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>> nuky powerball winners. kerry sanders is in missouri where we'll learn the identity of the state's newest multi-millionaire in a morning.

>> reporter: the story of the winning ticket sold right here at this gas station is yet to be fully be told, but we do have some details. we know that the family will claim half of this $587 million has lived here in dearborn for generations, and their winning numbers were on a ticket that cost $10. dearborn is a small town where everyone knows everyone. and where this woman who asked that we not lose her last name told us her daughter-in-law bought five tickets for $10 but waited until late thursday morning to check the numbers.

>> so she goes out to the car and says, well, i guess i'll check it, so she was looking at it and she says is that a 5 or a 6, i just couldn't see. she said i think it is a 6. she came by here and was shaking when i opened the door.

>> reporter: at the trex mart off interstate 89 where the ticket was sold, those who have known the couple since the husband was in boy scouts say a more deserving couple could not have won.

>> probably couldn't happen to a better guy.

>> reporter: husband and wife who have already shown their ticket to missouri lottery officials have three adult children and a 6-year-old, a girl they adopted from china.

>> it's wild. crazy to think that somebody that comes in here on a regular basis possibly won the powerball.

>> reporter: for much of thursday the question was do the numbers hold meaning? dearborn is but 35 miles north of kansas city , home to the royals baseball team , and those winning lottery numbers, they match royals greats, most of them hall of famers, 5, george brett , 23 mash gubicza. 16, bo jackson , 22, dennis leonard , 29 dan quisenberry and the powerball 6, willy wilson, and while it's an odd coincidence the royals spring training is in arizona where that other big winning ticket was sold. while the retired hall of famer jersey number story is fast becoming legend, it looks like it may be not true. i'm hearing that the purchase of the tickets was a quick pick, but we'll probably find out more about this, as lottery officials have announced that later today at the local high school there will be a press conference with details. savannah?

>> all right. kerry sanders , thank you.

>>> david troutman is a high school friend of the missouri couple which are expected to be revealed as one of the powerball winners in just a few hours as kerry mentioned, and he's here with us exclusively. david , good morning to you.

>> good morning.

>> high school friends. please tell me you had some sort of pact back in high school to split the lottery if you ever won it.

>> yes, i saved his life.

>> good story.

>> no.

>> you can try that out a little bit later. i should mention we are not mentioning the couple's name until it's confirmed by lottery officials. you know them and went to high school with them. a couple in their 50s, from dearborn , too. what else can you tell us about them?

>> he was in just an all-around good guy. he was ffa, childhood sweet hearts , really -- he was into football, sports, everybody loved mark.

>> i know you're facebook friends with them. have they posted anything on facebook since this all happened?

>> yeah. i was on facebook , and i saw that his wife had posted and said thank you, god. we won the lottery. of course, everybody in town and all the friends gave all thumbs up and really couldn't have happened to a better guy.

>> i understand your town dearborn , missouri is a very close-knit small community. fair to say everybody knows each other. what impact is this having on the town?

>> hard to say. word spread that he won so fast. i heard it was a winner from dearborn , and then when i -- literally by the time i walked in the door my mom was on the phone and said he -- he won, and, it was him, but -- who knows what the impact will be on dearborn .

>> well, great to see good news travel fast and happen to good folks. david troutman,

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AgilOne Raises $10M From Mayfield And Sequoia To Help Marketers Tap Into Big Data

AgilOne, a a cloud-based predictive marketing intelligence company, has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Mayfield Fund, with participation from Sequoia Capital. This brings AgilOne?s funding to a total of $16 million to date.

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You Can Now Drive the Corvette C7… In Gran Turismo 5

The much anticipated reveal of the seventh-generation Corvette is still months away, but that didn?t stop Chevrolet from letting the public get a first taste from behind the wheel? in a video game. Released yesterday, a digital version of the C7 prototype is now available for download as a free add-on car for the PS3 racing-sim Gran Turismo 5.

Chevy says that GT5 developer Polyphony Digital went to great lengths to replicate the prototype?s real-world driving character as it exists now. So, ostensibly, drivers will get a somewhat accurate idea of the power behind Chevy?s newest small block V-8, the LT1, and the handling characteristics of the C7?at least as much as GT5 driving physics will allow.

Still, Chevy isn't going to reveal the much-anticipated looks of the new 'Vette; that will wait for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January. So the C7 players can download for the game is cloaked in the camouflage carmakers use when testing a prototype?the kind you see in spy shots that's supposed to hide the car's sheetmetal.

Silliness aside, the simulation camo admittedly only increases the mystique behind the C7, and reminds us just how drawn-out Chevy's tease campaign for the newest Corvette really is. So until the big day comes on January 13, driving enthusiasts will be restricted to digital tarmacs.

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Tom Cole, GOP Congressman, Urges Republicans To Agree To Obama Tax Plan

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) on Tuesday pressed his fellow Republicans to go along with President Barack Obama's plan to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans for the time being in order to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff."

In an interview with Politico, the Republican said he has encouraged his colleagues in the House to extend the Bush tax rates for incomes below $250,000 immediately, after which they could push for an extension of the cuts for incomes above that level. Without any congressional action, all of the Bush tax cuts will expire on Jan. 1.

"I think we ought to take the 98 percent deal right now," Cole told Politico. "It doesn't mean I agree with raising the top two. I don't."

Cole expressed his position during a meeting of the House GOP whip team on Tuesday, arguing that voting for an extension on the cuts for all but the top 2 percent would stop an increase for most Americans and put Republicans in a better position to fight higher rates for the top earners down the road.

His statement caught several Republican offices off guard on Tuesday night, with aides saying that they hadn't heard of his comments until they were posted online.

A top Republican aide told The Huffington Post that leadership continued to hold the belief that tax rates should not be raised as part of a fiscal cliff deal and that, instead, lawmakers should look toward raising revenue by closing tax loopholes and limiting deductions.

Senate Democrats, who earlier this year passed a bill extend the Bush tax cuts for incomes under $250,000, were pleased with the comments.

"We agree with Congressman Cole," said Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). "Speaker Boehner should take up the Senate-passed bill to extend the middle-class tax cuts right away."

The position is a shift for Cole, who has served as a Deputy Whip for the party's House conference and once chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee. The Oklahoma Republican penned an editorial earlier this month warning about the potential dangers of increasing taxes on the wealthy.

"Allowing taxes to rise for just the top brackets may seem like an acceptable middle ground by comparison, but this path would be enormously damaging to the economy," he wrote.

Cole said Tuesday that he doesn't see his proposal as a violation of Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge, which many of his Republican colleagues have nevertheless disavowed in recent days.

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Study shows increase in negative messages about Muslims in the media

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WASHINGTON, DC, November 26, 2012 Organizations using fear and anger to spread negative messages about Muslims have moved from the fringes of public discourse into the mainstream media since the Sept. 11 attacks, according to new research by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sociologist.

Titled, "The Fringe Effect: Civil Society Organizations and the Evolution of Media Discourse about Islam since the September 11th Attacks," the study appears in the December issue of the American Sociological Review.

Christopher Bail, an assistant professor of sociology in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences, used plagiarism detection software to track the influence of 1,084 press releases about Muslims from 120 organizations on more than 50,000 television transcripts and newspaper articles produced from 2001 to 2008.

"I found that organizations with negative messages about Muslims captivated the mass media after the Sept. 11 attacks, even though the vast majority of civil society organizations depict Muslims as peaceful, contributing members of American society," said Bail, who also is a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at the University of Michigan. "As a result, public condemnations of terrorism by Muslims have received little media attention, but organizations spreading negative messages continue to stoke public fears that Muslims are secretly plotting to overthrow the U.S. government."

Bail said the mass media has not only contributed to the spread of negative messages about Islam, but also given fringe organizations the opportunity to raise funds and build social networks within elite conservative circles.

"They are now so much a part of the mainstream that they have been able to recast genuinely mainstream Muslim organizations as radicals," he said.

Most importantly, Bail added, "The rising tide of anti-Muslim sentiment in the American media not only tests foundational principles about religious tolerance, but may also validate foreign extremists who argue that the United States is at war with Islam, since American media messages routinely travel to the Middle East."

Bail is working on a book that expands on this study. The book will explain how fringe groups not only create cultural change in the mass media, but also public policy and public opinion more broadly.

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The American Sociological Association, founded in 1905, is a non-profit membership association dedicated to serving sociologists in their work, advancing sociology as a science and profession, and promoting the contributions to and use of sociology by society. The American Sociological Review is the ASA's flagship journal.

The research article described above is available by request for members of the media. For a copy of the full study, contact Daniel Fowler, ASA's Media Relations and Public Affairs Officer, at (202) 527-7885 or pubinfo@asanet.org.

For more information about the study, members of the media can also contact Kim Spurr, UNC's Associate Director of Communications, at (919) 962-4093 or spurrk@email.unc.edu.

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WASHINGTON, DC, November 26, 2012 Organizations using fear and anger to spread negative messages about Muslims have moved from the fringes of public discourse into the mainstream media since the Sept. 11 attacks, according to new research by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sociologist.

Titled, "The Fringe Effect: Civil Society Organizations and the Evolution of Media Discourse about Islam since the September 11th Attacks," the study appears in the December issue of the American Sociological Review.

Christopher Bail, an assistant professor of sociology in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences, used plagiarism detection software to track the influence of 1,084 press releases about Muslims from 120 organizations on more than 50,000 television transcripts and newspaper articles produced from 2001 to 2008.

"I found that organizations with negative messages about Muslims captivated the mass media after the Sept. 11 attacks, even though the vast majority of civil society organizations depict Muslims as peaceful, contributing members of American society," said Bail, who also is a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at the University of Michigan. "As a result, public condemnations of terrorism by Muslims have received little media attention, but organizations spreading negative messages continue to stoke public fears that Muslims are secretly plotting to overthrow the U.S. government."

Bail said the mass media has not only contributed to the spread of negative messages about Islam, but also given fringe organizations the opportunity to raise funds and build social networks within elite conservative circles.

"They are now so much a part of the mainstream that they have been able to recast genuinely mainstream Muslim organizations as radicals," he said.

Most importantly, Bail added, "The rising tide of anti-Muslim sentiment in the American media not only tests foundational principles about religious tolerance, but may also validate foreign extremists who argue that the United States is at war with Islam, since American media messages routinely travel to the Middle East."

Bail is working on a book that expands on this study. The book will explain how fringe groups not only create cultural change in the mass media, but also public policy and public opinion more broadly.

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About the American Sociological Association and the American Sociological Review

The American Sociological Association, founded in 1905, is a non-profit membership association dedicated to serving sociologists in their work, advancing sociology as a science and profession, and promoting the contributions to and use of sociology by society. The American Sociological Review is the ASA's flagship journal.

The research article described above is available by request for members of the media. For a copy of the full study, contact Daniel Fowler, ASA's Media Relations and Public Affairs Officer, at (202) 527-7885 or pubinfo@asanet.org.

For more information about the study, members of the media can also contact Kim Spurr, UNC's Associate Director of Communications, at (919) 962-4093 or spurrk@email.unc.edu.

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North Texas woman faces deportation as she cares for ailing children

by TERESA WOODARD

WFAA

Posted on November 27, 2012 at 11:16 PM

FARMERS BRANCH -- Inside a Farmers Branch apartment, markings on a wall prove just how quickly children grow.

There's a line for Ashly, a few years ago. Below that a line for Ramses, and under that, a line for Axel. All three children are now much taller than when the markings started.

Not far from the markings, Ramses, now four, and Axel, now two, share a bed and watch a movie about a superhero. It's entertaining to kids with super-complicated conditions.

"I don't know how to explain it, but I'm very concerned for my sons," said their mother, Erica Dominguez in broken English.

Ramses has a heart condition and a throat defect. He was, at one time, on the heart transplant list at Children's Medical Center. He can't swallow whole foods. He has treatments and doctors appointments every three months, at least, Erica said. Axel was born with water on his brain. The effects of that are not completely known.

Erica came to the United States from Mexico, and then gave birth to three children. The oldest child, Ashly, is now 8.

In 2010, Erica was caught shoplifting $60 worth of merchandise from a Macy's. She plead guilty and completed her probation.

"It's something dumb that I did," she said through a translator.

She has now been ordered to leave the country.

"I don't want to go back to Mexico," she said. "I want to stay here for [my sons'] treatment."

Erica has been told she can take her children with her, or leave them here with their father, who works two jobs.

"I don't want them to suffer for the mistake I made," she said.

Erica appealed the deportation order, providing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with stacks of medical records, including a letter from a pediatrician stating it is in Ramses' best interest for his mother to remain in Dallas. She also gave them a letter from a Children's Medical Center social worker saying he was at risk of "serious health complications including sudden death" if he left the city.

ICE said a child's health is something agents consider when determining whether someone should be deported.

Advocate Ralph Isenberg, who runs the Isenberg Center for Immigration Empowerment, is working on her case. One appeal has been denied. But now he and Erica's attorney are asking for a year's stay on the deportation.

"We're simply asking that the woman not be deported," he said. "She made an error in 2010, and she's paid for that error."

"In the case of extreme family separation, you are permitted to parole or allow people in the U.S.," he said. "And this is clearly a case of extreme family separation."

Erica said if she's forced to leave the country, she will leave her children in Texas.

"My kids need to stay here to grow and get better," she said. "Why do they have to suffer for my mistake?"

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Jill Kelley Lawyers Fight Claims Over Petraeus Scandal

TAMPA, Fla. ? A Tampa socialite embroiled in the scandal that cost CIA Director David Petraeus his job fought back Tuesday after more than two weeks of silence as her attorneys released emails, telephone recordings and other material that they say show she never tried to exploit her friendship with Petraeus.

Jill Kelley, through her attorneys, went on the attack against a New York businessman who accused her of incompetence in her work trying to set up a deal he was negotiating with South Korean companies; an attorney who accused her of name-dropping and of being a social climber; and the FBI agent who first leaked her name in connection with the Petraeus scandal.

Kelley, 37, became the focus of national media attention earlier this month after it was revealed that she was the recipient of anonymous emails from Paula Broadwell, Petraeus' biographer and mistress.

Broadwell allegedly told Kelley she should stay away from the former general and Gen. John Allen, who had replaced Petraeus as leader of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Petraeus and Allen had become friends with Kelley and her husband, Scott Kelley, a noted cancer surgeon, when the generals served at U.S. Central Command, which is headquartered at Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base. Kelley became an unofficial social ambassador for the base, hosting numerous parties for the officers.

The scandal this week cost Kelley her appointment as an honorary consul for the South Korean government, which she had gotten because of her friendship with Petraeus. The Koreans said she had misused the title in her personal business dealings.

Kelley's attorneys sent a cease-and-desist letter to New York businessman Adam Victor; a complaint to the Florida bar against Tampa attorney Barry Cohen, and a letter to the U.S. Attorney's Office demanding that it investigate to find out who in the FBI leaked her name to the news media. Representatives of attorney Abbe Lowell emailed copies of the letters to The Associated Press.

In one of the letters, Lowell asks W. Stephen Muldrow, the assistant U.S. Attorney in Tampa, why Jill and Scott Kelley's names were released in the course of the FBI's investigation of Petraeus and Broadwell. Lowell said federal privacy laws could be applicable to the couple's information.

"As you know, there are several rules and laws that seek to protect United States citizens against such leaks," Lowell wrote.

He also wanted to know whether the U.S. Attorney's Office was investigating the source of the leaks.

"You no doubt have seen the tremendous attention that the Kelleys have received in the media," wrote Lowell. "All they did to receive this attention was to let law enforcement know that they had been the subjects of inappropriate and potentially threatening behavior by someone else."

Another letter spoke of a business deal that Kelley tried to broker with South Korea.

Kelley met Victor in late August at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, where they discussed having Kelley represent Victor's company on a coal-gasification deal being negotiated with South Korean companies.

On Aug. 30, according to the documents provided by Lowell's office, Victor sent Kelley an email saying his company was seeking bids from four major Korean firms ? Samsung, Hyundai, GS and GK ? and that he expected the bidding to potentially reach $3 billion.

There are several back-and-forth emails through mid-September as Victor and Kelley tried to negotiate a fee for her work, with Kelley saying she was seeking 2 percent of the deal and Victor trying to clarify what she meant.

There were no other emails until Victor sent one Nov. 9, when Kelley's name surfaced in the Petraeus scandal. He wrote two more times after that before she responded.

When she finally did, he sent back another email in which he remarked, "When I heard about Petraeus, I thought of you." In a follow-up email, he asked if she was still in a position to help with Korea. She didn't respond.

In a Nov. 14 interview with the AP, Victor said it had become clear that Kelley was not a skilled negotiator and that he had wasted his time dealing with her.

In a letter released Tuesday and dated Nov. 21, Lowell accused Victor of seeking his "15 minutes of fame" by talking to the news media about his client. Lowell said Victor had defamed Kelley with his clients and misstated her desire for 2 percent of the profits by saying she wanted 2 percent of the entire deal. Lowell also accused Victor of unspecified inappropriate behavior toward Kelley.

"If you want to continue seeking publicity for yourself, that is one thing," Lowell wrote to Victor. "However, if you do that by maligning a person, that is something else." He then accused Victor of casting Kelley in a false light and suggested his attorney contact Lowell to discuss the matter.

Victor told the AP late Tuesday that he never accused Kelley of wrongdoing, only that she was naive and not an experienced negotiator. He also said his female assistant was present every time he met with Kelley.

"It's not a crime to be a novice," Victor said. "I don't know why they are talking to me."

The third letter was sent from Kelley's attorney Tuesday to the Attorney Consumer Assistance Program, which handles complaints about lawyers on behalf of the Florida Bar. In that letter, Lowell accused Cohen of breaking attorney-client privilege by publicly speaking about conversations he had with Kelley in 2009 while representing her in a dispute she had with a tenant. In those conversations, Lowell said, they discussed her friendships with various military personnel.

Kelley's sister, Natalie Khawam, once worked as an attorney in Cohen's firm and later sued him for sexual harassment and breach of contract. In court responses, Cohen said Khawam "has a judicially documented recent history and continuing propensity for the commission of perjury."

Cohen said Tuesday evening that he had not seen Lowell's complaint letter and that Kelley had "lost the battle in the court of public opinion."

"No matter how many high-priced lawyers and publicists she employs, she has been exposed for what she is," he said.

Prior to Tuesday, Kelley, her attorney and her publicist had only publicly addressed the situation once, in a statement to the news media when the scandal first broke.

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Spencer reported from Miami.

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Audra McDonald new 'Live From Lincoln Center' host

In this photo provided by "Live from Lincoln Center," Broadway star Audra McDonald poses for a portrait in front of the Lincoln Center in New York. PBS said Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, that the singer-actress is the new host of "Live from Lincoln Center." McDonald will emcee seven broadcasts from December through spring 2013, starting Dec. 13 with "The Richard Tucker Opera Gala." (AP Photo/"Live from Lincoln Center," Chase Newhart)

In this photo provided by "Live from Lincoln Center," Broadway star Audra McDonald poses for a portrait in front of the Lincoln Center in New York. PBS said Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, that the singer-actress is the new host of "Live from Lincoln Center." McDonald will emcee seven broadcasts from December through spring 2013, starting Dec. 13 with "The Richard Tucker Opera Gala." (AP Photo/"Live from Lincoln Center," Chase Newhart)

In this photo provided by "Live from Lincoln Center," Broadway star Audra McDonald poses for a portrait in front of the Lincoln Center in New York. PBS said Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, that the singer-actress is the new host of "Live from Lincoln Center." McDonald will emcee seven broadcasts from December through spring 2013, starting Dec. 13 with "The Richard Tucker Opera Gala." (AP Photo/Live from Lincoln Center, Chase Newhart)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Broadway superstar Audra McDonald is adding a new chapter to her long history with Lincoln Center.

The singer-actress is the new host of "Live From Lincoln Center," PBS said Tuesday.

McDonald will emcee seven broadcasts from December through spring 2013, starting Dec. 13 with "The Richard Tucker Opera Gala" and Dec. 31 with the New York Philharmonic's New Year's Eve gala.

"It's a great honor. I'm thrilled that they came to me and trusted me to do it," said McDonald, 42, whose five Tony Awards include a trophy this year for "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess."

Her memories of the Lincoln Center performing arts complex in Manhattan run deep.

"I remember watching Beverly Sills broadcasting from the Met (the center's Metropolitan Opera House) on my PBS channel at my home in Fresno," McDonald said, adding that she was amazed at the venue's size and "inspired by the music."

As a high school student, she had the chance to visit the center and recalled thinking, "This is where I want to be some day."

That wish was fulfilled when she moved to New York to attend The Juilliard School, which has its campus there.

Stepping in as host of the PBS series "feels like it's my way of thanking Lincoln Center," she said.

"We can't imagine a more perfect match," said Elizabeth Scott, the center's executive in charge of the TV series. McDonald's passion for the performing arts is "infectious," Scott added.

McDonald, who starred in "Private Practice" as Dr. Naomi Bennett, has performed on the long-running PBS showcase several times, including programs with Elvis Costello, Patti Lupone and the New York Philharmonic.

She will be working especially hard New Year's Eve when she hosts and performs in the holiday program, "One Singular Sensation: Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch" (check local listings for time).

"We'll see if I fall down by the end of the evening, or by the middle," she said, lightly. What she'll sing is a secret for now, but McDonald said it's among Hamlisch's most famous pieces.

The composer, who died in August at age 68, created more than 40 film scores and won a Tony and the Pulitzer for Broadway's "A Chorus Line."

"Live From Lincoln Center" is in its 37th broadcast season. In recent years, artists and actors including Yo-Yo Ma and Alec Baldwin have filled the host's job that previously saw long tenures by famed opera singer Sills and TV personality Hugh Downs.

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7 Essential Self-Heating Garments To Keep You Warm This Winter

Just because the weather outside is frightful, doesn't mean you have to stay indoors huddled close to a delightful fire. There's plenty of things to do in the winter that don't involve shovels or shopping. More »

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Dryland Farmers Work Wonders without Water in U.S. West

A generation of extremely efficient farmers increasingly sees irrigation as a non-viable alternative while mulling over a switch from water-intense cotton and wheat to rain-fed sorghum and grains

By Bruce Dorminey and DailyClimate.org

Image: Flickr/joshuasmith

SEATTLE ? In the long rain shadow of the Cascade Mountains, where dryland wheat farmers have eked out livings for more than a century, climate change is very much an issue of the present.

The rain gauge is always in the back of the mind for Mike Nichols, a wheat farmer cultivating 20,0000 acres across two counties in south-central Washington state.

It has to be:? Nichols doesn't irrigate, and with less than six inches of precipitation a year, his wheat crop is already on the edge of what's considered possible for dryland farming. When drought hits or if, as expected, the West gets drier, his operation will be in trouble.

"The last eight years have been pretty good," said Nichols. "But we are putting some [cash] aside, because down the line we know we're going to go through another drought."

Although Nichols remains stoic about the potential that climate change could eventually have on his livelihood, his innovative dryland farming methods enable his crops to better handle low moisture conditions.?

But there are legions of farmers in the West and Midwest dependent on dwindling aquifers and over-subscribed rivers for irrigation. If today's drought conditions continue, a whole new generation of growers may join Nichols and return to wholly rain-fed farming.

To cope with Washington's aridity, Nichols crops on a rotating two-year period, leaving half his fields remaining fallow at any given time.? Partly as a result, Nichols currently averages 18 bushels an acre. The average in Washington ? where most wheat farms are dryland ? is closer to 53 bushels per acre.

Nichols and others like him continue to wring profits from their yields through the practice of extremely efficient farming, using no-tillage methods to preserve moisture and soil, while leaving at least half the ground fallow at any given time.

Such dryland farming practices represent an ever-evolving science; albeit, one that the rest of the country may increasingly heed.

Irrigation is increasingly seen as a non-viable alternative in many areas. In Washington state, farmers tapping into the depleted Odessa aquifer may be forced into dryland agriculture to survive.? Unless these farmers get permission to recharge such aquifers with waters from the Columbia River, in a decade's time the Odessa is projected to dry up.

Aquifer depletion is also affecting the southern Great Plains and West Texas.

With lower water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer, West Texas cotton farmers are already switching from irrigation to dryland cropping, which could cut their yields by at least half ? from about 600 pounds to 300 pounds of cotton per acre.

Dryland farmers save money on irrigation, But other production costs remain about the same even as yields drop, said Jerry Hatfield, laboratory director at the USDA's National Lab for Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, Iowa.? That means an economic hit for growers turning from irrigated to dryland agriculture.

But many farmers don't have a choice. Some 12 million acres are already under such cultivation in the western U.S. alone, a number set to rise in the near future.

Part of that is water management: Atop the Ogallala aquifer in Texas and eastern Kansas, some groundwater levels have dropped so much that it's cost prohibitive to pump water to irrigate crops, said Brian Fuchs, a climatologist at the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

Farmers there are switching back to traditional crops, like sorghum and wheat more suited to a semi-arid environment.

But part of the transition is due to a changing climate, scientists say.

Arizona has been in a drought since the mid-1990s. Farmers around Phoenix, which averages only 8 inches of rainfall a year, continue to produce some of the country's highest-yielding cotton by flooding their fields with water from a huge local reservoir system. Nancy Selover, Arizona's state climatologist in Tempe, says that climate change is already eating into mountainous snow packs needed to replenish water reservoirs and aquifers during the state's long hot summers.

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John McCain sat down with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday to talk about everything from Susan Rice to the GOP's obsession with abortion. Turns out, he's softening a little on Rice. McCain previously shouted to anyone who would listen that Rice mishandled her tour of duty on the Sunday shows, and that he would attempt to filibuster the President if he nominated her for Secretary of State. On Sunday, McCain said he was open to sit down and talk about the Benghazi attacks with Rice, presumably like rational human beings. "I'd be glad to have the opportunity to discuss these issues with her," McCain said. "I think she deserves the ability and the opportunity to explain her position." That doesn't mean he's totally coming around on her, though. He still has some questions for her.?"Why did she say that al-Qaeda has been decimated in her statement here on this program?... They're on the rise in the Middle East," McCain said.?McCain, who has never met a foreign policy issue he didn't like, also said the U.S. should stop supporting Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's decree that gave him supreme executive power. More notably, McCain urged the rest of GOP brethren to shut up when it comes to abortion already, and he endorsed immigration reform.?"We have to have a bigger tent. No doubt about it. And obviously we have to do immigration reform," McCain said. "There is no doubt whatsoever that the demographics are not on our side." He advocated for a new Republican Party that isn't a bunch of contrarians.?"We are going to give a much more positive agenda. It can?t be just being against the Democrats? You?ve got to be for things, and we have to give them something like the 'Contract for America,'"he said. On abortion, McCain defended his own pro-life stance, but insinuated that some members of the party aren't really fit to talk about such delicate matters without stuffing their foot in their mouth.?"As far as young women are concerned, I don?t think anybody like me ? I can state my position on abortion, but other than that, leave the issue alone when we are in the kind of economic situation, and frankly, national security situation that we?re in."

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Rep. Peter King said he would support violating?Grover Norquist?s?26-year-old year old no taxes pledge?during his appearance on NBC's?Meet the Press?on Sunday using probably the most hilarious defense imaginable.?"The world has changed and the economic situation is different," King said.?"If I were in Congress in 1941, I would have signed a declaration of war against Japan. I'm not going to attack Japan today." King said the country shouldn't be putting itself into a corner and eliminating any options.?"We should not be taking iron-clad positions," King said. "I have faith in John Boehner to put together a good package. I think so far he?s been pretty conciliatory in his language. I think John is going to do everything he can to avoid raising tax rates." Of course, King pointed to Reagan as an example of the two parties actually being able to compromise.?"The bottom line is that we can't have sequestration, we can't go off the fiscal cliff," King said. "If Reagan and O'Neill can do it, Boehner and [Democrats] can do it." It should be noted that McCain had a similar sentiment in his Fox News Sunday interview, and Lindsey Graham did, too, during his interview on This Week.?

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Barney Frank blamed the Tea Party members of Congress elected in 2010 for the fiscal cliff, basically, on CNN's State of the Union. What he really said was that they were the ones who didn't want to compromise on anything, and that's why the country is in the position it's in.?"I do believe that there were elected some people in 2010, tea party influence, who repudiated the notion of compromise, and some of them said it exclusively," Frank told host Candy Crowley. "You have to start from a position of principle and then you work together. I think in 2007 and 2008 we showed how can you do that."?Frank was asked if he thought the President would be able to make a deal and not drive the country over the proverbial fiscal cliff it's currently barreling towards. "If there was a decision-maker who is being complacent in the face of this, we should be very critical. But the American Constitution and the American people have put people into a shared power situation who have had very different views," Frank?said. "Now, one thing is different. Maybe I'm being a little partisan here, but it does seem to me that in 2010 some people came to the Congress?who said compromise is a bad thing. I hope that as the result of the last election there's going to be less of that, and every one of us has to be prepared to vote for something we don't like."

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Joe Lieberman still has suspicions about how the Benghazi talking points handed to Susan Rice were edited the way they were, but that doesn't mean he isn't open to her becoming Secretary of State. "I think, particularly in fairness to Ambassador Rice, there ought to be the widest public airing of what led to her statements and others in the administration particularly obviously if she's going to be nominated for secretary of state or some other high office," Lieberman told Candy Crowley on State of the Union. Crowley asked Lieberman if Rice would be an "automatic no" if she did get the Secretary of State nod, and the Congressman said he would be open to the idea. "She's had a distinguished career up until now," Lieberman said. "Secondly, I don't know, I don't feel that I know exactly what she was told before she went on TV that Sunday morning, and I think we ought to find out before we decide on whether she's a good or bad public servant."

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Sen. Dick Durbin was certainly chipper on Sunday morning when asked about the chances of making a debt deal to avoid the fiscal cliff on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopolous. He also outlined what his goals for the deal are, and they include raising taxes on the wealthy.?"Let the rates go up to 39 [percent]. Let us also take a look at the deductions. Let's make sure that revenue is an integral part of deficit reduction," Durbin said. And yes, on my side of the table, bring entitlement reform into the conversation." When it was pointed out that the markets seem to be optimistic because they were up, generally, across the board this week, Durbin could only agree.?"They should be optimistic, because we can solve this problem," he said.

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Someone who isn't starting to let up on Susan Rice: Sen. Lindsey Graham. McCain's tag team partner in the Rice outrage is still banging that drum as McCain's head has clearly cooled, at least a little.?"I don't believe that the best intelligence on Sept. 16 was that there was a spontaneous event in Benghazi that led to a mob that became a riot," Graham said on This Week, referencing the day Rice did a tour of the Sunday shows to talk about the attacks. Dick Durbin, also on the panel, even made a crack about Graham's persistence:?"If this were a football game, the critics of Ambassador Rice would be penalized for piling on." Everyone laughed.?"This is about four dead Americans, this is about a national security failure," Graham said. Well, Graham didn't.?"I blame the president above all others. When she comes over, if she does [as a nominee for Secretary of State], there will be a lot of questions asked of her about this event and others."

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John Kyl said the 24/7 hyper accelerated news cycle of today is at least partially to blame for Congress' inability to get anything done on State of the Union.?"For one thing, the media now have a lot of time to fill: 24-7, cable TV, talk radio. They like to follow exciting things. Since most of it is political, they want to follow the contest, the fight, the scandal, and that's point number one," Kyl said. He longed for the old days before everyone actually paid attention to what Congress was doing.?There used to be "about a year after the election in which you legislated?then by about March or April of the election year things started to get pretty partisan and it was pretty hard to get things done," Kyl argued.?"We've now taken that to almost beginning the week after the election for a total period of two years, and so both parties are trying to set the other party up to make political mistakes and be criticized politically," he continued. "Media plays along with it because it makes good news. I don't know what the answer to that is, but I think that's part of the reason why it's been much more difficult for Congress to get things accomplished."?

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Coach K (Mike Kryzewski) led the Duke Blue Devils to four NCAA championships and the men?s Olympic basketball team to two gold medals.? Much has been shared about his coaching style and his management philosophies.

One that strikes us is his ?next play shout out?.? As the game unfolds and a particularly thrilling or disappointing play occurs, he immediately shouts out ?next play.? ?Why?? Rather than admiring a dunk, alley-oop or last minute three point shot ? or fretting over a missed shot, or an easy lay up by the opposing team; Coach K wants his Blue Devils to quickly focus on what to do next. ?Reflecting on what just happened is okay ? but lingering around thinking about it, according to Coach K, isn?t beneficial.

We were reminded of this point while thinking about how sales reps and their managers react after one of their plays. ?For example, some spend an inordinate amount of time ?enjoying? a successful sales call ? thinking:? ?Wow, after that great presentation we should have this one in the bag.?? Meanwhile the competition is talking with their internal champion about how their next call can be a ?get make in the game? type play.

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the other side of the continuum ? sometimes too much time is spent wallowing why something went wrong and missing opportunities for future success. ??It is important great players don?t fret over a missed shot ? even if it is a game changer. ??Sales reps sometimes forget this confidence lesson.? They become gun shy after something goes awry in a sales opportunity. ?Regardless of the specific nature or cause of the failure, the impact is the same ? the sales rep seeks to minimize risk and avoid future situations of a like kind.

No sports team is going to consistently win championships without a great coach and the same is true for sales teams.? Even great basketball players need coaching and top sales reps still need great sales managers. And, as Coach K?s counterparts in the world of sales would share ? a part of great sales coaching is skill development ? but a part is also how to deal with exhilarating success and crushing failure.

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In a positive sign for the U.S. economy, shoppers took advantage of deep discounts?both online and in?stores over the?Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Black Friday?online sales topped $1 billion for the first time, according to?comScore, which measures online behavior.

Amazon.com was the most-visited retail website on Black Friday. Wal-Mart's website was second, followed by sites run by Best Buy, Target and Apple, comScore noted.

E-commerce accounts for less than 10 percent of consumer spending in the United States. However, it is growing much faster than bricks-and-mortar retail as shoppers are lured by low prices, convenience, faster shipping and wide selection.

More brick-and-mortar stores were open on?Thanksgiving this year, with retailers such as Target, Sears and Toys R Us joining in, while others including Wal-Mart and Gap either extended their operating hours or had more stores doing business.

Traditionally, stores had waited until Black Friday, the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, to make their big push. ?

U.S. retailers' sales over the four-day holiday weekend increased an estimated 12.8 percent, according to?a survey from the National Retail Federation.

More than?35 million Americans visited retailers? stores and websites Thursday ? up from 29 million last year,?according to the?survey. Despite concerns that the early?Thanksgiving hours would cut into Black Friday results, nearly 89 million Americans still shopped on Black Friday -- up?3.1 percent over the 86.2 million who shopped that day last year.

After years of belt-tightening in a tough economy, Americans this year were?apparently in the mood to shop.?An estimated 139.4 million adults visited U.S. stores and websites from Thanksgiving through Sunday, up from 131 million last year, according to?the National Retail Federation. Total spending for the weekend rose to $59.1 billion from $52.4 billion last year.

?From green beans to great deals, millions of Americans found time this Thanksgiving to make the most of retailers? promotions and enjoy a special family holiday,? said NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay.?

When accounting for people who shopped on more than one day, the total number of visits to stores and websites was 247 million, up from 226 million last year. Shoppers also spent more --?$423 compared to?$398 last year.

The survey, conducted Nov 23-24 by BIGinsight for NRF, polled 4,005 consumers and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.6 percent. The number of shoppers for Sunday is estimated.?

Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity.?

?There?s no question that millions of people were drawn to retailers? aggressive online promotions this weekend, making sure to research and compare prices days in advance to ensure they were getting the best deal they could,? said BIGinsight Consumer Insights Director Pam Goodfellow in a statement. ?However, with shopper traffic increasing at department, discount, and clothing stores over the weekend, it?s clear that consumers still recognize Black Friday as one of the biggest shopping days of the year, as they have for decades.??

It's not clear yet whether strong Black Friday sales will weaken growth on Cyber Monday, which has been the biggest e-commerce day in the United States in recent years.

"Cyber Monday will be a big day, but not as much of a big day as it has been in the past," said Mia Shernoff, executive vice president for Chase Paymentech, a payment-processing unit of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. "Faster broadband Internet connections in the office used to drive this. But now many consumers have faster connections at home and smart phones and tablets -- they don't have to wait."?

Information from Reuters was included in this?report.?

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Congo's government won't negotiate unless rebels leave Goma

The Congolese President met with the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels for the first time since they seized the city of Goma, about a week ago. The rebels have shown no sign of leaving the city, and plan to march on others.

By Jonny Hogg and Richard Lough,?Reuters / November 25, 2012

Congolese M23 rebel soldiers are seen on the road to Rushuru near Buhumba some 16 miles north of Goma, Thursday. Rebel spokesman Lt. Col. Vianney Kazarama vowed Thursday that the fighters would press forward toward seizing the strategic eastern town of Bukavu, which would mark the biggest gain in rebel territory in nearly a decade if it were to fall.

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Congo?said on Sunday it would not negotiate with M23 rebels in the east until they pulled out of the city of?Goma, but a rebel spokesman said?Kinshasa?was in no position to set conditions on peace talks.

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Congolese President?Joseph Kabila?met with M23 for the first time on Saturday after an urgent summit in?Uganda?where regional leaders gave M23 two days to leave?Goma, which the rebels seized six days ago after U.N.-backed government troops melted away.

Eight months into a rebellion that U.N. experts say is backed by neighbouring?Rwanda, the rebels have so far shown no sign of quitting the lakeside city of one million people.

The rebels say they plan to march on other cities in the east, and then strike out across the country to the capital?Kinshasa, across 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of dense jungle with few roads, a daunting feat achieved 15 years ago by Kabila's father.

Amani Kabasha, a spokesman for M23's political arm, welcomed the meeting with Kabila but questioned the government's resolve to end a crisis that risks engulfing the region.

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SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? Yemeni security officials say that four Shiites were killed when unknown assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade into a gathering of worshippers observing the holy day of Ashoura.

Officials say the attack took place Saturday in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, near the airport road.

The assailants fired the weapon at a celebration hall where worshippers had gathered, killing four people outside. No further details were immediately available.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

Tensions have long existed between extremist Salafis, who are Sunni Muslims, and Shiite tribesmen known as Hawthis who have also at times battled the government. Nearly 200 people died in fighting late last year between Salafis and Hawthis in northern Saada province.

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Once upon a time, privacy was not a word that was foreign to the English language. In that time long ago, police and governments would often have to manufacture an incident (like 9/11) in order to successfully push for more legal powers to monitor private conversations or access data without a warrant.

However, in 2012, the premise of the invasion of privacy is no longer necessary. Now, the debate itself is a foregone conclusion that agencies will be granted greater power to surveil the populace. The only question taken into consideration is what might be the best method that these organizations can utilize in order to take advantage of these coming powers.

Such is now the case with various Internet chat services like Skype and other companies or products utilizing Voice over IP technology, which law enforcement complains makes the task of eavesdropping on ?suspects?? communications much more difficult.

As explained by MassPrivateI in the article, ?Police want to covertly eavesdrop (spy) on voice over IP chats,? Voice over IP software allows for individuals to ?make phone calls over the Internet by converting analog audio signals into digital data packets.?

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Because of the way the packets are sent over the Web, sometimes by a 'peer-to-peer' connection, it can be complex and costly for law enforcement agencies to listen in on them. This has previously led some countries, like Ethiopia and Oman, to block VoIP services on 'security' grounds. In the United States and Europe, too, VoIP has given authorities a headache. The FBI calls it the going dark problem' and is pushing for new powers to force Internet chat providers to build in secret backdoors to wiretap suspected criminals? online communications.

In other words, law enforcement is irate that a technology exists that does not allow them to easily and illegally monitor the private conversations of American citizens. This, of course, ignores the fact that government technology is light years ahead of anything available to the average person. Thus, to believe that surveillance technology for VoIP software does not exist already is clearly naive.

Regardless, as is always the case when law enforcement and government claim they do not have enough sweeping power to ?keep us safe,? they are swiftly granted more.

In this case, however, it is the private sector (joined at the hip with the government, military, and intelligence agencies at the highest levels) that is rushing in to save the day. Specifically, Dennis Chang, President of Sun Valley-based company VOIP-PAL, has recently obtained patents to what has been termed a ?legal intercept technology? that would allow a host of government agencies to ?silently record? VoIP communications.

Predictably, Microsoft has also applied for a similar patent that would allow an agency to ?secretly intercept? communications via VoIP, amend the communications content, and store it. Although only recently announced to the public, the patent was filed as far back as 2009.

Chang?s VOIP-PAL patent was filed even earlier in 2007.

In the Microsoft patent, Patent Number 20110153809, it is stated that data that is linked with a request to establish a communication is ?modified to cause the communication to be established via a path that includes a recording agent.?

Among the possibilities of the types of modification that may occur during this process, ?adding, changing and/or deleting data within the data" are all potential methods of alteration.

After the data has been modified, it is then passed to a protocol entity which uses the data to establish a communications pathway than includes a recording agent which is then ?able to silently record the communication? according to the patent application.

Yet one should not be under the impression that this secret intercept surveillance technology is directed only at programs like Skype. As MassPrivateI writes,

The technology could allow the monitoring of conversations, voice messages and video conferences over a variety of devices, including smartphones, laptops and gaming devices.

. . . . . . .

Communications that can be intercepted may be conducted over computers, laptops, set-top boxes, programmable consumer electronics devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), smartphones, gaming devices, printers, computing devices in automobiles and home media centers, the application states.

With this new technology, individuals can be identified by their usernames and subscriber data, as well as by billing records that can associate usernames with names and addresses. This would make not only calls available for easy interception, but also ?any other data streams such as pure data and/or video or multimedia data.?

Of course, it is now becoming well-known that governments and other militant privacy violators do not necessarily even need such technology. Nor do they even need the legal authority for access. This is because major companies like Skype have been notorious for easily surrendering users? personal data, even at times volunteering to submit the information to the requesting agencies. In a recent report by RT, it was described how Microsoft-owned Skype eagerly handed over the data of one of its users to a Texas-based intelligence firm.

Yet the legal authority to grind the boot of the state further into the face of American privacy is not being neglected either. Considering the recent announcement regarding the infamous Senator Patrick Leahy?s revision of a bill allegedly designed to protect American?s privacy into one that actually eviscerates privacy even more, there should be little doubt that the global surveillance control grid is moving ahead unabated.

In the end, the new VoIP surveillance software is yet one more block in the Berlin wall of surveillance and globalized control. As the Brookings Institution has already stated, the labor and cost needed to monitor, evaluate, and store every form of communication and data within the borders of the United States is minuscule when compared to other products.

With this in mind, anyone who believes those in control of these technologies are merely making wish lists for the future will find themselves both surprised and disappointed soon enough.

Read other articles by Brandon Turbeville here.

Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor's Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of three books, Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, and Five Sense Solutions?and Dispatches From a Dissident.?Turbeville has published over 175 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville's podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV.? He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.?

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