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Saturday, December 7, 2013 – Daily News 7A WORLD BRIEFING 2014 could be the year US economy finally returns WASHINGTON (AP) — The job market is showing signs of the consistent gains the nation has awaited in the 4 1/2 years since the Great Recession. Employers added 203,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate fell to 7 percent, a five-year low, the Labor Department reported Friday. Four straight months of robust hiring have raised hopes that 2014 will be the year the economy returns to normal. The steady job growth could also hasten a move by the Federal Reserve to reduce its stimulus efforts. Stock investors were heartened by the report. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 198 points. A steadily improving job market could give consumers and business executives the confidence to keep spending and investing, even if a pullback by the Fed leads to higher interest rates. The Fed has been buying bonds each month to try to keep long-term borrowing rates low to spur spending and growth. the mostly Muslim ex-rebels with machetes and guns who rule the country a day after the worst violence to hit the chaotic capital in nine months. When several French helicopters landed at the airport, people sang with joy as they banged on plastic buckets and waved rags into the air in celebration. Outside the barbed wire fences of the airport, bodies lay decomposing along the roads in a capital too dangerous for many to collect the corpses. Thursday's clashes left at least 280 dead, according to national radio, and have raised fears that waves of retaliatory attacks could soon follow. ''They are slaughtering us like chickens,'' said Appolinaire Donoboy, a Christian whose family remained in hiding. France had pledged to increase its presence in its former colony well before Christian militias attacked the capital at dawn Thursday. The arrival of additional French troops and equipment came as the capital teetered on the brink of total anarchy and represented the greatest hope for many Central Africans. US offers 30year permits Mandela film for killing shifts from eagles WASHINGTON (AP) tribute to — Under pressure from the wind-power industry, the big-screen Obama administration said Friday it will allow compaeulogy nies to kill or injure eagles NEW YORK (AP) — With the passing of Nelson Mandela, the sweeping biopic ''Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'' transforms in the midst of its theatrical release from a living tribute to a big-screen eulogy. The South African revolutionary and former president, who died Thursday at the age of 95, has long been a compelling figure for movies — a hero of uncommon dignity whose dramatic story and titanic accomplishments insured his tale would be told often in film. But arguably the fullest movie portrait of Mandela's life — a film made with his permission and his family's support — was released just six days before his death. News of Mandela's death broke as ''Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'' played during its London premiere, where Mandela's daughters Zindzi and Zenani were in attendance. A spokesman with the film said the daughters requested that the film continue, though they immediately left the theater. Producer Anant Singh, who has spent more than a decade trying to get the film made, called for a moment of silence at the film's end. ''Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'' opened in a limited release of four theaters in the U.S. last Friday. When the film opens wide on Christmas, it's sure to draw larger crowds moved to remember Mandela. The Weinstein Co.'s challenge is to not appear to be capitalizing on Mandela's passing, but celebrating his life. 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More than 3.7 million people visited HealthCare.gov this week — and it didn't crash, administration spokeswoman Julie Bataille deadpanned Friday on a call with reporters. Officials say 29,000 people enrolled the first two days of the week, exceeding total signups for the 36 states served by the federal site during October, the month of its problemplagued launch. Work has shifted from zapping technical gremlins that frustrated consumers to cleaning up garbled enrollment files that the system has been delivering to insurers. Donor offers $5M to help protect Detroit art DETROIT (AP) — A former Detroit university professor is pledging $5 million, hoping it will spark a wildfire of private financial support to protect valuable art from being sold to pay creditors in the city's bankruptcy. A. Paul Schaap said he wants to help the Detroit Institute of Arts as well as retirees whose pensions could be cut as part of the city's plan to eventually exit Chapter 9 bankruptcy. Art purchased over the years with city money could be pursued as assets that should be sold to pay off a portion of $18 billion in long-term debt. Schaap and wife Carol want to prevent that from happening. ''I believe there are more than just a few people in the metro Detroit area who would step up and see this as something we should all try to do to save the pensions and stabilize the DIA,'' Schaap said in an interview Friday. Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr hasn't said whether he will sell art as part of any bankruptcy reorganization plan. New York auction house Christie's said art purchased with city money is worth $450 million to $870 million. It's 5 percent of all art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Craze for coveted craft brews creates black market AP Photo BX105 (Eds: Adds AP Photos.) By LISA RATHKE Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Fancy a pint of Pliny the Elder or Heady Topper double India pale ales, but can't find it in your neighborhood? Get out your wallet. As craft brews gain an intense following, a black market bloomed in which opportunists sell for hundreds of dollars top-rated beers that are hard to find, in short supply, expensive or illegal to ship. In Vermont, a Burlington woman was charged recently with selling five cases of the popular Heady Topper beer for $825 on Craigslist, which brought about mixed feelings for its brewer. ''It's a compliment in an odd way,'' said Jen Kimmich, owner of The Alchemist brewery in Waterbury, which produces Heady Topper. The hoppy concoction, which retails for $3 a can and $72 a case, was recently ranked No. 1 by Beer Advocate magazine out of the top 250 beers in the world. ''But at the same time,'' she added, ''we don't want to see the consumer being cheated by paying too much and getting a product that hasn't been taken care of properly.'' The beer is so popular that The Alchemist recently closed its retail shop in Waterbury, Vt., to appease neighbors concerned about traffic. 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''It's done because the rarity of these releases, the prestige of these releases is a huge driver,'' he said. Plenty of trading is done illegally, which RateBeer tries to discourage, he said. He said he once got an unsolicited shipment labeled the Belgian Coffee Company that contained the site's highest-rated beer. The practice of trading beer doesn't bother most brewers. But buying beer, marking up the price and selling it is another matter. It's illegal in the U.S. to sell alcohol online without a license. Bob Dylan's guitar sells for nearly $1 million NEW YORK (AP) — Like Elvis' no-hips-allowed appearance on ''The Ed Sullivan Show,'' or the Beatles' arrival in America, or Woodstock, it is considered one of the milestone moments in rock history: Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. On Friday, the Fender Stratocaster that Dylan plugged in at the festival sold for nearly $1 million — the highest price ever paid for a guitar at auction. A buyer identified only as a private individual agreed to pay $965,000 at Christie's, including the auction house's fees, for the sunburst-finish electric guitar. Dylan's legendary performance at the festival in Rhode Island 48 years ago marked his rupture with the folk movement's old guard and solidified his shift away from acoustic music, like ''Blowin' in the Wind,'' toward amplified rock, such as ''Like a Rolling Stone.'' The raucous, three-song electric set was booed by some in the crowd, and folk purists saw Dylan as a traitor and a sellout. But ''his going electric changed the structure of folk music,'' said Newport Folk Festival founder George Wein, 88. ''The minute Dylan went electric, all these young people said, 'Bobby's going electric. We're going electric, too.''' La Corona Authentic Mexican Food Will be closed from 12-9-2013 and will Re-open 1/2/2014 From our family to yours, Happy Holidays We look forward to serving you in 2014!! 914 Walnut St. Red Bluff, CA 528-9496