Calle 13 wins Latin Grammy album of the year (AP)

LAS VEGAS ? Calle 13 won album of the year at the Latin Grammy Awards, earning the top prize after a record-breaking night that saw the Puerto Rican hip-hop duo receive 19 awards overall.

Earlier in the night, the socially charged rap group made history and won its 18th award for song of the year for "Latinoamerica." That broke the record for most awards overall previously held by 17-time-winner Juanes.

Performers from nearly 100 nations celebrated Spanish pop, rock, salsa, rap and country during the three-hour show Thursday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip.

Crossover stars Shakira, Pitbull, Usher and Marc Anthony were among the dozens of international pop stars who shared the stage.

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Shakira, the Latin Recording Academy's Person of the Year, released her quaking hips for a feisty performance of her reggeaton hit "Loca" during the Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday night.

Shakira, the youngest person to receive the academy's prestigious recognition, dedicated the honor to her fellow stars. "With their voices and their music, they cure all our pains and make us forget our sorrows," she said.

It was a night for blending genres and talents, as performers from nearly 100 countries gathered at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip for a night of Spanish pop, rock, salsa, rap and country. Crossover stars Prince Royce, Sean Kingston, Usher and Demi Lovato were among the dozens of pop stars who shared the stage, along with Mexican rocker Alejandra Guzman, Puerto Rican rappers Wisin and Yandel and Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas. Award presenters included Erik Estrada, Zoe Saldana and Sofia Vergara.

The international lineup made for a Spanglish flair, with Vergara, whose Colombian accent is a staple joke on the hit TV series "Modern Family," welcoming English viewers in her adopted tongue.

Puerto Rican hip-hop duo Calle 13 opened the show with an emotional rendition of their Hispanic anthem "Latinoamerica." Frontman Ren? P?rez Joglar dedicated the song to Latin Americans. "May this transport you to your roots, your streets ... and may you feel it here in your chest," he said in Spanish before the rousing performance.

The socially charged rap group picked up four awards before the show began and was nominated for a record 10 awards in all for its anti-establishment album "Entren Los Que Quieran," lending a political overtone to the annual awards show. The album slams the White House and the Vatican.

The group won every award for which it had been nominated at the pre-telecast awards ceremony Thursday: "Calma Pueblo" took best alternative song, with its lyrics that call the Vatican the largest mafia in the world. The group also won producer of the year, best short-form music video and best tropical song for its ode to behaving badly, "Vamo' A Portarnos Mal."

Once the show opened, Calle 13 won the prize for best urban music album, best urban song and the award for record of the year for "Latinoamerica." The group also was nominated for song of the year.

"We know that we aren't the ones who get played on the radio ... but the people who don't sell themselves for money and make real music," said Joglar, who goes by the stage name Residente, in Spanish after accepting the award for best urban song.

Meanwhile, Puerto Rican newcomer Sie7e was named best new artist. He performed his Spanglish love song "Tengo Tu Love" with Taboo.

"Another one for Puerto Rico," he cried after accepting his gramophone.

Enrique Iglesias was also nominated for best album for "Euphoria." Pitbull, Don Omar, Los Tigres del Norte and Wisin and Yandel were among the acts that got two nominations each. Chilean actor Cristi?n de la Fuente and Mexican singer Lucero co-hosted the show.

Other multiple nominees included Shakira, who received three nominations, including best album for "Sale el Sol." Venezuelan singer Franco De Vita was up for five awards, including best album for "En Primera Fila," and Puerto Rican pop star Ricky Martin had three nominations.

Shakira, dressed in a sweeping pink gown topped with a sparkling corset, belted out the ballad "Antes de las Seis" on a fog-drenched stage decorated with flowering trees. She later returned to a stage glowing in flames and dressed in a transparent lace top and tight sparkly black pants to perform "Loca."

Vergara presented Shakira with her Person of the Year plaque, as Shakira cried "Sofia!"

"We live close in Barranquilla, that's what people don't know," Shakira said in Spanish, referring to the coastal Colombian city she often evokes in her songs and award acceptance speeches.

Mana gave the first duet of the show, performing with New York bachata singer Prince Royce "Lluvia al Corazon" and "El Verdadero Amor Perdona" as the image of a beating heart adorned with thorns graced the stage.

"In my opinion, Mana is one of the most important groups in Latin music," Royce later said backstage.

The legendary Mexican rock group went on to win best rock album, with frontman Fher Olvera proclaiming that rock lives on.

Wisin and Yandel were joined by Jamaican-American singer Sean Kingston. They spitted out three hits, "Estoy Enamorado," "Fire Burning" and "Fever."

Kingston said backstage that he didn't understand what was being said at the show, but called himself a "huge fan of reggeaton," or Spanish hip hop.

"I've dated a few Latin ladies so I understand a little bit, poquito," he said, adding of Calle 13, "I don't know his name but he was real good."

Pitbull and Marc Anthony also shared the stage, pumping out their bilingual club banger "Rain Over Me" as dozens of Las Vegas burlesque dancers shimmied under a shower of falling rain.

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Cristina Silva can be reached at http://twitter.com/cristymsilva.

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IMF chief: Japan not immune to eurozone crisis (AP)

TOKYO ? The chief of the International Monetary Fund said Saturday that Italy's financial reform is key to reducing the impact of the eurozone crisis, and that no country is immune to the consequences if the efforts fall short.

After meeting in Tokyo with top Japanese financial officials, including Finance Minister Jun Azumi, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said Italy must restore political stability and implement financial reforms to provide "clarity and credibility" and restore confidence.

Italy needs "steady, solid and sustained implementation of measures," she said at a news conference.

The eurozone financial crisis, set off two years ago by Greece's overwhelming debt, has now engulfed Italy, which has the third-largest economy among the 17 nations that share the euro currency. The crisis has toppled Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who says he will step down once reforms are passed to help Italy control its own staggering debt.

Lagarde expressed concerns about the possible consequences outside the eurozone, particularly in Asia. She urged Japan to use caution against the impact of the eurozone crisis.

"I insisted with Minister Azumi that no country can be immune under the present circumstances, no matter how developed or how emerging or how far away it is," Lagarde said. "Japan is no more immune than other countries."

A major exporter, Japan "would be exposed if some of its large clients are in serious difficulty," she said.

Europe has bailed out Greece, Portugal and Ireland.

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Mechanical OutRun Reproduction Only Lacks a Pocket Full Of Quarters [Video]

When it was released back in 1986, SEGA's OutRun had some of the most cutting edge features in an arcade game, including a moving cabinet, force feedback steering wheel and your choice of soundtracks. And while Gustavo's analog version isn't quite as elaborate, it looks like it's packing just as much technology as the original. More »


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Newlyweds among dead in Hawaii copter crash

At least one of the two couples killed in a tourist helicopter crash on Hawaii's Molokai island Thursday were newlyweds, according to reports Friday.

The aircraft was flying to see West Maui and Molokai when it went down near an elementary school, authorities said. The pilot and all four passengers were killed in the crash.

Rod Antone, a Maui official, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that the two couples were from Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada.

Maui county officials said at least two of the passengers were newlyweds, the paper reported.

Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration's Pacific Division, told the Star-Advertiser that after the crash the helicopter was "engulfed in flames."

Richard Stevens, principal of Kilohana Elementary School, said at the time of the crash "a lot of us heard what we thought was thunder," according to the paper. Ualapue resident Wren Wescoatt added there were heavy rain squalls at the time, saying he had heard a loud "whoop" sound then saw flames from the crash site.

'Extremely grieved'
The Maui News said officials identified the pilot as Nathan Cline, 30, of Kihei.

Blue Hawaiian Helicopters owner David Chevalier said the passengers were taking a 45-minute tour that departed from Kahului, on Maui. He declined to release the pilot's name.

"We're extremely grieved for our pilot as well as the passengers," Chevalier said. "Something like this can't be more devastating to us."

The EC-130 chopper that crashed was less than a year old and was being leased from Nevada Helicopter Leasing LLC, Chevalier said.

Maui mayor Alan Arakawa knew the pilot on a personally, according to a report on news website Hawaii News Now.

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"He's taken us around when we had the tsunami problems," the mayor said.

"We went around and we actually got to see all of the details, taking us real close. (He was) very experienced. We're just really sad that this has happened," he added.

"We truly want to express our sorrow to all of those whose families are involved," Arakawa told the website. Blue Hawaiian, this is only the second accident they've had in the history of the company, so generally a very, very safe company."

Deadly crashes
Molokai is a mostly rural island of about 7,000 people between Maui and Oahu, where world leaders have gathered this week for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Honolulu.

Helicopter tour companies advertise trips to Molokai to see the island's sea cliffs and Hawaii's tallest waterfall. The remote Kalaupapa peninsula on Molokai is where Hawaii exiled leprosy patients between 1866 and 1969.

A Blue Hawaiian helicopter was involved in a July 2000 crash that killed seven people on Maui. A National Transportation Safety Board report said that the pilot was responsible, failing to maintain enough altitude over the terrain amid low-lying clouds.

Blue Hawaiian conducts 160,000 tours each year on all of the Hawaiian islands, Chevalier said.

Hawaii has seen several other helicopter crashes in the last decade.

In March 2007, four people died when a Heli-USA Airways helicopter crashed at Princeville Airport on Kauai.

Three passengers drowned in 2005 after a helicopter crashed into the ocean off the coast of Kauai. In 2004, five people were killed when a helicopter crashed into a mountain on Kauai.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45248790/ns/travel-news/

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Vicki Gass: Rebuilding El Salvador Sustainably

International and national officials in El Salvador are calling it one of the worst crises in the country's history. What was more terrible than the civil war of the 1980s that claimed over 70,000 lives and even worse than Hurricane Mitch, which ravaged the region in 1998? It was Tropical Depression 12-E, a storm that dropped more than five feet of water over ten days in October, causing massive flooding and mud slides and forcing 60,000 people into shelters.

Perhaps the nondescript name did little to draw international attention to the crisis, but the economic damage wrought by the tropical deluge is worthy of an international response. Although fewer lives were lost (34 versus 10,000 people in Hurricane Mitch) as a result of the early warning system established post-Mitch, authorities estimate over $840 million in economic loss, affecting 181 municipalities in all 14 departments in the country. The nation's infrastructure was left in ruins; 40 percent of the road network, 23 bridges, 500 schools, and hundreds of houses were destroyed. The most affected sector was agriculture, which constitutes 11 percent of GDP and employs 30 percent of the population. Over 270,000 producers (mostly small-scale farmers) suffered damage to their grains and cereal crops -- staples of the Salvadoran diet, with immediate and long-term food insecurity likely.

The Funes government is estimating that it will cost $1.5 billion to build back El Salvador. It is precisely the extent of the damage to the country's infrastructure and agriculture sector that has Salvadorans calling this the worst disaster in El Salvador's history. With limited financial resources with which to rebuild, El Salvador will have to look abroad for assistance. While defined as a middle-income country, it still boasts high levels of poverty, especially in the rural sector. The lack of employment opportunities is one reason why Salvadorans risk coming to the United States to take menial jobs to send money back to their families (for more, see here).

Clearly this is not the first disaster to hit El Salvador, but there is legitimate fear that there is more to come. The United Nations considers Central America one of the world regions most affected by climate change; over the past 40 years, natural disasters have killed some 50,000 people and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. Officials in El Salvador are attributing the recent deluge to climate change. Raul Artiga of the Central American Commission on Environment and Development has stated that "Climate change is not something that is coming in the future; we are already suffering its effects."

Minister of the Environment Herman Rosa Ch?vez is calling for a reconstruction process in El Salvador that takes climate change into account, in order to mitigate the effects of future disasters and prevent the waste of limited financial resources. One way of doing this is investing in sustainable rural agriculture. Studies have shown that investing in small-scale, sustainable agriculture increases a country's resilience to extreme weather events, strengthens food security, and contributes to economic development in the rural sector. A decent job, food for the kids, and reduced threats from future natural disasters are powerful anchors to keep people from becoming climate refugees.

A bipartisan congressional delegation from the United States will travel to El Salvador at the end of this week. One could hope that witnessing the devastation first-hand would increase U.S. emergency assistance and reconstruction aid to help the country rebuild. This is unlikely given the weak appetite for foreign aid in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the context of ongoing debates on budget cuts on both sides of the aisle. However, in December international bilateral and multilateral donors will gather to coordinate their responses to the disaster. The donors should heed Minister Ch?vez's call by directing their contributions to the rural sector and investing in sustainable agriculture to strengthen resilience against future disasters.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicki-gass/rebuilding-el-salvador-su_b_1086776.html

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Boeing defense CEO: braced for deep spending cut (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Boeing Co's (BA.N) defense unit is bracing for the "worst case scenario" -- a trillion-dollar U.S. defense budget reduction over 10 years, the chief executive of the company's Defense Space and Security business said on Thursday.

Speaking on a webcast of a Bank of America Merrill Lynch forum, Dennis Muilenburg said the company must be realistic about the budget outlook.

"Now from an operational standpoint, productivity standpoint, we are assuming that worst case scenario," Muilenburg said. "So we are designing our cost structure to accommodate a trillion-dollar budget reduction."

The congressional panel created over the summer as part of the U.S. agreement to raise the debt ceiling must recommend $1.2 trillion in spending cuts later this month. If it fails to reach a deal, automatic cuts of that amount would kick in, to be split equally between defense and non-defense programs.

That would force the U.S. Defense Department to take steeper additional cuts on top of the $350 billion in spending reductions it has already set over the next decade.

Defense contractors are reducing headcount and shedding non-core units in preparation for leaner global budgets.

Boeing, which splits its business between defense products and commercial airplanes, believes that while defense spending is shrinking in the United States, opportunities remain in international markets, Muilenburg said.

He said he sees especially strong budget growth in the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions.

"We like the position of our portfolio in that tough environment," he said, noting a backlog worth $59 billion for the Defense, Space & Security unit.

Shares of Boeing were up 0.6 percent to $64.93 on the New York Stock Exchange.

(Reporting by Kyle Peterson and Karen Jacobs; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)

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Mike Tyson (as Herman Cain) for president!

By Kurt Schlosser

Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson takes on Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain -- not with his fists, but with his impersonation skills -- in a hilarious new clip from the good folks at Funny or Die.

Billed as "Herman Cain's Campaign Promises with Mike Tyson," the above video is worth a look if you're already in search of some comic relief (other than this) in the long run-up to the 2012 election.

"Hello. I'm Herman Cain, the man who's been shouting the number nine in your TV," Tyson says. "I used to be the CEO of Godfather's, a restaurant so gross it made my children hate pizza. Now, I'm running for president."

Funny or Die?has hit the mark before with?its political impersonations.?Will Ferrell as George W. Bush anyone? Or this classic.

If you thought Tyson's acting chops were a fluke when he showed up in "The Hangover," think again.

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Alan Mootnick dies at 60; gibbon expert and conservationist

Alan Mootnick, a self-taught primate specialist who rose to become a leading authority on gibbon biology and conservation, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications following heart surgery, relatives said. He was 60.

A self-described modern-day Tarzan, Mootnick founded the nonprofit Gibbon Conservation Center in Santa Clarita in 1976. In interviews, he stated that his aim was to advance the study, propagation and protection of the endangered species. Professional primatologists said he succeeded in doing that. The center today is home to the largest and rarest group of gibbons in the Western Hemisphere.

"This was a man who was completely dedicated to these animals," said Mootnick's cousin Geri-Ann Galanti, an anthropologist and board member of the gibbon sanctuary. "He gave his life to them."

Mootnick wrote dozens of scholarly papers for peer-reviewed publications, including the International Journal of Primatology. His recent articles illuminated the world's rarest gibbon species ? the crested gibbon of China and the silvery gibbon of Java ? according to Lori K. Sheeran, professor of anthropology and director of the Primate Behavior and Ecology program at Central Washington University.

"Alan was widely sought out for his expertise in the captive care of gibbons and siamangs [an endangered primate], and he shared his knowledge widely," Sheeran said in an email.

He offered advice to U.S. zoos, veterinarians, gibbon rescue centers, government agencies and staff working at primate facilities in other countries.

"He was always incredibly generous with information and his knowledge," said Jennifer Chatfield, a retired primate keeper at the Los Angeles Zoo. "He helped open peoples' eyes about gibbons."

Craig Stanford, a professor of biological sciences and anthropology at USC who traveled to Asia with Mootnick in 2005 on a gibbon consulting trip, said Mootnick sometimes felt insecure in the presence of primatologists who had academic degrees and titles.

"In the end, the best testament to them was that he did succeed in becoming a world authority on these animals, without having the formal training," Stanford said. And "he filled a niche that no one else really occupied in the field of conservation."

An eccentric and soft-spoken man known for his gray-spotted beard, love of suspenders and dry sense of humor, Alan Richard Mootnick was born Jan. 23, 1951, and grew up in Encino.

His father was an accountant and his mother assisted with his father's work. Both parents died when Mootnick was a teenager.

Mootnick's formal education consisted of a diploma from Birmingham High School in the San Fernando Valley and a two-year course in dental technology at Los Angeles City College. He loved to work with his hands and in the 1970s took up welding. In 1980, he started a painting and remodeling business.

But Mootnick's true passion was primates.

Typically reserved, he "couldn't stop talking when it came to gibbons," said Chatfield.

The interest stemmed from his fascination with the fictional character Tarzan. The sound of a gibbon "singing" at a zoo captivated him when he was 9.

"I also identified with them," Mootnick said in a 2008 Los Angeles Times interview. "I saw similarities in myself. I was lean, and agile, and comical."

In 1976, Mootnick acquired his first ape, Spanky; she had been someone's pet. Two years, later he got Chan Chan on loan from a Rhode Island zoo as a breeding partner. Proceeds from his remodeling business and the sale of a classic Jaguar car collection funded the 1980 purchase of the five-acre Bouquet Canyon site of the gibbon center.

"He stuck to the vision he had when he was a little kid and made that into a reality," said Julie Taylor, Mootnick's girlfriend and publicist.

Today, 44 apes live in hand-built enclosures and are fed customized nutritional supplements, according to staff at the facility.

"Sadly, these rare and beautiful apes have lost their strongest advocate," said Sheeran, the anthropology professor.

Funeral services for Mootnick, who is survived by a sister, Ronnie Weinberger, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Groman Eden Mortuary in Mission Hills.

ann.simmons@latimes.com

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PERRY DEBATE DISASTER: This Is The Moment ... - Business Insider

At today's CNBC debate Texas Gov. Rick Perry was asked a question about his tax and spending plan ? but completely blew an otherwise strong answer by looking like a complete fool.

Perry was listing the three Cabinet agencies he wants to abolish ? and forgot the third one.

From the transcript:

Perry: And I will tell you, it is three?agencies of government when i?get there that are gone.?Commerce, Education, and the ??what's the third one there??Let's see...Okay.?Commerce, Education, and the ?"

Ron Paul: EPA?

Perry: EPA, there you go.

Moderator: Seriously -- is epa one you?are talking about?

Perry: No, sir, no, sir.?we are talking about the --?agencies of government -- EPA?needs to be rebuilt.?>>

Moderator: you can't -- you can't name?the third one?

Perry: The third agency of?government I would -- I would do?away with Education, the --?>> Commerce...Commerce and, let's see.?I can't.?The third one, I can't.?Sorry.?Oops.

About 15 minutes later, Perry said "It was the Department of Energy that I was reaching for before."

Watch the video below (the disaster kicks in at 1:00):

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