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Mardi Gras means fat business beyond New Orleans

Revelers with the Mystic Stripers toss trinkets to the crowds gathered on Royal Street in Mobile, Ala., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. The pre-Lenten blowout continues along the Gulf Coast culminating in Fat Tuesday celebrations February 21. (AP Photo/Mobile Register, G.M. Andrews) MAGS OUT; NO SALES

Revelers with the Mystic Stripers toss trinkets to the crowds gathered on Royal Street in Mobile, Ala., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. The pre-Lenten blowout continues along the Gulf Coast culminating in Fat Tuesday celebrations February 21. (AP Photo/Mobile Register, G.M. Andrews) MAGS OUT; NO SALES

A reveler with the Mystic Stripers holds aloft a handful of beads for the crowds gathered on Royal Street in Mobile, Ala., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. The pre-Lenten blowout continues along the Gulf Coast culminating in Fat Tuesday celebrations February 21. (AP Photo/Mobile Register, G.M. Andrews) MAGS OUT; NO SALES

A reveler with the Mystic Stripers tosses trinkets to the crowds gathered on Royal Street in Mobile, Ala., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. The pre-Lenten blowout continues along the Gulf Coast culminating in Fat Tuesday celebrations February 21. (AP Photo/Mobile Register, G.M. Andrews) MAGS OUT; NO SALES

FAIRHOPE, Alabama (AP) ? Mardi Gras. It brings to mind beads, parties and fancy floats in New Orleans as people cram in all the fun they can before the austere religious period known as Lent begins.

In reality, Mardi Gras has long been celebrated in U.S. coastal towns from Texas to Florida. And it means big business.

"It is more of a regional thing, Mardi Gras is," said Stephen Toomey, whose family started a chain of Alabama-based Mardi Gras party supply stores.

"It means a way of life for people who live in these communities, but the bottom line is that it creates a lot of jobs."

Tourism leaders estimate more than 1 million visitors pour into the Mobile, Alabama, area each Mardi Gras season to watch the festivities. The city claims to be the place where the Fat Tuesday celebration originated in the U.S. in the early 1700s.

New Orleans and Mobile have long disputed where the tradition that dates to their French founders really began.

The celebration can stretch weeks and includes dozens of parades, balls and other events.

A 2004 study commissioned by the city of Mobile estimated Mardi Gras had a $225 million economic impact for the area, and tourism leaders say that has grown as the festivities become more popular.

"I would say tens of thousands of dollars are spent on the different beads and throws and things that are thrown off the floats. It really benefits every kind of retailer and the tourism industry," said David Randel, president of the Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau.

"From a convention and visitors bureau standpoint, you hope people come for Mardi Gras, fall in love with the area and come back to visit again when the weather is better."

In smaller towns like Fairhope, population 17,000, Mardi Gras is a big help.

Heavenly Creations Bakery sold 1,500 traditional Mardi Gras king cakes in 2011. The colorful cakes go for up to $19.99 each.

Rosie Miller has sold Mardi Gras ball gowns to the women of the Gulf Coast for 30 years. She has thousands of them, most for under $300.

The store has vanloads of women from small towns all over the region who come to shop. Some buy five or six gowns for the various balls they attend during the season.

"Mardi Gras has grown and grown and brings millions of dollars into our economy," Miller said.

Small towns all over the Gulf Coast have parades, balls and other festivities during Carnival Season. In Florida, Pensacola Beach's 2012 Mardi Gras' Schedule includes 16 events from Jan. 7 to Feb. 21.

"Oh yeah, Mardi is a ball, absolutely, it's fun," said Jill Jones, who dressed her dog up in a headband, jester collar and cape and wore a matching costume during the beach's pet parade this month.

Associated Press

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March Madness games no longer free online for all

NEW YORK (AP) ? Some fans will no longer be able to watch every NCAA men's basketball tournament game online for free.

The model for streaming March Madness will change this year, Turner, CBS and the NCAA announced Thursday. Games aired on CBS will still be free through the network's website. Most, but not all, viewers who get TBS, TNT and truTV on their cable or satellite systems will be able to watch games aired on those channels online at no cost.

Fans can also pay $3.99 to see every game on multiple platforms ? online, mobile and tablet.

About 77 million households will be able to watch the Turner channels for free online through a process called authentication. That's out of the 100 million that get TBS and TNT, which are available in around 87 percent of American homes with televisions.

The way fans watch March Madness on TV changed drastically last season with the start of CBS and Turner's 14-year, $10.8 billion deal with the NCAA. Instead of CBS showing regional coverage and switching among games, each contest aired nationally in its entirety on one of the four networks. The shift was a hit: Viewership was up 14 percent for the tournament's opening weekend.

As for the previous five years, fans could also see every game for free online. They watched 13.7 million hours of streaming video online and through mobile devices, a 17 percent increase from 2010.

Turner Sports senior vice president Matthew Hong said the company considered using authentication last year but wanted to wait until people adjusted to the new TV setup. Another factor was that the system was available to far fewer subscribers a year ago; he hopes that by 2013, all customers who get the Turner networks through their providers will be able to authenticate.

The "TV Everywhere" model has become popular with many networks as a way to allow viewers to watch programs on multiple devices while encouraging them to stick with cable and satellite providers. But authentication ? proving you subscribe to a provider that offers the service ? does require an extra step from past years for fans trying to access NCAA tournament games. Turner is working to make the process easier, such as linking it to customers' Facebook logins.

Some fans with the ability to authenticate may just decide it's easier to pay the $3.99, Hong acknowledged.

"Obviously, a lot of thought and market research went into that price point," he said. "We wanted to make it a fair price and for people to get value at that price. Obviously, we didn't want to make it too high, but we didn't want to make it too low; we want to incent authentication."

March Madness on Demand was launched by CBS and the NCAA in 2003 and required a subscription, with an average price of $15, for the first three years. In 2006, it converted to a free, ad-supported service. The new product will be known as March Madness Live and still include ads.

There was initially a charge for watching games on an iPhone, which became free for just last year. The app will be available on Android phones for the first time during this season's tournament.

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GM posts record profit 2 years after bankruptcy | G7Finance.com ...

GM posted record earnings in 2011, just two years after a federal bailout and bankruptcy reorganization.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) ? General Motors reported a record annual profit Thursday, just two years after the nation?s largest automaker emerged from bankruptcy with the help of a federal bailout.

With rivals Ford Motor (F, Fortune 500) and Chrysler Group having already reported profits for last year, 2011 marked the first time since 2004 that all three major U.S. automakers were profitable at the same time. Chrysler also filed for bankruptcy and received federal assistance in 2009.

Overall, GM reported full-year net income attributed to common shareholders of $7.6 billion, which comes to $4.58 a share. That?s up from the $4.6 billion it earned in 2010.

GM?s results show the impact of changes made during the bankruptcy process in the summer of 2009, when it closed plants, won changes in labor contracts, and shed weaker brands and dealerships. The moves allowed the company to be far more profitable even though sales levels are still below pre-recession levels.

Overall global sales volume rose 7.6% to 9 million for the year, enough to allow it to recapture the global sales title it held for 77 years before it fell behind Toyota Motor (TM) in 2008.

The company?s previous record profit was in 1995, when its net income was $6.9 billion, although $900 million of that earlier profit came from units it was in the process of spinning off. GM considers its previous record profit to have come in 1997, when it earned $6.7 billion.

But a bloated cost structure, including unafforable U.S. labor contracts, and a prolonged decline in market share soon doomed the company. It remained profitable in the first five years of the new century only through record industrywide auto sales in the United States. By 2005, it had fallen into a period of sustained losses that eventually led to GM nearly running out of cash by the end of 2008.

The company received $49.5 billion in federal help to fund its operations in 2009, when private sector money was scarce and there were doubts about the company?s survival.

GM has repaid loans it received and the Treasury got most of the proceeds of its record initial public offering in November 2010. But Treasury still holds about a third of the company?s shares, which are trading below its IPO price, and GM has yet to return $25.5 billion of the money it received.

Shares would have to roughly double, to above $50 a share, for taxpayers to break even on the bailout. Taxpayers fell about $1.3 billion short on the Chrysler bailout.

But even if the bailouts are not repaid directly by GM and Chrysler, there are estimates that taxpayers are better off for the bailouts.

The federal assistance probably saved about 1.5 million jobs, according to an estimate from the Center for Automotive Research, and prevented GM, Chrysler and many U.S. parts suppliers from being forced out of business, which would have been a huge blow for tax revenue. All the major U.S. automakers are again hiring, and further job gains are forecast in the coming years.

Despite the record annual profit, the quarterly results were a disappointment. The company earned $472 million, or 28 cents a share, down from what it earned a year earlier. Part of that was due to an 11-cent-a-share charge for special items in the most recent period.

Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had been forecasting earnings per share of 41 cents in the period.

Shares of GM (GM, Fortune 500) fell 2% in premarket trading after the report.

Operating income in North America nearly doubled in the quarter to $1.5 billion. But European losses remained steady, and South American operations swung to a loss after a narrow profit a year earlier.

International operations outside those regions was only slightly more profitable, despite continued gains in sales in China, where GM now sell more cars than in North America.?

First Published: February 16, 2012: 7:50 AM ET

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Kris and Bruce Jenner Talk About Kim?s Divorce With Ellen DeGeneres

KRIS and BRUCE JENNER make an appearance on ?The Ellen DeGeneres Show? on Tuesday, February 14th. Ellen talks with Kris and Bruce about their daughter Kim Kardashian’s infamous marriage and divorce from Kris Humphries. Kris and Bruce on Kim?s divorce? Kris: I trust my kids and we give them a lot of support. As a [...]

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On Valentine's day, a museum for broken hearts (AP)

ZAGREB, Croatia ? What becomes of a garden gnome hurled in fury at a car during a stormy breakup?

Or a teddy bear that was once a Valentine's Day present? A wedding dress from a marriage gone awry? An ax that smashed through household furniture?

All are on display at the Museum of Broken Relationships in the Croatian capital, each with written testimonies telling tales of passion, romance and heartbreak.

On Valentine's Day, the museum sees its visits almost double.

"The objects that are here represent all the stages of a breakup ... and how people go through love," said Drazen Grubisic, a designer and artist who co-founded the museum in 2010 in the Croatian capital.

"We might say it's a love museum, just upside down," he said.

The mementos ? collected from all over the world ? are random and varied, ranging from fake rubber breasts to a cast from a broken leg. Each item comes with dates and locations of the relationships, and notes by their anonymous donors.

Some are funny. The note next to a garter belt says: "I never put them on. The relationship might have lasted longer if I had."

Some are bitter. The garden gnome flew over a car driven by a husband who turned "arrogant and heartless." It bounced on the asphalt, shattering its face.

"It was a long loop, drawing an arc of time ... that defined the end of love," the note from Slovenia said.

An ax from Berlin was used by a woman to smash every piece of furniture her girlfriend had left behind.

"The more the room filled with chopped furniture, (the more) I felt better."

The text by a blue frisbee reads: "Darling, should you ever get the ridiculous idea to walk into a cultural institution like a museum for the first time in your life, you'll remember me."

The museum, located just across from Zagreb's City Hall where couples get married, currently displays some 100 "relics" out of about 1,000 that have been collected from around the world.

Parts of the collection have traveled as far as Manila, London and Singapore to be put on display. In each city, the heartbroken can donate their stuff to the Zagreb museum.

A prosthetic leg currently showcased in England at the National Centre for Craft and Design, was donated by a war veteran who fell in love with his physical therapist.

A note says it lasted longer than the relationship because it was made of "sturdier material."

The museum itself is the brainchild of a breakup. When Grubisic and co-founder Olinka Vistica, a filmmaker, split up, they got stuck when it came to dividing their sentimental memorabilia. They didn't want to just get rid of it, so they created a museum.

"Maybe sometime in your life you will want to remember some of the good parts of the relationship," Grubisic said.

He said that donors of mementos find the giving therapeutic.

"They can move on," he said. "They also show there's something universal: We all have been brokenhearted at least once."

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Dusan Stojanovic contributed from Belgrade.

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