The James Logan Courier

By Justyna Torres, Courier Staff Writer

Add shine and sparkle to any outfit with sequins!

With the holiday season soon approaching, catching the shine, shimmer and whimsy spirit in your outfit is crucial. By wearing sequins, you are sure to catch eyes with your style.

Whether you want all eyes on you or just a subtle shine, sequins can work for anybody. You can go all out by wearing a top or dress completely covered in sequins. If this is the statement you want to make, keep accessories, make-up and hair relatively subtle to let the shine do the talking.

By Mike Swift
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google on Tuesday switched on a new program that will dramatically improve the accuracy of its speech recognition service, which allows people to use verbal commands to search the Internet, send an e-mail or post a Facebook update.

That's of growing importance to the Mountain View, Calif., search giant, which sees Internet searches on smart phones as a significant part of its business. While the company doesn't disclose specific numbers, one in four searches on Android devices are now done by voice, and the search volume on Android phones climbed by 50 percent in the first six months of 2010.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

Gaming's 2010 holiday season is fueled almost entirely by sequels to and remakes of games you've already played, so the mere air of mystery surrounding the brand-new "Enslaved: Odyssey to the West" makes its presence welcome by default.

Fortunately, "Enslaved" wholly earns that welcome by telling a fresh story, telling it well, and backing it up with continuously great third-person action.

"Enslaved" stars players as Monkey, a prisoner who escaped a crashing prison ship only to become subservient to another escapee, Trip, who planted a device on Monkey that forces him to obey orders and help Trip return home alive. (The story, in addition to boasting outstanding voice acting and exceptional character and environmental details, pretty capably makes surprising sense of the details behind Monkey's predicament.)

From wikipedia:
Ernie Davis (December 14, 1939 – May 18, 1963) was an American football running back and the first African-American athlete to win the Heisman Trophy. Wearing number 44, Davis competed collegiately for Syracuse University before being drafted by the Washington Redskins, then almost immediately traded to the Cleveland Browns in December 1961. However, he would never play a professional game after developing leukemia in 1962. He is the subject of the 2008 Universal Pictures movie biography, The Express, based on the non-fiction book Ernie Davis: The Elmira Express, by Robert C. Gallagher.

Read more about Ernie Davis, free from Time.com.