Contents of Michael Jackson's final home fetch $1 million (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? The contents of the mansion where Michael Jackson's lifeless body was found went under the auction hammer this weekend, reaping three times pre-sale estimates for a total of close to $1 million.

A month after Dr. Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the pop star's 2009 death by drug overdose, collectors bid on some 500 items from the home Jackson rented in Los Angeles while preparing for comeback concerts in London.

Two sessions on Saturday at the Beverly Hills gallery of Julien's Auctions were standing room only, according to a statement from Julien's, and drew bidders from around the world. The auction lots consisted mostly of paintings, furniture and ornaments.

Among the highlights was a Victorian Revival-style bedroom suite that sold for $25,075. The set includes an armoire on whose ornate mirror the "Thriller" singer wrote a message in felt pen: "Train, perfection March April Full out May" -- presumably a reference to rehearsals for London's "This Is It" concerts set to start that July.

Other highlights included an 18th-century French clock, which sold for $9,375, a Regency-style desk ($4,375) and "Venus Blinding Cupid," an oil painting modeled on one by 16th-century artist Titian ($11,250).

A pottery rooster holding a chalkboard with a note from Jackson's children -- Prince, Paris and Blanket -- sold for $5,000.

Only a handful of auction items bore a personal connection to the singer and his family. Most were part of the rented surroundings.

"Anything associated with Michael Jackson is highly collectible," ," auctioneer Darren Julien said in the lead-up to the auction.

The ornate headboard on the bed where Jackson's body was found on June 25, 2009, was removed from the sale last month at the request of Jackson's family.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant and Sheri Linden; Editing by Ian Simpson)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111219/music_nm/us_michaeljackson_auction

alaska weather election results gop debate live gop debate live nome alaska nome alaska alaska map

[OOC] Nomad NPC Directory

Forum rules
This forum is for OOC discussion about existing roleplays.

Please post all "Players Wanted" threads in the Roleplayers Wanted forum!

This topic is an Out Of Character part of the roleplay, ?Nomad - Book One: War?. Anything posted here will also show up there.

Topic Tags:

Forum for completely Out of Character (OOC) discussion, based around whatever is happening In Character (IC). Discuss plans, storylines, and events; Recruit for your roleplaying game, or find a GM for your playergroup.
This is where all the information of NPC is kept. Therefore, do not post in this thread. Please. If you have questions, the OOC is over there...

That being said, if you have an NPC that you want included, clear it with me first, and then you can post him or her here. Now that that's done, let's start.

[All of the following is subject to change]

Cora Whitfield - Female - Halfling Ranger

Takeo Amaya - Male - Nagi Battlemage

Goric Toothgnasher - Male - Orc Cleric

Aello Cistkal - Male - Harpy Archer

Jaren Diteal - Male- Elf Mage

Jivven Noda - Male - Drow Assassin

Strom Bloodaxe - Male - Orc General

Talisman

Member for 2 years

---

---

Return to Out of Character

Post a reply

RolePlayGateway is a site built by a couple roleplayers who wanted to give a little something back to the roleplay community. The site has no intention of earning any profit, and is paid for out of their own pockets.

If you appreciate what they do, feel free to donate your spare change to help feed them on the weekends. After selecting the amount you want to donate from the menu, you can continue by clicking on PayPal logo.

Who is online

Registered users: 13lazer31, Abalyth, Abraxas*, Abyss of Dreams, Acedude58*, ?SIR Society*, Akita, Alias*, all.smiles, almostinsane, Animality Opera, Artik, Athra*, Aufeis*, austyn101, AutomailJunkie, AvidZombierReader*, AzricanRepublic*, barney_fife*, BekaL101, Beta Type Jakuri, Blackbird26, BlackButterfly, Blackfridayrule, Blacx, Blindsite*, Boxer, brigitteanncastro, British, Caelus, Centraiu, ChaosxChild13, Chari, CherryRed, Cheshire_Cat, Choclate~Pyrus, Chulance*, CrowboyToTheRescue, CrystalRose*, Cynique, Cypher, dig17*, draketemple*, Draruto, dudedude889, Eisenhorn, Eleera Cain*, Elena*, EmptyHands, Entity of Sin, Erlanis, Everscale, FalloutRomanae, Felicity, Firewind, ForrestLupin, freakofnature, Fredalice, Gintoki Sakata, Google [Bot], Google Adsense [Bot], Google Feedfetcher, GracieGray, Grimpunker96, hayleymaee, Hazezon*, HeroOfAwesomeness*, Higurashi, Hinasil*, Iggi*, Imaliongrr, Inswa, Jack Benimble*, jackrules158*, JayZeroSnake, Jo_Tunn, Kai, Katana_Wing, Kita, Kuril, Kurokiku*, kylewolfblade, lexileigh, Lifecharacter*, Liquidus, Lord Saladin*, Lorem, LRmember, Lucentfir*, Luna Star, LunaTwilight, maddenbaby, Magix, Marcus*, Mat_z6, MaxStokes, meim, Mid*, minibear*, Missing Link*, Mojito*, Mr. Crow*, Mr_Doomed, MSNbot Media, Murmur, Nemo*, Nevan*, Nikora*, Oborosen, Ottoman, Outlaw*, Patcharoo, peachyme123, Perilute, Phoenix6000, Pichu-Chan*, Planter777*, Porecomesis, Princess Awinita*, Prose, Queenforaday*, Rarikou, Rem?us*, Renmiri, reveries, rizzyrat, Ryand-Smith*, RydeDawg*, R?tshreck*, Safisan, safton*, Saint Crash, Saken*, SamuraiMaster*, SasoriRinku, Saviarre, Saxious*, Scarlett_Rose, Sebito, Sench, Shavnia_Velmount, Shpleem*, Shrap, sion, SkyRight, Slorfae*, Smokescreen, Sneakers, SoftDusk, Solo Wing Pixy, SolrSurfr3, Sora112112, Sorella*, speckles32shido, Steppin' Razor*, StrobeLight, super-6-1, T3XT*, Taiyon, Talisman*, Tanman, The Angry Penguin, TheNoremac42*, TheRaven&ThePawn, Tide*, Tiko*, Tokai*, Toxicjinx, True Grave, Tyliana*, Verse, victim130*, wakeangel, wamken619, wednesdaysun, Wheatley, WindStar*, Wing06Twilight, Wudgeous, xldExtract, xoxMissClairexox, Ylanne, Yoru-Senpai*, Zero Reaper, !LoveMeHateME!

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RolePlayGateway/~3/iWO2LukVhxY/viewtopic.php

manny pacquiao vs marquez dish network cbs news manny pacquiao fight pacquiao marquez pacquiao marquez penn state game

BP settles with maker of failed blowout preventer (AP)

NEW ORLEANS ? Cameron International, maker of the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer that failed to stop last year's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has agreed to pay $250 million to BP under a legal settlement, BP said Friday.

BP said it was "in their mutual best interests, and the agreement is not an admission of liability by either party." The companies are dropping all claims against one another, they said.

The settlement comes in advance of a federal trial over the catastrophic Gulf oil spill. The non-jury trial is slated to begin in February and determine fault in the April 20, 2010, explosion and subsequent oil spill off the Louisiana coast of more than 200 million gallons of oil.

Oil and gas analysts said they saw Friday's settlement as setting the stage for more out-of-court agreements. At this point, Halliburton Corp., which supplied the cement to seal the blown-out well, and Transocean Ltd., the drilling company, have not settled with BP. The federal government, individual Gulf states and many other plaintiffs also have not settled.

For the companies involved, and government entities, "it's better to make peace than make war," said Fadel Gheit, managing director of Oppenheimer & Co., a Wall Street investment bank. He studies the oil and gas markets and follows BP closely.

He said he would expect all the parties ? including the federal government ? to seek to settle the Deepwater Horizon case before it goes to trial. He called court "the last resort."

"The strategy right now is settle, settle, settle," he said. "I would say that once the companies settle, the government will be under increasing pressure to settle."

Phil Weiss, a senior oil and gas analyst with the Argus Research Co. in New York, agreed and said he expected more settlement announcements. "I think it's in the interest of all these parties to settle."

For now, the settlement with Cameron does not end the legal fighting over the blowout of the Macondo well, which was owned by London-based BP and two partners, MOEX and Anadarko. BP has already settled claims with those two companies and a third company, Weatherford, the maker of a part used in the well.

"Today's settlement allows BP and Cameron to put our legal issues behind us and move forward to improve safety in the drilling industry," said Bob Dudley, BP group chief executive. "Unfortunately, other companies persist in refusing to accept responsibility for their roles in the accident and for contributing to restoration efforts," Dudley said in a swipe at Halliburton and Transocean.

The blowout preventer is the last line of defense in an oil well and is supposed to shear the well and cap it. But the device placed over the Macondo well failed to work properly and choke off the out-of-control spill. Government investigators have charged that the device had a design flaw and was not maintained properly. A bent pipe also prevented it from working, investigators found.

After the spill, the large contraption was lifted from the sea floor of the Gulf and transported to a NASA facility in New Orleans where engineers pored over it and conducted tests to determine what went wrong with it.

Probes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion by the federal government and independent scientists and engineers have found all three companies were at fault for a series of decisions and actions that led to the Macondo well blowout, the nation's largest offshore oil spill.

BP is engaged in an intense legal fight with Halliburton and Transocean. Earlier this month, BP went so far as to accuse Halliburton employees of covering up damaging evidence about a cement mixture Halliburton used in drilling the well.

BP said it would use the $250 million from Cameron to pay for the cost of cleaning up from the spill and paying individual damage claims by people, businesses and government entities hurt by the spill. BP said it has spent about $7.5 billion so far of those claims. But the British company faces billions of dollars in additional damages and fines.

Under the agreement, BP said Houston-based Cameron is no longer responsible for any additional cleanup costs related to the spill. But BP said the agreement does not cover civil, criminal and administrative fines and other penalties that might arise out of the court proceedings.

Jack Moore, chairman and CEO Cameron, said the agreement with BP "removes uncertainty facing Cameron" as litigation intensifies over the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

"This eliminates all significant exposure to historical and future claims related to this incident," Moore said.

Moore said Cameron does not expect to have to pay much for possible court fines and penalties. "We do not consider these items to represent a significant risk to Cameron," he said.

Cameron said its insurers were expected to fund at least $170 million of the $250 million payment the company agreed to make to BP.

BP and Cameron also pledged to "improve safety in the drilling industry" and do more to improve blowout preventers.

So far, BP has spent about $25 billion on the Deepwater Horizon disaster and has said it expects the final bill to be about $40 billion, Gheit said. BP has received about $5 billion from the companies it has settled with, he said.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111216/ap_on_re_us/us_gulf_oil_spill_settlement

ufc on fox fight card florida marlins ncaa basketball boise state football boise state football jack and jill uss carl vinson

Syrian troops sweep Assad foes; deserters strike back

By The Associated Press

Syrian troops swept into the city of Hama to break a three-day strike by opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, killing at least 10 people but running into resistance from armed insurgents who destroyed two armored vehicles, activists said.

Outside Hama, army deserters attacked a convoy of military jeeps, killing eight soldiers, they said, adding to a death toll of at least 30 people across the country on Wednesday.

The assault in Hama was the first armored incursion there since a tank offensive in August crushed huge protests in the city. Activists said troops fired machineguns and ransacked and burnt shops which had closed to observe a mass, open-ended "Strike for Dignity" called by the opposition.

The United Nations says more than 5,000 people have died in Assad's crackdown on protests that erupted in the southern city of Deraa in March, inspired by Arab uprisings elsewhere.

"This cannot go on," United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters in New York. "In the name of humanity, it is time for the international community to act."

Assad, 46, whose family from the minority Alawite sect has held power in majority Sunni Muslim Syria for four decades, is facing the most serious challenge to his 11-year rule.

The demonstrations started with peaceful calls for reform but burgeoned into demands for Assad's overthrow. A growing armed insurgency has since raised the specter of civil war.

The Syrian government says more than 1,100 members of the army, police and security services have been killed. State media reported military funerals on Wednesday for seven soldiers and police killed by "armed terrorist groups."

The United States and France, which blame Assad's forces for the violence, have urged the U.N. Security Council to respond to the mounting death toll.

But Syria retains international allies. Russia and China have blocked Western efforts to secure Council condemnation of Damascus, and its closest regional ally Iran offered support.

The state news agency SANA quoted the visiting Iranian minister for urban development and roads, Ali Nikzad, as saying his country would stand by Syria "and support its economy and its stances facing the great conspiracy targeting it."

SANA said Nikzad's visit to Damascus followed the endorsement by Iran's parliament on Tuesday of a free trade agreement between the two countries.

Read more content from msnbc.com and NBC News:

? 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Source: http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/14/9453416-syrian-troops-sweep-assad-foes-deserters-strike-back-in-deadly-clashes

vincent brown vincent brown willow smith tom bradley tom bradley penn state riot penn state riot

Mexico apologizes to woman raped by soldiers (AP)

MEXICO CITY ? Mexico's government has publicly apologized for failing to protect the rights of an indigenous woman raped by soldiers in 2002.

Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire offered what he called "the most sincere of apologies" to Valentina Rosendo on Thursday.

Rosendo is a Me'phaa Indian who took her case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights after failing to get justice in Mexico.

She was washing clothes in a river in southern Guerrero state when eight soldiers approached her and asked her about a suspect. When she said she didn't know anything, two soldiers beat and raped her.

The Costa Rica-based court last year ordered Mexico to apologize and have civilian authorities investigate. Federal prosecutors are now in charge of the probe.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111216/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_human_rights

19 kids and counting 2011 election results 11/11/11 11 11 11 activision blizzard acrylamide advent calendar

Closest Type Ia supernova in decades solves a cosmic mystery

ScienceDaily (Dec. 14, 2011) ? Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia's) are the extraordinarily bright and remarkably similar "standard candles" astronomers use to measure cosmic growth, a technique that in 1998 led to the discovery of dark energy -- and 13 years later to a Nobel Prize, "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe." The light from thousands of SN Ia's has been studied, but until now their physics -- how they detonate and what the star systems that produce them actually look like before they explode -- has been educated guesswork.

Peter Nugent of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) heads the Computational Cosmology Center in the Lab's Computational Research Division and also leads the Lab's collaboration in the multi-institutional Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). On August 24 of this year, searching data as it poured into DOE's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) from an automated telescope on Palomar Mountain in California, Nugent spotted a remarkable object. It was shortly confirmed as a Type Ia supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy, some 21 million light-years distant. That's unusually close by cosmic standards, and the nearest SN Ia since 1986; it was subsequently given the official name SN 2011fe.

Nugent says, "We caught the supernova just 11 hours after it exploded, so soon that we were later able to calculate the actual moment of the explosion to within 20 minutes. Our early observations confirmed some assumptions about the physics of Type Ia supernovae, and we ruled out a number of possible models. But with this close-up look, we also found things nobody had dreamed of."

"When we saw SN2011fe, I fell off my chair," says PTF team member Mansi Kasliwal of the Carnegie Institution for Science and the California Institute of Technology. "Its brightness was too faint to be a supernova and too bright to be nova. Only follow-up observations in the next few hours revealed that this was actually an exceptionally young Type Ia supernova."

Because they could closely study the supernova during its first few days, the team was able to gather the first direct evidence for what at least one SN Ia looked like before it exploded, and what happened next. Their results are reported in the 15 December, 2011, issue of the journal Nature.

Confirming a carbon-oxygen white dwarf

Scientists long ago developed models of Type Ia supernovae based on their evolving brightness and spectra. The models assume the progenitor is a binary system -- about half of all stars are in binary systems -- in which a very dense, very small white-dwarf star made of carbon and oxygen orbits a companion, from which it sweeps up additional matter. There's a specific limit to how massive the white dwarf can grow, equal to about 1.4 times the mass of our sun, before it can no longer support itself against gravitational collapse.

"As it approaches the limit, conditions are met in the center so that the white dwarf detonates in a colossal thermonuclear explosion, which converts the carbon and oxygen to heavier elements including nickel," says Nugent. "A shock wave rips through it and ejects the material in a bright expanding photosphere. Much of the brightness comes from the heat of the radioactive nickel as it decays to cobalt. Light also comes from ejecta being heated by the shock wave, and if this runs into the companion star it can be reheated, adding to the luminosity."

By examining how SN 2011fe's brightness evolved -- its so-called early-time light curve -- and the features of its early-time spectra, members of the PTF team were able to constrain how big the exploding star was, when it exploded, what might have happened during the explosion, and what kind of binary star system was involved.

The first observations of SN 2011fe were carried out at the Liverpool Telescope at La Palma in the Canary Islands, followed within hours by the Shane Telescope at Lick Observatory in California and the Keck I Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. These were shortly followed by NASA's orbiting Swift Observatory.

Says Nugent, "We made an absurdly conservative assumption that the earliest luminosity was due entirely to the explosion itself and would increase over time in proportion to the size of the expanding fireball, which set an upper limit on the radius of the progenitor."

Daniel Kasen, an assistant professor of astronomy and physics at the University of California at Berkeley and a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Nuclear Science Division, explains that "it only takes a few seconds for the shock wave to tear apart the star, but the debris heated in the explosion will continue to glow for several hours. The bigger the star, the brighter this afterglow. Because we caught this supernova so early, and with such sensitive observations, we were able to directly constrain the size of the progenitor."

"Sure enough, it could only have been a white dwarf," says Nugent. "The spectra gave us the carbon and oxygen, so we knew we had the first direct evidence that a Type Ia supernova does indeed start with a carbon-oxygen white dwarf."

The expected and the unexpected

"The early-time light curve also constrained the radius of the binary system," says Nugent, "so we got rid of a whole bunch of models," ranging from old red giant stars to other white dwarfs in a so-called "double-degenerate" system.

Kasen explains that "if there was a giant companion star orbiting nearby, we should have seen some fireworks when the debris from the supernova crashed into it." A red giant would have made the supernova brighter by several orders of magnitude early on. "Because we didn't observe any bright flashes like that, we determined that the companion star could not have been much bigger than our sun."

Nor was there much chance the companion was another white dwarf in a double-degenerate system, unless it had somehow avoided being torn apart and littering the surroundings with debris. A shock wave plowing through that kind of rubble would have produced a burst of early light the observers couldn't have missed. So unless the companion was positioned almost exactly between the exploding star and the observers on Earth, closer to it than a 10th the diameter of our sun -- an unlikely set of circumstances -- the white dwarf's companion had to be a main-sequence star.

While these observations pointed to a "normal" SN Ia, the way the white dwarf exploded held surprises. Typical of what would be expected, early spectra obtained by the Lick three-meter telescope showed many intermediate-mass elements spewing out of the expanding fireball, including ionized oxygen, magnesium, silicon, calcium, and iron, traveling 16,000 kilometers a second -- more than five percent of the speed of light. Yet some oxygen was traveling much faster, at over 20,000 kilometers a second.

"The high-velocity oxygen shows that the oxygen wasn't evenly distributed when the white dwarf blew up," Nugent says, "indicating unusual clumpiness in the way it was dispersed." But more interesting, he says, is that "whatever the mechanism of the explosion, it showed a tremendous amount of mixing, with some radioactive nickel mixed all the way to the photosphere. So the brightness followed the expanding surface almost exactly. This is not something any of us would have expected."

PTF team member Mark Sullivan of the University of Oxford says, "Understanding how these giant explosions create and mix materials is important because supernovae are where we get most of the elements that make up the Earth and even our own bodies -- for instance, these supernovae are a major source of iron in the universe. So we are all made of bits of exploding stars."

"It is rare that you have eureka moments in science, but it happened four times on this supernova," says Andy Howell, coleader of PTF's SN Ia team: "The super-early discovery; the crazy first spectrum; when we figured out it had to be a white dwarf; and then, the Holy Grail, when we figured out details of the second star."

Howell adds, "We're like Captain Ahab ? except our white whale is a white dwarf. We're obsessed with proving they cause supernovae, but the evidence has been eluding us for decades." This time, he says, "We got our whale ? and we lived."

"This first close SN Ia in the era of modern instrumentation will undoubtedly become the best-studied thermonuclear supernova in history," the PTF team notes in their Nature paper, and "will form the new foundation upon which our knowledge of more distant Type Ia supernovae is built."

Two decades after the Berkeley-Lab-based Supernova Cosmology Project, led by 2011 Nobel Prize-winner in Physics Saul Perlmutter, proved that Type Ia supernovae could be used to measure the expansion history of the universe, Berkeley Lab astrophysicists and computer scientists have finally gotten a close-up look at what these remarkable cosmic mileposts really look like.

Recommend this story on Facebook, Twitter,
and Google +1:

Other bookmarking and sharing tools:

---

Story Source:

The above story is reprinted from materials provided by DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.

---

Journal References:

1. Peter E. Nugent, Mark Sullivan, S. Bradley Cenko, Rollin C. Thomas, Daniel Kasen, D. Andrew Howell, David Bersier, Joshua S. Bloom, S. R. Kulkarni, Michael T. Kandrashoff, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Andrew W. Howard, Howard T. Isaacson, Kate Maguire, Nao Suzuki, James E. Tarlton, Yen-Chen Pan, Lars Bildsten, Benjamin J. Fulton, Jerod T. Parrent, David Sand, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Federica B. Bianco, Benjamin Dilday, Melissa L. Graham, Joe Lyman, Phil James, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Nicholas M. Law, Robert M. Quimby, Isobel M. Hook, Emma S. Walker, Paolo Mazzali, Elena Pian, Eran O. Ofek, Avishay Gal-Yam, Dovi Poznanski. Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon?oxygen white dwarf star. Nature, 2011; 480 (7377): 344 DOI: 10.1038/nature10644
2. Weidong Li, Joshua S. Bloom, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Adam A. Miller, S. Bradley Cenko, Saurabh W. Jha, Mark Sullivan, D. Andrew Howell, Peter E. Nugent, Nathaniel R. Butler, Eran O. Ofek, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Joseph W. Richards, Alan Stockton, Hsin-Yi Shih, Lars Bildsten, Michael M. Shara, Joanne Bibby, Alexei V. Filippenko, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Jeffrey M. Silverman, S. R. Kulkarni, Nicholas M. Law, Dovi Poznanski, Robert M. Quimby, Curtis McCully, Brandon Patel, Kate Maguire, Ken J. Shen. Exclusion of a luminous red giant as a companion star to the progenitor of supernova SN 2011fe. Nature, 2011; 480 (7377): 348 DOI: 10.1038/nature10646

Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.

Disclaimer: Views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111214135734.htm

bath and body works coupons frys ad a very gaga thanksgiving black friday walmart 2011 sams club dancing with the stars winner pecan pie recipe

Business Headlines: Zipcar's Big Move; Holiday Travel Up ? CBS ...

(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

BOSTON (CBS) ? Cambridge based Zipcar has just exercised an option to buy a majority stake in Avancar, a car sharing service based in Barcelona, Spain.

That?s a big step to moving into Europe.

Zipcar already has a hold in the United Kingdom, but no Zipcars are yet operating on the continent itself.

The deal is expected to go through early next year and could be a step in that direction.

HOLIDAY TRAVEL

Closer to home, you might have a lot of company on the roads this season.

AAA is estimating 91.9 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home over the holidays.

That?s up 1.4-percent from last year and they say most people will drive to their destinations.

Only 6-percent plan to fly.

AAA says this is a positive sign that the economy is coming back to life.

Watch Lisa?s report:

Lisa van der Pool of the?Boston Business Journal?can be seen weekdays at 6 a.m. on WBZ-TV.

Source: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/12/15/business-headlines-zipcars-big-move-holiday-travel-up/

lord monckton andy kaufman october 21 2011 ohio ohio john beck john beck