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18 years. We stopped counting and celebrating at five. We?ve just had a parent?s 50th though and my sister celebrates her 25th in the summer. We are the survivors.
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Within a span of two weeks, the actor has over 63,000 followers, which according to him is a bit unusual for an 89-year-old-man.
"Reading your messages a Acting legend Dilip Kumar, who joined the Twitter brigade on his 89th birthday on December 11, is surprised to see his ever growing popularity on the microblogging site at this age.
Within a span of two weeks, the actor has over 63,000 followers, which according to him is a bit unusual for an 89-year-old-man.
"Reading your messages and replies- better than Joggers walk. 63000 followers so quickly. So much love for an old man?" Kumar posted on Twitter.
The actor recently hosted a star studded birthday bash to the people of Hindi film industry at his residence. The who's who of Bollywood superstars, actresses and filmmakers turned out to the party to wish the yesteryear star.nd replies- better than Joggers walk. 63000 followers so quickly. So much love for an old man?" Kumar posted on Twitter.
The actor recently hosted a star studded birthday bash to the people of Hindi film industry at his residence. The who's who of Bollywood superstars, actresses and filmmakers turned out to the party to wish the yesteryear star.
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THE VILLAGES, Fla. ? Singer and actress Kaye Stevens, who performed with the Rat Pack and was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show," has died at a central Florida hospital. She was 79.
Close friend Gerry Schweitzer confirmed that Stevens died Wednesday at the Villages Hospital north of Orlando following a battle with breast cancer and blood clots.
Stevens, a longtime South Florida resident, performed with Rat Pack members including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Joey Bishop. She also sang solo at venues like Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and the Plaza Hotel's Persian Room in New York City.
During the Vietnam War era, Stevens performed for American soldiers in the war zone with Bob Hope's USO tour.
According to a handout from friend Rhonda Glenn, Stevens was born Catherine Louise Stephens in Pittsburgh. Her family eventually moved to Cleveland, where a teenage Stevens got her start as a drummer and singer. She later married now deceased bandleader and trumpet player Tommy Amato, and the couple performed throughout the eastern U.S.
During a gig in New Jersey, Stevens was discovered by Ed McMahon, Carson's longtime sidekick, which led to new bookings. Her big break came when she was playing a lounge at The Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. Debbie Reynolds became ill and was unable to perform in the main room. Stevens filled in and was an instant hit.
Besides singing, Stevens also acted in film and television. She appeared in six movies, earning a Golden Globe nomination in 1964 for "The New Interns." She was a regular celebrity player on game shows and appeared as a regular on "Days of Our Lives" from 1974-79.
During the past two decades, Stevens started her own ministry and began performing only Christian and patriotic music. She staged benefits to help build St. Vincent Catholic Church in her longtime home of Margate, Fla., where city officials named a park in her honor.
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A magnitude-9 earthquake in Japan, a momentous climate change summit, reports on future global "hyperwarming", and rumblings about some of the first geoengineering field trials all made 2011 a remarkable year for the environmental sciences. Here is our pick of the year.
The megaquake connection: Are huge earthquakes linked?
The recent cluster of huge quakes around the Pacific Ocean ? the December 2004 Sumatra quake, the February 2010 Chile quake, and now Sendai ? fuelled speculation that they are seismically linked.
Wind and wave farms could affect Earth's energy balance
Witness a howling gale or an ocean storm, and it's hard to believe that humans could make a dent in the awesome natural forces that created them. Yet one physicist says it is a mistake to assume that energy sources like wind and waves are truly renewable.
Last chance to hold Greenland back from tipping point
The planet is on course for over 3??C of global warming. That leaves Greenland ? the world's second-largest ice cap ? heading for a point of no return. The suggestion is that Greenland will reach a tipping point in the early 2040s. After that no amount of action on our part can save the ice sheet.
Playing the climate blame game
The question of whether climate change is responsible for extreme weather events like the heatwave that set Russia alight in 2010 is one of the hottest topics in climate science. Next year, UK and US climate scientists plan to launch an annual global assessment of whether humans are to blame for the previous year's extreme weather events. Solving the issue could bring closer the day when disaster victims can successfully sue oil and coal companies.
Geoengineering trials get under way
Field trials for experiments to engineer the climate have begun. Next year, if they get approval, a team of UK researchers will hoist one end of a 1-kilometre-long hose aloft using a balloon, then attempt to pump water up it and spray it into the atmosphere. If the test succeeds, a larger-scale version could one day pump sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere, creating a sunshade to offset the greenhouse effect.
Dangerous decade: What follows the Durban climate deal?
Not a single tonne of carbon was saved. In the short term, the planet will benefit not one jot. Some are calling it a betrayal of both science and the world's poor. Yet the climate conference in Durban, South Africa, did force major developing nations like China, Brazil and South Africa to accept the principle of future binding targets on their greenhouse gas emissions for the first time.
Gas drilling contaminates drinking water
Drilling for shale gas may pose a safety hazard if there are water wells nearby. But the controversial use of "fracking" does not seem to be a safety risk as regards water contamination.
La Ni?a behind worst African drought in 60 years
Almost 10 million people in the Horn of Africa faced a humanitarian emergency as the region grappled with its worst drought for 60 years. The main climatic trigger for the droughts was La Ni?a, a cyclical meteorological phenomenon affecting how much rain falls in Africa and elsewhere.
When will the 7 billionth human be born?
On 31 October, a newborn baby somewhere in the world became the 7 billionth member of the human race. Or so said the UN ? but behind the UN's patina of certainty may lie outdated and unreliable census data. These inaccuracies make it harder to answer a more important question: is human population set to peak within the next few decades or will it carry on growing beyond that?
Earth's time bombs may have killed the dinosaurs
The fate of the dinosaurs may have been sealed half a billion years before life even appeared, by two geological time bombs that still lurk near our planet's core.
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WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration's cautious response to the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il reflects unease and uncertainty about the leadership transition in the reclusive country that has confounded U.S. presidents since Harry S. Truman.
For the past 60 years, the "hermit kingdom" has vexed the United States and its allies with war, nuclear tests, missile launches, belligerence and bellicose bombast. But since he took office, President Barack Obama has had to deal with the country at perhaps its most secretive point: an unclear succession at the very top at a time of deep concern about the stability of the regime.
Thus, the administration's carefully worded public messages have underscored the administration's desire for better relations with the autocratic nation and its concern about the welfare of the North Korean people. They are also gentle reminders that Washington expects Pyongyang to follow through on denuclearization pledges and improve ties with its neighbors, particularly South Korea.
The kid gloves treatment accorded to the North's youthful new leader, Kim's twenty-something son Kim Jong Un, has attracted criticism from some who see this is a moment to make a forceful case for dramatic reform and regime change.
But without solid intelligence of the opaque transition process and fearful of misunderstandings that could lead to provocations with the notoriously erratic North, U.S. officials concluded that the best course is to say little, wait and watch.
Indeed, the administration's initial reactions to Kim's death have contained little substance at all and were couched in niceties.
"All I can say is that we're monitoring the situation closely," White House press secretary Jay Carney said on Wednesday as North Korean state media broadcast pictures of wailing mourners, apparently overcome with grief. "Kim Jong Il had designated Kim Jong Un as his official successor, and at this time we have no indication that that has changed."
Carney added: "We hope that the new North Korean leadership will take the steps necessary to support peace, prosperity and a better future for the North Korean people, including through acting on its commitments to denuclearization."
Those comments echoed words from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. On Monday, more than 16 hours after Kim's death was announced, she was the first senior U.S. official to comment publicly on the developments. In intentionally vague comments, she called for "a peaceful and stable transition in North Korea" and expressed hope that it would not affect "regional peace and stability."
Ironically, it was Clinton who first stirred the pot about a possible succession crisis in North Korea.
Nearly three years ago, on her first trip to Asia as secretary of state, she stunned diplomatic circles with a frank appraisal of U.S. concerns amid rampant speculation about the health of Kim Jong Il, who had suffered a stroke in 2008, and his choice of a successor.
"If there is a succession, even if it's a peaceful succession, that creates more uncertainty and it also may encourage behaviors that are even more provocative as a way to consolidate power within the society," Clinton told reporters on her way to South Korea on Feb. 20, 2009.
Her remarks on a previously taboo subject sparked great debate. In Seoul the next day, she expressed surprise at the uproar, noting that reports of Kim choosing his youngest son Kim Jung Un to succeed him had "been in the news for months."
"I don't think that it's a forbidden subject to talk about succession in the hermit kingdom," Clinton said. "In fact, it seems to me it's got to be factored into any policy review that one is undertaking. ... I think it would be irresponsible for it not to be factored into what you were thinking about."
That same month, U.S. diplomats were scrambling to collect any information they could about Kim Jong Un from South Korean, Chinese and Japanese officials and experts, according to leaked State Department cables published by WikiLeaks.
Unfortunately for the Americans, their interlocutors had sharply divided opinions, according to the cables. Some predicted the North Korean regime would collapse politically within two to three years of Kim Jong Il's death. Others foresaw a power struggle between the young and untested Kim Jong Un and rivals in the elite but differed over who would prevail. Others believed there would be little change.
One apparent area of convergence, however, was that most South Korean experts believed the challenge for the younger Kim would come after his father's death.
Thus, as North Korea's transition is under way, the lack of clarity has put U.S. policy on hold.
Before Kim's passing, the administration had been expected this week to announce the resumption in food aid to North Korea and a potential bilateral meeting on nuclear disarmament. Although the State Department said there had been brief exchange with North Korean officials in New York on Monday, both initiatives are now in flux pending the end of the North's mourning period.
The administration says it is respecting that mourning period by understanding that North Korean officials will not be available for discussions. Yet it has steadfastly refused to express any sympathy for the death of Kim, whose Stalinist regime is accused of having one of the worst, if not the worst, human rights records in the world.
While showering the late Czech democracy leader Vaclev Havel with effusive eulogies, American officials have refused to even utter the word "condolence" in relation to Kim.
"With regard to the C-word," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Tuesday, "I think we didn't consider it appropriate in this case."
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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Matthew Lee covers international affairs and U.S. foreign policy for The Associated Press.
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NBA regular season finally arrives with five games on Christmas Day. But TV and technology are changing league revenues and how America will see the NBA regular season.
The NBA regular season finally begins Christmas Day with a slate of five games: Oklahoma City vs. Orlando, the Golden State Warriors vs. the Los Angeles Clippers, the Boston Celtics vs. the New York Knicks, the Chicago Bulls vs. the Los Angeles Lakers, and, in a rematch of last year?s finals, the Miami Heat will meet up with the Dallas Mavericks.?
Skip to next paragraphSo all is back to normal in professional basketball? Not quite. And it's just not the lockout-shortened season will feature 66 games instead of the usual 80-plus.
TV and TV technology are changing the league's revenue streams. And the NBA will have to catch up, if it wants to capitalize on its potential.
Start with the least obvious: Fans are less inclined to go to an actual game.
Oh, they still show up.?Over the past decade, the top attracting team (which changes from year to year) has averaged between 20,000 and 22,000 attendees per game. But except for the top-tier seats, they're less willing to pay for the experience, because it's better watching games at home.
?The gate revenues have been flat and falling since 2006,? says?Kenneth Wilbur, a marketing professor at Duke University?s Fuqua School of Business. So??teams are altering their mix of ticket prices.... Court seat prices are rising just as fast as they ever have. But in the second or third tier of seats in the arena, you get a better view at home. Those prices have been falling in a lot of NBA cities.?
If teams are seeing smaller gate revenues, their TV profits?continue to grow. The NBA has a $485 million annual contract with ABC/ESPN, as well as a $445 million deal with TNT. That works out to about $31 million for each of the league's 30 teams, a deal that wasn?t affected by the games lost during the lockout. Both contracts go through the 2015/16 season.
That's a healthy development, for the most part. The NBA is coming off a strong ratings performance to cap last season. The league finals between the Miami Heat and the Dallas Mavericks netted an average 17.3 million viewers per game. Game 6, in which the Mavericks bested LeBron James and company to win the title, was seen by nearly 24 million people. It was the most watched Game 6 since 2000, and it led to ABC having its best summer week in over a decade.
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About two dozen state employment laws will take effect Jan. 1, according to a list published by the California Chamber of Commerce.
Some of these laws will prohibit discrimination against employees on the basis of their gender expression or genetic information, require more employers to continue health coverage for mothers on pregnancy disability leave, clarify how long employees can take off work to donate organs or bone marrow, and prohibit some employers from doing credit checks on certain types of workers or job applicants.
Many of the laws are designed to protect California workers but will put additional burdens on employers at a time when the economy and job market remain weak. On the plus side for employers, a group of five laws supported by the chamber could lower their workers' compensation costs and streamline some notices and procedures.
A lawyer for the chamber, which publishes an annual rundown of new state workplace laws, says this year's list is longer than the past couple of years but shorter than some earlier years. "It's kind of in the middle," says Susan Kemp, the chamber's senior employment law counsel.
"Not every one of the new laws applies across the board to every employer, but if you take just a couple of laws that apply to most employers and add them up over the number of employees they have, it's going to create more administrative (chores) and more responsibility for the employer," she says.
The two laws that will affect the most employers, Kemp says, are:
-- AB469 requires employers to provide workers who are not exempt from overtime a notice at the time of hire that includes certain pay details including their rate of pay and whether it's hourly, salary, commission-based or otherwise; any allowances claimed as part of the minimum wage including meal and lodging allowances; the regular payday; and the name, address and phone number of the employer and of the employer's workers' comp insurer.
Most employers already provide this information in various places such as pay stubs and workplace posters. Starting next year, they will have to put it all in one notice given to new employees. The California labor commissioner will provide a template, but "each notice will be unique to that employee," Kemp says.
If any information in the notice changes, the employer generally must notify each nonexempt employee, in writing, within seven calendar days. This law also increases penalties for wage violations and makes additional changes regarding collection of such penalties, including an increase in the statute of limitations, the chamber says.
-- SB299 requires all employers with five or more employees to maintain health coverage under a group health plan for an eligible female employee who takes pregnancy disability leave for up to four months. The benefits have to be at the same level as if the employee had continued working during the leave period.
If the employer splits the cost of health insurance with employees 50-50, "that's what you have to do when they are on (pregnancy disability) leave," Kemp says.
Current law requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide continued health benefits for new moms, for a maximum of 12 weeks. So the new law expands both the number of companies that must provide this coverage and the maximum length of time they must provide it.
However, increasing the maximum coverage period to four months does not mean all moms will get that much coverage. It will still be up to the mother's health care provider to determine how long she can be on pregnancy disability leave before and after the birth, Kemp says.
Stephen Hirschfeld, an attorney with Curiale Hirschfeld Kraemer who represents employers, says another new law, SB459, will pose challenges for some clients. It provides new penalties of $5,000 to $25,000 for the "willful misclassification" of employees as independent contractors.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Consumer prices stayed flat in November, further evidence that inflation has cooled off.
Energy costs dropped for the second straight month, which offset higher prices that Americans paid for food, clothes and medical services.
Milder inflation offers some relief to consumers, who were hit earlier this year with a surge in gas and food prices. It also gives the Federal Reserve leeway to act further to boost the economy without fanning inflation.
"This is more good news for the consumer," said Jim Baird, chief investment strategist at Plante Moran Financial Advisors. "The pace of inflation has clearly moderated in recent months."
The consumer price index was unchanged in November, the Labor Department said Friday. That followed a 0.1 percent decrease in October.
Excluding volatile food and energy costs, so-called "core" prices rose 0.2 percent.
In the 12 months ending in November, prices rose 3.4 percent, below October's 3.5 percent pace and the smallest year-over-year rise since April.
Core prices have risen 2.2 percent in the past 12 months, the most in more than three years. More expensive clothing and higher prices for rent have driven the core index up in that time.
Over the past 12 months, clothing prices have increased at the fastest pace in twenty years. That's largely because of higher cotton costs.
Still, core price increases have slowed recently. And cotton prices are half what they were a year ago, which should lead to lower clothing prices next year.
Many economists say inflation probably has peaked and is likely to decline next year. Slower growth in China and a possible recession in Europe have reduced global demand for energy and other goods. That should hold down the price of oil and other commodities.
Gas prices have also declined. Nationwide, gasoline cost an average of $3.25 a gallon (86 cents a liter) Friday, down from $3.40 a month ago, according to AAA.
Stagnant pay should also hold down inflation next year. Americans can't afford to pay higher prices without higher wages. But in the past year, average hourly inflation-adjusted pay fell 1.5 percent. That makes it harder for retailers to raise prices.
If inflation eases next year, the Fed might be more inclined to launch another bond-buying program to further reduce interest rates, should it decide the economy needs it. Lower rates would make it cheaper for companies and individuals to borrow and spend.
Some Fed policymakers have expressed concerns that the central bank's efforts to push rates lower have increased the risk of inflation. That's because the Fed creates money to buy the securities. More money in the economy with the same amount of goods and services can force prices higher.
A small amount of inflation can be good for the economy. It encourages businesses and consumers to spend and invest money sooner, before inflation erodes its value.
But when prices grow more slowly after a period of sharp cost increases, consumers feel a little wealthier and step up spending. That can lift the economy because consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic activity.
Americans increased their spending over the summer as prices eased. As a result, the economy expanded at an annual rate of 2 percent after barely growing in the first half of the year. Economists expect slightly stronger growth in the final three months of the year, in part because of higher consumer spending.
The Fed declined to make any new moves at its latest meeting Tuesday. But policymakers repeated their commitment to keep short-term interest rates at a record low near zero until at least mid-2013, as long as the economy remains weak. If there were signs that inflation was increasing to worrisome levels, the Fed would likely raise rates.
The central bank said last month that it expects consumer inflation to fall from about 2.8 percent this year to roughly 1.7 percent next year. That's in the Fed's preferred range for core inflation of about 1.7 percent to 2 percent.
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- (Reuters) ? Boston Celtics forward Jeff Green will undergo surgery for an aortic aneurysm next month and miss the 2011-12 season, the National Basketball Association (NBA) team said on Saturday.
The aneurysm was detected during a team physical last week, and after additional testing doctors recommended surgery, the Celtics said.
The surgery, at the Cleveland Clinic on January 9, should completely repair Green's condition and he can expect to resume his NBA career next season, the team said in a statement.
"While we are saddened that Jeff will not be able to play this season, the most important thing is his health," Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said.
Green, 25, was a first-round draft pick for the Celtics in 2007. He was traded to Seattle the same day and played three-plus seasons for Seattle/Oklahoma City before rejoining the Celtics in February as part of a trade.
He played in 75 regular-season games for Oklahoma City and Boston last season, averaging 13.3 points and 4.8 rebounds.
(Writing by Gene Cherry in Salvo; editing by Stephen Wood)
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PARIS ? George Whitman's life was packed with the type of adventures that filled every nook and cranny of his bookshop, Paris' iconic English-language Shakespeare and Company.
A bohemian traveler, Whitman was once nursed to health by Mayans in the Yucatan during a 3,000-mile (5000-kilometer) trek across Latin America and sometimes bragged that he had lived in Greenland with a beautiful Eskimo woman.
At home, Whitman was best known as a pillar of Paris' literary scene. For more than half century, his eclectic Left Bank shop was a beacon for readers, who spent long hours browsing its overflowing shelves or curling up with a good book next to a drowsy cat.
Shakespeare and Company was also a haven for every author or would-be writer passing through the City of Light.
For them, Whitman reserved a welcome that turned Yeats' famous verse ? "Be not inhospitable to strangers / Lest they be angels in disguise" ? into deed: He took in aspiring writers as boarders in exchange for a helping hand in the store.
Whitman died Wednesday in his apartment above the bookstore, two days after his 98th birthday and two months after suffering a stroke, the store announced on its website.
He "showed incredible strength and determination up to the end" and read every day with his daughter, his friends and his cat and dog, according to the statement. "Nicknamed the Don Quixote of the Latin Quarter, George will be remembered for his free spirit, his eccentricity and his generosity."
The store was shuttered Wednesday, and longtime customers, students and anonymous book-lovers lit candles on its stoop to pay their respects.
The store will live on under the management of Whitman's daughter, Sylvia Whitman. In an interview with The Associated Press earlier this year, she summed up the unique store this way: "My father says it's a Socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore."
Whitman was born on Dec. 12, 1913, in East Orange, New Jersey, although he grew up in Massachusetts.
His twin loves of the written word and foreign travel were nurtured early on, when his father, a physics professor who authored several science books, took the family along for a yearlong sabbatical at a Chinese university in 1925.
That was the first of a series of adventures that later saw Whitman wander Latin America, sail to Hawaii and hitch his way across the United States.
After graduating from Boston University with a degree in journalism in 1935, Whitman enlisted in the U.S. Army. During World War II, he was trained as a Medical Warrant Officer and treated the wounded at hospitals across Europe, according to the store's statement.
Whitman moved to Paris permanently under the GI Bill in 1948. Three years later, he founded his bookshop in a rickety old building directly across the Seine River from Notre Dame cathedral. Initially baptized "Le Mistral" after the blustering winds that blow in off the Mediterranean, the shop's name was later changed.
The original Shakespeare and Company bookstore came from legendary literary matron Sylvia Beach, and the place was a magnet for English-speaking expats like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. She opened that store in the early 1920s in a Left Bank district not far from its current home, on the rue de l'Odeon. The shop gained fame by publishing Irish writer James Joyce's banned book "Ulysses."
World War II forced it to close, and Whitman gave Shakespeare and Company a new life in new digs in 1951.
Over the decades, Whitman's refuge for literary souls from far and wide became a Paris institution. It's widely regarded as an honor for authors to give a reading at the store, where eager listeners jostle for a spot among the stacks of first, second- and thirdhand books lining the walls and floors.
Whitman was made an officer of arts and letters by the French Culture Ministry in 2006.
He is to be buried in the city's venerable Pere Lachaise cemetery, where the remains of literary giants including Oscar Wilde, Balzac and French poet Guillaume Apollinaire rest, the posting said. The date of the funeral has not yet been set.
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Associated Press writer Elaine Ganley contributed to this report.
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Christopher Hitchens, a Washington, D.C.-based author, essayist and famous contrarian died Thursday night. He was 62. NBC?s Brian Williams reports.
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