News for today's 2018: 11/17/13

18-Nov-2013 08:46

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A Deep-Water Diver From Brooklyn Dies After Trying for a Record - New York Times ::  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/sports/deep-water-diver-from-brooklyn-dies-after-trying-for-a-record.html?hpw%26rref%3Dsports">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/sports/deep-water-diver-from-brooklyn-dies-after-trying-for-a-record.html?hpw%26rref%3Dsports</a><br /><br><br /><br>Sony Needs Long-Haul Boost from PS4 - Wall Street Journal ::  <a href="http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-385044/">http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-385044/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Pakistan Ex-President Musharraf Will Be Put on Trial for Treason - TIME ::  <a href="http://world.time.com/2013/11/17/pakistan-ex-president-musharraf-will-be-put-on-trial-for-treason/">http://world.time.com/2013/11/17/pakistan-ex-president-musharraf-will-be-put-on-trial-for-treason/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies aged 94 - BBC News ::  <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24979129">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24979129</a><br /><br><br /><br>2 killed, 20 injured in Colorado mining accident - Fox News ::  <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/17/2-killed-20-injured-in-colorado-mining-accident/">http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/17/2-killed-20-injured-in-colorado-mining-accident/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Plane crash kills 50 in Russia - Washington Post ::  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/plane-crash-kills-50-in-russia/2013/11/17/e5aaef8e-4fe4-11e3-a7f0-b790929232e1_gallery.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/plane-crash-kills-50-in-russia/2013/11/17/e5aaef8e-4fe4-11e3-a7f0-b790929232e1_gallery.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Tornado outbreak brings late-fall terror to Midwest - Los Angeles Times ::  <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-midwest-storms-20131118,0,3765417.story">http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-midwest-storms-20131118,0,3765417.story</a><br /><br><br /><br>Israel steps up rhetoric ahead of Iran talks - Financial Times ::  <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/481f39fe-4f95-11e3-b06e-00144feabdc0.html">http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/481f39fe-4f95-11e3-b06e-00144feabdc0.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Egypt train and bus crash kills 24 outside Cairo - BBC News ::  <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24982621">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24982621</a><br /><br><br /><br>Australia 'spied on Indonesia President Yudhoyono' - BBC News ::  <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24952229">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24952229</a>

18-Nov-2013 08:46

A Deep-Water Diver From Brooklyn Dies After Trying for a Record - New York Times :: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/sports/deep-water-diver-from-brooklyn-dies-after-trying-for-a-record.html?hpw%26rref%3DsportsSony Needs Long-Haul Boost from PS4 - …

Industrial Production: Mining

11:40 PM Tukiyooo 0

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwLfLUiwzR567ephlU-F6YXauwYJFxMwaqkhzili-s2jDB4S2swCzQhxn2Bdi5GxyYU1IUKZBi_86G1kqxUVjXe6-Ifi848ydOAUA_rEn8dWxqthhC2kT-CnZwjbFUgW1sDhiyee-keTQ/s1600/Industrial+Production+-+Mining.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwLfLUiwzR567ephlU-F6YXauwYJFxMwaqkhzili-s2jDB4S2swCzQhxn2Bdi5GxyYU1IUKZBi_86G1kqxUVjXe6-Ifi848ydOAUA_rEn8dWxqthhC2kT-CnZwjbFUgW1sDhiyee-keTQ/s320/Industrial+Production+-+Mining.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />1. Totally sustainable!<br />2. No malinvestment here!<br />3. Hyperinflation soon to follow!<br /><br />It's a sarcastic triple play!<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinvestment">Malinvestment</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>Austrian economists such as Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek advocate the idea that malinvestment occurs due to the combination of fractional reserve banking and artificially low interest rates misleading relative price signals which eventually necessitate a corrective contraction—a boom followed by a bust.</i></div><br /><b>September 23, 2007</b><br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2007/09/productivity-miracle.html">Productivity Miracle</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>If I'm wrong to be a stagflationist, this is the sort of thing that would do me in. It is also something one needs to factor in when hoarding hard assets in general.</i></div><br /><a href="http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=60;t=001174;p=1">Topic: Large mining equipment</a><br /><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/Bug_muldoon/20041210_226_grua2.jpg"><img border="0" height="286" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v354/Bug_muldoon/20041210_226_grua2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer;" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>I find it all quite humbling. Don't you?</i></div><br /><b>See Also:</b><br /><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/12/hyperinflation-theories-poned-again.html">Hyperinflation Theories Poned Again</a><br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=oxU">St. Louis Fed: Industrial Production: Mining</a>

Industrial Production: Mining

Click to enlarge.1. Totally sustainable!2. No malinvestment here!3. Hyperinflation soon to follow!It's a sarcastic triple play!MalinvestmentAustrian economists such as Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek advocate the idea that malinvestment occurs due to the …

US Fed's Rosengren says bank lending is robust

11:33 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><img src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20131118&t=2&i=812763173&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CBRE9AH0JWT00" width="600"/><br /><p>Credit: Reuters/Keith Bedford</p><br /><p>The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's President and CEO Eric S. Rosengren speaks during the ''Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World Economies'', in New York, April 17, 2013.</p><br /><p>'I think what we're seeing in the U.S. is that capital ratios have improved. We're now seeing pretty robust lending,' Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in the United Arab Emirates on financial regulation.</p><br /><p>Asked where U.S. bank loans were going, he replied: 'It's going both to the C&I, commercial and industrial, sector - it's also going to the consumer sector. That's exactly what you'd want to get with what we're doing with monetary policy, with the banks providing lending to both the households and the firms.'</p><br /><p>Rosengren declined to comment further on economic conditions or U.S. monetary policy. In an earlier speech at the conference, he said U.S. regulators should consider streamlining rules now being adopted that force big banks to hold more capital.</p><br /><p>(Reporting by Martin Dokoupil and Regan Doherty; Editing by Andrew Torchia)</p><br /></div>

Business US Fed's Rosengren says bank lending is robust

Credit: Reuters/Keith BedfordThe Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's President and CEO Eric S. Rosengren speaks during the ''Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World Economies'', in New York, April 17, 2013.'I think what we're seein…

UK PREMIERE: The Ultimate Guide To Doctor Who, 8pm BBC Three

11:30 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpf-6-qAOoaSsGoGSza6qeMGECC8LZFfm-YA1blcxlHMWTOgpiVIFr5iH80tbelCktB-K0cr_M2JYmggVo4XXKcwPu1r2l9SgK-nW9CoUT7i91C875YqNGiKu4k-4re0XqKC74IulUBI/s1600/50AN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpf-6-qAOoaSsGoGSza6qeMGECC8LZFfm-YA1blcxlHMWTOgpiVIFr5iH80tbelCktB-K0cr_M2JYmggVo4XXKcwPu1r2l9SgK-nW9CoUT7i91C875YqNGiKu4k-4re0XqKC74IulUBI/s640/50AN.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To celebrate Doctor Who's upcoming 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor, outgoing Time Lord Matt Smith and his current travelling companion Jenna Coleman take an in-depth look at the programme's development over the years. They profile all 11 incarnations of the Doctor, as well as his many sidekicks and adversaries, recalling the most famous scenes, storylines and classic moments. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Featuring contributions by David Tennant, Paul McGann, Sylvester McCoy, Noel Clarke, Rick Edwards, Konnie Huq and McFly.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tune in to BBC Three tonight at 8pm.</span></b>

UK PREMIERE: The Ultimate Guide To Doctor Who, 8pm BBC Three

To celebrate Doctor Who's upcoming 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor, outgoing Time Lord Matt Smith and his current travelling companion Jenna Coleman take an in-depth look at the programme's development over the years. They profile all …

Why 49er fans will root for Alex Smith Sunday Night against Denver

11:23 PM Tukiyooo 0

Why 49er fans will root for Alex Smith Sunday Night against Denver Why 49er fans will root for Alex Smith Sunday Night against Denver

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Why 49er fans will root for Alex Smith Sunday Night against Denverhttp://ninernoise.comI remember the day Alex Smith got drafted by the San Francisco 49ers.I still remember visiting the official webs…

China shares spark Asia rally as reform plans buoy mood

11:18 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><img src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20131118&t=2&i=812703846&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=580&pl=378&r=CBRE9AE0JDX00" width="600"/><br /><p>Credit: Reuters/Toru Hanai</p><br /><p>1 of 8. An employee of a foreign exchange trading company looks at monitors in Tokyo November 15, 2013.</p><br /><p>A weaker yen helped Tokyo's Nikkei .N225 add another 0.2 percent to reach a six-month peak. The index amassed its biggest weekly rise in four years last week.</p><br /><p>MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS added 0.5 percent, having gained 1.3 percent on Friday for its best daily rise in almost two months.</p><br /><p>Singapore shares .FTSTI gained 0.3 percent as data showed exports beat forecasts in October.</p><br /><p>It is another important week for U.S. monetary policy as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks on 'Communication and Monetary Policy' on Tuesday.</p><br /><p>The day after the central bank releases minutes from its October policy meeting, which will get trawled for hints on when it might start winding back its asset buying program.</p><br /><p>Last week, presumptive Fed chief Janet Yellen sounded in no rush to taper, reinforcing market speculation that any move was more likely in March than December.</p><br /><p>'If Fed officials think a December tapering is a realistic possibility, some hints to that effect would presumably make their way into the minutes this week,' said Michelle Girard, chief US economist at RBS.</p><br /><p>'Just making clear that policymakers were open to taking action in December if the economic data showed the impact of the government shutdown was limited would likely suffice to shift expectations.'</p><br /><p>Girard still believes March is the more likely window for a move, if only because bond markets are typically very thin in December so a taper then could risk major dislocation.</p><br /><p>Figures on consumer prices and retail sales are also due on Wednesday and are expected to show that both price pressures and spending were subdued in September.</p><br /><p>Speculation over the timing of stimulus tapering has buffeted markets since May when Bernanke first suggested a rollback of the bond-buying program was not far off.</p><br /><p>The Bank of Japan holds its policy meeting on Wednesday and Thursday and is expected to maintain its ultra-loose policy. The BOJ has been perhaps the most aggressive of any major central bank in its asset buying, putting downward pressure on the yen in the process.</p><br /><p>The U.S. dollar was trading up at 100.30 yen on Monday, near a two-month high of 100.43. The euro bought 135.20 yen not far from the Oct 22 peak of 135.52, a peak not seen since November 2009.</p><br /><p>The single currency drifted off on the U.S. dollar to $1.3478, having edged slowly higher for the past week or so as tapering talk weighed on the dollar. The dollar index .DXY edged up to 80.912.</p><br /><p>CHINA REFORM</p><br /><p>Supporting markets in Asia was cautious optimism about reform in China after the Communist Party unwrapped surprisingly bold reforms late last week.</p><br /><p>It pledged to let the market play a 'decisive' role in the economy and outlined changes designed to unleash new sources of growth.</p><br /><p>China's .CSI300 share index posted its biggest gain in two months on Friday, while the Shanghai Composite .SSEC climbed 1.7 percent.</p><br /><p>'Multiple growth-friendly measures were announced and represent the biggest freeing up of China's economic policy since the 1990s,' said analysts at ANZ in a note.</p><br /><p>'Our China economists think that if these reforms are implemented successfully it will substantially reduce the downside risks to China's economy.'</p><br /><p>In commodity markets, spot gold was steady at $1,287.05 an ounce, having crawled away from last week's trough of $1,260.89.</p><br /><p>Brent crude for January delivery eased 25 cents to $108.25 a barrel. U.S. crude for January also shed 25 cents to $94.24, having suffered their sixth weekly drop last week due to a larger-than-expected rise in inventories.</p><br /><p>(Editing by Shri Navaratnam)</p><br /></div>

Business China shares spark Asia rally as reform plans buoy mood

Credit: Reuters/Toru Hanai1 of 8. An employee of a foreign exchange trading company looks at monitors in Tokyo November 15, 2013.A weaker yen helped Tokyo's Nikkei .N225 add another 0.2 percent to reach a six-month peak. The index amassed its biggest…

UFC 167 Results: Burning Questions Heading to the Ultimate Fighter 18 Finale

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UFC 167 Results: Burning Questions Heading to the Ultimate Fighter 18 Finale UFC 167 Results: Burning Questions Heading to the Ultimate Fighter 18 Finale

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); UFC 167 Results: Burning Questions Heading to the Ultimate Fighter 18 Finalehttp://bleacherreport.comUFC 167 is in the books. The results are as follows, per the UFC website:UFC 167 Main CardGeorges …

UK RELEASE: Nativity 2! Released On DVD & Blu-ray Today

11:15 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhsoApROnsGKFJla4BSmI9Fr2Lw6_YW8VcN_yjTnkZHMXYILR834IGxZfE70r9TfeKkdfG_CwrAjbuAO8xs7hK7JOHrZtncUHFBWti2OX4f-8MKeyIQ76P4RuZjIG0QSxlmmodvy-Jf34/s1600/Nativity2poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhsoApROnsGKFJla4BSmI9Fr2Lw6_YW8VcN_yjTnkZHMXYILR834IGxZfE70r9TfeKkdfG_CwrAjbuAO8xs7hK7JOHrZtncUHFBWti2OX4f-8MKeyIQ76P4RuZjIG0QSxlmmodvy-Jf34/s640/Nativity2poster.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant's fun, festive family movie Nativity 2! Danger In The Manger is released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK today.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant stars in Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger as an anxious teacher who starts a new job at an under-achieving school and quickly finds himself struggling to cope with a wild classroom assistant, a group of under-performing kids and his own very pregnant wife. He soon becomes embroiled in a madcap plan to enter a National ‘Song for Christmas’ Competition and finds himself embarking on a disastrous road trip in search of the competition venue – the ‘Christmas Castle’. Lost in the wilderness with a class of small children, a baby and a donkey, he has to stand up, face his fears and try to lead them not only to safety, but victory. Nativity 2 is part action adventure, part musical and has all the comedy, warmth and heart that audiences love.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00APK6KEK?ie=UTF8&camp=3194&creative=21330&creativeASIN=B00APK6KEK&linkCode=shr&tag=dtennant-21&qid=1357557975&sr=8-6" target="_blank">Buy Nativity 2 on DVD here.</a> | </strong><strong style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00APKSVDS?ie=UTF8&camp=3194&creative=21330&creativeASIN=B00APKSVDS&linkCode=shr&tag=dtennant-21&=dvd&qid=1357558272&sr=1-4" target="_self">Buy Natvity 2 on Blu Ray here. </a></strong></span></div><div><strong style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A double pack featuring both Nativity! and Nativity 2! is also released today</span></strong></div><div><strong style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00EE6C4IW?ie=UTF8&camp=3194&creative=21330&creativeASIN=B00EE6C4IW&linkCode=shr&tag=dtennant-21&=dvd&qid=1376933926&sr=1-4" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; background-color: white; color: #660000; display: inline; line-height: 19px; outline: none; text-align: justify; transition: color 0.3s;">Order the double pack  DVD</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">  | </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00EE6C48C?ie=UTF8&camp=3194&creative=21330&creativeASIN=B00EE6C48C&linkCode=shr&tag=dtennant-21&=dvd&qid=1376933926" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; background-color: white; color: #660000; display: inline; line-height: 19px; outline: none; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;">Order the double pack Blu-ray</a></span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id171.html" target="_blank">Find out more about the film, see photos, and watch clips on our website here.</a></span></b></div><div><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></strong></div>

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David Tennant's fun, festive family movie Nativity 2! Danger In The Manger is released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK today.David Tennant stars in Nativity 2 Danger In The Manger as an anxious teacher who starts a new job at an under-achieving school a…

Appreciation: Nobel-winning author Doris Lessing, 94, dies

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94 Appreciation: Nobel-winning author Doris Lessing dies Appreciation: Nobel-winning author Doris Lessing, 94, dies

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Appreciation: Nobel-winning author Doris Lessing, 94, dieshttp://www.usatoday.comDuring the 1970s, at the height of the feminist movement, Doris Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook became required r…

Broncos hand Chiefs first loss of season

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Broncos hand Chiefs first loss of season

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Broncos hand Chiefs first loss of seasonhttp://www.usatoday.comDENVER — With quarterback Peyton Manning's balky right ankle wrapped up tight and then wrapped some more, the Denver Broncos got their f…

David Tennant Weekly News Update: 11th - 17th November 2013

11:07 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfvdQZo08_PnC07jZ_pfNVnFU5xeEFnEiJTKc2NRHcpG5m6T2mntZbb98rmR6VhwhQuYpwolnLPOI0xtUgvYdk-cuIpgXc8vbdo4aLT9yvuaVwmAEtNev2jOIOLQApVYCmeg6C3Zm0nRJU/s1600/AotS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfvdQZo08_PnC07jZ_pfNVnFU5xeEFnEiJTKc2NRHcpG5m6T2mntZbb98rmR6VhwhQuYpwolnLPOI0xtUgvYdk-cuIpgXc8vbdo4aLT9yvuaVwmAEtNev2jOIOLQApVYCmeg6C3Zm0nRJU/s640/AotS.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This weekly post allows you to find quick links to the last 7 days of news blogs on David Tennant's various projects, simply click the link and read the post and don't forget if you want to access older new stories you can do so in our archives.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><h3><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doctor Who</span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://tennantnews.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-day-of-doctor-cast-talk-about.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Day Of The Doctor: The Cast Talk About Filming The Doctor Who Special</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://tennantnews.blogspot.com/2013/11/video-day-of-doctor-bbc-one-ident.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">VIDEO: The Day Of The Doctor BBC One Ident Interruption</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://tennantnews.blogspot.com/2013/11/world-exclusive-day-of-doctor-clip-to.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">World Exclusive Day Of The Doctor Clip To Be Shown During BBC Children In Need</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://tennantnews.blogspot.com/2013/11/usa-doctor-who-mystery-of-haunted.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">USA: Doctor Who, The Mystery Of The Haunted Cottage Audiobook To Be Released</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://tennantnews.blogspot.com/2013/11/photos-new-doctor-who-day-of-doctor.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PHOTOS: New Doctor Who: Day Of The Doctor Images</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://tennantnews.blogspot.com/2013/11/video-doctor-who-day-of-doctor-ident.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">VIDEO: Doctor Who - 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Your first 'Almost Human' crazy theory: Karl Urban is actually a robot

11:05 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4973891917352186" data-ad-slot="2995338919" style="display: inline-block; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;">Your first 'Almost Human' crazy theory: Karl Urban is actually a robot</span></div><div><a href="http://insidetv.ew.com/">http://insidetv.ew.com</a></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Almost-human" src="http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2013/05/10/Almost-human_612x381.jpg" /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Karl Urban is a not a human being. Not in the technical sense of the term. Oh, sure, he might </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">look</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> human. He might walk and talk like a human. He might even like to </span><i style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">think</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> he’s human. But Karl Urban would be wrong! For Karl Urban is actually an extraordinary machine that has been programmed to think he is Karl Urban. Karl Urban does not know this, though sooner or later, he will, and when he does, Karl Urban will be very sad. Poor Karl Urban!</span></div><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">No, we speak not of the real-world Karl Urban, star of <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Star Trek </em>and<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dredd</em>, but the character that this fine actor plays on the new sci-fi buddy cop drama <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost Human</em>, which premiered Sunday night on Fox. Urban is John Kennex, a police officer in the near-future where human cops work side by side with robot cops. The pilot episode gives John a new partner, a humanoid android with buggy emotional components named Dorian, played by Michael Ealy. I am convinced that one of the big twists of this new series from J.J. Abrams and <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fringe</em> mastermind J.H. Wyman — both of whom are fond of big twists — is that John Kennex will mysteriously get younger as the saga progresses, while Dorian mysteriously, rapidly ages and corrodes. Okay, that was a joke. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #24bcc8; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A literary joke!</a> No, my very serious theory is that John Kennex ain’t a human being at all. He’s a robot, too! Or something very close to it. The pilot establishes that he has a bionic leg to replace the one that got blown off during a firefight with bad guys known as The Syndicate. But I assert that the rest of him is made of fabricated from sci-fi hoo-ha, too. Why do I believe in such a thing? Clues, man! Clues! Come, theorize with me.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="more-151355" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blade Runner</em> Connection. </strong><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost Human</em> — a story set in dystopian 2048, about a crusty-haunted cop who resents robots yet develops a bromantic relationship with one — is conspicuous with similarities to <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blade Runner,</em> director Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic set in dystopian 2019 , about a crusty-haunted ex-cop named Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) who hunts renegade bioengineered beings, or Replicants, and falls in love with one. First, Urban could pass for Ford, don’t you think? (Squint. See?) Second, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blade Runner</em> and the pilot episode of<i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost Human</i> have scenes set in downtown noodle joints. They also have scenes set in black-market medical clinics. (<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blade Runner</em>: The scene with Chew, the dude who makes eyeballs. <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost Human</em>: The scene with John visiting a “Recollectionist.”) In <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blade Runner</em>, Deckard was hunting Replicants who had worked in space. In<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost Human</em>, Dorian was assigned to work on a space station before being re-assigned to be John’s partner. Why is the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blade Runner</em> connection relevant to my theory that John Kennex is a robot? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant#Was_Deckard_a_replicant.3F" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #24bcc8; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Because of the popular, controversial theory that Ford’s <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blade Runner</em> character was himself a Replicant,</a> but didn’t know it. Ergo: Kennex is something like a Replicant himself. After all…</div><div class="kicker-link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold !important; line-height: 20px; padding: 5px 12px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">GET MORE EW</span>: <a href="https://subscription.ew.com/storefront/subscribe-to-entertainment-weekly/link/1005735.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #24bcc8; text-decoration: none;">Subscribe to the magazine for only 33¢ an issue!</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Kennex” = K’NEX.</strong> And <a href="http://www.knex.com/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #24bcc8; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">K’NEX is a brand of construction toys</a>, like sophisticated Tinker Toys. What this means, clearly, is that John himself is a K’Nex-like construction, which is to say, a thing assembled from synthetic, component stuff.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Synthetic Calibration Incomplete” “Synthetic Fail — Calibration Required”</strong> Throughout the premiere episode, John has problems with his bionic leg, and it keeps bleating those aforementioned FAIL alerts. What the show wants you to think is that John’s artificial shank isn’t properly meshing with his joints and junk. But the show is pulling your leg, so to speak. This is misdirection — for us, and for John. A mechanical leg that keeps reminding you that you have a mechanical leg has the psychological effect of reinforcing the idea <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that the rest of you is perfectly human</em>. And so the limb, and its alleged malfunction, is a mind game, intended to prevent John from realizing that he is wholly synthetic. My guess is that the rest of John is built from chips and and wires and silicon, artfully designed to resemble flesh and bone, blood and guts; or that he;s been developed from “programmable DNA,” another idea that gets talked about a lot in the pilot. It allows you the ability to genetically engineer custom-made people. Hence, John is a synthetic copy of his old human self — a super-fancy life-like robo-android thingy.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Recollectionist” isn’t who he says he is.</strong> John is secretly getting treatment from a doctor at a black-market medical clinic. John lost a lot of memory when the Syndicate almost blew him up two years ago, and the underground M.D. is helping John remember what he has forgotten. Or so he thinks. I submit that this so-called “Recollectionist” is working for the people who put our Humpty-Dumpty hero back together again. He’s<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">programming</em> John with memories collected from his old brain. He might be feeding him doctored versions of those memories, too. You know how John is now remembering that his ex-girlfriend was working with the bad guys? Nope. That’s what Ersatz John’s maker <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">want </em>him to think. Probably to keep him motivated to keep chasing after the Syndicate. Who’s Franken-John’s Doc Frankenstein? My money is on John’s boss, Captain Maldonado, played by Lili Taylor. You get the sense that the department is lousy with dirty cops. John, then, represents the Captain’s solution to the problem: She recruited a good cop by recreating the best one she knew.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“’Synthetic.’ There’s that word again.”</strong> Throughout the pilot, John insists on calling Dorian a “synthetic.” Dorian doesn’t like it; “synthetic” is a dirty word to him. It reduces him, denigrates him, subverts his sense of himself as unique, authentic living entity. This despite the fact that “synthetic” is, technically speaking, a perfectly appropriate term for Dorian. “’Synthetic.’ There’s that word again,” says Dorian whenever John throws it in his face. It happens enough to be suspicious. It’s almost as if the show itself is calling attention to the word, underscoring it and putting it in bold. Why? Some might say that the producers want us to view <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost Human</em> as an allegory for Otherness and bigotry, although I find this reading problematic if not offensive. (Another essay, another time.) I say the producers are hammering “synthetic” into our brains to set up the ironic revelation of the series: That John <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">himself</em> is synthetic.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John Kennex = Dorian.</strong> The marketing for <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost Human</em> has consisted of imagery that shows John partially or completely superimposed on Dorian and vise versa. This is very clever symbolism. It suggests a meaningful equivalency. John is “almost human” in that he is trying to recover his humanity after having life figuratively blown up and his body nearly and literally blown to smithereens. Dorian is “almost human” because he’s the most life-like android ever built, with emotions and flaws and stuff. Together, they represent humanity’s increasing reliance and enmeshment with technology, which may ultimately lead to a future in which sentient machines are indistinguishable from human beings. But I would argue that this imagery is a clue to Kennex’s true nature. Moreover, the pilot episode is full of lines that push this notion that John and Dorian have more in common than John would like to admit. Says one jerk police officer, about John and Dorian: “That’s perfect. <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two cops from the scrap heap</strong></em>.” Captain Maldonado, to John, about Dorian: “Because he’s special. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just like you</em></strong>.” Dorian to John: “<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If I were like you</em></strong>,  I wouldn’t know myself, either.” Bottom line: Kennex is just like Dorian . They’re both “almost human” … BECAUSE THEY’RE BOTH TOTALLY ROBOTS.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Looking forward to seeing where <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Almost Human</em> — one of the season’s most promising new series — goes from here, regardless of the rightness or wrongness of my theory. What did you think of the premiere? Will you be watching next week? Please share your thoughts — and theories! — in the message board below.</div></div></div>

Your first 'Almost Human' crazy theory: Karl Urban is actually a robot Your first 'Almost Human' crazy theory: Karl Urban is actually a robot

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Your first 'Almost Human' crazy theory: Karl Urban is actually a robothttp://insidetv.ew.comKarl Urban is a not a human being. Not in the technical sense of the term. Oh, sure, he might look human. H…

UK RELEASE: The Escape Artist Released On DVD Today

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<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKPi-bEiDSyh_4BzaGqy1f8NSMxPKo0HLWTChEuPGB0Jjr8LIhdft-ydnIbI7pguFhI4DuuQEQme6Ig2q-fWgsEr50KDGrnlzdo697tmaLxMdFQIcsVl8pOOGzEJbvfVsY3xs83XnqQVw/s640/dvd.jpg" /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant's recent BBC thriller The Escape Artist is released on a two disc DVD set in the UK today.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will <st1:city w:st="on">Burton (David Tennant) </st1:city>is a talented junior barrister of peerless intellect and winning charm who specializes in spiriting people out of tight legal corners. He is in high demand as he has never lost a case.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But when his talents acquit the notorious prime suspect in an horrific murder trial, that brilliance comes back to bite him with unexpected and chilling results, not to mention a shocking twist in the tale.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Starring: David Tennant, Toby Kebbell, Sophie Okonedo and Ashley Jensen</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Extras include:</b></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"></div><ul style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em; text-align: justify;"><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interviews with Cast and Crew</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">B-Roll Footage</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photo Gallery</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Subtitles</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00EJFEN50?ie=UTF8&camp=3194&creative=21330&creativeASIN=B00EJFEN50&linkCode=shr&tag=dtennant-21&=dvd&qid=1377751770&sr=1-3&keywords=the+escape+artist" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Buy The Escape Artist on DVD here</span></b></a></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id195.html" style="display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more about the series on our website</span></a></div></div>

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David Tennant's recent BBC thriller The Escape Artist is released on a two disc DVD set in the UK today.Will Burton (David Tennant) is a talented junior barrister of peerless intellect and winning charm who specializes in spiriting people out of tigh…

Jaw

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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><img src="http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20131014/rs_560x415-131114154341-560.Mentalist-WWK-jmd-111413.jpg" width="600"/><br /><p>Colleen Hayes/Warner Bros. Entertainment</p><br /><img src="http://www.eonline.com/static/columnists/bricks/watch_with_kristin.jpg" width="600"/> Warning: We're about to run down the biggest TV moments from Sunday night. If you don't want to be spoiled on a particular show, skip to the next!<br /><p><strong>The Mentalist:</strong> After ten years of obsessively searching, has Patrick Jane finally discovered the identity of Red John-the man who killed his wife and daughter? Yup! In tonight's fast-paced episode, Jane concluded that Red John is none other than... his CBI boss, Gale Bertram! Jaw, meet floor.</p><br /><p>What happened to the other suspects, you ask? Bret Stilles, Ray Haffner and Thomas McAllister were - ahem, allegedly - killed in the explosion that rocked Jane's house at the end of last week's episode. However, Reede Smith survived and surrendered himself, admitting to being one of Red John's associates, but not Red John himself. By the episode's end, Bertram attempted to kill Jane in the hospital but was thwarted by an unsuspecting Lison and our assailant was last seen in the back of a getaway car.</p><br /><strong>PHOTOS AND SCOOP: We now have a click-through version of Spoiler Chat. Enjoy!</strong><br /><p><strong>The Walking Dead:</strong> He's ba-ack! The Governor, aka the psychotic, vindictive, and tormented character that we all love to hate returned tonight-and it was interesting. In an all-flashback episode, we found exactly what the governor (now going by 'Brian Herriot') has been up since his kill-everyone-in-sight freak-out last season. After being abandoned by his last two minions, a distraught and crazed governor met a super sweet family, and slowly but surely grew to love them.</p><br /><p>With a new girlfriend, a new daughter-figure, and a new firecracker sister-type surrounding him, The Governor has officially replaced his family and reignited his fight for life. When chased by zombies, (because that's like, totally normal in this series) the Governor and Megan (his new replacement daughter) escaped the walkers by jumping into a deep, grave-like pit. 'I'm never going to let anything happen to you,' he told her. And just when all seemed like it was going to be A-OK, the Governor looked up, and saw Martinez (his former minion) standing there.</p><br /><strong>PHOTOS: Fall TV Status Check: What's Been Picked Up and What's Been Canceled?</strong> <img src="http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20131014/rs_560x415-131114154239-560.Once-WWK-jmd-111413.jpg" width="600"/><br /><p>ABC/Jack Rowand</p><br /><p><strong>Once Upon a Time</strong> Holy freakin' crap! If you missed tonight's Once Upon a Time, we truly apologize, because you missed a magical (and mind-blowing!) hour of TV. No lie, there was pixie dust practically exploding from our screens. Let's get to the goods: Peter Pan is... (drumroll please!) Rumplestiltskin's father! Can you believe it?!</p><br /><p>Before he was the Dark One, Rumple traveled to Neverland as a boy with his magic-hungry father, Malcolm. However, when Malcolm realized that adults couldn't have any fun on the island, he traded his son to The Shadow and transformed into the 17-year-old Pan that we've feared for the past eight episodes. Sheesh, that's one twisted family tree!</p><br /><p>In present-day Neverland, Rumple came face-to-face with his slowly dying Daddy and tried to trap Pan/Malcolm in Pandora's Box. However, Pan had yet another trick up his sleeve: He switched the box with a fake and instead trapped Rumple in the box. Rude. Henry, who was still under the impression that he needed to 'save magic,' stupidly gave Pan his heart and then fell to the ground. So Henry died, Pan is stronger than ever, and Rumple is trapped in a box. Bravo, Once Upon a Time. Bravo.</p><br /><strong>PHOTOS: 12 TV Shows That Are Way Up-Or Way Down-in the Ratings</strong><br /><p><strong>Almost Human:</strong> <strong>J.J. Abrams'</strong> newest venture into the sci-fi sanctum premiered tonight, and it was almost too good to miss! Starring a futuristic odd couple, Almost Human is a series set thirty-five years in the future when humans in the Los Angeles Police Department are paired up with lifelike androids. (Think Robocop, but with a lot less armor and a lot more heart.) Want to know more? Of course you do! Check out what Abrams had to say about the series and vote in our latest save it or sink it poll!</p><br /><strong>PHOTOS: Unbelievable TV Moments!</strong></div>

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Colleen Hayes/Warner Bros. Entertainment Warning: We're about to run down the biggest TV moments from Sunday night. If you don't want to be spoiled on a particular show, skip to the next!The Mentalist: After ten years of obsessively searching, has Pa…

OPEC says $160

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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><img src="http://www.azernews.az/article_photo/opec2.jpg" width="600"/><br /><p>The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries raised its forecasts for its crude-oil basket price and long-term world oil demand growth, according to the latest annual World Oil Outlook report.</p><br /><p>The report from OPEC, which provides a view on the world oil market from 2010 to 2035, said oil prices CLZ3 are forecast to 'remain stable in the long run,' though its estimates are a bit higher than last year`s report. OPEC said it expects its nominal OPEC Reference Basket price (ORB) to average $110 a barrel over the period to 2020 and then rise to $160 by 2035.</p><br /><p>In its 2012 report, OPEC had said it assumed that the ORB nominal price would average $100 a barrel over the medium term before rising with inflation to reach $120 by 2025 and $155 by 2035. The ORB is made up of a dozen different types of crude oils.</p><br /><p>For the medium-term period of 2012-2018, demand is expected to increase by an average of 0.9 million barrels per day annually, reaching 94.4 million barrels per day by 2018, OPEC`s latest report said. In last year`s report, it projected that by the year 2016, demand would reach 92.9 million barrels a day.</p><br /><p>For the long-term, it expects demand to rise by nearly 20 million barrels per day for the 2012-2035 period to 108.5 million barrels per day by 2035. That`s up from its previous forecast for demand of 107.3 million barrels per day by 2035.</p><br /><p>The demand increase represents the first upward revision in oil-demand growth since the World Oil Outlook (WOO) was first published, according to OPEC.</p><br /><p>'This year`s WOO demonstrates again that there is no shortage of oil and resources are plentiful,' it said. 'Increasing global oil demand is supported by an expanding diversity of supply sources: crude oil including tight oil, NGLs [natural-gas liquids], oil sands gas- and coal-to-liquids and biofuels.'</p><br /></div>

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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries raised its forecasts for its crude-oil basket price and long-term world oil demand growth, according to the latest annual World Oil Outlook report.The report from OPEC, which provides a view on th…

Asia Stocks Gain After China Reforms as Oil Falls With Bond Risk

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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>Bloomberg News</p><br /><img src="http://www.bloomberg.com/image/iWhl0wL63YE4.jpg" width="600"/><br /><p>Asian stocks rose for a third day and regional credit risk declined after China vowed to carry out the broadest expansion of economic freedoms since at least the 1990s. The won and ringgit strengthened for a third day, while oil and metals retreated.</p><br /><p>The MSCI Asia Pacific Index added 0.9 percent at 1:22 p.m. in Tokyo. A measure of Chinese shares listed in Hong Kong headed for the highest close since May. Standard & Poor's 500 Index (SPX) futures slid 0.1 percent after the gauge rose to a record. The cost of insuring corporate and sovereign bonds in Asia from non-payment was poised for the lowest since Oct. 31. The won and ringgit each gained 0.2 percent. Oil lost 0.3 percent as silver and copper fell at least 0.3 percent.</p><br /><p>Chinese leaders pledged to allow more private investment in state-controlled industries, loosen the nation's one-child policy and expand farmers' land rights, as data today showed new home prices rose in 69 of 70 cities in October. New York Federal Reserve Bank President William C. Dudley is scheduled to appear today, after Janet Yellen, the nominee for chairman, said last week she wants to maintain the central bank's record stimulus program until the U.S. economy improves.</p><br /><p>'The initial reaction to the Chinese communication was a negative one but as we're getting more detail, it looks like this is a revolutionary change,' Nader Naeimi, the Sydney-based head of dynamic asset allocation at AMP Capital Investors Ltd., which manages $131 billion, told Bloomberg Television. 'We're starting to get optimism coming through the market. The turnaround in sentiment and the improving macro data should push the equity market higher into 2014.'</p><br />China Reforms<br /><p>Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index jumped 2.2 percent after the measure rallied 1.7 percent on Nov. 15, the most since Oct. 30. The Hong Kong China Enterprises Index surged 4.3 percent while the Shanghai Composite Index advanced 1.4 percent and the CSI 300 Index gained 1.5 percent.</p><br /><p>Policy makers in China post the Communist Party plenum signaled a bigger focus on fiscal concerns, with local governments to be allowed to sell debt and officials to be rated on measures including borrowing levels. Extra land rights for farmers also featured in the reform package.</p><br /><p>The Topix climbed 0.4 percent, set for an almost six-month high, while South Korea's Kospi gained 0.3 percent, rising for a third day. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Index (AS51) dropped 0.3 percent as local banks retreated.</p><br /><p>Thailand's SET Index (SET) gained 0.4 percent even after data showed the economy grew less than analysts estimated last quarter on weaker exports and lower consumption and investment. Indonesia's Jakarta Composite Index climbed 1.2 percent, while shares in Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines also increased.</p><br />Credit Risk<br /><p>The Markit iTraxx Asia index of 40 investment-grade borrowers outside Japan fell 1 basis point to 132 basis points as of 8:23 a.m. in Hong Kong, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. prices show.</p><br /><p>Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren is scheduled to speak in Abu Dhabi today. Other Fed speakers today include Charles Plosser of the Philadelphia Fed, and Narayan Kocherlakota, president of the Fed Bank of Minneapolis. Yellen, currently Fed vice chairman, said during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee last week that it's important policy makers don't cut support for the U.S. economy too soon given the limited range of tools available to the central bank, which has to promote a 'very strong recovery.'</p><br /><p>The Federal Open Market Committee probably will wait to taper its bond buying to $70 billion at its March 18-19 meeting, from the current pace of $85 billion a month, according to the median estimate of 32 economists in a Nov. 8 Bloomberg survey.</p><br />Won, Ringgit<br /><p>The won climbed 0.2 percent to 1,061.44 per dollar, set for its strongest close since Nov. 7. The Bank of Korea reported a 1.4 percent drop in producer prices in October from a year earlier, the 13th straight month of declines, a report today showed.</p><br /><p>The ringgit gained 0.2 percent to 3.1946 against the greenback, climbing for a third day. Data last week showed Malaysia's economy grew 5 percent last quarter year-on-year, exceeding all but three estimates in a Bloomberg poll.</p><br /><p>The Bloomberg's U.S. Dollar Index, which monitors the greenback against 10 major counterparts, eased 0.1 percent to 1,016.14 after capping the biggest weekly drop in a month. The yen traded at 100.17 per dollar after touching 100.44 last week, the weakest since Sept. 11, and was at 135.15 per euro from 135.21 at the end of last week.</p><br />Oil, Gas<br /><p>The S&P GSCI index of commodities traded at 616.41 from 616.92 on Nov. 15, when the gauge capped a 1.1 percent weekly gain, the the first such increase in a month. Natural gas rose for a third day on forecasts weather in the U.S. will be colder than usual, boosting demand for heating. Futures in New York increased 0.5 percent after surging 2.8 percent last week.</p><br /><p>West Texas Intermediate crude retreated to $93.60 a barrel as Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude producer, exported the most oil in eight years. WTI dropped 0.8 percent last week, its sixth weekly decline and the longest stretch of weekly losses since 1998.</p><br /><p>Palladium lost 0.3 percent to $731.10 an ounce after reaching a one-month low of $722.55 on Nov. 15. Silver slipped 0.4 percent to $20.7215 an ounce, and gold dropped 0.2 percent, snapping three days of gains.</p><br /><p>Copper for delivery in three months fell for the first time in three days, losing 0.3 percent to $6,991.00 a metric ton, as spending on China's power plants and electricity grid slowed. Zinc, nickel and tin also declined.</p><br /><p>To contact the reporters on this story: Emma O'Brien in Wellington at eobrien6@bloomberg.net; Glenys Sim in Singapore at gsim4@bloomberg.net</p><br /><p>To contact the editor responsible for this story: Emma O'Brien at eobrien6@bloomberg.net</p><br /></div>

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Authorities say 2 killed, 20 others injured in mining accident in southwest Colorado - Seattle Post Intelligencer ::  <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Authorities-say-2-killed-20-others-injured-in-4989702.php">http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Authorities-say-2-killed-20-others-injured-in-4989702.php</a><br /><br><br /><br>Musharraf's spokesman criticises decision on treason trial - The Hindu ::  <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/south-asia/musharrafs-spokesman-criticises-decision-on-treason-trial/article5363486.ece">http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/south-asia/musharrafs-spokesman-criticises-decision-on-treason-trial/article5363486.ece</a><br /><br><br /><br>'Stalking sahebzadas': Congress targets Narendra Modi, BJP for alleged Snoop ... - NDTV ::  <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/stalking-sahebzadas-congress-targets-narendra-modi-bjp-for-alleged-snoop-gate-447445">http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/stalking-sahebzadas-congress-targets-narendra-modi-bjp-for-alleged-snoop-gate-447445</a><br /><br><br /><br>Dozens dead in Russian plane crash - BBC News ::  <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24980055">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24980055</a><br /><br><br /><br>Obama Defends Iran Dealmaking Amid Dispute Over How Much Relief - Businessweek ::  <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-11-18/obama-defends-iran-dealmaking-amid-dispute-over-how-much-relief">http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-11-18/obama-defends-iran-dealmaking-amid-dispute-over-how-much-relief</a><br /><br><br /><br>Egypt train and bus crash kills 24 outside Cairo - BBC News ::  <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24982621">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24982621</a><br /><br><br /><br>Sony Monitors PlayStation 'Issues' as Sales Top 1 Million - Bloomberg ::  <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-17/sony-sells-1-million-playstations-in-north-america-in-24-hours.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-17/sony-sells-1-million-playstations-in-north-america-in-24-hours.html</a><br /><br><br /><br>Broncos hand Chiefs first loss of season - USA TODAY ::  <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/11/18/afc-west-broncos-hand-chiefs-first-loss-of-season/3624105/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/11/18/afc-west-broncos-hand-chiefs-first-loss-of-season/3624105/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Tornadoes, severe thunderstorms kill at least 6 in Midwest - Fox News ::  <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/11/17/midwest-under-high-storm-threat/">http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/11/17/midwest-under-high-storm-threat/</a><br /><br><br /><br>Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies aged 94 - BBC News ::  <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24979129">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24979129</a>

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Authorities say 2 killed, 20 others injured in mining accident in southwest Colorado - Seattle Post Intelligencer :: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Authorities-say-2-killed-20-others-injured-in-4989702.phpMusharraf's spokesman criticises d…

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