Oh no, Wisconsin: Buckeyes stun Badgers, 33-29 (AP)

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? After almost a year of suspensions, rumors and NCAA trouble in the headlines, Ohio State finally made some news on the field.

Braxton Miller threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Devin Smith with 20 seconds left and the Buckeyes beat No. 12 Wisconsin 33-29 on Saturday night, handing the Badgers their second consecutive stunning defeat.

It was seven days earlier that Wisconsin was beaten 37-31 at Michigan State on a desperation pass on the final play of the game. The latest heartbreak, just like the one that ended the Badgers' run at an undefeated season, wasn't confirmed until a video review.

"The replay booth has definitely not been our friend the last two weeks," frustrated Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema said.

The Buckeyes (5-3, 2-2 Big Ten) earned their biggest win yet in a season shadowed by NCAA problems.

"This is what Ohio State's about," interim coach Luke Fickell said. "We don't ever look at ourselves as underdogs. This is a huge win, a signature win. This is for this team, this is for this program. This is what we expect."

The Badgers (6-2, 2-2) drove to the Ohio State 45 ? and got an extra play after time elapsed due to a defensive facemask call ? but linebacker Andrew Sweat hit quarterback Russell Wilson as he was throwing to end the game and touch off a wild celebration.

It was an incredible finish, with four touchdowns scored in the final 4:39. But the Buckeyes were the last team standing after a series of knockdown punches by both sides.

Miller, a freshman, ran for 99 yards on 19 carries and scored twice, in addition to completing 7 of 12 passes for 89 yards and a score.

Fickell said that before Miller went onto the field for the last possession, the quarterback turned to the coach and winked.

"I felt good about it. That's what you need," Fickell said. "You've got to have confidence in what you're doing. You have to have belief in what you're doing."

Dan Herron, in his second game back from two separate suspensions for accepting improper benefits, rushed for 160 yards on 33 carries.

"It was a great feeling," Herron said. "We definitely wanted this win very bad. The team kept on fighting and guys never gave up and we went out there and got it done."

Miller scored on runs of 1 and 44 yards ? the latter putting Ohio State up 26-14 with 4:39 left. Herron rumbled 57 yards on the first play of the second half to set up Miller's first TD.

The Badgers came in averaging 47.4 points and 512 yards, but were stymied most of the night. They also said all week that they had put the painful loss in East Lansing, Mich., in the rearview mirror. But adding in this latest loss, they may have recurring nightmares.

"(This is) real tough," Wisconsin wide receiver Nick Toon said. "We've handed them the game two weeks in a row at the end of the game. You can't do that."

Wilson completed 20 of 32 passes for 253 yards and three touchdowns and Montee Ball gained 85 yards on 17 carries with one touchdown. Jared Abbrederis had six catches for 113 yards and two scores.

Taking the kickoff to start the second half, Ohio State immediately got a big play.

Herron burst through a hole at the line and past defenders pinching the line, racing 57 yards to the Wisconsin 18. He later went 18 yards to the 1, setting up Miller's first TD run.

After the kickoff, the Badgers had to punt. For the second week in a row, things didn't go as planned.

A week after Wisconsin had a blocked punt lead to points in the backbreaking loss at Michigan State, Ohio State's Ryan Shazier came in completely untouched to block Brad Nortman's punt. The ball was downed at the Wisconsin 1 by Curtis Grant and the Buckeyes were right back near paydirt.

On Jordan Hall's third run from the 1, he stuck his nose in the back of blocking fullback Zach Boren and slid into the end zone, putting the Buckeyes up 17-7.

The celebration was short-lived. The Buckeyes forced a punt but Hall promptly fumbled it, with Andrew Lukasko recovering at the Ohio State 27, leading to Ball notching his 21st touchdown of the season through a wide hole on the left side.

After Drew Basil converted a 22-yard field goal to push the lead to six points, a Wisconsin drive ended at the Ohio State 38 on fourth-and-2 when Sweat knifed through to bring down Ball a yard short.

Six plays later, Miller kept the ball on third-and-2 and raced through a big hole at left tackle, going 44 yards untouched for the score with 4:39 remaining.

The Badgers answered with a quick score in just 44 seconds, with Wilson hitting Abbrederis on a 17-yard score to cut it to 26-21 with 3:48 left.

Wisconsin kicked deep and then held the Buckeyes on three runs, forcing a punt.

It took just four plays to cover the 68 yards, with Wilson finding Abbrederis all alone down the left sideline for a 49-yard score with 1:18 left. A 2-point conversion pass from Wilson to Ball made it 29-26.

"Unfortunately, we scored too fast," Bielema said.

But the Buckeyes came right back, taking over at their own 48 after a 42-yard kickoff return by Hall.

They picked up 12 yards on three plays before Miller took the snap on first down at the Wisconsin 40 with 30 seconds left. He floated right to avoid a rush, barely sidestepped a potential tackle and suddenly noticed Smith wide open in the end zone. Miller stopped and looped the ball to Smith who caught it just before two defenders closed on him.

The crowd of 105,511 went wild.

After Basil's extra point, the Buckeyes kicked off ? out of bounds. That gave Wisconsin the ball at its own 40 with 18 seconds left.

Wilson threw three incompletions ? twice off the hands of receivers who could easily have made huge plays.

As a mob of fans waited to rush the field, it was announced there was a flag on the final play of regulation. It was for a facemask against safety Christian Bryant.

That gave the Badgers the ball at the Ohio State 45 and one final play.

But the pocket closed on Wilson and Sweat hit him from behind just as he was releasing the pass, the ball fluttering to the ground while the field filled with running, jumping fans celebrating Ohio State's 90th homecoming.

"We knew it was going to be a fight," lineman John Simon said. "This is a big win for us. We're going to enjoy it tonight and get back to work tomorrow. There's a lot of football left."

The Badgers are hoping for brighter days.

"Obviously, it's another heartbreaking loss," Bielema said.

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Girl to get $10M for amputations after ER delay (AP)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. ? The family of a California toddler whose feet, left hand and part of her right hand were amputated because of a lengthy emergency room delay has agreed to a $10 million malpractice settlement.

Malyia Jeffers was 2 years old when her parents took her to Sacramento's Methodist Hospital last November with a fever, skin discoloration and weakness. According to court documents, the family was told to wait.

"While in the waiting room, Malyia grew sicker and weaker," according to the complaint filed in Superior Court in Sacramento on Feb. 14. "The parents of Malyia repeatedly asked and begged (hospital workers) to treat their daughter."

The hospital instead told them to continue waiting, and it was five hours before Malyia was first seen by a doctor, the document said.

"Ryan Jeffers and Leah Yang saw their daughter get weaker and sicker hour after hour as (hospital workers) chose to delay treatment," the complaint said. "They saw the bruising on her body increase, affecting her legs, arms and face. They were afraid she would die in the waiting room."

Malyia was flown to Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Doctors there found that Streptococcus A bacteria had invaded her blood and organs, and they performed the amputations.

Court documents show that most of the money will be placed in a trust for Malyia's current needs and an annuity that will provide her with $16,932 a month when she turns 18. The monthly payment grows over time, so that by the time Malyia is 30, the monthly payout will be nearly double.

The settlement with the Sacramento hospital and its parent company, Catholic Healthcare West, ranks among the largest in California history, according to medical malpractice attorneys.

The family signed a non-disclosure agreement and could not discuss the case, their attorney Moseley Collins said Friday.

"What we can say is that Malyia has a new set of artificial legs and she's walking on those," Collins said. "We are pleased we were able to settle the case."

Malyia spent more than three months at Stanford before being admitted to another hospital in Sacramento. She is still undergoing therapy and will need expensive medications, custom prosthetics, special garments and wheelchairs for the rest of her life.

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PFT: McNabb says he should still be Vikings' starter

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Predictably, reports have surfaced that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has contacted former Steelers coach Bill Cowher.? Even more predictably, Ross denies that he has contacted Cowher.

?Not true,? Ross said Friday, via David Hyde of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.? ?I?m not going to reach out to anyone while Tony [Sparano] is the coach.? I hope he wins and stays the coach.? Neither I nor anyone involved with me has contacted [Cowher], his agent or anyone around him.?

It?s hard to accept that one at face value, for several reasons.? First, it?s hard to accept pretty much anything anyone connected to an NFL team says at face value.? When it comes to on-field and off-field football tactics, the truth often is told only when it happens to mesh with the strategically prudent explanation.? Second, Ross already has shown a willingness not only to contact ?anyone? (cough ? Jim Harbaugh ? cough) while Sparano is the coach, but to fly across the country with the team?s General Manager to meet with said ?anyone.?? Third, in this bizarre separation dance between Ross and Sparano, where Ross possibly has decided to stay the course (at least for now) in the hopes of racking up enough losses to get Andrew Luck and where Sparano possibly sees that and wants to get fired, admitting to conduct that undermines Sparano could give Sparano enough ammunition to claim that he has been constructively discharged, which would allow him to quit ? and also to pursue a buyout of his contract.

Fourth, and perhaps most importantly, what else was Ross going to say?? ?Yep, I contacted Cowher.? And Gruden.? And I tried Vince Lombardi but they keep saying the number is disconnected or no longer in service.?

Despite these obvious reasons for Ross to deny, Hyde chooses to knock down the reports from guys like Mike Freeman of CBSSports.com (who reported that contact had occurred through intermediaries) and Albert Breer of NFL Network (a league employee with an impeccable reputation for accuracy who reported that Ross has contacted Cowher?s agent).? Hyde wonders why Ross would contact Cowher at this stage of the season, given that Ross isn?t competing with anyone for Cowher?s services ? and given that contacting Cowher now could offend him.? ?Make[s] no sense on a lot of levels,? Hyde writes.

Actually, it makes sense on every level.

It?s called gauging interest.? If Cowher, via his agent, says that he?s interested, Ross can put Cowher on the wish list and wait until Sparano is fired to make a move.? If Cowher, via his agent, says that he?d never be interested, Ross can remove Cowher?s name from the list.? If Cowher, via his agent, says that Cowher could be interested if X, Y, and/or Z were to happen, Ross can commence the process of deciding whether he can and will make X, Y, and/or Z happen.

Given the extremely clumsy manner in which the Dolphins pursued Harbaugh in January, it makes sense that the Dolphins would begin lining up potential candidates now, and that they would do so in a somewhat clumsy manner, allowing word of the courtship to make its way to the media.

Here?s what Ross should have done.? He should have limited the information regarding any contact with Cowher?s agent to only a handful of people ? ideally, only one person other than himself.? And the message to Cowher?s agent (or whomever has been contacted) should have been clear and direct:? If word of this gets out, we?ll deny it, and we?ll remove you from consideration.

But the Dolphins are both clumsy and desperate right now, so they won?t be doing things discreetly and they won?t be issuing the kinds of ultimatums that ensure complete discretion.? As Ross essentially admitted when the Harbaugh fiasco blew up in the Fins? faces, Ross isn?t schooled in these nuances of NFL teams.

And it shows.? On every level.

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Dog survived gas chamber, up for adoption in NJ

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? Unnamed and unwanted, the young beagle mix was left anonymously in a drop box outside an Alabama pound. His life was supposed to end in a gas chamber.

Instead, the young stray emerged frightened but unscathed, wagging his tail. Now, he's being hailed as a miracle dog, given the name Daniel after the biblical figure who survived the lion's den.

And he has a fresh start in New Jersey, where a rescue group hopes to find him a good home.

Only three animals have survived the gas chamber at the Animal Control facility in Florence, Ala., in the past 12 years. "Maybe God just had a better plan for this one," said city spokesman Phil Stevenson.

Daniel's tail never stopped wagging as he stepped off a plane at a New Jersey airport, where he was flown Wednesday by the nonprofit Eleventh Hour Rescue group and placed with volunteer Jill Pavlik until he can be adopted.

"He's absolutely fabulous," Pavlik, a hairdresser who works and lives in northern New Jersey, said Friday. "He walked in the house like he had always lived there. He's very sweet, happy and outgoing."

Linda Schiller, the shelter's founder and president, said the facility has already received about 100 applications from people around the country seeking to adopt Daniel. About half said they weren't interested in adopting another dog if the 20-pound Daniel wasn't available.

"Maybe we'll get a cosmetic surgeon to make all our dogs look like Daniel," Schiller said jokingly. She added that Daniel, while thin, hadn't shown any residual effects of his ordeal.

No one is sure why Daniel was the lone survivor. "It may be that his breathing was shallow because of a cold or something," Stevenson said.

He said the gas chamber is a stainless-steel box roughly the size of a pickup truck bed, and dogs are put into the chamber about seven or eight at a time. A computer-controlled pump slowly feeds carbon monoxide into the chamber once it's sealed, and an operator presses a button.

Normally, the animals just go "to sleep slowly. It's like the cases you hear about where people are overcome by carbon monoxide in their home and just never wake up," he said.

On that Oct. 3 day, a new animal control officer placed the stray beagle into the chamber with several other animals and started the machine, Stevenson said.

Variables that could allow a dog to survive such a gassing include the number of animals placed in the chamber, the concentration of carbon monoxide, whether the chamber is airtight or gas is leaking out and the health of the animal, said Julie Morris, senior vice president of community outreach for the ASPCA. Young, healthy animals have the best chance for survival.

Since carbon monoxide is heavier than air, it sinks, so a tall dog, or one that climbed to the top of a pile, would have a better chance of surviving, she said.

Vinny Grosso, the Florence animal shelter's director, said Daniel showed up in one of the shelter's "drop box" cages where people can drop off animals anonymously.

"It was an unwanted dog. ... We didn't have a history on him," he said.

As many as 30 animals a month are put down; Stevenson said Daniel was the third dog he could remember surviving in the last 12 years.

"It's just very, very rare," Grosso said, adding that the shelter's policy calls for officials to find surviving animals a new home.

Grosso said the shelter is limited by law on how many dogs it can hold and had just taken in 60 in one day. Because of the huge number, it had to pick some to put down, and strays like Daniel, dropped off with no evidence of an owner, are the first to go.

Mindy Gilbert, Alabama director for the Humane Society of the United States, said Daniel's story explains why the group pushed the Alabama Legislature to ban gas chambers for euthanizing dogs, effective Dec. 31. She said many states still use them.

"They are still considered a humane method in many parts of the country."

At least 15 states, including New Jersey and New York, have banned carbon monoxide for euthanizing shelter animals.

The ASPCA recommends injections of sodium pentobarbital for euthanizing shelter animals because it is faster, quicker and safer than carbon monoxide.

Pavlik, who was worked with Eleventh Hour Rescue for seven years, said she planned to proceed with the adoption process with an abundance of caution due to the publicity generated by the case.

"We're going to be very careful," she said. "He's a dog; he's a lucky dog, but he's a dog. And there are a lot of nutty people out there."

Grosso said he was pleased to see the reception Daniel got in New Jersey and hopes his story will increase adoptions.

"It was a great ending to a kind of bizarre story," he said.

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Associated Press writer Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Ala., Phillip Rawls in Montgomery, Ala., and Angela Delli Santi in Trenton, N. J., contributed to this report.

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Defense witness: Michael Jackson caused own death (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? With dramatic courtroom testimony, attorneys for Michael Jackson's doctor have dropped the bombshell they've been hinting at for months ? an expert opinion accusing the singer of causing his own death.

Dr. Paul White said Jackson injected himself with a dose of propofol after an initial dose by Dr. Conrad Murray wore off. He also calculated that Jackson gave himself another sedative, lorazepam, by taking pills after an infusion of that drug and others by Murray failed to put him to sleep.

That combination of drugs could have had "lethal consequences," the defense team's star scientific witness said Friday.

Murray has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

White showed jurors a series of charts and simulations he created in the past two days to support the defense theory. He also did a courtroom demonstration of how the milky white anesthetic propofol could have entered Jackson's veins in the small dose that Murray claimed he gave the insomniac star.

White said he accepted Murray's statement to police that he administered only 25 milligrams of propofol after a night-long struggle to get Jackson to sleep with infusions of other sedatives.

"How long would that (propofol) have had an effect on Mr. Jackson?" asked defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan.

"If you're talking effect on the central nervous system, 10 to 15 minutes max," White said.

He then said Jackson could have injected himself with another 25 milligrams during the time Murray has said he left the singer's room.

"So you think it was self-injected propofol between 11:30 and 12?" asked Flanagan.

"In my opinion, yes," White said.

The witness, one of the early researchers of the anesthetic, contradicted testimony by Dr. Steven Shafer, his longtime colleague and collaborator. Shafer earlier testified Jackson would have been groggy from all the medications he was administered during the night and could not have given himself the drug in the two minutes Murray said he was gone.

"He can't give himself an injection if he's asleep," Shafer told jurors last week. He called the defense theory of self-administration "crazy."

White's testimony belied no animosity between the two experts, who have worked together for 30 years. Although White was called out by the judge one day for making derogatory comments to a TV reporter about the prosecution case, White was respectful and soft spoken on the witness stand.

When Flanagan made a mistake and called him "Dr. Shafer" a few times, White said, "I'm honored."

The prosecution asked for more time to study the computer program White used before cross-examining him. Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor granted the request, saying he too was baffled by the complicated simulations of Jackson's fatal dose. He recessed court early and gave prosecutors the weekend to catch up before questioning White on Monday.

The surprise disclosure of White's new theory caused a disruption of the court schedule, and the judge had worried aloud that jurors, who expected the trial to be over this week, were being inconvenienced. But the seven men and five women appeared engaged in the testimony and offered no complaints when the judge apologized for the delay.

Prosecutors could call Shafer back during their rebuttal case to answer White's assertions.

Among the key issues is how White calculated that a large residue of propofol in Jackson's body could have come from the small dose that Murray says he administered. Shafer assumed Murray had lied, and he estimated Jackson actually was given 1,000 milligrams of the drug by Murray, who he said left the bottle running into an IV tube under the pull of gravity. White disputed that, saying an extra 25 milligrams self-administered by Jackson would be enough to reach the levels found in his blood and urine.

White also said a minuscule residue of the sedative lorazepam in Jackson's stomach convinced him the singer took some pills from a prescription bottle found in his room. He suggested the combination of lorazepam, another sedative, midazolam, plus the propofol could have killed Jackson.

"It potentially could have lethal consequences," said White. "... I think the combination effect would be very, very profound."

White's testimony was expected to end Murray's defense case after 16 witnesses. It likely will be vigorously challenged by prosecutors, who spent four weeks laying out their case that Murray is a greedy, inept and reckless doctor who was giving Jackson propofol as a sleep aid in the singer's bedroom. Experts including Shafer have said propofol is not intended to treat insomnia and should not be given in a home.

White's theory was based on urine and blood levels in Jackson's autopsy, evidence found in Jackson's bedroom and Murray's long interview with police detectives two days after Jackson died while in his care.

While accepting Murray's account of drugs he gave Jackson, the expert's calculations hinged on the invisible quotient: Jackson's possible movements while his doctor was out of the room. With no witnesses and contradictory physical evidence, that has become the key question hanging over the case.

Those who knew the entertainer in his final days offered a portrait of a man gripped by fear that he would not live up to big plans for his comeback concert and worried about his ability to perform if he didn't get sleep. He was plagued by insomnia, and other medical professionals told of his quest for the one drug he believed could help him. He called it his "milk," and it was propofol.

Jurors have now seen it up close as both Shafer and White demonstrated its potential use as an IV infusion.

With White's testimony, the defense sought to answer strong scientific evidence by the prosecution. But they did not address other questions such as allegations that Murray was negligent and acting below the standard of care for a physician.

Flanagan, the defense attorney, produced a certificate from Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas showing Murray was certified to administer moderate anesthesia, referred to as "conscious sedation." However, the document showed several requirements including that the physician "monitor the patient carefully" and "provide adequate oxygenation and ventilation for a patient that stops breathing."

Medical witnesses noted that Murray left his patient alone under anesthesia and did not have adequate equipment to revive him when he found him not breathing.

The coroner attributed Jackson's June 25, 2009, death to "acute propofol intoxication" complicated by other sedatives.

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The Engadget Podcast, live at 5:00PM ET!

Tim and Brian have escaped another Engadget Show mostly unscathed, and now it's time to get back to the wild, unpredictable world of audio podcasting. This time out, they'll be joined by Myriam, direct from Nokia World. Bet you can't guess what they'll be talking about.

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Perry, Romney contrast in style, substance

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signs papers to be on the New Hampshire's First-in-the-Nation presidential primary ballot, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, at the State House in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signs papers to be on the New Hampshire's First-in-the-Nation presidential primary ballot, Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, at the State House in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney reacts as he enters a town meeting in Manchester, N.H. Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) ? Campaigning just five miles and a few minutes apart, Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry showed first-in-the-nation primary state voters just how starkly different they are.

Romney, who leads the state's polls, has spent years campaigning here and has a home on a nearby lake, held an hour-long town hall meeting Friday outside of Manchester. Perry, a much newer presidential candidate on his sixth visit to the state, filed his official paperwork to appear on the state's presidential primary ballot, met briefly with voters at a local restaurant and gave a boisterous speech to social conservatives.

Romney held private meetings in Manchester Friday morning and spent the evening taking questions from voters, covering fiscal policy, the environment, defense, even NASA funding. He largely ignored his Republican rivals and went after President Barack Obama instead.

"The president's philosophy," Romney said, "is extraordinarily misguided. What they have done over the last three years is every time they've seen an area they thought needed addressing, they put more government in, and what it did was it caused the private sector to retreat."

Romney is far ahead in the polls here. His organization is long-running and stable. And he faces challenges from a multitude of rivals who are competing for the same group of conservative voters.

Perry ? his chief rival in money, staff and organization elsewhere in the country ? spent his New Hampshire morning defending his debate performances and campaign trail mistakes ? and attacking rivals Romney and Herman Cain.

"The governor (Romney) has been on opposite sides of a lot of issues. He was for banning handguns; now he's Mister Second Amendment," Perry said during a radio interview at the Barley House restaurant across from the New Hampshire Statehouse. "Governor Romney in his book initially said his health care plan would be good for America. And then he took that sentence out when the book came out in paperback. So the issue is, Who are we really going to trust to stand up every day and be consistent? I have been consistent."

And in a spirited 20-minute speech at the socially conservative Cornerstone Action's banquet here, Perry cracked jokes, talked baseball, quoted from Proverbs and waved his one-page flat tax filing form in the air.

The two men ? one businesslike, calm, usually careful; the other aggressive, spirited and pointed in conviction ? could hardly provide New Hampshire voters with two more different candidates to choose from, in style, focus or substance.

Romney came to his town hall surrounded by a handful of his longest-serving and most influential advisers, business leaders and political operatives. He opened his remarks with an anecdote about his father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney, to describe why America's economy is in trouble.

"He said there's nothing as vulnerable as entrenched success," Romney told the crowd of about 100, seated in chairs surrounding him. "His idea was that some groups of people or companies or nations become so used to their success that they become complacent, they become fat, lazy, and other upstarts are able to rush past them."

Romney has been working hard here for months, almost since he lost his last campaign in 2008. He's focused relentlessly on his economic message, a pitch that plays well with independent-minded voters in the state. He avoids the social issues that tripped him up last time, including abortion and gay marriage.

And while he was on message during his appearance on the trail, his campaign was left to deal with yet more accusations that he had flip-flopped on a major issue important to conservatives. It's a reputation left over from the last campaign, and one he's been unable to shake. On Friday, Democrats seized on comments he made in Pittsburgh, where he said he wasn't sure what was causing global warming ? remarks they portrayed as a shift from a previous position, though Romney had said as much before.

Perry, by contrast, is on his sixth visit to the state since he announced his presidential run in mid-August. He's far behind in the polls here, and is instead likely to focus on the caucuses in Iowa and the primaries in South Carolina and Florida. He arrived, as always, accompanied by a few of personal aides and a sizable security contingent.

His central message is his job creation record in Texas.

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Pictures of the Droid 4 leak out (Digital Trends)

Is there anything more fun than seeing a picture of a yet unannounced cell phone? We don?t think so, which is why we are so excited about the freshly leaked picture of what is being called the Droid 4. Droid-Life not only was able to get a few pictures, but also some presumed specs, which we will of course take with a grain of salt.

The Droid 4 has gone through what looks to be a complete makeover, and it will not look like its older siblings. First you will see that the corners of the device are missing, much like the Photon or more recently the Droid RAZR. The famous Droid ?chin? has also been removed, which is a design choice we can fully support. This will be the first Droid to have a screen the same size as the keyboard underneath. Like the Droid 3 the Droid 4 will have a full five row QWERTY keyboard, and it looks pretty great in the picture.

The big rumor with this phone is if it will be an 4G LTE device. That was one of our biggest issues with the Droid 3, so we sure hope that Motorola has upgraded the antenna in this Droid. We would like to think that whenever the next Droid phone is released that it will have LTE.

With that being said we have to wonder when is this phone going to come to market. The device in the pictures does not look like an early prototype, it looks like it is ready for production. We can see that there is already some Verizon bloatwear on the device, and there is even a tutorial sticker on the screen. The Droid 3 was launched in July, and it is a little hard to imagine Motorola releasing the Droid 4 so close to the last generation. That being said why would it wait to release what looks to be an amazing phone?

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Possibly in need of a mentor

I think that i need a mentor but I?m not quite sure. I would describe my writing skills as average at best. I would however like someone else?s opinion on this and I would also like to improve. Below i will put a series of posts i have made since I joined the gateway not to long ago. These posts will be in order oldest to newest. I would also like to know if i am improving.

Mismer's eyes opened at light speed. As his stomach rummbled and his head pounded he noticed he may had drank to much. He looked over to the floor by the door into the main room. Mismer had puked all over the place and it stunk.

Walking towards the door he steped over it and went into his bathroom to get some water. Tripping as he got into the bathroom he proped himself up against the wall and filled up a wooden goblet. Drinking it down in one gulp he shock his thumping head. He grabbed a spade from the front room and used it to carefully scoop up the sick and throw it in the bin.

He toke the bin and placed it outside. Looking up to the sky he thought to him self. "Such a lovely night, shame. I went and wasted it drinking myself to oblivion." The streets were almost empty at this time. The moon was high in the sky and the time must be aproaching midnight. Mismer couldn't stand to stay out to long beacause of the smell he had brought out there. As he turned to go inside he toke one last breath of fresh air.

Mark sat by himself thinking about the man he had spoke too. He had almost finished his meal by now. He had his last few bites of apple and stood up out of his chair. He scanned the room a saw a few people still entering the canteen. Sitting across the room ther was some people eating and chatting quietly.

He made his way towards the door only stopping to place his tray on a desk with the others waiting to be cleaned. The air outside was fresh and the skys where calm. There isn't a problem with polution on the island as they produced very little gases. Most of the power produced by the island was used to work the equipment in the labs.

Yukizo sat on a bench near the gate into Duel Academy. As he sat down he swung his bag off his back and perched it on the floor in front of him. He rummaged through the bag moving aside numerous rulebooks and strategy guides. At the bottom he found what he was looking for as he pulled out a sort of file.

He opened it with a grin on his face as he glanced down at the cards inside: Cyber End Dragon, Elemental Hero Rampart Blaster and some Junk Synchrons to name a few. He picked out a Junk Synchron and added it his deck in his belt. He then slammed the file closed as to hide the contents from the other students that were arriving. Smoothly slipping it into his bagged and zipping it up, as he looked other the path.

A girl ran inside the academy shouting back to a boy standing there in the middle of the gates. He then moved other to a bench opposite Yukizo. Yukizo looked at his arm and it had a duel disk already on. Instantly he knew that he should challenge him to a duel.

Yukizo stood up taking 4 steps towards the other bench and pointed at him.
"You! How would you like to test out your skills on me? You look like you couldn't duel your way out of a paper bag."
He said this with a strong tone of voice. It shouldn?t offend him but should set him up to try hard in the duel.

"Oh, well what are we going to do?" Lucy spoke back with a hint of sadness in her voice. "I feel way better now. Wait," Lucy fail to notice the absence of the voices. "They have gone!" Lucy let out a big cheer of hope

"Right I?m going to have to take you to Mr. Hanagen to get you checked." Lucy had shaken her head in disapproval. "It is just to make sure you are ok. Would you like your boyfriend to come too?" Lucy reacted straight away. "He's not my boyfriend! I mean I have nothing against it but he isn't." Lucy was shocked at the nurse?s assumption. "Well is he coming?" She replied with a bit of embarrassment. "Yeah, I suppose. If you want to." She turned to Anthony.

Lucy begun to drink her water as the nurse rubbed her back to comfit her. Lucy was a lot better now since the voices had gone. Her dreams from the past few years had come true and there was no moans and yells in her head.

Shiek laid on the sofa as he gazed at the pictures on his wall. Pictures of Namek and Vegeta land with vast landscapes with views epic proportions. He remembered buying these pictures and wondering what these planets would be like. The room was quiet until a howl pierced the air. Shiek jumped to his feet a shock, as soon as he heard the noise.

As he ran through the door and onto the street, he threw his jacket onto the table. His head darted to his right as he saw a woman being harassed. He ran towards the gang of men as he yelled. "Leave her alone!"

As he ran into the crowd of people he tripped over a foot. Seemingly instantly he began to take several kicks to the head. In his pain Shiek began to flail his arms around pulling the legs of some of the group.

Lewis lied on top of her as she lay on the floor. He began kissing her on the neck and stroking her thigh. From the over side of the trees came a loud yell. "Oy, what you doing here." The moment of passion was broken by the noise. Lewis quickly jumped to his feet and pulled Victoria off the floor. "Come on." he whispered in her ear before grabbing her hand and turning around towards the narrow path to the town centre.

-shirt and tie me thinks. Or maybe more casual?- Yukizo set off on his way back to his apartment. As he walked through the cold and dark alleys he continued to ponder on his outfit. -Hoodie maybe? Or i could were my trench coat.- Yukizo was a very indecisive man. "What is up with these lights." He wondered about the state of the street lamps that usually lit his way home. They flickered barely lighting the pathway before they all burnt out at once. A loud crack came from behind him as a spark fell to the ground.

He continued down the lane hurrying himself home. He ran up the metal stairs on the outside of the building and into the apartment. Closing the door behind him he hit the lights and left the curtains closed. He ran about throwing off his clothes and spraying around deodorant. He eventually decided on a shirt and jeans combo. He looked in the mirror as he slid on his trainers, he nodded to himself and left the apartment. -Looking good!-

Most of these quotes are not during conversation because I feel during conversations you cannot use your writing skills to the full. I tend to stick to one on one role-plays because I think that they seem to last longer and the posts tend to come in quicker. If you read all those posts then thanks, there may have been to many but I didn?t want to put to few. Any Advice and constructive criticism is appreciated.
|Thanks, Lewdug97|

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Oil jumps above $92 after Europe debt plan (AP)

SINGAPORE ? Oil prices jumped above $92 a barrel Thursday in Asia after European leaders agreed on a plan to reduce Greece's debt burden.

Benchmark crude for December delivery was up $1.89 at $92.09 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $2.97, or 3.2 percent, to settle at $90.20 in New York on Wednesday.

Brent crude was up $1.27 at $110.18 a barrel on the ICE Futures Exchange in London.

EU President Herman Van Rompuy said early Thursday that policymakers struck a deal that will reduce Greece's debt to 120 percent of its GDP in 2020. The plan calls on banks to accept 50 percent losses on their Greek bonds.

Van Rompuy also said nations that use the euro common currency and the International Monetary Fund will give Greece another euro100 billion ($140 billion).

Investors cheered the accord as a first step toward containing Europe's sovereign debt crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 1.4 percent on Wednesday and stock markets in Asia and Europe rose Thursday.

"This could be a turning point for the eurozone debt crisis," said Victor Shum, an analyst with energy consultancy Purvin & Gertz in Singapore. "It's a significant development that private investors have agreed to take a 50 percent haircut on Greece."

Crude has jumped about 21 percent from $75 on Oct. 4 amid growing investor optimism that the U.S. economy will avoid a recession this year. Shum said he expects oil to trade near $100 by the end of the year.

In other Nymex trading, heating oil rose 2.8 cents to $3.05 per gallon and gasoline futures gained 3.9 cents at $2.66 per gallon. Natural gas fell 1.0 cents at $3.58 per 1,000 cubic feet.

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Real Americans Don?t Slop Hogs (Balloon Juice)

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Jos? Fernando L?pez: Romney, Dawkins, and the 6th Article of the Constitution (Huffington post)

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TSX falls as golds, oils turn negative (Reuters)

TORONTO (Reuters) ? Toronto's main stock index turned negative on Wednesday morning as shares of gold miners and energy companies reversed earlier gains.

The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index was down 7.37 points, or 0.06 percent, at 12,102.38, before further extending losses.

(Reporting by Claire Sibonney; editing by Peter Galloway)

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Pillow Pets Nintendo DS Giveaway ? StuffWeLike.com

Pillow Pets Nintendo DS Giveaway

We?re giving away Pillow Pets for the Nintendo DS.

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You must be a resident of the US.
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You must fill out the form below before the date of October 31, 2011 at 11:59pm PST.

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Neil McCarthy: Big Bob

My Dad died last week.

He loved martinis, women named Joan, a breaking news story, and books. In 1975, he had to give up the martinis, because, as it turned out, he loved them too much. Then, he loved God.

Which, I have discovered, can be just as intoxicating.

He was an over-the-top guy and made sure you knew it. He was not cool. He was hot. And like most non-cool, hot, over-the-top guys in this "too school for cool" era of phony understatement, he was teased for it.

Relentlessly.

Too bad.

We could use a little hot today. From a president, who is way too cool. And from a culture, which has turned cool into a synonym for smart.

Which it decidedly is not.

He had a high school education and about a year of college. He was what the old timers call a "newspaperman." Not a "journalist" or "broadcaster" or "personality" or, God forbid, "talking head." He worked for the Daily News, one of New York City's two remaining tabloid newspapers, for twelve years, from 1950 to 1962. And then for WNBC-TV in New York and NBC News for the next twenty-five.

He loved the news business. And it loved him back. He was the first newspaperman in NYC to report that Mafia kingpin Frank Costello had been killed. In the "if it bleeds, it leads" tabloids, this was a big deal. Most of us remember "Houston, we have a problem" because Tom Hanks said it in the movie Apollo 13. Daddy actually heard it late one night over the Mission Control radio as he covered that space shot from the Johnson Space Center outside Houston.

He never won a Pulitzer. In fact, he probably gave one up. He crossed a police line at a murder scene in the '50s one day because, as a beefy Irish guy, everyone at that time thought he was a cop. When the real cops kicked him out, he grabbed the wrong trench coat. It belonged to one of the Chiefs at the NYPD's Division of Internal Affairs. In the pocket was a list of all the corrupt cops the NYPD was then investigating.

He gave the list back.

So long Pulitzer.

He was also over the top in his imperfections. Because he loved those martinis for too long, he missed Cub Scouts, Little League, most of his first marriage (to my mom), and a good chunk of his paycheck.

But he conquered that demon as well.

And then was passionate about the conquest.

To a defrocked, alcoholic priest who he sponsored to recovery in "the program," as all the AA guys and gals affectionately call it, he was that guy's Jesus.

Which, all teasing aside, is pretty amazing when you consider the source.

In my teens, long before Tim Russert wrote any books, he was "Big Bob." Not because he was all that big. He just couldn't be missed. He wouldn't let you.

Thank God.

Because...

Now he is.

?

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Police State Targets Occupy Movements (The Nation)

The Nation -- On October 17, hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered in Liberty Park around cakes that had been donated by local businesses. The group was celebrating the one-month anniversary of the occupation, but the moment was simultaneously both joyous and somber.

Though OWS had won some clear victories against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, they had also withstood brutality at the hands of the NYPD.

Each candle glowing atop the cakes represented a protester who had been arrested.

While the Occupy actions have become national symbols of resistance, the movement has also served to underline the problem of America?s massive police state, which is used to suppress freedom of expression and assembly rather than as an instrument to safeguard those liberties.

New York City?s chapter is perhaps the most famous example of this clamp down. The first major media story occurred on September 24 when Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna pepper sprayed five peaceful women who were being held by police officers in orange plastic netting. The clip took Youtube by storm. One of the versions of the video has been viewed more than 1.4 million times.

Bologna, along with a second officer, deputy inspector Johnny Cardona, were placed under investigation by the New York Civilian Complaint Review Board. Ultimately, Bologna only lost ten vacation days for the attack, while Cardona is being investigated over his own Youtube clip sensation featuring an incident in which he punched Felix Rivera Pitre in the face.

There were other incidents, including a police motorcycle running over a National Lawyers Guild member?s leg, reports and video of police wildly beating protesters with their batons, and even charging horses into a crowd of activists.

Horse-mounted police were dispatched during the occupation of Times Square on October 15. Thousands of protesters were pinned inside a relatively tiny space with steel gates and it was difficult to move at all, let alone run, when the horses charged forward. It was only sheer luck that prevented any major injuries. Nearly 100 people were arrested, including some individuals who attempted to close their Citibank accounts.

?There is no honor in this!? Marine Sergeant Shamar Thomas later screamed at police in a now famous internet video clip. ?How do you do this to people? How do you sleep at night? You?re here to protect them! You?re here to protect us! Why are you hurting U.S. citizens?? The police were eerily silent during the questioning before they walked away from Thomas.

Mixed in with the police mopeds and horses were at least five counterterrorism officers. Much has been made of the $1.9 million the city has shelled out in overtime pay for officers monitoring Liberty Park, but the police presence both at Liberty and the other citywide occupations is vast and overzealous. For an overwhelmingly peaceful movement, the city has unleashed a massive police state, complete with counterterrorism officers, just in case Al-Qaeda is huddled in their midst.

Arguably one of the most watched OWS events took place in early October when more than 700 individuals were detained in a mass arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge. Before the arrests occurred, NBC?s Richard Engel tweeted that the NYPD told him, ?We won?t let what happened in London to go on,? a reference to that city?s own backlash against neoliberal policies.

There are different versions of what happened on the bridge depending on whom you talk to. Police claim protesters wandered into the street despite repeated commands to stay on the designated walkway. Protesters say they were led across the bridge, and then penned in before the arrests started. What is clear is that video has emerged showing the police either leading or passively walking in front of the protesters as they approached the bridge. The NYPD later released video showing an officer warning protesters via bullhorn that they would be arrested, but it?s unclear when this moment took place on the bridge timeline. It?s possible the protesters had already been pinned in at that time. There?s also some likelihood police warnings were made, but in the fog of protest, many individuals didn?t hear those warnings, or were confused by the chaos around them.

It took over four hours for the NYPD to arrest everyone, including a freelance reporter for the New York Times. Controversy erupted when the Transport Workers Union found out the police used city buses to transfer protesters to jail. The TWU went to court in an attempt to stop the city from forcing union drivers from participating in the mass arrests, a conflict of interest given TWU?s recent endorsement of the movement. But there was another disturbing layer to this discovery: here was the NYPD acting like a counter-terrorism unit, and ordering union members to act as an appendage of the police state by assisting them in this violent suppression. It's no wonder the TWU went ballistic.

OWS isn?t the only occupy chapter dealing with this kind of police oppression. Early on the morning of October 11, police raided the makeshift camp of Occupy Boston and arrested 100 people for the crime of sleeping in the wrong place at the wrong time. Officers claimed the reason behind the mass arrests was due to the group?s location in Rose Kennedy Greenway, which sits across from Congress Street where expensive improvements in renovation were just made. Apparently, a clairvoyant member of the Boston Police had a premonition that the protesters would damage those renovations, and so 100 individuals were arrested for the future crime. Flag-carrying members of Veterans for Peace were pushed to the ground and hauled away.

On October 16, police raided Occupy Chicago?s camp and arrested 175 protesters. This past Sunday, Chicago cops then arrested 130 protesters (including nurses) some of whom complained of cruel treatment, such as being denied access to medication, while in prison. Meanwhile, over a span of two days, fifty people were arrested from Occupy Denver. According to @OccupyArrest, 2,393 arrests have been made globally during the movement's existance to date.

What needs to be stressed here is the occupations are overwhelmingly peaceful events. Yes, in any mass movement like this there are a handful of delinquents who lash out unthinkingly, but they do not represent the majority of these citizens, whose greatest crimes are gathering and resisting what they perceive to be unjust economic and governmental systems.

Yet, despite this reality, police nationwide are treating the occupiers as though they?re terrorist cells. Governor Hickenlooper sent police dressed in full riot gear to dismantle Denver?s camp, and at the Times Square occupation, police were also dispatched in shields and face helmets. In these instances, the police are acting as though the greatest threat to America's government is freedom of expression. Maybe they're right.

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Ticket sales strong for indies "Martha," "Margin" (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Fox Searchlight's R-rated thriller "Martha Marcy May Marlene" grossed a solid $137,541 in four theaters this weekend for a per-screen average of $34,385, according to studio estimates.

Among indie films in the domestic market, that gives the Sean Durkin movie the biggest per-screen average of the weekend.

Another Sundance hit, Roadside Attractions' "Margin Call," opened to strong numbers this weekend as well.

It grossed $582,400 on 56 screens, for a per-screen average of $10,400.

The disturbing "Martha Marcy May Marlene," which stars Elizabeth Olsen as a woman who flees an abusive cult, will be released in 10 more locations on October 28.

Fox Searchlight bought the movie, which also stars Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes and Hugh Dancy, for $1.5 million to $2 million.

Durkin wrote and directed the film, which won the award for best drama at this year's Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered.

Meanwhile, Roadside Attractions co-president Howard Cohen told TheWrap, "It's amazing. We're very happy," speaking of the opening box office for the Kevin Spacey-led "Margin Call."

The movie concerns the financial collapse of 2008, and Cohen said that the Occupy Wall Street movement has spotlighted the issue in recent weeks.

"It was a double-edged sword," he said. "We were worried that ... people would feel like it was everywhere in the news, and they didn't want to see a movie about it, but what it did get us was an enormous amount of publicity."

He said the R-rated drama sold out many locations and had a record $32,750 at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center in New York.

Tthe movie was released on video-on-demand the same day it opened theatrically. Cohen said VOD grosses have not yet been tallied -- but the strategy obviously didn't hurt theatrical sales.

On VOD, the movie costs $7. Yet Cohen said it will be on 135 screens beginning October 28, and will probably expand to 200 screens.

J.C. Chandor wrote "Margin Call," which stars Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci and Demi Moore, among others.

Other limited releases this weekend include Pedro Almodovar's "The Skin I Live In," a Sony Pictures Classics film that grossed an estimated $248,000 at 21 locations. That gave the R-rated movie a per-screen average of $11,790 in its second weekend of release.

And "Being Elmo," Submarine Deluxe's documentary about the puppeteer behind Sesame Street's Elmo character, opened at the IFC Center in New York to $25,158. Constance Marks directed and produced. Phillip Shane co-directed, wrote and edited the film.

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Canon posts higher profits in Q3 earnings report, lowers outlook over Thai flood concerns

Things are looking pretty rosy for Canon these days, though there may be some difficulty on the horizon. Today, the camera maker published a rather strong Q3 earnings report, just a few months after posting relatively ho-hum Q2 results. According to the company, operating profit grew by 17.4 percent to ¥122.55 billion ($1.6 billion) this quarter, compared with ¥104.42 billion ($1.37 billion) a year ago. Net profit, meanwhile, increased by 14.2 percent over the year, reaching ¥77.9 billion ($1.02 billion) during the quarter, versus ¥68.20 billion during Q3 2010. These results come at a time when the yen is strong, and therefore detrimental to Japanese exporters, though Canon attributed much of its success to strong growth in emerging markets, including China and India. For the year, however, Canon lowered its net-profit outlook to ¥230 billion ($3.02 billion) from ¥260 billion ($3.4 billion), on assumptions that the yen will maintain its strength, and on fears that recent flooding in Thailand may impact production. In fact, the manufacturer said the flooding may cut annual sales by ¥50 billion ($657 million) and operating profit by ¥20 billion. Check out the full report, at the source link below.

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

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

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Price matters for holiday 2011 season (AP)

NEW YORK ? Forget style, quality and customer service. This holiday season, all that matters is price.

A week before Halloween and two full months before Christmas, stores are desperately trying to outdo each other in hopes of drawing in customers worn down by the economy.

Wal-Mart, the biggest store in the nation, joined the price wars Monday by announcing that it would give gift cards to shoppers if they buy something there and find it somewhere else cheaper.

Staples and Bed Bath & Beyond have already said they will match the lowest prices of Amazon.com and other big Internet retailers. Sears is going a step further, offering to beat a competitor's best price by 10 percent.

"The days of marketing the stuff in your store because it was a hot brand are over," says Dave Ratner, owner of Dave's Soda & Pet City, a Massachusetts pet food and supplies chain.

For the holidays, Ratner plans to offer 20 percent off pet accessories if customers buy a bag of dog food. Customers, he says, just want a deal.

Almost four years after the onset of the Great Recession, they've learned to expect one too. In better times, retailers could afford to keep prices higher and use promises of higher quality and better service to lure people into stores.

Those days are over. In a recent poll of 1,000 shoppers by America's Research Group, 78 percent said they were more driven by sales than they were a year ago. During the financial meltdown in 2008, that figure was only 68 percent.

Wal-Mart last year went back to its "everyday low prices" roots, a bedrock philosophy of founder Sam Walton, rather than slashing prices only on certain items to draw in customers. Now everyday low prices might not be low enough.

So it's trying something it is calling the Christmas Price Guarantee. It works this way: If you buy something at Wal-Mart from Nov. 1 to Dec. 25 and find the identical product elsewhere for less, you get a gift card in the amount of the difference.

The deal excludes online prices and some categories of merchandise ? groceries, live plants, tobacco, prescription drugs and wireless devices that require a service agreement. But it is good even if weeks pass between your purchase and spotting the better deal. And it applies even to big items like TVs, for which prices can drop steeply as Christmas approaches.

Duncan MacNaughton, chief merchandising officer for Wal-Mart's U.S. stores, told reporters Monday that he has noticed "much more promotional intensity and gimmicks" among competitors.

"This gives customers peace of mind that we are an advocate for them," he said.

Toys R Us' big book of holiday offers will be packed this year with $8,000 of savings, compared with $5,600 last year, said Bob Friedland, a company spokesman. And it has added an incentive this year: If customers who sign up for its loyalty program spend $200 or more during the holiday season, they will get coupons on toys every month next year.

Retailers are responding to a customer base that is better informed, and more comfortable shopping online, than ever.

Jenna Wahl, a cardiac nurse from Bloomington, Ind., said she expects to spend about as much on holiday gifts this year as last ? roughly $500 ? but will try to get more for her money.

She'll be asking stores to do more price-matching and plans to use her iPhone to check prices and download coupons.

"I will take things back in order to get the better deal," she said.

Wal-Mart left online prices out of its Christmas offer, but other stores have decided they may not have that luxury. Staples, for example, is leaving it to the discretion of its store managers to decide whether to match online prices.

Sears' offer of beating a competitor by 10 percent will not apply to retailers that only do business online, such as Amazon, but will apply to prices that its brick-and-mortar competitors offer on their websites.

The holiday price wars mark an acceleration of a trend that has already swept the retail industry. Lowe's, the nation's No. 2 home improvement store, said in August it was starting to focus on everyday low prices for items that customers can easily comparison-shop at rivals like Home Depot and Sears.

And J.C. Penney, the department store chain, said earlier this month that it plans to overhaul its pricing strategy starting in February. So far, it has kept the details a secret.

Wal-Mart stepped up its price matching in April by directing store employees to comb through competitors' advertisements so price matches at the register would be easier. Wal-Mart's price match has been around for several years, but it is using it more as a competitive weapon to compete with rivals. It's launched ads playing up its price matching and has training sales associates to better police prices of local competitors. Customers will still have to ask for the price match.

"Customers have learned to wait on the next big deal because they know that if they wait long enough they can get a lower price than the everyday low price," Bob Gfeller, Lowe's executive vice president of merchandising, said to investors in August. "However, we must be vigilant to ensure that our customers perceive us to be priced competitively every day, even against online retailers and smaller category killers."

Indeed, 64 percent of shoppers polled said that it would take discounts between 30 percent to 50 percent to get them to spend, up from 54 percent last year, according to a recent Citi Investment Research & Analysis survey of a little more than 1,000 customers. Customers looking for 60 percent off as a big motivator to spend increased to 10 percent from 8 percent last year, the survey showed.

Bill Martin, co-founder Shoppertrak, which monitors customer traffic at 25,000 stores nationwide, says retailers are seeing that customers appear in droves when they have big sales for holiday weekends like Black Friday, Memorial Day or Father's Day. This creates peaks and valleys throughout the year, a trend that hasn't abated since the recession began in late 2007.

"The reality is consumers are targeted. They're well informed, and they've searched the Internet for price information," said Bill Martin, co-founder of ShopperTrak, which expects foot traffic to drop 2.2 percent during the holiday season compared with a year ago.

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