attorney general's spokeswoman Lauren Bean said in an email. She accused him of "resorting to gamesmanship."

"Because Skinner has not met the standards required by law and does not seek to test newly discovered evidence, the Court should deny his claims and prevent Skinner from further delaying justice for the victims' families," Bean wrote.

Skinner was sentenced to death for the 1993 deaths of his girlfriend, 40-year-old Twila Busby, and her sons Elwin "Scooter" Caler, 22, and Randy Busby, 20. The victims were strangled, beaten or stabbed on New Year's Eve at their home in Pampa in the Texas Panhandle.

About three hours after their bodies were discovered, police found Skinner hiding in a closet in the home of a woman he knew. Tests showed that blood of at least two victims was on him, and authorities said a trail of blood led police from the bodies to his hiding place a few blocks away.

Skinner has acknowledged being inside the house where the killings took place but has insisted he couldn't be the murderer because he was passed out on a couch from a mix of vodka and codeine. In a hand-written Aug. 31 affidavit, Skinner told the court: "I am actually, factually and totally, legally and any other definition, innocent of this crime."

However, documents the attorney general's office filed in court Monday said Skinner offered to plead guilty to first-degree murder before his 1995 trial in exchange for a life sentence. Plea negotiations often are kept confidential, but Skinner's federal appeal on ineffective counsel claims waived that privilege, the new document said.

The evidence now being sought was not tested at the time of Skinner's trial because his lawyer feared the results would hurt his case. But his attorneys now argue that forensic DNA testing "has a strong likelihood of confirming Mr. Skinner's claim."

The untested evidence includes vaginal swabs taken from Busby during an autopsy, fingernail clippings, a knife found on the porch of Busby's house, a second knife found in a plastic bag in the house, a towel with the second knife and a jacket next to Busby's body.

Skinner contends that Caler, who had several stab wounds, likely bled on him while trying to roust him from his stupor. Skinner has said the woman's blood likely got on his clothes because they were nearby as she was being bludgeoned with a pickax handle. He and his attorneys point to the woman's now-deceased uncle, Robert Donnell, as the possible killer.

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Australia's republican female PM backs royal succession changes (Reuters)

PERTH, Australia (Reuters) ? Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the nation's first female leader and a staunch republican, on Monday backed moves to end 300 years of discrimination against royal daughters becoming heirs to the British throne.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron wants to end rules dating back to the 17th century which ban heirs to the throne from marrying Roman Catholics and gives sons priority as heir to the throne even if they have an older sister.

Cameron will seek support for the changes from 16 Commonwealth nations, including Australia, which share Queen Elizabeth as their monarch, when they meet at a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth this week.

"You would expect me, as the first female prime minister of our nation, to say I believe women are equal to men in all regards," Gillard told reporters in Perth ahead of the Commonwealth meetings.

"I do support a change to the act of succession, which would enable the person who succeeds to the throne to be the oldest child, irrespective of gender."

Current succession rules dating back to 1688 and 1700 were designed to lock in a Protestant monarchy and force anyone in line to the throne to relinquish their claim to the throne if they married a Catholic.

Queen Elizabeth became the British monarch at the age of 25 when her father King George VI died in 1952. Now 85, she is the second longest serving British monarch and is currently on her 16th visit to Australia, where she will open a Commonwealth leaders summit on Friday.

There is support across Australia's political spectrum for changes to royal succession rules.

Australia is a constitutional monarchy, with a governor-general who represents the Queen as head of state and acts as commander-in-chief of the military. However, about a third of Australians want to severe ties with Britain and become a republic.

(Reporting by James Grubel, Editing by Michael Perry and Jonathan Thatcher)

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Marathon runners who drink too much water are at risk of a deadly condition

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Every couple of miles, the 30,000 or so runners competing in the 36th Marine Corps Marathon on Sunday will pass stations stocked with water and sports drinks. Most, hopefully, won?t stop unless thirsty. Some, however, following outdated advice, will drink according to a preset schedule ? even downing all they can hold ? increasing their risk, doctors say, of a potentially fatal medical condition.

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`Paranormal 3' scares up record $54 million debut (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? "Paranormal Activity 3" didn't just go bump in the night. It made a ton of noise at the box office with a record-setting, $54 million opening.

The third film in Paramount Pictures' low-budget fright franchise, which was No. 1 at the box office, had the biggest debut ever for a horror movie, according to Sunday studio estimates. It broke the previous record part two set a year ago with $40.7 million. It's also the biggest opening ever for an October release, topping the $50.35 million Paramount's "Jackass 3D" made last year.

"Paranormal Activity 3" is actually a prequel, with the discovery of disturbing home-movie footage from 1988. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, who made the creepy documentary "Catfish," took over directing duties this time.

Don Harris, Paramount's president of distribution, said the studio hoped part three would simply perform better than part two. The first "Paranormal Activity," with its reported $15,000 budget, became a phenomenon in 2009 through midnight screenings and word of mouth.

Harris believes this installment did so well because it's actually the best movie of the three. He noted that it appealed to an older crowd, with 47 percent over the age of 25 compared to 40 percent for "Paranormal Activity 2." Strong reviews also helped, he said, including a rave from Time magazine. And fundamentally, horror movies simply play better in a packed theater.

"Ultimately, it gets back to why there's still a theatrical business, why people still go to the movies," Harris said. "We want to laugh in a group, we want to be scared in a group, people like to cry in a group in the dark where nobody can see them crying. It's all the reason movie theaters exist and this genre has always been front and center."

Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com, said he was expecting "Paranormal Activity 3" to come in around $35 million for the weekend, simply because most newcomers have been underperforming this fall.

"This brand is as solid as the `Twilight' brand or the `Jackass' brand. There are certain brands that just transcend any kind of box-office rhyme or reason. They just resonate," Dergarabedian said. "These are shot in someone's house, they look like they're shot with a home video recorder, and people just relate to it."

Last week's No. 1 release, the futuristic boxing robot adventure "Real Steel," fell to second place. It made $11.3 million for a domestic total of $67.2 million. Worldwide, the Disney movie has grossed $153.3 million.

Among the other new releases this week, Summit Entertainment's 3-D version of "The Three Musketeers" came in fourth place with $8.8 million. And Universal's "Johnny English Reborn," a sequel to the 2003 spy parody starring Rowan Atkinson, opened at No. 8 with $3.8 million. But it's already a huge hit internationally, having made $104.5 million so far.

In limited release, the critically acclaimed psychological thriller "Martha Marcy May Marlene" made $137,541 on four screens in New York and Los Angeles. That's a hefty $34,385 per screen average, according to Fox Searchlight.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. "Paranormal Activity 3," $54 million. ($26 million international.)

2. "Real Steel," $11.3 million. ($18.5 million international.)

3. "Footloose," $10.85 million.

4. "The Three Musketeers," $8.8 million. ($17.1 million international.)

5. "The Ides of March," $4.9 million.

6. "Dolphin Tale," $4.2 million.

7. "Moneyball," $4.05 million.

8. "Johnny English Reborn," $3.8 million. ($13.5 million international.)

9. "The Thing," $3.1 million.

10. "50/50," $2.8 million.

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Estimated weekend ticket sales at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada) for films distributed overseas by Hollywood studios, according to Rentrak:

1. "Paranormal Activity 3," $26 million.

2. "Real Steel," $18.5 million.

3. "Johnny English Reborn," $13.5 million.

4. "The Three Musketeers," $17.1 million.

5. "Contagion," $9.6 million.

6. "The Smurfs," $3.4 million.

7. "The Lion King," $3.3 million.

8. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," $2.9 million.

9. "Friends With Benefits," $2.8 million.

10 "The Change-Up," $2.4 million.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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O2's Galaxy Nexus landing page confirms November availability, forgets to add price

It's no secret that O2's set to release its Galaxy Nexus variant come this November, but a recently live landing page on the UK telecom's website is serving up some extras. As expected, its customers will be unwrapping the 21Mbps HSPA+ version of the device, but sadly, the question remains as to how much it'll cost. While a leaked Verizon document evidently has this Android 4.0 flagship pegged at $300 on-contract, O2's left nary a mention about pricing. With a handful of carriers now firmly under this 4.65-incher's belt, it's time for others to defrost their Ice Cream Sandwich release plans.

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Netflix Shareholder Whopper: Earnings Will Dip Into The Red In 2012

Netflix third quarter earnings are out, and along with it the quarterly shareholder letter from CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells. ?In the letter (embedded below), Netflix talks about the impact of recent pricing changes and its now-retracted strategy to divide the streaming and DVD services into two businesses. The price changes in particular "hurt our hard?earned reputation, and stalled our domestic growth." Netflix expects the impact to lower both revenues and profits in the fourth quarter. And in the first quarter of next year, the company expects to lose money as it invests heavily to launch in the UK and Ireland. It expects to continue to be in the red "for a few quarters." Below is an excerpt of the the beginning of the letter, followed by the entire embedded document.

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Dell Inspiron 15R (I15RN-5882DBK)

Available at Best Buy for $649.99 (list), the Dell Inspiron 15R (I15RN-5882DBK) is a perfectly reasonable choice for a budget laptop. It?s not packed to the gills with performance-enhancing components, but what it has is enough to keep it consistently at the upper end of the power spectrum. If you need something stronger, but not too much more expensive, you can find it. But this machine is a fine basic choice for anyone looking for a 15-inch laptop that doesn?t put up (or cause) too much fuss.

Design
The I15RN-5882DBK maintains the standard Dell look, with a glossy lid attractively decorated to resemble brushed metal; Dell calls the lid color Diamond Black, we call it handsome. A silver Dell logo smack dab in the middle is the only other design element on the lid. The color scheme extends to the inside of the laptop as well, with the palm rest, keyboard deck, and bezel around the 15.6-inch glossy widescreen 1,366-by-768 display (a webcam is located in the center of the top edge) all black as well.

The chiclet-style keyboard uses slightly scalloped keys that offer good travel and should provide sufficient typing room even for those with larger hands. The touch pad and its easy-to-press buttons are both oversized, so you won?t feel cramped. The only other features of note are the three buttons in the upper-right corner of the keyboard: one opens up the Windows Mobility control panel, one the Dell Support Center, and one switches to an external monitor if you happen to be using one. All three, plus the power button and the Caps Lock key, glow bright white when you press them.

Weighing 5.8 pounds, the I15RN-5882DBK is approaching the heavier side, but it?s still easily manageable. Its dimensions, 1.4 by 14.8 by 10.2 inches (HWD), are likewise?acceptable for a laptop in this class.

Features
There?s a solid selection of hardware in the I15RN-5882DBK, starting with the Intel Core i5-2410M CPU. It runs at 2.3GHz, and with Turbo Boost enabled can shoot up to 2.9GHz in some situations; this dual-core processor can also utilize Intel?s Hyper-Threading technology to marshal as many as four threads at a time, for improved performance. Another plus as far as efficiency is the 6GB of on-board RAM, a healthy amount you can even expand to 8GB if you still want more. The 5,400rpm hard drive has a comfortable capacity of 640GB. Video is limited to the Intel HD Graphics 3000 system integrated into the CPU, so you won?t get as much gaming performance as you would from a discrete graphics chip.

If you want to hook up your laptop to an external display, you have three options: Either hook up an old-school monitor to the VGA port located on one rear corner, take advantage of Intel?s Wireless Display (WiDi 2.0) technology to stream content to your HDTV (assuming you have a Netgear Push2TV adapter, which must be purchased separately), or use the HDMI port located on the laptop?s left edge. Also on that side are a USB 2.0 port, a USB 2.0/eSATA combo port, and an SD/MMC card reader. On the right edge you?ll find the DVD?RW drive, headphone and microphone jacks, and a USB 3.0 port for extra-fast data transfers; there?s another one of those on the rear panel, next to the Ethernet jack. This computer is nicely equipped from a wireless standpoint, too, offering not just 802.11n Wi-Fi but also WiMAX.

Windows 7 is the (expected) operating system on the I15RN-5882DBK, and it comes pre-installed with all the various Dell utilities for safeguarding your data (DataSafe Local Backup), Dell Digital Delivery (for purchasing software), and the Dell Stage launcher for easy access to programs to help you deal with your music, photo, and video files. Also present are the potentially useful Microsoft Office 2010 Starter and McAfee Security Center, along with some more generic bloatware items: the Bing Bar, Skype, Windows Live Essentials, and an eBay link on the desktop.

A limited one-year parts-and-labor warranty from Dell is also included with the purchase price.

Performance
The I15RN-5882DBK edged into the upper ranges of performance during our benchmark tests, but never took the lead. Its 2,117 score in PCMark 7, which we use for full-system evaluation, isn?t far behind what we saw with our Editors? Choice systems: The Lenovo IdeaPad V570-1066AJU ($629.99 direct, 4 stars) earned 2,275,?and the Asus U56E-BBL6 ($699.99 list, 4 stars) earned 2,255; and is itself further ahead of the 1,926 achieved by the?Toshiba Satellite P755-S5215?($719.99 list, 3 stars)?and the 1,866 from the?Samsung NP300E5A-A01UB ($599.99 list, 4 stars). We saw the same in our other performance tests, too, with the Dell?s times converting a video clip in Handbrake and applying a dozen filters in Adobe Photoshop CS5, and its score in our CineBench R11.5 CPU-based rendering test, all a shade behind those of the Asus and Lenovo, but a fair step ahead of the other laptops? results.

Gaming was more clear cut all along the line: Only the Gateway NV55S05u ($579.99 list, 4 stars)?came in above 30 frames per second (fps) when we tested with Crysis or Lost Planet 2 at 1,024-by-768 resolution; the Dell was actually the highest, and its 20.3fps is far from praiseworthy. But if you?re even moderately interested in playing 3D games, you?ll definitely want to choose a laptop like the Gateway that has more advanced video hardware.

In terms of battery life, the 5 hours 8 minutes the Dell lasted on its 48Wh battery while running MobileMark 2007 was unremarkable compared with the two? champs: the Asus (7:42) and the Samsung (6:37). It beat out the Gateway and the Toshiba, but in neither case by very much.

There?s not much else, good or bad, to say about the Dell Inspiron 15R (I15RN-5882DBK). It?s not quite as?adept an overall performer as the Editors? Choice models, the Asus U56E-BBL6 or Lenovo IdeaPad V570-1066AJU, but it?s certainly never disappointing, either. If every last drop of processing potential matters to you, either of those machines would be a better way to go. But if you?re content with paying less, the I15RN-5882DBK won?t make you feel like you?re compromising too much.

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4 quake survivors pulled out alive in Turkey (AP)

ERCIS, Turkey ? Four people were pulled alive from the rubble Monday when one managed to call for help on his cell phone after a 7.2-magnitude quake leveled buildings and killed some 270 people in eastern Turkey

Dozens of people were trapped in mounds of concrete, twisted steel and construction debris after hundreds of buildings in two cities and mud-brick homes in nearby villages pancaked or partially collapsed in the earthquake that struck Sunday afternoon.

Worst-hit was Ercis ? an eastern city of 75,000 close to the Iranian border that lies in one of Turkey's most earthquake-prone zones ? where about 80 multistory buildings collapsed.

Yalcin Akay was dug out from a collapsed six-story building with a leg injury after he called a police emergency line on his phone and described his location, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported. Three others, including two children, were also rescued from the same building in Ercis some 20 hours after the quake struck, officials said.

Rescuers searched for the missing throughout the night under generator-powered floodlights as tearful families members waited by the mounds of debris. Cranes and other heavy equipment lifted slabs of concrete, allowing residents to dig for the missing with shovels.

Aid groups scrambled to set up tents, field hospitals and kitchens to help the thousands left homeless or those too afraid to re-enter their homes.

"We stayed outdoors all night, I could not sleep at all, my children, especially the little one, was terrified," said Serpil Bilici of her six-year-old daughter, Rabia. "I grabbed her and rushed out when the quake hit, we were all screaming."

Over 100 aftershocks rocked the area Monday morning, with three of them reaching 4.7 magnitude, after another 100 aftershocks reverberated Sunday.

The bustling, larger city of Van, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) south of Ercis, also sustained substantial damage, but Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said search efforts there were winding down.

Sahin expected the death toll in Ercis to rise, but not as much as initially feared. He told reporters rescue teams were searching for survivors in the ruins of 47 buildings ? including a cafe where dozens could be trapped.

"There could be around 100 people (in the rubble). It could be more or it could be less," Sahin said. "But we are not talking about thousands."

He told Associated Press Television that around 270 were killed and more than a thousand others were injured.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who inspected the area late Sunday, said "close to all" mud-brick homes in surrounding villages had collapsed in the temblor that also rattled parts of Iran and Armenia.

In Ercis, a team specializing in mine disaster rescue combed through the rubble of a student dormitory.

"Four or five (apartments) have been leveled," team member Mustafa Bilgin said. "University students are said to be living here. We don't know how many of them are still inside, we've reached their computers, clothing but we did not see anyone."

Dozens of people huddled around the building, silently watching the rescue work.

Women carried buckets to collect food from a soup kitchen as frequent aftershocks jolted the town.

Bilici, a mother of five children between six and 16, said her house had only cracks but her family was too afraid to go back inside. She lost one relative in the quake.

A woman who lost her parents sat on the ground near another crumpled building, sobbing as relatives tried to comfort her.

The terrifying moments of the powerful temblor still haunted many.

"I was in the street and saw the buildings sway," Hasan Ceylan, 48, surveying the wreckage of his three businesses, including a grocery store and a veterinary clinic.

Abubekir Acar, 42, was sipping tea with his friends across from a coffee house that was leveled.

"We did not understand what was going on, the buildings around us, the coffee house all went down so quickly," he said. "For a while, we could not see anything ? everywhere was covered in dust. Then, we heard screams and pulled out anyone we could reach."

The government said it would offer favorable loans to help rebuild small businesses.

Authorities advised people to stay away from damaged homes, warning they could collapse in the aftershocks. Exhausted residents began sheltering in tents, some set up inside a sports stadium, after many spent the night outdoors lighting fires to keep warm. Others sought shelter with relatives in nearby villages.

More than 2,000 teams were involved in search-and-rescue and aid efforts, using around a dozen sniffer dogs.

Several countries offered assistance but Erdogan said Turkey was able to cope for the time being. Azerbaijan, Iran and Bulgaria still sent aid, he said.

Among those offering help were Israel, Greece and Armenia. The offer from Israel came despite a rift in relations following a 2010 Israeli navy raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that left nine Turks dead. Greece, which has a deep dispute with Turkey over the divided island of Cyprus, also offered to send in a special earthquake rescue team.

Armenian president Serge Sarkisian proposed help during talks in Moscow with Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev, when the two leaders called their Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gul, Anatolia reported. Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic ties due to tensions over the Ottoman-era mass killings of Armenians and the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, a separatist region in neighboring Azerbaijan.

Leaders around the world conveyed their condolences and offered assistance.

"We stand shoulder to shoulder with our Turkish ally in this difficult time, and are ready to assist," President Barack Obama said.

Israeli President Shimon Peres telephoned Gul to offer assistance.

"Israel shares in your sorrow," Peres said. "Israel is ready to render any assistance that may be required anywhere in Turkey, at any time."

Turkey lies in one of the world's most active seismic zones and is crossed by numerous fault lines. In 1999, two earthquakes with a magnitude of more than 7 struck northwestern Turkey, killing about 18,000 people.

More recently, a 6.0-magnitude quake in March 2010 killed 51 people in eastern Turkey, while in 2003, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake killed 177 people in the southeastern city of Bingol.

Istanbul, the country's largest city with more than 12 million people, lies in northwestern Turkey near a major fault line. Experts have warned that overcrowding and shoddy construction in Istanbul could kill tens of thousands if a major earthquake struck there.

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Fraser reported from Ankara.

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