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The evening started with a beautiful phrase appearing onscreen – "Every superstar begins with a dream" – and then, for some reason, we heard Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."

But that's not what you want to know: The season's first live results show reduced 24 singers to a top 10 picked by viewers, plus what turned out to be three "wild" saves by the judges.

The American Idol top 10? Keep reading to find out.

They are:

Scotty McCreery, Jacob Lusk, Casey Abrams, Paul McDonald, James Durbin, Lauren Alaina, Pia Toscano, Karen Rodriguez, Thia Megia and Haley Reinhart.

It took the first 70 minutes of the two-hour show to reach that list. Then the judges asked six singers to perform again, and from those they rescued three:

Ashton Jones, Stefano Langone and Naima Adedapo.

Now that we have their names out of the way, we can flashback to the songs that saved them:

Ashton was the first "wild" performer, and strutted defiantly while she sang "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." "I still LOVE the attitude," said Randy Jackson.

Stefano sang – well, over-sang, but given the pressure it's understandable – "I Need You Now." Jennifer Lopez was seen saying, "Yes," very enthusiastically. Steven Tyler said, intriguingly, "You gilded the lily of your own passion."

And Naima performed the standard "For All We Know" with unfaltering drive, breaking down into sobs at the end – as Tyler was seen giving Jennifer a tiny nudge with his elbow.

The others who sang for their life, and lost, were Kendra Chantelle, Jovany Barreto and Robbie Rosen.

They exited with: Ta-Tynisa Wilson, Lauren Turner – I'm sorriest to see her go – Rachel Zevita (who looked absolutely miserable), Julia Zorrilla, Brett Loewenstern, Tim Halperin, Jordan Dorsey and Clint Jun Gamboa. I record their names for Idol posterity.

All in all, this is a good top 13, with an unusual range of style. I'm rooting for Thia.

While the judges were arbitrating, we were treated to Lopez's new video, "On the Floor," which had a catchy chorus and a nice visual motif of Lopez in silver dancing in front of a gold wall.

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When I first heard the name WikiLeaks I thought it was some Hawaiian ritual or gathering like a luau. After recent events we all know what WikiLeaks is and the man who stands behind it. This news website was introduced in 2007 along with its' founder and director, a gentleman by the name of Julian Assange. The purpose or should I say mission of this organization is to provide the international public with leaked information derived from unnamed sources from around the world. Their news coverage is aimed at exposing the truth and expose social injustices. This of course is a noble cause but with it comes a higher responsibility of discretion and being able to discern what should and shouldn't be disclosed.

Julian Assange an Australian journalist has been awarded and honored for publishing and exposing atrocities committed around the world such as toxic waste dumping in Africa, killings in Kenya, giving light to the injustices that occur around the world. In 2008 he received the Economist Freedom of Expression Award and in 2009 Amnesty International UK Media Award to name a few.

Recently this whistle blowing news organization published secret U.S. diplomatic cables that not only politically hurt America's standing in the world but it also put our troops and covert friends overseas in a more dangerous position. They also exposed private talks between our government and other world leaders. One such revelation is the Saudi government asking the U.S. government to attack the infra structure of the Iranian nuclear program. To expose such information was irresponsible and doesn't make the world a safer better place. On the contrary it stirs up and adds to an already strained and complicated situation in the Middle East.

Exposing criminal or inhumane behavior that occurred or is presently happening around the world is a worthy cause but to use these newly published documents is irresponsible and serves no purpose but to gain recognition or perhaps notoriety for this news organization. There has to be an accountability for this type of reckless journalism and disregard for innocent peoples lives. This act can not go unpunished.

America is a great country and we will weather the damage caused by the insensitive actions of this mega egotistical organization. We as Americans support our country and its freedoms but we will not stand with those who abuse our freedoms.

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What some people do not know is that the Korean War has actually been going on since the initial war broke out between North and South Korea in 1950. It has never ended, albeit poor and not-so-eager attempts to stop it. Rather, there was merely a ceasefire that was never resolved. But whatever truce there was between them was not apparent, even to most of the rest of the world.

There have been different versions as to the real cause for this conflict between the North and South Korea. Some say that it is just a cover-up for the real raging battle for political and economic power between the United States, which supported South Korea and the Soviet Union, which backed up North Korea. But the more accepted reason was the stern fight for democracy to prevail over communism, and vice versa, which was known to be the cold war between the once wartime allies. Indeed, aside from Russia under Joseph Stalin, North Korea also found huge support from its likewise communist neighbor China headed by Mao Zedong (Tse-tung).

In retrospect, Korea was separated into two different states when no common government could be decided upon. The Republic of Korea (ROK) pertaining to the South was established on August 15, 1948 with its nationalist leader Syngman Rhee; while the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for the North, as headed by Kim Il Sung, was organized in September 9 of the same year, just a couple of years after the end of the Second World War in 1945 and before the start of Korean War on June 25, 1950. This war ended in a peace agreement on July 27, 1953 with the help of the United Nations through its first concerted police action.

Apparently, the armistice was not permanent. Just recently, on November 23, 2010, the South Korea suffered a heavy bombardment of dozens of artillery shells by the North, killing two South Korean soldiers and destroying many properties. It appears that this started with suspected violations by the South of the North's waters off the west coast, resulting to the sinking of a South Korean warship that Seoul blamed on a torpedo allegedly fired by the North.

The world now watches as a bitter past resurfaces once again. What cause an even more real and imminent international apprehension, however, are the allegations that North Korea has nuclear weapons under its hood, which if really true, would be far from being unlikely that it will use against any provocation on anybody's part.

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Imagine you're on a trip. You have planned it for quite some time and you're very excited. You love the place and have chosen to visit it because there is something about that country or area that you really love. You've saved your money, maybe sacrificed a little, so you could make the trip.

So off you go. Sure you know that there are always certain vulnerabilities when you leave your country of origin, but you have done your due diligence, checked with travel warnings, and feel like the decision to travel was made with common sense so you feel secure.

You've arrived! You check in to your hotel room. Everything is going great. But something happened. There has been a change in the atmosphere. People seem to be looking at you strange. What were smiles are now frowns. Where there seemed to be a welcome before, now there are only cold glares.

Some people begin to yell, looking at you, speaking in a language you have no idea what they are saying. Imagine you are in an African City where you come to a gas station and you are the only white man for miles. Your there and a man runs up to you waving and pointing to the front page of a news paper. "US call us a cesspool!" People who once welcomed you are now giving you the cold shoulder and if there was ever an uneasy and unsecure feeling, now you have it.

This is not some fantasy story. This is the experience of this writer and possibly thousands of other travelers who leave home and end up in a place where the latest reports from the controversial wiki leaks site finds its way to the lime light. This could be the future for international travelers everywhere.

What good and noble effect these stories play in world history remains to be seen. But this writer can tell you one thing about human nature. When someone talks bad about someone else, and then shares it with everyone they can, it's not a good thing. I have always been taught that people who really care about others do not do such things. Someone said it this way, "You who have not sinned, you throw the first stone!"

Irresponsible sharing of information without any concern of the harm it could cause innocent people is unhealthy for peace at least, and considered criminal by many. One little spark of gossip has been known to cause damages beyond comprehension.

There is an old proverb that says 'A tale bearer reveals secrets, but he that is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter". Another says, "Where there is no tale bearer, there is no strife.

With the scale of tale bearing now with such media as wiki leaks, strife as never known before could soon be the result. Wars could even start, maybe thosuands could die, maybe millions! A tiny spark can cause a million acres to burn into nothing.

It is the writer's opinion that if someone has information that someone has committed a crime, it is only right and just that factual evidence should be given to 'law governing agencies' to see if the matter needs attention. If not, we can become an order less society where mob rules.

I wont, but I could almost wish that those who send information across the Internet with no concern for whom it may harm, could experience what I did on my last international trip. I was abroad to help orphans, but now I feel its not smart to travel, as you never know what hate story will come out tomorrow.

One thing I love about America is that a man or woman is presumed innocent until proven guilty. This has made us a place that people from all around the world want to come to, for our noble and honorable ways.

Do the people who crash websites and hack into companies sites that exercise their right to sell to whom they want really have a noble cause? (hello, freedom?) Do these people really have a heart to help society and bring peace, or do they want to just plain raise hell? History will tell the story from the fruit of these actions. If anything goes, one day, everything goes!

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Gone was the special event, gone were the predictions of mobile-market upheaval: the second iteration of Google's Nexus phone strategy was announced to the world with a simple blog post.

And that makes perfect sense; given the lessons Google's Android team learned in 2010 while trying to balance a good tech idea with real-world business needs. Like the Nexus One first unveiled in January, today's launch of the Nexus S reveals a stripped-down fast smartphone with some futuristic features and the most current edition of Android that delivers "the pure Google experience," the company said in that post.

Unlike the Nexus One, which was announced at a much-hyped press event by Google's Andy Rubin alongside HTC CEO Peter Chou and Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha, the Nexus S was unaccompanied by any promises to disrupt the mobile market with unlocked phones and Web-only sales. Best Buy, the picture of the consumer electronics establishment, will be the exclusive carrier of the Nexus S when it launches next week for $529 (unlocked) or $199 with a two-year T-Mobile contract.

There are very practical reasons for Google to produce a "pure Google experience" phone to help increase Android momentum. Software developers need to have early access to new operating system releases to make sure their apps will work well on the new release. However, Google's Android model allows wireless carriers and handset makers to dictate the pace at which their customers receive Android updates, meaning some app developers on one carrier might not be able to see new releases before customers on another carrier start running the software, which isn't good.

There are also loftier reasons for building such a phone, as Rubin espoused in January at the Nexus One event. Back then, Google was full of promises about disruption and liberation, with plans to free consumers from two-year contracts, end exclusive deals between carriers and handset makers for new phones, and relieve the drudgery of in-store shopping.

Believe it or not, the established mobile industry--the very companies that have allowed Android to be a success--wasn't necessarily on board with those ideas. Carriers withdrew promised support for the Nexus One, and without broad carrier support Google was forced to do exactly what it didn't want to do: offer a phone effectively locked to a single carrier.

And so this time around, the Nexus S is being promoted simply based on hardware and software. It's a basically a Googlized version of the Samsung Galaxy S, with the near-field communications chips that Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke about last month and could one day let you use your phone as a credit card. Android 2.3, known as Gingerbread, will bring a new virtual keyboard and a simpler user interface when it ships with the Nexus S on December 16, long before it reaches other Android phones.

This phone is not being billed as the key to a revolution in the smartphone industry. Judging by comments on Twitter this morning, there's likely a sizable contingent inside Google that still hopes to make that happen some day--when the "pure Google experience" goes beyond software--but that day is not today.

So what remains of Google's larger goals with its own branded smartphones? We may get a chance to find out when Rubin speaks tonight at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco, where he's expected to show off the Nexus S.

But it's clear that for now, Google has chosen to concentrate on its original Android promise of giving wireless carriers and handset makers around the world a free, competitive smartphone operating system to serve as a hedge against Apple and iOS. Tearing down that industry might have to wait for another day.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - General David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, has been named the "most fascinating person of 2010", beating the cast of MTV reality show "The Jersey Shore" and teen singer Justin Bieber.

Veteran journalist Barbara Walters called Petraeus a "true American hero" and placed him top of her annual list of the 10 most fascinating people of 2010 in a TV broadcast on Thursday.

Network ABC said on Friday that 12.2 million Americans watched the show.

Petraeus, 58, was named in June to head U.S and NATO forces in Afghanistan after serving as head of the U.S. Central Command overseeing Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Yemen.

He is also credited with having pulled Iraq back from the brink of an all-out sectarian war in 2007.

"In life, it seems, there are people who break things and people who fix them. This man is a fixer, "Walters said. "A lot depends on General Petraeus and his combination of humanity and strength."

Others on Walter's annual list included 16 year-old Canadian singer Justin Bieber, future British princess Kate Middleton who is engaged to marry Prince William, veteran comedy actress Betty White and conservative politician Sarah Palin.

Walters has chosen her most fascinating people for 18 years. Last year's winner was U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, and in 2008 Walters put then president-elect Barack Obama top of her list.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

Copyright © 2010 Reuters

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For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world - Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they've ever encountered before.