Sunday, September 30, 2012

NFL refs approve deal, scramble for Sunday return

IRVING, Texas (AP) -- NFL referees voted and approved a new eight-year deal with the league on Saturday. Now they all can get back to the business of calling games.

Referees approved the contract by a 112-5 vote, officially ending a lockout that led to a rising chorus of complaints from players, coaches, fans and politicians. The next stop for the refs who gathered in Irving, Texas, was the airport, where most were to hop on planes taking them straight to their Sunday game sites.

The deal came quickly after three weeks of escalating difficulties for league-hired replacement refs, culminating in a disputed touchdown call that decided Monday night's Packers-Seahawks game. With a tentative deal in place, league referees returned to cheers at Thursday night's game between Cleveland and Baltimore.

The tentative contract called for refs' salaries to increase from an average of $149,000 a year in 2011 to $173,000 in 2013, rising to $205,000 by 2019. The current defined benefit pension plan will remain in place for current officials through the 2016 season or until the official earns 20 years' service.

The defined benefit plan will then be frozen. Retirement benefits will be provided for new hires, and for all officials beginning in 2017, through a defined contribution arrangement.

Beginning with the 2013 season, the NFL will have the option to hire a number of officials to work year-round. The NFL also will be able to retain additional officials for training and development and can assign those officials to work games. The number of additional officials will be determined by the league.

Monday night's game ended in chaos after replacement refs called a touchdown catch for the Seahawks instead of a Packers interception. Many fans and commentators - and players in the league - thought the call was botched. Criticism of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and the league kept escalating, and the labor dispute drew public comments from both President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. By late Wednesday, both sides had a deal.

''It's all history now,'' head linesman Tom Stabile said Friday. ''For us, it was a benefit. It may have been the straw that broke the camel's back.''

Line judge Jeff Bergman said he could see Monday night's play coming as he watched at home. He noticed that players were starting to take advantage of replacement officials struggling to keep control of the game.

''The last play of the game was something that was going to happen sooner or later,'' Bergman said. ''It gave us and the league an opportunity to get together and hammer out a deal that was going to get hammered out anyway.''

Referee Ed Hochuli, who led weekly tests and conference calls for officials to stay sharp during the lockout, declined to say whether the replacements made the right call.

''You really don't want to see that,'' Hochuli said. ''You don't want to see the controversy. You don't want to see teams lose games that they shouldn't have lost, if indeed that's what happened. We're not making a judgment on that.''

Now, the refs have to get used to being fan favorites.

The officials that worked Thursday night's Ravens-Browns game were cheered from the moment they walked onto the field. The difference between the regular crew and replacements was clear. The officials kept the game in control, curtailing the chippy play and choppy pace that had marred the first three weeks of the regular season.

Officials on Friday said they were ready for applause - and ready for when it inevitably disappears.

''After the euphoria of the moment wears off, probably sometime early in the second quarter, it'll be back to regular NFL football mode,'' said referee Gene Steratore, who will head to Green Bay for Sunday's game, one week after Packers players ripped the replacements over Monday's disputed touchdown. ''Players will be questioning our judgment, our ancestry. Coaches will be screaming at us. And it'll be life as back to normal on Sundays.''

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Romney Needs To Articulate His Plans For Dealing With Interest On Our Debt

ell us how you are going to deal with the interest on our debt ballooning once you and a Republican Congress start peel back the layers of liberalism that are strangling America


So, here we are.? It is four years after ?Hope and Change?.? That slogan proved to only be more psychobabble from a babbling fool who rode the saying right into the White House.

And here we are with Romney, as bad as he is, but still much better than Obama, struggling to overtake the Messiah in the polls.? Yes, I know most of those polls are oversampling Democrats by seven to ten percent.

The economy is struggling.? As a result, interest rates have been kept artificially low to prevent the United States? debt situation from blowing up.? This has been done for one reason and one reason only: to keep President Obama from looking like the complete nincompoop that he is.? And that?s it isn?t it?? That?s the big, old elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about: what happens when things turn around and we no longer have cheap money?

Right now, thanks to cheap money and low interest rates, payments on the debt of the United States for FY2011 were $454.4 billion [1].? The gross federal debt at the time was $14.8 trillion.? That?s a rate of just 3%.

  • In 2008 we paid $451 billion on $10 trillion in debt for a rate of 4.5% [2].
  • In 2003 we paid $318 billion on $6.7 trillion in debt for a rate of 4.7%.
  • In 1994 [3] we paid $296 billion on $4.7 trillion in debt for a rate of 6.3%.

So, we see that in better times, people demand more return on their investment.? We, as a nation, have to pay a higher rate to get people to buy our debt in the good times.? What?s worse is that as buying our debt becomes riskier, people get uppity and demand more return for greater risk.? We are over 100% debt to GDP ratio right now.? Want to know how hard it is to get people to keep buying debt with that sort of a relationship?? Just ask Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.

Something that I have not heard Mitt Romney utter a single word about is what he is going to do, not if, but when we are required to start paying people more to take on our debt.? I know he talks about cutting federal spending.? But the fact is that if he cuts $1 trillion from our yearly spending, that only prevents us from adding to the debt we already owe.? In order to reduce the debt, deeper cuts are in order.? And no plan I have seen out of the Romney/Ryan camp comes even close to cutting $1 trillion for a fiscal year.

Realizing that Mitt is going to continue deficit spending for the foreseeable future, our debt load is going to increase.? When the economy heats up, investors will demand more and the interest rate on our debt jumps.? Where?s that extra money going to come from?

Paying interest on trillions of dollars is a lot of money.? I know Mitt knows it.? I know Obama doesn?t have a clue about such things.? So what?s the plan?? Where do we get the dollars?? Obama?s philosophy is to abuse our children, print more money, and tell them to work harder for less.

Any plans Mitt?? Want to share them with us?

Look, I know it is scary to talk about this stuff.? But it needs to be talked about.? When America starts to recover, we are going to have to deal with real world economics once again.

And Mitt, if you want to be taken seriously as the adult in the room, God knows Obama can?t be, then you need to spell it out.? Tell us how you are going to deal with the interest on our debt ballooning once you and a Republican Congress start peel back the layers of liberalism that are strangling America, but not cutting to the point where we are no longer spending like drunken sailors.? We all know you aren?t willing to go all the way and do what really needs done.

I know the standard line Mitt likes to throw out there.? He talks about how we can ?grow? our way out of our debt problem.? But the kind of debt we are dealing with requires more than ?growth?.? It requires sacred cows to be carved up and sacrificed for the good of this Republic.? Because not only is continuing to spend more than we have a problem, figuring out how to pay back the interest on that money is going to be one Hell of a feat in itself.


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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Cebu City wants to double Cremdec's revenues | Sun.Star

Sunday, September 30, 2012

THE Cebu City Council wants to require city government offices and barangays to hold their trainings and seminars at the Cebu City Resource Management and Development Center (Cremdec) in Barangay Taptap, amid reports that the City-owned facility is losing revenue.

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Councilor Roberto Ca-barrubias said Cremdec is ?losing a lot of money? because some City offices and barangays prefer to hold their seminars and trainings in hotels or resorts.

?Because of this, there is a need to help Cremdec to be more sustainable by giving it sufficient opportunities to earn an income,? he said.

He said the City should take pride for having established Cremdec, which is the only local government unit-managed and -operated training center in the country.

Cremdec, which is located some 24 kilometers from the city center, reportedly earns P5 million annually. The City earlier wanted to double the facility?s annual revenue.

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During the council?s regular session last Wednesday, Cabarrubias filed a resolution that seeks to require all City offices and barangays to hold their trainings and seminars at Cremdec.

However, Councilor Edgardo Labella said it would be more proper to make an ordinance to cover the matter instead of a resolution.

Cabarrubias yielded, and withdrew his resolution. He said he will file an ordinance in the next session.

Cremdec was conceptualized in 1987 as the Central Visayas Regional Project. It was later renamed as the Regional Resource Management Training Center.

In 1994, it was devolved to the City and was named Cebu City Resource Management Training Center.

By 1999, the facility was finally named Cremdec through the passage of City Ordinance 1175. (PDF)

Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on September 30, 2012.

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The Dark Knight Rises Blu-ray officially set for December 4th, limited edition Bat Cowl revealed

The Dark Knight Rises Bluray officially set for December 4th, limited edition Bat cowl revealed

After false starting a couple of weeks ago, the Blu-ray trailer for The Dark Knight Rises is back, and Entertainment Weekly has heard from Warner Bros. that December 4th is the official release date. Also on display from EW is this limited edition Bat Cowl packaging which will be available at launch. While there's not a full spec list, extras will include a Batmobile-focused documentary and more than a dozen featurettes about going behind the scenes of the movie with Christopher Nolan and his team. We expect to see mroe details soon, for now just check out the trailer embedded after the break.

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Ryan wants Romney to beat Obama 'by acclamation'

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said Thursday that he wants the Republican campaign message to be so detailed and compelling that Mitt Romney will be elected president "by acclamation."

The Wisconsin congressman said at a $1,000-per-plate fundraiser at a Knoxville hotel that the GOP message contrasts with what he called the divisive tactics of President Barack Obama in the closely contested race.

"Since he can't run on hope and change and all these new promises ? because the last ones have been mostly broken ? he will have to divide this country. He will have to distort and distract and try to win by default," Ryan said of the Democratic president. "We want to win by acclamation."

"We want to win by saying, here's who we are, here's what we believe, here's what we're going to do," he said. "And if you elect us, hold us accountable and let's get this done."

Acclamation can be generally defined as an eager expression of praise or approval, though as a political term it is perhaps best known from when delegates forgo a formal roll call in party nominating conventions for a voice vote.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam introduced Ryan at the luncheon and said the event had raised about $1 million for the ticket. Meanwhile, about a dozen protesters lined the street outside the event, banging drums and waving signs criticizing Republican policies.

Polls show Obama widening his lead in several key states amid backlash from a leaked video in which Romney disparages the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay federal income tax as government-dependent Obama supporters who see themselves as victims and won't take responsibility for their own lives.

Ryan in his 16-minute speech to the 300 paying attendees described what he called a "generation transforming" election and criticized Obama's record and philosophy on issues including the economy, welfare and health care.

"It's really a choice between the traditional American ideal of an opportunity society with a safety net, a society of growth and prosperity and upward mobility," he said. "Or the path we're on of a more entrenched welfare state, which inevitably ends up with a debt crisis."

Obama's control over federal budget matters and the national economy needs to come to an end, Ryan said.

"If you want to see how this movie ends ? because we've seen this movie before ? turn on the TV and see what's happening in Europe," he said.

Ryan criticized a provision in Obama's health care law that that requires contraceptives to be available for free for women enrolled in workplace health plans, despite objections by religious organizations. He said that move is a preview of how Obama would govern in a second term.

"When you see him do things like this in a tough election year, imagine what he would do if he was uninhibited from ever having to face the voters again," he said.

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Curiosity Has Found a Riverbed on Mars [Space]

NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of an ancient riverbed on Mars. While it's now dried up, it's the first ever evidence to prove that running water once poured over the surface of the red planet. This is huge. More »


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Nokia cuts smartphone prices before new models arrive

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Struggling phone maker Nokia has knocked 10-15 percent off the prices of two of its top of the range smartphones, hoping to boost sales before newer models arrive in markets in November.

Nokia has cut the price of the Lumia 800 by around 15 percent and the Lumia 900 by 10 percent in Europe, according to device pricing data compiled by British research firm CCS Insight. Nokia declined to comment.

Earlier this month, Nokia launched Lumia 820 and 920, which many see as crucial for the Finnish company's survival. But the newest models will only go on sale in November, leaving the company's sales team struggling with older smartphone models for over a month.

Nokia had already slashed the price of the Lumia 800 by around 15 percent earlier this month and made smaller cuts for its other Lumia models.

Once the world's biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia fell behind rivals in smartphones and has racked up more than 3 billion euros ($3.86 billion) in operating losses in the last 18 months.

In early 2011, it bet its future on Microsoft's Windows Phone software. Windows accounts for only around 3 percent of global smartphones, while Google's Android platform controls two-thirds of sales and Apple has around a quarter.

Competitive pricing is considered crucial for Nokia to lure back customers, even though pricing does not seem to be an issue for rival Apple. In Belgium, for example, more than 10,000 people have pre-registered for the latest iPhone even before a local price has been set.

(Reporting by Tarmo Virki; Editing by Jane Merriman)

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

NASA offers opportunity to use communications testbed on space station

ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) ? Want to be a part of International Space Station research? Here's your chance. NASA is offering opportunities for academia, industry and government agencies to develop and carry out research and technology demonstrations on the space station using the newly installed Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Testbed.

These opportunities will allow researchers to develop new software according to the Space Telecommunications Radio Standard, or STRS, architecture for radios and reconfigure how radios communicate in space.

The SCaN Testbed is a communications, navigation and networking demonstration platform based on the STRS. The experimental platform began its initial checkout activities on the space station Aug. 13, and will operate for at least three years.

Experiment developers will provide software components to the STRS repository and enable future hardware platforms to use common reusable software modules.

The new testbed is composed of three STRS-compliant, software-defined radios to be operated in space, said Richard Reinhart, principal investigator of the SCaN Testbed at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. "This flexible testbed will allow researchers to develop new software according to the STRS architecture for the radios and reconfigure how the radios communicate on-orbit, to explore new concepts for future missions. Once proven, this new capability will enable greater science return from future NASA missions."

There are two opportunities (http://spaceflightsystems.grc.nasa.gov/SOPO/SCO/SCaNTestbed/Candidate/) to use the testbed on the station.

The SCaN Testbed Experiment Opportunity invites industry and government agencies to enter into Space Act Agreements with NASA to use the SCaN Testbed on space station. The SCaN Testbed Cooperative Agreement Notice invites academia to develop proposals to use the orbiting laboratory's SCaN Testbed research capabilities. NASA expects these first industry, government agency, and university demonstrations to take place by late 2013 or early 2014.

"These two announcements of opportunity provide industry, academia and government agency experimenters a unique service and facility to develop and field the latest communications, navigation and networking technologies not only in the laboratory, but also in the dynamic space environment," said David Irimies, deputy project manager of the SCaN Testbed at Glenn. "Investigators will gain valuable flight experience, raise the technology maturity level of their applications by operating within the space environment, and demonstrate future mission capabilities for a potentially key role in future NASA missions."

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Andreessen Horowitz Hires Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty To Be Its Newest Special Advisor

Adrian FentyAndreessen Horowitz is announcing this afternoon that Adrian Fenty, the 41-year-old political star best for his work as the Mayor of Washington, D.C. from 2007 to 2011, will be joining the venture capital firm in the role of "special advisor." This is the second person to join Andreessen Horowitz as a special advisor: Last year, former Harvard president and U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers entered the venture capital world in the same role. The special advisor role is one that has worked so well with Summers and now Fenty, Wennmachers said, that the firm is "absolutely going to consider adding more" going forward.

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Referees return to relief of fans, players and owners

(Reuters) - To the relief of fans, players and owners, the National Football League's (NFL) regular referees will return to work on Thursday after a deal was struck to end a damaging months-long lockout of unionized game officials.

The storm of criticism following a botched call that handed the Seattle Seahawks a victory at the expense of the Green Bay Packers on Monday added urgency to talks between the league and NFL Referees Association (NFLRA) and a new eight-year deal was reached just before midnight on Wednesday.

"It's great news for everyone - players, fans, sponsors and the league," Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan told Reuters on Thursday. "We look forward to seeing NFL officials back in uniform at EverBank Field on Sunday and well beyond."

The lockout had been in place since June when talks on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) broke down, forcing the NFL to use poorly qualified replacement referees for the pre-season and opening three weeks of the regular season.

Significantly, NFL team owners only became directly involved in talks on Tuesday after the touchdown call in Seattle prompted a nationwide reaction with massive media interest, fan protests and even encouragement from President Barack Obama for the two sides to resolve their differences swiftly.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell apologized to fans for the three weeks of substandard officiating.

"We are sorry to have to put our fans through that, but in the short term it's something you have to do to make sure you get the right type of agreement for the long term," he told reporters on a conference call. "We weren't going to shut down football. It is painful in the process."

Goodell rejected the suggestion that the Monday incident in primetime was a "tipping point" but did acknowledge that it had played a role in getting the deal done.

"It might have pushed the parties further along, but we were in intense negotiations," he said.

The recognizable face of Gene Steratore, in his 10th season as an NFL referee, will be in charge of Thursday's primetime game between the host Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns, while replacement refs return to the lower divisions of college, high school and semi-pro football.

'MISINFORMED BET'

The new CBA must still be ratified on Friday by the union membership but NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell lifted the lockout prior to that vote in order to avoid another game with the heavily criticized replacements in charge.

The union won some concessions from the NFL on the changes to the pension wanted by the league while agreeing to the introduction of some full-time referees and a development pool of future refs.

Compensation for game officials will increase from an average of $149,000 a year in 2011 to $173,000 in 2013, rising to $205,000 by 2019, the NFL said.

While the agreed way to grandfather in the pension may leave some of the referees unsatisfied, the current system will be kept in place for five years before a switchover to a 401(k), the terms were widely viewed as favorable for the union.

"The owners appear to have grossly overestimated their bargaining power and underestimated the bargaining power of the referees," said Richard Sheehan, a University of Notre Dame finance professor who specializes in the economics of sports.

"Referees had the option, at least in the short-term, of not agreeing with whatever the NFL powers demanded,"

"The owners' arrogance and hubris led them to make a large wager that the referees' job was so easy that they could hire replacements and no one would notice. Unfortunately, fans noticed. If there was any doubt that the owners made an incredibly misinformed bet, the doubt was removed Monday night."

The NFL Players Association, who were in a lockout situation with the league last year, welcomed the end of the conflict.

"Our workplace is safer with the return of our professional referees," the NFLPA said in a statement. "We welcome our fellow union members back on our field."

New York Giants linebacker Michael Boley said the return of the regular refs was essential for the game.

"The pressure on the replacement refs was becoming too much for them and all of the missed and blown calls were messing with the integrity of the game," he told the NFL Network.

"I'm not saying the real refs will get every call right but I think they will do a better job. Good to have them back."

(Reporting by Simon Evans in Miami; Editing by Frank Pingue)

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Human brains develop wiring slowly, differing from chimpanzees

ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? Research comparing brain development in humans and our closest nonhuman primate relatives, chimpanzees, reveals how quickly myelin in the cerebral cortex grows, shedding light on the evolution of human cognitive development and the vulnerability of humans to psychiatric disorders. Myelin is the fatty insulation surrounding axon connections of the brain.

Recent research by Chet Sherwood, associate professor of anthropology in Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, along with Daniel Miller, a former GW graduate student, and other colleagues, reveals this key difference in brain development between human and chimpanzee. The findings were recently published in the September 24th edition Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

In the article, Dr. Sherwood and co-authors write that the development of myelin from birth to adulthood in humans is protracted in comparison to chimpanzees. In humans, myelin develops slowly during childhood, followed by a delayed period of maturity beyond adolescence and into early adulthood. In contrast, in chimpanzees, the development of myelin already starts at a relatively more mature level at birth and ceases development long before puberty.

?These observations indicate that a marked delay in the development schedule of the human neocortex may play an important role in the growth of connections that contribute to our species-specific cognitive abilities,? wrote Dr. Sherwood and co-authors.

The developmental timing of myelination is important because it establishes connectivity among parts of the growing brain, which is essential to higher-order cognitive functions, such as decision-making and emotional regulation. These cognitive functions are known to mature relatively late in humans, after the time of adolescence. Also, this period of persistent myelin development during early adulthood in humans is a time of particular vulnerability to neuropsychiatric diseases, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression.

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YouTube Rolls Out Android Update, Offers More Features, New UI To Froyo And Gingerbread Devices

youtubeFroyo and Gingerbread might be the Windows 98 and XP of the Android world, but Google has not given up on the aging, but still very popular platforms. The latest YouTube app serves up new features and a different UI to devices running older installs. And for good reason, too. Android's update scheme often older hardware running older software. Gingerbread, released 2010, accounts for over half of all Android devices with a 57.5% market share among the Android versions. Froyo comes in third with 14% as Ice Cream Sandwich accounts for 20.9%. But now, this update finally provides 71.5% Android devices with the latest YouTube UI.

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US stocks fall on Europe unrest, weaker home sales

FILE- In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, file photo, Warren Meyers, center, works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A quiet day on Wall Street turned Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, into the worst sell-off in three months after a Federal Reserve official said he doubted the bank's effort to boost economic growth would work. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

FILE- In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, file photo, Warren Meyers, center, works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A quiet day on Wall Street turned Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, into the worst sell-off in three months after a Federal Reserve official said he doubted the bank's effort to boost economic growth would work. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

A mixed report about the housing market and unrest in Europe on Wednesday extended the longest losing streak for the Standard & Poor's 500 index since mid-July. Other risky assets, like European stocks and oil, fell more sharply.

The median price of new homes sold in August rose by a record amount, while sales of new homes dipped slightly. Sales in August were up 27.7 percent from a year earlier, but remain at about half the pace economists consider healthy.

Stronger data on the U.S. housing market have insulated stocks in recent weeks from a slackening global economy. Stocks' other main source of support has been the Federal Reserve's program to boost the economy by pumping money in. That idea lost some luster Tuesday after a key Fed official said he doubted it will do much good.

"There was some optimism coming into the market, and that's usually when you're most vulnerable to sell-offs when there are negative headlines" like the Fed official's comments, unrest in Europe and weaker data about the U.S. economy, said Todd Salamone, director of research at Schaeffer's Investment Research.

Indexes had risen to levels they hadn't beat for months or years, Salamone said, creating "an almost perfect storm in terms of the vulnerability to short-term impacts."

The dip in home sales hurt homebuilder stocks. PulteGroup Inc. fell 76 cents, or 4.7 percent, to $15.30; KB Home 51 cents, or 3.5 percent, to $13.90 and Beazer Homes USA Inc. 14 cents, or 3.9 percent, to $3.50.

European stocks had their worst day in months as unrest threatened to boil over in Greece, where deep budget cuts have eroded people's living standards, and Spain, where citizens are resisting a likely bailout from international lenders. Earlier, Asian stocks closed lower.

The euro fell sharply against the dollar, and the price of oil closed below $90 per barrel for the first time since early August.

Rising demand for lower-risk investments fed strong bids for U.S. Treasury debt. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.62 percent from 1.67 percent late Tuesday. A bond's yield falls as its price increases.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 44.04 points, or 0.3 percent, to 13,413.51. The S&P 500 index fell 8.27, or 0.6 percent, to 1,433.32. The only category that rose was utilities, relatively safe stocks that tend to hold their value when the economy is weak.

The Nasdaq composite average fell 24.03 points, or 0.8 percent, to 3,093.70.

The declines came a day after the worst sell-off for the S&P 500 in three months. Charles Plosser, president of the Fed's Philadelphia branch, told an audience Tuesday that the Fed's effort to support the economy would likely fall short of its goals.

Stocks rallied this month on bold moves by central bankers. They had one of their biggest gains of the year Sept. 6 after Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, said the ECB would buy unlimited amounts of government bonds to lower borrowing costs for Europe's debt-burdened countries.

A week later, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed will buy $40 billion of mortgage bonds each month until the economy strengthens. It also plans to hold interest rates at super-low levels into 2015.

The S&P soared to a nearly five-year closing high of 1,465 the next day, Sept. 14. Since then, as doubts emerge about the effectiveness of the central banks' actions, it has drifted back to where it was before Bernanke's announcement.

In Europe, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Athens and Madrid, where they clashed with riot police ahead of new rounds of spending cuts and tax hikes. The Bank of Spain warned that the country is in a deep recession, a day after protests in Madrid led to at dozens of arrests and injuries.

Spain's IBEX index fell the most, closing down 3.9 percent. Italy's FTSE MIB fell 3.3 percent, Germany's DAX 2 percent and France's CAC-40 2.8 percent.

The developments in Europe blunted any optimism about the U.S. housing market. Wednesday's report, while mixed, appeared to confirm that the market has hit bottom. Other recent data showed that sales of previously occupied homes jumped in August to the highest level since May 2010. Builder confidence is at a six-year high, and construction of single-family homes rose last month to the fastest annual rate in more than two years.

The fear is that a broader recession in Europe could stall whatever economic recovery is occurring in the U.S., where the housing market has been a major drag for five years.

In corporate news, American Greetings Corp. shares jumped $2.48, or 17.3 percent, to $16.82 after the greeting card company said that a group led by its CEO and chief operating officer wants to take it private in a deal that values it at about $581 million.

Automobile auctioneer Copart hit an all-time high and closed up 43 cents, or 1.6 percent, at $27.82 after a strong fourth quarter that topped Wall Street expectations.

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Daniel Wagner can be reached at www.twitter.com/wagnerreports .

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Avoiding Sugared Drinks Limits Weight Gain in Two Studies

[unable to retrieve full-text content]New York City?s ban on large sweetened beverages has been hotly disputed, but these clinical trials show that replacing sugary drinks can slow weight gain in children.

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More uproar about replacement officials

Suspect officiating decisions during several games contributed to a chaotic third Sunday of the NFL season.

Replacement officials admitted making two mistakes in Minnesota's victory over San Francisco, while several other games included questionable calls that could have affected the outcomes.

Referee Ken Roan said he twice granted 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh video challenges after Harbaugh called timeout in the fourth quarter. Neither challenge should have been allowed once Harbaugh asked for time.

"What I told him was, 'Well you challenged it not knowing what the result of the play was going to be,' " Roan said. "So I granted him the challenge and we went and looked at it. That was wrong. I should not have."

Both mistakes happened in the span of six plays in Minnesota's 24-13 upset of the 49ers.

"My interpretation of it was that he could do that based upon the time factors and not knowing it was a challengeable play to begin with when he called timeout," Roan said. "If you don't have a timeout to lose, you can't make a challenge."

In the Lions-Titans and Bengals-Redskins games, officials marched off too much yardage on penalties.

Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch's helmet-to-helmet hit on Craig Stevens wound up as a 27-yard penalty in Tennessee's 44-41 overtime win. In OT, from the Titans 44, Jake Locker passed to Stevens over the middle for a 24-yard gain and Tulloch was flagged for the hit. Fourteen yards were added to the end of the play, which then was reviewed and overturned because the ball hit the ground.

However, the penalty still is enforced. Instead of 15 yards, officials marked it off from the Detroit 44 ? the wrong spot.

"As soon as the play was declared incomplete it becomes a first down and it becomes 15 yards from the play before," Lions coach Jim Schwartz said.

The Redskins were penalized 20 yards instead of 15 for unsportsmanlike conduct in the final seconds of their 38-31 loss.

Robert Griffin III spiked the ball to stop the clock with 7 seconds left. Then tight end Fred Davis was called for a 5-yard false start penalty.

According to Washington coach Mike Shanahan, at least one official indicated there would be a 10-second runoff, ending the game ? and the Bengals, led by coach Marvin Lewis, started walking onto the field. There shouldn't have been a runoff, though, because the clock had been stopped by the spike. The Redskins began arguing, and eventually the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty was called.

The officials never announced specifically who the call was against, just that the penalty would be added to the false start, a total of 20 yards. But they walked off 25 yards ? the official game play-by-play said 20 yards were enforced for the unsportsmanlike conduct.

That left the Redskins with a third-and-50.

"They threw the flag at us, and there was half of the (Bengals) team on the field," Shanahan said. "I was disappointed in that."

Earlier Sunday, the players' union posted an open letter to team owners calling on them to end the lockout of the regular officials that began in June when their contact expired. The NFL used replacements in 2001 for one week before a new deal was reached.

This year, criticism from coaches and players has mounted for the replacements, who come from lower college levels or from other leagues such as Arena Football.

There have been numerous complaints by players and coaches ? certainly more than when the regular officials work ? and Sunday was no different. In one particularly embarrassing episode an official was removed from working a New Orleans game last week because he posted photos of himself in Saints gear on Facebook.

Then there were more questionable decisions Sunday.

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Commitment Issues In Men - Dangers Of Using Ultimatums

Commitment Issues In Men  -  Dangers Of Using Ultimatums

It is very common, among women who have been waiting to be proposed marriage for a long period of time, having commitment issues with their partner, to think that the best solution is to present their boyfriend an ultimatum concerning the relationship. If the woman wants badly to be engaged to their boyfriend waiting can lead to desperation. And the most common consequence of desperation can be the need to give an ultimatum. However, this attitude has some serious drawbacks that we will analyze in the rest of this article.

Pressure can lead to the end of the relationship

What most women don't realize is that this type of behaviour often results in the end of the relationship. Nobody likes to receive an ultimatum and of course men don't like to receive an ultimatum from their girlfriend regarding marriage.

If men fail to commit, they often have reasons that they cannot explain to delay their decision to propose. There are certain things they perceive in their girlfriend that don't allow them to feel that she is the women to spend the rest of his life with.

With an ultimatum, he is forced to make a decision in that moment, and his feelings would cause his decision would probably be to end the relationship.

Not be prepared to listen to a "never"

If, despite this, the woman decides to use an ultimatum, she should be prepared to pack her bags and live if the answer to the "Now or Never" question is what she was not expecting and didn't want to hear: "Never".

Staying in a relationship after he has said he would never commit to her, will loose all her credibility, because it would mean that the ultimatum was not real.

How can he take you seriously if you asked him the most important question of your life and that question was not authentic because you gave two chance: Now or Never, he answered never, but you continued with him, so never was not really never.

Conclusion

If somebody wants to use an ultimatum, she should be prepared to act in consequence after hearing the truth. It is completely acceptable to use this technique to make him commit if she is really prepared to receive the negative answer.

If she does not want to spend more time with somebody who seems will never propose marriage to her, why should she wait , and what for ? The best alternative is to stop the relationship immediately as it will have no future.

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Belgian finance minister calls a tax on the wealthy 'a door we must ...

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Belgian Finance Minister Steven Vanackere on Sunday ruled out the idea of creating a wealth tax despite mounting criticism in the country that wage-earners are hardest hit by the current tax system.

?A wealth tax is a door we must leave shut during this legislature,? Vanackere said of the 30 months before the centrist six-party coalition headed by Socialist premier Elio Di Rupo faces elections.

But as Vanackere spoke on a Sunday TV talk show, De Zevende Dag, deputy premier Laurette Onkelinx told a Socialist Party congress in the town of Namur that she was mulling ?proposals to hit financial speculation?.

The head of the Socialist Party, Thierry Get, recently complained that fiscal revenues were 75 percent linked to wages and 25 percent to capital gains.

He said earlier this month that the tax bill of Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for the White House, would have been 15 times less in Belgium than in the United States.

Talk of taxing the wealthy has grown following a move this month by French billionaire and LVMH boss Bernard Arnault to acquire Belgian nationality.

Arnault, the world?s fourth-richest man with a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine at $41 billion, has denied that his quest to become Belgian was prompted by French President Francois Hollande?s move to impose a 75 percent tax on top earners.

Aside from not imposing a tax on personal wealth, Belgium?s inheritance tax is also lower than in France.

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There are many different methods to use for a website to gain more visitors and clients. However, these methods should also be able to make the website function well and provide better quality to their visitors and clients. Before, SEO experts would just concentrate on linking the readers or browsers directly to the website without thinking of how the website is performing. Even though you have actually linked people to a website, it does not necessarily mean that they would all become clients or customers. It is still important that the website is at its best when visitors start coming in. Though there are now so many SEO companies around, you still need to find those that are more reliable and can give your website better performance and quality just like the different search engine optimization Melbourne companies. Here are some tips that can give your website the

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

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Obama Slams House GOP Over Unfinished Business

Sep 22, 2012 6:00am

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President Obama is blasting lawmakers for leaving Washington for a six-week recess ahead of the November election without acting on his proposals to boost job creation and jump-start the economy.

?Without much fanfare, members of the House of Representatives banged a gavel, turned out the lights and rushed home, declaring their work finished for now,? Obama said in his weekly address. ?If that frustrates you, it should ? because their work isn?t finished.?

?Apparently, some members of Congress are more worried about their jobs and their paychecks this campaign season than they are about yours,? he added.

If Congress had ?gotten its act together,? the president said, lawmakers would have extended tax cuts for the middle class and passed a farm bill to aid ranchers and farmers hit by natural disasters.

If Congress had ?done the right thing,? Obama added, lawmakers would have created a veterans? jobs corps to help returning troops find work and acted to help homeowners refinance at lower rates.

Instead, he said, ?Republicans in Congress have dragged their feet. And now they?re gone.?

Obama urged lawmakers to listen to the needs of their constituents during the break and ?come back in November and do this work.?

The president concluded by asking the public for its help.

?If you see them campaigning back home, tell them in person, because there?s been enough talk: It?s time for action,? he said.

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"That pain, that afflictive energy that rests on the surface of our hearts and just below it as well,..."

? That pain, that afflictive energy that rests on the surface of our hearts and just below it as well, will be the catalyst for our transformation. The nature of our pain points us to the nature of the transformation we need to make. If we are angry, we need to move toward inhabiting our anger and then letting go of it. If we are in despair, we need to move toward hope.

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

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Microsoft patches critical Flash bugs in Windows 8

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September 22, 2012 09:28 AM ET

Computerworld - Microsoft on Friday updated Flash on Windows 8 to protect IE10 users from attacks that may have started months ago.

More than a week before, Microsoft had backed away from an earlier position that held it would not patch Flash until late October. Instead, the company promised to update the media player "shortly."

Microsoft, not Adobe, is responsible for patching Flash Player in Windows 8 because the company mimicked Google's Chrome by building the software into IE10, the new operating system's browser. Microsoft announced that move in late May, when its top IE executive, Dean Hachamovitch, said, "By updating Flash through Windows Update, like IE, we make security more convenient for customers."

But the Redmond, Wash. developer ran into trouble from the get-go. Although Adobe shipped a pair of security updates in August that patched eight vulnerabilities, Windows 8 RTM, the finished code that began reaching users that same month, lacked those fixes.

One of the eight Flash bugs has been exploited by hackers, perhaps for months. An elite hacker gang known for finding and leveraging unpatched vulnerabilities has been among those hijacking Windows PCs with the flaw.

Friday's Flash update will be offered to Windows 8 RTM, and to the final public beta, Windows 8 Release Preview. That sneak peak, which users downloaded free of charge, does not expire until Jan. 31, 2013.

Computerworld confirmed that the update boosted IE10's Flash Player to version 11.3.374.7 on Windows 8 RTM. On Friday, Adobe confirmed that that edition contained the patches for the eight vulnerabilities it patched Aug. 14 and Aug. 21.

Yunsun Wee, director of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing team, also clarified how the company will treat future Flash updates for IE10 in Windows 8.

"On a quarterly basis when Adobe normally issues Flash Player updates, we will coordinate on disclosure and release timing," pledged Wee.

Her reference to an Adobe quarterly Flash schedule was odd; although Adobe tries to adhere to an regular cadence for Adobe Reader -- not always successfully -- it has never set something similar for Flash Player.

Thus far during 2012, in fact, Adobe has issued seven Flash updates: One in February; two in March; one each in May and June; and two in August. If Adobe is adopting a quarterly patch process for Flash Player, it has kept that under wraps.

Wee also admitted that Microsoft will need to deliver "out-of-band" updates -- those outside its usual monthly Patch Tuesday -- to keep IE10's and Windows 8's Flash in sync with the Flash plug-ins Adobe maintains for other browsers.

"When the threat landscape requires action outside of Adobe's normal update cadence, ...we will issue updates outside of our regular monthly security bulletin release," Wee said in a Friday post to the Microsoft Security Response Center's blog.

Those out-of-band Flash updates could quickly pile up. If Windows 8 had been available from the start of 2012, in the best circumstances Microsoft would still have had to deliver emergency Flash updates in February, March and August.

Even then, Microsoft would have had to hustle to work the other four Flash updates into its next Patch Tuesday: In one instance, Flash was updated on Patch Tuesday, while in two others, Microsoft would have had just four days to prepare. The fourth Flash update was released eight days before the next Patch Tuesday.

More information on the Flash Update to IE10 and Windows 8 can be found in Microsoft's security advisory.

Windows 8 users can obtain the Flash update via the Windows Update service, as well as through the enterprise-grade WSUS (Windows Server Update Services).

Flash update for IE10

Microsoft's made good on a Sept. 11 promise to patch Windows 8's baked-in Flash Player.

Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at Twitter @gkeizer, on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed Keizer RSS. His email address is gkeizer@computerworld.com.

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Decades later, Brooklyn has its own pro team again

Pedestrians pass the main entrance to the Barclays Arena in New York, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 as workmen complete their cleanup for Friday's ribbon-cutting ceremony. A new chapter in Brooklyn's history Friday when the Brooklyn Nets new arena will open, just across the street from the spot where the Dodgers owner once tried to build a baseball stadium that never saw the light of day. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Pedestrians pass the main entrance to the Barclays Arena in New York, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 as workmen complete their cleanup for Friday's ribbon-cutting ceremony. A new chapter in Brooklyn's history Friday when the Brooklyn Nets new arena will open, just across the street from the spot where the Dodgers owner once tried to build a baseball stadium that never saw the light of day. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Ron Schweiger, Brooklyn's official borough historian, at his home where he has an extensive Brooklyn Dodgers memorabilia collection on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. After decades without a professional sports team following the Dodgers move west, Brooklyn is hitting the major leagues again with a new arena and the Brooklyn Nets' NBA franchise. Schweiger says the new stadium will help replace the sense of loss felt longtime residents for many years after the Dodgers left. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Ebbets Field Apartments, once home to the Brooklyn Dodgers and now home to thousands, is viewed from where second base would have been, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 in Brooklyn, N.Y. After decades without a professional sports team following the Dodgers move west, Brooklyn is hitting the major leagues again with a new arena and the Brooklyn Nets' NBA franchise. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

HOLD FOR FRIDAY STORY BY MEGHAN BARR--Jerome Stewart, 15, wears a Brooklyn Nets cap as he walks home from school past the Ebbets Field Apartments, home of the former Brooklyn Dodgers, on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 in Brooklyn, N.Y. "I used to be a Knicks fan" said Stewart, "but switched to the Nets." After decades without a professional sports team after the Dodgers moved west, Brooklyn is hitting the major leagues again with a new arena and the Brooklyn Nets' basketball franchise. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Ebbets Field Apartments, once home to the Brooklyn Dodgers and now home to thousands, is viewed from where second base would have been, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 in Brooklyn, N.Y. After decades without a professional sports team following the Dodgers move west, Brooklyn is hitting the major leagues again with a new arena and the Brooklyn Nets' NBA franchise. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

(AP) ? It was like a death in the family for Brooklyn baseball fans when their beloved Dodgers left the borough behind in 1957 for the California coast.

Times were grim for Brooklyn back then. Residents were leaving en masse for the suburbs. Crime was on the rise. And there was little hope that the borough's plight would improve.

"When the Dodgers left, it was another punch in the face to the fact that Brooklyn's best days may not be ahead, but may have been behind us," said Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, who was 12 years old at the time. "It was depressing."

After decades without a professional sports team, New York City's ascendant borough is hitting the major leagues again on Friday when the Brooklyn Nets' new arena opens to the public. The state-of-the-art, 18,000-seat arena will be officially christened Saturday night with a rap concert by Nets co-owner and native Brooklynite Jay-Z.

Just as the Dodgers' departure was a harbinger of difficult times ahead, the opening of the Barclays Center is a symbol of Brooklyn's astonishing rise in recent years as a sought-after destination for people from all over the globe.

Basketball is now the sport du jour here, not baseball. And in a stroke of irony, the new stadium was built directly across the street from the spot where Dodgers President Walter O'Malley wanted to erect a new ballpark to replace Ebbets Field, the team's home that was later demolished.

"When they left, that's when I washed my hands of baseball," said 72-year-old Fred Wilken, who was so distraught by the loss of his hometown team that he stopped watching sports altogether. "For years we supported them, we came down here. And then all of a sudden they decide to leave."

The Dodgers were the golden thread that tied Brooklyn together in those days. The fabric of the team was woven into the neighborhood.

About two miles from the new Nets' Arena, the hallowed ground where Ebbets Field once stood is now a massive brick apartment building in a neighborhood of Caribbean immigrants.

"We still haven't gotten over it," admitted Ron Schweiger, Brooklyn's official borough historian, whose basement is stuffed with Dodgers memorabilia. "I tend to think they never moved. They're on an extended road trip."

Why O'Malley moved the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles after the 1957 season was, at its core, a question of dollars and cents. O'Malley wanted the city to help subsidize the new stadium, and the city refused. Fast-forward to the present: the $1 billion Barclays Center has received millions in public money.

With its deliberately rusted steel exterior, the new arena looks like a spaceship that cruised in for a landing in Brooklyn's busiest transportation and shopping hub. There are chain stores galore. A Modell's sporting apparel store across the street is stocked with racks full of team apparel in the Nets' new black-and-white color scheme and the logo designed by Jay-Z himself. Rivalry-stirring T-shirts proclaim: "New York Divided."

The city is banking on Brooklynites' deep-rooted sense of borough pride to win over new fans. And the championship-hungry Nets are hoping their new Brooklyn home will turn the tide for a franchise that has been largely overshadowed by the New York Knicks.

But gone are the days when sports allegiances were dictated by zip code. Brooklyn is a tight-knit borough no more: It is a deeply diverse community of many nationalities and income brackets.

Large swaths of Brooklyn are actually starting to look a whole lot like Manhattan. The borough of about 2.5 million residents draws its own share of tourists who want to stroll down Brooklyn Heights' charming brownstone-lined streets or shop in Williamsburg's chic boutiques.

Celebrities live in Brooklyn now. It's home to fashionable hipsters and upscale beer gardens and well-heeled mothers pushing expensive baby strollers down the street. Brooklyn is no longer just a place to live ? it's a place to visit.

"Brooklyn had an image as the underdog upstarts, which the Dodgers exemplified," said Henry Fetter, author of "Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball." ''I think Brooklyn no longer has that image. And the Nets don't necessarily exemplify that."

At the end of the day, as the wins pile up, the fans will follow. A new generation of Brooklyn children will grow up with the Nets, just as their grandparents and great-grandparents grew up with the Dodgers. But fans are a more fickle species nowadays.

A group of young men shooting hoops across the street from Ebbets Field Apartments vowed to remain loyal to the Knicks, despite being born and raised in Brooklyn.

"If they had Dwight Howard, they would've been the team of New York," said 23-year-old Mario Volcin. "They would've been the best team of New York. The Nets don't really have enough pieces."

In a winner-take-all kind of town, being second-best just doesn't cut it. And as any Dodgers fan would tell you, old loyalties die hard. But even the old-timers are willing to give this new team a chance.

"I can't see this as atonement. Too many years have gone by for that," said Schweiger, the historian. "But I definitely intend to go to a bunch of the games. In fact, I already have a Brooklyn Nets T-shirt."

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