Spybot - Search & Destroy 2.0

Twelve years ago "spyware" wasn't in most people's vocabulary, so early antispyware products like Ad-Aware and Spybot had to work on education. It's not entirely clear which of them had the first full-scale antispyware?even Spybot's creator isn't sure. But Spybot was definitely one of the first. Spybot - Search & Destroy 2.0 is the first update in a long, long time. It's now billed as a full antivirus that promises to destroy "spyware, malware, adware and other malicious software." It does no such thing.

Spybot is free for non-commercial use, though the company solicits donations. The $13.99 Home edition adds scheduled scan and a couple other features, and eliminates the nag screens. For $24.99 you get the Professional edition which, among other things, gets you access to the protected repair environment and the ability to create rescue CDs. The core antivirus protection is the same.

Some earlier editions of the product included the oddly-named TeaTimer module for realtime protection against new malware attacks. The current edition is strictly a cleanup tool.

Spybot's main window includes icons for common tasks like checking for updates, launching a scan, and checking files in quarantine. It even has an icon to donate money to the designers. Checking a box for Advanced User Mode reveals almost a dozen more icons, though not all of them are functional in the free edition.

Easy Installation
I had no trouble installing Spybot on my twelve malware-infested test systems. Avira Antivirus Free 2013, AhnLab V3 Click, and several others had difficulty with installation on a system that will only boot in Safe Mode. V3 Click actually wouldn't install at all. Spybot sailed through that installation just as it did the other eleven.

I frequently encounter problems after a scan due to over-zealous deletion of system files. F-Secure and VIPRE Antivirus 2013 needed tons of tech support work to restore damaged test systems. Spybot didn't do any damage, but that's because it didn't do much of anything.

Dismal Malware Removal
I ran an initial update on each test system. Wow, the Spybot updater is loaded with unnecessary detail, including the precise version of every component file. Once the update completed, I launched a full system scan. Spybot offers to clean up temporary files before starting a scan; I accepted its offer.

My impression of a typical virus scan is that the antivirus looks at each file and checks whether it matches a signature, or a behavior pattern, or a heuristic signature. Judging from its progress display, Spybot instead goes through its list of known malware and checks whether each is present. I noticed some venerable names like Aureate and Virtumonde in the display.

On completion, Spybot displays everything it found. This includes various types of malware, but also includes insecure system settings, tracking cookies, recently-used file lists, and other distractions. It looks like a lot, but in fact on two of my test systems Spybot missed all three of the installed malware samples.

At the end of each scan, a window pops up explaining what to do "if you suspect that Spybot might not have detected some issues that other scanners have detected." It offers to disable third party cookies (for whatever good that would do) or submit files for analysis.

Spybot detected just 32 percent of my current malware samples, knocking Anvi Smart Defender (which got 60 percent) out of last place. It did a terrible job removing the few samples it did find. Fully half of those were still running after Spybot's supposed cleanup. Spybot's overall score of 1.5 points is also a new low.

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Two powers, Qatar and Iran, try to sway Hamas

FILE- In this Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 file photo, Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani waves to the crowd as he and and Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, not pictured, arrive for corner-stone laying ceremony of a Qatari funded rehabilitation center in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, Pool, File)

FILE- In this Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 file photo, Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani waves to the crowd as he and and Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, not pictured, arrive for corner-stone laying ceremony of a Qatari funded rehabilitation center in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, Pool, File)

FILE- In this Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 file photo, the Emir of Qatar Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, second right, and Gaza's Hamas Prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, third left, arrive for the corner-stone laying ceremony of a new center providing artificial limbs, in Bait Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ali Ali, Pool, File)

In this picture taken on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, an Iranian female worshipper holds an anti-Israeli placard, in a pro-Palestinian demonstration after Friday prayer, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

In this picture taken on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, Iranian worshippers hold posters showing supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, in a pro-Palestinian demonstration after Friday prayer, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ? The courtship of Hamas between rivals Iran and Qatar has been one of the Middle East's intriguing subplots of the Arab Spring. The bloodshed in Gaza has now sharpened their competition for influence with the Palestinian militant group and the direction it takes in the future.

Qatar has sought to use its vast wealth to win over Hamas with investments and humanitarian aid and encouraging Arab partners to do the same ? part of the hyper-rich U.S. allied nation's broader campaign to bring under its wing Islamist movements that have risen to power in the region the past two years. Qatar's influence with Hamas could edge it away from armed action toward diplomacy.

Iran, meanwhile, is invigorating its longtime role as the builder of the rocket arsenal for Hamas' military wing.

For Hamas, there are benefits in both directions ? and it's happy to play both sides. During a celebration rally in Gaza City after an Egyptian-mediated cease-fire came into place ending fighting between Israel and Hamas, Gazans wildly waved flags of Qatar, along with those of Egypt and Turkey, in gratitude for those countries' diplomatic support.

At the same time, Hamas' leader-in-exile Khaled Mashaal, who is based out of Qatar, gave a very public thanks to Iran for standing by Gaza with crucial military assistance. Fighters in Gaza also hailed the new reach of their arsenal, with Iranian-designed Fajr-5 rattling Israel by reaching the outskirts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Visiting the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday, Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani, who is close to the country's supreme leader, promised leaders of Palestinian militant groups that his country would continue to boost "the resistance's capabilities in confronting the Zionist arrogance and aggression," according to Palestinian official Khaled Abdul-Hamid, who attended the meeting.

The reminder of Hamas' reliance on Iran for weapons could help smooth a relationship that has been running through a rough patch because of the civil war in Syria, Iran's top ally.

Embarrassed by the Syrian regime's crackdown on a mainly Sunni Muslim uprising, Hamas leaders based in Damascus for years broke with Syria and left for Qatar and Egypt. Though Iran continued to send weapons to Hamas, the break undermined the "Axis of Resistance" grouping Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas that Iran has assembled in the Arab world.

It's doubtful Iran can fully reclaim its position as the main big brother for Hamas. But Tehran's image is certain to receive some lingering boost in Gaza.

For Hamas, hyper-rich Qatar is a political and economic lifeline, a key part of the militant group's attempts to bolster its ties with the Western-backed Gulf states in efforts gain more international legitimacy. Last month, Qatar's emir became the first head of state to visit the Gaza Strip since Hamas took control five years ago. The Gulf state pledged nearly $500 million in aid and a song called "Thank you, Qatar" played on Gaza radio and TV as the emir was given a hero's welcome.

During the heat of the Gaza battle the past week, Qatar's prime minister gave a blistering dressing down to the Arab League during an emergency meeting, saying Arab nations had to do more to fight Gaza's poverty and isolation than just pass resolutions.

"We can't give hope without delivering," Sheik Hamad Bin Jassem Al Thani told the gathering last week in Cairo.

Two days after his outburst at the Arab League meeting in Cairo, Sheik Hamad suggested that his country would be willing to open dialogue with Israel on a long-term Gaza truce if it leads to lifting the blockade. The Arab Spring, he added, has made Israel feel more vulnerable, but also perhaps more ready to make deals.

"We need to talk with everyone to reach a comprehensive peace," he told CNN on Monday.

For Qatar, the outreach to Gaza also is part of far wider ambitions to become a major policy-shaper in the Middle East. The tiny Gulf nation has emerged as a strong backer of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has risen to power in Tunisia and Egypt after the fall of those countries' autocratic leaders in early 2011.

In February, Qatar brokered talks between Hamas' Mashaal and his longtime rival, internationally backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Qatar has also sought to influence Syria's rebels. This month, it hosted Syrian opposition groups in a breakthrough effort to unite rebel factions under one coalition, which has opened the way for greater international recognition and promises of aid. Qatar had led calls to supply Syrian rebels with heavy weapons to counter air and tank attacks by Bashar Assad's forces. Qatar also was a key backer of the Libyan uprising.

On Thursday, Qatar also invited the newly formed Syrian opposition coalition to appoint its ambassador to the Gulf state, the Qatari news agency reported.

Salman Shaikh, director of The Brookings Doha Center in Qatar, said it's not a matter of "having to go all for Iran or all for Qatar.'

"What Qatar is trying to do is change the reality. They are trying to blaze a trail that will weaken the international isolation of Gaza from the Israeli blockade," he said.

Qatar has so far stopped short of offering any kind of military support for Gaza to avoid a rift with Washington, Israel's most powerful ally.

Iran takes a very different view.

Officials in Tehran boasted this week about its longtime arms support for Hamas militants ? part of Iran's bookend strategy to equip anti-Israel factions in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon on Israel's northern border.

Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of the Revolutionary Guard, said Iran supplied fighters in Gaza with the technology to "quickly" produce the Fajr-5 missiles. The statement fits with previous Iranian denials that it is not directly sending missiles to Gaza, but suggests close coordination on construction and movement of supplies, presumably through the smugglers' tunnels linking Gaza and Egypt.

The Gaza fighting, at the least, bought Iran some restored street credibility as its image was battered by its backing for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

"The war with Israel reminded Hamas that Israel is the main issue not Syria," said Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, a professor in politics in Tehran's Allameh University.

But Hamid Reza Shokouhi, editor of Iran's independent Mardomsalari daily, said the bump in Iran's popularity with Gazans could be only "short-term." He questioned whether Iran could sustain its influence in Gaza against the almost unlimited resources of Qatar and its Gulf partners.

Iran's Foreign Ministry and a parliamentary committee have applied for permission to visit Gaza in the coming weeks via the border crossing with Egypt, said Hasan Qashqavi, deputy foreign minister in charge of consular affairs.

Qatar's prime minister said the competition for influence is Gaza only likely to intensify as other nations such as Turkey and Egypt reach out.

"We are not trying to take Hamas from anybody else, from Iran or others," he said in the CNN interview. "Hamas, they have to decide for themselves. I think they are pretty mature to decide for themselves."

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Associated Press writer Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.

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9.2-million-year-old rhino skull preserved by instant 'cooking to death' in volcanic ash

ScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2012) ? Less than 2% of Earth's fossils are preserved in volcanic rock, but researchers have identified a new one: the skull of a rhino that perished in a volcanic eruption 9.2 million years ago.

The find is described in a paper published Nov. 21 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Pierre-Olivier Antoine and colleagues from the University of Montpellier, France.

The fossil, found in Turkey, is thought to be that of a large two-horned rhino common in the Eastern Mediterranean region during that period. According to the researchers, unusual features of the preserved skull suggest that the animal was 'cooked to death' at temperatures that may have approached 500? C, in a volcanic flow similar to that of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy in 79 A.D.

The rhino's grisly death was near-instantaneous, and followed by severe dehydration in the extreme heat of the eruption. As the researchers describe its end, "the body was baked under a temperature approximating 400?C, then dismembered within the pyroclastic flow, and the skull separated from body." The flow of volcanic ash then moved the skull about 30 km north of the eruption site, where it was discovered by the four member research team.

Although other researchers have previously identified fossils of soft-bodied organisms preserved in volcanic ash, organic matter near an active volcanic eruption is usually quickly destroyed by the high temperatures, making a fossil such as this one extremely rare.

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Macau grapples with booming casino economy

In this Nov. 25, 2012 photo, a gambling school students practice on a table in Macau, China. The students sitting around the roulette table are getting schooled on how to quickly calculate payoffs for the casino game by glancing at how the bets are placed. Elsewhere in the room, the biggest mock casino in Asia, other students are playing practice hands of blackjack or learning how to run a craps table. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

In this Nov. 25, 2012 photo, a gambling school students practice on a table in Macau, China. The students sitting around the roulette table are getting schooled on how to quickly calculate payoffs for the casino game by glancing at how the bets are placed. Elsewhere in the room, the biggest mock casino in Asia, other students are playing practice hands of blackjack or learning how to run a craps table. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

In this Nov. 25, 2012 photo, a gambling school student practices on a table in Macau, China. The students sitting around the roulette table are getting schooled on how to quickly calculate payoffs for the casino game by glancing at how the bets are placed. Elsewhere in the room, the biggest mock casino in Asia, other students are playing practice hands of blackjack or learning how to run a craps table. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

In this Nov. 25, 2012 photo, a gambling school students take a class in Macau, China. The students sitting around the roulette table are getting schooled on how to quickly calculate payoffs for the casino game by glancing at how the bets are placed. Elsewhere in the room, the biggest mock casino in Asia, other students are playing practice hands of blackjack or learning how to run a craps table. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

MACAU (AP) ? In a nondescript building around the corner from the world's biggest casino, students at the Macau Polytechnic Institute are in class. Huddled at a long table topped with green felt, they pay close attention as their instructor writes a series of diagrams and numbers on a whiteboard.

But this isn't a regular math lesson. The students sitting around the roulette table are getting schooled on how to quickly calculate payoffs for the casino game by glancing at how the chips are placed. Elsewhere in the room, the biggest mock casino in Asia, other students are playing practice hands of blackjack or learning how to run a craps table.

As many as 8,000 vocational students take courses at the institute's Gaming Teaching and Research Center each year, while a small number of students learn casino skills as part of degree courses. The center's popularity attests to Macau's rapid rise from a seedy backwater to the world's biggest gambling market after the government ended a casino monopoly a decade ago.

Foreign operators such as Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Wynn Resorts Ltd. have invested billions to build glitzy resorts, drawing tens of millions of Chinese gamblers annually that have supercharged the economy. The casino industry's surging growth has created tens thousands of well-paying jobs, raised living standards and boosted the city's economy. The casino boom has been largely peaceful, in contrast to the violence that rocked the city in the 1990s when triads, or Chinese criminal gangs, fought for control of the lucrative VIP rooms.

A wave of new casino megaresorts that are expected to open from mid-2015 will only bolster the former Portuguese colony's standing as the world's top gambling market. But they'll also add to the mixed blessing of a transformation that has produced a lopsided economy and society. Property prices have surged and inequality has widened. Some lament the embrace of materialism and the erosion of traditional community values.

"I have thought of another job, but the salaries at other jobs are lower than the casinos. Now I've become used to this lifestyle," said Marcos Wong, a 27-year-old VIP room supervisor at the Grand Lisboa casino earning 20,000 patacas ($2,500) a month, much higher than the average wage in Macau, a special administrative region of China.

"We didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up so of course I had to study more to try to change my destiny. But to change one's destiny, the reality is you need a lot of money," said Wong, one of the degree students taking the roulette class. He works night shifts while taking courses during the day to upgrade his skills in the hopes of being promoted to a managerial position.

Voracious demand for casino workers has driven Macau's unemployment rate to an ultralow 2 percent. The city's young are in high demand thanks to government restrictions on the number of foreign workers. Casino jobs are popular because the pay is two-thirds higher than the city's median monthly income of 11,700 patacas ($1,465) and many positions don't even require a high school diploma.

But there are drawbacks, including the stress of dealing with customers on losing streaks who become unruly or aggressive.

Student Fion Choi said some gamblers will demand that dealers and supervisors smile and remember their names.

"But then when they lose lots of money they'll say: Why are you smiling?" said Choi, a 29-year-old supervisor at Wynn Macau who hopes to land a mid or senior level management job after she graduates.

Then there's the surreal experience of watching high rollers winning and losing huge amounts of money.

Wong says gamblers, who are almost always mainland Chinese, will bet up to a million patacas ($130,000) on a single hand of baccarat and blow cigarette smoke into his face if they lose.

"We see more and more of these customers," said Wong. "I don't understand how they get their money. They come from a different society where this kind of thinking is normal."

Casino jobs pay 30 percent to 40 percent more than those at other companies, said Choi. That's adding to the strain on small businesses, which struggle to survive because they can't compete with the higher wages.

University graduates, meanwhile, can't find jobs that pay as much as the starting salaries offered by casinos, said Larry So, a political commentator, who worries about the impact all the newfound wealth is having on the city's young.

"The young people nowadays, one of their favorite jobs is to go into a casino, or the government," said So, lamenting the changes that the casino industry has wrought on Macau.

"In the past casino workers were secluded, a small part of the population. In Chinese culture we did not look up to these kind of people." Now they've become such a big and wealthy group, they are the ones that set the values, So said.

The number of people working in gambling and related industries has doubled over the past seven years to nearly 90,000, or about a quarter of the workforce. About 23,000 are dealers.

So said that because of casino workers' influence on society, Macau people are more materialistic and care more for fast cash than careers. It's also caused a rise in problem gambling, "because the dealers they think they know how to gamble, and they start to gamble and of course they lose," So said.

Macau's casino boom has also had other side effects. It has reshaped the landscape of the 28-square-kilometer (11-square-mile) city. Flashy, oversized resorts built in the Cotai district, including Sands Corp.'s Venetian Macao, the world's biggest casino, have added a brash and jarring contrast to the city's European-style architecture. Created by filling in the sea between Coloane and Taipa islands, Cotai will be the site of the next wave of expansion by Sands and Macau's five other licensed casino operators.

Public discontent is rising over a sharply widening wealth gap and surging property prices. The government, which earns more than 70 percent of its tax revenue from casinos, has tried to pacify the public by giving annual cash handouts to each resident. Chief Executive Fernando Chui, the city's leader, last week said the amount would rise to 8,000 patacas next year.

Chui also announced plans to provide more housing for residents and offer interest free loans to young entrepreneurs.

But some are skeptical such measures will make any difference.

"Macau is a complete illusion of prosperity because what we are building is only casinos, rooms and some shops with famous brands," said lawmaker Jose Coutinho.

Coutinho said he worried that Macau's university graduates would find it increasingly hard to find jobs not related to the gambling sector and that workers would be vulnerable in a downturn.

"If they are in middle age and they lose their jobs, it's very difficult for them to find another job in Macau," he said. "You need to be very careful on this in the future."

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Wizards Lose To Pacers, Fall To 0-9 For Worst Start In Franchise History

WASHINGTON ? After his Washington Wizards, the only winless team in the NBA, dropped to a franchise-worst 0-9, coach Randy Wittman sat down for his postgame news conference, sighed loudly, took a sip of water and glanced at the stat sheet.

Wittman chose various ways to try to explain the Wizards' problems Monday night during a 96-89 loss to the Indiana Pacers, then tried to stand up ? somewhat ? for his players.

"I believe these guys can win," Wittman said. "I don't have any doubts. ... I come in here every day, thinking this is the night. I feel good."

Then he chuckled a bit, paused, and delivered the punch line: "I might be dumb."

There were boos from an announced crowd of 14,426 early as Washington fell behind 26-7, and again at the end, when the Pacers took what had become a one-point game and closed with a 10-4 run.

David West scored 13 of his season-high 30 points in the fourth quarter, while Roy Hibbert broke out of a slump with 20 points and 12 rebounds after getting a phone call at 11:30 p.m. the night before from Pacers coach Frank Vogel.

"He's always been supportive, and I appreciated the call," said Hibbert, whose mother yelled encouragement from her seat near the court. "He just expressed his support and care for me."

Hibbert, who played college home games for Georgetown at the Wizards' arena, scored in single digits in seven of the season's first 11 games, including only six points on 3-of-10 shooting in Indiana's 88-76 loss at the New York Knicks on Sunday.

"He told me he was going to have a big night," Vogel said.

Still without point guard John Wall, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft, and starting center Nene ? and no one seems to be sure when either injured player will make his 2012-13 debut ? the Wizards have eclipsed their then-worst 0-8 start to last season.

"We're a team that plays in spurts, instead of the great teams that play 48 minutes," said guard Jordan Crawford, who scored 11 points on 2-for-12 shooting. "We're going to have work towards playing 48 minutes."

He was part of a starting lineup that shot 8 for 37 (22 percent) and finished with a total of 31 points, only one more than West alone.

"I don't know who to start, who to play, who not to play," Wittman said.

Sounding increasingly exasperated, he continued: "I'm looking down the whole roster, and if I had a cellphone, I'd be calling the waiver wire, trying to find another body. I mean, I'm just searching right now, searching for people to give me consistency."

The Wizards actually earned a standing ovation at the end of the third quarter after whittling a 20-point deficit to 71-67 on Shaun Livingston's jumper entering the fourth.

Washington went on an 18-2 run to close the third, including 16 points in a row, with rookie Bradley Beal scoring nine of his 18.

And when Chris Singleton made a jumper while getting fouled with 3 1/2 minutes left in the game, Washington suddenly was within 86-85. Alas, Singleton failed to convert the three-point play, missing the free throw that would have tied the score, and West's jumper at the other end put the Pacers back up by three.

As West's shot went through the net, Wittman raised his arms then put his hands atop his head in a resigned pose. Moments later, Wittman called time out after West sank yet another jumper to make it 90-85.

And that was pretty much that.

Washington's next chance for its first victory comes Wednesday at the Atlanta Hawks.

"I'll toss another group out there and we'll see if we can't find a group that starts off well," Wittman said. "I'm going to keep trying."

Notes: Indiana is 5-7. ... Wizards F Trevor Booker hurt his right knee late in the fourth quarter. Wittman wasn't sure of the severity of the injury. ... Vogel was asked before the game whether he'd considered taking Hibbert out of the starting lineup and using him as a reserve. "No. We think about doing a lot of things to get him going," Vogel replied, "but that's not one of them." Added Vogel: "He knows he's better than he's doing." ... The Pacers outrebounded the Wizards 46-36.

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NYT's Trademark Vigilance Cranks Up Twitter Mockery Meter

"GUYS, young people like to hang out in groups, and The Times is ON IT." So goes The Times Is On It, the latest parody account to take Twitter by storm. Creator Benjamin Kabak's running joke is on The New York Times for its breathless reporting of everything obvious. On Monday, though, @NYTOnIt suddenly disappeared. At issue was its use of the Times' trademarked logo.

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Apax Partners?has agreed to acquire the?Cole Haan?handbag and shoe brand from?Nike Inc.?(NYSE: NKE), for $570 million. The deal is expected to close early next year. Rival bidders reportedly had included Berkshire Partners and TPG Capital.?www.apax.com

Billabong?(ASX: BBG) said that director?Paul Naude?would temporarily step down from its board of directors, as he considers a leveraged buyout of the Australian surfwear company. Naude currently manages Billabong's North American business. It is unclear if he would try to work with either?Bain Capital?or?TPG Capital?? two private equity firms that had previously expressed interest in Billabong before abandoning the process.?www.billabong.com

Golden Gate Capital?has agreed to acquire?Ex Libris Global Holdings, a Jerusalem-based provider of library automation solutions, from?Leeds Equity Partners. No financial terms were disclosed.www.exlibris.co.il

Lloyds Banking Group?has agreed to sell its portfolio of Irish commercial real estate loans to?Apollo Global Management?for ?149 million in cash.?www.agm.com

Terra Firma Capital Partners?is in talks to acquire?Annington Homes, manager of more than 50,000 British army houses, from?Nomura?for approximately ?3.5 billion, according to The Sunday Telegraph. Terra Firma boss Guy Hands used to work at Nomura, and was responsible for its 1996 purchase of Annington Homes.?www.terrafirma.com

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Venture firm O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures has announced its third fund, raising $85 million (you can see the SEC filing here). The firm, which makes seed stage investments, says that OATV Fund III is the largest fund to date.

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Recruiter's Today: The Uses of Cloud Computing in Human Resources

The Uses of Cloud Computing in Human Resources

The benefits of cloud computing for businesses are obvious, but for human resources professionals cloud computing applications may be particularly useful. In larger corporations, HR teams can be spread out over different areas of a building, or even different areas of the country and in different time zones. This is likely to result in a lack of communication, where recruiters cannot easily talk to team members working in payroll or benefits, or vice versa, and HR team members do not always have ready access to information monitored and updated by another department.

As it relates to the typically multi-functional field of human resources, having a cloud application, such as Shift iQ for example, is invaluable. This is in no small part due to the fact that the many areas of HR, traditionally kept quite separate in some companies, can all be accessed in one central place, the cloud, allowing departments to ?talk to each other? more easily. This only serves to increase the quality of communication in a company, which, of course, can only result in positive changes in an organization. A good cloud computing system can, among other things, track applications, search r?sum?s, generate reports, calculate payroll, track performance appraisals and maintain data on employees. Putting the HR department ?on the cloud? facilitates a mobile workforce and should also allow flexibility as well as being more cost effective than traditional software.

Twenty-first century HR professionals are management partners, key players in their company; as such they are involved in most aspects of a company?s activities and decisions and, of course, they interact with the entire workforce. However, many smaller companies have been reluctant to purchase HR software, perhaps because of cost concerns. Cloud computing makes it affordable for any size of business; there is no need for in-house IT technicians, server space or expensive software and site licenses; any professional with an Internet browser or mobile device can access the cloud. Software as a Service (SaaS) providers have been offering cost-effective solutions for HR departments for some years now; SaaS is a cloud computing model.

Cloud computing also ensures that companies have instant and continual access to the latest advances and legal issues as they may affect human resources issues. All information is automatically updated, meaning team members can be confident their information is current. Security is another concern for HR professionals, who deal with sensitive information; virtual services have some of the most sophisticated security systems imaginable, assuring peace of mind to the HR department and the entire workforce. Additionally, access to sensitive information can readily be limited to certain individuals within a company. Cloud computing offers multiple advantages with no apparent downside; it?s a win-win solution for businesses? HR needs.

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NTSB: Warnings flashed before train hit vets

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People gather in Centennial Plaza in Midland, Texas, on Saturday for a candlelight vigil held in honor of four veterans who were killed when a freight train hit a parade float.

By NBC News staff and wire services

MIDLAND, Texas -- Warning signals at a railroad crossing activated before a parade float pulled in front of an oncoming train and the resulting crash killed four veterans, federal investigators said Saturday.

National Transportation Safety Board member Mark Rosekind said at a news conference that the warning signals were activated before the float pulled onto the track.

The train slammed into the flatbed trailer carrying veterans and their spouses during a parade in their honor on Thursday, killing four vets and injuring 16 people injured. Hundreds attended a vigil in Midland Saturday night for the victims.

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Rosekind gave this timeline of the crash, The Associated Press said, based on review of video from the train and a sheriff's vehicle that was behind the trailer:

• 20 seconds before collision: Bells and lights activated as first tractor trailer is safely crossing the tracks
• 13 seconds before: Gates start to descend
• 12 seconds before: Front of the second tractor trailer starts crossing in front of the train
• 9 seconds before: Train starts sounding its horn
• 5 seconds before: Train engineer uses emergency brake

The collision killed Marine Chief Warrant Officer 3 Gary Stouffer, 37; Army Sgt. Maj. Lawrence Boivin, 47; Army Sgt. Joshua Michael, 34; and Army Sgt. Maj. William Lubbers, 43.

Investigators on Monday will conduct a "sight distance test" to understand what the train engineer and the driver of the truck that was struck might have seen before the collision, Rosekind said.

"You know there was a lot of activity going on with other noises going on," Rosekind said.

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Undated family photos. From left: Sgt. Maj. Gary Stouffer; Sgt. Maj. Lawrence Boivin; Army Sgt. Joshua Michael, and Sgt. Maj. William Lubbers.

Robert Accetta, lead NTSB investigator on the crash, said his team had not yet interviewed the driver. "We don't know what the driver may or may not have seen," he said.

NTSB officials declined to identify the driver or the company that owned the truck.

The crash in Midland occurred during a "Show of Support" parade that was to kick off a weekend of events to salute U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Some veterans and their spouses aboard the float jumped off to escape the collision in the seconds before it happened.

Pam Shoemaker, who was riding in the float that crossed the tracks ahead of the one that was struck, said earlier this week she saw a railroad crossing bar come down just before the crash.

This article includes reporting by NBC News staff and Reuters.

Four people were killed and 17 injured when a flatbed trailer carrying twelve veterans and their spouses during a Midland, Texas, parade was hit by freight train as it was crossing over railroad tracks. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports.

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Obama gets taste of Thailand at Buddhist temple

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, rear, tour the Viharn of the Reclining Buddha with Chaokun Suthee Thammanuwat, the Dean, Faculty of Buddhism Assistant to the Abbot of Wat Phra Chetuphon at the Wat Pho Royal Monastery in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, rear, tour the Viharn of the Reclining Buddha with Chaokun Suthee Thammanuwat, the Dean, Faculty of Buddhism Assistant to the Abbot of Wat Phra Chetuphon at the Wat Pho Royal Monastery in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

El presidente estadounidense Barack Obama, izquierda, y la secretaria de Estado Hillary Rodham Clinton, al centro, recorren el Monasterio Real Wat Pho con Chaokun Suthee Thammanuwat, dean, asistente de la facultad de Budismo del abad de Wat Phra Chetuphon, en Bangkok, Tailandia, el domingo 18 de noviembre de 2012. (Foto AP/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. President Barack Obama, center, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, tour the Wat Pho Royal Monastery with Chaokun Suthee Thammanuwat, Dean, Faculty of Buddhism Assistant to the Abbot of Wat Phra Chetuphon, in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, tour the Eastern Viharn Phra Lokanand with Chaokun Suthee Thammanuwat, the Dean, Faculty of Buddhism Assistant to the Abbot of Wat Phra Chetuphon at the Wat Pho Royal Monastery in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. President Barack Obama, center, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, tour the Eastern Viharn Phra Lokanand with Chaokun Suthee Thammanuwat, the Dean, Faculty of Buddhism Assistant to the Abbot of Wat Phra Chetuphon at the Wat Pho Royal Monastery in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

BANGKOK (AP) ? Leaving behind chants of "Obama, Obama" by adoring crowds on the streets, the president of the United States stepped into the serenity of Thailand's most famous temple compound to marvel at its centerpiece ? a gigantic, golden statue of a reclining Buddha propped up on one elbow before passing into nirvana.

The Temple of Reclining Buddha, formally known as Wat Pho, was the first stop on President Barack Obama's Asian tour that will also take him to Myanmar and Cambodia. Obama arrived at the temple, one of Bangkok's most famous tourist sites, straight from the airport after landing in Bangkok on Sunday. Visits to see the king and the Thai prime minister were saved for later.

Observing traditional custom, Obama took off his shoes as a saffron-robed monk led him and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton through the 18th century temple's stoned paved compound of multi-colored spires and chapels with hundreds of gilded Buddha images.

But the main attraction is the reclining Buddha statue that at 46 meters (150 feet) long, and 15 meters (50 feet) high, stretches half the length of a football field. The statue is made of bricks and plaster and covered in gold leaf with mother-of-pearl inlay decorating the feet.

The visit was meant to give Obama a taste of Bangkok. But one thing Obama did not get to see as he sped through Bangkok was the city's infamous traffic jams. All roads leading to Wat Pho and his other destinations were blocked and cleared of cars as part of security measures that included bomb squads and shutting the temple to the public hours in advance.

Camera-clad tourists who came to visit the temple or glimpse the American leader were initially dismayed. They were kept hundreds of meters (yards) away as his armored Cadillac pulled to a stop inside a white tent erected at the temple's entrance, which obscured him from sight.

But those who waited an hour for his temple tour to end were elated. A smiling Obama waved from the backseat of his car, which drove slowly alongside cheering crowds as he headed to a royal audience with Thailand's revered, ailing monarch, 84-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

"Yes! I saw him! And he was waving at us!" said 72-year-old American tourist Elizabeth Simon visiting Thailand with her 74-year-old sister. They were at the beach in Pattaya two hours away but rushed to Bangkok just to see him. "I'm so thrilled that he won the election. When we heard he was coming, we decided to get here."

Parts of the temple date to Thai King Rama I in the 1700s. The king's ashes are kept beneath the pedestal of one of the huge seated Buddha statues in the complex, which is located along the banks of the Chao Phraya river near the Grand Palace. It is in the quiet, historic old quarter of Bangkok, outside the skyscraper-and-traffic clogged downtown.

"It's meaningful that Obama came straight to Wat Pho," said Pradab Supradit, a 67-year-old Thai grandmother who took a bus, a river ferry and then walked up roads closed for security hoping to glimpse the man or just see his convoy. "It will bring him blessings because temples are at the center of Thai people's hearts."

"I want to see him with my own eyes," she said. "I like Obama because of his charisma and personality. He's a smart guy. I love the way he talks."

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Associated Press writers Jocelyn Gecker and Todd Pitman contributed to this report.

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Arsenal comes from behind to beat Tottenham 5-2

By ROB HARRIS

AP Sports Writer

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updated 1:21 p.m. ET Nov. 17, 2012

LONDON (AP) -Three years after leaving Arsenal, Emmanuel Adebayor again played a key role in helping Arsene Wenger's side win the north London derby.

After putting Tottenham in front in the 10th minute on Saturday, the striker handed the initiative to his former team eight minutes later when he was sent off for a high challenge on Santi Cazorla.

Arsenal made the most of its numerical advantage, replicating its 5-2 derby win at the Emirates Stadium in February to rise above Tottenham into sixth place.

"The sending off of Adebayor ... certainly changed the game because Adebayor had a good start - he was lively," said Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who sold Adebayor to Manchester City in 2009.

Per Mertesacker started Arsenal's comeback with a 24th-minute header, and Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud both found the net before halftime.

Cazorla swept in the fourth goal on the hour before Gareth Bale reduced the deficit for Tottenham, but Theo Walcott knocked in the fifth in stoppage time to give Arsenal a lift after its worst start to a season since during Wenger's 16-year reign.

"If we show that courage and ambition every game we will climb up the table," Walcott said. "We showed people how good we are today ... it will give us tremendous spirit."

Despite a third successive league loss, Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas said he was proud of his players.

"We were very good from the first minute to the last," he said. "The feeling of the result is indifferent for us when we played so well and took the risk in the second half to be so bold in the second half playing three at the back.

"I don't think (the sending off) changed the running of the game. We looked in control apart from the 10 minutes before half time."

It had been a bright start with Tottenham's former Arsenal players William Gallas and Adebayor both finding the net.

Gallas' goal was ruled out for offside but a minute later there was no disputing Adebayor's effort.

Jermain Defoe latched onto Jan Vertonghen's deep ball, cut in from the right and his shot was parried by Wojciech Szczesny, who was returning from a two-month layoff.

But Adebayor, who scored four goals for Arsenal against Tottenham in the 2008-09 season, was on hand to nudge the loose ball over the line.

With their lead, Spurs upped the pressure and Aaron Lennon came close to doubling the advantage, but his shot crept round the post.

And the match swung in Arsenal's favor when Adebayor launched his high challenge at Cazorla, completely missing the ball and hitting the midfielder's right ankle.

Referee Howard Webb showed Adebayor a straight red card on just his second start of the league season and, as tensions increased, Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere and Bale were also involved in an altercation.

"There was no intention to do any harm," Villas-Boas said. "I think the sending-off determined the game, but the referee made the right decision."

With its numerical advantage, Arsenal drew level in the 24th minute as Walcott went past Kyle Naughton and whipped in the cross that Mertesacker met with a powerful header.

Arsenal was now in in command, with a couple of dangerous headers coming from Giroud, although acrobatic goalkeeper Hugo Lloris did well to block them both after he dislodged Brad Friedel from a Tottenham league lineup for the first time since Oct. 7.

Arsenal, though, went in front in the 42nd when Wilshere slotted the ball through to Podolski and the Germany striker's scuffed shot deflected off Gallas into the net.

And in first-half stoppage time, Cazorla stayed on his feet after being fouled, regained his composure and went out to the left. From there, he crossed to Giroud, who swept the ball into the net.

Trailing 3-1, Tottenham manager Andre Villa-Boas at halftime took off two of the back four, Naughton and Kyle Walker, and brought on defender Michael Dawson and striker Clint Dempsey.

It didn't make much of a difference, although Cazorla took until the hour-mark to score Arsenal's fourth. The Spaniard netted at the far post after connecting with Podolski's cross.

But Arsenal switched off at the back, allowing Bale to rampage through before knocking the ball past Szczesny with his weaker right foot to give Spurs a brief hope of a comeback.

It wasn't to be.

The three-goal cushion was restored in stoppage time when Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain charged down the right and crossed to Walcott, who controlled the ball before striking past Lloris.

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Greenpeace?s Kumi Naidoo: Time to Stand Against Big Oil in the Arctic

Hanging from an oil platform in the Russian Arctic one day last August, I was hosed by a jet of water from above so icy it almost cut through the skin on my face. My hands and feet were blue from the cold. Though I was wrapped in layers of waterproof gear, freezing water trickled into the small openings around my neck. My body was under extreme stress, and I was sinking into a state of confusion. Suddenly I wasn?t so sure that joining this Greenpeace action was the best decision I could have made. Then I thought of the supporters who joined Save the Arctic to tell the oil industry, with a united voice, not to drill in this pristine environment. They kept me warm.

Global warming caused by our use of fossil fuels is already driving climate change and extreme weather events. From drought in South Africa to severe flooding in the Philippines to the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, our planet is sending us warnings that could not be clearer. And the Arctic ice is melting, reaching a record summer low this year.

Scientists see that as evidence that the climate is changing faster than anyone predicted. Big Oil sees it as an opportunity to exploit.

?Cognitive dissonance? describes the response of our political leaders. They know we must quickly curb our addiction to fossil fuels to avoid a climate change tipping point. But they open up the Arctic, or the Tar Sands in Canada, to oil companies that want to squeeze out a few more billion in profits while the going?s good. They are selling our future and letting the next generation pick up the tab.

Fortunately, many people see the absurdity of actions like exploiting melting sea ice to drill for more oil. And some are taking action. Last year a major movement organized to delay approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have carried dirty tar sands oil from Canada all the way to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. Over a thousand people of all ages allowed themselves to be arrested in front of the White House. President Obama listened and delayed the pipeline, against the mighty power of the oil industry.

Between June and October, more than two million people signed on to support the Greenpeace Save the Arctic movement?and we?ve only just started.

International oil companies are hesitating over Arctic drilling because they see the huge technical risks of operating in such an extreme environment, but they also see the massive level of public opposition. Shell put its Alaska drilling program on hold for 2012 after part of its spill response equipment was damaged. International attention on the Arctic helped force this decision, because Shell knew that millions of people were watching their every move.

This battle requires us to value hope and science above pessimism and the relentless greed of Big Oil. While Greenpeace will continue to fight in boardrooms, gas stations, and on the ocean itself, we are part of a broader movement that needs your creativity, ideas, and energy.

You don?t have to climb an oil platform to help. You already know what to do?bike to work or use public transportation, and pressure your local politicians to adopt policies that curb the use of fossil fuels and support renewable energy. Protecting the Arctic is one of the environmental battles that will define humanity?s approach to climate change. Do we allow billionaire corporations to decide for us, or do we draw a line in the ice and say ?enough??

Kumi Naidoo wrote this article for What Would Nature Do?, the Winter 2013 issue of YES! Magazine. Kumi is director of Greenpeace International.

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Twitter suspends American Orthodox Jew for tweeting anti-Obama cartoon about Israel

Without warning, Twitter suspended a series of three accounts owned by an Orthodox Jew from New York City Wednesday and Thursday, after one of them tweeted a cartoon depicting the Obama administration stabbing Israel in the back.?The social media company refused to tell The Daily Caller if the cartoon was the reason it shut the accounts down.

Twitter also wouldn?t say why it hasn?t taken similar action against the terror group Hamas and its supporters for tweeting ?Death to the Jews? and other threats of violence.

The suspended accounts, named @RealGazaPeace, @RealGazaPeace1 and @GazaRealStory, were all operated by 25-year-old Benjamin Reisman. ?Social media sites have an awesome responsibility to keep to our right of free speech,? he told TheDC via email Friday.

He began tweeting this week with a single account, he said, adding a second and a third as Twitter canceled each one.

Only Reisman?s first account, however, tweeted the anti-Obama cartoon.

?Don?t worry Israel, Obama has your back,? Reisman tweeted Tuesday, linking to the image.

Many conservative American Jews have been critical of Obama for his positions on Israel, although the president captured roughly 70 percent of the overall Jewish vote on Nov. 6. His low-water mark may have come in November 2011 when an open microphone caught an exchange between Obama and France?s then-President Nicolas Sarkozy.

After Sarkozy was heard on the audio feed telling Obama that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ?is a liar,? Obama replied: ?You?re fed up, but I have to deal with him every day.?

Still, Reismann told TheDC that he ?should not have sent? the cartoon. But he added that he worries Twitter is applying its rules unevenly in a way that favors Hamas.

Archival records from Topsy.com show that at least 12 other Twitter users tweeted the same message with the same cartoon. None of the 12 TheDC identified has been suspended.

Twitter refused to tell TheDC why it suspended Reisman?s accounts, or whether they will be restored. ?We don?t comment on individual accounts,? Twitter spokesman Jim Prosser said.

Under the heading ?Violence and Threats,? Twitter?s published rules advise users that they ?may not publish or post direct, specific threats of violence against others.?

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Cops: Driver rams airport gate, ends up on runway

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A woman driving with a small child slammed through a Phoenix airport gate and drove out onto a runway, police said Thursday.

Phoenix police with the Sky Harbor Airport chased down the driver and forced her vehicle to halt, authorities said in a media release sent to NBC News.

Sgt. Trent Crump told The Associated Press that the car drove around for a few minutes before police managed to stop it.

The driver, a woman, had a child in her car, police said. The driver was "exhibiting signs of impairment" when she was arrested, the release said.

No flights were put in danger as a result of the incident, police said, but?airport operations were shut down for around 15 minutes during the breach.

The incident occurred just after 10 p.m. Thursday (midnight ET Friday), police said.

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Members of the Phoenix Fire Department checked out the woman and the child at the scene and they were not injured in the crash, the statement said.

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Hill leaders voice new confidence in deficit deal

President Barack Obama shakes hands with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, during a meeting to discuss the deficit and economy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama shakes hands with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, during a meeting to discuss the deficit and economy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Barack Obama acknowledges House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio while speaking to reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, as he hosted a meeting of the bipartisan, bicameral leadership of Congress to discuss the deficit and economy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, accompanied by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, gestures as he speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, following their meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss the economy and the deficit. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, center, followed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., approaches the microphones outside the White House in Washington on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, to speaks to reporters following their meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss the economy and the deficit. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Barack Obama, accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, speaks to reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, as he hosted a meeting of the bipartisan, bicameral leadership of Congress to discuss the deficit and economy in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Congressional leaders from both parties voiced fresh optimism Friday after meeting with newly re-elected President Barack Obama about avoiding year-end "fiscal cliff" tax increases and spending cuts that would hammer the middle class and risk plunging the economy into recession.

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said Republicans are willing to consider increased revenue "as long as it is accompanied by spending cuts" as leaders in a divided government get to work on a possible deal after a fierce election campaign.

He presented a framework that one official said called for a deficit down-payment of unspecified size by year's end, to be followed by comprehensive tax reform and an overhaul of Medicare and other benefit programs in 2013.

Democrats indicated some spending cuts would be fine with them. "I feel confident that a solution may be in sight," said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California.

The goal of the high-pressure talks to come is to produce a multitrillion-dollar deficit-reduction plan that can take the place of the across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that are slated to take effect on Jan. 1.

In remarks while reporters were present, Obama stressed that time was short as he welcomed the leaders to the White House for the first time since winning re-election this month. "We have urgent business to do," he said.

If nothing else, the mood seemed good around the table in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Obama noted that it would soon be Boehner's birthday and said he wasn't "going to embarrass him with a cake because we didn't know how many candles were needed."

"Yeah, right," said Boehner, who's turning 63 on Saturday, chuckling as he playfully poked the president in the elbow.

There was no indication that the meeting touched on Obama's campaign-long call to raise tax rates at upper incomes.

In their public comments, neither the president nor the lawmakers dwelt on long-standing differences that doomed previous deficit negotiations. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell came closest, telling reporters that while Republicans are willing to discuss increased revenue, most members of his party "believe we are in the dilemma we are in not because we tax too little but because we spend too much."

After the meeting, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said, "Both sides agreed that while there may be differences in our preferred approaches, we will continue a constructive process to find a solution and come to a conclusion as soon as possible."

For all the expressions of optimism, it was unclear whether the Nov. 6 elections and the prospect of the so-called fiscal cliff would serve as a strong enough catalyst for these talks to succeed where other recent attempts have failed.

Obama ran for a new term calling for a "balanced approach" to deficit reduction that includes raising taxes on income over $200,000 a year for individuals and $250,000 for couples. And while the president has stated a willingness to pull federal savings out of benefit programs including Medicare and Medicaid, Democratic leaders have been reluctant to go along.

Raising taxes has long been anathema to Republicans, who say government's spending must be cut to reduce deficits and taxes reduced to stimulate job creation in an economy where unemployment is 7.9 percent.

Boehner told reporters after Friday's meeting that he had outlined a framework for negotiations that "is consistent with the president's call for a fair and balanced approach." He did not provide details, except to say it "deals with reforming our tax code and reforming our spending," a reference to benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.

An aide said Boehner's approach calls for agreement on long-term revenue and spending targets to be set into law, presumably this year, leaving details to 2013 on an overhaul of the tax code and remaking benefit programs.

"There is no more 'let's do it some other time,'" said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "We're going to do it now. ... We feel very comfortable with each other, and this isn't something we're going to wait until the last day of December to get it done."

Obama favors $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over the next decade, in part by allowing existing cuts to expire on Dec. 31 on higher incomes.

White House officials claim an overall deficit reduction package totaling more than $4 trillion, although that includes $1 trillion in spending cuts agreed to last year, and an additional $1 trillion in spending no longer needed for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Republicans and independent fact checkers dispute the claimed savings from the two wars, since the money was borrowed in the first place.

Whatever the obstacles to a deal, there is little dispute about the cost of failure.

Under current law, tax cuts that took effect more than a decade ago will expire at all income levels at the end of the year, as will Bush-era reductions for investors, married couples, families with children and others. The 2 percent payroll tax cut would end, and an additional 26 million taxpayers would come under the alternative minimum tax.

As well, the defense budget would be cut by $55 billion, and domestic programs would incur a reduction of the same size.

Unemployment benefits for some of the longest-term jobless also expire at the end of the year.

Boehner has said previously that any agreement should include an increase in the national debt limit, now $16.4 trillion. The Treasury is expected to hit that cap sometime in the next few months.

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Associated Press writers Ben Feller and Andrew Taylor contributed to this story.

Associated Press

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