Fresh Android Apps for Dec. 5: UCam, Tank Riders, Shine Runner (Appolicious)

Do you carry a phone and a digital camera? Not many do, instead preferring to carry just one device. If you want to upgrade your Android device?s camera, take a look at UCam.

For fun, get behind the wheel of a tank in Tank Riders, or drive a blazing-fast fanboat in Shine Runner.

Want a fresh camera app? Try UCam. It?s new and highly rated in the Android Market.

It aims to be your only camera app by providing quick settings for sports, portraits, and other scenarios, letting you quickly turn on and off the flash and delivering photo-editing features like cropping. But then UCam goes above and beyond by offering a QR code scanner, one click photo sharing feature between your device and a PC, and the ability to create a fast GIF animation.

Try it for free and see if it captures your attention in addition to your images.

This tank game delivers the feel of the 1980s arcade with the challenges and strategy of a modern game.

Play in single player campaign mode or in a frenzied multi-player mode. Fire cannons, missiles, and mortars and enemy tanks to blow them off the board. Explore short cuts and hidden passages in the maze-like landscape to sneak up on the bad guys. Advanced players can bank shots off walls.

Download extra levels for added fun.

Drive to stay alive! Here you play the role of a moonshine runner who delivers all his wares via water rather than land.

Pilot a fast flat-bottomed fanboat of the kind you?ve probably seen in videos about the Florida Keys. Blast through docks, jump wooden ramps, smash sheds, and plow through gators and chickens in this ?completely destructible environment? as you run from the police and catch coins for extra points.

Expect tilt or touch controls, detailed animation, and OpenFeint support. Maximize the smuggling of both moonshine and ?tobacky? for the highest score.

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Video: Payroll Tax Cut Fight

CNBC's John Harwood has the latest details on the payroll tax cut, with Sen. Bob Corker, (R-TN), and debating whether it is an unfair tax on the wealthy, with Jared Bernstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Phil Kerpen, Americans for Pr...

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E! News host Rancic announces double mastectomy (AP)

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AP - Six weeks after revealing she has breast cancer, E! News host Giuliana Rancic says she will have a double mastectomy.

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Italy PM prepares to adopt crisis measures (Reuters)

ROME (Reuters) ? Prime Minister Mario Monti accelerated plans on Sunday to approve a 20 billion-euro austerity package aimed at shoring up Italy's strained finances and stemming a crisis that threatens to overwhelm the euro zone.

A cabinet meeting on the package of tax increases and spending cuts originally scheduled for Monday was brought forward to 1500 GMT (11 a.m. EST) on Sunday after meetings with party leaders and unions, the prime minister's office said.

Expected reforms include an increase in the retirement age for many workers, liberalization of professional services, a hike in income tax for higher income brackets and new taxes on private assets and housing.

The measures come before one of the most crucial weeks since the creation of the single currency more than a decade ago, with European leaders due to meet on Thursday and Friday in Brussels to try to agree a broader rescue plan for the bloc.

"The choice is between adopting tough austerity measures and starting the euro rescue, or Italy not being able to stand on its feet, and we risk the collapse of the euro," said Emma Marcegaglia, head of Italian employers' lobby Confindustria.

Italy, with a public debt of around 120 percent of gross domestic product, has been at the centre of Europe's debt crisis since yields on its 10-year bonds shot up to around 7 percent, similar to levels seen when countries such as Greece and Ireland were forced to seek a bailout.

Adoption of the package is seen as vital for re-establishing Italy's shattered credibility with financial markets after a series of unfulfilled promises by the previous centre-right government of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Unions said the cuts will hit poorer workers and pensioners disproportionately hard, but there was little sign of serious political opposition to Monti's plan, which is expected to be approved in parliament before Christmas.

With Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy, close to a debt emergency that would destroy Europe's financial defenses, EU leaders will meet in Brussels this week hoping to agree steps to bind the bloc more closely with tougher fiscal rules.

SEVERE

Sources present at discussions on the new fiscal measures said they would total around 20 billion euros ($27 billion). An extra 4 billion euros would come from automatic cuts to tax breaks and welfare measures outlined but not clearly identified in the austerity package presented by the previous government.

Monti will have to balance the competing needs of showing budget rigor while not choking off growth, without which it will be impossible to reduce a 1.8-trillion-euro debt mountain.

About half of the overall package is expected to be used to cut the budget deficit and help balance the budget by 2013 despite the economic downturn and rising borrowing costs.

The other half will free up resources to try to regenerate Italy's chronically stagnant economy, which is widely expected to go into recession next year.

Changes to pensions will be key in the new reform plan, with eligibility requirements toughened up for so-called seniority pensions which are based on a combination of workers' age and the years for which they have paid contributions.

The minimum number of years workers have to pay contributions is set to go up to 42 years for men and 41 years for women from its current level of 40 years. Inflation indexing will be cut back, leaving only the lower brackets of pensions fully indexed.

Susanna Camusso, leader of Italy's biggest union CGIL, said the reforms would be an "extremely heavy blow" for pensioners and said she would propose that parliament make some amendments.

Planned cuts to the national health service budget are expected to be accelerated by one year, to reduce spending by 2.5 billion euros in 2012 and 5 billion euros from 2013, a local government source said.

Graziano Delri, head of Italy's local government association, said 10-11 billion euros would be raised from property taxes, with the reintroduction of a tax on principal residences that was scrapped by Berlusconi.

Scrapping the so-called ICI housing tax in 2008 cost Italy an estimated 3.5 billion euros annually but the total could increase depending on possible adjustments to the assessment basis on which the tax is raised.

Other expected measures include further increases in value added tax rates and a ban on cash transactions above 1,000 euros in an effort to tackle tax evasion.

But the package will contain no reform of job contracts that hinder companies from laying off workers, a measure seen as key to overhauling the labor market but which is bitterly opposed by unions.

($1 = 0.7446 euros)

(Writing By Catherine Hornby and James Mackenzie; Editing by Sophie Hares and Alessandra Rizzo)

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Lynch carries Seahawks to 31-14 win over Eagles (AP)

SEATTLE ? During his time playing in San Francisco, Michael Robinson said the mention of the Seattle Seahawks came with a label no NFL team wants to have.

"I've been playing against the Seahawks for four or five years and the identity used to always be that they were soft," said Robinson, now Seattle's starting fullback. "And we're trying to change that identity."

Marshawn Lynch is certainly doing his part to help the Seahawks shed that image.

Seattle's hard-charging running back bulled through Philadelphia for 148 yards and a pair of first-half touchdowns, David Hawthorne returned the third of Vince Young's four interceptions 77 yards for a score, and the Seahawks rolled to a 31-14 victory Thursday that added to the Eagles' miserable season.

Lynch ran into and escaped from a massive pileup for a 15-yard TD run in the first quarter, then made a quick cut and went back against the flow for a 40-yard scoring dash on the first play of the second quarter to give the Seahawks (5-7) a 14-0 lead.

It was the second-best performance of Lynch's career and a capper to what has been his finest stretch as a pro. Lynch never had consecutive 100-yard rushing games until a few weeks ago. Now he's done it in four of Seattle's past five, and the only time he didn't, Lynch had 88 yards in a victory over St. Louis.

His first-quarter, escape-act touchdown against Philadelphia (4-8) gave Lynch eight straight games with at least one score and added a highlight reminiscent of his famous tackle-breaking, 67-yard TD run in last year's NFC playoffs against New Orleans.

It's all adding up to more dollars likely coming Lynch's way. He's a free agent after the season.

But on a night he deserved praise, Lynch was deferring praise to others before he jetting out of the locker room with the same elusiveness he showed the Eagles.

"It was all about the offensive line. We managed the game, we came out victorious, everybody's happy, and now we're on to our break," Lynch said during his brief locker room appearance. "Thank you."

Golden Tate's 11-yard, toe-tapping touchdown grab along the back edge of the end zone in the third quarter on a pass from Tarvaris Jackson pushed Seattle's cushion to 17. Jackson finished 13 of 16 for 190 yards and the one TD pass.

But the Seahawks' third victory in their last four games wasn't secured until Hawthorne stepped in front of a swing pass intended for LeSean McCoy and raced untouched in the other direction with 4:24 left. It was Hawthorne's third interception of the season, but he was getting plenty of grief from his teammates for the length of time it took him to get to the end zone.

And of course, the first guy to greet Hawthorne in the end zone was Lynch running off the sideline without his helmet.

"They have not backed off yet, there's no time. Maybe some teams quit at this time of year, but we're still trying to do something," Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. "We're still trying to get something accomplished this year."

Making his third straight start in place of Michael Vick, out with two broken ribs, Young couldn't find the same magic he did in the 2006 Rose Bowl when he led Texas to an upset of Carroll and USC.

Young's first pass of the night was an awful interception thrown right to Seattle safety Kam Chancellor and nowhere near an Eagles receiver. Young was intercepted in the third quarter as well when a perfect pass deflected off the hands of Riley Cooper and into the hands of cornerback Brandon Browner. Both turnovers led to Seattle touchdowns.

Then came a pass for McCoy when Young clearly didn't see Hawthorne, ruining the Eagles' last chance to rally. Seattle safety Earl Thomas jumped Young's primary target and by the time he came back to McCoy, Hawthorne was ready for the pass.

"That was just a bum-head play on my part. I should have known there was a man there," Young said. "I just lost a linebacker when I released it. He just popped into the picture. That's all on the quarterback's fault. I saw the coverage, I saw the man, I just lost a linebacker on that route."

Young added one more interception in the final moments, another one grabbed by Browner that left the quarterback with a career-high four picks.

Young finished 17 of 29 for 208 yards. McCoy got more chances than he did last Sunday against New England when he touched the ball just 14 times, a number that drew criticism from Eagles fans believing the leading rusher in the NFL deserved more opportunities.

McCoy finished with 84 yards on 17 carries and added another four catches for 49 yards, including a 2-yard TD grab that drew the Eagles within 24-14 with 12:51 left in the game. But he was upstaged by Lynch.

"This is really tough. Knowing that this is a good team, but I feel like we are a better team, no disrespect to them," McCoy said. "They played hard, but knowing that they are a good team, but we are far, far better. Way more talented. We didn't get it done. We played poorly today."

The quick bounce-back by the Seahawks only magnified their missed chance last Sunday when they blew a 10-point fourth-quarter lead and lost 23-17 to Washington. Even with the win over Philadelphia and another home game coming up against St. Louis, any hopes the Seahawks have of jumping into the playoff race are likely gone.

"We felt like we let one go last week and that was all we could think about," Hawthorne said. "So to come on a fast week and get it out this fast, it's a positive."

Notes: Carroll thinks LT Russell Okung may have a serious pectoral injury sustained in the closing seconds. ... Lynch's career high was 153 yards rushing against Cincinnati with Buffalo in 2007. ... Philadelphia CB Nnamdi Asomugha left in the first half with a head/neck injury and did not return. ... Philadelphia fell to 5-2 in Thursday night games. ... Jackson's 137.0 QB rating was the best of his career.

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Lobster tag lost in 'Perfect Storm' hops Atlantic

In this Nov. 30, 2011 photo, Richard Figueiredo poses with a lobster trap in Pembroke, Mass. Figueiredo lost hundreds of lobster traps in what came to be known as "The Perfect Storm" in 1991. Rosemary Hill of County Kerry, Ireland, found one of his lobster pot tags on a beach in 2010, and wants to return it to him. (AP Photo/The Patriot Ledger, Gary Higgins) BOSTON HERALD OUT; BOSTON GLOBE OUT; QUINCY OUT

In this Nov. 30, 2011 photo, Richard Figueiredo poses with a lobster trap in Pembroke, Mass. Figueiredo lost hundreds of lobster traps in what came to be known as "The Perfect Storm" in 1991. Rosemary Hill of County Kerry, Ireland, found one of his lobster pot tags on a beach in 2010, and wants to return it to him. (AP Photo/The Patriot Ledger, Gary Higgins) BOSTON HERALD OUT; BOSTON GLOBE OUT; QUINCY OUT

COHASSET, Mass. (AP) ? A tag from a lobster pot that was swept off the New England sea floor two decades ago during what came to be known as "The Perfect Storm" has washed up 3,000 miles away in Ireland.

The pot that held the tag with Cohasset lobsterman Richard Figueiredo's name on it was one of hundreds he lost when the vicious storm on the Atlantic Ocean struck off New England in 1991.

Rosemary Hill of Waterville in County Kerry found the tag on a beach last year, but the 39-year-old beachcomber put it aside with other beach souvenirs. Last week, she decided to try to contact Figueiredo and found him through his son Rich's Facebook account.

"I looked at it again and thought, 'Why not try to find the owner?'" Hill told The Patriot Ledger (http://bit.ly/sVKBd3). "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

Figueiredo, of Pembroke, was stunned the worn tag had weathered the long trip after the storm, which was made famous by Sebastian Junger's book "The Perfect Storm," the basis for a Hollywood movie about a rugged crew of New England fishermen caught in the storm.

"The odds are phenomenal," Figueiredo said.

Oceanographer Curt Ebbesmeyer said the tag's 20-year drift is unusually long for such flotsam. He theorized it was buried in offshore mud before drifting and catching the Gulf Stream toward Ireland ? in between a few years of circling in a mid-Atlantic current.

He called it "a very well-traveled tag indeed."

Hill said she spied the orange tag in clumps of seaweed after a storm.

Figueiredo and Hill spoke for the first time Thursday, when she offered to mail the tag back to him. But Figueiredo told her to keep it.

"The meaning it has over there is what matters," he said. "I am honored that she has put so much enthusiasm into this. What's happening now is a gift to me."

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Information from: The Patriot Ledger, http://www.patriotledger.com

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