Serena Williams named WTA's Player of the Year

LONDON (AP) ? Serena Williams has been named the WTA's Player of the Year after winning major titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, and claiming gold at the London Olympics.

Williams, who has won 15 Grand Slam singles titles and four Olympic gold medals, was 48-2 over the final seven months of the season.

It is the fourth time Williams has won the award, which is voted on by international tennis media. She also was named Player of the Year in 2002, 2008 and 2009.

Only Steffi Graf (eight times) and Martina Navratilova (seven times) have won the award more than Williams.

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Exploring post-divorce feelings may not help, study claims - Marilyn ...

Keeping a diary to explore your emotions after a divorce may do more harm than good, according to a new study from the University of Arizona.

Writing is a tool recommended by some therapists to encourage emotional healing after stressful life changes like divorce. The study, set to be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal Clinical Psychological Science, examined the effect of three different styles of diary writing amongst 90 divorced or separated people. One group was asked to write diaries freely exploring their feelings and emotions; a second was also asked to write about their emotions, but in a narrative structure; and a third, the control group, was asked to keep a journal about their every day activities but not include any reference to their emotions.

The original aim of the study was to explore the effectiveness of the two styles of emotional writing but after eight months, the researchers found that the non-emotional approach used by the control group was actually the most effective at promoting emotional healing, especially amongst a type of people referred to in the study as ?high ruminators?. These were defined as people who ?have a tendency to ruminate on their [failed relationship], brood on their experience and go over it and over it and over it again.?

Psychological scientist David Sbarra said dwelling on the past could be unhelpful. ?If a person goes over and over something in their head, and then you say, ?Write down your deepest darkest thoughts and go over it again,? we will intensify their distress.?

He added:

?If you?re someone who tends to be totally in your head and go over and over what happened and why it happened, you need to get out of your head and just start thinking about how you?re going to put your life back together and organize your time.?

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10 Things to Know for Friday

The results of a draft resolution on Palestinian status are posted during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly after a vote on a resolution on the issue of upgrading the Palestinian Authority's status to non-member observer state in the United Nations headquarters, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures as he speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, after private talks with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the fiscal cliff negotiations. Boehner said no substantive progress has been made between the White House and the House" in the past two weeks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

This July 4, 2012 image provided by Ian Joughin, shows surface melt water rushing along the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet through a supra-glacial stream channel, southwest of Ilulissat, Greenland. Polar ice sheets are now melting three times faster than in the 1990s, but so far that's added just less than half an inch to already rising global sea levels, a new giant scientific study says. While the amount of sea level rise isn't as bad as some earlier worst case scenarios, the acceleration of the melting, especially in Greenland, has ice scientists worried. (AP Photo/Ian Joughin)

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about Friday:

1. WHY UN VOTE RECOGNIZING PALESTINE MAY ULTIMATELY DISAPPOINT

Real independence remains an elusive dream until the Palestinians negotiate a peace deal with the Israelis.

2. BACK TO THE BRINK OF THE 'FISCAL CLIFF'

The GOP recoils at word that the White House is seeking $1.6 trillion in higher taxes, more stimulus.

3. WHO MIGHT'VE HIT THE POWERBALL JACKPOT

The Missouri Lottery has confirmed one winning ticket and will reveal the winner Friday. The second ticket holder, in Arizona, remains a mystery.

4. SYRIAN REBELS WAIT, WATCH FOR POSSIBLE ATTACK

The Internet goes black across the country ? perhaps in preparation for a major government offensive, activists say.

5. ISLAMISTS RUSH TO FINISH EGYPT'S CONSTITUTION

Lawmakers, voting in a single marathon session that continued past midnight, try to pre-empt a court ruling that could dissolve the assembly.

6. STRAUSS-KAHN AGREES TO SETTLE WITH ACCUSER

Hotel maid's lawsuit alleged that the ex-IMF chief tried to rape her in a New York hotel.

7. MANNING: 'I REMEMBER THINKING, I'M GOING TO DIE'

The Army private charged with sending classified information to Wikileaks describes his confinement in maximum-security cells in Kuwait and a Marine Corps brig.

8. BOY'S DISAPPEARANCE A MYSTERY

As part of a divorce case, a Colorado teen was ordered to visit his father over Thanksgiving. He hasn't been seen since.

9. MELTING AT POLES WORRIES SCIENTISTS

Ice sheets are fading faster than ever, though the rise in sea levels hasn't been as severe as earlier worst-case predictions.

10. WHEN HALFTIME IS THE RIGHT TIME

NFL players are rumored to be using Viagra. Experts say it might give them an edge when it comes to confidence, but that's about it.

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Either this latest KIRF contender apes Windows Phone to a seriously piratical degree, or someone has simply chopped in a screengrab from an HTC device. Either way, the aptly-named Lemon T109 could at least have tried mimicking the latest version of Redmond's mobile OS instead of Mango. The handset, which has just popped up in India for the equivalent of $54, accepts a pair of SIMs and boasts a 3.7-inch HVGA capacitive touch display. There's a "long" 1,200mAh battery that helps fuel features like the King Movie Player, an automatic call recorder and a 1.3-megapixel snapper circa 2004. We're not sure what the "PC Tablet" accessory refers to, but the free wristwatch on offer could possibly help sweeten the citrusy deal -- especially since the other core specs are MIA. The phone may not look like it's going to smoke anything, but if you're in the area and desperate for vitamins after all that fried bacon, a tap on the source link might just help you meet your match.

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Arctic permafrost is melting faster than predicted

We may be closer to a major climate tipping point than we knew. Earth's permafrost ? frozen soil that covers nearly a quarter of the northern hemisphere and traps vast amounts of carbon ? may be melting faster than thought and releasing more potent greenhouse gasses.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released a report yesterday reviewing the most up-to-date research on Arctic permafrost. It claims temperature projections due in 2014 from the International Panel on Climate Change are "likely to be biased on the low side" because the IPCC does not take into account the positive feedback cycle of permafrost melting and releasing greenhouse gases.

"Overall, these observations indicate that large-scale thawing of the permafrost may already have started", the UNEP report warns. It calls on governments to monitor permafrost in greater detail and urges communities in permafrost areas to develop plans for managing any damage to infrastructure caused by the frozen soil melting.

But even these calls might be downplaying both the extent of the melting and the severity of the warming it could cause, according to NASA researchers doing groundbreaking research. Using a plane flying just 150 metres above the ground, the team has been measuring levels of both carbon dioxide and methane above the Arctic.

Elevated values

The NASA team has not yet finished analysing the data, some of which will be presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco next week. But preliminary results are already suggesting that levels of greenhouse gases in some Arctic areas are much higher than climate models have predicted, says Charles Miller of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the principal investigator on the Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE).

"I have been surprised by some of the elevated values that we've seen," he says. That indicates the permafrost is melting faster than expected.

The early findings also suggest that more methane ? a greenhouse gas that is about 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over 100 years ? is being released than models have predicted. The result agrees with other recent studies. Miller says climate models do not have a good grasp on how much methane will be emitted by the melting permafrost.

Pep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project in Canberra, Australia, says one exciting aspect of the NASA project is its attempt to locate where these greenhouse gases are coming from.

By flying at low altitude, the team is able to measure changes in the levels of gases over much smaller distances and time intervals than previous research flights, which have flown about 2 kilometres higher. "Those get measurements on a regional scale," says Miller. "There's a great deal of local information to be found flying this close to the surface."

Miller says the factors driving the release of gases are found on these small scales. "The vegetation, the relative heights of the land and the water table ? these so called 'micro-topographic' variabilities really seem to be driving what's going on in terms of release of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere."

Early warning

Another benefit of finer-grained measurements is their ability to give early warning of that major change ? a large methane release for instance ? is under way. Miller says they have no evidence for this as yet.

The team are also doing a lot more repeat measurements over a much longer period of time. Whereas previous studies have typically had four or five flight days over a six-week period, CARVE has flown for two weeks per month between April and October this year, its first year of experiments. It will carry out the same pattern of flights over the next four years.

One big question is how much of the 1700 billion tonnes of carbon locked in the permafrost as frozen organic matter will be released as methane and how much as CO₂if there is a thaw. Miller says that if the region gets warmer and drier, the microbes that thrive will be the type that produce CO₂. But if it gets warmer and wetter, they will tend to produce more of the potent methane.

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The folks at CHOW and Modernist Cuisine tested and developed software to test heat conduction through different types of pans so you don't have to, and the results are actually surprising. Before reaching for that expensive copper pan, think twice: a more affordable but thicker steel pan is a better buy.

Modernist Cuisine's Scott Heimendinger explains why above, but the lowdown is this: copper pans definitely transmit heat from the burner to your food faster, but when it comes to even cooking and maintaining regular heating without hot spots around your pan it's the thickness of your pan, not its material, that matters most. A thicker steel or aluminum pan will do a much better job than a copper one, which are usually thinner.

Scott goes on to explain the delicate dance between conduction (heat transfer from the burner to the pan) and convection (heat loss to the air) in the video above. He even offers up a bonus tip to keep your pan extra hot and even: Visit a metal shop and get a half-inch to 1 1/2 inch aluminum block to put over your burner. If that's too much for you, just reach for a thicker stainless steel or non-stick pan when you're shopping for yourself or for a gift and skip the copper ones. Your food will thank you.

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SHEBOYGAN?Former Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan?s trial has been delayed.

It was supposed to start Tuesday, but according to court records it has been delayed until February 19.

Ryan was charged in April after a woman accused him of groping her at a bar in Elkhart Lake last summer.

Ryan pleaded not guilty to two counts of fourth degree sex assault in May.

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A recent announcement sparked a hysteria which divided the Facebooking world into two factions: users who suspected the email was yet another scam; and users who believed that Facebook is rolling back copyright and privacy rights, and protested this by cutting-and-pasting a viral status update.

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Global first: Brit visits all 201 states without flying

A British adventurer has become the first person to travel to all 201 sovereign states in the world without flying, ending his four-year odyssey early Monday when he arrived in South Sudan, the world?s newest nation.

Graham Hughes has used buses, boats, taxis, trains, and his own two feet ? but never an airplane ? to travel 160,000 miles in exactly 1,426 days, spending an average of less than $100 a week.

?I love travel, and I guess my reason for doing it was I wanted to see if this could be done, by one person traveling on a shoestring,? Mr. Hughes tells the Monitor Monday by telephone from Juba, South Sudan?s capital. ?I think I also wanted to show that the world is not some big, scary place, but in fact is full of people who want to help you even if you are a stranger.?

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Hughes, 33, set out from his home in Liverpool in northern England on New Year?s Day 2009.

Since then, he has visited all 193 United Nations member states plus Taiwan, Vatican City, Palestine, Kosovo, Western Sahara, and the four home nations of the United Kingdom.

GUINNESS CONFIRMED

Guinness World Records have confirmed that Hughes, who has been filming the trip for a documentary and raising money for a charity called Water Aid, is the first person to achieve this feat without flying.

?The main feeling today is just one of intense gratitude to every person around the world who helped me get here, by giving me a lift, letting me stay on their couch, or pointing me in the right direction,? Hughes said Monday. ?There were times, sitting in a bus station in Cambodia at one in the morning, riding some awful truck over bad roads, when I thought, why am I doing this? But there was always a reason to keep going.?

Highlights were swimming in a lake of jellyfish in the Pacific archipelago of Palau, watching one of NASA?s last Space Shuttle launches, and dancing with the jungle tribes of Papua New Guinea.

?People asked me how I was going to get to Afghanistan or Iraq or North Korea, but they were the easy ones, you don?t even need a visa for Iraq, you just walk across the border from Turkey,? he says.

?The really tough ones were places like Nauru, and the Maldives and the Seychelles, island countries where there were also sometimes pirate threats.?

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To cross oceans, Hughes hitched lifts with cargo ships. He spent four days in an open fishing canoe from Senegal to Cape Verde, and was then arrested when he arrived.

Later, officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo jailed him for six days believing he was a spy.

?None of this put me off, it just made me more bloody-minded to succeed,? he says.

DEATH IN THE FAMILY

The hardest point, ?when I just wanted to give up,? he remembers, was after his older sister, Nicola, died from cancer two years ago at the age of 39. Hughes rushed home to see her before she died.

?She told me not to stop the trip, but I was at a real low point. I?d done 184 countries and had only 17 to go and I thought why not leave it there,? he says. The memory of his sister spurred him on, as did the people that he met as he traveled and the money he was raising for Water Aid, which works to bring clean water to people in the developing world.

?If you take everything that you know of the world from the news, it?s all the bad stuff and you get very paranoid that everyone is out to get you,? he says. ?But the most amazing thing to me is that everyone I met looked after me and I didn?t even know them.?

Hughes plans to stay in South Sudan only until Wednesday. But he will not then be flying home.

He says to ?keep in the spirit of the adventure? he will continue through Africa and across Europe by bus and boat, aiming to return home to Liverpool by ferry from Ireland in time for Christmas.

?Someone wrote to me and pointed out that this would be the trip of a lifetime for most people, but for me it?s essentially just the bus home,? he says. After a long rest, he says he will then begin exploring options to continue with a career in film-making.

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The Raspberry Pi will soon be able to see all, thanks to an upcoming camera board that will mate with unused CSI pins on the $35 hobbyist board. The new 5-megapixel camera (in the video after the break) will be capable of 1080P, 30fps video, and though the prototype being shown at Electronica 2012 is attached using scotch tape technology, the Pi foundation promised it would come with a proper mount when it ships in the new year for $25. In other news, the group has also announced a new port from the Notch gaming group called "Minecraft: Pi edition." You'll be able to play the game, of course, but if you're feeling more ambitious it'll also support several programming languages, letting you "modify the game world with code" to boot. The group promised you'll be able to download it next week at the source.

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Enjoy the afternoon with the family celebrating the holidays! Join us at Shawnee Prairie Preserve (4267 State Route 502 West) on Saturday, December 15th from 12:00pm to 4:00pm and make your own unique natural holiday d?cor. During this Open House there will be crafts to make in the Nature Center using natural materials such as branches, pinecones and fruits. Use these natural materials to make ornaments and door hangings to decorate your own home or give as a gift! While you are here, stop by the Log House and try your hand at candle dipping! We?ll provide all materials for you to use to make your very own holiday d?cor this year, all at no charge to you!

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Mixing Politics and Religion ? News To News

I read with interest The Rev. Alan Rudnick?s Voices of Faith piece today (after returning home from a visit to Buffalo to see my wife?s family) titled Different paths to a goal. He was critical of the political message of Franklin Graham (Billy Graham?s son who has taken up his evangelical ministry) whom he quoted as saying ?If we are allowed to go down this road in the path that this president wants us to go down, I think it will be to our peril and to the destruction of the nation.? He also mentions Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary calling the election, ?an evangelical disaster.?

Rev. Rudnick argues that the church should step away from the movement into politics during the last 40 years. That movement into politics was motivated by the belief that ?the way to control morality in our country is by blocking movements in states that try to legalize same sex marriage, fight for prayer to return in the schools and encourage legislation that forbids abortions.? Rather than fight in the political realm to shape cultural morality, Rudnick argues, the way to change people?s morality is by changing their hearts. ?The only way for evangelicals to establish any kind of Kingdom change is to change people from the ground up, not from the top down?Evangelicats must not think we can use the government or politics to change the world. We must work together and meet people face to face?not with protest signs buth with mutual respect to give them God?s message.?

As someone advocating for marriage equality and a woman?s right to control their own reproductive organs, I welcome the call for evangelicals to get out of trying to limit the expression of committed love and force women to bring to term an unwanted fertilized egg. And I agree that meeting people face to face is a better way to persuade them to live moral and ethical lives than through legislation.? Prohibition really didn?t crack the abuse of alcohol nut.

We part company with the call to step away from the political realm. Unitarians and Universalists (Unitarian Universalists since 1961) have been advocates for progressive legislation from before the American Civil War. In the 1840?s and 50?s many of our forbears in our churches struggled with the issue of slavery and found it morally wrong and reprehensible. They became abolitionists and advocated for the end of slavery. That advocacy continued through the Civil Rights movement of the 1960?s and continues today.

The fight for the right for women to vote took root in our churches in the nineteenth century. Susan B. Anthony was a member of the Unitarian Church of Rochester, NY. Unitarian Dorothea Dix advocated for the mentally ill and improving their treatment in state mental facilities. Investigate any liberal social change movement in our society and you?ll find Unitarian Universalist involvement.

Protection of religious freedom and individual freedom are? issues we rally around. Our ministers teach and preach a non-creed based approach to belief that encourages the individual to discover and follow the spiritual path already laid down in their hearts. We think there isn?t one right way to believe. We think many valid paths lead to common universal values that all the major world religions embrace. Values like the inherent worth and dignity of all people, justice, equity and compassion in human relations, the use of the democratic process, the goal of peaceful and tolerant world community, and respect for the interdependent web of existence of which we are a part.

When we advocate for our values in the public square, we see every elected official as a potential ally. We advocate because we believe the shape of society does shape people?s hearts. Discrimination and oppression damages people and damages society. Following Jesus? guidance, as well as Moses, Mohammed, Buddha, Confucius and the Tao along with the great philosophers and sages of every age, we seek to create the best, most moral and ethical society possible built on common values rather than striving to conform society to one set of religious beliefs.

So I support Rev. Rudnick?s work of saving souls for Christ. And I support the rabbi who guides his congregation to be good Jews. And I affirm the work of Bishop Hubbard to guide his people to be good Catholics. May we all strive to help those who are attracted to us to lead good religious lives.

And when it comes time to advocate in the pubic square for our shared values, religious voices are definitely needed to counter the corrosive forces of greed, materialism, exploitation, hatred, and corruption.

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Cupertino posts tweaked Apple spaceship campus plans as launch risks slipping to 2016

Have you wanted as direct a look as possible at Apple's latest plans for its spaceship-like campus? You've got it -- although you may not be in love with the reason why. Details posted by the city of Cupertino reflect a potential delay in an environmental impact study that might not wrap up until June 2013. If the analysis takes that long, Apple may have to push back the halo-shaped office's opening until 2016, roughly a year later than expected. It's hard to be sympathetic when most of those who'll see the campus first-hand will have to wear an employee badge; even so, it's slightly disappointing to realize that the renderings and schematics at the source link may be our only only glimpse at the company's solar-powered donut for quite awhile.

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With Kasab execution, Indian gears of justice unusually swift

India executed the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Kasab, in a move prompting surprise, cheers - and charges of politics.

By Rebecca Byerly,?Correspondent / November 21, 2012

Indians celebrate upon hearing the news of India executing Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the 2008 terror attacks, in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday. Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, was one of 10 gunmen who rampaged through the streets of India's financial capital for three days in 2008, killing 166 people.

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India executed the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The execution of Ajmal Kasab was carried out in secret and surprised a nation accustomed to a much slower criminal justice system.?

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Mr. Kasab was sentenced to death in 2010 after a highly-watched trial. His plea for clemency was denied earlier this month. Kasab and nine other gunmen killed 166 people in a three-day?bullet-spraying, grenade-throwing rampage that targeted some of the most iconic places in the city. The attack, which left carnage throughout the heart of India?s commercial capital, is often compared here to the 9/11 attacks in the United States.

The first person to be executed in India since 2004 and the third since 1995, Kasab?s death was met with mixed reactions. Some victims and analysts see the relatively efficient trial and execution as a sign that India is growing more serious about serving justice in a system infamously mired in delays and inconclusive investigations. Others point out how the case's swift closure was an anomaly, propelled forward by politics at home and in the region.?

?India has proven itself incapable of resolving some of the most heinous crimes within its own country,? says journalist Adrian Levy, who is currently writing a book on the Mumbai attacks. "Killing Kasab does not restore a sense of justice to a country whose legal system is failing it. Killing Kasab is an act of vengeance that further destabilizes the notion of justice in India."

He notes the country has failed to resolve the murder of Jalil Andrabi, a prominent Kashmir human rights lawyer, even after the guilty party was exposed in court. Many are?also questioning why other people on death row like Afzal Guru, who was convicted of attacking the parliament in 2001 and sentenced to death in 2004, have yet to be executed.

It's not just the high-profile cases that get stuck. "A common murder or rape in India, are as likely to go unresolved as solved," Mr. Levy says.

With the Congress government mired in corruption charges and often considered weak on fighting terror by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Levy says the timeliness of Kasab?s execution is a political maneuver.

?Congress is accused by BJP of being the party of the economy and not Jai Hind [Hail India]. Congress has failed economically, corruption is rife, stagnation has come, and now Kasab's death seems like an awful ploy,? says Levy.

Indian authorities kept their plans to carry out the court's sentence this morning carefully under wraps. He was hung in a jail in the western city of Pune. ?

Vikram Sood, the former head of India's intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, says Kasab?s execution just four days before the anniversary of the Mumbai attacks had a specific purpose.

?It?s sending a message that India still remembers the Mumbai attacks and is going to get more tough with Pakistan in the future.?

While Mr. Sood believes executing Kasab was a necessary step he doesn?t believe Pakistan is willing to listen and says the country will continue to support terrorism.

?We have achieved very little since the Mumbai attacks because nothing will work until Pakistan feels isolated and Pakistan will not feel isolated until the United States stops giving them support,? says Sood, the vice president of the Observer Research Foundation. ?It?s going to be difficult for any government to deal with Pakistan with the present administration in Islamabad and Army in Rawalpindi.?

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Sandy victims cheered by NYC's Thanksgiving parade

NEW YORK (AP) ? Victims of Superstorm Sandy in New York and elsewhere in the Northeast were comforted Thursday by kinder weather, free holiday meals and ? for some ? front row seats to the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

"It means a lot," said Karen Panetta, of the hard-hit Broad Channel section of Queens, as she sat in a special viewing section set aside for New Yorkers displaced by the storm.

"We're thankful to be here and actually be a family and to feel like life's a little normal today," she said.

The popular Macy's parade, attended by more than 3 million people and watched by 50 million on TV, included such giant balloons as Elf on a Shelf and Papa Smurf, a new version of Hello Kitty, Buzz Lightyear, Sailor Mickey Mouse and the Pillsbury Doughboy. Real-life stars included singer Carly Rae Jepsen and Rachel Crow of "The X Factor."

The young, and the young at heart, were delighted by the sight and sound of marching bands, performers and, of course, the giant balloons. The sunny weather quickly surpassed 50 degrees.

Alan Batt and his 11-year-old twins, Kyto and Elina, took in the parade at the end of the route, well away from the crowd and seemingly too far away for a good view. But they had an advantage: Two tall stepladders they hauled over from their apartment eight blocks away ? one for each twin.

"We're New Yorkers," the 65-year-old Batt said. "We know what we're doing."

With the height advantage, "I get to see everything!" Kyto said.

At nearby Greeley Square, social worker Lowell Herschberger, 40, of Brooklyn, sought in vain to tear his sons, 8-year-old Logan and 6-year-old Liam, from a foosball table set up in the tiny park as the balloons crept by on the near horizon.

"Hey, guys ? there's Charlie Brown," he said, pointing at the old standby balloon.

The boys didn't look up.

"I guess they're over it," the father said with a shrug.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg was reflective Thursday as he praised police, firefighters, armed services personnel, sanitation workers and volunteers involved in the storm response. His office was coordinating the distribution of 26,500 meals at 30 sites in neighborhoods affected by Sandy, and other organizations also were pitching in.

The disaster zones on Staten Island were flooded ? this time with food and volunteers from Glen Rock, N.J. organized using social media.

"We had three carloads of food," said volunteer Beth Fernandez. "The whole town of Glen Rock pitched in. ... It's really cool. It's my best, my favorite Thanksgiving ever."

On Long Island, the Long Beach nonprofit Surf For All hosted a Thanksgiving event that fed 1,200 people. Carol Gross, 72, a Long Beach native, said she went to volunteer but was turned away because of a surplus of helpers.

"A lot of people like me, old-timers, we've never seen anything like this horror," she said, recalling the destruction.

Gross' brother, Jerry, who moved to Arizona in the 1960s, was stunned by what he saw when he returned for Thanksgiving.

"To come back and see the boardwalk all devastated like it is, it's like going to Manhattan and finding Times Square gone," he said.

George Alvarez, whose Toms River, N.J., home suffered moderate damage when Sandy hit the coast, said his family usually does "the traditional big dinner" on Thanksgiving. But this year, they chose to attend a community dinner held at an area church.

"This storm not only impacted us, it impacted a lot of our friends, our community, our psyche," Alvarez said shortly before his family headed out for their meal. "We could have had our usual dinner here at home, but this year it felt like we should be with others who are experiencing the same concerns we are. We made it through this devastating storm, and that's something to celebrate."

Across the country, other cities offered a mix of holiday cheer and acts of charity.

Thousands of people made the most of the mild, sunny fall weather to watch Detroit's Thanksgiving parade, hours ahead of the Lions' annual home game.

Floats and marching bands poured down Woodward Avenue on Thursday morning, with many spectators forgoing the cold-weather gear of past parades. Detroit's temperature hit 52 degrees at 11 a.m., with a warm wind blowing from the South.

Parade participants also included NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski, a 28-year-old Rochester Hills native and the first Michigan-born driver to win the Sprint Cup Series.

In San Francisco, lines of the homeless and less fortunate began forming late Wednesday outside a church in the city's tough Tenderloin district that expected to serve more than 5,000 meals, said the Rev. Cecil Williams.

"We must make sure people can overcome all adversities," Williams said. "You can, you will and you must."

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AP radio correspondent Julie Walker, AP video journalist Ted Shaffrey and Associated Press writers Kiley Armstrong and Karen Matthews in New York, Alison Barnwell on Long Island, Bruce Shipkowski in New Jersey and Terry Collins in San Francisco contributed to this report.

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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - bird disease citizen science, dog words, Wild Sex, expertise, amoebae, Thanksgiving myths, and more.

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