Perry shifts focus to Obama, criticizes Asia trip (AP)

NEW YORK ? Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry assailed President Barack Obama anew Friday ? this time on an arms-trafficking probe and jobs ? as part of a recent push by the Texas governor to shift the focus from his GOP rivals and his struggling campaign to the Democratic incumbent.

But several of Perry's claims against Obama have been exaggerated, misrepresented or flat out wrong.

As the day began, Perry, in New York City to accept an award from the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation, said that inadequate funding and "bureaucratic bungling" by Washington had made the southern border more dangerous. He cited Operation Fast and Furious that was run by the Justice Department and allowed AK-47s and other weapons to leak into the black market.

Perry singled out Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration for criticism.

But The Associated Press has reported that an investigation into the operation has turned up Justice Department documents indicating that the so-called "gun walking" tactic at issue also was used during the Republican administration of George W. Bush.

Perry also did not acknowledge that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has more agents on the Southwest border than ever, or that Homeland Security has unmanned drones covering the entire border from California to Texas for the first time.

In an interview later Friday, Perry incorrectly said Obama was in Myanmar to ship jobs to Asia.

"We've got huge issues facing this country today and he's in Burma talking about relations with a country that ? I'll be real honest with you ? I don't know what America's interest is there," Perry told Fox News Channel.

Obama was actually in Indonesia, where he signed a trade deal that will send Boeing planes to an Indonesian company and create jobs in the U.S. It's Boeing's largest order for commercial planes. Perry said it meant nothing for America's workers.

"How about scoring a big deal for Boeing in South Carolina?" Perry said. "We ought to be creating jobs in America. We ought to be putting tax policy, regulatory policy in place. We ought to be creating markets for what we build in America for foreign markets."

In Indonesia, Obama also announced that he was sending Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Myanmar to help accelerate reforms there.

The Texas governor's campaign fortunes have fallen in recent weeks, and his advisers hope his stepped-up criticism of Obama and Washington could help reinvigorate his campaign less than seven weeks before Iowa's caucuses on Jan. 3.

Polls show Perry badly trailing several of his rivals in Iowa, including former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Rep. Ron Paul and Georgia businessman Herman Cain.

Perry's comments Friday came just days after his campaign released an ad that took out of context a comment Obama made and gave viewers the impression that the president had said all Americans are lazy. Obama was talking about the U.S. record of attracting foreign investment.

Perry defended the ad in an evening interview with Fox News Channel: "That's a fair ad. Absolutely."

"I think he's talking about America. ... If he believed that Americans were hard working, that they were ready to ignite this economy, then we wouldn't have the tax policies and the regulatory policies in place that are killing jobs in this country," Perry said.

In an interview earlier with the network, Perry wrongly claimed that Obama came from a privileged background and didn't understand ordinary people's problems.

"He never had to really work for anything. He never had to go through what Americans are going through," Perry said. "We need a president who has been through their ups and downs in life and understands what it's like to have to deal with the issues of our economy that we have today in America."

Obama was raised by a single mother who, at times, used food stamps, and his grandparents, who lived in a modest apartment in Honolulu.

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Elliott reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Pete Yost in Washington also contributed to this report.

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This Week In The Civil War

-- This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Nov. 20:

Federal forces this week in 1861 continue to press their blockade of the Southern coast. Two Union men-of-war, the USS Niagara and the USS Richmond, turn their guns on Confederate defenses rimming Florida's northern panhandle ? targeting Fort Barrancas, Fort McRee and the Pensacalo Navy Yard. After a bombardment spanning two days, there is little loss of life after an attack that will have little impact on the larger conduct of the war. Nonetheless the bombardment has damaged Fort McRae, where many women and children took refuge, several Navy Yard buildings, and a nearby village. In 1862, Pensacola will ultimately be surrendered to Union troops who will use it as a staging point for Naval actions in the South the rest of the war. The Associated Press reports, meanwhile, that wintry weather has begun nipping at the Northern cities where many are alarmed at the high wartime price of coal used to heat homes and buildings. In Philadelphia, AP reports, "The coal question has been agitating residents of this city ever since the cold weather has set in." It adds some seek coal at lower prices directly from "Good Samaritans" at a Pennsylvania mine refusing to profit exceedingly from wartime scarcity. This same week AP reports from Washington that more pressing issues are emerging in Congress over how the Union should handle questions of slavery ? and particularly escaped or liberated slaves known as "contrabands" who reach the federal side. "Inasmuch as many slaveholders in Virginia and in other quarters abandon their plantations when menaced by the Federal armies, and necessarily leave their slaves behind them, a practical question is forced up on the government as to what is to be done with the "contrabands," the AP dispatch notes.

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This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Nov. 27: The Trent Affair ? Britain and U.S. in crisis.

The Trent Affair, a diplomatic crisis involving the doctrine of freedom of the seas that brought Britain and the United States to their closest point of possible hostilities early in the Civil War, reaches a boiling point this week 150 years ago. Word that the Union warship USS San Jacinto had stopped the neutral British ship Trent east of Cuba on Nov. 8, 1861, and seized two Confederate diplomats bound for Britain, inflames tensions between the two nations. The Trent steams on without the pair, arriving with its remaining passengers in London on Nov. 27, 1861. An emergency British Cabinet meeting is called. Britain demands an apology and the release of the seized Confederates, arguing the San Jacinto acted in violation of international law. Northerners overwhelmingly laud the detention of Confederate envoys James Mason and John Slidell, then on a mission to seek British and French support for the Confederacy. Southern authorities condemn the detentions. The Times-Picayune of New Orleans proclaims Nov. 23, 1861: "The act of the San Jacinto was in flagrant violation of the law of nations." After heated Cabinet meetings, President Abraham Lincoln adopts a conciliatory approach, seeking to avert any armed conflict with Britain. In December, the U.S. government concedes in a note to Britain that the San Jacinto captain erred in failing to bring the Trent to port for a court ajudication of the matter. The U.S. releases Mason and Slidell in January 1862 to continue their mission to Europe. But European powers decline to intervene in the Civil War on behalf of the Confederacy and the successful resolution of the Trent Affair builds confidence between the British and U.S. governments.

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This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Dec. 4: The Union moves to enforce its blockade.

President Abraham Lincoln announced a blockade of Southern seaports months earlier in 1861. Enforcing it is another matter, requiring many more Union warships to police thousands of miles of coast against gunrunners and profiteers aiming to supply the less industrialized South with arms, weapons and troop supplies. The Associated Press reports in early December that work proceeds quickly on construction of several naval side-wheel steamers to be armed with powerful 11-inch guns and 150-pound rifled cannon. AP also announces six fast screw sloops-of-war are being built for the Navy: the Shenandoah, Sacramento, and Ticonderoga among them. And the Union has more than just the Confederate ports and coasts to watch. AP reports a Canadian steamer has been seized off the coast of Maine by a revenue cutter. The report ads: "The steamer had on board about ten thousands Springfield muskets, clothing, boots, bank paper and munitions of war ... the cargo was consigned to parties in the Southern States." The so-called Anaconda plan calls for squeezing off Southern supply lines both at seaports and interior rivers such as the Mississippi. A naval blockade will be a key to the eventual Northern victory. But ultimately, the war's outcome will depend chiefly on the bloody land war and its grinding battles to come. With winter near there is no major fighting. AP reports on Dec. 8, 1861, that Union soldiers are setting up winter camps in Maryland and elsewhere, the roads muddy and almost impassable for army baggage wagons. Elsewhere, some 31 "contrabands" ? a phrase coined for escaped slaves ? are reported to have found freedom this week by reaching federal outposts in Virginia. A trickle now, the "contraband" tide will become a flood of liberated slaves later in the war.

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This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Dec. 11: Charleston fire, Soldiering on, firing squad.

In April 1861, the Civil War began as Confederate artillery barraged a Union-held fort off Charleston, S.C. Another momentous event befalls Charleston on Dec. 11, 1861, when a fire sweeps much of the downtown area. The cause of the fire is never determined and The Mercury of Charleston reports a low-tide impeded easy access to coastal waters to douse the flames. When the fast-moving fire finally is put out, about a third of the city is in ashes. Blackened stonework of a fire-gutted cathedral is left standing, but many businesses and shops of wood are gone. The so-called "Great Fire of 1861" would do nearly as much damage, if not more, to Charleston than war itself. Early months of war saw ill-trained, raw volunteers from the North go off to fight green and poorly equipped Confederate rivals. It was a time when many expected a short conflict, some even an adventure. But the bloodshed at the First Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1861 hinted at deadly battles to come. The Union, seeking to raise a professional fighting force, announces this week that appointed superintendents will oversee the recruiting, organizing and drilling of Union soldiers. Volunteer officers are to be relieved of duty on Jan. 1, 1862, The Associated Press reports: "After that time, volunteers will be mustered for pay ... for the regular army." In other news, AP reports the first execution of a Union deserter from the Army of the Potomac. The account states that a private, William H. Johnson, seeking to escape was captured and "taken back to his own camp a prisoner." About 700 soldiers watched his death by firing squad in mid-December of 1861. "Eight of them fired when Johnson fell on his coffin, but life not being extinct, the other four in reserve fired with the required effect," AP reported.

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Americans going for 4th straight win

(AP) ? The Americans have set off in their bid to win a fourth straight Presidents Cup in gorgeous weather and before a massive gallery at Royal Melbourne.

Even with Tiger Woods winning only one point, the Americans had a 13-9 lead over the International team going into the 12 singles matches. They need to win five of them to keep the cup.

Webb Simpson led off for the Americans against K.T. Kim.

The feature matches are Phil Mickelson against Adam Scott ? Mickelson doesn't like caddie Steve Williams, either ? and Woods facing Aaron Baddeley.

An International win would match the largest comeback in any team competition. The Americans also came from four points down to win the 1999 Ryder Cup.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ? So much about this Presidents Cup resembles the last time it was played at Royal Melbourne, from the sudden drop in temperatures to Tiger Woods winning only one point to a final day that holds so little drama.

The difference is the team on the verge of hoisting the gold cup.

The Americans built a big lead Saturday morning in the foursomes matches, with Woods finally rewarded with a point, then turned back a rally from the International team in the worst of the weather in the afternoon by capturing the final two matches.

"We needed those two points really bad," U.S. captain Fred Couples said. "And they got them for us."

Hunter Mahan delivered the most emotional moment of the week, holing a 20-foot birdie putt on the 17th right after Jason Day charged up the Australian crowd with an even longer birdie putt which he celebrated as if the match would be extended. Instead, Mahan and Bill Haas had a 2-and-1 win.

Moments later, Jim Furyk finished off the wild day with a clutch bunker shot on the 16th hole, and Nick Watney secured a par on the final hole for a 1-up decision over Adam Scott and Ernie Els that changed everything.

Those last two wins gave the Americans a 13-9 lead going into the 12 singles matches Sunday, a deficit from which no team has recovered in the 17-year history of this tournament.

The largest rally in any team event was when the Americans came from four points down to win the 1999 Ryder Cup. International captain Greg Norman didn't wag his finger and say he had a good feeling about this, as Ben Crenshaw did at Brookline.

He wasn't giving up, either, nor was his team.

"It's going to have to be a remarkable day tomorrow," Scott said. "But we have a shot. That's all we can ask for. It's not over."

The only time the International side has won this event was at Royal Melbourne in 1998, when it had a nine-point lead going into the Sunday singles and the cup was won as breakfast was still being served.

Woods was 1-3 that year going into the final day, only he wasn't alone. None of the Americans played well, leading to their worst loss ever in any team competition.

Woods finally put up a point Saturday morning in foursomes with Dustin Johnson. It wasn't pretty, but they forged ahead with a few pars and Woods ended the match by rolling in a 25-foot birdie putt. In the afternoon, Woods couldn't buy a putt. Despite putting for birdie on every hole ? only one of those from off the green ? he missed nine putts from about 15 feet and closer.

That included the 18th hole, when he missed a putt for a halve, and K.T. Kim knocked in a 6-foot par to give him and Y.E. Yang their first win of the week.

"It's all about making putts in match play, and we didn't do that," Woods said. "It just one of those things where that's how it all turns out. But hey, right now we've got a nice lead. And hopefully, tomorrow we can get the four-and-a-half points we need."

Webb Simpson will lead off the singles session against Kim, with Woods in the 11th spot against Aaron Baddeley.

The International team, which has won the Presidents Cup only once since it began in 1994, was hopeful that being in Australia would lead to another win, just like in 1998. Back then, it got plenty of help from its local players. With five Australians on this year's team, it hasn't worked out that way.

Robert Allenby, a captain's pick, was the only player on either side to not win a point. Scott is 1-3, while Baddeley and Day have faltered on the back nine throughout the week. Geoff Ogilvy is the only Australian with a winning record, as he and K.J. Choi won a tight match Saturday afternoon against Matt Kuchar and Steve Stricker.

The Americans continue to dominate the foursomes matches, as they have the last three years with a combined 25?-7? margin. Most peculiar about this day, however, was the weather.

It started with a warm breeze and occasional rain. It ended in a steady rain, temperatures that plunged into the high 50s and a wind out of the opposite direction from when the day started.

"I've been coming to Melbourne for quite a few years," said Els, who teamed with Ryo Ishikawa for the International's only point in the morning foursomes. "I've played the north breeze and the southwesterly. But today was quite amazing. It blew from the north, and then it turned around and came from the south. We've had it all this week.

"Yesterday it was rock hard ... and today it was almost blowing like in Scotland."

The stars of the American team have been Furyk and Phil Mickelson, who have yet to lose a match. Furyk and Mickelson were 3-0 as a team until Couples sat Mickelson out Saturday afternoon, ending his streak of 32 consecutive matches played in this event, dating to the first session in 1998.

Furyk teamed with Watney and watched the Presidents Cup rookie hole one big putt after another.

"I felt like we went through about three different seasons today," Furyk said. "It was a tough day and a long day for those who played 36, and this morning was big for us to go 4-1 in five matches. And we hung on this afternoon, getting a point in those last two matches. We put ourselves in good position and have to come out firing tomorrow."

Retief Goosen and Charl Schwartzel handed Simpson and Bubba Watson their first loss of the week in the opening foursomes match in the afternoon. Even though the Americans rallied, it was the first time they had lost a session since singles in 2007 at Royal Montreal.

It still wasn't enough for them to lose control. In wild weather, the Americans kept their big lead.

Associated Press

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Roast a Turkey in a Charcoal Grill [Grilling]

Roast a Turkey in a Charcoal GrillInstructables user Phil B. found a great way to roast a turkey in his charcoal grill?remove the grill cooking rack and place a disposable roasting pan in the center of the bottom of the grill. Light your charcoal and place the hot coals between the roasting pan and the sides of the grill. It takes around 3.5 hours to cook depending on the size of your turkey.

The author also recommends that you place an insert of sheet metal onto the sides of the grill to protect those sides from the heat: normally the bottom of a charcoal grill is reinforced for the extra heat and stress of having hot coals but the sides are much thinner. The step-by-step guide at Instructables shows you how to build this along with giving a plan to monitor both the turkey temperature and the air temperature inside the grill to ensure the bird is not overcooked.

If you're looking for a new way to cook your Thanksgiving turkey you may want to give this a try.

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Samsung modifies tablet to satisfy German ruling, begins selling Galaxy Tab 10.1N (update: Samsung speaks)

Sick of those trips across the border to smuggle a banned Galaxy Tab 10.1 into Germany? Samsung has come to the rescue, modifying its familiar Honeycomb tablet to work around the injunction issued in August and upheld in September as part of Apple's patent litigation in Düsseldorf. It's not entirely clear what's different with the relaunched tablet, which appears to have a black bezel that extends slightly further towards the metal rim, but the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, as it is now being called, has appeared on a German e-tailer's website with a shipping window of two to four days, along with the text "Galaxy Tab is back!" at the bottom of the listing. Samsung isn't entirely in the clear just yet, but unless its new "N" model is also found to be infringing on Apple's patents, gadget-hungry Germans shouldn't have to worry about the iPad-alternative disappearing again anytime soon.

Update: Samsung has just issued a statement on the modified Galaxy Tab, with some clarifications on its design changes. "The newly modified device will be renamed the Galaxy Tab 10.1N and we've made two changes to the design," spokesman Jason Kim said. "The design of the bezel has been changed and the speaker has also been relocated."

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Paris prosecutor drops probe into cash from Africa (AP)

PARIS ? The Paris prosecutor's office has dropped a preliminary investigation into a lawyer's claims that he arranged the handover of suitcases of cash from African leaders for then-French President Jacques Chirac, an official with the prosecutor's office said Wednesday.

The official said the probe was dropped for lack of evidence and because the statute of limitations on the alleged wrongdoing had expired. The official was not authorized to be publicly named.

Lawyer Robert Bourgi shocked France's political class in September, when he alleged in an interview with Europe-1 radio that he had acted as a go-between, helping to facilitate the delivery of attache cases filled with cash for Chirac and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.

Bourgi alleged he helped funnel over an estimated $20 million in illegal payments from West African leaders between 1995 and 2005, including $10 million from the leaders of Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gabon and Republic of Congo for Chirac's 2002 presidential campaign.

Bourgi told the media he made the belated allegations to ease his conscience.

Both Villepin's and Chirac's lawyers denounced the claims, which they said were politically motivated. Lawyers for the men pledged to bring a lawsuit against Bourgi, but neither has filed one to date.

The judicial source said Bourgi acknowledged in police questioning on Sept. 22 that he didn't have any proof to back up the allegations. He also stressed that he hadn't carried the suitcases himself, nor had he received any remuneration for helping arrange the payments, the official said.

Bourgi told investigators the practice came to an end in 2005, on the orders of then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, France's current president.

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Penn State scandal "opens wound" in Catholic Church (Reuters)

BALTIMORE (Reuters) ? The top U.S. Catholic bishop said on Monday that a child sex abuse scandal at Penn State University "opens a wound" within the church, which remains scarred from its own similar controversies and cover-ups.

"We know what you're going through," Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, told a news conference in Baltimore where hundreds of bishops have gathered for their national meeting.

Dolan declined to offer advice to Penn State University on how to deal with its scandal, because the church "has not been a good example of how to deal with this in the past," he said. "No one has suffered more than the Catholic community."

"Whenever this issue has come into public view again as it has with Penn State, it opens a wound," Dolan said."

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was charged on November 5 with sexually abusing eight boys over more than a decade. Two university officials have also been charged with failing to tell police when a graduate assistant told them he saw Sandusky raping a boy in a campus shower.

The Penn State scandal has drawn comparisons to the child abuse controversies that rocked the Catholic Church, whose top officials were also accused of a decades-long cover-up of the abuse of children by priests.

The U.S. Catholic Church has paid out some $2 billion in settlements to victims, bankrupting a handful of dioceses.

Dolan said the Penn State scandal was proof that sex abuse was "widespread" and not associated with a particular faith. "One of the things we've learned is, tragically, it's people who have earned positions of trust," he said.

Before becoming archbishop of New York, Dolan served as archbishop of Milwaukee, following a large sex abuse scandal there. At a previous post as bishop of St. Louis, Dolan also dealt with sex abuse allegations within that diocese. (Editing by Michelle Nichols and Cynthia Osterman)

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AT&T in talks to offer Nokia's Windows Phones

It's apparently not a done deal just yet, but Bloomberg is reporting that AT&T is currently in negotiations to offer at least one Nokia Windows Phone sometime next year. That word comes straight from the head of AT&T's tablet unit, Glenn Lurie, who reportedly said that AT&T is now working on completing the details of the agreement -- no word on any specific phones, though. In other news, Lurie also said that "you are going to see prices come down" on tablets next year, although in that case he was unsurprisingly only referring to prices on a two-year contract (tablets from Acer and Samsung were specifically mentioned as ones that would be receiving discounts).

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Couple sues Air Tran over cockroaches on flight

A North Carolina couple is suing Air Tran Airways, alleging they were sickened by cockroaches coming out of air vents and storage areas on a recent flight. They say flight attendants ignored their concerns.

WCNC-TV reports that Charlotte attorney Harry Marsh and his fianc?e, Kaitlin Rush, saw the cockroaches soon after takeoff on a Sept. 15 flight from Charlotte to Houston with a stop-over in Atlanta. They say flight attendants were too busy to investigate the problem. Marsh said Rush became nauseous and now doesn't want to fly.

They're claiming mental and emotional distress and seeking more than $100,000, plus the price of their tickets.

Woman sues airline over 'extreme turbulence'

Air Tran said it can't comment on pending litigation, but it denies several allegations. The airline says cleanliness is important and that planes are regularly and professionally treated for bugs.

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