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ABC News' John R. Parkinson reports:
House Republican Leader John Boehner says he will push for a full extension of the Bush-era tax cuts when he and other top congressional leaders meet with President Obama at the White House next week.
Boehner told reporters today that making the tax cuts permanent, not settling for a temporary extension, will "help end the uncertainty that's stopping employers from hiring more people."
"I think expanding all of the current tax rates and making them permanent will reduce the uncertainty in America and help small businesses begin to create jobs again," Boehner, R-Ohio, said. "You can't invest when you don't know what the rules are, when you don't know what the tax rates are going to be next year. And that's why making these permanent will be the most important thing we could do to help create jobs in the country."
Boehner, the next presumptive Speaker of the House, will be joined by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at the bipartisan meeting next Thursday, Nov. 18.
Boehner said that House Republicans will work through the transition to come up with ways to reduce spending to pre-bailout, pre-stimulus levels. He also said that Congress should put a freeze on new hiring and pay for federal employees.
"We've got to fix the Congress so that the Congress can focus in on Americans' priorities. And their priorities are pretty straightforward. That's the Pledge to America," Boehner said. "When you look at our plans to reduce spending, to get the economy going again, and to repeal the health care law that, frankly, gets in the way of job creation, you can see that we've got an awful lot of work to do."
"[The House] needs to be more open. It needs to be more transparent. And it needs to be more accountable. And you will see from day one that I say what I mean and I mean what I say," Boehner added.
Rep. Greg Walden, R-Oregon, who Boehner tasked with chairing a 22-member GOP Transition Team, said the members worked this week to devise ideas to make the House of Representatives "more open, more accessible to the public."
"Remember, this is the public's business that we're doing. How do we open it up? How do we make it more accessible? How do we bring the public in? How do we return this government back to the people? How do we reform this process? How do we get at the cost savings we all know can be achieved here? How do we improve the efficiencies?" Walden asked. "How do we do the things that you would reform if you were in charge? So let's start and build a House that works for the people, because this is the people's House."
Walden said that the committee's goal is to "create the atmosphere where we can have legitimate brainstorming, where we can really look at these issues and resolve them in a really positive way," but not every idea will be implemented in the next session of Congress.
Boehner also revealed that as Speaker of the House, he will continue to travel to his West Chester, Ohio district on commercial aircraft, rather than using a military government plane like Speaker Pelosi sometimes uses to travel back to California.
"I have talked to our security folks about the security that's involved in my new role [as Speaker]," Boehner said. "But over the last 20 years, I have flown back and forth to my district on commercial aircraft, and I'm going to continue to do that."


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Apple now third largest phonemaker, pushing feature phones aside
(Read article summary)New data shows the worldwide breakdown of mobile phone sales in 2011. Feature phones are increasingly being replaced by smart phones, with top-tier models from Apple and Samsung leading the pack.
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There's no stopping the rise of the smart phones now.
We've known for a long time that regular cell phones, also called feature phones, are on the wane. The latest numbers from market research firm IDC confirm the trend, but their biggest surprise is how much the iPhone has risen: Apple jumped ahead of LG to become the third-biggest worldwide vendor of mobile phones this year, trailing only Nokia and Samsung.
Although cheaper feature phones still made up the majority of sales in 2011, smart phones are gaining. A lot of that growth is thanks to Apple -- the iPhone now makes up 6 percent of the total market, compared to 4 percent last year and 2 percent the year before that.
There's still a pretty big gap separating Apple from Nokia and Samsung, though: Nokia controlled 27 percent of the market in 2011, and Samsung controlled 21.3 percent. A lot of that share comes from feature phones (remember, Apple's only model is the iPhone), although both companies have been making waves with high-end smart phones. Nokia took a hit while retiring its Symbian OS, but it recently launched the Lumia line running Windows Phone 7 software, and early reactions have been pretty positive.

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Boonen Wins Paris-Roubaix
Tom Boonen (Quick Step) has won Paris-Roubaix.
from third wheel to win.
According to Lars Michaelsen, the race was easy to read. ?I could see where the race was going to be decided the first time and went immediately after Quick Step when they took off,? he said. ?I felt like I was riding really well, and my intuitions before the race proved correct. When Flecha increased the tempo at Carrefour de l?Arbre, I was perhaps a bit unfocused, but I was at my limit and got dropped. I?ve been fifth place before, but I?m really satisfied. I could have dreamed of finishing higher up, but there is no way I could have beaten Boonen today.?
Michael Barry (Discovery Channel), who rode Paris-Roubaix for the first time today, told Roadcycling.com that ?The race was incredible and a lot more fun than I expected. It was thrilling to ride for George and get him in position for the cobbled sections. My job was to keep him in good position going into the cobbles and to keep him out of the wind as much as possible.? Barry added that, ?I stopped the race at just over 200 km as I had a front flat and was too far out to get back on. My work was pretty much done by then anyhow. So, I went to the finish in a team car and watched the race on TV in the bus. I had goose bumps as George entered the velodrome. It was a terrific result for George and for the team. Now I have tasted Paris-Roubaix, and it has left me motivated for next year.?
Many of these riders will take on the Amstel Gold Race on April 17. Who will prosper? Check in at www.roadcycling.com and find out!
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This charming cottage is nestled in a lush tropical garden behind a classic Spanish Revival home in the heart of beautiful Belmont Heights. Ideally located three palm-lined blocks away from the restaurants, shopping and bars of trendy 2nd Street in Belmont Shore and six blocks from the beach, this delightful property is close enough to be walking distance from all the fun while far enough away to guarantee peace, quiet, plentiful parking, and easy access to freeways and all of Southern California.
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Charming Garden Cottage near the Beach
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If you love California Craftsman bungalows, you will see hundreds of them in the charming Belmont Heights neighborhood of Long Beach. Many people consider Belmont Heights to be among the most desirable in Long Beach. It is adjacednt to the beach without being inundated with tourists in summer.
In the early 20th Century Long Beach was a destination resort -- a place to escape the summer heat of Los Angeles. Some homes in the now affluent Belmont Heights and adjacent neighborhoods were originally built as summer cottages. By the 1920s homes in Belmont Heights and nearby neighborhoods were built as permanent year 'round residences.
Many of the homes are in the California Craftsman Bungalow style. This area became what many call "Bungalow Heaven" because it has the most Craftsman bungalow style homes of any area of Long Beach. You will also find Spanish Revival and Mediterranean homes as well as charming cottage style houses along the tree-lined streets in Belmont Heights.
Belmont Heights is less congested and significantly quieter than Belmont Shore or Naples Island and within a few minutes walk to the beach.
Just a few minutes down the street you will come upon Second Street it is the heart of the Belmont Shore community and it is busy with locals and tourists from dawn to the middle of the night. Lots of great restaurants and unique shops! Second Street is the busiest shopping street in Long Beach. And there always seems to be a party or something else fun going on nearby
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2007 JCB by Jean-Charles Boisset No. 69 Sonoma Collection Russian River Valley Pinot Noir Rosé
14.1% alc., 200 cases, $12.75. · Pinkish-red watermelon color in the glass. A European-styled rosé with juicy strawberry, cherry, cranberry and melon flavors exhibiting moderate richness and a satiny texture. One of the better rosés I have had from California. Very good. Reviewed December 16, 2009
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France election: National Front gains trigger alarm
The far-right National Front (FN) party has rattled the French political establishment by making significant gains in local elections.
President Francois Hollande's ruling Socialists lost ground overall, as turnout slumped to a record low of 61%.
The FN won a clear majority in Henin-Beaumont, a northern former coal-mining town. It did well in the south too.
PM Jean-Marc Ayrault has urged voters to back any candidate best placed to beat the FN in the second round.
The Socialists have now announced that they will join forces with the Greens and the Communist Party in an effort to block FN advances in the second round, AFP news agency reports. It will mean the three parties fielding combined electoral lists.
The FN, an anti-EU party demanding tough curbs on immigration, took the lead in Avignon, Perpignan, Beziers and Frejus in the south. It was also in second place in Marseille.
Results are still being counted and the second round of voting will take place next weekend.
Nationwide the opposition centre-right UMP and allies took 47%, the Socialist Party and its allies took 38% and the FN was on 5%.
Third forceAnalysis
The FN's successes in the municipal election are more proof of its entrenchment in French politics.
Certainly its score needs to be kept in perspective. After next Sunday's second round the FN will probably only control a handful of towns.
But still. Once again the party has shaken the establishment with its capacity to represent discontent.
The FN will take part in more than 100 "triangular" votes next Sunday. These are in towns where three parties (normally the Socialists, the UMP and the FN) qualified from round one.
Perversely these situations benefit the Socialists, because the right-wing vote is split. Some towns may thus be saved for the left.
In Paris two women are in contest to be the new mayor. The rightwinger Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet has a narrow lead over the Socialist Anne Hidalgo, but victory is far from assured. This is because of the peculiar system in Paris, where the mayor is chosen not directly by voters, but by an electoral caucus of councillors from the 20 districts.
There was some consolation for the Socialists in Paris, where their candidate for mayor, Anne Hidalgo, may still beat her conservative rival Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet. That contest looks set to be very tight.
The FN vote was proportionately high, as its candidates ran in just 600 out of some 36,000 constituencies, Reuters news agency reports.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the FN will have little chance of gaining control of town halls in the second round. But he says it is a big advance for them and an expression of growing exasperation with the traditional parties of right and left.
The FN is widely expected to do well in the European Parliament elections in late May - and opinion polls suggest the Eurosceptic party is on course to come top.
It was the first major electoral test for President Hollande, who is deeply unpopular after nearly two years in power.
The ballot is to choose councillors and mayors in more than 36,000 villages, towns and cities.
The FN took 50.26% of the vote in Henin-Beaumont, which has historically voted for the left.
In some 200 places FN candidates have won through to the second round.
Marine Le Pen, FN leader since 2011, hailed the results, saying her party had "arrived as a major independent force - a political force at both national and local level".
Many people who voted for President Hollande two years ago chose to abstain, which has meant losses for the Socialists, our correspondent notes, and in many important towns they will struggle in the second round to hold off challenges from the UMP.


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Earth Day
Talk Philly: Clean Air Council & 5K Run For Clean Air
Pat Ciarrocchi spoke to Katie Edwards, the director of Philly's largest Earth Day event, the 5K Run for Clean Air.
What's Cooking on 1060: Everything New For Spring, Foodwise
Hadas finds a new restaurant near Graduate Hospital, a hotel planting a rooftop herb garden, and a food-and-drink link to the Philadelphia Science Festival.
3 On Your Side: Make Money With Old Electronics And Appliances
3 On Your Side Consumer Reporter Jim Donovan finds that you don't even have to get your hands dirty to make a difference this Earth Day, and you could end up with some extra cash in your pocket.
Why Ice Matters – Interview With Noted Geophysicist Henry Pollack
Nobel Prize winner and noted professor of geophysics Henry Pollack weighs in on ice and the environment.
The History Of Earth Day
Earth Day gets more and more important each year. See where this international event got its start and what's happening this year.
Pick-A-Side – Which Celebrity Does More Harm To The Environment?
From private jets and tanning beds to the stupid things they often say and do, celebrities impact our environment. Pick who is worse.
Top 5 Most Environmentally Unfriendly Movies
Hollywood doesn't have the best environmental track record. Check out the most environmentally unfriendly movies.
The Environmental Message Behind 'The Lorax'
Take a closer look at Dr. Seuss's 'The Lorax,' an environmental fable with real-world implications.
7 Kid-Friendly Environmental Activities For Earth Day And Every Day
Earth Day comes each spring. These fun activities will help kids understand the importance of preserving the environment.
5 Songs For Earth Day
Here are 5 songs for Earth Day, to keep you rocking and keep you thinking about the environment.
Go Green As You Spring Clean – 10 Steps To A Clean, Ecofriendly Home
Spring means spring housecleaning. Here are 10 steps to a clean and ecofriendly home. Mother Nature would be proud.
Earth Day Events In Your Area
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Check out these tips from EcoMedia on how to save water at home, which in turn could help you save money.
Go Green In Your Kitchen
Check out these tips from EcoMedia on how to go green in the kitchen, which in turn could help you save money and stay healthy.


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