Spotify to announce 'what's next' on Nov. 30

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By Rosa Golijan

The folks behind?popular music streaming service Spotify?have some "exciting news" to share on November 30?? or at least so an invitation to their press conference tells us.

The invitation is pretty slim on details. We know that the event's theme is "what's next for Spotify" and that it?will be?hosted by the company's?co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek (as well as "a special guest or two").

Anything beyond those details is pure speculation.

Is Spotify planning to?begin allowing U.S.-based customers to purchase songs directly through the service (as Europe-based users may already do)? Will there be a snazzy new set of mobile apps? Has the company finally figured out a way to cure my addiction to horrible pop music?

We'll have to wait until November 30 to find out.

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Defense hawks look to spare military from deficit cuts; Obama says he'll veto any such effort (Star Tribune)

Democrats flip, flop on Romney ???flip-flop??? label (Daily Caller)

While former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney turns up the volume on his claim that President Barack Obama is obsessed with his own re-election, not the nation?s welfare, Democrats are changing their orchestrated portrayal of him as a flip-flopper, instead attacking him on issues where he has been most consistent.

?The only thing scarier than Mitt Romney?s flip-flops are the issues he has refused to bend on, where he?s refused to change: He has been rock-solid in siding with the privileged over the middle class,? Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel declared in a red-meat speech at a fundraiser for Iowa Democrats on Saturday.

?Whether it?s homeowners versus speculators, the auto-worker versus the financial engineer, or employees versus corporations, he?s been consistent on whose side he is on: if you are the hard-working middle class, you are left for the scrap heap,? Emanuel declared.

That criticism is intended to capitalize on public suspicion of Romney?s career as an financial investor, and on the long-standing image of the GOP as the party of the rich.

The rhetoric?s principal intended targets are white voters who are not college-educated. They?re a critical swing-voting bloc in key states like Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, and Obama?s popularity among this group has plunged since 2008.

In recent weeks, Obama has tried to reach out to them. He has repeatedly touted his support for the U.S. auto industry, pledged allegiance to military veterans, and voiced suspicion of China?s aggressive currency rules that boost exports to the United States.

Obama has also used Washington?s deficit negotiations to call for tax cuts to middle- and lower-income workers, and to criticize suggested cuts to Medicare and other?social programs.

Other Democratic advocates are still tagging Romney as a ?flip-flopper.?

That charge spurs conflict in the Republican primaries and also damages his hope of presenting himself as a strong leader to non-ideological swing-voters during the general election.

The flip-flop charge, however, makes it more difficult for Obama?s surrogates to revive the traditional Democratic claims that their Republican opponent is an extremist.

That claim has been used repeatedly by Democrats to weaken GOP candidates? support among upper-income professionals, many of whom are liberal on social issues.

While Democrats concentrate their criticism on Romney, GOP advocates aren?t turning the other cheek.

?The last thing the White House wants is Mitt Romney as an opponent ? which explains their obsessive focus on him and their ?all hands on deck? approach to fundraising,? said a Nov. 18 statement from Gail Gitcho, Romney?s communications director.

?President Obama has failed to create a single net new job ? The only job he cares about is his own,? said Gitcho?s statement.

Gitcho?s statement highlighted Emanuel?s speech, which cited Romney eighteen times, while barely mentioning Texas Governor Rick Perry, Rep. Michele Bachmann, or former Senator Rick Santorum.

The Romney campaign repeated the charge on Nov. 21, saying ?The last thing the White House wants is to run against Mitt Romney ? which explains its obsessive focus on him and the deployment of President Obama?s cronies to attack him.?

That release bolstered the Romney campaign?s claim of an Obama ?obsession? by citing numbers showing the public?s declining confidence and the stalled economy.

?President Obama has failed to create a single net new job and has wreaked more havoc on the middle class ? The only job he cares about is his own, so, instead of working to create jobs for Americans, he?s working to create distractions,? said the statement.

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New computer system can read your emotions, will probably be annoying about it (video)

It's bad enough listening to your therapist drone on about the hatred you harbor toward your father. Pretty soon, you may have to put up with a hyper-insightful computer, as well. That's what researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have begun developing, with a new system capable of reading human emotions. As explained in their study, published in the Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, the computer has been designed to intelligently engage with people, and to adjust its dialogue according to a user's emotional state. To gauge this, researchers looked at a total of 60 acoustic parameters, including the tenor of a user's voice, the speed at which one speaks, and the length of any pauses. They also implemented controls to account for any endogenous reactions (e.g., if a user gets frustrated with the computer's speech), and enabled the adaptable device to modify its speech accordingly, based on predictions of where the conversation may lead. In the end, they found that users responded more positively whenever the computer spoke in "objective terms" (i.e., with more succinct dialogue). The same could probably be said for most bloggers, as well. Teleport past the break for the full PR, along with a demo video (in Spanish).

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Nucky Tries to Secure a Business Partner in Ireland on 'Boardwalk ...

'Boardwalk Empire' - 'Battle of the Century'Nucky headed to Ireland to try and set up a trade line of guns for Irish whiskey on 'Boardwalk Empire' (Sun., 9PM ET on HBO). What he walked into was akin to a civil war within the Irish rebellion against Britain. The man he went to meet, who was the leader of The Cause, lost a son in the battle and so had lost his will to support further bloodshed.

This put a serious crimp in Nucky's plans as the demand for firearms would cease along with a cease fire. But just as things felt hopeless, after the leader put Nucky in a car back to the port with one of his men, gunshots erupted behind them.

"You'll deal with me now," the man next to him said. "1,000 machine guns for 10,000 cases of whiskey." With the old leader now dead, the rebellion would continue, and thus Nucky's deal.

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Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet

The reader's tablet is back. The new Nook Tablet delivers the best color e-reading experience available, especially for magazines and for childrens' books. It's a better e-reader than the Amazon Kindle Fire ($199, 4 stars), our Editors' Choice for small tablets. But the Nook doesn't quite match the Fire on music, video or apps, and the Nook Color ($199, 4 stars) offers the same great e-reading experience for less money. Make no mistake, the Nook is a very good small tablet, but the Fire delivers a better all-around tablet experience, and the Nook Color offers better value as a color e-reader.

Physical Design and User Interface
Feeling a little more 'book-like' than the Amazon Kindle Fire, the Nook Tablet is significantly taller and slightly wider at 8.1 by 5.9 by 0.5 inches (HWD) thanks to its much bigger bezel, but it's lighter at 14.1 ounces compared with Amazon's 14.6. There's a standard 3.5-mm headphone jack, and a curious little loop in the bottom left corner, which serves as both a handle and a way to conceal the reader's MicroSD card slot, just like on the Nook Color. In fact the Nook Tablet and the Nook Color are almost identical save for the a slightly lighter-color metallic finish. The Tablet has physical Power button and volume controls on the side panels as well as a single, "N"-shaped home button at the bottom of the 7-inch, 1024-by-600 touch screen.

Barnes & Noble has made a big deal out of how its IPS LCD screen is less reflective than Amazon's, but after using both screens for long periods taking several photographs of each, I found I had to squint to tell the difference. It's there, but it's by no means pronounced enough to be a dealmaker. Both displays are much less readable in daylight than the e-ink screens on devices like the Amazon Kindle Touch ($149, 4 stars).

The Nook Tablet, like the Amazon Kindle Fire, runs a very highly customized version of Android 2.3 on a TI OMAP4, 1GHz dual-core processor. But the Nook's user interface looks nothing like Amazon's (or, for that matter, Android's.)

Rather than shelves, here you have three free home screens where you can plunk down large icons representing your favorite books, magazines, or apps. (No widgets; this isn't standard Android.) Along the bottom of the screen are your most recently used items in a scrollable list, along with some links to promotional screens plugging B&N's various stores, and its favorite music and video related apps. (You can hide those links.)

Press the Home button, and you'll get seven main options: Home, Library, Shop, Search, Apps, Web and Settings. Your Library contains, on separate panes, Books, Magazines, Newspapers, Apps, Kids, and My Stuff, a catch-all for any of your own music, video or document files you may store in the Nook's 1GB of user-accessible memory or on a MicroSD card up to 32GB. You can also create your own custom shelves within My Stuff to arrange books by topic, for instance.

Notice what's missing: Unlike on the Kindle Fire, the Nook lumps music and video under the catch-all of "Apps," and breaks out books, magazines, and newspapers more distinctly. That's actually on purpose, and it shows one of the major differences between the two tablets.

Barnes & Noble Is a Bookstore
Nobody beats Barnes & Noble when it comes to books. If childrens' books are going to be a big part of your tablet experience, this is your tablet. Nook books for kids are full of animation and interactivity. They often offer read-along audio versions as well as the ability to record your own voice, if you want to read a distant child a bedtime story. (Recording your own voice is exclusive to the Tablet; it isn't on the Nook Color or the Kindle Fire.)

Nook magazines flip pages more smoothly than the Kindle, and when you double-tap on articles in the magazine page view, the text pops out in an attractive scrolling column. Magazines and books?especially cookbooks, from what I saw?can also incorporate embedded audio and video.

Compared with these, the Kindle's childrens' books look like cheap flatbed scans, its cookbooks lack panache, and its magazines look awkward.

The Nook's whole UI encourages you to keep reading. On the home page, the top status line lets you jump back to the most recent book you were in. A pop-down menu shows your most recently read books and magazines. An omnipresent small book icon at the bottom immediately reopens your book to where you left off.

Adult books are better than on the Kindle too, mostly through an interface with fewer mysterious icons and more clearly explained options. I also greatly prefer the Nook's accounting of pages and chapters over the Kindle's weird, disconnected "locations."

Barnes & Noble enhances the reading experience with its 700 brick-and-mortar stores, letting you read anything you want for an hour on the in-store Wi-Fi network, letting you browse physical magazines and tomes before buying them electronically, and offering up its staff to suggest books. Amazon has nothing to compete with that.

The one area the Kindle triumphs is in comics. The Nook has a limited selection of comics, and you pinch to zoom. The Kindle will have Comixology as well as exclusive DC comics, double-tapping lets you flip through specific panels, and you can load a third-party comic reader if you have CBR-format comic files. That's a much broader comics experience.

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Rob Kardashian tops 'Dancing' leaderboard (omg!)

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2011 file photo released by ABC, Rob Kardashian, right, and Cheryl Burke perform on the celebrity dance competition series "Dancing with the Stars," in Los Angeles. Two routines stand between the three ?Dancing With the Stars? finalists and the show's disco-ball trophy. Reality star Rob Kardashian, TV personality Ricki Lake and actor and Army veteran J.R. Martinez will each perform two numbers on Monday's final dance-off. A new champion will be named Tuesday. (AP Photo/ABC, Adam Taylor)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Rob Kardashian swung to the top of the "Dancing with the Stars" leaderboard Monday.

The 24-year-old reality TV star and his professional partner, Cheryl Burke, waltzed ahead of the competition on the ABC ballroom contest's final dance-off. Kardashian and Burke nabbed a combined 57 out of a possible 60 for a breezy waltz and dizzying swing-era freestyle routine that garnered Kardashian his first perfect 30 of the season.

"Never would I ever have thought that I'd get a perfect score, and we did it with the hardest freestyle," he said.

U.S. Army veteran J.R. Martinez and TV personality Ricki Lake tied for second place with 54. Lake remained consistent with a 27 for both her cha-cha and a freestyle number that incorporated everything from quickstep to salsa moves, while Martinez earned a 24 for a so-so cha-cha before winning a perfect 30 for his high-energy salsa-inspired freestyle.

"It was a like a jungle tribal hypnotic experience," judge Bruno Tonioli told Martinez.

Lake and partner Derek Hough have been front-runners throughout the show's 13th season, consistently earning high marks from the judges. Martinez and partner Karina Smirnoff have also ranked high with the panel, occasionally topping the leaderboard. Kardashian has experienced steady growth under Burke and may have peaked at just the right moment.

"You're like the male version of Cinderella who made it to the ball," judge Carrie Ann Inaba told him.

The scores will be combined with viewer votes to determine the champion Tuesday.

Previously dismissed contestants include actor David Arquette, activist Chaz Bono, soccer player Hope Solo, singer Chynna Phillips, actress Elisabetta Canalis, basketball player Metta World Peace and TV personalities Kristin Cavallari, Carson Kressley and Nancy Grace.

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More Robert Pattinson Interviews from the Breaking Dawn Premieres in London, Barcelona and Berlin

More Robert Pattinson Interviews from the Breaking Dawn Premieres in London, Barcelona and?Berlin ? 1 comment

London ? This Morning

Barcelona ? Hola

Berlin ? Concorde?

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So for the pairings, each guy is going to pick the top two girls he'd like his chachter with. One of them will be his mate, the other will be his true love. So even if some is picked twice, they dont have to fight over her. (fun as that may be.) One person will have them as their mate, the other will have her as their true love. I pick the mate/true love part.

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