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Big Blue over Gang Green

New York, New York. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Unless that anywhere is the playoffs, in which case the loser of the Big Apple showdown Saturday between the Giants and Jets will need loads of help to get in. Even the winner will be guaranteed virtually nothing.

It's not exactly a battle of the elite of the NFL; more like grounded airplanes hosting Lilliputians.

But they're excited in the five boroughs, Westchester, Rockland, Long Island and, of course, New Jersey, where both teams actually live and work.

"We're playing for our playoff lives here and they are too," Jets guard Brandon Moore said. "(It) definitely will be that kind of atmosphere coming up, so I think, to us, that's the biggest focus. Whatever rivalry there is, that'll be taken care of with all of the other type of things that come into play."

The Jets are 3-point favorites, and don't anyone dare say that's for home-field advantage. Somehow, Pro Picks thinks the Giants will be comfortable at Met Life Stadium on Christmas Eve.

"It's one of those environments that is electric," Giants linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka said. "You have two teams that share a building, we hang out, we live and everything within close quarters. We share some fans. We just understand that it's a big game regardless of how often we're going to see them just because of how passionate the fans are on both sides."

There will be plenty of passion, for sure. And probably not much defense, because neither team has shown an ability to cover receivers. That bodes far better for Eli Manning, who's having an excellent year despite the Giants' 7-7 record, than it does for Mark Sanchez and the Jets (8-6).

Jets fans will be Big Blue afterward.

GIANTS, 30-20

Atlanta (plus 6 1-2) at New Orleans, Monday night

Falcons could have wild card sewn up when they kick off. Saints are letting good times roll.

BEST BET: SAINTS, 30-20

San Diego (plus 2 1-2) at Detroit

Typical late-season charge by Bolts might be too late.

UPSET SPECIAL: CHARGERS, 28-27

Houston (minus 6) at Indianapolis, Thursday night

Can the Colts mess up getting Andrew Luck by winning again? Nah ...

TEXANS, 17-13

Philadelphia (plus 2 1-2) at Dallas

One more step toward .500 season for Philly. But Giants win ends Eagles' playoff chances.

EAGLES, 31-30

Arizona (plus 4 1-2) at Cincinnati

Bengals can taste wild card with a win, but it won't be easy.

BENGALS, 21-20

Oakland (plus 1) at Kansas City

Been a while since this contentious rivalry meant something.

CHIEFS, 19-16

Denver (minus 3) at Buffalo

Tebow and company get back to winning ways.

BRONCOS, 22-13

San Francisco (minus 3) at Seattle

Tough assignment for Niners, who showed they are tough team against Pittsburgh.

49ERS, 15-13

Miami (plus 10) at New England

Patriots going for home-field edge throughout AFC playoffs. This will help.

PATRIOTS, 32-21

Cleveland (plus 13) at Baltimore

A bunch of angry birds take it out on Browns.

RAVENS, 20-10

Jacksonville (plus 8) at Tennessee

After losing to Indy, Titans can fall to anybody ? except Jags this week.

TITANS, 20-13

Minnesota (plus 6?) at Washington

Jared Allen on sacks mission, needs five to tie record.

REDSKINS, 21-10

Chicago (plus 12 1-2) at Green Bay

Injuries have turned Chicago into the Bad News Bears.

PACKERS, 31-10

Tampa Bay (plus 7 1-2) at Carolina

Panthers showing much more life than moribund Bucs.

PANTHERS, 27-13

St. Louis (OFF) at Pittsburgh

Rams, like Vikings, still alive for top draft slot.

STEELERS, 17-3

RECORD:

Against spread: 9-5 (overall 110-94-4); straight up 9-7 (overall 144-80).

Best Bet: 2-13 against spread, 10-5 straight up.

Upset Special: 10-5 against spread, 7-8 straight up.

Associated Press

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Happy Holidays from Android

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Will Your College Survive?

The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater Peter Thiel believes smart people don?t need college, and he?s right: There have always been autodidacts who can learn without assistance. Of course, we don?t really need supermarkets and restaurants either; we could all grow and cook our own food. Yet having professionals help us has always been a cost-benefit decision. What are the costs of a great education, including the opportunity cost of four years of work, and how do these costs balance against the impact of that education on your life? The Internet is the first technology since the printing press, which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective. For reasons that will be outlined below, however, it will probably end up doing this with half as many schools. And your school, even if it?s bumper-sticker worthy, might not make the cut.

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Mitt Romney Picks Up Big Endorsements (ABC News)

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Amazon Is Selling the Galaxy Nexus for $150 [Dealz]

AmazonWireless is offering a deal on the newly available Samsung Galaxy Nexus for new Verizon customers: $150—down from the $300 regular price. For Verizon customers upgrading through AmazonWireless, the price is $250. The deal is only available for a limited time, and the phones are on backorder so you're going to have to wait. [Amazon] More »

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Canada's quest to turn Afghanistan?s army of phantoms into fighters

The current rate at which Afghan soldiers walk away from their jobs, and other kinds of attrition from the army, will make it difficult to adequately build up the force before international troops leave the country in 2014, a top general says.

?Before the end of the NATO mission we really do need to get a grip on attrition,? said Major-General Michael Day, Canada's senior commander in Afghanistan, speaking by telephone from Kabul.

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Military trainers are scrambling to build the Afghan National Army into a force that can stop the Taliban and prevent anarchy after foreign troops hand over responsibility for security.

Canada took on one of the toughest jobs during the fighting stage of the mission, on the front lines in Kandahar. Now Canadian soldiers have become central to the next ?mission impossible? ? bulking up the army.

For the 950 Canadian trainers deployed to Afghanistan in the coming years, it's not so much a matter of attracting more recruits, but rather a challenge of stemming the number of Afghan soldiers who simply quit.

?Building this army is like pouring water in a sieve,? said Chris Mason, a senior research fellow at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., who helped with the establishment of the Afghan army while serving as a U.S. diplomat in the country. ?By their own numbers, they are losing almost half the army to attrition every 12 months.?

The man most responsible for solving that problem is Gen. Day, whose experience in Afghanistan spans a decade and who now serves as deputy commanding general of the NATO Training Mission Afghanistan (NTMA). It's hard to understate the importance of his task; while the police and irregular forces are widely seen as a shambles ? or even a detriment to stability ? the Afghan army stands as the best hope for the Kabul government's survival.

The force had a listed strength of 173,000 personnel in October and must reach 195,000 deployed soldiers by the end of 2013, according to military plans.

Deaths, injuries and incapacitations account for only a minority of the losses. The much bigger problem is Afghan soldiers giving up the fight. An estimated 30 to 40 per cent of personnel do not re-enlist at the end of their three-year contracts. On top of that, the attrition rate averaged 32 per cent annually over the 12 months that ended in November. The biggest chunk of that figure represents soldiers abandoning their posts.

A briefing document from Gen. Day's headquarters shows that the attrition rate increased 26 per cent compared with the previous year, and the rates in both years were significantly above target levels.

Some observers suggest the real figures could be even worse, since the international staff at NTMA often depend on the local Afghan authorities to count their own ranks. Even if they are honest and avoid the temptation to inflate the payroll, Afghan officers assigned to tabulate personnel figures sometimes lack basic math skills. One educated guess at the true size of the Afghan army puts the force at perhaps 100,000 personnel on duty.

?Everyone worried that there were problems with numbers,? said a former official who served at the training headquarters in Kabul. There was never any sign of fraudulent statistics, he said, but the foreign troops lacked the capacity to audit their Afghan counterparts. ?For much of 2010, NTMA was sorely under-strength and lacked the assets to double-check every field report.?

For his part, Gen. Day says he has confidence in the troop numbers and his ability to improve them. ?We run those numbers pretty hard,? he said.

The Canadian commander described a list of recent adjustments designed to improve the morale and quality of life of Afghan soldiers. Their salary, vacation, cafeterias and sleeping quarters have all been improved. Leadership methods have been changed, and soldiers now carry more-modern weapons.

But there's a limit to how much money can be spent on such improvements.

The World Bank predicts Afghanistan will develop a mining industry and generate enough of its own revenue to reach a position where its annual budget shortfall is about $7.2-billion, or 25 per cent of gross domestic product, within about a decade. That's a serious gap, but the intervening years could be even more difficult as transition to local responsibility for security pushes the shortfall to more than 40 per cent of GDP in 2014 ? with the payroll and maintenance of Afghan forces accounting for more than half of the budget crunch.

With attrition rates running at current levels, the financial picture looks even darker. Based on NTMA averages from November, 2010, to October, 2011, the army gains 4,272 soldiers a month but loses another 3,136, leaving a net increase of just 1,136.

A veteran U.S. intelligence analyst reviewed those figures and calculated that the turnover costs a staggering amount of money. ?Each soldier actually added to the number of the ANA force will likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to train and equip,? the analyst said.

Another persistent issue is the Afghan army's ethnic makeup. If the ANA is to serve as the backbone of a government facing potential war between southern Pashtun groups and the other ethnicities from the north, the force needs to dramatically improve recruiting in the south. Less than 4 per cent of recruits were counted as southern Pashtuns until NATO changed its counting methods in June in an effort to label tribes with ancestry in the south as ?southern Pashtuns.? But the relabelling effort in some cases counted as ?southern? tribes that had migrated north more than a century earlier.

Some analysts say NATO commanders appear to grasp such problems more clearly than they have in previous years, however, and Gen. Day himself says the job will be far from easy.

?There's a lot of water to be carried before we can declare success,? the commander said.

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